New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1927, Page 3

BETTY NUTHALL IS ~ BRILLIANT PLAYER Youngest of Stars But Her Game I5 of 0ld School BY MARY K. BROWNE (United Press Staft Correspondent) “Westchester Biltmore Club, Rye, N. Y., Aug. 22 (UP) — (Copyright 1927 by United Press)—To further pursue my analysis of various play- ers’ games who are competing in the women's national tennis this week, Betty Nuthall is next to at- tract our attention. She is the young- est entry in the tournament, yet her same is of the old school, an un- derhand service and back court game. Betty Nuthall's speed of foot, British tenacity, and aggressive fore- atni stroke have earned for her vic- tory over Mrs. Mallory at Wimble- don, and over Helen Jacobs in the recent team matches. To a casual observer Betty Nut- hall does not show as much promise as cither Eileen Bennett or Gwen- dolyn Sterry, both young Britishers who have fine form and an all around game. Yet Betty Nuthall has greater steadiness and sounder instincts for the game than either of her team- mates. She will, of course, be cbliged to learn an overhead serv- ice and master the net game: before ‘she can reach the very top. Both Eileen Bennett and Gwen- dolyn Sterry were eliminated by Helen Wills at Wimbledon this year, but Miss Sterry won the only set which Helen has lost this year and nearly upset the Wimbledon apple- cart. Eileen Bennett gave Helen a good fight in the second set of their match. Both these girls have good form, Miss Bennett in particular has beautiful form, but she strikes me as being too conscious of her form and not willing to “scramble” the way Betty Nuthall and Joan Fry “scramble.” Gwendolyn Sterry’s weakness is an erratic forearm which does not afford her the opportu- nity she needs to come to the net. Helen Jacobs, our bright young star, is coming on steadily and sure- ly. She has a very fine service re- liable and fast, but does not yet vary the direction of her service . enough. She favors serving through the center of the court rather than to the side lines and her opponents have very little trouble guessing her. Helen Jacobs' backhand is a beauty, particularly the difficult shot straight down the line. She has that down pat, and it is one of the hard- est shots in tennis. Helen Jacobs has two weaknesses, she has not yet mastered the fore- arm stroke, and she is built too heavy around her waist and chest {o have stamina, good wind and flexible muscles. She may becomse more slender as she grows older, but her build now is a handicap. She is a slow starter, it takes her some time to get the range of the court and timing of her strokes, but Helen is a game little fighter and has good judgment and is working hard at her game. She took this week off from tour- nament play to concentrate onl throwing up the strength of her; forearm drive. She is sacrificing herself to learn the game and in her match with Betty Nuthall, Helen stuck to her forearm drive like a little trojan. Her tendency has al- ways been to start chopping from her forearm when she is pressed. She has been told she must master the forearm drive and she can only be sure of it by playing it in com- petition. Penelope Anderson, not new at national tennis but a ‘“new” tennis player, born this year, for she has acquired more speed and decisive- ness in every department of her game than in any of her previous tries for national honors. “Nip”, as she is affectionately called, has no stroke weakness, but she nervous and loses her confldence in tournament play. She has an in- feriority complex and the champions “get her goat”. She is southern, likes to play but hates to work. If she could forget who is who and light into them, regardless, she would do a lot of damage. Eleanor Goss, for years an out- standing contenderfor champion- ship honors, has repeatedly failed to follow up her opportunities and “blows up” at the erucial moment. There is no player, except Helen Wills, who is better equipped with strokes than Eleanor, but she sim- ply hasn’t a tennis temperament. This year too, she is “soft” from lack of tournament play. Watch Mrs. Chapin’s fine back hand volley and beautiful overhead | smash. Off the ground she is strong on her back hand and erratic from right wing. See Mrs. Roeser. She has the finest foot work of any player in the tournament without exception, but she has the worst form in taking her strokes of any top notch tennis player I have ever seen anywhwere. Her back hand is a curiosity. It Is to her speed of foot and “smart” placements she owes her rise to the first ten and it | is a pity that she does not cultivate | good form. NEWINGTON NEWS The matter of huilding a fire house will be brought up at the next meeting of the town and an appro- priation of $7,000 will be asked fo This was decided at a recent meet- ing of the members of the Newing- ton volunteer fire department. members expect to do a great deal of work in and around the building and thus cut the appropriation in half. The actual cost of construc- tion would probably be aboue $15.- 000, Plans have heen made and.will be explained to the voters at the town meeting. The building will be about feet. It will be of bri high, providing space on the first floor for two pieces of apparatus and club rooms on the second. It will be_erected on the property of the department north of the post office. The matter of having two or three members on full-time duty was di cussed. This has been brought up before, but it was thought that the needs of the town did not require any full-time men. However, mem- bers of the department feel that such the case now and the mat- ter will probably be taken up at the next meeting of the department and some definite action will be forth- coming. An appropriation of $5,000 , will 40 gets The | . two stories | XEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1927. also have to 'be made at the town meeting for the maintenance of state aid roads in accordance with the rules of the state highway depart- ment. Newington will receive $7,5600 on November 15 as one-half of the remuneration for the paving of West Robbins avenue, and according to the terms the town must appropriate $5,000 or forfeit the state appropria- tion. There will be no meeting of the Grange Tuesday. The next meeting will be held Tuesday, September 6, at the hall and will be the first of competitive program nights. Miss Sally Rowley and Mrs. Ruth Rowley have returned after spend- ing a week in Rhode Island. Miss Rowley is spending a few days in ‘Willimantic. ATTACHS AMERICAN COWMONLAW RULES (Institate of Politics Hears of Gontinental System " Williamstown, Mass., Aug. 22 (P}— | Advantages of the continental sys- tem of civil law over American sys- tem of common law were discussed in a general conference at the In- stitute of Politics today by Pierre LePaulle, director of the American seminar of the University of Paris. Declaring he did not wish to ad- vise adoption of the civil procedure, Dr. LePaulle pointed out neverthe- less that it is one thousand years older than common law and prevails in cduntries that gave up common law three hundred years ago. “I believe,” he said, “that when you come to reorganize your proce- dure as vou are doing at present, vou might take into consideration this Taw material, and produce a sys- tem that would fit the substance of your own law and the genius of | vour race.” He declared the common law jury brings unbusinesslike methods into the courtroom, represents y {the reign of the incompetent man, and substitutes the unreasoned subconscious sentiments of the jur- | ors for the clear conscious reason- ing of the judges who alone pass upon a case under civil law. Mayor Walker Rides In Fine Golden Coach London, Aug. (®—A gilded coach drawn by two spirited bays awaited Mayor James J. Walker of New York when he returned to Lon- don frm Ireland this morning and he rode in it from Euston Station to his hotel. There were no cheering crowds, no cscorts and no trumpeters as the coach rumbled along. Only a few persons in the early morning crowd recognized the mayor, and he and those who accompanied him had an | excellent view of London | work. The ride took about twenty | minutes. | The coach had waited two hours | for the Walker party. The train ar- rived at 6 a. m., but the Americans | were permitted to slumber until [eight. going to| SAYS ‘CAL AND MELLONHELP WETS Pinchot Charges They Talk “Dry” But “Wets” Get Liquor Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 22 (P— Gifford Pinchot, former governor of Pennsylvania, addressing the = Con- gress of the World League Against Alcoholism, Sunday assailed Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treas- ury, as being “the chief obstacle to complete enforcement of federal prohibition in the United States.” “Back of him, and therefore chief- ly responsible, is President Cool- idge,” the speaker declared. Much of the former governor's address was devoted to a resumption of his at- tack on Secretary Mellon, whom he charges with refusing to have the prohibition law enforced. “For many reasons, Secretary Mel- lon is utterly unfit to have charge of the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment,” Mr. Pinchot declared. “First, he is wet. When appointed secretary of the treasury, Mellon was, if not the largest, one of the largest makers of whiskey in Amer- ica through his ownership in the Overholt distillery. Both because of his personal views and his business interests, he was just the wrong man to enforce the law. The result has proved it. I “The trouble with the Coolidge ad- ministration is that it has talked in favor of the drys, but acted in favor of the wets, President Coolidge, per- sonally, obeys the law. He has, it is true, said in messages to congress that the law ought to be observed and ought to be enforced. He did, it is true, call a conference of gov- ernors on law enforcement, the re- sult of which was utterly nothing. I was there and I know. “Under the Coolidge administra- tion there has been dry talk enough {o keep the drys contented—most of them—but not dry action enough to keep the wets from getting all the drink they wanted.” In closing Mr. Pinchot said:— Disbelicves In Charge “Being out of sympathy with law enforcement, Mr, Mellon, until fore- ed by the accumulating pressure of public sentiment to do otherwise, has put disbelievers in the law in charge of enforcing it. Mr. Blair, who un- til the last year or two had general charge of law enforcement under Secretary Mellon, is understood to be wet. General Andrews, who suc- ceeded in charge of prohibition en- forcement, it wet. Ogden L. Mills, who appears to have been given authority over ex-Lieutenant Gover- nor Lowman and Dr. Doran, is no- toriously wet. Attack on Coolldge “But the responsibility for the failure in Federal law enforcement does not lie at the door of the treasury department alone. There was a power in Washington that could have made aven Mellon en- force the law. T mean the president of the United States. “The trouble with the Coolidge administration is that it has talked n favor of the drys but acted in favor of the wets. President Coo- | lidge personally obeys the law. He has, it is true, said in messages to To the People of New Britain, Berin, Plainville and Southington ANNOUNCEMENT! The high costs of maintaining expensive sales staffs has been definitely fixed as one of the greatest drains on earnings in the business. 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His notable acts in the realm of law enforcement are the pardon of the two bootleg- ging, but highly connected, La Mon- tague brothers in New York; the pardon of a politically influential bootlegger in Chicago, convicted. but let off before he went to prison; and his personal intervention to prevent congress from making an investiga- tion of the law enforcement work of the treasury department under Mellon. “Under the Coolidge administra- tion there has been dry talk enough to keep the drys contented—most of them—but not dry action enough to keep the wets from getting all the drink they wanted. “And that is none the less because congress, which s over- whelmingly dry, has always been ready to supply all the money Mel- lon would take, and has recently passed lawe which could be of real help in law enforcement to an administration that really wanted to enforce the law. Politiclans Uncertain true “On' every side we see the effort | of poljticians to ride both horses, to shut their eyes to this, the greatest moral issue before the people of the United States. The drys of America are, and have a right to be, tired of the pussy-footing of politicians—and especially of the pussy-footing of political leaders in high office—on this great matter. These dodgers have worn their welcome out. I am one of those who believe that no wet, and no man of sympathy with the constitn- tion of this country, can ever he elected president of the United States. “Three yvears ago I said in a pub- lic speech in Washington, *Prohibi- tion is being betrayed in the house of its friends” On coming to Washington last January for a few months, at the end of my governor- norship, T was naturally interested to find out whether the wet atmos- phere which was so marked three years before still obtained, whether the constitution of the United States was any better re- spected In the capital city than and | elsewhere. the T perme Washington. Official hates and derides the Amcendment. “Washington is the seat of | government, the wellspring of laws, the one place to which ears of the whole nation naturally turn. hear from official Washington is any clear note of leadership in law en- forcement. ¥ Challenges Coolidge “The president directs the policy of the whole government of the United States, including the treasury department and its prohibition unit. He sets the tone of official life in Washington. His utterances on law lenforcement have given comfort to the dr. He has said and well said, “Failure to support the constitution and observe the law ought not to be tolerated by public opinion. Espe- cially those in public places, who have taken their oath to support the constitution, ought to be most scrup- ulous In its observance. “Very well then. No other single thing could help law enforcement throughout the United States half so much as the knowledge that the | president has passed from words to |actions; that the president does more than approve or patronize the Eigh- teenth Amendment; that he pro- poses ta put a friend of the law in charge of enforcing the law: that he is determined to see that it is en- forced; that he will not only ehamp- ion the Eightcenth Amendment him- self, but will eliminate law break- |ers throughout the government serv- |ice, from the bottom to the top. “That knowledge would do more [to end the present riot of law break- ing than any possible reorganization hteenth Amendment still Eighteenth of millions of dollars. It is the one thing we have always needed, and the one thing we have never had. What the present cold and passive attitude of the president means is that in the very shadow of the White House official Washington scoffs at | the law. “Does anyone suppose that feder- al enforcement would be the laugh- ing stock of nullifiers and criminals or that Washington would be one of the wet cities of America if Theo- dore Roosevelt were president of the “I did find out, and I tell you now that opposition and disobedience to | tes the atmosphere of official | Washington | our our |ously behind the constitution of the of the prohibition unit or than tens United States? “I call upon President Coolidge— my four-year fight to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment gives me that right, and I ask him to do noth- ing that 1 have not done in Penn- | sylvania—TI cail upon President Coo- |lidge to put the whole power and linfluence of his great office vigor- the United States and thus to cure a ]‘mmm r that carries infection to every The one thing they do not part of our country—a cancer which |the president, | dent, can cure and only the presi- MARRIED FOR 20 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Goldman of | Harrison street were tendered = a dinner party on Saturday evening at The Cheapest Office Space In New Britain their summer home at Silver 8ande in honor of the 20th anniversary of their marriage. 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