Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 23

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924, McEwen to Coach Army Eleven Again : Syracuse Official for Big Sport Program PUBLIC LINKS WiLL |CHANCELLOR BACKS PAID LAST SEASON’S MENTOR DUE TO RETURN IN JULY| Adjutant General’s Office Sanctions His Detail to West Point—Reappointment Is Popular at Academy—At Present in Porto Rico. EW YORK. March 24—Despite reports to the contrary earlier the year, Capt. John J. McEwan will return to West Point as head coact learned from official sources. McEwan was due for cturn to West Point for the coming gridiron campaign, but the adjutant neral's department at Washington has sanctioned a temporary detail ind McEwan will return to the academy in July to take up his duties. I'he reappointment of McEwan as head of the Army foot ball team is a popular one throughout the Army, but especially so at West Poi where the corps oi cadets and the oficers stattioned on duty at the M tary Academy stfong advoca of his system, although i to bring the eleven through a successiul season last fal It has been me time ) his agsistants, but that Maj. Gen. W. :Sladen, | fore depariing last N o DO Lwere reappointed he w superint Military Acad o Winal: ferions em ¢ of having Me- | lete and nismber of (h Jwan ause the latter | CIYIVic feani retury was ¢ service there | clar hack fie saeme doubt to ain woul whether ene de- partment ion st de- tail It was at first believed that because Capt known f Frederick ndent at the nf but bec oreign to be some the adjutant would thit ald ha sdl-nron Ax fa has bee last return, of t | 1ana 1 b will has 1 = bether he matter Gerha rot still Capt. Charle dered to West Point able that he will | work of the quarterbacks ia decided Team Beaten Twive, season was the first in which acted hoad coach, he was assistant_mentor e regime Maj. Charley ral The Arm 1823 n_ with a for ssful yea veterans of the Jus sea- son’s undefeated tewm were back and available fqr tye squad, while @ few %0od men appeared in the plebe cla neluding Hewitt had during the previous fool ball t Pittsburgh. However, the siring_of victories w Notre Dame and later th wero defeated by Yale and tie by the Navy. Altogethe not i very successful season. b those who vere closest.in touch with McEwan and his method blame him for the defeats ¢ rongly favored his return Capt. McEwan has vo Last Meiiwa though dor o for sev ed the Jutlook Jemex to Direct Drills. will take chars when it reports fc practice on April 2, and will cadets through the preparation for the reai.work season. Lieut. Vidal is statione: West. Point at present, hut 2s track coach at the Milits and also of th te which summer bright | Most Jon squad teams which face next fall Columbia and MMACULATE FIVE SEEKS the HONORS IN TWO EVENTS MMACULATE CONCEPTION scniors face a strenuoys program this reek. They hope to garner laurels in the South Atlantic A. A. U. basket hail tournament at Baltimore, in addition to resu i v in the local 145-pound tourncy bere. The Immaculates are meet the Wyman team of Baltimore tomorrow night at the Mon City Y. M. C. A. and the Calvary Mcthodist Epi inal round at the Coliseam. Capt. James Enright plans to get in touch with the Baltimore officials to- day with the hope of playing the Wy nint tonight stead of to- & Baltimore game in t mental scopal tossers in the semi- Alert night will sta against Baltimore the tomorrow floor. Play Washington Terminal Y. M. C. A. basketers and A. L. quint are to offer com- Vedn, night, $:30 imore floor. he t at ¥ man tion t - L. pound class on court. The o'clock Athletic ason by in a Alexander of d for 27 points of the Detropo re to journey to Bal for me” with the they recently teok Mar. Webster Immaculates tomorrow night. Du- livan, Comer and M. would tackle the e Conn plit his ppear in ampions e Cros: Street me will tart Hall at §:15 Chevy € 1951 cot hootin. Clab sing of S-to-15 en the winne d by two for these tossers toxsers Club tonight Itimo City strong, a sasure of the acostia pions of r amains r of this the T Or the Palace Sidgets ha swith rt Washin the vester and He baskets MAX MARSTON TELLS: Best Play I Ever Made. Club in 1915 onal made was at the Detroit Countr the semi-finals of the nati amateur championshi \t that time I rol. at Springficld New York. my ciub being the Bal- poucnt was Howard B. Lee, Yale and nament by beating such the first round and Jerome D, Travers 1t badly with me in my match with Iy six holes to be played, T was four progressc Tesse Guilford but 1, that, round in { third t so badly with ¢ Lee dow I'his situstic hardest efforts despite n 1d the of ould be and encourage, fo to be the man I had in the third round. Jerr. four-time American amateur | mpion and 1815 winner of the na- | anal open title \iter being put out of the running, rry insisted on carrying my elubs nd now was.doing everytiing in his to pilot to victory. But I <t admit we were both getting oty much discouraged after we \d finished the twelfth hole of the flernoon round with the battle tanding as T have stated it above. owever, you never can tell Starting the thirtcenth, 1 took sypdden brace and pulled off three bir- ies in a row. Finishing the fifteenth, was only one down with three to go. The sixteenth was a yard hole. Fioth Lee and I had long drives, but, shile he got his second on in zood hape, 1 pressed mine in an effort to -ot mear the sreen with a chance for birdie four and made a terrible THit by ert advice caddie- ore qual and encouragemen Jan whom none prened hed the nose of my club, the ball <cribed a terrific arc. It dropped i1y forty vards to the right of the irway, just bevond a wire fence. Lee cailed out that I was aut of unds., 1 prepared to drop a ball’ hen Mr. Howard Perrin of Phil: Iphig, who W + referse, sug- sted ny die might fair and | wught the matter the attention | the tournament officials, who hap- | pened to be in the gallery. These held that since the ground | vond the fence was club property, ving been acquired some time b fore, and there were nu rules specifi- W1y applying to the case, the ball in bounds. - WMakes Telling Shot. Theoretically this ruling was a roke saver for me. But when we aw where the ball lay we were a bit doubtful of it. The pellet was 140 yards from the | 1t was in deedp grass and not I han eighteen inches outside the fence. Fifteen feet away, in a dead line toward the green, was a big |n‘c.| To get out it was necessary \1oid both fence and tree. plicate matters. 1 had to brace my back against the wire strands of the fence and push back stéadily. As Travers handed me my niblick, - shook it at me threateningly. It vou don't keep your head down,” he said, “T1l brain you with this? { I obeyed him. A few seconds later | ‘e were amazed and delighted to see the ball drop on the green ten feet | from the flax. i That play unsettled Lee. T won the hole with a_par five. We halved pext three hol On the second 1 i | i sreen. ! threw down my ba the thirty-eighth, I won a_hole, match Whew:” Travers as he T'm more worn out than in any miatch I've ever been and U've been in a lot of exciting ones, to Inside Golf By Chester Horton In making the golf swing the blow against the ball ix delivered mostly by the muscles just above the right hip. The whele right side, and particularly the right shoulder, enters into this delivery, of course, but the maximum of power released seems to cemter above the hij ‘When the golfer has learned to make hix swing properly he hax learned that no “lunge” of the body takex place in the xwing. This body lunge ix ome of the Wrong methods of golf that i hard to get BTy € 'S SQURC! OF POWER AREA® said Jerr rid of. The fact ix, however, that the inxtant you throw your body forward, in & s you awing, practically all taken out of the cl the body ba You en do that by first learning to give your clubkead time to do itn work. A zood method ix to try to hit the Ball on the down swing without letting the body come forward all. You won’t be able to do that, of course, but trying to do it will Eive you a sense of how the elub- head travels when you keep your body out of it. It will almost jump out of your handw, Itx xpeed wili be no great—and, perbapx. 5o un- expected by you. Hold the head wthl, (Conyright. ) te Co) m]llu best shot you ever played the foot ball team for the season of 1924, it has been Iisaei | foreign service it would be impossibe for him to . | i oked to .4 five will ' distance. 1 THE MAKING OF 4 GOLF CHAMPION BY WALTER HAGEN CHAPTER 15—Upside Down and - a Bull's Eye. EFORE T my in the British open of 1922, 1 want to take the opportunity of answering a question which has aiten been put to me: “What was relate adventures 1i 1 had received this query prior to the spring of 1921 T would have forced to deliberate at some length on the matter. In the north nd south championship of that ye however, I made a shot on the last hole of the first round which 1 think was one of my best long odds. had hooked ar, 1 the whic wret tw pin trecs found my drive badly and baill found w terrible spot in Lide. After looking at the ittle pill, sandwiched in underbrush of a_thicket of a_couple of half-grown s balf sorry the ball How, to ot out without th shot was the worried me. Surely it done with a right-hand- * golfers who have visit- Pinehurst can ever good or bad luch er who striys fr ht and parrow path thank Joe Kirkwood, the alian wizard and trick shot ex- 2 Vrillfant idea that tlashed «d. I had seen Joe turn niblick upside down and tie club Jeft-handed. 1 could the ball from the left hand side eneuzh, but to extricate it from nes was a differ- I was de- it at any u d n the roug ate all straf must Anst pert, into 1 Daring S careful aim, let uch to my am sweetly and played of shots fro fairwa my grussy lie Stfaizht as av travele hundred and yards, heading the sand There was a trifle too much the Lall evic nd it drop- irty vards sho most sati position 1 the hole and through arrow for m th chip to ix or s le and WALTER HAGEN. Tiken on his return from England last year after losing the British open | championshrip to A. G. Havers by one strok | Butchard and had him clubs that would produce My experience at Deal had taught me son and 1 was determined to| no stone unturned win. OMORROW (concluding): THE BRITISH OPEN IN A GA gather in my ded par four. Instead of a ven T had made par on the saved a rather poor score fro rack and ruin. A few days later at (he: American open, luck w asain on a shot that 1 more remarkable, altho able to ame that hold it ance in & spring. course ut blows ration for | » Cuthbert ! was fairly well . summer and felt 1 could that 1 would have a good the British open the followi It was to be held on the Sandwich, where the wind gele at times, and in prep these conditions, | went up, me some Columbia, in a low ball 5 with me sider ev h this time t with my and with- srning ance th hole in °n T hook- anded close to Four big trees ath to the pin s is a small ABOLISHING OF GRID TEE \ad more thar od chance of | inishing in the which meant r i an_additional penaity stroke BY WALTER CAMP. i D e EW YORK. March 24—The drastic change in the foot ball which sweeps away altogether the tee from which the ba heen kicked, adopted by the rules commi t its mecting here Saturday, opinion. Doubtless they would have been better satisfied ii the buildi tree was So tall ball over it and apparen Sl . 1 11 find little favor among coaches or players. in the writer's an earthen tee, for the kick-off at least, had been permitted to continue. The officials, however, will be glad ) not prove a ve to see this change, for all sorts of | though some think puzzling questions have been put up | endowinz of the referes with to them as to what an artificial tee, | to prevent passive interference | heretotore prohibited. really was. One [ help the defense. {captain contended that a molded,| The key move of the meating | manufactured and hardened toe v to speed up the game, pr 1 50 long as it was ing and unreasonable del taken from the field of ficient power is placed Will Find It Difeult. D the referealto do thi 5 = a he penalty of & yards instead of | The new Tule, ellminating all teeh iy = roy"time ‘lout. after ‘a ciptatn will Le much in the minds of | has used up all his allotment will the spectators as the next season|be quite effective, even though par- starts and the kickers will feel very | tially balanced by increasing the much like the goifer who has been | Jotment. < plaving winter rules and is suddenly | called upon to play the ball where it lies. They will find some difficulty at first, espe they wish to met the up into the air to give the line time to get down the field under the kick. Placement kicks will be rather more difficult to make, but otherwise the effects will not be great and the kickers probably twill soon adjust themseives to the change. As had been predicted, the com- mittee wade no radical changes in the balance of attack and defonse or in the general method of play. The change in try-for-point of | placing the ball on the 3-vard line may tend to tempt teams to essay a running game, but the writer rather doubts it. It will slightly fayor the kiol The permission given the defense intercopt a forward pass after has hit an ineligible player will he und of th and clearing but the d not lift the desired had bLut code the s tee, ¥ th frox losing way o thereby ‘Through a Six-foot Hole. Now 1 fighting hard to over- take Long Jim Barnes, and get a big- stiee the prize and, if possible, didn't want to lost any more shots necessary. There was one thing that I 10 do, provid 10 play mashie curately enoug the ball throush tha first tree This opening was hardly more than six square, it looked tempt- ng, 1 decided to ept the risk knowing full well that if the baill went astray 1 was done for and my the hole would be at least The shot rfection only ye dead but sugh the other trees and the green. The ball came to rest o the pin and 1 rezistered hree, receiving a round of applause from the gallers. who had gathered at this point to wateh the players as they came past I_might do it again once in a bun- | dred times. but the fact remains that it came off as 1 had planed on this accasion the savinz of three strokes earned fifty dollars for me in the position gained at the finish. It | dors not always pay to take h Qesperate chances. but there are times when the plaving of a freak shot will save the day. And, as 1 said in o previous chapter, the golfer who | has tested his game by stunt play- | ing generallr has a fair idea of his cha when cuch opportunity oecurs. As these incidents may indicate, was zer money vent stall- v, and suf- the hands Moreover, play. . Th very —_— CAPABLANCA’S VICTORY CREATES TIE AT CHESS! NEW YORK, March 2t.—Jose Capa- blanca of Havana, worrld champion, has won his first victory of the Inter- ! national Chess Masters’ tournament. In fifty-one moves yesterday he ! 1 pulied Dr. Tatakower of Vienna from {the lead. which /is now held jointly | by Bogoliubow of Latvia and Alek- hine of Russia. { On Saturday night Capablanca was | defeated for the first time in vears, Richard Reti of choslovakia beating him in thirty-one moves. | Capablanca has drawn four games in| the tournament, = S U I ! No fewer th seventy-one women | are owners of race horses in England. | center, to elear to it WHIIIHIIIL AN VN NN SANININAINNS N NS L I AT clubs, tobaccorists and taverns, the gr.wing smoke among knowing smokers is English Ovals. Philip Morris blends them in the good oli English —a blend that makes a friend with the first - spark frum the tinder. They’re mild beyond words — which, know e, is miid. And they’re even mel- lower than that. Say “ Ovals Please” — and they will! NSNS NSNS DN NSNS N NN Capital Cigar & Tobacco Co., Inc. 602 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D. <. | terday was | receipts of only OPEN LATE IN WEEK Play on the public golf here, with the exception of the West Potomac Park links, will not be per- mitted until the latter part of the week, it was announced tod at the office’ of the superintendent of public buildings and mrounds. While the warm sun of today should remove the last vestige of the snowstorm that visited this section last Thursday night and Friday, pools of water are standing on various por- | tions of the East Potomac Park :lnll‘ Rock Creek Park links, and it \l‘["l take several days for. the ground to | dry out properiy., The putting greens on the Hast| Potomac Park should be @ source of | joy to the players when they can get on them. They are in great shape, being covered with a slick new coat | of grass. I Golf play about Washington yes- confined to the muddy and overcrowded West Potomac Park course, as the going was too soft at the private links. The club courses, howe: , should be playable in o day courses | or two. 'CHAMONIX WINTER GAMES COST 12 TIMES RECEIPTS Iy Ahe Awsociated Press. The winter sports competitions held ! recently at Chamonix as part of the Olympic games proved a success in every respect with the exception of the financial returns. An outlay of 900.000 franes brought in gate 250,000 francs. The cxcessive number of free tickets was responsible for thix, as the attend ance was never below 2.000 o day. Notwithstanding the financial loss there was no disappointment hecause the Olympic_authorities cxpected it Of the fund for the winter games the : city of Chamonix subse francs, the French million, _and the | { { | | De: The loss is partl that the take-off and jumping. the bob sleig stands and dressinz T skating rink are all per in the future are expected to increase the prestige of Chamonix as a winter slides chute & ut resort. LINKS LESSONS| ! ) <L) YOU'LL LOSE YOUR | EAGERNESS FOR THE i GAME - ALSO YOUR CONCENTRATION AND SNAP. As far as the effect on a player's| ganme s concerned, is there such a | thing as playing too much golf? | Answered by JOHN BLACK : “The Carpenter of Troon,”. whose great gameness and mastery of golf make him feared at all tournaments. Particularly competent on approach | shotx. You can just bet there is such a hing as playing too much goli! Tf! ver does play too much his! musclesfose their snap and he can't concentrate decently on the game—| in fact, the thing not a game | when You are overgolied—it is un- | pleasant hard work. A schedule which I find beneficiall in getting ready for tournaments.] while avoiding overgolfing, is thi 1 am on the links every day. Three days a week I practice one hour in | the morning and one hour in the| afternoon—and 1 mean practice, not | playing around the course. On the | other four days I play a round or so, | but not enough to tire mc very much or to make me want to stop. 1 al- wavs rest the day beforc a match and won't even look at a club or talk goli during that day. (Copyright, T Assnciated Editors, inc.) _— “After months of explor- ation to find a friendlycigar « that would let me smoke as often as I wished, I discov- ered La Palina. It made good with me as it has with smokers everywhere.” CONGRESS CIGAR COMPANY Philadelphia CIGAR {T'Ss JAVA WRAPPED DISTRIBUTORS | April door Georgetown and Boston College lad a . Peartily desperat | seeded, after an attack of c TUTORS, LARGE STADIUMS {Declares Athletics Bring Collegiate Solidarity—Says . Ideal Varsity Athlete Transfers His Enthusiasm From Field to Classroom. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK. March 24—Chancellor Charles W. University, who has been in New York the pas greatly worried by the present athletic trend in Adequate control, he believes, is all that is necessa sports in their proper place with respect to the essen educational institution. The _chanccllor spoke with special reference to the recent outgiving of the Carnegie Foundation on the subject of intercollegiate athlct He will make some more extended reference to this in his annual repo but in the meantime a few of his reactions are as interesting as they 3 timely. of few day our universiti to keep varsity 1 werk o Fi * said the chance from; he right instruct Being such jateur coach or. “The paid coach |lor, “has no enmity { must, of course. coach, a quakified | wholesome influence | prefer him to the serves without pay, the paid coach can t the amateur conca - RECORD DUE TO FALL IN TWO-MILE RELAY Lust veports from Cambridge and the : i i ¢, are mot objoctic onde of the American col- | B¢ wonderful running of the American col- | ble, are mnot objictio lege two-mile relay teams give every|jes increase year by promise that the great international!the lncN‘s.nL) for gre s relay o Pacity grows norm two-mile college relay champlonship PACIY Erows mor race, the feature event this year of lot of worse thin Pennsylvania's classic relay carnival on ) afternoon in a fool 25 and 26, will be a record-break- [',“‘“’ e s ing event. | collegiate approve of thi The two-milie telay was the big fea-|the wind and sun Ia |a bal lungs. It makes and spread of outdoor ght enthusia tion from 1. classroom. Athle they are doing it right now Publicity it lete e no harm to the right by have in I utho zeneral been ba its origit urope, ac whe reas: i | cor {attribute of_int The s where Penn pools and cues Billiards becam. e during the reign o solidarity throughout an ure of the recent intercollegiate fthrotghout an approve in 7 minutes wers of con world record held by the | B&CItY of Durpose ade i Syracus up. Had this not happened, it is more The of the Boston College el i onty one houramar tof ININTEREST 'IN EUROPE and both kely to make a|that cucr hiriiriias been showing exceptional form. In Mat- to various the distance. Another man, Freiberg, is o, posi rocords Just leges at the lllinois indoor n during the rambles of Anacharsis, the event against Cambridge and incident Al Einewl e University was the surprise of the cond century In addition to the above team Bills of br tath has Helifrich, Enok and Carter, | Louts XIv e panreien « | “The ideal v champicnships in New York.!to the athl ce. with the former winning | ¢an_ transfer h 6 4-5 seconds, only a little | POWErs of conce above the g Pe Ivania team of 1922. George- | f6ld to the this time in spite of the 3 act that her second runner droppd his i ¥ T8CH ton and had to go' back and pick it & doos than likely that the Georgetown team | would a new record. | . oo T o e e secuuse | GOLF ROUTING BILLIARDS Cavanaugh, their best runner, had raced | the relay. The fact remains that By the Associated Pres these two teams are strictly first clas Billiards, & nem record carnival. ifled in their efforts i chigan has also Tosing popiiatit tendorf and Reinke they have two half- THiaio tho m that have both beaten 1:36 for 78l oIt said to be but little slower. Michiga nd when the £ billiards won against all the micdle | bexim; bt some bitlotiune —ewort that March 1 and is coming east with EhTar Dhisan e oo Ll ea of winning the big international s b L ally making a new record. Northwe. billliards.” and he 3 jmuch. Catkire More, lllinois meeting, being Beaten by Michi- | iy = gan o ne foor. lnas e State has a quartet that is rated thi same mates perior to all of them by many eritics. | popular in Fra three of last year's great record-break. ing team o W. G. & C. C. COURSE IS MUCH IMPROVED Members of the Washington and Country Club who have not seen | their course since they put away, their clubs before Christmas will} have an agreeable surprise when they | first play over it this spring. The; course has been puc through a thor- cugh grooming during the winter. During the past three months sev eral new tees have been built, steps constructed down steep ascents and the entire link helped materially. New tees have been constructed for the | ninth, tenth and eleventh hole two of which are one-shotters. Th grass tee at the eleventh should meet | with approval, as_the hole is one of | mashic distance. Under conditions in | the past it was very difficult to plav | a well hit mashie shot from & hard- | packed clay tee. This has been en- | tirely changed by the censtruction of | | two grass tees, one ten yards behind the other The new grass tee at the tenth is sixty vards in front of the perma- nent tee and will be used in wet weather. Wooden steps the bank going and also going to t The new putting were torn up cariy have been buiit on to the ninth green | twelfth tee. | greens, which | last full and re-, ab grass | on all the courses about Washing- | ton, are cominz alonz in excellent | shape. Dr. 1. T. McClenahan, chair- . man of the greens committes, expects them to be in first-class condition by tournament time. “Wonder What Mertz Will Today " At the Sign of the Moou. . i | | | SHOWING OF ADVANCED SPRING STYLES SUITS TO MEASURE $ Established 1593. LA PALINA 3 All garments are made by our own tailoring ex- perts and are fully guar- anteed, as you want them. iMertz & Mertz Co., Inc. 906 F STREET