Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1923, Page 62

How Bobby Jones Beca DISTRICT OPEN TOURNEY WILL START TOMORROW Leading Golf Amateurs and Pros of This Section tc Complete at Columbia Diegel Are Favorites. BY W. R. sional golfers attached to \W for Title—McLeod and McCALLUM. ASHINGTON'S leading amateurs and a dozen or more profes- clubs and prwate golf courses about ‘Washington will bcgm play tomorfow morning at the Columbia Country Club for the first open champlonshlp of the District of Columbia —so called. As a matter of fact, few of the contestants are members of or attached to clubs actually in the membership of these clubs comes 1 District of Columbia, but because the argely from the District and all the clubs are members of the District Goli Association the tournament is \lrcperly called a District open champlonship—even though played in aryland. Pre-tournament predictions are truck that the championship lies between two m lumbia pro, and Leo Diegel of Friendship, with latter on account of his greater length and a consistency McLeod has not been piaying much golf now a solid summer of golf. a month or more, while Diegel, not Columbia mentor, plays constantly. Robert T. Barnett of Chevy Chase 1s the man’ most lkely' to upset pre- dictions, but Barnett, while brilliant, is not so apt to run into a low scor- ing streak as is either Diegel or McLeod. The Jjovial little . Chevy Chase professional went up to Phila- delphia the other week end, and, per- forming before home folks, annexed the Philadelphia open champlonship. Barnett has a fine game, as he has proved many times, but on form and | past records the dope points to McLeod and Diegel as the two front -Tunners in the {ourney. The professionals, at a meeting | last week, decided ‘to open up the tournament to amateurs attached to District clubs whose handicap is seven or less. Not all the amateurs who fall into this category will play in the event, but enough of them have ered to give the tourney the added of spice which comes with the celing that gn amateur may crowd a | professional ' out of a bit of prize money. And it may be done in the present tourney, for Columbla has & quartet of amateur golfers who | may do some surprisingly fine golf. Jackson the Leading Spirit. To Peter Jackson of indian Spring goes most of the eredit for the first| open champlonship “and the many amateur-professional events held the past summer which have helped in making the past golfing season one ©f the most enjoyable in many vears. Jackson .came to Indian Spring from ihe Westchester-Biltmore Club. in New York. Used to playing in fournaments on the other side, he quickly realized the need of a dis- trict association here and one day | ast spring called the professionals ogether to discuss such an organi- The District Professional "Association was the out- of that meeting, and Fred STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ’ RESENT officers of the Argyle annual meeting of the club, of Commerce in the Homer P ». Carr, president; J. W. Carr, treasurer; Charles D. Keller, corresponding secretary, and C. L Gable, financial secretary. and James P. Bobee were re-elected to the board of governors, and !he] present committee chairman reappointed. Announcement Was made &t e meeunyg tnat toe permanent course of the ciup, near Four vorners, md., will bLs opened In the Spring, Provaoly with Lemporary greens, but with per» manent turways, The ciub is in a &o0d_condition nnancially and has a surplus in the treasury, President Carr reported. The Argyle Club is an outgrowth of tho organization which took over the ©ld course of the Town and Country Club_on Georgia avenue, but waicn was forced to vacate during midsum- mer to make room for improvements. Pairings for the urt open cham- plonship of the District, which starts at 9:30 o clock tomorroi morning at ihe Columbia Country Club, were an- nounced last night by Fred Mcweod, yresident of the District Professjonal Golfers' Association. The pairings are s follows: A. B. Thorn, Townséand ountry Club, and Ralph Beach, un- attached; M. B. Stevinson, amateu <olumbia, and Leo Diegel, Friondship: W. R. Tuckerman, amateur, Chewy Chase, and David Thomson, Washing- ton Golf gnd Country Club; Albert R. MacKenzio, amateur, Columbia, und Peter Jackson, Indian Spring; Chris J. Dunphy, amateur, Columbia; nd R. T. Barnett, Chevy Chase; Guy L Standifer, amateur, Columbia, and D'Arcy Bannagan, Columbla; Mfoore, amateur, Indlan Spring, and Fred McLeod, Columbia; Mel Shorey, Manor Club; Lionel G. Walker, Ban- nockburn, and J. D. Tucker, unat- tached, 3 The list includes three amateur title- holders, Walier R. Tuckerman being | District champion, Albert R. Mc- Kenzie the Middle Atlantic titleholder and Guy M. Standifer the champion of the Columbla Country Club. .The entrants play thirty-six holes tomor- fow and thirty-six holes Tnesday for | the title. Many of the members of the - nockburn Golt Club - saw the sew parts of their course at Glen Echo or the first time yesterday, When Chairman Fred S. Molse of the greens committee took a party over the course, explained to them the pro- posed new layout and pointed out the fine condition of the new greens Which were seeded last year. The ig,specggnbor the course was followed | a_barbecue dinner o the clubhouse. Ao ¥inal registration for the two- team champlonship of the Bannoel. burn Golf Club will be held today. Sixteen teams have entered the event and a dozén or more entries are expected to be filed today, The first match in the contest must be com. pleted by next Sunday. Woman golfers of the club are also competing this week in the first match play round for the club lub_champlonship. Bob Gardner, ‘twice amat: - fon, putts by the harmeny methon: b puts his putter down in front of the hall, counts “one, two, three, and then replaces it behind the balk counts in the same manner, and hits. He was putting very well at Floss- moor, although he has nover been as one o in the amateur rlt.é‘l:i.gre‘ten b e C. J. Dunphy, G. M. Standifer, Fred McLeod and Leo Diegel Tepre- sent Washington in the ajatenc i best ball contest to be held a Pine. hurst November 15 and 16. S(‘lld‘far :g McLeod won the event two Yyears Doyle, ene of the star of the Baunnockburn Golf Cl)xg],u"::n the class A event in the last golf teurnament of the season held by the In-Com-Co Club, an organization of employes of the Interstate Commerge ;‘:fll:llulo%o DE ! S. Douglass was r-up yie in class e iy o o R. ‘?fll‘ll'ullmu'ood l.!'l?lrl ;hengllnd bol’a! on the playoff. ol professional golfer at . and one of the the " count; iR, i Tense “Washi o leave December 1 to ‘l'?: nermtlv In ge Baw, seekt :;-'-:‘u to w mo play .in tournament than has had for the past yonr. Tom | he amateur-pro ! Yash, but it appears before a ball is en—Fred McLeod, the the odds favoring the acquired lhrnll(gll or bothered by teaching duties as is the McLeod was elected , president. A very successful scason 4vas beld, with events every week, and now comes the big event of the year—the open ! championship, Jackson also was in- strumental in starting this event with the proper spirit, for it was he who got the professionals to give their consent to play and who went |ahead with the detalls of the tourney. |/ The association has done a fine bit of work this past summer in organiz- |amateurs together on the lipks in | weokly competition. And Washing- ton is getting to bo a real goling town, for now the Capital golfers not only 'have their amateur events but the pros have their own organization | with a working schedule of tourna- ments, Even though Washington may | | never’ develop a ‘Bobby Jones or Chick Evans, the golfing season here- abouts provides pl v of interesting events for the n plavers who {never will reach the heights these |stars have attagned, and that is the main object of The game. 300 Mark Appears Doomed. to the scores in the tourney ch opens tomorrow, there is not much question that the 300 mark will | be broken by the winner. Two y=ars ago Jim Barnes won the nationil onen | over the Columbia, the same course as it is today, with a score of 8. Cn |that occasion “Long Jim" spread- eagled his field, with an average cf better than 72 So an average of better than not so much to look for in the coming tourney with Mc- Leod, Diegel and Barnett Knocing out scores at or below 75 practically every time they start. Three hundred will” Jikely be beaten, always pro- vided winter doesn't advance its schedule and drop a northeast storm out of the. skies over Columbia. | as [w Country Club were re-elected at the held at the rooms of the Chamber building. Officers re-clected are J. Mr. Gable, Henry Thurtell He will play in the District open, which begins tomorrow. Albert R. MacKensle, against his own wishes, has been awarded the medal for low qualification score in the recent spring tournament of the Bannockburn Goif Club, for which he tied at 78 with W. A. McGuire of | East Potomac Park. McGuire has not been able to play off the tie, and tho medal was given to MacKenzfe by default. Apparently the proposed match be- tween _Gene Sarazen, professional champion of the United_ States, and Arthur G. Havers, the British open titieholder, at Columbia on Novem- ber 17, is to be played. Arrangements have been completed whereby Havers and Sarazen are- to meet over the thirty-six-hole route at Westchéster- | Biltmore a few days in advance of the Columbia date, and play off thirty-six holes here later. The af-. fair probably Is the prelude to an exhibition tour of the south and east with these two champions playing the star roles. Columbia is only opening its course to the men, who will benefit by the attendant public- ity. While an admission fee may be | charged, Columbia members will not have to pay a fee for a ticket. The qualifying round for the lib- erty cup at the Chevy Chase Club | ends today, with the first match play round in the annual handicap affair scheduled for Wednesday. Finals will be played next Saturday. | Tomeorrew and Twesday senior golf- ers of the Chevy Chase Club will compete in a handicap tournament, for which the handicap list of the Senfors Golf Association has been | revised. e o | \HOPPE MUST DEFEND ! TITLE AGAINST FIVE By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 27.—Six of the world's greatest billiardists to- night put on the finishing touches of their game In preparation for the 18.2 balk line championship, start- ing Monday night in Hotel Pennsyl- vania. Willlam F. Hoppe, holder of the e, and title for more than’a Jacob Schaefer, jr., son of the wizard whom Hoppe succeeded and the only man to defeat the present champion in a title tournament, are the best known of the six. Schaefer won the title two years ago in a brilliant record-making en- gagement with Hoppe at Chicago, but lost it to Hoppe here a yvear ago, and | was beaten in a challenge match last March with the title holder. Welker Cochran, another leading American_ player, holder of many records; Roger Conti, the youthful champlon of France; Erich Hagen- lacher, the German, Horemans, champion of Belgium, are the others, Hoppe and Schaefer have been playin, steadily In exhibitions throughout the summer and if thelr matches were totaled -they would bave grand averages of better than '60. Conti, the’ most brilliant tourna- ment player of the European con- testants, has had one of his greatest years. In exhibitions in. France he had high runs of more than 300 a dozen times, and once had a run of 642, said to be a European record. Horemans is the greatest exhibition player of the lot. Time and again the Belglan has astounded his gal- lerfes with runs of 500 and 600, counted through the T‘ctzh-t and most skiliful of clos: nursing. He hopes to bring-some of m. great. nlly to the championship tournament. Cochran and Hagenlacher, always dangerous tournament _ opponents, have shown a great measufe of im- provement in their games this year. ‘The championship will be decided in a weries of matches In whi locks of 500 points will be played. ing and getting the professionals and | RECORD OF YOUNG STAR OUTDOES FAMOUS VETS Robert Tyre Jones, jr.—Bobby Jones of golfdom—is a fwenty-one- year-old college boy, who has been® playing golf fifteen years. His winning of the natlonal open championship in 1923 was the climax to a long sgries of victorles—and the climax to a long fight against faults and defeats. Here s his record, compared with that of his five leading com- petitors in tho last four tournaments for the title he won this yeay at Inwood. He finished eighth at Inverness in 1920, fifth at Columbia in 1921, second at Skokle in 1922 and first (after a tis and a play-off) at Inwood In 1923, These are the figures by yeara: Bous . 200 201 11 1,187 1,201 Barnes Hutchison 208 280 308 a08 1,201 296 31z 208 302 1,208 310 1220 Jones thus has a margin over his five nearest competitors, all pro- fesslonals, except Chick Evans, as follows: Over Hagen, 14; Barnes, 14; Hutchison 21; Evans, 24; Sarazen, 33. In average scoring for the sixteen rounds of the last four open champlonships Jones has set a mark that is likely to endure many vears. His average per have an average of 75 1-18. Sarazen has 761, Walter Hagen, often referred to as golfer-in the world, per round for thirty-six rounds uad is 74 3-16 strokes. Hagen Hutchisoy has 75%. Evans h: nd_Barnes 75 11-16. “the greatest professional has a wonderful average of exactly 75 strokes in nine consecutive- national open champlionshipd But his best average for any four consecutive events is 74 7-16, This iz not so good as Jone the young amateur has played. made in the championships of 1919, ' average in the only four events in which 1920, 1921 and 1922 Jones at present has the top record in national open champion- ship scoring. From a strictly scoring standp shot by Jones, and very likely the course of equal length and difficulty. g'!m the best round of golf ever est ever shot by anybody on a was at East Lake, his home course near Atlanta, the afternoon of Saturday. September 16, 1922, just after his return from the amateur championship at Brookline, where he was badly beaten by Jess Sweetser in the semi-finals, On a course 6,570 yards long trapn~d in accordance with the severestschamplonship standards, with a difficult par of 72, Bobby sPot a 63—nine under par. His card showed nine holes in par and nine ™ birdies. He played from the back tees and holed every putt, using 17 going out and 14.coming in, 26 in all “It was as easy a round as I ever played.” sald Bobby. “The ball was rolling for me. Either it rolls for you or it doesn’t. When it yolls for You, you can score. When it doesn’t, you can’t. Ang’ that's that!' Following is the complate card: Yards 490 150 320 165 590 175 380 215 525 3220 Out Jones Ne.1. No.2. No.3. No. 4 No.5. No.6 Ny Par [PCTOT PN Fl 2 Bobby Jones started to » achool and still is Roing. He went throush the Atlanta grade schools Yards 425 175 3% Par Jomes 165 L PPTTETUTTS at the age of six and a half years then through the Technologlcal High School, and then the Georgla §chool of Technology. being graduated in mechanica] engineering. He now is at Harvard University. taking an A. B. degree prepara- tory to studying his father’s profession. the law. {Copyright, 1923, in T. §. nd Great Rritain, by North Amerlcan Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved.) Here is the fint installment of one of the most absorbing biographies of a sporting figure ever written. It is the life of Robert Tyre Jones, jr., who uat the age of twenty-one is the national open golf champion, and has a tournament record which the most bril, liant veteran: have not equaled. This serial, of which an installment will appear each Sunday, is more than a mi Tife story. It tells you the champion’s phi- h-sophy o! play, his methods, his technique and, in his own word:, his opinions on some of the most important problems that every golfer must face. O. B. Keeler, the author, is khown as “the Boswell of Bobby Jones.” No one else knows the champion as well as he does. He combines expert judgment with intimate personal knowledge and long observation. Mr. Keeler is golf writer for the Atanta Journal, previously connected with the Kansas City Star and the Atlanta Georgian. He has followed golf since 1897, pionships of recent years. and has attended all the major-cham- Representing a newspaper in the home town of Bobby Jones, he naturally has been deeply interested in the national open cha pion since the boy’s first flash into prominence, winning the Georgia state amateur championship at the age of fourteen, in 1916, and “ that same year at Merion. starting his, quest of a national title at the amateur championship In the last seven years, while Bobby has fought his way up the rugged trail that led to the top position in American golf, Mr. Keeler has accompanie ied him at all his big tournaments, as a close friend as well as the dlronu:kr of his fortunes. He ic a constant .contributor to golf magazines, notably the American Gol[er which his own “Autobiography of an Average Colfer.” running and is the editor of Outdoors-South, a new southern magazine of sports and recreation. CHAPTER 1 A Champion’s Childhood—The First Battle. BY 0. B. B the towsheaded little chap hammering a battered golf ball about a home- made course all in his front yard, except the “long hole”™ KEELER. EGINNING the story of Bobby Jones, national open goli champion, it is a bit puzzling whether to start with the stocky young col- legian, twenty-one years old, at the top of American golf, or with '—all of sixty yards—down the street outside, with a fairway of hoof-prints and wagoh- ruts and rough of ditches full of stones. A stretch of fifteen years lies between, and the rugged little home- made course on which Bobby. Jones first played was a fair prophecy of the mugh trail, thick with th&bitter dust of d:sappomlment and defeat, on which he traveled to glory. Robert Tyre Jones, jr., the cham- pion, is & thoughttul young man. And I ‘suspect he was thinking of the varied bludgeonings of chance along that trail as he sat in the drawing room of a Pullman, golng back to Atlanta from -Inwood—going home with the bacon. Because he kept glancing over at the quaint old silver cup dn the cornmer, covered with names and seven years older than the latest winner, and once he said: “Gee—1 still feel as if I'm going to wake up in a minute!” 0 I wondered if Bobby's recollection jult then went back to the first golf club he sver owned, and if, while the whole country was resounding with the praise of his iron” shot that won the open champlonship at Inwood, Bobby remembered his first attempt to hit a golf ball. First Swing Is & Fissle. He was a tiny, spindling figure in Jompers at the time, just past his Rtin birthday. He was In the front yard of his home, across from the Fast Lake golf course, watching Ful- ton Colville, & member of the East Lake Club, putting and puttering about the yard as ‘golfers will when off_duty. “Like to try & shot, son?” askedl the man, Bohby nodded solemnly. He would. It must be recorded here that the and Edouard | firgt amm of the future champion | win, was a :y-unct fizzle. The club was approximately the same length as Bobby and poked him woefully In the stomach, so lhnt‘he m!sned the ball together. “That won’t do,’ sajd Mr. Colville. He chose a discarded cleek from his second-string clubs, sawed off the shaft below the leather and presented it to Bobby with three somewhat used. golf balls—treasure, indeed. In the same household was & boy about Bobby's age. The youngsters laid out for themselves a.sort of golf course about the premises, five hol that criss-crossed in defiance of ‘golf-1 course convention and at the risk of yodthtul pates, four holes in the yard and a “long hole"—every golf course must have its “long hole"—do' the street. This was Bobby Jones' start in golf. Utterly untrammeled by advice or in- struction, except he was told that a ball must be played wherever it lay and all strokes must be counted, he began his career, a career that pro- gressed to the top of American golf with an orderliness that one writer, rantland Rice, has characterized as ‘almost ai immuublo as the orbit of the star: “Stay With 'l"le-. Boy!” So Bobby Jones did not begin by cutting his teéth on 2 niblick or tak- ing a Vardon grip on his first rattle. His first battle, too, was not on the inks, but a grimmer affair—a battle | waiting for Bobby Cruickshank to play out of l.h trap, for life itself; and golf helped him to \ BANKERS’ DUCKPIN LEAGUE IS STAGING A REAL RACE ITH the: Bankers Duckpin_Eeague entering intd its sixth week of play tomorrow might, competition among the sixteen teams is reaching the boiling state. Team No. I of the Washington Loan -’nd Trust Company, which has only two games under 500 this season, is tied for first place with flxxlauonal Bank of ‘Washington five, ‘¢ach baving copped cleven contests and losing four. Team No. 1 of the Washington - Loan and Trust Company has made an enviable record thus far.. It hag rolled a high game of 571 and high team set of Osborn the nlno tt.m red 152 f.r ‘high r:,“' Pcrpeml Bulld- l” to m the i vlurnl.nwnt best pl of in the Wash ngt last week. Mount Pl B V10 and 1438, Fespecth "»’," set, w! a G‘id!l Lowd of the fin fl'l all previous eecords when she nflluml 349 m- high set. D-% of Isabella step into onl-nn ‘when tbw the e Ci e e eague. ‘mmr!l-ux Tengus io Koso. Co- Bobby Jones, with his tiny bag of clubs, before he was seven years old, hacking away, in rompers, with East Lake in the background. _Bobby Jones was born in Atlanta, March 17, 1903, the only® son of Tr.and Mrs. Robert Tyre Jones. He -as named for his paternal granu- ir¢, a sturdy north Georgian, who ared mnothing for sports, and was -astly chagrined over the celebrity ittained by his own son as a base ball layer at the University of Georgia Te feels differently about Bob the “hird, however. The first sporting vent he ever witnessed voluntarily vas a Red Cross golf match at East .ake, when Bobby was playing. While -he boy was battling at Inwood last fuly a telegram came from his stern ‘1d_grandfathe “Stay with the ‘utts go dowl Bobby showed it to me with a smile nd a suspicious brightness in his yes. “He doesn’t know a thinB\about z0lf,” said Bobby. “But I'll bet no- sody is pulling harder than he is. “xcept, maybe, dad.* At the outset it seemed Bobby was not to remain long in this vale of tears and golfing activities. As a baby he was afflicted with a digestive trouble which baffled one excellent doctor after another to the number of six, who, one and all. informed Bobby's parents that it would be a miracle If the child grew up. He Takes Them Bolled. Up to the age of five years the fu- ture champlon never had managed a morsel of solid food. It was white of egg and liquid, peptonoids and such sap for the youthful Robert. and by his father's own account he was a sight pitiful to behold. At which juncture Bobby's father. remembering his own rugged boy. hood in the mountains of north Geor- gla, decided to give Mother Nature & chinee. The little family moved out from the city to board at a home in a suburban town—East Lake. There they removed Bobby's shoes and turned him out tosgrass. That was the first battle of Bobby Jones, the battle for life. And it may be that some hardy inherent fighting quality in the frail little chap assert- ed itself, for in a month Bobby was taking his eggs bolled instead of , boy, and make the - beaten, and in three months he was eating ‘anything he could bite, and his dental equipment was adequate. Then came Fulton.Colville and the «bbreviated cleek, and so Bobby won hiy first fight, fatefully (it may be) at the very gate of the East Laks golf course; a tiny, spindling figure in rompers pattering about the red old hills of Georgia and pecring curiously through the fence at white-clad grown people hitting a little white ball in a game just beginning to be popular in Atlanta. - The little boy fi rompers was lod%- mg at historic ground—for him. It was there he was to acquire in this oddly faseinating game the style that later was to make him the glass of fashion and the mold of form, wher- ever golf was played. What He Has Done. That toy cleek was the start of a career which, in a brief span of years, was to Include these achievements in Bobby Jones' record: Won national open at Inwood, 1923, Won southern amateur golf pionship, 1817, 1920 and 1822, Won Georgia state amaleur pionship, 1916, Runnér-up. in tle with John one stroke behind Gene Saraz tional open championship, 192 Runner-up to S. Davidson Herron, national amateur championship, 1919. Runner-up to_ J. Douglas Edgar, Canadian open championship, 1919. Runner-up to James M. Barnes, southern open champlonship, 1919, Runner-up to J. Douglas Edgar, southern open champlonship, 1920. Semi-finalist in_ national ~amateur championship, 1920 and 1922, Played in four conageutive national n championships, finishing succes- Ry lehtn, nfth, second and frst, 2nd leading the entire fleld in aggre- gate scoring by a margin of fourteen strokes. X (The second ins sertes will appear in the pink sports section of The Star mext Sunday. It with “Kiltie, the King- champlonship cham- cliam- Black, n, na- A R e TSN A reflective view-of Bobby Jones that wasn't posed. It was thus he sat with his putter, “Calamity Jane,” at the edge of the eightcenth green. at Inwood, was cinched in the play-off. lumbians and' Hilltoppers are dead- locked for top honors. Each has won ten games and lost. two. Lottie Knott, May O'Brien, Elizabeth Tillot- son, Gladys Lowd, and Rena ' Levy were movie ticket winners last week. The schedule for the week follows: Tomorrow, Columbians vs, Sales Tax ‘Tuesday, City Post Office va. War De- artment; ‘Wednesday, Independents Ve Hilltoppers; T nhy Comforter Club _ve.~ Mount Friday, S merciais ¥s.. Biliios: Saturday; Daughters of Isabella vs Post Office Department. BASKETERS TO PRACTICE. i “The - Princess basket ball squad will hold thbh’ ‘second ractice, R 8 o'cloc! Girll rln( to lflh!- 'lfl the Princess Club are requested to t in touch With Miss Totten, Main S . branch P, kS HARPERS 'ber = 27.—Potomac and Shenandoah \rh-n hom Wwere clear uus ovnln‘ when the championship PLAYGROUND QUINTS STAGE FINE GAMES Competition in the Boys’' Interplay- ground Basket Ball League opened With & bang yesterday, when teams ‘took the court in five contests. Tossers from the Garfleld and New | ¢y, York Avenue playgrounds staged a spirited game, which the former won, 18 to 11, after & stirring rally in the ‘fourth period.’ Ten_ girls', teams eompleud their second Saturday of play. The livellest m was uncorked when Chevy Chase took the measure of Happy Hollow, 19 to 15. Results-of both leagues follow: me Golf’s Greatest Genius ' VAST ADVANCE IN TENNIS ASTONISHES VETERAN FAN Declares Woman Racketers of Today Could Easily Have Defeated Any of Men Who Played Game in Early Seventies. | L who told me that he had see ’way back in the early seven 'played today,” he said, him on to describe the early game a ' “Take the service, for instance, underhand, without any cut or twist, merely to fservice was a gentle lob that often barely cro those girls out there now! used to, and they :undreamed of in the early days.” i It was interesting to converse with { some one who had actually witnessed ! the beginning of tennls In this coun- jtry and who had watched the game | develop from year to year. He spoke lof the different sized courts then { used—no' two were alike in dimen- sions—and how the game became | standardized only “when the ‘Croquet {Club of Wimbledon . published - the laws of lawn tennls in 1874. Used Underhand Serviee. Every one In those days served un- { derhand, and an overhead service was | deemed " unsportsmanlike, although there was nothing said in the rules {against it. Perhaps nothing can bet- ter illustrate how great has been the change in lawn tennis than the altered point ‘of view regarding the delivery “of the service. The over head service has now become 50 gen- erally used that many people believe no other type of service exists. In- deed, I have been questioned on a number of occasions by boys as to the legality of an underhand service. It was a surprise to the American public to see that two members of the English women's tennis = team. that played at Forest Hills this year, used only the underhand service, and this was frankly spoken of as a giar- ing weakness in their game. It is not generally understood over here that the underhand delivery still is con- sidered in England and on the con- tinent to be the type of service best adapted to a woman's game. 1 remember very well a discussion 1 had some years ago with Mrs. Lar- combe regarding this subject. Mrs. Earcombe was once the English champion. She has since then became @ professional, and is regarded as the leading authority on women's temnis in England. With the exception of the service, her game s very similar to that of Mrs. Wightman's, being notable for its brilllant strategy and fine volleying. She is pne of the wom- en who defeated Mrs, Mallory abroad, our champlon sccuring only four games from her. Is Held More Effective. ‘When I asked her why she adhered to the old-fashioned underhand serv- ice when the rest of her game was so modern, she replicd that the under- hand service was, as a rule, more of- fective in women's play than the overhead delivery, beczuse very few women had the strength to develop their service into an aggressive wea- pon and usually had to depend upon a weak second service that was easily returnable. She claimed that the over- head service took a great deal more out of women than the underhand, and_that if this strength was ex- pended uselessly the service became & handicap rather than an advantaz. There is much to be said for this point of view. It is undoubted'y true that the big proportion of first serv- ices are faults, whether a man or a }woman be playing, and that the game !1s usually played with a second serv-} ice. The weakness of the average woman's overhead service is apparent to every ome. Take Mrs. Mallory, for | of putting the ball in play. An ace from her is almost unknown. The tremendous effort that Miss lMcl\Ane makes In serving overhead is almost painful to the spectators and 1is an excel'ent illustration of Mrs. { Larcombe's contention. It seems al- | most impossible for a woman to ac- quire the proper method of swinging “it astonishes me. ing out there could beat any of the men who usedsto play at firs example; her service is merely a means | BY SAMUEL HARDY. AST year I met an elderly man at one of the women’s tournaments n the first tennis played in America, ties. “When I see how the game is Why, any of these girls play- Er Iled nd the way it was played then. )" he said.” “The men used to hit it put the ball in play. The ssed the net” but look at Why, they serve much harder than the me: 0ssess an a’l»around knowledge of the game that wa the racket that enables a man to serve without greatly tiring himself. This Is partly because that, as children girls do not practice throwing a ball 2s boys do. Almost from infancy o boy throws anything within reach and | develops both the proper swing of the arm and the flick of the wrist that are 80 necessary in tennis for good service Second Service Wenk. | The second service of most wome: is little more than x lob and usuall falls within easy reach of the op- ponent’s forehand. 1If it Is delivered with more speed, it must carry some twist for the sake of bafety, and thi- twist carries the ball to the recefver's forehand, unless the extremely difficult reverse service be employed. On the other ‘hand, the underhand servic: arries a twist that takes the ball to the backhand. 2 The women who have perfected the underhand service deliver {t fron. eight er ten feet behind the baseline From this p#ition the service is simi lar to a hard, speedy drive that ha 1a low trajectory, good pace and length and very nd. It Is far les exbausting ¢ n overhead gervice nd more truly an aggr {3troke than In a weak overhead ice that bounds high, just where u opponent wishes it. 1 do not belfev: that this underhand service is superio to the overhead service when the lat ter s perfectly executed, but the point I wish to make is that %o few wome have the proper service swing that majority of them would be far be ter off if they cultivated an unde hand service, The only woman 1 know who hau a really ‘effective overhead service comparable to that f a man—b which I mean a good second delivery as well as a fast service capable « making aces—is Miss Eleanor Goss Lenglen hyn a distinet break in the swing of her service, as has Helen Wills, although the latter Is rapid] overcoming her defects Is Tremendous Asset. A fine service 1s a tremendous ax set to any player. Think how fu it took McLoughlin. The four best servers In the world are Tilden, Pat 1 terson, Williams and Murray. All of these men have acquired a perfect swing with no break in It and th: nap of the wrist that Is so neces sary to speed: moreover, they hit the ball_high, taking fuil advantage o their height. Johnston has the swing and the ,wrist-s p, but he persist in throwing the bail so low that b usually overshoots the gservice court when he puts on much speed. One of the chief reasons why Rich ards, the Kinseys, Washburn an such players have not gone farther is because they have never developed drst-class services. All of these men {are forced to depend as a rule on i comparatively weak second dellv | erfes. Service should be a distinct advan tage. The server Is somewhat Ik | the dealer In bridge, as he s given the aggreseive position. If he fail 1o make the most of this he is throw {ing away a valuable asset. Young | players should study the chapters ou serving in Tilden's books, and never rest content until they have learne: ito perfect this &troke. Above all { things, they should beware of a weak second service, ad it has spelled the downfall of many an otherwise firsi class player. (Copyright. 1023.) ROD AND STREAM By Perry Miller 1 HE bass angler is having his day by day. give most gratifying accounts, (\\un 171 bass. juning and his average is mounting Reports from all the Maryland and Virginia creek one party returning last Wednesday The water is in fine condition, notwithstanding the recent heav; rains. The frosts have been bette: ring ‘conditions for the anglers and the results are, first, that the water is cooler, and, second, that the tal! grass in the creeks which has been-a drawback to casters.is fast dis appearing and floating away. The frost kills this undergrowth in the water much the same as it does on land. This fact 1s especially g06d news for the live bait fisher- man, because his minnows are fre- quently killed by pulling them through the grass. From now on conditions should be ideal for bass fishing, both large and small mouth. Harry Kemmedy, Clarence Ingling. Howard Ingling and Will Stockett returned last week after spending eight days on Stockett's boat, Wayhoo, a forty-five-foot launch.- It was one of the most successful trips ever undertaken by these fishermen. They visited all the creeks on the Virginia and Maryland sides of the | river, and after throwing away all bass under one pound, and cooking a large number for their meals. they returned to the city with nearly 200 s Harry Barrick., fishing at Plum point, on the Chesapeake bay, Thurs- ;day, Friday and Saturday, pulled in a fourteen-pound rock fish. He said lthat he hooked some beauties, but ,v\u not able to hold them. He trolled from the long 700-foot wharf tat that place.. He sald that the big rock seemed to come right up to the pler and the minute they took his bait. ,made a dash for the other pilings In an effort to get away. The strangest part of it is that the fish could not be induced to take bait as much as ten feet from the plers, but would come in right up against the wharf and swim along the bank. Stdmey Atias visited Occoquan creek one day last week and succeeded in landing several bas: L. ¥, Perron and 8. Atlas visited Gunston cove and brought back nine nice bass. George King and O} | Gunston cove and sized bass. % ‘There have been a mumber of bass caught in Gunston cove this fall, but Aquia creek last Sunday. furnished the most extiting day for its host of anglers. Reports state Jlofl big-mouth bass wcu‘ taken that creek. % There have beem some very nice begs taken from the Tidal basin and along the sea wall down to Hains point during the last week. Big yellow. perch are also being caught on pike minnows in large numbers. Outside of the report from Plum point, no news has come in from salt water fishing grounds except Chesa- peake Banflh. & e Atins visited inded ten good There wu Just emomgn fish caught recently to take the curse off bad luck in fishing at Chesapeake Beach. The conditions haye been fairly good. Some sizable rock and trout have been caught off the long pier. There has been lll lbl.m!' of the Kmt the | William perch, which formerly hav compensated in a large degree fr the scarcity of rock and trout In the fall fishing. KENNEL AND FIELD BY GEO. H. KERNODLE In eumming up the dogs of all breeds which stand out as the best developed in this country, Frank I Dole places the local Boston terrier. Aspin Hill Flapper, as one of five | The other dogs which make up Dole’s selection are the shepherd dog, Cham plon Schatz Hohentann; the Sealy ham terrier, Ch. Laneside Rascal; the Scottish terrier, Ch. Fairwold Ornsay Bill, and_the wire-haired terrier. Ch Deykin Surprise. Dole’s comment i& that Flapper has - been fearlessly shown, and that she has met and de- feated the’ best of her breed. His criticlsm {s that she is maybe a trifle long In body. This criticism only strengthens the commonly known fact that no dog has yet been bred which will represerst perfection in all points to every judge. Mrs. R. C. Birney. who owns Flapper, is the first fancier to bring this honor to a locally bred dog. Miss Sarah L. McQueen has just & ported a_shepherd bitch of ‘unusua merit and of proven show and fleld quality. ‘The bitch, Blanka vom Rit- Yersturm, carries the field title, SchH (Schutzhund), and has qualified as excellent in fleld work in~Germany. Blanka fs_sired by Alf v. Dustern- brook, a litter brother to P. A. B ‘Widener'ss Grand Champlion Dolf v Dusternbrook, and possesses ehow qualities which are sure to be heard from during the coming winter. Mat Trimble kas just been informed by his trainer of the death of Trim ble's Mister Jim, considered one of the greatest young pointers in the field today. This dog has siways plated weil among the biggest fleld- trial winners, and his death is a severe Ioss to”the Twin Pine kennels. Feank P Leach reports a litter of ten bullterrier pupples out of his Newcoin Delight and sired by his Ch. Artesian Ensign. As two real fAyers_de from a former ma ing of this pair of dogs, Leach is looking for one- from this litter to carry on the Newcoin kennels' string of wins. * / Johmston's Cherfe, a wire-haired terrier puppy from Mrs. R. H. John- ston’s Ruffcote kenfiels, was returned inner at the recent Atlanta Kennel lub- show. Cherle Is reported to have scored over & good entry and L have recelved a great send off by the noted authority, Vinton P. Brecsc Cherie’'s kennel mate, Ruffine, won the senlor puppy. glase at the sauie 1 show. i