Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1928, Page 61

No Startling Shifts Occur in Leaders on Links FOUR HOLD SWAY INGOLFING REALM Jones, Farrell, Hagen, Glenna Collett Rule in One of Busiest Seasons. D team, the golf season of 1928 was one of the busiest on rec- ord. The international competition, staged at the Chicago Golf Club, ‘Wheaton, Ill, furnished an opportunity for the United States team to demon- strate its overwhelming superiority over the representatives of the British Isles. The outcome was more of a debacle than anything else, as the players from overseas simply could not keep up with UE to the increasing number of | important tournaments and the visit of the British Walker Cup the pace set by the team under the leadership of Robert Tyre Jones, jr., of Atlanta. Only one of the invading players won his match, and the result was therefore one of the most one-sided battles ever seen in connection with the Walker Cup. Britons Are Repulsed. Cbming only a few days before the national amateur championship, entered, this flasco did much to spoil the interest in the international aspect of the amateur classic, held this year at Brae Burn. However, a surprise was in store. T. P. Perkins, holder of the British title, reawakened the interest by defeating opponent after opponent and going through to the final. Then again came disappointment. Perkins had taken a terrific beating from Bobby Jones in the Walker Cup matches. He had this opportunity to strike back, but falled dismally, the match finishing on the ninth green of the second round. And so for the second time United _ Btates trampled over Great Britain. By retaining his title Jones caught up with Jerome D. Travers in this event with four successes. The Atlantan also came within an eyelash of landing the national open championship as well. He was tied with Johnny Farrell, young professional of Quaker Ridge, at the end of the 72 holes, and after a hectic play-off over 36 holes Farrell emerged victorious. This tournament, played at Olympia Fields, Chicago, was one of the best and most thrilling open championships ever staged. The one tragic episode of the competition was the failure of young Roland Hancock to come through. One of the tournament dark horses, Hancock flashed into the picture the last day after some sensational golf. Leaving the seventeenth tee he ap- peared to have the title in his pocket. Ordinary golf would have won for him. But under the strain this inexperienced young pro broke down, finished with two 6s when two 5s would have done the trick, and sp left the field clear for @ play-off between Jones and Farrell. Hagen Is Dethorned. After holding it for four Seus straight, Walter Hagen lost his P. G. A. crown this year, but Glenna Collett _ bobbed up once more to win the women's championship. This marked Miss Collett’s third success. This year the women’s championship was held at Hot Springs, Va. Starting rather deliberately, Miss Collett reach the apex of her form in the third round, and from there to the end of the com- petition played brilliant golf, outplaying Miss Virginia Van Wie of Chicago, so decisively that the match was termi- nated at fhe sixth hole in the afternoon round. Leo Diegal captured the P. G. A. champlonship this time. In the tour- nament held at Baltimore he scored suctessive victories over Walter Hagen, Cene Sarazen and Al Espinosa. Diegel won the Canadian open this year. Although forced to surrender this coveted honor, Hagen again enjoyed a large measure of success, his most ou standing achievement being the win- lainl of the British open for the third me. for | which practically all of the Britons | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTOXN, D. C., DECEMBER 30, 1928—SPORTS SECTION. RULERS OF LINKS American open...Johnny Farrell American amateur..Bobby Jones American professional.Leo Diegel American women.Glenna Collett American public links, * Carl Kauffmann .Walter Hagen British open. . .T. P. Perkins British amateur. British women, Mile. Manette Le Blan French open...Cyril J. H. Tolley CHESS TITLE KEPT BY ALEKHINE IN ‘28 Enjoying the privileges that go with the holding of the world championship title, won from Jose R. Capablanca at Buenos Aires, Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris was not called upon to enter the chess arena during 1928. Two chal- | lenges are pending, the first from E. D. Bogoljubow of Triberg, Germany, and the other from Capablanca, so that a match in 1929 is a practical certainty. Capablanca again visited Europe and participated in three international tour- naments, returning with two first prizes and one second. He was piaced below Bogoljubow at Bad Kissengen and fin- ished in the lead at Budapest and Ber- lin. Frank J. Marshall, United Statcs | champion, also went abroad during the Summer. He finished seventh at Bad | Kissengen, second at Budapest and seventh at Berlin. America did itself proud in the Olym- pic team tournament during the con- gress of the International Chess Federa- tion at The Hague. Among 17 coun- tries the United States, which partici- pated for the first time, ranked second to Hungary at the finish. I. Kashdan of the Manhattan Chess Club carried off the individual honors. He scored 13 points in 15 games for a percentage of 86.66. Other members of the United States team were E. Tholfsen, ¢aptain; S. D. Factor, M. Hanauer and H. Steiner. In the Olympic amateur champion- ship tournament, which was won by Dr. Max Euwe of Amsterdam, the United States was represented by N. T. Whita- ker of Washington, who tied for fourth place with two others. The second annual tournament of the National Chess Federation was held at Bradley Beach, N. J., and resulted in a victory for Abraham Kupchik, cham- pion of the Manhattan Chess Club. T. Horowitz and Edward Lasker of the same club divided the second and third prizes. A. E. Santasiere of the Marshall Chess Club was the winner at Buffalo with a clean score and became the New York State champlon. Intercollegiate honors went to Har- vard in the H. ¥. P. W. College Chess League and to New York University in the Intercollegiate Chess Lea F. R. Chevalier of Harvard won the title of champion in the former and A. §. Kuss- man of City College won the National fhe“ Federation college toutnament in une. Akiba Rubinstein of Poland visited this country early in the year, giving a number of exhibitions in New York, Chicago and Cincinnati. Later Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Berlin spent two months in New York, making two ap- pearances there and one in Chicago. YANKEE SUPREMACY IN POLO RETAINED By the Associated Press. American polo this year survived the retirement of the great Devereux Mil- burn by producing a youthful combina- tion under the leadership of ‘Tommy Hitcheock that turned back Argentina in a thrilling tussle for the champlon- ship of the Americas. ‘There was many a shake-up before the ultimately triumphant four of Hitchcock, Guest, young Earl Hopping and Harriman rode rings around the Argentinians in the third and deciding match of the series at Meadow Brook. Hitchcock, captaining his first team, figured in the fourth straight United States victory over foreign challengers for polo supremacy since the war. 1928 GRID HONORS WON BY SOUTH AND FAR WEST In the East during the 1928 season | foot ball did not reach as high a qual- ity of play as the year before. In the Middle West it did not advance any, but both in the South and in the Far West play of the highest grade’was seen. Better foot ball was played in the Far West and in the South than in the East. There was considerable difference of opinion as to which team was the strongest in the East, but in the Mid- dle West the champlonship of the Big ‘Ten Conference went to Illinois. the Missouri Valley Conference Ne- braska took the title, and in the South Georgla Tech, which clashes with Cali- fornia at Pasadena on New Year day, was the title winner. South:rn California had the best record on the Pacific Coast. The Little Three cham- lonship, consisting of Williams, Wes- 1;2’“ and Ambherst, was won by Wil- ms. Intersectional Upsets. DeciCed features of the scason were | the intersectional games between the In one of | these the Oregon Aggies, from Port- | land, conquered the New York Uni- | Far West and the East. versity eleven, which had just boosted | itself to top place in the East by drub- | bing the powerful eleven of Carnegie Tech of Pittsburgh. A week before that Carnegie Tech had beaten Notre Dame and after that Notre Dame had come to New York and disposed of the Army. The Army just about had besn siiting on top of the world, but re- gained some lost prestige by defeating | Nebraska. | Two days after Oregon State beat | New York University th: Stanford ava- lenche from Palo Alto arrived from the other edge of the continent m:d} hit the Army good and hard. Yot | Btenford had succumbed earlier. to Zouthern California, and the defeat of he Army, following the trimming ! seken by New York University, gave Eastern foot ball a black eye. It may be gaid in all truth and with no idea of | meking excuses that both the Army and New York University were suffering! from hard and exacting games a week but, just the same, Leland Stan- yed ‘California only a week be- 10te coming East. Neither the Army on its best day nor any other Eastern team played the foot beil that Stanford put on show here. No such passing as was done by Mis-| souri, Oregon State, Stanford or Flor-, ida and Tennessee as a full-fledgad weapon was shown by any Eastern team: and in the claborate and ac-! curate use of the aerial game and in the hard and incisive running of !hzlri backs, foot ball, South and Far West, wos better than in other sections. “ne intersectional strife, in addition | to the games mentioned, took in a de- feat of Missourl by New York University, of Syracuse by Nebraska, of Georgia hy Yale, of Notre Dame by both Georgla Tech and Southern California, of Penn State by Notre Dame, of Chicago by | Penn, of Sonthern Methodist by the Army, of Fordham by Detroit, of Georgetown by Detroit, of Dartmouth and Pittsburgh, the Navy and Michigan and Princeton and Ohio State. In | East. ITEI\M WINS 3 GAMES | Gembis booted two of the goals, with aging starts, and the Navy at the finish was a stronger team, in this writer's opinion, than its old rival, the Army, with which it did not play. The Army was an overrated team most of the sea- sen and Im}ely on the strength of beat- ing Harvard and Yale, neither of which reached the top flight and neither of which was first class, However, the Army, along with the Navy, Penn, New York University, Princeton, Carnegie Tech and Pitt, composed the group making up the strongest teams in the This is judged on what each of these was when at its best. Princeton beat Yale in their classic, and Harvard beat Yale. Yale, Colum- bia, Dartmouth and Cornell all had poor seasons. Harvard's campaign never attained greatness, but was partially redeemed by the victory over Yale. Lat- eral passing was more freely used than in previous years, but not profusely, by any means, and the forward pass be- came far less of a gamble, if such it can be called at all, and far more of a clearly defined and effective play. And by such teams as Penn and Stan- ford deception took on more finess2. The popularity of the game increased. Patronage grew bigger and bigger. For instance, the Army in New York played to two crowds of 80,000 each. Strong Leading Scorer. Strong of New York University was | the leading scorer of the country, with 160 points. He also kicked more goals afier touchdowns than any other play- er, 28. Florida led the country in total oints, 336. ‘The leading unbeaten ms were as follows: w. Detroit ... .. 9 Southern”’ Galifo Roston ol £ Tennesses . Georgia Tech. .. The All-American eleven selected by Grantland Rice in Collier’s, was as fol- 0 Ends, Haycraft, Minnesota, and Fessler, Ohio State; tackles, Getto, Pitt and Pommerening, Michigan; guards, Burke, Navy, and Post, Stan- ford; center, Pund; quarterback, Harp- ster; halfbacks, Cagle, Army, and Scull, Penn; fullback, Strong, N. Y. U. { ALL BY FIELD GOALS By the Associated Press. In a season in which field goals were axceedingly rere in scoring points, | Michigan won all three of its games via goals from the field. Illinols and Michigan State fell, 3 to 0. while Iowa went down, 10 to 7. Hughes, a substitute, getting the other. Furthermore, the Wolverines man- aged to count just one more touchdown than they did field goals. In not a igame did the Maize and Blue gather mere than a single touchdown, and one of the four compiled, that against Ohio State, was on a fluke. GOLF COII_liéE— SELECTED. Women’s Western golf championship Navy, Michigan Come Back. Tha Navy and Michigan both dis- tinguished ~ themselves by splendid rallios after unpromising and discour- > for 1929 will b2 played over the May- field Country Club course at Cleveland, PERFORMERS WHO DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES IN SPORTS DURING PAST YEAR PERCY | WlLLlAMS-' T TITLE IN CHECKERS T0 GONOTSKY AGAIN After their famous victory over Great Britain in 1927, the devotees of check- ers had a comparatively quiet time dur- ing the past year. Samuel Gonotsky of Brooklyn, who performed so brilliantly in the interna- tional match, again won the champion- ship of the American Checkers Asso- ciation at Cedar Point, Ohio, defeating H. B. Reynolds in the final by 1-0, with five drawn. He also played a tie match of 40 drawn games against Mike Lieber at Garden City under the auspices of the late J. J. Lannin. Another death was that of Willlam H. Tyson, president of the American Checkers Ascociation, who coached the American team for the international match. A match at Detroit between Newell W. Banks of that city and Asa Long of Cleveland was won by Banks by the score ot 7-5, with 28 drawn. . E‘I_TA_C_,A RTWRIGHT= ’28 BETTER THAN 27 FOR SPORTS CHAMPS By the Assoclated Press. With all the leading sports from auto racing to wrestling considered, 1928 turns out to have béen a beiter year for champions than 1927, Out of a list of 294 champions for 1928, amateur and profes- sional, team and individual, 81, or 27,05 per cent, are “repeaters” —champions who retained their crowns. The year before the percenfage was smaller, being 25.81 per cent. Professional boxing, whose champions are loathe to risk their titles unless they are pretty likely to retain them, was a l”dlnf stand-patter with only one title change in the entire year, while in such sports as golf and rowing very few of the 1927 champions survived. GIVEN U. S. By the Assoclated Press. Uncle Sam ran unexpectedly into a hornet's nest of athletic competition at Amsterdem. The 1928 Olympics fur- nished conclusive proof that America no longer can run away with this ath- letic convention. The star-spangled troupe won the major feam champion- rowing and swimming, but they met keener rivalry than ever before in all three, besides yielding Olympic titles in boxing, wrestling and other sports. Biggest Shocks on Track. ‘The biggest shocks to the Yankee forces came on the track, where Ray Barbuti turned in the only individual triumph in the 400 meters. For the firs; time in Olympic history not an American finished 1-2-3 in either the classic “100” or *200," as Wykoff, Borah, Russell, Schloz, Paddock and McAllister were trimmed. Both hurdle races were lost for the first time, Lloyd Hahn failed dismally in the middle distances, while Jole Ray lost a gallant marathon bid. Over-eating, staleness and poor train- ing facilities—all were set forth as con- tributing factors to American defeats, but the main reason was opposing class, as super-performances were turned in by such athletes as Percy Williams of Canada, double sprint winner; Douglas Lowe and Lord Burghley of England, Atkinson of South Africa, Ritoia, Nur- mi and a new crop of Finnish stars, as well as El Ouafi, the Arabian win- ner of the marathon. Uncle Sam’s stalwarts more than Ohio, it hes been announced. Dates will be selected at & meeting January 7. made up for these reverses by sweep- |ing most of the &eld events, as well as ships in track and field as well as| STIFFEST OPPOSITION YET IN OLYMPICS the relays. John Kuck shattered the world shotput record with the first heave ever made beyond 52 feet, Sabin Carr led a monopoly in the pole vault, Bud Houser kept the discus crown, while Bob King and Ed Hamm topped the jumpers. Hamm went through a remarkable record-breaking season, at home and abroad, as he boosted the world broad jump mark to 25 feet 1114 inches. Germany’s return to the fields of Olympic competition for the first time since 1912 to make a fine all-around showing was an outstanding feature of the colorful athletic pageant staged in Holland’s canal-striped land. Japan Wins First Title. Japan won her first track and field title when Mikio Oda captured the hop, step and jump for the Oriental fon- tingent. Canada's forces, leading a British Empire come-back, proved sen- sations in men's as well as women's competition, winning the team honors in the first feminine track and field contest ever included on the Olympic program. But America furnished a girl star in Betty Robinson of Chicago, who suc- ceeded where men sprinters had failed by winning the 100-meter dash in rec- ord time. . .TO SEEK SPEED RECORD. Gar Wood of Dtroit, holder of the speed boat record of 92.823 miles per hour, will attempt to better the salt- water mark of 80.6 miles an hour dur- ing a race with Maj. H, E. D, Scagrave of Great Britain in Florida next March, ’ . | WiLLiE . HoppE.- 1929 Gets J Running Start. PORT'S next new season, which opens officially on Tuesday, at least breaks away to & running start. There has been no mid-Winter foot ball game in years that has attracted the Nation's attention as the coming contest between California and Georgia Tech has stirred things up. The Far West still is riding the jubilee winds in the wake of successive victories over New York University, the Army and Notre Dame. So the Far West is extremely keen to see California apply the lather to Georgia Tech. Its teams finished in front against the East and the Middle West. But the South still remains unconquered, and Georgla Tech is the pride of the South. The East naturally is stringing with Georgia Tech. Every Easterner you meet is supporting the Southern invaders. The Middle West, somewhat upset by the Far Western clean-up, also is cheering for Tech in the main. As a tule these mid-year foot ball battles are just foot ball games. The California-Georgia Tech jamboree is something more than this. ' It means a clean sweep for the coast teams or it means the transfer of temporary foot ball domination from the Far West to the South. California tied both Southern California and Stanford. The Berkeley delegation finished its season unbeaten by a college team. So it represents the best order of coast foot ball—or at least one of the strongest orders. J I have thought all along that Georgia Tech, game after game, was stronger than any Eastern team I have seen. Its attack, however, lacked the versatility of the Stanford whirlpool. Georgia Tech had as much line power and as much backfield speed and power as Stanford had. But Stanford’s versatility and deception were greater in the Army game at least. Tech may meet the fate of the East in general, but there will be no walkover, no runaway stampede. The .300 Hitting Crop. Dear Sir: Pifty American League players batted .300 or better during the 1928 season. Among them were Goslin, Ruth, Gehrig, Manush, Joe Sewell, Hellmann and Simmons. In 1908—20 years ago—just seven players could top the .300 mark. They were Dode Oriss, Ty Cobb, Jim Delehanty, Sam Ctawford, Doc Gessler, Ira Thomas and Thielman. Cobb led the league with an average of .324. What do you make of that, Watson? Twenty years ago there were such pitchers as Bill Donovan, Ed Walsh, Addie Joss, Jack Chesbro, George Mullin, Doc White and others, who had speed, curves and control beyond that of any modern pitcher. There was no lively ball and base ball was base ball. L. H.J. Try These on Your Windpipe, Dear Sir: Dr. Clarence Spears, the rotund physician of Minnesota, is going to make it hard on the boys again. The doctor sentis one crop of Gophers, with unpronouncable names, out into the world and recruits another. Last week numerals were awarded the freshman foot ball team at Minnesota and some of the potential stars among the yearlings were: Frank Battaglia, G. Ekdahl, Milton Grimsrud, Edgar Ice (a cool player), Albin Krezeszowski, Matt Majnarich, Dobert Reihsen, Jack Schoch and Paul Ziegelmgfer. Just a moment, we almost omitted Felix Kamroski. So the good doctor can start a game with a line-up sometking like this: Krezeszowskl, Ukkelberg, Pulkrabek, Majnarich, Battaglia, Kamroski, Ziegelmaier, Ice, Brockmeyer, Oja and Nagurski. assigned to the boys. Those names will stop the opposition more securely than a good line. The Duffer Speaks. The old year dies—as old years do— A new year lights the hollow; v'vuh my old swing could die, too, And let a new swing follow. Alabama's message to Georgia Tech: “A Golden Tornado ought to be just as effective as a Crimson Tide.” In attempting to perfect the art of topping a mashie shot through 1929, you will find no better system than lifting your head just as you go to hit the ball. It almost never fails to bring about a perfect top. It has not been announced yet what club the Chicago Cubs will send It makes no difference what position is | 'noucn the habit some time ago. JOHUNNY LAYTON- BASKET BALL FAST "GROWING IN ESTEEM Basket ball seems to become increas- ingly popular. There were more teams playing the game last season than ever before. The Eastern intercollegiate champion- ship was won by Dartmouth for the first time. The regular season ended in a tie with Dartmouth and Princeton, and in the play-off game, played in Pennsylvania’s palestra, the Dartmouth team won by a score of 26 to 24. Pennsylvania was third in the league, and was actually, although not officially, the champion, as incorrect seoring was responsible for a loss to Dartmouth charged ‘against it. Columbia, which won the title the previous year, was fourth. In the Western Conference, Michigan won its first clear title to a Big Ten championship since entering the league in 1917. Michigan, Purdue, Towa and Indiana were tied for the title the year before. This year Indiana and Purdue were in a tie for second place. Navy had one of the strongest teams in the South Atlantic section, and de- feated the Army. The championship in the national interscholastic tourney was won by the J. Sterling Morton School of Cicero, Tll. De La Salle High School of Joliet, I, won the national Catholic inter- scholastic tournament. Culver Military won the national academy tournament. And the New York State Public High School Amateur Athletic League champlonship was won by Yonkers High School. ~Newtown High School won the Public Schools’ Athletic League championship. Once again Fordham _University turned out one of the best teams in the East, losing only one game. In this game Fordham was defeated by one point by the College of the City of New York. It was one of the most thrilling games of the season. The University of Pittsburgh, a free lance in basket ball, earned nation-wide recognition by winning all of the 21 games on a schedule including invasions into the Midwest and the Atlantic Coast, with victories over Western Con- ference teams, Dartmouth and other leading squads. All except one or two of these victories were won by margins of from 10 to 30 points. In the professional basket ball league the Celtics excelled. Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight winds up its golfing parade with at least five of the greatest champions the game has known. These five are: Johnny Farrell, United States open champion. Bobby Jones, United States amateur champion. Glenna Collette, United States wom- en’s champion. Walter Hagen, British open cham- on. Leo Diegel, P! G. A. champion. There were two newcomers in this select party and they both deserved to break through after long, hard matches, full of tough breaks and heavy trouble. These two were Johnny Farrell and Leo Diegel. For a long time it had seemed that they were doomed to take the dust. As far back as 1920 Diegel came within a step of winning the open. He had it won at Worcester in 1925. About the same time he was 3 up and 4 to play, against Hagen in the P. G. A. scramble, only to fall finally on the fortieth green. Johnny Farrell also saw one great chance after another blow apart with victory in sight. In 1927 he failed at Oakmont again and then won seven big tournaments in a row—one of the most remarkable records in golf. Jones, Hagen and Miss Collett had ‘This Pl was Jones’s eighth national title in five years. It was Hagen's third triumph in the British open. It was Miss Collett’s third champlonship among the women. Hagen won his first big title 14 years ago in the United States open at Mid- lothian, Chicago. He has won the United States opan twice, the British Hornsby to after the close of this next season, The iy 2 logan of too many Eastern forward passers was “Throw ’'em where (Copyrizht, 1928.) i open three times and the P. G. A. five T tured about every major championship | their careers will be this and in Tennis During Year WILLS AND COCHET STARS OF NETDOM | Yankee Girl and French Ace Grab About Al Titles That Are Decided. By tho Associated Press. HE history of tennis in 1928 1s the story of a girl from Berke- ley, Calif, and a young man from Lyons, France. Between them these two cap- known to the game, Helen Wills win- ning the singles coronets of France, England and the United States and Henri Cochet carrying off the French and American titles. A review of the year shows that Cochet met defeat in singles only once in the entire season and that was at the hands of his fellow musketeer, Rene Lacoste, in the final for the English championship which Lacoste won. spite this reverse, Cochet had the more impressive record for the season and displaced his countryman as the world’s No. 1 ranking player for the year. Makes Great Record. Little Henri defeated Lacoste in the final for the French championship in impressive style, kept the Davis Cup in France by beating Big Bill Tilden in straight sets in the Davis Cup chal- lenge round after the Amerjcan had downed Lacoste, and then wound it all up by invading the United States lo capture the national championship which Lacoste had let go by default. Cochet was nearly as effective in doubles as in singles. Paired with Jacques Grugnon, he added the English championship to his list and with Jean Borotra scored the victory over Tilden and Francis T. Hunter which proved to be an important factor in turning back the American Davis Cup campaigners. Gallant American players were ready to contest every step of the French- man’s onward march, but their efforts met with little success. A brilliant ex- ception was the victory of George Lott and John Hennessey, Middle Western stars, over Cochet and Brugnon in the national doubles championship at Chestnut Hill, Mass. Fired by their success at eliminating the French pair who had won at Wimbledon not long before, the young Americans went on to clean up Gerald Patterson and Jack | Hawkes cf Australia in the final by the identical scores of 6—32, 6—1, 6—2. Frank Hunter likewise gained un- dying glory and a ranking at the top of the active Americans when he stood in the place of his friend and Davis Cup teammate, Tilden, who had been declared ineligible because of his writ- ings, and battled Cochet to the last stroke in defense of American prestize in_the national singles championship. Bravely though he fought, Hunter finally bowed to the genius of Cochet by scores of 4—6, 6—4, 3—6, T—5, 6—3, as the little invader came from behind :l{h a withering net attack to take the tle. Tilden was barred from this event by decree of the United States Lawn Tennis Association handed down in the early morning hours of August 25 which ruled him off the amateur courts be- cause he wrote newspaper articles about the Wimbledon tournament in which he was a competitor. In Class by Herself. As for Miss Wills, there was no wom- an who could give her even a good contest although she roamed the world over in search of one. After she had swept through the French, English and American tournaments without losing a set she began playing male opponents, precipitating a controversy which nnnllllz led to the conclusion that Miss Wi could beat some of the best of the men if both confined themselves to back court duelling and could trim an 'l-gm the top flight in a contest on even TmS. Although never a great doubles player, Miss Wills added the national women’s and mixed doubles championship to her singles crown this year, pairing with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman of Bos- ton and Jack Hawkes of Australia. Her fellow-Californian, Helen Jacobs, in the national singles final, was able to force Miss Wills to a deuced second set, but the champion was never in danger. Weak in doubles play, the United States women lost the Wightman Cup to England at Wimbledon. The playing of Mrs. Wightman and Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, both veterans of some 20 years ago, added interest to the year’s campaign, the former win- ning the Eastern title. Mrs. Molla Mallory still was going strong, although longer of major championship caliber. Youthful Stars Arise. Among the men, on the other -hand, one of the sensations was the rise of such youthful stars as Julius Seligson, Frank Shields and Gregory Mangin, who showed promise in the. national cham- pionships. Of the foreign players Jack Crawford, Australia, and H. W. Austin of England, as well as the French youngsters, Boussus and De Buzelet, stood out both here and in Europe. A French team including these two and Cochet and Jean Borotra, whom Hunter later defeated in the national singles, readily disposed of an Ameri- ican team minus Tilden and with youth predominating, in a team match at Philadelphia, thus casting gloom upon American prospects of recovering the Davis Cup in the immediate future. De- Tales of a Wayside Tee BY GRANTLAND RICE Miss Collette won at White Sulphur and again at St. Louis before she reached for her third crown at Hot Springs, Va., with one of the most re- markable displays of golf any woman ever gave. She set a pace that even the male champions would have found quite swift enough for comfort., It took Johnny Farrell and Leo Diegel a long time to break through, although both are still young—well under 30. It will be interesting now to see what season, with the confidence that victory always brings. They always have been great golfers since they began chasing the crown. They should be still better golfers this season ahead, since the mental attitude in golf is a part of the game. And their mental atti- tudes will no longer be weakened by the constant shadow of failure. They will no longer be wearing their collars cut low, so as to be ready for the worst. They will no longer be wondering as they hit the stretch, what new form of trouble or twist of fate will break them again. They have come through at last, to prove their place, and you will find both doubly dangerous when the next fleld gathers at the fine *..ng fuut course in Westchester next June. Both Farrell and Diegel are h&llll-chu iron players and this course be a test of iron play -hove'ever‘yuunl else. Any wavering on the part of the second shot will the need of a niblick. Jones now has won the amateur championship four times in the last five years and he reached the final round in his only defeat when he was beaten by George Von Elm at Baltusrol, That happens to be a fve-year record of consistency that never has been ap- times, not including a dozen other champlonships of one brand or an- other — France, Canadian, Eastern, Western and North and South. w proached in golf. John.Ball won the British amateur eight times, but it took him 24 years of competition to reach this remarkable mark,