Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 72

MOST OF COURSES OPEN AND IN FAIR CONDITION Soggy in Spots, But Game Can Be Played and That Is Main Thing to Devotees of Pastime—Local Men Star BY WALTER IDED by a warm wind, A that most of them are in use. of snow and ice covered parts of all the courses, the warm days in South. R. McCALLUM. the local golf courses have dried out so Although a week ago a blanket the first part of last week and a light rain that fell for almost all of one day quickly cleared the ground, and the wind coming along later dried up things. The courses still are soggy in spots and will be well into the Spring, but golf can be played. That is the important thing to the Capital linksmen, who have been kept away from the game since December 31, when a snow fell that covered the courses. Chevy Chase opened _yesterday, while Columbia opened Friday and Washington on Thursday. Congres- sional, although it was open earller in the week, was closed yesterd but may open again today. Osca Coolican, chairman of the golf com- mittee, said he hoped to have the course open tod And conditions at the courses are not bad at all, considering the very long siege of snow and wet weather Washington has had. “There are soft spots in all the fairwaye, but the courses really are in surprisingly good shape. The wplendid showing made by Donald Woodward and Chris J. Dunphy, both of Columbia, in the South Florida championship just con- cluded is a ggod and sufficient com- mentary on the quality of 'the golf played in Washington, in the opinion of a number of prominent golfers here. Dunphy won the tournament with Woodward the runner-up, both men coming through to the final in impressive style There i n possibility that for the first time in many yvears a conflict may come about between Baltimore and Washington clubs as to the dates for their tournaments in the Spring. The club at Gibson Island, more, which has one courses in the country, tournament for May 1, 2 and 3, dates are likely to be sel the Washington Golf and Club for its invitation event. If the Washington Golf and Coun- try, Club holds its tournament on April 30; May 1 and 2. as is planned, it will offer a problem to some of the local players as to which to favor. Although the Gibson Island tourna ment is a closed évent, open onl to a very limited number of specially invited guests, there is every chance that it doubtless will take away from Washington some of the most prom- inent amateu: ) Dr. James T. McClenahan, chair- man of the greens committee at the Washington Golf and Country Club, @id not know last night just what dates would be selected by his club, which usually opens the season about the Capital, but expressed the hope that there would be no conflict with an event about Baltimore 1f Washington decides to hold its tournament the following week end, May 7, 8 and 9, there probably will be no conflict, but these dates would push the Indian Spring, Chevy Chase and Columbia tournaments even fur- ther. back than was the case last yesr. The dates for the local tournaments will be settled at' a meeting of the District Golf Association to be held March Golf professionals of Washington who have interested themselves in the organization of a pro association to embrace territory in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia have made progress The Baltimore professionals, although they are all in the Maryland asso- ciation. have expressed a desire to ountry join the contemplated four-State or- | ®anization, while tentative plans have been made to enroll many of the pros in eastern Virginia and around Richmond. That the pro organiza- tion will be put through .seems cer- tain, but its organization may wait until several of the pros return from the South Public golf, even though the two big municipal courses are closed, has not suffered a relapse. The nine-hofe course in West Potomac Park con- tinues to attract hundreds of devotees, while East Potomac Park and Rock Creek Park are closed. East Potomac Park’s new nine-hold layout looks fine and should be a very desirable adfunct to the 15-hole course in use during the past two seasons. SHIP BOARD ROLLERS STAGING A HOT RACE A hot race {s being staged in the Shipping Board Duckpin League, with only three games separating the top |and bottom teams. Reconcilation and Auditors are tied for the leader- ship. Standing of Teams. Won. Reconciliation Auditors Secretary Legal ; Operations E Operations No. l o Reconciliation gained its tle by winning two out of three games last week, while the Secretarys were tak- ing five out of six from the Auditors, the last named two teams rolling off a postponed match in addition to the regular one. Reconciliation rolled 561 and 578, respectively, in its last two gamees. The 578 is high team set of the sea- son and also helped Reconciliation to set a set mark for 1,638, INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. RECONCILIATION. G. HG. HS. 17 133" 341 54 139 349 36 137 383 40 142 327 54126 326 AUDITORS. 319 26 334 321 303 .8p. 82 89 54 0 o1 Elias Boylan- Kendrick Spence Langley Crimmins L E. Wrenn Keller | Shultz . 76 74 80 82 3 56 TARY. 133 343 128 348 133 340 Plerce . Degger Houlihan Ford . Dilon " Touser " 0 6 90 Stoner ... Roberts . A. L. Lonsdale. Williams . 3 Depew Morton 118 301 OPERATIONS NO. 2. Rarnes ... 311 D'Andre . Haneke ... Humphrey " N : 334 330 330 Sheekley 7 Boston . Lyons. .. Sullivan . Joe Marris. Klucken . Buhrman GOLFERS EXTENDED TO DEFEAT ARCHERS ASHEVILLE, N. C., February 14.— George Ayton, pro of the Biltmore Forest Country CMib, and <#rank Clark, Asheville Gountry Club pro, defeated Sampson Boss and Standing Deer, two full-blooded Cherokee In- dians, 2 up and 1 to play, here this afternoon in an archery against golf match on the Asheville Country Club course. The marvelous accuracy of the In- dlans, playing the game with bows and arrows for the first time, thrilled the largest gallery ever turned out for a golf match here. Although the golfers averaged 5 to 20 yards fur- ther on drives, the Cherokees were better on approach shots and the cup, which was a small paper target, the size of the cup, was placed flat on the ground. The Indians were attired in their tribal costumes, while the pros wore kilts, FRED BARONI TELLS: Eddie Towns’ Record-Breaking Drive T moreland Club, Pittsburgh. HERE never was’a stranger play than that which figured in the western Pennsylvania open championship of 1922 at the West- I've competed in every big nation@l tournament for years and in many a State or sectional event North and South, but I never saw any- thing to beat this. It was a wonder. Eddie Towns, Professional Goliers’ necessary: The big gallery that followed us got a great treat when we reached the fifth hole. At the time I was one stroke ahead and when I led off with a 335-yard drive that placed me on the green there wasn't an onlooker who would not have been willing to bet that I would pick up another stroke on Rddie. Y must admit that in making this play I was assisted by the condition of the ground, which was baked out, and by a wind at my back. But whatever the means by which I had arrived, there rested my ball on the green, and it was up to my opponent to do some long straight shooting. "Towns realized this and put every- thing he had into his_drive. But, , he pressed a bit and he hooked badly, far (o the left. His ball then took one of the weirdest Journeys you oould imagine. Just off the fairway was deep rough Bevond this was a clump of trees. Still further on ran a row of telephone poles,. holding up_ strand after strand of wire. And back of 7 this were some tall hedges, flanking @ street, and in the latter a street car line. Eddie’s ball carried over rough, trees, poles, wires and hedgse, landed against one of the rails of the car line, careened off it in a terrific bound, crossed back over the hedges, telephone wires, poles, trees and ex- panse of rough and came down just ® yard off the green. That shot attained a distance only about five yards less than mine, 320 yards, but in doing so it must have traveled from 375 to 400 yards. To make matters worse, Eddie calmly chipped his ball to within a foot of the eup and sank a birdle 3. 1 used up three putts and the score was all even again. who beat Jock Hutchison in an early round of the Association chamf:qnsh;p‘ Summer, had tied with me in the regulation 72 at French Lick, Ind,, last holes, and a play-off was Had my opponent’s ball stayed out of bounds he might have used three more strokes than he did. This would have made my task vastly easler. Inside Golf By Chester Horto The reason you could pick up n base ball bat or an ax and swing it easfly and with rhythm fs partly because you can very definitely feel the welght in your hands. The difficulty with the Zolt club les in the fact that you cannot feel the welght of clubhead. ng for the weight of the clubhend when you grasp i the shaft and then going _about ir with the under- welght of the clubhead, now felt in your fingers, exnctly as you would nuownbuonubn.w-r ®olt will improve. Feeling this welght will build up in your fingers a memse of touch mo meceasary inm golf. This sort of practice also will get you into the way of letting the clubhead take its natural swing down. Its matural swaig is quick and fast, due continuing acceleration, never | It was a struggle from then on.[ * Th the end T won out by two strokes | gqud took the cnuumonam, <. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 15, 1925—SPORTS SECTTON D. C. Golfers Get Chance A fter Long Lay-Off : America Has Big Edge in Tennis U. S. WOULD BE STRONG AT NET WITHOUT TILDEN Possible Retirement of Star Due to Player-Writer Rule Unlikely to Mar Country’s Prestige In International Competition. TEXAS LINKS’ PRIZE IS WON BY TURNESA SAN ANTONIO, Tex., February 1{— Joe Turnesa, youthtul pro from Elm: ford, N. Y., staged a come-back in the Texas open today and nosed Macdonald Smith of San Francisco out by one stroke, for the title. Tur- nesa had 144—140—284 for his two days' play, while Smith has 140— 145—285. Smith's 15-foot putt for a tie on the 72nd hole rimmed the cup and stopped an inch away. John Golden, Paterson, N. J., and Jack Burke of Houston, Fex., finished in a tie for third, with 286. Golden turned in g 66 on his morn- ing round, and threatened to take the titl, but a 74 on his afternoon round proved his downfall. Burke shot a 75 in the morning and came back with 69 in the afternoon. § Al Watrous, Grand Rapids, Mich.. one of the favorites at the start of the tourney, finished in fifth place, with 216—72—288. Abe Espinosa, San Francisco, leader at the end of Friday's play, was sixth, with 290. George Duncan, English pro, and Harry Cooper, state professional champion, tled for.seventh, with 292. Others to finish high In their order were as follows: George M. Christ, Rochester, N. Y., 148—146—294. Fred Baroni, Pittsburgh, 144—151— 295. H. S. Long, Chicago, 144—152—296. John Rogers, Dayton, Ohio, 143— 153—298. Scores in the leaders' final day's play follow: ogJ0¢ Turness, Elmstord, N. Y., 144—60—71— MacDonald Smith, San Francisco, 140—70— 75285 ogioha Golden, Paterson, N. J., 146—60—7é— ,4"’,:;"“"“- Grand Rapids, Mich., 148—88— oADe Etpinosa, Ban Francisco, 139—77—T4— England, 147—65—77- Rochester, N. Y., 148—70— 148--73—73—204. T9—295. 1484-73—80— George Duncan, George Christ, 76— John Black, Wichita. Fred Baroui, Pittsburgh, 143 John Rogers, Dayton, Ohio, 208. Abe Mitchell, England, 14; Bill Leach, -Overbrook, 209. Jack Gordon, Buffalo, 145—B0—80—305. rge Bowden, Cincinnati, 135—13—78— nnar Nilson, Chicago, 161—75. Dave Spittall, Savannah, Ga., 150—T7-T9— 308, 5—T7—299. 14B—TT 78— Bob Shave, Cleveland, George_Auibach, Boston Craig_Wood, Louisville, Tom Boyd, Fox Hills, P. Flyon, Pittsburgh 1520 Taor. Y., 166-T1—8i— 308, L. . 1568272~ 310, BANKERS' LEAGUE. Standing of Teams, Washington Loan No. 1 National Bauk of 2 Amer. Secyrity and Tri WashingtoR Loan Hibbs ... Second, Riggs 1 Federal-American 2 Srartzell, Rheem & Hedsey District 5 3 12 Merchant; 8 Hibbs and Riggs National No. 2 cleaned up on Lincoln and District, respectively, the former going into a tie for ‘fourth place with Washing- ton Loan No. 2, that was successful |in winning two out of three from | Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey. Riggs No, 2 pulled into a tie with District and Lincoln National. National Bank of Washington was off form last week, and was only able to take two out of three from the lowly National Savings. American Security and Second had a nip-and-tuck fight before the for- mer was returned the victor in two out of three. ODD FELLOWS LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. Won. Mouat Pleasant 32 Eastern Amity Golden Tuie. Federal ~Clt; alem Harmon, ¥red D. 8 Washington Colombia - Brightwood " Friendship High individual average—Harville, 1138, High individual game—Harville, 161, High individual set—Hérvilie, 405. Hish team gameAmity, 577 High tesm set—Mount Fieasaot, 1605, Greatest number sparer—Ci 11,108, Greatest oumber strikts—P. Hllett, The sensational rolling of Harville featured the past week's perform- ances. Rolling anchor for the Fred D. Stuart team, he totaled 403, get- ting 12) in both the first and sec- ond gdémes and finishing with 161. This places him in the van of the in- dividuals, with an average of 113.8. Needless to say, Harville's team took the entire set from Columbia. Mount Pleasant climbed back in the lead by taking all three from Bright- wood. Steele of the winners rolled high set in this match, with 354, al- though he was closely followed by C. F. Groff with 342 and C. H. Groft with 337. Incidentally, Mount Pleasant beat the high set record of 1,604, by totaling one pin better. Eastern copped two from Friend- ship, despite a handicap of 40 pins and ‘the use of a dummy score of 85. Golden Rule administered the same dose to Harmony. McCarthy of Golden Rule started out with 140, but was unable to keep up the pace. Cordell, his tekmmate, rolled the best set of this contest with 331. Federal City gained in the race by taking two from Amity, knocking them out of the lead. DISTRIOT LEAGUE. Regulars . Terminal Ice Co. High tesm game—King Pins, 637. High team set—King Pins, 1,762, plleh, individual -o—ilm«xmt, King High individual set—Rosenberg, Curb.Cate, a1 f iy erage—Megaw, King Piny D9, Hocenbere, Cap CAte, T4 Wor steohoime, King Pins, 11414 Greatest number of sfrikes—Pratt, Good- tellows, 31; Miller, Curb Cafe, 31. Greafest 'mumber of spares—Wolstenholme, King Pine, 154; Megaw, King Pins, 154, Cornell’s Lunch unexpectedly came to life and trounced the league lead- ers two games, Dolan’s score of 154 accounting for one win, and good shooting by Urban and Reichard, with games of 141 and 125, re- spectively, spelling defeat for Curb Cafe in the other Joss sustained. The long lead estabMshed by John Papas’ team has now been cut to three games, and much depends on_the olash between Curb Cafe and King Pins, which will take place Monday evening at King Pin No. 1e alleys. The last time .these two teams met King Pins took all three games with a 1,731 set, including a 606 game, despite the fact that Curb Cafe !nrn.fl in a 1,663 set with 543 as low Anlou forced to usé a dummy goon g.‘.’,'mn«. managed ‘to- win| Meyer Davis m !om = B EE Sl | il IIIII‘\‘IIHEIIH"FR Eas T 1 L] Th STRAIGH] art, also as good a rule as A STRAIGHT line for duty and a curve for beauty is the rule of I know for golfers. curve we shall have to do with here concern the left arm. The line and the Golfers have been told to maintain a straight left arm in the back swing, and that’s a fine rule, Yet the best golfers, the stylists like Var- don, Evans, Jones, let the left arm curve slightly at the elbow at the top of the back swing, and that's a fine rule, too. You logically ask, how can I be straight and at the same time curved? My answer is, it de- pends upon what kind of a game of golf you play. It you have managed to acquire a game in the 80s, using a straight left arm, it is time to learn what happens when you let the left arm curve slightly, as pictured in figure 1 in the chart. With that kind of a game you will know ough about &olf to know how, to use this curved left arm. If you are shooting over 100 stick to the straight left arm for a while. In figure 2 we see the straight left arm at the top of the back swing. In figure 3 we have the curved left arm at the top of the back swing with an iron. In figure 4 you see the straight left arm at the top of the mashie back swing. With the straight left arm through- spilling _the Pop- Arthur were and of the former team maples for a 139 game and Evans contributing 121, Logan and Howard Campbell best for Mever Davis, with 342 334 as their share. Terminal Ice Co. met with little opposition from Y. M. C. A., all three games going to the former, its set of 1,663 being the best of the waek. Al Work got a 144 game and 352 set, while Tommy Thomas and Nick Chaconas were close up with 343 and 336, respectively. Jack Farnan of Y. M. C. A. was best for his team with 335, but got little help from his teammates, who could not get going. Consistently good bowling by Hank Bailey of Regulars enabled his team to take two from Stanford Paper Co. The latter presented a makeshift line-up due to conflicting engage- mepts. Billhelmer was much the best for' the papermen, with a 349 set. McPhilomy had the unique experi- ence of registering only a 309 set with nine spares. In the final game he made 108 with five marks, which included one count of nine and one of seven. King Pins continued its terrific pace by taking @ll three games from Moupt Pleasants. The former team has only lost four games out of the last 27, has maintained a 560 team average, and established league records for high-team game as well as high-team set. Walter Megaw, captain of King Plns, by a 360 set regained by the small margin of three pins the league leadership in individual average over Max Rosen- berg of Curb Cafe, and at the same time went into a tie with Glenn Wolstenholme, his teammate, for the high honors in number of spares made, each having 154 for 54 games. Seftzer of King Pins with a 347 set was of considerable assistance, and his bowling during the past few weeks has been a big factor in the string of victories rolled up by his team. The past week marked the termina- tion of the second series in the schedule of the league, and under the rules no additions can be made to a _team roster. The averages of the District League will appear in these columns at an early date. NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE. . W. L. a1 796 41 59 18 867 30 556 468 24 44 315 206 218 Regulars Nationals | Linwoods . 18 T. T. Keane. 15 On Monday night Veterans' Bureau took two games from King Pin. The first game seemed to be the hardest fought. King Pin won this with 625 against 576, a hard game to lose, but doesn’t seem to be anything unusual in this league. King Pin games, 625, 638, 524, and Veterans' Bureau with 575, 548, 538, for set of 1,687 and 1,651, respectively, are some sets. The Ana- costia took the set from the Nationals it was like taking candy from a baby. Anacostia games of 550, 672, 658, for a set of 1,680, is sweet bowling. Na- tionals hope to do a little better in the third serles, which start next week. The Jos. Phillips Co. team has hit quite a_slump in the last few weeks; they lost a game to the T. T. Keane team on Wednesday night. Jos. Phillips Co. has -rolled only two sets under 1,600 for the first and sec- ond series. On January 30 their set 581 and Wednesday, February 11, 1,573. They will come back with Joe Mulroe on the job. On Thursday night the K. of C. team walked away with two games from the Regulars. K. of C. set was 503, 568, 534—1,605; Regulars, 527, 612, 514—1553. ‘The Regulars are being bumped a little too regular to sult them. The Bel- monts and Linwoods wound up' the second serfes with Belmonts ‘taking all three, and are|now just two games behind the leaders. « Pythinne Lese Two Teams. * The number of teams in the Knights of Pythias Duckpin League has been reduced, owing to the withdrawal of Hermione and A:fum Lodges. Teams having scheduled games against these teams until the end of the pres- ent series, March 6, will get forfeits. At the monthly meeting of the league to be held on February 28 the schedule for the third and final seriés of the sea- son will be revised, as will also the prize list. Capital and Columbla No. 1 teams are tied for first place, with Calanthe and Webster \No, 1 leaders closely. Owing to the convention of the Grand 17 out the back swing®the player may note some tightness about the shoul- ders when he.is at the top. Curving the arm slightly at the elbow will iminediately free him from this. But the player must be careful not to curve the arm to the point of break- ing, or angling,. the elbow. Also do not loosen the grip with the left hand when you loosen the elbow. For extreme long shots with an jron curve the left arm some at the top, the same as with the wood, as shown in figure 3. For all other iron shots stick to the stralght arm, as shown in figure 4. The fron head being heavier, you will be safef not to risk losing its feel at the top through re- leasing the pressure in the left arm. (Copyright, 1925.) day, Calanthe vs. Century-Decatur; Wednesday, Capital vs. Hermione. AGRICULTURE INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. ding of Teams. Won. Rureau of Soilx Agriculture Ecopol Property and Purchase Solicitors Plant Bure Accounts . Public Roads. Interbureaus Leading Performanoes. High team sets—Soils and Solicitors. High game—. High individual se i High individual game—Adams, Making a sweep of the set with Public Roads, the Property five moved up into third place, just one game behind the leaders. 1son, rolling at anchor for Property, fea. tured with games of 120, 106 and 127 for the best set of the match. Bill Whelan, at No. 5 for Roads, put up a game battle, counting 110, 117 and 98, but his team mates faltered. Evans furnished the fireworks for the match between Soils, the league leaders, and Accounts, his games of 124, 128 and 104 putting two wins to the credit of Accounts. Oddly enough, Accounts lost its best bowled game, its third game total of 526 being top- ped by a 558 count by the Soils out- fit. The Soils five rolled consistently well, but not quite good enough to get the edge on Evans and his mates. After a fine start, in which they took the first game by a count of 532 to 467 from Solicitors, the Interbu- reaus weakenedeand Capt. Murphy's Lawyers won the remaining games rather easily. Bill McCarthy of the Interbureaus had the best of the match. Plant Bureau gave Economics quite a shock by taking two of the three games, though Capt. Barber's team rallied finely for the third and cop- ped by a good margin. Goll and Cos- tello were the big guns for Plant Bureau, while Dixon of Economics supplied the best set of the match with games of 101, 120 and 114. With 30 games yet to roll, the league is'staging the closest race in its history. But four games separate the first and sixth teams, while the first five are 50 closely bunched that an evening's rolling might put the fifth place Plant Bureau outfit in first place. In the matter of total pinfall, t0o, the race is quite interesting, an odd angle being the fact that the trailers, Interbureaus, have toppled something like 150 more pins than the Economics team, now tied for first place. Another curious angle to the race is_the fact that though more than 1,600 sets have been rolled than in any previous season, the team games are far below former records, the highest count being 563 by the Ac- counts five. In former years counts from 680 to 600 have been the rule. e 'WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE. 30 30 29 28 7 28 25 2 Mo\lnl Pleasants and Commercials clashed Friday night in another cru- clal battle for the leadership and when the smoke had cleared away the latter quint emerged with the scalps of their rivals and rested at the top of the ladder. The result of the match was somewhat of a sur- prise, as, while it was conceded that the Commerclals-had a good chance, it was not expected they would make a clean sweep In taking the match the, Commer- cials put up & fine exhibition of bowl- ing, as shown by their counts of 521, 505 and 546, for a total of 16502, which ties the all-time record established by the Mount Pleasants earlier in-the season. Lorraine Gulll earried off. the hon- ors of the match, getting games of 114, 121 and 117, and every, member of the team got one over the ‘cCentury mark. “Bybbles” Watts had a count.of 112, Billte Niner 110, and Marjorie Bradt ana Miss Myers each got 106. Elizabeth Rawlings did the best work for the losers, getting of 115 and set of 306. teams pressing the | D uled Wil be- as MVI‘-’\ WOMAN GOLF STARS TRIUMPH ON COAST DEL MONTE, Calif.,, February 14— Miss Marfon Hollins of New York, former national champion and de- fending title holder in the Pebble Beach golf tournament, today defeat- ed Mrs. H. G. Hutchins of Winnipeg, 1 up in the second round. iss Loulse Fordyce of Youngstown, Ohio, won from Mrs. Dorothy Hill of Los Angeles, 6 and 5, and tomorrow will meet Miss Mary K. Browne of Santa Monica, Calif., who defeated Mrs. Frank Sheedy of San Francisco, 6 and 4. Miss Margaret Cameron of Los Angeles defeated Miss Dorothy Richards of Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Cameron will meet Miss Hollins to- marrow in the semi-finals. TILDEN WINS TENNIS FINAL FROM MATHEY NEW YORK, Febrlary 14.—William T. Tilden, 2d. of Philadelphia, na- tional champlon, today _won the Brooklyn Heights Casino /invitation tennis tournament by defeating Dean Mathey of New York, 6—2, 6—1, 6—8, 7—5, in the findl round of the tour- nament, Tilden, paired ‘with his youthful protege, Neil Sullivan of Philadelphia, defeated John S. McCloy and Harry Brunie of New York, 7—5, 6—4, in the semi-final round of the upper bracket, while Francis T. Hunter of Beckley, W. Va., and S. Howard Vo- shell of New York defeated Fred . Anderson and Louis B. Daliey, jr., of New York, 6—4, 7—9, 6—4, in the other semi-final match Tilden paired with Neil Sullivan of Philadelphla, won the ~doubles title in the tournament, defeatnjg S. How- ard Voshell and Francis T, Hunter, 6—3, 5—7T, 6—4. KENNEL AND FIELD BY MARY C. POPE. The dog world has an opportu- nity to view two of the best shows ever given in the East. The all-ter- rier exhibit with over 400 entries and the Westminster show with over 200, both in New York, were all that any lover of dogs could wish for. Another Boston terrier won his champlonship at the Garden. Million- Dollar King proved that he had been rightly named by taking winners and best of the breed. This splendid little Boston, owned by Mrs. Emma G. Fox, is a beautiful dark brindle with white markings, a white collar and a good flat skull. The winning bitch was Profile Real Select, owned by the Profile Kennels of Salem, N. H. Mrs. Marion Durphy took third rib- bon fn the Iimit and the American- bred classes, and ran fourth in the open class. Duke of Arlington is one of the splendid old type of St. Ber- nard and Mrs. Durphy safd that she was perfectly ‘satisfied to be fourth out of 19 wonderful specimens, many imported from Switzerland not even getting a look in. Hercuveen Incom- parable by St. Dominic’s Pearl and Beauty Second of Hercuveen, the winning dog and best of the breed, is a full brother of Hercuveen Alice, owned by Mrs. Durphy, and uncle to the nine puppies raised on a bottle. Janet Snow made her debut as a judge, looking almost too young for the job, but she judged carefully and well. Mrs. Sidney Franc, one of the most enthusiastic breeders of the Pekingese in New York, swept the boards. The peke lovers could find no fault with the awards, for every dog shown by Mrs. Franc was in marvelous coat and had all other points necessary to carry them through. The Dromore Kennels, owned by Ernest Sharland of Baltimore, made a clean sweep, did Mrs. Franklin Pekes, which is most unusual. Shar- 1and won in four classes at the Pom- eranian show and should have gone to winners, but Mrs. Frank Clark sent him straight through to winners and best of breed at the Westminster Kennel Club show. Dromore Sensa- tion, a tiny black Pomeranian seemed to know that he had strong competi- tion, for he paced like a little race horse and jumped upon the block to be judged with none of the timidity shown by the other dogs. The easy winning of Dromore Sensation, by his perfect showing, should be a lesson to all persons going into the game, to teach their dogs to show at home, as does Sharland, one of the most suc- cessful breeders of Pomeranlans in the United States. Markwood Mitzi, a splendid bull terrier owned by R. H. Elliot, sur- prised the talent by taking winners and best of the breed. This, was not the only surprise given the dog lov- ers, there were many, and quite a number of champlons got the gate and the younger ones remained. Washington was well represented at the Westminster Show, but Mrs. Durphy was the only exhibitor. The Duke of Arlington was at the en- trance to greet you. His stall was arranged at one side of the lobby and there never was a time during the day that a crowd of persons were either petting or shaking hands with the Duke. Mrs. .Durphy says that nearly every person stopping to speak to the Duke contributed to the distemper fund being collected to pay for the sclentific research for the most dreaded disease of animals. A letter has been received from Mrs. Catherine Ingersol, living in Alpes Maritimes, France, saying that he is very proud of her Pekingese “Wang of Lockwood,” sired by Red stud Lo-Sang Kee, a local dog. Mrs. Ingersol says that she has entered Wang in the February and March shows and is looking forward to some wonderful wins both over there and in the United States. The Maryland Kennmel Club will holds s show next Friday and Saturday in Baltimore. This show includes five other clubs: Shepherd Dog' Club of Baltimore, Maryland Beagle Club, Collie Club of America, American Foxhound Club and the American Peterboro Club. Washing- ton dog lovers will be well repre- sented, both. in the show and aa on- lookers. Ry e Dodgers, being defeated in twogames. The Dodgers are proving the “dark horse” in the race, having lost but 3 in the last 15 games, furnishing each team in the league with a setback in their last five matches, and are now Just two games out of second place. Hendley's 331 set and Ellett's game of 120 were the best in the Bucks- Yanks dlash. MoCarty ‘had the big game in the Dodgers-Reds battle, 117. Pirates; led by the consistent shoot- ing of Ray Roberts, who downed 317 of the sticks, defeated the Glants in two of their games. ‘Whitford continues to lead the in- dividuals with; an a3 of 103-50. Second place honors still are in dis- pute, McCarty having the edge with Sronle, with M0L-ALe ekt it 1 = ‘with B&C'a ‘with 100-49. i l‘“ ‘week's winners of prizes t c‘"‘k‘h{“"" “C, d,::- 1Bo.,.‘l. ol- ? ‘Haarer, 108 mx ohedule—Yanks vs. Reds, BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ITH tennis players génera rule as adopted by the U. our international prestige ‘inclined to support the player-writer S. L. T. A, what would happen to were Tilden to retire? This ju now is the chief topic wherever tennis enthusiasts foregather. Granting that Tilden’s absence American game of a great deal in personality of color—since the s he is great in ability—it really does from the courts would deprive the mpion is picturesque not seem likely that foreign countries would be able to deprive the United States of its laurels for a few years to come, at least. Aside from Willlam Johnston, who is not through by any means, Vincent Richards should be at top notch for three or four years at least. He is now only 21 years old. Howard Kin- sey is also young and is coming up by leaps and bounds, while he and Robert in doubles are not only the American champions, but are Eetting more formidable as a pair, season by season. Snodgrass, who rates No. T this vear, is also likely to improve his game and so is Hennessy of In- dianapolis. Then two real youngsters, George Lott of Chicago and Alfred Chapin of Massachusetts, ought to be coming along great guns in a year or so. As for the veterans, Norris Williams can still turn in an unbeatable game H had been unable to find time to call a future. He said that Swempson big-mouth bass. He was informed that while all anglers were acqualnted and more or less familiar with that particular evil, the object of the closed season was not aimed at the big-mouth bass in the lower Potomac, but for the small-mouth bass in the upper Poto- mac, where the real bass angler loves to whip the water for his favorite fish. Commercial Fishing Harmful. Of course, every angler wants pro- tection for both the small and large mouth bass, and commercial fishing is destroying at an alarming rate both of these game fish, but, this closed season was started to look after the small-mouth bass and it is to that effort all energy and endeavor should be directed. O'Malley said that in a recent con- versation with W. H. Dilg, president of the Isaak Walton League of Amer- ica, about the closed season for small- mouth bass, in the Potomac, Dilg called his attention to the commercial side of bass fishing in the Potomac and said that he considered it most important to have this stopped first. This column will not argue that point other than to say that the Potomac below Washington fs a wide body of water and above Washington is com- paratively small but long. There now is pending in Congress a bill to prevent the interstate ship- ment of bass, which, if passed, will put a severe crimp in commercial fishing of this fish. On the other hand, from personal observation and hearsay, the commercial fishermen on the upper Potomac aré not making a very lucrative living from the catch of “small-mouth bass, because the bass are not there to be taken. The object of the ovement is to have a closed season for the protec- tiogof the bass that have been prom- ised by the Bureau cf Fisherles, but if protection 18 not afforded there will be nos fish placed in the upper Potomac, because the bureau does not intend to do all the work necessary to restocking the stream to have them killed or captured before maturity. The three-year closed season will al- low plenty of time for these small fish to reach table size, as after the first year they galn a pound a year, Representative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland, who represents the Dis- trict through which the Potomac flows, says that while he heartily in- dorses the movement, he does not see how any act of Congress could be passed closing the Potomac for the necessary time, as the matter is with- in the jurisdiction 6f the States and the Federal Government could not legislate on a matter of that kind. He told this column, however, that if he could be of any service in_this connection not to hesitate to call on him, Laws Are Explicit. The whole matter now seems to be entirely in the hands of the United States fish commissioner, and it is hoped that he will call a conference at the earllest convenient time, and at this conference it might be possi- ble to have the laws already passed when he is in the mood and Bill John- ston, as said, is by no means through. It i doubtful, according to the best judges, that the two younger stars of Australian tennis, Kaims and Schlesinger, will rise to the heights of the veterans, Brooks, Anderson, Wood and Patterson, . it would seem, have given m than faint indica- tions of slipping. England offers nothing to worry about. France does. La Coste is mak- ing great strides and Cochet and Bo- rotra are young, ambitious and pable of further development. If the United States is to lose her crown in the future, France perhaps will be the one to take it. But not, it would seem, in the next two years in any event. ca- ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER. AVREY O'MALLEY, commissioner of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, said yesterday that owing to the rush of business and ghe few remaining days of the present session of Congress, he conference of the fish commissioners of Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, but would do so in the near ‘arle was having his troubles with the oyster question at this time and that he thought it best to wait a more opportune time to call the conference. O'Malley said that some members of the fishing fraternity had ex- pressed the opinion that the most serious thing to consider at the pres- ent time was the commercial fishing in the lower Potomac for the enforced and not require a season. Paragrdph 40, page 50, of the con- servation laws of Maryland regard- ing the catching of fish in the Poto- ac reads as follows: ason for catching bass in Poto- it shall not be lawful for a person to catch or kill any black bass, green bass, rock bass, pike or pickerel or wall-eyed pike (common- Iy known as salmon) between the 15th day of April and the Ist day of June ¢f each year, nor catch or kil any of said species of fish at any other time during the vear, save only with rod, hook and line or dip net. The words ‘hook and line’ shall not include trot line or out lines. Sec- tion 40 is 2 compact between Mary- land, Virginia and West Virginia. Maryland jurisdiction extends to op- te shore on Potomac River.” The same law applies to the tribu- taries of the Potomac. Section 40 would seem to prohibit the use of any kind of seine or net, gig or gig iron, fish bapkets or fish pots, eel weirs, brush or fascine nets, trot line or lines, but every fisher- man who frequents the upper Poto- mac knows that these are belng used almast every day of the vear. Not only does this column know positively that they are, but it also knows the names of a great many fishermen who are engaged in,illegal methods of capturing these gamesters and is perfectly willing to present their names to the conference when it is called. Must Prod Game Wardens. If the laws already passed are euf- ficlent for the protection of fish, then why are they not enforced. This is a question that each of the three States will have to answer, Let us consider the game wardens They are appointed for two years and any of them may be removed by the conservation commission at any time upon proof satisfactory to it that he is not vigorously enforcing the game and fish laws of the State, or is not a fit person for said posi- tion. The Maryland law says that a game warden has the right to search with or without a search warrant, and if he has reason to believe that any person or corporation has in his or its possession contrary to law any bird, game or fish it shall be his duty as game warden to take such person before any justice of the peace in the county or city in which the of- fense was committed. With the laws above stated and the authority of the game wardens to en- force them, there would seem to be a laxity somewhere along the line. 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