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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY .10, 1925. SPORT S. ‘Harris Became Semi-Pro at Age of 14 : Golf Solons Wrestle With Ball Problem $2 IN SMALL CHANGE, PAY FOR FIRST GAME Bucky Early Learned That Clean . Living Is Just as Essential in Game of Life as in Base Ball. This is the sizth installment of the autobiography of Stanley Harris, youngest major league base dall manager in the history of the game and the victorious strategist and onme of the outstonding players in the 192§ world series, in which his Washington club won the pennant for the firat time. The ise of Harris from colliery boy to big league manager in eight years is one of the most remarkable life stories America hag ever produced. Chapter 6.—A Semi-Pro at Fourteen. BY STANLEY (BUCKY) HARRIS. M whenever we got together that he didn't think I ever fessional base ball. of me, he never discouraged me. his experience. He instilled in me t good habits. ERLE taught me a lot that Fall and Winter. We talked base ball after work. He has since told ‘me would make the grade to play pro- But after his one talk about the hard road in front Instead he gave me all the benefit of he thought that a ball player must be a man of He pointed out cases of major and minor leaguers who failed to make good when their big chance came because they didn't take proper care of themselves. “You've got to keep your head up off the fleld as well as on,” he would Yeav. “A fellow can't go out there and do his best if he has been bat- ting around the night before. You rieed & clear head and a steady hand And never think you know it all. No matter how good You are, you always can learn something.” I know now such advice is just as applicable to the game of lite as it is to base ball. It made a deep im- pression and steadied me many a time when I was tempted to take a fling. There are occasions when it is hard to decline certain invitations. After the first few refusals, the others come easy. Began to Put on Weight. After Merle left to report to the Traverse City club of the old Michi- State League 1 worked hard as hortstop on the Sunday school team §Vith no night school to attend, I got to bed at 10 o'clock and was up at 30. 1 bégan to put on a little cight. Before long I had a chance to make $2 by playing a Sunday game with the Hamtown club of the Subur- ban League. T wasn't 15 yet. Naturally, I felt I was getting somewhere with my am- bition when Hamtown sought me. All the other players on the club were older. Some of them were grown men. It was fhe same with the other clubs in the league. I was the youn est player in the organization, and a Jong way from being one of the best. Still, I was active, trying hard, and managed to hang on after the first trial. Ability didn't turn the trick. Hamtown was short of infielders at the time. ' Twe Dollars in Change. I got a lucky hit in my first money tgame. The ball hit a pebble and bounced over the third baseman's head. I also walked twice. Being so small, T was a hard mark for a pitcher to shoot at. 1In the fleld 1 handled five easy chances. Hamtown won the game by & score of 5 to 3. When I was paid off $2 in small change I belleved my foot was on the first rung of the ladder leading to & big-league berth. I took the money to my mother and gayly told her there would ba more where that came from. She used it to start & bamk @ccount for me. I've been fortunate enough to have added to it since. My self-confidence in the future was rudely jolted the next day when I met Tony Walsh, a miner and one of the best semi-professionals around Pittston. He was my friend, and had seen me make my debut. Hamtown will be using rattles fn- stead of bats next,” he replied when ] asked him how I had done. “If you're going to stay in there, they better take out an insurance policy. You'll try to stop a fast one some day and be carried to the outfleld.” But when Tony went on to advise me how to feld and how to stand at ihe plate so as to take full advantage of my small size I felt better. “Get on, Stanley,” he sald. “A base on balls is just as good as & hit for a lead-off man.” Wax Chary WAk Praise. From then on he worked with me frivquently in the late afternoons. His coaching and advice were most help- ful. He was short on praise. When he did offer a word of encouragement it meant something. Pittston was not unlike other small towns. Gossip travels fast in them. I was only a tadpole in.a very small pond, but the word got around that I was playing Sunday base ball for money. The Information didn't make « big hit with Jacob Kuschel, our Sunday school superintendent. | had been rushing from Sunday school for several weeks to earn & few dollars In the Suburban League -ames before he sald anything. When he did speak there was no mistaking his meaning. He headed me off as I was rushing for the door ahead of the her boys and girls and barred my way. Fired from Amateur Team. “You've been playing base ball on Sunday for money,” he accused. Yes, sir,” I confessed, without facling the least bit guilty of hav- ing committed any offense. “Well, that bars you playing with our olub,” he retorted. “You'll have to_quit us.” Still he barred my path. I thought he might try to convince me of the error of my ways by physical force. 1 made up my mind that with & 1i ing to earn and an ambition to be- come a professional there was only one course open. \“Hamtown for mine!” I cried, div- ing between his legs and racing for the ball fleld. Of course, he mever intended to lay a hand on me. The mext Sunday I was back for my Bible lesson and continued to attend Mr. Kuschel's school regularly. He mever referred to my decision again until I signed ~vith Washington. Then he and I had . good laugh over the episode. He sent me a glowing letter of con- gratulation when we won the pen- nant, and with his own hands made & beautiful ring presented to me by Pittston fans. (Copyright, | Tomorrow—RBenched for the First Time. 1925.) NURMI AFTER RAY’'S MARK. CHICAGO, IIL, January 10.—Paavo Nurmi, the sensational Finnish run- ner. who broke three world records n New York on an indoor track of cleven laps to the mile, his bid for Joie Ray's mile and a quarter title at the Coliseum here January 16 on a wooden course of ten laps to & mile, and indoor spikes will be permitted. Ray set the record at 5.33 3-6 for the distance in 1922, EW YORK, January 10—Al Mamaux, mer Pittsburgh and Brooklyn pltcher 2nd a member of the New York Amerl- cans during the 1924 season, has been L will make | £0ld to Minneapolls of the American Assoclation. |a t90-yara hole, par five. GRIFF AND HARRIS SETTLED AT TAMPA TAMPA, Fla, January hausted by « Il4-hour drive from Jacksonville, during which time the party became lost and wandered 100 miles out of the way, Clark Griffith, Stanley Harris and party arrived here at 2 o'clock yesterday mornin Most of the time the party was lost they were within a thirty-mile radius ot Tampa. Griff announced he would open club headquarters immediately in the Tampa Bay Hotel. He has hired a stenographer and secretary office personnel and will increase this force it the work warrants it. Today he expected to actively resume the work of signing his players. Harris was not in a position to state yet just what prospects he had, but indicated that in the near future he hoped to be able to announce at least one big deal. Besides entering the an- nual invitation golf tournament con- ducted by the Rocky Point Golf Club, the base ball magnate transacted no business for the day. e R WALT, IN LOS ANGELES, IS LOOKING FOR A HOME LOS ANGELES, January 10.—Wal ter Johnson, veteran pltcher of the world champion Washington club of the American Léague, asserts he is in Los Angeles looking for a home. “I have not even considered & deal to purchase the Salt Lake club of the Pacific Coast League,” says Johnson. “As for buying a half interest in the Vernen club with Willlam Lane, Lor- merly of the Salt Lake City club, I have not talked with Lane. Several base ball clubs {n various parts of the country have been offered me.’ Johnson plans to remain here sev- eral days and then return to Reno, Nev. . BERNSTEIN AN EASY VICTOR OVER 0’BRIEN NEW _YORK, January 10.—Jack Ebrngtefn, New York llghtweight, outpointed Tommy O'Brien of Mil- waukee in a 10-round bout at Madi- son Square Garden last night. O'Brien, talked of as one of the men in line for a meeting with champion Benny Leonard, appeared awkward and his powerful swinging right landed on Bernstein's back con- tinually. His opponent smiled throughout and pecked away with lefts and rights, but was unable to reach a vulnerable spot, although O'Brien was weary at the end. O'Brien weighed 1343 and Bern- stein, 1313, The semi-final found Mickey Garcia of Utlca, N. Y., better known as Bushy Graham, conducting a boxing class with Nat Pincus, Brooklyn bantam- weight, as a pupll, Pincus went to the floor five ‘times and lost on a technical knockout in the eighth. Harold Smith, Chicago bantam- welght. outpointed Jackle Snyder of New York in a 10-round preliminary. Smith welghed 119; Snyder, 121. DEMPSEY NOT TO WED UNTIL HE QUITS RING LOS ANGELES, January 10.—When informed that Philadelphia press dis- patches told of the granting to her of a divorce from Kenneth Malcolm Peacock, Estelle Taylor, film actress, who has been reported several times “engaged” to Jack Dempsey, cham- pion heavyweight pugllist, refused to digcuss future matrimonial plans. “Let's put off making any nouncement for awhile,” she said. Dempsey could not be reached, but 10.—Ex- an- | his manager, Jack Kearns, was em- phatic in the statement that the fighter did not intend to marry until he was through with the ring. “And,” Kearns added, “Jack is still a lonz way from retiring from the ring." ANTLEY BEATS AHEARN IN TEN-ROUND CONTEST SAVANNAH, Ga, January 10— Boots. Antley, Columbus lightweight, won the judges’ decision over Goldle Ahearn of Washington, D. C. here last night in 10 rounds of rather ordinary fighting. Only in the first, second, ninth and tenth rounds did either fighter show any power. In these frames' fthey mixed it furiously. AL WATROUS Day Leo Diegel Broke Loose at Nashville On the twelfth, which measures 360 yards, his mashie niblick second | brought him six inches from the cup, and he got another three, He made almost the same identical play on the thirteenth, only his sec- ond left him but a four-inch putt for a three. At this point his run seemed doomed to end, for the fourteenth is But Leo, EO DIEGEL had a golf streak at Nashville in 1922 during the course of the Southern open championship. Starting at the tenth, a short hole, he got a par 3. The next hole, the 370-yard eleventh, using his mashie niblick, he laid his second shot eight inches from the cup and was down in 3. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. - WALTER JOHNSON PITCHED 56 SUCCESSIVE SCORELESS NNINGS A Re NEW SPORT PALACE WILL SEAT 23,000 NEW YORK, January 10.—Madison Square Garden will be perpetuated in a $5,500,000 memorial bullding, a complete amusement and exhibition plant which will be the largest cov- ered amphitheater in the world. Work on the new structure already has begun and it will be opened to the public on October 15, probably with the annual horse show, accord- ing to Tex Rickard, noted promoter and president of the corporation sponsoring the undertaking. The building, measuring 200 feet wide and 500 feet long, wili be divided Into two levels, making it possible for separate activities to be conducted at the same time. Seating accommodations will be provided for 23,000. WALKER IN FLORIDA. WINTERHAVEN, Fla., January 10. —Cyril Walkeér, national open golf champlon, has signed a contract to ropresent the Lake Region Golf Club of Winterhaven for the Winter season. With Walker will be Dave Kober, permanent professional of the club. LEWIS WILL REFUSE TO GIVE MUNN BELT By the Assoclated Pyes KANSAS CITY, Mo., January 10.— Ed “Strangler” Lewis, fallen cham- plon heavyweight wrestler, is report- ed to be resting comfortably at the hospital, where he was taken follow- ing his defeat by Wayne (Big) Munn. Lewis suffered a sprain of the sacro- flliac joint and bruises when he slipped from Munn's arms, or was thrown, outside the ringx. Lewlis will not surrender the $10,000 diamond-studded championship belt to Munn, it was declared by Billy San- dow. manager of the dethroned title- holder. The balt, set with 39 dia- monds, was awarded by the Central Athletic Club here several years ago. Lewis also holds a belt awarded in New York by Tex Rickard. “I lost the match under protest and am willing to submit my arguments to any board of arbitration for set- tlement,” Sandow safd. Sandow also announced he had can- celed all bouts in which Lewis had been billed to appear, the first of which was against Andreas Castanas, Spaniard, in Memphis, January 13. “We are awalting word from Eu- concerning our proposed inter- national tour,” said Sandow, “and it is possible that it will he necessary to call off all negotiations.” Munn is “Trust” Buster. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 10.—The vie- tory of Wayne (Big) Munn, former Nebraska foot ball star, over Ed (Strangler) Lewls at Kansas City for the world wrestling championship may mark the final breaking up of the so-called “wrestling trust.” The “trust,” which Lewis has domi- nated for the past few years, also in- cluded Joe Stecher, Earl Caddock and Stanislaus Zbyszko, all of whom at various times have held the world catch-as-catch-can crown. They have stood over most Tivals in the mat sport since the retirement of Frank Goteh as title holder-fn 1911, Wiadek Zbyszko also has often been included in this list, and now is rec- ognised as world champlon at the Graeco-Roman style. Caddock, “the man of a thousand holds * and Steeher have retired from retive competition. TELLS: i after a long drive, took his spoon and proved as accurate with it with his mashie niblick. ) He laid his ball four inches from the cup and accumulated his fifth con- secutive three. Three birdies and an eagle were Ancluded in his run. Eventually Diegel tied with Abe Mitchell, the great Britisher, for the victory. Two play-offs’ were neces- sary before Mitchell finally won, tRs. HERBERT sums\ [y —of OQuwlon,N.J | CoOKeD 67000 MEALS ON THE SAME SToVE 6l EARS THE SAME HOUSE EVERY NIGHT WINIFRED STONER COULD SPEAR 5 LANGUAGES AT THE AGE oi 5' MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT An interview with WILLIAM T. TILDEN, 2d, World’s foremost tennis player. “M Y greatest thrill in sport,” answered the world's greatest tennis player without hesitation, “was undoubtedly in the final match at Forest Hills in 1920, the first year I won the national championship. “In order to win the coveted crown I had to defeat my friendly enemy, William Johnston of Cali- forn who was then national champion and who had beaten me in three seéts the year before. “More than 13,000 tense spectators jammed the stands to watch the old favorite and the new con- tender battle in the center court. Overhead an air- plane, taking photographs of the event, drummed incessantly, the drone of the motor being almost the only sound BILL TENDEN. “Suddenly, in the middle of the game, just as I Taised my racket to serve, I looked up, and there, directly over our heads, was the plane, its en- gine gone suddenly dead, gliding crazily to earth. It crashed not 100 yards behind the stands, but so in- tense was the interest in-the match itself that less than 200 people, by actual count, left to view the wreck. “I saw the helpless gestures of the pilot and photographer as the plane glided past me and heard the sicken- ing, splintering crash. But no one seemed to move. “There, all about me, were the same breathless, expectant, packed masses of humanity, awaiting the outcome of the struggle for the na- tional tennis crown. I had to go on as if nothing had happened, as though my hand and heart had not been unsteadled in the least. “With a great effort I managed to continue play and to pull out the making the score 2-1 in my “Then came the Intermission. Back in the dressing room several kind friends poured out the gory details of the accident. Both pilot and photog- rapher had been killed and the ma- chine was a mass of splinters and twisted metal. They omitted noth- that hushed inclosure. _“The score stood at set all, with me leading 2—1 in the third set. ing in their full and lurid descrip- tions. “I tried not to let all this unnerve me and upset my game, for Johnston is not the sort of opponent ever to let down or show a weakness for a break. But the match seemed to have a jinx, for in the middle of the fourthrget, when I was again begin- ning to lead, the skies opened and it began to pour. “It was only a short shower, but Johnston, refreshed, came back and won the fourth set, squaring the sets at two all and running out the match to five se Wearlly and warfly we battled for the last set, which I finally won, and with it my first na- tional title. “But not even the winning of the crown {itself afforded the breathless thrill of that third set, when, rack- et poised to serve, I heard the air- plane stop dead directly above me, saw the certain doom of the two men and knew that, whatever happened, I must go on with the battle against one of the world's best tennis play- ers and pluckiest fighters. “Yes, that moment, without ques- tion, was my biggest thriil." EASTERN QUINT WINS OVER CENTRAL, 21-17 Eastern, for two years basket-ball champlons of the Wachington high schools, drew first blood in the 1925 series this morning in the George ‘Washington University gym by de- feating Central, 21-17, in a game warmly contested all the wa: The Easterners triumphed, however, mainly by a gallant rally from the second quarter on. With Bennie and Radice leading the attack the defend- ing title holders ran all over the Mount Pleasant guards throughout the middle two quarters. Central braced after Coach Guyon of the Capitol Hill squad sent in an entirely new team, and threatened to deadlock the contest. The Eastern subs then were quickly yanked and the regulars returned to the line-up. The latter held the game safe there- after for Eastern. Line-Up and Summary. Fastern (21). Positions. Central (17). Left farward “Right forward. v fe, Scruj e. A (2). Elllott, Hale, Banta, Dean I dorf. Foul'goals—Rennle. 4 in in 4: Radice, 1 in 2; Kessler, 1 in 5 Banta.'2 in 2: 'Dean, 1'm 0 in 4. Bubstitutions: Eastern—Radice for Madigen, Zier for Bennie, Elliott for Scrugg: Bireh for Heeke, Louden for Kessl —Mr. Schlosser. of periods—10 minus C. U. AND GALLAUDET HAVE COURT GAMES Two varsity basket ball games are on the local calendar for tonight. At Kendall Green, Gallaudet will be host to the Blue Ridge College tossers of New Windsor, Md. It will be the initlal intercollegiate contest of the Winter for the Kendall Greeners. Catholic University will resume activ- ity on the Brookland floor against Davis-Elkins, the team that beat George Washington University last night, 31 to 20. The game at Kendall Green is to start at § o'clock. That at Brook- land will be preceded by one be:ween ‘Western High School's quint and the Catholic University freshmen, begin- ning promptly at 7:15 o'clock. Gallaudet probably will find itself against a dangerous foe in Blue Ridge College. The Marylanders came here last month and gave Catholic Uni- versity a terrific tussle before accep! ing defeat. The Kendall Greeners however, have been doing a deal of drilling since the holidays and should be almost at top form for the en- gagement. Catholle University, it it plays the game it proved itself capable of playing In exhibitions last month, ought to give the West Virginia quint a warm reception. The Brooklanders have been on the floor for some time this season and doubtless are well versed in basket ball. Davis-Elkin. though, In beating George Washing- ton demonstrated it knows a thing or two about the game. With Center Christy heading attack, Davis-Elkins trounced the Hatchetites in_most decisive style. The George Washington reserves started the game and in a trice they were laboring under a handicap of an opposing $-point score. The Hatchetites braced after the regulars swung into.action at the end of the first quarter, but the sec- ond quarter was well under headway before they registered a fleld goal. Davis-Elkins finighed the half with a 16-to-7 advantage and played at about the same pace in the second part of the fray. ST. ALBAN'S FIVE WINS IN PREP SCHOOL LOOP In the opening battle of the Prep School League the St. Albans team defeated the Woodward School for Boys, 18 to 12. St. John's College entertains the Calvert Hall five today in the Ver- mont Avenue gymnasium. Calvert Hall ranks among the leaders in prep school ranks in Baltimore City, having recently defeated City Col- lege, 16 to 12. WOMAN BEATS MEN IN TRAPSHOT EVENT PINEHURST., N. C, January 10.— For the first time since its inception in 1806, a woman gunner won the mid-Winter handicap, a 100-target event, here. Mrs. J. C. Wright of At'anta, shoot- ing from the 16-yard mark, broke 84 ee! le, its Monday—W. L. Stribling. Copyright by Public Ledger Co. ‘WAYNE (BIG) MUNN Former Nebraska University oot ball star, who took the title away from Strangler Lewis and handled hix ri: pital. Munn welghts 260 ponnds falled in the ring game, I xo fiercely that he put him in the hon- Is 25 years old. He tried boxing. but and led the select field. Although the winner, the Atlanta woman fs not eligible to collect first prize money in the sum of $350 and a trophy valued at $130, she having entered to shoot for targets oniy, not belleving she would have a chance to conquer her man opponents. Martin _McVoy, New York, Charles Nuchols, Charlotte, N. were tied at 83. The event, with handicaps from 16 to 25 yards, was not fayorable, how- ever, for those shooting from the back dlstances, a heavy mist and fos hanging over the traps. McLEOD AMONG GOLFERS IN FLORIDA PRO LEAGUE ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., January 10. —Walter Hagen, British open golf champion, says a meeting will be held in Tampa Monday for the purpose of forming a Florida West Coast profes- sional league of five teams. Joé Kirkwood and himself will play for Boca Ciega Club, Pasadena; Johnny Farrell and Bobby Crufkshank for Tampa, Jim Barnes -and Freddy Mc- Leod for Temple Terrace, Larry Nab- and (53 holtz and Bill Melhorn for Lakeland, and Cyril Walker, the American open champion, and a partner for Winter- haven. et i e MAY PUNISH CHAMPION. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 10.—Eddie (Cannonball) Martin recently crown- ed world bantamweight champion, faces possible suspension by the New York State Athletic Commission as a result of his unsatisfactory match with Augie Pisano in Brooklyn the other night. § St GREB SCORES EASILY. DETROIT, Mich,, ‘January 10.—Bob Sage, “battling barrister,” was not a match for Harry Greb, middleweigh: champlon, when the two met in & local arena last night, the king of the class piling up a lead on points that was well represented in the referee's decision the Pittsburgher won. —_— TIGER SWIMMERS WIN. PRINCETON, N. J., January 10.— Princeton’s swimming team opened thc Intercollegiate league season by defeat ing C. C. N. Y., 56 to 6. The Princeton water polo team defeated C. C. N. Y., 3wl . NEW SPHERE STANDARD BEING DISCUSSED TODAY Most of Opposi on to Increased Size Comes From Great Britain—Grass Experts Tell U. S. G. A. of Greens Development in America. EW YORK, January 10—One N Association. The ball ts be used in of the smallest factors in the game, yet one of the most important, will receive the major portion of attention today at the annual session of the United States Golf the future is the topic and a report will be made by the association’s committee. Much of the opposition to the larger sphere, which has been com- mended in the United States, is said to have come from Great Britain where golf originated. The Scotch a nd English would retain the old style which, they claim, carried better in the wind. Golf enthusiasts recalled that objections to ribbed clubs also came from the other side of the ocean. brings about the “dead stop” necessar: The ribs develop the “spin,” which y to the play of a championship con- tender when he encounters an “island” green—one surrounded by traps. The committees are scheduled to re- port on the development of the game during the past year throughout the United States. The annual meeting will be followed by a banquet. There will be no speakers while the diners are “putting. Dr. C. V. Piper of the United States Department of Agriculture, who spoke yesterday on the comparative quality of greens here and in England, sald that at St. Andrews, the fount of golf, he found 25 per cent of the turf was weeds and declared that antiquated ideas were responsible for the fast gree; that prevail on British courses. The British, he said, keenly realize that they have not kept up with the ing in for a greens sections similar to those in the United States. They are able to grow better turf than we can grow in America, but up to the present time they have not made the most of their opportunitles, he told the delegates. Dr. R. A. Oakley of Washington re- ported favorable progress in control- ling the brown-patch disease although no startling discoveries had been made during the year, nof have meth- ods of treatment ylelded any out- anding results | “We have dispelled the old that the dise is due to | conditions,’ 'he said. “The large brown patch is not giv- ing us the same amount of concern is the small, which Is with us the theory se weather procession, and that they are now go- year round.” CALVARY AND EPIPHANY FIVES BATTLE FOR LEAD tossers meet the Epiphany five B numerous victories over other local fighting for the lead in the District ASKET BALL of the first order is promised when the Calvary M on the Y. M. C. A. court tonight. Both teams have strong combinations of experienced players and claim quints. Then the fact that they are Sunday School League adds to the spirit of rivalry existing between them. The Calvary Hne-up Includes a number of tossers who have perform- ed with high school and college com- binations. E. Brumbaugh, H. Bartlett and Bob Linke are counted valuable members _of fraternity teams at George Washington; Scrivener, who plays the pivot position, starred at Tech High School on both foot ball and court teams, and Paul Frisby, forward, earned basket ball honors on Western High and Maryland University freshman fives. St. Paul and Western Presbyterian teams also will get into action tonight at the Y. Calvary tossers have scheduled = trio of games for next week that will keep them on their toes. On Monday they meet the Truxton five, on Thurs- day they Invade Fort Humphreys and on Saturday Washington Athletic Club five furnishes the opposition. Because of the cancellation of the Stanton game, the Aloysius Big Five will be without an opponent tonight, but Coach Colliflower will devote the time to a stiff workout in preparation for the meeting tomorrow afternoon with the Peerless team of Baltimore. Quincy and Yosemite courtmen will clash in a preliminary, starting at 2 o'clock. Waskington Athletic Club sextet took the short end of a 20-t0-14 count in their meeting with the Metro- politans. Miss Whately of the win- ners and Miss Schultz of the losers were the outstanding players. Miss Boyd, a Metropolitan forward, regis- tered seven baskets. Apache Athletic Club open their season tonight in a clash with the Wintons on the Eastern High floor at 7:30 o'clock. The Win- tons already have three wins to their credit, but the Apaches are counting on thelr veteran line-up, which is practically the same as that of last season, to carry them to victory In their opener. Edelxtein, who has been signed to play with the Corby Bakery quint for the remainder of the season, led the Doughboys to a 35-to-24 victory over the Fort Washington five. Seminole Semiors want games with the Anacostia Eagles, Mount Vernons, Epiphany big five, City Club and Corby. Manager Sparks at Lincoln 1784 is arranging the schedule. _In an extra period game Railway ;,x»re-s-1 defeated the Argyle quint, 2 to 23. Mount Rainiers were downed by the Argyles, 18 to 8. In defeating Troop G Service Troop of Fort Myer made its wins six in a row and clinched the post basket ball champlonship. Eastern and Washington Athletic Club fives play on the Eastern High School court at 8:45 o'clock tonight. Truxton five has canceled its game with Fort Humphreys. % Friends basketers outplayed Epis- copal High, 32 to 25. Brown and Johnson were the outstanding play- ers for Friends, while Bowle starred for the Alexandrians. Army Boys’ Club basketers defeated :hen Western lightweight quint 16 0 9. Columbia Midgets took their fif- teenth stralght win from the War- wicks, 21 to 15. Corby Bakery basketers are sched- uled to meet the Railway Express five on the Congréss Heights court to- courtmen | last nighty morrow afternoon. Epiphany Juniors will meet another lightweight qu in the preliminary at 3 o'clock. Woodside M. E. five, which last night disposed of Silver Spring Serv ice Co. team, 19 to 11, will tackle the ‘Walter Reed tossers in the armory at Silver Spring tonight. South Ends defeated the Mount Vernon Juniors, 56 to 26, in the Epiphany gym last night. This w the first game for the South Ends i the junior class, having played last season in the midget divisich. Inside Golf By Chester Horton. Here is a good formula for praetice f the golf iwing: 1—Start elub lowly, and h relaxatio away from the ball, and use slower, more nataral pace in ss the back swing: @ } |2 — keep back @ |swing short; 3— wtand up on right L leg snd resist pressure against this leg at tep of back swing; 4— move hips forward in n straight, par- allel line thromgh ball; 5—keep right hip from collaps- ing as club goes through the ball, and 6—send right arm straight out into line of direc- tion, with down- ward pressure of clubhead through the ball. If you get these principles to working for you, you have about all there ix to the correct ®olf swing, They are mot hard to attain at all. ] COLLEGE BASKET BALL At Yowa City—Iowa, 35; Purdue, 19, At Lincoln—Nebraska, 23; Kansax Aggles, 11. At Chestertown, Md.—Washington College, 69; Blue Ridge College, 28. At Ames—Kansas Unl., 28; Amex, S. At Des Molnes—Missouri, 28; Dral At Pittsburgh—Pittsburgh, 28; Al- leghany, 25. At Springfield, 30; Ashland, 23. At St. Louis, Miss—Tulane, 42; St. Stanislaus, 22, At Tuscaloosa—Mississippl C 25; Alabama, 17. e At Fort Benning, 4S; Infantry School, 30, At New York—New York Unl., 23; Drexel, 7 (girln). At Hamilton—New York Usl, 36: Colgate, 33 (extra period). At South Orange, N, J.—Seton Hall, 29; Lafayette, 27, At New York—Pratt Institute, 23; New York Teachers’ College, 21. At Brooklyn—Brooklyn Foly, 24; Cathedral, 20, At Storrs, Conn.—Connecticut Ag- ":; ?I:tw Hampshire, 18. mherst—Yassachusetts Aggics, 87; Trinity, 0. ARa e At Boston—Fort Pitts, 3; H. C., 1. At Pittsburgh—Pittsburgh Yellow- Jackets, 4; Minneapolis, 0. At St. Paul—St, Paul, 2; Duluth, 1. Ohio—Wittenbersg, Ga,~Furman, Boston THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. I ing the ducks out on Lake Michigan. Well, the other day I took a walk out along Lake Sh Drive, which borders Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park stretches along L:l:: Mrilzre:ig‘;nxcm the thickly populated hotel and apa D_ON‘T want to mention Chicago so much just because I happen to live there. But since a man can live in only one city at a time, I can't help it. Not long ago I told of sitting in my office and watch- rtment house district of Chicago. In he park are a number of lagoons, connected to the lake. Out on Lake Michigan were thou- ands of merganser ducks. They sat n big rafts, Every few minutes sec- ions of the big' flocks would fly over nto the ponds and lagoons in Lin- oln Park. The result was that the agoons were covered with ducks, and there was a steady flight between them and the lake. The ducks flew low, just over the ops of the trees, and it looked like . typical scene on some of the duck Jasses far from the cities. Countless automobiles were roaring past, and thousands of persons on foot, horse- ck and motor bus were passing also. But the ducks, which had come in, out of the northern wilderness, didn't seem to mind. I watched a bunch of the mergan- sers feeding in one of the lagoons. Some of the big Great Lakes gulls came in and alighted among them. The gulls, blg as geese, simply watched the mergansers and at- tacked one whenever he caught a fish. Often the poor duck had to drop it. Always he had to scoot away or dive again fast as he could. When the gulls had obtained by this method of highway robbery all the fish they wanted they flew AWAY.