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the big moment. The player has three
chances in the main. He can stick it up
there close and minimize the putting
to one and down. He can miss the
range, and need Il flock Of chips and
puts and things. Lastly he can miss
the shot find the trouble, and eventu-
ally pick up, without a chance.
There is a youthful British pro in the
realms of golf who has the shot down
a mean mashie. The photographs show
him at the top of his back swing at
the moment of impact and at the finish
of his forward swing.
Jewson. despite his youth. was good
enough abroad to go to the finals of the
Sussex county open championship. He
taught over there at Sandwich. Wal
mern Kingsdowu. Seaport Golf Club
and Royal Cinque Ports, Deal.
Thus he had plenty of chance to put
together into his own game all the theo =
ries where golf flourshcs in a good part
of the meadowand.
First of all, it will be seen from the
illustrations that the Britishcr is n
firm believer in the Vardon grip, which
is shown in his back swing.
ITO make the hands work together.
says Jewson. "The right is stronger
than the left in most cases, and witt
this grip they are neutralized.
To go into the intricasies of every
mashie shot would take couple o.
books, but in the present running Lot
us gaze solely on the pitch and run. II
is the shot of nice carry over the jumps
and rills to the spot before the opcl
green where there is green lawn and q
| fair run up, Holding the run depends OF
bp aflyS nd bo IL Il.
on several things.
Iewson is making a comfortable shot
without much back on it. The hands
are coming into the shot before the
clubhead. The ball is hit. not swept
the clubhead biting the turf after the
ball is struck and about an inch or two
in advance of where the ball lay.
''The weight of the body at the stance
is on the right foot" said Jewson, "anC
it is important that it should so remain
until after the little pill is on its way
or the balance essential to the shot i;
ruined.
1T is also important to remember
that the shot is made with the wrist,
so far as propelling force is concerned
| They should be kept rigid and none o
the loose wristed principles of drivin!
apply to the shot here.
THE right leg remains straight anc
rigid, until after the impact whel
the follow through, as shown, bring
the player around facing the pin anC
the right knee buckles naturally. ON
of the most difficult aud essential thing
in the shot is keeping the left arm rgi,
all through to the impact.
Getting English or run on NASH,
shot" continued the Britsher. ''re
quircs the same knowledge and practice
il does 10 make a billiard shot correct
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ONE, BUT HE'S COMING BACK TO THE u. S. ANY
LEONARD DEFEATS
DUNDEE At NEWARK.
Contender Fights Hard All
Through Bout, but Champion
Always Is Master

Jersey City. n. j., Feb. 10.--Bcnuy
Leonard worlds lightweight boxing
champion. outfought Johnny Dundee,
of New York. in every round OF au
eight round bout here last night. Dun
dee put up stiff battle, but the cham
pion outpunched him throughout. Leon
ard weighed 1863 pounds. and Dun
dee 1919.
Leonard staggered his opponent n
half dozen times during the contest,
but Dundee came back with renewed
vigor each time, aud resumed his jump
ing tactics. As in all of his previous
bouts with the champion. Dundee used
his rushing tiger cat style, and gave
spectacular exhibition. Leonard
however. had no difficulty in picking out
openings to place hard and effective
| blows.
| In the opening round Leonard scored
a right hook to the head that sent Dun
dee flying to the ropes. He was back
( Immediately. For the remainder of tbc
/ bout Leonard centered bis attack on tho
body, dministering an especially So
we're drubbiug in the fifth, sixth ami
seventh rounds.
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Evening Ledger Decisions
OF Ring Bouts Last Night

0LYMPTA-Joe Lynch defeated Louisiana,
Young Weymnn won from Dave Medar,
Johnny Summer walloped Joe jackson, Vic
tor Richie beat Little Bear, Bobby Burman
knocked out Harry Bremen, fourth,
JERSEY CITY-Benny Leonard won from
Johnny Dundee, Spider Roach beat Willie
Burke.
TRENTON Young Angelo OutcIassed
Mickey Deimont, Young Reno beat frankie
ond; Paul Schultz knocked out Kid Wright.
first.
LANCASTER - Herman Miller defeated
Rainbow. first; Kid FIELDS stopped Battling
Gates first; Henner Cobb knocked out
Teddy Lewis, first; Joe Strosser won from
Kid BUZZ.
POTTSVILLE-Joe BorreII drew with Len
Rowlands.
Cline for stallng In ninth against Louis
Bogash.
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Tommy Murray and Jack, Isles are to box
at the National February 2S.
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DEMPSEY MAY TAKE
STAND TO TESTIFY
Boxing Board Says He Will Be
Needed at Investigation
Tomorrow

New York. Feb. 10.-Jack Dempsey,
worlds heavyweight boxing champion.
v;ll probably be requested personally
~ attend the hearing of the Army. Navy
and Civilian Board of Boxing Control
committee. which will tomorrow begin
an Investigation into the titleholder's s
war record. It was declared yesterday.
hv an official in close touch with the
situation. that Dempsey's presence was
considered absolutely necessary that the
matter might be thoroughly investigated.
Members of the committee selected to
review the situation include Alfred L..
Mariley, counsel to the Army. Navy
and Civilian Board of Boxing Control,
who has been appointed chairman Ma
ior Anthony j. Drexel Biddle, President
of the Board of Boxing Control; Gutzon
Rorglum, DIR. Joseph II. Raycroft, who
during the war was chairman Of the
War DEPARTMENTS Commission on
Training Camp Activities Robert Ed
gren, Roswell F. Easton. r. Brecken-
ridge Steele, Adam Empie, and John S.
smith, chairman of the New Jersey
State Boxing Commission.
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ENGLISH PRO TURNS
UP HIS MASHIE NOSE
BY SANDY McNIEBICK

ly. The duffer tries to initiate the ez-
pert and can't see why he's not making
the shot. But first you've got to know
how and after that you We got to prac-
tice, and Practice
1t will be noticed that the pros club
head is angled away from the fight of
the ball. His ball is going to be caught
up in the hollow of the heel with the
nose of the club back.
II keep the ball from skidding off in
a slice" demonstrated Jewson. "by
bringing the nose Of the clubhead around
and upwards at my follow through
This is seen in the last illustrati ion
after the ball has been hit. The club
mas reached It's top, after the ball has
been hit, on a line with the waist, par
allel to the ground. The head has
turned upward and inward, thereby
guiding the ball and preventing slice.
the pro explained.
Don't leave the face open at the fin .
ish. says Jewson. "or court trouble. y
On the length and rise of the ball
Jewson has simple rules The closer the
ball to the pin, the closer the right foot
to the ball and the lower the hands
on the shaft. Also the more the weight
is in back of the ball the quicker the
rise, he says. To illustrate this the
midget Britisher dropped his ball some
twenty wards back of fifty foot tree
took his stance in back of the lie of the
ball. and with powerful swing and
snap of mis- wrists, made the baily pill
leap almost straight up and clean over
the tree. But this is something different
again than the pitch and run shot Will
which it Is not to be confused
Jcwson'S simple principles for tn,
mitch and run shot are few Wcipht M
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SCHEDULED
TO PLAY TONIGHT
Germantown Has Its Usual Star
Lineup to Oppose De Neri in
Eastern League Clash

Dave Bounis. of the Germantown
Club, Eastern League, is OF the opinion
that the second half penuant is being
handed" to the Camden team little
toe soon.
Judging by what one reads now
adays." kc, says, there is little use
for any team finishing out the schedule.
Eut wait and see.
eve intend to give them run and
have d good club at that, too.
AskeC the lineup for tonight S local
clash with De Neri, Bennis said that
the forwards would be Powell and
Franckle. Oscar Grimstead at center,
and Bruggy and Holman at guards.
This club compares with Camden or
any other. and the Germantown man
AYERS that his team will yet cut figure
in the second half pennant.
DeNeri, which appears at Auditorium
Hall. Chew street and Chelten avenue
| tonight, has been receiving the atten
tion of the critics, as having a line up
| with local flavor that not only savors
of the old Greystock club, but which has
| q chance to hand few defeats to Cam
den and the others.
Germantown will be forced to the
| unit 10 win tonight with Brown. Gross
and Klotz in the lineup.
The Eastern League will meet for ar
important gathering in Camden tomor
row night prior to the Bridgeport game
to consider what will be done in tn,
playing schedule of the Blue Ribbons
They are not going to play any further
games on Sunday, but opposition ha,
developed by Eastern League team
against going to Bridgeport on weekday
and some managers claim their players
cannot make the jump.
Players on two teams refused {,
play on Sunday also. Other importau
business is hinted to come up for con
sideration, the suspension of spvcra
players being included among othc
items.
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Buenos Aires. Feb. 10-Enrque Tira-
bosch an Italian, broke the worlds i'm
merson record when he swan the River
Plate crossing from Colonia the Uru-
guayan coast from which point he started
Saturday to within three miles of Buenos
Aires.
Tiraboschi was taken aboard motorboat :
in an exhausted condition Sunday after
noon, later he had been in water twenty
four hours and two minutes. The distance
ia about thirty-two miles but the swimmer
was forced to breast a strong current.
The previous immersion record is said
TO be held by l. V. burgess. the French
swimmer, who swan the English Chanue
in 1911 in twenty-five hours and thirty y-hve
minutes.
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Mclean Lost His Way

Christiania, Feb. 1O.-Robert Mclean. OF
Chicago who lost the worlds ice-sEatnH
championship SUNDAY TO Oscar Mathiosen
Of Christiania, stated yesterday that his mis-
take in taking the wrong course in the
10, 000-nCter race was caused by an ofTCia
giving an incorrect signal At the curv". Be
cause Of this Mclean and his m4uaGcr de
clired TO discuss the championship races
until the moving pictures of the events prove
where the fault lies.
The supporters of Mclean claim that hi.
sprint after his momentAry stoppaEe r the
outset of the long race when he realiHeG
he was on the wrong course exhausted him
Mclean plans to 70 to stockholm where
he will try to lower some of the world
records
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Maybe He Wants Polo Grounds

Boston, Feb. 10 O-'Babe" Ruth yesterds :.
announced that he would attempt to obtain
$1,000 Of the Sl25. 900 which the Boston
Americans are said to- have received for his
release to the New York Americans. Re
sa lid he had no intention Of making trouble.
that he would sign with the Yankees at
a year, but that he would endea vor to get
a part of lis purchase from the Boston
piib
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oIymplcs Stadium Opens Aug. is

=, The latest advices from Antwerp are to
the effect that the cereponial opening OF
the Olympic Stadium has been officially fixed
for August IA Tho following sections OF
the games will be begun on Sunday, August
10: Athletics. lawn tennis. fencing, wres-
Ting and boxing The yachting has been
Professionally arranged for June nt Ostond.
where the polo so will be played,
The Athletic Decathlon, which was elm,
mated from, the draft program has now
been restored The Classical Pentathon and
the Modern Pentathlon will also be included
in the program.
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Scraps about Scrappers

WHEN Greek meets Greek may be
w supplanted by when bantam meets
bantam" in reference to tonight's head
line hitfest at the Auditorium Club. A
bantam bout usually means a contest
full of action-6ying fists. lots. of foot
work and everything that goes to make
fast fracas. Battling Murray and
Hank McGovern are brace of Phila-
delphia's best little isticuffians. and
they are scheduled to settle pugilistic
supremacy when they answer the
tingle of the gong in the fifth muss on
the program at the Labor Lyceum this
evening. Hank recently came out of
retirement, is making an effort to prove
himself the peer of the Quaker City
| Founders. and is planning to meet
all comers here, so that he may not be
overlooked when Jimmy Wilde invades
this part of the country seeking oppo-
nents. Murray, too, wants crack at
Wilde, and before tonight's winner is
decided lively fuss probably will be
put on.
Two boxers who have been on the sidelines
| for some time will resume boxing when
Willie Allen and Harry Sullivan box in the
Auditorium semiiinal Allen used to go TO
bat under the nom de guerre of Battling
Tefky Sullivan was one of South Philly S
most rugged mittmen two years ago.
Young Buck Fleming, Bill silverman's $ ban
| tam protege, will appear In the third bout
tonight. Jack Perry will be the person of
Ss joSnny Rey anS M @
VS.. Jimmy Welsh.
the Olympia next Monday night Jack is
boxing in fine form, ard Joe Christiana wants
n n
c. Joey Eitehle, st,1 who used to call himself
Smiling Ritchie, is here from Newark. He
The bimonthIy bouts of the plsston A. c.
are scheduled for tonight. Three amateur
scheduled. as follows: Jimmy Jordan VS..
sek aR5 B5oE K5 sst anny sS1 vs. GhSeS Nc
"King" Shoot, otherwise known as Maurice
| Mass, is tired of boxing matches in this
SSgnt roEs SO he EG9S San to Esg9 ,G waS
King hopes to get some inside dope on
Georges Carpenters contemplated trip e
Jack johnson won't find home, sweet home
but he's coming back Just the same
frankie Murray. local 1oO-pounder put or
Q. great fuss with Little jeff in Baltimor,
last week. They may be rematched
Johnny Mclaughlin is matched for tive
bouts. He meets Tommy Iamison at I'll,
National February 81 and Eddie McAndrewi
at the Olympia March L.
Tommy Murray and Jack, Isles are to DO,
at the National February 2S.
Sol O'Donneli has been matched to NEE
Willie McCloskey at the Auditorium mex
Tuesday night.
Preston Brown is willing to accept Youni
Pierce's den; furthermore. Pres is ready FOR
competttion with Benny Valger, Hughi'
Hutchinson and Johnny Kilbane
Tommy Stagg is TO attempt a comebacl
He has been boxing for sixteen years. Johr
b, lIober wants to start Stagg of In
match with Jimmy Murphy.
Rocky Ford, bantam. Is under the man
agement OF Steve AFarcoe, Ford is to boz
Bobby Burns in the seminnal to tho Mix
Uraine-Jack McCarron bout at Harrisburg
Pa, February 10.
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GEORGE BURNS HOLDOUT
New York Giants outfielder Returns
Contract Unsiqned

Little Falls, n. Y, Feb. 1O.-Georgc
Burns, left fielder of the New York
Nationals. announced today that he had
returned his contract unsigned. He
said he had been given a nincrcasc in
salary, but that he did not consider it
sufficient
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Casey stenael Comes Round

Chicago, Feb l0-Casey Stengel tho out
fielder whom the Philles secured in trade
last season from Pittsburgh, but who re-
fused TO report. has come to terms with
President Baker and Manager "Gavyy'' Cra-
vath here and will II is reported, sign a
contract before the present baseball meeting
terminates.
ii is not known what hts salary will be,
althoush he demanded contract calling for
S5O00
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West Point. \. y. Feb .1o,-John B.
C'Hans'D Lobert formerly of tho Phillics
and New York Giants, has arrived here
from Havana Cuba where he has hecn
wintering. LoDert has been the Arrny's base,
ball coach for two seasons. and will again
act in that capacity during the comin1
rampaign. Jobert viii put the cadets I,
work indoors this week.
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VERY shot in the
golf bag counts, the
one just about as
much as the other.
But when a golfer
finds himself in the
reaches of the range
to the green. draSs
out his i'll old
mashie, then, as. the
gawpers say, comes
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To Sell EenMaY Park

Boston. Feb. 1O.-Action lootinE towars
the sale by auction OF 5000 shares ot tht
ca pital stock of the Fenway Realty Trus'
owners OF Fenway Park. home Of the Bos
ton Americans was announced last nigh
by attorneys fo- Joseph J Lannir, forms
owner of the Red SoX. The ownership u
the ba sebal club is not involved.
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BorreIl and RawIins Box Draw

PottsvilIe. Pa, Feb. 1O,--Joe Borrcu Of
Philadelphia and Len Rawlns, Of Milwau-
kee, fought ten rounds to n draw here last
night. The last round was a terrific ex-
hibition of susgug: Jack McCarron. who
was TO meet Borrell. was stricken with in
fusuza Rawlins taking his place
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Miss Chandler Golf Favorite

Valentth'n1nrst n. O.. Feb. iO-The annual St
camphan ~ the absence OF Mrs Dorothy
At ths I, Hurd who may or may not appea
eualifvinast minute the favorites for the
der ~ ~, medal are Miss Eleanor Chan,
Of sprinr ai,ade'phla. anis and Mrs. J. r. Duryea,
Lear6e tsnv,u, tos'rns, winner Of the Winter Golf
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Valger III: KHbane Bout
Postponed Until Feb. 25

The eight round bout between
Johnny Kilbane and Benny Nalser,
scheduled at Newark. n. j.. for
February 16. has been postponed
until February %. Valger is i'll
with influenza.
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athletics Schedule
at Home and abroad

ABROAD
April 22. 23. "a, 25-At New York.
April 80, May I, =, 3, AT Washington
May 5. O., 4, 8, J0-At Boston.
May 30--At Washington.
May 81 (2 Eames), June AT Boston.
June 3. 4, 5. 6-At New York.
June =; O., 10, i1-At Cleveland.
June 10. IL. 18, 19-At st. Louis.
June 20. 81, 22, 23-At Chicago.
June 25. go, 27, .2S--At Washington.
July 25--At Washington
July %, 30, 30, 31-At Chicago.
August !, 2. 3. AT St. Louis.
August 8. 8, :. S-At Cleveland.
August o, 10. 11.--At Detroit.
SSsp,embsr z ganmees). ;.At New York.
September 12. 13, I4-At Cleveland.
September 16. II, 1S-At st Louis.
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Rocky Ford, bantam. is under the man
agement of Steve Marcoe Ford is to box
Bobby Burns in the seminual to tho Mike
praine-Jack McCarron bout at Harrisburg.
Pa. February 10.
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Tommy Stage is TO attempt a comeback.
He has been boxing for sixteen years. John
b, lIober wants to start Stagg off In a
match with Jimmy Murphy.
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Preston Brown Is willing to accept Young
Pierce,s den; furthermore. Pres is ready for
competition with Benny Valger, Hughs
Hutchinson and Johnny Kibane
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Two boxers who have been on the sdeines
for some time will resume boxing when
Willie Allen and Harry sullivan box In the
Auditorium semiiinal. Allen used to go TO
bat under the nom de guerre of Battling
Tefky. sullivan was one of South Philly S
most rugged mittmen two years ago.
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The bimOnthly bouts of TIE Dlsston A. &.
are scheduled for tonight. Three amateur
outs and as many professional numbers are
scheduled. as follows: Jimmy Jordan VS.
Jack Brown, Johnny RjazzI vs. Charley Nc
kee and Kid West VS. Danny Murphy
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the Olympia next Monday night. Jack is
box ing in fine form, ard Joe Christiana wants
to hook UP Russo with Benny ValBer.
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Young Buck Fleming, Bill Silvermans ban
tam protege will appear In the third bout
the second part. Other numbers are Tommy
Lucas VS.. Johnny Kelly and AL (kid) Gross
VS.. ,IlnmY WelAh
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-10

Joey Ritchie, who used to call himself
Smiling Richie, is here from Newark. He
Is Il l22 FOUNDER.
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Mass, is tired OF boxing matches in this
country, SO he's going to France to watch
the FROGS in action. Incidentally, the
King hopes to get some inside dope on
Georges Carpenters contemplated trip 20
ne States
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Jack johnson won't find home, sweet home.
but he's coming back just the same
Frankie Murray, local 100 -pounder put on
8. great fuss with Little jeff in Baltimore
last week. They may bo rematched
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Sol O'Donneli has been matched to meet
Willie McCioskey at the Auditorium next
Tuesday night.
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n. J.
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Johnny Mclaughlin Is matched for two
bouts He meets Tommy Iamison at the
| National February 81 and Eddie McAndrews s
| at the Olympia March l.