Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

| man VINO made no chdnRe IN the pa
No matter how much these men may
play just previous to the contest will
} guilty balls, the, preponderance fol
several years with the rubber-coree
ball is going to tell against the guilty
According to the above demonstration
if all four play in the morning with
the gutta-percha balls, it will only be
a matter of which man game is best
match in the afternoon with two OF
them using the rubber coreds and two
the "gutties' would have a complicat-
ing condition in it. dependent upon the
over. In other words. the experiment
will be interesting, but will hardly
prove much as to the value of the balls.
Already there has been considerable ex-
perimentation in preparation for this
i match Vardon has been recording his
observations and they amount practically
to the fact that he gets a little farther
at playing the guilty with brassy
cleek. He finds the greatest difference,
| as We all know. in the short approach
| where the guilty. must be stuck with
considerably more force. The first of the
matches will take place April 2, just
| outside OF London, at the Sandy Lodge
course. vardon and Duncan playing
Taylor and Braid. 1t is very doubtful II
anything toward the adoption of a stand
| ard will, however come from this. 1t is
to be hoped that neither Travers nor
1
Fermentation with the guilty" after
| landing.
Those who will face the Virginia foot
ball team next fall, Vanderbilt, North
Carolina and not the least, Yale, will be
especially interested In the final selection
OF foot ball coach at that institution.
| Capt. Voolfolk and his advisers have
determined upon Joe Wood. the former
| center, who was last year a teacher and
! coach of a school team-Episcopal High,
near Alexandra. Although not heavy
man, he was a good center and made
his mark on, the foot ball Of the South
Atlantic. He will have considerable new
| talent to york on, but lack Of veteran
| players.
Johnnie de Saulles is offered a post
as minister to Uruguay. Good for Presi
| dent Wilson. This young man has proved
himself since graduation as active. capa-
bic and successful in business and civic
| interests as he did on the gridiron and
diamond while in college. Is It not a
| rather striking comment upon the recent
criticism resurrected as to the effect of
athletics on morals that all these men
should be chosen for positions Of promi
hence and trust? Only to mention a few
| Henry Thornton, the old Penn foot
ball player, is general manager Of the
I, Great Eastern railroad system of Eng
land. Then two old Yale captains. Lee
| McClung. former treasurer Of the United
States. and Vance Mccormick. mayor of
Harrisburg and now running for gov
ernor Of the state, member Of the Yale
corporation. Elk Hall. Dartmouth play
er. vice president New England Tele-
phone Company. Cameron Forbes, Har-
ward foot ball coach, former governor Of
the Philippines. Some day this column
| will comment upon the later lie of many
of the graduates of our schools and col
leges and the type athletes are likely to
| develop.
| Much interest centers this year on this
side of the water in the annual Oxford
| Cambridge boat race, which will be row.
| ed on the English Thames from Rutney
to Mort lake the 28th of this month. The
| fact that Gold and Kirby, both of Ok
| ford, were with the Yale crew last year
| and that Guy Nickalls Of Oxford is at
Yale this year in charge Of the crew. and
! his brother Vivian is filling a similar po-
sition at Penn. seems to bring this race
much more nearly home to Americans
than ever before. Oxford has been hav-
| fact that has turned this Cambridge crew
| into a pronounced favorite. Then. too
| Cambridge has particularly heavy and
powerful crew. and is much fancied by
| the rowing sharps along the river.
mounts for the English poloists, for four
| more have gone from this country, two
| Californians. one Kentucky thoroughbred
| and one Texas pony. The latter won the
| other three were all placed After trial
| on arrival they will be sent to Spain to
Join the other mounts that Lord Ashby
| St. Leger is wintering there These
| ponies will be added to the fifty already
| there and the men who have accepted
| the invitation to practice are Capt Bar
| rett, Capt. Badger. Capt. Vivian Lockett,
Maj. Mathew Lannowe. Maj. G. F. Hun
Poi1 Dol
Capt. H Tompkinson. The Spanish play
ers likely to aid i'm the practice are the
Duke Of Alba and the Duke of Peneronda
Rumor Is going about that the entrance
of Spain as an assistant to England even
| to this extent will not entirely please al
parties. We may hear more from this
| later on.
No one can miss the pathos Of these
answers, and although humorous to the
adult. it should start every man think
Ing how these boys are to be brought up
and how to give them the best of training
as we'll as pleasure in those days OF
youth when they are entitled to it. Re
member that only forty years ago the
vacant lot was common in hundreds OF
cities where now it is only brick and
mortar. The street alone Is left for the
boy. Not one of these youths has his
rights if he does not have a real play
ground somewhere, and without such
rights he becomes when he grows up a
candidate for the corner saloon
Pennsylvania inaugurated another ex-
cellent move this last month by having
its foot ball committee and members OF
the varsity eleven give a dinner 70 the
senior foot ball players from all the high
and preparatory schools in and about
Philadelphia More than eighty schools
received invitations.
The schools about Philadelphia are al
ways turning out a string of excellent
athletes. Some of PENIS teams bear
witness to this in a marked degree. al
though several of the men even from
these schools throughout the country GO
to other colleges. Havertord. for in
stance. developed Fritz, the Cornell foot
ball player, and FELTON,, whose Harvard
work is still remembered. keinath,
PENIS basket ball player and foot ball
man. came from the Central High School
) Taylor. the remarkable quarter-miler OF
PENIS track team. came from the Brown
, Preparatory School Lippincott, PENIS
intercollegiate 100 and 90 yard winner, is
an Episcopal Academy boy. Shryock. the
star swimmer, came from Central Man.
ual The schools around Boston have
done well for Harvard. And Yale gets 6
fair share Of her candidates for teams
, ready made. 1t Is against this that some
of the western universities used to com
| plain in making comparison with the ma
terial which they have for development
but schools of the middle west are now
turning out great many finished ath.