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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

1t would not be at all surprising if
there We're new general system of
handicapping adopted by the Middle At
lantic Golf Association before long. The
system, which has been scientifically
worked out and approved by the United
States Golf Association, is known as the
..Calkins system for calculating handi-
caps based on par Dr. Thomas j. w
Brown. secretary Of the Middle Atlantic
Association. is very much in favor of it,
and is working hard now trying to get
the various clubs of the ASSOCIATION in
terested in it,
The principal feature of this system is
that not only is the good player handi-
capped because he is good but the pad
player is also handicapped because he is
bad. The reason is this: The object OF
handicapping is to put all players on the
same level and if an allowance of GER
tain number of strokes is to be made to
the less skillful player because he can
not play as WELL some allowance ought TO
be made to the more skillful player be-
cause he cannot improve as much. Inc
old method of handicapping, in all cases
on the exact difference between the par
of the links and the average OF player s
three best scores, takes into consideration
only the advantage held by the good
player, namely, his superior skill. 1t
overlooks the advantage held by poorer
player, namely, greater possibility OF
Improvement Theoretically club
handicap list should be so made up that
each player has good a chance to win
as any other. but no better. whenever
competition is held. But as handicaps
cannot be readjusted daily, it is evident
that the chances will not really be equal
lied unless some measure Is taken OF
relative probabilities Of Improvement in
play.
The original handicap table placed at
scratch a player whose best score aver
age-that is, average best play-was par
at his home course. This, of course,
made it necessary for an association
five strokes) the handicaps returned from
clubs having short courses, the reason
being that the shorter the course the
greater predominance of short and easy
holes, and the easier to play at par fig
ures The "Calkins system" makes an
allowance for this we'll recognized fact in
the handicap table itself. Courses having
a par of a. % and 16 are regarded s
standard courses, and those who can
play in par figures are placed at scratch.
But on all other courses the scratch
player must do better than par. 1t will
be seen that a best score average of par
gives a handicap of one stroke where the
par of the course is - or u, no strokes
where it is "A and three strokes where it
is 60. By this new feature players handi-
capped, according to the table of any
club. will, as a general rule. be able to
play with the same handicap, or nearly
so. al any other club.
In case the system is generally adopted
throughout the Middle Atlantic Associa-
ton members of the Washington Country
Club tpar. co. Bannockburn Golf Club
(par ~, Chevy Chase Club (par 49, and
Columbia Country Club (par 14) can see
what their handicaps would be by glanc-
ing at the following table:
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MAKING STRONG BID
Dark Horse Showing Well in
Chess Tourney.
MARSHALL DISAPPOINTS
American Has Failed to Play as
Brilliantly as Was
Expected.

The final score OF the Rreslau tourna-
ment. finished during the past week.
shows the usual Unexpectedly strong race
OF dark horse. DuraS. the usual dis
appointing failure of a favoIite. Marshall.
and the usual odds on" choice. Rubin
stein and the usual 'eyen-money- for
place players. Schlechter. Tarrasch and
Teichmann. running 10 formal in all &c
seems to have been a good average
tournament. up to- but not beyond. the
ordinary in interest and excitement.
Marshall, who led the field at the con-
ciusion of the eighth round. went all TO
pieces after his defeat by Burn. and was
lucky to land in sixth place Speilmann
was in seventeenth place at the end OF
the twelfth round. but sudden return
10 the brilliant form which he has shown
this year enabled him To make clean
sweep in the last five rounds and cap
ture seventh prize. Rubinstein, by tving
for first prize with Duras. establishes a
record for consecutive wins three. 81
master Journeys of the first class What
makes this achievement particularly inn
pressive is the strength OF the players he
has gone against. LasKer and Capablanca
being the only famous masters absent
from at least one. and Schlechter Teich-
mann, Marshall. Speilmann and puras
being present in all Of these contests
Each of the leaders lost two games
Duras to PrcZepiorka and Tarrasch. and
Rubinstein to Lowtzky and Duras
Schlechter. who tied with Tarrasch for
fourth and fifth places, did not lose a
game. but drew no less than twelve.
Teichmann hung on to third place by
drawing with Rubinstein in the last
round. while Tarrasch threw away his
chance for sharing first honors by losing
to Carls, one of the taiienders.
Should both Rubinstein and Cdpablanca
qualify for the quadrangular match for
the worlds championship. which is to fol-
low the New York Havana tournament.
and there is every probability that they
WILL the interest OF the chess world viii
be excited to an even greater degree than
was occasioned by the famous St Peters
burg match. he'd in ls95-.6. I'm which
Lasker, Pillsbury, Steinitz and Tschigorin
competed. From his record ii would
seem that only Lasker and Capaolanca
stand a show of stopping the terrible
Russian''-and Lasker does not seem m
clined to enter the ring.
The three following games. selected
from different tournaments, are charac-
teristic specimens of the styles of the
three Breslau leaders, Rubinstein, Duras
and Teichmann:
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BAKER TIMELIEST HITTER.
But Larry Doyle Is Close on ].
Franklin's Trail

II all the members of the Philadelphia
Athletics had hit in timely fashion that
John Franklin Baker has done this sea
son. few of the Mackmen would have
been left on the bases during this cam
Elephants would be way out in front in
stead of trailing the Red Sox and the
Nationals. For ]. Franklin is leading not
only his league, but also the National, in
driving In runs-at least he was at the
close of business July &c. when a trial
balance on these statistics was struck
Baker has passed the three quarter post
in bringing home the talies having sew
enty-eight 10. his credit He is closely
pursued for the honor of being the time
lest hitter of the major leagues by Larry
Doyle. the Giants captain. Doyle has
put the finishing touches to seventy-two
taliies. and has been most prominent in
New York ninth-inning rallies.
Tied for third place in the timely hit
ters' league iris Speaker of the Red
Soy and sam Crawford of the Tigers,
each with siXty-four. and closely follow
ing them Is Stumy McInneS, with sixty
two Nineteen men have batted in fifty
or more runs thus far this season, and
t"enty-one have hammered home between
forty and fifty counts. Frank Schultz,
the National Leagues most opportune
Gdu6per and Chalmers trophy winner in
1911. Is IN the latter brigade and Ty
Coob. who captured the same honors In
the American last year. in the former
VI the forty men credited with batting
In forty or more runs. five are Giants
four are Mackmen four are Red Soy
four are Tigers, three are Pirates Two
are Maps. two are Braves and two are
Reds Additionally, one Yankee one SUI
perba and one White Sox find repre-
sentation in the present honor list.
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The fact that his highest score was 70
but four strokes worse than his lowest
shows just how good the Chevy Chase
crack was. His score was c99, three
strokes better than the next best.
At the last meeting of the board Of
governors of the Columbia Country Club
an appropriation was made for a brass
tablet for the clubhouse. Each year the
player making the lowest medal score in
recognized competition at the club will
have his name. the year and date made
inscribed on this tablet John c. David
doubtedly be the first player to be so hon.
ored, as this mark will probably stand for
years to come.
Making records seems TO be hobby
with Davidson. Thursday afternoon he
eQualed the Washington Country Club
record, held by George E. Truett. making
"A Par for the course is TO. His card
follows:
Out......I... 4 4-37
In.......... & 3 , ) & 3 :S-37-74
This record was made in a foursome in
which he and John Klein, the Washington
Country Club professional, defeated Ed
ward 3. Eynon and Donald Ball, the Co
lumbia Club professional. up and f. The
winners led all the way, they being up
at the turn. a return match at thirty
six holes will be played at Columbia to-
morrow afternoon
President Taft and Gen. Clarence E.
Edwards played at Chevy Chase Friday
afternoon
The goat contest began at the Wash
ington Country Club the first of the
month. The following players have
bought their goats: Fries, Ouiggle.
Ashbury. Snow. German, Browning, A.
A. Birney. I: 7. Smith. L. b. T. John
son, Bowie, Frost, Woodman. Wheeler.
1T hol
Walters. Calvert. Truett Jewell. G.
Grunwell. j. Cromwell. Weeden. r. b.
LOCKER, Z. F. LOCKER. Talbert, Chesley.
Croissant. Taliaferro. Zappone Worth,
ington, Upman. Cobey, Bali, Rice. Oak
ley. Stengel. Ballard. Weightman and
TyssoWsk. E. b. Calvert won the first
goat of the season, when he defea ted
Earl Wheeler.
Eddie Eynon seems to be doing most
OF the playing at Columbia In addi-
ton to having won three more goats
bringing his total up to fifteen. he made
a record when he PLAYED los bolaS ~,
successive days-four rounds Friday and
two rounds Saturday. AS he walked
approximately five miles round. his
two-day play represents about thirty
miles or walking. In these rounds his
best score was a II, while the highest
card turned in showed an So which
means that he played his usual con-
sistent game throughout the whole six
record.
however. J. T. Hough, now a member
OF Columbia. having played ninety-six
hoies over the old Columbia course sew
eral years ago.
tualihcation scores are now being
turned In at Chevy Chase for the August
tournament, the first round of which
Will be played from the 10th to the 2lst
of the month
An interesting foursome was PLAYED
at Columbia Friday afternoon. in
whlch Otto Luebkert and Ed NARROW
played Dr. Stearns and A. S. Mattingly
Dr. Stearns saved the day for his side
by running down a long putt on the
nome green and halving the match.
There is nothing doing" at Bannock-
burn these days, most of its members
being away for the summer
During the absence of DR.. Walter
Harlan. Alpheus Winter is acting as
CHAIRMAN of the green's committee at
Columbia.
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WITH ENVIOUS EYES.
Ebbets Jealous of Clubs Picking Up
College PLAYERS at No Cost.

NEW YORK. August lO-That wall
from President Ebbets of the Brooklyn
base ball club regarding the spending or
much money on new players only to have
the latter turn out badly doubtless arises
primarily from a bird's-eye view of those
teams that have been picking up young
collegians and making good with them at
small initial expense The man from the
minor league is looking for money when
he decides to make a change, while the
cOllegian is seeking primarily for a
chance. If the latter comes through
he need not fear that the money Will not
be forthcoming in due time. But at the
start he is, in nine cases out of ten, bar
gain material
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STOCK FARMS GONE.
Kentucky Does Not Raise Horses as
It Once Did.

NEW YORK, August lot would al
most break your heart to take trip
through Kentucky said Charles Hill,
who had charge of Mr.. Clarence Mackay S
horses for several years. II was down
there month or two ago, and the STOCK
farms are almost deserted. The attack
on racing in this country hit Kentucky
proba bly, harder than any other state
outside of New York.
An example of what has occurred can
be imagined when Mr.. j. b. Haggin III
1909 had 100 brood mares and stations
at Elmendorf. This number has been re
duced until he now has but thirty-seven
thoroughbreds, and most of those are
pensioners or horses that he decided to
retire to live life of leisNre.
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started with pitchers delivery. crossed
home plate; he returns to third for
safety in case ball is caught: If ball
is not caught is it necessary for run
ner to touch home plate again in order
to score? READER
Since his return to third had can
celed his advance, he would be eX-
pected to go home again as though
he had never been there.
Sporting Editor Star:
Were Pitcher Hugh DAILY. with Cleve-
land in the eighties, and Ed Hahn, for
merly of the White SoX, right or left
handed? KING.
Both were right-handed, but Hahn
batted 1eft-handed.
Sporting Editor Star:
Was Mack Allison. now with the st. Louis
Browns, ever with a Cotton States
League team, and how many games
did he pitch in that league?
H. SMITH
Allison was with Columbus. Miss, in
1908, pitching in twenty games.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please define scratch hit.
\. b. WILSON.
A batted ball which fielder fails to
get by mere scratch" as distinct
from a hard, clean drive that there was
no possible chance of fielding in time
to retire runner.
Sporting Editor Star:
Should a fielder be charged with an
error if he misses a fly ball which
touches any part of his glove?
EARL GARRETT.
The principle of scoring is that a
fielder shall have a fair chance to
make the catch: ball not reached so
that he could hold it would not be
counted as an error il missed.
Sporting Editor Star:
In what parts of California do they
play winter ball and do they play it
all winter or just in December and
January? MIKE.
In southern California independent
teams keep up the game all the year
around, though it lags after January.
Sporting Editor Star:
ID What became of Outfelder VIII
kinson, who was with the New York
Americans in 1911? CD What is the
age of Catcher Meyers of the Giants?
BARON.
% New York turned him over to
Oakland last winter; do not know what
became of him after that. CD Born
July 30 1882.
Sporting Editor Star:
What is Cobb'S record for speed from
home plate to first base?
Have no accepted record, but he Is
said TO have been timed in three and
one-fifth seconds which also seems to
be the record claimed for all the fast
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11
INDIANS HERE TODAY.
Will Meet Washington Giants and
Columbus in Double Header.

The Cherokee Indians will play their
last game in the east today al Union
League Park, l;3h and H streets north
east, where they are scheduled to play a
double-header. In the first game they
will use their star twirler, Herring,
against the colored wonders, the Wash
ington Giants, and in the concluding con-
test they will use Big Smoke to take the
scalps of the crack white team; the CO.
lumbiaS.
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INTEREST IN PLANS
OF Motor Boat Club to Defend the
British Trophy.

NEW YORK, August 10.-A great deal
of interest is being taken in the plans
that are being perfected by the Motor
Boat Club of America for the defense
IF the British interna tional trophy.
Known as the Harmsworth cup. Six
boats have been built since last year $
race, and two or three fiierS which We're
not ready for the elimination races
probably will be put in their best con-
dition for the forthcoming trials.
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X-GIANTS PLAY TODAY.
Will Meet Fast Combination of Col.
ored Maryland Players.

The N-Washington Giants viii play the
Sparrow Point Grays at 1st and VI streets
northeast today. The Grays are COM
posed of the crack players of Annapolis.
SparrowS Point and Baltimore, Nd.
Monday. August II, the famous X-Giants
play the BARRIERS Athletic Club in Alex
andria. Va Next Sunday. August IS.
they play the Washington Giants the sec
ond double-header OF their series. The
first game today will be called at pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

Had George Sargent, the Chevy Chase
professional. played the same golf in the
Metropolitan and National championship
tournaments that he did when he won the
Canadian championship he would very
likely have led home the field in both of
these events. The former open champion
was at his best and played consistent
golf at Rosedale Friday and Saturday,
and is now the open golf champion of the
Dominion. In the first round Sargent
broke the course record with a 12-this
despite the fact that it was raining at the
time and he was on a strange course.
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OIFEN'S PAWN.

ton.
tbl II IL 80. K-Q, II RxBch k-R, 10
R-R6ch K-KT. 1G Kt-BGca Qxkt, IL B-k5ch
Q-Q3. Is Rob. and mate next move.
tcl Brilliancy 10y the bushel. Not satisfied with
one dazzling combination. Ruhinstein starts
end game 10 match, giving his plus pawn rs
a starter.
ldl Rubinstein must have fcreseen this position
when he played his 21st No wonder that
this great Russian is winning every Tournaments
he enters.
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Friends of Manager Chance of the Cubs
said Yesterday that the Peerless Leader
was so confident OF winning the pennant
from the Giants that he would wager
81 COO if he could obtain odds of to 1.
Chance refused to confirm the report.
probably because he didn't care for pub
licity and also for he reason that the
base ball governors might object. But
under the surface. it is believed. Chance
would find somebody to bet $1,000 on The
Cubs if Giant hackers should come across.
New York Sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-11

It's getting SO in the American and
National leagues that autos are no in
ducement to the players as most of
them have runabouts and limousines and
would have to enlarge their garages if
they had another car.
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Percentage SMALL
of Real Brainy Players on
Teams.
TWO OR THREE ENOUGH
To Hold Almost Any Club Up in
Championship Race-In-
stances Many.
TWO OR THREE ENOUGH

NEW YORK, August 10.-The proportion
of smart ball players, thinking players,
heady players, or whatever adjective
ingly large on the brainiest of combinations
Three, four or at the most five serve
to carry a team along to a pennant if
the mechanical ability also is there. What
would happen if a club could daily put
out a team of nine men who were equip
ped with base ball acumen as well as
mechanical ability is hard to conjecture
unless it would finish first, with the rest
nowhere. Then again it is hard to draw
the line between the real smart, the
smart and the near smart.
Two or three smart players in the in
field and one behind the bat are pretty
good asset for any team. \ still better
asset is a smart manager, as witness the
success of McGraw. McGraw's Giants
are not the headieSt team that ever took
the field, but in Mathewsnn, Merkle and
Doyle he has lieutenantS oil 81" matter.
With Evers, Archer Sheckard ana och
the Cubs have more quick thinklIa
players than most teams and also u good
general in Chance to boss the whole
shebang.
One must have care in a discussion
of this sort lest there be the invidious in
ference that players not mentioned are
shy on base ball sense, but to obviate any
such fallaciouS inference the old plea of
want of space can be advanced. Be that
as it may, the Cubs, with all their supply
of diamond profundity, didn't outguess
the Athletics SO anybody could notice it
two years ago. Mack, Collins. Barry and
held their own with the Cub phalanx of
intelligence.
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ta) This move eventually loses the game. Tie
j needed 10 guard kB4 against the HI
R-Kt was called fJr
thl Also weakening. KR-B and II u kt b
then BIB, followed by XIX. might have been
better.
,cln % 49,. P-B3, - KRIS Or, ~
B-Kt:,ch K-R. 30 P-R4 P-R3, 81 PxP RPxP.
81 K-B2 and R-R wins.
ldl The winning move: il kt-R5 Black could
have answered with Q-R3,
tel IL :iG $500. K-R2. 31 B-R5 threatening
P-Kttch: and IL "a ...... PIP. b oxI' R-kkt,
80 ORA and mate in few moves.
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Helped Pirates Keep UP.

Wagner, Clarke and Leach We're trio
whose brains helped to keep the Pirates
N many race, whereas conspicuously
smart team were the old Orioles, with
such leading lights of base bail intuition
as McGraw, Jennings, Robinson. Kelley
and Keller, all quick, cogent thinkers.
Tenney, Lowe. Collins, Duffy and Nc
Carthy of bygOne Boston days We're clear
and quick thinkers; in fact. Mccarthy has
been compared to Mike Kelly as one of
the foxiest players of all time.
Fielder Jones, Isbell. George Davis and
Billy Sullivan, with their foresight and
quick grasp of situation, did great deal
toward winning first honors for the White
Sox few years back. ComiSkey was as
smart a man on the ball field he has
since been off, likewise John Ward. How
ever, there have been not a few ball
players who have shown ability to pros
per who were just ordinary on the ball
field and also there have been smart
ball players who haven't done so we'll
since out of active participation in the
game The keeneSt manager needs some
of the quality of keenness under him.
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(a This is the with which Ruhinsteiu
hopes win; il gives him three pawns for the
biShop and the whole open side OF the board from
which TO Mtack with queen. rOok and kniSht,-an
easy win ia ordinary crcumst ances.
ihb Black does not seem TO have an linking OF
his impending defeat He sees two harmless
checks for Marshall and then quick win for
Rubinstein As n matter of fact, there
be no way for Black to save the game this
stage
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WHITE.
This highly interesting position arose in
a game between Marshall and Rub!nstein
Each player has a deep-laid scheme 10
win but the American cleverly outwits
his redoubtable opponent.
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1t is very probable that Johnny Coulcn
the bantam champion. will have a good
international battle on his hands next
ger Of Charlie Ledoux, the champion
French bantamweight. and ne writes that
he wants to come over in the fall and
meet Coulon for the title. LedoUx has
made some great fights in France and
England and is we'll thought of. Dan
Mckettrick. who manages Joe Jeanette
saw him perform in Paris some monhs
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Sporting Editor Star:
Man on third batter hits exception
ally high fly and runner, who had
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-03
STANF|ELD PRAISES BEING
SUNG BY 120 PENDLETON|ANS

One hundred and twenty Pendleton-
ians are today singing the praises of
Stanfeld as result of their excursion
to that thriving little city last night
and their attendance at a grand ball
which formally opened the new audi
torium in the Watts building there.
Under the auspices of the Commercial
club of their town, citizens undertook
to make the event of last evening the
greatest social event in the history of
Stanfield and so well did they succeed,
according to the local guests, that they
not only outrivalled all previous fes-
tive occasions in the newest town but
made record which equals that of al.
event in the older and larger towns
of Umatilla.
So energetic had the committee on
arrangements been that their affair
was advertised throughout the length
and breadth of the county and so rosy
were their promises of a good time
that hundreds from other section,
flocked in by train, auto, wagon and
all varieties of locomotive vehicles.
None were disappointed for the com
mittee made good beyond the ex-
pectations of any and gave their city
an enviable reputation as a host.
The special train which left Pen