Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 60

Navy Is Well Prepared for Coast Game : Tennis Controversy READY FOR REAL BATTLE 'WITH WASHINGTON ELEVEN Midshipmen Have Powerful Defense and Possess Seven Fine Backfield Men—Difficult to Make Comparison of Rival Teams. POLIS, December 29—In A University of Washington, there is addition to the other elements of interest connected with the foot ball game at Pasadena, Calif., on New Yecar day between the teams of the Naval Academy and the a difficulty in making a reasonable forccast as to the result, due to the entirely different playing areas of the teams. However, the public, particularly that part of it interested in the Navy, may be assured that the Naval Academy team is in fine shape, has a varied and splendid executed attack, and is in every way ready to play a strong game. Though there were several important members of the Naval Academy souad who were suffering from unhealed injuries just before the Army & me, the team as a whole has been brought to that climax of its powers which is the objective of all the work of the coaches and trainers during the scason. Has Seven Clever Bucknm. The Navy has seven re backs in McKee, Deve: Shapley, Barchet, Flippin Snger, and several good substitutes. While no great attention has been Paid to the Navy baoks by the critles, it is doubtful If any team has seven rs who are of more Navy's standbys. All ability along one of re lines of backfield play. it_was the intention of the Navy coaches when they left Annapolls to start the game with McKee at quarter, Devens and Cullen at the and Shapley at fullback. As did in the Army game at an early veriod, Barchet will probably enter the game, going to fullback, while will succeed McKee at Aackfield play wvalue than th ve unusual 1u The Navy's strong defense is ad- mitted, and it was much in evidence during the latter part of the regular season. The Navy's goal line was not crossed by any of the four teams which played the Midshipmen during the latter half of the campaign and three of these teams were Princeton, Colgate and the Army. It is belleved that the Navy has not gonme back in this regard . Without vi ‘which to found Navy feels much confidence in eleven, and is certain. at least, of this much, that there will be no couse 10 feel aghamed of its showing. Figures on the Players. Statiatica of the members of the Navy foot ball squad follow : REGULARS, Position. .Left end. Coft tackl Left guard Conter . £u Right taekl Right end. Quarterback ULeft haifback. *.Right haifb its judgment, Name, Taylor. Clydex. Carney” (6. {1290l [ Fullback . . Back . Back Back X six_furlongs—TIdle 12t01,Btol bto 1 to 2, seo- to 8, third, miosents, 38 (T, Lang , 96 (L. La 2. "won; Lugs, 107 (Paxke), even, ond; " Aladdin, 107 (Mo ] Time, ~1.1345. Ka ing. Herry B.. Modesty and $E0OND RACE, sl age Caliguls, 113 (Parke), 4 to won; Fehrah, 93 (L. socond; Tableau ( 5to 2, thind. Time, 1. & " Kolly. Glenoonoks, 50 VEHIED RACE, two-yoar-alds: five and one: Balf furlongs—Geo, 108 (Martin), 3 to 1 4 to 8, 1 to 8, won C!grlt:u.!lfl I‘L A{} .(%‘Q‘? P, G i Time, 108 15, Move ra; 15, 4 Pateh” Oharm turo, Herbertus 102 (Fields), even, mble, 108, (Parko), 4 Time, ." Be i, and Polovo also ran. (s)Holman entry. FIFTH RACE, three-year-olds up; mile and one-sixtesnth—Jack Fairman. 103 (Miner), 6 350 5 to 2, 6 to 8, won; Rork, 105 (Martin). % to 5. 4 to 5, second; Homoiuly Boy, 108 (Parke), 1 to 2, third. ~Timo, 149. Pesce Pal, Dr. Bae, Cash, Juck Berger and Treoper ran. *'¥XTH RACE, thrée.year-olds sno-sixteonth—Margaret Ware, Syke), 150 1, 6 to 1, 3 to 1, won; T (Tec), oven, 1 to 2, second: High S, rrett), § to 1, third, Time, 1.49, ‘ender Seth, Freesy Sneczy, Kent L. &olier also Tan. HAVANA RESULTS FIRST RACE: Three-yesr-old and up; five and one-half furlongs—West Meath, 106 {Brothers), 6 to 1, 2 to 1, even, Rog, 118 (Williims), 1 {0 8, 1 to 6, second; Miriam Gooper, 103 (Shillick), 1.to 3, third. Tims, $081%. “Homam, Crimson Rambler, Lucky Mack and Duly Fashion also ran. = Flintstove, Hermis up: 1 CE: Three-yesr-oids and (Ring). 8o 5, 107 8 Just, m, John Bpohn and i _also ran. “T‘“mn" IACE:“T'BM!II\'-IHI nd up; five {nd one-half furlongy—Feodor, 118 (Hilemen), 0, 1 to 5, 1 to 10, won; Miss Holland. Koty 4 to 5, % o 1, sacend; Rapid tride, leman), even, . Time, T Joy Marer, Luoy Ghurohill, Buth Wenle five and one-half s Bprinesaier Ti0. (Gon: Rore). 2 to be 1'ta B, second: Quaen Masonia, 19 (McAlaney), 4 1, ran, FIFTH BACE: Twoyearolds; Sve and one- ralf furlongs—Judge Hickman, 106 (Overton), G'to 1,3 to 1, out, won; Trafalgar, 112 (Wil Tiams), 1 to '3, out, second; Chopstioks, 130 lahan), out, third. Time, 1.06 5-5. Bab- bling and Ancestress also ran. s RACE: Four-year-olds axd u ards—Groen Brisr, 109 (Groos 1 to 10, won; Cruoes, 104 (Ove f %, second; Old Rose. 112 (Sersmba) 45 , 8 to 5, third, 'Time, 25, Wainland, ' Smite, Verds, Prinoe Bonero and HAEVENTE RACE; Thres.yssralds and up: lo and a sixteenth—John Morrill, 107 (Cal. 700 {oectan) 8 % 8, 5 8 B nsoand; By rton) . o B ; By $intay, 108 CWiliinmay, 1 0.5, it Tome, .46 88, Cautious, Fits Bue, British Liner and Tiontillo slso rau. U. S. ATHLETES SOON . WILL INVADE-FRANCE NEW YORK, December 2.—Amer- foa’s initial invasion of France. for 1834 Olympic competition will get under way with the departure early in the new year of the teams of competitors in the winter sports pro- gram to be held at Chamonix begin- ning January 25. The speed and fancy skating teams will be the first to leave, salling Jan- wary 2, in order to have added time to become accustomed to champion- ship courses and conditions in the - French Alps. The hockey squad representing the Tnited States Amateur Hockey As- sociation is booked to embark Janu- ry 9, while a week later, on January 75, the .skiing team is slated to go. The ski artists, handicapped by lnck of snow, have not yet held their offi- cial tryouts. BASKET BALL RESULTS. Piet, 32; Amkerst, 31, Columbla, 23; Colgate, 18, Yale, Ifll w_ o H mile Basket Ball Tips TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR FIRST TWO WEEKS What should be the training sched- ule for the first two-weeks of practice? Answered by W. L. LUSH, Coach at Naval Academy for weveral years and now athletic director at St. John's College, Annapolis, M * ok % The training schedule for the first two weeks should consist of drills and exercises in_fundamentals and team play. Passing, catching, drib- bling and shooting baskets should be practiced in ten-minute periods. Foul-shooting and team plays from center should also be given ten min- utes each. Scrimmage twice a week for about twenty minutes. Training rules should be rigidly enforced as to sane diet and regular hours of sleep. Of course, tobacco in any form is taboo. (Copyright, 1928.) IOWA AVENUE GIRLS TAKE COURT HONORS Girl tossers of the Towa avenue playgrounds showed the way to the Rosedale sextet, 16 to 11, to win the city playground champlonship title in the last.of a three-game series. Jowa team had to battle every inch of the way, for Rosedales opened several drives that threw a scare in the ranks of the winners. At half time Towa was leading, 8 to 7. Mildred King and Mildred Vogel played creditably for lowa, while Helen Boswell and her sister Tiny performed best for Rosedale. Fourteen teams competed serles this year. Towa won the title in the western section and Rosedale ‘was victor_in the eastern division. 3 Line-Up and Summary. Tows Ave. (16) Poaitions. Resedale (11). Monk, ) Eott farward G Conn.. @, Boswell ‘Hawkina Myers i Borwell Two-point oourt ks (6, Mok (o0 o-pel . Monk Gonn, G. Boswell One i3 Conn' (4), Monk (8). r.fl'l? - ml ‘Boswoll. Referce—M. Parker, in the ), [ nder. YANKEE BASKETERS ADOPT A NEW NAME Palace Laundry five ‘will be the new name of the Washington Yankees starting Tuesday, according to Man- ager Thomas Greene. The team will include the same Yankee stars, Nate Sauber, Johnny Goetz, Harvey Ingley, Ray Catlin, Pete Gitlitz, Monte Evans and Paul O'Neill. _Andrew Zazalli, former Georgetown University star, also has cast his lot Wwith the newly named Palace team. Somo of the leading teams in the country will be met by the Palace tossers. Games with the Hagerstown Elks, Hendler Velvet Boys, Buffalo Lincolns, Rochester Centrals, Keyser Collegians and Holly Majors have been arranged. Plans are pending to stage a series with the General Tire Company and the Aloysius for the city title. | A suanA ResuLTs -olds up; five and RA three-year-olds mile un;;yd:f—l-ay Jane nh_r'.'iu BT s o 16 Boraps, May ) Counsel and o,fOURTE BACE, all ages 3L rons Frotty, el N (G $3.40, second: Ida 3 “‘J. \ver) third. Time, 11535, Little Thistle and Little Olair also rax. wen: sec- i T, __THE 'SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, A MIRACLE ROUND AT BROOK- LINE-NOT BOBBY'S. BY 0. B. KEELER. HE year is the samo, 1922, but the setting has moved castward to another lovely golf course, with many. holes that can be played in a drive and a pitch if one has a good long drive and a straight pitch. Brookline, ono of the Drettiest courses in America, and not such an easy one, either, If we arc to Judge from the fact that the amateur record of 71 has stood nine years un- fractured. That is, it stood unfractured at the beginning of the twenty-sixth amateur golf champlonship. - It was fractured twice in this event, and par- ticularly ‘it was fractured the second time, Mr. R. T. Jones, jr., had traveled east & week ahead of 'the tournament to play at the national links of Amer- ica in the first of the Walker cup in- ternational matches, for which a Brit- ish team bad Leen organized to meet our boys. Mr. Jones does not waste his time on the Pullman: he is co tinuing to be student, aithough grad ated from the Georgla School of Tech- nology. He planned to enter Harvard that fall in quest of an A. B.degree, and hLe has some Latin to make up. Char- acteristically, ho plugs away at the ora- tlons of Cicero against one Cataline; once in a while he looks up from his work and reads aloud a special bit of beratement or a sentence expresdive of lofty aim in the speaker. “This chap Cicero didn't exactly hate hiraself,” was Bobby's conclusion, how- ever—a. conclusion concurred in by a §00d many commeptators of more ex- perience than Bobby. - Betimes, those two days on the train, we talked about things utterly discon: nected with golf, Bobby's conversa- tional tastes by no means running in that trend. We struggled hopelessly with the Einstein theory of relativity and got as far as the tme line as a concefvable fourth dimension. We got to talking about the extreme distance or Canopus Irom the earth, and 1 was astonished to find that Bobby had a pretty adequate grounding in astron- omy, It the paradox be permitted. The Real Bobby Speaks. Once he sald something that seem- ed to me an index to the real Bobby Jones. “The thing that worries me about this life,” said Bobby, “Is that there 1ia so little time for a fellow to learn |all the things he wants to know." I think that was the real Bobby Jones speaking there—not the mar- the gallerles and acclalmed by the writers. Somehow I can't think of any other twenty-year-old youngster of my acquaintance—he was twenty,’ then—whom I should expect to say such a thing. Especlally a young chap who had been accorded a vast deal of celebrity. by Orating with Cicero, then, Bobby Jones proceeded eastward to New' York and Southampton, and at the latter place contributed valiantly to the American winning of the Walker! cup. At the same time he grew im- mensely popular with the British vis- itors. S0 that after his defeat of Roger Wethered in a great match in the singles, they all piled up to his room at the club and begged him for this club and that, of the most per- fect set (they averred) they ever had seen. “No wonder you can play golf with clubs like those, Bobby.” chorused Tolley and the tail Wethered and the stocky Johnny Caven and the others. Bobby, laughing like a kid he was, promised a duplicate of a No. 2 fron to this one, a pitching-iron to that one, a driving-iron to the other. When he got home he had them madc up and sent, too. So we came to Brookline by private SILVER SPRING FIVE READY FOR ACTION Tossers representing the National Guard of Sliver Spring have hurled a sweeping defl at local unlimited tean: With such stars as Saunders, Wilson, Barnes, Elliott, Glover and Fling, the Marylanders are confident of offering District teams a real battle. Send challenges to W. W. Cadding- ton, Box 211, Siver Spring, Md. Comforter Junlors swamped the AllStar Five, 71 to b, yesterday. Bur- no and Moreland each registered nine baskets. Challenges to the winners are being received by Manager E. Moreland at Lincoln 1079, Amacostia Eakles will be the oppo- nents of the Washington Preps today at 3 o'clock on the Congress Heights floor. Both teams are bitter rivals and a stirring match is expected. ©Olympic Athletic Club' rejuvenated basket ball team is casting about for games through Manager Outcault, at Columbia 8008-J. Coach Doc Lausen and Trainer Seldon O. Baboock ex- pect to round out a first-rate quint this year. Practice is being held in the chapel of St. Stevens Church, 14th and Kenyon' streets. WESTERN HIGH QUINT DEFEATS “Y” ALUMNI velous golfing machine idolized by iSccond in the medal pl ‘Western High's basketers showed the way to the Y. M. C. A. Alumni quint, 20 to 13, in & stirring contest yesterday afternoon on the Y floor. The losers entered the game with victories over Central and Eastern. Western never was threatened. as it had 8 lead, 10 to 3, at half time. Westcrn's attack was speedy and its teamwork the best shown by the high schools thus far. < Alumni_tossers played creditably in the third period, when they regi tered six points. Garber tossed three court goals Di €, DECEMBER 30, 1923—SPORTS SECTION. I How Bobby Jones Became Greatest Genius of Golf HERE’S BOBBY ARRIVING “HOME WITH THE BACON” S This snapshot of Bobby Jones holding the open championship cup was taken at the Brookwood station, Atlanta. Thomas B. Paine of the executive committee of the U. S. C. A. is at the right. Bobby was mei by two thousand of his Atlanta friends. yacht and train and all that sort of green. thing, and after Bobby and his great friend, Francls Ouimet, had sort of started things off by beating Tolley and Wethered In a fine match, Bobby shooting @ 72 the first time he had seen the course since the Red Cross days, the tourney got down to busi- ness. Bobby's qualifying score was —145, the first round on a bright and beauteous Saturday, the second in a driving rain Monday. He was Jesse Guil- ford having started with a 74 on the pretty Saturday and utterly collapsed that charming English writer, Ber- nard Darwin, with a record-breaking 0 on Monday. Bobby would have been tled for the low medal except for this incident: As he putted out after a fine drive and pitch on No. 17 of the first round, he looked about him as if in quest of some one handling the palr, saw no official, and walked over to me. “What did vou score me on " he asked. 4, of course” T said. fake it a 5, he said. “The ball moved after I addressed it for the cecond putt.” So it was a 3 that instead of a 72 for Bobby that day. And 1 was just as well pleased that he didn't win the medal, at that, because you know the old jinx. But wait. The match play began and Bobby caught a couple of golfers, to for- tune and to fame unknown, sc far as I was concerned, named James J. Beadle and Willlam McPhail. The first carried him to tho thirty-fifth green and the second to the thirty- third. Sandwiched between them was none other than Bob Gardner. He took. Bobby to the thirty-fourth Inside Golf By CHESTER HORTON_ Golf's most dificult shot—I have been-asked to tell what it is, in my opinion, so here in the proach xhot from the t edge of the green, which cally for niblic play. This shot varies in itn degree of difficulty, the scale running all the way from the ball that sits nicely teed up om the sand to the ball which has sunk into sand and ix all but hidden. Suppose we begin with the ball that comes to rest teed up, 5o to speak, in the trap. This in about as hard 8 shot as the goifer can be confronted with. It looks dead easy, but here ia a shot to try everything the golfer has. An into this shot, if he does what should be done under the circum~ stances, he must imtroduce a mental discipline. Also he must change his method of short irom play—for here the wrists get prominently into action. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) COLUMBIA U. CHESSMEN WIN TITLE NINTH TIME NEW YORK, December 29.—Colum- | and was successful in five fres shots: bia Unjversity today acquired for the out of six. Dulin and Whelchel also did well for Western. ‘Business High will be the opponent of the Y quint tomorrow at 3 o’clock on the Y floor. Line-Up and Summary. Rhoes | the RATHSKELLER BUILDING TO BE TORN DOWN SOON National Capltal, 0dd Fellows and other leagues bowling at the Rath- skeller will have to hunt new homes after the first of the year as the building will be torn down to make room for improvements by the Lans- burgh Company. It was one of the ploneer homes of bowlers, starting with the big pins and theh falling in line with the ducks as the Ilttle maples became popular. - ninth consecutive year the champion- ship of the Columbla-Harvard-Yale- Princeton Chess League in the final match with Princeton, which it won, 30l / In the tournament Columbia scored 11_points out: of a possible 12. Should Columbia win next vear it would gain permanent possession of intercollegiate chess trophy, placed in competition thirty-one years ago. RECOVERS FROM INJURY By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 30— cral weeks ago were dissipa day when the Newark A. C. fl,er Eobby never w of them at lunch time, 1 remember writing back home that Bobby's best chance to win a match {play tournament would be to grow | a set of long pink whiskers and en- ter undér the name of Smith, be- cause everybody seemed laying for this guy, Bobby Jones. It really was funny the way Beadle and McPhail came around and were tickled pink to carry ‘Bobby Jones that far, and said (hey never had shot wn well before. That Is, it was funny as long as Bobby had_beaten them. Then came Jess Sweetser. He had | just dispoxed of Jesse Guilford with- |out shooting any record-breaking golf —a 78, he shot at Guliford-in the morning, to get him 1 down. While Willie Hunter had told me this bird | had a way of holding out from traps and the rough, and so on, I wasn't much bothered about that. On the | second hole he holed out & piteh of eighty yards for an eagle 2, while Bobby stuck his pitch six inches from the pin for a birdle 3. At that, things happened to Bobby that he never will forget, or 1 either, and { he was Inconceivably and impossibly 6 down at the turn—inconcelvably and impossibly but incontestably 6 | down in the first nine hole T suppose nearly everybody knows rhO\\' it happened. An eagle, two birdies and a stymie cost Babby four holes: a huge chunk of mud on his bull at the Afth green cost him an- {other: his own bad play accounted for the other. Bobby Jones 6 down in nine hole They wonldn't be- leve the score when it was posted. But he was. And, mind you, he stepped the next nine holes in 2 under par—and gained only one hole back. But you can remember for Bobby Joncs o8 a match player that he turned d down to a man-who shot the next nine G join his employer, who already is in WYNKOOP HIGH GUN AT CLUB TRAPSHOOT Dr. J. C. Wynkoop led the trap- shooters at Washington Gun Club yesterday with a score of 85 x 100, shooting from 16 yards. The occasion was a farewell shoot to the members, the retiring officers donating sliver trophies. George Emmons and Capt. Harry M. Horton tied for second honors, but the captain relinquished his interest in the trophies, and second place went to Emmons. Both scored 83 x 100. Third place went to I. C. McCar- ron with 83 x 100, Fourth prize found Waters, Taylor and Brown in a tie, and after a shoot-off at 25 targets ‘Waters carried home the trophy. In the doubles C. S. Wilson cracked 19 of the 24 thrown in pairs to win the trophy donated by the club's sec- retary. Mrs. Vogel, for 2 number of years woman champion of Michigan, was a guest of the club, and accounted for 45 of her 50 targets. Mrs. Garnett, also a visitor, did well considering her inexperience. All scores were low, due to the high winds that swept the marshes in front of the traps. The scores: Garnett, Mre., 68} Mitehell, Bucke, o 45350; R Tuows, 52100, NO CHANGE IN GOLF BALL WILL BE MADE . NEW YORK, December 29.—The United States Golf Association will make change in the present standard ball when officlals of the organization gather for their annual meeting in New York January 4 and 5, it was reported today. . ‘The assoclation is expected to con- sider the use of slotted or punched clubs, although under a ruling an- nounced last September these auto- matlcally will be barred after Jan- uary 1. This ruling, howeyer, pro- vided that stamped lines may be used iIf they do not exceed ome-six- teenth of an inch in width and are not less than three-thirty.seconds of inch apart, ‘but it is said the xmlo question may be rediscussed. British golf authorities barred the punched or slotted clubs more than a year ago. but the subject was re- time of the British open champlon- ship last spring. > 1 i 1 —Joe Moore of N LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Dccembu& 500-meter yace 'vi'fi:fin?“u‘ is -meter o ke Pacia’pi first - 0 the 1,5600-meter event in ‘the final try- out rt the o speed-skating s up omany ! better than par, and gained a hole back | Against Guilford, Sweetser's morning | round. at that. 69 for Bobby's Benmefit. round was 7% ; against Jones {t was 69, aud a new course record ; against Evans next day it was 74, or 756 some it. Now listen—I'm not alibling. But why was that round against Jones par- | ticularly? Remember what I eaid about fate and predestination? Well, Tll tell you what Bobby said about it during the intermission. You recall he had said something about never being square with Beadle and Gardner and McPhail in his first three matches, at the. end of the morning Five down to Sweetser, - Bobby grinned—a somewhat twisted grin, but unmistakably & grin. One thing is certain” said he, “I'l never kick again about being square at lunch time After lunch he went out and took the rest of his drubbing. When he came back from the long eieventh hole where the match ended. I saw somethiny that made my eyes eting some more. The gallery had gone chasing off after the victor, as galleries do. All but about thirty little boys, caddies at the Brookline course. They were troop- ing along behind Bobby Jones, as they always do whenever he plays, whether wins or loses, some of them squab- bling which should carry his clubs. So we made another long trip home without the bacon, Bobby plugging along with Cicero and his anti-Cataline cratory—after Mr. Sweetser had added the scalp of Mr. Chick Evans to his Delt, of-course. Somebody asked Bobby if he would stay for_the finals. “Sure,” eaid Bobby, “they can lick me, bul they can't chase me off the place " Next Sunday Golf's Top Record | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE EORGE DIEGEL, a brother of Leo, is to hold the job of profes- sional at the East Potomac Park public course next season. George is not as great a golfer as his brother, but plays a good game and is understood to be an excellent teacher. open champion, left Washington Friday night for Florida, where he will Leo, the District the south. Fred McLeod, the Columbia pro, paired with Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase, beat Leo Diegel and Willie Leech of Overbrook, near Philadel- phia, in a four-ball match at Columbia Ftiday. Diegel missed a short putt on the last green that would have squared the match. However, he had the best individual score of the quar- tet, with a card of 73. McLeod was 74, coming home in 34, while Barnett was 78 and Loech 80. Diegel, with the match all squared at the seventeenth, took a bang at the green, 270 yards away, and car- rled into a trap just to the right. Had” his ball been & yards to the left he would have been home. Mc- Leod won the eighteenth with a par 4, when Diegel todk 3 putts after a fine iron shot, "which gave him a chance for a 3. Bannockburn hopes to have all its eighteen holes in playing shape next' year, giving the Glen Echo Club a course that will be difficult in the extreme: —~Dates for the big Pinehurst cham- plonships have been announced as follows: North and south open, March 31 to April 1, inclusive; north and south amateur, April 3 to 9, inclusive; north and south women's, March 24 to 29, inclusive. Local golt courses are being well patronized these days. Washington's group of divot diggers - has been favored with exceptionally ~fine weather this fall. All the golf courses have been crowded on warm afte noons, and the throngs at the clubs yesterday made it appear like mid- summer instead midwinter. Bob Barmett, Chevy Chase pro was_very much pleased with the ‘Washington Golf and Country Club course in his first venture over he’ Virginfa layout last Thursday. “But it is & hard course on a short legged maun,” he said. CALVARY M. E. TOSSERS TAKE NINTH STRAIGHT Calvary M. E. tossers made it nine in a row by defeating the El Dorado quint last night, 62 to 8. Links and Enright of the winners o lien and Lithe played weil en an o wi o El_Dorado. ¥ e St. Paul Episcopal team will be the opporient of Calvary M. E. Tues- day on the ¥ floor. . Line-Up and Summary. FecLS S, vived in heated discussion at the' Links.. for Perkins, tzer hr':d!rr B i Uy Titsie, | BETTER IN FUTURE Should Bear Fruit DOUBLES LIKELY CUP MATCHES Tilden Declared Justified in Criticising Committee for Not Selecting Team Sooner—{Champion and Johnston Regarded as Best Pair. BY SAMUEL HARDY. HEN Tilden wrote to American Lawn Tennis stating t the Davis cup committee ment on the doubles team at had not notified him of his appoint- until two days before the match, and that this gave him too little time to pfepare for it, he had no intention, I think, of starting a nation-wide argument. The reply of Harold Hackett of the Davis cup committee, made it somewhat in the nature of a cor troversy, and all over the country articles by sporting editors have a peared, until now the subject is the topic most discussed in tennis circles. _ In my opinion the publicity given to Tilden's views will prove be ficial, as it is a matter in which all tennis players and all those who support the game by their attendance are deeply interested. A natienal team and a national committee that selects and supervises that team belong in a sense to the public, and a question as vital as that mentionzd by Tilden is one that should be thoroughly understood by the public in order that it may give or withhold .its support. As In every argument, there s something to be sald on both sides of the question. Tilden's statement that the time given him to practice | with a new partner was entirely too short will not be denied by any one, and I consider it a point well taken: Contention. Hackett has replled that Capt. Williams was notified of Tilden's sel- ection a week before the match, but this merely confirms Tilden's state- ment that too little time was allowed, as a week is of little more value than two days. 1t takes two men, no matter “how good they are indiv- idually, 2 year at least to become a perfect team, and usually several seasons are necessary. The committee could not pair and train Tilden and Richards, who had twice been national doubles cham- pions, because of their lamentable showing against Australia in the 1922 doubles. If Tilden was to be chosen, the committee had only two possible combinations—Tilden and Johnston or Tilden and Willlams. Favors Tilden—Johnaton. There has been a great deal of curiosity, often openly expressed, as to why Johnston, who played so suc- cessfully abroad with Tilden, ehould never afterward have been selected to play with him. In 1920, when I took the team to England and Australasia, I belleved, as I believe now, that these two men wero the strongest’ combination that America had to call upon, and I am convinced that had_they been Kkept together by the Davis cup committee, we would not have lost a match as we did in 1932 and "23. By this time they would have become so thoroughly accustomed to each other's game that they would have developed into an irresistible combination. Johnston prefers the right court, just as Tilden favors the left, and Tilden's natural tendency to stay back would have safeguarded Johnston’s preference for the net position, where he 1is so formidable. It is an open secret that the com- mittec preferred to save Johnston's strength for his two singles matches, rather than risk the loss of one of these by tiring him in a possible five- set doubles. Johnston himself would have liked to play. He does mot share the belief in his lack of stamina, and {s positive that he could have lasted the three matches. Has Plenty of Strength. In my opinion. he is far stronger than people realize, and I think that had there been less talk about his condition, and had he had the stimulus of sharing the responsibility of the doubles, he would have acquitted himself better this year in the singles. To a man of his tem- perament and achievements It is hard to stand aside, inactive, while men of lesser rank are being con- sidered as possible candidates for the doubles. If I had the cholce of naming the doubles team I should again pair Til- den and Johnston, for I know that they like to play together, and that they belleve they could be successful. The committee, deeming it wiser to save Johnston, had then only two possible choices left. Tilden and Wiiliams or Willlams and Washburn. Ever since Willlams won the world's doubles championship at Wimbledon with Garland, it has been conceded that he can play very fine doubles, and it was belleved that the Tilden- Willlams combination would be a strong one, as the men are friendly and live in the same city. Only One Course Left. ‘Willlams, however, had been paired with Washburn for four years, and the committee, recognizing the value of experience in any doubles team, hesitated to break up this combina” tion, hoping that Washburn would prove strong enough to justify their putting him on the team ‘to play with Willlams. Washburn, however, failed to make good, and the committee, who had walted all season in order to test him, was obliged at the last moment to eliminate him, which left Tilden and Willlams as the only other possible combination. ‘While my first choice is, as I have said, Tilden and Johnston, because of the ' latter's many years of fine doubles play, I feel that the com- mittee’s chofce of Tilden and Wil- liams was a sound one. These two men_could have been made into a wonderful doubles team, but I be- lieve with Tilden that their selection should have been made early in the season. In_ Hackett's reply to Tilden, he brushes aside Tilden's statement re- garding insufclency of time, and confines himself largely to a critic- ism of Tiiden's tactics in the doubles. I quite agree with Hackett, one of the greatest doubles players of for- mer times, that the champlon's pos tlon on the court was often faulty, but had Tilden and Willlams played all season together this would have been discovered and corrected in due time, and there never would have been the necessity 8. 0. 8. call that committee to Tilden for that wild sent from t¥ fter the third Ridiculous Precedure. How ridiculous it is that = Day cup team should be obliged to learr for the first time proper positio: play during the defense of the cup! | Now that the subject has become | public, it is to be reopened ut the annual meeting of the association in February. This will be a very good | thing it it results,"as I hope it will, in a new policy being adopted by the | committee that will make our Davis cup doubles less of a gamble, and the developm of at least rst-class team in the country (Copyright, 1923.) SMALL TOWN NETMEN CAPTURE U. S. TITLES i’ NEW YORK, December little town of Waban, Ma. ed the winners of two ships and East Orange, N. J., the winner of one, ine the national i door junior and boys tennis tourn: ment, which ended today courts of Seventh Regiment A Malcolm T. Hill of Loomis Sc and H. R. Johnson of Newton, Mass. High School, 6—3, 6—3, captu: youths who gained titles, and K neth Appel wasithe East Orange, ) J.. representative to win. Hill, by defeating John Pitman Hill School, 6 to 3, 6 to 3. captu; the boys' singles championship, then, stepping into the junior ¢ with Johnson as his teammate, d feated Kenneth Arpel and John Van Ryn of Orange, N. J., High Schoo! for_the junior doubles title, 6—3, 6—0. Appel's victory came in match of the junior singles i he defeated his school ma doubles companlon, 6—3, i—1, 13—11. The Hill-Johnson victory in doubles proved the one big upset the day's play. Both youngsters eligible for boys' competition were conceded but small chance vanquishing their older rivals. Not only did they win the matc and title, however. but they won in straight sete, ailowing Appel Van Ryn to capture but five twenty-three games played. Johnson proved unusually effective in all departments of play RITOLA INCIDENT NOW IS CLOSED OFFICIALLY NEW YORK, December 29.—Th incident surrounding the decision of Willle Ritola, distance running star. to return to Finland and compete for his native country in the 1324 Olyr pics, was closed officially today. Frederick W. Rubien, Secretary of the National Amateur Athletic Union and also of the American Olymp committee announced that he taken the final steps in Ritola's c by formally notifying Finnish ath- létic authorities that the ruaner good amateur standing in this try. provi champion- on the fin whic [ Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS price of entire 1l colors, sizes, Save the new wuit, A patterns. EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. N.W. 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