Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 72

cg O Trend Toward Difficult Links Is Decried : Tennis Foolfault Rule “CHAMPIONSHIP” COURSES MAR FUN OF GOLF DUFFERS Rank and File of “Average” Players Comprising 90 Per Cent of Total, Deserve Chief Consideration in All Projects. BY W. R. McCALLUM. S the game of golf progresses and new courses spring up here and A there with many and varied improvements, it seems to be the ambition of every club of any size and financial standing to have a golf course on which a championship can be played—a course which the builders hope some day will be chosen as the scene of one of the three great national events. Yet how many of these so-called championship courses offer a contributed in so large a measure to the construction of a championship course. It is true today, and probab'y will always be true as long as championship golf courses and golf dutfers exist, that the duffer will not get as much real enjoyment out of a round of goli over a really testing course as he would over an easier course, where a ball a little off the line s him a shot or more. Yet there over a testing course will do more to improve the duffer’s game than golf over an easy course where the penaltics are not so severe. i T WL RS GOLF CUP FINALISTS FINISH IN DEADLOCK and 110—the man wh the per cent of the gol —1Is a course not much more than 000 yards length, whose fair- whose greens ure bunkered; a course short holes varying from ds in length and whose putting gre re kept in ntly, too severely with three ne 130 to 16 fairways ¥ handicap cup Bng at the in excellent condition What the Duffer Wants. ) of the Therein lies the ter, those two words dition.” Deep bun and a generally diffi haps don’t have much effect mat- the George Courtn level and course pe on the average duffer who does not strive for length and whose iron shots conceded two strokes by haven't the carry of the Treat, was three down at the ers. RBut he wants gr hut squared at the eighth smoothed out. He At won the tenth, but Loftus, rolled oc winning the fourteenth and_six- | crack, and teenth, became dormle 2 up. Treat| putting grecn won the seventeenth hole by virtue gently rollin fine run-up and squared the And anot teh at the eighteenth by holing a the course -p from od putt. oint, smooth of | Treat will concede Loftus a single in front of tu. ting stroke in their mine play-off. | greens. Usually the duffer man Th played one hole yesterday aft- who does not play the mashie any too ernoon before the golf committee de- well. For this is one of th, ASO! cided to c el the play-off on ac- he is a duffer. And if he has a run- count of the approach of darkness. up shot from 20 yards off the green over fairly smooth ground he is well satisfied, much more so than if he had to play shot through a he a difficult mashie vy fringe of grass in front of the green. These little details are what make a good golf course from the duffer point of view, th often overlooked by Ereens c. The duffer wants distance off the tee, as much as he can get from his Inside Golf '—By CHESTER HORZON. tee shot, none too long at best. For this rea. rolled falrways to a dis- tance 165 yards from the tee will serve him well. He wants easy shots to the green, not such shots as would | puzzle even the expert. Given these things he Is happy, and his score not only respe ble, but sometimes, when the putts drop for him, even | something to be proud of. | Three Sets of Tees Useful. | On the so-called champlonship | courses there should be two, or, bet- | ter still, three sets of tees, with a tee box at each set. When a duffer | foursome starts out it can take its| cholce of tees, the long. Intermediate | One of the best ways I know of to self-demonstrate the feel of correct balance in the golf swing is “shadow mwinging.” By this I mean get yourself in position so ¥ou ean watch your own shadow while swinging. Then, watching your shadow, the first thing to do ix observe the shadow of youf head as the club ix swung. See that it doesn’t move. Observe how much you have to Atiften the right lex to keep it from moving. Then, for a demon- stration ax to what happens when the head moves, let it sway onee As you mwing. Note how all the Anap and speed are immediately taken out of the clubhead. The or the short length. This would give the members of the duffer four-ball | the chance to take the course the want. And probably most of them would take the short course, leaving the long course with its lengthy car- ries for the experts. This is being done at several courses around New York, where greens committees real- ize the long course is too. hard, the | carries too arduous for thé ordinary | player. These are a few of the things that could be done to make golf more enjoyable for the gent who con- tributes the major part of the up- keep of American golf. Give him a chancy With a few good shots he | Zains confidence and Some day he| Iir ©f,air Mke the windxtorm in v |:,’ able to play the longer few swings niternately with the course: head held fixed and then allowed —_————— to move. All the pressure, you will mnote, ix released from the HAVERFORD WINS RUN. HAVERFORD, Pa., Haverford Colle right lex when the head moves November 3 and the body sways. Shadow -country team | Wwinging is a fine way to learn-a iversity here| “1ot ahout the golf swing—if you a thre nd-one- are observant. (Copyright Jobn F. Dille Co.) ROD AND STREAM By Perry Miller HE Potomac river is in wonderful condition for the angler, both for small and big mouth bass. But only a very few, if any, anglers are trying for the small-mouth bass in the upper river, and those who have matched their skill with these gamesters have failed to report their success to any of the local places usually informed of the result of fish- ing trips. The big-mouth bass have been furnishing plenty of sport in the lower Potomac in the Virginia and Maryland creek. Aquia creek and Gunston cove stand eut prominently in this respect, and reports state that last Sunday the followers of the rod and reel were well rewarded, There has been only one report Wytheville, Va. These trout are a from salt water, and t came from for sore eyes and should be Annapolis to John Hurley, well known by every local angler. The local angler. 1t was from Tom Trott. ck spotted trout have reached a and was to the effect that plenty ¢ good =ize, about two pounds rockfish were being ken from th . the gray gs about one-half bay. Trolling is the method cmployed | pound, the rainbow trout about a by these lers, using a Drone bait, | pound and three-quarters and the brook trout from one-half to three- quarters of a pound. The rainbow { trout appear to be much heavier than the black spotted trout, but Leech says they do not weigh as much. Would Have Blg Supply. B t Jn discussing the Lakeland hatch- not be generally known, | eries, Leach said that if the bureau but Lakeland, where the of fisheries could utilize all the 100 goldfish have been hatched lacres at the station for the propaga- past, has been taken over b, tion of fish, his department would reau and thousands of b be able to supply all the eastern sec- and catfish h, been tlon of the United States with fish allotted throughout to stock streams without calling on tion of the country. the Mississlppi river, where a large On the 15th of lugt 3 percentage of the young come from ies vere atel i v t the present time. e sa shoul R eae Hti o cned our and poday [ inis be done the Mississippl river markable length of three and @ half Could then send all Mts fish to the Snd aomes ot | valley section and middle west. Treso fon 4 ! ‘|, it is interesting to note that of all et {the fish hatched at the Lakeland sta- @ in thresyvania and | tion only about one-half of 1 per m“nurill;x_ ree years they {cent have been lost, which amounts i to practically nothing. Basx Alvo Are Planted. e S e deh e ows 0| AIRPLANE GOLF BEING i PLAYED BY SOLDIERS head of the department of fish cul- By the Associated Press. ture, sald that last Thursday he had planted in the lower Potomac 1,000 crappies d 500 big mouth bass. Some time prior to May 15 last, eight adult crappies were sent to the Lakeland station and put into Aviators of the 12th Observation Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Division, at Fort Bliss, Tex., clalm to have invented a new game—airplané golf. The game is played Wwith half the mem- bers of each contesting team on the one of the ponds. On May 15 82,000 crapples were hatched. About the golf course, and the other half in airplanes. same time 150 adult members of the Golf balls big-mouth bass ramily were sent to this station and their yield of young was 35,000 bass. Mr. and Mrs. Catfish airplanes as near as possible to the holes on the ground below, and their respective partners “hole” them out. were also sent out and their yield was 10.000 little catties. Skill in the game is in the art of dropping the ball from the airplane, ove: halt-mile course. ex bureau of fish- fourth of nd at Lakeland, tions of various bfen operating the 100 acres for th hatched the eastern sec- 000 crap- 3 ey, will reach are dropped from the tion and several of them would prove attractive fish for any angler. Leech sald it was the most remarkable truly enjoyable game of golf for the rank and file of the goliers of the | country, the dufiers whose dollars and whose encrgy and enthusiasm have | ample record that constant play | compe- | | woven in it is an expo: | | " THE SUNDAY STAR," WASHINGTON: " D. U] nis brpther, Jimmy Maiden, There, one by one, i | influence. All began their career since. his time infrequently now, tion for pupil he precision. 2 i from the beginning. | loi fashion in golf. trammeled at the time. about it. the three using substantially the fine, Thythmic swing of Stewart Maiden, and all retain much of his style today. Maiden was professional at East Lake until 1919, when he went to the St. Louls Country. Club and remained there until after the national amateur champlonship was played on that course, in 1921. Then he returned to the East Lake Club, In Atlanta, and has been there Maiden's method of teaching probably involves less speech than that of any other golf instructor in America. ability to pick out and correct faults in style and execution. He plays belng taken occasion can produce a fine round of golf: and as Infrequent illustra- can execute any desired shot with Below is the second installment of a serial biography of the national open champion, whose career between the ages of six and twenty-one has astounded the golfing world. This is a life story of a youth, but inter- ion of many points in his game. of struggle and of the highest success among American golfers is wristen by a golf expert who has followed every stage of Bobby Jones' career CHAPTER 1L The Mold df Form—*“Kiltie, the King Maker.” BY 0. B. KEELER. T is more or less a burning question among several million golfers where Bobby Jones acquired that beautifully rhythmic swing that in the last three years has heen held up all over the world as the glass Having scen the open champion as a little boy, plug- ging around a homemade golf course with a sawed-off cleek—a cleek, of | all stubborn clubs!—we must, perforce, admit that so far as Bobby's infantile golfing swing is concerped he was utterly untutored and un- He just swung. “child wonders” came under his But he has a singular up with teaching, but on beautiful This account s l Nobody showed him anything If he saw any golfers playgng, it was through the fence. His father was just about taking up golf at this time; that is, he was wondering if he, a former ball player, the next spring, Bobby, then being six years old and a veteran of some- game of golf. And here Bobby Jones, a fraglle, tow-headed youngster, came under pell of rtain stolid, uncom- municative, are-headed little Scotch professional golfer from the famous old golfing town of Cat- noustie—Stewart Maiden, lately corde to the club as successor to his broth- er Jimmy. Swing Only Is Eloguent. ed him from the beginning, he so thoroughly Caledonian. “Kiltie, ithe king maker,” it is now, from the crowns that have been galned by his famous pupils, Bobby Jones, Miss Alexa Stirling and Perry Adair. “Kil- tle, the king make; lacked the gift of gab as far as it can well be lacked, but po: ed a singularly fluent golfing swing and a peculiar { abllity almost without words to im- {part that swing, or, at any rate, its salient factors, to his pupils. Now. Bobby Jones did not go at once to taking lessons of Stewart Maiden. There is doubt that he ever took any regular lessons at all, from Stewart or anvbody €lse. Coaching certainly he has had in abundance from Stewart as his game developed and rough spots appeared that needed attention. And to this day Stewart can look at Bobby Jones playing a few practice shots, and off the line a trifle with his irors (for example) and say a low word or two, and pres- to—Bobby is himself again. But there is no room for doubt that Stewart Maiden was the mold of form for Bobby’s early golfing method and the foundation for his splendid game of later years. Stewart wasythe club professional, the arbiter of elegance, the greatest golfing man in all the world, to six-year-old Bobby Jones with 'his sawed-off cleek and the budding hunger in his little system to thing like six months at the old man's | imitate. | later modified to sult his difference “Kiltie" Maiden the members call-| | | | from “Carnoustfe, watching her play | was concluded. | really were getting old enough to start golf. Adair, And Bobby, closing in on his sixth birthday in the mild southern winter time, continued simply to swing as he plugged about the little, rugged homemade course and betimes heard his father talking about this pestif- erous “old man’s game"—he finally took it up—and then about plans for moving over squarely into the East Lake Club grounds, where there wasa cottage for rent right back of the thirteenth green of that era. And that move was accomplished| be a real golfer with & bag of clubs and a caddy. Amd with the natural imitativeness of childhood. Bobby naturally selected Stewart Maiden to Mistaken for Stewart. To this day, Bobby sald on the way home from his first great conquest at Inwood, “I can go out on the course and swing exactly like Stewart.” His swing was a peculiarly exact copy of Maiden's at the beginning, in build and some ideas of his own But he was so accurate a copyist that at the age of thirteen, a stocky, well grown boy playing in his first tourna- ment away from home, at the Roe- buck Country Club of Birmingham, an old friend of Stewart Maiden insisted that Bobby, driving in the distance, was Stewart himself, and would not be convinced to the contrary by Bob- by's own father until he had come to close range. Miss Alexa Stirling, three times na- tional woman champion and general- Iy regarded as the leading feminine stylist in golf, also has Stewart Mal- den’s swing. In the gallery at May- field, where she won the national i C, NOVEMBER '%4. 1923-SPORTS SECTION. How Bobby Jones Became " Greatest Genius of Golf STEWART MAIDEN RANKS HIGH AS A GOLF TUTOR Stewart Maiden, the silent Scotch golf professional, who has gained renown as the teacher of Bobby Jones, Miss Alexa Stirling and Perry Adair, who have among them won five natlonal champlonships and ten sectlonal titles, was born and reared in Carnoustle, a famous little golfing town of Scotland. He came to thejAtianta Athletic Club, the home club of all three of the young champions, in 1907, succeeding — STEWART This native camera man to hurry up. from something else than a fault of poise or balance. Bobby was a natural mimic. He | could imitate others as well as Stew- | art, and he gave many a quaint little | exhibition for the delectation of his father and his father's friends. A pet dglineation was of one Judge Broyles, a'quick sort of player who liked to carry his own clubs. The judge's finish of a stroke was a divided sort of effort. As soon as the ball was struck he let go of the club with | his left hand, reached for the golf ' WORK A clubhouse recently opened for play. of the club, was auth club thus will have winter quarters. size. of the amount to be spent. i in keeping with 1 Was the winner of the selected score champlonship of 1920, was a man from a distant tee, don't know that young woman," said he, “but I can tell you her teach- er. He's Stewart Malden!” So the little boy began swinging like Stewart Malden; compact stance, nearly square; the ball played oppo- site the left heel; the right hand very much on top of the club; the hands held low and extremely close to the legs; feet close together; body erect and 'set with a pecullar command of balance, that vastly important detail of timing. He’s a Natural Mimfe. In all the shots I have seen Bobby Jones play, I never yet have seen him swing aff’ balance. His infrequent mistakes, I am prone to believe, arise THIS IS HOW BOBBY JONES DOES IT The most remarkable growth has! in the pilot gulding the ship, and-in Here we have the champion prepari growth of which he had ever heard. taken place in the bass family, the average of them having attained four inches In length, with some of trem ranging from four to even as large as eight inches. A few of these bass have been kept at the bureau of fisheries for observi- ‘s, AS remarkable as this may seem, |the “observer,” or player with the % ball, “driving” it as close to the hole as possible. / from Yellowstone Park, grayling,| After the ball is “driven” from the from\ Madison river, Wisconsin and |airplane, the game becomes regular rainbdy and brook trout from ' golf. the bureau of fisherles is experi- menting with black spotted trout grip,” with modifications introduced by B left hand is well on top of the shafry the of any other well known player, probably. It is a combined. The little finger of the right hand over] left hand. . & shot, using the “Vardan , Stewart Maiden. The r on top than that ‘power and delicacy the forefinger of the lumbia, which recently e luded. Stevinson hxg el ore of 55—28 out and 27 i ‘1:2":&12:1 birdies on-but three holes. His card follows® out 33333432432 In . 334233833275 The contest started on September 1. bers of the Semiors’ Golf Asso- et the Chevy Case Club will compete in an_eighteen-hole tourna- Ment Tuesday and Wednesday for a cup presentéd by Francis M. Savage fn memory of Dr. J. McBride Sterrett. A revised handicap list will be posted the first day of the competition. g wpeeles of bent grass, dis- covered a few months ago and re- ported to be peculiarly adaptable to The climate of Washipgton, is being lanted on the old sixth green at the ashington Golf, and Country Club and will be used next year for pr pagating purposes. The new grass Ras been named “Washington bent, after the course on which it was found. It is sald to be particularly hardy Quring the season when other bent grasses are suffering from the so-called brown patch. ! ' 12 another matlonal championship ever comes to Columbla, club mem- bers will make every effort to have | the event held in October, some time before or about the 15th of the month. Discussing the national open of 1921 and the baked condition of the course in July, when the cham- plonship was held, a group of Col- uinbia members last week pointed out that the course is in its best condition at that time or during the first“ two weeks in June. National champlonships are not held so early in this country on account of the possibility of conflict with the Brit- ish titular events. Columbia will hold its annual meet- ing next Wednesday night. A ticket foriclub officers, headed by John H. Hanna and John C. Walker, is ex- pected to go through. J. C. McLaughlin and O. R. Evgns, Dboth members of Columbia, tied for low gross score in the tournament of the Electric League, held at Ban- nockburn. First net prize went to B. T. Foley, while other prizes were won~ as follows: Second low net, E. C. Ernst; third low net, J. W. Reese; fourth low net, A. Dunlap; fifth low net, B. S. Works; sixth-low net, P. A. 'Davis; seventh low net, L. T. Souder; eighth-low net, R. P. Har- ripgton, and booby prize, W. V. Reed. e tournament was handled by a committee- composed of J. W. Reese, H. P. Foley and B. T. Folex. ‘With the fimal in the Liberty cup tournament at Chevy Chase yester- day oon, club tournaments have been about finished .for the year. In- dian Spring is holding its club cham- plonship and Bannockburn is in the midst of its two-man title event and its woman titular affair. When these are over the regular scheduled events of clubs about Washington will have Scotsman, teacher of Bobby Jones, Alexa Stirling and Perry is nearly as hard to photograph as to get conversation out of. And yet one would swear Kiltie is talking, in this picture. thorized at a meeting to proceed with plans. on the property to be used as a clubhouse. been complated ‘for 1923. Next year looms as one of the big- gest about Washington In a competi- tive golf way. Although the Middle Atlantic - championship will not be hald here (it Is scheduled to go to the Maryland Country Club), the Wash- ington. Golf and Country Club m: hold its- annual spring event, aban doned this season use the course had to be rearranged and improved. Allthe other tournaments will be held, with the . Indian Spring.Club MAIDEN. Probably he is telling the bag and started on his way, his eyes meanwhile riveted on the ball. The tout ensemble was somewhat re- markable and. as reproduced faith- fully by Bobby, it caused great joy in the hearts of all beholders—ex- cept Judge Broyles, who fever could see‘anything funny about it. But Bobby's best imitation always | the rule comes, | reasons. Unpoi;ular RESTRICTION ESSENTIAL "TO FAIR PLAY, HOWEVER Dis;safisfaction Due Mainly to Obscure Wording of Code and Irregularity of Enforcement, Stars Seldom Are Violators. BY SAMUEL HARDY. HERE is no doubt that the foot-fault rule is about as popular with tennis players as is the eighteenth amendment at a country club. The mass of tennis players persist in ignoring the fact that this rule was adopted, after nation-wide discussion, by the vote of their own delegates at an annual national convention, and that it was passed only when the need of such a rule became apparent to nearly every one. In spite of this, the foot-fault rule always has been unpopular, and most players gwho are penalized for breaking the rule act as if they were be- ing unjustly treated. - ) In the early days of tennis there was no such rule. The server stood inside the court with the tip of his heel on the base line. Soon good volleyers began to find it advantageous to run in on service, as it took them only a few strides to gain the net from this position. Some players developed the net at- | a critical moment tack to such an extent that the base- | match. A good {llustration of this line players of the more conserva- |occurred in Davis cup mitch be. tive British school found themselves (tween Alonso and O'Hara Wood. The handicapped, and after much discus- | latter served what appeared to be an sion induced the tennis assoclation |ace which would have ended the to pass a rule which compelled the |matgh, but was foot faulted and server to stand behind the base line | eventually lost to Alonso. when he served. Ever since then zhe1 Such men as Tilden and Johnston lose him the fight has continued, but the govern- | almost never violate the foot-fault ing body always has recognized the |Tule. Long trainingz has taught them wisdom of placing some checle® on | to respect it. Tilden stands a foot the man who dashes in on his serv- |and a half back of the line so that ice, and the many changes that the | his swinging foot will not cross it, foot-fault rule has undergone since|While Johnston keeps both feet on then have all tended to make the | the ground when serving. Wilding used to s i | nd a good three feet 1 TudoE moTe SLrot hind the base line, but some playe Reasona for Dissatiafaction. Williams and Washburn for instance. stand close to it and overcome the The widespread dissatisfaction with I think, from two First, the obscurity of its wording. Even today good players are heard to inquire, “Just what is the foot-fault rule, anyway?"” Second, the irregularity of its en- tendency to swing the foot by dra ging the right toe along the ground. Whether or not the foot-fault ruie popular is not the gquestion. It rule and a necessary rule, and enforcement is becoming more more stringent every year. Jt is is a its and forcement. An umpire can call foot s futile for plavers to fighi against faults only if he sees the erver ji any more than against any other step on the line. It i necessary rule of the game. to have a special foot-fault judge Players Act Childish. to determine whether or not the right foot =wings over the line, and as both umpires and judges are scarce in the early stages of any tourna- The behavior of some plavers on the courts when they are foot-faulted is almost children. Loss of temper and £ audible protests are all too ment, it has become customary to ble prot o ail call foot faults only during the final nt, 1 have 'seen many plavers B oty L corpy et iilues the rule was invoked against tely and instead of being m that their game has compl This means that the great majority | gt {080, (00 of players never have foot faults o o Dienmeives dttey the called on _them, as they are usually hi they have: spoken s if th eliminated in the early stages of | paq been unfairly treated tournaments. In consequence., most| 1p js this attitude of thg plaver of them become careless, and 100k | that makes "it so difficult to find upon the foot-fault rule as some-|men who are willing to act as fout thing that does not concern them. | fault judges. They know that if tii Young players are especially ca do their duty and call foot-faults th less in disregarding this rule. 1 was | sooner or later some player will 1. surprised to notice at the boys' na- sore, and no one likes to tional championship, where the stand- | in_such an embarrassing p ard of play was so high, how totally | It is every player's duty to study ignorant many of the boys were re-|the foot-fault rule and to abide checr is rule. Many of them |fully the ruling of any foot-fault i e Imade the line when |judge. A plaver usually breaks th- serving, and when spoken to they rule through carclessness rather th by intent, but, nevertheless, it is sportsmanlike in him to' break rule when so_doing he gai soon showed that they had no clear idea of the meaning of the rule. The juniors were less prone to foot fault, by and nearly all of them held the en- | 84vanias, I 15 OTCLL for, & SCEVan forcement of the rule in dread—an swinging over the line when he fis encouraging: slgn. |intent upon keeping his n the i Rule Is a Necessity. ball in the air but a little care in an goes in tennis practicl wi soon enable im to e l’sn he glo foot fault. gauge his proper distance from the the less llable 1 o ool He has learned from ex y | having a foot fault called on him at that | base line and to avoide foot-faulting. (Copyright.) was of Stewart Maiden. That did the wrick for Bobby. (Copyright, 1923, fn U. 8. and Great Britain hy North American Newspaper Alhance. All rights reserved.) ARGYLE CLUB TO START ON HOUSE AT ONCE| T the nine-hole course which was The holding company, composed of officers et The There was no building of sufficient No estimate was made + B. Stevinsom_ runner-up in | tourney an added event to the already | Glagy the Columbla tournament last Spring. | crowded spring season. It will be fol- | ine Thomas made individual records lowed by the Chevy Chase and Colum- bia events, with the Baltimore Coun- try Club tourney and the Middle At- lantic tourneys following the local affairs in June, _ As the situation in the inter-club {team championship stands at present, it appears that Columbia should re- tain its title for years to come unless the other clubs develop or obtain sev- eral first-class plavers. Chevy Chase next year will have on its team Dwight Partridge, but it needs more than one or two first-class golfers to defeat the consistent and fine average play of the Columbia team—a well balanced aggregation which would give trouble to any club team in the country. . Work is expected to begin in the spring on the second eighteen-hole course of the Congressional Country Club—a layout that will be easier from a goifing standpoint than the present lengthy layout. In addition the plans of the club call for an extra nine-hole course for the woman mem- bers. Columbla's course Iast Monday and Tuesday, during the open champlon- ship of the Distfict, was a real test of golf. Stretched out to its maximum length it probably measured 6,700 yards. Chris Dunphy said he believed it was longer than Flossmoor, which was played at a trifie over 6,700 yards during the amateur championship. Certainly the Columbia course used during the open championship was the longest played hereabouts since the national open of 1921. Ground has been surveyed and plats drawn with the purpcse of removing the first green at Columbia to the top of the hill directly north of the pres- ent green. The present green lies low and retains much of the surface dralnage which should run off, and when the hot summer sun beats down on it, the green bakes hard. JUVENILE TOSSERS - PLAY DOZEN GAMES Youthful athletes competing in the Boys’ and Girls’ Interplayground Basket Ball League provided some keen competition in the third week of play yesterday, when twenty-four teams took the court. Three new teams, Mitchell Park, Georgetown and Plaza, made their debut In the boys\ circuft, the latter being the only one of the trio to win. Jowa Avenue quint, recently defeat- ed by Twin Oaks, 27-to 4, upset the dope when it quished Mitchell Park, 21 to 3, yesterday. The Chevy Chase boys humbled Georgetown, 10 0 2, but the Georgetown girls turned the tables by frimming Chevy Chase sextet, 14 to 11. Scores in both loops follow: Boys—Twin Onks. 47; Ha Tows Avenue, 81; Mitchell i LADIES’ DUCKPIN LEAGUE IS STAGING CLOSE RACE HE Mount Pleasant team will wrest top place from the Hilltoppers should they trounce the Independents tomorrow night in the opening week's play of the Washington Ladies’ Duckpin League. Since their defeat over the Comforter Club, the Mount Pleasants lack onc ame to tie the leaders and they are out to take three in a row from RGYLE COUNTRY CLUB, now located on its new property near | the Independents to climb into front position. Four Corners, Md., has decided to start work immediately on a While Columbians’ received a set-|ers' Duckpin League, each having back at the hands of Sales Tax that|Won eleven games and msP: d our | over a period of five weeks. Federa dropped them to third place, the Com-| American National Bank, with ten mercials appear to have removedyjctories and five defeats, also is tied Their slump when they copped two | \cith team No. 2 of the Riggs Na- out of three from the Billies teaml¢jona] Bank for runner-up honors | to -take fourth position. Comforter “several enviable records have been Club is fifth in the race. Catherine|pade during the past five weeks. A Quigley, Ann Chandler, Loraine Gulli, | & Doing of team No. 1 of the Wast Lowd, Miss Jerdan and Paul- i andl Trust Gomyany average, with 111-5 in H. Wetzel of Lincoln o ; H. Vande of No, third, with 108-1. her of 1 of the Washington Loan Company registered ten Oshorn of the same team rolled 152 for high game, while Baltz of Perpetual team made high set with 369. Wetzel broke the spare record with an even forty, ington L ch to receive motion picture tickets week. “The schedule for the week follows: Tomorrow night, Independe Mount Pieasants: Tuesday, War D partment vs. Hilltopper: Post Office Depfirtment Vs. bians: Trursday, Commercials Sales Tax; Friday, Comforter Club Daughters of Isabella; Saturday, Ci Post Office vs. Bjllies. Vith the half of the first series in th‘:g:rean of Standards Bowling As- sociation well under- way, competi- -tion is reaching the boiling point.| Midgets team is leading the race, but No. team | and Rrust | strikes to lead the fleld. Lively competition in the War De- partment Bowling circuit has uncov= ered several fine records thus far. Howitzers of Ordnance rolled 563 to top high team game, but it took the Barbettes of the same department to the Industrials and Sharpshooters in- | smash 1,611 to get high team set. tend tp change the order this week.| Here's how the individual leaders Standings of the league follow: stand: High game—First, McGregor, Frankies, 142; second, Bigham, Quar- 133; third, _ Hamann the averages of the first ten indi. *"Bronner, hooters, 104.81; Wi E termaster, ists, 103,66; Van Dusen, Midg : o hird, s . ftie? Sogy' poioms 1014, Wi, ohs i 7i0: setona Orbrice B dyats, 028, Oragos. Midgots, 95: 329; Eilbert, Howit Eutectl, Unons, 98.96; Golden, Industrials, and Matson, Howitzers, 329 e High t—B: pare McGregor, 42; Mur Loaguo records are: High set—Bremner, | rel], Frankies, 32; Feaster, Armies, 32, ety T b e dtumer: | Statistics of Financo and Frankies e, 4t High strikesRade. Un. | Of Accounting General Office are wag- fons , ‘Tndustrials, 10. % §ng a merry race for top place. 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