Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1925, Page 31

31 SPORTS. Music 1%_1)/_319 QUESTION NOW AGITATING MERMAID’S TRAINING CAMP American Girl Is Skeptical Over Advantage of Melo- dies to Accompany Her Efforts in Water, But Experts All Insist It Is Essential. BY Famous Briti Special Cor nc ot C.\PY, GRIS NE tail remains to be decided by Channel Qlyr provided as an accompaniment for h h Ex| next week Music of some ki Ederle is skeptical reason for trying it now channel swimmer has had it made the fastest ti the accompany i there must be, according to all the experts. She says she never has used music, and sees no good But her coaches favor it, and every successful Tiraboschi, the Argentine champion, who on record in 1923, was fortified by jazz music from g boat, and declared afterward that “the secret of long- PT. ALEC RUTHERFORD, pert on the Cross-Channel Swim. 1 North American Newspaper Alliance. France, July 30—One important question of de- Miss Gertrude Ederle, the American sic champion, before she starts her attempt to'swim the Eng- The question is, What sort of music will be er effort? Miss distance swimming is to keep the mind occupied with something else.” Burgess, the Anglo-French swimmer, who finished the channel swim after 13 fallures, in 1911, s pulled through the last crucial mile of the swim by a fiddler whose heroism was displayed in playing a jingling French ballad for 45 consecutive minutes. At the end of the swim, when Burgess wa. assisted up the beach at Cape Gri ous condition, he 1 orderly frame 5-minute in o same ballad van of Lowell, Mass., aimant to channel hono music to help him on his . and part of the way he insist ing in their efforts. mind off the or- of stallment Henry Ameri had voc cours ed on himself Singing deal,” Radio Music Inadvisable. Friends of Miss Ederle suggested to her that the spirit of the times would seem to indicate the use of radio mu ic for her sw arrangements ave been made to I receiving apparatus on board the tug, so that music from the British and French ations can be sent echoing across e water. But the coaches protest that radio music will not do unless it an be timed to the beat of the stroke hich they desire the swimmer to waintain Jabez Wolff, Miss Ederle’s favors the bag-pipes. thing to say about the musical gram, we shall have several pipers,” he declared toda they can work in rel man taking up the tune as s one piper is exhausted.” Wolff used bag-pipers on all of his own 20 un- successful attempts, several of which came within a half-mile of victory. “I always kept the pipers busy all the way,” says Wolff. “They can do a lot to liven up the tedium of the swim. I always used to lay out a regular program of tunes, mostly Scotch and Irish, and as I swam I would try to study out which tunes had the best effect. Finally I worked out a routine, so that they played ‘Leave But a Kiss V mealtime, which comes eve hour during the channel swir when a spurt was necessary past some opposing tide or they would speed up the movement a littie and switch into ‘I Love a Lassie.’ On one occasign a husky bag-piper played this lattér tune for 55 minutes continueusly, while I was battling with an obstreperous tide on the last lap of my course. At the end of the Then to get 55 minutes I had to give up, as I was | losing ground steadily, but I felt com- forted in the knowledge that ‘I Love a Lassle’ would have won victory If it had been humanly possible.” Betting 0dds Favor Her. The French newspapers are devot- ing much space to the aproaching at- tempt of the American girl champion to cross the channel. They say that public_opinion, as judged betting, gives Miss Ederle a better chance of victory than any swimmer who has ever attempted the test. In Paris and London, the odds against Miss Ederle are quoted as 9 or 10 to 1. Two vears ago, when the American Sullivan and the Argentinian Tiraboshi both swam the channel within a week's time, the odds quoted against either of them varied between 30 and 50 to 1. The French newspapers have di- rected attention to the similarity be- tween the present situation and that of two years ago. This year two wom- an swimmers, Miss Lilllan Harrison of Buenos Aires and Miss Ederle of New York, are making the attempt. Two years ago, on the same date, two man ~champions, Tiraboschi of the Argentine and Sullivan of the United States, were making the same prepa- rations. Both succeeded, Sullivan crossing on August 5 and Tiraboschi a week later. Miss Harrison made her first trial a vear ago and her second a week ago. She was unsuccessful both times, but is continuing her training rigorously at her_camp, just down the beach | from Miss Bderle’s and hopes to make another start within a fortnight. Jinx Followed Burgess. If Miss Ederle has the services trainer of the great Jabez Wolff, Mi Harrison can boast the equal repute her chief coach, Thomas W. Burge: Burgess swam the channel in 1911 after 13 unsuccessful efforts over a period of 20 yvea He was for many years regarded as a prodigy of en- durance. On one of his unsuccessful attempts, in 1908, he got within a hun- dred yards of the French coast after being carried up and down the chan- nel for a distance of more than 60 miles. No channel swimmer ever was pursued by such persistent bad luck as Burgess. For years it was a proverb along the channel coast, “When Bur- gess Starts to s oss, look out for bad weather.” More than 30 attempts at the chan nel swim we: the year when Tirabc successful forced to quit within sight of his goal | by an adve de s Michel, | the Frenchman, gave up after he had made only 9 miles in 11 hours. Homer Perrault, a ( an, swam from the French side in phenomenal time, reaching a point only three miles | from Dover in 10 hours: then he was | forced to give up from exhaustion. If he could have kept the pace for an hour and a half longer he would h broken Tiraboschi’s record of 16 hours 33 minutes by at least five hours Miss Harrison's Great Feat. The French newspapers have en- | lightened their readers regarding the previous complishments of both Miss Harrison and Miss Ederle. Miss Harrison's greatest feat was the swimming of the River Platte at a | point where the width of the stream | is nearly 27 miles, with a complicated | and difficult current at several plac BASE BAL AMERICAN L Washington vs. Chicago Tickets on sale Base Ball Park at 9:00 A.M. Daily North 2707—North 2708 TOMORROW 3:30 P.M. GUE PARK thin the Cup’ at | half- | current, | {of Bill Johnston, 6—4, 6—2. | ship | The great Tiraboschi had previously failed to accomplish this swim. Miss Ederle is well known in France for her accomplishments in the Olym- pic games. The team of American girl swimmers furnished the real sensation {of the Olympic meeting, winning every event they entered. French woman swimmers were nowhere— | thev looked well in bathing costumes, but they were not what really could be called swimmmers. Miss Exderle leaped into fame in 1922, when at 15 years of age she won the 31 miles international swim in New York. She has been on top~ever since. Within a year she had become the holder of more records than any | woman in sports history, including world record from 100 to 800 vards, 10 in all, besides 9 American records. At Long, Beach in 1923 she {broke seven national records in one race, Last June she swam the 2i-mile classic from the New York Battery to Sandy Hook in 7 hours 11 minutes, | bettesing even the men's record of 7 {hours 18 minutes, which had been held for 11 years by George Meehan | of Boston. On the last two miles of this race she actually, raised her. stroke and finished with a 100-yard sprint. She took no food during this swim, and used the elght-beat crawl all the way except for brief changes to rest her muscles. Filerce Currents to Fight. The total bird-flight distance of the channel swim {s not much greater | than that of the Battery-Sandy Hook route, but the difference in record time |is an indication of the difference in distance which must be actually trav- ersed. The average rise and fall of the tide in New York harbor is only four feet. In the channel it is 17 feet, with fierce currents to corre- spond, and usually a nasty chop born of the never-ending conflict between winds, tides and currents from two oceans and nine rivers. Swept up and down by currents too complex to be foreseen, the swimmer usually de- scribes a course of great zigzags. Thirty unsuccessful channel swimmers have got within a mile of their goal only to be swept back by the tide, which, in their weakened state, they were unable to combat. (Copyright, 1025, by North American paver Alllance. All rights reserve News- SEMI-FINALS LISTED AT SEABRIGHT NETS schedule of today’s feature matches in the Seabright tennis tournament follows: - Semifinals of women's singles: | | SEABRIGHT, N. J., July 30.—The | | Helen Wills _vs. lory, Mary K. beth Ryan. Semli-finals of men's singles: Vin- cent Richards vs. R. Norris Wil liams, James O. Anderson vs. Cran- ston Holman, | _ Semifinals of women's doubles | Miss Wills and Miss Browne vs. Charlotte Hosmer and _Helen Jacobs, Eleanor Goss and Miss Ryan vs. Mrs. May Sutton Bundy and Marion Willlams. Richards strengthened his position as a candidate for the 1925 Davis cup team yesterday when once again he convincingly proved his abllity to de- feat Gerald Patterson of the Austra- lian team. Last year, when the New York youth was named at the twelfth hour to play the singles matches with Tilden, he defeated Patterson at 6—3, 7—5, 6—4, and his triumph yesterday was equally {mpressive. In exactly half an hour he disposed of the power- fully built, hard-hitting Australian at 6—3, 6—2. Willlams defeated J. B. Hawkes of Australla, 7—5, 6—3, while Holman put out Dr. George King, conqueror Anderson Chapin, jr., Mrs. Molla Mal. Browne vs. Ellza- | | | scored 6—3, 6—3. Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, fifth the ranking, gave Miss Wills a over A. H. in |tremendous battle and threatened to |defeat her when she led at 2—0 in the second set after taking the first at 6-—4. The California girl rallied, |and, after the score had reached 3—2 in her opponent's favor, took nine games in succession. She won at 4—§, 6—3, 6— INTERZONE NET FINALS TO BEGIN SEPTEMBER 4 NEW YORK, July 30 (P).—Finals in the interzone Davis cup tennis play will start at Forest Hills, N. Y., Sep- tember 4, the United States Lawn Ten- nis Association has announced. They were scheduled originally for September 3, 4 and b, but have been changed to include Labor day. There will be no matches on Sun- day, September 6. - TAKES” TENNIS HONORS. Hull annexed the Chevy playground tennis champlon- vesterday by defeating Donald Williamson, 6—3, 6—1, 6—0. In the emi-final round Hull defeated Don- ald Bittinger, 6—2, 6—3, and Wil- liamson won from- Emil Ferrari by Harris Ch Main 7612 NASH Distributors Salesroom and: Service Station 1709 L St. N.W.: Wallace Motor Company THE EVENING STAR, WASHING Aid to Miss Ederle in Swim : Few Stars Dictate to Organizations The Water Nymph Club the kitchen of her New York WOMEN 1 A Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. | team took the opening game, but the next two. Mary Williston captained the win- ning team composed of Eva Turner, Mary Beth Bolin, Angela Chambers, Christine Pendman, Madge Under- wood, Annie Underwcod, Louise Al baugh, Julla Crumb, Lettie Dent and Elizabeth Frankiin. Sydney Tull is captain of the East ern Shore girls. The final game in the series will be played Saturday afternoon. Adele Stamp, director of girls’ ath- letics at the University of Maryland, is in charge of the Summer school singles tennis tournament, which is now under way. Olive Seltzer won her first round match yesterday from | Irene Mead, 6—90, 6—0. | Tnez Tillotson of the West Washing- | ton tennis team scored a hard-earned | victory over Minnie Travis of First | Church, in the B. Y. P. U. League| serles vesterday, after dropping the first set at 6—3. The final score was 3—8, 6—3, 7—§. Several of the games | in the prolonged contest went to deuce | a dozen times. Elizabeth McDowell (First), and Elste Haycock (West Washington) were forced to call their match on account of darkness with the score standing at set-all. They plan to finish it today. Betty Hartman won s place in the final round of the quoits tournament in progress on the Happy Hollow play- ground, defeating Margaret Follans- bee yesterday in a tle match, 21—17, 19—21, 21—9. Miss Hartman will meet the winner of the Priscilla Woodle; Emily Mackey match for the title. Georgetown schlag ball lassies de- feated the Dennison contingent, 9 to 6, yesterday on the Georgetown grounds. Sadfe Kiattl captained the victorious team, which included Marfe McKee. nan, Mary Beamer, Annie Wilner, Reba Collins, Dorothy Fling and Wini- fred Line. Helen Singer and Marie Tallan dem- onstrated conclusively yesterday that they were the outstanding team in the Hoover tennis tourney by captur- ing their final match without the loss of a gamé. Marie Taylor and Irma Callahan fell before their strong of- fensive in short order, 6—0, 6—0. Miss Singer’s long drives, coupled with her partner's superior net work, com- pletely bewildered their opponents. In the first round of the New York avenue singles tournament Margaret Moore defeated Fannie Drill, 6—1, 14—12. The second set was one of the longest. ever staged in a playgrounds tourney. Miss Drill made a valiant fight to even up the score, but finally succumbed to Miss Moore’s steady at- tack. Virginia Ryan defeated Jose- phine Conner in a match which very riearly equaled the Moore-Drill affair. The score was 6—0, 12—10. The Georgetown track meet, held Must be' in perfect focus by ~August first. This is a pro- vision of the traffic regulations. See the dealer handling your car—have your lights adjusted and get an official inspection cer- tificate. The Washington Automotive Trade Association Here is Gertrude Ederle in a study of contrasts. Below she is shown in Tflmfl\l, and above she is pictured practing for the channel swim. Jabez Wolff, greatest of British swimmin, himself a cross-channel aspirant for years, says: “ swimmer I ever have seen.” Her usual stroke is 28 to the minute, but this will be toned down to a pace of 24 on her great endurance test. coaches, and he is the fastest woman N SPORT By CORINNE FRAZIER T the University of Maryland Summer School a hotly contested battle is being waged on the volley ball field between from the Eastern and Western Shores. Tuesday's match this week in a 2-to-1 victory for the Western Shore la air tossers Matches are staged every The Eastern Shore Westerners came back, winning the yesterday afterncon, was divided into W $ to 10 years, 10 to 12 ¥ to 16 years. In the first class little Mary McFadden was high: est point winner, 10. Lilliz Torreyson w S with § and Edna McKinley's gave her third place. In the 10-to-12-year class, Jennie Tor- reyson was the winner with a high total of 183 points; Reba Collins took second honors with 131z and Grace Hartley third with 6 Sadie Kiatti, by winning the high Jump and broad jump and placing sec- ond in the throw for distance, collect- ed 13 points and first honors in the third class, with Dorothy Fling press- ing her closely with a total of 11% Margaret Gossage was third with 6. The threelegged race, one of -the features of the afternoon, was very closely contested, the Fling-Bryan team barely nosing out the Line: Hartley combination. Abbie Green, Helen Price and 7T Shields acted as officials. YOUNG BOB IS IN LINE FOR BOUT WITH TUNNEY NEW YORK, July 30 (#).—Reports are current that Young Bob Fitzsim- mons, son of the former e¢hampion, and himself holder of a string of 12 straight knockouts, will be the next opponent of the American light heavy- | weight champlon, Gene Tunney, bout to be fought in San Francisco in September. Try El Verso, the favorite of discrim- inating smokers everywhere. You too, willagree there is complete cigar satisfaction in this mild, mellow blend made of 100% sun grown tobaccos. Senator 2 for 25¢ (Actual size) Choose Your Favorite Size TON, resulted ! n| TILDEN CASE D. €, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1923. BRINGS UP AN OLD ISSUE IN SPORT Dempsey Only One to Scorn Ruling Body Recently and Get by With It—Paddock and Ruth Among By the Associated Press. N with it. The innocent bystander may nof of these questions. The answer, he organization in sport? challenges the governing aut pertinent cases, Paddock, for instance, erigaged in a tempestuous joust a. season or two ago with the Amateur Athletic Union over his right to compete abroad with- out officlal sanction. As a matter of fact, this was not a private fight. The chunky sprinter was largely an instru- ment of deflance in a clash between athletic governing forces. He went through with his program, but as- sumed a penitent attitude later and re- turned to the A. A. U. fold in time for the Olymples. Dempsey Is Balky. Dempsey's bouts with the New| York State Athietic Commission have | been the only ones in which he has| engaged in two years, but the heavy- welght champion has lost few dec-| sions in them up to date. | The burning issue has been whether the champion will or will to fight his foremost challenger, Harry | Wills. The commission, wielding ail | the authority it could muster, finally | obtained Dempsey’s agreement to the | match—in 1926—but the titleholder | ject—while the boxing rulers “hold the bag.” 5 | Not long after he had been crowned | as monarch of the wilds of wallop & | few seasons ago, Babe Ruth became | { imbued with the 0ld ide. that the king | could do no wrong. It was a costly | notion, however, for after tasting of | { the forbidden barnstorming fruit the Bambino was exiled and otherwise punished by High Commissioner Lan- | dis. There seems no room left for argu- | ment about the relative positions of | the individual and the organization in base ball. Its discipline is adminis- tered with an iron hand. Unless it is Dempsey, however, th individual whose position stirs the popular imagination more than any other now on this subject is Tilden. The national tennis champfon, it | seems, has jumped out of the frying pan of his victorious player-writer battle of 1924 into ‘the fire player-interviewer tussle of 1 appears so far to be holding his own Tilden Is Deflant. Q shall do us I please abot am not violating the amateur rule, the is quoted as saying in reply to| intimations that he would be called | | before the United States Lawn Tennis | Assoclation to explain his action in giving interviews on tournaments in which he is playing to the syndicate for which he writes. How does he get away with this? Because he is Tilden, say the observ- ers, who see in the tall Quaker the one clear and outstanding example of individual superiority over organized force. The chief trouble nowadays seems to be that amateur codes of a genera- tion ago do not fill the modern situ- ation. Player writers such as Tilden. Richards and Hoff of Norway (who was suspended for six months for writing uncomplimentary things about | athletic officlals) and “{raveling ama- | teur,” such as Nurmi, Paddock and Murchison, present new problems which are becoming increasingly difl cult to solve. In the light of current events, inci- dentally it might be nothing short of a disaster for American Davis cup | hopes were Tilden to come under any official ban. The defeats of ‘Little Bill"” Johnston at the hands of Tilden, then Dr. George King, serve to empha- size more than ever the reliance which must be placed on Big Bill's ! racquet if international honors are {to_remain he: | RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REFAIRED NEW RADIATORS FOR AUTOS | WITTSTATT’S R. & F. WKS. 3 N.W. Topliners to Be Disciplined. EW YORK, July 30—Is the individual as great or greater than the Can any athlete occupy a position which hority of the game—and get away t see anything perplexing in either may say, is negative in both cases, pointing to the generally accepted axiom of sports that the individual must always be subordinate to the whole. | raven's chorus have died away altogether, it may be well to recall a few |swimmers, hence the ternm “Austr: But before the echoes of the Charley Paddock, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and William T. Tilden— four champions of champions—come to mind. VAN VLIET IS IN FINAL OF LEGION NET EVENT BALTIMORE, July 30.—Capt. Rob- ert Van Vllet of Camp Meade and ‘Washington, former District of Colum- bla champion and a member of the | victorious Army Leech Cup tennis team, encounters John Magee of Bal- timore in the final of the American Leglon tournament today on the Sub- urban Club courts. In his march to the deciding match Capt. Van YVlet eliminated Peyton Strobel, jr.; Fred Turnbull and Felix Rothschild. Hoping to get a head start on the | other sandlot foot ball combinations Mot agree |of the city, I'. R. Kersey, manager of | the Waverly eleven, has called a meeting of all candidates at 905 G street Tuesday night. FREMONT, Ohio, July 30 (#).—Pe- since then has skipped West end| .. Manning, world champion trotter, | avolded further discussion of the sub-|gpattered the State trotting record on | Seattle, in a tight con a half-mile track when he went an ex hibition mile in 2:03. b B PORES. " No. 24.—The Crawl Stroke. The crawl stroke, which many peo. ple confuse with the trudgeon, is the other racing stroke and used for short distance swimming sprints almost al together. The trudgeon is a good stroke for an athletic woman. The leg movement of the two strokes {s entirely different, the regu lation of breathing is different and the |arm movement is more rapid in tne crawl. It {8 much used by Australan fan crawl but was perfected by an Eng- lish champion and variations of it are used by most American and English racers. SKELTON SETS U. S. | MARK AT SWIMMING By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., July | Tllinols ~ Athletic Club, Chicago, led | with 10 points at the close here of |the first sesslon of a national swim ming meet of the Amateur Athletic | Union. One American Northwest record | one world mark v { Pactfic Northwest | cotncidentally vents, Robert D. Skelton, Illinois Athletic | Club, Chicago, winning the 440.yard | breast stroke in 6:30, obtained a new { American mark. Skelton made the | previous mark, 6330, in Chicago 1 | year. Neva 30.—The and one were broker s put in d meet is being with the Brownfield from | zecond, Madeline Pless the Paclfic who northwest BY MERZE MARVIN SEEBERGER. (Copyright. 1925.) | The first thing in learning the craw) |1s to take a gliding position like that |in the dead man's float, and then prac tice thrashing your legs up and down in the water from the knee to the foot just as rapidly as you can. They | should churn the water like the pro | peller of a power boat. Keep the legs from knee to body stralght and close together in gliding poesition. Practice his thrashing movement with diii ou can manipulate your with very great speed, holding your face down in the water mear ‘while. Tomorrow—More About the Crawl 1 the women's Miss Brownfleld event, In_which 1:31.8" at Tacoma, ago. | Johnny Weissmuller, Illinols Athlet | Club, retained his championship the 440-vard free-style, di | he set at New His time Second point winner in the national events was the Roman Pool, Miami th 5; Chicag apic Francisco nford tted ed by Grifin N innati Y. M. ttle, one 100-yard free won in 1:31.4 Miss Pless m Wash., two ve Ha Cin Pool, aplece. PACER SETS WORLD MARK AURORA, I G, 138 15 horse” of {the six furlongs free-fox 1:30, d then finished fourth in the mile and a q r, whict 3 by Sir Roche in the world record tir Jul ~acommon motor ailment Gasoline,your motor’s food, must be not only rich in power and enerpy. but also easy to digest OTORS—as well as children—suffer from colic. Both get it from eating heavy, indigestible, ill-chosen foods © —and a motor’s food is gasoline. Quality Guaranteed by THE DEISEL-WEMMER COMPANY Rosslyn, Va. Poor gasoline enters the combustion chamber of your motor in a raw, undigested state. Instead of being convert- ed into useful work instantly, your motor has to struggle to assimilate it. Lost power and sluggish operation are common signs of motor colic. Sharp metallic knocks and excessive carbon deposits are more serious symptoms. The quick sure remedy is a change of gasoline diet. Tydol—the perfect motor food Tydol is the perfectly balanced motor food —the result of years of painstaking study and experimentation by Tide Water’s technologists. Tydol contains all the vital elements that give power, stamina and long mileage. When Tydol enters your combustion chamber, it is completely vaporized. It burns instantly, cleanly and without waste. Motors on a Tydol diet enjoy good health. They start instantly and willingly. Traffic jams and gruelling hills never tire them. Carbon seldom clogs their systems. TryTydol and see for yourself. Fill up at anyTydol pump. TAYLOR-KORMAN OIL COMPANY Di lrib\lv!ors Tel. West 3045 YDOL | Economy GAsouLinE For full Tydol economy use Veedol motor oil