Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1925, Page 24

» ST |24 ORTFS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ’I‘t‘ESDAY, JULY 14, 1925. .SPORTS. ’ America Has Oulstripped Britain at Golf : Coaching Is Hazardous Undertaking YANKEE MEN HAVE SHOWN 3 UNDISPUTED SUPREMACY Establish Themselves by Four Victories in Last Five Open Tourneys—U. S. Women Also Are Drawing Close on Rivals. 4 BY RAY McCARTHY. Britain in the race for golf N en’s cla Considering the number of promising young girl golfers who are de- yeloping, this country ought to be able to send over a team of woman golfers in the next flve years that cousins. The recent victory of Long Jim Barnes in the British open champion- ship proved quite definitely that the United States is ahead of Great Britain in the game of golf. The vict by an Ame Jock Hutchinson was the first Amer- jean to achieve this honor. “The Hutch” won the tournament in spec- tacular manner in 1921, and Walter Hagen succeeded him as the British open champlon. The following year “the Hage” lost out by a stroke to Arthur Havers, with several Ameri- cans—Jim Barnes, MacDonald Smith, Gene Sarazen and Leo Diegel—all up in the running Last year Hagen| again won the title and this year Jim | Barnes came through. Reasons for Success. why the | There are several reasor Americans are in the lead of Great | Britain in golf. The principal reason is the number of voung star profes. stonals who have stepped into the lime. light in American golf within the past Diegel, Bill Melhorn, Al W Joe Turnesa, Bobt shank and Eddie Loos have developed | into great golfers. None of these ha as yet established records eq those of that stellar veteran triumvir ate, Hagen, Barnes and Hutchinson, but all of them have be ght up with the leaders in every major com- petition. Great Britain's golf forces suffered heavy losses fn the wa then only a few me younger school have come forward ta keep pace with Duncan, Mitchell, T lor, Ray and the other noted ve Archie Compston, young who devotes hours to pract ) Havers, Ernest Whitcomb drey Boomer are the be: b younger school, and all of these are iest of the younger professionals. older than the el school of Ameri Competition Is Keener, the competition is keener now than it is in Great oted this two vears ago ussing tourna. ment play wit k Hutchison, he sald: “We'll have to tra t a fast| pace from now on to hold our own | with so many voung players coming along so rapid In Great Br the various tournaments is not D. C. RACKETERS WIN_ IN MIDDLE ATLANTIC BALTIMOF against Cha Call, A. J. Gore Washington scored the most thrilling victory of the first day’s play here yesterday In the Middle Atlantic doubles tournament. Five sets were necessary before a decision was reached, the scores being o sie v s Tom_ Mangan and Fred Haas, an- other District pair, survived the first round by defeating W. Buchett and R. Willis, 6—2, 6—1, 6—0, while C. M. Charest ‘and George Hebner elimi- nated J. C. McLanahan and W. C.! Coleman in a preliminary round, 63, | F20, 06, Robert Burwell and Dooley Mitch- ell lost thelr first round match to Fred Turnbull and Albert Hobelman, 6—1, 6—0, 6—3. EX-SERVICE NETMEN T0 STAGE TOURNEY The American Legion's third annual Becondly, in this cou Britain. J ain the competition in so tennis tournament 1l be staged on the courts of the Gilman Country School, in Baltimore, starting next Monday. Maj. O'Nell, athletic officer of the Third Corps Area, with headquarters in Baltimore, has given his support to the affair and will send full informa. tion to all'posts throughout the area. The tourney is open to all service and ex-service men, irrespective of whether they are members of the legion, and to members of the Na- tional d and naval uni tank school at ent in his bring along his unit. t the Title Guar- Co., St. Paul and Baltimore, is re- Maj. Greene of the Camp Meade already has entry and promises to half a dozen officers from’ Paul Wilkinson antee and Trust Lexington streets, ceiving entries. AMERICAN GOLFERS HELP SPREAD GAME IN SWEDEN By the Associated Press. Although one or two clubs and courses have been in existence 25 or 30 years, golf has taken a real hold in Sweden this year. This has been due chiefly to the increased number of visitors from the United States and Great Britain. Several new courses have been laia out and clubs, with professionals in charge, organized in various cities. The club at Stockholm, of which the Crown Prince is president, here- tofore has been contented with a 9- hole course, but this Summer had a EW YORK, Jily 14—The United States has outstripped Great concerned, and is rapidly drawing up on even terms in the wom- American in this tournament in the last five years. In other words, ans have won this title in four out of the last five competitions. ! [arrangements preparatory to the house { coming week end. |from time immemorial. supremacy so far as the men are will hold its own with our British ory of Barnes was the fourth gained keen as it §s here. Six or 10 golfers at the most can be counted on to set the pace in the British events. In this country there are at least 20 pro- fessionals, as well as Bobby Jones, Francis Quimet and several other amateurs, capable of winning the open. A third reason why the Americans are ahead of Great Britain in golf is that the players in this country take the game more serfously than those on the other side. Barnes, Hagen, Sarazen, Farrell, Turnesa, Melhorn, Diegel and others never leave off practicing. The youngsters especial- I¥ _are at it everlastingly. Sarazen reached the top by practic- mething like six or eight hours puts in several hours a day of practice. Johnny Farrell has improved his game every year for the last four through practice. So have Melhorn, Diegel, Turnesa and others. They have to keep in practice in order to keep pace in the various tourna- ments. WOMEN 1 HE District gir! the Henry Park courts, at courtesy of Albert Clyde-Burt office of public buildings and grounds obtained cach day of preliminary play It is essential that all matches be played off according to schedule, as these courts can be obtained only for a limited time. Speclal arrangements will be made for girls who are attending Summer school or are otherwise busy in the morning. The majority of the matches will have to-be played off between nd 1:45, however, as reservations the afternoon are not assured. The entry list, which closes tomor row night, 18 growing rapidly. Entries should be sent or phoned to one of the three members of the committee— Katherine Berrall, at Potomac 28 Marjorle Wooden, at Columbia 2145, or Corinne Frazier, at Main 5000. The entry fee is $1.00. The Metropolitan Athletic Club will meet for a swim at the Y. W. C. A. pool tomorrow evening at 8:20. The equipment committee of the Metropol itanites will go up to the recently purchased camp tonight to make final party which is being planned for the A unique tournament was staged on the Rosedale Playgrounds recently| upon the suggestion of the director, Daisy Robsion. It was a jack stones tourney, involving the well known game of “Ball and Jacks,” which has delighted the hearts of small girls Twenty girls were entered in the event, divided into five groups of four each. They played through 10 scores, which meant that the winners had to manipulate 10 jacks and a ball at one time in order to gain a perfect score. Jack stone fans know by experience that this is no easy feat. Miss Robsion acted as officlal scorer. The winners in each of the prelim- inary groups played in- the semi- finals and the two triumphbant jack jugglers in this event contested for the title in the final match. Mildred Hook was crowned queen of the jack stones, winning over Hazel Wolfe in the title match. Miss Hook, Miss Wolfe, Mary Duncan and Dorothy Violet were the semi-finalists. This is the first known jack stones tournament for girls, but, judging from the enthusiasm displayed, it will not be the last. Some wise prophet has observed that perhaps in the not’ too far distant future jack stones tourneys will be rivaling the marble championships which are now sweepmg the country on the high crest of a popularity wave. The open swimming meets conducted by the Capitol Athletic Club each Tuesday will be run off on Sund: afternoon in the future, beginning this Sunday. It was thought advisa- ble to change the date in order that a greater number of girls.might par- ticipate. Mrs. Cecilia Deubig, presi dent of the club, and Florence Skad- ding, vice president, will officiate. The meet will begin promptly at 3 o'clock Thelma Winkjer, a member of the committee, will be at Rosslyn at 2:30 to pilot guests to the camp, which is about a guarter of a mile from the station on the River road. Seven local Y. W. C. A. girls have been chosen as delegates to’the an- nual Girl Reserve conference at Camp Nepahwin, Pa. Orrelbelle Claflin, Dorothy Root, Frances Glatzo, Cath- erine Caffrey, Louise Gfllls, Thelma Wallace and Mary Ward will leave for the conference next week with Mabel Cook, a member of the asso- clation staff. . The girls’ meets will take place during weeks between August 1 and 15. tails will be announced later. . interplayground track the two De- new 18-hole course laid out at Lidinge, one of the nearby islands 9th & P Sts. NW, Equip your car with new tires PROBEY TIRE STORES 2104 Pa. Ave. N.W. Nearly 6,000,000 people play tennis in Great Britain g NAOU RIDE: ~ Balance M. cmth,y Six Months to Pay! By CORINNE FRAZIER ' junior tennis championship wi Sixth , four courts in this grc They will be reserved for tournament matches fr Two courts will be at the disposal of the committee for the semi-finals and one for the final The Water Nymph Club By Merze Marvin Seeberger. (Capyright, 1925.) 9.—Putting the Spring in Your Dive. After you have learned to fall fn without being freightened and with- out falling flat or jumping, you can learn to put spring into dive. Practice rising on the balls your feet just before you dive and give a little spring with your feet up in the air and straighten your body out as much as possible. Practice stantly to learn to straighten out body. Your knees must never be bent or your legs spraddled, as these bad habits, so easily acqui wre hard to break, and give one an exceedingly awkward appearance. Even the toes should be pointed on a line with the legs in diving. You should be so straight, when enterin the water, that a straight line cc be drawn fi your arms, throt and toes »m_your hands ad, body, legs hy Tomorrow—Starting the Sidestroke. N SPORT open Thursday on and B Through the on, supervisor of recreation in the stre p have been 5 to 1:45 Golf! The time required for the full swin of a wood golf club is approxi mately ‘equal o the taking of three natural s tep s—I should say “steps that were Just 4 little slow.” Two of these steps would be equal to taking the club back and the third step would corre- spond to the for- ward swing. The average golfer will swing hi wood in about the time he would take one natural, slow .step. He makes a quick, chopp, slashing movement with it, which of ourse, doesn’t cause much of # seism disturbance with the ball, digs into the ground again just back of the ball. The three paris of the wood swing are about equal, but the timing with the iron is slightly dif- ferent. You take it back just a_trifie slower, if anything, but you bring it down just a trifle more quickly. This is because the iron club requires more of a direct hit, while the wood swings. AUSSIES WILL CONTEST WITH U. S. BLUEJACKETS Arrangements for extensive compe- tition between athletes of Australia and thos visiting vessels of the United S fleet are under way and probab! 1 be complete before the ships arrive in the Anti- podes. Base ball, boxing and rifle matches are the sports in which the athletes of the two countries are most likel to compete, and hedules in these events are being arranged. The Victoria Base Ball Association of Melbourne has suggested a series of games hétween the American fleet and an All-Australian nine, composed of players chosen from each State in the commonwealth. The tentative schedule: Australia Australia Fleet v Got enoughBVD' to keep you' cool and comfortable through the summer? @y, T Get the underwear you ask for/ o~ Insist upon this red woven Label MADE FOR THE 1200 H St. N.E.. BEST RETAIL TRADE JUNIOR NET TOURNEY | MITCH COURAGE IS NEEDED ADVANGES TO FINAL Dooley Mitchell of Western High School and Bob Considine, No. 1 player of the Henry Park team, today work- ed their way to the final of the tour- nament being conducted at Dumbar- ton Tennis Club to decide the junior championship of the District. The Western netmen defeated Ir- ving Aranowski in straight sets, 6—1, 7—5, while Considine triumphed over Milton Baker in a prolonged encounters 6—1, 3—6, 6—1. Aranowskl, after losing his first set, rallled and had Mitchell on the short end of a 5-to-2 score before the school- boy got going again and staged a whirlwind finish. Bob Considine play- ed his usual steady game, allowing his opponent to tire himself out and then putting on steam when the time was ripe. Herb Shepherd and Fred Dodge gained the advantage over the Dever- eaux-Noell combination in the only doubles match played this morning. The score was 3—6, 7—5, 6—4. The winners will go against Kip Callan and Charles Jacquette in the semi- final round. Mitchell and Considine will meet to- morrow morning in a three set match to decide the singles title. FRENCH NETMEN TO PLAY HOLLAND IN ZONE FINAL EAST BOURNE, England, July 14 (®)—France yesterday eliminated England in the tennis semi-finals of the European zone Davis cup play, and will meet Holland in the Euro- pean zone finals. La Coste and Brugnon of France defeated Godfree- and Wheatley of England, 6—4, 6—4, 6—3. Franc had won two matches Saturday. singles Liccert & Myers Tusacco Co, TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL Mentors in Foot Ball Get No Credit Unless They Turn Out Winners and Most of Them Must Do That to Retain Their Jobs. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, July 14—The coaching schools at the various universi- ties which have Summer courses in athletics are now going at full blast. Coaches, who in former times led the life of Riley—or were supposed to—from the time college closed until a week or two before it opened are spending the hot weather teaching fundamentals in position play, team technique.and grand strategy. Never in history have the Summer coaching schools been so full, especially those which are conducted by some great master of the game. At the feet of the great coaches sit men who teach foot ball in high schools and in minor cactus colleges and are eager to increase the knowl- edge of the game, and there are young men who are about to be graduated from college and intend to enter upon a coaching career. But did you ever hear of a coach 4. Are you aware that even if you who had graduated, say, from the|are generous as a coach you cannot schools jointly conducted by Messrs. | make elevens without material of ex- Rockne, Zuppke and Dobie, or by | cellent quality? other brilliant foot ball mentors, who | 5. Since it is known that every went back to thelr own institutions|coach must have the goods, do you and proceeded to be Rocknes, Zuppkes | realize that if you produce the good and Dobles and so forth? The an-|you will be suspected of having gone swer, of course, will be no. out into wn:so places and grabbed off your materfal? And that if you don't Some Questions to Answer. produce it, you will be ran.:dod as a As a matter of fact, it would be in-|dub and & man not alive to oppor- teresting to receive from these stu- tunities? dents at the foot ball coaching schools| 6. Do you know that at about the answers to the following question-|tlme most men in the professions or naire: in business are beginning to cash In 1. Do you know there i1s no job|on their experience and hard work where the competition is keener and |you will be getting ready for the junk more nerve racking than in foot ball? | heap, if you are not already there? 2. Do you know the general of an|And in any case your nerves will be ugy ln’ war has an easy time in com- | shot, your health probably bad? parison? Conclusion—If you know all these 3. Do you know you have to win at | things and are still game to be a least as often as you lose to hold your | coach, then godd luck to you, and here job? is hoping you will land a job at a smashing salary on a long-term con- tract which cannot be broken by alumni who have turned sore because old Siwash, your deadly rival, has beaten you twice in succession. Foot Ball Admission. Whether the statement was made inadvertently or advisedly, the fact remains that the Yale athletic au- thorities have been unusually frank fn thelr announced attitude toward the value of foot ball as an economic factor in the conduct of sports gener- ally. The statement, which was made by H. F. Woodcock, general manager of the Yale Athletic Assoclation, is worth careful attention. “The athletic boards at Yale, Har- vard and Princeton,” he said, follow- ing & meeting of the big three repre. sentatives, “are confronted annually with the great problem of providing adequate facilities for an ever-growing number of young men who desire to take part In some form of athletics “And this problem is becoming more difficult one to meet every 3y “At Yale, and, I am sure, at Har vard and Princeton, nearly all the students want to do something for thelr physical well being, and in freshman here exercise of some sort is compulsory. With the steady in crease in the number of students at each university additional facilities and equipment must be provided. “Foot ball probably will be called, therefore, to a greater extent than ever to do what it has been doing in the past—provide funds for the oper- ation of other branches of athletics the maintenance of property and plant and for new construction. This being 80, where is the sense in all this talk one annually hears at 1 the universities that foot not commerclalized? Of course it is, if only because the necessities involved demand that it shall be. And it is justified and will be so long as ex ercise for young men is regarded as essential. The only bad feature abo is the raking in of coin Wwith the one hand while making a Pecksniffian geature with the other. } CLAY COURT PLAYERS TO HAVE ACTIVE DAY By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, July 14—Tennis, vir- tually from dawn to dusk, was the outlook upon the national clay court championship courts here today. Be. sides the regular fourth-day events this afternoon, several postponed matches were up for disposal. This plan was accepted as a means of keeping the singles draw far enough ahead to avoid interference with the doubles starting tomorrow. William T. Tilden, 2d, Philadelphia, the singles champion, arrived late yes- terday, and today saw his first op- ponent, Charles W, Barnes, St. Louls, {a former Missouri Valley Conterence champion George Lott, jr., Chicago, also was ready for his initial match with John Hubbell, Kansas City. Two other morning feature contests scheduled were Alfred Chapin, Spring- field, Mass., vs. Walter Finger, St. Louis, and Howard Kinsey, San ancisco, vs. Ted Swanson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Rain limited play to three matches yesterday Walter K. Wesbrook, Los Angeles, defeated F. C. Stuckman, St. Louts, in straight sets, 6—1, 6—0, in the second round. Brian I. C. Norton, St. Louls, romped through his first encounter with Charles McMillian, & local player, 6—3, 6—0. John_A. Barr, Dallas, defeated H. all of Des Molnes, 6—2, M. | TURF IDOL WINS STAKE. V YORK, July 14.—James But- ler's Turf Idol won the highweight | handicap at Empire City yesterday, with Ladkin second and Lucky Play third. The time for the 6 furlongs 08 3.5. The race carried $1,500 added money. On taste alone,Chesterfiel: won the endorsement of men in every walk of life SUCH-POPULARITY - MUST - BE - DESERVED :