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“THE EVENING WORLD DETERMINATION NECESSARY TO. BECOME A SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, WORLD’S CHAMPION teen mene A SMILING CHAMPION » by Robert Edgren.) HOOVER SHINING EXAMPLE OF PERSEVERANCE IN SPORT His Mind| instruction and developed his own system of training. He was working out his own {dea Finally he discarded his own shell and spent all his sav-, one built on his own’ design, with radical changes. nds of miles Bees Struggled for Years, Fixed on the Big Thing He Planned to Do in Rowing. By Robert Edgren. Determination ts the biggest factor fy success in sport, competition, No man lacking determination ever became a world’s champion One of the best instances of determi- fMhation leading to success is the case f Walter Hoover of Duluth, ~of leisurely prac- tice had given him a long, snappy stroke that he could keep up by the He lowered the sliding seat in His friends still thought “bug"'—but him any more. The Strotve- TuaT Won sue was something Diamond they didn’t laugh There was no denying that his unorthodox style he was show- He tried a couple of races American in a hundred years to win the Diamond Sculls r Hoover decided that He entered na- rowing events and swept the he was about ready No American competed for the Ma- mond Sculls Bmith of New York reached the final Heat but lost the race. ward H. Ten Eyck, only a seventeen- to England with his father, Jim Ten Eyck of Worevs- and for many years row- the national at Buffalo, the rowing world championship and defeating the best scullers of all His victories over Paul Costello of Hilton Selyea Philadephia entilted him challenge cup and ear-old boy, i Philadelphia fer, Mass., Ned astonished the English by rowing f@way from their champtons with eas Next year he was barred from defend- ing the trophy on the ground that he “gentleman amateur,” At last his ambition was becoming than a dream! When had the old Eyck and the Allthe Dope at a Glance Diamond Seulls The Henley in his trunk, is one of the most ex-: clusive of all English sport contests been made ently for the grandfather we the Browns’ s of bats now being wiliow-wlelding honors. ipiled the impress biishad will be clos aged for the major le has, according to the latest batting percentage of to or possibly have pa That he will be the first major 200-hit column In 1899 and 1900 New York, won the event the twenty-two years since Americana t mond Sculls. times in the p Contestants have been barred because if the 1922 seasdn to break into th 6 « wide margin on the base-stealing laurels, stolen hassocks to his eredit. the Tigers 1s showing the way to the run-scorers, , Which ts two better than his Ni department winning games pitched, is safely assured home the Dia- iteurism, or because thetr family con- nections didn't determination ©'S past was rigidly f there was any- oceupation, the pan 109 tin Max Carey, leaders in turning the right side of the ledg five games to twelve defe GIANTS fabled Walter American victories this Two-Hour Team Bike Pave At Velodrome Resulis McNamara-Grenda and Goul- let-McBeath Win 68 Points Apiece After 27 Sprints. year, and cause a certain well kr more than in Tie find to eritici sout him was | quite ortho- penalized a , Kopsky and Belloud Walthour innumerable “He rows too clo: Hoover picked to the water. But getting close to the characteristic, heat bron Goulet and MeN close to his chest football line the history of two-hour team hicycle @ tle in points resulted pithough at throughont he goes into roming champion A whe won th was Hoover's idol a grew in Walt combinations of MeN salls in 1897 xth of a mi Dnekstretel, enthizsiasts For twenty-seven sj 4 miles, the two leaders rs tried to do the same thing. Philadelphia he had ancient rival ind the fact that ; Meet To-Morr get him to Eng- ystullized tnto a determin became stronger year by year didn't tell any one about it for a long Spencer continues where he PITCHING Robins and Pirates In Double-Header at Ebbets Fi From serateh HE SURE GOT “ATMOSPHERE.” aD: When he had learned hbout rowing he ent was rowed in cold, he gave most Brooklyn eam Confident o ayn have Improving Stand at Ex pense of Pittsburgh preliminaries ame kind of a race, Bayers in the Half an hor gradually developed a rowing sticks through the Barnhart will be in righttield, handed batter Hoover told young Ned's brother, of his « Bod Jim, who was y by himself, trough to an impressiv did through those years on Lake Su- paid no attention 2 or anything determined, PITCHING RECORDS. » him a few Ringle sculler, 5: the Brooklyn of winning 1s, which had been « sion with H t matched Ned up until he lead, then dropped to 26 had a clear Eyek's crew crossed the striking out out to the big luke, drove every started the by Charles Jace this season. game of the first Other Major League Records AMERICAN LEAGUE 300 HITTERS. at vach finish be- Through the winters Walter And the English. deelared that the two weeks the cod had hit at that rate all the four ad his shell overboard possible he | Robins went are confident that the . Ina great burst of | longer they play present, and that alileugh his row. yoom overhanging t water splashed up through th NATIONAL LEAGUE 300 HITTERS prove their PICK SIX-METRE YACHTS FOR RACE winds from On days when it worked on the Hoover says he hopes to go to ng next year to defend the trophy to win it again unless jump together GRAYSON PAYS $7,000 FOR SUPERMAN COLT machines to develop endurance, and sp §ng his single nt hours over! determination CHARPIONALDD 3 ATOGA SPRINGS ling auction by Robert Bdgren.) WILDCAT NELSON WINS FROM WALKER ON FOUL as a civil engineer or toile }.ouning with hi manufacturing concern strengthen bis ALDRICH MENTIONED AS NEXT ELI COACH} Reds knocks evowd standing on thelr cut of the queer old tror vf kuurel wreath with yeleiwn and upon his STEALERS. rded hina the LEADING BASE Robins event MITCHELL AND DUNCAN PLAY UNBEATEN PAIR HILLY LEVINE WINS AT CONEY ISLAND CLUB HIMSELF AND WASHINGTON PRINTERS WIN BASEBALL TITLE ising bantamweight, won the omplaining Meanwhile be had cut loose trow Mug Lynch for the bantam Ute, MIKE BRADY WINS IMPORTANT TITLE 2) MTERTENYEARS Oakland — Hills Ils Professional Captures Western Open Honors in Easy Fashion. RIRMINGHAM, Mich., Aug. 26 (Ase socinted Press).—Mike Brady, Oalkland Hills professional, after trying for more than « decade to work the combination of the lock which holds open golf titles, broke his way through by winning the Weatern open over nis home course with ® «@ore of 291 for 72 holes—only three strokes over par on Jed to be one of the toughest tournament links in the country Miko outclassed his fleld at every turn of the three days’ play, taking the lead the frst day and sailing through with the same ease ‘that @ yacht moves b what was conc Pa stiff breeze. score was ten more than Mike's, Laurie Ayton, Chicage, shooting his way into @ tle at 301 with Jock Hutchison when the latter col- lap ed on his afternoon round after t chance to beat The wscond plac hay Brady At the 302 mark, fourth place, waa rke Sargent of, Columbus, while next came Emmett French of Youngstown with 304 and (he youthful Johnny Far- of Mamaroneck, N. Y., who lost his nee to win by going to pleces on his second morning nine, finishing with 307. Among the amateurs Chick Evens of Chicago easily was the leader with 314. Chick would have been an easy second or third place man had he not lost con+ trol of every club in his bag this af hoon, totalling holes. Brady's work outclassed that of any other pi from start to finish, It was lis party throughout, for he got the 140 other entrants to come to his domicile and then {n his own front yard proceeded to beat them toa frazzle, He outdrove most of them, outputted all of them—perhaps hecause of his familiar- ity with the undulating greens—and showed superiority In his approaching. evain belng helped by knowledge o} when it was best to pitch and when a cun-up was more Ikely to find the pl Mike has been a contender for year but this is the first time he ever came. through. Back in 1911 he tted with J. J. McDermott of Atlantic City and Donald Smith of Clearmont, Cal, at 807 for the national open at Wheaton, but when the piay-off came Mike second {0 McDermott by two ere for the final eighteen In 1913 he was second to McDermott by seven strokes In the Western open at Memphis, Tenn. Then, tn 1919, he and Waiter Hagen each finished the na- tional open at Weston, Mnas., with 301, but the play-off found ‘Hagen with « 77 card and Mike with one totalling 78. Following are the final seventy-two- hole in the Western open golf tournament over the Oakland Hill for each round being course, the given for t Mik aly Detr Jock Hut 72 69 16 T¢—z0) 74 71 75 81—801 79 Tl 72 79—so1 14 77 76 76—B05 80 71 77 76—304 73 75 8& 77—307 NJ. TH TT BL T8801 on, Detroit: 29 78 77 fy Detroit... 78 70 81 — Delroltessesses TT 78 79 BIBL Chicago. 74 78 15 87814 shank, Weat= i coos. 80 79 78 77—815 corte fiwekharth, Chheinnatt 79 72 79 8—315 Tom ientelt, Mattenon, I. 76 76 79 84—315 Alix ttoas, Detralt 78 17 19 84—318 arence’ Hackney, Atlantic City, 3 ack, Heckett, Nutley, Nv. 0; ‘Bens Ford, Vetroit, 320! George E. Turnbull, nicago, S21, Pat, Doyle, St, Loule, $31; ¥. 0 ; kk, Grn Hilge Syracuse, Detroit, "820; nat’ Nelsom, Latuyette N.Y Morton "vielita, rt, ©. fsa Arthur Bonebrake, ‘J, tL Lang, Peoria. sJamea’ Standish, Detrolt, 834 a DUNDEE 1S FAVORITE OVER PEPPER MARTIN © is an odds-on choice in his bout with Pepper Martin for he 180-pound championship at the New York Velodrome neat Monday Johnny Dur night, ‘The sharpshooting speculators ro offering 2% lo 1 that the Scotch Wop gets the verdict, but there are thoxs who give Martin ag ir to | that the Kelly-Keyes entry 1 a close friend yester day after work, Dundeo said that he he any bout this " i id Johnnie Mt 120% yester ‘ ha w like t where they are ‘ 1 Twill have to be on herd wv elth h 1 wi keep me § bur T to have hin hive passed. 1 give him every “ts ' g often he will b { “ f a own efforts » round goes that far. He ie Kid. but is a bad judge ° ind 1 look to see him blow us I . ayy until he nia M M., expects i " and 130 pounds. Dunder ¥ over 125, half « w more th his weight for the Frush bout. The weights will faver Martin.