Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1924, Page 6

I‘ SWEEP CUP SERIES Tilden and Richards Defeat Wood and Patterson in Final Singles. By the Associated Prass. PHILADELPHIA. Pa, September 3.—Americ: upremacy in the lawn tennis world was clearly demon- strated this afternoon at the Germa town Cricket Club grounds, when the United States team made a clean sweep of the five-game series for Davis cup against the Australian . With three victories already in hand. through two singles triumphs on Thursday and a conquest in doubles yesterday, William T. Tilden, 2nd., and Vincent Richards, today swept their Astralian rivals off the court in the closing singles matches in straight sets. It was the fifth successive triumph for the United States since 1920, when the American team went to Australia and brought back the international trophy. Tilden Downs Wood. Tilden, the national champion, un- beaten Davis cup plar in five years. defeated Pat O'Hara Wood in the first match toda; 6—2. 6—1, 6—1. Rich- ards, the v thful New Yorker, play- | ing Davis cup singles this y for | the first time, gained a scnsational victory over Gerald L. Patterson, the Australian captain, 6—-3, , 6—4 Ten thousand persons saw the final matches which were played under ideal weather conditions, i Tilden gained his victory with the utmost ease. O'Hara Wood never was able to extend the American cham- nion, whose brilliant array of play always held him in subjection. Richards was faced with the task of defeating the Australian star. who. striving to bring at least one victory to the invaders, fought with all the re- source and strength at his command. i Beaten in the first set, Patterson seemed likely to stem the tide In the second, when he went into a lead at 5 to 1. At that time he was playing a wonderful brand of tennis, fartified by a forceful. powerful service and his vowerful forehand shot. But Richards showed his mettle when, with defeat staring him in the face, he engaged the Australian at the net, and outdriving and outvolleving him took Six_straight games:. to win the set at Patterson still had “some splendid tennis in reserve in the third set, and @acored numerous placements, but Rich- ards' game held” up, his service im- proved and his opponent crumpled un- der the attack. Tilden gave an amazing display of | his tennis versatility and the power of his game against O'Hara Wood. With seemingly little effort he called from his repertoire every stroke at his com- mand and tried out one after the other. The Australian was helpless against ail of them. The American star kept enough pace on the ball and had sufficient length to his strokes to keep his op- ponent in the back court throughout. O'Hara Wood, unable to resort to his strongest game—the volley at the net— was driven to play a back-court game, and constantly netted or drove out Til- den's slashing forehand shots. On the few occasions that the Australian came to the net Tilden passed.him with blind- ing drives which he made no effort to return. Tilden Plays Eaaily. Tilden had 15 clean placements tc his credit. He made little effort to un- leash his emashing service, save when He needed a point to pull out a game. Point score and stroke analysis: A FIRST SET. Tilden ....... 6 6 4 2 5 Qe Wosd 8 504311 STROKE ANALYSIS, Tilden “Wood, Rickards Wins First. BRichards made the first break in service in the opening set of his latch with Patterson in the fourth §.me, Double faults contributed to e Austfalian's downfall in this ame. Richardson won on his serv- ice and then again broke his oppo- nt's delivery and made the set safe. RPattersan ‘got through Richards’ Service twice in the early stages of e second set and led 5 to 1. With attersen leading at 30 love on his #Brvice and the set almost in hana, ichards, by two fine lobs, went ead and after deuce had been called, finally settled the game with a place- ment that hit the net cord and fell safe. Tn the next game he took the net after keeping Patterson on the base line with his severe service and vol- leyed to a victory. He continued these tactics and won the next two games squaring the set at five games. In the eleventh game, with Patterson serving, Richards handled the deliv- eries with ease and pounding his opponent’s backhand rolled up a love game. Serving for the decisive game the American made a service ae, a fine placement and then keeping the ball to Patterson’s backhand, made him net twice for the game and set. Richards Retains Lead. Opening the third set Richards again broke Patterson's service as he was failing with his first ball. He won his own service and then held his opponent safe, each man winning his service to the close, with Richards holding the two-game lead. Point score and stroke analysis: @ - - z SR2 a e o e 552 e w o gead Man on Jupiter’s Fifth Moon James Robertson Works Years to Calculate Orbit of Satellite. Not More Than Eight or Ten Persons in World Understand Discovery. This is the story which only wight world understand. Rather it is the story of a white- haired gentleman who has walked roads in infinite distances no other mortal ever has known—of James Robertson, one of the greatest theoretical mathe- maticians living. Some days ago there Star office peculiar document—a mathematical paper written in the unintelligible language of sines, cosines, parallaxes, nutations and precessions, with strange Greek letters stuck into involved formulas like lamp poles on rutty suburban roads. Now the young men who make up the average newspaper staff can boast of no profound learning. They are com- petent enough to deal with church socials or world wars—but when it comes to such subjects as the explora- tion of the infinitely little, they usually zet “scooped. Mizht Muft Gravity Law. 1f a gentleman named Sir Isaac Newton were to walk up to the city editor's desk tomorrow and lay down a bulky document for release on receipt, flled with the original deductions that led to the discovery of the law of zravity, the chances are the papers would go in the waste basket, and one >f the two or three biggest stories in the history of the world would be lost to_journslism. But in this particular case the city editor promised the lady who brought in the paper that he would investigate. He didn’t see the story—he's rather a boob when it comes to cosines and parallaxes. It all looked like so much chaff for the burning. But he kept his promise. He called one of. his dumbest reporters—a fellow who thinks a cosine is a prehistoric pig and suspects that a nutation is a bumblebee futtering around the South Pole. The reporter went to the Naval Ob- servatory to interview Mr. Robertson on the subject of the paper, the Fifth Sattalite of Jupiter.. He didn't know what it was all about when he started. He knew still less about it when he came back, in spite of the astronomer's two hours of patient explanation. He returned to the office more inclined. to write a poem than a news article. Mr. Robertson’s life and work_ is more ap- propriate for verse than prose. Aptitude for the Intricate. A quarter of a century or more ago James Robertson was a student at the University of Michigan, des- tined to study law but with a bent for mathematics. His mathematical ability attracted the attention of his instructors—only one student in thousands has the faculty for in- volved mathematical reasoning. Rob- ertson had loved mathematics ever since his freshman algebra days in high school and had followed the sci- ence through trigonometry, calculus and _differential equations into the rarified atmosphere of astronomy. At that time Simon Newcome, most celebrated astronomer of day, was head of the Naval Obser: tory in Washington. He heard of the voung Michigan student and invited him to come to the Capital for a vear of study with the facilities of the ob- servatory, which has, by the way, the finest mathematical library on’ the continent. Robertson came. The fifth moon of Jupiter had just been discovered. The problem was to find its orbit, just the direction in which it rotated around the great planet 465 million “miles away from the earth. Now this fifth moon is a very minute bit of matter, indeed. out there in the vast of infi- nite distance. It is so small that Robertson himself has never been able to calculate any mass for it— just & speck in the telescope under the most favorable conditions. It would give any ordinary mortal, from newspaper reporter to President Coolidge, 2 headache to consider the enormous amount of figuring neces- sary to determine its orbit. Gave Students Hard Ones. It used to be the practice of Simon Newcome to give to his students the most complicated problems that arose in astronomy. He didn’t expect them to solve them. He expected them to figure until they got hopelessly in- volved in the intricate mazes of fig- ures and mathematical signs. Then he would take the problem himself and try to finish it. To Robertson he gave the problem of computing the orbit of this fifth moon. Up to then the young man had intended to_return to college and study law. He started figuring. The vear sped by and he was far from his goal. He figured and figured—every evening at his home, every day at the observatory. He went to Europe to consult the great astronomers .of Paris, Berlin and Petrograd. . For 11 years he figured, checking and re- checking his results. At last he was able to tell the world just how the fitth moon of Jupiter traveled through space. On the wings of mathematics he had = transcended vision and distance. Law was for- gotten. Now astronomers in Paris and Ber- lin were working on the same prob- lem and they arrived at different re- sults. Robertson was confident. Re- cently came his triumph. His figures were officially accepted by the astro- nomical world as the correct ones. They will stand as representing the exact orbit. Rewults Given to World. These figures have just been pub- lished. They were what constituted the strange document that came to the city editor's desk. Mr. Robertson spoke of them with the enthusiasm, one might say with the mysticism of a poet. After all, mathematics and poetry are not so far apart. The reporter, graceless child of busy streets and rushing crowds who worships the eagles on a silver dollar as a Buddhist priest worships a hair from the head of Gautama, sat alone with this man who has left puny world so far behind him while he wanders among strange stars, in the hour of his triumph. The scene had a medieval, almost a monastic, set- ting—there in the shadowy library of the Naval Observatory with stray sunlight penetrating high, arched of a or ten smen diseovery in the came to The the 2429 Double-Deck Sidewalks. From the Waco (Tex.) Times-Herald. The most revolutionary plan to eolve downtown trafic problems at' Dallas, Tex., yet proposed has been 'aid before the city plan commission, City Plan Engineer E. A. Woed says. It ultimately calls for double-decking of_the sidewalks on the most con- Zested portions of the principal busi- ness street. ‘The plan of double-decking the sldewclis was first brought up by layton D. Browne, Dallas real es- tats developer. Maj. Wood said other cities over the country are considering similar plans. The nearest approach to it In use now is the elevated rail- way service in New York. To carry out the project all over the busindss district at one time would entail an expense of several mfilion dollars, a large portion of which would be assessed against ‘butting property owners. * windows and the walls covered with the backs of leather-bound mystical volumes of mathematics. It might have been the study of Galileo or Copernious. It might have been the den of Roger Bacon. A graceless, twentieth century question came to the mind of tho re- porter. Valueless to Average Man. “Mr. Robertson, ¥you have made the matter of the orbit ‘of the fifth sate- lite of Jupiter very clear to me— but just what does it all amount to? Does it have the alightest effect on anything that might interest the average man?” “No,” was the answer, “not the slightest.” “Then why spend 11 years of hard work trying to figure it out?” In the answer was the soul eof science. It made clear how self- sacrificing men, figuring for years on problems that haven’t- the slightest interest, have made possidle the ad- vanee Of humanity, its conquests of the elements and of distance. “Because,” said the astronomer, “no knowledge ever gained in the world is lost, Nobody knows what lies be- JAMES ROBERTSON. hind the answer to the orbit of the fifth satelite of Jupiter. It may mean nothing. It may contain the element of some great, undiscovered mathe- matical law that would have a very great effect on the world indeed. As- tronomers, observing and figuring on things that have no effect on daily lite, have made possible the discov ery of the laws of mathematics we have today. It was by pursuing ap- parently aimless paths in astronomy that Newton discovered the law of gravity on which so much of mod- ern science is founded. It was by the same methods that Einstein’s law was discovered. Much to Be Discovered. “There are many formulas yet to be discovered. My exact reasoning from obsrvations may be valuable in estab- lishing sbme of them. It remains to be seen. Take the problem of the refraction of light, for example. Therc is no exact formula—and as a result nobody knows exactly where he is— within a few Inches at least. Our only absolute guides to location are th~ sun and the stars. If we don't knuy exactly how much their light is bent qn enterlng various densities of atmosphere then we don’t know exactly where we are. Of course, we can tell nearly enough for all practi- cal purposes—but—-"" The reporter went up to the Naval Observatory to get a story on the fifth satelite of Jupiter. “It will be a rather hard thing t make people understand, I'm afraid, | said Mr. Robertson. “That's a problem in itself.” an- swered the reporter. “I'll try and write an interesting story and ring in a word or so about it somewhere. Sup- posing you tell me something about Jupiter itself. The plantes are al- ways interesting and stir the imag- ination.” Largest of the Planets. So to the original assignment. Jupiter is the largest of the planets It is 88,697 miles in diameter com- pared to the 7, -mile diameter of the earth. It apparently is in a mol- ten or gasous state. At least its outer coat is gas, containing all of the elements that exist on the earth. There may be a solid mass under- | neath, Jupiter, it is needless to say, isn't inhabited. It is very hot there. If, however, it were solid and were in- babited, its inhabitants would have to be very strong creatures indeed. On the moon most any of us human weaklings could jump 30 feet with ease. On Jupiter we couldn’t lift a foot off the ground. Jupiter has nine moons. One of them is only 200,000 miles from the center of the planet. Others of them are millions of miles away. Some of these are as large as our moon. Unlike Jupiter itself, they probably are solid. “Is there any possibility that som of these moons may be inhabited the reporter asked Mr. Robertson. That's the sort of question that gets the average ucien.ual mad. Not S0 Robertson, Not Foe to Imagination. “Possibly,” he smiled. “There is no reason why the imagination shouldn’t run wild in astronomy." In case anybody should be interest- ed, the first four of these moons are lo. Europe, Ganymede and Callisto. The others haven't -been named. The reporter will venture to make a press decision, as they said of the Wills- Firpo fight, and semi-officially name the fifth one Robertson. That's about the greatest honor that could come to any man—having a world named after him. Now the boob of a reporter who had this assisnment has tried to cover his shortcomings by writing a human story—it's the ecasiest way out of a difficult situation. But on such a story there’'s always apt to be misunderstandings. Rates Astromemer at Top. To clear up any such in the present case the reporter will state right here that he probably would have written much the same sort of story if sent to interview Sir Isaac Newton on the original discovery of the law of gravity. And to make his case still clearer, the reporter would also state that, in all seriousness, after leaving that twilight library at the Naval Observatory, he was certain that he had been talking for two hours with one of the greatest men in the world ~—a man with a greatness as infinfte as one of his own planets. Lait but not least, Robertson ig the world's official calculator of eclipses. Years in advance he determines to an accuracy of a few seconds just whe: these will happen and where they can best be observed. His work is S50 exact that nobody else bothers about it. Astronomers of the great observatories of America and Europe take his word and transport delicate instruments thousands of miles on no other authority. SON SEES MAN, MISSING 30 YEARS, ON DEATH BED Father Dies Before He Is Able to Reveal Reason for Deser- tion of Family. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 13.— Frank Erney, jr, of Lakewoed, a Cleveland suburb, went to Pittsburgh today after he had been notified that his father, Frank Erney, sr., was dying in a hospital. The elder Erney died shortly after his son's arrival, before he could reveal any details of the mystery that has veiled his Whereabouta for 30 years. According to the “som, his father, who was chief engineer of the San- dusky, Ohio, water works, 30-years ago disappeared, leaving his wife and three sons. No reason ever developed for his disappearance, and he had been given yp for dead 30 years ago. The disclosure came September 8, when Erney, who had been a resident of Btna, Pa., became {1l and after his removal to the hospital informed au- thorities as to his identity. A brother living In’ Sandusky was notified and he informed the son here. Among his neighbors at Etna Frney ‘was known as “the man of mystery.” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, PERSHING REGARDS DEFENSE TEST AS MARKED SUCCESS (Continued from First Page.) cept in the event of war. It means also that for the one day the United States had enrolled a volunteer Army twice the size of the force for which it has reserve supplies, arms and equipment in storage. At the elose of the war, reserve stocks sufficient to furnish initial equipment for 1,000,000 men were set aside and all in excess of that amount was dis- posed of as ‘surplus. 7 Officials Statement. In its recapitulation today of the defense test, the War Department sald: “The vast majority of public officials and practically the entire membership of patriotic socteties have devoted themselves to making the test a success. Every com- munity in this country can picture what happened in it 6n September 12. Multiplying this picture by the num- ber of communities in the country the average citizen can visualize the national response to the defense test.” The statement then recapitulated the citizen @articipation aside from the one-day volunteers and outlined the programs followed in a score or more of the larger communities. It added, however, that the test was not merely an opportunity for such exer- clses, but was “a serlous effort to determine the weak points in our plans for expansion of the Army, based upon co-operative community effort.” Planx Shown Sound. s a test of the adaptability of the plans prepared by the general staff—for the initial assembly of ‘those divisions and other military organizations necessary to form the basis for a complete and immediate mobilization for the national defense in the event of a national emergency declared by Congress'—it has been effectively demonstrated that these plans *° ¢ ¢ are sound and well adapted to the psychology and tem- perament of our people and to our form of government,” the statement contlnued, the quotation being taken from the n: defense act of i D. U, SEPTEMBER 14, 19 PART 7. % Scientific World Bows to D. C. President to Spend Week End Cruising Potomac in Mayflower President Coolldge left the White House late yesterday for a week end cruise down the river aboard the Mayflower, after a busy week . at his desk, marked by numerous visits from political leaders and intensive work on Government business. With the President and Mrs. Coolidge on the yacht are Secre- tary and Mrs. Hughes and Chester Rowell of California. There were indications that Mr. Coolidge ex- pected to go over the political Rituation in Californja with his guests. Another California visitor at the White House this week— G. S. Le Noir of San Francisco— teld of some local difiiculties, but #aid the national ticket was popu- lar and would carry the State. Encouraging reports from -other sections were presented to M 1920, under which the plans were drawn up. “It has demonstrated that in any #nuch emergency * * * our country will be ab'e to take full advantage of the Initiative and resourcefulness of its citizens and communities and secure the maximum benefits from that uid and support that they are always 80 eager to give to their coun- try in times of national stress and danger.” : It was with th encouraging re- view of the defen: test before him that Gen. Pershing gave up his ac- tive control of the Army and its pians. He will remain in the war Department, however. keeping the same office ‘that he has occupied as fef of staff, but keeping it now by virtue of his continuing post as president of the Dattle Monuments Commisslion, created by Congress to supervise the suitable marking of battlefields in France where Amer- lcan troops fought and also the ar- rangement and maintenance of the cemeteries In France where thou- sands of American dead still sleep. Thus the retirement changes Gen. Pershing’s status and relieves him of any further official responsibility. but it will not separate him trom Coolidge _yesterday, . Postmaster General New declaring prospects for Republican success in Indiana most bright, He recently made a trip through that State. Recent visitors at_ the White House describe the Prexident as most optimistic over the trend of the campaign. He has not deter- mined, however, on his speaking program for October, and, although some advisersibelieve he will ac- cept some invitations to spealk in the Middle West, others, includ- ing Mr. New, are of the opinion the President wiil not leave tne city for many addresses. Before boarding the Mayflower yesterday afternoon the President and Mrs. Coolidge watched the opening of the annual benefit base ball game between the city police and firemen. The party expected to remain on the Mayflower until early Mond; S the comrades with whom he has spent his life, nor will it deprive them and the executive officers or the Government of immediate re- course to his advice and wide e. perience in handling Army prob- lems and national defense questions in the future. POLICE DEFY COUNCIL. Public Safety Head in Des Moines Acts in Klan: Quarrel. DES MOINES, September 13.—Su- perintendent of Public Safety John Jenny today ordered night Police Captain William De Vies and two policemen, recently suspended by the ‘ Council, to be returned to work teday. .ue order defies a ruling by the City Council suspending the men pending a hearing before the Civil Service Commission. on charges of alding Ku Klux Klan photographers in taking alleged fraudulent photo- graphs during the meeting here of the National Conference of Catholic Charitfe: DAVIS TURNS FIRE . ON, INDEPENDENTS (Continued from First Page.) they have some sort of providential mission to govern the country for the benefit of themselves, and their fel- low citizens as well. “There i3 the other doctrine that overnment i& not the prerogative of any class or section, no matter how rich, no matter how well borr 'r how able, but Is the prerogative of all citizens, from the highest to the lowest, the greatest to the hum- blest—that is the Democratic theory." Mr. Davis said these two theories of government worked out in action in two different characters: that those holding the first theory belleved the government should promote the welfare of the rich, in the belief that they would In their good time let the prosperity fliter down to all their fel- low citizens. “Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't,” Mr. Davis said. “It is very hard for any human being who fs ®iven a privilege or advantage ever to surrender it or to think of it as anything but his vested right "And there is the other theory of government—that the business of government is not to look after the well being of the few, but to pro- mote the welfare of the many, and the test of its success is the welfare of the average man and the average ‘woman—and that is democrac; TAX EVASION CHARGED. Criminal Warrant Issued in In- come Case Involving $85,841. ST. LOUIS, September 13.—A crimi- nal warrant charging evasfon of Fed- eral income tax payments has been issued here agalnst Willlam Tudor Wilkinson, formerly of this city, but now a resident of Paris, it became krfown today. According to the war- rant, he owes the Government $85,- 841.27 for taxes and penalties during the five-year period 1919-23. In an effort to obtain least par- tlal satisfaction of the claim, Govern- ment officers have attached & 350-acre farm belonging to Wilkinson and also a $3,000 bank account in New York. WAR-SEEN MEETING FATE OF SALOONS Col. Raymond Robins Tells Uni: tarians Strife Is National and International Suicide. By the Associated Press. NTAGARA FALLS, Ont., Septembes 13.—The war system will go the way of the slave and the saloon system and become an outlaw in this genera~ tion, Col. Raymond Robins of Chicaga declared tonight. in an address before the Unitarian Laymen's League in convention here. Cbl. Robine de- scribed war as national and inter national sufcide. : “The war system must be sutlawed by international agreement and war must be made a crime under the law of nation.” the speaker déclared, He asaerted the necessity of the modi. fication of international law to pro- vide for legal setilement of all diss putes and the establishment of an international tribunal, “with affirma. tive jurisdiction under a definite ine ternational oode.” Col. Robins urged that the struggle against war not be allowed to be di- verted from its main object, cessa- tion of war. 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