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& THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 17, 192—SPORTS SECTION. - American Golf Team Is Powerful : Probability of Wills-Lenlgen Match Excites CONSIDERED STRONGEST EVER TO INVADE BRITAIN Also Is Most Youthful Combination to Strive for Honors—One of Members Appears Likely to Bring Back English Title. T. AUGUSTINE, F! January sent _abroad. . Members of the team will compete also in the British amateur cha- gionship, and, considering the caliber of the players, it seems likely that ane of them will have the honor of winning the British amateur title Zor the first timc. The personne! of the team is: Robert T. Jones, Atlanta; George Von Francis Ouimet, Bosto York; Roland MacKenzie, Washington; Watts Gunn, Atlanta, and Robert Gardner, Chicago. Elm, Los Angele: Sweetser, New The choice of Gurdner as the cap- tain is an excellent selection, which is sure to t with general ap- proval. i Yale star athlete is v popular with the le - golfers of this country he is 2 v s @ very c: In six Walker Cup conte met defeat | only onc: Should Be Good Leader. He knows conditions in England and at St. Andrews, where the Walker Cup matches Il be plaved, and his advice in these matters will be in- valuable. Gardner, in additlon to| America’s ou'standing rs, has the distinction being one amateur pla of having made the best shcwing of any Amcrican in the British ama- teur championship. In 1919 he was only beaten in the tinal round by Cyril Toll the end of an extra hole ma Although the teum Is not quite as| represen 3 vhich made the tr . 1t is much s selection the East | stronger. comes off Li out of eight cholces, th: iddle West one and the Far West one. Atlanta, with Jones and Cunn. have two fine| representatives, both of whom are g BY RAY McCARTHY. the United States Golf Association executive committce to represent » America in the International Walker Cup matches in Great Britain fiext June is the youngest and the strongest array of amateur talent ever 16—The team. selected this week by Jesse Guilford, Boston; Jess on the list, the renowned Ouimet and the hard-hitting Guilford. New York has one representative and a good one in Sweetser. Washington, for the first time, will have a mem- ber in young Mackenzle. California _is not out of it, for in George von Elm the Golden State has a member who is likely to show to great advantage on the.other side. Chicago has the distinction of having the captain in Bob Gardner. Average Age Is 26 Years. The average age of this team is approximately 26 years. Gardper is the oldest member. #He is about 36 years old. Ouimet and Guilford are boch in their early thirtles. Sweetser and Von Elm are in their twenties, while Mackenzle and Gunn are 19 years of age. The Washington lad is a first-year student at Brown Univer- ¥, while Gunn is a sophomore at Georgla. Gardiner, Ouimet, Jones, Guilford and Sweetser are expected to carry the burden principally because of their experience, but the three young- ters, Von Elm, Mackenzie and Gunn are likely to upset the dope com- pletely. Von Elm and Gunn especially have proven their mettle in match play competition. Gunn, in the opinion of PHILADELPHIA LANDS BASE BALL TOURNEY By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 16.—Virgil E. Seeterlind of Detroit, who was vice president of the National Base Ball Federatlon, was advanced to the presidency, succeeding Ralph’ Davis of Pittsburgh, at today’'s session of the annual convention. The natfonal tournament in ama- teur class A was awarded to Phila- dephla, a_new member of the federa- tion, and will be held in connection with the Sesquicentennial Exposition there. Chicago was chosen for the in- dustrial class tournament. The federation voted to make the semi-professional class triple A a sep- arate organization. It declded also 0 hold the next annual convention, which will be at Philadelphia, 2 month later than usual, so that the federa- tion will have before it the major league schedules. These will enable *hem to arrange their own schedules to take advantage of dates on which major league clubs are idle. Besides Seeterlind, the following of- ficers were elected: A. M. Splegel, Cincinnati, Ohlo., first vice president: W. J. Mitchell, Ithaca, N. Y., second vice president; Nat Grifith, Johns- town, Pa., third vice president, and Frank P. Novario, Cleveland, Ohio, secretary-treasurer. Members of the new board of di- rectors are Willlam Phillips, Phila- delphia; Charles Symons, Johnstown, Pa.: George Eyrich, Cleveland, and James Maccrea, Indianapolis. ENGGLAND AND WALES TIE IN ANNUAL RUGBY GAME CARDIFF, Wales, January 16 (®). —Engiand and Wales played to a tie, 3 to 3, in their thirty-eighth interna- tional rugby match today. Of previous matches England has won 19, Wales 16, while two have been drawn. EASY FOR NAVY PLEBES ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 16.— The Navy demonstrated again today that it has the best first-year basket ball team it has had for many sea- sons when it defeated Baltimore Compston and Massy, European stars, is certain to be a sensation in“Eng- expected to shine on foreign terri- tory. Boston has two great golfers land. Poly, 61 to 20. Reserves worked for the Navy during most of the second and final quarters. EAST WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE. | Tewm Standings. Won. Lost. Pct Ninth No. 1 10 Douglas B | Ingram 10 9 Centennial 20 71 Gorsuch 9 6 | Waugh .0l 12 | North Capitdl .11 111 10 106 | The race for the lead in this league | is keen. ». 1 and Douglas| are tied lionors, but the tie will be Lroken Tuesday night when these two teams line up against each other. Neither team can afford to alip very much beeause Ingram and Eastern are right at their heels and| o will make a big| change in the standing of the teams. Ralph Andre Ninth No. 1 i3} leading in ind verages, with 110 and 6 pins, closely followed by Al Souder of Douglas, with 109 and 27 pins, and Ha Streiter of Eastern, with 109 ax. ins. Horner of No. 1 leads in| strikes, with Souder leads in| spares, with also has high set of 390. Se of Ingram has high e, high game, With the high team 606, and also copp set, with 1,704 ODD FELLOWS LEAGUE. Team Standings v . Lost. Mount Pleacant . & T Golden Rule Harmony Eastern. Columbia’ Fred D, Stuart . Covenasit Salem ... Brightwood Contral ... Friendship High individual zame—C. H. G Jieh individual setc=P. Ellet:, igh team game-—Mount Pleasant, Figh team set—-Mount Pleasant, Greatest spares—Loxan, 104, Greatest strikes—Lohmar, 20. High individual aversge—Harville, 117. Columbia was the victor in the odd game of its contest with Friendship, dut R. Johnson of Friendship had the best total of the night with 318. Brightwood falled to have enough men to start, and was forced to forfeit three games to armony. ount Pleasunt increased its lead to eight full games over Amity, the run- ner-up, by taking the set from Cov- enant. Lo; Fith 349, smeared the most maples for the winning quint, with Sislen proving the best roller on his team. The match between Golden Rule and Central has been postponed. Fred D. Stuart won two games from Rad Salem, taking the first and third games. The second game was tied, and an extra box was necessary, Salem being the victer in the roll-off. Harville continued his good rolling for Fred D. Stuart, turning in a 338 set, having games of 128 and 125, with an 85 game sandwiched in between. 4. Eastern and Am. staged a double- header. The latter team took four of the six games, with Ward contributing the best rolling, getting a total of 654 for the six games. Claggett and Oertle rolled best for Eastern. AGRICULTURE INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. Team Standings. s 9y e doitem D27 15 43 Property .. 27 15 643 Plant Industry S O B ommnics §z 2 408 Sollettors 27 Tnterburea Sl 16 @8 3 High team sets—Economics, 1,000: Ac- N\l!‘n 1.852; Propertv. 1,047, "Ik team pampsTioads! 502 So-Kems. T nomics, 579. : &‘%T'édelndua& iois—Dixon. 445: Stork. " Geradortt, 576 63 individyul sames—Dixon, 177; Myer. fflm:‘lgm rizes . Gersdorft of So-Kems. ne. By taking ail three games from the Accounts five, the Property team staged the way for a triple tie for league leadership in the matter of games won and lost, though Accounts has. a margin on total pin fall. The Property team rolled well, as its zames of 520, 513 and 555 indicate. Cooper’s set of 323 was best for Ac- counts. The So-Kems, though greatly weak- ened by the loss of their two best shooters, put up a startling fight against Solicitors and took two of the three games, thus remaining in the running. The winners were put out in front by the sterling bowling of W. and O. Gersdorff, the former get- ting 379 for his three games and the latter having counts of 108, 122 and 107, being especially effective In the pinches &len did the best work for Solig . The Interbureaus, after winning a closely contested first game from Plant Bureau by a count of 536 to of 121 were best for Interbureaus, while Costello's steady rolling helped considerably in Plant's victories. With Bill Whelan and Eddie M:A- thias Thitting on al x, the Public Roads outfit was able to take two of the three games from Economlcs, though the decisive game was won by a margin of seven plns only. Dixon and Barber rolled well for Economics. In the decisive game of the Prop- erty-Accounts match a pretty duel was staged by Tucker at anchor for the Property five and Terwisse roll- ing fifth for Accounts. Terwisse pick- ed up 18 pins in the last two boxes, putting his team slightly in front, only to have Tucker count 18 pins on two marks, putting the game in Prop- erty’s won column. TYPOTHETAE LEAGUE. Team Standings. Won. National Capital Press. Pickwood Printing Co. Wheeler-Jones : Judd & Detwi I Ransdeil, Inc. . R. P. Andrews Columbian_ Printing M. Joyre Engraving tanford Paper Co. . National Publishing Washing'n_Monotypo Co. Lanman Engraving Co.. 8 18 E Columbian Printing Co. rolled both high jeam game and high team set during the past week, its scores be- ing 575 and 1,657, respectively. Kline of Andrews obtained all the individual honors, his scores of 145 and 366 be- ing high for both game and set of the evening. National Capital Press quint con- tinues to show the way to the bal- ance of the teams. They have been rolling at a consistent rate all season and seem to be comifortably seated in first place. Results of the matches last Monday follow: Packwood Printing Co. won three from Judd & Detweiler; Columbian Printing Co. won two of three from Washington Monotype Co.; Standard Engraving Co. won two of three from R. P. Andrews Paper Co.; Washington Printing Co. won three from M. Joyce Engraving Co.; Wheeler-Jones won two of three from National Publish- ing Co.; Ransdell, Inc., won two of three from Lanman Engraving Co.; National Capital Press won two of three from Stanford Paper Co. ‘WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE. Team Standings. on. Lost. Columbians 34 8 Hilltorners 31 8 Waahington: 20 10 Commercials 31 11 Beeques 29 13 Climbers T 23 Interstate Commerce .. 15 27 ’D)elhlk_;“ - &0 az. au Bethany, O. E. S. .. 3 39 K Columbians A and Hilltoppers ex- changed places again, the former tak- ing the lead by grabbing three games from Interstate Commerce, while the Hilltoppers were having /a fight to stave off the fast-going Beeques, the match ending 2 to 1 in favor of the|{o! Hilltoppers. But the loss of that one game pwu enough to drop them back into second place. Lorraine Gulli certainly gave the bowlers 2 mark to shoot at when she crashed the maples for that 155 game and 395 set. Her performance ap- pears as a brilliant piece of duckpin- ning when it is noted that she regis- tered only one strike in the three games. Getting 14 spares in a set is some achievement in itself and is a very good indication of the wonderful control she exhibited in piling up that record score. B Kitty Klein of the Columbians stepped out and garnered high set for the week on her team with the nice three-game string of 310. Irene Myers of the Commercials registered a splendid single game count of 129 in her third effort, giving her the rea- son's record for high game on the team. Mabel Jenkins, captain of Bethany, has visions of her team climbing out of the cellar position and is spurring it to greater efforts each week, with the result that it turned in its best brand of pin spilling for the season Tuesday night, though it dropped all three games. Cumi Mitchell shot high game with a count of 108, while Capt. Jenkins carried off the honors for high set with 296. Those who won theater tickets for high scores were Irene Myers, Lor- raine Gulli, Marie Frere, Stella Turek and Kitty Klein. NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE. 522, dropped the othergtwo games chiefly as n result of somie high-class sharpshooting by Smith and Goll of . Plant, who totaled 335 and 326 for thelr sets, respectively. Rousseau with 317 and Roney with high game League s becoming more complicated every day. Only recently it seemed as though it would be a repetition of last season’s affair, with the Joseph Phillips and Belmont teams furnish- ing the fireworks. Then, at the ex- pense of the Phillips five, the Bel- monts shot well to the forefront, with the King Pins creeping into second place. This season the sudden reversal of form by the Belmonts, who dropped two-to Auths, allowed the King Pins to take the lead by winning three from the Mount Pleasants. But it ap- pears as if the Phillips crew is to be considered, for while the King Pins were taking but a pair from the Bel- monts, to drop the latter into third place, DuBols' men came within a game of the leaders by walloping the Linwoods three times. Thelr suc- cess s attributed to the fine ‘perform- ances of Earl McPhilomy. The only upset of last week came when Jasper Naples set a season's mark for high individual game with 172, to help the Mount Pleasants win three from the Cyclones. BANKERS® LEAGUE. Team Standings. Washington Riggs ... Hibbs & Co. . Wash. L. & TN Waeh, L. & T. No. American Sec. and Federal-American Metropolitan” 3 ational Sav. and Trust National "x-n.‘n, 1;1_;!-.51“ Fames_-Osborne, omersley. 157: 161 amee—W ashington Loan and Thn'f-‘fhng:i T Wastingion, 802: Mer: chants. 686. .Washington Loan and T s'fi,‘;"x,'x‘.ru: Washington, 1.860; H‘g::lia‘io—‘)f-cskm;:fidn. 20. In the Bankers' Duckpin League McCambridge has an undisputed strike record with 29 and Clark has again gone in the lead with spares with 112. Bank of Washington, by defeating District three games, now has 41 wins against 7 losses. Riggs'still s in second place. Hibbs. although still in third place, lost ground by dropping two of three to American Security and Trust Co. The two Waspington Loan and Trust Co. teams ar® having a red-hot race, with the No. 1 team holding a slight edge. Ted Miller's set of 363 and Bruton's game of 144 won the weekly prizes. MASONIC LEAGUE. Whiting Harmony Stansbury Gompers . Congress non Farker Takom: Daweon National Trinity . Joppa Columbi %&fllu hl. e Rolomon King David Singleton Potomac Anacostia Brightwood La Favette. 1.722. Bleh o et P Fapetie, 517, . High__individual set—Kosenbers, Gom- “'fi\:;.::’nhamduu same—Rosenbers. Gom- P*Hich individusl average—Rosenberg. Gom- ere, 117-21. e New Jerusalem bowlers, pennant winners of last season, have finally struck their proper stride, haviig won their last 12 games, averaging sets of 1,600. - This streak has brought them into a.virtual tie for the runner-up position. Litzau of Acacla performed the unique feat of registering double- header strikes twice in the same set, his achlevement being a decided fac- for In enabling his team to make a clean sweep of its set last week. Lewis of Parker has been one of the consistent performers in the league for several seasons. He hung up games of 116, 117 and 166, accounting for a 287 set last week, and his score in the final was just enough for his team to win from Columbla, No. 285, by .the slight margin of 12 pins. - Lost. Pet. F Tl 738 12 ‘n; 14 .68’ 21 500 22 478 (e Mo dal Cye 1 310 “The race in the Natlonal Capital ‘Whiting found Singleton tough op- ition, - dropping_two games to.the r. Jimmy' Boyd of Singleton “counted three successive strikes in the OUR CLUB Note.—This is the first of a serics of sketches concerning the cham- pions of the golf clubs about Washingtong written by W. H. Mc- Callum, Golf Editor of The Star. Others will follow. LREADY a winner of two of A the largest invitation golf tournaments held annually about Washington and a young golier, measured in terms of years of links experience, Miller B. Stevin- son, champion golfer of the Colum- bia County Club, has taken rank with the leading players of the Middle Atlantic section through ceaseless practice and a fondness for the game that has combined with the will to win to pull him over the many rough spots that beset the paths of champions. Stevinson made ihs first serious ef- fort in competitive golf about Wash- ingten in 1920, when the District champlonship was played at Colum- bia at match play for the last time. That year he found himself in a par- ticularly happy scoring mood and went to the final to run up against Bob Finkenstaedt at the top of his game, a Finkenstaedt who had scored 70 at Columbia in the semi-final the, previous day, and Stevinson was beaten. Ever since that tournament the present champion of Columbia has been recognized as one of the finest golfers about tke city, a keen match player and a splendid medal player. Stevinson's two most important v tories came in the Columbia tourna- ment of 1922 and the Chevy Chase tourney of 1924. In the Columb event he whipped Chris J. Dunphy in the final round, while in the Che Chase tourney he beat C. J. Dailey of Rochester, N. Y., then & student at Georgetown University. His match against Dailey was marked by a smart plece of golf when the match was close, one that may have won the | contest for him. Going to the fif- teenth hole Stevinson was 2 up. Both on the green in 3 shots, Daflev’s putt for a 4 hung on the very lip of the cup, appearing ready to topple In at every moment. Stevinson had & 3-footer for a half. Quickly lning up his putt, he made it, and in the same motion knocked Dailey's ball away, conceding the putt. If Dailey's ball bad hung on the lip of the cup a moment longer it might have rolled in, but as soon as Stevinson's ball was holed ‘he could concede his op ponent’s putt. The match ended on the next hole. /A very long driver and usually an excellent putter, Stevinson has achleved success with a style that is somewhat unorthodox in its execution, even though when his club actually meets the ball all the principles are correctly followed. In the first place, Stevinson does not take the easy stance advocated by experts. Instead he braces himeelf firmly, digging &is left heel into the ground. In taking the club back Stevinson's arms are not always in close to his body, but he does achieve a very long, low flying ball—a ball that runs a tre- mendous distance on hard ground. Through constant practice Stevinson has attained unusual skill with the mashie and niblick—two clubs that are very useful at Columbia. CHAMPIONS Columbia—Miller B. Stevinson. MILLER B. STEVINSON. Progressively improving in skill over the years Stevinson last October won the championship at Columbia, a club which generally is conceded to| have in it more skilful golfers than any othér club around Washington, | by beating Albert R. MacKenzie, previous champlon, In the final round. Roland R. MacKenzie, the Middle| Atlantic champion, did not play in| the tourney, but that does not take| anything away from Stevinson's feat, for he overcame all the leading players of the club in winning. +Stevinson won the qualifying round at Indtan Spring in 1924 with a card| of 76, setting a new amateur record for the course. He always has been one of the prominent entrants in the Baltimore tourneys and has fared well in them all, even though the Balti- more tourneys have been dominated by one or the other of the Corkran brothers. Stevinson went to Oakmont for the amateur championship last August, but like many other cham- pions, including a half dozen.former national titleholders, failed to qualify in the rigid medal test that inaugurat- ed the tourney. Stevinson has been playing golf only elght vears, but in that relative- 1y short space of time has made rapid strides in the game. One of the most popular players at Columbla or about Washington, Stevinson usually is an entrant.in all the invitation tourneys about the Capital. He represents a Western lumber manufacturing con- ~ern here. ' R him a 347 set, his best of the season. Led by Capt. Henry Tait Rodler, who was high man for his team in each of the three games, his set total being 333, Harmony made a desperate attempt to gain ground on the flying leaders, but was forced to take the short end of the count on each occa- sion. The first game was lost with a 674 score, a season record for a losing team in the Masonic League. Red Megaw was the big noise in the Lafayette-Harmony set, the sorrel- thatched lead-off man getting games of 156, 141 and 113, a set of 410, which ties Karl Heinzman of Congress for second high individual set honors. Megaw boosted his average to well above the 117 mark, and is now but a few pins less than Max Rosenberg of Gompers, the league leader in that respect. e DISTRICT LEAGUE. , Steam Standings, Convention Hall Stanford Paper Co. Berulass eyer Davis. ount Pleasant. tworth o0 BRomoLESS Records to Date. High team set—Convention Hall. 1.815. Hieh ream game—Convention Hall, 663, High individual sel—Rosenberg. Conven- tion Hall. 408. High individual game—Friend. Terminal Too 0k 2oividual average—Megaw. King v 5 Pins, 117-26. No changes occurred in the stand- ing of the first three teams, each of them making clean sweeps of their sets during the week. Terminal Ice Co. moved up into fourth place, by taking all three from Mount Pleasant while Cornell's Lunch was dropping: the same number to King Pins. Convention Hall turned in the best | team set total of the week, a mark of 1789, accomplished by means of games of 605, 579 and 605. Reds Morgan was high for the evening with a 3§3 total, while Joe Mulroe got 13 pins_less, tlelng his best previous count. Stanford took the first game from Potworth by a close score and then went on to win the remaining two with plenty to spare. Perce Ellett, anchor man for the Papermakers, contribyted games of 120, 120 and 141, his set total of 381 being best for either team, In taking all three from Cornell's Lunch, King Pins registered the best team game of the week, tallying 633. John Welsh hung a set total of 382, which included a 147 game, each being the best of the match. Red Megaw got only two pins less for his_total, but -his efforts, were par- ticularly fruitful as he regained from George Friend of Terminal Ice Co. the leadership in individual average. Dutch Weldeman was a disturbing factor to Mount Pleasants, his games amounting to a 374 total, ahd enabling Terminal Ice Co. to emerge in front in all three games. Victor Ott of Mount Pleasants attempfed to stem the. tide single handed with a 366 set. A Regulars lost the first to Temple, then took hte second by 5 pins, adding a 593 game in the final to win by wide margin, Ferguson, Andy God- dard .and Hank Bailey, all of Regu- lars, contributing es of 135, 126 and 135, respectively. 7 Pt s r o ROCK CREEK PARK LINKS TO BE RUN BY LOEFFLER OCK CREEK PARK golf course will be operated during the sea- son of 1926 by S. G. Loeffler, who has run the East Potomac Park golf links on a concession basis for the last five years. Announcement of the change in management of the Rock Creek Park course was made last night from the office of Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, engineer officer in charge of public buildings and parks. drawn up and will be signed tomorrow morning. A contract has been Loeffler plans to open the new nine final boxes of the last game, giving|holes at Rock Creek and incorporate it in an 18-hole layout that will add greatly to public golf facilities in the northwest section of the city. The entire course will be opened late in March, weather permitting. Loeffler plans also to build an addition to the clubhouse and to make various im- provements on the course in the way of widening fairways, bunkering, etc. He plans to retain Dan Horgan, the present professional, for the 1926 sea- son. /| Loeffler's contract at East Potomac Park runs until 1929. The Rock Creek Park course was operated last year by the Government ‘welfare board.® Loeffler plans to issue interchangeable season tickets, good at either East Potomac Park or Rock Creek. Park. BOXING VS. COLLEGE WORRYING STRIBLING By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 16.—The problem of trying to get a college education without giving up his box- ing career is harassing Young Strib- ling, now that his honeymoon in New York is at an end. Before departing with his bride to- day for Savannah on the steamship City of Chattanooga Stribling ex- pressed a desire to take up studies at .the University of Georgia, but added: “Of course, I would want to keep up my boxing, and I am afraid that I would be dismissed if I cut classes to fight. I am going to take up the matter with the college authorities and see what can be done about it.” THOMAS NEW HEAD OF FIELD TRIAL CLUB Maj. Robert S. Thomas was named president of the National Capital Fleld Trial Club at the annual elec- tion of officers held recently at the clubhouse at Bradley Hills. He succeeds Dr. J. N. Paine, who headed the body during the past year. Frank Burrows was chosen first vice president to replace Thomas P. Baldwin, and R. W. Farmer was named, for the office of second vice president, succeeding C. A. Clements. Matthelv Trimble, jr., of Kensing- ton, Md., takes the place of James D. Foley” as the club's secretary- FRENCH AND BRITISH HAVE NO NET CLASH By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 16.—The 'supposed conflict between the dates for the French hard court tennis champion- ships and the Wightman Cup tourna- ment in England has been cleared away by» a_communication received today from the British assocation. ‘The French Tennis Federation, fear- ing that the conflict would prevent Helen Wills,. Amerlcan champlon, from participating in the hard court tournament, yesterday sent an urgent inquiry to the British authorities. The latter replied that there had ap- parently been a misunderstanding, as they had not vet received the Wight- man Cup challenge from the United States, and that until they did so they would be unable to fix the dates for the competition. Publication of the supposed dates by English and French newspapers, they added, was without authority from them. French tennis officials are much relieved by these assur- ances. al Helen TENNIS WORLD AWAITING MEETING OF CHAMPIONS May Clash on Riviera and Possibly Not Until June. French Girl Almost Over Calif Special Cable. P now waiting impatiently is a Wills. Certain to Be Choice ornia Lass. ARIS, January 16—The one event for which the tennis world in France—and that means many thousand ardent enthusiasts—is just match between Suzanne Lenglen and . Jt is uncertain still whether the contest will occur shertly on the Riviera or whether it will take place in June instead; but it is pre- sumed that the eagerness of the tw bring them together on the courts Since Mlle. Lenglen defeated M Years ago it has been the ambition of every woman tennis player to ta the honor of world champion from to Europe not exclusively to meet is the only interest. When the ma an outstanding occasion. With the Bowlers O bowling writers at The FFICERS of the Washington City Duckpfn Association and of the Capital City Bowling Association are to meet with a group of ar on Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock to discuss ways and means of effecting a merger of the rival organiza- tions. Just how a merger could be accomplished at such a meeting is somewhat uncertain—at least the newspaper men do not know how it could be brought about. mount—they have noth With them the interests of the bowler are para- to do with any argument between factions that seck to control duckpin competitions in Washington. The bowling writers have been asked, however, to do what they can at the meeting to bring about an agreement between the two organiz everything possible to effect a recon- ciliation will be attempted by the scribes. It was believed by many bowlers that after the meeting last Sunday of the Washington City outfit, that was attended by representatives of the Capital City faction, in an un- official capacity, presumably, the ques- tion of a merger would soon be set- tied. Differences between the organi- zations then were discussed calmly and everything indicated a quick sweeping aside of any bone of con- tention. But some one must not have been satisfled with proceedings then. At any rate, this Tuesday conference has been urged. It is earnestly hoped by the bowling writers at least that for the sake of the rank and file of Wash- Ington duckpinners—the fellows who pay the freight, no matter who is in charge—that old wounds will not be reopened at the conference. A widening of the breach now after. such a step forward was taken last Sunday might throw bowling affairs here into chaos for a long time. As has been stated in this column be- fore, neither Washington nor =zny other city is big enough to have two bodies attempting to supervise com- petition in any one sport. Constant wrangling by rival factions deadens interest in the game, for the bowler after a time becomes tired of listening first ‘to this side then to the other and paying both. The bowler certainly kriows what he wants, but it seems that in a number of leagues politics have taken prece- dence over the game to such an ex- tent that it is almost impossible to get at the true state of affairs. In some leagues there are factions favor- ing one organization and factions leaning toward the other. It seems, though, that neither of these factions in any particular circuit ever at- tempts to learn by vote just which organization the majorify of its bowlers may favor. There have been cases of breaks in league directorates on this point, some of the officials preferring to string along with the W. C. D. A. and some with the C. C. B. A. But rarely has there been any direct evidence that the opinions of the directorates reflect the attitude of the bowlers in general in the circuits. Capital City efficials do not hesitate to ma*&hnt their organization orig- inally S the result of an insurgent movement within the ranks of the Washington City outfit. They readily admit that not liking the way affairs were conducted In the senfor organiza- tion about two years ago they with- drew to build a new controlling body. They will not admit that alley politics had anything to do with the break, as has been charged in some quarters. Washington City officials admit that affairs in their organization may not have been so well conducted for a briet time. But they insist that always they have done everything possible for the b'owler at large, and that with an en- tirely new slate of officers there {s no reason to believe the senior organiza. tion will not function properly, Each claims it has only the interests of the bowlers at heart, that it has no axes to grind. The Capital City even goes 8o far as to declare that having accomplished what it set out to do- sive the bowler more Pbrotection than he had been getting—it is ready to re- tire from the field. But it insists that it will not retire if the Washington sgl{enuckpm Assoclation is to con- inue. And the W. C. D. A., proud of what {it has done since its organization in 1910, even though it realizes it h: made some mistakes, does not see why | it should defer to what it terms an in tions, and as the bowlers would be|surgent or; better served by one controlling body | anization that so readily admits it has nothing else to accom plish. That's how the matter stands now and that's what probably will be dis- cussed Tuesday night. Everything else has been threshed out, it seems. It has come to a question of whether either or both of the associations shall survive. It seems certain at this time that neither faction will give any more ground. . ‘What is to be must be deeided by | the bowlers themselves. Harry Carroll, manager of Recreation chain of drives, has an nounced that the individual tourna- ment he has planned will be held in March instead of February. The high average man of each team of the leagues that bowl on alleys of the Recreation chain will be eligible to compete, and Carroll wants to give all the bowlers a chance to boost their scores before the gualifying date to be set arrives. Circular letters are to be sent by Carroll to leaguc secretaries this week. The secretaries are to be notified as to the date the averages are to be ascertained, and will be expected to nominate eligibles for the tournament. The tourney will be a total pinfall contest with elimina- | tion rounds. For oddity in team standings the Southern Railway League gets the tin medai. The last announced stand- ing of the eight-team circuit showed the second team to be but one game below the leader, following teams but a game behind its immediate predecessor in the !ist. Here's how they lined up: W, Construction. But that’s not all. The sixth-place Operation quint was leading at total pinfall with 20,197, and the cellar En- gineers were third with 20,190. Con- struction, league leaders, was second in this respect with 20,192. Walter E. Megaw, better known perhaps as Red, has been slamming the maples for a startling count with- in the last eight davs. A week ago vesterday he hit 599 in five games with the King Pin All-Stars against the Baltimore bowlers. Roliing for La Fayette in the Masonic Association Monday night he totaled 410 in three games. Tuesday night he shot for the King Pins in the National Capital League and knocked 386 pins, and Wednesday night he toppled 380 for the King Pins in the District League. That gave him a total of 1,775 pins in 14 games on four successive bowling nights, an average of 126-11 per game. That sounds something like a record. Jasper Naples went into the last game of his National Capital League record-making game last week with a chance to break the District mark of | 188 set by Tip O'Neill some years ago. With a 115 total for seven boxes, the Count knocked a double-header and toppled nine maples with his first roll in the final box for 144 in the eighth. His record chance was shot to pieces, though, when he falled to get that ‘single pin for a spare, that, if fol- lowed by a roll-off strike, would have netted 184. But he was well pleased with this score: Sp SD SD Sp Sp sp st st 10 27 45 62 79 95 115 144 163 17 One of the hottest matches of the season in the District League is ex- pected Wednesday night, when the leading Convention Hall team and the Y, I PLEASURE! It has always been a great pleasure to us each January in offering our stocks of the | and each of the | o0 rhnmpignfi to meet each other will of the Riviera before very long Molla Mallory at St. Cloud four her, and while Miss Wills has come the Frenchwoman, for tennis fans it tch takes place it will be considered It has been rumored that Mile. Ler len has feared to meet Miss Wil but admirers of the French court star declare that only regrettable circum- stances have kept them apart. When Miss Wills came to Europe in 4 and played at Wimbledon, Mlle. Su- | zanne had her famous “crise de nerfs” in her final set with Miss Ryan, and as Miss Wills was defeated by Miss MacKane they could not meet then nor did they meet shortly afterwards at the Olympics in P when the ( fornia_ girl defeated Mlle. Vlasto and waited in vain for her more famous rival. If it is true, as some say, that Mile. Lenglen fears to meet the American champion it is going to be most diffi- cult to aveid a_matck Miss Wills has come directly to France, which in tself is in the nature of a challenge, even if she is going to study art modest prettiness Miss Wills® has made ag impres and there are m: French tennis players, men particularly, who would be rather pleased to see the cap if brilliant, Suzanne downed by demure California girl But the chances are considered hardly even unless the America improved over her Olympic form is pointed out t while she is one of Suzanne 2 If there is a match between the two there will be the keenest interest to watch how Wiils meets Mille Suzanne's offensive. It is known here that there is t keenest interest in America over match. It is presumed here tha ““American trust” t Davis Cup is v zet t championship of the world for Miss Wills, but then Suzanne } defeated for I vears and | been in better condition than she has | this year. (Full cop: TRAPSHOOTERS END TEAM EVENT IN TIE Two teams of trapshooters failed to |come to a declsion vesterday in the of the |50-bird race on the range Washington Gun Club. The i {in doubt until the last shot had b fired and then it was found that | team haa scored 457 breaks in a pos- | sible 550 Individual hono: and Morgan of team, acking 48 birds in the trophy in the Fawsett led team, No of 46. W. H. Constantine, | singles last week, took first place in the doubles with'a score of 37 in 4. Next Saturday the District shooter: go to Baltimore for the season's f match with the Oriole Gun Cl Yesterday’s result Horton Stine Constantine. Wilson.. ... Franklin Wetherill. Wynkoop Parsons Reamer Reeves. Burrow: Total | fourth-place Terminal Ice Co. quint |clash on the Convention Hall drives. | Rivalry between these teams is in- tense. The Icemen are eager to gain their position as total pinfall leaders that was wrested from them by the Convention Hall crew, while the latter would rather take a fall | out of Blick’s frosty fellows than any {others in the circuit. Stanford and King Pin team: strengthening for the final batiles of the season in the District League. The Stanfords have acquired Chick Heltman, who was anchor man for Petworth, and Glenn Wolstenholma has been released Ly Mount Pleasant to Bill Wood's team. o RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AN NEW - RADIATORS "FOR © ALYoS WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. 319 13th BT N.W. 1423 P. REAR SUITINGS AND OVERCOATINGS treasurer. Pl s e NICE, France, January 16 (P).— Miss Helen Wills, the American wom-| an lawn tennis champion, arrived here frovh Parie (DU PONT) DUCO PROPERLY APPLIED | AUTO' REFINISHING CO.'l * /Col.. 7163 E EVERY GARMENT UNION TAILORED IN OUR OWN WORKROOMS JOS. A. WILNER & CO. Cor. 8th & G Sts. N.W. Cor. 8th & G Sts. NW. Were $45.00. Now. Were $47.50. 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