Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1928, Page 23

SPORTSw. . - Opening Day Feats Presage | | KUCK SETS MARK IN SHOTPUT WIN King Also Takes High Jump. Nurmi Proves He Still Is Distance Ruler. BY ALAN 1. GOULD. Associated Press Sports Editor. MSTERDAM, Holland, July 30— If the opening day's perform- L ances are to be accepted as a 4 criterion. the United States is headed for its ninth consecu- tive Olympic track and fleld triumph. On & similar basis, Paavo Nurmi is des- tined to remo lingering doubt that he's the superrunner of all time On a day when the world’s shotput record was broken by the American superman, John Kuck of Kansas, in the 52-foot performance of athletic his- ther superperformer o the spotlight X with a toss that measured 11- 16 of an inch beyond the hitherto im- pregnable figure of 52 feet, furnished the opening day's sensation, but Nurmi provided the thrilling climax by coming from behin the stretch to beat his rival. Willie Riola, Finnish- | American ace, and outclass America's Joie Ray along with the rest of a and smash the Olympic record. | Critics Are All Wrong. among them numerous Finns, ng swan songs for Paavo prior They wagged their heads scribed how Nurmi's invasion three years ago had | and pointed out he had frequently within the past Many said, “has lost the edge but the peerless one had enough vesterday to stay with Ritola's killing pace all the way and then out- n Ironman Willie in a spectacular stretch duel. If Nurmi has lost any of his speed. Ritola, and Edvin Wide, the Swedish schoolmaster. who cracked | under vesterday's pace, would hate to race the Finn when he has any more. 4 The only noticeable change in Paavo | 18 that he's considerably balder. looking | much more mature than his 27 s | But the same funny little hop-skip is | there when he practices, the same | £mooth, effortless stride when in action. | the same characteristic arm swing and | his famous stop-watch, he didn’t in-| spect the time-piece as much usual yesterday. After the first few peared satisfied that Ritola | ting a fast enough pace and followed it without once challenging until the | stretch when he passed Willie to win | by four yards in 30 minutes 184-5 seconds. Four and four-fifths seconds | ;X:S:r the mark Ritola set at Paris in Kuck Comes Through. ! Kuck’s shotput victory which sent the | Stars and Stripes flying first on the | Olympic center pole, fulfills the sen- | sational promise of the blond Kansan's | practice form. Yesterday, with Herman | Brix. University of Washington husky. spparently assured of triumph with a | toss of 51 feet 8 inches, Kuck, on his | next to last throw, hurled the ball to | # new world record, beating not only Brix, but the German, Emil Hirschfeld. #s well Hirschfeld held the world record for the shotput, officially, just 1;-0 d:_vx and ;nynde ‘:unne effort to | eep the crown by tossing the 16-pound ball 51 feet 67 inches. King of among the first group crown: A5 Olympic champions, by virtue of His | triumph in the high jump with & leap | ©f 8 feet 43, inches. The United States took three piaces | each in the high jump, where Ben | Hedges. jr. of the New York A. C.| was second, and the defending cham- | Johnny Romig, Meadowbrook Club, | Philadelphia, dropped out. | Meanwhile, the Yankee sprint stars scored a clean sweep In their first and second 100 meter trials, with the semi- finals and finals on today. Lioyd Hahn, Boston A. A. star, led the qualifying quartet in the 800 meters | competition which reaches the semi- finals today. F. Morgan Taylor, Illi- nois A. C. crack and defending Olym- pic champion, loomed as a strong fa- vorite to retain his 400-meter hurdie | crown_after the unexpected elimina- | tion of Johnny Gibson, Bloomfield Ly- | fug. and Bob Maxwell, Los Angeles | OLYMPIC RESULTS t, final—Won istance 1587 by Jobn Kuck, United meters (52 feet i} nds . Hi M Urived Biates sixth. Blerce Lewden. | hts for last three places noi | 0 Nurmi. Piniand 3G Great Sweden ter rum-Won by Paav viille Ritola., en: fourth, Muggridge. Maenussor: e 187, seconds. (New Olym . Byed W ner “meter hurdies, first semi-final (4 men 10 wuslify for . ore o5 by Tho Great HBrifeln Sien Pectersson seconds second iriale (Bess wo fin- Tor semi-Anais) Firet heat . Frpit- Holland s G 5 dedndd Bue ., Ge Tlane. U 1nd: heat Wor sies, second Great Germuny w. Time % 5 second ter-run trials. first heat Vioy by Hoe tzer third 4. ! high hopes tha Baraton sero, 4 Blates hird. Btrand O Vifih heat 1. United Buntes: second. Engelbardt, Ger oy, vilrd: Bindisr. Cuachoslovakia " Time Wixih hest-Won by Dengra. Argenting second, Dousies 41, Bittain, (hird Clominnott 1 by Beravhin Martin b beat second. B vary. third. Mul- Sevent] ds, Can Biarr. thira. BLACK 80X WIN TWO Washington Black 8oy, leading color- ed nine, twice downed Myrtles yester- dey at Union League Park. 8 to 3 and 4 to 3. Fords nitting for the winners testured A THE - EVE G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928. 'ARMY TITLE TENNIS PLAY UNDER WAY TODAY { | JOHN KUCK. OLYMPICS IN NUTSHEI By the Associated Press. TODAY'S PROGRAM. 100-meter dash—Semi-finals and finals. 400-meter hurdles—Finals. 800-meter run—Semi-finals. 100-meter dash (women)—Trials and semi-finals. Hammer throw—Finals. YESTERDAY'S FEATURES. Kuck of ‘United" States broke wcrld record in winning shotput finals with a toss of 52 feet 11-18 inch. d King, Urited States, captured high jump title. 8 fe king Olympic record; Joie Ray, et 435 inches. | Nurmi won 10,000 meters, breal only American to finish, was twelfth. Nurmi’s time was 30:18 4-5, a new record: Wykoff, Bracey, McAllister and Russell survived first two heats in 100 meters. 2 Hahn, Fuller, Watson and Sittig qualified for 800-meter semi- finals. Gibson and Maxwell were eliminated in 400-meter hurdles, but Taylor and Cuhel survived first and second trials Leading point scores—United States, 35; Finland, 17, King jumped Navy Has Quartet of Athletes In Olympic Individual Events 0. — Disap- | three years in the heavywelght class, he | won all 18 of his bouts, 14 of them by falls, and he has never been defeated in | any bout, Edwards was also guard of NNAPOLIS, July pointed in its hopes of qualify- ing its crew and lacrosse team as representatives of the United States in the Olympic | contests the Naval Academy is now { represented by four contestants in the | individual events, Ensign Hayward L. | Edwards in wrestling, Lieut. Harry B Henderson in boxing and Lieuts. John | B. Pearson, jr. and Lieut. Harold New- | hart is gymmaster. All Tour of these are graduates of the | Naval Academy. Neuhaus has entered {in the Marine Corps, and the other {three are holders of commissions in the Navy They are the first to repre- sent the Naval Academy In any of these branches at the Olympics Another graduate of the Naval Acade- my, Lieut. George C. Calnan, was the vinner of the folls competition in the | iast Olympics, and will represent the United States with that weapon again ‘Alumni of the Naval Academy have | With five individual contestants, in t their representatives|four branches of sport, the Nayal Olympic honors. Lieut. | Academy has & representation in. the 4 to be the best fencer | Olympic team of the United States with the folls in this country and a which compares favorably with that of | dangerous, opponent of any for gn | any other college, fencer. Edwards and mn;m&nn bf‘lrlllh . S e won their places by defeating TRIBE BUYS OUTFIELDER. and| CLEVELAND, Ohlo, July 30 (). strongest opponents at their weight Ensign Edwards is a ‘Texan wresiles fn the 190-pound class, Ho 18 | Qutfielder Charley Dorman has heen l.'f.’.’.‘m'.’."{.’-':'.';?(-'qu:’(.i“fiu"ff".'iff.%a"l.:k:e'"'"’“"“"" by the Cleveland Ansericans et pluce after & most remarkable | from the Tyler ciub in the Weat Texas Yeries of victorles, in his last bout de- | League. Dorman has hit 36 home runs feating Btrake of Oklahoma A. and M., | thix season who, up to that time, had been unde- | . feated. Btrake is regarded us so stong | K ANGAS CITY GETS GRIMES. KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 40 () { that he will be a member of the team, | nowever { As A college wrestler, Edwards' record | Roy CGirimes, veteran frst baseman of probably is. the hest ever achieved |the Toledo American Association Clul Representing the Naval Academy for | bas been purchased by Kansas City, i Lieut. Henderson was intercollegiate | champfon_ at 160 pounds, his present | fighting weight, for two seasons. His only defeat was in @ close fight with | Ben Punck of Yale. whom he defeated | badly later In the same season, Hender- {son has gained strength and stamina since graduating, and is regarded as ihaving an_excellent for honors at_his welght Lieuts, Pearson and Newhart both have been all-around champlons of the | Intercolleglate Gymnatic Assoclation, the former having won that honor They are the best gymnasts who ve ever represented the Naval Academy In that sport, and among the |hest developed at any college in the United States chance top " { will bring back Calnan 15 belleves =y | the foot ball team and a good boxer. | THEIR PERFORMANCES GET U. S. OFF TO LEAD IN OLYMPIC GAMES BOB KING. IRST and second round singles play in the annual Sheridan Cup tennis championship tournament, closed to Army players, was to get under way carly today on Columbia Country Club courts. Doubles | competition, drawings for which will be made tonight, will get under way tomor- row afternoon at 2 o'clock. Singles palrings follow: First rounds—Finley vs. Tucker, Ox- render vs. Christenberry, Mumma vs. Murphy, Newgarden Hills, Hedekin vs. Newcomer, Birch Branham, Col- lins vs. Paschal, Byrne vs. Titman Second round-—Van Vliet vs. Hobbs, Whitener vs. Nelson, Johnson vs. Whel- chel, Ankenbrandt vs. Stone. Acacia and DeMolay teams will meet tomorrow afternoon at 5 oclock in a Capital City Tennis League match on Acacia Courts, Kann and Prince Georges Bank teams will clash on Henry Park courts Thursday at in engagements Saturd: DeMolay will meet on Henry Park courts and Prince Georges and Acacia |on Acacla courts at 2 o'clock. Prince Georges defeated DeMolay ves- terday, 5 to 2, in a match post] from Baturday, on Acacia courts. of the matches went to extra sets. Summaries: Singles— A Grant feated H_Smith, 8--3. 3 % (Prince Gorges) defested C. W. Smith, 6 hree (Prince Georges) de- 0: K Krause ‘Tilwden and Hun | | By the Associated Press. UTEUIL, France, July 30— rabid Auteull fans to a | strangle hold upon the Davis Cup for 1928 as the American last day’s play, which pitted Willam T. ‘Tilden, 2d, against Henri Cochet and John Hennessey against Rene Lacoste and had only to see Cochet defeat Til- den to clinch the cup for another year. Both Tilden and Cochet were tired doubles matches, in which they played lemlngarnlls, while Frank Hunter and Jean Borotra were more or less mere much time to recuperate from the match, remaining in the showers for at least an hour, Cochet also was there might be a rather tame duel be- tween them. The secores of yesterday were 6—4, 6—8, 75, 4—6, 6—2. France had what appeared to be team prepared to take the field for the France was leading, two matches to one, from their exertions in yesterday's figurés to the drama. Tilden required rather badly spent, and many belleved Betting was even on this match, while 4 OW that the last big golf event of the early season has been completed, the lax month—in a golfilng way—of August, is at hand. This week ushers in the month with the usual golf dullness, for only one event is on tap during the week, the tourney of the National Press Bullding at Bannockburn Friday afternoon. Outside of that event there is no big golf offering during the week. Indian Spring is to lose its cfficient, greens committee chairman and one of the most enthusiastic club workers John F. MacCormick, chajirman of the | greens committee and a member of the board for several years, is going to New York to make his home in about two months | | | 1 | Bannockburn Golf Club nearly ed a clean sweep victory over a team ‘of players from the Beaver Dam Club yesterday in a match at Bannockburn, winning 21 points to 4.' | J. B, Keeler, W. C. Preston, W. W. | Seay and Dr. W. W. Beavers were the jonly successful ‘Beaver Dam contest- | ants, winning their individual matches Harry 8, Krauss, Bannockburn, sank a 20-foot “phtt on' the Yinal green to down W. H. White of Beaver Dam, 1 up. Rohert Young of Beaver Dam carried Dr. J. R. Mood of Bannockburn to the (seventeenth hole after being dormle 5 | down | A summary of the matches follows 3 @horey. Banuockburn. defeated Byin (s, Beaver Dam, 2 and 1 R.W Runnockburn, defcated D' G Mor nnl Best ball-Won by avér Dant. wackburn, and M. | firs Bannoe 2 and ¥ kbyrn, .. Pend fnished ajl-squnre 1o defeated Jesse L enver Dam, 0 and 4 Best Buggell, B o on \}Ku'?-"\""mikh ekt defonted o s Bannockburn. Luther Florine, g 0T e aeteated WO Whit annigokburh, defeated W e, - e f Won by fi‘ll\» Bannockbur arn, IErauns, Heaver'T 1 up. Best ball nockburn, 3 and 1 orman J. Hwll, B, Buehandr, Ben | Keeler, Beaver Dam. i N, defented ver Dam. 2 and 1; J B defeated W.'p. By d 1 Beat ball— e, Aunno Al sauare John Harry renti} burn I | ) Heath 11106 Won by apnockbuery, 8 an b, Mannockbuen. defeated Dr D 6. Davin. e Dam. 3 and 1L E,J yie, Bannos defeated M e Oarthy, Beave up. Best ball~Won by B d | w o N e ve aver Dam, defealed i AR 3 ekburn, el an, o'clock and | Kann and | ned | ! Spottswood Tennis, Losing to French Pair STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE members | Star but She BY NEGLEY FARSON. By Cable to The Star and Chicako Dally I News. Copyright, 1928 | MSTERDAM, July 30.—The Jap- anese sent only one woman to | represent them fn the women's i Olympics, but she is some girl. | Kimmie ~Hitomi, 20-year-old | | wonder girl from Osaka, is a track team | | all by herself. | | A tew weeks ago In England, Miss Hi- | | tom! established a women's world record in the broad jump at 18 feet 4 inches. She was beaten last Saturday at Stam- ford Bridge, London, by Miss Gunne, the British girl athlete, who set up a| new world record of 18 feet 7% inches. | | But on the same day Miss Hitomi equal- |ed the world record for women in the | 220-yard dash, doing 25 4-5 seconds flat | threw the javelin 118 feet. | She does the 400 meter in 59 seconds flat and the 100 meters in 12 1-5 sec- onds. But even if she does not win any event she is a remarkable girl. Many of the female athletes here have amazing | athletic prowess, but little else. Miss | Hitomi, attired in a soft gray-green suit. | sitting among the men members of her | team, while they played billiards in their | hotel, impressed the writer as one of | the most magnetic personalities he had | ever encountered. She does not chew | | gum, ‘nor does she triy to look nor act | like a man—not. even on the track in er funny little black knitted “sweat suit.” Miss Hitomi said her family had cried when she set out on this far journey, and shes laughed gaily, looking at the fat Dutch fishing boats and the pointed | roofs and windmills outside. | “But once every week." she sald, “a letter.” She vanished suddenly and re- appeared with a little Japanese print on | which she wrote her pretty butterfly | slzfiature, “Kimmie.” She said it meant | “silk.” Yes—that was it for all her prowess, | Miss Hitomi was as fine grained as the silks of Japan. | | 7-9. 6..3: L._Lavine (Prince Geo: | feated E. Kieter, 6—1. 6-—1: K. Wi | Molay) “defeated O. Lavine. | Crow (De Molay) defeated H en 6-2. 6—4: Lavine, 3. Doubles—Grant-Krause _(Prince defeated Smith brothers, 6--8. 6- | Lavine, O. Lavine (Prince Georges | Kiefer-Wallen, 6—1, 6—1. Lakeview netmen bowed to Wesley Heights in a 7-to-0 engagement yester- day on Wesley Heights courts. The match-was postponed from Saturday. Summaries: Singles—Ladd (W. H) defeated Martin, 6-2, 6-1; Ballenger (W. H.) defeated P. 16, 61, 6-0. dd and Edminster (W. H.)_de- 6-2, 6-3. Bal- in and Brent, 6-3, 6.-3: nd Wilkinson (W. H.) defeated P. 1. Other doubles May, 63, 6 Geor 2, 6— )’ defes | | lenger. a May and M. defaulted. Rock Creek tennis team. leader in Public Parks League, vanquished Argyle combination of Suburban League in an exhibition match, 7 to 2, yesterday on Argyle's courts. Summaries: Colin Stam (R. C.) defeated Jack — —0, 6--3. Frank Shore (R. Dudley Edward Yeomans Dodgze, 10—3. Everett Stmoi (R, C.) defe taule. Deubles_J. Dudley and D. Dudley (A.) de- Yeo | fented Bhore ani 3 , 86 | Simon_and Newby (R. ‘Efi.?:s‘euu Stam_ ant janey n{d 6—3. | | { | BY CORINNE FRAZIER. OUTH and age will be teamed in | | one of the most Interesting doubles combinations entered in the woman's District of Colum- bia tennis champlonships, which are scheduled to open next Mon- . | day on the courts of the Columbia Club. Goldie Crist, the youthful player who performed impressively in her first offi- | cial appearance as a tournament player last month in the junior District cham- | plonships, will be paired with Mrs. Fred Keplinger of Battery Park, white-haired | matron, who figured in local net events when the woman's competition was al matter of six or eight players having it out on the old Dumbarton Club courts as a sort of side issue to the men's cham- pionships. For several years Mrs. Keplinger has been absent from the nets with the ex- ception of a little practice on her own | court, which is the center of tennis ac- tivitles in her nelghborhood. Last| Spring she and her husband became in- terested in the play of Miss Crist, a be- ginner, and the fruits of their tutorage already have been reaped in her cred- | itable initial performance. Miss Crist was semi-finalist in the junior singles | | and runner-up in the doubles, paired | with Marian Wells. Mrs. Keplinger has decided to launch her protege in senior play next week, Mulg{ with her in the doubles. Goldie has not developed a variety of strokes as yet and she is erratic, but she shows | and Nesbaum. 8—8. 6-3; good headwork in her placements and defel Fellowes. the promise of an excellent net attack, an essential feature of the present day court game. Despite her 50-odd years, Mrs. Kep- | linger has considerable pace on her | drives from the back court, and when | 1 (R, C) Cafee a 3 4 62 Lone: Neale (R. C.) defeated on by default. ter Play Great drawn to the net puts the ball away neatly. Bronze test buttons have been award- the Pillmore pn"r’;l Lacoste was an overwhelming favorite to defeat Hennessey, three to one being Ireely offered. The outcome of yesterday's doubles matches and the great gamble both American and French officials took on the result remained a topic of discus- slon as the players prepared to take the courts today. The placing of all hope of winning the Davis Cup on the | ability of two star singles players, who | never had paired in doubles, against such an experfenced and homogeneous team as Tilden and Hunter, appeared to_stagger conservative French fans. Pierre Glllou, captain of the French team, was lauded to the skies for his achlevement, but he took his honors lightly and philosophically, saying “They would be booing me off the courts | had Cochet and Borotra lost.” Samuel H. Cullom, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, | sald: “We took a chance. It was great tennis. We did not have our share of Mick, but, mind you, this is not being sald as an excuse.” Mary Chomas, Mary Casmer, Frances Brandsteiter, Hardesty and Mildred Browning. 1 | Glenna’s Weight on Right Heel COLLETTS WEIGHT AT 10P 16 WELL BACK | on HER HEEL® y/ = — BY SOL METZGER. It s no trick at all for Glenna Collett to drive yards. She hits a fine distance for a girl and is en- abled to do so solely because she is balanced throughout her swing. Note her at the top of backswing. Straight left arm. Weight well over to the right. But note especially the fact that this weight is back on her right heel. Why? If it were not she would be tend- ing to sway forward. And as her downswing started she would tend more to fall forward toward the ball. To correct this falling forward motion many golfers pull their bodies back as the club goes through. This pulls the club face across the ball and imparts not only a slice, but causes one to keep his or her welght out of the shot. You pull it away from the ball instead of let- ting it flow into the shot. Be dead certain this is not a fault of yours. When you reach the top of the backswing by a slow move- ment back of the club, let the welght settle more upon the heel of the right foot than upon the toe. It means better balance. That is what you must have. Best ball— | defeated nd 1. Dr. defegied | James. Beaver Dam. 5 and 4 | Won by Bannockbur: and Dr. J. R. Mood. Bannockburn, Robert” Young, Beaver Dam. 2 al T. J. ‘own, Bannockburn, Jack Johnson, Beaver Dam, § and 4. Best ball-Won_by’ Bannockburn, 7 and W. W, Seay, Beaver Dam, defeated J. A White, jr.. Bannockburn, 1 up; G. C. Bil- lard. Bannockburn. defeated C. T. Lawrence, Beaver Dam, 6 and 4. Best ball--Won by Bannockburn, 2 and 1 All the Washington contestants who plan to enter in the national amateur golf championship at Boston the sec- | ond week in September have complied | with instructions from the United States Golf Association and sent in their tournament records. M. B. Ste- vinson and Roland R. MacKenzle of | Columbia are not required to furnish | comparative records. 'SMITH SETS A RECORD FOR FIELDING IN I. L. Jack Smith, Washington boy, playing with Jersey City of the International League, set a fielding record for first basemen in that circuit by handling 44 chances in two games during the past veek. Early in the week he handled 22 chances without an error and several days later repeated the performance. Smith 1s the property of the Toledo Club of the American Association League. With the release of the Vet- eran Roy Grimes, Smith is slated to take care of the initial sack at Toledo next season PECK OUT OF LINE-UP T0 LET ROOKIE PLAY CLEVELAND, July 30 (.—Roger Peckinpaugh has become & bench man- l*pr in order to make room on the Cleveland Indians playing roster for Luther "Red” Harvel, 23-year-old out- fielder purchased from Omaha in the Western League. Harvel batted 352 and stole 28 bases | in the Western Sol Metzger has prepared a leaflet on some vital points to remember in Putting. He will send this to any reader sending him a stam) ad- dressed envelop. Address this paper. PROCTOR FIGHTS GARCIA IN BALTIMORE TONIGHT Joe Proctor, youthful boxer, will make his second appearance as & profesional battler tonight at Bal- timore, when he will meet Joe Garcla, several weeks Ago. ¢ A number of Proctor's friends and admirers have announced their inten- tions to see the local boy in action in Frankle Rice's arena tonight. FOOT BALL PACT SIGNED BY NOTRE DAME, INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 30 (#).— A home and home foot ball contract has been signed hetween Notre Dame and Indiana Universities. The first game will be played at Bloomington, October 8, 1939, with the 0osiers Jo SETS TRAPSHOT MARK. E. F, Woodward of Houston, Tex., re- nily established a new world trap- shoofing record at the Shawnee Gun atgh, at Tecumaeh, Ontario, He made . U. S. Victory in Olympic Track and Field Events Kimme Hitomi Not Only Sport MISS Is “Some Girl”| oy H i { f RYAN TRIPLE VICTOR IN GERMANY PFORZHEIM, Germany, July 30 (. —Elizabeth Ryan, American tennis star, who now lives in England, won the women's singles in the interna- tional tennis tournament here, defeat- ing Frau Friedleben of Germany in the final, 6—0, 6—4. Paired with Erik Worm, Danish Davis cup player, Miss Ryan defeated her singles opponent and Herr Buss | !_In "‘he mixed doubles by scores of 6—3. | In the third meeting of the day be- lv,ween Miss Ryan and Prau Priedleben, }lhe Californian, paired with Mrs | Partridge, defeated the German star |and Fraulein Rost in a hard battle, 12—10, 6—2. In the final of the men's singles for the Hindenburg and Schwarzwald Cup the Englishi Avory, defeated Buss of Germany, 2—8, 6—2, 7—S5, 6—1. WAR POLOISTS BOW T0 MARYLAND TEAM A team of the War Department Polo Association fell before the Maryland Polo Club of Baitimore on the latter's |fleld near Stevenson. in the Green | Spring Valley, yesterday in a spirited | 8-6 battle. The Baltimoreeans’ margin |of victory represented the handicap | given by War Department. Capt. Hastey, No. 2 player, was the ace of War Department’s attack. Maj Chaffee, Maj. Hoyle and Maj. Wood- ward were others who played for the | military combination. Foster, Lanahan, | Warfield and Riggs comprised Mary- | 1and’s team. | Another match between the teams | will take place tomorrow afternoon on n_qti Lll(arylanders' fleld, starting at 3:39 o'clock. CHICAGO U. BALL TEAM LEAVES FOR THE ORIENT CHICAGO, July 30 (#).—What ! probobly the longest trip ever taken by a base ball club to play a_ retur game has been started by the Univer sity of Illinois. Fifteen members of the ball team and their coach, Carl Lundgren, left Chicago last night for Japan whers they will meet the Keio University nine. The Keio team played at Urbana I, last Spring. While in Japan Illinois will also meet ! teams of the other leading universities of that country. En route to the West Coast the Illinois Club will play 13 games. The | first being scheduled for today at St Paul, Minn. ROD AND STREAM By Perry Miller- HE Potomac has cleared some- what during the last couple of days and is not so badly discol- ored as it has been for some time past. River men report 1 few anglers attempting to fish in the waters recently, but that fish | mudd: constar#iy are heard breaking water and one canhoelst actually had a bass jump | into his craft. This would indicate that | the fish are hungry and when they see | hey go after it in such a| their prey t viclous fashion that they leave the water entirely, sometimes jumping two or_three feet out of it. The muddy condition of the river at this time is nothing new. Summer after Summer bass anglers having this try- ing condition to contend with. But, as every angler knows, his inning is bound to come, and the most likely time is during the months of September, Oc- tober and November, when the water gets ‘a little cooler and the heavy rains have ceased. At that time of the year bass are more active and put up a much better fight. This column constantly is being asked “What's the matter with fishing?” This is & hard question to answer, but reports from the lower bay and at the | mouth of the Potomac indicate that the different species of salt water fish best known to local anglers, namely, hard- heads, rock or striped bass, trout, spots, perch and others are being caught with great regularity. The most gratifying reports continue to reach this column from Wachapreague. Norfolk and other places in that section. This means the fish are in the lower bay. Just how many of them will reach the upper bay |is a question The different species have many ob- stacles 8 overcome in their annual trips up the bay and its tributaries. | First they encounter miles and miles | of nets off the coast and the same thing | When they enter the bay. When they are at last free of the big seines they | run into the purse nets, but from what | we hear from different sources these commercial fishermen so far this season have not made much money. Last sea- | son these netters reaped a harvest, over 10 | being reported taken {rom the Herring Bay district alone | The Baltimore Sun has this to say about the purse neiters | “IU's been a considerable time now | since we have had anythnig to say | about this type of commercial fishing, | for long ago, when the last Legislature put the quietus on a move which might have been the means of helping the fish conditions in the bay by regulating the use of this and other types of ‘killer’ nets, we sort of adopted the at- titude of ‘what's the use?’ “Prequently we have predicted that it those nets were allowed to operate in the bay, particularly in the upper part, there would come a time when there would be about as much use of wetting {a line in Chesapeake’s salt water as | there would be in a wash bowl with a bent pin. We wonder if that time isn't | pretty nigh? “The purse netters won their fight against the abolishing of the nets either by virtue of timidity of some of the county politicians who were unwill- ing to see the logic in the bill for fear that it might cost them some prestige with certain voters in thejr countles, or by sheer dumbness in imagining that the continued use of contraptions which took whole schools of rock, trout and bluefish out of the bay could not pos- sibly hurt the future supply “Fishermen who owned nets or worked for netters even stated that the use of purse nets and such like was a benefit rather than a detriment to bay fishing One went so far as to suggest that this method kept the fish st “In former years at this seass c! 5 of fish would certainly have shown themselves by this time, but this year they simply haven't. Trolling in deep Washington | water has failed utterly to bring any | evidences of real fish, and the supposi- tion is that the fish simply ‘ain’t. “Fishing guides and Summer resorts One of the better known guides told us that in former i-enru he would have made 50 trips with fishing parties us to this time, where this year he had| made but three or four. That man is one who frankly tells his patrons that he hasn't seen any signs of fish and advises them to stay away until they them show up.” Some splendid catches of hardheads were reported from Chesapeake Beach last week by those who have gone out in the Basard boats a. night and the specimens of these liberal bait-biters show they now have attained their maximum size. The fishing from the to South Bend fin | pier has varied with the wind and tide. fessional ‘he southern and nuuatv winds have tons of rockfish, trout and taylors | | brought in a great many to feed in th~ shallow waters inshore. ‘The appearance of trout off the Beach has aroused the fisherman to a keen sense of that sport which usually attains its apex in the early Fall season. A number of very good looking trout have been taken both off the pier and from the boats. This is a sf year and one must be prepared for kinds of reports of fish catches. | Reynolds, | in front of { walk and anchored over a nice hard | bottom. ‘This party pulied in the hard- heads over the sides of the boat unti: | they had 50 or 60. Solomons Island continues to offer landed, along with large hardheads along with large numbers of e e rom 3 poun or ve been landed. Despite anything said to the contrary, fishing in the bay off Chesapeake Beach and He: Bay has improved considerably during the past week. One party caught 125 fish, consisting of hardheads, spots and big white perch, one day last week. John E. Thempson and C. E. Hoge visited Herring Bay one day last week and had a wonderful day’s sport eatch- ing hardheads, spot and white perch. Their total catch was ‘125 fish and Thompson sald nine of the hardheads landed were the largest he ever had seen. He said he had the time of his | life when he landed two of these large hardheads at one time. b Their boatman did not anchor his boat, but allowed it to drift with the tide. At one place they ran into a school of big white perch and landed between 75 and 80 of them, many of these fish also being caught two at a time. These two anglers started fishing at 6 am. and fished until 11 am. and were back in Washington at 1 pm. Thompson said for the first time in his experience shrimp was the onl bait the fish would take. He had a sup- ply of crabs, but for some reason or other on that particular day the flsh did not care for crabs and that prac- tically all the fish were landed with shrimp. Twenty large spot were landed by these anglers. | This column has been informed tha: | every Sunday hundreds of under sized ybass are being taken from Gunston | Cove. This is a matter for the attention of the Virginia authorities. It may be that these anglers do not know any | better and again it may be otherwise But no matter which it is they should | first be warned that they are violating | the law and if they still persist should | be prosecuted. Anglers contemplating a visit to the | New Jersey coast will be glad to learn { that large schools of bluefish have been | visiting the waters from Barnegat jdown as far as Beach Haven. One party, while trolling. landed 50 of these | fish, ranging In weight from three to seven pounds. A school of large black whales, very unusual along the Jersey coast, was | sighted by members of the Anglers Club of Absecon recently. The black whale is an inhabitant of the Carribean Sea, along the coast of the West Indies | and only within the last few years has | migrated to other waters. 'TILDEN TO REMAIN AMATEUR, HE SAYS By the Associated Press | PARIS, July 30.—Bill Tilden, Ame:- whom he floored for the count in & bout | of the bay have suffered accordingly. |ica’s tennis ace, has splked ali rumors that he intended to turmn professional after this season, saying, “It would be the wrong thing at the wroing time. ‘There Is not enough money to tempt me." 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