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4 PHE SUNDAY STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 3, 1925—SPORTS/ SECTION, Roland MacKenzie Again Is Golf Victor : Better Amateur Golf Title Play Likely BEATS TUCKERMAN, 5 UP, IN FINAL AT INDIAN SPRING Eighteen-Year-Old Linksman Easily Vanquishes Veteran in Club Title Event After. Being Pressed to Eliminate C. Ashmead Fuller. BY W. R. McCALLUM. T'S getting resolve goli mnto MacKenzie. so themselves Mac Roland R enzie is just too good for Yeste lay the junior son of the ament at the Indian somewhat feeble opposition man—by the one t would be At with ‘a goli match. a procession, the Spring of a veteran of the game- led score of 5 up and # to play. tournaments about Washington nowadays personally Not that the 18-ycar-old son of would have it otherwise, or that he lacks competition, the competition conducted matches Albert R. but exhibition MacKenzic clan won himself another Goli Club, trampling down the Walter R. Tucker- It started out as if the seventh hole the break occurred and blue-clad sweater of \the juvenile ading the veteran Tuckerman a fast ride over the rolling last 11 holes. the tournament wasn't quite so ) i the sland won vear. ' He as he is now last bod then Last year he only beat Chris Dunphy by 2 and 1 in the final round. B r he stepped out on the wettest ddys of Thurs: d shot qualifying medal. And yes after'he had squeezed out a last-hole victory ovi . Ashmead Ful- ler of Chevy ase he stepped out in the final round to win by so wide a | margin over the Burning Tree ve eran that the contest resembled a race between canal barge against an eight-oared shell. There was a touch of pathos in the outcome. In Tuckerman the Mac-| Kenzie lad —splendid golfer that he is, and a coming national champion met | one of the real veterans of the game, | a man who began playing golf, long | before Roland MacKenzie was born | and who has maintained the nucleus of a steady, sound g for two dec-| ades. And when Perr B. Hoover, P iding at the presentation of prizes | vesterday, called out the names of the | winners in the five flights the pro-| sion of youngsters gave the appear- ance of a college commencement day. Instead of parchment diplomas, gleam. ing silver cups and other trophies were their The younger golf gener- ation around Washington has arrived Roland MacKenzie is only the fore- runner of other lads who will displace all of thé present top-notchers of the city before many years have gone by. Roland Extended hy Fuller. But ge back to Roland Kenzie, the Columbia lad had a »ugh time in the morning with shmead Fuller. Fuller has been playing magnificent “he spring, and George 2 on of capabilities, . Young MacKenzie he faced a tough match r Ashmead had Ro In fact this ye one of the vear 75 to win the terday Mac ather C his was aware and so it prove Jand down most of the route. was 2 up with 6 to pl Mac however, won the thirteenth | by virtue of a fine putt around a halt stymie. He missed a wee one at the | fifteenth to square, but finally con trived to get on even terms at the six teenth, where IFuiler lost a shot through too intimate acquaintance with the rough. Fuller dropped the seventh by taking three putts, a break that cost him the match, for they halved the last hole, even though Ful- ler had a really splendid chance to square had he laid a chip shot close , the hole, for Roland hooked his | second shot into a trap near the green and took Tuckerman had come through with an easy 5 and 4 victory over W. R. McCallum of Washington in the morn The Burning Tree veteran was very much on his game, having par left at the fourteenth for a 74 when he ended the match, while McCallum was not so good. | On the strength of the form | Tuckerman displayed in the morning | an even match was in prospect for| the afternoon against MacKenzie, but after the first seven holes, when Tuckerman cracked, MacKenzie just romped through. Roland Fakes First Hole. Roland started out in the afternoon by winning the first hole, laying his second shot about 15 feet from the pin, while Tuckerman didn't get home in two. But Tuckerman camé back with a win at the ond to square when Roland failed to get home in two shots, while Tuckerman laid a chip shot dead and holed the putt. Tuckerman made a sorry hash of the third hole, topping his tee shot and finally getting down in 6, to 4 for MacKenzle, putting the young ster 1 up. Even though they both found trouble at the fourth they halved in 4, first Roland and then Tuckerman holing putts of more than 15 feet in length. Both reached the fifth ~hots and a half in 4 resulied took three putts at the short cnabling Tuckerman to square mateh, and they halved the seventh. MacKenzie started to pull away at he elghth. He stung a great iron <hot to the fgr side of the eighth «reen, and won the hole with a 4 to Tuckerman’s five, and then, although | e took three putts after driving the inth green, he won the hole to be- ome 2 up, for Tuckerman took four | shots et down from the edge of | the green. The procession turned nto & runaway for Roland at_the| onth and eleventh, for he won both | holes to become 4 up, the tenth when Tuckerman’s second shot went over he green, and the eleventh when the | all Burning Tree player caught a rap with his second shot Half Styme Stops Tuckerman. Tuckerman should have won the welfth, but a half stymie gave him s than an even chance for a 3. t putt and he wissed, a half in resulting At this hole Tuckerman played one of the finest shots of the a full spoon shot to the gree 1feer a badly hit drive ] Roland won the thirteenth to be- yme dormie 5 up when Tuckerman hooked his second shot into a trap, vhile Roland hit the ball so far off the tee he had anly a short chip left | the green at the 334 yard hole. fhey halved the fourteenth and Roland had put away another golf :vent in his bag. Tuckerman, had he played his best zame, would have givem Roland a hard fight, but the superior length and accurac of the Columbia lad doubtless would have told in the end. The vouth was from 30 to 100 yards onger off the tee than his veteran rdversary. One of the hardest fights of the afternoon came in the final round of | the second flight, when Reginald | Loftus of Chevy Chase and Karl ¥. Kellerman of Columbia went to the nineteenth hole before victory came 10 Loftus. Loftus sank a 50-foot putt at the eighteenth to square the match with a 4 after coming to the last hole 1 down, while Kellerman's try for the half hit the back of the cup und just stayed out. Loftus laid up 1+ fine mashie-shot to the extra hole gnd won with a birdie 3. The reverse was the case in_the * nineteenth hole match between W. E. Baker and Clyde B. Asher, both of Columbia. Although Asher won the reen in two | Roland sixth, | new the |¢ | Kessler. 12 two holes to square, after being Jormiie 2 dowg, he lost on the ninc teenth when he missed a putt for a half in 4. Cards of the Finalists. E s of the MacKenzie-Tuckerman match follow: four-foot Bye holes not played out. The voungsters about the city had a field day over the long Indian Spring course, winning no less than 10 prizes | in the tournament. Final Results of Tourney. Final results of the tournament follow: First Kenzi semi-final—Roland R. Mac- A. “Faller, Tuckerman, Burn- R. McCallum,’ Wash. ington, 5 and 4. Final—MacKenzie defeat- ed Tuckerman. 5 and 4 Consolation=—J.'F. Brawner. Columbia, de- feated A. R. MacKenz d Gene Kane, unattache unattached. 1 up. Second " flight, _semi-final—R hevy Chase, defeated Tom Sprin .’ Colum bia, ¢ 5 ¥ .4 and 3. ’ ellerman, 1" up in 19 hol Consolation—C. B. Asher defeated A. ¥. Preecott, Colum! E.“Baker.' Co’ lumbia. ‘defeated N. B. Frost. unattac and 2% Final—Baker defeatéd Asher, in 10 holes Third flight. :semi-final—W. W, Columbia. defeated E i and 27 Paxe Hufty. LR Hough, Congrenslonai flight. Cc “Brawner defeated A. Loftus. Moore, indian | Kane. 4 and 3 b Rapley Bono. ‘Bannockburn, unattached, defeated d 1. Final— Miller. Chevy er, Columbia, Wannan, unattached, 1 defeated Brawner, Fourth flight—H. defe S defoated A. T Final—Hatch % ‘and 2. D. Cashman, Wi Pope. Indiay Spring. Columbia, defeated Final—Cash up. Consolation—R. gefeated M. Beam V. Bever. Columb Indian Spring. by default. Final—Rose de feated Beyer. 1 up. Fitth flight—R. Coombs. Kirkside, de. . C. Alvord, Bannockburn, by default: tached, defeated A. R. Mack: > and 1. Final—Day defeated 1 up in 19 holes Consolation-=C. W. Cole, unattached. won by defaull: W_H, Finckel. ir. Columbia, afeated F. C. Clarke. Indian 17 FiRal—Cole defeaied Finckel, . Indian Spring. Columbia, 2 and 1: B! ‘won {rom H.P. Coehran, STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE yesterday, v, Washington organization Country Va Golf and at Jewell, Baltimore Entries for the Washington event | close tomiorrow night with the golf committee of the club and Fred D. Paxton, chairman. Up to last might a rough count ap- proximated the entries at more than 100 plavers. Double that number are expected to compete in the tourna- ment. Roland R. MacKenzie, the District .amateur champlon and winner of the Indian Spring event vesterday, will play at Washington. He won there also last year. More than a score of men from Baltimore will play, 18 entrjes having come in vesterday from the Maryland Country Club, where the Middle Atlantic championship will be held this vear. A golf dinner on Friday night to which all tournament contestants are invited will be one of the features of the event. The qualifying round will be played in two sections, one group starting on Wednesday, while the others will start Thursday. Friday and Satur- day will be devoted to match play. The course is in splendid condition, haying rounded into excellent shape in the last three weeks. The only feature of the course, as com- pared with the layout of last year, will | be a new tenth tee. Congressional Country Club is plan- ning a pair of closed club tourna- ments over two week ends for club members. The first tournament at match play will be held May 16 and 17, while the second will be played May and Members must sub- mit qualifying cards by May 13. Arthur W. Dunn will again head the handicap committee in charge of handicaps for the newspaper tourna- ment to be played at the Town and Country Club a week from tomorrow. Other members of the committee are W. R. McCallum, Emmet Dougherty. George R. Holmes and John P. Coak- ley. Ray Bryan is chairman of the committee on prizes, which also in- cludes Raymond B. Clapper and Gene Officials of the Town dnd Country Club will present a cup to the player with the low net score. Roland MacKenzie’s great length was well fllustrated on the 12th hole | of the final round at Indian Spring yesterday, when partially against the wind he played the hole with a drive nd a niblick shot. The hole is 440 vards in length. He followed this great tee shot with a ball nearly hole high at the 13th, 334 yards. Burning Tree is mot planning to hold a tournament until the course is completely finished. Members of the | club_hold that the course still is not wholly finished and do not care to have an open event until it is. . Merle Thorpe's holen-one last Thursday at Burning Tree was the first ace recorded on any of, the holes at Washington’s newest country club. 1 came on the eleventh hole, a ¢ difficylt affair of more than 160 | vards to « well-trapped green sioping toward the player. Leo Diegel, well known golf pro, has left Washington for New York to take up his duties at the Glen Oaks Club of Great Neck, Long Island, where the celebrities of the stage and press who work in New York live their outdoor life. Leo does not in- tend to go to Great Britain, notwith- standing the inducement held out to him by the Florida club, with which he will be cordnected next Winter. The Florlda club offered him $1,000 if he wins either of the two big open championships. il \\n«h!n"lnn Friday JONES SHOOTS FIVE UNDER PAR WITH 67/ ATLANTA, Ga., May 2. — Bobby Jones, amateur golf champion of the United States, and Watts Gunn, Geor- gla Tech College star, defeated Walter Hagen. Britlsh open champlon, and Harold Callaway, La Grange, Ga., for- mer professional, 5 up and 4 to go, over the East Lake course here today. Bobby Jones was at the top of his game and was accorded excellent sup- port by the long-hitting Gunn. Jones ran down a long putt for a birdie 2 on the home hole for a medal score of 67, five under par for the 18 holes. Gunn finished in-71. Hagen was out in 37, one over par, but was off the line on the second nine and required 40 to get home, his medal score being 77. Callaway took 80. Jones and Gunn were 1 up at the turn, but on the second nine Gunn contributed birdies on the tenth and eleventh holes and Jones had birdies on 12 and 13, making the match dor- mie. Gunn got another birdie down on 14 o win. The bye-holes were played, however, Jones getting an eagie 3 on the vard fifteenth. The winning pair had a low ball of 62. A gallery of approximately 1,200 persons follow- ed the match, which was refereed by Thdmas B. Payne, member of the ex- ecutive committee of the United States Golf Association. TILDEN WILL P PI.AY ON PUBLIC COURTS William F. Tilden, national tennis champjon, will appear in an exhibition match at the courts at Seventeenth and B streets, Wednesday afternoon, at 4:30 o'c’lock. Tilden's opponent for the exhibition, which may possibly include doubles with two loecal stars playing, will be A. Chapin of Springfield, Mass., one of the younger net luminaries. Tilden and Chapin will be here to participate in the Chevy Chase tour- nament. The exhibition is belng arranged by Chauncey Hackett of the Chevy Chase Club to provide the school boys and girls with an opportunity of seeing the best class of ténnis. F. & M. NETMEN DOWN HATCHETITE RACKETERS Racketers of Franklin and Marshall of Lancaster, Pa., scored decisively over the George Washington Univer- sity metmen yesterday on the Chevy Chase Club courts, winning five of seven matches played. Both doubles contests went the way of the Penn- sylvanians, only Baum and Rutley winning for the Hatchetites in the singles. The summary: Singles—Baum re and Amelia (F, and M.) dofeted Baum und Rutley (G. W.) 671 WINGING into action with the Indian Spring tournament, concluded the tournament golf schedule about Washington moves on to another big event this week—the annual Spring event of the Club over the course of the Virginia he Washington sccond in a series of eight straight weeks of play about Washington and |bave a large party ahead of them on in_(F. and M) defeated ) e1.0-3. Scwby and New (6. W), 4. tournament will be the every spare moment to go across Long Island to practice for the qualifying round of the national open champion- ship, to be played at Lido. Lido, ac- cording to Diegel, is one of the hard est courses in the world and needs more than a casual round or two to become acquainted with it. He will be near MacDonald Smith and the two plan frequent trips to Lido before the end of May, when the qualifying rounds will be played. The champion- ship_itself is to be plaved at Wor- cestér, Mass., the first week in June. Another argument against starting the local tournaments so early in the year came last week with the Indlan Spring event. On Wedpesday, the first qualifying day, it blew so hard and so cold that a ball could not be driven with stiffened muscles any dis- tance against the gale. The following day it rained, and even on Friday, when the skies practically cleared, still it rained, although not heavily. It appears that the latter part of April is a little too early to start golf tournaments about Washington, with the uncertain weather prevajling at that time of yvear. The Washington Automotive Trade Association is planning big_doings at Congressional Country Club on Mon- day, May 18, when the local auto trade organization will-be host to the Inter-City Automotive Trade League, composed of teams representing ‘Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Newark and Pittsburgh. Two rounds will be played followed by dinner at the club. Competing teams plan to arrive in ‘Washington on May 17 and will be met by members of the Washington organization and taken direct to Con- gressional. A second tournament of the Washington Automotive Trade Assoclation—this time only ‘for mem- bers of the local body—will be played over the course of Washingotn Golf and Country Club on Wednesday, May 20. It will be followed by a dinner at the club. Newspaper golfers of the city also Monday, May 11, at Town and Coun- try Club, when the anpual Spring tournament of the newspaper men will be played. The Spring tourna- ment is for the McLean trophy. Al Steinem and other members of the club have hired an extra force of greensmen to groom the course care- fully. They begin work on May 13, the day after the newspaper tourna- ment. BUELL WILL DIRECT TREASRUY NET TEAM Willard E. Buell of the Public Health Service has been elected president of the Treasury Depart- ment Tennis Assocfation. . John Seward, Internal Revenue, was named vice president, and Madi- son ,P. Coe, Federal Reserve Board, secretary-treasurer. Seward was chosen team captain, and S. Y. Me- Connell of the office of the solicitor of the Internal Revenue, vice captain. Lyle B. Henry and D. F. Murphy were elected to the executive com- mittee. The Departmental League matches begin on June 2, and will be played on the public courts near Seven- teenth and B streets. Fach match will consist of five doubles, best !‘fl out of three sets. Treasury players desiring to try out for the team should forward their names nnd uddrensen to John Seward, : L ek, I H &N llustration that should serve to give strug- gling golfers an idea of how they resist the golf club in the back swing, and, at the same time, a warming-up exercise to use just prior to the start of play, td get loosened up, like ball players do. Take a driver and swing it back as|all the spring and winding up tight- you would swing a base ball bat, then whip it forward, merely swinging through the air. Let your purpose In this be to illustrate how the right leg stiffens when you swing the club back- ward, and the similar aétion in the left leg as it is whipped forward. Re- peat this action, making the club go back and forth untll you do it with rhythm and smoothness. When rhythm is tn it, observe the momen- tary pause at each end of the swing, which gives the club time to turn. Observe also how vou hold onto the shaft with your hands. One thing 1 would like to drive home to golfers in this Is that the right side must ‘“‘stand up to its work" in the correct back swing, and that it also must “stand up” in the forward swing. One common fault among golfers is that they let the right side bulge out at the hip in the back swing. See figure 1. This releases ness that should accumulate in the back swing. The right side here should be more like the stance posi- tion, with the hip merely moved back —not out. ow see figure 2. Here the body action shows -that the weight of the | body has shifted back to the” through a too quick hip action, but the clubhead is naturally away be- hind. What happens? The player will. drop his right shoulder—droop— in order to let the clubhead thvough. The moment of the clubhead in the forward swing is lost. Figure 3 shows the clubhead being whipped through with the right side standing up to the work. The throw of the clubhead here is with the wrists, and you can see that the body weight will go Into the swing just as the ball is hit. This adds the punch that vields the_long ball. (Copyrigh ball 1925.) MISS COLLETT IS VICTOR IN MATCHES WITH MEN, By the Aseociated Presa. 5 TOKE POGES, England, May 2—Miss Glenna Collett, former Ameri- can yoman golf champion, got into her. besz form today in the first really serious matches played since arnnng in England and when her golfing day was done she-had won two fine triumphs that greatly impressed the only large gallery that as yet has watched her play in this country. Receiving a stroke every other lole, she defeated Cyril Tollcy, British amateur champion 1 up -this afternoon in a ‘beautifully played | sce-saw struggle. This morning, paired with Miss Joyce Wethered, the British woman champlon, she was victorious tn a foursome over Tolley and E. F. Storey, the latter being last year's runner-up in the British amateur champlonship. The score was 2 up, Miss Collett sink- ing a long putt two-thirds of the way across the expansive eighteenth green to clineh the morning match. Makes Thrilling Finish. In the afternoon the American player made an even more thriiling finish, so far as fighting goes. She was 2 down with 3 to pla against Tolley, and then, without hav- Ing to use these strokes available to her on the even-numbered holes, she won the sixteenth and the elghteenth, while on the seventeenth Tolley beat himself by sending his first tee shot out of bounds and his second drive under a tree only a few feet from forbidden ground. The finest shot of the day out of Miss Collett’s bag was her approach to the home hole in the afternoon, when her match with Tolley was all square. The eighteenth at Stoke Poges is 426 yards, mostly uphill and over undulating land. Miss Collett used~ her brassie for the second shot and whipped the ball full 200 yards squarely on the green, while her hard-hitting male opponent, who never during the day had used anything more powerful than a mid- iron for his second shot, was off the green with his approach. His chip shot left him still away from the grebn, and, although the American missed the 5-foot putt which her brassie shot had left her for a birdie 3, she nevertheless won the hole and the match without using her stroke allowance, for Tolley, who never s too reliable on the green, re- quired 5 to finish. . The large gallery, never very dem- onstrative here, clapped hands and set up cries of “Good shot!” when Miss Collett plunked her approach near the pin and thus defeated the ponder- ous and popular Tolley, who at the sixteenth tee had been 2 up. Makes Good Impression. _ The morning match, in which Miss Collett and Miss Wethered were part- ners, offered the first opportunity for observers to compare the play of the two women, who are conceded to be among the best golfers of their sex in their respective countries. The comparison was - not unfavorable to the young American although there are some few Britons who as yet do not concede that she has much chance of beating the British champion in singles, unless Miss Wethered is slightly off her best game. Both women played steady, sound golf during the forencon, with only one serfous slump, and, fortunately, they slimped together, so that the lapse cost them the loss of the one hole only. For the rest of the time Miss Collett drove quite as far as Miss Wethered; indeed, at times she drove as long a ball as the prodigious Tol- ley. Her iron approaches were as clean, crisp and accurate as Miss Wethered’s, and her putting, although nothing to get excited over, due prob- ably to her timidity and seeming nervousness in new surroundings, was fully as good as Miss Wethered's, who, it should be stated In all justice to her, was not- putting as well as she c-.h-ble of doing. ~ ng the whole day/Miss Collett had hardly more than half a dozen shots to which “the most exacting crities could object. Twice she missed her drives, twice she pulled her sec- ond shots too far to the left and found the rough, and two or three times her approaching . was weak. But nobody played perfectly. In the aft n Tolley, who play- ed exceedingly ~well, except at the seventeenth, took 77 for the 6,669-yard course, and Miss Collett had a gross score of 80, her net return being 9 less, or 71. She had only one 6, while Tolley probably would have taken 7 or 8 at the seventeenth. “Miss Wethered Is Winner. _Just behind the Collett-Tolley match plived Miss Wathered agalns W, A. former e but not Miss _Wethered, Murray, a first class player, 8 good as Tolley. Mke Miss Collett, received a “half. but she gained no greater victory than the American girl, for they both finished 1 up. It was a day of warm sunshine and light breezes, such as is the frequent experfence of American golfers when they are at home. The course, too, is similar to those of the United States. | How Miss Collett will fare when she encounters the wind, rain and cold of | the Scottish seaside. where her fight for the British women'’s championship must be made, no one knows, but t: day, at any rate, she seemed real to have reached her true form after almost a fortnight of the unpleasant task of getting acclimated. It was a rare fighting spirit Miss Collett showed this afternoon. Tt is not a comfortable situation to be 2 ! down to Cyril Tolley at the sixteenth tee, even with two strokes coming. But it did not phase the former Amer- ican champion. She whaled into the ball at the sixteenth, drove it well over the water hazard and dropped it in front of the green, over which it rolled and came to rest beyond the far edge. Tolley, however, had been bunkered. Miss Collett was well up to the pin with her chip back, while | Tolley left himself such a long putt that he had to take four to finish. Then at the seventeenth tee the En. glishman pulled his drive out of bounds and had to try another, which barely missed going out. When Miss Collett shot her second near the pin ‘Tolley gave up the hole, squaring the match. Then' came the eighteenth, and the American victory. g e b LEADS NAVY SWIMMERS. ANNAPOLIS, Md. May 2—The Navy swimming team has elected as captain for next year Arthur W. Rule, jr., of Westfield, N. J., probably the most notable coilege swimmer of the year. Rule is the only swimmer to hold college records in both back- stroke and free-style swimming. he does this the whip | |of | higher. NET EVENT PUT OFF BY CONGRESSIONAL The late Spring and the fact that some of the courts at Congressional Country Club will not be ready for use for several weeks have caused the golf and grounds committee of the Bradley Hills organization to post pone the first Invitation tennis tourna ment, scheduled for May 11 to 16, clusive. The change was decided upon yes- terday, but no definite date for the staging of the affalr has been set. However, it will be held some time in August and will be a round-robin af- fafr and week end party combined, with 10 leading players of Richmond, Norfolk and Baltimore invited to com: pete with Washington's best. A number of week end exhibition matches by Fastern stars are planned by Capt. Albert K. «ore, chalrman of the tennis subcommittee. e b s ROCHDAL England, May Hull. Kingston won the northern un- ion ‘rughy league cup today by de- feating Swinton, 9 to 5. OL. CLAR ping all fishing in the Tida! B C lowing ‘the receipt of a letter fish commission requesting that su The rules governing future fishing in the basin are No fishing will be permitted until June 1, 1925, After that date no one will be rmitted to take more than three ss, three crappie or three bream or sunfish in any one day. All bass under 10 inches in length will be returned to the basin, as will all crappie under 6 inches “and all sunfish under 4 inche: Fishing will be permitted the sea wall only. closed Oc- rom The season will be tober 15, 1925 The matter of charging a small fee for the privilege of fishing in the basin probably will follow later. If this is done, the money’ derived will be used in maintaining fishing in the basin and als> to defray the cost of obtaining fish to restock the and to provide for the maintenance ks at the inlet and outlet gates. According to Col. Sherrill, the con cession for maintaining the basin as the best fishing body of water of its type in the United -States will placed in the hands of the joint wel fare service, and this service is plan- ning to contribute $1.000 to supple- ment the fund being raised by lic subscription for the instal the screens and on other work neces- sary for keeping the fish within the basin, tion of Herring and Perch Here. What is the matter with the ring and perch? The answer is, The herring and her “noth- perch are in | the river, but all old-time anglers and men experienched in the habits of | these fish state that the water has bheen too clear and cold for them to bite and be snagged. In the care of the herring, which do not take bait, but are snagged, these men state that they are in the deep water and will not come to the surface until the temperature of the water gets a little The same thing holds true for the perch, except that they do not swim on the surface as a general thing, but their appetite ave been dulled by the continued coldness of the water. As an evidence that the Spring fish are all making their way to the up- { waters of the river between the Aque- |duct and Chain bridges, two rockfish | about 12 inches in length were caught opposite Reyfolds” boat house on a trot line This morning the water was a little discolored and the current pretty swift following the rain of the last couple of days, but this condition will help | fishing this time instead of being a handicap. About Tuesday or Wed- | nesday of this week the anglers of Washington will commence to be re. warded for their trips, according tp river-front men. Bass in Maryland. Fish troubles of the State of Mary- land and the United States Fish Com- mission have been solved to a large extent b; overy of a Maryland stream well stocked with black bas according to State Conservation Com missioner Swepson Barle As a result the State of Maryland has secured approximately 400 black bass to_stock the State hatchery at Lewiston and has agreed to Jurnish the Fish Commission with 200 of the fish for the Government hatcheries. For a long time the,representatives of the State Conservation Commission have been investigating streams in Maryland, looking for bass in suffi clent numbers to furnish the needs of the fish hatcheries. The Black- water River, in lower Dorchester County, was finally found to contain black bass in large numbers and the fish from this stream are being trans- ferred to the hatcheries. This column will endeavor to learn whether the United States Fish Com- mission cannot plant some of these "BE SURE Silence is Golden SUNOC ¢The Distilled MOTOR OIL will sound, for they can’thear you coming when you use Sunoco. your horn Sold. at all Seven basin | be | pub- | EW YORK, May N What is more, in the amateur classic U.'S. G. A. the matter nicely, and it is with the increasing popularity of the gan was becoming so large it committee after great deliberation seems probable that the changes of the tournament next September will bring about a much more satis factory championship in every respect ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER. 0. SHERRIL] L issued orders last Thursday stop- asin until June 1. This was done fol- from Commissioner O'Malley of the ch action be taken immediately ar also requesting a limit on the size and number of fish to be taken fron the basin in any one day’s fishing when the sport is resumed Blackwater River bass Basin. . American Forest Week. All sportsmten and lovers of great outdoors are urged to co-ope in observing American week in the the ate Forest {1t cun readily be seen that the pro tection of the forests and absolutely | tion of game, | pendent forests. If a forest is cleared off ruthlessly, with no regard to pring ond crop of timber and the ar denuded allowed to burn over, impossible for nature restock the |land. * Then the cover for the wild {life and the absorbent qualities of the ground are destroyved, causing the streams {o flow intermittently. driv ing away the game and killing | fish. Some very interesting facts have Jjust been nade public by Glen C. | Leach, assistarit in charge of fish cul | ture of the Bureau of Fisheries, in a pamphlet on propagation and distribu tion of food fish for the year 1924 During the fi 1 year 1924 the fish cultural work of the Bureau of Fish. eries, including artificial propagation and rescue worl involved the han dling of 53 species of fish. The com- | bined work of the fish cultural and the Irescue stations of the bureau result {ed in a gross output of | eggs, fry and fingerling fish l(\ <es_in transportation amounted 27, leaving a net total of 5,361, 4filflfi 4 fish and eggs actually I‘]l.\ | tributed. an increase of 1,045. {over the met output of the preceding | vear. waters is to the wild life is de of necessary presery as all the existence on the i a 5o it Handled Many Varieties. About 90 per cent of the output con sisted of such i the salmons, whitefish. cisco, pike perch, yellow perch, shad. herring, cod, had dock. pollock and flounder and a great number of sunfish, black bass and crappies were also handled by, the bureau. : During the vear 1 propagation work was conducted at 35 main sta ms and 40 substations of the bh- u. The output of fish obtained through the rescue of stranded fishes in fhe Mississippi ley region was increased over 1923 by upward of 10,500,000, and a large increase in egg collections over those of the preceding year is shown. The bureau finds a growing senti- ment in favor of fish protection evi denced through the recent changes in the fishery laws of man ates, the more favorable enacted beirg made through the influence and united efforts terested organizations and individuals It is realized that if the streams are depleted there will be no means of obtaining fish or fish eggs for propa- gation, and for a long time the bureu has been urging the protection of fish during the spawning semson, a reduc- tion in the bag limit and an increase in_the size limit. Mr. Leach emphasizes the fact that it the supply of fish in public streams is to be maintained it is very essen- tlal that special consideration be given to these three important points. To begin with be confined to one to September 5 blessing. zgle strr lasted or more, | contestants, nate enough 1o go were physical tournament the Second will hest play. now the nai akeS them scores in And thirdl send his ment WITH BUT 16 IN MATCHES, LINKS SKILL SHOULD TELL Big Fields Necessitating Long Tournaments Have Made Other Championships Te Rather Than Artistic Efforts. of Stamina, BY RAY McCARTHY. —The decision of the sociation executive committee to restrict the field amateur championship this year to 16 player. out the best golf that has ever béen plaved in this tot | competition was fast developing into a marathon contest, and brute strength were more of an asset than g United As- the national to bring Th where i f skil - unwield to have in the was andle cond the ta wee This, In previo for w to the final rc wre Would Be Great ¥ hited to apy proced perspiri aps b sed ippe will be e! cipation fair, light to be sure eXecutive ¥ nament of ti in the ¢ { out | bre | manag the | other fying the the course. All this means that 4 result players qu alifyin those In the first pla the 18, only golf will q proper ment less stress the game play bound to shown remains Ouimet, Geo better mean placed will that Zolf. th be they ers and Stars Would Be Playing fall to make th by the records. that - Bobby Jesse Sweetser Jones. champio would have whether 1 Admitting have done tions is a move in the rig This ruling wi the various tor aid in is only obtain Iy stimblate interest naments and incid developing golfers. in competition that one the experience necessary championship play D. C. FRIENDS RACKETERS DEFEAT BALTIMOREANS Friends’ School racketer ington shut out the Baltimore ¥ at the former’s courts yest Johnson and Ru 0. day irnished the feature match Felter (BI. deteated n (W) Hitz (W.) Hige (B Doubies—Jol Brown Fink PRINCETON, T Princeton Polo Club here today ' WILNER’S BLUE SERGE Russell and_Post (Bh 5 '~ TAILORED-TO-ORDER 100 per cent all-wool and guaran- teed not to fade from the sun or rain. 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