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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-05-03

nests on the floor and the rOosts are
well elevated. The entire floor is
made Of concrete, which must be COW
cred with thick layer of straw The
building should face to the south to
make all the sunlight available The
netting-cOvered opening in the front is
covered with canvas curtains which
may be lowered in severe weather.
The half monitor windows keep the
rear Of the building we'll Illuminated
during the daylight hours. This will
serve to keep the litter in the scratch
ing space where the hens are fed to
keep + them exercising and prevent
their becoming loggy and dull. 1t ia
known that a hen will not scratch
with her eyes toward dark place
It is for this reason that all of the
straw and litter is found scratched to
the rear Of hen house not properly
lighted.
The nests are 80 inches from
the floor and are placed on
center table out Of the way of
roosts. The roosts are "a inches
above this table and are spaced IA
inches apart. They are made of by
Pinch square, with the tops rounded
off and set in slots cut in 2 by string
ers, allowing them to be removed. All
roOsts are on the same level which
permits the fowls to spread out over
all the roosts instead Of climbing to
the top roost as is customary when
one rOost is higher than the other.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-05-03

be applied with pleasing results. For
quick glossy finish in one applica-
ton, use a good varnish STAIN The
only preparation necessary is a thor
ough cleansing Of the wood. Use a
cloth dampened in solution Of water
and washing soda for this purpose.
The surface must be dry, of course
before applying the varnish.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
NATIONAL DOUBLES
DRAW GREAT FIELD

BOSTON, August 16.-The draw to-
day for the national tennis doubles
championship. play in which begins
on the courts of the Longwood
Cricket Club next Monday, developed
no conflicts of Importance in the early
rounds. Six nations were represent
ed among So entrants. Six. teams
were seeded. :,
In the, upper quarter the former
national champions. w. NJ. Johnston
and Clarence j., Griffin, who were
seeded second, wiz have a compare
lively easy advance. having drawn
byes In the first round. and with no
opponents in prospect more formidable
than Lewis N. White apd Louis Thai
heimer Of University OF Texas, inter-
collegiate titlists, or the combination
of Jacques Brugnon of France and
L. B.. Rice of Boston, who oppose each
other In the second round.
The second quarter has the former
champions, r. N. Williams, I'd, and
Watson washburn, and the Austria
Patterson and Pat O'Hara Wood as
seeded teams likely to meet in the
fourth round. !: 49,.
William Tilden, I'd. national singles
titlist, and Young A. l. Weiner, who
were not seeded, probably will meet
Williams and washburn in the third
rcund
The Olympic champions, Vincent
Richards and Francis t. Hunter,
seeded first. dominate the third quar-
ter, with the Australians, Norman E.
Brooke4 and, Richard e. Schlesinger,
in the bracket that will bring them
up to oppose the Olympic winners II
they survive the third round,
In the fourth quarter the, Kinsey
brothers Of San Francisco. third to
be seeded. will meat the French Davis
cup pair Of Rene LaCoste and Jean
the winner of match between
Harvey B. Snodgrass and Walter
Westbrook Of Los Angeles and w.
Lock Wei and Paul Kong, Chinese
Davis cnp representatives. TN the
previous round. 10 ~ ~ & - ~. !. I I
Evening star., 1924-08-17
BY Chester Horton

penali"e you when you got~+into them
and to make 1t impossible to take any
distance getting out. They were bad
enough on the fairway, but when the
ball triclsled into some OF the traps at
the greens you can imagine the pre-
dicAment of the player with this
straight wall in front Of him. At one
hole straight wall some l5 feet
high extends upward from the sand
to the edge. of the green. 1t was
almost Impossible to bring the ball up
from here with an explosion shot.
but with this new method pitched IT
up repeatedly with no trouble at all
and with only one miss in eight tries
To make this shot drop ball in
the sand, Choosing for Your first ex-
peri!nents trap where the bank is
but three feet or So high. Take q
deep-faced fr1ashie, If you have one,
or an ordinary light mashie other
wise. Take your stance as illus
tratfd. This is wide-open stance,
such as you would use for any ordi-
nary chip shot. The only difference
is that instead Of having the blade
facing squarely behind the ball you
grasp the club SO that the blade is
depressed some-that is. hattened
down, given more loft. Use about a
quarter swing, with absolutely no
wrist action in the back swing. In
starting the back swing. extend your
arms outward toward the ball slightly,
so that the blade goes back slightly
outside an imaginary direction line
running through the ball. Then bring
the blade forward SO that it cuts right
under the ball. At the same time the
blade will cut across the ball but
you need not give this any attention
beyond taking the blade slightly out
side the line when you go back.
That will make the cut take care of
itself. Just before the blade strikes
under the ball. In the forward swing.
stiffca the wrists and arms some and
go right through the ball Take just
little sand--you merely skim the
ball off the sand. There is no follow
through more than the passing Of the
clubhead clear through the ball. The
stroke should finish with the blade a
foot or IS inches ahead Of where the
ball rested, with the blade still Low
to the sand
Make this short cut shot with firm
ness and precision and you will see
your ball hop up over the bank and
Evening star., 1924-08-17
for Heights or0tru Tennis Distinction for France
Niblic and Explosion Shot Becoming Obsolete IN Golf
" With Mashie Spade Mshie Method Being With Wonderful Success
BY Crack Linksmen to Trouble in Sand Traps.

IY ERE'S some good news for
RI you golfers-the niblic along
= with its greatest excuse for
existence in golf--the explosion shot,
S about to become obsolete.
The niblic is going the way OF the
sleek Aud the way is out.
Some oi our best golfers already
have dispensed with the niblic, thus
not only tightening their bags by
few pounds. bu, at the same time I'M
proving their play from sand traps.
This step has been taken because
Il has been found that the always
present uncertainty Of the explosion
shot could be replaced by shot SO
simple OF execution that II became
III once almost as automatic as the
drive.
The nin,ic. around which have CEN
cred most OF the allegedly humorous
situations on The links and always
he butt Of golf jakes, runs contrary,
Npert golfers have realized. to the
doctrine oC executing the golf stroke
with the minimum of physical eXer-
lion. The niblic used in the trap re-
qutred a full swing and a powerful
blow for a mere chip shot to the
green, and to some real golf thinkers.
this' kind of action with club did
not look logical for the distance to be
taken. They set about for a simpler
way from sand to greenland, 10. we
now have the Slide"
This new one. the slide" merely
gives the ball Il ride across the face
of mashie or spade mashie. is ac-
with the utmost ease and
With the minimum of swing, while at
the same time the ball takes a ter
rife undercut spin. SO that it can be
Evening star., 1924-08-17

in all probability twist around in all
sorts Of capers after It hits the. green
because Of the great spin it will have.
One thing Is sure. and that is 1t will
come to a stop quickly after 1t strikes
the tusf.
When the ball rests In hoof print
a somewhat different method must he
employed, though the swing doesn't
change any, so no difficulties are
added in that respect. But because OF
the depression you will have TO cut
under the ball more deeply. taking
some sand with the ball. For this
you shift your focus from the ball to
the point in the sand where you are
to hit just back of the ball and you,
strike just little more firmly. Only
practice with the shot can give you
your guide in these things.
Now for the shot where a high
bank confronts the player, where a
terrific explosion shot with the niblic
has heretofore been an utter neces
sity. With this new shot. we have a
method that solves this problem in
hurry and makes this cut very easy
to negotiate.
stand just a little forward on the
ball, taking II from point about
midway between your feet or just
irffe back of that. Lay your deep
faced mashie blade away bxck. Use
half swing and cut firmly and ac-
curatefy right under the ball. To
your amazement perhaps. you will
1t jump up almost straight into the air.
In fact IL you play the ball too far
back. the ball will go over back
ard
This shot can be made. of course,
with the niblic as we'll as with a deep
faced mashie. Using the nibIic. you
have the advantage of not. having to
swing it so vigorously as heretofore.
Use of the mashie is suggested, how
ever. because this blade is SO much
lighter that a far better control of it
Is maintained in the hands.
The player is cautioned that the
head must be held to a fixed position;
that there must he not even the
slightest swaying of the body. Nov
ing the head or swaying will mess
up this shot, because the flattened
blade must merely skim the ball
off when the lie is good, and any
movement of the swing center will
likely make this impossible. The ac-
ton with the blade is largely the
same when the lie is poor only the
shot is made with more firmness. Be
especially careful about swaying in
the forward swing. Work entirely
with the clubhead. Let your arms
take the cluhhead back. Go through
the ball with the Slightly stiffened
arms and wrists and let the right
shoulder follow the blade through or
send it through, but be most careful
not to exert this pressure with the
right shoulder until the blade has
Reached the ball, and then don't let
it dip. Send 1T through on a straight
line. Let your weight transfer over
to the right leg in the back swing
and through to the left in the for
ward swing. This is accomplished
mostly through the hip action. which
must be in straight line-right hip
out, going back; left hip forward,
toward the green, in the forward
swing.
Copyright, 1924. Chester Horton,
Evening star., 1924-08-17

made to stop almost where It lights
on the green. Also by the hosition-
ing Of the blade the player &h get
any effect he seeks in the mattSr of
projecting the ball upward-a yhins
that was Impossible with the hiblic
except when the utmost skill was ap-
piled In making the blade nfet the
ball. The difficulty In accomplishing
this was multiplied because sof the
full swing taken with the niHic.
] have adopted the slide" myself
and j can truthfully say my niblic
is "a thing OF the past. l put this
new shot to the test at the course
of the Chicago Golf Club. where the
traps are monstrous. They not only
have the usual rise of bank from
sand TO top. but extending upward
from the SLOPE of the bank IL straight
wall. like the wall OF a fort, con-
fronts the player. 1t always has
been the custom to play backward
from these traps, or. at best. out to
one side. Their purpose was to really
Evening star., 1924-08-17


Washington goIfe"s have well
coined the t.dv.nf of thc rain. fer
continuation o: :lle d-y> srnI might
have meant :, repetition OF coild:-
ticns OF three OF fou" years ago,
when the courses vent tor nearly
two months vi hout water. and
many of ;hc fa:rw.ys We're almost
ruined. There is TO such danger
now.
With September will come re-
sumption of the team contests, in
which five clubs have competed for
three years past, while in the latter
part of that month or early in Octo-
ber the Town and Country Club plans
its first invitation tournament on IFS
new course. The Town and Country
Club event will be followed by
tournament at Banhockburn Golf
club. according to present plans.
while after the Invitation affairs are
over will come along the District
championship at Indian Spring for
the title now held by Walter f. Tuck
ernan What with club events. IN
cIudinx the various championships
The fall golf season about the Capt..
tai promises TO be busy one.
Preceding these tournaments Will
opne the national amateur champion
ship at the Merton cricket Clun'
Hayerford. Pa, where the hope is
that Washington will have hve en-
trants and possibly a qualiher. Z. }.
Dunphy and Guy NJ Standifer already
are eligible. and it is hoped that Ro-
land Mackenzie, George J. Voist and
r. Cliff Mc<immie, the Middle At
lantic titleholder, may lie allowed 70
play. .,,
The lr.t big local golf event until
the latter part of September comes
!, week fIum TOMORROW al the Ioium
bia Country Club when group oi
two dozen or more professionals from
clubs, about Washington aTd In fH
s.inia and Maryland Will strive Tor
me three places in the qualifying
round OF the annual tournament Tor
the p. 6. A. title. The match play
prc championship will be played at
French Lick Springs, Ind. the second
week in September.
Last year Fred Mcleod and Bob
Barnett qualified from this section.
This year the section has been given
one more place. With Leo Diegel,
Mcleod, Barnett, Danny Hogan, Will
fred Yhompson. Dave Thomson, James
t,rabb, Darcy Bannasan, Arthur b.
Thorn. George Kerrigan and George
Diegei from this neck of the woods,
not to mention the host Of clever
players from, Virginia and Maryland,
the scramble at Columbia on August
25 should be Z merry one
The qualification round will be at
2S holes medal play, and Columbia
will be stretched out to its cham-
piorship length--a course that should
satisfy the long httters.
Members ef the Beaver Dam CounA
try Club will hold their first ciuD
tournament next Saturday. starting
at I O'clock. Proper handicaps are
teing arranged by John Monahan, the
club professional. and suitable prizes
will be awarded for the Tow gross
and low net scores. as we'll as con-
ISOLATION prize. Beaver Dam members
are urged to turn out in body to
show their interest In the first club
event. =.
MA you ever hear Of san missing
4 four-foot putt and then playing 9
full mashie shot to get back on the
green? Did you ever hear Of q hole
hAlVed in one, or q player hitting
ave consecutive haSs through the
fAlrway7 Wierd and wonderful
things, tales that are skepticai of
belief come out Of fanxinE bees OF
Evening star., 1924-08-17
ARGYLE GOLF TEAM
BEATS MANOR CLUB

Argyle Club linksmen, playing over
their home course, won over the
Manor Club team yesterday in a
Nassau match by IA points to 3. The
teams broke even in clash on the
Manor links a couple weeks ago.
Following the match, the Manor
Club players were entertained by the
Argyles at a dinner in the latters
clubhouse.
The feature clash Of the afternoon
was that between Bill Di Este, the
star of the Argyle team, and Earl
''McA1eer Of Manor. Di Este won by
l up over the player who captured
the qualifying medal in the recent
national public links tournament at
Dayton. Ohio. McAleer in affiliating
with Manor Club has passed out of
public links title competition.
The scoring generally was rather
the green's Bill Di Este had an so.
but four Of his strokes were from
penalties for pickouts and out-of-
bounds, two coming on one hole. His
card, outside Of two Z. due to penalties,
was consistently good.
Lou Di Este. Bills brother, play,
ing on the No. Argyle combination.
shot q 19 for his two rounds of the.
nine-hole layout. turning in a nifty
81 On MS HrSl Trip around. ii
Heitmuller. of the Argyle team
thlilleNthe onlookers by some Of his
drives. a couple travelling pretty
close to 900 yards. His first tee shot
was just short Of the ditch and any
tone who has played the No. l hole
at Argyle knows that this is some
wallop. "Heitie" is subject to wild
strea<s in his shooting and some one
asked him how many balls he had
lost. "Only one, but cut couple
in two," he replied. And he hits
'em just that hard.
Here. are the cold facts on the
embroglio:
W. Di Este, Argyle, defeatsd McAleer.
Manor, 1 up; Gist, Argyle, defeated Lea
wells, Manor. Best>bali. Argyle. S2; Manor,
a. Argyle, points.
Eys agp; a white: :.. A.syk Sa def defeated
Manor. 81. Argyle, 2 points; Manor. | point.
Manor, and z: Giilett. Manor; land Heitmul-.
Ter. Arryle. oil even.,. Best bali, Argyle: 73;
Manor, So. Argyle. . points.
Le Bne. ArKyle. defeated Miller. Manor.
np; Brown, Argyle. defeated barnard, Manor,
and s Rest ball, ArsSle, 81; Manor -. Y.
: Al Anirebas Argyle, defeated rhomspn. Manor;
8 and .; Col White, Argyle, Defeated Aot,,
gam Manor. and l.. Best ball, Argyle, 50;
Manor. 50. Argyle, 3 points. 4.
Wood, Argyle. defeated Nichols. Manor. o
and 3; Patterson, Manor defeated Noetzei.
AfSyle. and 4. Rest ball, Manor, S5; Argyle.
ss. Manor, 2.points; Argyle. point.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

l. professionals who ave Witness
I'd more wonders o. the links in five
years than the ordinary amateur sees
in lifetime.
A few days ago u group Of local
professionals were holding such
sabfest and Leo Diegcl started the
ball rolling by telling how he saw
jock Hutchison play a J6O-yard hole
with d drive and mashie. That
brought up the subject of hard ground
and great tee shots. Then Fred Nc
Leod told one that was whopper.
Leo countered with the assertion that
at a club in New York he saw a pro
with four-foot putt. miss it and
then play a Inashie shot to get back
on the putting green. And then Bob
Barnett chimed in with the assertion
that on one hard course he saw a
man approach green seventeen
times before the ball would stick
near tie cup. And so on, until Diegel
stopped the argument by telling Of a
hole he had seen made in nothing
down in New Orleans. 1t seems an
amateur came to the last hole with
handicap to spare. His tee shot stop
ped about four feet from the hole
He putted for one under nothing and
stopped on the lip of the cup.
Evening star., 1924-08-17
ANNAPOLIS GREETS
YOUNG TENNIS PAIR

ANNAPOLIS. Nd, August Is.-C
Alphonso Smith, jr., and Robert
Cooper, Annapolis lads. who won the
national tennis championships at Chi
cago in both singles and doubles. re-
turned to their homes today and
were warmly welcomed
Smith, the son of the late DR.. Al
phonso' Smith. head Of the depart
ment Of English at the Naval .4cad-
emy. won the singles chapionshi;,
and, with Cooper, took the doubles
He has been Maryland champion in
the boys class for three years ana
was captain of the Annapolis Higil
School team last year. This is his
last year of playing in the boys
class.
Cooper attends the Severn SchoUt.
near Annapolis, and has beer.
Smiths partner as the Maryland dou-
bles champion for two seasons
Smith Will attend Tome school nea;
year and expects to enter Princetcn
later, while Cooper will probably re
main at Severn for next year.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

Anotner point: do not hang the
line In the sun to dry. 1t is better to
hang 1t In the shade or where there is
part shade. not where the burning
rays will beat down full upon II. You
can dry your line when you come
home at night by stringing 1t out be-
tween two chairs. as one does yarn,
or by running 1t across the rooms
from one hook to another, or one can
loop 1t In simple coils in the carpet
However, leaving 1t on the carpet is
an easy way to invite disaster, for
the cat, the dog. or some person, it
seems, always gets/mi up in it.
The first two methods are, therefore,
the best. There are so-called line
interesting, but they are not neces-
sary.
A hard-braided line will last longer
than a soft-brafded one. but both
should be accorded the same careful
attention. If line is only occasion
ally used, say once or twice month,
it should last a long time. II used
every day and cast with a great
deal each day a line will soon give in.
Winter season. carefully, spool it on a
spool and put 1t inside Of pickle bottle
or tam bottle or any one Of many types
Of bottle about 2k inches in diameter,
that come straight up and have
screw-caps to them. See that the
caps fit perfectly tight and your lines
In there will be In good condition
when the next season rolls around.
It Is far better to keep the lines thus
than to leave them exposed in the
tackle box, or, as some do. on the
reel itself.
A Bulletin reeently gave some inter-
esting figures connected with the
work Of the United States Bureau Of
Fisheries during the year 1928.
Fish rescuing crews covered ter
ritory of 2S5 miles Of the upper Mis-
sissippi The work came to close
in the late Fall. The number Of fish
rescued was 14S,4S2,646,. OF which
20, 500, 600 were catfish.
This important work Of rescue, Of
fishes is by seining the ponds left by
Spring and carly Summer foods and
removing to safe waters the fish
which would otherwise die when the
flooded lands became dry. In addition
to the rescue work onsthe upper Mis-
sissippi River, similar work was GAR
ried on in Louisiana. But 1t is to be
regretted that at many points rescue
fish work could only be handled at the
not available for work on anything
like q comprehensive scale.
Connected with the work of fish res
cue from flooded areas, the work of
the propagation of the pearl mussel
was continued This work ia OF the
utmost commercial Importance to the
pearl button Industry. During the
last season upward Of I,300,000,O00
laval musgels were liberated In the
parasitic form on host fishes, which
were chosen by the crews OF the res
cue work.
Fish egg collecting on the Great
Lakes ls another OF the activities Of
the F4sheries Bureau, these eggs being
collected from fish caught for COM
merSial purposes. The total number
Of such egEs collected during the past
seaaon In the Great Lakes watees was
3ss, s,s72, ,oao. or which 5S.21s,0o0 were
llake trout eggs and 178, ,6e3,0e0 were
sWhitshsh eggA The col ts9n OF Loch
1eyen trout sgEs VS. fot the hrst
Evening star., 1924-08-17

- I. 4, ....n- i~M9th. 80 that you
might Vi s,,"ve tor yourself the rhyt ythM
thar naturally results. f0u must
'A.'h0oI yourself aisW against letting
the wrists break the riubhend hack
The wrist ncfien will take cnre -
itSsH when the club atta.n~ the mat
uni turni'g point. Renr the top oi
he bacI. swing. EcM shou.d have
s.'esiGE Of r.cSinE outward with
the lCit u m A~ln~. n the club goes
hack. In order t0 stretch out the
snuSelex Of the 1T arm. When the
wrists bre-k the club over at the toy
af the bnrk swing yon will, II yon
kOsd ON to the SEnft firmly, find the
'''ff nrm strrjxht. Get tie pull of the
xhj-tt against This entire urm by
stopping the fiiEst oS the Shnft just
Rs 1t turns nero the top. Keep ths
swin& short. Let II he nOtfceabi!
short, as 10 the feel Of 1t. The
chances arc IL will even then be too
long.
-..- Copyright. John +. bile Co.,
Evening star., 1924-08-17

rhythm ot this eA-
-YtiOn. Many good
golfers get their
-hythm I'm work.
nx ardeF. AT the
start Of a round
vf play, by tu~t
his movement.
I suggested In
previous articles
this week on this
subject that You
start this move
sacRt with q small
movement Of the
..Mbh.ad hack aBa'
Orth and then let
a
Evening star., 1924-08-17
ROD AND STREAM

" OUR ability fisherman will be by the
line the Sporsmen Digest The sloveny fisherman
will leave his line the reel without drying The careful fisher
viii lunch while
eating his line will be stretched
often asked: How ,ong will line long
as you for it.
Merely however stick the hook
line and leave it the wind
deed line so lett liable feel
and 1orehnger But really dy? Generally truth that the
OF inside,
long - - -
Evening star., 1924-08-17
FIRST. FROM HIS COUNTRY
TO SCORE AT WIMBLEDON
Tilden, Twice Victor, and Johnston, Yankee Stars
Only Other Non-British Subjects to Win in
an Event That Dates Back to 1877.

HE victory Of Jean Borotra Davis cup team
The IVA Wimbledon tennis champions ship time that
the English title has been French
first held in 1877 and the conclusion was
the fortyourth No held
he war.
borora William Iden I'd, William Johnston stand OFF
the only three subjects who have
those ~ liden captured
title OF world championship" ~ - ' -
The final round in 1928 aAmerican affair lust a this
championship round brought renchmen together Johnston de-
eaed T. Hunter