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Evening star., 1923-11-04

There has been only one report
from salt water, and that came from
Annapolis to John Hurley. well known
local angler. 1t was from Tom Trott
and was to the effect that plenty of
rockhsh were being taken from the
bay. Trolling the method employed
oy these anglers, using Drone bait
The United States bureau Of fish
cries has leased about one fourth of
the 100 acres of land at LAX Gland
Nd. for the propagation of various
kinds of fish. and has been operating
the same for some time past.
1t may not be generally known
but Lakeland. where thousands of
goldfish have been hatched for years
past, has been taken over by the bu-
reau and thousands of bass crappie
and catfish have been hatched and
tion of the country.
On the 18th of last May 80. 200 crap
pies We're hatched out. and today
these little fish have reached the re-
markable length of three and a half
and some of them four inches
These fish have been shipped into
Virginia, Maryland. Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, and in three years they
will reach maturity.
Bass Also Are Planted.
In addition to the fish sent out to
the various states. Glenn d. Leach
head OF the department of fish Gull
ture, said that last Thursday he had
planted in the lower Potomac 1000
crappies and 500 big mouth bass.
Some time prior to May Is last.
eight adult crappies We're sent to
the Lakeland station and put into
one of the ponds. On May Is 32,OO0
crappies were hatched. About the
same time $50 adult members of the
plymouth bass FAMILY were sent to
this station and their yield of young
was 35, 900 bass. Mr.. and Mrs Catfish
were also sent out and their yield
was 10000 little catties.
The most remarkable growth has
taken place in the bass family, the
average of them having attained
four inches In length. with some of
tfem ranging from four to even as
large as eight inches A few
of these bass have been kept at
the bureau of fisheries for observa-
ton and several of them would prove
attractive fish for any angler. Leech
said 1t was the most remarkable
growth of which he had ever heard.
y. AS remarkable as this may seem,
the bureau of fisheries is expert
menting with black spotted trout
from Yellowstone Park, grayling.
from\ Madison river, Wisconsin and
rainbow and brook trout from
Evening star., 1923-11-04

And that move was accomplished
the next spring. Bobby. then being
six years old and a veteran of some
thing like six months at the old mans
game of golf
And here Bobby Jones. a fragile.
tow-headed youngster. came under
the spell of certain stolid, uncom-
municatlve, square-headed little
Scotch professional golfer from the
noustie-Stewart Maiden, lately COME
to the club as successor to his broth
er Jimmy.
Swing Only Is Eloquent.
"kiltie" Maiden the members call
ed him from the beginning. he was
so thoroughly Caledonian "Kiltie,
the king maker" it is now, from the
crowns that have been gained by his
famous pupils, Bobby Jones. Miss
Alexa Stirling and Perry Adair. xii
tie, the king maker" lacked the
gift of CAB as far as 1T can well be
lacked. but possessed a singularly
fluent golfing swing and a peculiar
ability almost without words to i'm
part that swing, or. at any rate, its
salient factors. to his pupils.
Now. Bobby Jones did not go at
once to taking. lessons of Stewart
Maiden. There is doubt that he ever
took any regular lessons at all. from
Stewart or anybody else. Coaching
certainly he has had in abundance
from Stewart as his game developed
and rough spots appeared that needed
attention. And to this day Stewart
can look at Bobby Jones playing a
few practice shots, and off the line
a trifie with his irons (for example)
and say low word or two, and pres
to-Bobby is himself again.
But there is no room for doubt that
Stewart Maiden was the mold of form
for Bobby's early golflng method and
the foundation for his splendid game
of later years. Stewart was, the club
professional, the arbiter of elegance,
the greatest golfing man in all the
world, to six-year-old Bobby Jones
with his sawed-off cleek and the
budding hunger in his little system to
Evening star., 1923-11-04

OF the amount 10 pc speH'.
Miller II. stevinson. runner-up In
the Columbia tournament last spring,
,ras the winner of the selected score
contest at Columbia. which recently
was concluded. STEVENSON nao d Sc
Iected score of 55-28 out and "a in.
He missed brides on~put three hoies'
! His card follows.
Out o. .:::.:::::::ss 49, ss 55ss-ss 81
The contest started on September l.
Members Of the Seniors Golf Asso.
citation of the Chevy Case Club Will
compete in an eighteen-hole .oorna- ma
CUP presented by Francis NJ, Savage
in memory Of Dr. J. Mcbride Sterrett.
A revised handicap list will be posted
the first day of the competition.
new species of bent grass. dis
covered a few months ago and re-
ported to be peculiarly adaptable to
the climate of Washington, is being
planted on the old siSth c green at c!ne 5ne
and will be used next year for pro-
napating purposes. The new grass
has been named washington bent,
after the course on which 1t was
found. 1t is said-to be particularly
hardy during the season when other
bent grasses are suffering from the
So o-called brown patch.
II another national championship
ever comes to Columbia. club mem
bers will make every effort to have
before or about the 18th of the
month Discussing the national open
of 1921 and the baked condition of
the course in July, when the cham
uinbia members last week pointed
out that the course is in its best
condition at that time. or during the
first two weeks in June. National
championships are not held SO early
possibility of conflict with the Brit
ish titular events. s..
Columbi. will Hold it. annual meet
ing next Wednesday night. A ticket
fort club officers. headed by, John H.
Hanna and John c. Walker. is ex-
pected to go through.
J. c. Mclaughlin ana o. r.. Evans,
both members of Columbia, tied for
low gross score in the tournament
of the Electric League, held at Ban
nockburn. First net prize went to
won as follows: Second low net, E.
G. Ernst; third low net. ]. w. Reese;
fourth low net. A. Dunlap; fifth low
met, b. s. Works; sixth low net. p.
A. Davis; seventh low net, L. T.
L
ripgton, and BOBBY prize. w. ". Reed.
The tournament was handled by a
committee composed Of J. w. Reese,
H. p. Foley and B. T. Foley.
With the nnal In the Liberty cup
tournament at Chevy Chase yester-
day afternoon, club tournaments have
been about finished for the year. In
dian Spring Is holding Its club cham
pionship and Bannockburn 10 in the
midst of its tvao-man title event and
it's woman titular affair. When these
are over the regular scheduled events
of clubs about Washington will have
been completed for 1923
Next year looms as one Of the big
gest about Washington In ,compett-
tive golf way. Although the Middle
Atlantic championship will not be
held here Ut is scheduled to go to the
Maryland Country Club, the Wash
ingtonS Golf and Country Club may
hold its annual spring event, aban-
dened this season because the course
had to be rearranged and improved.
ALL the other tournaments will be
held. with the Indian Spring Club
Evening star., 1923-11-04

Some players developed the net at
tack to such an extent that the base
line players Of the more conserva-
tive British school found themselves
sion induced the tennis association
to pass a rule which compelled the
server to stand behind the base line
when he served. Ever since then the
fight has continued, but the govern
ing body always has recognized the
wisdom oS placing some check on
the man who ~dashes in on his serv-
ice, and the many changes that the
foot-fault rule has undergone since
then have all tended to make the
rule more strict.
Reasons for DissatisfactiOn.
The widespread dissatisfaction with
the rule comes, l think. from two
reasons. First. the obscurity Of its
wording. Even today good players
are heard to inquire, Just what is
the foot-fault rule. anyway"
Second, the irregularity of it's en-
forcement. An umpire can call foot
faults only if he sees the server
to have a special foot-fault Judge
to determine whether or not the right
foot swings over the line. and as
both umpires and judges are scarce
in the early stages of any tourna-
ment, it has become customary to
Cal IoOt lduItS OHis tiiC Ahoi
rounds, when a full corps of lines
men is assembled.
This means that the great majority
of players never have foot faults
called on them, as they are usually
eliminated in the early stages of
tournaments. In consequence, most
of them become careless, and look
upon the foot-fault rule as some
thing that does not concern them.
Young players are especially care
less in disregarding this rule. l was
surprised to notice at the boys ma
tional championship, where the stand
ard Of play was so high, how totally
ignorant many of the boys were re-
garding this rule. Many of them
stepped way inside the line when
serving, and when spoken to they
soon showed that they had no clear
idea Of the meaning Of the rule. The
juniors were less prone to foot fault
and nearly all of them held the en-
forcement of the rule in dread-ar
encouraging sign.
Rule Is Necessity.
The higher a man goes in tennis
the less liable is he to foot fault
He has learned from experience thai
having a foot fault called on him a.
Evening star., 1923-11-04

The ideal course for the average
duffer whose score ranges between
80 and 110-the man who constitut es
80 per cent of the golfers of Amer
ica-is course not much more than
5000 yards in length, whose fair
ways roll gently, whose greens are
not too severely bunkered; a course
with three short holes varying from
100 to 100 yards in length and whose
fairwayS and putting green's are kept
in excellent condition.
What the DufYer Wants.
Therein lies the nub of the mat
ter. those two words excellent con-
dition." Deep bunk ers. heavy rough
and a generally difficult course per-
haps don't have much effect on the
average duffer who does not strive
for length and whose iron shots
haven't the carry of the crack play
ers. But he wants grass tees, we'll
smoothed out He wants fairways
rolled occasionally. just as does the
crack, and particularly does he want
putting greens fairly smooth and only
gently rolling.
AND another part, major part of
the course upkeep from the buffers
standpoint, is smooth 1T. ~ of
fairway in front of the uniting
greens. Usually the duffer iS :, man
who does not play the mashie any too
we'll. For this is one OF the reasons
he is duffer. And if he has a run
up shot from 30 yards off the
green over fairly smooth ground he
is well satisfied. much more so than
If he had to play a difficult mashie
shot through a heavy fringe of gra SIS
in front of the green. These little
details are what make a good golf
course from the duffer point of view,
and they are SO often overlooked by
greens committees.
The duffer wants distance off the
tee, as much as he can get from his
tee shot, none too long at best. For
this reason rolled fairways to dis
serve him well. He wants easy shots
to the green, not such shots as would
puzzle even the expert. Given these
things he is happy, and his score is
not only respectable, but sometimes,
when the puts drop for him, even
something to be proud of.
Three Sets OF Tees Useful.
On the so-called championship
courses there should be two, or. bet
ter still. three sets of tees, with a
tee box at each set. When a duffer
foursome starts out it can take it's
choice Of tees, the long, Intern ediate
or the short length. This would give
the chance to take the course they
want. And probably most of them
would take the short course. leaving
the long course with its lengthy car
rleS IOT the experts. lntS Is DelnE
done at several courses around New
York, where greens committees real
ize the long course is too, hard. the
carries too arduous for the ordinary
player.
These are a few Of the things that
could be done to make golf more
enjoyable for the gent who con-
tributes the major part of the up
keep of American golf. Give him a
chance. With a few good shots he
gains confidence and some day he
may be able to play the longer
courses.
Evening star., 1923-11-04
GOLF CUP FINALISTS
FINISH IN DEADLOCK

Finalists in the handicap compe-
tition for the liberty cup at the
CheVy Chase Club ended their match
all square yesterday. Gen. Charles
q. Treat and Reginald LOTUS. who
reached the final through victories
over George T. Dunlop and Capt. C.
E Courtney, played eighteen holes
level and will meet again tomorrow
in nine hole match to determine the
winner.
Lotus, conceded two strokes by
Gen. Treat, was three down at the
fifth hole, but squared at the eighth.
Gen. Treat won the tenth, but Lotus,
by winning the fourteenth and six
teenth. became dormie up. Treat
won the seventeenth hole by virtue
of fine run-up and squared the
match at the eighteenth by holing a
good putt.
Treat will concede LOTUS single
stroke III their nine hole playoff.
They played one hole yesterday aft
ernoon before the golf committee de-
cided to cancel the play-off on ac-
count of the approach of darkness
Evening star., 1923-11-04
AIRPLANE GOLF BEING
PLAYED BY SOLDIERS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Aviators of the 18th Observation
Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Division, at
Fort Bliss, Tex, claim to have invented
a new game-airplane golf. The
game is played with half the MEM
bers of each contesting team on the
golf course. and the other half in
airplanes
Golf balls are dropped from the
airplanes as near as possible to the
holes on the ground below, and their
respective partners hole" them out.
Skill in the game is in the art Of
dropping the ball from the airplane,
In the pilot guiding the ship. and in
the observer, or player with the
ball. driving" 1t as close to the hole
as possible. II
After the ball is driven" from the
airplane. the game becomes regular
golf.
Evening star., 1923-11-04

Wytheville. Va. These trout are a
sight for sore eyes and should be
visited by every local angler The
black spotted trout have reached a
very good size. about two pounds
each. the cravings about one-haif
pound, the rainbow trout about
pound and three-quarters and the
brook trout from one-half to three
quarters of a pound The rainbow
trout appear to be much heavier than
the black spotted trout. but Lcech
says they do not weigh as much.
Would Have Big Supply.
IN discussing the Lakeland hatch
cries, Leach said that If the bureau
of fisheries could utilize all the 100
acres at the station for the propaga-
, ton of fish. his department would
be able to supply all the eastern sec
tion Of the United States with fish
to stock streams without calling on
the Mississippi river, where a large
percentage of the young come from
at the present time. He said should
this be done the Mississippi river
, could then send all It's fish to the
valley section and middle west.
1t is interesting to note that of all
the fish hatched at the Lakeland sta
tion only about one-half of 1 per
cent have been lost, which amounts
to practically nothing.
Evening star., 1923-11-04
vd Difficult Links Decried Tennis Foottaut Rule Unpopular
CHAMPIONSHIP COURSES
MAR FUN OF GOLF BUFFERS
Rank and File of ''Average'' Players Comprising go
Per Cent of Total, Deserve Chief Consideration
in All Projects.
BY w. X. McCALLUM.

the of golf
~ there with varied improvements be the
ambition club of and financial standing have
which championship be payeda which
builders of the
three national
Yet so-cald championship offer
enjoyable golf file of the golfers of the
the buffers whose dollars whose enthusiasm have
today probably will always be long
championship golf golf the dufr will
a Of a
shot Yet there record that
than
Evening star., 1923-11-04

tomorrow night in the
Ladies Duckpin League.
r Club, the Mount Peasants lack one
re out to take three in a row from
position.
ers' Duckpin League. each having
won eleven games and lost four
over a period of five weeks. Federal
American National Bank, with ten
victories and five defeats, also Is tied
with team No. of the Riggs Ma
tional Bank for runner-up honors.
Several enviable records have been
made during the past five weeks. a.
c. Doing of team No. l of the Wash
ington Loan and Trust Company has
high average. with 111-5 in fifteen
games; H. Wetzel of Lincoln is sec
ond with 1895; II. Vande of team No.
2, Riggs, third, with 1851. Fisher OF
team No. L of the Washington Loan
and Trust Company registered ten
strikes to lead the field. Osborn OF
the same team rolled 152 for high
game, while Baltz of Perpetual team
made high set with 369. WetZel broke
the spare record with an even forty.
Lively competition in the War De-
partment Bowling circuit has uncov-
cred several fine records thus far.
HowitZers of Ordnance rolled 563 to
top high team game. but 1T took the
Barbettes of the same department to
smash 1,511 to get high team set.
Here's how the individual leaders
stand: High game-First, McGregor.
Frankies. 142: second, Bigham. Quar-
termaster. 1873; third, Hamann.
Finance. 12s. High sets-First. Nc
Gregor, Frankies. $40; second. O'Brien.
Statistics, 329; third. Gilbert Howit
zers. 329. and Matson, Howitzers, 329
(tied). Spares-McGregor, AZ; Muir
rell. Frankies, 80; Feaster. Armies. 80. :
Statistics of Finance and Frankies
of Accounting General Office are wag-
ing a merry race for top place. Each
has won fourteen games and lost four.
Brandies of General Accounting Office
and Medicos are tied for runner-up
place. each with thirteen wins and
five defeats.
Evening star., 1923-11-04

tourney an added event to the already
crowded spring season. 1t will be fol-
lowed by the Chevy Chase and Column
bia events, with the Baltimore Coun-
try Club tourney and the Middle At
affairs in June.
As the situation in the inter-club
team championship stands at present,
1t appears that Columbia should re-
tain It's title for years to come unless
the other clubs develop or obtain sew
eral first-class players. Chevy Chase
next year will have on its team
Dwight Partridge. but it needs more
than one or two first-class golfers to
defeat the consistent and fine average
play of the Columbia team-a well
balanced aggregation which would
give trouble to any club team in the
country.
Work fs expected to begin in the
spring on the second eighteen-hole
course of the Congressional Country
Club-a layout that will be easier
from a golfng standpoint than the
present lengthy layout. In addition
the plans of the club call for an extra
nine-hole course for the woman mem
bers.
! COlumbia's course last MONDAY ana
Tuesday, during the open champion
ship OF the District, was real test OF
golf Stretched out to it's maximum
length it probably measured 6.7O0
yards. Chris Dunphy said he believed
it was longer than FloSsmoor, which
was played at trifle over 500 yards
during the amateur championship.
Certainly the Columbia course used
during the open championship was
the longest played hereabouts since
the national open of 1921.
Ground has been surveyed and plats
drawn with the purpose of removing
the first green at Columbia to the top
of the hill directly north of the pres
ent green. The present green lies low
and retains much of the surface
drainage which should run off, and
when the hot summer sun beats down
on it, the green bakes hard. .=r
Evening star., 1923-11-04


game to tie the leaders and they Z
the Independents to climb into from
While Columbians> received a set
back at the hands Of Sales Tax that
dropped them to third place, the Com
mercials appear to have removed
their slump when they copped two
out of three from the Billies team
to take fourth position. Comforter
Club is fifth in the race. Catherine
Quigley, Ann Chandler, Lorraine GULL,
Gladys Lowd. Miss Jordan and Paui-
inc Thomas made individual records
to receive motion picture tickets last
The schedule for the week follows;
Tomorrow night. Independents VS..
Mount Peasants; Tuesday: war De
partment VS.. Hilltoppers; Wednesday,
Post Office Department VS.. Column
bians; Thursday, Commercials VS..
Sales Tax; Friday. Comforter Club VS..
Daughters Of Isabella; Saturday, City
Post Office VS.. Billies.
with the hnIf Of the first series in
the Bureau of Standards Bowling As
sociation well under way, compeu-
-tion is reaching the boiling point.
Midgets team is leading tne race, put
the Industrials and Sharpshooters in
tend to change the order this week.
Standings of the league follow:
Here arc the averages of the first ten indi,
viduals: Brenner Sharpshooters, 104.01; WatA
son. Chemists 1os s.ee; Van Dusen, Midsets.
iol 6e; Rade. Unions. 1ol.24: Miltner, Sharp
shooters l00.33: Cosgrove, Nationals, 100 05
Page. Mideets. 1925; cragoe, Midgets. 80 10;
Russell, Unions, ss.5s; Golden, 1ndustrials
League records are: High set-Brenner.
Sharpshootsrs, S47 High game-Miltner.
shsrpshoOtsrs. l4S. High spares-Brenner,
sharpshooters, A. High strikes-Rade. I'm.
Ions; Golden, Industriais 10.
National Bank of Washington pin
rollers are deadlocked with team No.
] Of the Washington Loan and Trust
Company foTtop place in the Bank
Evening star., 1923-11-04
Inside Golf
CHESTER HORIZON

One of the best ways 1 know of
to self-demOnstrate the feel OF
correct balance in the golf swing
Is "shadow swinGinE." BY this L
mean get yourself in position SO
you can watch your own shadow
while swinging.
Then, watching, your shadow,
the first thing to do fs observe the
shadow OF your head as the club is
swung. See that it doesn't move.
Observe how much you have to
stfffen the right leg to keep 1t
from moving. Then. for a demOn-
stratfOn Us to what happens when
the head moves, let 1t sway once
as you swing. Note how all the
snap and speed are fmm eiia teIy
taken out Of the clubhead. The
Ehfr of air like the vindstOrm I'm
'Way Down East" is gone. Try n
few swings alternately with the
head held fixed and then allowed
to move. All the pressure, you
will note. is released from the
right leg when the head moves
and the body sways. Shadow
swinging ts a fine way to learn a
Not about the golf swing-if you
are Observant.
Copyright John F. Ollie Coz
Evening star., 1923-11-04

be a real golfer with q bag OF clubs
and caddy. And with the natural
imitativeness of childhood. Bobby
naturally selected Stewart Maiden to
initiate.
Mistaken for Stewart.
To this day, Bobby said on the way
home from his first great conquest at
1nwood, Il can go out on the course
and swing exactly like Stewart"
His swing was peculiarly exact
copy of Maiden's at the beginning.
later modified to suit his difference
in build and some ideas of his own.
! But he was SO accurate a copyist that
at the age of thirteen, a stocky, well
grown boy playing in his first tourna-
ment away from home, at the Roe
buck Country Club of Birmingham. an
old friend of Stewart Maiden Insisted
that Bobby, driving In the distance,
was Stewart himself. and would not
be convinced to the contrary by Bob
by's own father until he had come to
close range.
Miss Alexa Stirling. three times ma
tfonal woman champion and general
ly regarded as the leading feminine
Stylist in golf. also has Stewart Mai
denis swing. In the gallery at May
field. where she won the national
championship of 1920. was a man
from a distant tee.
Il don't know that young woman
said he. but I can tell you her teach
er. He's Stewart Maiden!"
So the little boy began swinging
like Stewart Maiden; compact stance,
nearly square: the ball played oppo-
site the left heel; the right hand very
much on top of the club; the hands
held low and extremely close to the
legs; feet close together; body erect
and set with a peculiar command of
balance, that vastly important detail
of timing.
He's q Natural Mimic,
In all the shots I have seen Bobby
Jones play, never yet have seen him
swing aft balance. His infreQ1ent
mistakes, I am prone to believe, arise
Evening star., 1923-11-04
STEWART MAIDEN.

bag and started on his way, his eyes
meanwhile riveted on the ball. The
tout ensemble was somewhat re-
markable and, as reproduced faith
fully by Bobby. 1t caused great joy
In the hearts of all beholders-ex-
cept Judge Broyles, who never could
see>anything funny about It,
But Bobby's best imitation always
was of Stewart Maiden. That did the
trick for Bobby.
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