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SPORTS.’ Nurmi's Speec GREAT FINN IS FAVORITE IN ONE OF TWO RACES 5,000-Meter Contest, But Unlikely to Score at Mile—Latter to Offer Visitor Diffi Figured to be Victor in cult Problems. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. Predictions as to the outcome of track to go wrong than prognastications concern- ot ball games. This is because you are dealing mit of men. Yes, track prophesies are a bit s plenty of latitude for erroneous calcu- the Finnish distance runner, is going to make this country at the Finnish-American Athletic 1 Square Garden tomorrow night. It will be a catest event, in fact, that has ever occurred in He will run in the 5,000-meter race and in the sons x\,m( him to clean up in both events. But the e will to win the | 'NOTRE DAME TIRED OF “FOUR HORSEMEN” | SAN pract | | FRANCISCO, January 5.—The of defining the backfield of | the Notre Dame foot ball team as “the four horsemen” has drawn con- % | demnation from Leo Sutliffe, manager. In a statement to a newspaper, he said: “If you want to do something for us and for Notre Dame that we would appreclate more than anything else, please forget about this infernal ‘four horsemen’ business. “We're all sick and tired of it. Notre Dame is a team, not a col- lection of four horsemen and seven iles.” Jim Crowley, one of the famous Notre Dame backfield stars, is in the St. Francis Hospital here recovering from nervous collapse which he suffered on the train bringing the squad 1 Pasadena. Crowley Zot through the New Year game apparently In good shape. He taken from the train to the tospital, where it was said that his nditi though improved, prob- ably would not permit him to leave for South Bend with the team today His breakdown was attributed to overstrain. Charlie Stuhldreher, another of the and Walter Camp's all-Ameri- erback, arrived on crutches, his lez in a cast, but was able pan; the squad on the tour of entertainment. A bone in his | ankle was broken early in the game ut, Spartan-like, he played until the il gun Asked about the report that he had been invited to coach for New York University, Stuhldreher admit- ted that he had been approached on the subject but said there had been no megotiations vet. He indicated that he would not be averse to | coaching after his graduation in the PENN QUINT STARTS CAMPAIGN WITH WIN stars, can qu with By the Assq 1 Press NEW YORK, winn Pennsyl- Januar v essive | o mbers r] of the Rockne bore m: of the Pasadena as they were llonized by and foot ball enthusiasts. SE CHICAGO SWIMMERS AFTER FIVE RECORDS ¥ the Associated Press. Five world records will be sought by Tllinois Athletic Club swimmers in the tri-color pool at Chicago Thurs- ¥ night. Johnny Weissmuller will g0 after the 50-yard and 100-mete free-style records. Sybil Bauer will try for a new 220-yard backstroke. Ethel Lackie will attanpt a new “University | mark in the 100-yard free style and Charles F. | Conrad S. Mila will seek the 880-vard ¥ head | backstroke. a his smmittee | decided MEEHAN’S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY SYRACUSE YRACI let have (Chick) oo re Mec five had captain of the University of Pennsylvania basket ball team, leads the scorers of the Fastern In- tercollegiate League, in which only one contest has been played. He made 10 points against Yale at Philadelphia Saturday night. t Kneass, Ed (Heck) Garver of Holyoke, former foot ball lineman at Notre Dame, appears in his third pro- | fessional pugilistic contest New tonight, facing Ken Smith of heavyweight An offer of $800 a day to ride in t February six-day bieycle race at ( cago has been cabled Maur Brocceo, Italian crack. Brocco refused perform in the last New York Chicago races. INTERSECTIbNAL GRID PLAY OPPOSED BY YOST Steve Donoghue, English jockey, who came to America and rode P: pyTus to defeat by Zev, under Earl Sande, finished third in’ victories on the British tracks this season. E. C. | Elliott was the leader among the lit- tle Archibald, the American who has been riding European horses for several years, is tenth in the list for 1924, Hows. With ten-round bouts logally pos- sible now in California, boxing pro- moters are making a scramble to ob- tain the services of high class fight- rs to top their opening cards. What appears to be the most attractive headliner to date is the announcement | that “Bermondsey” Billy Wells, wel- terweight champlon of Great Britain, will show in San Francisco Friday in an elght-round event. His opponent will be Chick Roach of Vallejo. Wells is in Los Angeles. n arti-p @ of inter- t inte likely games San Franelsco possesses the only municipal tenn!s stadium in America. pern ats th atl irpose Pra din c n with class- dules all conflicts | COULDN I liked to do during the Fall. them every day. Canvasbacks and Mallards. WILLIAMS STILL SEEKS COACH FOR BASE BALL WILLIAMS 1oun WX No a bas h No, they weren’t visions. Willian somb. that ntract has beer former Holy for alighting and rising & league of cars past r contract with succeeds in Williams My office is right behind the mu- nicipal pier. A breakwater extends from near the end of the pier to the shore north of it, forming a sort of protected lake there. That is where the ducks were. That's quite a to think of of your any time Columbia n Coakley Columbia, ing his e unable t It is understood t} xious to return to Wil > formerly coached the irning out some of the the ze's history thing when it—to be able to office window al- during the flight you is whe! liams, Purple be * | most ams Ny ne |season and watch the ducks. And ‘\!n" weren't tame or partly tame ducks, either. They came right out » of the north and probably had never been so close to a city before. But Manag rved beside the municipal sacond soceer i T ver staved very long mes long enough to t rested, 1 1 they'd By away and would come In. THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izack Walton League of America. [ get away to do as much duck hunting as T would have But I saw an awful lot of ducks I saw big rafts of Bluebills, and I saw Redheads and I saw them from my office window. office is in the Chicago business district. They were real ducks. | crossed and recrossed in front of my window, flying over Lake M 1in, wheeling and circling just as I have seen them | do and every hunter has seen them do so much over the mar: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JA BELIEVE IT OR NOT. e — A FOURSOME THAT PLA‘IED 6 ROUNDS 0OF GOLF oN (> DIFFERENT LINKS IN 1472 HOURS. (0. ccolloch- . CArmichael-G Dalzid -G Garmuchwet) + SoHNy GooDARD PEELED 28 1BS oF POTATOES IN (B M HUTCHINS tal carmer I d paylon, 0. 'HAS WALKED A ~ 989,000 MiLes. MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT | BY RALPH DePALMA, One of the world’s v stirring moments of my I near murdering himself as any racing ¢ a scratch, great riders and one of the public's strongest have had ever did, to escape Barney Oldfield, the 1 Of course, without first of the fe greatest auto-racing drivers. 1.D. Mecown | teams takix Wes | oldest and greatest rival gave me the most or he came as iriver to 1 refer American favorites many wonderful thrills in my life of racing—irom accidents which crippled me to losing more than $I15 being jinxed at times when it scemed eve might been won. For instance, many )00 in p hrough \\ had the urses t think greatest thrill of my life was when I had «v)l\ one lap to go for the $50,000 prize at 1916 and motor. vet lost the RALPH DePALMA. But nothing like the Oldfield af- fair ever happened, and T am quite wure that he thrilled me to the utc most. Incidentally, his act lost a ve him a lend e Mriea ot Mve matches mwhich we drove. It happened at Providence, R. I, in 1917, when I was driving the Packard twin six—one of the fastest cars in the world at that time, and Barney was handling his Miller-made, egs- shaped Golden Submarine, bullt to protect him in case of accident by being completely inclosed. We were watched at Providence for three events, at 5, 15> and 25 miles The track was partly concrete, but | not banked enough to stand anything like our maximum speed. However. 1 was so much faster than Barney that I though I could beat him with ease In every match. But T had figured without my host, as the saying goes. for Bar- ney won the first heat, and I had to go my limit to get the xecond. We broke the track record in eac 80 you may see what chances we were taking. I have foolhardy ney had t track at cide, would took incidentall In the last heat I went out deter- mined not to let Barney get me and established a slight lead early. By experiment I saw I could outrun him on the stretches, so did not try to get far from him early. Then, when I tried to get in front for a safe mar- gin I found the track would not per mit me to use enough of my speed and Oldfield always caught me the turns, though I got a little lead in the straightaways. We rocked along in record time to the very last lap, when, on the back strétch, I let out and established what I thought to be a safe lead. I held this around the turn and started down the home straightaway, seemingly a sure win- ner. I always drive a trifie wide on a dirt track, but this was well banked that I pulled down on the in- side, leaving just barely room for a car to get by me on the rail, pro- viding it was hugging that rail. T glanced back to sece Barney on the | Palace T | vesterday, on | Dight tilt in the da Regiment In the Elks 12 to 21. of the 52 of Benzon The score B teams w In the ning att after contest, Five's jans man shared saw My { Universit champion league, they higan, Every da hes. same ducks that are so about your decoys, and which into the air, just out of range, when they go over vour pas Which shows that ducks do know something. I have seen ducks in Lincoln Park, Chicago-—real wild| ducks from the North—that showed less fear than many ducks show on | the Northern marshes when you are hunting them. The ducks know the difference, right That's why duck hunting a good sport. You've got to outwit the ducks. Which alse accounts for | sylvania, the fact that experien 1o good d hunte said when asked how « dog, “You've got than the dog first.” - And these are the ar. withdrew. existence rise ol Although three stood that Colum! Another with all is |cham is necessary As Mutt | players in o tr Harvar to know bly will | y ain mor: race outer part thought sure I was wir five yards. juice to my « me by the width of pectacular finivh. stun come down that world-record straighten up his c but taking in game, game, i cellent the visitors from mery failed chances Poor foul shooting cost the Aloy | Seheurholz scoring !for three two-pointers each. |BIG FOUR CHESS LEAGUE HAS GONE ON THE ROCKS | YORK, of was ousted Yale, f lity rul was given in a r of the ¥ Columbia. York Univer onshin | Chess League, which would constitute the strongest combination of college ches the invite to join them in a new organization of in the cross the I because track ndianapolis in of a frozen and then er. So, imagine my surprixe, all of a sudden, to xee Oldfield swoop down from the inxide, like a bolt of lightning and xho by me on the rail to get a Instantly I shot the track ad but Barney beat never seen T my rt gave life. tossers b winning with the I a 33-to- the from t and »ul a to it of th for the te from P The or 32 o T have entirely of City ature preliminar s | Yet to beat me in that race Oldfic that million-to-o of m) Tomorrow—Clark Grifith (Copyright by Public Ledger Company.) PALACE FIVE BREAKS | EVEN IN SUNDAY BILL Baltimore. preliminary Aloysius Washington proved no mateh for the fast Newark five of B: Hagerstown scored the first but the Cooney, forwards of the Laundry placed the home te: stood 14 to 6 at the tossing Alo, the start ck near the end of the Madder had entered the improve honors Janua the “Big neeton leag years mbia. offered concessions in the to no ava solution adopted by | members, the numerou taken awa terest for the other college affiliated winner of this the Yale and Coolege country a tire in a such a crazy, life, for Bar banked the m speed and o shoot by me —By RIPLEY Hezperce, 1AS CARRIED THE SAME ‘NAIL CLIPPER. FOR 26 YEARS 'BIG TEN BASKETERS NUARY.. 5, .1925. SPORTS. 20 CORBY QUINT VICTOR AFTER EARLY I.OSS‘I ’ Corby took defe 25 Bakery courtmen yesterday | g to 16, from Stanton Athletic Club in the first half of double bill, but after a few shifts their line-up completed the after- noon's program with a 39-t0-27 win over the Yosemite five. arly in the second Stanton replacement, goals from scrimmage in rapid s cession, giving his team an imposing lead. The Corby men staged a come- | back in the second game. Goetz, lin and Ward scored five goals each. half Tripp. a | scored three Mingoes and Wonders, teams of the Aloysius Club Basket Ball League. oppose each other tonight in the I street gymnasium at 8:30. Petworth tained will be enter- jus Big Five on the latter's court tomorrow night The Stantons will oppose the Y mites in a preliminary which ns at 7 o'clock. tomsers by the Aloy their season by defeating Petworth 49 to 19. Fort Humphreys Reserves scored a 31-to-20 victory over the Noxton Club. Toys who wish to join the pound team may report to Ivan Munch the Boys' Y tomorrow night at 7:i; Ace 100 Man M. C. Joe Ryan, manager of Trinity letic Club, at West 1664, is look-out for games with teams. American Railway will be host to the Argyles |in the Terminal R. R. Y. M gymnasium in a game starting 8:30 o'clock. Lxpress quin GONZAGA COURTMEN | Fort Humphreys basketers opencd | IN PAIR OF CLASHES | Gonzaga courtmen, who have fallen Tdabo | nasium TO OPEN TITLE PLAY CHIC er fer n | will en it In AGO, n & the Intercollegiate will Minnes 1 terta linois, diana 2, Michiga tively, on games, title h Pre shown on the anuary ficlally meeting urdue W meeti; Michigz stro eld gest bintly nd Wisconsin, conference championship teams, for none has thus far reve No one serious weaknesses n and Ohio reign floors basis yur of ams, d t by Illing games erry probable a With floor this week, the Baske open won all of its early games, Michigan, Navy. Intersectional op; s romped away en t vietor Colum | of the It was a stunt requiring super- human strength, eyesight and skill —a stunt I would no of trying than of o for a varlation of six inches an a terrible and almost certain death. ore think nmitting sui- accident 1d e chance and, the greatest | vke even to 17 in_the gerstown Elks, defeat carlicr 104th Medical Pal Club to the of 1timore, losing basket ceurate tossing the midget quint, soon far in the lead half. by both game. sius trailed A light game the Big Travers and altimore team , accounting 5.—Columbi past 10 yea Four” chess nts and pur- organization and Harvard ad been in 1 for the action it is under- | ictorie: f the i,,,} | ew alignment, with New | New Intercollegiate | and Penn- | is in spret Princeton proba- other College | for Te associ each Chicago aropped and scrap one game to eight Ball today the Iowa Four days later lowa and Saturday w 1 rthwestern pre-conference | Purdue Minnesota, contenders Ol loom for the s, Chicaso also the 1 led quint has and three, Minnesota. the have for among snents of five Big ‘with four s out of six games played. M’LEOD AND BARNES TO PAIR IN FLORIDA Fred McLeod, professional golfer at bia, South emple ated Fla., James M. v has succumbed to the lure He will leave Terrace with York in a pr Thursday here to be Barnes of fessional combina- tion to represent the giant enterprise near month Already profes: will p Far ar form | Floria | ganization me-and-home matches. ding pros of the country are in- | cluded in the circuit. Diegel, Leo Tampa, sio; al match, He will be away McLeod is hooked up in for he and Barnes three Bob Cruickshank and John 1 ampa one of next Sunday ove: a course McLeod and Barnes will the combinations in the | Winter Golf of League an or- professionals who play a former Most of the Washing- tonian, is already In the South, paired Hollywood, with near ne Miami Sarazen at GRID STARS ON QUINT, DUE Notra posed Layde the Wa 1o gar 0,000 gymns fa Trame foot ball team, and Capt. 1sh, 3UQUE, Dame of n, Don amous will juintet Harr¥ Towa, basket ball Miller and backfleld of play here ting the sium. the loe: January team Stubldreher, Jim Crowl the Notre Adam Columbia Col- February 7, in a 1 schoel's | with the st. | 36-to-28 victory before the quints of Bastern and Busi- ness, but have taken the measure Tech, are furnishing the | for the other two high s<chool this week before start of championship ser Saturday. Western plays in the I street gym this afternoon, and Cent entertains on Wednesday Business has a game John's College quint on y, and Western plays Catholic University Frosh five on urday, while the other teams are clashing in title games. the on Wednesd Accurate goal tossing by and Zahn carried Tech High to a over the Hagerstown quint In the I High rhool gymnasium Saturd: Councillor, Koons and McCormic were the other members of the Mxn- ual Trainer team. High School After a long holiday lay-oft the Alexandria High School five gets into tlon today against the courtmer from Leesburg High. The xan- drians make a trip to Manassas on saturdya to meet the high school there. GREAT YALE ELEVEN WITHOUT REAL STAR BY WALTER CAMP. One of the most which has been raised in of the writer's all-Americ: 1924, is the fact that Y. | zoing through the season, leadership with two other Bastern teams and undefeated all season, d not win a place on the first all- American eleven. Any one who studies the history of Yale foot ball will realize that this very fact demonstrates the greatness of the work done b d Jones and his assistant coache: Having lost practically all thelr stars, they de- veloped in a period of great stress real team that finished a very shaky, desperate season with a united, e fective organization, and defeated both Harvard and Princeton. Even these coaches were decidedly [ “up against it” when they saw their team barely squeak through the Georgia game, 7 to 6, heaved a sigh of relief at a tie with Dartmout when the latter had the ball on Yale 2-foot line with four downs to get it | over, and again went througk another tie game with West Point Certainly that team missed Mallory, Milstead, Stevens and Richeson, four great men of 1923. But they had the fighting spirit, and after seven weeks of agonizing effort, developed co-or- dination and came through a finely working organization in spite of the lack of outstanding stars a 1 team for , althou tled for ussio a PENN ELECTS WILLSON. PHILADELPHIA, January 5.—Joseph P. Willson of Corning, N. Y., has been elected coptain of the 1925 Univers of Pennsylvania foot ball squad The squad is on its homeward journe: from the Pacific coast. Willson, who has been nursing a broken ankle on the transcontinental trip, is 22 vears old and a junicr. He plays right tackle, Johnny Farrell Tells: Three 65s For a Record in One Afternoon. OM BOYD, the veteran professional, Club on Staten Island for time he held the course record, a dazzling 6. 15 has been with the Fox Hills vears. But strive as he would and did, Tom couldn’t better that mark. Then one day last Summer an exhibition match was staged at Fox | | Hills with Boyd and I playing against Leo Diegel and Mike Brady. mediately after we started out more brilliant golf began to be crowded | foot into one afternoon than was ever turned out by a foursome in all the | history of the game. yours Coming to the seventeenth hele it| that | was appar a ord. fact— same I w them wasn' All ed wa sple But elf. ndid a Brady chance. asn't t Boyd, to get a p: nt cha that Bovd nce ich more would have and Diegel ba in golf record it with breaking. Brady and to equal the =ood, Diegel % 4 on the seven- his tounding | h had the rec of it three but need- teenth and & par 4 on the eighteenth to ma The and a good longest next. Boy ing beautiful cup, next the most pit [ buy lef Put began. mash; drive one, d, for a opped Diegel bheing first to shoot. the shortest pitch unfortu h that pl t him Leo, a trio of 66s. seventeenth calls piteh with Diegel Brady next farthest birdie ball follow <hot sure, his q ate with a where undismayed, f away He made up for hav- drive by laving a two feet from All the boys 3. ) i d him on the 30-foot the drive Bot | having the and Boya was the Brady feet from with the thre green putt. fireworks i ran down | carefully for a birdie 3. his 30-foot putt also proceeded to hole out Boyd, far from havinz| long putt Brady, sizing up for a an edge on the other fellows, with a | but | solitary chance not only better the course record. was pelled to sink his ball keep with the othe This he did effort of years, he hole in par for a r 65. But Brady and Diegel, sticking firmly at his side, attained the same mark. The peculiar thing about it that neither Mike nor Leo had ever been on the Fox Hill course before. That surely was a great round. I was 10 strokes behind the others with a 75, but 1 had some pretty £00od holes myself. All in all, be- tween us we copped off 26 birdies and | one eagle during the 18 holes Tn the afternoon T got a 6. B Dicgel was the star of the day. 1 followed up his 65 in the morning with a 69 Ia the afternoon, giviug him a 1 Iur 88 holes. to cqual to up Then, crowning made t an last Bu interesting points | During a long period of that | Im-| cord-breaking | was | of | a swiftly thrown by opposition | Basket Ball Coa teams | | soheduled the | Sut- | nge scholastic | the opening | e. | Werber | ae tern | | I may be stretching the point a bit, but judge for | Sometimes a foot ball would be kic | | could d to Be Tested Tomorrow : Navy Crew Determined to Regain Title MIDSHIPMEN TO COMPETE IN TWO OF BIG REGATTAS Will Have Its Eight in Henley and Poughkeepsie Events—Also Will Contest in Other Races. # Has a Wealth of Material. 5 make de first place on the wat will a ¢ NNAPOLIS, —The Naval Academy mined effort to win back this Spring the January l which its crews held in 1920, 1921 and 1922, but which were tak from it by the University of Washington in 1923 and by Yale last year he outlook is an extremely encouraging one, for the Navy crew one regular by graduation, of its varsity and second first-year eight of last se Capt. Shanklin, who was graduated, did not row in all of the races year, so that the Navy will have the services of practically the whole « ast year’s varsity. Most of these have reached the highest physical stand- rd for oarsmen. Basket Ball besides the the available. embers of and will hav crews, the m son members strong plebe | The Coach Richard squad will ur J. Fel | ruary 1, using the machines and t | and getting on the wa The w Winter ha and be start work, ndon, about at first soon as conditions permit during the been much more ficial than Fall and early extensive usual In Two Big Regattas. Navy will n Henley, at the have its crew Philadelphia, o ughkeepsic oarsmen aft rail to the P. their ships t squadror The and June | gatta or the race travellng b to join practice There is besides an ¢ ent sc! ule of dual and three-cornered race The season will open on April 25 ssachusetts Tech at Annapolis the will_row on Harvard acu Ac cific Summer coast of Navy crew d on May will oppose apol also be scheduled 16. The *University | Pennsylvania is a possibility for o f these dates, it meets the |Navy both in Henley and th Poughkeepsie re its usual vis to Annap,olis may take place this | year. |” The Navy under Olympi 1 and coach, it took fir the 9 and the attas BY MAURICE KENT, He How can players be taught to handle e Northwestern U. 5 1920 s great the perio rowing whe nder the Poughkeeps Took Charge in 1923, e Riehard J. had a prelimi \d rowing to Wasli- at Poughkeepsie. Last year, some things did not move smoothly. the midshipmen rowed a in the tryouts, only and t the elde champio; The this to have them nd#tions. © teach the best prac- | 192 ve the shock f n swiftly thrown ball, by letting | e armx, hands and body the ball.” If you find that players are handling the ball well during mmages, tell them to keep their on it a little more closely. Soon, however, they must learn to handle the ball without consciously looking it. because a player who i con- sta ching the ball forgets about ether things. A good pair of basket ball hands ix a great asset to a player who wishes to handle the ball well. (Copsright, 192 don His all The u hold in 1 ¥ winning e of e secol races gton though good rac being beater Navy graduates The vounger Glendon's the crew of [ aggregation, was parti 3 able, as he had to build almost : ntirely new eight, all of the regula the previous year except one ha ing graduated Glendon, yr.. will bave tnis yex mber of the midshipmen who row- in his Dlebe crew of 1922, the first which he coa ere will number of « two or vears' experie fact { Wil Rave plenty of the strongest ana Charles Jewtraw, Lake Placid, N. .: | most experienced kind of college oars- chard Donovan, St. Paul: Valentine | men, and has his big chance to put a Bialis, Utica, N. Y., and Joe Moore, | crew in the position flinally achieved New York eity by his father. NVALID TO GOLF CHAMP Cyril Walker’s work Associated Editors, 1 u.s. sxums INVITED. ers to Oslo, Norw ed crew next month to g championship tourney. The American Olympic skaters considered for places on o with team Own Story of His Rise. CHAPTER 2—FIGHTING SICKNESS. T is of more than passing interest that the two most important golf titles in this country should at present be held by men who have h to overcome physical shortcomings before they succeed- national amateur by Bobby Jones and the national open by myself In the case of Jones his weaknesses were conquered while he | still but a lad, and in_his carly tec he had reached a condition of good health that has remained permanent In my case, however, a | bliss feeble childhood was succeeded al period of comparative robustness, this|i latter did not last. The time came when fresh aflments developed that made my earlier misfortunes seen trivial. These persisted time before T won the ch. As a bab ing in vigor. old T ha end my could ns although by 8 me. Practicing in the op at the schoolhou a ca |ing of evenings and on Saturdays | the Clayton Club gave me the | cise I needed—exercise, too, exa suited to me. Gradually I became more and more vigorous Nature and my carlier decreed’ that T never shou han a little man. At 13 I reache of 128 pounds. That for me. 1In recent been considerably: lig I am in fact the smallest ma ever held a national champion- ship in this country or Great Britai But if I was small, my health finally had come to be good. It continue until T left England to come to United States. As to the strange way pened come to this countrs later. For the present let that the change soon produced | bad turn in mf physical condition The climate had an unfavor « fect upon me. But, in addition, I was | temperamentally unfitted and by habit opposed to the conditions 1 soon e countered as professional at an Amer- ican country club. Quick Lunches a Handicap. The American custom of hurry was my undoing. The pressure of my busi- ness proved too much for me. Bolted lunches and crowded days undermined In time I developed chrox intestinal inflammation This condition became so bad before a tournament it w necessary for n take medicines tion and my pa watchfulness. | Lo stop the abnormal processes which Then, in my 1ith year, an event oc- | distressed me and would otherwise curred that was to affect the whole | have forced me off the course. This | was true of the national open tourna- course of my life. i p , jments at the Iverness Club. Toledo, SR IReoNal = P at the Columbia Club, £ | Onio, in 192 We played our cricket and foot| Washington, D. C., in 1921; Kok ball games in open ground, adjacent! Chicago, in 1922, and at Innwe to the school T attended. Bevond the | 1ong TIsland, in 1923 ball field w the e-hole my stomach § hole |~ Adaitionally dropped ourse of the Clayton Club. | down, and all through this period I was compelled to wear a tightly laced belt. My weight fell to 110 pounds, my nerves were shot to pieces and my tamina was decreased I could play '\\4!] through the early rounds of | tournament, but the final rounds al | ways caugh: me fading away. I | reached a point where, upon address- ing the ball, 1 could hardly decide when to take my club head back none but the most space i @ short nship. and 1 Then when 1 was an accident that threatened to | life Falls Ino Boiling Starch. Riding my hobby horse in my parents’ | home in a suburb of Manchester. Eng- land, I backed against a big stone basin in which my mother was mixing bofling hot starch, while her attention w directed elsewhere, and T fell into the mixture. The which T received left marks which are still on my body. 1 {was long in the most critical condition, it belng doubtful whether 1 would live or die. For two years I was. to speak, “on my bac unable take part in childish pastimes. Inclined to be small in stature, T was, | I believe, additionally handicapped in my growth by this accident. So when [ finally began to take part in the neighborhood games I was not so| robust as my playmates. I had alw. with me my mother’s injunction to reful” of myself. y spine had been affected, too, and highly nervous, a condition of which T have not yat thoroughly rid my- self. Nevertheless, ed ball and cricket as the y was ambitious to do more, ivity was circumscribed by ident 1 ack 1 be mo scalds n which ha o be | | 1 a little foot ars passed. 1| but my ac- my condi- ¥ that ntering nce. Golf ed over the high rounded the course and necessary to retrieve it. gate was opened to hat recover a ball and 1 got my first glimpse of the th for m mysterious Scotch sport piqued 1 went through the afore- and get a better id, of what was going on upon the links As luck would have it, there was 7 ™ After the 1923 open, when I had a shortage of caddies that day. Two | decided that I could endure the sita- members came up to the first tee| i {ation no longer, it was decided that faced with the prospect of having ' my tonsils were filllng my system to carry their own clubs. Then they | with poison. This diagnosis, followed saw ue We were invited to climb|py an’operation, proved to be correct. over the high fence and make our- |y soon showed a great improvement. selves useful. We responded With| ‘This was six months before the alacrity. national open at Detroit. By the Before the, da: time it rollsd around I was in better been permanéntly stung by the golf- condition than at any time since ing bug. The six pence I earned, add- St % fence that sur- it would be One day the me on Saturday with chium to peek mentioned fence participated in \m.w.n.un events. was ended I had | | to acquire a cheap lofter, a club|pefore play began I tipped the beam | that approximates the mashie of t0-| 4t only 116 pounds e« suhw.m»nm I acquired | X A gwd'l_\ to Vm treasured in my undis- eri atin mind. Thence ensue Tomorrow: 1 Get a Chance. yright, 1925, iu United Stat anada reai Hritain by North American News ¢ Allianee.) d a period of complete ;,:,‘;‘.