Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1925, Page 21

SPORTS. CHAMPION LITTLE KNOWN UNTIL TRIUMPH IN OPEN His Greatest Usefulness Has Been Ability to Teach Game—Love for Home Life Also Kept Him Out of Tournament Play. i BY RAY McCARTHY. ILLIE MACFARLANE, national champion of 1925, has been a long time coming into his own. The main reason he has not appeared prominent in competition previously is that he has kept aloof, preferring to attend to his duties in his own quiet way open goli as%a golf professional. As a matter of fact. Macfarlane's greatest usefulness in this game has been his ability to instruct. The tall, angular Scot, who looks like a| schoolmaster, takes delight in imparting his knowledge of the game to others. He has made no real attempt to advance his fortune in tournament play, although whenever he has seen fit to enter competitive lists in practically every instance he has kept pace with the leaders and more often than not he has broken through to victory The simple fact is that Macfarlane | inasmuch as all prophets are subject | is first and last a family man He |to the well known, raspberry when has a charming wife und a lovable | their predictions go astray, he is tak: little daughter of some 10 vears, who | ing this opportunity to point out that endeared herself to all golfers here.|this tournament developed along the | Willle is devoted to both, and be- | lines he sugzested. Ten golfers were | cause he ha preferred to remain by | named likely to set the pace— home fires rather than to seek qut| Bobby Jones, Johnny Farrell, Mac. fame and fortune in champlonship | Donald Smith, Walter Hagen. Gene tournaments he has not obtained the | Sarazen, Willle Macfarlane, Francis | renown or the monetary reward that | Quimet, William Melhorn, Leo Diegel | SEIght hitve: been Bis Dafore, and Jock Hutchison. Of these seven & | finished in the money. Great and Amiable Player. | . Of this 10 the chances of three— | What kind of a golfer is this Mac- | Jones, Farrell and Smith—were favor- farlane, conqueror of the great Bob- | €d above those of the rest of the fleld by Jones, the olf world is asking? |Jones tied for the champlionship, Far- The answer is that this easvgoing | rell finished a stroke behind. ~Smith | Scot, with large blue eves and a |did not show, but in view of his great | B ae wille a8 Fhe Beim. oF golf this Spring it would .have been | Panama, is one of the most brilliant | impossible to leave him out of any | shot makers in the game. What the | rating. | gallery saw in the final struggle be- | rrell, with any kind of luck, tween Jones and Macfarlane was a |OUght to win the open championship | great contest of wonderful shots. In|Within the next three vears. He is| this respect especially this particular | 100 §00d a golfer to be held off much | match was one of the most spectacu- |longer. Iver since his debut in open | 1 er Dl championship competition Farrell has | Macfarlane is not a great hitter, | been knocking at the door. Each year | which explains why Jomes outdrove |Das seen him advance a step nearer | him repeatedly. Likewise he is not|the top. Every season, too, has seen the best putter in the game, although | Some improvement in his game, for he is good in both departments. But | Farrell, in addition to being a great | he is a wonderful plaver of the irons | Shotmaker, is highly intelligent pro- | and a shotmaker de luxe, and be-|fessionally. | cause of his ability in this respect he Another feature of this tournament | always can be counted on to hold his [ VS the comeback of Gene Sarazen,| oWt A AL the lion-hearted little linksman, who Macfarlane came to this country |40€S not know the meaning of the 16 years ago. Formerly he was pri. |Word quit. Gene had not been play vate instructor to Murray Guggen- ing any too well of late. He went to| heim, the copper king, who at ti is|the open tournament, however, de-| a_ very steady player, thanks ty|termined to give everything he had Willie's teachings. About five vearg|iN @ Ereat attempt to repeat his bril- | ago Macfarlane took the position of | lant victory at Skokie. How near he Rolt professional at Oak Ridge |came to succeeding is » matter of neighboring club of Quaker Ridec |NiStory. Two strokes out, and with a | where Johnny Farrell s located . The |Detter break in luck, he would have | pair have engaged in frequent golf |Peen out in the lead combats, and it is still a question of great debate at these two clubs as | to which s the better. Though defeated in the final strug- le Friday, Bobby Jones remains one of the greatest golf players of all time. To say that he is the greatest would invite debate, particularly from admirers of Walter Hagen, but it can- not be denied that at the rate he is going the Atlanta boy will set up a record of competitive play that will never be equaled in quality. When the writer stated before the tourney that everything pointed to a very open tournament, little did he | think the competition would be so | extremely keen or the caliber of golf so brilliant. The fact that at least|George Duncan, the peerless Scot, | six players had the chance of win-|says is one of the most promising | ning right up to the last hole indicated | golfers he has seen in this country, how fast the going was. gratifying to his admirers, and | The writer dislikes to take rank |vindicated their boast that this iad | amang the I-told-you-so class, but|will be heard from shortly. WOMEN IN SPORT By CORINNE FRAZIER Game Getting Faster. The - showing of Farrell, Sarazen, Diegal, Espinosa, Turnesa and other | youngsters indicates the game is be- | coming faster every year. Three| over fours in a sizzling heat is quite some golf, and illustrates clearly just how much America has devetoped in the game. The comeback of Francis Ouimet, | the most popular amateur in the | game excepting possibly Jones, gave | the large gallery a great kick. This| wonderful shotmaker gave a marvel- | ous exhibition up to the final three holes, The showing of young Turnesa, who | Girls’ athletic organizations, attention! This is YOUR column, conducted for your information and conven- ience, in order that you may know what District girls are doing in the field of athletics. The Star wants news of YOU. Whatever you may be doing it is news. Whether it be swimming, hiking, holding business meetings, basket ball, base ball, tennis, track, riding or what not The Star wants to know about it. The Star will be glad to publish advance notice of any activity you may plan and to tell all about it after ii is over, so that those who didn’t share in it will know what they missed. It is impossible 1o visit or call each organization daily. For this reason you are invited to get “The Star habit.” Call the Sporting De- partment and give your news to Corinne Frazier. It will be published in this column. morning for the purpose of awarding letters and numerals to i i members of the girls’ rifle and hockey teams and to crown the fair performer chosen as the “best all-around athlete” by popular vote of the athletic association. The distinction of being the winner of the all-around athlete cup at Western is valued above all other honors accorded to girls and the keenest interest centers annually around this award. The name of the winner never is made public until she is called upon to take the stage during the eventful award assembly The tennis awards will be made | awwards to the following girls: Eliza- later, after the completion of the | beth Brady, captain; Betty Brown, Spring tournaments, which now are | manager; Marion Bafley, Louise Bebb, LTEAT Marjorie Garland, Mollie Reld, Peggy I L e oy ayante? Silber, Ruth Britt, Elizabeth Clark, STERN HIGH SCHOOL will hold a special assembly Wednesday the | one American star has only two which count for letter-credits, have each reached the semi-finai| round. In the senior tourney Virginia Mitchell will meet Lillian Rixey and Florence Seward will oppose Virginia Brant. Katherine Berrall and Mary Zeigler will meet in the upper bracket semi- finals of the junior tourney, while Helen Zeigler is waiting in the lower half for the completion of a third round match. Members of the V. Brown schlag ball team, champions of section BT (the Chevy Chase tion) -of the Columbia Heights division, received letters for their individual perform- ance on the playgrounds at a special award assembly held this morning in the Chevy Chase School auditorium. The monograms were double “C’s,” in maroon and gray, the Chevy Chase colors. Ruth Coleman, director of the Chevy Chase playgrounds, presented the Equip your car with new tires _PROBEY TI 9th & P Sts. NW. RE STORES 2104 Pa. Ave. NW. Louise Hoover and Katherine Hillyer. At the same assembly the play- ground pennant wus awarded the win- ning team in the Chevy Chase play- grounds’ minor Schlag Ball League. The 8-B team claimed the honors, hav- ing played through a season of 28 games without a single defeat. Members of the 8-B team are: Kath- erine Hoover, captain; Marion Bates, manager; Henrletta Berry, Mary Rieker, Ruth Schreiber, Edith Mitch- ell, Betty Hoover, Mary Garland, Mary Clark and Mary Reed. The assembly was followed by ‘a party in honor of the two cham- pionship teams. Miss M. I, Given, principal of the Chevy Chasé school, and Miss Coleman acted as hostesses. The first series of the Girls’ B. Y. P. U. Tennis League matches will start on Monday, June 22. Mary Ruthven, president of the league, will announce the schedule later. Arrangements for courts must be made by each team individually. | Balance Monthly 30x32 Tire, $11.00 Six Months to Pay! 1200 H St. N.E THE EVENING BELIEVE IT ‘OR NOT. Tue BOYs CLUB (MiDGET TeAm) STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, —BY RIPLEY. AN EARTH EATER of the OTTOMAC. s Caves fox o} Philadelphia - past 60 years o} age HAS' QUALIFIED CONSECUTIVE TiMES IN THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT y). NN . JORANN BARATIER, “7/4 Qerman (Wonderkind. COULD READ,WRITE, AND SPEAI GERMAN, FRENCH, LATIN, GREEX AND BEBREW AT THE N, Won 145 STRAGHT GAMES OF BASKETBALL FINE FIELD OF LINKSMEN IN COLUMBIA CLUB EVE THIS TENNIS VICTOR | IS OVERESTIMATED| | From England comes a letter warn- | ing American woman players not to | Ret too greatly excited over Joan Fry the young British girl who recently sprang into fame by defeating the | champion, Kitty McKane Miss McKane has been seen in ac tion in this country and mcve than suffered de- feat by her racquet in France England. This means that any yo girl who beats the English woman in a tournament match is playing a high-class brand of tennis But while Mi; McKane did not prof. fer any alibis, she seems to have heen | in a position to do so had she cared to_violate sporting ethies For one thing, M McKane is also English champion in that pecul iar game known as Baminton. Now Radminton is sort of battledore and shuttlecock and has a technique all | its own. Rather a silly sort of game and vet not without merits. Miss McKane had just finished her season at Badminton, when she step. ped onto the courts as finalist against Miss Fry. The element of personal risk in Badminton is negligible as a rule, but in her play the English ten- nis expert seems somehow to have sus- tained a damaged ankle. And so with a damaged ankle. which militated against celerity, endurance and all that sort of thing, and with her visual judgment askew because | of indulgence in a game in which the | ball is all feathered up like an In- | dian’s war bonnet, she was defeated by Miss Fry. WILLIAMS TOPS CLASS A TRAPSHOTS AT BENNING ‘Williams, Reamer, Gillette and Mon- roe were high scorers Saturday in the weekly trapshoot at Washington Gun Club. Williams led Class A with 46x50, Reamer was best in Class B with 41x50, Gillette topped Class C with 31x50 and Monroe was doubles victor with 17x24. Other scores: Parsons, 36x50; Jameson, 20x50; Ber- rier, 17x25; Groom, 15x25. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F [ NOTHING BUT BARGAINS We've never offered a finer selection of good used cars. 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Men will compete in the fancy dive and the 210-vard and 90-yard free- style swims, while woman contestants will engage in 60-yard free and 60-yard back stroke races. Entries for Saturday’s races, which | are to be held under the sanction of | the A. A. U., will close Wednesday eve- | ning at 6 o'clock. All registered ath- |letes of the District are eligible to compete. Seven events, including two South Atlantic championships, are listed for July 25. Men's events include the 90- vard free style swim, and the 150-yard back stroke for the South Atlantic outdoor title. Women will compete in the 60-yard free, the fancy dive, the 90-yard breast stroke and the 150-yard back stroke, -the last mentioned for | the sectional championship. A third program will be staged on| September 5 and will include two | championship events, one for women |and one for men. GIRL SWIMMING STAR WILL BECOME A PRO W YORK, June 8 ().—Helen | Wainwright, woman all-around swim- | | ming champlon, has announced her | entry into the professional ranks. | She will turn in her amateur card at the New York offices of the Ama- | teur Athletic Union and will accept one of several offers as swimming and | diving coach. “For four vears 1 have been| swamped with offers to turn profes- | Sional,” Miss Wainwright said, “but | I have always resisted until now. And | I have made up my mind at last, be- cause I am determined to swim' the | English Channel.” | She has been swimming and diving | since she was nine vears old. At the age of 12 she won the junior national 400.yard relay champlonship in world- record time for girls. Last Winter she won the pen- tathlon title, emblematic of the all- | team o some extent as they lacked | SPORTS. r ize Up AMERICAN ARMY PLAYERS PROGRESSING IN LONDON Appear to Be More Accurate Than British Rivals But Are Not so Well Mounted—English Team " Hurt by Absence of One of Stars. United times ing, No. 3, and Maj. V. back. is British Player Is Il Although the British team has had three trial matches, Maj. Lockett has been unable to participate, owing to fllness. This has handicapped the by Chiissso D News Co « ess Heights base ball ed another (The foilowing dispatch by an outstanding authority on international pole States and Great Britain now have been seen in action at London its ponies fit and organizing its teamwork. The team, however, did not able to play faster games than its American rivals, first, because the The personnel of the teams as they [in all, they hi it 18 s ates Army, Maj. A. H. W much to their own devices, especially back. British |their own against the well mounted . Lockett, {good and accurate hitters. It is e: inclined to think the British better (Copyright. 1 their captain’s instructions against the redoubtable Jhodapore countr The Jhodapore Club not e add B string been built up excellently through | tories vesterday to 6, in a game that BY MAJ. E. BELL. (Special Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily News ) written specially for The Star and Chicago Daily News.) ] ONDON, June 8—The rival teams of the armies of and the writer is now able to give an account of their form to d The American team utilized the time spent at Aldershot in ge play any fast games up to the time of its arrival in London last Saturday The British team has been practicing at Tidworth, where it wa ponies already were fit and, second, because it was faced by opposition. undoubtedly will play in the final against Lord Wodehouse's team matches will be about as follows:| Wodchouse left the Americans too ; Capt. C. H. Gerhardt, No. | Maj. Wilson, who shot € goals out of P. P. Rhodes, No. and (10 trials. The American ponies held . No. 1; W. |opposition. J. P. Den-| It is obvious the Americans vet to give any reasoned estimate of the two teams, but the writer mounted, but the Americans more accurs The Somerican seans st appesr CONGRESS HEIGHTS ance in London at the Ranlagh Club e bty SCORES'OVER HESS ordeal for their first fast game in this i Al only has the best mounted team in | London, but its combination play has | e e many tournaments in India. by nosing out the The game resulted in a defeat of | Hess Seniors, 7 the Americans by a score of 10 goals | o, 5 before to 2. This was due almost entirely to their inability to maintain the |decision could be reached into an ex nning a |around championship; the low-board | fancy-diving _championship and the | 220-yard free-style swimming cham-| plg hip. 1 HARRY KNIGHT SETS " PACE FOR CANOEIST Harry Knight, C. W Franklin Larcombe, three members of Washington Canoe Club’s Olympic four, with J. T. Leckert, vesterday captured the senior four singles and senic four double blades events in the club’s first regatta of the season. Knight also captured the senior | single-blade event, and, paired with Leckert, lande the tandem double- |blade race. Yost Harbaugh turned |in a_ stellar performance when he | nosed out Leckert in single-oar half- Havens and Club, one of the high spots of the scason about Washington, which | mile event. Summaries: have closed with the golf committee of the club, disclosc a smaller | | entry list than last year when more than 300 players sent in their names | o Nevertheless for the Spring classic. Washington and Baltimore, with a every golfer of prominence about few from other cities, has entered and the Columbia cvent promises to be fully as fine as the many enjoyable have will with ednesda qualifying on will be announced tomor rounds will start on mi-final and final rounds carded turday Additional entries will be received today entry list, with about entered nety-six players will qualify in s zhts for the match play rounds, considerably less than half the field, and the struggle for a place in the first sixteen is certain to be keen. In addition to such local stars as Roland R. MacKenzie, Walter R. Tuckerman, Chris J. Dunphy, Albert R. MacKenzfe, Donald odward, Miller R. Stevinson, J. F. Brawner, Karl F. Kellerman, jr. and Tom Moore, such well know; s from Baltimore as Thomas W. for- mer Middle Atlantic champion: Frank M. Sweeney, former Maryland ama- teur title holder, and many other from the Monumental City are en- tered. Nearly a score of players from affairs that gone before. be given over half the field which will cl the players {other cities have sent in their names for the tourney. Frank Hartig, with a card of & Mo}lajflé Two hands are bet- ter than one—that’s the simple princi- ple of double grip garters. First intro- duced and best per- fected —as you might expect—by PARIS GARTERS ' NO METAL CAN TOUCH YOU Potomac 1633 doubtless | composed of a4 35 and u 33, set | course for the Beaver layout yesterday. playing in a match with “ilson Barrett former an |ler’s Golf Sehool. a new Dam three. and Har teur. Mil is now at The championship of the £l Dorado Club, played for every year, was won vesterday by H. Little, who defeated A. C. Allen over the Beaver Dam course by 5 and 4 G. D. See won the weekly handicap tournament at the Manor Club yes- terday with a card of 90—25—65, three shots in front of.three playvers tied for second place at 68. James Tay- lor, R. L. Gilbert and S. Pickering tied for second place. WILL LEAD YALE FOUR. NEW HAVEN. Conn.. June § () ~William K. Murr. '26, of Detroit. Mich., has been elected captain of next vear's Yale polo team. He has d on the team for the past two \ nswer: develops the greatest engine in 1904 .and and more dependable. Junior one-man. single blades—Won by arbaugh: Leckert, second. Senior one-man, double blades—Won by C.'W. Havens, second. single blades—Won by Havens and Davis. sec- ond Junior one-man. double blades—Won by Cohb: Howison. second Senor . four. singls blades—Won by Knight, Leckert. C. W. Havens and Lar- combe: second.” W. D. Havens. Wagner, Harbaugh and Davis tandem. double hlades—Won by Howison and Proctor. uley, third cenior blades—Won by Havens, second: Wagner, single blades—Won by Howison and Harbaugh, blades—Won by Leckert. Havens and Larcombe: Talbert, W. D. Havens, Davis, Miller, sec: ond. Tilt—Won by C. W. Havens and Knight: W. D. Havens and Leckert. second. SETS 100-MILE AUTO MARK. | DETROIT, June S.—Les Allen of | Chicago established a new dirt-track | automobile racing record here yes- terday when he covered the 100-mile | distance in 88 minutes. This cut 3 minutes from the former record es- | tablished by Tom Allen at Fort Wayrne {in 1918 D. Havens: Senior tandem Leckert and Knight | Knizht: W. D. third Junior tandem Cobh and McCauley second |~ senior | Rnight four. double | TU.S. A POLO TEAM WINS. | LONDON. June 8 (#).—The United | States Army polo team today defeated Ithe Hurlingham Club team. to 4. N\ W W “ all of the great rac- ing cars use Valye- in-Head engines? Because this type speed and power. All first place winners of the Indianapolis 500 mile race since 1912 have had Valve-in-Head engines. Buick pioneered the Valve.in-Head has used it ever since because it is ‘more powerful, more economical EMERSON & ORME “Home of the Buick” 1620 M St. N.-W. and 1016 Conn. Ave. Never Closed—Franklin 3860 |mistiming by the American plavers, | pace. The American ponies were not | Tennyson's circuit clout in the tenth fit for a hard gallop, and a great deal | frame scored the winning tally. of the missing noticeable was due to Bethesda gained undisputed pos sion of the lead in the Montgomery County League by defeating Boyds, 11 to 4, while Rockville was winning from Glen Echo, 30 to 2 owing to the pace being faster than {that to which they had been accus- tomed. Every polo player knows what such sudden increase of pace means. This also was responsible |for the lack of teamwork, an attri bute one is heginning to expect from all American polo teams. The game, however orded cellent practice and the Americans | profited, as was shown by their sec- ond display at Hurlingham. There they faced a team captained by Lord Wodchouse, which had been opposing the British army players, and de- feated it decisively by 10 goals to 6. 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