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Evening star., 1924-03-09

On their way to win they defeated
the American professional champion,
. former British open and American
open titleholder and beat the pair
ish open titleholder and his partner,
the holder Of the French open cham
pionship. Considerable golf, that.
"Comebacko for Smith.
TO Mack Smith victory means an
ether gain In the long upgrade to golf
redemption. To Bill Melhorn it
means just another notch in the list
Shreveport pro has achieved in the
last four years.
Smith is a member Of the famous
Scottish golfing family of Smiths,
which has made golf history here and
abroad. and has won more opep-c cham
pionships than any other golfing fam
ily.
Every golfer whose memory goes
back ten or a dozen years into the
history of open golf competition re-
Of the game. and his illustrious bro
ther, Willie Smith, who died in Mexico
City a few years ago.
Alex, who still plays a formidable
game of golf, annexed the open
championship three times and was
runner up as many times. Willie only
won once, but was runner-up twice,
once finishing second to Fred Mcleod
* Myopla In lSU6.
Western Winner i'm 1913.
Along about 1912 there came to this
country another Smith from Car
noustie. 1t was Macdonald Smith, the
kid brother of Alex and Willie. Mac
went to Chicago in 1913 and won
the western open championship with
ease over a field which then included
McDermott of Atlantic City. He came
back to New York and after few
months of brilliant play dropped out
of golf.
In 1917 word came that Macdonald
Smith had joined the ranks of the
Canadians in the war, and had ac-
quilted himself bravely. He came
back to America three years ago,
married a wealthy California woman
and began playing golf again with
Championships came easy to him.
for Macdonald Smith gets results
and distance-with greater ease than
any professional of today. Last year
noting Smiths splendid practice
rounds, placed him on a par in the
betting with Gene Sarazen-then the
champion; Walter Hagen and other
stars of the championship.
But Mac didn't do SO well. True, he
was up with the leaders for time,
but siumped and finished well down.
But Miami and its victory should
mean a great deal to Macdonald
Smith.
Melhorn American Bred.
Bill Melhorn is as American-born
golfer. who learned his game in the
west and has already had such Sue
cess as to stamp him an almost GER
tain winner of the open championship
in years to come. In fact Melhorn
and Leo Diegel stand out in the minds
of close observers Of American golf
as the two greatest home-bred con-
tenders-next to Gene Sarazen.
Melhorn has everything-a tremen-
dous wallop from the tee, firm touch
with the irons and a delicacy on the
putting green that bespeaks success
in the matter of getting the ball into
the hole
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ciS1on to break away from the me-
events was made recently.
Mrs. Charles l. Frailey. is presi-
dent Of the newly formed woman's
The women's championship was
sad wss as tae sRpaE
of that organization. The Evening
Star cup event was held at the Town
and Country Club. 49,. c. c,n.
may be in line for the titular event
this year. with The Star cup compe-
tition probably going to either Chevy
Chase or Columbia
Warrington now hns quite dele
south. Donald Woodward is at St
Augustine and will go to Palm Beach
to join Chris Dunphy there, while
Fred Mcleod, pro at Columbia, is
planning to play in tournament on
the west coast before proceeding
north with the rest of the profess
sionals for the north and south open
at Pinehurst W. S. Corby is now in
the south, while probably quite a
delegation from Columbia will go to
the north and south amateur at Pine
hurst late in March.
Donald Parson Of Chevy Chase is
performing in his usual fine style at
Pinehurst, while several other Wash
ingtonians are making their mark in
tournaments in Dixie.
with drying weather within the
next week the East Potomac Park
al the repair work contemplated last
fall has been completed, will be
opened about March Is, thereby bring
ing cheer to the hundreds Of local
golfers who have had to use the
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Ordinarily fish when scared by
some object thrown into the water
will dart off at the rate of almost
mile a minute, but these flsh are
much slower of movement and more
easily snagged than the herring. They
range in size from one to two pounds
and have as many if not more bones
than the shad and herring.
The second bit of glad tidings is
the landing in nets at Rock Point OF
This proves without a doubt that the
rockfish are on their way to the up
per waters of the Potomac in the
vicinity Of Chain Bridge to perform
their annual work of spawning. 1t
is to be hoped that the Potomac river
spring to allow the angler some real
sport.
discolored. Or course. it will not take
long for it to clear, but it must be
remembered that the heavy spring
these that have put slow drag on
fishing in the spring for the last
three or four years. SLOW drag is
used advisedly, because when the
fish to your bait is to make
frequent casts and slowly drag your
lure back and cast again. The fish
cannot ssee it at any distance and 1t
is more or less a case of their bump
ing into it or perhaps they have
highly developed sense of smell.
No Action in Maryland.
The spring fishing season is close
at hand and there has been no action
so far on the proposed fishing license
fee of $40 for Maryland. Opposition
to this measure has been very great.
not only by District anglers, but
from Maryland anglers as well.
Those Marylanders who Fought a
losing fight to prohibit purse netting.
which has been styled one of the
greatest foes to conservation of fish,
have adopted the following slogan:
well, were down-at least for the
present-but We went down fighting
and will fight some more"
This wholesale slaughter of rock
fish must be stopped if the thrill of
angling for them in the waters of the
bay and Potomac river is to be con-
tinued to be enjoyed. When tons of
any one kind of fish are taken in a
single haul it will not be many years
before they entirely disappear Per-
haps those who helped defeat the bill
will see the error Of their way.
Pike Season Is On.
Reports from Dundee and Sues
Creek, Md, state that the pike
season is on, and that several good
catches have been made. One angler
did not wait until the ice had cleared
away, but broke a patch through
the frozen waters in Sues creek for
his boat. and upon reaching a clear
place started fishing. He got several
pretty pike as his reward.
The large number of rockfish
caught in nets at Rock Point again
brings up a debatable question,
whether the water is too cold for
the fish to take bait. There are
different opinions on this question,
but It is perhaps safe to state that
deep. do not as a general rule at
tack lures as fiercely before they
have attended to their spring mis-
sion of spawning as they do after the
spawning season.
1t would seem that fish know what
they have to do each spring and that
little else occupies their attention
until this work is completed. Then
they commence to frolic and go in
search Of food. The temperature of
the water for spawning for these
fish is around 20 degrees.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
MISS BAUER ONLY WOMAN
TO BREAK MANS RECORD

Sybil Bauer of Chicago has excel
lent chances of swimming against a
field of men in a major competition
at the Olympic games in July. She
is the only woman in the annals of
sport who has beaten a world record
held by a man.
Her record for the 440 yards, back
stroke, is 6 minutes % seconds. The
previous worlds record for this dis
tance was minutes % seconds, set
by Harold c'Stubby") Kruger in Hon
olulu in 1919.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

practice course in West Potomac
Park since the end of January. Time
drags along for a yed-in-the-woo
links. and February was a long
month for many of them.
Roland Mackenzie, runDer-up in the
Middle Atlantic championship and one
of the two most promising junior
golfers about Washington, has been
practicing all winter and should be
in fine fettle for the spring tourna-
ments. Roland has been getting
around Columbia in very low figures
and II is perfectly safe to say he has
been playing as we'll as any amateur
about Washington. With the added
experience gained by the tourna-
ments In the spring and a bit of sea-
sontnS during the summer MacKen-
zfe should do better toward qualify
ing in the amateur champion ship at
Merton than he did at Flossmoor last
September. Those who have seen him
in action in tournaments predict a.
brilliant future for the lad.
Burning Tree has gone abroad for
frst-class green-keeping talent. The
new club out near Bethesda has en-
ployed Williami Lindsay, from a club
near London, to take care of the
brushing UP of it's course, which NAV
be opened in May.
Exterior work ON the new club
house of the Argyle Country Club has
been completed. Lockers are to be
installed and the interior finished in
time for the opening Of the golf sea-
son. Lunches are to be, served at the
clubhouse on Saturdays and SUNDAYS
When the season opens.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
RICHARDS ADDS A PAIR
OF TITLES IN FLORIDA

PALM BEACH. Fla, March S.-Vin-
cent Richards, New York, national
indoor tennis champion and Davis
cup player, who yesterday won the
singles lawn tennis championship of
Florida, today added the mems
doubles title to the list. Just to make
1T clean sweep, he went in and won
the mixed doubles event.
In the doubles Richards paired with
Ralph 1. Baggs, New York. and de-
feated G. B. Pfingst, Philadelphia, and
Earle c. Backe. Bay Shore, Long
the final round match.
In the mixed doubles. with Miss
Clare Cassel. New York, as his part
ner, Richards again won over Miss
Phyllis Walsh. Philadelphia, and
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Pete O'Hara and were in a neck
and-neck struggle for the title. with
Pete leading by one stroke when we
cAme to the 420-yard thirteenth. I
had frittered away several strokes on
the holes immediately preceding and
was feeling pretty savage. My emo
that after = good tee shot / now
pIayed my second ker-plop into the
water hazard that crosses the fair
way about twenty yards in front of
the green.
The ball was sunk in twelve inches
Of water, q seemingly unsoivable lie.
Looking at 1t, I almost reached the
conclusion to throw it out and accept
t1hA penalty. But ] was desperate.
Pete was on the. green in two with
& certain four In sight. Something
unusual had to be done, or, with but
Evening star., 1924-03-09
KENNEL. AND FIELD
BY GEO. H. kERNODLE-

EANCIERS everywhere are warm
1 in their praise of the new Ken
mel Gazette and Stud Book, ofhclai OF
gan Of the American Kennel Cluo.
The January and February NUMBERS
have ably lived up to. the promise thal
the new gazette would be profuseIy
illustrated and would carry stories or
general interest to the fancy. In ad-
dition to the necessary registration
data, the new gazette carries Gun
pIete review of the big shows; nu-
merous photographs of the new cnaIn-
pions of record and opinions from the
foremost canine authorities.
At the Maryland Kennel Club show,
Mrs Marion C. Durfee's st. bernard
Duke of Arlington, was declared WIZ
ner over the reserve winner al the
Madison Square Garden show. and
newly imported Swiss dog, Barry v.
Kroppingen. In view of this showing
Mrs. Durfee is considering placing the
big fellow in the hands OF FRANK Ao,
dyman, the professional handler. and
entering him in most OF the coming
shows in the north
Frank A. Kerr's AiredaIe puppy,
Spec Dee BoZo, Jr., II, won the puppy
class handily at the recent Baltimore
show and followed this by annexing
nouncement sounds like a repetition:
as Spec Dee EoZo, Jr., another son OF
Kerrs great producing stud dog, won
this same placing at the Baltimore
show last year.
C. l.. Trimbull announces the arr1-
val of a litter of five beautifully
marked Boston terriers, the sire be-
ing Mrs. Frank Meyers stud dog.
Meyers Pippin. This dog is descended
from a line Of eleven champions and
is one of the best sons of S. j. Held S
ch. District Boss.
Frank r. Leach reports the arrival
of a litter of nine bull terriers to his
old brood bitch. Newcoin Militant The
sire is his young dog. Newcoin CO.
MKT, who has been doing conider-
able winning on the eastern circuit
M. L. Garvey of Winona, w. Va, also
reports litter of nine by Comixit.
G. w. Adair of Chevy Chase has the
honor to own the last litter of shep-
herds sired by Int. Ch. Apollo v. Hun
enstein. Apollo was known all over
the world as one OF the greatest pro-
ducers the breed has known, and ,i--s3
to the remarkable age of fifteen years.
We are informed by Lewis S. Worden,
who had Apollo in his keeping, that
because of a physical trouble it was
considered advisable to have the dog
destroyed. Apollo was one of the few
dogs of any breed to attain a grand
championship in four countries. He was
grand champion u France, Austria and
Belgium In 1911, and of America in
1S1a
Evening star., 1924-03-09
InSideGOlf
Rv Cbostar Hortop
BY Chester Horton

Golf is q game Of science and
study. In England and Scotland
1t Is SO much so that the player
ed as an abominatfon. We have
more geninlfty with our golf, but
nevertheless the golfer who fails
to take pains will make very slow
progress.
All fine golfers are fine golfers
because they have taken pains
with the game-and continue to do
40. The player must learn to
weigh and assess each shot. There
In an adjustment that takes place
during this weighing Of the dis
Evening star., 1924-03-09
POTOMACS TO START
CAMPAIGN APRIL "a

Washington Potomacs of the East
ern Colored League will open their
season in Clark Griffith Stadium April
"a in the first of a series of three
games with the Cuban All-Stars.
Thirty-seven home games will be
played by the Potomacs. They are as
follows:
April -. Is, 36. Cuban All-Stars; Nay /, 2.
8. Hanhrsch Giants Of Atlantic City; 80 and
81. Baltimore; June Z. Baltimore; and 8,
Ie. Y. 1s. Brooklyn Royal Giants; July "a,
g; g. Harrisburg Giants; August 8, Cuban
9, BaltimsEe: 10 and H.. Hillsdale; 3d. 50, 81,
Cuban Al.Stars; September Il, Is, l6, Lincoln
Giants Of New York; 20, Il. %, HarriSbvfY
Gdsats; =. ~ Is. Royal Giaats.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
BOYS AND GIRLS TEAMS
IN VOLLEY BALL SERIES

HYATTSVILLE, Nd, March g.
Dates for the Prince Georges county
boys base ball and girls volley ball
cha mpionship series have been fixed.
as follows:
April 4-Brandywine at Baden,
|Surrattsville at Marlboro, Hyattsville
at Laurel: IL, Surrattsville at Brandy
wine, Laurel at Baden, Marlboro at
IHyattsvi1le: II, Baden at Surratts-
vile. Hyattsville at Brandywine,
Marlboro at Laurel; 25, Laurel at
Surrattsyille, Brandywine at Marl-
boro, Baden at Hyattsville.
May S-Surrattsville at Hyattsville,
Laurel
Evening star., 1924-03-09
STOKES, WITH 1893, TOPS
G. w. u. TEAM IN SHOOT

Walter Stokes. Hatchetite rifle cap
tain, as usual, was high man Of the
George Washington University team
in the second stage of the National
Rifle Association intercollegiate gal
lery match completed yesterday He
scored 1873 of a possible 200.
The stage consisted of ten shots
fired from prone position and ten
from kneeling. The first Hatchetite
team of five men totaled $40. and the
second team 96l
Evening star., 1924-03-09

III Ind!y OF tne other popular preeds
rated so highly. but it must be con-
sidered that the purchasing agents of
Americas wealthiest fanciers are con-
tinually securing Germany and Austria
for the best specimens OF shepherds,
and 1t is only on rare occasions that the
really good ones get past the eyes of
these buyers.
Blanka is of a pleasing b!ack-and-tan
coloring, is of good size and pronounced
as being absolutely sound. She is pos
SeSsed of a beautiful backline, we'll
angulated quarters, splendid chest de-
velopment and is distinctly feminine.
The long, even trot required in the shep-
herd is we'll illustrated in this bitch. as
is the fearless disposition. In Blanka
the disposition has been greatly brought
out by her training. The title, SchH
tSchutzhundl. siEnified that the dog
Evening star., 1924-03-09
MCLEOD AND WOODWARD
IN MATCH IN FLORIDA

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March s.
Washington defeated a combined De-
when Freddie Mcleod and Donald
Woodward of the National Capital
won from Wilfred Reid Of Detroit
and w. A. Knight, former Florida
state champion, 2 and /.
McLeod's "A was one over par. Reid
had rs, Woodward n and knight rs.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
CUT ICE To RACE.
By the Associated Press.

WARSAW, March 9.-W. Trat, pol
lice inspector Of Warsaw, defeated
w. Olszewski, Warsaw correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune, in a 25-yard
took place in the frozen Vistula, the
ice of which had to >be cut for the
race. The thermometer registered
four degrees below freezing. Trat
covered the distance in fifteen sec
onds, half a second ahead of his
opponent.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
BRITISH EMBASSY TEAM
IN SOCCER GAME TODAY

Soccerites will have their innings
on the Monument grounds this after
noon. The British embassy eleven
will be opposed to the Bethlehem
Steel Company team of Baltimore >in
a game starting at 2:30 o'clock.
Several new players are expected
to take the field for the Britons. The
Baltimore team is veteran one.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
ROD AND STREAM
BY Perry Miller

pieces this column during the past
First the of
winter shad" hickory jacks which midst Large
landed from the wall surrounding
the Tidal BASIN
the hickory jacks live miscroscop
induced take kind of bait They therefore,
sluggish which allows the angler make several casts
Evening star., 1924-03-09
NICK-NACK GETS TROPHY.

Mack. which finished third in the
Fisher-Allison trophy motorboat race
At Hamilton, Ontario. in 1922, has
been awarded the trophy, according
to a decision by an arbitration COM
mittee. The awarding of the race to
the Nick-Nack settles a dispute of
eighteen months standing and again
places the cup in competition.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
SMITHS GOLF COMEBACK
is DUE TO ssBETTER HALF
BY RAY MCCARTHY.

IAMI, Fla, March 9-MacDonald Smith will be hard
w beat the United States golf championship at Oakland
Hills Or rather the Macdonald Smiths will be
hard %
Ten Smith regarded of the promising
playing the and
of plugging steadily the lure
skdded slowly hill
in vale of
Evening star., 1924-03-09
SMITH-MELHORN VICTORY
YEARS MOST IMPRESSIVE
Triumph Indicates Former Is Gaining Much Ground
t in ''Come Back Efort-Means Just Another
Win for American.Bred Pro.
BY WALTER r. MccALLUM.

UT of the international golf
has pair combination of who their
record the the leading combination of the
world Successive Gene Sazen Johnny Farrell
Walter Hagen and Joe Kkwood Jock Huchson Mike Brady
stamp Macdonald Smith Bill Mhorn leading the golf
world of today
They worked their victory fashion what
considered
the links their only hard match against Hagen and Krwood
Evening star., 1924-03-09

mas Qual1fed at German field trial,
and Blanka'S certificate states that she
has qualified excellent" at each Of the
two trials in which she was entered.
She was awarded her training title un-
der DR. Roesebeck. the judge who came
to this country in 1921 to officiate at
the specially show of the Shepherd Dog
Club Of America. and rated as one Of
the best judges of the breed.
Blanka's pedigree is ample proof of the
fact that blood is an important con-
sideration in the development of high
class stock. She carries through her
sire, ALI V. Dusternbrook, a strong
strain of the blood of Flora Berke-
meyer. the strongest producing factor
that the breed has known, and through
her dam, Betty V. Felderhof, the lines of
three grand champions. Jung Tell v. d.
kriminalpoliZei, Arno V. 4. Fichenburg
and Roland " Starkenburg.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

five holes to go. would be dis
It was necessary to stand in watefr
well up toward my knees to get at
the ball. When I cut loose with INV
niblick I took almost enough Of that
hazards contents out Of it to turn IT
dry, but I laid the ball on the Ereen.
four yards from the pin. and followed
, This put me even with O'Hara. but
eventually he won out
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Answered by
BOB CRUICKSHANK

Runner up in national open cham
p.oEshjp, 1929. and the man who, in
19:1- defeated ~Hutchfson, Sarazen
ind Barnes in an invitation t0urna-
ment mt st. Joseph. Mo. Runner up
i'm Pittsburgh tournament for pro-
fessi"nai golfers, 1922, being de-
fc.tcd only by Saraxen.
X X
Once in while, when he wishes
to sacrifice distance, a player should
choke a wooden club. AS a rule,
however, it is only the irons that
should be choked. Even on full iron
shots the club should not be gripped
at the extreme end of the shaft.
The shorter the shot, the more the
club should be choked. On chip
shots at the very edge of the green,
it is often necessary to grasp the
club at the bottom of the leather.
OF course, the more club is choked,
the closer the player should stand to
the ball.
Copyright, 1924, Associated Editors.)
Evening star., 1924-03-09
GOLF DATES IN FRANCE.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March s.-Dates for
the 1924 French goff championship
have been fixed as follows: Open, at
La Boulie, July and 2; amateur, at
La Boulie, week of July 3; women's,
at LIE TouQuet, week of July Z.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
CYRIL WALKER TELLS
Best Shot Ever Made.

ME thirteenth hole have been unuky
ropoitan at Swanoy, but that same
the New Jersey the Club
Tenahed j. On the latter occasion shot of all INV
1t play which think
which witnessed it will testify that
how t tyxasd done =
Evening star., 1924-03-09
NINE MAY VISIT.

The Meiji University base ball team,
champions of Japan, is planning a
The team will remain in America
seventy days, and is hoping to get
thirty games with various university
mines.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Forty-two thousand rifiemen, rep
-resenting 1,122 shooting societies,
have entered for the Swiss national
held in Aarau in July. This is the
greatest event Of the sort ever organ
Lied In Switzerland.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
MOST ATTRACTIVE EVENT
OF THOSE HELD INDOORS
Stirring Struggles Are Provided in Victories of NJ
Alfonso Over Murray and Tilden-Herndon
Plays Well Against Champion
BY SAMUEL HARDY,

ALL ODDS the most
OF the season that played the
ihs meeting naugurated last Of
nen citizens whose ambition an annual midwner
ment with the sixteen best players of the competitors
such an undertaking almost
difficulty obtaining players for meeting outside of Ne
York but the even hexond on
Evening star., 1924-03-09
COURSE Is KEPT SECRET.

According to the French Olympic
committee, the cross-country course
for the cross-country championship
will be decided next July and will be
kept a secret until the day of the
race.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Y Y

Y ASHlNGTON has
Wv excellent shepherd bitch,
SchH, recently imported owned by Miss L.
OF this city Blanka has shepherd dog
during the show by placing
poant shows At Richmond she beat Girald Dora
winning bitch Madison
lrma Donerho
and rated of the America
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Straight Off the Tee

OMAN golfers of Washington having decided paddle their
wv will hold their
holding
ponp and the annual competition for The Evening trophy
break from the mems
IL
Evening star., 1924-03-09

When, if at all, is it proper to
choke" O club, or grip it do1rn on the
handler