Evening star., 1914-10-11

backfield men. Yale has fine lot OF
backs. but not Of the heavy ine-piug.
ging type. Hence 1t is reasonable that
working along the lines above indicated
Michigan is playing an open game. too.
but not sighting in any way the rum
ming attack. and the backfeld OF SpiaWn, P &
Quarterback Hughitt,. is hitting the
tackles hard and getting plenty Of in
reference and drive. Catlitt alternates
Roehm is another good backdeld man.
Yost Is carrying in mind the old ex-
ploits Of Garrells and is working out
his tackle, Watson. on placement goals.
men at this trick that ever stood on the
gridiron, and Watson promises to be his
equal In point of speed and accuracy
this placement kick has proven In the
man nike. Garrells or Watson more ac-
curate and rather quicker than the ordt-
nary drop kick.
Those who are interested in the COM
parative charges at foot ball games will
be interested to know that the best seats
in the stands In Chicago cost $!.50
game for the first three games and then
for the Purdue game $500 and Tor the
Minnesota game, $3.50.
1t is said that Miss Cecil Leitch. the
British woman golfer. is to visit these
shores unless the war should prevent
This player Is well worth seeing, ana
should make a strong impression upon
just won her fourth national champion
ship and her third within a few weeks.
for she beat Miss Bastin by up and !
to play in the ty-six-hole final OF
Heath. and then met her again In the
French championship at La Bouille.
where once more in the thirty-six-hole
final she defeated her 2 up and to play.
IN oF he n ar EsnRHQh
speaks of Miss Cecil Leitch's boyish yet
graceful stride. and further mentions
the fact that her sister: Miss Edith
Leitch, soothes herself with a cigarette
after a strenuous day.
Another woman golfer who would be
welcomed over here Is Mrs. Cruick-
shank, who. as Miss Jenkins, won the
Scottish ladies' championship in 1912.
and has recently won the golf cham
uionship of southern India. She is a
member of the Troon Golf Club. and
| is a sister of ]. L. G. jenkins, the
winner Of the British amateur cham
showed that that victory was by. no
means a matter of luck. but well de-
served by entering the open the fol-
lowing month and securing eighth
all the Scotsmen. either amateur or
professional, who were in that contest
| Jenkins had also the distinction of
matching Tayior's remarkable at
I
Each one of these men laid his drive
within few feet of the Pin, 287 yards,
and each holed a putt. Far more i'm
pertant. however. was the fact that
Jenkins divided the honors with Var
| don for the best round each doing a
IS. The cards follow:
vardon-
fs':::::::: Gat: 1861 ! ! ) ) Gss7s 81
Jenkins
1s':.:..::::::: out: :ss: :.si: fss7s fssss
1t is rather interesting to note that
although the scores are alike. Vardon
would have defeated jenkins at
match play. 2 up.
| A clever writer collected the follow
ing, which he reported as votes OF the
professionals in the evening OF the sec.
iond day of the open championship or
lGreat Britain this summer at Prest-
1 wick.
: d) Bunker at No. 4. Just where a
man wants to place his drive, SO help
me This vote was returned as
carried with only one dissenting voice.
said isolated one being the architect
thereof.
] The second vote was twenty odd
bunkers at hole No. 8 is a trife too
i much even for star artists" Perceiving
a greensman laboring in one OF these
and making the bank more formidable.
ian ex-champion informed him that ne
wanted garroting, and it was unani-
mously carried to garrote.
| The third vote was that Bunker No.
16 was bang in the line Of play, but as
| every one could see this and all steered
clear of 1t. 1t was voted tpat the pur-
pose of the bunker was defeatd and no
action necessary
The contribution of balls to the rail-
way at the first hole where the rail-
road track runs parallel to the line of
drive and only about thirty yards from
the middle Of the fair way was de-
clared to have been quite up to the
usual standard.
The strongest language was reported
to have been used by Ben Sayres of
North Berwick in q charming speech.
the details of which will never ap-
pear in print, when he scored 3 at a
| three hole. -, ~.
Edward Ray hit Mr. Lassen with a
ball. Another pro placed one square
| in the midst of Harry Fulford's back,
while a brassy shot of Fulford's was
kept out Of trouble by a member of
the fair sex. who, as Fulford says, "re-
tired hastily instead of waiting to re-
| ceive my thanks"
One pro in the midst Of the crowd
let his club go out of his hands and
! remarked that he loved playing
1 among a crowd, and that It was q
| delightful day. but the heat made his
: hands moist. and the club slipped out