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Evening star., 1915-04-18
Tennis News and Gossip
About the District Clubs

The splendid weather Of the past
racquet game in all parts Of the Dis
trict. The Columbia. Chevy Chase
Dumba rton. Bapnockburn. Washington
and the municipal courts were occu-
pied daily. everybody tuning up for the
important events to come this sum
mer.
The first big event viii be the Iar-
Fard team against a picked four at the
Chevy Chase Club next Thursday after
noon. Chairman Wilcox and the ten
mis- committee have placed the courts of
the club in grand condition and all that
is needed is good weather The Grim
son team is a very strong one and il
will be feather in the cap of the To-
cal OUTFIT If it can make good show
ing. r. Norris Williams, the national
champion in singles. Is captain of the
Harvard boys, and he alone viii he a
great attraction.
Chairman Wilcox still is in doubt az
to the personnel of the local team. the
this time being Conrad and Harold
Doyle. They will play both in the sin
giles and as doubles team, Connie "
Of course. being slated to face National
Champion r. N. Williams, jr.. in the
singles. This leaves one doubles team
and two single players yet to be Sc
lected. and from the form shown in
practice it is more than likely that
Harvey Bundy will be given third pIace
and that fourth position will he fiIIad
from either Spencer Gordon. Ballard
Moore or j. Upshur Moorhead From
these four players and Chairman wal
ter ID. wilcox the remaining doubles
| team probably also will be selected.
| All of these players have been get
| ting in some good practice .Iicks'' and
are now at their best, and 1t is hardly
| likely that a decision will be made
| until the last minute. The Harvard
| team will be composed of r. N. Will
l!ams. jr.: G. c. Gamer. L. c. Curtis. Cd
and another player not yet selected
| Aside from the outcome of the match
| itself. interest seems to center in the
| singles match between Connie Doyle
| and Williams. Doyle, who is head and
| shoulders above any other local PLAYER.
| has met and defeated many of the
| ranking players of the country includ-
| ing Wallace johnson, Gustav Touchard
| and Fred C. Colston, and as he is now
| going at top speed his work against
/ the champion will be watched with
| great interest. He and Harold will
| meet williams and Gamer in the
| doubles, and this. too, should bring
! out some brilliant tennis and be wort II
| going long way to see.
The new courts being built al the
| Dumbarton Club are progressing salts
| factorily, and will soon be ready for
! the members. The continued dry
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Largest Chess Event in Years
Scheduled at the Man.
haitian Club.
LOWELL AND KNAPP TIED
FOR HONORS IN DISTRICT
Enter Final Round on Even Terms
and One Is Sure to
Be Victor.

Tomorrow afternoon. at the rooms Of
the Manhattan Chess Club, New York
double-round masters tournament
will be launched, which should send a
thrill of pride and pleasure through
every chess player in America. No such
aggregation of talent has been brought
together in this country since the
Cambridge Springs tournament eleven
years ago. J. r. Capabla nca, f. r.
Marshall. A. B. Hodges ]. w. ShowaI-
ter. Eduard Lasker. Oscar Chajes, A.
Kupchick and Or. G. F. Adair are the
masters entered.
Particular interest will attach 10 the
work of Showalter and Hodges, two
former United States champions, both
entering the arena after a long period
of rest from public play. Hodges ha.
| been working into form in the recent
Metropolitan League events, while
Showalter has kept In trim through
frequent bouts with the Correspond
ence king" J. T. Beckner. With Chaje.
who has now won eight straight games
in the individual championship tourna-
ment of the Metropolitan League: Las
ker and Kupchick. all in the pink OF
condition, even such tried veterans as
find the pace difflcult.
Five of the fourteen rounds will be
contested at the Manhattan Chess Club.
seven at the Hotel Grenoble in Man
haitian. and one each at the Brooklyn
Chess Club and the Staten Island Club
Other details concerning the notable
contest are the following: Hours OF
play. 2:30 pm. to $50 pm. and from,
$40 pm. to 1890 pm. Adjournment
games. Wednesdays and Saturdays.
same hours. Time limit, fifteen moves
an hour. Referee. w. NJ. de Wiser.
Tournament managers, Hartwig Cassel
and Hermann Helms.
In the sixth round of the District
championship tournament. played Al
the Capital City Chess Club. Lowell de
feated Pasch. Knapp disposed of VIII
lenchick. Zapoleon beat Walker and
Stacy drew with Tharp. Lowell and
Knapp thus enter the final round on
even terms and as they lead Zapoleor.
their nearest opponent. by a point and
half, first place must fall to one o.
the other. The meeting of these two
experts having resulted in draw, il
is to be hoped that each will finish out
the reguar schedule with victory to
the end that the championship may be
finally determined by match play.
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Inquisitive Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
h"ileNc yonr answer to u query by
Harry A. Westcott in last Sunda IS
pink sheet was incorrect The question
asked was this: IN y league of eight
teams. each team playing two games
With every other team. how many
Games would take place III all. A bet
u that H. would he played and r
claimed that sc would be the correct
number. Which is right" Your answer
was that A was correct. and belle, e
that TO ne wrong. Will YOU kindly
consider the matter again.
''STATION G. FAN.
ArsWer-The answer given in the
pink sheet to this question was both
correct and incorrect. a mistake was
made iii reading the question, as it
was thought that a made the claim
that 80 games would be played and b
the claim that l12 would be the num-
Der.
tions and combinations, taught in the
advanced algebras. Permutations are
the different orders in which things
can be arranged. taken two at n time,
while combinations fare the different
arrangements that can be made Of any
number of things. In making a pcrmu-
tation of any number of things the
first thing may be any one of ", let
ting n stand for the total number Aft
er first place is filled. second can be
nlled WIN any one OF M tnlnSS,
the third with NJ, and so on. Then
the whole number of permutations.
which could be made would be N(N--).
This would give the number Of per
mutations of any number of things
taken two at a time, and a division by
two would give the number if they
were t: ken one at time. or the num-
ber of games that would be played in Il
league of N teams, each team playing
the other teams once each. Then multi
tay tRITN or In, ,l,,,,
of games each team plays the other
teams and the number of games in the
entire season will be had. From this
the following formula is deduced:
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TAPPAN PROVES A STAR.
Hopkins Athlete Does Brilliantly in
Meet With Navy.

Special Dispatch 20 Tie Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, April 1.-THE ath-
letes of Johns Hopkins University made
a game fight but lost to the Annapolis
Midshiprnen in a dual field and track
meet here this evening. by score of
81 to 81 points.
Hopkins needed few more men of the
caliber of Tappan. This muscular little
fellow was easily the star of the meet,
although Collins of Navy performed as
brilliantly as usual in the dashes. Tap
pan was entered in five events. In three
he captured first place. These were the
120 and 220 yard hurdles and high jump,
and he was second in the broad jump
and tied for second In the vaulting
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Alexandria High Wins.

Alexandria High School won a we'll
PLAYED game from Laurel High School
at Laurel yesterday. 10 to s.. Gaines
was invincible for the Firsinians for
seven innings and his team in tho
meantime pounded out a safe lead. not
to be headed.
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FIRST DEFEAT FOR TOME.
Penn Freshmen Trim Marylanders
by Score of II to 4.

FORT DEPOSIT, Md, April 17.-After
four straight victories the Tome School
base ball team lost its first game of
the season to the Penn freshmen this
afternoon by the score of II to T.
Jones did fine work for Tome, driving
out three clean hits, one of them a
long two-bagger. Smith and Martin
did the best work for the Penn fresh
men
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Totals. .3s 3T11 2 Totals. 30 "A IL 10
sRan for Kay.
Georgetown. ....... Q F: XII
u. Of M.... 0 . o o 0 O.
Rms-shugrue. Joyce. Connolly t2i. Barron,
Giacomo. Cusack. Irwin 2l and Brennan t2l-
Left on bases-Georsetown. 4: Maryland. T. First
base on balls-On Kelly. =: OF Danforth, !. In
nngs pitched-By Brennan. 6: by Kelly. ). Hits
made-Of Brennan, 5: of Kelly. J. Struck out
BY Brennan. I: by Kelly. 9: by Danforth. IL.
Three-base hit-Cusack. Two base hits-Danforth,
Barron. Connolly and Brennan. Sacrifice hits
Giacomi and Cusack. Stolen bases-Smith, Kay
and Cass. Wild pitch-Danforth. Passed balls
Steel t2p. Umpire-Mr. Jaescke. Time of
game-1 hour and 55 minutes.
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It was the first game for both Boeh
ling and Foster and neither finished.

One of the cleverest plays of the
game was the preventing of the double
steal which Scott and Cady tried 10
pull in the second inning. Scott was
on third and Cady on first when both
started to advance. Henry made a per-
feet throw to Mcbride, who got the ball
| back to Henry in plenty of time to cut
off Scott.
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The Tampa citizens committee.
which was instrumental in getting the
C.ubs 10 make Tampa their training
grounds first doing business with
Charles W. Murphy when that gentle
man was president there years ago.
finds the Cubs stay this spring has
cost something like $4,000 net. and II
is unlikely that the same arrangement
will prevail another year
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Manager stallings saws a man

Manager Stallings says man shy at
bat. man who steps away from the
plate when a fast one comes shooting
up. should take a fast one in the back
and then he never again would be shy
at the plate. He also says it does not
hurt much or at all to get hit by a
pitched ball.
Evening star., 1915-04-18

Sporting Editor Star:
In the pink sheet inquisiiive Fan s
column of April ! YOU state that Jack
johnson Won the championship from
James j. Jeffries. Please state in next
SUNDAYS Star whether or not Burns
held the championship when johnson
knocked him out. SUBSCRIBER.
Technically Burns was the champion
He had beaten Marvin Hart, to whom
Evening star., 1915-04-18
TERMINAL CLUB VICTOR.
Wins From Marlboro Team by a
Score of 6 to 0.

The Terminal A. c. yesterday defeated
Marlboro on the latter's grounds, to O..
The feature of the game was the pitch
ing of Marcy. Score:
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THREE-cUsHION BILLIARDS.
Ellis of Cleveland Continues in Lead
of Interstate League.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. April li.-Fol-
lowing is the standing i'll the interstate
iar.e-clshion billiard league:
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Penn Freshmen. . o = oil
Runs scored-Jones ~. Baker. Macklin Sulli-
van ,a, Todd Fluhrer. Smith tS'. Burns. Martin.
Hoch, swlgler. TTo,base ;. hi,s-Iones Sullivan,
Martin. Home ran.Sntth Stolen bsses-.;ulli-
Vannort and Evans. Sacrifice -Weems.
Vannort Frantz ~, Todd. Base on balls--otf
Baker A. off Swigler. ;. Left on bases-TOmc
o: Penn Freshmen 8. Hit by pitched ball
Nv Baker lSwisIer). Struck out-Ry Baker, 8:
hy Spisler :. Tmpirc-Mr. cloat
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The score of the following game from
the individual championship tcurna-
ment of the Metropolitan Chess League
shows the fne form In which Mr..
Hodges is now pla wing:
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Totals. ~ = I" Q '."iaIs. 81 8 u u. ]
Terminal A. c.. 0 o o y 1t
Marlboro. o y o Q y . . 90
Runs-Marcey. Kelly. Jacobs. Miller Smith ,2l
Two base hit-Marcey. Left ON bases-Te-minal
6; Marlboro. 4. Struck out-By Marcy, .: by
Grant, =: by Coleman. l. First hnse on bulls
on Grant. A. of Coleman. .; OH Marcy. .
Hit by pitcher-By Marcy niraEi,. Wild pitch
Marcy. Umpires-Messrs. Foster and Brown
Time of game-1 hour and Il: minutes.
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AFTER N0-H|T GAME
Johnson and Alexander Have
Yet to Land Such a Contest.
BOTH CLOSE TO HONOR
Would Like to Be Classed With
Twirling Heroes Before
Quitting Sport.

Just suppose. Mr. Regular Fan. that
your cotemporary, Mr.. Near Fan. should
accost you the street today and
speak thusly: Brother. who, in your
opinion, are the two greatest pitchers
of the time?' Wouldn't you look at
him in plying scorn and reply: Don't
be foolish: Grover Cleveland Alexander
and Walter Johnson. of course writes
Perry Lewis IN the Philadelphia Ledger,
Ard then suppose you walked a block
and Mir Old Fan buttonholed you and
asked: Brother, who. in your opinion.
are the two greatest pitchers OF al.
time?" Wouldn't your answer he the
same" II YOUR questioner burst INTO
skeptical laughter and told you to con-
sult a physician, you probably would
swallow hard. bid him a hurried fare
well. go home. think the matter over,
square you, 81 sloulde-s. look him up
the neXt day ard ssy:
see here: yesterday | said Alexander
and Johnson were the greatest pitchers
OF all time-and it goes. If you have
any other ideas. lets hear them
Then would ensue a long argument,
IN which your opponent would mention
rhc names of Burlington. Rusie. Fergu-
son. Radbournc. Mathewson. Rucker.
Bender. Wood Walsh, Cy Young, and a
host of others. You could answer all
his arguments until he bomba arded you
with this one: well, neither Alexander
ror Johnson ever pitched no-hit
game
As far as you We're concerned. silence
Mr.. Real Fan, would then reign. for
your opponents statement would be
entirely correct. The Phillies great
pitcher has never shut out an opposing
team. and neither has the Washington
speed king. Marvellous games theE
have both pitched. Several one-hit
games they have recorded. many two
hit games. and myriad three-hit games
they have twirled-but they have yet
to hang big round . in the hit col
lfnu of an enemy.
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weather has retarded the settling Of
the bases and the big hose borrowed
from the fire department has been fire.
quently used, but is not as satisfactory
as steady downpour of rain. Several
Of the Dumbarton players will take
part In the Chevy Chase Clubs open
even: May IA, and expect to push their
being winners in the different events.
President Gould has been out of the
city during the past week, but other
officials of the club have kept things
moving smoothly.
Much interest is being shown in the
tenth annual Middle Atlantic tourney to
be held at Columbia May 20. A. Y.
Leech. chairman of tennis committee.
said that nearly seventy-five racket
ers would be entered.
G. 3. Doyle. captain of tennis team at
Columbia. is on the courts every day
and is playing the best game of his
life. From present indications the
team this year will be composed of A.
Y. Leech. Edward Leech. Rol. Doyle,
w. Mclean. w. H. Ronsaville, Fred
Bates, Arthur Slator and Herbert T.
Shannon.
Capt Doyle is arranging schedule OF
interclub matches with local clubs.
Woman racketers will be active at
Columbia this season. Among those
who are practicing every day are Miss
DOYLE. Mrs. Alpheus Winter and Miss
Eva Baker. District champion. Miss
Doyle is making arrangement for q
tennis tourney this summer for women
only. Prizes will be awarded the win
ners by the Columbia Club.
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derus ended things by polling the ball

derus ended things by polling the ball
into Broad street for home run.
Again in St Louis early last season
Alexander had eight of the Cards at his
mercy ali the time Wilson. the ninth.
he baffled twice but the third time
Wilson got his big bat on fast one
for a regular hit. thus spelling another
budding opportunity
These are but three instances of how
near the Nebraska lad has come to re-
cortlng no-hit game There have
been many such. Perhaps the greatest
game that Alexander ever pitched was
late in September of last year against
the st. Louis Cardinals at Broad and
Huntingdon streets. It will be re-
membered that 1t was Growers twenty
fifth win of the season. mark he had
to reach in order to collect a bonus of
$1,000.
badly shot to pieces and going worse
every day. The men were not hitting
and the fielding was atrocious. The
Cards were tearing along. playing bail
all the time and a hard team to beat.
Nevert heless, Alexander shut them out
with two scratch inf1eld hits. Both
should have been fielded easily had the
ball acted as any self-respecting ball
should Instead. it took freak bound
each time. No one could be charged
with an error. and therefore the scor-
ers were forced to register hits.
$50 That Was the Great Alexander"
That night Miller Higgins, the wise
director of the Cards. was seated in a
hotel chair close by q number Of his
younger players who were discussing
them remarked:
SO that was The Great Alexander: ::
pretty good. but ! can't see where he
had 50 much stuff at that
Hugeins slowly turned in his chair
ana hXed the speaker with a critical
eye.
Young man" he said, you may be
N base ball twenty years. but you will
never see a greater pitcher than Alex
ander. and you will never see a greater
game pitched than YOU saw this after
noon.
COMPARISONS are odious and the writ
ef VIII therefore avoid balancing the
work OF Alexander and johnson. Amer
lean League players who took the
Frank Bancroft's two teams at the
close of the 1914 season were not back
ward in saying what they thought of
!: Gsorge Moriarity of the Detroit Ii
players at Gulfport this spring. and in
the course of the talk he remarked:
Alexander IS the greatest pitcher ]
ever laced or ever saw. Johnson may be
trlhe faster. but Grover has side-arm
delivery which is very deceiving and it
adds much TO the value of his fast one.
His curve ball is a masterpiece-the
greatest curve ball now seen on a
Alexander controls it
perfectly"
Said Jimmy Walsh of the Athletics,
who took the trip:
The work of Alexander is marvellous,
We all must admit that we never saw
any better pitching. and doubt
whether We ever will see any better,
pitching
Boone of the Yankees, Henry of
Washington. Crawford of Detroit and
Frank Bancroft all concurred in the
opinions of Moriarty and Walsh. They
were amazed at what Alexander show
ed them. And why should they not be
when 1t is remembered what he did:
Always a Willing Worker.
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Only 81 Men Face Alexander.

In this game Miller was the only man
to reach first, Alexander not giving
a base on balls. And Doc did not linger
long, for a moment later he was dou-
bled up. There were no errors. so that
only twentyseven men faced Alex
ander in the course of the game.
Later in 1911 the tall wcsterner added
another laurel to his crown. The Phil
lies were playing Cincinnati at Broad
and Huntingdon streets. The score was
tied in the eighth inning and Alexander
was sent to the hill. From the eighth
TO the sixteenth inning he did not all
low q hit or permit d man to reach first.
In the last half of the sixteenth Lu-
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WHITE.

WHITE.
White to play and mate in three moves
R-BS PRO ..:.:. h-h.'
2 P-B3ch kxkt I.-N6ch h-e'
3 B-B5 mate '"f-h" mate
B-kI
2Q1Rch h-lS5
3 B-R6 mate
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Always a Willing Worker.

Al the conclusion of the trip Ban
croft had this to say:
Not only is Alexander the greatest
pitcher ] ever saw or ever expect to
see, but he also is the most willing
worker I know. and his disposition is
everything that a pitchers should be.
he is quiet. unassuming. not prone to
blame his support, no matter how bad
1t is. a wonderful pitcher. a fine gen.
tleman and great credit to the game
Is Grover Cleveland Alexander"
~ Alexander's fine sense of duty and
ooiisdtlon 10 his employers what more
can be said than to tell of a certain
day IN Pittsburgh last season.
Ine Phillles were going about as bad
as team could go. The infleld was a
wreck and it was anything but an in
vItihs task for pitcher to work.
Alexander was down in the pit warm
ing up. about the third inning a tele-
gram addressed to Alex was handed
Doom. who sent the bat boy down to
the PIT with it, The pitcher opened it
a. read of the death of his sister.
ms eyes were moist as he dropped
the pail and leaned against the grand
stand The fourth, fifth and sixth in
nlngs passed. In the seventh the
Pirates started bomba rdment of hits
and IT was evident that another pitcher r
must be sent in. as Pittsburgh was but
'Wo runs dnead ana there was still q
slight chance to win the game.
Alexander tucked the telegram in his
pocket. motioned Eddie Burns to don
his glove and started warming up The
summons came. Doom sent for Alex
ander. and the big pitcher walked to-
ward the box. The manager met him
on the diamond.
That telegram said my sister died
this morning." said Alexander. as he
stepped in the box.
DOOM. ever sympathetic and impet-
uous, urged the pitcher to leave the
field and hurry west, but the Nebras-
kan shook his head and stepped on the
rubber
"Ill finish this game and leave as
soon as 1t is over" he said
Brain Heavy With Grief.
And to the end of the game that won
derfu1 right arm hurled and twisted
the ball over the plate with all it's
cunning. His brain was heavy with
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The X stands for the number of
games to be played with each team by
another team, or in this case
SiS-1)
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Sporting Editor Star:
We wish you would inform US through
your pink sheet of Sunday. April IS, if
John L. Sullivan ever fought negro
in his whole career as a pugilist-
TRUCK CO. No. 2, D. c. F. D.
NJ Cevar
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or in case of the American League il
would be:
S(S--1)
-E2o-6lS
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Jeffries had given the title when he
claimed to have retired, but when JEFF
fries returned to the ring he was the
recognized holder of the title.
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Brain Heavy With Grief.

And to the end of the game that won
derfu1 right arm hurled and twisted
the ball over the plate with all its
cunning His brain was heavy with
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Killjoy Always Bobs Up.

other records have been created by
these two wonderful right arms. but
always there has been some killJoy
with a heavy bludgeon to srnite the
twisting sphere for a technical hit and
spoil the entire day. If the hltters
found it impossible to get the ball to
sure-enough safe territory. one of the
supporting cast would miss cue. lose
a ball in the sun, or muddle things up
in such a manner that the scorer was
forced to credit the batsman with
hit Something always happened.
Certainly it is not because they have
not tried that the pair have no no-hit
games. 1t is the ambition of every
pitcher to enter this exclusive circle.
How much more is it the desire OF two
such men as Alexander and johnson,
who know that they are capable of
having their names written on the list
of flinging heroes.
Both Alexander and Johnson have
just missed no-hit honors many, many
times. Probably the nearest that
Grover ever canae to the goal was in
September. 1911. The PhillieS were
playing the Braves in Boston and Alex
was in splendid form. Inning after in
ming he baffied the batmen with ease
and it was apparent that. barring ac-
cidents, the Boston men would be hit
less.
Then Doc Miller, that sterling pinch
hitter. who became d member OF
Dooins squad the following year. step
ped to the plate. With two strikes and
one ball on him, Doc swung into one
and as our friend with the golf sticks
would say. "he topped it, The ball
rolled slowly down toward third
Either Alexander or Lobert could have
handled il with ease, but We're over
anxious. and in their efforts they col
lided and Miller reached first. Neither
Alexander nor Lobert could be charged
with an error and SO Miller got credit
for q hit. 1t was the only hit the
Prayrs obtained that day
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The new courts being built at the
Dumbarton Club are progressing satis-
factorily, and will soon be ready for
the members. The continued dry