Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1929, Page 84

2 GOLF LAYOUT OF TODAY IS LITTLE LIKE ORIGINAL Connecticut Avenue Cour t Hardly Recognizable as One Constructed by Travis in 1911—Improved for National Championship in 1921. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. I to recognize the golf course as th under Walter J. Travis. F a member of Columbia Country Club back in 1915, only a short time after the club took over its golf course on Connecticut avenue after moving from the old Brightwood layout, had left Washington and had not seen the layout until today, he would hardly be able e original one which was set out So many and so varied have been the changes in the course of Columbia Country Club that, even go in the general direction in whi though the holes themselves still ch they were constructed in 1911, they would hardly be recognized as belonging on the same course. Naturally, a golf course can never can lay out a golf course and say men, there is a finished golf course. be said to be completed. No man to his greens committee, “Gentle- You never will have to touch a bunker or a putting green. It is there to stay for all time.” Changes in the length of the ball have been the chief factors which have resulted in a complete revolution of golf course archi- tecture and the upheavals on the Columbia course have reflected this change in methods of play. But along with this change came another matter of radical nature. Columbia was awarded the na- tional open championship of 1921. The course was not stiff enough and something had to be done to stiffen it up. And how it was stiff- ened up. Out of that champion- ship came the Columbia course much at it is today, for the major changes since 1921 have not been many. Chief among them is the new green for the first hole, which is not to be used as a permanent green, as some members seem to think the present green is not to be abandcned, but will be used as an alternate with the new green. The pin may be placed on either green, depending on green and ‘weather conditions. Before Brown Patch Days. The oldtimer, coming back after a fapse of & decade and a half, wouldn't recognize the second, fourth and fifth Tholes at Columbia. For the second hole, in those days of 1914 and 1915, could be reached by a long tee shot, even in those days when the ball couldnt be driven so far. The fourth, which now is a one-shotter, was then a two-shotter, With a green located very near the lo- cation of the present spring off the fifth flir\;;m And the fifth was a far different hole. ‘We well remember with what pride Dr. Walter S. Harban, then the most active worker on the golf course and the man whe rebullt it for the open championship, pointed to the nga green of 1915. It was called a “Taylor” and was constructed of layers of and cinders, designed to give per- fect drainage. In those days brown patch was unknown, and was still to be unknown for six years or more until Columbia’s course gave a perfect dem- onstration in June of 1921 of what that insidious fungus growth could and still can do. To go back a little bit, we recall that two weeks before the open champion- ship of 1921 Columbia’s putting greens were as perfect as putting greens can I be. Almost overnight the brown patch | came, following closely on a few muggy | nights, perfect for the propagation of the fungus. And the greens vanished from the ken of man. From perfect putting surfaces they became spotted with ugly brown patches, large and , until the Columbia greens com- mittee, as much mystified by the phe- enon as the scientists of the De- nomd ent of lture, almost gave uj D2 Ciaeust At the Vnkind stroke Of Tate. New Fifth Hole Built. ‘But to get back to the fifth hole. In his preparation work for the open Dr. Harban made a one-shotter out of the fourth, after building a new green for the third, and then proceeded to stretch out the fifth to what was then an enor- mous length, calling for_three shots from all but the experts. In the middle of this lengthy hole he placed what was then termed “Hell's Half Acre” a | tangled mass of sand bunkers and long grass, which ruined the hopes of many & player in the championship to come. Back in the old days of Columbia's history the first green was not elevated. It was on surface level and very hard to keep drained. When the brown patch hit it, it gave up the ghost and died an unhappy death. And along about 1916 Dr. Harban built a new second green across the ditch, making the hole a drive and pitch affair, which Jim Barnes proceeded to demonstrate in the champlonship was an easy eagle 2. For Jim holed his second shot out of a trap, and came back to win the title. The third green, which was back in a corner of the woods, and was an easy victim of brown patch, was taken out of the cover and raised, and today is a far better hole than the old afair. | ‘The change at the fourth has been de- | tailed. It suffices to say that it is a tough one-shotter of more than 200 yards to an elevated green. The fifth hole, back in 1915, played about 410 yards. When the open championship was played, it measured 540 yards, and we remember how Bobby Jones and Joe Kirkwood foundered on the rocks of pressed brassie shots in the attempt to pick up birdies at this hole. If memory serves, Bobby had started in some such fantastic fashion as 3. 3, 4, 2, being 3 under par going | to the fifth. And in the attempt to | collect another birdie at the fifth, he | Fooked three balls out of bounds, wind- | ing up with a ghastly 9. We draw the | curtain on that one, for Bob never was he same after that. | The sixth is longer than it used to be. We can recall when the sixth was | a drive and mashie hole—possibly a drive and niblick—with a green just beyond the cross bunker which cuts in at the right. But today it takes two long shots to get home, for the green has been moved about 75 yards back of the old location and is well flanked | by hazards. The seventh, for length, | is much the same hole. But because of the peculiar shape of the green, cut up by indented traps, it is no easy mat- ter. That green also was rebuilt for the open, but is in the same location as it was back in the pre-war days ‘The eighth green has not been changed but the bunkering at the green has been changed, and many came to woe there in the open. At the ninth the old flat green, 20 yards short of the present green, has been replaced by a_modern green built up at the back. There is talk now of changing that ninth green because of its skyline construction and the fact that undulations in it prevent placing the cup in more than three spots on the surface. Tenth Little Different. shotter. The location of the thirteenth has not been changed, but the old timer would hardly recognize the con- struction of the green as compared with the green in 1915. It is now in two levels and very well trapped. Two big bunkers sticking out at the right corner of the fairway and a grove of small fir trees make the physical aspect of the fourteenth a far different matter from those days a decade and a half ago. The green also has been rebuilt and pushed back a little bit. Otherwise the hole is much the same as it was in 1915, but with a back tee to compensate for the added length of the ball. We recall when Walter J. Travis used to regard the fifteenth as one of the outstanding two-shot holes of America. It still is, but it has not un- dergone a great deal of . The bunkers at the left have been cut down and their severity alleviated, and the green has been built up at the back and sides, which changes the second shot very much. The sixteenth still is a one-shotter, but a far different looking affair from that of 1915. The green has been rebuilt no less than three times since those days and now an upper tee, on the hillside near the seventeenth tee, makes & very attrac- [ Rist: P tive shot. The seventeenth remains much the same hole. Nothing much can be done to the physical characteristics of that hole, but it has been made harder by construction of a long tee. At the eighteenth the green has been rebuilt thrice since 1915, but is in the same location, although considerably higher than the green of those days. ‘Two big traps flank the green, makin it a much harder affair than the flai green of 1915. The open championship did great things for Columbia. The “jack rabbit” ball did almost as much. —. KENTUCKY DERBY OMENS BEAM ON DESERT LIGHT By the Assoclated Press. ‘Turf devotees who believe in signs and omens already have started pick- ing Desert Light, a chestnut son of Wildair and Galaxy, as the winner of the 1930 Kentucky Derby. By winning the recent Kentucky Jockey Club stakes at Churchill Downs, Desert Light gained a strong following among players of the “triology system.” The last two winners of the event also won the Derby—Reigh Count in 1928 and Clyde van Dusen in 1929. Desert Light is owned by the Fair x’S‘t’%ble of Mrs. Graham Fair Vander- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. NEWS AND GOSSIP Commercial League. Gathering 602 pins in their first ef- fort, Standard Oil copped the odd game from Carry Ice Cream. Red Brewer led the attack with high game of 139 and set of 371. C. & P. Tele- phone won the first two games from United States Daily and lost the third by the difference of the handicap. Evening Star kept their place with the leaders by defeating Diamond” Cab two games. Jack Ulrich’s 139 game failed to help win the odd game for Wilkins Coffee over Peoples Drug. ‘Woodward & Lothrop postponed their set with Times-Herald. anding. C. & P. Tel. Evening Sta: Standard Ol Times-Herald. . Carry Ice Crm 15 18 W. 25 '8 Wilkins Coffee. 2 9 dward & L. U. 8. Daily Southeast League. Championship form displayed by the Mark Blum and Standard Art bowlers has made the pennant race a two-team proposition for the present. Last week Mark Blum swamped Ouris- man Chevrolet with 565 as high game. The individual shooting of Guether with 341 featured. Standard Art in an effort to stay with the leaders rang up the high team scores of the matches, having a game of 571 and 1,600 set. Scagnclli's 332 was high when the Italian boys douched a coat of white wash on the Bonbrest Barbers, who made an early bid for titular honors. Bert Sheehy was instrumental in Queen Pin grabbing the odd gams from the Dark Horses with a 336 set. Web- ster's 325 was high for the losers. After handing Prevost Brothers a in the first tussle, Lemler's Shoe team dropped the second when its two stars, Brad Mandley and Willie Carroll, failed to hit the 100 mark. Brad shot an 85, his lowest string of the season. The last saw the Shoe team gathering 559 for an easy win. Phalen’s Garage triumphed in all three over Ristig's. Taking three games from a team is a bit unfair. Team Standing. W. L. Mark Blum.... 18 6 BonbestBarbers 7 Lemler's Shoe., ros.. . 14 10 ‘Queen Pin 14 10 Dark Horses... 14 10 *Ourisman ..... Records. High team set—Mark Blum, 1,640 High team same—Phalen's Garage, 58! (olish, individual set—C. Rader and Ha i each. Hieh {ndividual eame—Waters, 145. High strikes—R. Prevost, 16. High spares—Smith, 6 WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE. Team Standing. Scoring a sweep Isabella while the runner-up Beeques lumbians increased their lead to full games. Capt. Rena Levy was the Columbians' outstand performer, while her team- mate, & Clark, rendered valuable assistance in crushing the Daughters. Rena's contribution was 325, with 124 in her final effort being her best single count, while Thelma registered 313, with a 123 in the first clash. The team shot 531 in its final effort, Peggy Babcock and Margaret Leaman helping with counts of 107 and 102, respectively. Catherine Federline was best for the losers, getting 280, with high game at 97. ‘Those Shamrocks are still climbing, Capt. Bess Hoffman and Madeline Burke furnishing the D.:I)unch to take Hilltop- pers for the d game. Bess totaled 313, while her teammate shot 307. Alice two STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ERBERT L. LACEY, the elub champion; Harry G. Pif outstanding ), and a considerable group of more golfers and club members will gather at the Manor Club the evening of December 14 to witness the presentation of trophies to the winners of the club’s major golf competitions during the year. The prizs presenta- tion will be part of one of the “He nights, which have become popular fe: tures of the Manor Club entertainment program. Dinner will be served at 7:30 o'clock, and after the gl‘lle presen- tation a musical review will be staged. ‘Tomorrow night the annual club elec- tion will be held, for the purpose of choosing five members of the board of governors for a three-year term. Eight names originally were placed in nomi- nation by the nominating committee, which consists of C. E. Stewart, Walter L. Funderburk, Frank P. Smith, C. H. Spencer and J. C. Exner, but W. C. Balderston and Maj. E. Brooke Lee withdrew their names from the list of nominees. The six men whose names remain in nomination, from whom five will be chosen for the three-year term, are Edward D. Freeman, Ray F. Gar- rity, J. W. Manning, Charles W. Mac Smith Shows Right Backswing BY SOL METZGER. Meac Smith, one of the stylists of golf, takes his club back with a straight left arm to the position shown at Figure 3 in the accom- panying sketch. That there is a further body turn and higher lifting of the club is apparent as we look at Pigure 4. This final stage of the backswing is accomplished by the wrists. From the point shown at Figure 3, where the toe of the driver points up toward the sky, the backswing is finished by lifting the club up with the wrists. This is known as the WRIST COLK AT TOP OF BACKSWING - | Schafer, Stanl H. Zeller. will be ‘?'h the clubhouse from 2 to 4 o'clock in the afterncon and from 6 to 8 o'clock in the evening. Still another ,olr club is in process of organization, for which the member- ship will be drawn from Washington and surrounding territory. The new club is to be called the Maryland Golf and Country Club of Montgomery to the preliminary circular announce- ment, on the road connecting Potomac and Rockville, Md, at a point about five miles northwest of the Congres- made, the club circular says, for a nine-hole golf course, which has been laid out by a competent professional, and will be different from the usual course. “Most of the holes will be shorter than the average, but trapped to make it a difficult 20 par. * * * We also anticipate having as a special fea- ture of the club,” the circular adds, “a specially made golf ball, of larger size than the regulation ball, with no more weight. To play with these balls will indeed be a novelty and should he enjoyed by even the expert golfer who will find his skill rewarded by a low score.” In Britain, at least, it now appears to be settled that the average good pro- fessional golfer can give the average good amateur a trouncing and make him like it. Golfers of Britain have reached the conclusion as the result of a_ contest staged at Mid-Surrey, in which 24 professionals opposed an equal number of good amateurs and only 5 of the simon pures escaped a trouncing. Seven former members of the British ‘Walker Cup teams were on the amateur side, while the professional team did not number any of the regulars of the Ryder Cup team of last year. Such | men as Boomer, Duncan, Ernest Whit- | combe, Abe Mitchell and Ted Ray were | missing from the professional side, while the amateur side included Sir Ernest | Holderness, a former champion; Maj | C. O. Hezlet, Lord Hope, Douglas Grant and G. Illingworth, The pros did a thorough job in | trouncing the amateurs, and from a | similar match the same result probably | would follow in the United States. With | only one or two outstanding ex: | in the amateur ranks, the pro se | have a little something more than the amateur. If such a match were ar- ranged in this country, the probability |is that the pros would triumph, al- | though Bobby Jones, George Von Elm | and one or two other amateurs might | win their matches. | Sandy Armour, Congressional pro, is playing “hot” golf these days, according | to Charlle Penna, caddie master at the | club, who, it seems, has been on the | receiving end of a couple of Armour’s 'good rounds recently. A few days ago | Armour knocked the ball around Con- | gressional in 69 strokes, which is noth- | ing more or less than 4 under par. | Penna paid and paid. | And on the heels of that round came another of 70 and then another of 71. And Penna pald some more. Now | Charlie walls that Sandy is too good | and might be a little more liberal with . | gave Conyention Hall the odd over Daughters of |y, were losing one to the Billies, the Co- | C County and is to b: located, according | o sional Country Club. Plans have been | A McQuinn helped Hilltoppers to grab the final tilt with & count of 113, with 299 for the set. Mary Ford has done some one of the most promising of the new crop of bowlers. Shooting around 90, her average is going up with every set through consistent shooting, her " best cognistt%t}lfie l;‘e o4 112 and 302. ‘apt. Helena Kohler got over the - tury mark in all Ry o her Nats grab the odd game from Com- two counts of 108 each. with an even 300, was high f losers. @ Beeques flashed some consistent maple spilling to take two from Billles. Bertha Greevy, with 299, topped the bunch. Billle was best for her team !‘(’a‘r? vZ’S‘?a‘ Billie shot, 116 l%h:l: first ef- spares and then came :x;:;z‘ hl‘e:dv:l!:h ‘:n t‘fl-,l' also with r:hue 3 e is still trying to figure where she lost those 29 puu“ o LADIES' DISTRICT LEAGUE. Stan the Recreation. . John Blick! Arcadi; e i . Hal Bill Wood. ElVer Bbrina: Lucllle Preble, with a spectacular 355 set, featured the week’s bowling. Lucille smacked the maples for counts of 126, 111 and 118 and enabled the King Pins to take two from the Meyer Davis girls. King Pin won the first two, the second by a one-pin margin, 507 to 506, then the Meyer Davis quint staged a great rally and ran up a 540 total in the final to_score its lone win. Louise Foberti led the assault with a sharp 126, Irene Scott shot 109, May Perry 109, Anna Burkhalter 102 and Fay Morgenstein 04. It was & tough break for the King Pin girls, however, as '-va shot 528 to get on the losing end of that tilt. High spots of the match besides Preble’s set were Louise Foberti, 312; Irene Scott, 309; May Perry, 305; Pauline Ford, 310, and Edith Brown, 300. Margaret Leaman also flashed a classy bit of maple crashing with Con- vention Hall against Temple. Mar- garet's counts of 104, 125 and 109 gave her a nifty 338 total. Her big string e. Peggy Babcock came through with a splendid 127 in the final clash to run her set to 314. Mary Rogers was much the best for the losers. Her set was 319, with counts of 113, 105 and 101. John Blick grabbed two more at the expense of Lucky Strike. Helena Koh- ler of the losers took high game and set with 122 and 315. Helen Whitbeck was best for the winners, shooting 303 for h _set. Petworth won the odd game from Silver Spring. Other match- es postponed. NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE. Team Standing. W.L W.L . 22" § Geo. Recreation 15 15 33 10 Lucky Strike... 16 17 18 o Mount w1 1713 -f’&k 10 23 + 1716 Pack. Print. 372 Records. High individual xame—MeGolrick. 166. High indiyi Ward, 42: Campbell, . Palace V. yidual set—R. Ward. individual average—) High team game—G. P. High team set—King ‘The Charles W. Smith team twice humbled the champion King Pins and Grand Palace Valet strengthened its hold on first place. by taking two mes from Service leteria. ‘The tter team, with Red Morgan and George Friend in top form, rolled its greatest set of the season, winding up with a 630 game to clinch one game. Howard Campbell held his average above the 123 mark, although he lost 17 pins. Arthur Logan came within two pins of McGolrick’s 166 high game. Logan had a 393 set to ald Lucky Strike in bagging a pair over George- town Recreation. Sam Benson also re- turned to form with a 382 set. Red Morgan had a 391 set for the Valet- men. Meyer Davis held third plece by tak- ing two from Mount Rainier. Me boosted his average with a 378 total afine thres puimes trom Pflnu!\l Co. The latter rapidly and new next week. DISTRICT LEAGUE. Packwood team is improvin, faces are prol Kine Pin Temple Petworth . Stantord Paper Co Progressive Printi readis ... BENEEEES DL Pin, 1,833. High team e e Bk o5 High individual set— igh_individual 170, High ‘Weid: . i, e Mors nvention Hali) ACon v Average—Weidman, 130-16. Brilliant individual and team roll- ing marked the week. Red Morgan with a set of 403 ran his average up to an exact re of 123, which is & few pins within the high mark held by Howard Campbell, who is leading the District. Morgan's rolling materially aided Convention Hall in defeating Meyer Davis two games. The Musicians easily won the first with a score of 606 to 546, but were smothered in the next two when the “Hall” crew registered 603 and 631. Al Work tossed in 140 in the second, while Morgan also shot his big game of 150 in this tussle. King Pin, with Dutch Weidman lead- ing tne way with 405, totaled 1816 in sweeping its match with Arcadia. This triple setback sent the John Blick team into the cellar, though the rolling of the losers would have ordinarily won at least one game. King Pin counted two games over 600. Jack Wolsten- holme collected 3822mlples. which held his_average over 1. Nur!he‘a'ut. Temple's rousing victory over Cornell's Lunch shoved ine latter into a tie for third place with Meyer | Davis and Hyattsville. Joe Mulroe was conspicuous throughout. His set wu} 374. Friend shot 144 in his first effort, while Rosenberg counted 143 in the last. Bill Kessler with 387 and Boots Hal- loran with 375 carried Hyattsville over the top in two of the three skirmishes with Stanford Paper Co. on the Arcade drives. Hokie Smith, the kid sensa- tion of Southeast, starred for Stanford with a 385 set. His games were 139, | 121 and 125. Those Petworth bowlers just refuse to stay put in last place. Trimming Pro- | gressive Printing Co., they took a jump |to ffth place. Norman Baxter's 342 set was the high mark for the win- | ners, while Sam Simon’s 132 accounted | for the Printers’ only decision. His set was 366. Here’s Caomplete Dope On Star Pin Tourney ‘ Tournament alleys, Convention H‘E‘kmu close midnight, Saturday, December 21. Bowling dates, December 26, 27, 28, and January 2, 3, 4. mercials. ~Capt. Kohler shot 317, with | K Lucille Preble, | $i1¢ C., DECEMBER 8, MASONIC LEAGUE. Team Stand! effective pinning for Shamrocks and is | Neval three games to help | 5 Roosevelt High team games Hiram, 643; La Fayette, 3 , 612, ugmlfimfefn':wm;—g’num. 1,760; Acacia, L dreiaust averages—Stmon (Hiram), 7-19: Phillips (King David), 111-22; Stoner (Singleton). 1jo-34. jvidual games—Kennemore (Pet- D, D6 et “Kine Davia). 162 Neft ). 150, e hwidual _sets—Silcox (National), 416; Doleman (Singleton), 398; Cross (Hope), 3%ien strikes—_Hyde (8t John's). 29: Phil- Lips {Rine Daxid), 34; Etiiiger (Géntennial), 23, Bittenbender_(Centennial), 23. King David), 107; S Bob (8%, Jonn 8}, 101. High tennial), 142; Thursday, Montzouris (Har- © 141, o mony), Naval is now barely holding onto a one-game lead by virtue of losing all Mo three to New Jerusalem in a heated match. Harley Evans was the out- standing man in this match with 357 Stansbury was knocked out of second place when Hiram (regarded as the team to beat for the pennant) con- tinued its winning ways by sweeping the set, and Sad Sam Simon stood out like a sore thumb, totaling 374. Hiram's top game was 557 in a 1,632 set. Barrister also climbed the ladder with a triple victory over the fast-mov- ing Congress team. Hussey with 369 and Horner with 357 were the big shots. La Fayette kept within range of the leaders with a triple win over Potomac when Watson totaled 345 and Harry Armiger 342. Parker climbed out of the cellar by grabbing & set from Mount Pleasant, while the best King Solomon could do was to get one from Roosevelt. Lewis, Parker's anchor man, led with 338. Pentalpha, with Werntz getting 343, made a clean sweep of Mount Hermon, | ¥red D. while Joppa and Lebanon also made clean sweeps, Silver Spring and National being the victims, St. John's had its hands full taking the odd game from King David, winning one game by 2 pins and the other by 5. Centennial made headway by taking 5 out of 6, 3 from Federal and 2 from Petworth. Folger’s 350 was the deciding factor in the double win over Petworth, while Bittenbender shot 380 against Federal. Umali, a newcomer with Acacia, was the only other man to reach the 350 mark and his 354 was a %help in winning the odd one from iting. BUILDING CONTRACTORS' LEAGUE. Team Standing. SECOND HALF SERIES. W. L. C. H._Tompkins. 3 0 Rudolph & West Jas. Baird Co... . Sou 1 Fuller Plant. A W. Lee. ‘31 EAR Btone Co.. 3 1 J. P. Ev MDermott 2 1 G. A. Fu The D. C. Butcher Co. and Charles H. Tompkins Co. got hot in the open- ing matches of the second half of the champlonship race. The former hand- ed the first-half champions, George A. Fuller Stone Plant, rolling a 1585 set, while the Tomp- kins crew hung up a new team mark at 1,645, bettering its previous season record. The latter team swept three games frony the J. P. Evans five with E. Furr pointing the way with a 365 set. Powell of D. C. Butcher had a 364 set and Faunce of the Stone Plant quint had a 362 string. The James Baird Co. team tled for the lead by taking three from the George A. Fuller Co. entry, rolling a 1,579 set. Lake Stone conquered Rudolph & West in two settos and fell 7 pins short of locking the third. P. T. McDermott took the odd encounter over A. W. Lee and Southern Asbestos kept in the running by besting E. Rule, 2 to 1. i . y coincidence, three bowlers ti !Ecr 3‘:1 hl;l"l game m;rlicmth 141 elceig 3 , Faunce an er of D. C. Butcher each had that count. i LADIES' TRANSPORTATION LEAGUE. Team Standing. xY 13 1 Breals xe T C Brownies 1512 Zeppes The Barristers retained their lead, | ! taking three from the Breals. The Fox- I heavyweight champion of South America. But in the battle of all nations, including the Scandinavian, he is now face to face with greater trou- ble in the Norwegian delegate from Chi- cago by the name of Otto Von Porat. Otto Von Porat isn’t as large or as tall as Senor Campolo. He is a much smaller hornet with a much more poisonous sting. When he tags he ap- pears to mean it. Scott is a good boxer, a skillful defensive boxer and it will be largely a question as to whether he can jab Von Porat off balance and keep him away when they tangle up to- morrow night. If Scott makes the mistake of leaving an opening through which Von Porat can toss a chunk of leather, the British champion will be taking a short cut to sudden trouble. For Von Porat can hit. He can hit hard enough to hurt any one. He has been improving in his speed and technique through the last year and he will be nobody's set-up at his next start. He will find Scott the type of boxer who is none too easy to tag. The British entry, being a normal human being, doesn’t like it on the chin, and he can take fairly effective precautions when it comes to keeping his chin out of the danger zone. But it is no cer- tainty he will keep away from the ambitious Norwegian who now seems intent upon moving into polite pugilistic soclety and staying there. The National Champion. UERIES continue to pour in, ask- By GRANTLAND RIC The Next Elimination. HIL SCOTT, the heavyweight of England, has temporarily elim- inated Victor Campolo, the ing what foot ball team should be | named national champion. This problem is entirely too intricate | a_matter for the limited brain capacity | of this entry. There is no questioning the fact that among the unbeaten teams who were not even tied Notre Dame fought its way through the hardest fleld. But when it comes to sayine that Notre Dame could beat Pittsburgl or that Notre Dame could beat Purdu or that Pmsburih could beat Purdu —that is something else a 3 Each of these three ms had strong lines and exceptional back- 30 | Columbia, two setbacks by 1929—PART FIVE. ABOUT DISTRICT BOWLERS ettes took two from the Ishcabibles to hold second place. R. A, tled for third by winning two s Brownies, and the Zeppes surprised the Bear Cats by winning two, but this mnde no change in their league stand- g. Eastern Star League. ‘Washington Centennial swept its set with Fidelity and retained first place. ‘While La Fayette was losing a game to Bethany won three from Gavel, tying the two quints for second place, Bethany having the greater pin- fall. Ruth girls were idle this week. Unity, winning three games from Lebanon No. 1, and Joseph H. Milans winning two from Bethlehem, are now tied with Columbia for fifth place. Allie Lee Wheeler rolled h game and set of the week with 117 and 323, with the Mizpah team. Margaret Lynch of Treaty Oak rolled 109 and 300. Team Standing. Wash. Cel Bethany L et sacecsararad] PERPPS - EELEEEE 288 Harmony . Martha Ree High team games—Washington Centennial, 314 Bethany, 503; La Fasette and ORIy, Hign, team sets—washington Centennial, La Fayette, 1422; Columbis, 1,394. Reco wen (W Mglcolm wen (Waghington Cen- Anderson (Ruth) ‘end Hushes BEEEEEE iy < (Ruth), 9 s (Gl ), 10. res—Bosley (Bethiehem), &4, { same—Paxon (Washington Cen- ODD FELLOWS' LEAGUE. Team Standin, SECTION A, Eastern M. Pl Mt. Nebo . R BRENEREE R el Records. High team game—Arly ., . Bt il oYt Stfikes—Clagett, o hlins Spares—P. Excellent rollin, Langdon fea- tured the week. m’m turned in a total of 1,701, the best team effort to Langdon lost the second to Bea. con when that outfit, “!:gu by a 40- ’Im: of 611, Roy Bladen set the pace for Langdon, having a total of 396, featuring a game of 151, Ferguson helped along by insert- ing a 145 game and 369 total. Acker- Beacon. - Both Inseried §o0d. Gummes con. Bof es in f.h;;r ae:ond effort. lount Nebo pulled a surprise by tak- ing the entire set from Harmony, roll- ing its best set of the season. Claspell and Jim Strobel were in great form. Several good individual sets prevailed during the week, the highest being den’s 396. L. Donaldson for Amity No. 2 & total of 368, Ferguson 369, P. Ellett 363, F. Donaldson 357, Lund 341, Claspell 340, J. Strobel 339, Hoy 333 and W. Donaldson 331, Amity No. 1 rolled a set of 1,672, which was high until Langdon came along and rolled its record set. . | pin handicap, turned in a OFFICE EQUIPMENT LEAGUE. Team Standing. Wik ik tcke 1716 L C. Hl % giisn ‘l‘?’m;—o!llnn: H(o-ne:; . :u-n. g63 and Hayes (Roval), 140. set—Higi (Royal). 365. ulrulk»—'l‘nm{.(mnn, 18; Higes pares—Hinkey (General), 77 Haves ‘same—Benner (Remington-Rand RTLIGHT When it made a mistake or a slip that error usually proved fatal. But on the day it played Notre Dame it would have been a match for any team in foot ball urgh and Notre Dame probab had the best set of s’u-rd!?mNoLrli Dame had Cannon and Law. Pitts- burgh had Montgomery and Dimoleo. No other team could match these guards and there is almost nothing to choose between them. Another High Average. WH!:N it comes to a matter of high averages there is Zuppke's record at Illinois. 1In the last three years Il- linois has lost only two games, Any one who knows the strength of the Western Conference. can understand what this means. It migit be stated here that Illinois has also a conference record that averages a championship s for the The l{l ‘woun season against Ohio State :‘:1 po‘l:: of the strongest teams In the coun The Stanford team that crushed C fornia was another high-class organi: tion. So was the Harvard team that | beat Yale. A lot depended through the | season on just what dates certain teams | met certain rivals. There was a big | difference in the same team from one week to another, due largely to sched- | ule arrangements. Those teams facing | hard =~ schedules had much heavier handicaps to overcome, | The Fastest Back. | L H. G. wants to know who the fastest back of the year was. If any one can think of a faster back than Jaek Elder of Notre Dame, he will be entitled |to some sort of prize, Elder was fast enough to set a new indoor mark for 70 yards—fast enough to beat Pere Williams, who in turn was fast enou to win the 100 and 200 meters at Amsterdam. Elder is one of the quick- est starters who ever played foot ball —-an art that means everything where Ri :‘I;J?y few steps tell a big part of Ellls of Yale was another fast brinter, one of the fastest of the lot. Jagle of the Army, Mays of Harvard and Uansa of Pitt were among the fastest, but Elder probably could out- | step any of them. (Qopyright, 1920) oo Many Changes Made in Columbia Links : Historic Bowling Alley Dismantled DAY OF GRAND CENTRAL’S GREATNESS IS RECALLED Rapid Decline of Establishment Followed De'nlh of Johnny Vaeth, Who Was Central Figure in Factional Strife—Bernie Frye Lauded. BY R. D. THOMAS. N much mali service. They were bo\glht for a didn't say where they would town where the bowlers never will know of the ducl helped so much to make. Could a bowling nllei' i‘?l“k' ailure, tell a tale of triumph, of interwoven would be the details of a cruci: There it was that John L. Vaeth rose to the Jnk of bowling fame only to efface himself at the height of his career. There it was that young Morris Cafritz, first tc apply big ideas to the game, dreamed of cornering the duck- pin market and of making himself :}xa king bowling promoter of all me. ‘There for years was held the Wash- ington City Duckpin Association tourna- ment, which was to_become a bone of contention among alley ites and split the bowlers into bitter factions— those for and against the Grand Cen- tral, SO0 fop oug v comforf y owledge o in the fight of his friends to {lhv.a Him and the place he managed ity tournament once more. New and larger establishments had come into the field and were challenging heat cholice chunk of late-season ess. business. One vote was the Grand Central's| penalty. margin of victory in the city association directcrs’ choice of alleys the year Vaeth died, and the deciding ballot was cast g alley. Not a ripple was made on pond when it went com- this Fall. To hundreds tournaments date. However, with this record total, | of Hall, | you forl Bla- | Sta Y g S e O Wow of & bow] y. No entry wi be accepted after ber 21. 4 the | declared forfeited. Grand Central's right to monopolize the | the O rest for the weary, not even a poor old bowling alley. The ed, but once glorious mapleways that graced the Grand Central Palace have been carted, but nobody seems to know where, to spend their remaining days in bush league song hly 2 Richmond, Va., man whe be relal Probahl{ in some small pin history they the Grand Central drives might of glory and of humiliation and Y.erlod of duckpin history. Grand Palace Valet team could musted & stronger line-up than now planned to battle the Connecticut All-Stars, at Stamford December 28 and here - uary 4. He would find a place on the team for Bernie Frye, one of his King Pin P]:;,nymlm. “Frye,” says Campbell, “Is one of the best bowlers I have ever seen.” Coming from so res) a . former and critic as bell, K;, may feel really complimented. Howard is a conservative in praise and criticism. In xecm five-game matches as a King Pin bowler this season Frye has rolled 552, 638, 658 and 646, an aver- age of better than 127 under pressure. In his last three special matches he has averaged -pmnmmli 133, which is by of being a lot of bowling. The Southeast League, at the = fi. is severe in l%.lm“ . ent g"r.:ge in which an ineligible player h'::: are Under the rules of ‘Washington City Duckpin Associa- a dummy score would be the There is no sign of a recession in the sensational averages of the District and National Capil Leagues. bowlers are holdin than 120. This u' p.r&l:u rly note- worthy in the case District a pace la) Levgue, ‘i ‘Which ihe” bowi % lers must conditions. & number of alleys of varying It he takes it seriously, watch out, khmlwm’ mln that soutbpaw sweepstakes tournament. ety 3ol Chalk and towel, favored doctors of hands bowlers whose moisten, ha been denied Washington maple knock- | e8 ached :rs. Dr. Fowler, the of healt] has ruled them wflmwuq 5 of swapping microbes. t agal Campbell has any weakness as & bowl- er it probably can be lald to chronically claws. Campbell, by the way, thinks the AGRICULTURE INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. 16 i 20 1 # e 1,008 Bo- Stores, So- 410; Hevener, 51 Records. g Public Roads made it 11 out of the last 12 by taking three games from the strong Economics quint, shooting a 1,614 set. Bill Whelan led the winners, while Hevener's 342 was best for Eco- nomics. Although outbowled by 1,549 to 1,524, the Blister Rust bowlers exercised their usual jinx over Accounts and took two of the three games to draw up into a tie for first place. Capt. Stork of Ac- counts had best_set of the match, 340; while Martin's 329 count was best for Blister Rust. In a hectic setto, with every man shooting over the 300 mark, Plant Bu- mummusamvmtwedth-nuu from the Interbureau quint, largely as g result of some fine “pinch” shooting by Detwiler, making his first appearance with the Plant outfit. “ Piteh” é?é-. Einitiad Iast night, sul " €0t a lot of half names. e Scott featured for the Ints, with & 352 count, and some boller factory rooting 'l?.lch didn't help Plant 2 ‘Bud” Thornburg had the old snake ball working for Shops and totaled 322, but Central Stores took two of the three By L S R son with u‘ Norman Tucker and John Blatcher, with counts of 340 and 320, respectively, led the Extension team to a three. win over the So-Kems, the latter being outbowled by some 200 pins. 80! RAILWAY CLERKS' LEAGUE, mnt‘r Ball -hooan ;‘m- of 6, 135 and 145 for a set 166, . chasing No. 1 made & clean sweep of Law and are now in second place, two games behind the leading Auditors. 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