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S A PORTS. . U. A. Committee Voles to SPRINTER MADE ELIGIBLE FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES Action Is Not Unanimous, Of Board Opposes S » as One of Five Members tep—Runner Stirred Up Trouble by 1923 Trip to Paris. EW YORK, March 1 champion and holder N will be rein for this country This became members of the A, A, U. cide the amatuer status o, reinstatement The one known ir dent of the we at he had r ational organiz; proval, but that he had refused. “Paddock has not disproved any of the serious charges which have been pressed usainst him and which caus- ©d his loss of amateur standing,” said Lacy. I sec no reason for reinstat- ing him. Settles Mis Standing. Thoush Lacy's refusal blocks a complete “whitewash” of Paddock's recard, the question of the cCalifor- nian’s standing is definitely settled. It is now known thal the majority of the committee which considered the charge favors reinstatement, und it of pract in the Olympic gam i the Cali reconcilable, was said last night that the vote of | the committee would be the final de- cision on the matter, President Prout headed the investi- Zating group. which included Samuel Goodman of San Francisco, Robert S. Weaver of Los Angeles, Fred W. Rtubien of New York, und Lacy. The C i : regarded all along s of Paddock, while tubien's attitude has not becn known. 1t is not yet certain which way the New YorK representative cast his Yote on the matter and President Prout is belicved to the third member of the committee to dectde in the sprinter's favor. According to statement, all four of the group, outside of himself, vot- ed for Paddock but this could not be confirmed last night. Prout Makes Denial. According to Lacy, the telegram which Prout asked him tu vote Paddock’s reinstatement carricd siews that four of the committee had already cast favorable yotes. Th was denied by Prout in a st iscued at Liostou last night. “That is not =0, Prout suid. “Lacy does not know how the other men bers of the committee voted. The vo has not been completed, Lacy knows Jiow he voted, but he docs not know Jow the other members voted.” Prout declined to comment ther, stating only that the resuli of the committee’s vote would be made public when it was completed. Yrom other sources it was leurned, t gh the vote may completed, umittee ins of th announce- Temsta for howeve not the L the the that rem which cars uand an atnletis d for nearly t oue um ctween various wonx which threatened to divide thletes of the country into opposite nps has virtually come to a close. truce not unexpected. Pad- visited the hor President in Boston weeks ugo was suid then that the A, A, U, W tisfivd with the Cali- e and would in the jutter's be- docl Frout and it otlicial forn use hall desire b fucne Brought Matters to Crislx. Padd attendance at the stu- in Paris last summer brought 1o a crisis relations which hiad Dot been any Loo an There had been whispered charges about the Californian’s ure to itemized expense he went abroad i the A A, U. edid Awerican sthictes prior io the Uiy mpic 'addock openly defied zution and the I, A went e supnort there was o coneerted Dreuk thes stremg: in the country and came the center of ich most of the powers of the result several Californian the orga AL AL For u time mosement to Vof the AL AL UL the sprinter be- controversy in nfiuential ath- ountry took part. allege ns of were brought o ht and the A. A. U. finally barred n from athletic competition on the following grounds: Paddock’s failure to lile an item account of his receipts and expendi- tures; infraction of the rule of the International Federation which pro- vides no expense moncy to an Jete, but to Paddock's failure retyrn money horrowed from American Olympic committec: fuilure to account for receiving double ex- pensc money in traveling from New York to Lot Angeles and statements made by Taddock regardins A. A, U officials and athletes hed. to the publ Inside Golf By Chester Horton One phaxe of ahot-making that many golfers never get clearly into their mind ix that the swing in always the same. That ix why 1 always emphasize that, “the awing ix everything.” The swing is n fixed mechanic of golf, but the force with which you hit the ball changes by degree in proportion as you pivot. You start your back swing for & whort mashie pitch just an you would start it for a full wood . of your feet drive. Bu: wne l‘u-lllo\ PR Lo e - omatically regulal ned before, the left foot b round toward the hole, the maximum of turn to the right you can make with your body is renched wo so the nth af the clubbead ix much rte Now for the feet agnin. When the stance in “wide open™ as it should be for tae mnshie pitchex of xeventy-five yardw or wo, the left toe faces the hole. The vight toe faces the ball. Note in the diagram how this shift has . placed the feet. Note, oo, that as You turn the left toe aromnd you t alvo turn the right one wi to avold stiffness and awkward. eas, The foet move {ogother—n atural positioning of them. Hit from the inxide out—aee the ball— and the ball will hop right up, (Copyright, Joba ¥. Dille Ca.) stern division of the A, A. U ived a telegram from Williay ation, asking him to concur i members | nin | the | fur-: ath- 4 7—Charles Paddock of California, Olympic ically all of the world’s sprint records, stated by the Amateur Athletic Union and will compete es at Paris this summer. known when it was found that at least three of the five committee appointed several weeks ago to de- fornian have cast votes favoring his Verner C. Lacey of St, Louis, presi- , told the Associated Press 1 C. Prout, president of the 0 a unanimous vote of ap- WEFERS GIVES OLYMPIC BOARD STIFF PROBLEM NEW YORK, Mareh 17—Bernle Wefers. jr., the sprinting son of & wprinting father, ix furnishing track enthusinsts with new debat- Ing material. For wome years Hernle gave his time o the ‘sprint patka. But a few weeks ago he beeame n voluntary candi With the Ginats, at Sarasota, Fla. Hin excurxion there ended yenter- day, however. when McGraw fin- formed him that he needed con- siderable seasoning in a base b way before he could m: league grade. Bernie was under contract and was not for hix eflortm. He undoubtedly will renew truck campaign. Followers of the game are ask- ing whether Wefer's amateur status Ix impaired by hix trial with the Glants. Friends say “no,” but others claim the A. A. U. and Olympic boards will have trouble convinelng foreign officials that an avowed candidate for a profes- nal base ball team Ix an amn- r in the strict interpretation of the term. {BILLIARDISTS TO PLAY TWO MATCHES TONIGHT | rict billiard continued parlors, { will be played. |, Goodacre will meet Turton at 7:30 o'clock, while Barker and Conolly { will oppose ] championship tournament tonight at the when two matches CHAPTER 8. Freak Shots: A Hole in 166. THERE have been many stories of freak. shots in golf. { 1 Players s trying new stunts and T d a few myself in 1916. I forgot to mention in my last chap- tter that in addition to winning the !\western and metropolitan open I jal took the Shawnes open the (same year. This event used to be called “the eastern open and gen- jerally brought out a good field of italent. It was in that that I suc- jceeded in_ pull off one oi the Lweirdest shots of my career. i i The Shawnee-on-the-Delaware links | [is, @ - implies, directly o of one of the holes. T inis the hole nearest | 1. It occurred to me that re ftseif would make! Wwhich was extremely doubtful. T} er at thut point is over 250 yards ten atte ted to drive acros t but had fail are aly attempt s river. which runs clo " and stood on the eleventh | u zood hazard if any one could carry it {Wide and | had heard that gol had ives Acrows River. Just for fun 1 teed uv a ball, and ting evervthing | had into the shot. let her go. The ball a straight line—and T nev | bercd hitting one Just like or since —sailed out with u wave-like, | rising motion right across the river ,and into the woods on the other side. d {1 often wish I had tuken the troubls | [to measure the exact length of that ! jdrive. It was one of those rare oc- | jcasions when swing, power and con- | tact were in perfect harmony, a most unusual piece of luck. i 1t _is not a bad idea now and then to practice these freak shots, such as driv at marks, lifting the ball, ng. or trying for dis- ularly over hazards—for | cky breaks give a man an in- of the limits of his game suld not discover in ordi- nary play. In a subsequent chapter will tell w one of these circus | tricks, which T learned from Joe, | Kirkwood, pulled me out of a tight | | hole. | { Got a Prize for Trying. t Water hazards are always bug-| bears to the average golfer and some | | strange things have transpired where | | water happens to be between the tee | and the hole. One of the most diffi- r hazards 1 kno: of is at Little RBinnacle at Shawnee, ereelc or tributary of the Dela- | arc, which is one of the main haz ds n the course. It chances to be ! teentih hole and on account of ! rry-over the creek is a most it point. Many Kood scorers been wree here. ~ When tournaments are being played at Shawnee this is the favorite place for he gallery to gather. A few years ago u woman's tourna- | jment wasx in progr awnee, ' | with just enough entries to make *a There was no chance for any jone to fail, but it was necessary to {Dlay the qualifving round, ome prize awaited the winner. th 1 | One | oF the contestants had been playing | | bretty good golf up to this hole and | {felt certain of a good score. Some | !woman players use a wooden club to i make the carry, but the majority of | zolfers use u midiron. and the pros ! jund star anateurs take it with a | mashie. ' DIEGEL AND M’LEOD BEAT THREE RIVALS ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 17.— | i | tine, Frank McNamara, professional B 7M. SETS at the Jacksonville Country Club; and Ted , Foster. a prominent Worida GOLF COURSE MARK. l‘ "HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 17.—Art [Leo Diegel and Freddie McLeod, ! Washington professionals, teamed yesterday ugainat three players, Wil- fred Refd of Detrolt and St. Augus- amateur, and won, 3 up and 2 to play, | McLeod led the ficld with a 72, with Diegel follow ose behind with a 73. Reid had a 74. McNamasa, 75, and i Foster, 6. Longworth, professional of the St. Louis Country Club, broke the course record-of the Hot ‘Springs Golf and Country Club, with a card of 69, par being 5. THE BELIEVE IT OR NOT. JorN ANDERSON SHUCKED 66,000,000 OYSTERS AND NEVER FOUND A PEARL - THE MAKING OF 4 GOLF CHAMPION BY WALTER HAGEN t §'l i | i ¢ pros and i e = - TOMMY McNAMARA, Veteran golfer, winner of the western open in 1915, who made one of the | strangest shots on record. The player in question took her ! wooden club for the shot, but the| sight of the creek was too much o a mental hazard for her. Instead o playing with determination and ease. che unconsciouxly stiffencd up her | stroke, with the result that the ball dropped into the creek, having failed to carry by several varde. Instead of dropping another. she decided to wade in and play it out. The at- tempt was unsuccessful and the ball started to float down the river. Her husband, much amused at the in- cident. insisted that she keep on, as she must turn in some sort of report from the hole in order to qualify. He secured a boat and rowed his better half out to where the ball was floating. She was not an expert at plaving from the water and shot after shot followed—each with an | accompanying’ xhower-bath for her husband—-until finallw she landed the elusive sphere a half-mile -down stream. She then played it back 'ross country to the green and heled out after 166 shots had been made— as far as I know, a record for dhe hole of tournament play, The club presented her with a special prize for her persistencs Speaking of records reminds ¥ me ¢ 'RUSSIAN CHESSMAN ! SETS TOURNEY PACE: NEW YORK, March 17.—The sec- ( ond round of the international chess master’ tournament in which el:veni of the world's best players are com- | peting. opens today with Alexander | Alekhine, Russian, 6n a point of van- | tage becausc of his victories in the firat round yesterda: Tho only ‘other player to_win his game yesterday was Dr. . Tartak: wer of Austria, who defeated B. Bo- goljubow of Latvia, after ashard, battle. Jose R. Capablanca of Cuba, | defender of the world title, was some- what of a d ppintment in the first day's play, being held to a draw by David Jonowskl of France. Neither of the American _entries made any progress, Frank J. Marshall, American title holder, drawi; ith Richard Reti of Czechoslovakia, and Edward Laskar of Chicago, getting & tie with G. Maroczy of Hungary. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1991 Reinstate Paddock :Rickard Stands by Berlenbach | 75 years old Rdden by Junes Yeysey Heapened 9,250 11 9 hoors . HiGH Jumeep 8 FTH . i BATTLING NELSON WAS KNOCKED DOWN 16 TIMES IN3 RowDS — bl wonthe gt | YANK LINKSWOMEN BEAT BRITISH PROS CLEARWATER, Fla, March 17.— Miss Glenna Collett of Providence and Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Merion Cricket played a four-ball | match here yesterday against the | British golfers, Arthur Havers and | | James Ockenden, and defeated them by 3 up and 2 to play. The English | pros gave the women a handicap of six bisques, ! The match was a close ore for the | hat 1 have often becn asked what was the longest shot 1 ever saw made. It is difficult to say. 1 recall seeing ur. in practice play, drive ards.© This would not b feat were it not for th ball, instea an unus fact that the to a stop, struck th ock. bounced high in and finally came to rest yards from the tee. I think this must be close to a re One of the shorte: ber sceing v celebri than who hit a ball in su. seooted at right angles between his legs into the rough behind him. Haurry Vardon, while plaving hibition match at Troon, manage catch a his club S0 that it flew off at a tangent into the river. And 1 seeinz a slash a furious drive against which caused it to bounes yards from its starting point. Changes Style of Game. During the summer of 1916 1 prae- ticed a lot of these and, as 1 said befor nd that this sort | of stunt playing gave airly zood idea of my powers and iimita- tions, m the of what 1 learned 1 began a reconstrugtion of r game, T had lo: the opou event that year, but was determined to win it the next time at all cost, and I set about mak- ing careful preparation. 1 went zouth that winter, play all the open cvents. and to found my game working to my satis- | faction. " In April, however, the entry of America into the world war put an end to all thought of championshi found myself selected. with mateurs, to play Red ¢ matches in the east and middle w Tomorrow: One From War Golf. player w tree, me a ~d_in rd spring i first nine holes, with the British golf- | lers having the advantage of two holes | on a seratch basis. The women used | {all six bisques, however. and stood | 4 up. The two men took a lead by winnlug the ond hole, but .\l!>si Collett’s fine 4 on ' the fifth| cvenad the score. The pros then cap- | tured the sixth, seventh and ninth. | Miss Collett's fine bir three on | |the eleventh gave the women first | honors on the second nine holes. But | Havers won the thirteenth ard le when he carried the green with | £ spoon. | Havers drove remarkably well, but | Miss Collett surprised the iall ¥ the frequency with which she got | s much distance as Ockenden from the tee. | The Providence girl scored an S0, while Mrs. Hurd took an 85. Havers | played the best olf for his side with | @ 74 while Ockenden took @ net 7 The man players would have won { from scratch by 4 to 3. The women had a best ball of 78, while the British pair were T1. sl St MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 17.—W. H. (Mike) Madsey, sccond baseman and outfielder with the Oakland club of the Pacific Coast League, has been obtained by the Memphis Chickasaws of the Southern Association, Manager Johnny Dobbs has announced. He will take the place of Roy Masse: who has announced his retireme from the game. Millien Dollars I s i, | ///// // i A PROGRESSIVE dge indeed, Sirs! But what cigarette of today can equal English Ovals, the cigarette that’s blended in the goodold Englishway? There’s no quality like. good old fash- ! 0lympic supremacy with Paavo Nur- | ! demonstrated his fitn. | Ha 110, BASKET BALL TITLE IS TONIGHT’S STAKE “The battle of the year” in basket ball is due to take place tonight when the Aloysius and Palace Laun- dry quints meet at the Coliseum in the contest that will decide the District independent championship. Each team has one game to its credit | in the series of thre. Although the Palace tossers played rather raggedly last Saturday night when Aloysius won, to dead- lock the issue, the men are confident that they will come back in good style and carry off the hon- | ors. Palace won the first game, 25 to_24. The big game, which will start at| 8:15, will be proceded by a contest! starting an hour earlier between the | Aloysius Miduets and the Southends. Joe Deering, coach of Columbia University, and Paul Menton of Bal- timore will officlate. ¥inal arrangements for the senior basket ball tournament, which will get under way Friday night at the Coltseum, are expected to be com- pleted at a meeting of managers to- night at 8 o'clock at the Herald build- ing. Officials are to be selccted. gt RAY AIMS TO TRIM NURMI IN OLYMPICS By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, March 17.—Joic W. Ray, America’s premier mile runner, has set his heart on a battle for mi, his great Finninsh rival, and to that end intends to concentrate his training for the 1,500-metér event, the nearest approach to the mile on the international program. Setting aside reports that he would abandon preparation for the short distance in favor of the 5,000-meter race, “Chesty Joie” declared he had no doubt of his ability to conquer Nurmi, who holds the world record for both the mile and 1.300 meters. Ray holds the American indoor record for 5000 mete: but for the 1,500 meters last Friday night, when' he | established a world indoor mark for distance. urmi_must be a great runner, commented, but [ have no fear I can take his measure. That's what I am out to do.” Ray wound up his indoor work at Syracuse yesterday in_an exhi mile, aft which he left for i His firet outdoor appearan at Peoria. I, on Ma I Dodge, Ra Buker, he w world _four. 17.21 - June by the After this meet Ray sld Oshorne, 111§ Jumper and an all and Watson, will train at industrial farm, Canaan, N. trio will work out ther Olympic sectional trys at Ann A March 31, after which they turn to the Berkshires to round out their training for the final trials in wed 4 Hlinois A. Berkshirs { | tenm; member of tha: | conmecutive year SPORTS. = HAS FAITH IN YOUNGSTER DESPITE K. O. BY DELANEY Tex Believes Scrapper, Who Had His Sensational Climb So Unexpectedly Checked, Will Fight His Way Back to the Top. BY FAIR PLAY. March 17.—Tex Rickard said today he was not through N with Paul Berlenbach by any means. Why would he be? Rickard is @ wise promoter. And Paul has the same attractiveness as a fea- ture that Firpo has. Luis got knocked out after a2 whale of a battle in which he gained admiration of the fans. Paul is at least worth while for the same reason. The customers are curious to see whether he can come back from the licking Deianey gave him, are wondering whether if Paul hadn’t run into that right in the third round he would have stowed Delaney away. LINKS LESSON PUTTING ON A SLOPING GREEN other good middlewsight tre crowd would turn out if only (o see whether ¥riday night's disaster was final or merely oné of those things But the crowd won't get a chanee 10 see him against another good mun for some little time yet. Dan Hickey. ihis manager, has learned the needed lesson that a fighter must learn to walk before he can run. S0 the chances are Berienbach will work up again, compiling a string of knock outs against second and third raters as he goes. Hickey knows all ahout rrowds now. And some of the chroniclers of sports must be in his bad book, too. Hickey let his pride be stung and against his better wisdom, he put hie man on the block. Next time he meets 4 top-notcher he will know his way about. In every move after he got clipped Berlenbach showed his inexperience Instead of covering up and stalling ha forced a grin and waded in loosely, giving his sharp-shooting opponent *|the very openings he was looking for. Again, if he ever gets a man as he had Delaney in the first and second rounds that man will never again get past those rounds. As for the fans they howled for a Delaney victory as soon as the men appeared. They were out for sensation, not for sport. M e REAL RACE STAGED BY BIG TEN QUINTS CHICAGO. March 17.—With the ! conterence basket ball race ending in a triple tie, Chicago, Illinois and W consin sharing first honors, other statistics than the won and lost column are being brought forward to show team comparisons. From the outset of the season thr claimants fo the title inciuded the majority of the confer: and with: the close there was Lut one game between first and sixth positions Purdue, Ohio Stale und Indiana fin- ishing in a secondary tie one notch below the leaders. The last possibility of an undis- puted title went glimmering when Chicago in the final game of the se; THIS REQUIRES PRACTICE -TO_LEARN NOW MUCH TO “BORROW." BALLS HIT OV SLOPING GREENS ROLL IN CURVED UNES. THE AMOUNT TO BORROW /3 THE AMOUNT THAT BALL WILL FOLL AWAY- FROM STRAQNT UNE. How can a player smprove his putting on slopimg or rolling greens? Answered by | PHIL GAUDIN Medalixt, Britich ope captain of Britixh championship: ernational golf team for eight Winner of numer- oos foreign tournaments, including chester Guardinn trophy. * * Practice—that’s about all. Of course the big thing to learn about putting on a sloping green is how much to “borrow.” Any ball hit across the side of a slope will roll the Harvard Stadium June 13 and 14, e ELEVEN MATCHES LISTED | FOR G. W. U. RACKETERS | Eleven schedule Un school tennis for the C ity rackete netmen al atches have orge Washingt The downtown | will compete in| n |the middle states intercollegiates to the ball in the proper line and hit be held at Richmond, May S, % aud | The schesulo: | April 10, Virginia: 12, Maryland; 18. Col- gate: 19, Columbia: 25. Swarthmore: 29. Co. | lumbis, at New York; 30, Princeton, at Prince- | ton. i May 2. Lehigh. at Bethlehom, Pa.; 8, 9 and | 10, Middle States Intercollogia af Rich. | mond: 14, Ni at Annapolis; 15, Talbot | Country Club, at Easton, Md.; 17, George-| towa. ! i R PITE OF YALE TOPS | TOSSERS IN SCORING! 1 NEW YORK, March 17.—Sam Pite, | Yale forward, has won the individua scoring hon in the intercollegiate sasket Ball League for the 1924 s son. He made 97 points in ten games —thirty-eight field goals and twenty- one foul gouls. Strom of Columbia | leads in foul goals with thirty. The championship has been won by Cornell. The final game of the season will be a play-off of a protested game by Princeton and Dartmouth Tuesday night. Vietory will give Princeton | a tie with Columbia for sccond place. | A victory for Dartmouth will mak the Green and Princeton tied in third place. Yale and Pennsylvania are next in the standine. LA PALINA ioned quality—and so, for Englisk Ovals you can your lucky stars and Philip Morris. Egad, but they are ex- cellent! | stroked in a curved line. The amount to “borrow” is the amount that the ball will deviate from a straight line. [ **\¢}i1e game percentages show 1itt On some long putts it is necessary | difference, total scores of teams c to borrow as much as six fcet: on a ‘na‘:;d with gopeneats acoeeiieny 5 3 2 2 wider range. o State prove . 3-foot vpuu] _n may l;]c necessary to | Wider T T BiE. TORGh e TAking borrow only six inches. . 1338 points, but also was weaker thai Some to pick out a certain |others in defenss. Wisconsin had the blade of grass a foot or two irom |tightest defensc, as shown by oppo nents' low soore of ot also was ES 5, 5 B r than other , malk- ior it. 1 don’t go much on this e 578 sotate, theory. Cn a good green there are radling, Purdue, too many biades of grass. 1 believe | seoring, making 50 in deciding upon the direction that | f\"';"n:;i)rloa‘ 5 .s;‘:»txu_nd. - x;w ball must go and then hitting it | Cunningnam, Ohio State, that wav. 7. (Coprright, 1924, Associate Editors.) son Saturday lost to Wisconsin, to 13. in 4 in individu baskets and 3 points; Pescl th 119, third, wit’ o! jing | W. L, Pct. Pts.Oppr [ 667 * A1 TWO GERMANS WILL TRY FOR U. S. OLYMPIC CREW PHILADELPHIA, March 17.—Two | noted German oarsmen, Alfred Storp!| nd formerly of e T report- | Boat Indiazz . Michigan Minnesota. Town ... Northwest Boaacncmss Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS $4.65 ,p Save the price of enmtire wmew suit. All colors, sises, patterns. EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. N.W. work at in this city, an for | ats in the four that will be entered n the American Olympic try-outs June 13 und 14. | They recently arrived in this coun- | try. Both arc young giants. stund- ing well over six feet. In 1822 they rowed in the Essen four which won | the championship of Germany. Storp the crew and Webels was No. 3. They will probably be boated with Capt. 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