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New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Plans for Big
Tennis Tourney
at Forest Hills
Challenge Round In National
Doubles Will Be Held on
August %.

Announcements are out for the ma
tional tennis championships of the
United States, TO be held on the grass
courts Of the West Side Tennis Club,
Forest Hills, Monday, August rs, and
following days. The challenge round
Of the doubles championship will be
held August %, the team winning the
preliminary national doubles, which
will be played at the Onwentsia Club,
Chicago, August Is, being called upon
to face William NJ. Johnston and Clar-
ence ]. Griffin, of San Francisco, pres
ent title holders.
A departure in the method Of enter
ing the tournament will be made this
year. Entries, for which the fee is So,
must be sent to Paul B. Williams, the
first field secretary Of the United States
National Lawn Tennis Association, 20
Broad Street, not later than August l8.
In accordance with a resolution OF the
executive committee, entries will be re-
ceiyed only through the secretary OF
the club 70 which the player belongs,
instead Of from the player himself.
This restriction is designed to keep
down the number of entrants TO a work
able size and to keep the less expert
performers away.
The winners Of the ten sectional
junior singles championships and Of
the ten sectional boys championships
will play for their national titles at the
West Side Club August 81 and follow
ing days. All championship matches
will be best three Of five sets. George
Townsend Adee, president Of the ma
tional association. will act as referee
of the tournament. The championship
tournament committee includes Mr..
Adee, Edwin Fuller Torrey and c.
Frederick Watson, jr.
Season tickets for the matches will
be sold in advance. The price is s5 a
ticket Members Of clubs belonging 20
the association will receive preference
in the allotment of seats. Applications
for all season tickets must be made
not later than August IA to Harry
Parker, treasurer, West Side Tennis
Club committee, East Forty-second
Street
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Beginning at Longwood To-
morrow Tennis Events
Lead Up to National.
By JAMES 5. O'NEALE.

Every chain is said to have weak
est link, but close inspection does not
reveal any weak links in the chain of big
grass court tennis tournaments lead
ing right up TO the national champion
ships at Forest Hills. August 2S and
following days. With Longwood,
which begins tomorrow, the biggest
events, the ones which the ranking
committee Of the L. s. y. L. T. A. con-
slider most seriously, come in all their
seriousness Each player hereafter is
on dress parade No one can afford
to lose any more. and we fear Wen
soon be going bankrupt
Annually Longwood is the first Of
the tournaments 10 be entered by the
majority of the cracks. Usually Mau-
rice T. Mclaughlin comes East in time
for the event, but the new firm Of Nc
Loughlin and Bundy, Los Angeles. just
must have tennis expert ready FOR
customers, and the Titian-tinted Mau-
RE must be Reddy's brother this
wear until some weeks hence.
The week after LongwoOd comes the
new Crescent Athletic Club open event,
10 take the place OF the New York
State championships. now held at Utica.
The annual Seabright invitation starts
August Z, the Newport invitation the
following week, Southampton the next
week and the nationals the next. After
that some of us may be able TO settle
our racket and flannel trouser bills
Just how good is Willie Davis and
Just how good is the Jap? Those two
questions are such stuff as our dreams
are made Of, for they are asked time
and again. The answer Is, wait. ku-
magae, the Jap, is not likely to play
SO well on grass as on dirt, and from
now on he will be meeting more fire.
quent and sitter opposition.
The opinion prevails among those
who saw Ichy" wade through Clar-
ence J. (Peck) Griffin and others at
Utica that the swarthy little left
handler is about as good as they come
on hard dirt courts, because Of the
tremendous top-spin he imparts 70 the
ball Grass will take away much OF
the effectiveness of this spin, and
most of our big tournaments. particu-
larly the ones the ranking committee
consider most, are grass. The wonder
is that the already popular "lchy'
came to be as good as he is, with the
class Of opposition he encountered IN
Japan.
As for Davis, he had had great
year until he ran up against George
N. Church in the finals Of the Rock
away invitation last week. This was
the California Bullets first defeat this
season. Davis also is not likely to go
so well on grass, for the balls keep
their weight on turf and cannot be
swatted so fast Further. Davis is
not vet used to the low bounces from
the grass and showed a decided ten
dency to be erratic at Rockaway.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
TROPHIES DISTRIBUTED
TO SOCCER PLAYERS

Cups and medals were distributed to
the successful teams and players dur
ing the last season and officers were
elected at the annual meeting Of the
New York State Football League at
the Hotel Broadway Central.
Thomas Bagnall was reelected presi-
dent and delegate 10 the Southern New
York State Association. W. Holly
wood, 2l7 Fifty-hfth Street. Brooklyn,
was reelected secretary and treasurer,
while Robert MacCulloch was elected
ice-president.
The cups went 20 the Brooklyn
Celtics as winners in the first divi-
sion, for the fourth time. and to the
/. R. T. Strollers in the second divi-
sion. The members OF these teams re-
ceived gold medals. Silver medals were
awarded TO the Clan MacDonalds and
Greenpoints as runners-up in the first
and second divisions. respectively.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
A Record Addition.

Arthur Shafer the ex-Giant third baseman, who quit
the game years ago, is a record addition to golf
Shafer never played any golf before 1914 We took him
day his first test and then ne was about as
promising beginner any one ever saw Since then ne
has quit baseball completely for the Scottish frenzy And
two wears he has made progress than any golfer
heard about
Shafer to-day plays with easy, natural style, as II ne
had been at the game for years. He handles wooden
club nicely and plays his irons with rmness The proof Is
that he is now scoring with fair steadness from rs to 20
He had good, healthy walop in baseball and he now
gets fine distance the With two three years
experience he should be up the leaders if his game
continues 70 improve as II should.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
TRAINING
HIS RACE HORSES

Ad Wolgast says it's too hot 10 train
and fight. so he has cancelled both
bouts he had scheduled for this month
at Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs,
and won't tackle anybody before Labor
Day, when he fights at Idaho Falls,
Idaho, opponent not yet selected.
Ad is busy these days assisting Her
bert Teachout in training his two
racing horses, Elmford, 2:0S. and
Shamrock Belle, a young unmarked
trotter. Ad expects his horses 20 win
number of races during the summer
and fall. Barney Fuhry, Ads colored
trainer, is also assisting in training
Wolgasts stable.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
The Double Effect.

"Good putting works in this fash
ion," continued the ex-open and ex-
amateur champion, who will soon go
after his old title at Merton. 81 recall
one Of my hardest matches. missed
my drives on the first four holes. My
opponent got away four good ones.
Each time had to lose a stroke. He was
on in two and ! was on in three. But
each time ] either got my chip shot
dead or holed good putt. So where he
would figure in advance that he had the
hole won, on each occasion he finally
found himself with a S-foOt putt to get
4 half There is no harder strain 20
face than this and his game soon went
badly OFF. lie was playing good golf
and ! was playing bad golf, up 10 the
green, but nc wasn't winning. To figure
you have q 3-foot putt for win and
then when your opponent holes a good
one TO have this same put for a half is
the most disturbing element in the
game You can't very well bother a
first class opponent TO any extent by
outdriving him 10 or 20 yards. But you
can bother him TO death by outputting
him, even If he is playing the rest Of
the game better than you are.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Tales of a Wayside Tee
Bv GRANTLAND RICE.

dence. The good putter has to make
himself believe that he can putt; for
once this confidence is established II
generally sticks. In my own case
notice that when lay off for any con-
siderable period my putting is the last
thing that suffers. l may be driving
badly or playing my irons badly, but |
never have to bother much about the
short game around the greens.
"Whcre most golfers make their mis-
take here is in worrying too much. II
they miss putt or two they should
have gotten they begin TO fret and TO
get upset. Nothing will wreck putting
any quicker. The only way is to keep
tapping for the back of the cup in the
belief that if this one doesn't drop the
next one will. Putting more than any
other stroke requires a concentration
that isn't broken by fear or worry OF
unset nerves."
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Putting Features.

We put the question to several pros.
as to the best putter in the game. All
agreed that Walter J. Travis was the
finest putter golf has known IN the
last decade at least, with Travers and
Ouimet close up.
But for everyday work they all gave
the veteran the call. Among the pros.
they agreed that Alex Smith and John
J. McDermott, when playing well few
wears ago. were two of the best. And
these two have won four open cham
piOnships.
"Gn Nichols" remarked one OF the
leading pros. ais trlf1e different.
Good putting won't help the rest OF his
game But If Gil is playing we'll up TO
the greens he is one Of the finest put
ters in the land, probably the best
there is. But If he is playing badly mis-
rutting promptly falls away.
Further proof as TO the value Oh the
putt against the fine second shot is
shown in the case Of Evans. Certainly
no amateur in America has played con-
sistently a finer second shot 10 the
green. whether with mid iron or mashle'
But il wasn't until Chick got TO putting
well that he won an open champion
ship.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
ENGINEERS TO HOLD
CELTIC PARK MEET

Under sanction of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union the seventeenth annual
games of Local 20, International Union
OF Engineers, scheduled for Sunday,
July 80, at Celtic Park. will greatly
aid in enlvening the midsummer ath-
letic season, MS the scheduled list OF
events open to all registered amateurs
appears likely 10 attract the best OF
.he track and field men Of the East.
Footracing and cycling events. the
latter under the rules of the y. c. A,
will make up the programme with these
supplemented by a match for the Gae-
Tic football championship. The prizes
for the various events are stated TO be
the best 70 be awared for an athletic
series this year The events include
l00-yard, half-mile and two-mile runs,
all for novices; 220-yard and 1000
yard handicaps and q three-mile scratch
bicycle race
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
FAMOUS SOCCER BACK
KILLED IN BATTLE

London, July 22.-Evelyn II. Lintott,
the famous English International and
Bradford City soccer player has been
killed in action while gallantly leading
a battalion attack in the recent fight
ing in Northern France. Lintott was
one Of the first soccer players TO join
the colors "a private in the Leeds
"Pals" Battalion. which was attached
to the West Yorkshire Regiment. lie
represented England in the lnterna-
tional games at left halfback against
Scotland, Ireland and Wales in 1908
and also in the Amateur lnternationals
against Ireland. Holland. France. Bel
gium and Germany in 1907 -'0S-'o9.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Speedy Yankee
Soccer Team to
Play in Norway
Special Aggregation Sails on
Wednesday for Five Contests
on European Fields.

Sailing on the Frederik VIII, of the
Scandinavian-Americ Line, Wednes-
day, the American soccer team selected
by the United States Football Associa-
t!on will undertake the first soccer in
vasion Of Europe. 1t will engage in
five international matches. arranged in
Norway and Sweden by the Stockholm
Gymnastic and Sporting Association
from August 10 to August 2S.
Immediately upon arrival at Chris
tiania the Americans will repair TO
Stockholm, where three OF the five
matches in the official schedule will be
contested, including one game against
an all-Swedish team. Sweden will get
q fourth match, to be played at Gothen-
burg, while Norway must be content
with only one game, to be played at
Christiania.
Much will depend upon the showing
made in these FIVE matches whether the
Americans will be invited to play one
or more games in Holland, where SOC
Ger is on q strong basis and ranks very
close to Denmark. which is second only
to England, the home Of association
football.
Having been provided with an expert
trainer in the person Of Harry A. Dav-
export, of Newark, the Americans VIII
be in the best possible trim TO do fulI
Justice by the Stars and Stripes upon
their arrival in the Land OF the Mid
night Sun.
The Crown Prince of Sweden. who is
much interested in soccer football, has
promised to attend one of the many
banouets to be rendered to the touring
team. Thomas w. Cahill, secretary Of
the United States Football Association,
will have entire charge Of the Ameri-
can party while away from home.
Appended are the dates of the official
schedule. together with the revised list
OF the American players and reserves:
August IS. vs.. An-stoc sholm. at stoekhom.
August is, vs. All-stockhom. al Stockholm
August %. vs.. Ali-sweden, at stockhoim.
August 2j, vs. All Gotheuburg al Goihenbufr.
August 2s vs. All n-ChristaniA. at Chrisuania
THE AMERICAN TEAM
G.ors, Tntle so-l Brooklyn Cetics. Brooklyn.
James NJ Robertson. night back. YOnkers i. C..
{ II. sp.ldins. l,f, back. Disston A. A. Phila-
delphis - - -
Bethlehem. -
! NeN q. Clarke. centre half. Bethlehem +. C.,
Bethlehem. - - ,,,
Albert Blskoy. left half. Putnam +. C.. Phila-
dephia ~ -,
James Ford. outside rirht. Jersey A. C.. Jersey
City. -, nj, ~
John j. Heminsley. centre forward, Scottish
Americans. Newark -
/ Matt b. DederchSen. inside left. lnnis Falls i.
/ c. ST Louis.
hsrry Cooper. outside left. Continental y. C.. New
York. .
Clarence j. Smith. any position. Babcock and
Wilcox r. c.. Bayonne -
Walter L. Burzin. wsnderers' y. C.. PhilAdei-
Charles H. Ellis. hafbsek. Brooklyn Celucs.
Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
CREAM OF TROTTERS
FOR DETROIT RACES

Detroit, July 22.--Two hundred and
fifty horses, including the cream Of the
trotting world, are entered in events
which compose the Detroit Grand Cir
cult meeting that will begin Monday
and last through Friday The historic
Merchants and Manufacturers Stake
,f $4,000, for 2:0S trotters, will be
fought out on Wednesday PAGERS, in
the 2:O6 pace. are to decide the Board
Of Commerce Stake on Tuesday. This
event is worth $4,000. The NJ. and NJ.
has attracted twenty entries. The
same number of horses are entered in
the $4,000 pace. The Michigan Short
ship circuit has sent a record breaking
number Of horses here.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Matty and New York.

The protest that certain fans have made about Matty
leaving New York is be taken any serious way
The facts merely these For sixteen years the big
pitcher gave his best New York and the game Before
the end of the road he told several occasions
that he had desire and intention merely hang
and draw his pay Briefly he had inclination to be
famous relic ornament.
With his pitching day it is only natural that he
should look for chance to tackle the only of the
game left-the managerial branch He wanted to go to
Cincinnati in this capacity And ne had done quite enough
for the New York club for those in charge stand aside
and grant his request.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
GOLF TROPHY
FOR J. P. GUILF0RD

Wollaston, Mass, July 22.-Jesse P.
Guilford, of the Woodland Club, for
mer New Hampshire golf champion, to-
day added the Massachusetts, title to
mis- trophy collection by defeating S.
Trafrord Hicks, of Winchester, the for
mer Harvard hockey star. 10 up and 9
to go, in the final round of thirty-six
holes.
At the end of the first eighteen holes
Guilford had lead of up. Starting
the afternoon round, he won five OF the
first six holes played. lie lost the ball
at the sixth hole. giving Hicks the
only hole he won in the afternoons
play
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
No Weak Links in Chain
of Grass Court Journeys

DR.. William Rosenbaum. national
indoor doubles champion, is an optimist
of the courts. At Rockaway Rosie
and his partner had been overwhelmed
by Theodore Roosevelt Pell and Lyle
Evans Mahan in the first set, and were
trailing Is in the second, with mat
ters looking desperate. Mshan served
the next game. and won the first three
points. On the next the gigantic Co
lumbar double-faulted.
Lets stay right with it," exhorted
DR.. Rosenbaum. We've got him wor-
ried"
Peck Griffin is not himself this sea-
son, for while playing he no longer
wears the famous cap cooked on one
side Of his head in his inimitable style.
The cap reminds us Of story illus
trating how some tennis players mis-
pronounce French. Griffin was being
rallied about the cap in a restaurant,
after q match.
"How do you go armed. Peek" in
Qurcd some one, preparing for some
sort Of witticism.
"Cap-a-pie. called n wit loudly.
The lowering waiter, hearing the
last, brought the speaker piece of ap-
pie pie.
Great is the Occident and greater is
its habit of giving nicknames. No
sooner had Ichya Kumagae and Ha-
chishiro Mikami reached Utica for the
New York State championships when
the arch Joker Fred c. Baggs, Of the
West Side Tennis Club, christened the
foreigners "Ichy" and "Hashy.' The
names stuck.
Predictions are already being freely
made among tennis followers on the
outcome of the national championships.
six weeks away. Old Colonel Consen-
sus makes Richard Norris Williams, "a,
the favorite. despite the fact that Billy
Johnston will defend his laurels and
Maurie Mclaughlin and r. Lindley
Murray are sure to play. 1t has been
recognized for years that Williams has
potentially the best game in this coun-
try and the world. and the opinion pre-
walls that the Philadelphian Will show
at his best this year.
Leonard Beekman. the Princeton star
saws the Harvard captain never played
so surely and with such ease and re-
serve power as in the Princeton-Hsr-
ward match at Cambridge this spring:
II is not thought that johnston VIII
reach the heights expected Of Williams,
and reports from the visiting Cali
fornians on the beloved McLoughlin's
condition are dscoursging. Lion
hearted Mac, however, is determined to
come, and to prevail. II downright
courage and sheer nerve can overcome
opposition, then Mac, the Matty in this
respect of the courts. is due for red
letter as well as a red-headed year.
There are few who more or less
secretly favor the chances Of Murray
the Meteor, and George NJ. Church,
with his developed and reconstructed
game, is mentioned by some. One OF
the Murray fans is Francis 7. Hunter,
who opposed the Palo Alto phenom at
Nassau. Hunter says he does not SEQ
how any one, anywhere, could be bet
ter. On that basis we pick Leonard
Beekman. who defeated US at Rock
away after he had not played for
month, had undergone an operation.
and asked US if our feelings would be
hurt if his physical condition compelled
him to default in the middle Of the
match.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Billiardist EXEMPT.

Melbourne lnman. the English bill
.ard champion. who toured the United
states and Canada last year, was called
20 the colors under the new conscrip-
ton act, but obtained exemption from
service. lnman's representative at the
tribunal put MP strong plea, calling
attention 70 the fact that the cham
pion had done and was doing valuable
service to the country both at horne
and abroad in aid Of the Red Cross and
other societies.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Carpet Trade Golf Tourney.

The ninth annual tournament OF the
Carpet Trade Golf Association will be
held at the Hackensack Golf Club,
Hackensack, n. j., on Thursday and
Friday.
The morning Of the first day will be
devoted to the qualifying competition,
medal play. | nthe afternoon the first
round of each division leights) will be
play, match play. Consultations of each
division will be played Friday morning.
as we'll as the division semi-fnals The
finals Of each division will be contested
Friday afternoor
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
THE 81 SP3RT = IT. g 0:i::':'' ST.:

Chicago Cleveland and Detroit have about decided that
if the East be checked and rolled back the hour Is
wengh ripe for checking process to get under way
The Western club that doesn't make good showing at
home this stand will be about out OF It, Inc ranks
leave crippled but with their remaining heads still up
The Red Sox the people feared for unless they
are coared and halted the next three weeks they VIII
not be any harder overae later than scared coyote
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

II, Lies Lost Gardens through the years
The Dreamer still seeks vonished rays
That lead through heartache and through tears
Into the drift Of Yesterdays;
To Yesterdays Dhen dreams came true
A nd t,Uo, apart from all the throng,
Meet once again When skies are blue
And summer days long.
Once more he ,Oalks the old-time lanes,
And in the dream that follo,cs there
Puts blood Of roses in her veins,"
Spins vellow sunshine for her hair;
While gro,oing shado,os btU the vieW
He hears once more an oLdtime song
He onv knows that skies are blue
And summer days are long.
Once more he drifts out from the fight,
And leures his place amid the game;
Beyond the purple haze of night
He turns his b,udened back on fame;
In vain the future sings its due
Of glory NTH the brave and strong;
He only cares that sLies blue
And summer days long.
In Lies dim Garden, By one,
We seek again vanished day;
That calls u.s. l0hen Youth is done,
Across the Fields Of Far Away;
Through gray lost years chen dreams trus
And each foIlowed some old song;
When Life but knetD that skies tcere blue
And summer days were long.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Putting as a Tonic.

"If golfer is getting his puts his
whole game seems TO take brace.
Good putting is a tonic. A man may
miss his drive and not get on with his
next, but II he finally sinks a fair putt
for his par where he figured he had
lost o stroke the entire situation is
changed and he begins to cheer up at
once"
"What is the one main feature OF
putting?" we asked. "It isn't the stance
nor it isn't the grip" said Jerry. at
is merely practice enough 10 get conf.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
OFFERS $4,000 PURSE
FOR KILBANE BATTLE

Cedar Point, Ohio. July 22.-Matt
Hnkle has offered $4,000 for a fifteen
round fight TO a decision 20 Johnny Kill
bane and George Cheney. The purse
is to be split any way the fighters de-
eide. Labor Day is the date set for
the battle
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
CHESS PLAYERS HOLD
MEETING THIS WEEh

Chess player. Of New YORK s'.se 80. ~.
neighboring states will gather ''.m.
row for the annual midsumn.ef ma,
ing of the New York State Ones. ,. -
sociation. which will be held AZ pu1.'S' n"s
under the auspices OF the BuHa'0 W"
sistory Chess Club. ,.n.
The first day will be devoted 70 ~,
inter-county matches. and on Iae,a,, a,ai
the various class tournaments ine,us
ing one for the state ehamp,o"ss.y.
will begin. Il is planned, also 20 n.
an international team mateh oe'"''"
American ard Canadian players.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Pierce to Box Young Saylor.

Harry Pierce, the rugged Brooklyn
lightweight, who sent Young Saylor
back to the minor league of boxers, will
meet Young Otto in a ten-round bout
at the Harlem Sporting Club, Of Ham
mels, on Tuesday night.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Young Reilly to Try Again.

Young Reilly will start anew at the
Pioneer Sporting Club, in West Forty
fourth Street, next Wednesday night.
He will endeavor to regain the prestige
he lost when he was knocked out by
Ray Rivers at the same club last week.
1t will be Rivers who will afford Reilly
the chance TO get back in the good
graces of his West Side followers.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23

Freddie Welsh denies that he is looking for any easy
matches And Col Andy Carnegie has always said he abb
horred the idea Of being rich.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Oldtimers Speak.

Said Wagner to Matty, "Goodby, old top,
I'm sorry to see you're through;
But may decide to quit myself
Around 1882"