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Evening star., 1915-06-06
SURPRISING RESULTS FURNISHED
BY SOME RECENT BOXING BOUTS
Soldier Bart6eld's Showing Against Mike
Gibbons Wakes Up Fight Fans and
Stamps Him as Good Man.

lightweight. Harry Gilmore. who
fought many terrific battles in the days
of the bare-knuckles fighters. and who
came very near winning the world
championship when he fought Jack Nc
AuiiHe. looks like q yer: good prospect
IN the wc)terwcight ranks. Harry Gill
more. lr.. tried to make g boxer out Of
himself. but he never succeeded and
very sensihly gave up the idea. Fred
seems to have more of the fathers abil-
ify than Harry, jr, for he has nut up
some very good battles of late and has
SHOWN wonderful cleNerness in all his
T1m.ests. W,. HIS ten.round bout at Racine,
Wis. against Willie Schaefer OF Chi
r'aso the other night showed Fred at
his best. He should have stopped
H;naeFer IN the third round. hut ex-
planned his failure to do SO with the
statement that he wanted to play safe
and take no chances, seeing that he
had ms man beaten. Fred used a left
nook that had considerable steam back
OF u. the Kind that Kid McCoy used to
.an'ailze his opponents with. 1t seems
strange that Fred should use the left
NOOK when his father has nearly al
ways taught the straight left with
f,snf follow. having argued that the
straight left would always beat the
hnoi> However. Fred has Il snappy
LET; and good right. and he took 4
'co "a"ops OIL the side of the head
enough to prove that he can stand :, bit
o. punishment if necessary Before
i.'oit can lay clam to any welter-
weight title. as some of HIS friends
state, he will have to defeat Kid
IRA YES, Mike Glover and johnny Al
bsrts, all OF the east. and who are All
claiming the title. with Graves lead
ing.
me suggestion in these columns re-
Gently that it was time for boxing pro-
moters and others interested to form a
national union for the advancement of
.he spor; has found favor among many
oil the fans and promoters about the
country. Replies have been received
from New Orleans, Boston. Buffalo,
minneapolis. Denver and othe. points.
each one being heartily in favor of the
pfoposit1on and urging the holding Of
meeting in the near future TO start
Tie Dali rolling. One of the interested
even suggested a scale of weights that
1nlSh; be adopted. as follows: Bantam
weight. lis: feather. 124: lishtweisht,
,5a: Welter. l45; middle eight, f5S;
nght heavyweight. IFS: heavyweight,
over that limit. This is very close to
the Australian and European scale. ex-
cept that the middteweiSht limit is re-
tanned at las. while the foreign is 100
at clock. The British featherwei ght
nmlt IS 10 However. suggestions of
TINS KIND will help bring about a more
satisfactory condition than exists at
present.
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ALLOWS ONLY TWO HITS.
Former Washington Boy Pitches
Brilliant Game in Santo Domingo.

SANTo DOMINGO. T. u. June =
The base ball team representing tn.
Office Of the general receiver Of
Dominican customs and nine COM
posed of the ward room officers of the
L. s. s Nash lille pls yed the first game
of series CT Ave yesterday on the
Gazcue campus Both nine have show IL
their superiority over all the local
determine the championship of the re-
public.
It took fourteen innings for the Re-
ceivcrship club to win from the Naval
OHlcers-score > to l. The game Was
rep'ete with sensational rlays--four
doubles and one triple play bein- pulled
off By the victors. The >ashNtua boys
played a brilliau. game. and there is
much speculation as TO which nine VIII
win the series.
G. II. Baxter. the general receiver o:
Dominican customs, vas on hand 10
cheer his boys on to NjctoTE. ana Il
was mainly due to lis eoa ching in III"
fourteenth inning that tae Receiver
ship nine turned Apparent defeat 10
spectacular win. Capt. w. ". Ohm
stead OF the steamship Nashville was
the most enthusiastic rooter :or the
Jack Tars.
Phi, Lynch. superintsnde Of the
revenue cutter service. and formerly n
ashingtou boy. who Is considered
the best all-round athlete in Sanfo
Domingo. pitched for the customs nine,
while case, -ho gained quite reputa-
tion at the Anna polls Naval AcatemE
as mound artist. whipped them over
for the officers. u was grueiinc cGi'-
test and better exhibition OF pitch-
ing has never been given in this see
ton os the west Indies. \ total or but
FIVE hits was made by both mines duf-
ing the entire fourteen innings. two
off lynch and three Off Case.
The second game Of the series VIII
he played when the Nashville returns
from GuaHta"omc.
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TENNIS NEWS AND NOTES.

great deal OF interest is being
shown by the younger players of the
city in the revival of the Junior cham
p1onship tournament which will be
played on the Dumbarton courts this
year for the first time since 1895.
Chairman Ezra Gould. who. with Louis
!. Doyle. is pushing the tourney, is
highly elated 1T the interest being
shown. and expects the event to be
one of the best of its kind ever held
IN Washington. From present indica-
tions the high schools and colleges
will furnish most of the entrants, as
but few o. the younger unattached
players have shown any interest but
there is still plenty of time. and those
who are behind the movement. hope
that all who are eligible to enter will
do SO, SO as to make the event a sue
cessful one. and thus guarantee it a
permanent place on Washingtons an
nual tennis calenGnr
Navy and Commerce are tied for top
honors in the Departmental Tennis
League, each having Won all of its
matches to date. War comes next with
nine wins and only one loss, while
Agriculture and Interstate Commerce
are tied for fourth position with seven
victories out of ten matches The of
fetal standing of the clubs is given
below:
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WIDER COURT IS ONE WAY
TO CURE BIG ILLS OF TENNIS
Serving Side Now Has Immense Advantage
on Its Opponents Enough Room
to Drive Past Net Man.

New theories and new methods or
ulay in tennis are as scarce as hen S
teeth. and those that are sound are all
most as scarce as the teeth OF new
laid egg writes Parmley Paret in the
New York Sun. The delicate adjustment
in the balance of the game is truly re-
markable, and it is doubtful II these Is
another sport in which there has been
so little change in the rules or the I'M
elements and methods OF play as IN
tennis. Even the American service,
with it's terrific attack, as recently per-
fected, has not yet forced any change
in the rules, and the best students OF
the game believe that it soon VIII be
met with better ground strokes, which,
in turn, will Offset the present advan-
taee of the twist deliveries.
The doubles game is threatened more
than singles, and this is due rather to
the development of volleying than serv-
ice alone. Here the advantage is so
strong with the serving side that in
f1rst-class championship play between
evenly matched teams the servers win
somewhere between 80 and 80 per cent
of all the games played: that is, vic
tory follows the service with great
regularity.
Many new ideas have been tried to
offset this advantage. but none seems
to have been entirely successful. In
england the orthodox players, large
share Of them, try to prevent the serv-
ing side from taking complete posses
sion of the net by placing the partner
of the striker-out half way up In the
ticipate the first volley of the server
and his mariner,
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BY ROBERT L. RIPLEY.

The biggest find Of the year:
That's the verdict. And the word biggest"
double, twnkler is feet inches high
weighs well 200 pounds. However, cannot
good thing-especialy in the pitchers
box, all Brooklyn is jumping with joy.
Charley Ebbets, the who the team and gives
holidays, Brooklyn fans. who support the
enjoy holidays should their
a Ere
author discoverer of Dell. Fred dug him
Butte, back in 1906 In those days
living the manager catcher
ball club. Dell played first base in those
pitcher suffered injury that retired
him from game. game But
no. figure without Fred Van Ness. Fred, show
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Invitation Tourney and Ex.
hibitions by a Master Fur
nish Much OF Interest.
lASKER AND KUPCHICK
ARE BOOKED TO MEET
Will Play Four.Game Match Before
Manhattan Club-Other
Chess.

last "ceh was the busiest period Of
the season in local chess circles. with
hnr IN ltation tournament at the
t'spi'al city club. and Edward I.asker,
.or!ne" champion OF the City of London
tH"ss Club. aad winner of the recent
Metropolitan League individual cham
= oush'p tournament. in exhibitions.
rapid transit ahittles. etc. AT the
Washington chess and Whist Club
Moo~man and Woodbury.. the Virginia
masters. with Hapoi-on. Lowell. Knapp,
atacy ana Whitaker mace up the field
in the imitation tournament. which
Has won -! Nj. Norman with a score
OF = out Of a possible Il points. Second
and tniro places in this event are not
yet decided, and depend upon the re-
>uit of postponed game between
Lowell ana " nta her. BY his failure to
ia he first prIzs III this event Mr..
whitaker loses the unique distinction,
which I've iIas held ever since he be
came resiuent of this city, of having
never failed 30 capture first honors III
any match or tournament in which he
mas competed.
Ia presenting Edward lasker to the
local chess enthusiasts the Washing
ton Chess anu whist Club, which dur
lnS the winter has mad Marshall and
tapa blanca give exhibitions, rounded
out the most ambitious season of en-
terta lnTents OF this character ever un-
dertaken by Washington chess club.
NJ. Laskers afternoon seance, for the
club memoers exclusively, consisted of
limited simultaneous exhibition
against six pls yers, followed by game
against consultations team. In the
evening the master gave a public
simultaneous exhibition on twelve
boards. winning eleven and drawing
one game. With F. j. Lavender. This
was followed by an hour OF rapid
transit play 9itn Mr.. Whitaker, in
which the honors were even.
Iasker and kupchick have been
matched for four-game encounter be-
fore the Manhattan Chess Club of New
York, after which the genial refugee"
will take up his abode in Chicago.
where he will engage in his profession
of civil engineering.
Following is a selection Of the best
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cialIy we'll, scoring no less than eight
IS out Of the eighteen holes. Dr. Har-
han counted three IS, giving the pair
eleven 3s during the match with a
score of sixty-tive for their best ball.
The losers played good golf and under
ordinary conditions might have won.
They got revenge on Monday. when
thew turned the tables Oh the Harba u
Follett combinatio and beat them in a
36-hole match by up.
The tie in the handicap event of the
Chevy Chase tournament between Ed
ward B. Eynon. jr.. Of Columbia and
George c. Lafferty Of Chevy Chase,
was played off during the week Eynon
winning by fifteen strokes. This gives
him the low gross score prize. and
gives Lafferty that for low net.
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played Davis and Ward. then cham
pfons of America. and these two pairs
met several times in Davis cup matches
over here and in England. Each time
the Dohertys won. and while they did
vary this position and occasionally kept
both their players back in the court. it
cannot be said that these matches
proved the English position to be un-
sound. Against Ward and Wright, how
ever. the Dohertys were forced to give
up their faVorite tactics and the strik-
er's partner was driven back from the
volleying position.
The success of this English "forma-
tion, as it often is called, is based on
the slower net attack of the average
English players, and for this reason 1t
has been quite successful among Eng
lish players against their own teams.
Against fast volleying Americans who
come in to within six Or eight feet of
the net to volley it seems difficult
by the servers side from going right
through the strikers partner. whose
weak position at the service line would
seer' to make him quite vulnerable.
But what are we to think of the sue
cess of foreign teams with this forrna-
ton over here? Not only did the
Dohertys succeed with it against our
best teams, all except Ward and Wright
al any rate, but Doust and Jones, play
ing Tor Australia in the Davis cup
same formation against Mclaughlin
ana Hackett and won their match
Again last year Brookes and WildinS
used this formation and beat McLough-
I'm and Bundy, our national champions
In last years match the visitors were
distinctly too strong for our team,
with the weak spot at Bundy POSI-
t1on, but that cannot be SAID OF Jones
ana Doust. and yet they won from SO
good team as Hackett and NC
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Runs-Credtors McKenna. Prince t2i. Bischon
'2'. Cleary. James Van Dusen. First base by
errors-Commcrce, .: Foresters: 1. Left on bases
Commerce. 10: Foresters 3. First base on
halls-On Bischoff. q o: Woartendykc. 8; oil
Weisenherger, J.. Innings pitched.By Woerten.
dke. 5; by Weisenberger. j. Hits made-tm
WoertendyIe. 5: OF Weisenberger. i: Times at lat
Against Woertendyke. %: against Weisenber-
ger. 13. Struck out--By Bischof, Il; by Wo.r-
tendyIe. .: by Weisenberger. 4. Home run
Bischon. Two-base bits : Bischon, Endalcy.
Prince. Stolen bases Newton. Weisenberger,
Creditor. Nick emma t2 Prince Bischon. Endaley.
Cieary 81. Double play-Woertendyke to Tillett
to Murphy. Hit by pitcher-By Woertendyke, !
IVAN Dusen). Umpirp--Mr. Shurtlch. Time OF
game-1 hour and IS minutes.
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wonderful resourcefuness got OF
tight places since cast his First
You pitch" said Fred. with voice trembling with
emotion
since Dell a pitcher Fred
Van Ness base ball writer.
They ali call Dell by the sobriquet of "WheeZer His
real is Weiser. Very clever of think
Weser G. Dell played ball around the north
west until 1911 That ne given trial with
Roger was
again playing base ball in the great northwest.
year weiser played with Seattle very Sc
WELL in fact, that he considered good enough for
Robinson's Brookynites-and that's consideration
these let tell
To date Weiser has lost three and
will probably play ball great north
again.
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Fifth Observation-Disclosures. o o 4. 8 (
kelief. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1-l6
Rns-Iuber. keine t2,. White Burton, f.
Elett. K. Fiyn dodge 81. Rohman. Mortimer
81, Upton 81. F. Flyn 81. Little ~ and Ben
ner. First base by errors-Fifth. 4: Keller. 5.
Left on bases-Fifth. :: Keller. ). Firs, base
:" Innings pi:ched-By Burton. l. by Daushton
4; by Benner. 4: by Upton, =. Hits made
or Burton, :; on Danshton. 6: OF Benn.r. 3;
Of Upton, 4. Struck out By Burton. I. by
Daughton. g: by Benner. :: by Upton. :. Three
base hit-E. Flyn. TwObase hifs-E Film and
Little Stolen hases-keinic t3 White ,2,.
Dnughton. Borst. n. F;yn. Dodge :Tipton. Little
and Benner. Hit by piteher-By Tip.on ,Darsil-
tom; by Daughton tFlaherty,. Wild PITCHES
Benner. /. Upton. 1: DauShton, l. Passed balls
--I.uber. ,. Tmpire-Mr. Ksrper. Time Of game
i hour and ~ minutes.
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Runs-Tanner (2J. CunninGha m. Hanlon.
Brown. Goldberg 'c,. Terry. Knott 20. Evans
~. Ding!er Al. Slough csl. Turner and Bru-
First base on bails-on Turner. 5: Cunningham.
): Struck out-By Turner, :; by Tanner. 3; b.
Cunningham. ). Three-base hits-Tanner and
Knott Two-base hits-Tanner, Brown. Turner
and Cunningham. Stolen bases-Cunninghani.
Hanon Brown. Evans and Winstead. Double
plays-Brown 10 Goldberg. Cmpires-Messrs.
Cole and Reilly. Time of game hours.
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PITCHES NO-HIT GAME.
Bischoff Performs Splendidly in Gov.
ernment League.

Bischoff of the Commerce team pitch
ed brilliantly against Foresters yester-
day, winning his game by TO o. Not
a hit was made off Bischoff and he
struck out twelve. The score:
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Position Is Unsound.

Now, this position has been condemn
ed as unsound by most authorities on
the game, and L never have felt that it
was tenable against the fastest Ameri-
can yolleyers. The first real test Of it's
merits was when the Doherty brothers
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SCORES MANY RUNS.
Law Team Wins From Bookkeepers
by 16 to 4.

Law defeated the Bookkeepers yester-
day in the Southern, Railway League by
16 to 4. The contest only went six in
nings and in the last three periods the
winners scored almost at will. The
score:
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cARO-KANN.

The following game was played in The
afternoon Simultaneous exhibition by
Mr.. Lasker before the members Of the
Washington Chess and Whist Club.
TaI.en with the game above they serve
as good illustrations of the two main
aria tions of The Caro-kann.
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Inquisitive Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly inform me year the foul-strike
rule was adopted. A READER.
a. In 1901.
Sporting Editor Star:
A claims that Eddie Collins hailed
from Columbia College before joining
the big league. B claims that Collins
is not a college man. FAN.
A. Collins is a graduate of Columbia.
He played with that team before join
ing the Athletics.
Sporting Editor Star:
Did Georges Carpenter and Johnson
ever fight? PUG
A. No. johnson and Carpenter never
met in the ring. Carpenter lost to
Frank Klaus at Dieppe. France. on
foul in nineteen rounds. This was In
June, 1912.
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sporting Editor Star:

Cy Young. the ancient Milwaukee
twrler. is still n tough old bird. All
the rest he wants 'sotween games is
nights sleep and always that. He
finished, = game Ia saturday. started
the first game of Il double header the
next day and Monday pitched both
games of double header. in the course
of which he was scored on in Just one
inning of the eighteen.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

Series , of tine Wonen's Tennis
League will be played this week. the
following matches being on the pro-
gram:
Washington Heights vs.. Mid-City
Club: Columbia Country Club vs.
Chevy Chase Club: Washington Coun-
I Try Club vs.. Mount Peasants: High
| Schools vs. Department of Agriculture
Bannockburn vs.. Y. W. G. A.
Because of the fact that it was un-
able to get the lease On it's courts ex-
! tended. the Bachelors Club has decided
to drop tennis for this season The
club will remain intact and be on the
lookout for suitable grounds in time
to open Up next season. The owner
Of the Woodley Park courts decided to
sell and the: have now been de-.
s,royed and building of a large apart
ment started. The club is planning to
install eight courts next year and ha 3
several good sites in view
One of the postponed matches of
May IL, in the Depa artmental Tenni.
League. was played off on the Potomac
Park courts Friday. when War took
four out of fve from the Labor-State
representatives The summaries fol-
low:
Sos.state 'FionEuos and Skinner, by G-I and
g Al
i.anos-s5ate s decker and saepard'. by G--4 is
! Teams a-1Abor-s ate .smirh and wb,,ner, do.
fcatea War Bentlcy and DrlscoD. by ID. s-5
Teams War Rabbit and CaIdreu, defeated
LAnor-ststc Shoemaker and Nettletou,, hy G-j
and S4.
Teams 5War tWazScner and Hoover, d,fea,ed
] s-2 ~ '' VI and
! The committee appointed to rate the
' - L..
expects to take up its task Immediate
| ly at the close of the middle Atlantic
event. This committee is made up Of
Herbert T. Shannon. c. Arthur Slator
ranking is as follows. and it is quite
| likely that there will be but few
changes when the new list is made up:
,s Class A-Conrad p; Doyle. Harold i.
| Chapman. Edward o. Leech. John c.
| Davidson.
Class R-Arthur slator. Paul J.,
! Treanor. Fred J. Bates. Y. Leech.
, Glass C--H. c. Sheridan. Herbert T..
Shannon. l.. p. McLaughlen, F. F..
Pickford. H. A. Lewis. John 4. Kratz.
| Class D-Donald Woodward. William
| II. Ronsavllle. Carl d. Shepard. Byron
L. Graham. a. r. Ruan and Walter G.
! Allen.
! Class E-Huzh Mackenzie, p. ".
Page. Arthur r. Heaton. E. Edmond
son, 'eorSe r. JAMES ana AlpHeuS Win
! ter.
! Class F-E. C. Robinson. Harris y.
1 Brown, Arthur p. Shelton. Arthur c.
Moses 4. II. Ferguson and W. y Poole
! AS is usually the case in club rank
| ings. only the first class are rated in
dividually. the others being rated as
d class. Any one i'll one class has the
privilege of challenging any one in
the next higher class for position
Those in class r who want 70 get in
,.la &c must beat John Davidson 1Io
s mani while those IN class A. in or
der 10 improve their position, can only
| challenge the player next ahead Of
them.
Mai w A. Bethel, who with Albert
| j. Gore, plays ss No. l team for the
War Department in the Departmental
Tennis League. used to be an excep-
tionally good player and he is rapidly
regaininH some Of his old-time FORM
This ai,. Ias done Snuae hrillia Mt
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KELLER WINS EASILY.
Takes Measure of Fifth by Score of
16 to 6.

Keller Won from Fifth in the East
Washington Sunday School League
yesterday by Is to g.. The contest was
poorly played. The score:
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Justice and War, Interior and Treas
ury and LaborState and Commerce
will meet in the Departmental League
at Potomac Park Saturday and some
good matches shoul3 result. II Com
nrerce loses a single match it will
drop from first to second place in the
standing.
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Hard to Dispute Facts.

IT IS hard to dispute such facts as
these on record. yet nevertheless am
stlii convinced that this English posi-
ton for doubles is unsound. and
everything else being equal, fast VOL
ieEing Americans at the net should put
the strikers partner out of commission
Just as Beals Wright did some years
ago with The Doherty brothers me
successes it has scored seem also 70
hang on the individual briliiance OF
one or both of the teams using tine
play. particularly on their skill in low
underhand volleying. which is an es-
sentia1 to its success. Certain if is that
there are not half a dozen PLAYERS IN
America who can volley underhand
well enough to win from the service
line.
A more recent development of the
doubles game in this country has been
the use of what has been called the
American formation" This is used
only By the servers side, but seems TO
have distinct advantages. II consists IN
varying the customary position used
for the servers partner at the net, hav.
ing him stand d the center rather than
to one side, and the serve rhimself run
Evening star., 1915-06-06

work in the middle Atlantic event. now
being played at Columbia. Maj. Bethel
was open champion Of the northwest in
best players in the city, and together
they make auite formidable combine
ton.
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Mai w A. Bethel, who with Albert
j. Gore. plays az No. l team for the
War Department in the Departmental
Tennis League. used to be an excep-
tionally good player and he is rapidly
regaining some Of his old-time FORM
This pair has done some very brilliant
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| Ed Eynon won the prize donated by
! J. T. HendriclI for the best composite
score made in the two rounds at CO.
! lumbia Decoration day. Eynon's ~
won by several strokes.
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PROBLEM BY !. y. KEYNES.
BLACK,
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One of the postponed matches of
May IL, in the Departmental Tennis
League. was played off on the Potomac
Park courts Friday. when War took
four out of five from the Labor-State
representatives The summaries fol-
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The local clubs have been invited to
send entries to the annual tourna-
:nent of the Allegheny Country Club at
Sewickley. Pa. which will be played
June 2. 10. II and 12. and one or two
players are contemplating taking in
the event.
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Country Club has a player who will
bear watching. and who is going to-
ward the top in leaps and bounds He
has done such consistent work in re-
cent tournaments that his handicap D
has been cut to eight strokes, and at
the rate he is going it probably will
be cut still more. In Thursdays play,
in the District championship tourney.
he furnished the surprise of the event
by giving George James one of the
worst beatings he has ever received,
winning I up and s. AS James is one
of the few local players whose name
appears on the national handicap list,
Woodward win is quite feather in
his cap"