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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
To SEE
BIC ROWING
RACE
Thousands Arrive Day Early
for Harvard Yale Contest
at New London.

NEW LONDON, Conn.. June Fl.
With the annual Yale-Harvard~b boat
race only twenty-four hours away,
the advance guard Of the thousands
of persons who will witness the
struggle on the historic Thames
began piling into this port today.
Visitors were arriving on every
train and at intervals yachts pointed
their noses into the harbor and
made anchorage. The hotels, gaily
decorated with the Yale blue and
Harvard Crimson, were taxed to
capacity.
Both rival varsity crews took
only a light workout today, Just
enough to keep them on edge"
Harvard won the losses In all
three contests in tomorrow's re-
gatta The Crimson decided on the
which is to be rowed down stream,
and the West lanes for the fresh
men and junior varsity contests
which are to be rowed up stream.
Betting has been light. although
interest is high and many wagers
are expected to be made before
the varsity crews line up at the
start. Yale, reported to have made
a better showing in speed tests. Is
a slight favorite.
The Yale crews are quartered at
Gales Ferry, the Harvard Fights
at Red Top. At both camps today
there was an air of quiet con-
fidence.
The work of the Yale crew this
spring has been far more impressive
than the Harvard eight. The oars
men Of the two universities will
have their annual regatta on the
Thames on Friday and there Is much
optimism in New Haven and New
London over the chances OF the Ellis.
The situation at New Haven is
somewhat unusual, inasmuch as q
has been brought
about and greatly improved results
have been accomplished in a single
season. The reorganization under
new rowing instructor at Cambridge
is still in a state of development.
The Harvard-Yale race is the only
one which is rowed over the four
mile course. The Poughkeepsie
event is rowed at three miles, but
the Crimson and Blue have chung
to the tradition of their annual
aquatic struggle. In form the Blue
is smoother working crew than
Harvard, and reports of time trials
seem to give the Ellis an advantage.
The history Of the regatta dis
closes many instances, however,
where the favorite did not win at
New London. A few years ago the
Yale crew looked hopeless before the
race. The coaching system was
upset and Harvard looked like a
sure winner.
Yale upset the dope on that occa-
sion and the Crimson followers are
entertaining the idea that this may
be the year when the Crimson Is
due to upset the dope. From pres
ent indications this does not seem
likely to transpire.
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OF twelve games played st.
Teresa has won nine and In at
least one of the three defeats was
badly off it's usual form.
Paul Mudd, the Georgetown Uni
versity star, is among st. Teresa's
players. although he also is list
ed with Dominican Lyceum In the
series. The team he plays with
first i'm the series he must remain
with throughout. Mudd is a
catcher and Outfielder.
Willie Brazerol, a Catholic Uni.
Walsh, with Robert Mudd, form
Teresa's shortstop. Another varsity
man with the Anacostians is Harold
Cummings, second Sacker, who play
ed for the University of Alabama
Richard Mudd, who pitched for
the Georgetown Freshmen, will dc
mound duty for st. Teresa, and
Robert Mudd will play the outfield
The three Mudds are brothers.
Louis BOmbrest and Aubrey
Khunert are other pitchers. Bill
Farmer, the youth who won
fame by pitching a nineteen
inning scOreless tie against 4he
LinwOrths last year, opposing
Lefty Jones, is not with st.
Teresa this season.
Milton Flaharty and Millart
Walsh, with Robert Mudd, from
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
H A 5
HIGH TENNIS
HOPES
Experts Convinced Davis Cup
Team Has Classy
Personnel.

Private cable dispatches from
Australian tennis authorities indl-
cate that they have gret hopes Tor
the success of their Davis Cup
team, which is due to arrive at
Vancouver at the end of the week.
While the team includes but two
former Internationalists, the Aus
tralian experts are convinced that
it is composed of exceptionally high
class players and will prove for
midable.
According to the latest advices,
y. o. Anderson, who heads the
team, Is considered without doubt
the best player in Australia, his
recent and impressive victories over
Gerald Patterson being extremely
convincing. J. B. Hawkes. is also
reported to be a greatly improved
player and capable OF upholding the
high standard achieved by Aus
tralian teams in the past.
w. B. Schlesinger and I. d. NC
Innes. who are the colts of the
team, are stated to be the two best
tennis prospects developed In the
Antipodes in recent years.
Both have carried Anderson and
Patterson into extra set matches
q number Of times and are improv-
ing both in the technique and speed
of their stroking with every tourna-
ment appearance. OF the two, Nc
Times Is thought to be slightly the
better player, due to his greater
repertoire of strokes. but Schlesinger
combines terrific hitting with ex-
traordinary court covering and may
develop into an international star.
It is the hope and expectation
Of the Australian enthusiasts that
their team will be the winner OF the
American zone ties and advance
through the ihterzone match to the
position Of challenging nation for
the Davis Cup. Such an accom-
plishment would be a splendid tes-
timonial to the advancement OF
tennis in the antipodes.
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the regular outfield. Sammy Haas,
a brilliant youngster, is listed as
ST. Teresa's first baseman. He is
entered by one or two other teams
in the series.
st. Teresa is Anacostia's repre-
sentative team in the champion
ship competition. Interest IS rum
ming high beyond the Eastern
branch and the fans there are bank
ing heavily on their team to come
through a winner
Manager Anderson was host to
the ballplayers at a feed and
smoker at his home the other
night and the social get-tOgether
served to emphasize the team
spirit characteristic of st Teresa
this year.
In the meantime st, Teresa's
foes are hard at it in the matter
of preparation for the series In
fact, the senior title should be holly
contested.
AS yet no protest has been made
against any senior player, and il
TINS may be taken as an indication
the senior teams will enter compe
tition with full strength.
Protests have been extrannel,
light, there being none in the un
limited, senior and midget classes
and only couple in the Junior.
More and more the bi~ series
looms as a humdinger.
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then your team will win games.
Take a mediocre team, ler it win
three Of four games in a row, games
in which it gets the breaks, and 1t
will be the hardest kind of team to
beat. It becomes inspired and plays
many points above its speed.
1T is not the power of teams so
much that wins ball games, but the
mental attitude of the players. No
matter how able players they may be,
they can not win unless they set their
minds on winning and play to win.
1--WE have on the Detroit team
player who is 40 per Get ability and
so per cent inspiration. He is be-
coming star and if he continues
showing the amount of fight he has
shown SO far this season he will
continue being a star, although he
does not posses half the ability OF
many players who do not show as
well as he does because they are
logging it. They lack inspiration.
eff it were possible for the Detroit
team to make a double play at GER
tain stage Of each game, we would
win two-thirds Of our games as re-
suit, but we seldom make double
plays. One reason is that our infleld
has been a makeshift affair ever
since the first few weeks Of the sea-
son.
You talk of punch. Well, have
a.. -
In concentration at bat. A player
who goes to bat inspired. confident
that he is going to hit the ball and
hit it hard and whose mind is on the
pitcher and the swing, is going to
hit that ball more times than not.
You say he has the punch. He has.
But it is concentration brought on
by inspiration.
"Give me nine players who con-
centrate and I'll have team that
cannot be beaten. Inspired teams
are not beaten. They beat better
teams right along. When Boston
started in last place on July 4,
1914, climbed to the top and then
beat the Athletics four games in
row in the World Series, it was not
because Boston was a great team,
because several teams in the league,
and certainly the Athletics, We're
stronger, but it was an. inspired
team and it won as a result.
"A team that has confidence to
20 after every batted ball, no
matter how remote may be their
chance of making the play, is GO
ing to get some of these chances
and turn a fielding play at the
psychological moment, a play that
will mean the turning point Of
the game and result in victory.
eff ball players would only hustle
and realize what it means to hustle
that the player who does hustle is
the one who makes brilliant plays
and team would go about it's
work in this manner collectively.
what a team you would have.
1T is wonderful thing to get a
team together and keep 1t intact
from the start of the season with
out being forced to shift because
OF injuries and illness. But this
has been a hard year. with players
like Sisler, Hornsby, Daubert. Rig.
ney. Jones and others taken to hos
pitfalls. The dope has been knocked
into cooked hat"
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might have in store for them and
If the worst comes to worst
either eye will close accommodate
ingly.
The day in the champions
training hut would not be COM
plete unless we added that he
also partook in another mild form
of physical torture.
For fully ten minutes in the
forenoon Dempsey man1cured his
own nails, finger and too, thereby
strengthening the muscles OF his
chin against any bombardment
thereof on July 4.
After each meal he manipulated
at least one toothpick, being care
full to see that no molars were
loose and that each biscuspid was
where Gibbons couldn't locate 1t
with a range-finder.
Anything in the shape of ac-
tual work will be postponed until
champions advisers. He may
extent of pounding out the story
Of the bout on a borrowed type
writer.
Dempsey is taking the Gibbons
fight as a joke. So are the other
09,999,999 people in continental
America.
He even refuses to admit 1t Is
to be a fight, but rather a sort
of friendly scuffle between a
couple of mischievous schoolboys.
Meantime Gibbons buffers his
bread on both sides and spends
his afternoons and evenings
shadow boxing. He was in the
midst of a lively scrap with his
silhouette yesterday when the sun
went down on him. The bout was
called a draw.
Gibbons spafring partners are
two grizzly bears and a natural
lied bison which has been half
starved for the occasion. He Is
not making any predictions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
MURPHY RELEASED UNDER
AN OPTIONAL AGREEMENT

RICHMOND, June 21.-Jimmy
Murphy, Georgetown University
star infielder, has been rele; led to
the Danville Club, Of the Piedmont
League, under an optional agree
ment.
Murphy played short for the local
club last year and reported again
this spring at the close of the
scholastic year. He had been re-
served pending a trial of Leslie
Burke, an infielder obtained from
the Detroit Americans.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
GRID STAR Is
KILLED IN ACCIDENT

SEATTLE, June 21.-Victor M.
Place, former football coach at Ohio
WESLEYAN College and in his col
lere days at Dartmouth an all
America selection, was killed In
logging accident at Bookings, Ore,
Saturday, according to word re-
ceived by friends here today.
Place coached at Wesleyan from
1908 to 1905, and at the University
of Washington in 1906 and 1907.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
MoHAWKS AND BULLETS
TO DEDICATE NEW PARK

The Mohawks and American Le-
gion teams will officially open Law
renee Phillips new ball park, at
Fifteenth and H streets, northeast.
next Sunday Afternoon, when they
play at 3 o'clock.
Special ceremonies and features
will precede the game. The lie.
gionnaires are putting forth strenu-
GUS practice sessions in anticipa-
ton of the contest.
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Travelling In his private car
toward the scene of the Dempsey
Gibbons combat, Ware related yes.
terday to Jack Kearns. Dan Tracy
and half a dozen newspaper men
some of the incidents in his career.
While he spoke trained sport
writer's, who had come thousands
of miles to hear and see and find
out all about Dempsey and Gibbons,
forgot them both to listen to the
story of one man of the great
open spaces who looks the part.
Wear was an intimate Of the late
Colonel William Cody C'Buffalo
Bill'), and of that hardy plains
mans double and close friend, Col.
John r. Burke.
"The only man / ever knew
who could run up your losses into
the thousands and make you love
him for it," says Wear Of Buffalo
Bill. 81 blew $8O,0OO in his Eu.
ropeal1 tour venture. But what
Of IL? Bill was hObnObbing with
royalty, having the time Of his
life. He'd never seen anything
like it before and never would
again. Eighty thousand was
cheap for the Joy that was
brought to Bill"
Wear told Of the many times that
Colonel Burke, who bore a remark
able resemblance to Buffalo Bill,
and knew all the tricks of the Wild
West Snowman, would jump in and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
ST. TERESA is STRONG
IN SENIOR DIVISION
Bv r. D. THOMAS.

Tn deadly earnest the ball Teresa Athletic
working virtually day the Rande field to put
great fight for THIS years cham
pionshp in the city independent series
St. Teresa in 1922, and fell by the waysde
But due largely the de-
effort Anderson manager the team from
Anacosta has back stronger than
Teresa players though the senior
the unlimited
endeavong to book another big team
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
SENIOR GOLF TOURNEY
WON BY ]. S. PARKER

The senior golf tournament at
the Chevy Chase CLUB was won by
J. 8. Parker with a card of 100
1854. J. H. Gore whose card read
$3.50 was second, while Judge
e. K. Campbell was third his gross
being 1O1, with a handicap Of 10,
giving him a net Of 81.
Play was at eighteen holes medal
bandicap. Others who finished well
up were DIR. r. w. Baker and Ad-
miral s. s. Fletcher. who ties for
fourth and fifth prizes with nets
of 92
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
SHIPPING BOARD NETMEN
DEFEAT NAVY DEPARTMENT

The net team representing the
Shipping Board scored in three Of
five matches over the Navy De-
partment in yesterdays Government
league sets. Navy forfeited in two
of the matches.
The summaries follow:
Price and Manifold, Shipping
Board, won by default; Bessy and
Wilson, Navy, defeated Fairbanks
and Cannon, Shipping Board, Cd,
6-3; Pierce and Lansdale, Shipping
Board. won by default: Wood and
Haeverle, Navy, defeated Pierce
and Uman, Shipping Board. Ga,
4-6, Ga; Bream and Hoagland.
Shipping Board, defeated Joy and
Osterman, Navy, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
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do Buffalo Bits act and the crowd
never the wiser.
"Bil could never let little
thing like a performance interfere
with his social affairs" said Wear.
"It didn't make a darn bit OF diff
ference to him whether the show
went on or not. And ! guess 1t
didn't to me, either. Whatever Bill
Cody did was all right"
Wears fund of yarns OF the early
West is unlimited. He has roamed
side of the Mississippi until he
knows them like the back OF his
gnarled and sun-tanned hands. He
has travelled Canada from one end
to the other.
He has railroaded, mined, OPP
Grated oil wells, cattle ranges, ana
in his later days has pitched into
labor troubles of his railroad.
Wear does not look at all war
like. But, for that matter, Meth.
er does Joe Matsura, his Japanese
cook, valet, porter, and man-abOut-
car, who glides quietly In and
out, attending to his masters
every Wish-neat, efficient, ublQ-
uitOus.
When the party had tramped the
muddy expanse Of Shelby and re.
turned to the car Joe was on hand
with the whiskbroom and the shoe
brush. Wear waited until the
Japanese had attended to the needs
OF all the guests, and then he adj
- ~
paper men.
"You can go back to Times
Square and tell the boys you had
your shoes shined by a former
staff officer Of Admiral Togo" he
said. Noting the look Of doubt, he
added: Hell show you the medals
and decorations, II you ask him
Joe's a fighting fool, boys"
Later on, Matsura did show his
war trophies, while Wear stood adj
miringly by.
Don't look tough, does hep
asked the railroad man.
He didn't.
California Is plentifully peopled
with Japanese farmers, schoolboys,
window cleaners, shoemakers and
houseboys thousand times more
dangerous looking than "Joe."
"He's q retired warrior now"
said Wear. 'He was q school
teacher. His family's i'm Kobe.
He sends them over a 500 a
month. He's nice, old Jap, isn't
he? But one Of you fellows start
something. The other day. when
my car was on siding here, one
of the buns came up and tried to
have Joe sell him q slug Of
whiskey.
emo, whisk," Joe told him.
When the fellow insisted, Joe out
with a buther knife and chased the
bum nearly a mile up the track
Joe hasn't forgotten his Togo
training-not by any manner of
means"
Tales of copper mines burning
for thirty-five years, $500 feet
to his wife's father, and later on to
himself, from the Canadian govern
ment of the very soil on which the
Detroit city hall now stands; of
gambling, where stakes reached
twenty thousand before the players
warmed up; of a riot among the
"wobblies," during which Wear,
stretched out on the ground, felled
over twenty Of the disturbers
through the simple expedient OF
rapping them hard over the shins
with a billy" were absorbed by
the listeners.
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Ends in / Tie.

The contest between the Inter
state and City Postoffice teams. In
the Government league, ended in
to 6 tie after eight frames had
benz played. Hengel led at the
bat with three singles.
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shovel, under a bIistering sun, at
the course yesterday.

But only 112 entrants is some
thing we can't understand. Neither
can a whole lot of others. If only
112 are to compete. why? Why not
$50? Why not stili more? The Ma
tionaI Capital can offer to visiting
golfers something no other city In
these United States can offer. K
trip to Washington Is a trip IN tt
self. Yet, the second national pub
lie links tournament draws but 112
entries and ten of those ara from
the National Capital.
Something has gone amiss, some
where and somehow. It may be
that Chairman Standish, or others,
may be able to satisfactorily ex-
plain just why the second national
public links tournament, held In the
Capital of the United States, failed
to draw more than 102 outside
golfers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
Does Baseball PAY?

Charlie Ebbtts, owner of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, is building q
$50. 900 bungalow at Clearwater,
Fla. He declined to raise Zach
Wheat $500 last March, probably
needing the money for the bunga-
low curtains.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
INSPIRATION NECESSARY
FOR WINNING PUNCH,
DECLARES TY COBB

Ty Cobb manager the Detroit Tigers the the
much He insists that 1t
reads and that done there
better of flag unsettled problem
Cobb was talking recently inspiration and what
inspiration the chief factor winning
games Says Ty:
inspired players team
not have winning combination Three four inspired ones
unnpired. when the
after chance concentrates when at ba
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
Met a Corker.

Carl Tremaine, Of Cleveland, was
on his way to a battle with Joe
Lynch, the bantam champion, when
he ran up against Harry Gordon, of
New York, in the semi-final to the
Wilde-Villa bout. Gordon easily de-
feated Tremaine. who must now
start IN over again on his quest for
the title.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-21
sEAMEN GUNNERs READY
TO TACKLE ALL-CoMERS

The Seamen Gunners have any
number of open Sunday dates which
they are anxious to fill with un-
limited teams from the District and
Northern Virginia. The dates in
question are June "a, August 1, 8,
% and 20.
Manager Smith, Of the Gunners,
can be reached through, Lincoln
1916.
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ONE SHELBY INVESTOR
WHO "SHOULD WORRY"
By WARREN w. BROWN.

SHELBY Mont, 21-H the worst to and the
Gibbons match here July not
realized there at least the hackers Of the
will kllbane did MS title
passed away "What the hel"and let at that
superintendent Of the Great
Northern railway Gaun grizzled and sixty railroad pioneer
among pioneers following the rule OF
chance all his fe and has enjoyed it. He has made millions in
oil the procedure thrilled more no
poker episode in which he $4,000 pair OF
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Drop DoubIeheader.

fredericksburg took both ends OF
q double header from the Peerless
A. C.. the first by 10 to count
and the nightcap to in eleven
innings. Mcdonald pitched well
anoueh tn win but errors at the
most inopportune moments caused
his downfall.
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Gets Ninth Letter.

Playing against Yale's varsity
nine Tuesday entitled Capt. George
Owen, Harvard's firstsaclrer. to his
ninth letter, breaking all Harvard
athletic records.
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Dunn Won't Sell.

Jack Dunn, owner and manager
Of the Baltimore Orioles, says he
has no idea OF selling his club and
quitting baseball, despite many ru-
mors to the contrary.
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MAY Want Answer.

It may soon happen that some
body will rise and ask how the
Phillies won those games on the
left side of their standings. The
mystery deepens.
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The first damper thrown upon
local enthusiasm came with the in
formation that but $50 entrants
would be permitted to contest in
the event. The impression was
conveyed that the event would at
tract such an enormous number Of
players 1t would be necessary to
restrict the entry list. Accordingly.
apportionment OF the $50 was made
among thirty-two sections or
localities.
With $50 competing everything
looked rosy. The tournament
could not help but be a success
from q numerical standpoint. Chair
man James d. Standish, in q letter
to one of Washington's golf writer's,
stated that thirty cities were hold
ing tournaments to determine their
representatives.
Hot dog! things were begin
ming to look spIendiferOus and
magnOliOus. Just q few days be-
fore The Times had printed list
OF sevenfy-fOur contestants from
fifteen cities. And thirty more
were holding Journeys to deter
mine their representatives.
The success OF the tournament
was assured. The National Capital
was to entertain the most repre-
sentative gathering of public links
golfers ever assembled. Then came
the announcement that only H. en-
tries had been received. Local en-
thusiasm over the event took an
other downward trend. Some be-
gan to wonder whether there would
be q tournament.
Members OF the local tournament
committee were appealed to for in
formation that might throw some
light on the matter. They admitted
nothing and denied everything. Man
ager Loeffler. of the East Potomac
Park course, knows there is going
to be a tournament. Beyond that,
King Tut died about $500 years ago.
g.. 4. u. n.
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Four days yet remain before the
tournament gets under way. Col.
Sheriff., DIR. Harlan, Manager
LOeffler, and maybe one or two
others, have worked hard doing
their allotted share toward maxi
ing the event q success. We even
noted LOeffler sitting dirt with