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The Washington times., 1924-05-24

am extending to you special invitation to attend this SALE
these sies believe you will agree with that the increase
value of the property which will accrue owing the wonderful
development and universal popularity of the Congressional Cou
try Club is certainty.
The Washington times., 1924-05-24

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The Washington times., 1924-05-24
1t Makes An Assured
Increase In the Value Of
the Property

Remember, these men are active and many
Of them life members, and their names are
there because they intend to use the Club
personally. This permanence Of membership
on the part Of such famous men is bound to
make the adjacent land valuable at the start
land boost it year by year
The Washington times., 1924-05-24

A 50 Acre Tract Divided Into Sites
Containing 2 to 5 Acres
These sites will contain from to acres thus nsurng high
character Of development Adequate and restrictions will
be placed in the Deeds
Evening star., 1924-02-04
when WINTER COMES
FILIPINOS PLAY BALL
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, February 4.-The base
ball season in the Philippines is now
in full swing. and close observers de-
clare that greater interest has been
shown in the game than for many
years.
The amateur championship of the
islands will be decided during the
third week of this month, when the
annual carnival is held in Manila.
BY a process of elimination among
the various leagues, not only in Ma
nila, but in the outlying provinces,
the number of teams will ibe mar
rowed down. so that the series of
games which will decide the cham
pionship can be played off in one
week.
The Army League, made up of
teams from each of the five United
States Army posts in the vicinity of
Manila and three civilian teams. has
adopted a schedule calling for games
on Saturdays and Sundays during the
season. The team from the 31st
United States Infantry is composed of
Americans. two others are made up
of Filipinos and Americans and the
remaining teams of the Army League
are all Filipino.
The bureau of education has en-
couraged base ball in the schools in
all the provinces, and during the sea-
son provincial and interprovincial
the regional championships The
various universities in Manila and
other cities also have organized base
ball teams and leagues. and even the
sugar plantations Of the Island Of Ne
gros have taken up the game.
Evening star., 1924-02-04

In way MaSterson. was right
My profits were not enormous, but /
always went on the theory that big
business and small profits was bet
ter than little business and bigger
percentage of profits / still think
that is the real way to do business
do not like a piker. Shoot every
thing to make the affair a big sue
cess and the final settling up will
take care of itself, is my principle.
A lot of people seem to have the
idea that l had given up everything
to go into the fight promotion busi-
ness. That is not true. l kept my
other enterprises going all the time.
Up until I took over Madison Square
Garden the fight business was a sort
of sporting side line with me. 1t was
my recreation. 1t was a big game,
one 1 liked to play. 1 studied 1t and
handled my cards accordingly.
Curiosity II the Key.
The main thing I have found Is to
ascertain as near as possible what
the fighters and the public want and
try to satisfy them as nearly as
possible.
notwithstanding a prevailing idea
that the grudge fight will attract un-
usual attention, ! do not believe 1t.
The public likes to look on fight as
big sporting event-likes to re-
gard the fighters themselves as being
sportsmen. / have made a point, as
I have mentioned before, of seeing
that my fighters were friendly before
Evening star., 1924-02-04

The Pacific coast has discovered
that the American Association is out
bidding it for players, which would
seem to indicate that the latter ex-
poets to make more money than the
coast. The coast league has longer
season, and the players are not keen
to go out there and play more ball
for relatively less money, despite the
advantages of climate and food.
Walker of the Athletics was wanted
on the coast. but the club after him
was too light in it's offers and the
American Association grabbed him.
Players of the Pittsburgh club are
not free agents. and are not so averse
to going to Oakland. because for
many of them 1t is going home.
Parkinson has never been outside
of Philadelphia as club member He
was taken from the sandlots of New
Jersey by the Phillies, and made a
good impression at second from the
start AS he has gone on. though, the
Impression has grown that he has
reached his maximum, and that is
why the Phillies wanted player with
more speed. Tierney batted all
around Parkinson, but he hasn't a
sprinting muscle in his body, so the
PhillieS found themselves still with
hole at second. They took Ford
to block the gap, but they lost a hit
ter.
II the third sO-calIcd major league
climbs over the horizon there is a
man in New York city who will go
into it with plenty of cash and wants
to put club In New York. 1t had
been figured that any new league
would fight shy of New York, but this
figuring was done without certain
capitalists, who think they could give
the present big league clubs a run
for their money.
If the proper site can be purchased
to establish club across the East
river in the borough of Queens, it is
figured that a following can be built
up that in time will support any base
ball club managed upon conserva-
tive basis.
Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1924-02-04

space to championship prizefght
than to any other one event in the
news of the day."
What the Public Thinks.
why. it's because the public wants
to read about 1t. Do you know" he
explained to me, that a big cham
pionship fight is the biggest circula-
ton getter we have? The only thing
that approaches it is a big murder
trial in which there is plenty Of
scandal l don't know exactly how
to analyze this. but l know it is true.
l have handled circulation for twenty
years. 1 venture to say that a
majority of people remember the
Corbett-Sullivan fight. for instance,
with just as much clearness as they
do the sinking of the battleship Maine
in Havana harbor"
that our attempts to get Carpenter
over here during the war. occasioned
as much daily interest as the battles
being fought. Even in those days of
troubled and distress news of a pro-
specttve prizefght caught the public
eye.
Now. with this tremendous aid,
given freely, I really don't see how
man could guess wrong on the sue
cess of fight.
But, as / said at the start, 1T takes
a great open air arena to center the
interest.
Tomorrow: The Shortest and the
Top0oe% E;cbtc
Evening star., 1924-02-04
Inside Golf
-By Chester Horton-

challenge and defy the too
common belief among golfers that
the game Of golf Is "mental,, II
Ii purely mechanical, and the
swing il everything.
The swing Is wholly mechanical.
HeEHrdIess of the lie Of the bsI
or the hazard in front, the DIayer.
with his swing so automatic thai
he seldom thinks about It nt All.
tS never bothered in the least.
Players who get the mechanics OF
1t mixed up SO much that they ret
confused in a sea of conilictinr
ideas are playing golf Essentially
The tournament player ia SO much
like machine going down the
fafrwnys that often IT. xets tire.
some to follow his play. The aver
age golfer will do well to have q
look at the sketch my artist Has
given me today. This tells the
whole story. 1t shows how nae.
chanical the swing really is.
Strip your golf down to Whist you
sec In this little sketch and watch
your Gnme improve.
Copyright, John F. Ollie COY
Evening star., 1924-02-04

and after the fight. The public likes
that, I'm sure.
The next step was to assist the
newspaper men in getting what ma
terial they wanted. Oddly enough,
there is as much interest, if not
more, in the preliminary arrange
ments for big fight as in the spec
tacle itself. l never attempted to
direct publicity. Give the newspaper
men an opportunity and they will
make the event interesting in a hun
dred different ways. Never in my life
have l told newspaper man what l
thought he ought to write. 1 have
discussed matters very frankly with
them. but to attempt influencing
their opinion would be foolhardy.
Besides, that kind of publicity
wouldn't be worth a nickel. They
know what tho public wants to read.
Though always was an inveterate
newspaper reader, i never fully
realized to what extent they would
go for news about a priZefight until
our Gans-Nelson affair at Goldfield.
had expected publicity, Of course.
but 1t had never occurred to me that
hundreds Of newspaper men would
come from all over the United States
at the expense of their papers to do
this. That has given me a lot Of
thought.
One day I met the circulation man.
ager of one of the biggest New York
papers.
Tell me-" I asked him, why do
newspapers devote SO much more
Evening star., 1924-02-04
WOMAN BOXER SEEKS
BATTLE IN AMERICA

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 4.-Per-
haps in Germany, where there are
woman pugilists, Senorita Carmen
Lucia de la Rosa may find a match,
but probably never in this country,
though she appeared recently in this
city, presented credentials to show
she was a regular fighter in Mexico,
and told promoters that instead of a
suitable female opponent she was
perfectly willing to tackle man of
her weight
Senorita Carmen said she also was
promoter, and staged the recent
Sam Langford-Kid Savage fight in
Mexico City.
The fair boxer is twenty-one years
old, weighs 147 and stands feet Z
inches. Her nose has been brushed a
bit to one side; otherwise she shows
no marks of her profession.
I'm considered pretty speedy in the
ring" she said.
But local promoters could give her
no encouragement, inasmuch as wom-
en- are not even admitted as specta-
tors at San Francisco bouts.
Evening star., 1924-02-04

OHo VI tne most important fndfca-
tons of the advance of the sport is
the fact that Yale has, for the first
time. arranged comprehensive
schedule. Last year it engaged in
some outside matches, but only on a
limited scale. The Naval Academy
and Yale meet at New Haven March
10, and the match will be the most
notable of any intercollegiate boxing
match which has even been held.
Popular in the South.
Among the other collegiate insti-
tutions which have taken up boxing
this season are Colgate. Williams and
Boston University. 1t has become
particularly popular in the south.
where most of the large universities
and 1t is reported here that interest
also is growing in the middle west
and on the Pacific slope.
The connection of the Naval Acad-
emy with the beginning of boxing as
an intercollegiate sport is particu-
Lieut.. Commander William A. Rich
ardson. formerly gymnasium officer at
the academy. He had much to do, not
only with the inception of the sport
at the academy, but with formulating
the regulations and ethics under
which collegiate matches are conduct
ed. and his work was recognized when
he was made the first president of
the Intercollegiate Boxing Associa-
tion.
While matches at the Naval Acad-
emy always have been beyond criti-
cism as to the sportsmanship of the
contestants and the conduct of the
spectators. it is recognized that the
sport must be handled wisely and
firmly to prevent certain evils, con-
nected with the professional side of
the game, from creeping in. For
this reason. Academy officials,
though ardent advocates of intercol-
legiate ma tches, believe that the ex-
pansion of the sports among the
colleges should be gradual so that
means may be found to eradicate
all improper tendencies before they
become rooted.
Danger of C0mmercfalism.
The matter Of commercialism pre-
sents an important phase of the sub
ject. There Is no. doubt that boxing
Evening star., 1924-02-04
BRITISH POLO TEAM
TO PREPARE IN u. S.

Some surprise has been manifested
over the report that the British polo
team, which vii! invade this country
this summer :" quest of the famous
international 90 trophy. will ar
rive here six or seven weeks before
the date set fol. the matches in
September. The acclimitization OF
ponies has been the reason ascribed
by those not familiar with the facts.
This is only partly the reason.
Chiefly the rank condition of Lon
don polo fields initiates against the
playing of good polo. There are so
few fields there and they are played
upon SO frequently that they become
cut up, bumpy and. in fact, hopeless
so far as scientific polo is concerned.
American fields are so much more
accurate, so much faster. that when
Englishmen play here they are almost
completely at loss. Hence, the idea
of early arrival is to familiarfze
themselves with our fields.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
MAJORS FARE WELL
IN SIGNING PLAYERS

CHICAGO, February 4.-As major
league base ball clubs prepare to
enter their spring training they are
finding themselves with almost a
complete roster of players signed up.
The Cincinnati Reds have one Of the
largest lists of unsigned players, with
four still to affix their signatures to
contracts. The purchase of Carl
Mays from the Yankees and Tom
Sheehan from st. Paul has bolstered
the Red pitching staff.
Manager McGraw Of the Giants has
Wayland Dean, Louisville star twirl-
er. as one of his principal purchases.
The Philadelphia Athletics have ac-
quired Max Bishop of Baltimore, a
shortstop; Paul Strand, Salt Lakes
chief slugger, and Simmons. Mil
waukee outfielder. BY recent player
swaps the Boston Red Sox and C1eve-
land have cleared up most of their
uncertainties
Sisler has disposed of the Urban
Shocker case for his club. removing
it's principal trouble, while the St.
Louis Cardinals have arranged terms
with jeff Pfeffer, their only regular
whose return was doubtful
Both the Chicago White Sox and
Cubs report their rosters almost COM
plete.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
FRANCE HAS A CUE
WIZARD IN GRANGE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 4-Felix Grange,
the French youth who has just won
the 1872 balkline billiard champion
ship of France with a grand average
of 35.72 for the five games of the
tournament, is said by Louis Cure, the
veteran French player, to be the
finest draw shot player in the world.
In the final game against Edmond
Derbier the 1923 champion. Grange
scored a high run of PAS, clicking off
the 500 points in seven innings.
Thirty-nine of the points scored dur
ing the run were draw shots. some
of which were extremely difficult
and might have been played around
the table, but Grange was willing
to run the risk in order to keep the
balls together.
There are many who predict
Oranges victory over Roger Cont,
and the subsequent honor for the
newcomer of representing France at
the world championship contest in
the United States next year.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
BASE BALL AND ROWING
TEND TO PROLONG LIFE

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. .Fcbruary4.--Thec chances
Of Harvard athlete for a long
life are excellent. according to
figures compiled by DR.. w. II. Geer,
director of physical education mt
the college, and an insurance
statiSticfan.
OF former base ball players who.
by all the calculations of insurance
experts. should now be dead, 81
per cent are still in the land of the
living. and the percentage liz the
same among Oarsmen. OF men who
had been on the track team only
twenty-six have died. this being
rs per cent of the ordinary
average. OF former foot ball
players. however. 81 per cent of
those calculated to have died have
fulfilled expectations.
The figures were obtained from
the records of 52S men who won
their letters mt Harvard previous
to 1900.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
GOING OF MATTHEWS
REGRETTED BY FANS
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February 4.-Maior
league fandom has witnessed with re-
gret the passing from American
league ranks of Sparkle" Matthews,
outfielder sent by the Athletics to
Milwaukee. in the American Associ-
alton, in deal bringing Al Simmons
to the Philadelphia club.
Matthews proved the most color
full player in Connie Mack's lineup
last season. He became a sensation
overnight, and his great fielding and
timely hitting played a prominent
part in the early and midseason
spurt which carried the Mackmen
well up in the first division and, for
time, caused them to be considered
as serious penant contenders.
A penchant for playing to the
crowd, and the resentment of his fell
low players over that custom, is
said to have been chiefly responsible
for his failure to continue his sensa-
tional work. Reported disagreements
with Connie Mack, Philadelphia man
ager, also were said to have figured
in conditions which, coupled with
falling off in Matthews form, re-
suited in sending him to the minors.
Evening star., 1924-02-04

could be made to vie with foot ball
as a money-making sport in the col
leges. Spectators are delighted with
the boxing matches wherever they
take place, and comp petent Judges
have been heard to say that they
have paid considerable sums to see
a bout of less interest than one of
the six which have made up a match
at the Naval Academy.
There is no doubt that if these
matches take place admission could
not be general. but some plan would
have to be adopted to restrict the
sale of tickets. For this reason, Acad-
emy officials declined to play host to
the finals of the intercollegiate Box
ing Association this year. 1t was felt
the tickets would have to be handled
much as are those for the Army
Navy foot ball game, with rigid scru-
and the Academy did not care to
undertake this at this time.
The schedule of the Naval Acad-
emy for the coming season is of more
than usual interest. Yale, Colgate and
Boston University will be met for the
first time, while the Combined Cana
ldians. Pennsylvania State and MasSa-
chusetts Tech are the old opponents
who will be met again. The Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania also probably
will be on the list.
A meeting with the Military Acad-
emy has long been desired by the
Naval Academy, but Army officials
probably come in year or two, how
ever, and such a meeting would un-
doubtedly be one of the big athletic
events of the year.
Evening star., 1924-02-04

And a man who can hit as Benny
can, with the added benefit of at
ieast ten pounds-where does Dundee
come in? AS for Moran. he hasn't
got the class to fight the lightweight
champion. Dundee made Pal miss
tlme after time and Dundee is not
IN Benny's sphere for cleverness
Lew Tender fs being built up ap-
parently. He made a splendid show
ing. against Ray Mitchell, as the
writer before pointed out. Mitchell
has previously shown class in his
work against Sailor Friedman, so
renders showing against Ray must
be accepted as impressive. Probably
he will fight Nate Goldman again
soon. Goldman is certainly moving
tenders. and as he seems to have
what the fans demand, the wallop.
there is no telling how things may
shape up by summer.
In getting decision over Ted
Moore. the English middleweight. in
Boston the other night. Dave Shade
1929. 1t was up to Dave to show and
apparently he did to the satisfaction
of the Boston fans. who are not too
easy to please. With Shade admit
tedly in the middleweight class. there
is talk that a bout will soon be ar
ranged between him and Mickey
Walker, the waiting welter champion.
Walker would not jeopardize his
title even if the newspaper decisions
went against him. unless Shade were
to sneak in at the welter limit. This
has been tried on Mickey before and
is part of the reason why he is such
a suspicious and careful young man.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
MOHAWKS TO DISCUSS
JOINING Federation

Affiliation with the local chapter of
tho National Base Ball Federation
will be discussed by members of the
Mohawk Athletic Club at a meeting
tonight at 8 o'clock in the club
house.
Ralph Smithson was reelected
president of the club at a meeting
yesterday. Other officers elected
were Rob Roy Mackey, vice presi-
dent; Chief Burns. Sergeant-at-arms.
and Vic Gauzza, manager Of the 1924
base ball team.
A reorganization meeting of the
Waverly Athletic Club will be held
Sunday at 2:30 o'clock in the Holy
Name Hall. Friday night Waverly
members are to hold a dance in the
Pythian Temple. the proceeds of
which will be used for the coming
base ball season.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
LINKS ARCHITECTS
PLAN TO ORGANIZE
ny WALTER CAMP.

The Association Of Golf Architects
will be the latest addition to the
ranks of sport organizations II pres
ent plans go through. And. judging
from the amount of money that has
been spent in fees for golf architects,
there should be no trouble collecting
dues for such an organization.
If the body will devote a part Of
its energy to the reduction Of golf
ing costs, 1t will be welcomed through
out the land Meantime, John Ander-
son. one of our foremost golf writer's,
has given new impetus to golf cost
defiation by an article showing that
west and coast dues are approximate
ly one-third less than those of east
ern clubs, and that the clubs accom-
modate nearly one-third more play
ers.
ham of the B. A. A.-by the way. lap
ham is the man giving the new field
house to Yale-is a strong advocate
of the cafeteria system in golf clubs,
the VESTS excellent cost reducer.
Evening star., 1924-02-04

DIS Hedtiy dS dH egg IS ldfQ III nest.
The man who found his hat thus con-
verted into a nest for flying golf ball
WIS content when he was presented
with new hat, but announced that
when he strolled on the golf course in
the future he would wear rubber
helmet, so that if hit by a rubber core
II would be case of Greek meeting
Greek.
Of which has the plight Of being at
tached to Greater New York for life.
hit a mighty brasste on one of the
courses III which the county abounds
and sliced into the kitchen of a farm
house on the other side of the road.
Lands on Raspberry Pie.
The ball landed in a raspberry pie
Just removed from the oven. Juice and
raspberries splashed high in the kitchen.
and the excellent housewife-splendid
cook-who had just stepped to the
table to place another pie by the side
denly filled with more raspberres than
a guy gets who tries to start Lady
Liz without gas.
She was blinded with raspberries-
all stewed up. as it were. She gasped.
stumbled away from the table to find
the water basin, and fell over the dog.
The dog, yelping dismally, ran into
the gas stove and knocked a crippled
leg out from under 1t. The stove Tell
down, the gas set fire to the towels
hanging behind the stove. and the
neighbors turned in a fire alarm.
The firemen extinguished the blaze
without much damage to the kitchen
and the pies disappeared. But mem :
bers of Volunteer Hose No. z. pride
of Oak Ridge, trundled their cart
back to the hose house with their
lips atrociously suggestive of the lip
stick a flapper carries in her vanity
box.
Woodchuck Is Surprised.
A man playing near Hohol as N. J..
hit a long iron shot that carried far
up q knoll and smote a woodchuck
in the ribs. Where the "chuck" came
from was a mystery. But as the ball
reached location A on the topography
Of the country the woodchuck also
arrived at A.
Ball and chuck co1lided, and the
latter turned somersault. Then
assuming his first position, though a
bit groggy. he looked around to see
what had hit him. His eve caught
the ball and, apparently taking it for
an egg, he grabbed it In his mouth
and staggered away with 1t.
Jim Elliott, while playing in New
Rochelle. hit a hen that had been
travelling across the course with 9TH
er hens and rooster. She looked
around to see what had happened
spied the ball and began to cackle
The rooster tapped his wings and
oEowed proudly.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
GOLFERS IRE AROUSED
AT THE PUBLIC LINKS

Those rOnrs Of disgust you heard
yesterday were not from a raging
lion Mt the Zoo. They were spOn-
taneOus Outbursts Of more than
500 aspiring golfers. who took ad-
vantrge OF the beautiful day and
Travelled down to West Potomac
Park links. hoping to spend n few
hours In enjoyable pastimc, but
found Themselves forced to play
without sand, towels or water,
after being charged the regular
green fee. Only the course was
there, nothing in the way of con-
ventence, not even n bus to trans-
port them. There was a lot of
talk about committee waiting on
Col. C. O. Sheriff., I'm charge of
public buildings and grounds, to
acQuaint him with conditions.