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Evening star., 1923-12-23
TRIO OF U. S. RACES
|: LISTED FOR EPINARD

NEW YORK, December 22.-Epi-
nard, French thoroughbred cham
pion, will race the pick of next years
American four-year-oIds in three
races next September and October,
two on metropolitan tracks and one
In Kentucky, NJ Pierre Werthefmer.
owner Of Epinard. revealed today be-
fore sailing for France on the Ber-
engaria.
M. wertheimer, who has practically
completed all details on the interna-
tional series as result of confer
ences during the past two weeks with
American turfmen, said the first
sweepstakes, at a mile, will be run
early in Septem Der at Belmont Park
The second race will be run at Aque-
duct track between September Is and
IS, and the third at Latonia, KY,
the first week IN October. The French
man did not disclose the distances Of
the, last two events, but they prob
ably will be at a mile and quarter
and a mile and half, respectively.
Epinard. he said, VIII be shipped
here in July with Everett Haynes,
his jockey; Eugene Leigh, his Amerf-
oan trainer; three stablemen and
three horses as training companions.
Epinard will train at Saratoga for
the sweepstakes, in which he prob
ably will meet zev. Harry r. Sin
clair's 1928 champion; In Memoriam,
Kentucky crack, and Rear Admiral
Cary T. Grayson's My Owns among
others. -
Evening star., 1923-12-23

In a taxicab with Walter Hagen
leaving the Columbia course where
the National open for 1921 had just
been completed, Walter having fin
ished tied with Freddie Mcleod fol-
second place. Walter said to me:
Bobby Jones will win the oper
before he wins. the amateur. OF al
the amateurs, he is most likely II
travel four rounds without disas
trous break. His form is the sound
est-
Early in 1922 Bobby played through
the southern amateur championship a,
East Lake, his home course, and won II
easily with some scoring that caused
the visiting experts to raise their eye
brows
Stated briefly, on we'll trapped
championship course $50 yards in
length. he played through the entire
tournament, including a qualifying
round of 80, in ten strokes better
of the course, which was 72. Need
les TO say. he was not hard pushed
in any of his matches.
skokie. Links OF Hope.
Then came Skokie. For a time 1,
looked as if the long lane might turn
there.
Bobby found the Skokie course
teenth hole, tough two -shotter OF 435
yards, where you had to take a chance
on a bad lie or even out of bounds to
drive straight for il and open up the
we'll trapped and banked green.
The Skokie course was baked un-
der more than d month of unmtti-
gated sunlight, and was fast as
cement, almost, while the greens.
carefully watered. were good. The
scoring in practice rounds looked
funny; it began to appear that four
rounds of about 30 would be needed
to win the championship.
In fact, Jock Hutchison, up to his
old tricks in the qualifying round
Monday. burned up the already in
cinerated course for a 81 and a 6s
and set the world record for SO holes
of qualifying play in a national
championship at 135. But on We'd
nesday. the last qualifying day, came
a furious rain. No qualifying was
done that day: when play was re-
sumed. the course was different.
At that, Bobby Jones seemed to
have drawn the playing partner who
would emulate Jim Barnes at CO.
lumbia and spread-eagle the field.
Fresh from his conquest at the Brit
ish open, Walter Hagen broke loose
for a 6S, while Bobby was stepping
along to a conservative "a. But in the
a afternoon it was Bobby did the break
ing loose, and a round that had
Walter caught at the tenth hole
yielded him 72-yet here was old
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man John Black with a pair of Ills
leading the field and Willie Mahlhorn,
| another unheralded knight, second with
| IA. Hagen and Sarazen had 145, Jones
| cally out of it.
whittles Down HIS Score.
The hour seemed to have struck
| for Bobby Jones next morning. when
he reduced his score symmetrically
| to a beautiful 70--he now had trav-
eled "A, 70. 20; his total was ZIG, tied
| for the lead with Mehlhorn, with
Grandfather Black 1 stroke behind,
| Hagen 3 and Sarazen 4.
For the first time in an open
| championship ! saw Bobby smiling
| between rounds. He confessed later
Il can tell it now with no great vio-
| lation of confdence-that he fully
| expected to reduce his score two more
| strokes in the last round.
II had shot "a and ~ and TO-" he
| said. MY putting touch was bet
/ ter than 1t had been in years. The
course seemed getting easier-why
not a 6S?"
Let the gods of golf answer that.
| There was a 6S in the last round.
| sure enough. But 1t was little Gene
Sarazen. travelling like a fawless
machine out in SO with no gallery
to, bother him: back in 35. almost be-
fore the populace knew what had
happened. And there he sat on the
sidelines with a score of 28S.
Bobby was finishing his first nine
with a fair SO, when he heard the
news. 1t gave him a par SO on the
last nine to tie. 1t was plain to all
familiar with his game that he was
not breeZing along as he had breeZed
along In the morning round. The ball
was not rolling for him-any golfer
knows what that means.
At the tenth hole he lost a precious
stroke when six-foot putt hit the
cup and switched out. 7 was stand
ing by his shadow, Stewart Maiden,
silent and suffering as only a Scotch
man can suffer. Stewart shook his
head. Bobby dropped another stroke
at the twelfth, when his bold pitcn
failed to hold the green. Now it
seemed all over indeed, yet the boy
was fighting, his young face set
grirnly. His spirit, too. was light
under the fire, for after a pretty par
on the thirteenth and a treme ndous
drive nearly to the 310-yard four
teenth green. he walked up behind
me and hailed me.
He Gets Back n Stroke.
Well. he said. you needn't let your
chin drag! I can see it from be-
hind"
Right there he got back a stroke
with 30-foot putt that sank, after a
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NEW ORLEANS RESULTS

. HnsT sAcE sds E. s. h.n. aens;
!. Won; seth's TlowsI: ss AD. MsIgisrs, 5 so
third. Time. III IS. Times Up, Great
Northern, Ebony Belle, Payman, Arabs and
jackson also ran.
SECOND RACE. six. furlongs; three-year.
olds-Simplictty, 100 tLee), u to /. TO /. s
to Q, won; valsntia, 1o2 (Thomas), 3 to ],
S to 2, second; Aladdin. 104 (Mersler). 8 to
S, third. Time, LIS. Lord Allen, Trsptula,
Admirer, Good Times, Sequel, Reoomnfsnda.
tion and Sycamore also ran.
THIRD RACE, Ave and one-haf furlongs;
all aSes-John Finn, liz (Wa1lace), 16 to 5,
4 to g. out, won; Tuscola, 100 (Parke), 8 to
l. 4 to 8, second; Pandowdy, 100 (Corcoran).
ont, third. Time, liz 2-5. James F. oEara
FOURTH RACE. mile and seventy yards;
three-year-old ds--Flying Devil. 80 Il. Lang)
s tv !, to ], even, won; Rupee, 81 (B. Bruen.
insl, to !. 3 to z, second: Vennis; 1os wal
sogEsrth Aroon and ANONYMOUS also ran.
three-year-olds and up-Waukeag, <1o3 Gar.
land), to ], 3 to 2, s to s, won; Dan Boil.
io3 {Thorndyke), to /, third. Time, l.Ss l.s
Mock Orange. Young Adam, Jake Berger
Smart Guy, May Girl and Honolulu Boy also
SIXTH RACE. thrse-year.old. and up; mile
and seventy yards-6pugs, 106 %. Lang), 70
L. 3 to I, even, won; Smarty, liz lMorrts), 3
to !, even, secondi Generl osdorua, lo6
fws0aos), to 10, third. Time, I9l seZ5et
Alta Boy II. whalebone. St. Dcnard and Who
Cares also ran.
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many tunes winner OF the metrOp'
Friends of Chick Evans, the Chi
cago wonder, probably will rise to
point to his record in the western
championship, on which he appar-
emily has a strange hold, having
won it eight times. But Chicks ma
Travers. although both have won the
open title once, and Chick won his
first amateur and his first open in
the same year-l9l6.
The most consistent golfer of Great
Britain is John Ball. who won the
British amateur no less than eight
times. Evans equaled this record
in winning the western at Cleveland
There were better golfers in the
British event than Ball, but Ball was
the most consistent. He won his
titles over period of twenty four
years, annexing the last one at an
age when most men are content to
compete only in senior events.
Dunphy Leads Locally.
Based on his seasons showing and
his daily average play over all
courses. the most consistent per
former around Washington this year
has been c. j. Dunphy, last years
tournaments, no more than Albert
Il. Mackenzie won. but his 'daily
average in practice rounds a Colum-
bia. Chevy Chase and Friendship was
other amateur about this city. Dun
ply today is the most consistent
golfer about Washington, even
q though some OF his low scores are
not as low as brilliant rounds that
have been made by NJ. B. Stevinson.
Roland r. Mackenzie Walter r.
Tuckerman, the present District cham
pion, and others.
what Gene Sarazen calls "grooving
the swing'--that is. finding the cor
rect orbit or groove in which the
club must be swung for all strokes.
So much for the mechanical end of
the game. The other angle. the men
tai one, is more difficult, and here it
is that the true champions game
shows itself the superior. He has
confidence, engendered by that self
same growing of the swing, that
the shot will come off as planned, and
il does come off. That is what makes
the champion consistent.
He doesn't make n brilliant shot to
be followed by topped shot or a
badly hooked or sliced shot. His
, shots may not all be of great length
and his approaches may not all finish
next to the hole, but his shots will
be fairly long and always straight
and his approaches always will finish
near enough to get down in two
puts.
when Travers Beat Evans.
Those who saw it will never forget
the final of the 1912 amateur cham
pionship. when Jerry Travers started
the final round one down TO Chick
Evans at Wheaton. Jerry was out in
"a, putting like a blue streak and
hitting every shot consistently down
the alley. After the third hole the
game began to work on Evans conf
dence and the Chicagoan broke. At
the ninth hole he was six down and
the match ended in Travers' favor by
: and s. Consistency won that day.
Had Evans himself been at all con-
sistent, without being brilliant. Trav-
ers' streak might have burned itself
out and Evans could have gone on 10
tx-tp
Evening star., 1923-12-23
M'TIGUE AND RICHARD
FAIL TO MAKE PEACE

NEW YORK, December c2.-
Prospects of match between
Mike McTigue, world light-heavy-
weight champion. and either Gene
Tunney, the American 1SS-pOund
tftlehOIder, or Georges Cnrpen-
tier. were practically eliminated
today when McTfgue and his man-
ager, Joe Jacobs, failed to patch
up their differences at n confer
ence with Promoter Tex Rfckard.
McTlgue declared after the con-
ference that he would not go
through with the contract Jacobs
signed for n fight with Tunney,
and also refused to accept his
managers compromise terms for
n bout at Madison Square Garden
with Carpenter.
McTigue added that he probably
would leave I'm the near future
for Europe In search of fights,
not returning to the United States
until August, when his contract
with Jacobs expires. 1t was
pointed out, however, that the
liGht-heavyweight champion. un-
der the state athletic commissions
rules, would become automatically
suspended IL he falls to go through
with the Tunney match by April.
when the time limit for fulfilling
that contract expires.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

Australia this year netted S6.ooo on
all its matches, according to Ander-
| son, captain of the team. This Is on4
reason why foreign nations are So
eager 70 get into the challenge round
and play the United States Their
proportion of the gate receipts is the
same whether they win or lose
| / am frequently asked what be
comes of the money made by the as
sociation. The belief is widespread
that the association must be
wealthy organization by this time
On the contrary, practically all the
money 1t makes is barely enough TO
cover the large and ever growing ex-
penses 1t fncurs in the development
of the game. The cost of conducting
| the central office, which includes, be-
| side rent and salaries, all the work
done in connection with the develop
ment of our boys and juniors, is the
main item. The printing bill alone is
enormous, amounting to thousands of
dollars a year One of the principal
reasons why the ranking of players
was reduced from $50 to 20 was be
cause the printing bill for this work
alone amounted to over $1,000.
Expenses Extremely Heavy.
The association has to pay the
travelling expenses of the winners Of
its eight sectional doubles tourna-
ments when they come to compete in
the national doubles, and if, as is now
suggested, the boys and juniors are
similarly cared for, this will be still
another expense for the association
to carry. Every year players are
brought from the far corners of the
country, in order that they may be
. tried out for the Davis cup team, and
once the team is selected its expenses
hIy rTy1,
| financial drain upon the association S
! treasury is so heavy and constant
that no large sum of money ever re
| mains in the treasury for any length
of time.
The present officials of the ma
tional association realize that we can
not hope to retain the Davis cup in
definitely, and are wisely intent upon
the accumulation of a sinking fund
to be used for the extra expenses
when we no longer hold the cup.
Beside from the accum ulation of this
fund, the policy of the association is
to spend all its income for the de
velopment of the game and to ex
out our park system so that every
body or girl who wishes to play ten.
mis- may find 1t possible to do so.
Recently, it has added to it's edu
cational work the production of NOV
ing pictures of the great tennis play
ers, which 1T is sending to all the
clubs that wish them. Many of these
slow motion pictures show just
how the champions make their
strokes. This new work is proving
of the greatest interest to those sec
! tions in which the prominent players
are unable to appear, and should in
! time greatly benefit the form of our
younger players. This Is a good il
lustration of the constructive work
that is constantly being carried on by
the national association.
Copyright, 1921
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steps in ordinary walking. Thus they
come just right to speed up the club
head as it gets near the top, because
the club must travel little more
during the two count than during the
one. and still more as you count
three. As you count one move the
Plubhead. kept even with the hands
a foot or SO to the right. Then. two
sweep IL around--without a all lift
ing il. Then. during three, lift it
with the left hand exactly as you
would do a left uppercut. This count
method has nice effect in automati-
caily timing the clubhead to the ball.
have found, since, on the four count,
usually. the clubhead will be at the
ball
Evening star., 1923-12-23
MOORE LEADS SKATERS
IN OLYMPIC TRYOUTS

BOSTON, December 22.-Joe Moore
of New York, international indoor
champion and United States represen-
tative in the Olympic skating cham
piop ships al Chamonix, France, next
month, won two out of three pursuit
races in the Olympic trials at the
Arena today. Moore placed first, Charles
Jewtraw of Lake Placid second, and
Valentine Balls, Lake Placid. third,
in the half-mile race. Moore won the
one-mile event in which Richard
Donovan, St. Paul, was second, and
William Stefnmetz, Chicago, was
third.
Steinmetz won first place in a Sec
ond half-mile pursuit race in which
Richard Donovan and Harry .Kaskay,
Chicago, were second and third, re-
spectively. Mrs. Theresa Weld
Blanchard and Nathaniel Niles, ma
tional amateur champion pair skat-
ers, who will represent America in
the Olympics, took part in the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1923-12-23


Few people outside the central or
ganiZatfon realize to what an extent
the official tennis body has become a
real business. Up to ten years ago
Quoted at the private Offices of the
the work of the association was con-
Quoted at the private offices of the
officials of the association, but the
! enormous Increase in the volume of
correspondence became too much of
burden for these volunteers, and it
trail headquarters. with paid assist
ants, where the work could be ade-
quately handled.
Secretary Has Busy Job.
The present Offices are under the
control of an executive secretary,
with a staff OF assistants, but the
policy of the office is, of course, still
dictated by the officers of the ma
tional association. 1t is from here
that all arrangements for Davis cup
contests are made, all international
correspondence taken care of. the
tournament schedules arranged and
the important work of junior develop
ment conducted.
Not the least important part of the
work of the executive office Is the
handling of the finances. How i'm
portant& this Is can be realized when
it is known what large sums are
handled during the year. The ma
ttonal singles championship and the
Davis cup challenge round each bring
( in about $4,000 every year. The
finals of the Davis cup and the ma
tional doubles also bring in large sums
as do the annual east-west match es
and other important exhibitions.
The amount of revenue derived from
now become a minor part of the asso-
Ciation's income.
The association retains only a por-
tion of its gross earnings. and in
! many cases acts merely as banker.
In the national singles and doubles
championships, the association di-
vides the net profits with the club
holding the event, and in the chal-
lenge round of the Davis cup the
profits are divided with the challeng-
portion of the receipts to the club
| for the use of it's grounds. When the
players of two foreign nations COM
pete in this country in Davis cup ties,
the association handles the finances,
but does not retain any of the money.
it being equally divided between the
two foreign countries after the ex-
penses of conducting the tournament
have been deducted.
Trips Abroad Are Costly.
The income of our association de-
pends to some extent upon whether
We are obliged to send a team abroad
in quest of the cup. The expenses of
such a team may easily amount to
$4,000, while the net receipts from
their matches may amount to less
than this. When we hold the chal-
lenge round of the Davis cup in this
country, we do not have these heavy
travelling expenses of the players, and
the association is able to gain a good
profit, as tf1e-matches are much more
largely attended here than in any
other country.
For instance, our association made
no money on Davis cup matches the
year we brought back the cup from
Australia, as the expense of sending
team first to England and then to
New Zealand. was SO great, while
Evening star., 1923-12-23
GEORGETOWN IS POINTING
FOR WINTER TRACK WORK

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY nicely of
than fifty athletes we'll fortified for the indoor
The HItoppers make their the games
intercollegiate championships March The will
wares Boston, Baltimore and other cities we'll
The Milroe and Wico games books of
be to the
Athletic Association will held
Fehr
Evening star., 1923-12-23

teenth. but there was the seventeenth
and its mercilesS arrangement of
traps to compel dog-leg shot from
the tee and then an angling pitch or
iron for a second. Bobby would have
none of that: straight down the left
side of the fairway, straight for the
open part of the green, he banged his
drive, though it had to carry an enor-
nous bunker and go close to the
boundary line. The ball landed
safely, only to kick into a sort of
sunken road under a spreading ma
pie tree, planted there a hundred
years before to beat him out of a
championship. He could not play a
pitch from under the low branches
He played the best shot he could
low, running shot, that would not
run far enough to get on the green.
He took a where he had to have
4-and got his on the long home
hole. only to finish one stroke behind.
Eighth place in his first start; then
fifth place; now second place. tied
with grand old John Backbone
stroke behind at Skokie.
Going back south on the train,
without the bacon, asked Bobby
Jones:
do you like being a celebrated
golfer?"
II do not" said Bobby promptly.
"Too. much responsibility about it,
Next Sunday: A Miracle Round
Not BObbie'S.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
PILLS TO KEEP BUSY
DURING SPRING TRIP

PHILADELPHIA. December 22.-
Plans Tor the spring training trip of
the Philadelphia National League base
Dali team are virtually complete, IL
was announced here today. The play
ers Will leave for their training
quarters at Leesburg, Fla. the latter
part of February. The series of ex-
hibition games scheduled runs from
March Is to April 49,
The Phtllies will play exhibition
contests with Brooklyn. Boston and
St. Louis in the National League: :
Philadelphia. Cleveland and Chicago
in the American League; Newark in
The International League and the Mil
Waukee and Columbus teams of the
American Association.
The complete schedule follows:
March 13. Brooklyn (N.) at Clear
water. Fla; II, Brooklyn (N.) at
Lee esbuTg. Fla: 19. Milwaukee "a. A
at Palmetto Fla: 20, st. Louis (ND
at Bordentown, Fla; 21. Boston (N.)
Winter Park. Fla; "a. ss. Louis (N3
at Leesburg: %, Cleveland (A) at
Leesburg; q, Chicago (A.) at Lees
burg; 2S. Chicago (AD at Winter
Haven, Fla: 29 Columbus CA. Al at
Leesburg; April ]. Brooklyn (N) at
Clearwater, Fla; 5. Philadelphia CAD
at Philadelphia; s. Newark Cd at
Newark; to Il. inclusive, Philadel-
phia (A) at Philadelphia: April 13.
Pal n OF Do
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FIRST GOLF, CHAPLAIN 1
APPOINTED AT SEATTLE

SEATTLE, WASH, December II.
"A golf chaplain has been ap-
pointed by members Of the Earl
ingtOn GOIf Club here 10 look after
the spiritual welfare of the club,
according to President Frank
Ryan.
Rev. Canon R0uald Hnton afs the
incunbent Of tho nayv1y oAe9ted
golfer chaplain In history.
Evening star., 1923-12-23
S0CCERS TO QUALIFY
TODAY FOR CITY ELEVEN

A team to represent this city in a
soccer game with the Sons of St.
George at Baltimore next Sunday will
be selected from the Washington and
Harlem elevens that are to clash on
the field at 18th and B streets this
afternoon. Play will start at $50
o'clock.
On January a Washington team
will play the Ardmore, Pa, club that
has been cutting such a swath in the
Philadelphia circuit.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

bad chip shot. At the fifteenth an
other grand drive and a beautiful
pitch left him a 4-yard putt to get
back the other stroke. but the ball
hung on the very rfm-a quarter turn
more would have sent 1t down; prob
ably would have meant the champion
ship, If you don't believe in the des-
three holes was 4-4-5. but Bobby
could be counted on for 4 at the
last hole. He must travel 49, for
a tie and a play-off.
He got the 4 on the difficult six
Evening star., 1923-12-23
Inside Golf
CHESTEp Hnp-ON

Here is diagram for the golf stu
dent who finds himself able to count
one, two, three while making his back
swing. / never could count this way
during the swing, but many of my
pupils are greatly aided by doing so.
The back swing divides into three
parts. These are % back, CD around
and CD up. These counts should take
Evening star., 1923-12-23
Golf Rare Attribute Tennis Activities Are Well Supervised
Terry TRAVERS STEADIEST
PLAYER PRODUCED in T.. S.
Has Edge on Even Chick Evans-John Ball Holds
Crown for England and Chris Dunphy Is
Entitled to Honor i'm the District.

IHAr consistency what basis and who the
Nv golfer this and the
y of Columbia?
frequently the brilliant
former the who along hole after hole
there occasional long
good mahe which breaks 1t does
kind
ssteny dawthout high and
sibly without phenomenany low
The player the history American got Jerome
ropoitan besides other titles
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NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
PERFORMING GREAT TASK
ISecretarys Office, Which Attends to All Details ReI
tive to Home and international Events, Han
dies Much Important Work
BY SAMUEL HARDY.

ME remarkable expansion during wears ba
made develop controlling organization
which comparable that of of national
body that controls, from its headquarters New activities
of the game throughout the country.
club
national body
would the clubs
through membership
club association in
policy been
the
efficiency because the officers of all
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How Bobby Jones Became
Creates Genius Of Golf
CHAPTER TX.
One Stroke Back at Skokie.
BY o. B. keller.

nee 1921 Bobby Jones demonstrated
competition the of his
championship He leading the field the first
skdded fourth the
ended fourth with Joe Krkwood back Hagen
did this asked Bobby
little Bobby did this sending we'll
of the play that his
guessed leading
this little naturally had
oationr