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Evening star., 1925-05-11
Girls Athletics Booming in High Schools Sport Supremacy Run
SCRIBE LINkSMEN
IN TOURNEY TODAY

Washington's newspaper golfers are
engaged today in their annual Spring
fun fest at the Town and Country
Club-the first event of the year held
by the Washington Newspaper Golf
Club. Seventy-five players have en-.
tered the tournament, which usually
sets new high standard for golf
about Washington. The tourney is
an 1S-hole medal play handicap af-
fair. with the Mclean cup to go to
the man who turns in low net score.
Many other prizes have been offered
A. l.. HoughtOn, amateur. and Mel
Shorey, professional, formerly of the
Manor Club, defeated Earl McAleer
of the Manor Club and George J.
Voigt of Bannockburn in an exhibit
tion match at the Manor Club yester-
day. winning by 3 and 2. Houghton
had low medal score with a card of 10.
Fred Mcleod of Columbia, Danny
Horgan of Rock Creek Park. Eddie
Towns, Robert II. Barnett of Chevy
Chase, James l.. Crabb of Congress
sional and $. NJ. Newton. amateur of
Burning Tree, have entered for the
qualifying round of the national open
championship to be played at Lido
Long Beach, l.. l., on May 81 and 2S
The first four will start on Wednes.
day, while Crabb and Barnett play on
Thursday.
Central High Schools golf team de-
feated the Tech High team Yesterday
at Bannockburn by to 0. John
{. Shorey of Central scored a 20,
while De We're Burr, also of Central,
had rs. The summary: j. c. Shorey,
Central, defeated Arthur Bennett,
Tech, and 5; De We're Burr, Central.
defeated Irving Burr, Tech, and 8:
Charles w. Cole, Central, defeated
Theodore Rutley, Tech, and s. Rob-
ert l.. Baum, Central, and w. H..
Finley, Tech, all square. Tech has
defeated Western and the next match
will be between Central and Western.
w. c. Allison and r. f.. Jones tied
with net scores of Sc for first place
in the weekly handicap tourney at the
Manor Club yesterday. Allison had
94 with 2S handicap, while Jones
had 81 with handicap of 81.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
DUMBARTON NETMEN
TRIM new WORKERS

Taking five singles and two doubles
matches, Dumbarton Club racketers
yesterday turned back the crack ten
mis- team of the 7th New York Regi-
ment, 7 to 2, on the locals courts.
Stanley Carr was bested in his sim
giles match with Brandt of the visit
ing team, the encounter going to
three sets, and Mangan and Burwell
were forced to bow to Cunningham
and Aydelotte in doubles.
Summaries:
Singles-Mangan Cd defeated Cunning
ham. 81. 6-4: Graves tD;) defeated
defeated Smith. 6-1. 1-6. g.: white
I'D defeated Cragin. 6-3, Sc: Brandt
Miller jD9 defeated Clark. 13-11. 90.
Doubles-stellwagen and Gore SD2s de.
AydeIotte and Cunningham. 9th r., defeat
ed Mansan and BurwelI, -; 3E8. e.:
Charest and Graves CD defeated Brandt
and Bruno. g., 6-3.
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Every player who has made name
for himself in golf about Washington
is entered in the tournament, includ-
ing Chris j. Dunphy, the 1923 Dis
trict champion, WHO did not play in
either the Indian Spring or Washing
ton events. Capt. Fraser Hale of
Chevy Chase and C. Ashmead Fuller,
Chevy Chase champion, both of whom
have been going great guns this
Spring, are to compete.
Miller r. Stevinsop. last years tour
nament winner; Walter r. Tucker
man, another former District cham
pion; Donald Parson and Roland r.
Mackenzie. winner of the two big
tournaments played so far this year,
also are among the entrants.
Pairings for the qualifying round,
which will be played Wednesday, fol.
low:
DOOR, NJ. Brown. Bann.. and Monroe
:. 9:O5.Dinise Barkalow. Wash. and w. E.
u a:IomE, II,,-oE P; Wassaman. c. C. G.. and d.
"a f;ga12s@G. seaG i. Chase. Sd. C. c. C.. and Paul
9:2O-Harry Krauss. Bann.. and H. D..
r. o:25rcRoyce Hough. Cong. and C. B.
. 500: G. Treat. C. C. C.. and NJ. R.
o:35-Morven Thompson C. C. c. and A.
H. Haushey; Merton.
George L.. Robinson, Toronto.
e:45oA,. r. Mackenzie, COL and A. NJ.
ESQ. R. Maxwell. Merton. and Donald
. a:55LGcorge J. voieht. Bann. and John
McMenamin. Hampton Roads.
;, l0:oo-Tom, Moore. Ind; Spr., and will
=, 19:05-A; F. Prescott. Col. and George
1o:1o,,Lee Crandan. Bann.. and G. P.
n 5-w. B Duncan. jr.. Nat Golf. and
w. A. Chappell. c. {. c.
O:2o-J. A. McIlhenny. C. c. c. and
George Rowe. HAMPTON Roads.
Rid6aTds 10,9S-;t' i B, Pia't G. c. C.. and J. X
700 Tucker Smith. c. C. c., and
19;35-L; B. T. johnson. C. C. c.. and
= l0:4o-Hugh Mackenzie. Col. and p. j.
10:45--A; J. Cummings. Col. and F. S.
George E. Hamilton. ir,. c.. c. c.
10 :55-E. c. Gott. jr.. Col. and F. d.
Paxton.s Wash.
:. II ;oo-Barry Mohun c. C. c.. and George
Evening star., 1925-05-11

L. briggs. C. C. C.
nanisi. 1i;iocRessr 6 ger coombs, Kirk. and r. D.
rhorDe! a1iaoCHs c. T. Z: F. Doyle COL and Merle
IL 20-H. King Cornwell. Col. and E. ].
Orme. Col.
ll:25-c. I. Power. Wash. and NJ. H.
II :2o-Glenn McHugh, Bann., and Lee F
:, II 1:35-JI; B; Murphy Bann.. and R. p.
II :4o-B. E. Hinton. Col. and R. B. Cum
II :45-aH,, A. Knox. Ind. spr.. and C. L.
il ;SoNF. S. Noise. Bann., and E. C. Al
RnIIs II 5SIT : 7 M. M. Foley. C. C c, and j. W
Is :o0-J. ii. Brickenstein. C. C. c.. and
r. Thomas West. wash.
;, 2:05-William H. West. c. c. c. and
-, 40 ;lGIR. H. Jackson. C. C. C.. and W. A.
VIZ: ;l5MRobnson >, White. COL and C. $
: l@:so-Gi D. Kirkpatrick. Wash, and R
Z. ,S.1s Carlson. wash. cn,,dros. C G. and
II :3O-Thomas ]. Marshall Cumberland
s5dEnrens g and E a. elIs; Kan. C. C. ALGONQUIN and
Robert McNuity. EDGE Water. '' '
2:40-F. H. Wins. Ind Spr.. and J. NJ
ia:45a.E; NJ Talcott, c. C. c., and W. G
I2:5o-s R. Balm. Wash and R. T Har
/. :55---F. C. Clark, Ind. spr.. and H. s
:oo-w w Rapley. Col. and Charles
- :o5-Ea B. English, Col, and A. L
Christian Col
i:Io-H, D. Nicholson. Manor. and ]. E
Wise. Wash.
y I;I51c: ;s Ashmead Fuller. c. C. C.. and R
Gov. R. Tuckerman, C. c. c.. and
George Wadsworth C. c. c.
:25-John F. Brawner. Col. and John w
Brawner Col.
:3O-Frazer Hale. C. C. c.. and Roland
:35wW r. McCallum. Wash and NJ
B. Steyinson. Col.
I:40-Donaid Woodward, Col. and C. j
i;45EA. McCook Dunlop. C. c. c.. anc
Emmons s. Smith. jr.. Col.
1:50-Karl Kellerman. COL and Reginald
LOTUS. c. c. c.
:, i ;55| G. Davis. ir.. Col, and Charles
200. 3. Allison. C. C. C.. and A. G
:. 2:o5-s.. H., Kaufman. C. C. C.. and T. P
Noyes. c. c. c.
2;1o--P,; c. Kaufman. C. C. c.. anc
Blaine Mellon. c. c. C..
Evening star., 1925-05-11

In the Big Three. Yale had her
years of utter supremacy in foot ball
crew and track. Then Harvard dis
placed her. first on the water ana
later in track and foot ball Then she
in turn was displaced both by Prince
ton and Yale.
There was thus food for thought
when Cornell, so long the prime row
ing institution of the country, trailed
Harvard and Pennsylvania in Satur1
days regatta on the Charles. and nm
ished as well last in the freshman
and junior varsity events.
Less than week ago the write>
gave warning to all crews that artF
booked to meet the Crimson outfit,
the fine showing which the Cambridgf
crew made While practising AT Princt-
ton. Among other things, they gave,
the Princeton varsity a convincin.
beating in an informal half-mile brusi<
Yale would do well to keep an eve OIL,
this ship from the Charles river
Stevens. the coach from Portland.
Ore, is beginning to get results, am
with the sanction of Saturdays vic
tory much may be expected.
As for Cornell, her glory departed
when Charley Courtney, the grand old
man of rowing, died in harness, and
she will recapture her laurels ONLY
when a coach is developed who l.
qualified to fill his place.
Just how much depends upon coach
ing in boat racing is made evident by
the success of Yale in the past two
years and the slump of Cornell. No
university can by any possibility eX
eel Cornell in the character of her
material for crews. Aquatics are 4
tradition there. The university is
filed with big men of Drawn and en-
durance. drawn from such depart
ments as that of agriculture, veteri-
ianism. dentistry and the like. So
there is no trouble there.
If crew is to be successful there
must be an instructor who has Il
genius for the development of rhythm
in boat. a man who can teach his
pupils to apply the ultimate of power
at the very same instant and to snap
their blades out the moment that
power is spent. In all sport there
is nothing that approaches the deli
cacy of adjustment of a winning crew.
the perfect interlocking of all parts
and the unified delivery of driving
power.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
HOLLAND is CERTAIN
TO RETAIN OLYMPICS
BY the Associated Press.

AMSTERDAM. Holland, May IL
The Netherlands Olympic committee
has issued a manifesto to the nation
declaring it to be the committees ir-
revocable decision to hold the 1928
Olympic games in Holland, notwith-
standing the vote in the lower house
of Parliament last week declining to
grant funds to cover part of the eX-
penSeS.
The manifesto says it has been de
cided to open a national subscription
list to appoint a financial committee
to consider means for meeting the re-
quirements.
1t asserts that among the proposals
to get money is the issuing of lottery
or premium shares ''in order to pro-
vide for the success of the meeting
and save the honor of the country"
Evening star., 1925-05-11
NURMI WILL STRIVE
TO BEAT MILE MARK
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FITCHBURG. Mass, May IL
Paavo Nurmi, Finnish distance run
ner, through friends here said that
he. plans to meet Frank McGrath,
Handicapped of the Boston Athletic
Association, in Worcester today, to
make arrangements to run special
handicap mile against a picked field
on the Harvard Stadium track in an
effort to lower his world record for
that distance before he sails for home
on May %.
Norman Tabor's American record
of 4 minutes u 3-5 seconds was made
on the stadium track July 16. 1915.
Nrrmi established his own world
record of 410:4 in Switzerland in 1928.
Nurmi told his friends that his last
appearance in America before he sails
will be at a Finnish American A. G.
meet in New York.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
CHICAGO WOMEN AHEAD
IN BOWLIf;G TOURNEY

CLEVELAND. Ohio. May 11.-Chi-
cago women were the winners of first
prizes in three divisions of the Wom-
ans National Bowling Association
tournament which has just ended.
Mrs. Grace Garwood Cleveland, tops
the list in the all events, with a score
of 1.703. a new record.
The Estes Alibis led the five-wom-
an teams with a score of 2,51S; NJ.
Baker and NJ. Z. Bert top the dou-
bles and Mrs. E. Reich, with 622. heads
the singles event. Mrs. Reich's score
also is a new tournament record.
Bullfighting has been the national
sport of Mexico for 100 years.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
FRENCH WIN AND LOSE
IN FINAL NET MATCHES

BUDAPEST, Hungary, May II
"a A.PJ.-Although the French team al
ready had won the Davis elimination
contest against the Hungarian team
by capturing both the singles and the
doubles on previous days the series
was played out to a finish yesterday,
and France won another singles, bring
ing her score up to to /.
Yesterday Bella Won Kehrling. Hun
gary, defeated Jean Borotra. France,
6-S, 6-1. "a, 60, while Feret,
France, beat Takacs, Hungary, 6-1,
60, 6-2.
Evening star., 1925-05-11

amateur champion;. Willie Rowland
and a third man.
The fifth was a par four hole then
calling for a drive and a pitch Our
three opponents were all on the
green, but my partner was short
about 40 feet from the cup, when
played.
Pauls ball had~just cleared bunker
in front of the green. My mashie
niblick shot threatened to do no more
But this proved to be sufficient. My
ball hit Pauls ball and drove it up a
few inches from the cup.
Then it gracefully bounced back
into the bunker
My partner sank his short putt for
birdie three amid accusations of
conspiracy" This won the hole for
US. However, falling back into the
bunker didn't help me any in the syn
dicates.
Evening star., 1925-05-11

In the meantime he lugs along a
heavy gun and heavy ammunition.
And he does it all for nothing. AL
Evans has told me of having seen
party after party of canoeists enter
the Superior National Forest packing
big caliber guns.
There are no longer any animals of
the forest that man has the least need
to fear. His only enemies are other
men, and most of them are. of course
in the city. And as for getting lost
his revolver is useless, and when up
against the real thing. not theory
the revolver will probably be the first
th1ng he will throw away to tighten
his load.
The revolver simply serves to give
the impression that the vacationist
is going into the woods to shoot
whatever wild life presents itself
Evening star., 1925-05-11

and this happens only too often The
use of the revolver as a supplement-
AIRY side arm when big game hunting
Is also vastly overestimated. Here
is something 1 ran across today in a
Canadian publication:
Don't lug heavy pistol around on
a belt full of cartridges to back up
your rife in case it is jammed when
a big bear charges you, as you read
of in book. 1t hardly ever happens,
and, If 1T does. make up your mind
that you will be a dead hunter any
way, for it's 20 to l you would not
get your pistol busy in time and it
would not stop the bear anyway.
The pistol and the belt will make
your hips so sore walking long dis
tances that unless you are used to it
it will cripple you, and it means an
other gun to keep clean in camp-a
constant source of worry.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
MARSHALL IS WINNER.

BADEN BADEN, Germany. May II
(A.PJ-All the games in the eight
eenth round of the international chess
tournament played at the kurhaus
were completed. There were no
changes in the relative positions of the
four leaders. Frank J. Marshall
United States champion. won his game
from kolste, Holland, and held fourth
place
Evening star., 1925-05-11
FIELD OF FINE GOLFERS
in CHEVY CHASE TOURNEY

the finest golfers in the local field entered along with
wv era frsa players from outside annual
Spring invitation tournament Chevy Chase Club will
golf
The field considerably half the erwhoco
the placed the club
Members Chevy have
Evening star., 1925-05-11
HATCHETITE GIRLS PLAY
FOR TENNIS TITLE TODAY

Frances Walker and Cecyle Taylor
will play for the George Washington
tennis singles title this afternoon at
4:3o on the Dumbarton Club courts.
Miss Walker. the 1924 champion,
and Miss Taylor, were runners-up in
the Fall tourney at the university.
Inclement weather made it neces-
sary to postpone the title round until
the opening of the Spring season.
Evening star., 1925-05-11

It was only 1O0-yard pitch and
when my ball started it seemed to me
the shot was going to be the best of
the four. This was very satisfying
because it promised to make sure that
the hole would fall to my partner and
me. Incidentally it looked as though
[ would take the lead over one of the
other men with whom I had been
having a hot individual battle.
But my elation did not last long.
In coming down my ball dropped
atop my partners, hit it a glancing
blow on the farther side, bounced off
the green. rolled through a fence just
back of the green and came to stop
in out-of-bounds territory.
And, of course, that gave my rival
the edge
Evening star., 1925-05-11

left forearm i'm its address position
and. if anything. let it roll slightly
to the left, or toward you. as you
draw the clubhead back. Letting it
turn slightly toward you as you draw
the left arm toward the body i'm the
first part of the back swing will serve
two purposes of keeping the club
face at right angles to the ball and
keeping you from turning the fore
arm to the right near the top OF the
back swing.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-05-11
An Unusual Occurrence.

You'd swear, that a man couldn't
make a target of another's ball like
that more than once in lifetime. But
I made an almost identical play once
at Chicago.
1t was on the old fifth hole of the
Onwentsia course, my home club.
We were in fivesome, two of US
playing best ball against three. At the
same time we mad a syndicate ar
rangement.
My partner was Paul Gardner. We
were pitting our best ball against that
of Bob Gardner, two-time national
Evening star., 1925-05-11
BETTERS AUTO MARK.

BAKERSFIELD, Calf, Nav IL
Frank Lockart, Los Angeles speed
king. set a new world unofficial record
for a mile on an oval track here by
negotiating the distance in 394-5 sec
onds, breaking the time Of Tommy
Milton, at Syracuse. n. Y, Of 42.2S
seconds. Eddie Hearne also clipped
the old mark by travelling the mile
in A. 1-5.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
MAC BEsTs ALEX AT GOLF.

NEW YORK, May lin an ex-
hibition golf match at the West
Chester Biitmore Club. Macdonald
Smith. professional, defeated his
brother Alex, by 9 and s. Alex was
playing over his home course. the Sec
end nine holes of which Macdonald
had never before played. Mac had q
card Of TO-
Evening star., 1925-05-11
CORNELL'S ROWING FUNK
OFFERS A CASE In POINT
Institution That Once Held Sway Water Gives
Way Badly-However, This Is Nothing I'm
usual, Occurring Also i'm Other Pastimes.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n EW YORK, 1l-Suprenacy sports
other cycles Fat succeed lean The owy
might and the powerful down from their seat Il
indeed almost intercollegiate
that prestige shall relate periods with corresponding periods
O
and Mnnesot
Middle likely
claims when Vanderbilt
North Carolina all has
phout the
Evening star., 1925-05-11

A' WV sSAt hoh SOh rs
roll. Breaking the
clu b h e a d back
from the ball with
the left wrist, in
stead of letting it
start back OH a
straight line even
with the hands.
promotes a rolling
movement of the
left fore ar m.
When this be-
comes pronounced
it turns the player
into a fiat swing
er, and he might
easily find himself
using that swing
when it was not
suitable for his
Evening star., 1925-05-11
.FAIR SEX ARE TAKING UP
A VARIETY OF PASTIMES
Now Playing Games That Once Only We're Contested
by Boys-Some Are Greatly Handicapped
by Lack of Proper Facilities.

HE
broadened this the adopting OF hther
played by
Where themselves
ball. additional
schools added
horseback hockey
Evening star., 1925-05-11
Dexter Cummings Tells:
Perfect Pitch Shot That Went Wrong

+ NE OF the srangest plays made
friendly match just following at Spring
field, Mass couple of members and
went out toursome but also playing
On the seventeenth hole pitched
e the while
wasa1 0r - $500 ~ -
Evening star., 1925-05-11
LOCAL STARS TO PLAY
IN WARDMAN TOURNEY

Thirty-two local stars are expected
to face the nets next Sunday in the
opening of the fourth annual invita-
tion tournament of the Wardman
Park Tennis Club.
C. NJ. Charest. holder of two legs
on the Wardman trophy, and Tom
Mangan. singles champion of the Dis
trict. will be among the competitors.
Drawings will be made Wednesday
night.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
PIMLICO SPRING MEETING
MAY LIST to 18th

Admission. Including Tax. $1.65
First Race, $50 PM.
ton II 40 Am. Special train. B.. & o.: ire
turningl. leaves Mt. Royal Station. Balti-
B. & O.. leaves Union Station 1 Pm. Fre-
Quent trains on Pennsylvania r. r. and W.,
L.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS
BY WILL H. DIG.
President Izaak Walton League of america

KNOW of ludicrous sight than that
vove strapped to his hip When
west When he
the He does either for obtaining game
Evening star., 1925-05-11
<sMurad is my cigarette harmony"

"A Murad, in my opinion, is like perfectly tuned
instrument, played by master musician 1t is mellow
and soothing Other cigarettes that I've tried smoke
are harsh and irritating SO l regard all-Iurkish
9W St. NE, Washington D. C.
Evening star., 1925-05-11

Bobby Jones, amateur golf cham
pion of the United States and former
open champion, is an expert rifleman.
Evening star., 1925-05-11
InSideGOlf
BY Chester Horton.

There is a roll of wrists and fore
arms in the back swing that the golfer
Evening star., 1925-05-11

The American Red Cross has nearly
so 900 expert swimmers attached to
the life-saving corps.
Evening star., 1925-05-11

fech High, in spite of the limited
. facilities, has quite an active group
of girl athletes.
Mrs Trenis. the director, has intro
duced an unusual game, known as
, 1925-01-18

Gary and Mr.. Rockefeller carried to the White
House resolutions commanding to the people and
their official representatives 1.-THE attitude of the
president in his conscientious obedience to the
provisions of the eighteenth amendment to the
constitution, in the hope that the example of the
flrst citizen of our country may induce those
who now wilfully are violating the prohibitory
statute to accept his leadership in conduct and ia
indorse in practice the integrity of his fidelity
to the supremacy of law" The special appeal
thus made is obviously to men of affairs and lead.
ership everywhere. If the country was at war, it
would be the equivalent of stand by the presi.
dent"
There was never anything like the systematic
organized effort 70 break down the prohibition
laws. 1t is a thinly disguised form of levying war
on the United States. A certain number of peo.
pie say: This law shall not be made effective y
and they defy their government in saying ii. For
the government, the issue is whether its power
shall be indicated against a kind of organized
rebellion.
The government cannot surrender, after being
so boldly and shamelessly challenged, without
losing the respect of all citizens. The White
House breakfast was a notification that if a state
of war exists the governments flag is nailed to
the mast.
, 1925-01-18
An Old Warrior Dies

lrishmen the world over will hear with regret
the passing of the Freeman's Journal. After n
stormy, combative and picturesque career of 16l
years the great Dublin newspaper has printed its
last issue and has suspended publication.
humor says that the Irish Republican party
may purchase the remains and attempt to set
the corpse up again as a DeValera organ with
the reyolutionist, Countess Markieviez, in the edi.
torlal chair. Thus the name may carry on. But it
VIII not be the same Freeman's journal that for
a century and a half has been associated with the
cause of Irish freedom in every quarter of the
globe.
The FreemaD's journal was one of the oldest
newspapers in the British Isles, antedatinC the
London Times. 1t was established in 1853 by the
United lrishmen, Grattan and Flood being count
ed among its first contributors. Daniel O'Connell
used 1t as a powerful aid in the early years of
the nineteenth century, when he was making his
1ight for Irish Catholic emancipation. Charles
stuart Parnell, in his long fight for home rule.
had the loyal support of the fighting Dublin Jour.
MAJ, whose columns were always open to Davitt,
Dillon and his other lieuterants during the dark.
est days in the history of the Celt.
In its closing years the Freeman's Journal
stuck Loyalty to the Irish Free State. but seemed
TO lose its grip after the cause it had championed
through thick and thin emerged at last triumph.
ant from the dust and din of the long fray. Like
a general who dies on the field of victory, bear.
ing the sears of numerous hard-fought battles,
lrelands leading nationalist newspaper, at the
Time when It should be reaping the rewards of
lts past labors, closes its office and is auctioned
III the bankruptcy court to the highest bidder.
About the finish of the Freeman's Journal is
something peculiarly tragic-and perhaps also
. " peculiarly Irish.