Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 40

\ " Peck and McNeely Out of Griff Line-up : Voigt Adds M. A. Title to Golf Honors ' . BLUEGE GOES TO SHORT BANNOCKBURN MAN BEATS AND GOSLIN TO CENTER s W ISTEVINSON ON 18th GREEN Myer Gets Job at Third Base, While Joe Harris Is to ¥ Play in Left Field—Judge Made Lead-off Man in Revised Batting Order:. Overcomes Early Lead and Outshoots Columbia C.:C. Golfer on Last Two Holes to Score < Third Major Tourney Victory of Year. 3 BY W. R. McCALLUM. ! VERCOMING an carly lead and fighting back against the oftimes brilliant goli of his final opponent when, gout, seemed certair George J. Voigt of Bannockburn won the championship of th- | Middle Atlantic Goli Assogiation at Washington Golf and Country Cluh vesterday, snatching victory on the final hole from the hands of Miller B Stevinson of Columbia Country Club. Voigt's victory yesterday, which came at a moment when he ap peared certain to be defeated, was his third in as many starts in tourna ments this and established him as the leading golicr of the seaso about tise Capital. Although Voigt won by 1 up, the margin of victor was even fier than the result indicates, for Voigt was down most of th {way around the course and, taking advantage of a momentary slip | Stevinson at the very end oi the match, rushed through the breach : anuex the title. |, A stymie at the fitteenth hole and, They halved the sixteenth in {a missed putt by Stevinson on the|ds, leaving Stevinson 1 up with 2 seventeenth turned the balance in|go, and the stage was set for the spec favor of Voigt when the tide of | tacular turn of the tide of victory i victory was apparently running strong | tke direction of the District champio: for Stevinson, The stymie contrihuted | from Bannockburn. to the final result, but the missed | Stevinson, with the honor, hit & fir« putt on the seventeenth was the vital | high iron shot a little too far to the ‘actor, for had Stevinson made the|right of the line at this difficult ho 8-footer that curled away from the|and his ball kicked straight down lip of the cup he would have beenihill into the ditch at the right side o BY JOHN B. KELLER. UCKY HARRIS not only revised his batting order ior the game with erd; but before and during the engagement he made several shifts that put in the field from the seventh inning an organization of Nationals that the manager says .will be the régu- line-up from now on. E Organization changes involve the transfer of Ossie Bluege from third hase to shortstop, the employment of Buddy Myes, who has been used in the shortficld most of the season, as a hot corner guardian, the shift- ing of Goose Goslin from leit to center field and the assignment to the pasture vacated by the Goose oi J These changes depose as regulars Roger Peckinpaugh and E These changes the pilot belicy offensively and increase its punch. Man Harris realizes the neces ity of having an organization that | well in both the games. 3 placed the fleld daily.| Had he possessed a bit more lineup one duy and | stamiua Rigney yesterday would have 3 ¢ | vegistered a homer in the -opening fenils S0 ‘"" round when his looping fly bounded ationals have been | pagt Rice for three bases. Topper changed often and Harris thinks it|was plainly tuckered on the last lap had sometling 1o do with their slump. | and Ruel got Stan Harris’ relay in While the veteran Roge l’evkln—‘ time to block him off at thg platter. 9 as wanted in the line-up b " - ik ' Herrera robbed Judge of a safety in over the Red Sox and he pitched very can be on Using another the mext team play. The d. T. Me- (medalist); In this group, snapped Clenahan, Fred g Paxtol Perry B. Hoover, Gordon MANGAN IS BEATEN rr, W. C. Evans, Dr. Henry D. Nicholsoni dames A, Drah. NO'D.C POWERBOAT one sterday at the Washington Golf and Country Club, are shown Titer B, Soymon (eunsorny Dr. Goorse - Truett, s ’ il My . Houghton, John E. n (runner-up) one, Ch urphy, A, disr Jr. D. C-MARYLAND TRAPGUN ause of his generally effective worl ’ the slwruwlser's wobbly underpin- | the fag end of the first inning with ning made him too uncertain | yegular. Joe Harris, a heavy right- hand hitter when playing regularl was wanted, too, but center fleld v too big a territory for him’to guard, and when he worked in right field | Sam Rice had 1o be shifted to center. | And Ric i ght, was not at | home in the middle garden Figures New Outfleld Stroug. | Bluege was a nemesis to Flagstead. s of the opinion that Goslin | Tra bounded to the third baseman his 1 be able to take care of the ta i nter in good fashion. The Goose | was robbed of & bingle when his has speed and while at times his judg- | wicked smash took an odd hop and mient of fly balls is somewhat faulty | struck Bluege on the chin. Ossie cond, but fielding honors for the me went to Flagstead by a wide margin., Ira dashed far to his left in pursuit of- Rice's hard-hit sarety and dived to spear the ball on a short hop with one fin. m easily could hav completed the circujt had the sphere | gotten past Tlaggy. a|a fine stop of his bounder close to| first thrre times up and in the fifth | | | | | IN FINAL AT TENNIS By the Associated Pres RICHMOND, Va. ay 29.-—terbert Bowman of New York City, cgptured the angual Old Dominion tennis tournament here today for the sec- ond time when he defeated Tom Man- gan of Washington-in the finals, 3—6, 8—6, 6-—4, 8- Bowman, with Dr. Rosenbaum, also of New York, won the doubles title. The mixed doubles crown went to Penelope Anderson of this city and John Temple Graves of Washiugton. In winning the men's doubles Bow- T Benning. Thursday aiternoon will be devoted to practice shooting, with trophies | TOURNEY HERE SATURDAY/ READ HE year's outstanding event in local trapshootilig circles—the Dis- trict of Columbia-Maryland S$tate shoot—takes place over the coming week end at the traps of the Washington Gun Club near | going to high guns on 100 targets, added bird hardicap system. The first 100 of the 200 target Dis- trict-Maryland singles champlonship will be run off on Friday morning A. T. A. troph also will be given at all distances.\ State or District resident who “high gun” Yardage ' trophies is n tife 200 singles cham- | Y FOR BIG RACE Many of the fastest motor hoats| of the couptry, some already built and others still on the ways, will be here on the Potomac, September | 18, 10 try for the $5,000 #9ld cip that | | will go 1o the winner of the big fea- | ture event of the President’s Cup regatta, but so far as is known at present the District of Columbja will 1ot be able to enter a single craft in_the competition. Several fast hoats are on’ the | have skied his tee shot at the eight- | plon gave Stevinson an opening on dormie 1 up and probably would not eenth. Voigt's victory was thoroughly earned by his steadiness and con- sistent plugging away in the face of the determined game Stevinson put up to win, although the new cham- the seventeenth, after the Columbia player had pushed his tee shot into the ditch and lost a stroke getting out. At this hole Voigt did the unusual thing for him-——taking three putts and giving Stevingon a chance to halve the hole. 'Stevinson, however, was unable to sink the 3-footer, which | | the fairway. Voigt only half hit hi< iron shot. playing a shot inferior t that of Stevinson, but his ball stave. in the rough in the neck of a poir of land at the bend of the ditch. Although Stevinson's ball lay we in the ditch, he could not get at 1 because of high grass behind it a) did well to get out. He put his tk shot on the green 2§ feet from the pi: and Voigt half hit his niblick pitct running 40 feet past the pin to 1t ight edge of the green. Voigt putted up 8 feet short aic Stevinson, trying to hole his 4, ra: 3 feet past. Voi and Stevinson, with the door wide | open for a half, missed the 3-foote would have left him with 1-hole lead. the | The end cagme swiftly on the elgi ke generally manages to offset,this d jpou-md on the ball and got off a fect in his playing with his fleetness | snap peg to flag Ira by a whisker. of foot. And the Goose ean throw. ! o — too. 1ie ought to be able to get the, . Rosenthal's third straight hit, pionship, in addition to trophies | donated, will have his rvailway fare | paid to the Grand American tour: ment. as representative of the District river, but none of them can measute: up to the specifications laid down for the President’s Cup event by the |y, American Power Boat starting at 9:30. Eight trophies will Zo to the winners, scores belng com- puted on the standard classification would have. left him a one-hole margin. | {ite, | Voigt won the eig! man and Rosenbaum 100k straight . hteenth to annex | e matchi in hollow sets from Hugh Oakley and 1. €. ! Montelair, N. J,, 63 fashion, for| Juli to the plate from deeper parts of | double lined against the right fiel the outfleld than could McNeely. Joe | fence to open the sixth, was wasted timrris has played left field before and | when Herrera hit into a double play. | can go well there, Boss Bucky figures. | on lined directly into Peck’s mitts pafh, May 29 P — | D tennis comnetition BARCELON | system. Immediately following will be the Joubles (championship &t 50 targets The winner will receive uand Maryland. The A. T. A. also gives a troph to the State-District amateur hig! gun on all targets—singles, Assaciation, | Stevinson's skied tee shot found A. A. of bout racing. Conse- | gitch at the left side of the falrway officers f the Corinthian {and he reaghed the green in five shots the A. Y | quently doubles b | Yacht Club, the organization spon- soring the regatta, are wondering holing a 10-feot putt for a 6, while! Yoigt rolled in a 7-footer for a par| feenth:, where Voigt hit a screamer far jout in the middle of the fairway an: tevinson skied and pulled his tee shot into the bank of the ditch para leling the fairway. His ball was pla Rap: In_the Davis The manager does not consider the!and Roger flipped to Stan Harris at | tod: =26 paivs, use of Bluege at shortstop an experi- | second -before Rosey could dash back ment. Ossie came to the Nationals|to the sack. originally as a shortstop and promised | to become a top-notcher at that posi- | tion. Circumstances, however, forced | his shift to third base, where lie more | *han made good. But he still is a po-| entfally great shortstop, according to the Nationals' pilot and will be .right at home in that position within Flaquer of Spain defeated P wh El 3 8 2 Ve P e s sether some local sportsman would | not be willing to get busy at once ! and build u specitication boat to | meet the outsiders. A defender is | needed to keep the trophy in Wash- 4 to clinch the title. The final round was mediocre golf on the part of tentants—far below the play they bad set in'earlier mate intermingled in spots with bri shots and spectacular putting. Through both the semifinal a final matches Voigt was off his usual fine game. Voigt came through the semiflual round in spectacular fash- jon, playing poor golf against Larl McAleer of the Manor Club to go the seventeenth one down and two holes in a row. and handicap. | New traps have been installed, and | will be undet the personal supervision | of a representative from the factory. Bulldings and stands have been r painted, and cement and gravel yard age marks installed for the comfort of shooters. The women of §t. Albafi’'s Dramatic Club will serve lunches Frida Saturday. A Jarge fleld of entrants pected because of the amount i and trophies given as induce for contestants. The trophy and prizes will total at least $1,500. Trophies for the State shoot will be on display at headquarters of the Washington Gun Club, $18 Four- teenth street. the A. T. A. trophy. Three other trophies also will be given on Lewis | class system. High professional in | doubles also will receive a trophy. | The Iiotel Hamilton, shooters headquarters, will donate a trophy | whieh will be given to high amateur ‘on I'riday's program of singles and doubles—150 targets. At 9:30 Saturday, the second 100- ! target contest will be staged to de-! | termine wingles champion of District- | Maryland. Kight trophies will Le given on this 100 targets, standard classification system. Following this will be the 100-target handicap cham- | plonship, 16 to 23 yard rise. Amateur winner of this event, resident of Mary- land or the District, will receive the WAR WHITES OUTSCORE by |able and he did get out of the ditcl. b e but still remained in the roug: standard | . His thiird shot. a mlidiron, was st hes-— | 80 Yards short of the green. wit liant | {7e8 [0 carry o get close to the Lol | Voigt in the meantime played an irc: nd | 8hot to the bank of the green, only & yards off the putting surface. Stevin son’s fourth shot was short and Voi, chipped up to within 7 feet, whi Stevinson half hLit his chip and le himself a partial stymie. Ile holed | the putt, giving Voigt two shots to iwin. The Bannoekburn plaver ran Stevinaon, on the other Luud, vas ‘:JI?::. Uhe 7footer to win the hole anc riliant in his semi-final roun o 5 :'lui:n Gordon F. Wood of Rich | Cards of the Match. mond, rushing through the first nine | 7y4 cards of the finalists follows holes in 36—exactly par—and beal ing Wood_on the thirteenth green, 7 up and 5 to go. Volgt was out in | ¢ against McAleer, and was back in 42 for an 88. Steviuson Starts Seevinson started the as if he would make D. C-BALTIMORE MATCH IS PLANNED BY GOLFERS HE proposal that a goli team from Washington clubs meet a similar team from Baltimore clubs has struck a popular chord. A move- | ment is under way to organize the Washington team to cross clubs | on a Baltimore course with a team, selected by H, Lennox Bond, 3d, of the Bolling Road Club. Bond's idea, as outlined to Washington golfers, {is to restrict the teams to 8 or 10 men and to play two engagements— one in Washington and another in Baltimore—in singles and four-ball matches. i i . 1. McCormick-Goodhart's Silver | Heels, Battenfleld's Gray Batt III| and a baby gar 400-horsepower fiyer are the fastest motor craft here at present, but all of them fall short {of the requirements for the feature | | vace of the annual meeting WILL AID GOLF TRIP. LONDOX, May 20 (®.—The sur-| plus money from the gate receipts | at the two.day professional golf tournament between British and | American teams at Wentworth on | June 4 and 5, will be turned over to the Professional Golfers’ Association | to start a fund to enable British | | professionals to visit the United | States in 1927 It is thus hoped to| { make the affai an annual one. | f able 1o do at | o again. | great ien he | afte: - will be +hird, though, is something Buddy did not appear to advantage there last year broke into the world series Blyege was hit on the head by one of Vic Aldridge’s pitches. But it must he remembered that Buddy was not in the best of condition then. IHe still was feeling the effects of u case of blood polsoning vesulting from a spike wound on the kuee. At short, AMyer seemed able to go to either side the ball and he flelded the sharp drives better than the siow rollers, ife has a good arm, too, and 1 fi y nicely at the hot corner. h | st.r'x'n-an A Tn— : Tolei w Stevinsoi final round | Voigt succeeds Roland R. Mac: a rupaway | of Columbia as titleholder of the Mid match of it, holing & 10-foot putt|dle Atlantig Golf Association. Mac for a birdie 3 at the first hole to win Kenzle won at Maryland Country when Volgt hooked his tee shot out | Club last Year and is now in Englend {of bounds, and annexing the second | With the Walker Cup team. Voigt hole when Voigt hooked his mushie | won three major tourner: at the 160-yard hole far down the hill |ennexing the Indian Sprin to_the left. Chase events earlier in the month. The Bammockburn player came| Stevinson won the Balti right back with victories on the third | Country Club tournament la and fourth, however, to square the iand had plaved consistently { matéh, when Stevinson found the - While details for the match ave in process of arrangement, a group of ‘Washington Golf and Country Club- i players—eight in all—have made plans* to engage a like number of Rolling Road players on the Mary- land course on June 19 and 20. Dr. |J. 7. McClenahan, F. D. Paxton, W. Howard, J. I. Power, J. H. Wright, W, R. McCallum, J. Logan Hopkins und G. T. Howard are the ‘Washington men planning to make | the trip. | ' GREENS IN POLO BATTLE HE War Department Polo Association’s quartet of 3-goal meu, desig-| | GOLF TOURNEY RESULTS | nated as the War Whites, reached the final of the high-goal series | | oi ‘the Association's annual Spring tourney by nosing out the War | ] Greens in a fast match at Potomac Park field. 6 to 5. Woo Riders from the 16th Artillery at Fort Myer, winners over the 6th | MeUy, defeaiid Ban, i R We y veek, nst | Coneolation—M.. K. Washington, de- | | Cavalry iour in the opening tilt earlier in the week, will be pnlfl(‘lcd‘g';!‘:l | fansolation—jC. B West, Wasnington, de: | g Joe Judge from fifth place »sition in the batting about an improve- ment in his stickwork. Joe always has contended that he can hit better as a lead-off man than in any other place in the batting list. With the removal of the mental handicap due y Chester Horton. The average golfer develops early in his game the tendency to take hold of the club at the extreme end of the shaft. This is O. K., though the club should yield best bal- MPIONSHIP FLIGHT: Semi- B Columbia, vefoated. 7 an 1 tevinsou, 1 un to occupying a lower notch in the or- | der, Judge may do some real slug- ging. Placing Joe Harris in the fifth position vacated by Judge brings to- gether tha most powerful batters in the lineup. Having to reckon with With the close of the Middle At- lantic championship yesterday, golf around the Capital gets a respite for a week, even though some of the clubs have planned special events for ance at about midway of the leather. As the player’s gamp improves and he gets into the way the Whites in the deciding contest on Tuesday. The ball wi in at 3:30 o'clock. The Whites, who took the 3d Cav- alry team to camp by a close margin on’ Thursday, had to overcome a 4- Col, J. A. Baer, Col. Bruce Palme: Capt. H. O. Richavdson and Maj. I H. Baird. Immediately following thi ach | Harrell, Washington. Roeach ' de v SECON Houghton, Bannockbiirii, 6 an defeated G, holes). d | Frank Koe: Washington, defoated B ] i aTpaefault. Final— | gitch at the third and missed his third shot at the long fourth. YVoigt also won the fifth when Stev- inson topped his tee shot, r-;l:;dd . Brawner, Co: Orme, Col % Bramer fofes the green with his second and mi er dofeated is | Jambi up | golf in all the events he has eu- { tered. All Voigt's final round vic- | tories in the three tourneys he has won this year have come on the last hole. s . Gordon Stdne, a 18-year-old goal handicap to beat the Ggeen play- [ matah the 6th I'leld Artillery quartet | Jj ll’m:}'max;::m ers yesterday, but proved equal to ey SomROL the fa: ‘They started off with a rush and after the Greens had misséd on an n—De _Vers Memorial day. The Chevy Chase ot 1. Power, Wasl Club will hold the annual competition | for the Victor Kauffmann Memorial day trophy and othég clubs have ar- a 4-footer for a half in 4. Th halved the 374-yard sixth in par 4s, Voigt holing a i-vard putt for the V-1 half. Voist missed a 3-footer for a ;14 to_win the seventh and the hole Goslin and, Joe Ilarrig in order prob- ably will be annoying to many oppos- ing pitchers. schoolboy and member of the | Washington club, went through | good field to win the third flight, de feating the long-hitting J. . IHen of better feeling the balance of the clubhead he | will_find_himsel | against a four from Middleberg, Va. “The line-up of the atter team includes, Arthur White, Baldwin Spillman, V.| Little more than 00 Tans were at hand yesterday to zee Roger Peckin- | paugh present h rtificate of E er most valuable to his hut music by presentation Frank B. Willis of Ohio. Peck’s home State, gave tone to the occ . And in addition to the league testimonial the veteran shortstop received a pair of cuff links, the gift of Pearson and Crain, local jewelers. In giving Roger the engrossed parchment, Senator Willis sal: “It {s my great honor and privilege to present to you in behalf of the American League of professional base ball clubs this trophy, which is the avidence that in the judgment of the committee you have earned by excep- tional ability, faithful service and ex- emplary deportment the title of being the player of greatest value fo his team and of greatest credit to profes- sional base ball during the vear 1925. “This is an honor of which you ahould be excaedingly proud. We are proud that vou are a citizen of Ohio and are gratified beyond expression that this merited expression of your exceptional worth as a ball player and as a man has come to you. “Base ball fans, the country through, recognize vour amazing fleld- ing ability and your own fighting spir- it which somehow you are able to communicate to all of vour fellows on the team. You are loved and ad- mired, not only by base ball fans, but by players on all the clubs; because ur extraordinary skill and Senator vour loyal devotion to duty. 3 standard of conduct and Sp ship. In other words, this trophy is a. tribute not only to your skill as a hall player, but to your fine qualities 29 a man and as a citizen. “Very cordially I congratulate you, and in the name of the American League present this trophy as a tes- timonial of their confidence, esteem and affection.” “This is news to me” said President Griffith yesterday when he read a re- port that he was buying for $50,000 Shortstop Lynford Lary from the Oakland club of the Pacific Coast Teague. “I know nothing of such a deal,” he continued. “Cal Ewing, who owns the Oakland club, accom- panied by a couple of Representatives paid me a visit this afternoen. Ewing, on his way to a minor league meeting at Atlantic City, stopped over in Washington for the day. But T dis: cussed no deal with him, nor have I dntered into negotiations with the Qakland club for any of its players. And that club has made no overtures 6 me regarding any (deal. 1am after voung players, of ¢ourse. and will make every effort to land likely ones. But I know nothing of any deal for s I said before, it's all news After today’s game with the Red . the Nationals will pull’up stakes nd go on the road for games in New York and throughout the West-, n circuit. Their next appearance at ome after today's clash will be on June 22 when the Yankees will be en- + Spring affai | ty Club, to be held.Tune 9, 10, 11 and 112, ranged special fourneys. The next Lig event is the annual of the Columbia Coun- a tournament which usually at- tiacts a record entry list and brings out the finest of competition. Last year more than 330 players were in the tourney, a list larger than any other local event ever had. Then comes another week without a golf event, leading &p to another high spot in local golfdom—the second an- nual Congressional Country Club tourney, to be played June 23, 24, 25 and 26. By the time the end of the schedule is reached with the playing of the ‘Congregsional tourney, there will have been seven big golf events compl about the Capital in nine weeks—far too lengthy a schedule for even.the most hardened tournament player— and 8 tournament list that becomes a grind long before the end. Although the question has been agitated for some time, the District Golf Agsocia- tion and the clubs that.comprise it have failed to find a way to split. up the tournaments between Spring and Fall, and ‘each succeeding year finds the same stiff tourney schedule, Roger Coombs of Kirkside scored an ace a few days ago, holding a 160- yard iron shot. NN o The third of the miniature tourna- ments held by the Women's District Golf Association will be played at the Congressional Country Club on Tues- day. Entries may be phoned to Miss Phyllis Keeler, secretary of the asso- ciation, North 5047, or may be made at _the tee on Tuesday. Indian Spring’s woman golf team won the first team match of the asso- ciation at Indian Spring on Friday, scoring 16 points to 103 for Columbia and 713 for a combined team from Washington and Congressional. Mrs. E. R. Tilley had low gross with a 90, with Miss Keeler second at 91. Mrs. H. A, Knox, one of the lead- ing women golfers of the Indlan Spring Club, set a new wome mark for the courss last Wednesday negotiating the long and difficult lay- out in 84, éxactly women's par. Mrs. Knox played with Mrs. L. B. Chap- man and Mre. E. R. Tilley of Indian Spring and Mrs. J. M. Haynes of Co- lumbia. Her score follow: Out= 555 554 55342 In— 6546 645 53 5—42—84 Women players from the clubs about Washington have organized in- ter-club matc] to be played once each week. Teams have been enter- ed from Columbla, Chevy Chase, In- dian Spring, Washington and Con- gressional, and the matches are to be played in foursomes. . Indian will hold & tombstone tournament tomorrow asJjts Memorial day golf event. A. L. Houghton, the Manor Club champion, handicapped himself out of a prize in the blind bogey ha at Manor last Sunday. He selected a_handicap of 7, and shot a score of 77, which gave him a net of- 70, When the winning number was produced, it countered in a double-header. Curly Ogden will start on the slab for . the Nationals this Curly has o his credit two victories afternoon. | was found the blind bogey score was 77. , s %2 in- winnine. round in the Middle ndicap | placing his hands farther down the | leatheér—one re: why nearly par golfers | the clubs | down cen- ler of the leather. Grasping the c! on the end will give more nnu;:’tl;- to the hit'of the clubhead, but the Practice requires more care with the :l\:r;:;sm u"l::k:o plm’af to make your Slow’ LSl .h‘u_ly You grip at the (Cobyright, 1926.) * Atlantic championship last Thursd: ay x’as otle of the fiest bits of golf that as been played around Washington this year. Nicholson shot -a nearly perfect game to turn in a score oniy one over par. He is a youngster, and 72 is the hest score he has'made. While Nicholson was shooting phe- nomenal golf, others found the going much more difficult. It' was an un- usual thing to find such fine players as A. L. Houghton and Harry G. Pitt of the Manor Club, George P. James of Columbia and F. J. D. Mackey of Richmond out of the first flight. MISS HACKER WINNER OF CUP GOLF TOURNEY Although Miss Susan Hacker was 3 up at the twelfth hole in her final match for the French Highs Commis- sion cup for women at ghevy Chase yesterday, she was forced to go 20 holes to defeat Mrs. McCook Knox. Mrs. Knox squared the match a the last hole. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 20 (P).— Torchilla, E. Legere up, won the Bashford Manor stakes for two-year- olds here today, covering the five furlongs in 1:00 2-5. General Halde- man was half a length back, Jock a close third and Comrade fourth. The race, with $5,000 added, was worth 7,740 to the winner, $800 to second, $400 to third and $120 to fourth. BADGERS FINISH SECOND. ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 29 (#).— Wisconsin won second place in the Western Conference base ball stand- ings today by defeating Michigan, 6 to 4. Wisconsin made all its scores in the third inning on two singles, a double, a pass and three Wolverine errors. . Sl et b SEWANEE GETS CUBBAGE. SEWANEE, Tenn., May 29 (). Coach Ben Cubbage of Virginia Poly Institute is coming here as a member of the Sewanee foot ball coaching staff, the athletic board of control has announced. He succeeds Coach Moore, who has gone to Mercer. | R Ay CHICAGO;, May 29 (). —Frank | O'Connell of the University of Iliineis today won the Western Conference singles tennis championship by de- feating Shapinsky of the University opportunity to count soon after the initial toss-in, first half of the six-chukker wmatch. By the middle of the third session the Whites had made up th cap. Before the period was over a tally by Capt. Kilburn sent them ahead, but a goal by Maj. Baehr, the only one registered by the Greens, sent the teams into the second half with the score tied at 5-all. Both sides went scoreless for the next two chukkers, Col. Margetts bringing in the Whites’ final point in the closing frame. Capt. Kilburn, No. 1 player for the winners, brought the spectators to their feet in the second chukker with a rare exhibition of mallet work. He hit the ball once at the throw-in at center field and then racing after it connected for a long shot that sent the white sphere through the uprights at the goal line. Line-up and summary: War Whites. Position P ¢ GaptyRilurn. .. .. No.1 Parik st o)l ve v ehuklier War Wh“{!. > Wi Greens. iz AR Is—May. rker (! HetiroorCapi Richaraion ™ resrCapt: 6 minutes. \p v *4-goal handicap. Opening matches of the War De- partment Polo Association’s low goal tournament are scheduled for Wed- nesday, the day, following the close of the high goal series, at Potomac Park. Third Cavalry officers play in_the first game at 8 o'clock with the War Department Reds, a team composed of e 1 kept the ball at their | end ‘of the field during most of me“e e fday. l P. Holbert and Oliver Ingiis War Greens and 16th Field Art “seen in action together on, Thur: Winners of the Wednesd ir hatdi- | games play in the semi-final on ¥r day, while the final tilt will be staged either Sunday or Monday. In addition to the above progiai an exhibition game between the War Whites and one of the other team will be played on Saturday. Th ‘Whites are prepping for the circu mhtches to be played at Rumson, N. J.p late in June. SUBURBAN NET LOOP . Teams of the Suburban Tenn making up the roster going action tomorrow at 9 o'clock. entertain Burleith, Lakeview pennant fight for the first time. The ‘Argyle line-up will Jack ‘Dudley, Milton TYates, Bates and J. W. Carr. ANNAPOLIS, M A May Naval Academy wo the three in doubles. The Ebening BOYS CLUB Conducted by R EGINNERS in swimming should bear in mind that far more important than detailed instruction in the various movements is a sense of security in the water and a desire to succeed. Orthodox Strokes are taught the be- ginner for the purpose of acquainting them with the accepted methods, although it is a known fact that the first swimming stroke used by the be- ginner is always one of his own cre- ation, regardless of how much, time the instructor invested in explaining something from the book. It is asking too much of the be- ginner to think of seven or eight phases of the sport at the.same time when he is concerned with coming out of the water safely. Then swimming authorities are more convinced that the dea of i strokes on the land before the beginner goes into the water is not the soundest and.are OBERT C. McCLELLAN abandoning _it. most practical get into around & bit. You have been tpld that anyone In fact, many boys can can flbat. remain afloat long before they kno how to ‘swim. ‘water for short distances. breath. You remain afloat you hold your breath. The crawl stroke you were ‘taught hod you ‘will yesterday is the adopt as sooh as you find yoursel ready to break away from the splash- unorthodox strokes you are ing, certain to adopt at the beginning. Be sure to keep these clippings and refer to them from time to time du: ing the course of your swimming discuss education. Tomorrow - we'll the two remaining teams, will| TO OPEN TOMORROW League will be the first to get under | ¥ way this season, all six of the clubs int ‘The champlon Montrose racketers plays host to Standards and Capital plays on its home courts against the new Argyle team, which is entering the include | Lew | 29.—The n at tennis from Pennsylvania, 6 to 3, taking five of the six in siugles, but losing two of Therefore, we can arrive at the conclusion that :the t] method would be. to the water first and splash Likewise many of the old waterhole crowd began swimming by propelling themselves along under You can get an idea by lying on the surface of some shallow pool and holding your long as Ived in Gs. Stevinson lost the 439-yard- eighth to become two down, {when Volgt laid him a stymie, which Pit‘, | he failed to negotiate. They halved WP | {he ninth in 4, leaving Voigt two o, deientes G- Limar: | Do “tenth revealed ti bl on. defeated G. P. Lende, | “rhe tenth revealed the most bril- 8 O prany calm: | 10 o0 golfyof the afternogn, both an3 defedted Dol men sinking putts of more than three Sotiobla, yards to halve the hole in birdle 3s. d, ~ defe: Stevinson got back one of the two- hole deficit with which he reached the turn, at the short eleventh, where he secured a par 3 to 4 for Voist. Threy halved the twelfth in par 4s and Stevinson squared at the thirteenth, ‘where he played a brilliant shot from a bunker to the green, and Voigt took three putts, his approach putt stop- ping- far short of the hole. . Stevinson went into what appeared the winning margin at the 234-yard fourteenth, which he won with a par 3 to 4 for Voigt, when the Jatter failed to get home from the tee. Stymie Hurt Stevinson. Although neither man got home in two shots at the long fifteenth, an- other stymie- cost Stevinson a chance to win the hole, for-he had a 4.foot putt for a birdie 4 when Voigt's at- tempt for a 4 lay directly in his line less than 3 fe ated P R 16 | Do s Wwashin | Washington. * un | bia: defeated LT m, {and 3. Final-—Ev Jatented Hign Saim. eate Saum. Tanic gones - Rich O Dicker. Washingto inal—Jones FIFTH FL Paxton. 4 IGHT: Semi-final—G. E. Trustt. e A . 1 up: P. B. Hoover, In ing. defeated Dr. ‘'W. 'R. McLister. Congresstonal 4 and 3. i—Truett defeated Hoover. £ and 3. Consolation—L. W. Hi bia, defe R. B. Cumi and 1:F.'S. Appleman, 0. L. Veerhoff, Washi; Herron defeated SIXTH FLIGHT: Washington. ington. % up: H. D. defeatéd B, L., Faller. Final-—Wide “defeated (‘ontn!u#vnv—vl A feated F. « ns he it 3 and i. Final- % and i . al ngtos Appleman, ‘Semi.fin; Ciahtoan man. Washinzton, 4 and 3. and Cashnfan. is € A ehuren. | elly. Washing 1 defeated Church. i o SEVENTH F) Bana R o 15 T and “defoated C. D. Ga: 3 and 5. Final—Hall defeat and 1. opsolation— . McPhail, Baltimore G ¢ kg ot St B eragld Wes forth. “Baltimore C. Final——Delahiav de 5 oles) . w it - “the back stroke, or inverted- crawl ag/ well as the breast stroke, - f Roanoke in the final rounc zes were presented after the 1 round by Dr. G. lett. one of the veteran plavers of the W ington club. Trudtt was introdu: and presented with a prize by Ge James A. Drain, president of the club. The tourney was excellent conductéd by the golf committee the Washington club, even thougi. seven flights—an unusual number were handled during the four-da: event. - Pr fina i WHATCOMBE FOUR AHEAD. LONDON, May 29 (#).—The What combe polo team today won the Buenos Aires Cup tournament, de feating the La Pampa team of Arge: tina, 935 goals to 8. The La Pampa team conceded a 41; goal handicap their opponents. LANCERS WIN AT POLO. | HURLINGHAM, England, May (#).—The Lancers today won the ‘Whitney cup polo tournament, defea ing the Hurricanes, 9'; goals to The Lancers had a handicap of 7 Eowset Prion tn Histosy A DENSER I8 BVRAY .ll..m