Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1923, Page 66

~ 4 -~ IMPROVEMENTS TO LINKS - ARE NEARING COMPLETION 'All That Remains to Be Done Is Making Several of Holes More Difficult to Play—Standard Set by ..\ - - Architects About Reached. - BY W. R. McCALLUM. MPROVEMENTS to the course of the Chevy Chase Chib, begun two I days ago, will bring the course approximately to the standard set by - Capt. C. H. Alisbn of the construction firm of Colt, MacKenzie & ‘Alison, who planned and plotted the rearranged layout as it is played at present—differing radically from the links of three years ago. and cven more different from the cowrse of cight years ago, when the present ninth hole was the cighteenth. sl 3 ) Cheyy Chase today stands on a par with the best courses in this section. Although not as long as many, and, according to some golfers, Bt as difficult as others, it, nevertheless, is a real test®f golf. What the course has needed, from the standpoint of first-class golf, is a little stiffening up on several of the holes and the initial steps to carry out the plans laid out by Capt. Alison more than two years ago were taken. fast Thursday when CHairman Thompson and Admiral Nor- ton of the greens committee decided to begin work immediately on the sixth and twelfth, with the possibility that others may be improved later. TThe present layout is well balanced. | that the distance is more easily os- With an out par of 35 and an in par | timated of et many players assert the | At the twelfth hole the right cross out mine is several strokes harder | bunker is to be lengthened to the ihan the in nine. This, it is claimed. | south so as to cover the gréen, and ix true if the good golfer is a bit | forbid y around it to the vight, oft form. -for the first nine does not | while the traps in front are to be Alow for any missed thots. Yet on | widened to avoid a ball hopping over second mine there are four | the bunkers on to the green. —The Testing four par holes on any | faces of the -bunkers nearcst the eone of which a slight deviation from | reen are to be lengthened out and the line to the pin means a stroke | the faces at the bunker side convert- over par. > the fine player who ed into a more gentle slopse 'to avoid hitting the ball well the first n Ereaking down of the mounds by offers no vpecial difficulty, with playcrs climbing over them. possible exception of the fifth, Ninth Ix Real Test. manding two perfectly hit and With these improvements much of T | the program outlined by Capt. Alison et : = will have heen compieted, although WEOTh 3w Cagerons. | nothing is in_prospect for the ninth Work was bezun Friday on the | jgle as yet. This hole as it stands is gixth hole. which will result in a|a very difficult par three—made so considerable stiffening up of the hole, | by the trees surrounding the green with a consequent demand for greater | and the size of the putting surface securacy hoth from the tee and on | itself. From the back tee the ninth is the second shot. At about the 1o-|a real one-shot hole cation of the old sixth tee another | That Chevy Chase is really cross bunker is to be built to make | ing golf course was amply the carry from the tee more im- | during the playing of the District! pressive . championship. won by Walter R. Half-way down the fairway. at|Tuckerman under perfect weather about the point a sliced ball from a | conditions with a score of 3I13—an long driver finds short vough. there | average of a fraction more than 78. UL be placed a bunker exténding | Washington's best amateur golfers, well tnto the rough to cateh th all playing at or near their best game, Wit to the rirht of the lin couldn't best this mark over Chevy greens committep of the club elaim | Chase. while Leo Diegel in the open The proper line to the hale iIs well to | at Columbia nearly two weeks ago the left of the fairway. anyway. and | shot 307—or a little better than four fntends to make play from that side|77s. Columbia can be stretel mhandatory. greater length than Chevy Ch At the left of the green a high | for this reason alone probably is a Wound is to be built, faced with little | harder course to score on. But Chevy dots of sand here and there and a | Chase, by the work done on the course Migh mound is to he placed at the | in the past three years, is a far better | Ta £ the green. with similar dots | test of golf than the course of five| dF sand. the intention being to so | Years or more ago. Qutline the approach to the green (Copyright, 1825.) STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE IGEST of the scores made by amateur goliers of the District of Columbia in the tournaments this year shows that Washington's amateurs arc not a whit behind the leading players of other dities, cxcepting the top-notchers of the Jones-Evans-Sweetser brand. Yet Washington for much more than a decade has not qualified a man i the national amateur championship, although there has not been a vear when some one from the Capital has not been bidding for a chance to compete at match play for the amateur title. ’ Inside Golf By CHESTER HOR7O When the swing ix good, but a | persintent wlice rewults, the Chances are that the left forearm is at fault. Here ix nn exercise to de- velop the left forearm and wrist. If you are not bothered with a ne the de- well de- a test- proved | to make the ama Since that t many, many vears ago, Washington has had a lean pe- riod without a representative in the amateur. ! Last September Chris Dunphy came Wwithin a stroke of qualifving at Flossmore. He lost on (he play-off for last place Why is it that Washington" teurs, who do so well against star Dluyers from other cities here and elscwhere, cannot qualify in the ama- teur champlonship? They know med- | ulice the exercise will benefit your at play and they h ve proved their | game amyhow and give you more ability at match pley in many a hard- T fought tilt of the links. Albert Mac- Take the clubhead in your NKenzie lad a particularly brilliant ] and swing it with the left wrist vear. He lickcd Warren Corkran at| and forearm, as shown in the Hatimore and won the Midde Atlan-| wketch, with the right hand hold- tic from @ fine field. Chris has done! ing the left elbow close to the excellently in the north and Guy M. | ybody an the club is swung. This Standifer performed brilliantly in the | twists the muscles of the forearm Zar west. Yet they go to the ama-| and strenxthenx the wrin . teur and fail to qualify. wrixt stays in line with the arm Of course, the job of qualifying| ax you take the club up. Let the 1 the national is a test that demands | whoulders pivot exaetly ns you the best golf there is in any man, but{ would in making n regular goif it does scem strunge that in many | wtroke. Five or ten minutes of Years the Capital has not been rep-; thix each day will put a lot of resented in the match play rounds| mew zip into your stroke. (Copyricht, John F. Dille Co.) of the national amateur champion- —_— ship. Scores made hereabouts are low. = For example. in the qualifying round | is captain of the amateur team, while of ti dre Atlantic championship | Fred McLeod has been named to lead cven contests were 80 or better over | the pros. 1t is by no means certain Cheyy Chase. Two men made 7l.|that the paid players will defeat the Whila four Were batween that figure | amateur, as there are several amateurs and Numerous scores below 75 |in Washington who are the equal of Yave been made over Columbia by {all but the best of the local pro- that club’s star amateurs.and Walter | fessionale. these parts with a score of 313 COPENHAVER'S PIGEONS | ONE-TWO IN LONG RACE —ncarly even 78s A bird from the loft of H. D. Copen- haver won the 200-mile young bird futurity race from Danville, Va., to this city, covering the distance in 4 hours, 153 ‘minutes and 57 seconds. Copen- A wixh to play fn more tourna- ver's loft also won second place, ments and to add to an already fine | The average speed per minute, in Teputation as a money plaver is one {yards, of the first return to each loft of the reasons Leo Diegel, pro cham- follows: H. D. Copenhaver. 1,255.78 jon of the District, is leaving Wash- | . D, Cope; T, 1.253.58; W. O. Nor- pgton on December 1. Diegel ©x-{wood, 1,252 Manor Loft, 1,243.4 pects to become attached to a elub w1 Crocker, 1,235.86; A. G. Flaherty, ip the tropolitan distriet in a job 1,228.38; Old Glory Loft, 1.225: Edwin which will leave him time to play in|picere | 209.16; K. H. Willis, 1 143.18 ; l teurnaments. Friendship. in - the | % Spinnol "40 ¢ ronort; W, 8. Hixe meantime. is seeking a professional | oon “hirg not ‘timed. 1 e socios gz 2z: DARTMOUTH WINNER | OF COLLEGIATE RUN NEW YORK, November 10.—Dart- | mouth today won an intercollegiate ! eross-country race over a six-mile | course at Van Cortland Park. Colum- i bia was second, Cornell third and| Pennsylvania fourth. The scores were: Dartmouth, 33; Columbia, 39; Cornell, 69, and Penn- sylyania, 72, Kirby of Cornelt honors. After trailing the leading ten for the first four miles, he closed in with a spectacular dash. nosed out ! Nazro of Dartmouth by a second, and finished first in 33 minutes 54 sec- onds. Among the leading ten were five Dartmouth men, Elmer McLane of Pennsylvania, who was favored to win, paced the fleld to the half-way mark. Then he lagged, and at the ama- A tournament for the caddic cham- pionship of the Town and Country Q1ub, i« in prospect at the new course on Wisconsin avenue, just beyond | PRethesd: Following the tourney a dinner will be given to the bag-car- riers by the club. Wour golfers—two amateur and two | professionals—will leave \\'a&hlnxlo:x tomorrow morning for Pinehurst, N C.. where they will play in an ama- teur-professional best-ball contest on Thursday and Friday. Chris J. Dun- phy, last years. District amateur champion. will play with Leo Diegel of Friendship, while Guy M. Standifer, the 1921 title holder, will pair with Pred Mclcod in a search for golfing nors. Two years ago Standifer and Foioa won the bestoball event—an annual feature of the fall season at the North Carolina resort. Golf professionals of the District will meet tomorrow morning at Spalding’s to select one of their num- Ber to represent the professional Golfers’ Association of Washington at the annual meeti of the Pro- fessional Golfers' Association of America in New York next month. Pred McLeod of Columbia, president 8¢ the local organization, will prob- ably be selected. ‘While foot ball ix the great inter- won_individual tlittle boy. seholastic fall sport, golf is coming to have its devotees among the stu- dents of the high schools. Whenever Roland MacKenzie, a student at Festern High School, plays in a com- tition there are usually from four half a dozon classmates of the ung Columbia star watching him in action, and pulling with ail their might for the youth to make a good owing. Western, by the-way, has R oducsd o pair of g00d FOIf Players this year in MacKenzie and Reginald Ioftus, who won the Liberty cup at Chevy Chase last week. ! Amateur and professienal golfers | finish was in thirteenth place. The first ten were timed: Kirby,’ Cornell, 33.54: Nazro, Dartnlouth, 33.56; Horton, Columbia, 34.13; Skeats, Columbia, 34.15; Osgood, Dartmout| 34.16; Schmid, Columbia, 34.26; Le teny, Dartmouth, 34.29: Mooney, Pennsylvania, #4.34; Udall, Dart- mouth, 34.37; Collins, Dartmouth, 34.44, REDS TO GET $27,658. CINCINNATI, Ohio, November 10.— August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati Nationals, received notice; that the sum of $27,658 had been al- af Washington will hook up in a team | letted % the Reds from the world mateh agafrst each other shortly ith a dinner for the twenty-four ntestants hinging on the outcome the affair. “Albert R. MacKenzie l series base ball meney. .Mazwger Pat| Moran and twenty players are to re- ceive §$1,076 each in the distribution of the money, > ~ .__THE SUNDAY' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., NOVEMBER 11, 1993—SPORTS SECTION. Chevy Chase Now Has Real Course : Miss Wills Certain to Rule Women'’s Tennis How Bobby Jones Became - Greatest Genius of Golf When Bobby, Son of a Golfer, Became Champion, HisMother Set Out to Master the Game Tt is unlike could defeat Bobby v that any father-and-son combination in the world Jones and his father, cither in a best-ball foursome Scotch foursome, with each pair playing a single Bobby Jones stands at the top of American golf since winning the national open champlonship at Inwood, und his steady scoring i3 one of the game's traditio of 63 on his homd course, of recent years, while he ha: Gast Lake one record 70 yards long, and trapped in strict_championship style, with a par of 72. Bob Jones, s player at college, and a good, is 4 man of forty-five, a former crack base ball strong golfer, who shoots steadily cloge to 80 on standard courses, frequently breaking through into the 70s He has won many trophies and a number of club championships, an, could be counted on to se. kind of a partnership mateh. He i cond his distinguished offspring ably in an. gifted with the competitive instinct and is one of the type of golfers who_fight best in a pineh, Incidentally, Bobby Jones couple of their diversion's sake. Big Bob and 1 “Abe” Adair, or some othcr clos kes playing with his ronies better than ttle Bob, with * friends, the links, though recently Mr. Jone: Jones, who has gone in famous, enters the eightee aby™ flignt. seriously She is small and slight, but plays a good, steady game, and ass in tournaments, father und a other kind of a_ match for s" Bradshaw and make congenial party on sr., plays many rounds with Mrs. for the game that made her son any corning the nine-hole This is the third installment of a remarkable sporting biography; the life of the national open golf champion. Through i runs the thread of his technical methods, often described by himself. The author is the foremost student of the voung title holder and has waiched his advance- ment from the earliest days. (Copyright, I Alliance, in United States and Grest Britain by North American Newspaper Al rights reserved.) CHAPTER IIL Early Tournaments—A Winner at Eight Years. BY 0. B. KEELER. N the mild winter before he was seven yecars old Bobby Jones, more or less equipped with a job-lot assortment of abbreviated clubs, was accorded permission by the green committee at Last Lake to use the course except on Saturdays and Sundays. It is a curious fact that this amateur golfer, who has achieved | the blue ribbon of American professional goli—the open championship— | began his career on a regular golf coursc in practically the same way as som out. the professional golfer begins. He began, rather, to blos- Bobby did not play so many rounds of the big course, with its sev- cral appalling water jumps. Rather, he would return from school in the afternoon—he started to school when he was six and has been going steadily ever since. and take his little mashic and hi putter and his large cap full of old balls and go down to the sunken thirteenth green, back of his home, and there all the afternoon he would pitch to the green and pitch to the green, and putt and putt and putt. And that, if you please, is the way some of the greatest professional golfers got their start in the game and founded the method that kept them well out in front of the long- hitting amateurs, who learned their game in a different way and found to their cost that the pay-off was not on the drive, but rather on that heart-breaking accuracy when in striking distance of the pin Betimes he played the round; and T have been at some pains to ascertain how far a very little chap of seven | years could hit a regular golf ball. Bobby's father says that when Bobby was seven he was accustomed to play No. 1 of the old East Lake course as a drive-and-pitch. 1 recall the hole well; a one-shotter of vards, with a wide grass trap a little more than balf way to the green Swinging his llttle driver with all his might. Bobby could carry this trap; a 160 | carry of about ninety yards, and with a fair run to the shot he was left with a comfortable pitch to the green. and it was surprising the number of | par 3s he made on ihe hole. Bobby’s Christmas Present. On Christmas of this vear Bobby's father, now firmly in the clutches of the Ciledonian national epidemic, de- cided that Bobby ought to have some ay that he ehot an $0 around the old East Lake course, then parred at a peculiar 75 that included two holes with a par of 4%. This was within a stroke or two of the ama- teur record at that time and a couple of years before the late George Adair, the man who did more than any other for golf in Atlanta, had established a handsome trophy for the amateur holding the East Lake course record. 63 on 6570-Yard Course. Mr. Adair himself was the first holder of the record, with a 79. In 1915, Bobby Jones, then thirteen years old, acquired the cup with a 77, and he has held it ever since, his latest and lowest record, and the one that probably will stand while the course endures, having been made September 16. 1922, with a card of 63 against a difficult’ par of 72, on a course 6,570 yards in length. While winning the junior events at the East Lake club, Bobby and some of his small friends began to branch | out intoy the regular club affairs and better clubs and got Stewart Malden | to make up a complete set for the Still he had no lessons, but he fairly haunted Stewart Maiden ‘on the course: they used to call him Stewart Mafden's shadow in those days. And at the national open cham- pionship at Inwood one of the New York golt writers, hearing of this old | story, turned it to a use so beautiful | as to make the eves sting—the idea that at Inwood it was Stewart Maiden who was Bobby Jones' shadow, fol- lowing him about the Inwood links and watching him win the blue rip- bon of golf that alwavs had been denied to “Kiltie the King Maker" himself. At eight vears old Stewart Maiden's shadow had thickened up a bit and suddenly stepped out for himself and won the junior club championship from a lot of older and bigger boys. He won this event the next vear and | it was along in his ninth or tenth year that one of the older members, Milt Saul of the Atlanta Journal, a prett talent, one day complained with some bitterness to Maj. Jack Cohen of the Journal concerning the increasing number of kids who were cluttering up the East Lake course. ““They're under foot all the time," said Mny Saul. “They're even letting them into the tournaments. Why, I've got to play one of them in a tourpa- ment match tomorrow; that tow- headed kid they call littie Bob Jones, Of course. T'll beat the wadding out of him. but what's the good of taking up valuable time walloping Infants? He isn't more than nine years old. Mr. Saul added emphatically that kids ought to be kept off the course, or at least out of the tournaments. After which, nothing—for several days. Bobby Beat Him, § and 7. Then Maj. Cohen bethought himself to inquire how severely Mr. Saul had trounced the Jones offspring. Mr. the next, and it was near his tenth 'Saul grinned sheepishly. WHEN BOBBY ANNEXED HIS FIRST TITLE I This il‘l snapsho® of Young Jones just a~~ 3e was eight years old, when he won his first golf tournament at his haye used a flatter swing then than in later years. home course, East Lake. He appears to fair golfer and a writer of ! are held. “That blamed kid beat me, 8 and 7’ he confessed. “But I still think I was right.” No lessons up to ten years of age, but the little boy was the shadow of Stewart Maiden and into Stewart's their quota of ozone and healthy fatigue and ardent appetite. Bobby was thickening up a bit now; and he was getting some sharp competition. Perry Adair, a brilliant youngster of thirteen or fourteen. was the “kid wonder” of that day, and Bobby got to play with Perry once in a while. d Perry was getting to where he as a candidate for the southern T angler. pounds. Not content with their recrd catch of rockfish last Sunday, when over 200 pounds were caught in little over an hour's actual fishing, R. E. Terry, H. D. Van Tassell. Willlam Nishwitz and William_Buckley returned to An- tgp’the eastern side of the bay and nded nineteen rock, the largest { weighing 19 pounds. Another trig was made by the same anglers last Wednesday, but the bay was too rough for fishing. There is no disput- ing the fact that the catch of last Sunday is the largest of the year and certainly will take the prize for fish of this class. Quite a few of the local anglers have been successful at the tidal ba- sin, along the seawall and in the Washington channel. Live bait, spoon and pike minnows have been used With gratifying success. The pike minnows are used to catch the yellow perch and the smelt and spoon to lure the bass. How Oysters Accumulate. ATl oysters sponge in July and Au- gust. One oyster sponges thousands of little ones; these little ones all go |adrift with the flood and ebb tides, in- dependent of each other. For this little baby oyster to exist it has to [gllde against something, so it can stick there and form a shell over it to become an oyster. If this little baby oyster does not come in con- (tact with something, so it can form a shell over it in a reasonable time, it | dies or is destroyed as food for small fish. 2 Why Oysters Are Decreashs. Thousands of bushels of oysters are annually taken from the Chesapeake bay, the Jamse river, York, Patuxent and Potomac rivers. The shells, after the oyster is removed, are used for building roads and other purposes The supply of oysters is decreasing every year because the shells are used for other purposes instead of being planted in the bay and rivers. By all means, these shells should be put back on the oyster beds, so the little sponge could glide against them and exist. The shells are as essential to the natural rocks and oyster beds as the fertilizer is to the farm to get p duction, undertaken on a big scale in the near future it won't be long before the oyster will become extinct. Oyster shells can be purchased from shuckers at 5 cents a bushel, which it cheap enough, but the trouble and perhaps the big obstacle in planting these shells on the oyster beds+is the scarcity of help. These men are de- manding and getting as high as $150 a month, and these tongers are ask- ing 90 cents and $1 a bushel for salt water oysters. It takes three years for an oyster to mature, and it is against the law of both Maryland ond Virginia to take from the water an oyster less than two and one-quar- ter inches in length. McGRAW ADMITS GIANTS COULD USE CARL MAYS NEW YORK. November 10—it fhe other seven American League clubs Bive waivers, Carl Mays of the New York Yankees may become a New York Giant. Manager John. J. Mc- Graw of the latter club has admitted that he would like to have him. Mays, an _under-siinging right hander, has complained that Manager Miller ‘'Huggins has not given him much work—he appeared infre- quently dllrlnf the last league race and not at all in the world series— and has asserted he could win twenty games next season for the Giants. It has been understood that Hug- gins was arrancing to pass Mays elsewhere. 4 napolis last Monday and motored over | CHAMPION’S STANCE FOR THE FULL DRIVE Jones has been named as one of the ten greatest wood-club players of all time. Note the compact position and how low and close to the legs the hands amateur - championship—he became runner-up in 1914. And there was Alexa Stirling, another pupil of Stew- art Maiden's. And at times the three oungsters played together; and it was noted that even Perry had hard beautifully compact swing his shadow | work to keep out in front of the lusty was getting more and more heft as|wallops dealt by little Bob Jones from the long days on the course yielded | the tee. The same three played together last August at East Lake, in a four-ball match with their teacher, Kiltie Maiden, for a local benefit,” and so many blushing honors were thick upon them that Kiltie was embas rassed almost to the verge of speec Next Sumday—The First National Campaign. ROD AND REEL By Perry Miller HE big-mouth bass continue to furnish plenty of thrills for the They are being caught in large numbers. bass has been just as inactive as his brother has been active. Recently at Gunston cove, George King and A. Lustine landed forty- seven bass, ranging from ons pound to four and three-quarter pounds. Lustine caught the largest, four and three-quarter pounds, and, as it was only his second or third fishing trip, he was naturally much elated. Of the forty-seven fish taken from the cove ten of them averaged over four The small-mouth FRENCH URGE YANKS TO TAKE UR RUGBY By the Assoriated Press. PARIS, November 10.—French Olym- pic officials are greatly chagrined t 1 | | | | of SOON WILL TAKE HONORS AWAY FROM Possible, Although Hardly FRENCH GIRL Probable That American Champion May Dethrone Mlle. Lenglen Next . Season If She Goes Abroad. BY SAMUEL HARDY. ‘A abroad matches. that nothing else cpuld possibly give. . There are in the tennis world reign supreme—William Tilden and S are in a class by themselves sidered the world champions. next CCORDING to the latest reports from California, there seems to be little doubt but that Helen Wills, our girl champion, will go summer to compete 1f she does go there will be added to the contests an interest in the international tennis today two outstanding figures trat uzanne Lenglen. These two players . and no one questions their right to be cou- As far as Tilden is concerned. his supremacy seems secure for the next few years at least. now occupies—a fight in which demonstrated beyond all doubt and, as far as we can now sec need fear. With Mlle. Lenglen it is different. | It is true that she has established | herself as a remarkable plaver. Her | strokes are taken with masterly ease. Her quickness and agility, her an- ticipation of an opponent’s difficult | shot, her keen eye, and perfect sense timing _are " all proved beyond | question. ~She has defeated with but] little effort the best players that | Burope could offer, or that we could | send over. Some Have Their Doubt. But in spite of her remarkable su cess and her undoubted superiorit to those with whom she has playe the public, both here and abroad, has never been convinced of her ability to win against all odds. Every time that a new woman player has come into prominence, either in England or on the continent, there has been an immediate question, “Will she beat Suzanne?" In spite of the fact that France glories in her. and England admires her, both countries have wondered just how long she would last and have waited eagerly for some new player to develop who could meet her as an equal. But though sta. have arisen and been hailed as the certain successors of the brilliant French woman, not one of them has been able to dispute her claim of being the world’s greatest woman player. Is it possible that our seventeen- year-old champion, a school girl with no international experience. can go over and defeat so formidable a rival, s0_seasoned an opponent? Should Miss Wills go to France and should she meet Mlle. Lenglen, as we all hope, there is no doubt that it will be a terrible test of strength for the young American girl. ‘Everyone realizes by this time just how difficult it is for a player to g0 to a foreign country and do himself or herself justice. Mil. Lenglen, Mrs. Mallory, Miss Goss, Miss McKane, to mention a few of the women who have tried it, have all failed. It will be Miss Wills” first trip abroad. Faces Strange Conditions. Everything will be strange. Cli- mate, food, all living conditions will be utterly different to what she has been accustomed. There will be a strange public, a strange tongue, and under these adverse conditions she will have to meet, for the first time, the greatest woman player in the world. What a test for an elghteen-year-old rl! - _ Lenglen will have every advantage. Not only because of her playing in her own country, under familiar living conditions, but because of her many years of international play. She will too, if I am not mistaken, be extreme- 1y keen to win, for a victory over our American champion, the girl who had %o easily defeated Miss McKane and Mrs. Mallory, would indeed be a tri- umph for the French champion. J have purposely put Miss Wills' chances in the worst possible light because 1 want the public to realize just how difficult a task she will have and how greatly the odds are agginst er. For two years I have said that she would eventually beat every other woman player, not excepting Lenglen; but I have not expected that she would be able to accomplish this on her first trip abroad. At her age, however, and with her unusual char- acter, one hardly knows what to pre- dict. Her improvement this year was astonishing and her sensational vic- tory over Miss McKane, Miss Goss and Mrs. Mallory a well deserved triumph. T can not quite see how it is possible for her to win abroad with so much against her, but I am convineed that she will put'up a game that will make he w over the report from New ‘York that| America proud of her. the United States will not participate in the Olympic rugby competition. While unwilling to discuss the cir- cumstances leading to such a decision | fhese things Helen Wills excels. Lenglen Has Defects. Lenglen has two defects in her armor, her temperament and the lack of great speed in her drives. In both t is on the part of the American Olympic | a problem what Lenglen will do when committee, organizing committee express hope that the United States will be there | with a rugby team at the finals. They realize that American rugby is quite different from the European game, but at the same time they recall that during the inter-allied Games in 1919 the American Army put a team in the field that came within a few points of defeating France's best. At Antwerp, in 1920, the American team also gave a very good account of itself. “We should like America to com- pete, first, because we feel that rugby is one of the best sports for the de- velopment of physical education, and second, because we feel that the win- ner of and individual or team com- petition in 1924 should be universally! recognized as supreme. This would not be the case for rugby should the United States fail to compete.” Thus spoke Frantz-Reichel, general scere- tary of the French committee. “We earnestly desire also that rugby be not considered as exclusive- 1y a British sport, but a game of world's expansion,” Reichel went on. “The friendship and admiration which we feel toward American athletics lead us to believe that, in no matter what sport they choose to compete, their methods and the class of their ro- | athletes would bring benefit to that If oyster planting is not|particular game. “If we win the rugby event” Reichel concluded, “we want to feel that we have defeated the best in the world, which would not be the case should America abstain. The prestige of the Olympic games demands that the United States enter, every track, field and team event. I am sure we will find the boys from overseas right there when the whistle blows.” Col. Robert M. Thompson, president of the American Olympic committee, has had several conferences with Reichel about the matter and has ca- bled New York that, in his opinion, the United States should send a rugby team to France. W. T. BRAMHAM HEADS SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE! GREENVILLE, S. C., November 10— W. T. (Bil) Branham of Durham, N. C... was olected president of the South Atiantio Association to succeed W. H. Walsh of Charleston, at a meeting here vesterday of the directors of that base ball organization. Other matters, such as admission of new clubs to the league and-election of other officers hesides president and routine matters, were left for disposi- tion at a meeting to be called by the new president in the near future. It is understood that Mr. Bramham will assume his duties upon his re- turn from New York, where he is now on a visit. He has guided the Pled- mont League through several suc- cessful peasons. ¥ members of the French | She finds herseif opposed to such speed as she has never before encoun- tered, and against a poise and men- tality that is far more mature than her own. Will she be stimulated to an even greater effort, or will the ag- gressive game of Miss Wills force her on the defensive and break down her fighting quality? E can only hope that Miss Wills will certainly go for this match should be a great event in tennis and one wor- thy of the two countries. (Copyright, 1823.) BUCKEYE RUNNERS WIN. ANN ARBOR, Mich.. November 10. —Ohio State University won both team and individual honors in the triangular cross-country run with Michigan and Illinois here today. He has had a hard fight to gain the place he vas heavily handicapped—but he has that no man living is his equal in tennis, , there are no coming players whom he NOTED TENNIS PLOT IS SOLD TO SCHOOL BOSTON, November 10.—The Longwod turf courts, where lawn ten- nis was introduced to this country and where, in 1900, the first interna tional matches for the Davis played, have passed into histo: ‘The original grounds of the Longwood Cricket Club, covering more than four acres in the Longwood district, near the dividing line between Bostom and Brookline, have been sold to the Winsor School for Girls. When the cricket club was orgar ized in 1877 its grounds were well o in the country. A few years ago th club was warned by the rapid build- ing in that vicinity that it must soon seek new quarters, and it was merged with the Chestnut Hill Club. New courts and a building for indoor ten- nis were constructed at Chestnut Hill, several miles farther out of the city on the Boston - Brookline - Newton boundary, and there most of the club's important matches have since been played, the old courts being used for overflow purposes. _The Sears family, of which R. D. Sears, former president of the alub and former national lawn tennis champion, was a member, owned the Longwood.grounds and gave the club their use at an almost nominal rental from vear to year without a leasc The Winsor School paid $ 0 the property and will use it for ground purposes, including 4 buildin for indoor winter games, KENNEL AND FIELD BY GEO. H. KERNODLE ____ up wers The current issue of Field and Fancy publishes a letter written by one local fancier in which he bitterly criticises the placings by another local man who acted as judge at on of the recent shows. Reference is made to the fact that the American Kennel Club should consider appli- cants for licenses to judge on the basis of competency, honesty and in- tegrity. An inferenee is also madr that the judge was promted in his decisions by still ‘another local man The writer of this letter also states that the report made by the judge and published in Field and Fancy was damaging to his dog, since the judge in this report gave the faults of the losing dog as justification for the placings made. We may remind the writer of this letter that at least one large special- ty club in America withholds elub specials from the shows on which no criticism of the dogs is turned in by judge, and that a recent court deci: ion upheld the fact that julges are free to give their unbiased opinlons of the dogs as they see them Another angle from which this ai agreement may be viewed is t opinions, broadcasted through the dog journals, can only establish among fanciers in other cities the knowledge that there is considerable dissension among Washington dog owners, a thing which is sure to b felt in the entry lists at the com ing show. It would seem that a bet- ter way to handle a purely local sit- uation of this kind Is to refer to past records and to await future decisions as to the merits of the dogs in ques- tion. Past records in this particular in- stance do not give either of the dogs any particular edge on the other, and we may quote one judge, recognized by the owners of both dogs us arn authority, who said at the Devon, P show that either dog may be put over the other, depending on the way the judge happens to look at them. The Herzsland Kennelx announce the breeding of Zada v. Herzland to Tax loe Munford's shepherd dog, Christel v. Preusseghof, who i8 now quartered at this Bennel and offercd at public stud. It is also announced that the bitches, Gisa v. Gutenberg, and Zita v. Thiers owned by G. B. Diers are heavy In whelp to Alf v. d. Lindenluft Mrx. R. H. 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