Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1926, Page 20

SPORTS COMPARISONS ARE UNFAIR TO STARS OF OTHER DAYS Equipment Now Much Better Than in Past—Prob- ably Best to Ranl: Men in Their Epoch—-Same Holds Good in Remainder of Pastimes. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N EW YORK, July 30—The question opened by Harold Hilton, the great English amateur golfer, whether or not Bobby Jones is the greatest golfer that ever lived has proved a fruitful topic for argu- ment among enthusiasts in the ancient game. An outstanding defect of debate on this subject is the fact that no winner can be decided. The best games of Tom Norris, the younger; James Braid, J. H. Taylor and the rest of the great Romans of the game were played long ago. any modern player is s the iconoclasts. They abide in a glorious Valhalla, and to say that uperior to them is to align oneself definitely among The difference between the balls and the clubs used today and in older times alone made argument futile. arise were our pampered stars of today One can imagine the to-do that would handed- boxes of the“old-time “gutties” and told they would have to play a game with them. And, assuming they did play with them and, as well, were restricted to the sort of clubs that Tom Morris used to employ, what would be the re- sult? In all probability the modern ists would have a more exalted con- ception of the prowess of ‘“young Tom” than they now hold. Perhaps the sanest view to take of the matter is to accept the ability to achieve greatly in any age or epoch as a standard to hold that the quall- ties in a man that rendered him out- standing in one generation would ve served him similarly had he hap- pined to have lived later, as in the cas®.of ‘“young” Tom Morris, or earller; -as in the cases of Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones. Applies to All Sports. In its essence the argument is com- prehensive, applying as it does to any sport. You will hear collegians of the 80s and 90s asserting that linemen such as Heffelfinger, Wheeler, Cowan, Sanford, Lea, Newell, Morrison, Cor- bin and the rest are no longer bred, and the great backfleld men ceased when Lake and Corbett and Thorne and Cumnock and half a hundred other heroes of tradition hung up their cleated shoes. The trouble here, as in golf, is that foot ball of the 80s and 90s and the game of today are two different games, and comparisons therefore are useless. At the same time it is no more to be doubted that those men whose names have become legendary would prove valuable members of a modern varlety outfit than that the present-day stars would shine lumi- nously even without the improved methods of play and other advantages which they enjoy. Could Tilden defeat Larned were Larned today in his vears of youth? Very probably, if Larned were to play the sort of tennis that was played 20- odd vears ago, Tilden playing the modern game. But if Larned were now young he would employ modern methods in meeting Tilden, and there you are. The argument works in cir- cles and one can never get anywhere in debate when this tendency is domi- nant. Hagen Still Drawing Card. . When enthusiastic promoters of ex- hibition golf matches among profes- sional stars approach Walter Hagen in a mood of optimism born of the fact that he failed in the British and American open championships, they Tecoll as promptly as a golf bail from e stone wall. Will he appear, say in a 72-hole exhibition match, without a guaran- tee? He will not. Although all the glittering major golf crowns may rest super-imposed upon Bobby Jones’ flaxen head, Sir Walter knows almost to the penny his value as a drawing card and he knows that it is as great. if not greater, than when he occupied the throne. His game is as proficient as ever it was and there is always the strong probability of his crashing through to another title. So long as this prospect exists he will retain his enormous following of admirers and will be justified in placing a definite premium upon his appearances in matches against Macdonald Smith, recently projected, or any other golfer. In this respect the sport of golf offers advantages to its star per- formers which do not appear to exist in other competitive games. There is rlways the strong likelihood of a come- back in the case of the stellar links- man. Tennis Stars Burn Out. With the rarest of exceptions when the tennis king falls he remains on the ground. In the one or more sea- sons in which he is pre-eminent he gradually burns out the nice qualities that have made him supreme, and when he is deposed he slips by degrees almost imperceptibly, or very rapidly, as the case may be, down the darken- ing way to oblivion. It remains to be seen whether or not Bill Johnston—more through the apparent declime of Tilden than through renascent qualities in the little Californian that carried him to the top—will be able to demonstrate the truth of a rule by providing a brilliant exception. In any event the fact remains that other than Johnston the men who have held the title since Larned'’s day are not now to be reckoned as likely. contenders for the crown. Maurice McLoughlin would have a hard time to gain a position in the first 20, and while Norrts Willlams hangs on to his game no one considers him as a championship probability. On the track, when a watch con- sistently throughout a season ticks a , second, or even a fraction of a sec- “ond, longer than it used to do while * & runner is laying the cinders under his feet, thae athlete’s day is over. Few Ring Men Come Back. Your champion pugllist, nine times out of ten, is through with his scepter when he sees the referee raise the gloved hand of a contender after a bout, and in base ball when the bat- ting average of a big leaguer shows declining figures over a season or two he begins with the best and most logical reasons to look &bout him for a soft spot whereon to fall. Perhaps when the ranks of golf are crowned with super-eminent special- 1sts, as is bound eventually to be the case, the Walter Hagens of the future will, when it comes to pricing their services, be in positions less strong than Sir Walter is now. But he is living in today, not tomorrow, and none knows it better than he does. {CAPITAL SWIMMERS IN BALTIMORE MEET ‘Washington Canoe Club will have (four and possibly five swimmers in ‘ the Maryland Swimming Club meet to- morrow at Dundalk, near Baltimore. Carleton Meyer and Bill Stephenson will enter the 440-yard free style and 100-yard back-stroke events, while Guy Winkjer will bid for honors in the 100-yard breast-stroke and Far- num Miller in the 440-yard event. If it is declded to place a team in the 200-vard relay race, Jerome Shear will replace gue of the above-nan performers, P Inside Golf y Chester Horton. To launch the back swing by in- itiating the action with body power is a simple enough matter, but one which might easily be confusing to some players, es- pecially when they first tried it. To do so, all that is required is that in moving the clubhead back from the ball you begin the entire action by start- H ing through the hips aad moving the body over un- til you feel you are directly on top of your right leg. Meantime the club has rather dragged along the ground, about even with the hands. This initial movement of the body will call the shoulders immedi- ately into action and following them will be the arms. This brings about a thoroughly co-ordinated movement of the club into the back swing. The body. having started things, will re- main anchored on the right leg, which stiffens to hold it TWO WORLD MARKS MADE IN SWIMMING By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 30.—World records have been toppling in the na- tional Amateur Athletic Union swim- ming championships, and marks in the 100-meter swim and the half-mile relay were threatened today. Two world records were shattered yesterday. Arne Borg, tall Swedish member of the Illinois Athletic Club team, clip- ped five and one-fifth seconds off the 880-yard free-style mark when he swam the distance in 10:38 2-5. Paul Wyatt of Uniontown Y. M. C. A. also created a new record when he won the 220-yard back stroke swim title. He covered the 100- meter course in 2:454-5. The best previous time over a course of this length had been made by Walter Laufer of Cincinnati, who did it in 2:50. Laufer finished only three feet behind Wyatt. Yesterday's summaries: 220-vard back-stroke swim-—Won by Paul M. C. A Woalter Uniontown Laufer. Cincinnati Y. M. C. A second: War- ren Kealoha, Hui Makani Club, third; Rob- ert Hosie. Central Swimming Club, fourth. Time. 2:4%4-5 (new world record for 100" meter pool). BB0-pard “froe-style ewimetWon by Ame Borg. filinois A. €. john Weiggmuller, Xli- con nos ‘A. C.. second:" Harry § fuched, Philadelphia. third: ‘Walter Spence, tral Swimming Club of Brooklyn, fourth. me, 10:38 2-5 (new world ) D swim. free style—Won Ben ) . Philadelphia Swimming ; Norman Marshail. Philadelphia Swim- Hal Schimmel, Gefman- ne. 3 By breast-st 'on by Mor- e Woiner, Y. M_H. A ; Fred Anthony. East YO M. H. A, ‘second: Al Brohmead. Ger G R handican. brieast Siroke—Won by cap 3 sam Mevers, ¥, M. H. Harry Vrien, Cen- tral Y. fop Tavee. YoM T- b A SHARKEY HARD-LUCK MAN OF PRIZE RING NEW YORK, July 30, — Jack Sharkey, the Boston heavyweight, seems to be the real hard-luck guy of the boxing game. Jack was signed to fight champion Jack Delaney only to have the match called off because the champion injured his thumb in the Berlenbach battle. Delaney will be on the shelf at least eight weeks and that means Sharkey will not get the fight, since it is an outdoor attrac- tion, and by that time the open air clubs will have ceased doing business. Before the name of Harry Wills was injected in the Rickard-Clements con- troversy, an effort was made to pit the bean-eater against the big negro chal- lenger for the heavyweight title. Now ‘Wills will do no fighting until all hope of a Dempsey fight is abandoned. Either of these fights would have meant a _considerable amount of money to Sharkey. Although he is a big favorite around his home town and he has been fighting with some degree of regularity, he has as yet to cut into any big money. Frankie Genaro seems to be getting flyweight titleholder was held to a draw by the supposedly passe Willie Darcy. Genaro’s manager immedi- ately rushes to the wire with the statement that Genaro broke his arm or something. Genaro went out to the Coast last year and was decisively beaten by a youngster just out of the amateur ranks. Immediately the cry went up that La Barba was a joke champion and that Genaro did not take the fight seriously and was not in condition. Genaro’s manager failed to consider that lack of condition is no excuse for a dismal effort. Genaro is far from being the same efficient fighting lad who beat the late Pancho Villa. Alibis will not cover his deficlencies. A return to the hard days of real fighting against good boys may yet do it. - INDIA TIRES Potomac Tire Co. OFFICIAL AAA TIRE SERVICE 28th & M Sts. EASY CREDIT TERMS ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1826 Arguments Futile as to Whethe WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER. BRITON VIEWS SPORTS AS A MERE SIDE ISSUE % CAMBRIDGE, July 30 (P.— “Universities are not sports clubs, and from the point of view of the British university it is highly un- desirable 'that physical training and athletics should be made coin- pulsory,” Dr. J. B. Baillie, vice chancellor - of Leels Univessity, told the Empire Universities Con- gress. “The whole joy of athletics lies in their freedom. Golf as a form of exercise is a totally different thin; from golf as a form of organiz athletics.” Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, professor of physical education at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, expressed a wholly different view. He said, in his opinion, the physical edu- cation of students should be super- vised with as much care as their studies. TILDEN HAS MATCH WITH L. WILLIAMS NEW YORK, July 30.—William Til- den, national tennis champion, and Lucien E. Willlams of Chicago, former intercollegiate titleholder, will meet in one of the feature matches of the metropolitan grass court cham- pionship today at the Crescent A. C. Rain forced a postponement of the play yesterday. Tilden and Willlams wiil meet at 2:30 o'clock. Vincent Richards and A. H. Chapin, jr., of ‘Springfleld, Mass., will play at 2:45, at which time the match between Dr. George King and Brian Norton of St. Louls also is scheduled. Takelichi Harada of the Japanese team and Hugh Kelleher will go on the courts at 3:15. William Johnston of San Francisco, second ranking tennis player in the country, arrived in New York vester- day from the coast preparatory to leaving for Seabright, N. J., where on Monday he will begin his Eastern tournament. Johnston arrived in good condition, following his four-day trip, and de- clared that he never felt better. Asked about his welght, he stated that he was about a pound above his average. After Seabright, Johnston will en- gage in the East-West matches and the Davis Cup trials at Forest Hills, and will then leave for Newport for the invitation tournament starting there on August 23, which leads up to the national doubles championship, the Davis Cup - challenge round and the national singles. Seven of the first ten ranking play- ers in the country will compete In the tournament at Seabright. This tour- nament will mark the jubilee year of the club. The seven players, who have been seeded in the draw, have been an- nounced as follows: ‘William Johnston, No. 2; Vincent Richards, No. 3: R. Norris Willlams, 2d, No. 4; Manuel Alonso, No. 5; Take- licht Harada, No. Cranston Holman, No. 8, and Brian I. C. Norton, No. 9. Only Tilden, Howard Kinsey of San Francisco, No. 6, and Wray Brown of St. Louis, No. 10, are missing from the list of the first 10 in the national ranking. _In addition to these seven players, Edward Chandler of Califor- nia, intercollegiate titleholder, also is seeded in the draw. S WIMMING is the best and most profitable of all forms of exercise for m&m girls, according to-a recent article which appeared in the Women's Swimming Association News. It affords a protection against drown- ing and is an aid to health and physical development, quite aside from thé fact that it is a delightful form of recreation. Going into detail concerning the advantages of adopting this sport, the article asserts that swimming, it practiced regularly, tends to improve the physical appearance through de- veloping every part of the body sym- metrically and producing supple, graceful, well rounded muscles. In ad- dition, it clarifies the blood and clears the complexion, and benefits the entire system so generally that its constant practice insures buoyant health—the first requisite of beauty. Many do not know that swimming is one of the few “remedies” which may be applied to the overfat and the overlean alike. The Association News states that those who wish to reduce should take up swimming, as it eliminates superfluous flesh in the stout through its natural tendency to establish standard body propor- tions. By the same token, those who wish to increase their averdupois are advised to take to water sports seri- ously, as the same tendency to standardize proportions causes this form of exercise to round out the unduly lean by building up muscle and tissue. And last but not least, we are told that swimming is an excellent mental tonic., It has been known to cure many nervous complaints, and acts as a mental exhilarator. As In all other things, constapt and regular practice is required in order that the full benefit of the sport may be derived. The Women’s Swimming Association, established in October. 1917, was organized for the purpose of furnishing the maximum number of girls and women an opportunity to learn to swim properly at a cost within the reach of all, and it has done much in the nine years of fts existence to develop this particular aquatic sport for women. Bloomingdale playground athietes are busy practicing for the fleld day which will be staged for them by Eliz- abeth Mahon, director, and her as- sistant, Florence Boteler, on Tuesday, August 3, from 9 in the morning until 7 in the evening. Track events will feature the pre- gram, supplemented by games, danc- ing and lunch. This is the first of a series of track meets which will be held on all of the municipal grounds { preliminary to the interplayground event in September, which usually conclydes the Summer activities for girls. Phoebe Parker scored over Rachael Copsey on the Virginia avenue court yesterday in the only match reported in the playground series. The score was 6—2, Having proved their skill in swim- ming, collecting nature specimens, hiking, folk dancing and_their good sportsmanship, Rufina King, Mary O'Connor and Agnes Mann were awarded silver test buttons on the Rosedale Playground, according to a report received by Maude Parker, di- rector of girls' activities. Bronze test buttons were won by Gladys Ketchen, Doris Ketchen and Vernell Ketchen on the Arthur Play- The seeded players in the women's singles are Helen Wills, national champion; Elizabeth Ryan, No. 2; Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, third in the ranking, and Eleanor Goss fifth. Richards and Williams, national doubles champions, and Lewis N. ‘White and Louis Thalheimer of Texas, former intercollegiate champion, are the top seeded teams in the men’s doubles. to be a regular alibi kid. The former |. ground and by Hester Ward at Rose- dale. These girls have successfully passed the first efficiency test. S A U EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., July 30 (®).—All matches in the Maidstone Club invitation tennis tournament, in which Helen Wills, American cham- plon, is dompeting, were postponed yesterday on account of rain. WEISSMULLER GIVES UP JAUNT TO JAPAN By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, July 30.—Johnny Weissmuller's proposed trip to the Orlent was definitely abandoned when word was received from Charles Dean, chairman of the board of directors of the Illinois A. C., that Welssmuller will not be released from his pledge to compete in the Illinois swimming championships in September. He had sought permission from the Illinois Club officials to compete in a series of meets in Japan. At the same time it was revealed that Weissmuller wns engaged to Lilllan Wruck of Chicago, and in- tended to make his invasion of the Orient as a_honeymoon tour. In view of the Illinois A. C., attitude toward the tour, Weissmuller safd, he had decided to abandon his plans. Asked as to when he expected to be married, he said: “‘Oh, T guess we'll sneak away some quiet night and come back married.” TANK MARK BROKEN BY MISS GERAGHTY W YORK, July 30.—Keeping up her remarkable record-breaking streak, Agnes Geraghty of the Women's Swimming Association hung up another national long course breast stroke mark at a water carnival in the 50-meter pool of Briarcliff Lodge, Scarborough, vesterday afternoon. In a sanctioned, unpaced 220-yard trial against the watch, Miss Geraghty covered the classic distance in 3:27 3.5, beating her own bracketed standard of 3:33 2.5, returned in winning the Olympic try-out over the same course in 1924, and a newly set record of 12! stlll unaccepted, which she made in Babcock Lake, N. Y., early this month. Doris O'Mara showed speed in a 200-meter back stroke match in which she was opposed by her sister, Efleen. She won the event after a keen con- test in the exceptional time of 3:16 2. 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