Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1925, Page 72

P THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHING’i‘ON,- D. ©, JANUARY 18, 1925—SPORTS SECTION. _ Nurmi Self-Made Runner, Declares Noted Trainer : Tennis Champion Intrenched FINN HAS TRAINED FRAIL BODY INTO PEERLESS ONE De Forest Asserts That Few Who Have Seen Great Athlete in Action Appreciates What He Has Done—An Extraordinary Example. BY JIMMY DE FORREST. World-Famous Trainer. 1 had under obsery N record-smask periorm d es records to bits The ease with which great one m ar three-quarter miles, 3,000 ctly attuned for hi ficld of physical prow 1er so " 1 ® &1 - ell past his first youth. Ari immediately afterwards 1 Yooked at him stretched on the slab taking his rubdown, and my amaze- mo grew He was breathing rapid be sure, but a= easily and ally if he had only been easy trot There was not of exhaustion on him. Hin Admiration And as 1 scrutinized his b the eve & man who has buman ularity and stamina his lite's study, admiration for the ¥inn grew or he had done such wwonders with so little. I mean that nature did not plan him to be an wthletic world beater. He had grown to his teens narrow and flat of vhest, spindle-shanked. To Nurmi will be given no such ratural endowment of muscle, brawn and stamina as were provided Joey or the great, tall, lithe-legged Lonzboat Nurmi's brother Finn, Ritola. sigr Grows. with of made These feilows were great physical prowess and had no long route of training to undergo to attain extraordinary development. But you how Nurmi must ave worked faithfully and trained cquire the well-rounded chest he possesses, attaining the splen- ng power and amazing heart na that carry his legs tirelessly over such long distances Arms Tell the Tale. He can now display the full chest of an athlete, whereas the arms, which he has not been at pains to develop, are the arms of Nurml as first he was fashioned. They are pipe stems. His legs even now do not look re- markable. They are not such skinny things as his arms, however, as you may w imagine. But he has earned those great legs of his. He has earned the flexible, steely sinews by long. hard efgorts He stands as the most extraordinary sxample of what can be accomplished by sclentific, intelligent direction with a physique which I do not hesitats to declare in the beginning must have heen actually below the average. Followers of track performances know that it has on been In the last four vears that Nurmi has taken on speed. Before he tried that he had made himsclf the greatest of all en- iurance runners. He had drilled and drilled himself to where it is no ex- aggeration to say that it has become «8 easy for Nurmi to run as it is for vou and me to talk He had acquired an iron body and = heart gradually trained into a mag- nificent engine of strength and steadi- ness. And then he began to speed up his legs until you now get the spec- tacle of an athlete in such perfect form that he can- apparently call on an exhaustless reserve of both speed and stamina. shaped for Fail to Appreciate It. It was noticeable that the spec- tators in the'Garden Thursday night seemed_hardly tc realize the wonder of Lhe spectacie they were witnessing. As one by one the Finn lapped all the other contenders. barring only the doughty Ritola, at each such perform- ance there came a round of applause. But otherwise it was not apparent that the spectators realized what a arvelous show Nurmi was giving. Tha enthustasm aroused did match the achievement This was because the Finn in fiying iround the laps was betraying not the least that he was making a remendous effort. He started out with his elbows cocked well up, his host thrown fully out so that his lungs might do their best work, his head thrown back. chin up, his nos- he achieved th wazing feature of the memorable performance. EW YORK, January 17—In Madison Square Garden Thursday night ion and study Paavo Nurmi, the world-beating, g Finnish marvel of the running track. I saw him when he stripped for action in his dressing room, saw his | nce and saw Nurmi immediately after he had ripped the meters and one and seven-eighths wonderful feat was the most task. | never saw any champion in capture top laurels with less of strain d sweat than did this pallid-faced Finn, meager of body 4nd in years trils sucking in and expelling air in long, steady draughts. His wind and his heart concern. Largely he let his legs take care of themselves. They worked like mechanlsms of steel in- stead of limbs of human flesh. took a high-kneed galt that half suggested a prance and never devi- ated from that form. Those great lags never weakened, never wobbled. From the get-away he went right out in front and stayed there. There was no llowing of Ritola to take the pace, as that Finn had done in their other Garden race, when Nurmi came up at will and dashed past his rival at the tape. This time the royal runmer took his kingly place at the head of the procession, and none was able to challenge him for It Only the truly splendid Ritola was able to make a race of it with Nurmi, In so far as he was able to stay in the same lap with him. Thereby it must not be forgotten that this Finn also gave a marvelous performance. He never ran a finer race in his life. But for all his youth, his natural advantage of physique, he was weary-eyed, slack- jawed and starting openly to wob- ble as he trailed across the 63 yards behind the cool-eyed, unwearled champion In every lap of the race I saw that Nurmi was in exact touch with just what results he was obtaining. His handler passed him the time he was making each time he circled the oval. He threw on speed as needed with such ease that its increase was hardly realized by onlookers. He played the turns hardest. He would gobble up from 10 to 20 more feet uf lead on the other contenders, excepting Ritola, every time he whizzed around turns. He took the stralghtaways at a more moderate clip—moderate for him, but stifl heart-breaking to the othér men, fine runners as all were behind him. He is & sheer wonder. | I need hardly tell you that But what I would ltke to emphasize is that he is no marvel of accident or natural gift. This Finn bhas done the splendid thing of taking,a poor body und by d training making it peerless. (Copyright, 1825, by World News Service.) Style Changed, Says Stagg. CHICAGO, January 17.—The flying fect of the phantom Finn, Paavo Nurmi, which have been kicking over world records since his arrvial in Amverica, are no longer functloning as they did in the Olympic games. His stride has been slightly modified. Dprobably to meet indoor track condi- tions. This Is the observation of Amos Alonzo Stags, director of ath- letics at the University of Chicago, who studled the Finn's running form In Paris last Summer. Stagg was coach of the American middle-distance runners, Nurmi now were his runs more on the balls of his feet than he did in outdoor competition, the year-old S observed when the Finnish flash nlght broke the world's indoor record for the ‘mile and three-quarters, de- feating Jole Ray, American champion miler Stagg also noted that Nurmi's knee action was the most noticeable thing not [ahout his stride, which he sald re- sembled nill. He pat of a man running down- oes not pull for ground and rms are bent and earrfed high. There i= a sharp rebound when his feet strike the boards and his strong knee spring delivers a snap and fol- low through that throws the foot higher behind him than is trus of other runners. MICHAEL SCOTT TELLS: James Braid’s Great Drive From the Fairway T HE great Jame ever ment that always will rank Followi His ball w into a Stra enough, driver. He tore off a reaming shot and brought his b: just 2 inches from the cup. Just an ounce more of roll and he would have b down in 2 It was a wonder! was blo gely an sed his wonderful low, A 50,000-to-1 Shot. Last year in France, playing over the Le Touquet course with a friend, 1 an experience that probab happen not more than once in 1atohes. He had besn shooting great golf, with the result that with seven holes still to ba played be had me dormie— 7 down On the twelfth hole, seemingly al- nost ready to be counted out, I rallisd and won. 1 took the thirteenth and fourteenth, too. Nevertheless, the task of capturing every after seemed a bit toe difcult The fifteenth at Le Touqupt is 230 ards in length. You play over a sand hill and the green is blind. We cquld not see the result of our tee- shots until we had reached the top of the sandhill. Then we still were left with an element of suspense. One ball was on the green, dead to he hole. The other was not to be asen. Whoever owned the ball in sight wae certain of a 2 and appeared to have the hole won If the ball was mine I was still in the running. But £ it was my friend's I was out of ft. That's the way it looked to us as we drew near. But our caleulations 1urned out to be all wrong. The ball fn sight waa my frien But he hadn’'t won the hole. My ball was in the cup—ftor a hole in 1. The funny thing was that T went on to take the sixteenth, seventeenth and _efghteenth holes, halving the match. But only the hole in 1 per- mitted me to do s Any other play on the fifteenth would have defeated me. In several ways that was the most meculiar match I ever played—Arst, §a being dormis 7 and then halving; seeond, in maMing a hole in 1; third, in making thag Role in 1 at Ahg only hole there- himseli a five-time winner of the British | open title, made a skot on this same hole during the same tourna- | in my mind as the second best shot I 10t, Braid still was 270 yards away irom the pin ng on hard ground and it was necessary for him to shoot | ing very strongly against him. time when it could save me from los- ing a hole. Old Ghosts With Nib) . Some years ago, playing over the Gloucestershire course back home, | put my ball into a sort of ditch or creek alongside the fairway. I was lying in long grass amid rushes, the stream being temporarily dry. The lle called for a niblick shot, and & minute later I was congratulating myself on having made a very fine out. But my pleasure was soon dis- pelled. Coming up to the ball, I found it wasn't mine, but an old gutta- rcha affair which had appeared ap- parently ffom nowhere: Here was a puzzle. My opponents and the caddies had helped me to find my ball in the rough and had seen ma play it out. Yet it wasn't my ball at all. Going back to the spot from which T had played, we found the explana- tion. In swinging I had struck below my ball, missing it completely and hitting the ancient gutta-percha; which happened to be just under- neath, where it had been lost years before. As my clubhead went on through my own ball dropped into the hole where the other had been. Needless to say, I had some trouble getting it out and didn't win that hole. Yes, golf is a funny game. I was playing it vears befors Bobby Joncs snd Jess Sweetser were born. Yet when, as a member of the British team, 1 met them in the Walker cup matches at Garden City last Septem- ber—Bobby in the Scotch foursome and Sweetser in the singles—I was victorious on both occasions. That's what makes the old game 80 fasci- nating—so meny unexpected things happen jn it. (Copyright, . BLACKSBURG, Va., January Virginia Poly has arranged wrestling matches, as follows. , Virginla, at Charlottessille. Febreny—14, Davidsos, at Davidecn, X. . 18, North Carolina, at Chapel Hul, N.'0.; 21, ‘Washington and Less ¢ 1925.) 17— four They | the | I never saw any other | | includes teams | (COMETS STILL LEAD IN DUCKPIN LEAGUE HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 17.— | The Comets, with 34 wins and 11 de- feats, still are leading the Prince Georges County Duckpin Associution | race. Mount Rainier is second with 29 wins and 16 losses, following which come in the order named: American Leglon, 26-—19: Colleglates, 22-25; Arcades, 22—-23; Service TLaundry, 19—26; DeMolay, 13—32; Chillum, 13—32. Monday Mount Rainfer plays Amer- ican Leglon; Wednesday, DeMola and Chillum clash: Thursday, Come take on Collegiates, and Friday. Service Laundry and Arcades will mix. U. OF M. GIRLS LIST 14 RIFLE MATCHES Co-ed sharpshooters of the Univer- sity of Maryland will take part in 12 telegraphic matches and two or more shoulder-to-shoulder events during the indoor season Mary Harbaugh, a Washington girl, who i& manager of the team, has ar- ranged an attractive schedula that n many sections of the country. Miss Harbaugh, in addition to being manager of the team, is one of its leading shots. Thelma WinkJer, an- other Washington girl, is captain of the team and other membars of the squad are: Betty Amos, Helen Byerle, Anna Dorsey, Elise Dorsey, Julia Behring, Grace Coe, Elizabeth Flen- ner, Rebecca Wlllis, Mary Jane Mc- Curdy and Frances Gruver. Sergt. W. H. Simmons, uccessfully coached the several seasons, again is and has his puplls busily for the eompetition that the middle of next month Dates for shoulder-to-shoulder matches with (George Washington and Drexel Institute are yet to be defl- nitely arranged. but the schedule of telegraphic contests is as follows: February 13- Washington State. February 20—West Virginia and Arizona Untversity. Februars who has team for in charge preparing will start 27— Syracuse Universits and Utah Tafrersity of Chicago 3 Drexel lustitute. March 13— University of Delaware March 18— University of Mulne. March 21—-Michigan Aggles and University of Tilinats. March 25—University of Vermont it 7 BRITONS WIN AT RUGBY. LONDON, January 17.—England de- feated Wales by 12 points to 6 in an international rugby match at Twick- enham today. NATIONAL CAPITOL LEAGUE. Standing ‘of Teams. H.G. LS. Won.Lost.Pct Jox. Phillips C Belmonts ..... Kine Pin.. Anacostia | Regulary 00077 Inights of Columbus Nationals ........ Veterans' Bureau.. T. T. Keane. Linwoods Leading Performers. team game— Reimonts, 63 team set— Belmonts, 1,811 indistdunl average Al Works, High individual game— Welsh, 168 High individhal set—Megaw, 404, There is warm competition for the individual average honors. Works ha: 115-13, Weidman, 115-11, Miller, G. Friend, 115-1, Joe Toomey, Schuman, 114-3 and Happy 114-86. High High High 1151 115-7 114-14, Burtner, ODD FELLOWS' LEAGUE Standing of Teams. Won. Lost 29" 10 14 13 15 18 18 19 15 d. D § Brightwood Washington 12 % 11 Leading Performances. ual average—Harville, 111 19 game—Campbeil, 149. indlvidusl set—Wer igh team game Mt Pleasant, High team set—Mt. Pleasant, Greatest number strikes—P. Ellett, 17 Greatest number &pares—Campbell, 55, Columbia won two games from the league leaders, while Harmony admin- istered the same dose to Washington. The Friendship quint, occupant of the cellar position, pulled off a sur- prise by taking the strong Salem team into camp for two gam A double- header strike made by Stark of the winning team was responsible for win- ning the second game. Donaldson, anchor man for Amity duplicated the stunt performed by Stark by making a double-header strike in the last frame of the first game with Brightwood, this feat giving his team the first game. Amity took the odd in this match. Atded by the excellent bowling of C. H. Groff, who rolled & 240 set, Mount Pleasant was returned the 'victor in two games of its set with Fred D. Stuart, Vi of the losers, after a bad first game, came back strong in the indiy | strike, second, starting with a triple-header the first of the season in the leugue. He rolled 148, one pin less than Ve record game. TYPOTHETAE LEAGUE, Standing of Teams. Won. 28 Lost R. P. Andrews Paper Co.... National Capital Pres M. Joyce Engraving Co...... Judd & Detweiler....... Wheeler Jones . Ransdell, Inc....... . Packwool Printing Co Columblan Printing Co.. Lanman Engraving C 405 Wash. Monotype Comp. € 881 Maurice Joyce Engraving Co. won all three games from Lanman Engraving Natlonal Capital Press took two ‘rom Wheeler-Jones; Columblan Print- Ing Co. won two from R. P. Andrews Paper Co.; Judd & Detwiler took two from Washington Monotype Ca., and Ransdell, Inc. captured & palr from Packwood Printing Co. _Crockett, of Judd & Detwiler, had nigh game, 145, while Smith of Rans- dell, Inc., rolled the best set, 370. National Capital Press rolled both the high game, 528, and high set, 1535. The schedule for tomorrow night follows: Columblan Printing Co. vs. National Capital Press. R. P. Andrews Paper Co. va. M. Joyce Engraving Co., Wheeler-Jones vs. Washington Monotype Co.. Ransdell, Inc.. vs. Lanman Ea- graviog Co., Packwood Printing Co. va. Judd & Detweller. 2% EVENING STAR LEAGUE. Standing of Tewms. High individual average—Whitford, 104-30. High individual game—Rodrick, Paiten, 150 ench. High individual set—Hendley, 406. Greatent number strikes—Roberts, 26. Greatest nymber_spares—Whitford, 78. High fat game—Steuart, 95. High team game—Bucks, 580. High tenm set—Bucks, 1,801 ‘Pirates dropped the last two to the BT | ] “The Pitch and Run. HE pitch-and-run shot to the p not with the wrists, as so mar 1. trick in this shot. One of the things always to look out for In any kind of a golf stroke I8 to keep the wrists, and especially the lgft wrist, from causing the club- head®to break back gquickly away from the- ball. This “break of the wrist” “puts the clubhead away In advance of the hands and all the rest of the body, whereas it should move in unison with the entire body. Breaking the clubhead back with the wrists has a tendency to cause the clubhead to make a circle backward and to go in back of the body. This is to be avolded. < Observe Fig. 2. The correct path of the clubhead in the hack swing may here be followed. The club in the address, shown in Fig. 1, is at point Ql1. From here the player causes the clubhead to move straight back, along & straight line, as far as he can reach directly back toward, say, point J§, wHich s where we find the clubhead, in Fig. 2. at the top of his back swing. There has been no circular turning to the right here Oniy the welght has shifted to the right leg. Note also that the posi- tion of the lefr wrist at the top of fas-traveling Buaks wnnexing the first game by a large margin. Fry's 121 proved the declding factor in the secthd game. Lawrence Weidman's set the highest roiled ’ went into second place when theyqdefeated the Yanks in the first and third games, while the Giants slipped one place in the standing, by losing two to the Dodgers McCarty and Ellett had a_tussle for the set honors in the match between their teams. The Reds' captain spilled 132 in the last game forw 320 set, just three pins shy of Ellett's total. * Lynch's 312 set was the best registered in_the Dodgers-Glants match. Last week's winners of prizes were: Class A, McCarty, 13%; Class B, B. Weidman, 113; Class 3, Fry, 121; Class D, D. W. Ferber, Tuesday’s schedule;, Yanks vs. Glants, 34;Reds v Dodgers va. Pirates, 8-10, AGRICULTURE INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. w. L 1% 15 19 after 109. Bucks, T Pet 595 571 548 324 56 R Tlpins. 20,818 21,086 20,851 20,987 20,481 Agrl . Bureau of Solis.. .. Property and Purchase Accounts pes Public Roads Solieitors Plant Bureau 19 452 Interbureaus 5Ee120) a8t High team sets—Sols and Solicitors, 1.623; Accounts, 1,608, High team games—Accounts. : Rolls Property, 538, High individual ‘sets—Gowan, 75 Kettler-Renner, 378, ividual games—Adams, 145; Benper, Ecouom L2 o1 563; Solieitors, bl High 144 Gowas, 142 Captain Holmes' Interbureaus made good their threat to stop the Economics five and took the odd game from the leaders. The fitst game of the match furnished the rather unusual spectacle of a leading team tralling 100 pins behind the tailenders, the score being 525 to 425 in favor of the Interbureaus. Fine bowling by Miller enabled the Economics team to take the final game and escape a shut-out, Conklin was the best bowler for the Interbureaus, while Dameron put over the highest game of 129 Soils had to go at top speed to take two of the games from the Roads out- fit, Friede leading the way. Two pins decided the second game In favor of Public Roads. & Solicitors lost two games to the Plant Bureau combination and only won the third after a desperate contest, This game witnessdd a pretty individual fight between the team captains, Murphy 370; Adams, | of Solicitors and Ferrall of Plant Bu- reau. Ferrall landed a one-pin break in the tenth, totaling 136 and winning high game honors by a margin of 4 pins. Murphy got 132, Solicitors, how- ever, won the game, 512 to 506. Mathias, out for the first time with Plant Bureau, rolled steady games and appears to be one of the most promis- ing of the younger bowlers breaking into the league this séuson. | Inside Golf By Chester Horton When the golfer starts his back swing with an immediate turning of the entire body to the right, thia turning movement, originating part- Iy in the knees and partly in the hips, he ix mak- ing it practically impossible f o T himself to hit the ball -effectively. I know that many &ood golfers ap- pear to do it ex- actly that way, but a trained eye watching their ‘swings would al- ways see that they did mot do that in reality. An expert goifer who knew exactly what he was doing could hit the ball with xuch movements, but the aver- age golfer never will because this quick turning of the body to. the right invarlably throws all the welght out onto the left knee. There is hardly anything else for that knée to do except absorh the welght, whereas the welght should be on the right leg in the back swing. The instructor who mistakenly teaches pupils to rate their bips in this fash- fon doesn't kmow how he makes his . (Copyright, 1935.). in is accomplished with the clubhead, y players think. In fact, the golfer must be especially careful to see to it that the clubhead does the the back swing is the same as it was | in the address position. If the left wrist has “broken” the clubhead, as shown In Fig. 2, would be away up —perhaps higher than the player's head From the top, as shown in Fig. 2, you initiate the forward swing with 4 forward movement through the hips. Let the left hip move straight out into the line of direction—not around to the left—afid let the club- head follow after. Keep the left arm straight and firm. . As the clubhead gets to the ball, chop with hips and hands. Then keep the clubhead low to the ground on the follow-through. Have a fecling that the clubhead stili is going down as it goes through the ball. To obtain the maximum follow- through let the head roll with the shoulders as the clubhead goes | through. Do not start this head rolling too soon—in fact, don't start it at all; just let it come as a natural effect of head going with the shoul- ders. If you feel you are starting the head roll you will Invariably be doing It too soon in the stroke. (Copyright, 1925.) Accounts and Property staged an ex- citing battle, the former getting two of the three games. Stork and Don- aldson did the sharpshooting for the Accounts five, while Nelson and De- Glantz met the attack for Property. Casper had high game with 118. On Thursday the league starts on the second half of its schedule. With half of the games rolled, the race is still tight and practically any team un the group may be sald to have a chance at top honors, but six games separating the first and seventh place teams. The Interbureaus, with the fourth highest total pin-fall in the league, happen, by a twist of fate, to be last in the stand- ings and more nearly out of the running than any other team, DISTRICT LEAGE. Standing of Teams. Won. Lost. Pct 10 762 15 16 15 Tot.pins. Curb Cafe... .. 23.179 King Pios. Meyer Dariy m set—Kin High team game—Mount High individual set—Miller, High individual game—Miller, Curb Cate, 170, High individual game—Wolstenholme, King 114-29. Greatest of strikes—Reiff, Reg- ulars, 25 Greatest number of spares—Wolstenholme, King Pins, 122 With the schedule more than_ half completed, Curb Cafe continues to maintain what appears to be a safe lead, the runners-up having gained only one game in the past few weeks. King Pins and Meyer Davis were suc- cessful in their last meeting with the District champlons of last season, but none of the other teams in the league seems able to register a win against Curb Cafe. It appears that the real struggle is the race for second rposi- tion, four teams being very much in the running. A most Interesting contest for the leadership In individual average is being waged between Wolstenholme of King Pins, Rosenberg of Curb Cafe and Capt. Megaw of King Pins, They are closely grouped. Wolsten- holme made quite a substantial gain during the past week by reason of the fact that Rosenberg was guilty for the first time this season of shoot- ing an even 300 set, thereby relin- quishing his occupancy of first ‘place. Megaw turned in a fine set of 364, and brought himself almost on even terms with the leaders. The match betweemn Mever Davis and Curb Cafe attracted most interest during the week, the league leaders taking only the last game. Good scores failed to materialize. Joe Toomey and Reds Morgan were high for Curb Cafe, with 354 and 344, re- spectively, while for Meyer Davis Howard Campbell was best with 339, followed by John Welsh with a 332. Mount Pleasants thoroughly enjoyed their evening with Terminal Tce Co., taking all three, with games of 573, 531 and 549, for a set of 1,653, the best for the week. Pete Metrakos con- tributed a fine set of 373, and Paul Shipley helped considerably with 852. Harry McCarthy of Terminal Ice Co. had the unusual experience of going the first 25 frames without register- ing either a strike or spare. King Pins won the first two games of its eet agalnst Cornell's Lunch, but decided they had done enough for the evening, and were beaten by a wide sumber DISTRICT RACQUETERS BEAT BALTIMOREANS Washington squash-racqueters reg- istered a victery over the Balti- moreans on the ‘Racquet Club courts Festérday, winning 6 matohes to 5 for the invaders. The mateh in which Dwight F. Davis, a Washington man, defeated C. H. Bock, by scores of 15—9, 11—15, 15—9 and 156—9, was the best of the series. Other results were as follows: M. G. Blair (Washington) defeated Steele, 12—15, 15—13, 15—12, 15—10. H. G. Stons (Washington) defeat- ed F. N. Iglehart, 17—14, 12—15, 16—, 15—12. I P. Van Zant (Washington) de- feated G. F. Childs, 15—8, 7—15, 7—15, 16—12, 15—86. W. A. Quigley feated J. FE. Ford, 15—14, 11—15, 15—, T: L. Block (Washington) ed J. P. Baugher, 15—13, 11—1. 15—9. R. W. Balliere (Baltimore) defeat- ed David Key, $—15, 15—14, 9—15, 15—8, 15—11 H. Baugher M. Hinkle, 15. w. (Washington) de- 10—15, 15—5, defeat- 15—12, (Baltimore) defeatdd 16—12, 15—13, p E. 10— 17 H. Hudgins (Baltimore) de- feated H. L. De Sibour,® 15—13, 14—16, 15—12, 17—10. H. B. Smith (Baltimore) defeated Q. Peters, 15—7, 156—11, 15—12 R. F. Cleveland (Baltimore) de- feated Arthur Hellen, 11—15, 13—15 1511, 156—12, 15—5. KENNEL AND FIELD BY MARY C. POPE. G A business meeting of the Wash- ington Kennel Club will be held in the office of Dr. W. P. Collins, on P street, tomorrow evening at k:15. The Club is locking forward to all mem- bers being present, as it hopes to reach a finul decision regarding place and dates for its show. Dr. D. C. Buckingham, a local vet- erigary, who {s a generous contribu- tor to the distemper fund, has opened a hospital especially for the treat- ment of this disease. This is one of the most dreaded and fatal ailments known to animals and veterinarians find it requires all their sklil and care to successfully combat it. A docter and =pecial attendants will look after dogs affected with distem- per. The nomination of Mrs. R. I. John- ston as representative from the Wash- ington Kennel Club to the American Kennel Club was refused owing to the fact that under its by-laws wom- en are not eligible. Therefore Dr. D. E. Buckingham has been selefted in her stead #nd papers have been for- warded to New York Fritz Van Holy-Eck, owned by F. L. Tetreault of Lyon Park, Va., took reserve winners at the Westmoreland Poultry and Pet Stock Assoclation at Greepsburg, Pa. Fritz also won the Amdérican bred over some well known shepherds. Fritz is sired by the Inter- national champion, Giralda Schatx von Hohentann and is closelw related to the 1924 German Sieger. ‘The death of Frank Leach’s beauti- ful female Newcoin Tempest will be a great shock to the bull terrier fan- clers of the Eastern show circuit. Newcoln Tempest was shown in strongest competition and won her championship. Mrs. Ethel Murray) owner of Quesn 11, sired by the well known New York Pomeranian Ashborne Income, intends to enter her in the Washington show. F. L. Tetreault has leaned Mrs. G. B. Dier's Veta von Thier, by Fels von Oeringen out of Brookmead Patricla. She has been bred Fritz von Holyeck and excellent progeny is looked for from this beautiful niece of the fa- mous Strongheart. Frank P. Leach reports a splendid litter of bull terrier pupples sut of Newcoin Venith, sired by Newcoin Comixit. Leach is looking forward to another champion. 0. J. Ouellet, owner of known Boston terrier Sigourney King, has located in business in Washington. Ouellet reports book- ings for flve matrons. Mrs. Selby's typical little female is being shipped here this week. Basket Ball the wall What is one effective, quick-scoring play to be used from out of bounds? BY MAURICE KENT, Basket Ball Coach, Northwesterm | University. ® R oK K Let the mark “O” designate your players who are executing the play, and “X” designate the defending op- ponents. Your guard is out of bounds with the ball and -throws to another player who has sneaked up behind two “tovering forwards and the center. These forwards and cen- ter act as automatic blocks against the defense, and the guard is given margin in the last one. Reds Megaw and Arthur Urban, former teammates, opposed each other, and - furnished the best bowling for each team, the sorrel-topped captain of King Pins emerging the victor, with a 384 set, In games of 108, 135 and 121, as com- pared with the total of 336 by the man who outshone all others in tour- nament bowling last season. Stanford Paper Co. took the first from Goodfellows, - with plenty to pare, lost the second by a similar margin and wound up the evening by capturing the final by a very small margin. Earl McPhilomy starred, with games of 119, 118 and 125, for @ 362 set, while Welhberg of Goodfellows hélped his team with a 343 set, a game of 93 coming in between two of 125 each. “Regulars and Y. M. C. A. bowled small scores, but the games were all close, the former taking two out of three. = first recorded trotting meeting United States was held in 1518 a chance for a shot, which he makes (line 4)., (Copyright, 1925.) vann SOCCER LEADER. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 17.— Joseph A. Mackinmon of Shanghal, China, has been elected captain of the Harvard College soccer temm for 1925, Mackinnon, a fullback, is the third soccer team captain in four years at Harvard who has come from territory outside of the posses- slons of the United States. In 1921 the captain was a resident of Barbados, and in 1922 Constantinople provided the leader. ' DAVIES RETAINS JOB. MBEADVILLE, Pa, January 17.— Tom Davies, former University of Pittsburgh all-American halfback, who eucceeded Herb McCracken as foot ball coach at Allegheny Collese last season, when the latter went to Latavette, hos signed n 1925 contract. MISS WILLS AND TILDEN APPEAR TO BE SUPREME Richards Looms as the Greatest Threat to Big Bill. California Girl Should Score Even More Decisively Than Last Season. By the Associated Press. N This is particularly true of the pions—"Big Bill” pressively in defense of their laurels more strongly intrenched EW YORK, January 17—Chamipions in the wor than sport as the 1925 campaign gets under way of ter = those in any other American men’s and women's cham Tilden and Miss Helen Wijls Both came through in in 1924 and face the coming Summ with strong prospects of again ruling the heights With “Little Bill” Johnston past the crest of his gin menace this year is Vincent Richards, the young Olympic ck flashed the best tennis of his career i for the first time and is expected to displace Johnston as the national ranking list s cup pla 2 man 1924, starred in D, Richards, aggressive and confident, is the only top-notch perfor with a variets of shots sivaling the ‘repertoire of Tilder The had Many spectacular duels but their prospective struggle this year hould be the best. Tilden, at odd moments, has himself had admitted the possibility of his withdrawal because of conflict | rul- | with the proposed new a ateur Ing of the United States Lawn Tennis Assoclation, which would bar from title competition any player-writer who “covers” a tournament in which he takes part He also might fa ineligibility through use of his court tiltes in connection with motion pic- ture work, in which he already is engaged. Sure to Play, Friends Say. These factors play their part in the 1925 outlook, but friends and follow- ers of Tilden alike ara confident that the tall Philadelphian will find the call of tennis battle too strong to re- sist, even at the cost of some per- =onal sacrifice. He is expected not only to attempt to win the singles crown for the sixth straight year, a feat no other has ever parformed but to be In the fronk rank of Davi cup contenders. With Tilden and Richards at their peaks, America’s possession of the historic Davis trophy seems secure for another year, although a growing menace I8 seen in the development of a younger school of French experts. France gave Australiz a real tussle in the interzone finals last season and with the improvement of La Coste and Borotra, her outstanding stars, is a threatening factor. Aus- been | tralia reported as being ready to retire and|challengers again | Mary | oftin dominates the American Anderson, Gerald Pa O'Hara Wood can be combine thefr efforts the - Antipodes ¢ dangemous Has No Real unless J. O erson persuaded the rivals fre appear unu Rivals. British and her triumph her flelc 1924 bility als of Miss their last even more with develop and confldence ear, dominat ely th ment of Her closest ri Mallor have e her B playing prime In the dou hard to be K passed Miss she How n wi rds W combines 1924 with Mr George W. Wigl Among the mer ert Kinsley, the face strong oppos binati R Hunte: mpic champic the veteran Williams and Rot besides teams Washburn and Jo! ston and Griffin The work who flashed to t be closely watched Lott, Chicago schoolbe R. Norris Williams championships: John apolis, Alfred Chapin, jr., of Mass.; Lucien Williams of Chicago and Kirk Reid of Cleve land. of = mer 924 wil ling George 0 defeated in the Hennesse nationa STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE l OCAL golfers are looking forw L to go South. The Middle Atlantio Golf Associa- tion has its annual meeting scheduled for March 7, when the champlonship will be awarded to the Marvland Country Club of Baltimore, and pos- sibly plans laid for holding the event at the Washington Golf and Country Club in 1926, The Washington club is understood to be in the field for the event, pre- senting a course which has under- gone a complete rearrangement, and whieh is declared to be equal in point of difficulty with any in the Middle Atlantic section. The District association will meat the following Monday to award the annual amateur championship held last year at Indian Spring, the first club outside of Columbia and Chevy to hold the titular affair of local goM- dom for flve years, It would doubt- less be welcomed by competitors in the District championship if one of the other clubs, such as Washington, Congressional or Burning Tree, were to bid for the tourney. Professional golfers of Washington and vicinity, who were making ges- tures at the close of last season to- ward organization of a Middle Atlan- tio Assoclation, have done nothing about it, notwithstanding the ener- getic movements of several who real- ize that a sectional organization to inolude the pros of Maryland gnd Vir- ginia would greatly benefit the pro- fessional game hereabouts. Not entirely satisfied with the present well trapped course, Chair- man Morven Thompson of the golf committes of the Chevy Chase Club plans—to proceed with further bunk- ering when the ground dries so work can’be done. A bunkering schedule which hae resulted in a dozen or more being placed at strategic points on the course and had more in con- templation, was in progress when the heavy snow came along. George Diegel, last year pro at West Potomac Park, will go with hi brother Leo as the latter's assistans when the latter takes over the job at Great Neck, Long Island, in the Spring. The younger Diegel is now in the South with Leo at Hollywood, near Miami. An effort is to be made to have the District Golf Association invite the four semi-finalists in the District mu- nicipal links championship to play in ard to the two big sectional meet to be held in Washington in March. look forward to now, for goifers not fortunate enough to be ablc That’s about all there is t the local amateur title event this vear. This movement will be made at the annual meeting of the Dis trict association on March 3. The District association last yea laid down a code of ethice to apply t its relations with public links play ersf’which in effect barred them from the local amateur champlonship. The year previous the two finalists in the municipal titular event were Invited to play in the District champlonship Last vear they did not play. The movement doubtless will be the sub ject of much discussion at the District Golf Association meeting. New professionals are due to ap pear at two of the local golf organ satlions. Wilfred Thomson has left the Burning Treée club and Henry Mlller has vacated his post at Ro Creek Park. Many of the well know pros have applied for the Burni Tree post and several are seeking the Rock Creek Park job. Dan Horgan. assistant to Bob Ba nett at Chevy Chase, will open & &« school at the Racquet Club this wee giving lessons and maintaining prac tice nets, where the members ma keep their game in trim while awai ing suitable outdoor conditions. Spring will see a couple of golf ex hibitions at local clubs with sever of the prominent professionals in a tion. Offers have been made by tw clubs to leading pros to stop off or their way North in early April and play in exhibition matches. In ad dition, there is talk among the mem- bers of one club to arrange & match with & pair of the leading womar players of the country appearing. 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