Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1929, Page 26

T. He’s Decrepit Veteran Only When Compared With His Former Self. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, September 10.—Big | Bill Tilden's status, so far as| the public is concerned, is man- ifested by the applause which greets his every appearance, whether as player or spectator, in the national singles tournament now in progress at Forest Hills. 1t is as though tennis enthusiasts had suddenly realized that Big Bill, as the writer pointed out mearly a fortnight ago, is still the third—perhaps the second—Dbest tennis player in the world right now, and so may be regarded as a decrepit veteran only by comparing his present form to the hejghts his game attained at his prime, That al Kieran, musing over the fact that pa- trons of the tennis championships may sit comfortably in their seats assured that the protagonists of the sport will surely move upward to the crucial semi- finals and finals day after eay, I‘\lh‘ but the slightest possibility of, upset,| turns his thoughts to the upheavals, | ney such as the defeat of Bobby Jones which marked the national amateur golf taurney last week. It is, he reflects, almost impossible to imagine occur- rances in a national Jawn tennis tour- ney such as the defeat o fBobby Jones and George von Elm at Pebble Beach. | Mr. Kieran offers no conclusions, but | as a fact conclusions concerning the| difference between those allied sports, | golf and tennis, are by no means diffi-| cult to reach. Course Can Beat Golfer. In tennis you are playing against a man; in golf you are pllyln{suun.lt a A champion in golf is precisely to the man playing against per- centage in a game of roulette—the game figures to lick you any time or place. In lawn tennis all the elements of opposition are ponderab! You know your own strength, have scoped your possible deviations in form, and you understand precisely what they mean relatively, But lines of relation cannot be drawn in’ golf. The science of the game is woven into a fabric of physical co-ordination, mental poise, delicate nerve control, and still again inte con- siderations of weather and terrain, which are very important. A Bobby Jones may be toppled any time—over 18 holes at least—by an inferior player, but a Tilden only once in a blue moon. Bill the Favorite. Tilden, by the way, is playing in his first national since 1927, and is the favorite to win, with George Lott re- garded as the only player standing as a fine outside choice for the title. Bill's first tough hurdle will be Francis X. Shields in the third round, and while the two will make a match of it, Tilden should certainly crash through and then work his way into the quarter- finals, with John Van Ryn as his oppo- nent. Beating the young Jerseyman, as he should, he will go into the semi- finals. From the nature of the draw, Lott and Hunter should also get into the semi-finals, the probability being that Tilden and Lott will figh it eut for the title. All this is set forth as chowing the 'dependability of tennis form as-opposed to golf. The dope may ;:’.t%k‘ of coura:hhul if it does it will be ing more than a rar a prevailing rule. g - PASS DOWNS PAIR: EARNS SOBRIQUET “Lion of the Links” Carries | On in Tournament, With Partner Absent. BY WALTER R. MeCALLUM. OT for nothing is Leo F. Pass called at Bannockburn e lion of the links” Leo has earned his sobriquet in a stern school of golf—a school that harbors no niche for weakling, where success comes only to the strong and courageous of heart. He has earned many links laurels, has shot the last nine at Bannockburn in the lowest fig- ures ever recorded and is wregarded by every Bannockburn player as one of the most eourageous mortals whe ever tossed down the gauge of battle in a match play combat. Leo's latest stunt is by way of show- ing the courage of the golfer and a certain kind of self-confidence that will not brook defeat no matter what the odds. It seems that out at Ban- nockburn, Lhe‘:olflnl knights of the club are engaged in the two-man team championship, Partners are picked in 80 far as possible with divergent handi- :;f’ the ldo: ‘:el.;l that two star ers are no paired together, ::I:hmh‘:n ;‘cl:pv handicap man and a man are supposed team together. i Leo drew as his partner L. E. Flaher- ty, a golfer of skill, but & man who is not in the same ciass with Leo as a scorer. ‘This pair battled their way through the first three mateh-play rounds in the two-man tournament and advanced to the fourth round, where Leo apparently ran up against the in- surmountable. With the fourth reund scheduled to be completed Leo's mner was out of town, Inquiry ed that Flaherty was in Chicago and | that he could not get back in Wash- ington in time to play the mateh: be- :’c;r': the deadline or the defaulting What did Leo do? Did he curl up and take a default? He did not. Ac- cepting the handicap of one hole, whieh he and his partner would have re- ceived from Norman Hall and Dr. J. Mood, the partnerless Pass went out to play the best ball of Hall and Mood, who by the way, are two of the best Ermrmerl on the rugged Bannockburn yout. Closely they played, the end Leo Pass—without & partner— E!.lxln( the best ball of ‘two men— triumphed, and he and Flaherty moved into the semi-final round, al- part_in’ the Guire and Jose] to run over in dispensation of the cause it was im) warriors ta get together, SPORTS. ble sports philosopher, Johng R. | lowing every branch of sport, but there Cyril Tolley Hits BaH Far and True BY SOL METZGER. ® One of the high lights of the United States amateur gold cham- plonship last week was the pro- digious driving of Cyril J. H. Tolley, who holds the British amateur crown for the second time this year. He is a tremendous hitter. Unlike so many of them he can tell you how he gets distance. There is a reason. As every one likes to wallop them far and true, let’s take a look at the big ‘fellow’s whys and where- fors for walloping. Perhaps the best way of visualizing what the golf swing is, is to view it just as does this husky Briton. 2 Cyril J. H. compares it, that is, the arc of the circle the clubhead 11'6 THE. RIM OF A PLATE TILTED AT AN ANGLE OF 70° Sl i~ TOLLRY VISUALIZE G THE GOLF SWING makes in striking through the ball, to the rim of a plate tilted at 70 | degrees, the center of which must | be the left shoulder. Seeing it in that way, the next problem of golf is to understand what physical movements will cause the clybhead to follow this arch in driying. Let us look at one's body first in tomor- | Tow's article. i Your game is as good Aas your drive. rite Sol Metzger, care of this paper, requesting his free leaf- .let on Driving. Inclose stamped, addressed envejope. (Copyright. 1929.) LINKS FRATERNITY PULLSFORDAWSON Chicago Youth, Barred From! Amateur Tournament, Is Lauded by Von Eim. BY GEORGE VON ELM, | National Amateur Golf Champlon, 1026. i EBBLE BEACH, Calif., September | 10.—Although ' the highly-dis- | puted golfing question of who| should wear the national ama- | teur championship crown this year has been.decided in favor of Harri- son R. (Jimmy) Johnston, there are some poignant reminders that stick out. Johnny Dawson, popular Chicago youngster, who withdrew from the | championship when United States Golf Association officials _questioned _ his | | status, was one of the first to congfatu- late Johnston. Dawson is a very brilliant golfer in his own right, as his determined bid for | titular honors“in the last British ama- teur will testify. He is a member of some very fine golf clubs, and has been a dangerous threat in amateur compe- tions for the past six years., Three weeks before the championship Johnny went to work for a sporting goods house, work that he has done for years past. For some reason—it couldn't have been because he was such a fine golfer— the executive committee of the United States Golf Association questioned his entry. In Unfortunate Position. The ruling golf body placed Johnny in p very unfortunate position by leav- ing’ the final decision in the matter entirely up to him. Had Johnny der | cided to exercise his prerogative and | play, he might possibly have been criti- | cized for his action. By withdrawing gracefully, and courteously requesting a | definite ruling for all future competi- tions, Johnny cemented the friendship of a host of well wishers, and is just as poz:uur here today as even Jimmy Johnston. Johnny Dawson is a very fine golfer, a gentleman on and off the links, and, to my way of thinking, has been eided credit to international a golf. Like all of Johnny's friends, «I deeply regret the action of the United States Golf Association at this par- ticular time. and sincerely hope the matter will be satisfactorily adjusted in the near future. T heard that the United States Golf Association likewise found it necessary to question the amateur status of Johnny Goodman, the youthful golfer who ae(n:d ml:-}" Jnnu'. “I I:.h::, heard varying reports, one stating Goodman is paying his way through col- lege while wo! in a spo store, and & second that he has been an employe of & large ‘telephone \and tele- ph concern. The latter organization andled nearly 200,000 words daily from here during the champlonship. I don’t know what the final decision in Goodman’s case really was. Suffice for the moment, Goodman remained in the tournament long emough to defeat the Nation's greatest amateur, Bobby Jones. Speaking of Bobby Jones, he received a telegram from H. E. Nicholas of San Pedro, the first one of its-kind to date, asking him to sell his clubs, now that e | was probably through with them. Bobby llnt;'l:nd the telegram, but kept his olubs. Sportsmanship is a junny thing. I think Jimmy Jonston i one of the best golfers and one of the finest sportsmen in the game, and Jimmy agreed with me that Dr. Willing did deserve a much more friendly gallery on the final day. There always are rabid partisans fol- can be. no excuse for the actions of many of the fans that galleried the Johnston-Willing match. | Dr. Willing is a_gfeat golfer. John-! ston is greater. the 5 golfed more favorably even without this encouragement had those unfair fans | Rev. B. M. Osgood, and the pa: TENNIS DRAWHELP TOTILDEN,HUNTER Veterans Have Had Chance to Rest, but Will See Action Today. By the Associated Press, OREST HILLS, N. Y., September 10.—Luck has been kind to Big Bill Tilden and his “man Fri- day,” Francls Hunter, thus far in their pursuit of the na- tln;ml men’s singles tennis champion- ship. The “old mastrs” take the court today for their third-round matches after three solid days of rest. While such members of the younger generation as George Lott and Fritz Mercur underwent hard tests of their ehampionship mettle yes- terday, Big Bill was among the specta- tors and Hunter also enjoyed tempo- rarily a noncombatant's role. Having drawn a bye in the first round and won his sceond-round match in straight sets on Saturday, Tilden ran up against harder opposition today in the lanky erson of Young Prank Shields of New York. Hunter, who has fared similarly to date, was bracketed with one Leroy M. Weir in a match that promised to be little more than & work- out for the sturdy internationalist. Tilden and Hunter were not the only onss who were favored with an extra day of rest. Among those who started a round ahead of the field were num- | bered also John Van Ryn, John Doeg, Wilbur Cosn, Arnold Jones, Richard N. Williams and the Englishman, John Oliff. All these were to sce action to- day for the first. time since Saturday. Fritz Mercur, on the other hand, has been forced to work overtime. He caught a be-spectacled young tartar yesterday, when he ran up against Har- ris Coggeshall of Des Moines, Iowa., [fluymg several notches above his rank- ng as fourteenth among the mation's | players. Coggeshall gave Pritz som= wor- ried moments in a five-set struggle that lasted more than two and one-half hours before the Bithlehem, Pa. star finally wen it at 7—5, 7—5, 2—8, 5—7, As for Lott he had his troubles in the few moments the elements allowed him to face J. Gilbert Hall of South Orange, N. J., ranked No. 15, Like Mercur,” whose national ranking is No. 7, Lott, who is rated four notches above that rung, was handled roughly. Hall, giving no quarter and nmunf none, held his service inviolated, as did Lott, until the twenty-second game, when the young internationalist from Chicago broke through to take the sot, 12—10. They were deadlocked at one-all in th: second set, when rain intervened. Lott was heavily favored to win the match scheduled to be resumed this would not go down without a struggle. Principal matches on today's pro- gram were: Bunny Austin, England, vs. Harold MacGuffin, Philad:lphia. John Doeg, Santa Monici William B. Wood, jr., Bos! William T. Tilden, 2nd, Philadelphia, vs. Frank Shields, New York. ‘Wilmer Allison, Fort Worth, Tex., vs. winner of Lott-Hall match, DIFFENBAUGH WEDS ON WAY TO TOURNEY A real romance of the. golf- course came to light today with the disclosure that George Diffenbaugh. popular aide to J. Monros Hunter at Indian Spring, and Hunter's partper in an unbroke series of victories in exhibition golf matches, was married yesterday at Rockville. The bride was Miss Peggy who has been & member of Calif,, vs. Nestlerode, the Indian Spring Golf Club for two years, and is an enthusiasticgolfer. rs, Diffen- baugh came to Washington from John- wnbllrf. Pa. Leaving Washington yesterday by au- tomobile in company with his flancee and Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Harvey, jr., Diffenbaugh and his bride- sud- denly decided to delay their appearance at a golf tourney in Baltimore, in which Dmenb-ugn was scheduled to play, and stopped off in Rockville to be married. The ceremony was performed by the ceeded on to Baltimore, where Diffen- baugh played in the golf events at the Elkridge Hunt Club. News of the wed- ding was not made known until today. The brldegoom has made an envi- n for himself as a pro- fessional golfer in his two years with the Indian Spring Club. He is one of the most popular professionals about ‘Washington. Partnered by J. Monro Hunter, the pair have been uniformly successful in matches against other professionals and amateurs. NATION-WIDE NETWQRK _ T0 BROADCAST SERIES NEW YORK, September 10 (P).— Play-by-play descriptions of the world series games, Pl’-blly between the Phila- delphia_Americans and Chicago Nation- lw be brcn;dcut by the National B astin ), The broadcast will be through a mt-w;’cwm :.h ne:{wo;k gt stations con- e N. B, C. n‘&:‘;:m McNamee will be at the microphone. GRIMM WILL BE READY TO PERFORM SHORTLY CHICAGO, September 10 ().—Charley Grimm, Cub first baseman and 3 will be ready for duty dgsin within two “’Ffi cast has been removed from his left hand, a small bone of which was fractured nearly three weeks ago. -, o " FIGHT IS POSTPONED. 10-round bout between Levine, Brooklyn, and Floyd Hubert, Cleveland, scheduled last night at Dexter Park, Brooklyn, was called off until tomorrow on account of rain. TIRES' AND TUBES Built to give prolonged service and to meet every remained silent when he missed one of driving requirement. . “Fire stone” Tires and Tubes are the choice of motorists who demand the utmost /in tire satisfaction. HAIR ‘TONIC 1 Sur-fay Stop in and become ac- quainted with this modern “Service” Station tomerrow ! Our tire service facilities are complete in every respect, in- cluding installations and re- pairs. “One are South of Penna. Ave. STAR SERYICE STATION e morning, but Hall served notice that he | pro- | ORK, September 10 (#).—The NEW Y Sep! Ralph S. Fowler have earned Erwin P. Hair a tie at the pres- ent state of affairs in the ri fl," tournament which is providi such an interesting race at the Wasl ington Golf and Country Club. La ging a stroke or two behind Fowler- 1 weeks, Hair clung closely on his heels all the while, awaiting his chance to slip across the birdle or eagle. H chance came two days ago, when he Fowler and Hair are_tied, both with selected scores of 56. Inasmuch as only scores made on week end golf or on holidays count in the event, both must wait until the coming week end for & chance to better their score. Then the | battle will_be on, hammer and tongs, for the event ends at the end of Sep- tember and not much time is left. Kiwanians of the Capital area will play in a golf tournament Friday after- noon at the Congressional untry Club. J. P. McCarl, controller general of [the United States, shattered 80 for the first time in his life three weeks ago, scoring a 79 over the Congressional Country Club course. He thought then that the apex of the golf segson had been reached for him. But just the/ other day the genial “general,” as he is called by his business associates, did even better than that. A sterling 77. which is only four over par for the Congressional course, rewarded the | sturdy efficial, and now he is satisfied. With him when he made that 77 wi Sandy Armour, the club professional, at | whose knee McCarl has sat and imbibed enough golf knowledge to be a con- sistent, scorer in the low 80s and occa- sionally drop into the high 70s. Junior championships of four clubs about Washington were to be decided | today, while the junior titular event at still 'a third was to get under way in reparation for match play rounds later in the week. A small field of youngsters gathered | at the Indian !Ffln( Golf Club and the | Washington Golf and Country Club to- day to contest over the 36-hole medal | play route for the respective club junior titles, while out at Columbia another ,roup of juniors were to qualify today for the ‘match play rounds to be com- pleted during t| James G. Dral title holder at Washingto: fending his championship. cock, who won the Indian tr!‘lnl Jjunior title last year and recently won the District junior championship, is playing in the tourney at Indian 8| while John Owens, winner at Columbia last ear, is not playing in defense of his itle this year. Three th"" stand out for the championship at Indian Spring—Peacock, Byrn Curtiss and Charles W. Cole, jr. while three more are outstanding at Washington—Drain, Thomas D. Webb, jr., a Charles D. | Evans. | 1 | | | | e 1 tne relgnt o e reigning junior n -nd‘ de- Roger Pea- J. Munro Hunter, professional at In- dian 8pring, and his stalwart son, J. | Monro, jr., paired together to finish | | third yesterday in the amateur-profes | sional “best ball competition staged at | the Elkridge Hunt Club by the Middle | Atlantic Professional Golfers’ Assoc'u-} tion. Their best ball was 69, which was | one stroke behind the mark of 68 made by two Baltimore pairs. B. Warren Cockran, veteran of the Baltimore Country Club and holder of the Mid- Atlantic amateur title, registered a blaz- ing 70 over the course to play himself | and his partner, Willie Scott, into a tie | at 68 with Frank® M. Sweeney and Charles P. Bteschler, amateur-profes- sional combination from Rodgers Ford. Cockran's 70 equalled the amateur record for the ocouse, and he missed | shattering the record when a three-foot | putt for & 60 siipped past the edge of | | the cup on the eighteenth green. Scores |of other Washington entrants follo Mark Kaufman and Arthur B. Thorn, Town_and Country, 71; Luther Florin Clagett Stevens, Bannockburn, 17 B, Sherwood and Bob Barnett, SAFETY ! product. faction. early battery failure, ONG weeks of a stern chase afterChevy Chase, 71; lfers, includin, . grlnz and Kar) flung a lengthy second shot on to the tt | and probably will play on Thursday, as ;‘or:c ::“: :e;"on‘::u%n;‘mfitf ‘;v it is customary for Baltimore cluos to Satistied drivers Meet the | Seventy-six manufacturers of cars, trucks and busses prefer and use Willard Batteries in their They know Willard will give satis- More than a million car owners a year replace with Willards. They have learned from expe- rience that Willards of the correct electrical size are the greatest value in batteries, Willards are priced at the safety point the lowest’ point that affords known value. Pay less than Willard prices and you invite trouble and Comdr. Richards and Gene Larkin, Chevy Chase, 72; J. W. Harvey, jr., and_ George Diffenbaugh, Indian Sp) , 73; Willlam H. Torrey and Tony Sylvester, Bannpckburn, 81. Pairings for the invitation tourna- ment o(‘the Rolling Road Golf Club, which is to start wmb:no\'v, viluer;‘ O.:u;b: de today. A number of ash'n golter p several from Indian P. Kellerman, jr., of Columbia, are entered in the tourney secord their guests the privilege of playing on the last qualifying day. Meanwhile, a large number of Dhtrlct[ players are looking forward to the in-| vitation tournament of the Bannock-| burn Golf Club next week, for which entries close Sunday night with the | golf club committee at 8 o'clock. The course will be open to visiting players on Friday, September 13, and during all of next week, The tournament starts on Wednesda! Post entries will be accepted for the “duffers’” tournament to be held by the Congressional Country Club on Thursday. Sandy Armour, pro at Con- gressional, was busy most of yesterday accepting entries by telephone, but in view of the comparatively small num- ber of entries to date’ it has been de- cided to hold the entry list open today. Entries should be sent to Armour at the club, The tournament is open to mem- bers of local clubs with handicaps of 20 and more, and no one with a handi- cap smaller than 20 will be permitted to play. An imposing list’ of prizes has beep put up for the tourney, with the two major prizes donated by Whitney | Leary and Avon M. Nevius. e HELEN HICKS HAS 78 | TO LEAD GOLF FIELD By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 10.—A former Chicago miss, 18-year-old Helen Hicks, | now from Inwood, L. I, today was out| to give the old home folks another dem- onstration of the golf that. made her the sensation of last \Winter's Southern | tournaments in the second round of the derby, a 72-hole medal play tournament sponsored by the Western Women's Golf Association. Miss_Hicks streaked over the Floss- moor Country Club course in 78 stroki two under par, yesterday. On the oul ing journey over the heavily trapped E]wl she turned in a 37, three better than par, and came home in 41, a stroke over even figures. A slight uncertainty in her wood shots was more than offset by super work with the irons. Miss Hicks' performance gave her a four-stroke lead over Mrs. Austin Par- due of Hibbing. Minn. Lee Mida and Mrs. Melvin Jones, a pair of Chi-| cago veterans, tied for third place with 83s. Mrs. Gregg Lifur of Los Angeles, run- ner-up in the women's Western cham- | plonship two weeks ago, was in fifth | place, one stroke behind Miss Maureen Orcutt _of White Breeches, N. whose difficulties on the greens boosted her score to 85. Other leaders were Mrs. Leo Federman, Fresh Meadows, N. Y. 87: Virginia Van Wie, Chicago, 87; Francis Hadfleld. Milwaukee, 88: Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, :Wis.. 89: Ger- trude Boothby, Rochester, Minn., and Mrs. J. H. Indig, Fla. 90, | CLELAND CUP TOURNEY IS SET FOR THURSDAY The_semi-annual battle for the Cle- land Cup will be played on the links . of the Army War College Thursday, with Washington sports writers en- fnled‘ They will be the guests at élln(‘:’heon of the Army War Oollegs ub. Maury Pitzgerald, the defendin; champion, who shot a 67 in the last tournament, is likely to be without a handicap this time. POINT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER -10, 1929. Little Looms as Brilliant Golf Star' FRISCO JUVENILE CREAT ON GREENS Too Much Deliberation Lone Fault of Lad Who Beat » Jones’ Conqueror. S the discovery at Pebble Beach was Willlam Lawson Little, the| San Prancisco juvenile who defeated | Johnny Goodman and gave Francis Ouimet one of the stiffest battles of his | long career. It is idle to forecast the future of these youngsters upon a single jperformance, but Little appears to have the makings of a fine golfer, provided he immediately sets about correcting a few faults. Little came to the peak of his youth- ful career in the national amateur. Only a few months before the cham- plonship he failed to get through one of ‘California’s minor tournaments, and was paid little or no attention when the | battle of Pebble Beach began. But his | play against Goodman and Ouimet | quickly stamped him as a youngster who has arrived, and he will bear watching in the future, | BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. AN FRANCISCO, September 10.— Every national golf championship produces some new sensation, and ‘The youngster hits a nice ball l‘ilhim. every club, and gets sufficient carry to| score well on any course, but it was on | the greens that his play most impressed | the writer. The Pebble Beach carpets | were very tricky, and demanded a lot of curving putts that many well known players were unable to produce. Against Ouimet the young San Franciscan was | rolling the ball to the immediate vicin- | ity of the cup time after time. Needs More Speed. Little’s one fault is slowness. He was | clocked taking almost six minutes to putt out on the seventeenth green in is match with Ouimet, and making | shots through the fairways he was de- | 1liferation itself. Such tactics tend not | only to spoil a player's game but also to| Mrs. Watrous in the head and she was | make himself immensely unpopular with | all opponents, and Little is too fine a| youth to start with'such a reputation. The son of an Army colonel, Little' has been desirous of securing an ap- pointment to West Point. But Uncle Sam does not permit much time for ,o!t at the Military Academy, and Cali- ornia _golfers are urging the boy to enter Stanford, where he can develop his game and perhaps bring a bit of national fame to the Golden State. Danny Sangster of Inglewood is an- other youngster who has the makings of a star. Only 17, the young Cali- fornian showed well in the qualifying rounds, though he went down in the first match. Charlie Seaver of los SPORTS. Angeles is another future great who needs only tournament experience to ad- vance into the ranks of the stars. Don-Moe, the Western amateur cham- pion, has censiderable work to do in his game before he can rely upon it to carry him to the top ranks. The Port- land boy showed a dip in his right shoulder and a loop in his swing dur- ing the amateur that does not make for a sound golf swing. But Moe is still a youngster and has sufficlent tenacity of purpose to overcoms these minor faults. He disappointed many at Pebble Beach, but is certain to do bet- ter in the future. Swing All Important. It is customary to count some of the | veterans out each year when they fail to qualify and drop shots all over the course. fallacy of that when he advanced to the semi-finals at Pebble Beach. Egan had been out of national competition 80 long that many of the fleld never had seen him in action, and at the age of 46 was not conceded a chance to win against the younger men. But a well grooved golf swing is dangerous, whether its possessor is 15 or 50, gnd it took one of Dr. Willing’s best rounds to eliminate him. One may as well be cautious in counting out Chick Evans and some of the other veterans. One certain development camde out of the championship. When the United States Goif Assoclation names the 1930 ‘Walker Cup team to invade St. Andrews next May George Voight and Dr. O. P. Willing are sure to be included. Voigt went to the semi-finals in 1928 and to the quarter-finals at Pebble Beach, and must be ranked as one of the four best amateurs in the country. And Dr. Willing's steadiness and pugnacity will ke him a good man to take along for any competition. WOMAN GOLF.ER IS DEAD FROM BLOW FROM BALL WAUKEGAN, I1l, September 10 (/). -A golf ball driven from the fifteenth e of the Glen Flora Country Club was But Chandler Egan showed the | CHAREST MAY GAIN VETS TENNIS TITLE |Among Leaders in, National Tourney—Gore Also Is Contender. i | i BY CORINNE FRAZIER. OREST_ HILLS, L. I, September 10. — To those who abandoned the thrills of the stadium matches to have a look the opening round of the lonal veterans’ single play here yesterday, two things were evident—that Clarence M. Charest of Washington, a newcomer to the veterans' ranks, was to loom up as the possible successor to Henry W. Bassford, present title holder, with a wide gap between his performance and that of the majority of those contend- ing, and, sscond, that, should Charest meet his Waterloo in any one other than Bassford, it wouldn't be speed that beat him. o ‘There isn’t any one in the entire fleld of 64 players with as much speed of control of speed as the Capital player, unless that person be A. J. Cawse, former title holder, whom Bassford has conquered with his easy-stroking strat- . And Cawse is not in Charest’s half of the draw. 8. Jarvis Adams, jr. of Pittsburgh, | seeded No. 7, is rated a serious threat by some, but Gwynn King of Washing- ton has downed Adams in times past. iAnd Clarence is the master of King's game. Judging from the first round play of the others in the seeded lists, J. B. | Adoue, jr.. W. Rosenbaum, Paul Mar- | tin and Irving'C. Wright, Charest has a | through_ ticket to the semi-finals at held responsible today for the death of | least. However, the grass courts are the club champion, Mrs. Frank Watrous, | sure to bother him. 53 years old, but the coroner's office | Yesterday, as he annihilated his first has continued the inquest pen further investigation. & P Mrs. Watrous was walking toward the sixteenth tee Sunday when Harry Jordan, manager of a tanning company, drove from No. 15. The ball struck knocked unconscious, ‘The injury was not regarded at the Mrs, Watrous was women’s champion of the Glen Flora Club. BEARS SIGN 6-FOOTERS. CHICAGO, September 10 (P —A pair of six-foot centers, Bert Pearson, formerly of the Kansas Aggies, and Harry Richman, from the University of | Ilinois, have been signed by the Chi- | {cago Bears of the National Pro Foot | champion, is Washington’s only other Ball League, Pearson captained his team last season, while Richman was one of the outstanding members of the Tllini big ten champlonship eleven. opponent, Leon V. Almirall, 6—2, 6—2, | the grass surface repeatedly cost him | points in misjudged balls or unsure | fooing. But yesterday was an unusual- ’ 1y sevecre test for the uninitiated as the | grass was soaked and as slippery as & polished floor. Charest did not wear spiked shoes as did some of the play- ers, but kept the match well under | time as serious, but she died yesterday. | contro] despite his obvious doubt as to which way the ball would bounce or how much ground hs could cver in & pinch. ‘Taking it all in all, Washington has an even chance for acclaiming a na- tional veteran’s champion in the near future, if it is not to be this year. Charest, at least, will learn what to expect on a second attempt. A, J. Gore, former vsterans doubles representative in the tournament. He is in the opposite half from Charest. | He brat George Walker in a three-set match yesterdav. Capitols Foil for 25¢ s DUTCH REG. U.5. PAT. OFF. 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