Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1925, Page 21

SPORTS. Tilden Player-Writer Case Is Tough Problem : Sik CERTAIN TO BE “CALLED” FOR GIVING INTERVIEWS Association Would Face an Embarrassing Situation Were He to Disobey Mandate—Was Journalist Before He Was Net Celebrity. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW seems about July 27. to happe YORK, What pear be Tennis Associat offic the g author summons States ten: that the What he are they ha them associa engager If he ably be gover f such visit di will prob- | h conflict does the writer | gathe t thorities are sincere. lto view an | the assc Might Fail to Obey his in spirit of player-write | neys in vent to nperamen mental. he pull of champlonship he time must »egin to lose some e nation and | when he will | ance of some | it as i gain in v by prove and vear and find source of satis. He woul he to sacrifice ba Foslish i itk ¥ income the ppen. To be more specific, William T yre one of the important committees of the | ion—probably the executive commit- ities of this body was not explained, but it was taken to mean that they the Tilden saying that he jwho h writer foretold some days ago Tilden's | nis association is quoted as are not altogether saying stapid until interviews as uncommercial would d not conflict appear before the with important tennis the foothold he has gained in journal ism and periodical literature And so, were the tennis association to order him to choose between his amateur status and his writing and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1925. TILDEN OVERCOMES JOHNSTON IN 3 SETS GLENCOE, 1L, Juiy 27.—Once more William Johnston tried and failed once more—Willlam Tilden defeated him in champlonship play, adding to the long string of victorles which he has gained over his Davis Cup mate and cham- pionship foe since he took the national title from him in 1920. Playing before 7,500 fans yesterday, the largest gathering that ever saw a tennis match in the Chicago vicinity, the Philadelphian vanquished Johnston in the final of the Illinols State cham- plonship at the Skokie Country Club, 6—4, 6—3, 9—1. This was his third victory in four ears and gave him permanent posses. | sion of the Skokie Club challenge cup. Tilden w at his best, and except for an o onal lapse paid attention strictly to_the business of beating Johnston. 'In the greater part of the match the work of the champlon was magnificent. It was almost impossible for Johnston to put over a finishing shot, so amazingly did Tilden cover court, making gets that lifted the spectators out of their seats. Rarest of all were his backhand shots across court. Time and again he found the opening with these shots, some of which were made after a mad dash to the far corner of the court. The relentlessness with which he were Tilden to stand by his guns, the world of sport would be c upon | inpleasant wele—if | fation had the courage to act. | The greatest tennis play the world | has ever ind @ wing eard of tremendous 1 etism, a world figure | s carried American tennis pres. | t ers of the earth, | e banned from amateur tour: | the very prime of his great | ind usefulness as an interna- | presentative May Find Way Out. equired to | take su if only because of { significance far-reaching _influ ence, Even in event of 1 ' re 1 calcitrancy some alternative course might be devised While not coura geous, this might be fair am wise. There are many who are keen for pure amateurism who hope none the less that this will happen. Tilden was writer before he was a star pliver and. this being o, his case would seem to call for a special sort of consider: : tige to would abili tional and BANNOCKBURN HOLDS TOP, THOUGH WASHINGTON WINS NNEXING one vesterday f the two matc the five-club 1 drew e pacesetters at Washin 1 Indian Spring attempting to stage a match which was July 5, were again f h severity that the course was unfit for play Although Washington defe: nockburn vesterday. the latter rined in lead, with ted Ban- | team two clubs have played mor than the other combinations. Chevy | Chase i6 in third with nts. | Two of 1al matches in | the W wrn, con- | test were hal o best ball yokt three contests Baun Doin ball—A' H. D Turton A tournament dear to the hearts of caddies is being staged today at | the Indian Spring Golf Club. There | are 45 competitors and 45 prizes. The | event is der the direc- | tion of inment committee | of the g ni F. McCor- | mack is chairman Challenges fiung broadcast have found ¢ 1 = at Columblia, mate teams of club bers cap Donald Wood- and A has been dfc Cum mings will McLeod, the club pro, partner, while Woodward will ) th D'Arey Bannagan, the pro, in the other half of the first four-ball match Each team will consist of 12 players. next The women’s event at the Columbia | Country C1 held un- der th n's Dis: trict v 1 start promptl W. E Ballard, secretary of the association MANY TENNIS STARS PLAY AT SEABRIGHT| By the As national | the first major up to the singles tourna- al invitation fixture Tennis and s afternoon Vincent A liam Johnston, the Kinse R. Norris Hams and F} T. Hunter, Americ le the entire Aus traliar cup toum of Gerald ¢ B. Hawkes, A. R. Tay és 0. Anderson is included of 35 Davis Seven of the first ten ranking| woman players are entered in a field of equal size in_the woman's com petition. Helen Wills, national cham-| plon, faces a formidable array of si including the former champions, Mar XK. Browne and Mrs. Molla Mallor. we Eleanor Goss, Martha Bayard and Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup. BOWEN IS AT TURNING POINT IN BOXING CARP Young F reach the turning poi Thursday night when the ropes at the Washir open-air arena In Nate Carp, Baltimore’s leading bantam, he is facing a veteran of over 70 ring battles. Carp is of the Battling | Nelson type, rugged and strong, with the ability to take plenty of punish- ment. An idea of his prowess maysbe ob- tained from the fact that he defeated Len Brennen of Lancaster, who re- cently took the measure of Joe Lynch, ie Bowen is expected to his_career ague, carer the leading Bannockburn aggregation when | golfers by which | the former world bantamweight champion. Capital Rangers swamped the Mary- fand Park Midgets, 20 to §s -~ i olass hes which were to have been played the Washington Golf and Coun- gton by 7 points to 6 orved to postpone the contest when Inside Golf By Chester Horton Here is a method that has often worked out in my experience with ou can grasp the correct feel of the 7 back swing. It hinges on the club £ being thrown f——| back, or dragged passed Johnston with these backhand drives discouraged the Californian from going to the net. Occasionally Johnston brought off a_finishing vol- ley after a brilliant stand with his serv- ice court, but almost invariably he was forced to stand in his tracks and wateh the ball go streaking past. Johnston’s forehand did not serve him as well as it did in some of his earlier matches. He did not ket the drive into it nor was he able to keep it above the net. But. as Johnston remarked aftet the match, you cannot make the shots against Tilden that you can against other players. The ball comes back too fast and too well placed and there is not enough time to get set. The Californian was well pleased with one thing and that was the way in which he had stood up physically under the grind of an hour and & quar- ter. He did not look like the tired, worn man that struggled hopelessly gainst Tilden at Forest Hills last vear, and declared that with a 10-min. ute rest he could have gone back on the court for a fourth set us fresh as he had been in the first Johnston did not take his defeat too much to heart He declared that he was looking forward to bigger things and that he thought he would stand & better chance against Tilden on grass He has had little practice this year and has not had the opportunity to bring his game along against first opposition as has Tilden, who has been playing continuously since the season started MUNY DOUBLES TITLE T0 BE DECIDED TODAY of Roek Creck having singles championship in the rks tennis tournament by de- R. 3. onsidine of Henry 4, 2—6, 6—4, only one semi- i’ the deciding match in remain to be played today. Yoshikawa-Kitihara pafr, who vanced to the semi-final round yes- when they were awarded a de- er Fred Dodge and Herbert ward, are scheduled to encounter M. Stebbins and A. W. Russett at wac Park at 4 o'clock, The win- ning team will take on Maurice V. slightly, rather than being push- | ed. At the start of the back swing | ush yourself sol- idly against your | right leg without letting the hip bow out. This will push all your welight against | vour right leg. CLLUB BACK WiTH N\, LEFT ‘' HAND et the clubhead | the same time start back, low even with the hands. Then throw it backward and around with the left hand. Keep it slow enough so that you feel the | weight of the clubhead dragging against the fingers. At the top catch | the clubhead in the grip and stop it. | Then give it a moment to turn, and | throw it downward, starting with the left arm pull. The right hand snaps in at the ball. (Copsright. 1925.) O'Nefll and R. S. Considine in the inal While was decla the Dodge-Shephard team ed out of it yesterday when ephard failed to appear for the match with the Japanese players, the ommittee will be asked to reconsider the decision today. and there is a pos- sibility of the high school netmen getting back in the running. In the championship match with 'rigg, Considine failed to display the brilliant brand of play that en- abled him to down O'Nelll Saturday in the semi-fi round. He started off 1l enough and held a 4-to-2 advan- in the first set before the Rock champion began a smashing e that netted him four straight és and the set. In the second the 1ful Considine took five straight, he final, with the count stand- his defense broke down and : forged to the front. Both the winner and runner-up will represent Washington in the national public parks tournament at Baltimore next week. THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izack Walton League of America. NTRODUCTION quite the rage during the past examples of the English sparr of game birds not native to this country has become few years, and, of course, with the w and the German carp before us, everybody is watching the results carefully. I think a great In some sections s and sports al of argument the pheasant has en, the farmers farmer their crops and insisting on killing them promiscuously. I have a letter # man of Waverly, “The farmers in this locality ma tain that pheasants, and particula male pheasants, are destructive. Much influence has been brought to bear in declaring war on the pheas: ants. These beautiful birds have mul tiplied fast in and around Waverly. They have become domesticated to such an extent that they will come into the farmers' yards and feed with the chicken But it is this sociability of the pheasants that recently caused their downfall in a community in the Middle West. The farmers declared, and proved, that the pheasants came into their yards and not only fed with the chickens but almost fed on the chickens, dyiving them away from the grain and eating 11 themselves, until the farmers simply had to s beautiful birds to save chickens and their grain supply. Sye-witnesses have explained to me the pheasants of North Dakota m A. ( »wa, in which he | pheasant in a corn field. | was three or four inches tall and the centers around the Chinese pheasant. been the cause of friction between declaring that the pheasants destroy had followed the planters, rooting up whole corn fields, necessitating re- planting. Sportsmen of Ohio have told me that it was a fact that the pheasants had in many cases walked along rows of young corn and liter- ally picked it to pieces. The farmers of southern Minnesota not long ago prevented the establish- ment of a big game refuge for the pheasants because of the damage these birds do to crops. But Grossman goes on to say in his_letter: “Several experiments have been made and one game warden at Cedar Falls watched the work of a male ‘The corn warden watched the pheasant dig into several hills of corn. Then he shot the bird. In his crop he found little or no corn but several dozen grub worms and other vermin. S New Haven Midgets won from the Randles, 6 to 4. o e YO U RIDE Balance Monthly Equip your car with new tires Six Months to Pay! PROBEY TIRE STORES 2104 Pa. Ave. NW, 9th & P Sts. N.W. 1200 HSe. NE. No. 21.—Starting the Trudgeon. Many people do not distinguish be- tween the trudgeon and Australian which it somewhat resembles swum with the face under water most of the time, the swimmer to attain greater speed. many trudgeons, developed by different rac- ing champlons. most common form. on either the right or left side, but learn it first on the side on which you do your side stroke easiest. give directions for your right side. Women in Sport By Corinne Frazler. Girls of the University of Maryland Summer School will compete singles and doubles tournament, start ing today. Miss Adelle Stamp, director of physical education, has charge of ‘Washington Athletic Club will hold meeting o'clock. New members will be initiated and a date set for a hiking party. Margaret Lea, a member of physical education faculty at the Uni- versity of lowa, will arrive at Camp BY MERZE MARVIN SEEBERGER. (Copyright, 1925.) : s It you wish to veverse the direct Start practice b; tace under wate and body gliding swimming the bre movement may a trudgeon, but which is used wit gives a smoother rolling in the w that both strokes are thereby enabling variations of the ‘We will learn the It may be swum |arms in gliding and steadiness in 1 will Tomorrow—More Bradley today charge of all spor the juniors and Scout encampme and Wellesley, is She received her Constance the game into thi: Girls from the ground will swim this afternoon also are listed to in a tonight at 8|, playing two might find food recent performan California star, w the | torfous in the sem: match of the day where she will holds degrees from Applebee, who The Water Nymph Club swim on your left, ions, v swimming with the | arms straight while the les cast stroke. Sclssors also be used for the leg movement h your breast stroke trudgeon with less ter. Practice until position you develop great power with your legs the water. ut the Trudgeon, rts activities for both se rs at the Girl nt Miss Lea, both Ohlo State an expert on sports hockey training from introduced s country. Ludlow School 1 in the Rosedale | 1 Arthur School girls swim there today. Local tennis enthusiasts who object matches in one day for thought in the ce of Mary Browne, ho came through vie. i-final mixed doubles the | this | kick with your face under water and | spite of the fac take | who | TENNIS TO BE PLAYED WITH UNIFORM BALL By the Associated Pres W YORK, July 27.—Tennis throughout the world in 1926 will be played with the nearest approach to a standard ball that machinery can produce as the result of a decision by the International Lawn Tennis Fed- eration fixing the limits of the sphere’s compression _under pressure to not more than .315 of an inch nor less than .290. The decislon results from an in vestigation by a committee of four from France, England, Australia and the United States, which was ap | pointed to examine into the question of compression after it had been found that the balls used in several countries varied by a wide margin in their ac tion off the racket and off the ground This condition, which prevailed in that the federation had adopted specifications governing size, weight and height | was founnd to be due to the fact that | no two manufacturers employed the | same formula in regulating the hard. ness of the ball. Tests made by the committee showed the ball made in England and used at Winbledon to be much harder | than the American sphere. It consequently impressed American players as being heavy. while the American product seemed light | fighty to English players The new regulation, which goes into effect January 1, will require English ball to be softened and the Am n sphere to be hardened. e AURORA, II., July 26 (P.—The American trotting derby, with a purse .000, features the program of Grand Cireuit racing which opens here tomorrow. The derby, scheduled for July 30, will be the only race on | the card of more than one heat. The | meeting, the first in Illinois, also will and at Essex, although it was her sixth |be the first Grand Circuit with the one-| he landed in heat inovation in harness racing. of rebound, | the | SPORTS. ar " i Near Death From Stabbing PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS ON STREET IN NEW YORK Revived After Hours in Hospital, He Declares He Was Injured While Acting as Peacemaker in Brawl in ‘“‘Hell’s Kitchen.” IW YORK, July 27.—Battling Siki, Senegalese, who once was light heavyweight champion of the world, probably is through as a prize fighter He was lying in a hospital today with a knife wound in his left cheek as the result of a brawl, and physicians doubted that he would | enter thg ring again, His condition was serious, but hope was held out for his recovery if infection could be preve The cut affected the muscles of his face and neck Revived ness, he sal on West For triet known as ted, ter hours of unconscious. | two men attacked him v-first street, in a Hell's Kitchen™ esterday when h 1ttempted to act as pea iker in a brawl He said|rounds in West New York, N. J he knocked one man down. The other turnes him with a knife. Siki was found unconscious on the side-| GREB IS SATISFIED. “oseph. Hannhan 55, Arsestedyneat| WICHITA, Kans. July 27 OP.— ool Ranhay, 200 Roger v Greb, world middleweight cham. | charged with felonious assault. He Stated that tanms and e te for a match with Jack Dempsey denied knowledge of the attack Gitel for A Die oD vl ol > Siki annexed the light heavyweig at Michigan City September 19 are sat: crown by knocking out Georges Ca pentier in Paris in 1622 nd lost to Mike MeTigue a 20-round bout in Dublin St. Patrick's day, 1923 The stabbing culminated a series of rawls on tweo continents. In the cabarets of Paris Siki has engaged in { numerous fights in which much furni-| |ture and glass was wrecked In Oe lobas. 1 he got police protection | in New Kk because of threats to| attack him in the Harlem Black Beit. | Two months ) was arrested on | |a drunk and 4 Later | it with a | I taxt driver over a f ! Siki's real name is Louis Phal. He s 28 years old and has been married dis- | three times. His present wife, as was early | his secopd, is white. Last Thursday | he knocked out Jack Franels in two $10,000 pion, h: TUESDAY AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. Chicago DOUBLE-READER Tickets on sale Base Ball Park at 9:00 A.M. Daily North 2703—North 2708 Chesterficld’s popularity is securely founded on the bed rock of quality Mysrs Tusacco Co, SUCH-POPULARITY-«MUST - BE - DESERVED