Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 19

. SPORTS. o, ot Nearly 200 Golfers JONES AND VON ELM HOLD INTEREST IN GREAT FIELD Playing Together in Final Practice Round, Bobby Has 73 to Champion Having Trouble Br the Assaciated T INNEAPOLIS, August Golfdom centered its tion today on nearly amateurs gathered at the Minikahda Club on the first qualifying round of the national ama- teur championship, and especially on the destinies of George Von Elm of Los Angeles. titleholder, and Robby Jones of Atian who lost the crown to the westerner last year. While these men ave favorites for finalists a third successive time, the art of putting a rubber pellett into a wea cup with a crooked stick from ail distances, an, s and situations is not =0 exact as to guarantee tha ome other player, reaching the zenith of his game, will not put one or both out of the running in the early rounds of match play. atten 200 Many Stars on list. There were 174 sterling players listed to start the medal round tod: and among them were stuch names a Jimmy Johnston. leader for two rounds in the national open, playing on his home course; Francis Ouimet of Boston, Bob Gardner and Chick Evans of Chicago, William I. Fownes and Dave Herron of Pittsburgh and Max Marston of Philadelphia, all for- mer champions, some of them twice. There were e of State and regional titlel nd Bon Stein of Seattle, Western king, and Carl Kauf- man of Pittsburgh, public links cham- In addition there was an in- on_of Canadians with Don C of Toronto, Dominion champion for the second time, and Ross Somer- ville of London, Ontario, runner-up to Carrick, after holding the Canadian title twice. Moreover, there was the Minikahda ~|of T ’s 72—Atlanta Star Is With Iron Shots. | course, 6.669 vards lonz. with a par and traps in treacherous fash- {ion. The links can be solved, how ever, as it was over this rolling ter n’that Chick Evans in 1916 set a record of for the national open that has never been equaled since in that event. The course has heen lengthened, hut not so much as the golf ball's flight, and in practice rounds par has been broken one stroke by the champion and one or two others. In fact, if yesterday's trial round had been for the title, Von Klm would have kept it from Jones; for, plaving together in a foursome, the Califor- nian scored par 72, despite two penalty strokes, defeated the Atlantan 1 up. and Trons Are Misbehaving. The Southern player is again ing trouble with his iron shots, as he did during the American open just before he came to himself and made such a remarkable capture of the British open in the record score of 285. It is at iron play that Von Elm usually shines, and he is hitting them well now on a course that is termed an iron links. The course is in excellent condition with velvety green fairways and greens true and soft enough to hold a well-hit ball. The schedule called for the first pair to tee off at $:30 a.m., and the at 3:55 p.m., so that sunset is to outstrip the late finishers, After tomorrow’s 18 holes, the 31 low scorers and Von Elm, who does not need to qualify, although he is play- ing in the medal rounds, will be paired by seeding for the first 18-hole match round Wednesday forenoon. Thursday there will be four 36- hole matches, with the semi-finals on iday and the finals Saturday:. ANOTHER RECORD BECKONS TO JONES AT MINIKAHDA BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August One hy one the records of golf have fallen before the gleaming irons of Robert Jones, the budding barrister of Atlanta. and in the thirt mateur championship of the States that starts over the Mini da course here Monday, the brilliant Georgian is fa 1 with the oppol 1v to write a new chapter of brilliant achievement in the history of Ameri- ca’s premier links event. Only two men in the history golf ever have reached the finals of @ national amateur championship in thres successive 3 They are Bob- by Jones and Jerome Travers—one of the stalwarts of American golf 20 vears A week hence, Bobby Jones may be the only player ever to march 10 the finals in four consecutive cham- pionships, Travers made his three successive most beautiful and well kept courses to ha found in the world. Fully half of the players who will contest for places in the champion- ship flight are making their debut in the national amateur. Most of them will fall short of meeting the require- ments, but some few are bound to break through and a new sensation may develop from their ranks. State and sectional champions are to be found at every turn. Mixed in with the newcomers are 10 who at one time or another have won the amateur crown. The dean of the championship group is Findlay S. Douglas, the title holder 29 years ago, when golf was played only by the rich and derided by the m Keeping him eompany are V Fownes, Francis Ouimet, Jess ford, Chick vans, Bob Gardner. Max Marston, Davidson Herron, Bob Jones and the present title holder, George von Eim. A rather regal crew, and drives to the amateur finals more than decade axo. He finalist and winner in 19 nd 1913, when he defeated Chic ans and John Andereon for the title, and the run- ner-up to Francis Ouimet at Ekwanok in 1914, when the Bostonian reached the peak of his career. Jones’ Record a Parallel. Jones® record is a parallel of Trav- *, He was the victor in 1924 and when he turned back George von Elm and Watts Gunn, and the runner-up a =0 at Baltusrol, when he wz d by Von Eim. So Bobby das the opportunity in this championship to establish a new record and ie Walter Travers, ould third amateur hampionship. That would leave onl Travers ahead of him in American olf, for Jerry is the only man ever 1o win the amateur four times. Jones, Von Elm and the other stars already are -on the championship grounds the touch of Mini- kahda's gr 1d lemrning the ge- ography of its traps. Minikahda, one Jearns, means: “By the side of water.” There is a creek that winds through the Minnesota hills and offers a haz- ard on three holes, while a lake that demands a 190-vard carry makes the sixth hole a rather fearsome affair to those who do not have the utmost confidence in their irons. Minikahda’s sixth is one of the finest water holes found on a championship course in several seasons, and plenty of ruln Wwill be scen there before the tourna- ment is ended. Three Severe Dog-Leg Holes. Three severe dog-leg holes add to the @difficulties of approaching par on the course and on several others the play is down two aisles of trees, which of- fer an interesting and dangerous haz- ard. Minikahda will offer a real championship test and it is one of the 1 Sarazen Was Victor by Watching Evans MASHIE awe inspiring to some of the raw Youngsters. Von Eim Is Playing Well, Jones and Von Elm, the center of attraction for the golfers of Minne- apolis and St. Paul, are finding Min- ikahda to their liking. Von EIm has been around in par and is hitting every shot with crispness. He appears to be in far better form than at Baltusrol, where he started poorly and then found himself as the cham- pionship progressed. Jones is playing his shots with more surety than he did at Oakmont and his iron play appears cleaner and far more ac- curate. There is little question but what those two are ready for the test. PROS OF THIS SECTION GET TEST SEPTEMBER 16 Freddie McLeod, Columbia Country Club professional, has announced that the Middle Atlantic section qualifying round for the Professional Golfers’ As- sociation championship tournament will be held September 16 on a Bal- timore .course to be selected by him- self and Bob Barnett, Chevy Chase pro. Tommy Armour of Congressional Club, must qualify though he holds the open title. —_— FIVE CAPITAL GUNNERS WILL ENTER BIG SHOOT Five members of Washington Gun Club have decided to participate in the Grand American Handicap trap- shooting tournament to be held at Dayton. Ohio, starting today. They are F. P, Williams, Dr, W. D. Monroe, Dr. J. C. Wynkoop, Maj. Julian Smith THE EVENING Are Striving for Title STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. MOXNDAY. AUGUS T 22, 1927. 1 BIG MARGINS DECIDE CLUB GOLF MATCHES Argyle and Bannockburn were easy { winners in interclub golf matches ves. | terday. the former downing Ma 11'; to 6 and the latter back Beaver Dam, 15 to 3. he contests were on the Manor and Bannockburn courses. Summaries: Argyle-Manor. tarl, MacAleer and 1 Ha Di Este, 4 and 3. turning Manar) v Pitt and 3 Manot won 3 points Second foursome —] nd 5 won best ball, 5 and 4. Argyle won (Arexie) Thomp o ce. 2 up. and 1. Arayle won 3 noite, Fifth foursome—Roger Peacock (Argvle) defeated Robert Hurd. 1 up: Richard Pea ck (Argyle) defeated Landvoigt. 5 nd 4. Best ball was h ‘Argsle won 21y points, Manor 3, pomt Sixth -~ foursome—F. A McClelland (Manor) defeated Harry Peacock, 1 up Carl ‘Noetzel (Argsle) defeated R. T. Ed ward, 4 and 3. Argyle won besi ball. | up. Argrle won 2 points. Manor 1 point Bannockburn-Beaver Dam. D. G, Morris, Beaver Dam. and; Fre Byrne, Bannockburn, ‘all even: W, L. ¥ dergast, Bannocl defeated W, G B Best ball, Beaver Dam. J. Dosle. Bannockburn, deefated Luthi Florine, Beaver Dam. % and 1: Leo Pas: Bannockburn, defeated . .I. Baggett, Beave Dam_ 6 and 5. Best ball,” Bannockburn, 4 and 3. Bannockburn, defeated 2 Beaver Dam. 1 up: W, H Beaver Dam, and A Benneit, B kbium, ‘all even. ' Best bail. Beaver' i E._ €. Alvord, Bannockburn, d Brown. Beaver Dam. 1 un: Dr. nnockbiirn, defeated B Hirtisq, and 1. Best ball, Bannockburn, M. WM. Robb. Bannockburn. defea G. Davis. Beaver Dam. 3 and 2; C. (. Bannockburn. defeated 1. R Keeler, Dam. 3 and 1. Best' ball, Bannoc 2 up. L. 'S. Phautz. Bannockburn. defeated W T. Beavere. Beaver Dam. © and 1: H. M burn, ‘defeated Harry Byrne, Rosier, Banno. Beaver, Dam. b and 4. Best ball, Bannock: burn. 3 and 2 John Thacker, ohn Talbert. Beay Beaver Dam. Bannockburn, = and burn, 4 and GOLF DEFI IS ISSUED BY SMITH AND SARAZEN NEW YORK, August 22 (A).—One of those old John L. Snullivan defis, 1o one barred, has heen issued hy Mac- Donald Smith and Gene Sarazen, more or less prominent in the world of golf. Smith and Sarazen. have challenged any two golfers in the country to take part in a 72-hole match for $2,500 a side. The conditions of the match that the first 36 holes be played on the Takeville Club at Great Neck, N. Y., October 2, the remaining half of the match to be held on any course White, noekhiy M R ted H n ath, burn, Bannockhurn, defeated Dam. 5 and 4: C. defeated’ G. €. Billard, a4 1. Best ball, Bannock: are selected by the pair who accept the challenge. SWIMMER BREAKS MARK IN LONG-DISTANCE RACE TORONTO, Ont., August 22 () Clipping 41 seconds off the record held by George Young of Toronto, Key Mullins of Kansas City, won the annual gap-to-gap swim for amateurs her yesterday over a field of 68 nat- ator Mullins’ record was made over a course lengthened 300 vards since Young. established the previous mark The Kansas City swimmer's time was 53 minutes, 31 second GRANGE IS LEADING GRID STAR AT GATE By the Associated Press. Two years ago the debate was red- hot between the East and Far West over the relative gridivon merits of Red Grange, the galloping ghost of Tlinoi and George Wilson, ‘sensa- tional University of Washington half- back. Both were all-American selections and both turned to professional grid- iron, where their performances aroused fresh argument. The discus- sion ceases abruptly, however, when it comes to comparing their relative drawing powers. As a gate attrac- tion, Grange is alone, He is the Babe Ruth of his sport. It takes only a casual squint at the figures of C. C. Pyle to prove this. The promoter made over $100,- 000 with Grange's New York eleven last season and is surrounding Red with an_all-star cast for the 1927 season. He lost $37,000 with Wilson's Wildcats, a roving outfit, which will be among the missing this year, although Wilson himself may land a pro berth with one of the teams in the newly consolidated National Foot Ball League. Grange’s playmates this Fall, Pyle says, will include Eddie Tryon, for mer Colgate star; “Wild Bill” Kelly, crack Montana player, and Jeff Cravath, southern California center last’ year. Morton Kaer, southern California halfback and 1926 all-American choice, also may come into the Pyle and R. D, Morgan. Frank Burrows also may enter, . MORIARTY Ret Ref BY GEORGE MORIARTY. | Manager of the Detroit Base Ball Team. Former Big League Third Baseman, and for Ten Years an American League Umpire. METZGER. of BY 801 0 mo his | aw: for ng 1 cure 10 nd th It and its cur , took his ¢ traight downswing 1 d of his fa he discoverc Note how | the ball for his d how wch full swing witl, each club. There food thought here in the matter of get ting stop or distance, according to the stance ke. (Cousnkbt, 19370 ALTIMORE recently released Everett Scott. A few weeks before this release 1 was in- formed that “Scott is playing wonderful ball for Baltimore and hitting like a house on fire.” I believe Scott's playi and I regret it, Scott was one of the greatest short- stops of all time, a short fielder, who must be classed with Bancroft of the Braves and Peckinpaugh of the Yan- kees, Nationals and White Sox. Scott has one base ball record. He played in 1,307 consecutive games. I am’ of the opinion that this record Cost him a few years of major league o establish the record Scott had to stay in the line-up regardless of his phiysical condition, and there were times when this demanded that he be on the bench or in bed. He refused to liss a game, and on one occasion hen he had spent an off day with latives in Terre Haute, Ind., he sud- found that the train to Chicago, where the ¥ was stalled. 1ving: visions of his record spped, hopped oft the t i fir v succeeded in gettin carmer to haul him to a taxi station n him $68 to be driven into Chi ig0 at high speed and get into the yankees’ line-up that afternoon. When a ball player's legs give out {he is through, regardless of his hat | ting ability. While he was still mak- ing the record, Scott's legs were trou Lias hime Thab W inly m e playing tive Gam 11,30 fold. Playing Days Probably Over for Everett Scott, Great Shortstop. e ires With Record of 1307 Consecu- Which Cut Career Short. ® K * K used to Miss a Day, Often Going on Job When He Should Have Been in Bed. in Boston. The Boston infleld is hard, and Scott always longed for a berth on the New York team. The infield at the Yankee Stadium is of better Soil. It is softer and has more spring. Scolt wanted to go there, realizing it would be easier on his legs. His wish was finally fulfilled, and it was undoubtedly due to his change of uniform that he was able to run his string of consecutive games up Lo | The softer ground somewhat balls, while the me ground that slowed the balls made it possible for Scott to move ster because there was more Spring to the soil. Under these conditions Scott managed to hold on, but had his mind not been on the record and ! had he taken an occasional rest when | strained Jigaments cried for rest, he would still be part of the big show. He was one of the most intelligent inflelders of all time. He played ac- cording to the catcher’s signals, chang- ing his position with managing to get chances that escaped v shortstops. Ife was one of the 1 ever saw or heard of on a hitandrun play lly gave up trying to hit through Scott’s position weak batter, according to batter alw use of his tim slowed ground-hit Al ra hitting. He was A man on rous with bases empty i is ordinarily reversed in base ball 3all players will always regard him as a great player, although the public never regarded him as an outstanding star hecause of his unobtrusive man- ner. The spectators missed the inside | play that made him famous among v ¢ ever dan This condi 1se, dangerous | SUPERSTITION IS DEFIED BY VON ELM AND EVANS BY THE SPORTSMA) Mt POLIS, Minn., August It is not considered an act of obeis- ance to Lady Luck to enter a golf mpionship with new clubs in one's but Chick Evans, a former ama- teur title holder, and George von Iim, the defending champion, violated that superstition when they started in the thirty-first amateur golf championship over the Minikahda course here this morning IFor years Evans, who has won one national open championship and two amateors, putted with a contrivance that looked like an overworked sad- iron. The contraption began to fail him’ several years ago and after his bad showing in the national open at Oakmont in June he hurled it into the woods and® later purchased an alum- inum putter. Never a good putter, Chick will pin his faith on the new blade in the current championship that is being played over the same sround that ha set afire back in 1916 when he won the open. Von Elm on His Game. Von Elm, who is now very much on is game- ar-breaking 71 on Sunday p s the qualifying ! matches with a pair of new steel-shaft- ed wooden clubs in his bag. George would like very much to use those of Si Newton, as he did at Baltusrol, where he won the crown he is defend- ing here. But Newton is in the quali- fying round and will need his weapons until Tuesday night at least. At Baltusrol, Von Llm borrowed one club from Newton each day and in his battle with Bobby Jones in the finals he procured the loan of his friend’s brassie. The Californian he lieves that if he can do that again, luck will be with him. he sharp-shooters assembled her believe that 160 will be the maximum to qualify for the championship— which if true. will be a lower figure than in the last several amateurs. A large number of the amateur stars are finding it easy to break 80 over Mini- kahda, but few of them have been able to touch par. Playing from the back tees the fairwa are tighten- ing up and the pins will doubtless be spotted on the most inaccessible parts of the tricky greens. Five Sons of Pros. Five sons of prominent profession- als are entered in the field, as well as the four semi-finalists in the recent Natfonal Public Links championship. The five to whom golf was cradle talk, are: Fred Band, son of the professional of the Pittsburgs club; Densmore Shute, whose father is an instructor at Columbus, Ohio; Jack Mackie, j son of Jack Mackie of Inwood; Dave Ogilvie, son of a Cleveland pro, and Maurice McCarthy of the old Flatbush club in Brooklyn. The test at Minikahda will be in the approach shots. Most of the long holes can be reached with a drive and a short iron and it is the masters of the short irons that will score best and win. The greens and fairways are im- maculate and keen as glass. Every- thing points to one of the greatest of all amatuer championships 2nd per- haps one of the most surprising. 80 ENTER SINGLES OF NEWPORT EVENT ted Press, R. I, August including those appeared in o Assoc WPORT, Eighty names, prominent stars, singles draw for the eleventh nual invitation tennis tournament opening today at the Newport Casino. The list of nine seeded play is headed by William 7. Tilden, 2d, of Philadelphia, national champion, and includes Manuel Alonso of Spain and Jean Washer The othe of New Rochelle, nessey, Ind Providence; Tex.; Dr and Cranston Molman of San o. ieorge M. Lott of Chicago, recent seabright finalist, and John Doeg, Santa Monica, Cali ar, are not en- tered in the singles, but’ have wired their entry in the doubles, which are expected to cast further light on Davis cup prospects “of the T. Hunter fohn Tien- it . Jones Lewis N, George King of New Yor I TRAPSHOOTERS OPEN TITLE TOURNAMENT By the Assoviated P VANDALIA, Ohio, Twenty-eighth Annual Grand Ameri- can Championship and Handicap Trap shooting Tournament opened here to- day with more ¢ busters on the firing line than ever before shot in the opening day’s event in the history of the Grand American. The clubhouse and grounds of the Amateur Trapshooting Association of America_here, about 10 miles from Dayton, have been converted into a miniature city for the occasion. Hundreds of shooters, unable to get accommodations in Dayton or pre- ferring to “rough it.” have pitched mp on the grounds. Lunchrooms nd stores where ammunition and other trapshooting accessories may be purchased have been established. Shooting in the A, A, A BC cham- pionships, started early this morning and completion of the events was ex- pected to take until late afternoon. Entrants in the class championships set out to blaze away at 200 targets during the day, with such scores 200 straight and 199, last year's high marks in the class events, to aim at. Frank M. Troeh, who broke the double century and carried away the double A honors last year, was expected to start toda VANDY WINS GAMES BY RETURNING PUNTS By the Associated P NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 22.— Often it has been said that the Van- derbilt Commodores could make less first downs and win more foot ball games than any team in the Southern Conference, or most anywhere else as far as that is concerned. The reason: Dan McGugin, lawyer, former State Senator, public relations counsel, but noted most as a foot bgll coach. And the secret: Returning pun McGugin, tutor of pigskin warfare at Vandy for almost 25 vear: : h been able to turn out wonderfu broken field runners and elusive backs when it came to taking a punt and racing back down the field. Ofttimes these went for touchdowns, most times they carried the ball well irto the opposing team's territory., These il to count first downs, but go far toward victories, as the Commodore: opponents will vouch. McGugin has been constantly at Vanderbilt since in the 1900's and has always presented a team that stayed in the fight uitil Thanksgiving, many times winning the Dixie crown. “Mack"” also has another achieve- ment to be proud of. His team has probably fared better in intersectional contests_than any other team in the South. It was Vandy that beat Min- nesota, tied Michigan and lost to Michigan by a lone touchdown in the past few years. That only touches his record, however, intersectionally An old acquaintance once said to McGugin: Dan, you're a good lawyer. You've | had a fling at public life.” You covld arn many times yearly your present ! salary as coach if vou What keeps you at it?” McGugin's answer was: “Its the joy of training a bunch of voung fellows how to act in g pinch, what to do in a crisis, and ther watch ing them come through.” McGugin first played foot ball at Drake Univer: v and from there he went to the University of Michigan to study law and played guard for “Hurry-up” Yost in the days *“when wanted to. | re men and guards were rug- the pitch and | Men Were I 1 guard 12 v | ged rocks,” according to the descrip- | tion. His first bid to foot ball honors as a coach came when he piloted Vandy to victory over then then fa mous Carlisle Indians. That was more vears than one usually cares to re. member, His teams since, in addition to those already mentioned, have tied the Navy at Annapolis and held Yale scoreless to a tie, SILVE. R SPRING ROUTED. Brooke Grubb's Silver Spring, Md., team dropped two games to Washing- ton Black Sox yesterday. The colored team had to hustle to take the first, 3 to 2, but N:-*lkod Grubb's proteges, A lile B was . ie wvinbers of his DiofyesioR an. A L0 0 in \bnighteaps I HELEN WILLS PICKED TO WIN TENNIS TITLE NEW YORK. August ®).— Helen Wills, judged by the opinions of the hundreds of sports followers, will be queen of the tennis world again "hrn the fortieth anual women's na- tional champlonship comes to a close next Saturday. It starts this after- noon. Torced to relinquish her national titl last year because of appendi- citis, the California girl, with a Wimb- ledon conquest bhehind her, is among 64 players secking the ecrown. Probably the most formidable of her opponents is Mrs. Molla Mallo the defending champion, who yester ¢ added to her various victories this year the eastern title, gained at Rye, at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Hos- mer Chapin of Springfield, Mass., for- mer Californfan. Other entrants are: IHelen Jacobs, lifornia school girl; Eleanor Goss, an Fr Betty Nuthall, English sen- ion, and recent conqueror of Miss acobs; Eileen' Bennett, Kea Bouman, Dutch’ girl who holds the French women's championship; Mrs. Chapin, Mrs, Kitty McKane Godfree, captain of the Bi Wightman Cup team; Penelope Anderson of Richmond, Va., and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman At 5 pm. Miss Ielen Wills pla Josephine Crookshank, another Cali- fornian, SUBURBAN TOURNEY | NEAR COMPLETION Singles semifinals and the doubles final in Suburban Tennis League | tournament will be played nest Sat- | urday and Sunday on Bureau of Standards courts. Play reached that stage as the result of eight matches held yesterday on Burleith and Standard courts. Louis Doyle and Stellwagen sur- | vived the doubles competition at | Standards courts and will meet Fodge- wood and McCabe, who surprised their rivals on Burleith courts. Singles _survivors are F. Dovle, Harring, Callan and Stam. The last named is the favorite. Yesterday's summaries: ingles cond_round—F. Dosle defeated 1. 6- 6- Harring defeated Gable, . Doyle defeated Hubbard, —5. 6—1 efeated C. Yeomans #—0 8—6: Stam defeated May. 6—, G—2: Callan won' from McCabe by defaul. Doubles. semi-final_round—L. Dosle and Stellwazen_ defeated F. Doyle and Callan 5, 6—3. 6—1: Hodgewood and McCabe ted Stam and Martin, 6—1. 7—5. Pairings: Singles. _ semi-final _round—F. Dosle vs. Harrine. Callan vs._ Stam. Doubles. “finals—L. Dovie and_Stellwagen vs. Hodzewood and McCabe, on Saturday. D. C. NETMEN SCORE IN INTERCITY PLAY Standing of Teams. Won. [ R 10 + 5 representatives Parks Tennis assured ther championship I Pt 007 45 43 Lost. Washington ., & Haltimore .. Philadelphia ‘Washington's tenn in Intercity Public League practically selves of anothel defeating Baltimore yesterday on Henry Park courts, 6 to 3. Baltimore previously defeated Phila- delphia, 5 to 4, making it possible for the local team to win by splitting with the Quakers when they meet | Mini later. The other two teams are tied. Bob Elliott and FEric Jacobsen of Baltimore won the feature match yes- terday from Dooley Mitchell and Gwynn King. King failed to show his usual form, losing in the singles as well. Hugh Trigg was also forced to bow in the singles, after a hard battle. Summaries: defeated King, ington, defeated . Washington. defeated Welmon, 7— Hedekin, Washington. defeated Tayl &—#: Le Fleur. Baltimore, defeat defeated Ki 8—1- O'Neil and frated Ruds and 4 2 6—4: Hedekin and Fowler. Washington. de: feated Robinson and Taylor. 6—4, 6—4. FILIPINO TENNIS EVENT NOW IS IN THIRD ROUND Play in the Filipino tennis cham- pionship tournament of the District will be resumed this afternoon at & o'clock on Monument courts. Al favorites survived the first rounds yesterday. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Zamora, Silva. Jado defeated” Bayay frated ~Ma a BIKEMAN CLAIMING D. C. MILEAGE MARK When almost withi the record of 24 hour§ 27 minutes set by Milton Albert Smith, a_collision last night knocked Harry Cameron, Hyattsville, Md., newsboy, from his wheel and out of the bicycle en- durance contest at Potomac Park, Cameron was in collision with Al- bert Fish when the latter was being given water by his attendant. Fish was able to keep his balance and con- tinue the grind. Cameron rode 351.7 miles in 23 hours and 54 minutes and claims a new District mileage record. John Haislip, 2227 Virginia_avenue, who started with Cameron Saturday night. also is out of it, being forced to halt when his foot slipped from the pedal. August D'Aintolo {s one of the latest starters in the race to eclipse Smith's performance. He set out last night. PELTZER, GERMAN STAR, BEATEN BY FRENCHMAN PARIS, August 22 (P).—Seraphin Martin of France, defeated Dr. Otto Peltzes Germany’s world record holder, in a 800-meter race at Colombes Stadium yesterday. The event was a feature of the Germany vs. France athletic ‘meet. Germany won, 69 points to 62. Martin's time was 1 minute, 5315 seconds under poor running conditions, as it was raining and the track was soft. The German athletes received an enthusiastic welcome from the French spectators and all their victories were cheered. a_half hour of WILL RACE AT MARLBORO. UPPER MARLBORO, M ugust sdward F. Whitney of New York and Jim_Arthur, who has a_ breeding farm in Long Green Valley, Md., have forwarded applications for stall’ room to Joseph Farrell, who is handling that detail in connection with the five-day -e meeting, which gets under way here on September 1 LOFFLER A. C. WANTS GAMES. Loffler A. C. would like to arrange a game for Wednesday afternoon. Call Duvall at Lincoln 340, or after 5:30 BY LAWRENCE PERRY. appears that Franch athletic authorities were piqued because the e-Harvard athletes did not enter the international meet held in Paris last month. Inasmuch as no English athlete was entered, the French scemed to scent some collusion. Nothing of the sort, of course, happened. The American athletes had heard there was to be an international meet in Paris, but they could get no informa- tion about it. The English appeared to be almost completely ignorant. As a matter of fact, the Americans had been invited to Rome and other continental citles to participate in meets, but as the Oxford-Cambridge { affair was the only one for which they { had crossed the ocean, their suits and ! cquipment were packed and sent home as soon as the meeting at Stanford Bridge was over. A French newspaper rather acridly | remarked that had the Americans known there was to be a hundred francs for the 5,000-meter event, there might have been some entries from the United States in this race at least. . The American athletes think they have oxposed the secret of the success of Guropean runners in the distances, esnecially the athletes of the Nerthern ) M Bioe FRENCH SPORT LEADERS ARE PEEVED AT YANKEES Fre cash prize of | defatilt: D’ Suguitan defeated Villalon fault; Almazar defeated Dr. Fonhuiena 6—0: Rivera defeated . 6-—0: Rosal defeated Vil Velasquez defeated C: Kuizon defeated Garves, 7- i Guevara defeated Nazareno. 6—1, 6-——0. Necond round—Coronel defeated Carvaial, ). 6—0:_Acantilado defeated Flores, Del Rosario defeated Abasoio reated Suguitan. 4—6. M. Silva defeated Almazar, 6—1: Rivera defeated Rosal 1 Tomelden defeated Velasquez, 6—1 6—3: Guevara defeated Kuizon. 6—%. 6—: Third round—C defeatod Acantilado, 8—0, 6—2: Del Rosario defeated J. Silva, 6—0, 6—0. TODAY'S MATCHES. 5 o'clock—F. M. Silva ve. Rivera: Tomel- Guevar. ther plavers are expected to report to play their matches. FINE GRID OUTLOOK AT NORTH CAROLINA By the Associated Press. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., August 22 University of North Carolina is look- ing forward to foot ball success this Fall with the reins intrusted to Coach C. C. (Chuck) Collins, star a few years ago as an end on the Notre Dame team. Collins held down a flank on Rockne's team in 1924, the year they won the national championship. This will mark his second year at Chapel Hill and despite the serious reverses of last year. Tar Heel followers be- lieve that he is due for a+‘“‘comeback” ‘with material plentiful. Before coming to North Carolina, Collins assisted Coach Thomas, also a Notre Dame player of the same year, at the University of Chattanooga. Since coming here Collins has in- augurated the Notre Dame system and at the close of the season last Fall he had the players going through the paces with gratifying results. ‘When Coach Collins came here he was faced with discouraging pros- pects, with only three regulars back in the line and not a single outstand- ing man in the backfield. With 18 letter men expected back this season the chances are good for a winner. AMERICAN U. GRIDDERS TO START SEPTEMBER 1 September 15 has been set for the | start of American University's prepa- vation for the foot ball season. Coach G. Baillie Springston will have back most of his dependable 1926 men, including Tom Sawyer and Jim Birthright. countties. Darkness is so long de-| laved there that men can run in the | evening even after taking adequate time for the digestion of their dinners. For that matter, over in England the American athletes had no difficulty in reading newspapers outdoors after 9 o'clock and farther north there is good light as late as 11 o'clock. In this country, of course, conditions in this respect are very different and college men who have been graduated and have entered business have little or no opportunity for keeping up their work provided their specialties have been distance running. ‘The great bulk of American Olympic teams are made up of college men and of these the distance runners who are effective are undergraduats. Gradu- ates who have run the distances whils in coilege drop them after graduation simply because they have no time for training and practice. uropean distance runners are older thin the Americans who meet them. This fact is chiefly due, as already | said, to the fact that darkness sets in | very late, thus enabling the Europeans to attend to business and have the evening for their athletic activiti i | belated start was anything but a bril- | | day in Amateur Tourney at Minneapolis VOIGT, CAPITAL LINKSMAN, CONSIDERED IN RUNNING Only One of Six Washington Entrants Who Receiv Much Attention—Shoot: s 71 in Practice Round and May Be Tourney Sensation. BY W. R. MCCALLUM. INTKAHDA Club, Minneapolis, August 22.—Their practice rounds a_thing of the past six Washington golfers start- ed today over the bewildering ahda course in an attempt to lify in golfdom's blue ribbon event, the thirty-first renewal of the Nation- al Amateur championship for the crown now worn by George Von Elm of Los Angeles. Two-thirds of the big fleld, which started today devoted their attention to their own game on this trying course. The other third had a weather-eye cocked in the direction of George J. Voigt, wondering what the Capital ho came under the cagle eve ited States Golf Association a few weeks ago, would do in his second amateur championship. There is no denying the fact that George Voigt is apt to be somewhat of a sensation here, not because he has been the subject of a searching scru- tiny of the golf governing body, but be- cause of his fine game. Voist has even been given an outside chance to win by some of those who watched him shoot a nonchalant 71 yesterday and an equally easy 73 the day pre- vious. His hardest hurdle come to- day and tomorrow, for if he survives the rigorous qualifying test, he is apt to cause havoc in the ranks of the elect. MacKenzie Playing Well. The other Washington entrants have not caused anywhere near the sensa- tion that the icy cold Voigt has cre- ated. Roland MacKenzie has been playing well, simply attempting to find the easiest way to the hole and not trying to be a_par. Miller B. Stevin- son, Page Hufty, Guy M. Standifer and A. L. Houghton, all of the Capi- tal, have been going through similar methods, preparing for the big test to- day and tomorrow. Of the six, Mac- Kenzie and Voigt appear to be the two men most likely to qualify and Voigt alone appears certain to make the grade. As all championship links should be, the Minikahda course is a rough. tough affaiv. Not so much a matte of hitting lengthy tee shots, but a matter of keeping them in the narrow fairways and out of the bunkers. Hufty claims it's the toughest course in America, but then Page hasn't been through the championship mill so often as some of the more seasoned campaigners. Page got out in 40 yes- terday afternoon, and thought he was going quite well, but he ran into a peck of trouble coming home and get back in a breezy 50. And, that is not %0 hard to do on a fest where a_putt may go straight for.the back of the cup and suddenly veer two feet off the line. The architect who huilt the seven new greens that are Minikahda's ptide saw to it that undulations aplenty were put in them to test the eve of the best putter, and it won't be qua long before they begin to wreck the hopes of the topnotch Fred McLeod, who piaved in a four- ball match with Stevinson against Roland Mackenzie and Chuck Huntet, from the Pacific Coast, says they are the trickest things he ever has seei, and he has missed many a putt oft both sides of the Atlantic. Incidental- evinson and MsLeod finished all square with the long-hitting amateur pair that opposed them. evinson was the first starter from Washington today, getting under way with Alois Fens of Milwaukee at 9:15. Standifer came next at 10:15 with Glen Clarke of Chicago, while Hufty was scheduled to come to grips with Par Houghton was to start at 12 consin, and Ve brigade, w Bullock' W of the Capital to start at 0 Dster of Los Ang: Mackenzie was playing at 5 with Russell W, Martin of Chicago. And Maurice J. McCarthy, who is at least half a Washingtonian, since he goes to Georgetown University, was just ahead of Roland, playing at 2 o'clock with Charles A. Totten of Pittsburgh. Voigt in Fine Form. Voigt's performance yesterday, when he negotiated the course in 71, was only matched hy the scintillating g shot by Von Elm, who scored a with seven birdies on his card. And if any one says that birdies are easy to get on this man's golf course he just don’t know much about it. Von Elm was out in 33, with a_ball out of hounds, against a par and got back in 39. The usual propaganda ahout Bob Jones not playing well has been going the rounds here at Minikahda. Bob was said to have slid off to another course the other day to get his game back in shape. But Bob is hitting the ball as well as ever, and when the cards are all in tomorrow night and the drawings begin, he will be found up near the head of the procession as usual. One thing must he said for Jones. The narrow fairways here lend them- Ives unusually well to his uncannily curate wooden club play, and if his piteh shots are up to par he should he sticking around next Saturday when the pay-off day for the championship rolls around. Bob wants to win quite badly, and when the Atlanta lad wants anything along the bunkered fairway he usually steps out and gets it. He is the outstanding favorite once again. One of the disappointments this vear is the failure of big Jesse Guilford to show up. The 1921 champion s kept in Boston by a con se involv- ing his insurance husiness. But, in his place, the steady Francis Ouimet is batting the ball around Minikahda vith his usual grace and savoir faire. is rolled up a pair of T4s and a ctice and looks good, for at least the first three days the last GRID OUTLOOK GOOD AT ALEXANDRIA HIGH ALEXANDRIA, Va., August Candidates for the Alexandria High School foot ball eleven will start training within the next two weeks. The locals’ season will open on Oc- tober 1 at Front Royal, Va., against Randolph-Macon Military Academy. Rip Hicks, end; Wilson Davis, cen- ter, and Benny Gammage, end, reg- ula: have been lost to the team. However, Coach Wilson will have a fine neucleus with Tubby Barnett, Pete Williams, Garland Sisk, Nellie ‘est, Allan Dennis, - Paul Travers, Green, Lester McNenamin, Julian W' ‘estone, Marshall Smith, Don King and George Fletcher at hand. C. C. Brown shot the lowest score ever made on the Relle Haven Coun- try Club golf links by a member when he played 18 holes Saturday in 78. William Schwartz repeated his vic- tory of the previous week on Satur- day by again taking the 50-yard free- style senior swimming race in the Municipal Pool. George Lemschewsky was runner-up for the second consec- utive time, with Leo Wilkins third. The winner’s time was 32 seconds. In the junior 50-vard free-stvie event Roy Jennier outclassed the fleld, with Taylor Rudd second. Jennier's time was 35 seconds. Alexandria semi-pro ranks will miss Johnny Goetz, Washington flash. who has signed to play in the outfield and pitch for the Hagerstown Blue Ridge League team. No. 5 Motor Company and Washing- ton Fire Department will meet in Dreadnaught Park tomorrow after- noon at 4 o'clock Dreadnaught Athletic Association’s | liant one yesterday, as the locals were | trampled under by the Herndon Fair'lou maulers, 10 to 3. Dread- naughts will play Shamrocks of Wash- ington here Sunda - Jefferson District Fire Department lost to Columbia Kngine Company, 7 to 3, here yesterday. Lefty Everly was in top form ves- terday and while his teammates of the No. 5 Motor Company counted two runs he held the Sarepta Lodge. No. 24, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, | to four safeties and one counter. Lefty struck out 12 men, nine in suc- cession. NCH INSECTS CLOSE CAMPAIGN THIS WEEK French Insect League ends its sea- son this week with games carded to- Wednesday and Thursday. The schedule: Nationals v s vs. Thurston Colon , Corinth- Wednesda: s. Royals, CHURCH DUCKPINNERS TO GET EARLY START September 19 was set for the start of competition in the North Washing- ton Church Duckpin League at the re organization meeting Wednesday at King Pin alleys. Membership of the loop will he made up of the same teams that performed last Winter. They are Columbia Heights Christian, Mount Pleasant M. E. South; Petworth Baptist, M. E. South: Central Presbyteri Immanual Baptist, Petworth M. F. and Wallace Memorial United Presb; terian. Tt decided to enforce the foul- line rule this season and a judge will be on the job for all games. The one-hox system also will be used. All matches are to be rolled tha same night each week, but the night has not been fixed. An amendment rules was adopted, which will bar from league play any bowler regis- tered with the league who competes in_other church circuits. Every effort will be made by the loop to maintain its record last vear in_having not a single game forfeited. Frank S. Harris is president of ti league; N. M. Watts, vice presiden C. S. Mason, secretary-official scorer, and B. J. Hamm, treasurer. G. U. PREP FOOT BALL TEAM MUST BE REBUILT Georgetown Prep School will begin foot ball practice with the opening of school, September 22, The Garrett Parkers virtually will have to rebuild | their eleven. Bob Wilson, captain of Western High School foot ball team the coming season and stellar allaround athlete, | won the singles title in a tennis tour- recently at Camp Overall, Va. Coach Dan Ahcarn of Western is camp supervisor and Iddie Bates, another Red and White Athlet er TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F to the eligibility nament staged North Ellip: ck; Royals, vs. Speakers, North Ellipse, 1 o’clock. s. 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