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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-05
Sterilized Message of Governor Tener

Sterilized Message OF Governor Tener
TT GOVERNOR TENER njects no more
i enthusiasm into the National League than
he has put into the report of his tenure of
State Office, all the life of the big baseball
organization will have to be supplied by the
players and the fans. The Message to the
General Assembly of Pennsylvania, as given
today in Harrisburg and to be found on an
other page of the EVENING LEDGER, is a cold,
formal and perfunctory document that could
cause neither thrill nor shock to the hearers
or readers
Department after department is brought
under review and disposed of in sterilized
sentences of approval. The citizens of the
Commonwealth are told that even State
affairs should be established on businesslike
principles; that the Health Department has
done its duty; that the school code is really
in operation; that Pennsylvania is the great
est coal-produclng territory in the world that
we may be proud of charities; that the
Department of Agriculture compares favor
ably with like departments in other States;
that changing from beehive coke ovens to
by-product ovens eliminates waste the Ma
tonal Guard has maintained its efficiency.
One of the longest sections of the message is
an unimpassioned defense of or apology for
the Highway Department. Equal suffrage
has six chilly lines of reserved approval.
The message is valuable, nevertheless. 1t
shows what a magnificent opportunity lies
before Governor Brumbaugh. If Pennsylva-
MIA could be so orderly and respectable and |
prosperous without forceful and contagious |
we may expect the Commonwealth |
to bound forward under the compelling per-
sonality of a Chief Executive who puts un-
5tinted soul into his work.
Pennsylvania hungers and thirsts for
strong and independent Executive. Doctor
is the man!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-05

Mr. Bryan may be right when he says
that IA case Of an emergency 8 million
would answer the ean % arms. but the ques-
ton e. Nhere ere lha AEnal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-05

Mr.. Roosevelt says, In a petulant mood.
that the people are tired OF him; and ne was
always admittedly Ia a class by himself at
analyzing public opinion,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-05

Any ordinary hero can die Tor his cola-
ify onee bur requires the saeliniesl patriot
isn lo submit s. pelps kIllsa ltzek
da he Crown ~ ana eHsII
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-05

A few weeks Of the naked truth win not
hurt Philadelphia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
YACHTSMEN ON COURTS
Pensonhurst Sees Some Lively
Lawn Tennis Matches.

Play in the invitation tennis tourna-
ment among the clubs of Brooklyn at
the courts of the Bensonhurst Yacht
Club reached the second round yester-
day. The tournament is at doubles,
and the clubs playing are mostly lower
bay yachting organizations. The best
match was between Harry S. Roberts
and Lincoln Reimer, Knickerbocker f.
F., who defeated Chester Shubert and
D. w. Jennings, Borough Park Tennis
Club, by Sc, GO, 6-3.
The scores:
First round-Riberts and Reimer. Knickerbocker
T. c. defeated Shubert aud Jennings, Borough
Park T. C.. 3-6, e.. IS. Langdon and Allen.
Kings County r C.. defeated ShumWay and Jack
son. Terrace Club. At. CT 6-l Lewis aud En-
mits BeusOnhurst Y. C.. defeated Pucinell and
Shaw Atlantic y. C.. 6-2. e.: George and Rand.
Terrace Club defeated Carroll and Raincy. Marine
Bcrsonhur,t Y c. defeated Braudeman and
= hIcgl BAY Ridge F. C.. 6. e Bennett and
Wiugoosc. BAY Ridge =. c.. defeated Roberts and
Vale Atlantic y. c.. 10y default. Anderson and
Chamhers Kuckerbocker r. G., defeated Noble and
Warden Marine aud Field club I'll. 6-2; Barrow
and HARRY borough Park i. C., defeated Daniels
a.. Huincs. kmckefboCker j. G.. t-4. g
Second rouud--Jewis and Emmets defeated George
and Rand. IS 81. "a. Pus aud Burgess de-
featei Bennett and WillgooSe 6-l Is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Detroit Course Is
Complete Golf Test

to get 8, much less 4. And the
odds are that he will not very often
get his 5.
Chick Evans's Chinc
This course certainly gives Chick
Evans the best chance he has had in a
long time TO achieve his enduring am
bition, viz. the winning of an Ameri-
can amateur golf cha mpionship. II is
the best chance he 'nas had since his
stand at the Chicago. Golf Club course
in 1912, where he re Ached the final only
10 bump in the aftC nnoon against Trav-
ers's 80 going QUO. IL may be in his
favor, too, that re hasn't been playing
at as high form this August as he was
at this date las; year.
This fact sho old bring him to the top
of his game b. starting time, and u is
far better 10 enter championship Just
swinging in'so line than it is TO enter
when one has been playing at top
speed for some time previous to the
vital test.
Two cher golfers who should do
well over this golfng landscape are
Jesse Ghilford, of Boston. and Nelson
Whitney, of New Orleans. Both pc
long 20 the class of long, straight MT
tiers who will find the very fne par 4
holeel to their liking and to their ad-
van cage.
But the golfer who hasn't good com
m and over the full iron shot UP to the
ran will find all the trouble he can
larry at Detroit--and the three best
MT this shot bring us again to the three
+ names mentioned above all others IN
regard to the final winner-Iravers;
Ouimet and Evans. Which will 1t be
why spoil the thrill Of speculation or
the lure of prophecy?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
CURREN VICTOR
IN JUNIOR 44o-
YARD TITLE SWIM
Lee, of Columbia, Fifteen
Yards Back, with
Schmeelk Third.

John J. Curren, of the New York
Athletic Club, captured the junior 44O-
yard Metropolitan Association swim
ming championship held at the ia
meica Bay Yacht Club, Holland, Rock
away Beach, yesterday. Curren won
by Is yards in 6:33 2-5.
Charley Lee, of Columbia University,
who swan unattached, finished second.
Garry Z. Schmeelk, unattached, was
third, barely beating out A. J. Palen-
scar, of the Hungarian-Am Ath-
letic Club, who fought him stroke for
stroke in the last lap, until five yards
from the finish. Schmeelk was seven
yards behind Lee. Jack A. Weissing,
of the West Side Young Mems Chris
tian Association, finished fifth. Pres
cctt Palmer, of the New York Athletic
Club, retired after swimming half the
course.
For the first lap of IS yards the six
swimmers moved along, swimming
abreast with Curren well on the inside.
As the first turn was reached, Curren
got the best take-off, which gave him
a small lead, which he increased at
each turn to the finish. Schmeelk, who
was second at the 330-yard mark. be-
gan to weaken, and Lee caught him at
the turn for the final lap.
Sam Lothian. of the West Side
Young Mems Christian Association,
made the most of his 13-second handi-
cap in winning the 75-yard swim. He
splashed away from the start. and won
by a two-foot advantage over James I.
Curtin, jr., unattached.
L. B. Bud Goodwin swan an exhi-
bition swim of $50 yards in 1:44 2-5.
The summaries follow:
75-yard swim (handicapl Won by 8 J. Lothian.
We; side Y NJ &. A. Q3 seconds James T.
curtin. H. unattached 10 seconds. second Henry
Knecht. West side Y VI. c. A. tscratchl. third.
Fine. 0.i6 2-5.
yard swim Metropolitan Association Junior
championship l-Won by John J. Curren. New York
A. e. ]. C. Lee. Ir.. unattached. second. Garry
T.. Schmeelk. unattached. third. A. j. Pglenscar.
IIunsar an American A. e. fourth. Jack A Weis-
sing unattached. fifth. Time. 33 2-5.
220-yard swim thAndicapl Won by 7. A. Ruddy.
unattached t3S seconds. c. J. Dixon. West side
Y NJ G. A (3j seconds. second. Henry knecht.
West side Y. NJ c A. Us seconds. third. Time,
226
Harlequin race-won by A J. Palenscar. Hun
sarian American A, c; J. Curren; View York
A. third
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Takes Measure of Nelson
Whitney After Well
Played Match.
GARDINER WHITE OUT
IN MORNING PLAY
Falls Victim to Southern Final
ist in Low Score
Round.

Southampton, n. Y, Aug. 21.-Show.
ing flashes of old time form, Oswald
Kirkby, former Metropolitan champion,
defeated Nelson Whitney, of New Or
leans, in the final of the tournament
over the National Golf Links of Amer
lea to-day. The margin was and 3.
Early in the day Kirkby took the
measure Of E. B. Prindle, of SHINE
cock Hills, by and 8. Prindle was the
Cornell captain for the last two years.
He evidently had shot his bolt yester-
day against James r. Hyde. for he was
powerless in his match with Kirkby.
Whitney advanced after eliminating
Gardiner w. White, Of Flushing, 3
and 2. Against White, Whitney dis
PLAYED excellent golf. going out in 3S
and reaching the sixteenth green,
where the match ended, in % strokes.
In other words, he had to make a Il
and for rs.
1t was quite a different story against
Kirkby. All through his tournament
Whitney has had to deal with players
who require minute attention. First,
there was Philip Carter; then Reginald
NJ. Lewis. To-day Gardiner White,
then Kirkby, were his opponents, and
he overcame them all except Kirkby.
The Englewood man started in in
vincible fashion. running down long
putt for on the first hole and reach
ing the sixth in l under As. The
seventh was passed b. Kirkby, who
pulled his tee shot into the rough-a
trick he had been doing all dAy-and
was not out on his third. He took Z
for the hole. Ragged golf marked the
game of both men from there on, each
being wild.
On the thirteenth hole, for instance.
Whitney's tee shot found a deep trap
and he overplayed in getting out. Al
though Kirkby half topped into the
rushes, he was well out, and won the
hole with 4. Then, on the cape hole,
Whitney topped his drive into the bay
and took for the hole. Kirkby was a
up there and the match ended with a
halve in at the fifteenth.
The card follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
DEFENCE YACHTS LAID UP
Resolute and Vanitie Under
Cover for Another Year.

Roth candidates for the defence OF
the Americas Cup have been laid up
for the season. The New YORK facn'
Clubs syndicate yacht Resolute' which
has won thirteen races out OF sixteen
starts this season. Is laid up at the
Herreshoff's, at Bristol, R. l., while the
yanitie, with three races to her cTedi..
has been hauled cut at the YARD Oh. het
builders, George Lawley & Son, az
Nenonset. Mass, where the schooner
Sea Call. also owned by Alexander
smith Cochran, has been broken up on
account Of the corrosion Oh the mohei
metal used in her construction.
Some of the other large yachts are
beginning to 90 out Of commission,
omong them the $50" Carolina, owned
bv Pembroke Jones. She is hauled out
at Robert Jacobs yard, City Island. Inc
schooner Queen, formerly the irolits,
which was used as tender for tne
Resolute this summer, is also hauled
out at the same place.
The annual autumn open race OF cne
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht CLUB VIII
he sailed on the Sound off Oyster bay
ON September 4. The starting and nm
ish line will be off Lloyd's Neck. There
will be individual prizes for the crews
of yachts manned wholly by Corinthians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Watt Wins on the
Great Neck Courts

II. L. Watt won the lawn tennis sim
giles club championship of the Great
Neck Country Club in the one-day tour
nament yesterday. Watt defeated II.
NJ. Hobart in the final round by score
of 60, Cd, 4-6, "a. The last two
sets were hard played, Hobart forcing
the issue and keeping his opponent
sprinting about the court to intercept
his shots.
The summaries follow:
First round-H NJ. Hobart beat =. Lyons IS,
6-i
second round-A Walker beat A Bissell. 6--3.
IS. h. NJ Hobart beat NJ. Grace. -. SIS:
II l. Watt beat II. Sears. 6-2. e.. ". Powell
won by default
Third round-H NJ. Hobart beat A. Walker. g.
O.. H. l. Watt beat W Powell. 90 I'll
Final round-H L. Watt beat II. VI. Hobart.
-. GO. As. Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Mermaids of National League
to Compete at Sheepshead
Bay-Another Test
for Vollmer.
By l.. DE B. HANDLEi.

The mermaids of the National Wom-
ems Lifesaving League will compete
to-day for the championship titles OF
the organization at Chisholm's Bath,
Sheepshead Bay. Eight events are on
the programme and entries have been
received from the leading swimmers
and divers in the metropolitan district.
The rescue race, in which the con-
testants must sprint % yards, pick up
a living subject, then carry the puta-
tive victim to the starting line, promises
to be the most interesting feature OF
the meet Miss Edna Cole has in the
past been a frequent winner in tests OF
this nature and ranks favorite, but she
will meet worthy rivals this afternoon
and keen competition should result.
In the sprinting championships Miss
Rita Greenfield, the present holder, is
booked to face Miss Clare Galligan, a
new addition to the league team and
one of the speediest hundred-yarders
in the East.
At the longer distances the Misses
Lucy Freeman, Elsie Sultan, Dora
Hyatt, Martha flagstaff and Helen
Peitler are the like.iest candidates.
The Metropolitan A. A. U. half-miie
swimming championship will be decided
next Saturday at Travers Island under
the supervision of the New York Ath-
letic Club. Bud Goodwin, Herbert Voll-
mer, Joseph Wheatley, Nicholas Nerich
and Harry O'Sullivan are expected TO
toe the mark.
Judging from recent performances,
Vollmer should win, but Wheatley is
always a dangerous opponent, and re-
port has il that O'Sullivan is moving
fast enough to make things interesting
for both.
The fair natators will again be the
attraction on Thursday at the weekly
carnival of the Glenmore Athletic Club
in the big pool at Steeplechase Park,
Coney Island. The card is made up of
a 50-yard novice swim, an 84-yard
handicap and a fancy diving contest.
Henry Elionsky, of New Haven, is
making arrangements to attempt 100
mile continuous swim in the North
Hudson River from Albany TO New
York Bay. He estimates that it will
take him about thirty-six hours TO COM
plete the journey.
A new star may soon appear in the
field Of swimming for women. Miss
Elizabeth O. Robson, a pretty graduate
of Vassar College, has been doing some
good swimming in Lake George this
summer, and competent judges who
have seen her in action predict bril-
liant future for her. While she has
not competed heretofore, she possesses
unusual natural ability, and her rapid
improvement of late makes it probable
that she will be in line for signal hon.
ors before long.
In a recent article on the trudgeon
crawl F. H. Meynell, Of England, ex-
presses the opinion that this stroke
will not prove so effective as the plain
trudgeon for distance swimming be-
cause the CONTINUOUS leg drive-a COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22

a medal handicap, and the result was a
tie between G. H. Finn, Of Pittsburgh,
with 97-lS-79, and L. W. Callan, of
the National Links, with S6-7-79.
The summary follows:
Firs, sixteen (semi-nnal roundl-Oswak Kirkby.
Bnglewood. beat f. y. Prinde. Shinnecock Hills.
; up and 10 play: Nelson Whitney. New orleans.
beat Gardiner W White, Flushing 3 up and ,
Final round-Kirkty beat Whitney. up and 3
Beaten eight mrs, sixteen. semi final roundl-
Stephen T. Nash. BaltusTol. beat d Frazier.
Essex County. Mass. by default; Philip V. g.
Garter. Nassau; beat j. ID. Cooke. shinnecock
Final round-Carter beat Nash up and to
Second sixteen (semi hnal round)-Psul Moore.
Morris County; beat A; W. Dole Merrimac Val
ley up and ! 10 play E6en NJ byers Ale
Final ro1nd-Byers teat Moore. up and to
Beaten eight Csecond sixteen. semi anal roundl--
J. A solwedel. Canoe Brook. beat Hepburn II.
seepy Hollow np Sest Reginald Book SsioSs
Final roaind-Johnson beat solwedsl. up and
Third sixteen (semi anal round william Wat
son. Baltusrol. heat c NJ B,Iter. NATIONAL Links.
County. beat J. = Byer. Allegheny. w and
Watson bea, vsnderpool up us holesl.
Beaten eight third sixteen tsemi final rOund)-
shepard X De Forest National Links. heat u. X.
stern Maidstone 3 up aud 20 play. Z. A.
Thomson. National Links. beat James A. StNlman.
National Links. , up and 10 PLAY.
Final round-De Forest beat Thomson. up
Fourth sixteen (semi -nnsl roundl-Malcolm Nc
Buruey National Links. beat Fulton Cutting IT,.
Essex County. up: d Childs. EnsleWood beat
J. Iusley Blair. National Links. up and 90 play.
Final round-McBumey beat Childs. ! up tly
hoesl.
Beaten eight. fourth sixteen tsemi-fnsl roundl-
G q Comstock jr.. SLEEPY Hollow. heat W. w.
White Euglewooi / w ll9 holes). l.. Il. Van
Iueen National Links. beat r. u. Graham. Ma
tional Links. up and 70 play.
90 play.
Fifth sixteen tsemi .nnal roundl-HsTlon O'Con-
nell Yountakah beat p A. Lynch Rocksway Hunt.
up and 10 play. Clarence ]. Martin. BAltusrol.
beat J. X. Secor. National Links. Up and to
play.
Beaten eight hfth sixteen tseIni- nnal round)-C.
= Watson National Links. beat r {. Fogel. ApA-
wants up and 6 20 play T. : DAnforth. Norfolk.
beat Daniel Chauncey National LINKS up ana
TO play 49,, - ,,o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Fair LifeSQperS Make
Bid for Titles Today

bination of scissor kick and crawl
thrash-makes it impossible 70 proper
ly relax and recuperate between ef-
forts.
Admitting without hesitation that
frequent relaxation of the working
muscles is essential to success in any
form of prolonged physical activity,
one must still disagree with the British
critic, for there is ample opportunity 10
relax if the stroke is performed cor
rectly.
1t need hardly be pointed out that in
the scissor kick the legs may and
should be opened slowly in relaxation,
for this is a negative movement OF re-
sistance, then snapped together vigor-
ously, as this is the positive movement
of propulsion.
Now, if the following crawl-thrash is
carefully analysed il will be found COM
posed of a series Of narrow scissor
kicks. Instead of stopping after clos
ing the legs keep on moving, pass and
open again for another drive, with the
feet having changed positions; but the
principle is the same.
In other words, the legs are in posi-
tive movement until they meet and in
negative movement after passing each
other. Therefore, the first half Of
every upward and downward drive
should be made theoretically, the Sec
ond half of both without power, in re-
taxation. Obviously, then, there is
plenty of time to relax the muscles
after each individual application Of
power.
For the rest, the fact that the worlds
one mile record was established with
the trudgeon crawl is proof enough
that it is not as trying as Mr.. Meynell
would make US believe.
Robert Bowling, the crack long dis
lance swimmer who failed recently in
an attempt to circle Manhattan Island,
is convinced that the trip can be ac-
complished AMI will try it again soon.
T. H. Rowland, the noted coach and
trainer, will handle him on the journey.
He expresses confidence that under
favorable conditions Bowling will sue
coed.
The metropolitan one mile swimming
championship will be run off at
Steeplechase Park on September 4.
The Western Rowing Clubs annual
marathon swim for women will be held
next Saturday in the Mississippi River.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Meanix CriticiseS
Judging at Frisco

W. H. Meanix, Of the Boston A. A.,
in a letter to friend in this city, re-
ceived a day or two ago, makes a fur
Their plant about the judging at the
national championships of the A. A. U.
at San Francisco two weeks ago.
Meanix said that, in his opinion, Dave
Caldwell beat Campbell, of Chicago, in
the half-mlle run. He also complained
that the officials refused to allow the
record which he made in the quarter
mile hurdle race, despite the fact that
there was no wind at the time that race
was run. He ventured the opinion that
Norman Taber was stale" when he ran
second to Joie Ray in the mile run.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Player Who Goes Through
for Amateur Title Must
Be on His Game.
BOTH DISTANCE AND
DIRECTION NEEDED
Rice's Analysis of Players and
Links Brings Travers, Ouimet
and Evans 10 Fore.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

Westward the stars of golfdom take
their way, as a certain profound sage
almost put il some seasons back. AT
Detroit this next Saturday $50 of the
finest golfers America has ever sent to
her amateur classic will start in the
first 1s-hole medal round, and on the
Monday following the sixty-four best
will continue for another Is holes until
the picked and lucky thirty-two VIII be
selected for Tuesdays match play over
the 36-hole route.
Many words and countless phrases
have been used in the last few weeks
outlining the chances of leading stars,
but 10 get q better line upon possibih-
ties or probabilities ahead 1t is first
necessary 70 consider the nature an ID
physical build of the course over VIII oh
the next championship is TO be played
to consider this in connection 9Th
the various styles of those who will
compete.
The Test Incarnate.
To begin, no course in Amer ca-un-
less il is the National or the Pine Val
lev course-offers a finer test of title
making play. For the Detroit Country
Club field of play puts an almost equal
premium upon both directi on and dis
tance-whch is, of course, the abound
ing test Of golf skill. Briefly, a short
hitter who can keep strai ght will be at
big disadvantage against long hitter
who can also hold the ine-at much
bigger disadvantage tran he would be
over most championship courses in.this
country. This is utterly fair, for the
champion should be a golfer who can
get both distance and direction, who
can control power--who can hit far and
hit straight.
Both Ways.
The Detroit course is not only fine
test of the tee, but through the green.
Take in comparison, for example,
Baltusrol, one of the leading courses Of
the East. Baltusrol is a wonderful test
from the tee, but not nearly so much
through the green, where, with very
few exceptions, the final shot TO the pin
is a mashie pitch-and not full iron,
the best test shot N golf.
This weakness doesn't exist at the
Detroit course. In looking over the
distances we find these interesting
facts: 80
/. That there are nine holes, 400
yards or longer.
2. That there are three holes beyond
500 yards in length.
3. That at least five holes require,
after long. straight drive, full iron
70 a well-trapped green-a test which
very few Eastern courses have.
4. That there are at least FIVE differ
ent par a holes, requiring good drives
and well-played seconds 10 get down IN
the allotted figures of PARDON.
5. That any entry who Is erratic from
the tee is up against a handicap he can
hardly overcome, even by skilful play
the rest of the way.
SO here we have the double test-the
test Of wood and iron-where fine golf
can net a where a slip puts par well
out Of reach.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
CaledOnianS to Race
and Dance at MaSpetf1

Professional athletes from afar VIII
compete in the annual track and field
games of the New York Caledonlan
Club at Washington Park, Maspeth, on
Labor Day. Along with the running
races there will be various Scotch
dances.
Entries will be received up to the
time Of the start OF the races, out' 70
facilitate matters, they should be sens
TO John MeGilvray, $40 Seventh Avenue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-22
Wykagyl Country Club.

o. F. Lewis and G. c. Widmer tied
for the net prize with scores of 10 in
the handicap at the Wykagyl Country
Club yesterday. Final rounds in the
club championship tournament were
also scheduled to be decided, but the
two chief actors, T. V. Birmingham
and G. X. Maltby, postponed their
match. In the second sixteen w. +.
Stevenson beat F. F. Taylor up,
while for the third sixteen prize G. B.
Luhman defeated H. W. Boettger up
and 10 play.
The leading scores in the handicap
were as folio,ys.