Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1924, Page 31

| SPORTS. THE EVENING ST% WASHINGTON, D. C, TH'lj"RSDAY, MARCH 13, 1924. Ten New Municipal Tennis Courts Being Built : Pros Lean to THE MAKING OF A GOLF CHAMPION THIS IN FOR USE OF CREASES NUMBER PUBLIC TO 57 ¥our Being Constructed Will Be of Concrete—Old Ones to Be Ready for Play Latter Part of April, Others by IFITY-SEVEN tennis courts wil who use the manicipal facilitie: F Middle of June. 1l be available this year for players s. There will be fifty-eight to come under the supervision of the office of public buildings and grounds, ‘but one of them is within the confines of the White House yard. course, is not open to the public. That is for the “tennis cabinet.” Ten of the courts will be new, as there were forty-eight in use last scason. other half dozen of clay. The four new omes are being built 21 the reservoir grounds at 16th and Kennedy streets. Two of them will Te of concrete. The other six being built are located in Anacostia Park Two of these also Wwill be of con- crete. The mew courts will not be ready for play until about the middle of June. However, all the old ones will be put in shape just as =oon as DOssi- ble and should bé available by the lat- ter part of April at the latest. The old courts, in addition to the one at the White House grounds, are located as follows: Ten in the Monument growuds, 10 in Potomac Park, 10 in Henry Park, 6th and B streets: § at the 16th street reservoir, 4 at the White Lot, 4 at Afonroe Park, 31 and R streets, and 1 at Garfield Park. All of the courts on the Monument zrounds, Potomac Park, Henry Park and at the 16th street reservoir will e under the direction of the Joint | Welfare Association. The charges for use of the follow: pecial | reservations, 15 cents per hour for| two persons: ten tickets for &s many sets, 50 cents: tickets for one sef. is used for p of the courts Those who frequent the ervoir courts this season need have no fear of sudden storms. A Tog cabin, onc story high, sixteen by four feet, is to be erected | In addition to serving as a shelter, it will be d as a place, for a rustic veranda w iend 'around the two sides of the uilding. The cabin will be com cted about June L. he 16th sireet SQUASH PLAY CANCELED. NEW YORK, 1 inferest has foreed cancell Tational open squash tennis cham- | pionship scheduled to start next Saturday. It was understood pro fessionals were dissatisfied with the rurses offered Of the new courts building, four will be of concrete and the PAXTON MADE HEAD OF GOLF COMMITTEE Fred D. axton has been elected chairman of the golf committee of the Washington Golf and Country Club. Paxton will direct the spring tournament the Yirginia or- sanization to he held May 1, 2 and 3 Martin R. West, last year's goll committee chairman, announced his resignation last night at a meating of the board of governors. and Paxton of | was chosen as his successor. West said he had formed new Lusi- ness connections which would prevaent his giving as much of hix time (o the golf committee job as in the past He will continue to serve on the com mitter, howeve th the new chair- i men and Dr. S Moore. SULLIVAN OF G. U. WINS, BUT PROTEST IS MADE NEW YORK, March 13.—William Sul- [livan cf Georgetown Universi'y worn the first Military Athletic League championship since 1914, when he came in first in the half-mile run in which he competed for the 165th Infantry, the old 65th. Sullivan won in 2.01 3-5 over four- teen other starters, inciuding Jack Sellers of the New York A. C.. repre- senting the 105th. Suilivan ran under protest, com- plaint being made thut as a student at Georgetown he had not partici- poted sufficiently in military activ- ities to cnter the m INTERCITY RAIL PIN FINAL TO BE ROLLED SATURDAY I team of t urday afternoon. pins, the result of the first match in are determined to wipe this lead out In anticipation of a large delegation of rooters, which is expected to ac- company the Norfolk team, the South- ern General Office emploves here plan to turn out in fuil force to.encour- age their representatives. The Rec- reation management nas znnounced it will close the all next to the pair in use 1o accommodate the spec- tators, city w Three matches were shot in the Ma- sonic League last night. La Fayette took the odd game from Stansbury: Takoma swept the decks, winning all three games from Joppa by close scores, and St. John's put the same trick over on the Albert Pike quint, capturing the three rounds by good margins, Urban of La Fayette was ihe star of the evening, with a set of 337 and single game of 124. avings shot othered the | ton of pins. its an decks with time runni tors, his set i Iock Havem stepped on the gas and imothered the Potomacs under thr big gam in the Nautical X 1 Lea V. Ott of the winn In the Terminal Ticket Office boy three from Expr ers, having the Y League. the won two out of Bond of the los- same of 121. the Bureau and ingraving League won the odd game from the Wildcats, and I ters won two out of three Machine, Ells- worth of Register was the high man, with & set of 315 and game of 114. ROSCOW NOW LEADS IN BILLIARD EVENT FCHICAGO, w, only Mareh 13—Ter. T N. undefeated competitor natienal amateur three-cushion | d tournament, meets Dr. An- Harris l Z0 in toda play. Harris encountered his first dcfeat yesterda losing to Robert Lord, titleholder, 30 to 40, in sixty- ecight innings. Other games today are: Otto Spiel- man, Chicago, and R. Wainwright, Pitisburgh; Ear] Patterson, Chicago, and Louis ' Vogler, Indianapolis, and ¥, I Pleming, Chicago, and Robert M. Lord, Chicago In yesterday's games Roscow de- feated Spielman, 650 to 42, in 104 in- Vogler lost to Wainwright, 50 in seventy-six innings, and Fleminz won from Patterson, 50 to 16, in seventy-seven innings. Wainwright made an 8 for the high run of the tournament. LOCAL BOYS WILL MIX "IN BOUT NEXT TUESDAY Two local leather pushers. Johnny Conroy of .the Mohawk Athletic Clul and Willie Ptomey of Fort Myer, are to mix it up for six rounds in the semi-final of the hnxln{‘ show to be held by the Enlisted Men's Service ub. Tuesday night at the Washing- on Barrac Jack roni of Walter Reed and 1iddie Leonard of Baltimore. are to appear in the feature bout. Two pre- liminaries also are to be staged. ———— PAGE NOT TO CHANGE. INDIANAPOLIS, March 13.—H. O. (Pat) Page, athletic director and foot ball coach at Butler College, who has béen mentioned in connection with the vacancy in the coaching staff at the University of lowa, has an- nounced definitely that he would not change. l ROY TO FIGHT LYNCH. MONTREAL, March 12.—Leo Roy, local featherweight, was awarded the decision over Kid Wolfe of Cleveland in' a ten-round bout last night. Roy would meet Joe Lynch, world's ban- tamweight champion, some time next month. drew of HE final block of five games between the Norfolk and Western rail- way duckpin sharpshooters of Norfo’k and the Soumthern raiiway be rolled on the Recreation alleys next Sat- The Norfolk and Western boys have a lead of twelve Norfolk, and the Southern bowlers carly. | LINKS LESSON | PUTTING ON GREEN NIT BALL SQUARELY- KEEPING CLUS MEAD AS CLOSE TO GREEN AS POSS/BLE. &7 WATCH OUi —_— DON'T TRY TO LIFT BALL OR IT Wiil JUMP INSTEAD OF ROLLING SMOOTHLY. In a wvery long putt on a smooth green, is it cver advisable o altempt to lift the ball slightly into the ai Why or why not? Answered by JOHN BLACK “The Carpenter of Troen,” whone Krent gameness and mastery of golf make him feared at all t Particularly competent on nhots. * & % % In putting on a smooth green there should be no attempt to lift the ball. it should be squarely hit, keeping the clubhead as close to the green as possible. 17 there is an attempt to lift the ball it will jump instead of rolling smoothly, result- ing in a bad putt. {(Copyright, 19 Associated Editors.) HEAD OF PENN STATE FOR COACH ON BENCH Taking issue with statements of Pres- ident Angell of Yale, Dr. John M. Thomas, president of = Pennsylvania State College, and Hugo Bezdek, foot j ball coach of that institution, at the re- cent annual meeting of the Pittsburgh alumni, declared that the place of the coach was on the bench giving di- rections. “I believe in college athletics,” said Dr. Thomas, “as the value is tremen- dous. T do not believe the suggestions of the president of Yale to keep coaches off the bench during the contests s kindly toward college sports, and there- fore I am not in sympathy with him— I am not in sympathy with any sugges- tion that is not kindly to college ath- letics.” Bezdek asserted that the coach knows more about the personnel of the team, more about thelr faults and good quali- tiee, than u leader among the players, and thus 18 in a position to obtain the results most beneficial to the players. “If the handling of the team,” he said, “should be placed in the hands of the captain while in competition, as the president of Yale has no end of dissension would crop up. In man; cases the morale would be ruined. because several players disagreed with the player-captain’s ideas.” RICHARDS IN FINAL. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 13— Vincent Richards, New York, and Frank Owens, Atlanta, former south- ern singles champion, will meet to- day in the men's singles final of the southeastern chlmph‘nshln tennis tournament here, . and, of | CHAPTER 4—My Tweny-first gency requires practice. These heroes you read about in the news- papers who pull off daring stunts requiring an extraordinary amount of nerve «sually bave nerves trained | by previous experience. The rule peculiarly adaptable to sport. In & critical moment it is the man who has trained himself for emergen- cies who will come out ahead. When they told me that afternoon at Brook- line that I was leading the field, with just nine holes to ko, and that, with a good inward journey, I could win the national open, it simply knocked |the pins ot from uoder me. There was no event in my brief pre- vious experience 1o give the confi- dence 1 needed. 1 had never before | been in such & predicament and it | overwhelmed mc. My game began to wabble. 1 wished that 1 had never | heard what figures 1 needed to beat | out the leading scorers. Few golfers even the most experienced, can play | their best under such conditions. The | importance of every shot assarts it- self every time one hits the ball Man players, Jim nes among them, prefer not to know where they stand. They figure that they will play the best they can anyway and let it go &t that | 71 began to have all sorts of trou- ‘!hl— coming home that afternoon. One thing after another went wrong. | Twice I drove off into the roggh and lost sever: precious shots to reach the green. My hands began to per- | spire with nervousness and made it | difiicult to grasp my clubs. Brietly, finished those last nine holes on an avirage of four strokes behind all the others 1 had played. But it land- d me in fourth position at that, | which was quite a featier in my cap. | Midiothian and the Big Try. | The Brookline championship was a. great educator for me. I had made the acquaintance of some of the players and talkcd golf to them whenever the occgsion allowed.' They had more to say to me after that. Jim Barnes was particularly soctable and it was there that our long friend- «hip began. Jim and 1 have played us partners and opponents in many a hard-fought bsttle on the links. 1 turned to Rochester feeling pretty well satistied with myself. My ruccess at Brookline encouraged me to belic that the title was not as | far off as 1 had supposed LEADERS IN A. B. C. HARD TO DISLODGE HICAGO., March 13.—The Amer- ican Bowling Congress tournament | enters its final fortnight of play to- day, with diminishing possibilities of | changes in leadership. The doubles mark of 1,304 set by Dolan-Hill of Minneapolis is expected | to stand the wear and tear of many more days of competition, and the world record of 732 made by Frank Kair of Chicago, In the singles, bids fair to endure. Wisconsin and llinois bowlers are the majority in today's singles and doubles play, but bowlers from Schenectady, N. Channing, Mich. Bucyrus. Ohio, and Marion, Ind.. wil | be_on the drives, In the five-man event teams from (hlr‘nwn. Ohio, and Dunkirk, N. Y., will o | —— TWO GAMES IN DISTRICT CUE EVENT ON TONIGHT Two games will be played in the District championship three-cushion billiard tournament tonight at the Royal Billiard Parlors, when Dodge meets Merino in the opening match at 17:30 o'clock and Conolly oppose Johnson in the second engagement, odacre uncorked a big surprise Right when he defcated Humhe: 3. Turton downed Turpin, 56 to 32 fter overcoming a fourteen- point handicap. BOWLS A BIG SCORE. Y., March 13.—Syra- 'r_undefeated bowling team scored 2,907 against Minnesota in a telegraphic match in the inter- collegiate league. It was the highest team tally yet scored in the circuit. e ot YOUNGSTOWN, Carl Tremaine, ' Cleveiand bantam- weight, won the newspaper decision over Rosey Stoy, Lancaster, Pa., in a twelve-round bout last night. Be wise when you buy cigars. You get more for 1§ cents in Cinco than you can get for 20 cents in meost ten-cent cigars. And you don'tobject to sav- ing 25 percent,do you? The Eisenlohr Proc- ess puts Cinco in aclass by itselt. Birthday and a Championship. | EEPING your head in an emer- | since | It seemed | J. S. BLACKWELL & SON BY WALTER HAGEN- FRANCIS OUIMET., Winner of the national open in 1913, the first amateur golfer to capture the event. |curling ed 10 hesi ous, 1 jto me if I could finish fourth in wm | first try-out I had a good chunce « | winning the open the following year |&e lat Midlothian ¥ivery spare moment |CU as though I spent in perfecting my shots. 1!mot to drop |took part with Barnes in a coupie of ihave be small tournaments and the following 'known. 1914, packed my duds and Mll:h.} one shol was n. d to win. for Chicago. fully determined to make | The ball plopped into the cup a fight for it, my friends rush P to congr There was a big field of stellar tal- Mme but | romind ent entered for that national open.[Stll had o chanc MacDonald Smith, after his remark- |Wateh him, wr- able showing in the metropolitan like & hd”{ . . open. at Scarsdale. . where he hnri,‘;";.‘""‘;; 2 Aty oocentone o e Tecaeh of fof lnurna’\v"‘n. At the last hole he had a birdie two and jleft to Hix dri wagk a foot play over the seventy-two-ho o e e oriatt e Shsltwo short of the green. “Ci ade : or- |8 great effort to hole the chiy o e 0 e’ in bie |the Pin, bul the ball went wide of the last tournament. McDermott made a {CuP. P " § - gallant stand in thic event, but his] That night 1 celebrated, 1t was my heaith. which had never been good. |twenty-first birthday. I had won r began to affect his playing and short- [first big championship and as a re- |1y after that he dropped out of vhr»"\l“ B 200 s0vRE Sullacs (o fngle o game entirely. He was a grand little |y trousers pocket—a lot of money olfer, who came to the front like (in those days It wasa grand adven- 2 flash in 1910, tied in one champion- {ture. Little did 1 realize that before ip, won the next two and then|another vear had elapsed 1 was to fuded away as quickly as he had (Pocket the biggest golf purse on rec- risen to fame. ord. ‘Another star who was rezarded as almont certain to land a place among the first three was Francis Ouimel, then title holder and considered a dangerous contender in any cham- plonship. Francis falled o live up 1o his reputation at Midlothian. al- though he won the amateur title a short time afterward. A 'Title on the Cup's Rim. The tournament was held in Au- gust. | had practiced carly and late and improved my game considerably over the former vear. I had learned to play that high mashie pitch from watching Vardon and Ray and it was a big help to me. The course I found vell suited to my game, as at that time I was driving then a mile. =o to speak, and there was little penalty for being on the rough, for what grass there was had been burned out 55 the hot summer sun. 1'got off to @ ood start and held my pace. A fine round of §8 heiped | me to keep ahead of the field and, | although In later champlonships I} have used a totally different m\'lhndl of play—preferring to remain a little behind and nose out my rivals at the | end—during that tournament 1 kept consistently in front. The golfer who gave me the most concern was Evai Try as I would, Chick was always duplicating my best shots and hang- ing on just behind me. 1 made good use then of what previous experi- n 1ve » on the decid The aind ula Chick all turned t the stretch (Copyright, 1924.) Temorrow—A Revermal of Form. Ohio, March 13— |ence 1 had had in keeping & level Wo came down the home stretch neck and neck. At the last hole, with | i i t ; i 1 1 a big gallery gathered about looking O s % 748 % " W. H. WARNER CO. 504 Eleventh St. NNW. ‘Exclusive Washington Distribntor Alexandria, Va. Northern Virginia Distributers POLICEMEN MAY DIRECT PLAY ON PUBLIC LINKS CLEVELAND, March 13—An in- movation ta golf will be intreduerd on the local municipal links this neasom 1If plans of John J. Tyia, recreation commimiomer, ma- terialize. Trla propeses to sta- tion trafic policemen at polnts of congention. Acting as patrol jodgew, the oficers will blowy whistlex to sig- mal piayers (o shoot after the courmen have heen cleared. Thix, it tw hoped, will remedy the prae- tice of playing throuxh witheut regand to the customary wait or wignal to pasx from players in fromt, BIG TEN SWIMMERS SPLASH FOR HONORS CHICAGO, March 13.—Western con- | terence swimgmers start splashing to. inight in the preliminaries of the| championshlp meet, which, with the track and fleld meet tomorrow and Saturday. will close the big ten in- door athletic season. Northwestern, the host, fa- i !vorfte in the swimming competition, and Illinois a strong contender for track and field honors. Athletes of both institutions have | bettered performances of other team | members. Finals in the swimming will be! held tomorrow night. Preliminaries in the track and field meet are sched uled for tomorrow, with the finals Saturday. Most of the western conference schools also are entered in the West- | ern Collegiate Association gymnas- tic, wrestling and fenc mpion- ships, to be held tomorrow and S urday, simultaneo ern conference meet ' MYERS WILL COACH March of the Centre College foot hall team. isucceeding “Uncle Charlie” Moran, who | iresigned to become comch at Buckneli | | College. Myers was offered the positic { athletic board of ¢ nounced that Seven years director and graduate secreta {college. He also assisted Moran in de veloping the famous “Praying Colonels’ foot ball team, of which Bo McMillin was one of the stars. | At present Myers operating chautauqua bureau in Chicago. a ey SISLER TO PLAY SUNDAY. ST. LOUIS. March 13.—George Sis- | 1 rear’s abgence, will b {back at first Lase for the St. Loui Americans Sund; when they pl { the Mobile Bearr, according to ad- | viees here. The vision of the Browns' | manager has been restored virtually { | to normal. it was said. ] BASKET BALL RESULTS. | At Princeton—Princeton, 40: Dart- | mouth, 22. | ™A"A” Tournament at Kansas City: ansas City A. C, 41; Southwestern Cotlege, 15. Butier, 40; Kansas State Teachers, Tniversity Club of Brooklyn i Kelly-Reppert of Kansas City, 21 ling position. 243 SPORTS. 81 Heavy Golf Ball FEW OF LEADERS STRONG. ~ FOR THE LIGHTER SPHERE Most of Those Who Do Favor Change Declare 4T he Are Satisfied With Present Make—Number Back “Pill” Now in Use. BY LAWRENCE PERR EW YORK, March 13—What may be regarded as a valuabl N tribution to the moot question of lightenin weight of the present golf ball has been obtained by the writer from the leading professional players who participated in the recent proiessional tourna- ment at Miami. con- Their opinions run as follows: [ | Arthur Havers, Britixh open cham- nSl e 0 | phom—TI fecl a lighter ball might work to the benefit of the », although 1 have no objections to standard : Jimmy Ockendon, French champion -—The lighter ball might be |thing, but the present |right for me. By Chester Horton i Except for full driving-iron shets a full pivot In mever used with frons. The three-quarter shot, which means a three—quarter pivo: ix the maximum for irom ots, a this in used only with the midiron. When you get down to the mashie # half shot, which means a half the |Slusging | would have to be & |would have to know bull with the w. JAs it is now, sia shie niblicks o |second shots | Jock Hutehison—If they | ehange to ter ball the |the game for scienc {it is much ball Hikes lon | Gene sarazcn— {ter with z light K would pitch rig 1d the wro not make the a will ruiy vier one how to cut to 1 hold the green Walter Hagen—T in long driving would not be gre lighter ball, howey |the average golfer using a lighter ball around. The star low score, but the ave Dla |finds more pleasure in ng dr o |He will miss that fun with the ligh I affected by the But in a wind would be lost would never get is intent upon pivot, ix beat. You will do better 10 keep the left’heel on the ground thronghout the maxhic xhot. If the distance is greater than yeu feel your half mashie will do. a longer club. You “mever wrap a mashie around your meck.” Thix means that the mashie ix never taken back watil it lies fint acrows the xhoulders at ihe top, like a wood. It ix to “get away with n xhet that," but you abandon all cer- tainty of accuracy when you try it. If the shot comes off well it will be In spite of you. At the top of your back swing your mashic Xboult he jost a little back of Nta'ght up, and the left wrist X1 9.1d be hroken only slightly. Do not let your left wrist “run wild" up there or all your mashic proaches will be bad. Keep xhaft, wrixt and left arm all in line as you go back—then snap the club- head down and through the ball. (Copsrigin. doun F. Dille Co.) ROCKNE LIKELY T0 GO | TO NEBRASKA OR PITT 5" I0WA CITY, jowa, March 13—Uni- |hoPe ) versity of lowa officials denied that| If the T Pat_Page was here or en route here | Princeton Saturc to discuss the vacant foot ball coach- |again from Dartmouth at Hanover Tuesday night, in_ their replayed ga will be tied with the Ithacaf count being seven victories and th defeats_each. ne Prinoe end the chasc Leo Diegel, Eill Melhor mith, and Emmet French are all oppose the lighter bull one of the gre [for the or ting «nd that t make Jow s n, MacDo 'TIGER QUINT STAYS IN RACE FOR TIT: 3, Ma for goh | intercollegia | brightened | vanquish It also' developed that the Kaute Rockne boom would not materializ d that the Notre Dame coach, leaving that school. would go cither Nebraska or Pittsburgh. defeat, however, w ) S~ AN | \ s 7 )/ HITE OWL distributors dot the country. Frequent automobile delivery from them to retailers insures fresh, full-flavored cigars of uniformly high quality—everywnere. 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