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PORTS. ¢ NOW GIANT, BEGAN WITH FIVE GLUBS Organization Formed After Criticism of National Events in 1894. |spoRTS | PARADE | BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 22.—Or- ganized golf in this country celebrates its 40th birthday today. It was on December 22, 1894, that representatives of five clubs, four in the East and one in the Midwest, or- ganized the United States Golf Asso- ciation. Out of that meeting of 40 years ago has grown the powerful body which today boasts more than 850 member clubs and directs the ac- tivities of millions of golfers. Directly leading to the formation of the U. 8. G. A. was the fact that earlier in 1894 both the St. Andrews | Club of Yonkers, N. Y. (later moved | to Mount Hope, N. Y.) and the New- port, R. I, Golf Club held tourna- ments which they labeled national | championships. W. L. Lawrence won | one with a medal score of 188 for 36 | holes; L. B. Stoddard took the other, a match-play affair, by defeating C. B. MacDonald, 1 up. Tallmadge Starts It. ONSIDERABLE criticism followed C and H. O. Tallmadge of St. An- drews invited the Shinnecock Hills Club of Southampton, N. Y., the Country Club of Brookline, Mass., and the Chicago Golf Club to join with St. Andrews and Newport in the for- mation of an organization to promote the game, conduct championships and draw up and enforce a set of rules. The U. S. G. A. was the result. | The organization meeting was held on December 22 of that year with representatives from all five clubs at- tending—Tallmadge and John Reid of St. Andrews, Gen. T. H. Barber and S. L. Parrish of Shinnecock, Laur- ence Curtis and P. S. Sears of Brook- line, C. B. MacDonald and Arthur Ryerson of Chicago and Theodore A. Havemeyer of Newport. The sec- ond Newport representative, Winthrop Rutherford, found it impossible to attend. Havemeyer First President. T'A FTER electing officers—Havemeyer A was elected president, defeating Reid, five votes to four—the delegates adopted the following decla- ration of purposes: 1. To promote the interests of the game of golf. 2. To establish and enforce uniformity of the rules of the game by creating & representative authority. 3. Its Executive Committee to be a court of reference as a final author- ity in matters of controversy. 4. To establish as far as possible & uniform system of handicapping. 5. To decide on what “links” the amateur and open championships shall be played. The constitution and by-laws were adopted at the first annual meeting February 5, 1895. East Wash. Church Team Standing. First Brethren Metropol. Baptis United Brethren. Ninth 3 Vaughn Class First Brethren Cong. ‘Hzgts iR 3 Eastern Presby'n 17 19884 Season Records, (High individual averase—J. Deloe. 0-r High individual game —Ray Raum. High individual et Phil Douglas. High individual strikes—Walter 8 ner. 2 High individual spares—J. Deloe. 98 High team game_-United Brethren. High team set—First Brethren 1. 1 Individual Averages. EPWORTH. G. 8t.8p. HG. H 17 14¢ 8 130 1 Avg. 108 101-4 100-11 Clyde R. B Hummer Chas. Dougl! Shank ..... Bartlett. Harstin .. Douglas ush.. .. E, Simmons 41 METROPOLITAN BAPTIST. Al Woods . 4 142 370 Gouchenow W. Brown Quantrille | H. Everett P. Hodzes R. Everett Merkel Phil Dougla: Russell Echultze Ringwald Jacobs G. Lovell E. Anderson 0ol o Bmallwood " . Tarvey ... FIRST BRETHREN Brumbaugh 29 12 43 Jones ... : Saunders F.LSimmons . ampbel Fotten - Skinner Skinner Polden, - ichardson . feopne - 'arlaman WILL PLAY DUQUESNE. BLOOMINGTON, Ill, December 22 (#).—Ilinois Wesleyan will open its 1935 foot ball season against Duquesne YOUNGSTERS LEAD | Four Shoot Two Under Par for First Round in Open Event at Pasadena. BY PAUL ZIMMERMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. | ASADENA, Calif., December 22. | —Veteran fairway fortune hunters set out today to over- { take eight youngsters as the | Pasadena $4.000 open golf tournament | moved into the second round. | Two days of qualifying play left | youths whose years of big tournament can be counted on one hand the front positions in the seventh annual 72- hole title event. Four of the younger generation | started out toward the halfway mark today with scores of 69, two strokes under par. These were Emory Zimmer- man of Portland, Oreg.; John Revolta of Milwaukee, Ralph Guldahl of Los Angeles, runner-up to the national open title two seasons back, and Dave Martin of Los Angeles. Trail by a Stroke. NE stroke behind followed Victor Ghezzi, Deal, N. J.; Dick Metz, | Chicago; Ray Mangrum, Los Angeles,and Harold McSpaden, Kansas City. Nine others were tied at par 71 including Frank Williams, pro at the Brookside course, where the cham- pionship is being played; Al Breuger, | Beloit, Wis.; Macdonald Smith, Los | Angeles, and Jimmy Hines, Long Island. | Revolta, Martin and Guldahl parad- | ed home in 69 to tie the score set up by Zimmerman on the opening day. Behind them were such stars as George Von Elm and Fred Morrison with 72s; Horton Smith, Henry Picard, Walter Hagen and Ted Longworth with cards of 73; Wiffy Cox, Eddie Loos and Willie Hunter, who had taken 74 strokes, and John Dawson, . | Abe Espinosa, John Rogers and Fay Coleman, with 75s. All the favorites remained in the running today, but when the field is trimmed sharply from 120 to the 57 low scorers for tomorrow's 36 holes of final play it was considered prob- able that several of the more prom- inent golfing gentry might be left | behind. BOXING LEADER DIES LONDON, December 22 (#) —George - | McDonald. ‘one of the most colorful personalities in the boxing world, died yesterday. He was 74 years old. He was a second for John L. Sullivan in the title fight with Charley Mitchell in 1888. He was a successful manager and acted as the ring mentor for many | English boxers in their “isits to the United States. /%mmmm by W. TILL the walloping hitter and the deadly putter of three years ago, Jimmy Herrman, the Ohio lad who came here to work in the office of Representative Jim Fitz- gerald four or five years ago and waltzed off with the Chevy Chase tourney while doing it, came to town for a brief stay yesterday. Out of serious golf for nearly two years, Jimmy played a round over the ‘Washington Golf and Country Club course, his old stamping ground, and despite the fact that he hadn’t touched & club for six months, he was able to get around in 82 over the soggy lay- out in a game with Calvert Dickey and Dr. C. E. Buck. Herrman was one of the better amateur golfers to hit Washington. Not quite as good a shotmaker as Gene Vinson, nevertheless Herrman had that something of the inner spirit that makes a good competitor. In 1931 he won the medal and was runner-up at Woodmont and a few weeks later he waded through a good fleld to grab the President’s cup in the Chevy Chase Club tournament. Despite his apparent lack of practice Jimmy hit some shots that looked like the Herrman of old, the man who could maul a golf ball with the best of ’em. He now is a lawyer in Dayton, Ohio, where he says it's tough for a young barrister hanging out his a8t Pittsburgh September 20, Coach ‘ Norman Elliott has announced. h s shingle in a town which the depges- sion has hit hard. N COLF TOURNEY THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, When Terrible Ter: OUNG CORBETT had knocked out Terrible Terry McGovern at Hartford in 1901. nearly two years over this two-round defeat, which he considered a fluke. match, which took place at San Francisco on March 31, 1903. Once again the taunting, mocking Corbett won. This time he gave McGovern a bad beating for 10 rounds and finally stopped him in the eleventh, Here are two of the ring’s greatest fighters, shown in their prime. (Copyright. 1934.) Failed Again By Grantland Rice McGovern brooded Terry insisted on a return Terry is shown at the left. —International News Photo. Fights Last Night | By the Associated Press. | _ BOSTON.—Sammy Fuller, 137'%, Boston, outpointed Bobby Pancho, 13834, Yuma (10); Al McCoy, 172, Boston, knocked out Buck Tracey, 173 (3): Maxey Rosenbloom, 180!z, New | York, outpointed Tony Shucco, 180, | Boston (10); Jacob (Buddy) Baer, 241, | Hollywood, knocked out Henry Surette, 199!z, Leominster (1). DEADWOOD, S. Dak.—Jose Jara- millo, 145, Denver, outpointed Kid Rappatoe, 143, Fargo, N. Dak. (10); Baby Joe Greek, 126, Monterey, Calif,, | knocked out Verne Johnson, 126, | Rapid City, 8. Dak. (1). HOLLYWOOD.—Jimmy Smith, 158, | Philadelphia, outpointed Swede Berg- lund, 157, San Bernardino, Calif. | (10). | SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Speedy | Dado, 118, Los Angeles, outpointed | Joey Dodge, 119, Detroit (10). | SPOKANE, Wash.—Billy Wallace, | 135, Cleveland, outpointed Sonny | Jones, 138, Vancouver, British Colum- | bia (10); Eddie Schneider, 160, St. Paul, and Bruce Brown, 156, Spokane, drew (6): Dann McCallum, 147, Seat- | tle outpointed Billy Lancaster, 145, New York. 600 HORSES READY FOR ALAMO RACES Fifty More Expected for Meet Opening Christmas—Watts Ships to Hialeah. By the Associated Press. | ©IX HUNDRED thoroughbreds al- | | S ready are stabled at Alamo Downs for the Winter meeting, starting | | Christmas day, and 50 more are ex- | | pected before the inaugural. | Eight races will be presented daily at the Texas track during the holi- | ‘rdays and on Saturdays, with seven | races the order on all other after- noons. The meeting will close Feb- | ruary 2. In the string of six R. T. Watts | shipped from Texas to Hialeah Park | | in Miami were Pot au Brooms, 4-year- | old chestnut gelding, and Albert D., a black gelding by Blackwood-Gulf Girl. The latter is a candidate for the $15,000 added Florida derby. Pot au Brooms is the iron horse of the outfit. This gelded son of Pot au | Feu and Broomiola forced Ted Clark to a new track record of 1:49 for the mile and an eighth in the $10,000 added Waggoner handicap at Arling- ton Downs and lost the decision by an eyelash in the $5,000 Houston handi- cap. The new “Sunshine Stadium” and bleacher section which Joseph E. Widener ordered installed at Hialeah are rapidly nearing completion. The open-air stadium section will seat 1,250. The lower tier will be provided with 600 additional chairs, giving the stadium area a total capacity of 1,850. The bleachers will accommodate 700. Hialeah’s meeting will open January 17 and close March 9 after 45 racing days. T OITF THE YLE R.MECALLUM We recall one day at Washington watching him plough around that course in 68 strokes, with a 31 on the last nine holes, ending with a 5 on the eighteenth. That’s the kind of golfer he was and still will be when he comes back into the game. ROGER PEACOCK, Indian Spring’s ace amateur, is to get his new bag of clubs within a few days and then will be ready to start toward what he hopes will be a big winning season. Roger's old set was stolen from the golf shop at Indian Spring and later was recovered, along with four other sets. He gave 'em to his father-in-law and since that time, back in early November, the Peacock lad has been playing with George Dif- fenbaugh'’s irons, and playing well, too. Out at Chevy Chase the final move to equip Bob Barnett with a complete set of steel-shafted clubs is under way at the hands of Bill Hardy. Bill is winding up the making of new wooden clubs with steel shafts for Bob, who has been the foremost professional ad- vocate of wooden shafts around Wash- He already is making a set of steel- shafted irons for Bob and will ship ‘em to him at Miami Beach shortly. ‘Wonder if Bob will be able to play those intentional slices and hooks with steel as he has done so well with wood? He claims wood is more gesponsive than steel. CHEER DEMPSEY AS OTHERS FIGHT Sharkey, Baer Also Referee in Boston Show—Fuller Defeats Pancho. By the Assoclated Press. OSTON, December 22 —Sammy | Fuller, lightweight title con- | tender, held a decision today over Bobby Pancho, Yuma Indian, and 13,044 fans concurred in | the unanimous decision. Max Baer and two former world champions offi- ciated at the bouts, held in the Bos- ton Garden last night. Fuller made every blow count as| he crowded the Yuma Indian through 10 bruising rounds. The Bostonian stepped quickly into the lead, gave ground a bit in the fifth, sixth and seventh rounds and then came on with a slugging rush to draw away and earn the nod from two judges and the referee. J hand in token of victory. Fuller weighed 137!z while Pancho scaled 138%. | Max Baer. present world champion, | officiated, while Al McCoy, 172, Bos- | ton. knocked out Buck Tracey, 173, | in three rounds. Jack Dempsey, who refereed a 10- round draw between Werther Arcelli, 142, Boston, and Harry Devine, 140, Worcester, drew the plaudits of the crowd. Maxey Rosenbloom, 18015, former tight-heavyweight titlist, easily de- feated Tony Shucco, 180, of Boston. | “Buddy” Baer, 24l-pound kid brother of the champion, scored his | eleventh knockout by stopping Harry Surrette, 199z, in two minutes. | Receipts were $19,218, of which a portion was turned over to a Christ- mas fund. HUNT IN TENNIS FIELD Ex-Champs Officiate. ACK SHARKEY raised Fuller's | D. C. Player One of 73 to Enteus National Tournament. NEW YORK, December 22 (#).— Seventy-three junior college and schoolboy stars, headed by Gilbert Hunt of Washington and Massachu- setts Tech, have been drawn for the national indoor junior singles tennis championships, beginning December 26 | on the 7th Regiment courts and wind- ing up New Year day. Included in junior singles entries is Irving Hurwitz, University of Michigan. GELBERT MAY RETURN ' Skin-Grafting Operation on Heel Expected to Cure Wound. PHILADELPHIA, December 22 (P). —Charles Gelbert of nearby Ambler, may be back at shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals next Summer as a result of a skin-grafting operation performed at a hospital here. Skin was taken from Gelbert's thigh and grafted on his left heel to close a small wound that still remained open after a hunting accident two years ago when he discharged a gun and injured himself. WILL PLAY HUNGARIANS PHILADELPHIA, December 22 (#).—Coleman Clark of Chicago and Edward Silverglade of Trenton, N. J., have been nominated by the Pennsyl- vania Table Tennis Association to represent the United States against the world champion Hungarian duo in an international series of matches next Friday night. The Hungarians, Goyozo Barna and Sandor Glancz, arrive in New York on Christmas eve and come to Phila- delphia on Thursday. WANT COURT GAMES. McLean (Va.) A. C. basketers are after games for next week with teams having courts. Call Manager Clarke at Falls Church 828-F-31 between 5:30 and 6:30 pm. — SCOTT GRIDMEN VISIT. Scott High School gridders of Pitts- burgh stopped off here yesterday for & two-hour workout in the Catholic Uni- versity Stadium. They are en route to Miami, Fla., where they play the Miami Senior High team for the na- tional scholastic championship. \ ITALIAN ROLLERS IN SEEPSTAKES Record Field Is Seen for Event at Temple—Star Tourney Continues. ITH some of the city’s finest bowlers engaged, the sixth annual Italian Sweepstakes will be rolled tonight at the Northeast Temple, starting at 8 o'clock. More than 30 will shoot, making up the largest field yet to compete in the event. Ollie Pacini will be the defending champion. It will be a handicap competition, with bowlers receiving two-thirds of the difference between their league averages and scratch. Ray von Dreele’s crack Patterson Five of Baltimore, holding a 51-pin lead, will invade the Lucky Strike to- night to finish a series with the Five Bowling Bachelors—Clem Weidman, Fred Moore, Carroll Daly, Norman Schroth and Bill Krauss. Finish Intercity Series. T being an off-night for leagues, many bowlers plan to shoot their preliminary sets in The Star tournament. The field in this event is growing by leaps and bounds, there being more leagues entered in toto than ever before, some appropriating money from their prize funds to pay for the five games of their members, the only cost of competing. The bowling in the roll-off of those who qualify—25 per cent of the entrants at each alley—will be paid for by es- tablishments they represent. All with averages of less than 124 will receive handicaps. An unusual coincidence occurred last night at the Lucky Strike. While | Johnny Anderson was shooting a set | of 413 on the first floor with the | Heurich Brewers in the National Cap- | ital League, C. Woods of the Navy Yard Machinists League was turning out exactly the same score upstairs Anderson’s high game was 159 and | Woods® 151, | CANADA'S ACE ATHLETE Webster, 40-Year-Old Mara- thoner, Is Chosen in Poll. TORONTO. December 22 (#)— Harold Webster, 40-year-old Hamil- ton, Ontario, marathon runner, has been selected as Canada’s outstanding athlete in 1934 on the basis of a nation-wide poll of sports writers by the Canadian press. Out of a possible 39 votes, Webster, who won the marathon at the British Empire games, recéived 14 against 12 for Dave Komonen of Sudbury, an- other marathon ace, who won the honor last year. Komonen retained both his American and Canadian marathon titles during the year and captured the Boston marathon as well, but_was defeated in the empire trials by Webster. Webster already has received the Norton H. Crow Memorial award, given annually by the Canadian Ama- teur Athletic Union to the athlete it | regards as greatest during the year, BOYS, GIRLS SEEK FOES. Warrenton Athletic Club is after basket ball games for both its boy and girl teams with unlimited combina- tions of the District and Virginia. | John Kessler, manager of both teams, may be reached by phone at Warren- torn 193-R, or by mail at Box 805, Warrenton. COACHES WILL TUTOR. STATE COLLEGE, Miss.. December | 22 (#).—A two-week coaching school, featuring Bernie Bierman of Minne- sota as foot ball instructor and E. C. (Billy) Hayes of Indiana as track tutor, has been arranged to commence at Mississippi State July 15. UGGESTIONS for a model State game and fish administrative law, adopted at the twenty-eighth an- nual convention of the Intermational Association of Game, Fish and Con- servation Commissioners, held - last Fall at Montreal, briefly are explained by Senator Harry B. Hawes, who said: “There is both a national and Btate effort to secure uniformity of Btate legislation on various subjects. This effort is growing. If successful it will make more easy and simple interstate relations between the States and simplify national and State contact. “Administrators and enforcement officers of the law .are seeking this uniformity and it certainly seems de- sirable that an earnest effort be made to secure greater uniformity in State game legislation. “When we consider, and it cannot be repeated too often, that there are seven million fishermen who annually take, out fishing licenses and six mil« lion hunters who annually take out hunting licenses, bringing to the States for conservation purposes ap- proximately $12,000,000 a year and that it has been estimated that our hunting and fishing bill for travel, fishing and hunting accessories ap- proximates $650,000,000 annually, we find an economic interest running into very high figures. “It has been estimated that Federal control of game and game fish ap- proximates only about 15 per cent of the total and that 85 per ceat is State. We find, therefore, that the large problem is that of the States.” ENATOR HAWES said that he sub- mitted to commissioners, leading sportsmen, sportsmen'’s organiza- tions and Federal and State officials & questionnaire containing 18 questions and 16 collateral inquiries. He said the answers were returned in unex- pected numbers and that the prompt- ness in replies indicated a widespread int ‘The labor of digesting the replies and the careful analysis of the legal phraseology employed was an undertaking of large proportions he points out. “I discovered quickly that different geographical, climatic, politicsl, and other conditions would make it impos- sible to urge the adoption of one single law because there are elements which might make it inappropriate for adoption in all the States. Therefore, we divided the work into two parts. tional sections to existi “These suggestions are 1934, U.S. G. A. Celebrates 40th Birthday : Cruickshank Is Trailed BATTLES of the CENTURIES LAITTOR ROBERT GREGSON, ‘The poet pugilist, whose fight with John Gully was the sporting sensation of the early days of the last century, preferred the muses to mauling, and retired from the ring to conduct a public house and compose odes. Here is another of a series of articles depicting the great fights and fighters of the days when pu- l gilism was young. BY TOM HENRY. ELDOM in the history of the prize ring has a fight caused more excitement than the bat- | tle fought on May 12, 1808, | between John Gully and Robert Greg- son. | The Game Chicken, coughing and spitting blood, had gone back to Bris- | tol, leaving his fellow townsman the| champion of England The claims of Gully were soon challenged, how= ever, by Gregson, a gentle, humored giant, who had risen to fame | out of the milling at the Lancashire fairs, where it was not uncommon |for a beaten fighter literally to be | kicked to death by his opponent. |Out of this emerged the man to | whom fighting was distasteful and | whose aspiration was to win fame as | a peasant poet. i | A spot on the border of Bucking- | hampshire and Bedfordshire had been | | selected as the scene of the fight. | When the Marquis of Buckingham- | shire heard about it, he inserted a| ! public notics in the London papers that ne would call out the militia, | | if necessary, to stop it. Just then, all England was in a state of “nerves.” There were constant rumors that Na- poleon was on his way across the Channel. For days before the fight there was a continuous outpouring from Lon- don of fight followers, from belted earls to gutter bums. Crowd Excites Alarm. | HE picturesque story is told by the Sporting Magazine: pected pouring down in that direc- | tion excited no little alarm. Some of the ignorant took it into their heads that the French had landed and that the Londoners were flying to their country friends. The appear- ance of the Dunstable volunteers un- der arms withr drums beating, colors fiying, double cartouche boxes, doubly provided, muskets loaded and fixed bayonets tended to encourage these fears and excited no trifling degree of terror and confusion. in those States where a general re- vision is not necessary they may select one or more of these suggestions and present them in one bill or a number of bills.” HE general subject of pollution, being of such large and com- prehensive character, he sald, has been left for special national and State enactment, and has not been embodied excepting in a general way. “We do, however, recommend that specific enforcement of laws relating to pollution of streams, ponds and lakes be assigned to State commis- sions. We also recommend that the State commissions have the power to designate certain fishes, birds and animals as predators. We call par- ticular attention to the marauding, hunting and destruction of game and fish by the stray house cat, which is generally believed to be the greatest of all predators when permitted at large and hunt at night.” Every State protects birds of song, plumage and insectivorous species which do not properly come under the classification of edible birds, the Sen- ator points out, and said that in prac- tically all of the States there are statutes requiring the protection of these birds. He recommends that the specific enforcement of these State provisions be given to the State com- missions. “We believe tHe progressive Gov- ernors of States, far-thinking State Senators and legislators, attorneys general of States and conservation and sportsmen’s organizations may at least accept our report because of its suggestions, even though specific rec- ommendations may not be approved,” this nationally and internationally known conservationist said. CELTICS START TONIGHT Olmsted Basketers Will Invade Alexandria for Game. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 22.— 8t. Mary’s Celtics open their court season tonight in Armory Hall here, engaging the Olmsted Grill five of ‘Washington, starting at 9 o'clock. “In preliminaries Boy Scout Troop No. 134 engages the Colonial Midgets of ‘Washington at 7 o’'clock and an hour later Washington Post Seniors, local branch, clashes with the De Molay Seniors. Columbia Fire Depertment tossers have carded the Javis-Elkins College quint for December 28 here, good- | ‘A crowd so great and unex- SPORTS 13—CGully vs. Gregson Battle High Light of 1808. “The alarm of invasion, however, | was transitory. The magistrates of | Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, at | the head of their constables and posse comitatus, with a subsidiary force of volunteers from the neighboring dis- tricts, were determined to resist this unlicensed incursion into their terri- tories. The Dunstable volunteers were out under arms as far bhack as Wed nesday, by which time the concourse of people was 5o great in that vicinity | that 30 shillings were asked for a bed. All the lofts, barns and outhouses were filled, and happy were they who had their carriages to sleep in. During the whole of Monday night the town of Woburn was in continual motion, with people arriving on foot, on horse- back and in carriages, few knowing which way to go and all dreading dis- appointment from the reports of the day sof the decided intention of the magistrates. So strong was this lat- ter impression that from betting on the battle they began to bet there would be no fight at all. Ten to one | was bet over and over. “In one room at Woburn 15 gentle- men lay upon the floor and in chairs and were happy to pay on the same terms as if they had lain on feather beds. In many cases the horses, though the weather was severe, were obliged to stand without covering. At about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning the | visitors began to move. Between 6 and 7 several carriages and four | arrived direct from London with the most dashing and fashionable ama- teurs. ’A about 12 inches had been i formed on Ashley Common. A cart had come in sight with ropes and stakes when news spread that | the magistrates were aware of what | was intended. Then Mendoza, dressed in green and mounted in dashing style, came up with two or Crowd TIs 15 Miles Long. 40-FOOT ring raised with sods | three gentlemen amateurs and @s-; | sured the crowd the battle would | not be fought in that place. Upon this assurance the whole crowd rushed down the hill to Gregson's lodgings, where they found this cham- pion seated in the Earl of Barry- more’s barouche, with the horses’ | heads turned to Woburn. and es- | corted by about 150 noblemen and | gentlemen on horseback, the rear | brought up with an immense number of gigs, tandems, etc. Many in the meantime were advancing from Wo- burn to the Common. The two tides met and both came with their ac- cumulated force into Woburn. “The knowing ones who led the mass had been apprized that they were to rendezvous at several places in reversion, the first qf which was Sir John Seabright’s Park in Hert- fordshire, about 17 miles distant from the original spot. The spirits of the fondest admirers of the art now began to flag and several returned home, but the multitude was so great they did not appear to have suffered any dimunition. For 15 miles the road was covered with a solid mass of passengers. “In Dunstable, and for a half mile was a string of carriages in a triple row. Several carriages were broken in the pressure and the owners of- to the scene of the fight. Neither horses nor carriages were to be pro- cured for any money and many gen- tlemen were glad to stow themselves in butehers’ carts for a shilling a mile.” Gully Becomes an M. P. HEY came to a flat field sur- rounded by paling, in which a few gaps had been broken to admit the crowd. About 3 o'clock a torrent of rain began. Shortly afterward Gregson, Gully, Mendoza, Harry Lee, Joe Ward, the Game Chicken and other famous formed by persons, who, so eager were they to see the fight under way, vol- unteered to lie down in the mud pud- dles of the soaked field. The figkters entered their ring, overcoats over their fighting costumes of silk stock- ings and white breeches. They wore no shoes. ‘The fight itself was brief and dis- appointing. Gregson did not come up to expectations. He was knocked down and his face covered with blood by two blows in the first round, from which, he said, he never reccvered. The fight went for 28 rounds, how- ever, before he was unable to come to the scratch. kg As Gregson was carried out of the ring, Gully addressed the crowd with the announcement that he never would fight again. In subsequent years Gully became a wealthy, re- spected citizen and a member of Parliament. The battered Gregson was visited the following Monday by a delegation of “noblemen and gentlemen ama- teurs who made him a handsome Present.” «© ht. 19347 by North American paze Newspaper ‘Alliance. Inc on either side of that town, there fered a guinea a mile for conveyance | fighters arrived and a small ring was | A—11 by Tough Luck ® f CANT QUITE WIN NATIONAL CROWN Finishes Second Once, Ties for Runner-up Spot on Two Occasions. F tory and one of the first 10 professionals in the country, Bobby Cruickshank of Richmond, Va., late of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the British forces in Flanders, must be wondering these days what evil fate pursues him in national championships and whether he ever is to have his name engraved on the national open championship cup. Bobby has won two big tournanients over the last few weeks, has fihished high up in the prize dough in the big Miami-Biltmore affair and has been playing such good golf that if he goes on the Winter tour, as he plans to do, he is going to be one of the few men to make money. Not much taller than the driver he wields so effectively, the little Scot has piled up a great record since he came to this country 12 years ago Once he has been in the runner-up position for the national open title, twice more he has tied for second place and in all the nationals in which he has played he has been up there rapping at the door of the title which has so long evaded him. Bobby won the National Capital open at Kenwood in October with the record-breaking score of 208, two under par for the 54- nole distance, and only a couple of days ago he led a stellar field of pros in the Nassau open with the almost unbelievable score of 267 for 72 holes. That figures out at the rate of 66.3 strokes to the round, and it makes little difference that the course was only 5.900 yards in length. It's shoot- ing golf by any standard of compar- | ison. But that is just what the folks down in Richmond have come to ex- | pect of Cruickshank, where he shocked | the natives of that staid old town by | scoring a 63 at the par 73 Hermitage | course and then gave them the jitters | by playing more than a dozen rounds |of the James River course in better than 70 strokes. That James River course is a tough one, too, with a par of 72. F they got back in 1923, when Bobby Cruickshank. then & vir- | tual unknown, stormed his way over | the last nine holes at Inwood, playing | a stretch of seven holes in even 3s, to | tie Bobby Jones for the national open |at 296. Jones won on the play-off, but they were all square with one hole to go when the Scot pulled a tee shot | and was unable to get across the water | hazard in front of the green in two | shots, winding up with a 6 to Jones’ 4 | Again the next year Cruicky made a great bid for the title, finishing in a fourth-place tie at Detroit. In those (days Bobby’'s star was riding high With a good job and fine prospects he was looked upon as a potential na- tional champ. But evil days fell on him in_those black years of 1929 and 1930. For a time he worked for a New York store and his golf was in tem- porary eclipse. 1In 1931, aided by Tommy Armour, he got the job at the Country Club of Virginia, a good job, and from that point on the Cruick- shank fortunes began to mend. In 1832 the open championship went to Fresh Meadow at Flushing, Long Island, where Gene Sarazen had been the pro for several years. Gene won the title, but not before Bobby Cruick- shank had come to the fore with a de- termined challenge. He wound up that tournament with a 69 and a 68 after a starting 78 to finish in a tie for second at 289 with Phil Perkins. Again the shining bauble of cham- pionship had evaded rotund Robert. Gifted With Courage. E PUT forth one of his most de- termined stands this vear at Merion, near Philadelphia. Leading the field for the first two rounds, after barely qualifying in the sectional trials at Richmond, Cruick- shank seemed to have the title tucked away. But something happened in that final round. Over the last nine the shots that had clung unerringly to the pin line began to slip away and again he finished in a tie for second | while another pro stepped up to ac- | cept the big mug—Olin Dutra this | time. Sometimes we wonder if Bobby Cruickshank, one of the finest shot- makers who ever drew on a spiked brogan, is to go through the years without a national championship. The | same raw courage that enabled the | little Scot to escape a German prison | camp during the war remains with | him in his golf game, but the national | title remains out of his reach. We re- member in that last round at Ken- wood, when Goggin and a flock of oth- ers were pushing him how he stepped up to the sixth hole, played into a big wind and parked his tee shot 4 feet from the cup. That birdie deuce sewed up the tournament. True, there were lots of holes to go, but it enabled him to get out in 34. From that spot he could cgast home. Cruickshank has too long been de- nied the national title. It must come some day. No man can keep plugging away as he has done so long and miss winning. But will it come before the fire leaves him and the tightening muscles of age begin to reach in and tame down that flawless swing, restrict that smooth pivot? For, be it known, Bobby Cruickshank is one of the bet- ter distance hitters of golf, a man who can wallop a ball with any of the long sluggers. Short as he is, he obtains remarkable distance and accuracy with a swing and pivot which many bigger men fail to attain. Don't be surprised to see Bobby Cruickshank become one of the big money winners of the Winter circuit this year and follow up by winning the national open. Lesser men than this little Scot with the big heart have done both. INEST playing professional golf- er in the Middle Atlantic terri- Had Remarkable Streak. EW old-timers will forget the thrill Mat Matches By the Associated Press. UNION CITY, N. J—Dick Shikat. 221, Philadelphia, threw Stan Soko- lis, 216, Philadelphia, 37.32. ST. LOUIS—Ray Steele, 215, Glen- dale, Calif, threw Leo Numa, 215, Seattle, 29:00. COLUMBUS, Ohio—Jack Rey- nolds, 145, Cincinnati, threw Bobby Pearce, 142, Oklahoma, 10:05; Charles Fischer, 171, threw Tony Morelli, 174, New York, 24:08; Billy Thom, 152, Indiana, defeated Bull- dog Jackson, 151 (Jackson disquali- fled).