Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 27

aw fore, the conclusion sppears to SPORTS. HAGEN 1S STIRRED BY BRITISH WINDS Diegel Is on “Happy Hunting‘i Ground” When Playing in Canadian Open. ‘BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. G ity of opposition and severity of the courses may differ but little. No matter how poorly Walter Hagen may be playing, the winds and fairways of Great Britain always provide a brac- fng tonic and quickly put him on edge. MacDonald Smith has an idiosyncrasy for the Los Angeies open and for years the mere mention of the western ama- teur steadied Chick Evans’ putts. Similarly the Canadian open is the happy hunting ground for Leo Diegel, and on the Dominions greens he is ot the world's most erratic player, but one of its most brilliant performers. Leo has won the Canadian champlon- ship four times in six Summers, and is the only player ever to score more than two victories in the event. Makes Record Score. In winning his fourth Canadian title at Kanawaki, Quebec, recently, Diegel ground out a score of 274 that is the record for national championships among the English-speaking peoples. His score is 11 strokes better than the Jowest ever made in the British and 12 ahead of the record in the United States open, although the Canadian fleld was fairly repressntative of the strength of American professionals. Par seldom has given Diegel much of & battle when he marched over the bor- der. His average score per round in the four Canadian conquests is exactly 71 strokes. He won with 285 at Mon- treal in 1924, but_his card jumped 10 strokes when he led the attackers at Toronto the following year. He came back to win with 282 at Toronto again in 1928, and followed with 274 at Kan- awaki; & total of 1,136 strokes for 288 holes. The Kanawaki course must have been the environment of different championships. Thelr games quicken in some and grow dull an easy problem for the American | sharpshooters, since the 11 leader: turned in a total of 12 rounds under 70 and the first 8 finished with scores of even 4s and better. But Diegel's 14 under 4s was a marvelous burst of scor- ing, and indicative of what the happy little fellow can do when he is busy hitting golf shots and not worrying about probabilities. Planning Winter Events. The remainder of the Summer does mot offer much profitable shooting for the professional crowd; since it is re- the $10,000 Pontiac, Mich., open has been excelled. But already the Winter season is shaping up as the most lucrative of all time, and the paid performers can afford to shoot for small purses until the frost touches Northern greens. Announcement of tournaments worth more than $90.000 already has been made from the Pacific Coast, and when the Hot Springs, Florida and the Caro- lina fixtures are added the swag for which the pros will shoot during the Winter season totals well over $125,000; which establishes golf firmly in the heavy money class of sports. The $10,000 Los Angeles open, which OLF stars react singularly tu’ | in others; although the qual- | SMITH'S is a typical *Vardor BY 0. B. KEELER. For the Associated Press. ‘The more I sce of golf the more I am convinced that the old masters ‘were right in their contention that the golfing stroke properly is a left- hand affair; that is, the left hand has the more important role to play in the performance of a right-handed golfer. Thirty years ago Harry Vardon frankly removed part of his ample right hand from the shaft, leaving all the left hand thereon, and de- vising the overlapping or *‘Vardon grip” employed by most of the first- rank golfers of today. The removal of the little finger of the right hand from the shaft also takes away vir- tually all the gripping power of the ring finger, and you may not know it, but when you lay hold of a golf club shaft firmly most of your grip is by the little and ring fingers. So the Vardon grip certainly gives the left hand a preponderance of power upon | the shaft. Horton Smith employs a typical Vardon grip, the right-hand little finger riding fairly on top of the left- hand index finger and not buried be- tween it and the next digit—a faulty form of the Vardon grip frequently found among the inexpert. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, player of rank employing the *interlocking grip’ Most of the ri is removed the club~ Yt Leo Diegel is one of three expert players whom I have observed to g0 even farther than Varden in weaken- ing the grip of the right hand on the club. Leo, Jock Hutchinson and Al Houghton all overlap two fingers of the right hand, leaving only a com- paratively feeble grip by the index and middle fingers and the thumb. Helen Hicks—"Heavy Hitting Helen. of Hempstead”—is_the only first- rank woman golfer I have secn using the interlocking grip, employed nota- bly among the men by Francis Ouimet and Gene Sarazen. The lit- tle finger of the right hand and the index finger of the left are locked, removing both from the club, bring ing the hands very intimately gether and balancing the grasp ac- curately. I never liked the grip, but Ouimet and Sarazen have done very well with it, and Miss Hicss’ career seems to be progressing favorably. You don't see many of the old- fashioned two-handed grips these days, but the style is sound enough for all that. There is no overlapping, the left thumb is buried by the right palm, the club is held in the fingers, and it is a very good grip especially for players with small hands and weak wrists. \Sun Baked Golf BY W. R. McCALLUM. The baked out condition of the golf | courses about Washington has had an |effect on the tournaments of at least | one golf club. The Washington Golf and | Country Club golf committee announced |today that the annual club events proposed for August will not be held | until the Fall of the year because of the present condition of the course due |to sun-baking. drought and several se- | vere attacks of brown patch and allied | fungus growths on the putting greens. ereiofore has been the most valuable | (RENE SIS DR T Brna ment, which of the Pacific Coast events. now takes third place on the money schedule. The | Agua Caliente open, one of the main events in connection with opening of the American-built resort just across the Mexican border, has a value of | $25,000, and the sum of $10400 has been subscribed for the national P. G. | A. championship at La Cumbre Country Club, Santa Barbara, Calif., the first | week in December. Altogether Cali- | fornia will furnish eight of the big | Winter tournaments, and in most 1n-; stances the prize money has been in- creased over preceding years. SCOUT SENDS UP CRACK | PLAYERS TO CORSAIRS | By the Assoclated Press. Joe Devine, Western scout for the Pittsburgh club, never played in better than a class B circuit and saw his first major league game in 1925, but he is one of the most successful ivory hunters in big time base ball. Four df the infielders and outflelders and two pitchers of the Pirates are players recommended by Devine. He gent up from the coast the Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd, crack out- fielders; Earl Sheely, first baseman; Dick Bartell, shortstop, and Ray Kremer and Larry French, pitchers. LERMOND SAYS ALTITUDE HAS EFFECT ON RUNNERS By the Associated Press. In the future, when Eastern athletes are to compete in athletic events in Denver, Leo Lermond, champion miler, lugselu! they should be sent on at least 10 days before the meet to become ac- climated. He says he is sure_ the altitude af- fects the runners, at least those called mpon to run a mile or more. JOCKEY HAS HOBBIES. Paul Neal, 15-year-old sensational rentice jockey in Chicago, amuses muu playing base ball with his two | sisters and practicing on the piano. IN CHESS BY FRANK B. WALKER. - the absence from the city of Nor- an T. Whitaker, who was in duut‘g ‘at this end of the cable mal between Washington and London, TS e e and o e of Wi n players, - t’?:n taken as to how the match shall be settled. One thing the Teferees de- cided positively, and that is the ‘match layed should not enter into the series ?fll’ ‘the Insull Trophy. They suggested that the match be renewed and played under the same conditions. $his conclusion is unacceptable to both arties they suggested & single game gy cable between Goldstein and Walker, or a single game by cable between the feam of the London Chess Club and shington team. i was contending that lost & plece,‘ according to and that legiti- been contending for. There- be ac- of a 8] o ees m and C:Md!w;n' W;ll_‘\se:\ considering the matter of expense ‘which mu:t be paid for by individual subscription, a single game between the two teams might be favored. H ever, it is not the usual method of de- ciding & matter of this importance. The chess unit of the City Club is 'ali | leading players o {is a feature of the club golf season, the club championship, the handicap 12 to 17 class event and the Birney | Cup competition will be scheduled for September. The committee plans to | schedule the last three named events for one week, or probably 10 days, | starting on a Saturday and ending on | the second Sunday thereafter. In an effort to increase the number of entries in the club championship, the com- mittee plans to hold a qualifying round on a Saturday or Sunday, with suc- cessive match play rounds on the fol- lowing Tuesday and Thursday after- noons, the semi-finals on Saturday and | the finals on Sunday. Col. R. R. Glass and Capt. W. A. Clear are tied for first place in the July ringer tournament of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Club, each having registered a score of 64. Col. E. B, Williams is in second place Mrs. Felix Gygax is the winner of the women’s blind handicap tourna- ment with a net score of 41. Second place was won by Mrs. H. C. Gibner, who had 42, while Mrs. E. L. King was third with 43. The baked-out condition of the courses in the Washington area is not peculiar to this neck of the woods. We have just returned from a golfing trip in Connecticut and found the courses over which we played suffering from much the same troubles as those around ‘Washington. To be sure, the brown patch and al- lied fungus diseases do not appear to have made anywhere near the same in- roads on the putting greens in New England that they have made here- abouts, but the fairways are thorough- 1y baked out and tremendous distances can be obtained on the tee shots. The splendid courses of the Wood- way and Weeburn Clubs in Connecti- cut, near New Canaan, are in good con- dition, but on many of the fairways the grasses have withered away almost completely in places. Crab grass comes much slower in New England than it does under the heat of the climate of Washington, and the absence of the less sturdy grasses with- out, the crab grass leaves some very in- CIRCLES ship of the Departmental Chess League for several successive years. He could always be counted on fo put up a good fight. James W. Byler, match champion of the City Club, has ed from a motor _trip New York City, the Hudson and Niagara. Byler recently defended his after he was challenged by Messrs. Carl Hesse and E. M. Knapp. They started a contest to decide which should play B{l‘er. The only game played re- sulted a draw, after which it is un- derstood that Hesse withdrew. Knapp then won first place in the handicap tourney. In consequence he is to rlny Byler for the title. The match be started shortly. 5 a o ;‘ the world. At the end of the second round Hans Mattison, who in 1924 won the title of amateur chess champion at the Olympics, was leading with two straight victories. Fol- lowing him comes Bogoljubow, chal- lenger of Dr. Alekhine for the world championship, and Euwe and Vidmar, who each has won one and a half | games. Capablanca, the ex-champion of the world, had to satisfy himself with two draws in his first two games, and Marshall, the champlon of the United States, lost two, games and is tied for last place, with Maroczy, the Hungarian returne comprising Atlantic City, Wi title against M. C. C. Bittinger. There-| —_— An international chess masters’ tour- | tor Course Causes W ashington to Defer Tourneys | teresting lies. played from almost bare | turf. The grass in New England comes | back much faster, however, with a few days' rain than it does on the clav sad | about Washington. Bannockburn's narrow fairways were {all cluttered up with furrowed bro | and tense faces yesterday as the col | petitors in the Gen. Sherman Sweep- stakes tried to keep away from the severe penalties imposed by the golf committee for badly played shots. The | penalties included the fol g: A |ball in an unplayable lie could be |lifted with the loss of three strokes; a | ball in ground under repair could be | lifted with the loss of three tsrokes: a | ball out of bounds—penalty four stokes; |a ball in water hazards on holes Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17 could be lifted with a penalty of five strokes. W. Pred Byrne, the golf committee :nowing what a guy named pad called war, decided to - °f wars of a similar nature. So he imy..2d these penalties for the tournament, and it was up to the com- | petitors to watch their respective steps. Perhaps Fred Byrne knows all about hades. He certainly knows how to keep out of trouble, for when the re- turns were all in and the adding ma- chines had finished their task it was found he had won the tourney with a score of 82—12—70. The prize winning was pretty well in the hands of the golf committee, for Leo F. Pass, an- other member, was in second place with 81—9—72, while W. L. Pendergast, still a third memher of the committee, won the low gross prize with a card of 80. There wasn't much muttering as to how the golf committee managed to avold the trouble. The women's event, with the same penalties, but confined to nine holes of play, was won by Mrs. Robert F. Cole, who had 47—6—41. Mrs. Frank J. Pickett was second with 60—8—51. A family combination led the field in the Cheverly Cup event at Beaver Dam yesterday. P. Gerardl won the tourney with a card of 86—22—64, while F. Gerardi was runner-up with 92—22—70. W. J. Cox had 83—11—72 to finish in third place. Elliott Spicer won the match play against par tourney at Indian- Spring yesterday, finishing 3 u? on par with the aid of a handicap of seven strokes. Dr. Walter B. Vogel, handicap 9, and Leroy Satecer, handicap 7, tled /for second place, all even with par. W. 1. Green won the match play against par tourney at the Manor Club yesterday with a score 1 down to pai aided by a handicap of 12 strokes. E. Voll was runner-up, turning in a card 2 down to par. C. W. Schafer, Earl Carbough and G. F. Miller tied for third, all being 3 down to par. Professional golfers of the mid-At- lantic section were competing today in a junior-professional tournament over the course of the Rolling Road Club, near Catonsville, Md. A total of $531.93 was raised by con- tributions of interested persons and from golfers of the municipal courses to send a four-man team to St. Louis to compete in the national public links tournament_ which starts tomorrow, James D. Preston, committeeman for gton, announced today. rett, Louis Fuchs, James F. Phelan and J. B. Robertson, now is in St. Louis preparing for the tourney and the Harding Cup team event, which is played in conjunction with the quali- fying round. Preston wishes to acknowledge finan- cial a'd from the following ' G. Loeffler, G. W. McCarter, Donal Woodward, A. M. Nevius, Raymond L. Schreiner, Lowell Mellett, Herbert T. J. P. Hubbell, J. V. John J. Carson, Kenneth Dille, Reginald Dille, W. Senator Walter E.Edge, Frazer . 1. Folsom, Edwin A. Halsey, Senator ‘Harrison, Theodore A. Huntley, W. K. Hutchinson, Chesley W. | Representative Louis Ludlow, F. W. Parker, Senator L. C. Phipps, Marcellus Shields, Senator Reed Smoot.and The Washington Star, Post, Herald and Times. In add'tion to the contributions from these sources, public link golfers ldropped $46.30 in a box at Rock Park and $8.13 at East Potomac Park. 'SIX HOMERS IN SIX DAYS. ourning the loss death of James mA Boy' 3 ehe!z en and | master, and Miss Vera Menchik of{ The world's record for successive mnalyst of considerable merit, ‘who | Hastings, land. Other English | home runs is. claimed by “Bad News” gl;y!d & good deal by correspondence. players are- Yates and Thomas. The Hale, 19- -old third baseman of the years ago he was a member |former played on the London wmlmanmrg(u) Cotton States League of the Interior Department team of zw»nmmnmb\umumm He knocked out six homers. in five_players, which won the champlon- !al mentioned. 8ix days. \ ‘ashin| 5 ‘The team, consisting of Walter Bar- GUST 5, 1929.° SPORTS.) 27 NET QUEEN J0LTED INDOUBLES MATCH Helen Takes Worst Beating in Years in One Set, but Is Victor in End. By the Associated Press. ASTHAMPTON, N. Y, August 5. 1t will be a long time before the crown of the woman'’s tennis world will be shaken from the head of Helen Wills, but she has felt it give one "preliminary tremble, | imparted by a pair of the still younger court stars. For the first time in many years Queen Helen has taken a severe drub- bing in even one set of a match. Mak- ing her first appearance in the wonlan’s invitation of the Maidstone Club with Edith Cross of San Francisco as her partner, Miss Wills ran into a severe reverse in her first set. Neither of the California stars was able to get a good start againsi the young Eastern pair, Marle Fensterer of Englewood, N. J., and Genevieve Fox of Southhampton, N. Y. Making fre- quent errors and letting the young op- ponents break her service, Miss Wills played the leading role in the loss of the first set by a 1—6 count. The Californians rallied from the opening setback, however, and captured the match, 1—6, 6—1, 6—1, then went on to & second-round triumph over Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin of Springfield, Mass., and Marjorle man of Santa Monica, Calif., 6—3 Little “Midge” Gladman more than made up for her defeat in the doubles by winning three fine matches to gain the finai of the singles event. The other singles finalist will be de. cided today by the match between two players who were not expected to get past the early rounds. Mrs. D. C. Shep- herd-Barron, one of the English squad, | ites in the singles matches, but the and Virginia Rice of Boston. o TWINS CONCEDED CHANCE TO SWIM THE CHANNEL| By the Associated Pre: Among the channel aspirants con- ceded a chance to make a respectable showing are the Zitenfeld twins, Bernice and Phyllis. These 16-year-old girls have been en- | gaged in a strenuous swimming pro- gram four years. They failed last year in their first attempt to conquer the channel. In a recent workout the twins swam from Dover, England, to Ramsgate, about 20 miles, in 6 hours 55 minutes. Glad- | , 6—2. MANGIN, BELL BEAT EX-DAVIS CUP TEAM SEABRIGHT, N. ugust 5.—Greg- ory Mangin, Georgetown University net ace, paired with Berkley Bell of Austin, Tex., won the Seabright doubles cham- pionship when they downed the ex- Davis Cup team, R. Norris Willilams and ‘Watson M. Washburn, 7—5, 7—5, 4—86, 6—3. The match was begun Saturday, halted by rain, and completed yester- Y. Showing amazing teamwork, the youngsters out-generaled the veteran pair to take he first two sets of the match in a driving rain. Williams and Washburn annexed the third, however, and were leading at 2 to 1 in the fcurth when play was called. Upon resumm1 action yesterday Mangin and Bell whipped through the remainder of the fourth set to a 6—3 victory, which gave them the title. Bell has eleventh position on the na- tional ranking list and Mangin is the | thirteenth player. o | FOR MICHIGAN NET TITLE Emmet Pare of Georgetown Univer- sity bowed to Fritz Mercur of Bethle- hem, Pa, in the title match of the Michigan State net championships at Holly, Mich., yesterday. Mercur won in | four sets, 6—3, 6—3, 1—6, 6—4. | _Pare dominated as completely in the | third set as Mercur had done in the | first two, but in the fourth, a close bat- |t~ the Pennsylvanian proved once | more superior. | —_—— | |EDGEWOOD RACKETERS TRIUMPH AT LEESBURG . A 5-to-4 victory was brought home | from Leesburg by the Edgewood tennis |team ‘of the Capital City League yes- | terday, the local netmen scoring in a | tight match with the Racquet Club |team of the Virginia town, played on the latter's courts. Leesburg broke even with the Capital- latter won two of the three doubles | arguments to gain the edge. i A return match has been arranged | for August 18 with the Edgewood net- men playing host. Resuits: Singles—Clark (L) defeated Grant, 81, | 6—2. Morrison (L) defeated Gardes. 1630 Yo det =t i Yeatman (E.) defeated Thomas, 6—: 8 Torve e (S uelcatea rereostn, 61, 64 Brown (B, deleaied Simpson. 6-2. | ] rell (L.) defeated Bpencer, Doubles_—Gardes and Yeatman ¢ - temen Cinsk s " Morrisshr 1. 6.05; ‘.'::n_}‘h;'l;x‘d‘A T‘flge ;EZI flovlalltd P;llu!nn | S it | 2% FHOREH Brown'and Spencer, 308, Tos, One of the prize events of the Ca-| nadian turf season is the Toronto Cup, avith $15.000 added value. | through Miss Krucoff once more. and .| on her own delivery in the tenth forced ITH the singles crown safely tucked away for the fourth consecutive year, Frances Krucoff, paired with Josephine Dunham, will go after the District of Columbia doubles net cham- pionship at 4 o'clock this afternoon on the Columbia Country Club courts. The Krucoff-Dunham team will meet Phoebe Moorhead and Prances Walker, defend- ing_champions, for the title. ‘Miss Krucoff scored in two sets over Mrs. Ruth Martinez, novice challenger, yesterday, 6—2, 6—4. The latter, mak- ing her initial bow as a finalist, put up a remarkably good fight, especially in the second set, but was outsteadied by the champion. A point analysis shows how close was play, even in the opener, when Miss Krucoff had the decided edge. In this set, won at 6—2, the winner collected but 10 points more than the loser, while in the second set, ending in a 6—4 count, a margin of but 4 points separated the two scores. Miss Krucoff | collected 44 tallies to Mrd. Martinez’ 40. | But she collected them where they were ‘most needed. Runs Through Four Games. Miss Krucoff ran through four games before Mrs, Martinez chalked up her first count. This came on the former's service. The challenger followed up by winning her ‘own delivery on the sixth game, but Miss Krucoff came back to annex the next two and the set. In the early stages of the second set | it looked as though the tables were turned, and the gallery settled com- | fortably back in anticipation of a long marathon. Mrs. Martinez crashed through for a 3-1 lead. Miss Krucoff evened the, count at 3-all. Then came the break which prcved to be the turn- | ing point in the match. Mrs. Martinez battled through Miss Krucoff's service to game point, and, after a long rally, | was given the decision, putting her once | more in the lead. But, upon the report of a linesman that he had called the | challenger’s ball out on the last point, the score was thrown back to deuce and Miss Krucoff made good the next three golnta to shift that all-important | seventh tally to her side of the margin. ‘The next game was easy for the champion, but Mrs. Martinez rallied in the ninth to give battle to the last gasp. She annexed this game, breaking | points to deuce seven times and warded | off four match points before succumbing | to the two well placed shots from the | :iefender‘s racket that concluded mat- ers. Doubles Champion Score. In the semi-final doubles match which followed singles, Misses Moorhead Frances Krucoff, Seeking Doubles Tennis Honors and Walker 1pl'vzved their championship ! caliber in rollicking through Mrs. Mar- Singles Victor, tinez and Dr. Elizabeth Chickering, 6—3, 6—1. The champions played Dr. Chickering off her feet, leaving the new singles runner-up to grow cold in her tracks, with the inevitable results. When an occasional shot came her way, she was off guard and often forced into weak returns. Dr. Chickering was un- able to cope with the steady volley of shots aimed in her direction, although she scored several brilliant net place- ments, and two clean service aces. Edith McCulloch, former Central High School star, captured the Con- solation singles title by defeating Esther Jolley, McKinley High champ, in two hard-fought sets, 7—5, 6—4. o SOUTHWICK IS NAMED FOR ILLINOIS BOXIN CHICAGO, August 5 (#).—Gov. Louls L. Emmerson today had two positions to fill on the Illinois State Athletic Com- mission, following acceptance by Maj. Mariano B. Southwick of one of the va- | cancies created by the resignations of Paul Prehn, S8am Luzzo and Al Mann. Southwick, a war veteran and vice president of a Chicago bond house, yes- terday accepted the appointment, "but Maj. Prederick McLaughlin and Sheldon Clark, the governor's choices for the two remaining vacancies, had not re- plied today. Clark has said he does not wish to serve on the commission |and McLaughlin was said to feel that the job would take too much time from his duties as president financial backer of the Chicago Black Hawks, of the National Professional Hockey League. WALES TO HAVE RIVAL IN EQUESTRIAN FEATS By the Assoclated Press. A potential rival to the feats of the Prince of Wlles“l‘t‘)‘:l::smlg the royal family. The Hon. George Hubert Lascelles, elder son of Princess Mary and grand- son of King George, is being taught to ride. The 6-year-old boy has been at- tending a riding school twice a week. h's first adventure in the saddle the Hon. George arrived dressed in a short, jodhpurs and a peaked cap. He rode two ponies, both with ease and assurance. MACK PILOT 36 YEARS. Connie Mack, 66-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, has spent 36 of his years as a base ball manager. This is his twenty-ninth season as pilot of the Athletics. COAST SUPPLES T FOR ANATEDR [Numbers From California, but Many Leading Stars Are From East. | By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 5.—If mere numbers could be taken as a criterion of performances, it would be a2n easy prediction that some Californian would | walk off with an easy victory in the | national amateur golf championship at | Cel Monte, Calif., September 2 to 9. Of the huge field of 162 starters, the Pacific Coast has supplied 70, 57 of | them coming from California. | Many of the lsading stars of the event come from the East, South and Middle West, which are comparatively sparsely represented, with Bobby Jones, four-time winner of the title, as the | leading light. Five British entries, three Canadians | and one from Hawaii make up the for- |eign continent. The present British | amateur champion, Cyril Tolley, heads | the delegation from England, while | Ross Somerville, holder of the Canadian ‘M'.le, leads the players from the North, | Francis H. 1. Brown represents Hawaii | The Pacific Coast has more than the ll‘elght of numbers to rely on in its search for the title. Jack Neville of Del Monte, Phil Finlay, the Harvard |ace, who is now back home at Red- ilands, and Jack Wolf of San Francisco |are in the van among California’s crew. | Oregon has Don Moe, Frank Dolp and |Dr."O. W. Willing_of Portland and | Chandler Egan of Medford, a former { champion. 1 The East is placing its faith in Watts Gunn, once one of the Southern lead- ers, but now a Pittsburgher: Maurice | McCarthy, the Georgetown University | ace; George Voigt, Francis Ouimet, Jesse Guilford and Jess Sweetser. The }Middle ‘West_has some dangerous con- | tenders in’ George Von Elm. Harrison Johnston, John Dawson, John Good- man and Chick Evans. The South, in addition to Jones, has the present Scuthern champion, Sam Perry of Bir- mingham. PLENTY OF POLO FIELDS. ‘ There are 30 polo fields within a | radius of 10 miles of the Meadow Brook | Club, Long Island. The Meadow Brock | Club has eight fields. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippl elects himself umpire of the boys’ base ball games every time he has a chance. Cinderella and the Three proud cigarette brands A Modern Fable Once upon a time a Mighty Prince set” forth to find a perfect cigarette. Being very wise, he netted down his search to the four National favorites . . . that quartette of popular as the ““20 for 15¢” family. The three elder cigarette brands rushed for- -ward to meet the Prince with all the proud pomp in the world . . . each vying with the other in urging her charms upon him. “Smoke me!” said the eldest, “I am the class of the field.” “ Smoke me!” said the second, “for I am beyond compare.” “ Smoke me!” said the third, “all the world , acknowledges me to be the best.” . Then, from the background, the youngest sister brands known brand . . . the Cinderella of the family ... quietly spoke up. “If you please, Sire,” she suggested, “why not smoke all four of us . . .and compare us fairly and impar- tially, letting your taste decide which one of us you like best?” “Why, that’s a common sense idea!” ex- claimed His Highness. Whereupon he covered the names of all .four brands with paper masks; lit them and smoked them reflectively, with all brand prejudice removed. One cigarette seemed to capture his fancy, far and beyond the others. “I don’t know which cigarette this is,” he declared, “but unquestionably it is the cigarette for me.” Whereupon he removed the mask and found it to be . . . Well, Cinderella is the “story-book”” name but in America today that winning brand is known as OLD GoLD. MORAL: It is easy to make big claims, but you can’t smoke claims. The only sound way to discover the cigarette you like best is to let your taste decide. © P. Lerillard Co., Est. 1760 SMOOTHER AND BETTER!... not a cough in a carload”