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-~ American PORTS Women Near Tennis Triumph : Great Golf Course Here Is Little Used ). " ALL BUT CLINCHED fThree Up, Need Only One of| Four Matches Today to Dethrone British. S YHE EVENING Nichols, 15, Battles Ferrara For Honor of First Municipal Golf Crown BY PAUL MICKELSON, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. T. PAUL, Minn.,, August 8 (. — California had a big golf argu- ment to settle with shots over the Keller Club course today. Two of its star players, Joe Nichols, 15-year-old high school sophomore from Long Beach, and Charlie Ferrara of Ssn Francisco, were the only sur- vivors in the final 36-hole round of the National public links golf championship and faced each other for the title. The all-California final assured the By the Associated Press. OREST HILLS, N. Y., August| F 8—Four more matches re- mained on the Wightman Cup program at the West 8ide Stadium today, but Ameriea’s wwoman tennis stars, led by Helen ‘Wills Moody, already virtually had clinched the cup. | America made a clean sweep of | the first three singles matches yes- | terday and needed only one more | wictory to regain the trophy won | back in his semi-final match with Ed | | the Pacific Coast. trophy, eniblematic of public fee eourse supremacy in America, its first trip to Heretofore, it has ers in possession of eastern been in D layers except the one time that Lester took it to Minneapolis. Youngster Favored. Nichols, because of his great. come- | Greenway of Seattle yesterday, was the by Great Britain last year. That) FrERECC"sround Keller to win' the victory was expected by t Ob- | crown, but a study of the golfing artis- servers to come either from Mrs. | Moody or Helen Jacobs of Berke- ley, Calif. Mrs. Moody started the American | Seam Off on the right foot by defeat-| ing Phyllis Mudford, young English | star, in 36 minutes, 6—1, 6—4. Miss| Jacobs made the count 2—0 by con- quering Betty Nuthall, ace of the in- vading squad, 8—6, 6—4, while Mrs Anna McCune Harper Calif., outlasted Dorothy Round, an other young Briton, 6—3, 4—6, 9—7. Queen Plays Nuthall. Today's matches pitted Miss Jacobs | Miss Mudford and Mrs. Moody against Miss Nuthall in singles. In doubles, Sarah Palfrey and Mrs. Hazel jHotchkiss Wightman of Boston were drawn against Miss Mudford and Mrs. Dorothy C. erd-Barron and Mrs. Moody and Mrs. Harper against Miss Nuthall and Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whit- tingstall. Miss Jacobs' excellent showing was the outstanding feature of the first day’s play. Betty romped away with the | first four games, but Miss Jacobs, play- | ing superbly, ccaptured eight of the next | ten, to take the set. The Californian¢ then went on to dominate play in the second set. 3 ‘Mrs. Harper also had-to rally to save herself from what looked like certain defeat. Miss Round twice was at match point in the twelth game of the gird set and thrice in the fourteenth game, oniy to see Mrs. Harper chop her way out of dificulty and finally win out in Mrs. Kwfi;ed her usual steady game. —— SHIELDS REACHES HOME® v. 8. Davis Cup Player rmmi _Vietorious British Team. | NEW YOI August 8—Francis X. | Shields. & Caemiber of the United Staies Davis tennis team which lost to Fngland the mrmye:wir\:fl rou{:le. returned to New York ay on liner !hldlth ht:.fl nothing but | im. o beat us,” declared Shields. “Of course, we were not altogether acclimated to the mfi‘wndlfiml. but I do not say that as an excuse” Shields announced that he was going 1o Portland, Me., to play in the Maine State tournament =which commences Monday. FIVE GROUPS AFTER ITALIAN SHOE TITLE Xeen Competition Is Promised in Tournament That Will Open This Afternoon. The Ttalian horseshoe championship hich opens at the Rosedale at 3 o'clock today and con- | tinues tomorrow, will bring together the | five leading Italian groups of the city, | each determined to triumph over its rivals. | & by far the best organ- | ups, 18 almost certain to e, the | teved. | Holy Rosary, 1zed of the gro carry off the title if Tony Leone en’s padrone, is to be bel hun He is lcading & formidable array of | who will have on hand tomorrow George | ‘hass slipper experts, with Frank Paima, | Thompson, Charlie Darr, Roy Wilson. |, Johnny Nicro, Leo Balducci, Gino Sim! Tony Maley, Joe Marcellino, Joe Palma, | Sam Belintende, Jimmy Ferraro, Baldo Balducel, Angelo Ganna, Mike Chiesa, | Tommy Capponetto, Joe La Scola, Nick | , Frank Di Misa, Tony Giuffre, Nick Carosi, Johnny Di Joseph, Prank | Lowmupone, Hugo Bonucelli and himself. | Leo Rinaldi, heading_an: group, | has Ollie Pacini, Mike Rinaldi, Leo De Rosa, Henry and Leo Corvelli and Sam Scogna to help him. Joe Preschi's pals are his brothers, Loule and Mike: Nate Scagnelll. Xnulet’ sugum. Johnny Morisi, Tony OCar- niello, Loule Zanelotti, Louie Del Vec- chio, Pete and Loule Veneziani and & dozen others. Niva Bonbrest has his brother Lo Mike Vitale, Pete Cocuczi, Sam De! Joe Delisi and Joe Costa, while Joe Pricci is captaining the Petworth dele-| gation, with Tony De Fino, Ralph Pisano and Ollle Oliveri in tow. In the meantime, several indepen slayers—Sam Del Vecchio, Tony San- ine, Louie Rose, Jimmy Oieri, Frank Maley, Bob Miciotto, Richard Gatti and many more—will try to keep represent- atives from these five groups out of | the title. BURKE ASKS FOR SHIFT | Would Take P. G. A. Qualifying Test Over Chicago Course. CHICAGO, August 8 () —Billie PBurke, national opcn golf champion, has asked the Professional Golfers' Associa- | of ule, Tisi, dent try of the two promised nothing but an_even battle from start to finish. Both Nichols and Ferrara, who golfs in the evenings when he gets through driving steel rive vere experienced | Bringing Coast shotmalkers and had the temperament | that makes champions. The Long Beach boy charged into | the finals yesterday crushing Al Priebe, St. Paul's last hope, 3 and 2, {and then staging a stirring fight to come back and topple Greenway from | the running. Blows 1-Foot Putt. Two down at the turn of the 18-hole | | match and three down at the tenth, | Nichols shot almost perfect golf to wipe | out his opponent’s lead and then win | out on the final green when the Beattle | star nervously muffed a 1-foot putt. It was by far the most interesting match of the tournament. Ferrara, one of the marked contend- | ers for the crown since he helped the | San _Francisco team win the team | championship, had far _easier sailing | than his youthful rival. In his quarter- final match, he shot fine golf despite the rain-soaked condition of the cham- plonship course to defeat Horace Lacey of Little Rock, Ark, 4 and 3, and fol- lowed through by defeating Charles Albertus, Philadelphia’s golfing printer, 3 and 1. A dead stymie on the seven- teenth hole was the blow that kicked Albertus out of the tournament. Ferrara and Nichols had 18-hole rounds of morning and afternoon play ahead of them today. Navy Seeks Light On Army Quarrel By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 8—The Naval Academy Graduates’ As- sociation of New York has sent a questionnaire to its members ask- ing their attitude on a resumption of athletic relations between the two service schools, A'my and Navy. The questionnaire asks the mem- bers; whether they would like to see the schedule resumed and: what eligibility conditions—cause of the break—if any, they believed should be_insisted on. It was Navy which rwecipitated the severance of relations by asking the Arnw to abide by the same in- tercollegiatg eligibility rules it had adopted. It has been almost four years since the two training schools for this country’s fighting forces severed relations. Last December, in the name of charity, an armistice was declared and the Blue and the Gray fought to a stirring 6-to-0 Army victory at Yankee Stadium, New York, netting some half a million dollars for un- emplpyment. relief. HORSESHOE T 70 FRANK BAUMAN Rainier Tourney—Vics, Meet All-Stars. RANK BAUM "N, who represerited Mount Rainic® in the Prince Georges County horseshoe finals last year by general consent, has won the right this time. In the final of | 3y the town championship tournament last night he defeatéd J. Plummer, who will accompany him into the play-offs for the county title. The score was 22—16, 13—22, 21—16. In the semi-finals Bauman trimmed C. Smith, 228, 23—9, and Plummer defeated F. Disney, 10—22, 22—I1T. 21—10. Previously Plummer had elim- inated a prime favorite in Ray Ward. Mount Rainier has applied for the Prince Georges County play-offs in the Star’s metropolitan championships. OLSTERED by several new players of note, the Vic Sport Shop team, captained by Andrew Casper, will 0 to Westminster, Md, tomorrow to battle a team made up of stars from ‘Westminster, New Windsoi, Gambier and Gettysburg. Each of these towns has fallen in team play before the Vics, Clayton Henson, Leonard Westby and Hubbard Quantrille Oscar Hiser, hustling chairman at Hyattsville, was eliminated in the sec- ond round last night by Joe Cos 21—20, 1921, 21—19, the har fought battle of the big tournament. n another tough tilt, Kenneth Ingram trimmed W. L. Alexander, 22—6, 19—21, 23 Ingram counted 17 ringers, against two for Alexander. Bob Bowers. one of the favorites, was extended to win from W. E. King, 22—21, 23—14 Competition will be resumed Monday night. . BRITISH NET STARS CONTESTING AT RYE Joan Ridley, Perry and Hughes to Face Keen Competition in Eastern Turf Event By the Associsted Press RYE, N. Y. August 7—While their compatriots battled away in the Wight- man Cup matches at Forest Hills, th: other British tennis stars began Ameriean invasion in_the Eastern t court championships here today. Joan Ridley, No. 4, ranking English | player, although she failed of nomina- tion 1o the British Wightman Cup team. entered the tournament as the first tion to permit him to-play his qualify-|step in a “tour of vindication” that will ing round for the Professional Golfers' |take her into the women's national fon champlonship, in Chicago. | champlonships at Forest Hills, Au- ‘The qualifying will be held at Edge- gust 17 wood Valley next Monday, and Burke, | Strong opposigion for Miss Ridley wes who is on & tour with George Von Elm, | expected (rom | Helen Wills Moogy. the business man goifer, will be in the Mrs. John Van Ryn, Sarah Paifrey and vicinity and wishes to try to qualify |Mrs Marion Zinderstein Jessup. ere, | 'The other two British entries, in men’s singles, were George Patrick | Hughes and Frederick J. Perry. They anticipated no smooth path to the semi- finals with such American salwarts o George Lott, John Van Ryn, Sut- More Than $100 Netted to Help ier and Gregory Mangin biocking the : way. Pay for D. C. Players’ Expenses. |"5. 4, ye wightman Cup matches Moody and A dance and entertalnment to raise |today, Mrs. Miss Palfrey funds to defray the expenses of the will defer their first appearance In the mmh in the National Pub- |tournament until Monday. T0 SHOW WATER FEATS Life-Saving :; ‘_D;;AK Are Ar- ranged for Airport Pool. e exhibi- at the Afr- to fur- view DANCE FOR TENNIS TRIP SUTTER ANDLOTT LAY TENNS FINAL Match Deadlocked, Vines, I, Forced to Default In Meadow Club Event. By the Associated Press. | OUTHAMPTON, N. Y., August 7.— 1 Sole survivors of what started out | as the most representative feld | " of the season, George M. Lott, jr., | of Philadelphia and Clifford Sutter of | New Orleans were matched in the final round of singles in the annual Meadow Club invitation tennis tournament to- day. Lott entered the final round yesterday for the third time in his career by win- ning on a default after he and Ellsworth Vines, jr. Pasadena, Calif., youngster, had fought out a bitter struggle for four | sets. With the match deadlocked at two | sets all, Vines was forced to default on | account of illness. The scores were 6—4, | 2—6, 6—8, 9—7. Vines, whose | Doeg at Longwood and Seabright had | | made him the sensation of the season, | had been troubled by & stomach ailment for some time. Sutter’s place in the finals was earned |at the expense of Gregory S. Mangin {of Newark, N. J.. conqueror of Doeg in the quarter-finals. Sutter's steady, ac- |curate play gave him the match in straight sets, 7—5, 10—8, 6—2. Mangin finished the match in a daze as a result of a fall in the third set. Although Lott twice previously hes reached the final round of this tousem- ment he never has won it. Big Bill Til- den and Howard Kinsey, both profes- . sionals now, blocked him in the final rounds. The doubles finals pitted the com- bination of Mangin and Berkeley Bell, ew York, against Vines and Keith Gledhill of Santa, Barbara. PLAYGROUND GIRLS | IN DOUBLES FINAL McKinley-Beach, for Georgetown, | to Oppose Taylor-Griggs, ‘ From Hoover. | Edna McKinley and Beverley Beach | of Georgetown playground, were to face | Grace Taylor and Catherine Griggs of | Hoover. 1930 city champions, in the | final of the girls’ doubles in the Munici- | | pal playground department’s tennis | championships early today on the Chevy Chase playground. | Miss McKinley and Miss Beach scored he tournev’s biggest upset vesterday, vanquishing Camille Jacobs and Betty | Brooks of Montrose, runners-up last | year. The scores were 2—6, 6—4, 6—1. | Miss Taylor and Miss Griggs reached the final by defeating Nellle Robinson | and Genevieve Gillen of Phillips, | 6—3, 6—3 P Further play in the boys’ tennis com- petition also was carded today. More colored play was listed. Summaries | SEMIFINALS, | Gisls’ doubles—Edna McKinley iy | Beach of Georgetown defeated Camille Ja- | cobs and Beity Brogke of Montrose, 3-8, | 84, 61, Grace Taylor and Catharine Griggs of ‘Hoover defeated Nellie Robinson | snd Genevieve Gilldn of Phillips, 6—3, 6—3. | SECTIONAL PLAY. singies (junior class)—Morgsn Ja Staniey Denn H_D. Cooke. 62, 6—1: Le Ville Dean inia Avenue defeated James Rocke of rroughs, 6 Boys' singies (senior class)—Beniamin Garfield defeated Louls Sasulli of | e, S8 85, Clyde, Smith of Bloom, | ‘Achierkerchen of | Phillips_ de- Columbia Road 0. OLOI ION. Bovs' juplor—Logan defeated Magruder, 3, 48, -5 Payne defeated Bruce. 6—0. 9: Rose Park defeated Lo Boys' senior—Logan deteated Hor 6. 6--2: Logan defeate 1: Logan defeated Bruce. 80, ark defested Cook. 3 Girls" Goubles—Logan 0; Rose Park defeated Logan, 6— FRENCH IN OLYMPICS Assured Funds to Compete in Win- | Boys' | oy ated T teated vin Oak Park Vi | [ =3 ard, | 1, Rose defeated Bruce. & g 5 I3 5 ®. 6 60, 1. | ter and Summer Events, PARIS, August 8 (#) —Emile Mori- | naud, undersecretary of public_educa- | tion, has assured the French Olympic | at Lake Placid and the Summer games at Los Angeles next year. | By the Associated Press. » NEW RK —Ray Miller, Chlcllo.‘ Coutpointed Eddie Shapiro, New York | ® ATLANTIC CITY, N. J—Jack Port- | ney, Baitimore, knocked out Oscar | | Larosa, Cuba (1). | | ST. PAUL—Charley Retaiaff, Duluth, | | Minn., knocked out Ricardo Bertazzola, 43}%. Mass. mfiym immedi: y _suspended Minnesota Boxing | | Someatanion. { i CH, . V& Preeman, Cleveland, ray Gitlita, New York (12). l“noux CITY. Tincoin, Sabe. a, triumphs over Johnn.v{ 4 { that the i womfl\mrr——u ‘we sometimes STAR, WASHINGTO SATURDAY. THE BOY WHO TOOK A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE IN DETECTIVE WORK OVERHEARS SOME CONTEMPORARIES TALKING SHOP — AUGUST_8 THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME.—By WEBSTER DOWN T BY W. O. On the Wrong Track. HE gentlemen who have beew working for the Carnegie Foun- dation for the Advancement of Teaching have been doing so much for the cleaning up of intercol- legiate athletics that one hates to see them lose their sense of humor. Of course, there are those who will contend foundation's investigations have had no effect at all. At least the foundation pointed out some of the hypocris sitnations. The men who made the investigations were fair and honest. They were not narrow in their point of view, but en- | tirely generous. If the conditions they found have not been corrected that is the fault of the colleges and not of the | foundation. The intervention of the foundation is protested only by those who have been responsible for what might be called the corruption of inter- collegiate sthietics. But I note one section in the founda- tion's latest bulletin, No. 26, which indl- cates that the writers of the repori have | NOW become victims of overgealousness. Also | 1t seems to show that, in their earnest- their nce, T read, under the e Colleges and Profes~ ness, they have lost sense of humor, For L heading of sional Sport”: “In._several fields of sport, have been used by professional promoters as training grounds for re- cruits. The propriety of using educa- tional funds to produce professional players for league base ball and foot ball apparently has not been publicly called in serious question. Big-laague base ball, fool ball and hockey teams have had their share of college stars. A change, however, is apparent. TWe in- stitutions from which numbers of the most. skillful professional base ball and foot ball players have been gradtated (Holy Cross, Notre Dame) are attempt- ing to place professional sport in a bet- ter perspective before their undergradu- ates. Similar tendencies sre discernible at other universities. It hts been point- ed out that the gradually accunyulating | testimony of college alumni who have entered professional foot ball is hardly of a nature to encourage Young men to abandon their professions for the tar- nished spangles of the iro foot ball cireuit. S*N\JOTHING approaching the elim- ination of these practices can be hoped for until public aversion to them becomes stronger. To this end, certain news associations. newspapers and sports and special writers are now contributing, partly because they realize the importance of the matter for every youth who is to benefit from the Ameri- can scheme of education. But the bulk of the task must continue to fall upor the colieges—upon coaches, directe:d and alumni, and especially upon the already heavily laden presidents. Eter. nal vigilance by the responsible authori ties is one part of the price of well-ad- ministered college sports.” It seems a rather narrow notion to go in for it. At the current writing the labor market is glutted with bond salesmen out of work, and thou- sands of moré bond salesmen have been thrown out of the colieges at the recent On the other hand, professional base | ball is booming. All of the clubs in the big Jeagues are making money, and most | of the clubs in the minor leagues will be able to pay dividends at the end of the season—which is more than some other enterprises will do. In 1-::.“ t“l: nat pastime—is about the only cnnmg‘r-e’l:l enterprise which is booming y of certain college athletic | HE LINE McGEEHAN. | As T understand it, {fiey do not msist that they be college graduates. Some managers like them from the colleges: others prefer that they come from the sandlots or from orphan lums. | At any rate, it is evident that the fact that a prospective big league base ball player has a chance, and the fact that he niay have been graduated from one | of our leading universities will not be | used against him. A good college base ball player might start with $5,000 a year and be earning $10,000 atter proving that he has some- thing. 'HIS view seems particularly narrow when you think of one case, that of Christy Mathewson of Bucknell College. There is an intimation in the foundation’s brochure that any future Mathewsons should refuse to take the wage of professional base ball with the notion that if they became professional bas: ball players they would bring some sort of stigma upon their colleges. If Mathewson had held to this notion, he might have become a bond salesman | and a nuisance to his friends, for he | had a campus reputation upon which he might have traded, having been full- back of the foot ball team and pitcher of the base ball team. That included | everything on the athletic side. | Or he might have remained at the | college as an instructor, rising at last {to the post of head of a department with an_income that might have sup- ported himself and his family if they were very economical. that such a decision would have been foolish if Mathewson had been inclined |that way. He was not. He could not see thac becoming a member of the ew ’York Giants carried any disgrace t ‘This was fortunate, not only for Mathewson, but for thousands of others. As the greatest of the pitchers, Christ Mathewson did more in an education: way than any of the academic members | of Bucknell. In professional base Ball he carved out for hiwself a career that | !became an inspiration to many a youngster. In spite of the sentiments expressed | !in the bulletin of the Carnegie Founda- tion, it is my notion that today Buck- nell College looks upon Mathewson as tie alumnus who did the most for his alma mater and for the world in general. 'HIS particular section of the foun- dation’s brochure seems to carry the implication that professional base ball players might plant recruits in tbe colleges with the notion that a col- lege background would enhance the drawing power of a base ball player. This is strikingly silly. On this theory Jim Dunn of Balti- mare, who discovered Babe Ruth in St. | y’s Industrial School, should have | | tutored him immediately and sent him | | Mary |to Harvard or Yale to make the base ball team. In these places, according to | the theory of the foundation, the Babe would-have learned more about the na- tional pastime and would have acquired a ballyhoo that would have made him | & more spectacular figure in professional | base ball. I have 3 ‘planted” Red Grange in the University of Illinois and that he started the “ice- agon legend.” I hardly believe that. {Mr. Pyle hardly would have been abie to recognize a great foot ball player {until the player demonstrated that he | s great. Red Grange was made x-office attraction through the bally- | gl §5§E§EZ= g E % 8 B LAST OF SWIMMING ' TESTS ARE DECIDED {Playground Youngsters Now | Ready for Championship Meets | to Be Held Next Week. { ‘Boys and girls of the municipal Play- ground Department now are set for | the city championship swimming meets. | The girls’ title competition will be held Wednesday afternoon in. the Rosedale tank and the boys' championships will be staged Friday in the Georgetown | pool. | In the last elimination meet yester- | day natators to represent the Western . section of the city against the Eastern | finalists were picked in competition at Georgeton wh. Harry Burrows and Bob Hogan were | high point scorers. As_ in the other { eliminations, all who placed qualified | for the city tests. p Summaries: 70-POUND CLASS. je—Won by Carroll Hard- 25-yard free styl ing. second. Joseph Norris: third, Adrien Davis. Beginners' race—Won by James Poole: tie for second between Alberi Hamm anc Rob- ert Thomas. 90-POUND CLASS. tyle—Won by Billy arold Narcisenield; troke—Won by Sili’ Summerbell: Bers- third, Louis third, 25-yard 1 pltle f merbell. brea i y Edmonston. 115-POUND CLASS. 25-yard free style—-Won by son; second, Harry Burrows; ti i Bieuker: By Jack David- hird, Charles 0 25-yard breast stroke—Won by Harry Bur- rows: second, James Forney: third, Jonn i -vard back stroke—Won by Howard Bur- second, Harold Hershbers: tuird, John n Sulllv: "{00-ard relay—Won by Harry Burrows, Charles Potterton, Jack Davidson and John Molyneaux. UNLIMITED CLASS. 25-yard free style—Won by Bob HOLIH: l!fbnd. wrence Boucher; tbird, Carl Lin- & 5 by Bob Ho- this rd “breast stroke—Won second, Prank Warner; third, Law- EPEEEL cotes won g ponaia ‘e Lawrence Buscher: third, Won by Bob Hogan, Frank colns, Lawrence Busch I do not think | Pottertas “The pivot for the tee shot is clear- ly explained by the accompanying sketches. One may sense the idea by holding & stick across the Back with the crotch of the arms while MECHELL'S Beklinbe INST AN IMAGINARY WALL DURING BACKSWING PIve w 05 B8 i5TING 800y AT HIPS SPORT ONLY A FEW PLAY AT BURNING TREE Four or Five Is “Crowd" at! Club That Has Small Membership. BY W, R. McCALLUM. VER seen a golf course where E net more than two or three | matches are played -on one of these fine Summer after- b S Cochet Intimates He’ll Not Be Pro B the Associated Press. 1S, August B.—Henri Cochet, world’s premier tennis player, told the newspaper Auto today that he had thus far received no offer from Jack Curley to turn pro- fessional and that there was little rhln]ce of his accepting such & pro- posal. The publication Auto yesterda; said it had information (mrk'; ‘would offer the French idol a three- year contract at 500,000 francs _vearly (about $20.000). g ¢ § though not many people now playing golf about Washington know who he is. « His stalement that the of the Nation would make the course look too easy is true, although if Burn. ing Tree were trapped as it could be trapped there would be no tougher noons; a course where it is very unusual for more than four or five | golfers to play on a week day, and | condition exists, even during the | finest days of the year? Such a course is the great layout of the Burning Tree Club, out on the| River road, in the heart of Wash- course in the country. But as it stands today, without trapping, it is enough. ‘The District amateur chamj of the 30 or 40 men who will play in that championship will score par for any of the four rounds of the title chase. Frank Roesch scored a 71 in the second round of the championship last ar. but he was holing putts all over ington’s golfing area. ~;the place. | won him the champ 3 Now to glance over the sbal’tlvl: list at Burning Tree and-iook out ovef the course yhere flags flap idly in the Sum- mer brerw-—' any—one mighs think Buming @ not & desirable course the finest golf courses slong the Eastern | Coast, apd also one of the most desira- | ble to pluy. Yet it is used less than any | golf course about Washimgton. | _And why? The main resson is that Burnipg Tree, vith its splehdid length, its addiirably constructed holes ang its Old Warld_olf atmosphere, has fewer | members than slmost any club about | Washington. Add in the Summer time | mgs; of those members are out of the | vity, playing golf, if they play at all, on | courses in the North, far away from the | Summer. It is | posts i Uncle Sam’s employ who play 2olf we venture to say that something like 75 per cent of them play at Burn- ing Tree. Senators, cabinet members, Representatives and men of the official family make up much of the member- iship of the Burning Tree Club. And yet one may go out there any €ay during the Summer and find the course com- pletely deserted. Perhaps one or two matches will be playing over that tough golf course. Perhaps none at all. haps a few golfers will go out late in the evening, after work is done for the day, to knock the ball around for a few holes, and perhaps, if the day is real | hot, not. more than two or three golfers ! will visit the club all day. | Y JP we like to loaf,” sigh the Cun- ningham brothers three, who hold down the professional berths at | Burning Tree, “this is the place to loaf. We have plenty of opportunity to play golf, to be sure, but we don't play as much as we could play. Nothing much to do around here during the Summer in the trees. is unique in morfe ways than one. Designed some eight years {ago by Marshall Whitlatch as a club | for the golfing elite of the Capital, it has remained just that. Its member- | ship is around 100, but in that mem- { bership you will find many of the men who guide the intricate wheels of national and international affairs, Most golf | courses about Washington these are fairly well crow the locusts sing Burning Tree S , even when hot ‘usual during the week for more two or three foursomes to use the Burning Tree course. ‘The snswer is | that most ef the members leave the | | Capital during the heated spell, re- | turing only when Summer is ready to | mevge into the bracing weather of Fall. SYNJHY don't Burning Tree bid for a natiopal championship?” we | asked Dr. Walter S. Harban, who fhas charge of the course. “Too easy,” Dr. | Harban replied. “They would burn it | up. Score somewhere around 67 or 68 and make the course look so easy it| would be ridiculous " | tell that to the average | Burning Tree. He constders he has | dote well if he breaks 100, even with | the advantage given him of. involing | | “Judge Payne's rule.” That rule, com-. mon only to the Burning Tree Club; |is an institution. Judge /bhn Bartos | Payne, chairnéan of the American Red Cross, is one of the most enthusiastic of the members of Burning Tree. For | many years Judge Payne played golf, and a good game he played “too. “But | about two years ago a severe operation came along and’ since that time the | genial ‘“judge” has mot played golf “Judge Payne's rule?” It simply is that | if the plaver is not satisfied with his | first shot off the first tee he plays from, he may play another ball that tee and take the better one of the | | two, It is an institution at Burning | Pree and one which is invoked many, | many times, R. HARBAN'S reply might seem odd to many folks who lopk down \ those lengthy fairways at Burning | | Tree and vision the 5s and 6s that| roll off their clubs as they try to get around in_ figures somewhere near par. But Dr. Harban has had a lot | of experience with major champion- | ship golf. Once he was high in the | | councils of the United States Golf As- | sociation as vice president, and today | he is looked upon as the most influ- | | ential local man in national golf, even, but watch the hours pass and listen to R Burning Tree has a par, |the score card, of 72. to play, Bus the reverse is true. Bum- | ing Tree is, without any doubt. one of | may be driven, is 70. This | the seconé and tenth holes par 4 affairs, | where they now are rated. as par But don't half miss = shot on either | thise holes if you want to score | Yes, Tree is & course Many, many golfers would like on & course where there are certa he no delays. There are none at ing Trep these days. Straight Off Tes> FIVE-FOOT putt brushed by the lip the eighteenth green at Spring Golf Club of shattering the amatew the tough Indian Spring Monrp Hunter, jr., had However, his score of 67 for course puts him on & par B. Stevinson and J. of whom have scored 67 over His dad—J. Monro Hunter, scored a 66 for the course. Young Hunter, who is one of the finest golfers in this sector putted for a birdie on every Indian Spring course in round yesterday and managed to four of them. His round | that he did not have a par and many of his putts SEm e or rally on the cup. Hunter Dhm the in 1 under par—34—an over the par 36 last nine with Eiliott o | weather draws a veil of shimmering heat | H |over fairways and greens. Yet it is un- | gel appendicitis while she and her were en route to Canada by motor. SWIMMING MEET TODAY ~ Competition for A. A. U. Titles Listed at Tech High Pool. Swimmers and divers of Washington Swimming Club, Washington Canoe Club, Ambassador Swimming Club and McKinley Swimming Club-were to_vie this afternoon -in Tech ‘High pool in the annual A A U. Association chamj ‘Competition was to start af 2 0’ 5 Onslene Lawrence, women's diving chamipion, was the only 1 holder listed amung the approximaicly 60 en- trants who were tosee competifion. CAPITAL BOAT iS SECOND Fifty-Pifty Is Runner-up in Two Races on Miles River. ST. MICHAELS, Md., August 8-— Fifty-fifty, owzed by Edward Baltz and Hunter Grimes of Washington, D. C.. finished second in two events here yes- terday as the two-day regatta of the Miles River Yacht Club got under way. ‘The Baltz-Grimes eniry was second in the first heat of the Class D outhoard event over a five-mile course and run- nel in the Class C outboard race. TODAY BASE BALL siorm. AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washingten vs. Boston TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM. To Balance Our Used Car Stock We need a few more Fords, Chev- rolets, Buicks, Pontiacs and Nash cars, and until August 15th will make you a liberal allowance on these cars in trade on the New Free Wheeling HUDSON and ESSEX - - GQI-14th St at P St. NW . 5