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Part OF his StateAent on the golf
course situation, addressed to Col.
Sheriff., follows:
"On July 20, 1921, you let Mr..
Loeff1er have the golf course conces-
sions, and he entered into a contract
to pay the Government $3.50 per an
mum until December 81, 1926. Last
year you made a new contract with
Mr.. Loeffler, wherein you waived his
paying the $3.50 for 1925 and 1926,
and granted him all of the conces-
sions until December 81, 1929, without
his paying one cent to the Govern
ment for same.
What Concessionnaire Gets.
HE thus gets the East Potomac
golf course with the 100000 club
down to same, the splendid body of
Government land running down to
Hains Point; the West Potomac golf
course with golf house, the colored
golf course with golf house north of
the Lincoln Memorial, with the eX-
elusive privilege of selling golf clothes,
bags, sticks, balls. paraphernalia. ice
cream, cold drinks, cigars, cigarettes,
tobacco, lunches, permits for playing
on courses, motor oils and gasoline,
and the exclusive privilege of operat-
ury to Hams Point, and the other two
from the Treasury to your golf
courses, all without any competition,
and without the payment to the
United States of one dollar, from jan
uary /, 1925, TO December 81, 1929
Your idea seemed to be that If Mr..
Loeffier would put these courses in
shape and keep them in shape, with
out expense to your office, you could
afford to grant the concessions. free.
At the end of Mr.. Loeff1er'S contract,
regardless of what he spends, this
property won't be worth one dollar
more to the Government than it was
on January l. 1925, when you Cancelled
ZOO lease that Mr.. Loeffier was un-
der contract to pay for 1925 and 1926.
If through public advertisement YOU
had apprised the people of Washing
ton that these concessions were to be
let with exclusive privileges and no
competition, l feel sure that you
would have had numerous bids from
substantial parties offering substan-
is now paying 100000 tax per wear
to the District of Columbia because it
owns this and other property, most
of which is daily used by Washing
tonians for their convenience and
pleasure. I happen to know the man
here in Washington whom Mr..
Loeffier admitted to me loaned him
his first $500, and in the same
conversation Mr.. Loeff1er told me that
he had recently borrowed $4,000,
hence he must be making money"
Sherrill's Side of the Case
The facts are, according to Col. Sher-
rill, that Loeffier offered to construct
an additional nine-hole golf course in
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POTOMAC PARK TEAM
TAKES NET HONORS

Potomac Park netmen added the
finishing touches to a banner season
in the Public Parks Tennis League
yesterday by trimming the Henry
Park team, 6 to /.
Having gone through the schedule
undefeated, the Potomac racketers
are conceded the championship of the
loop.
Aranowsky was the only Henry
man to score on the champions yes
terday. He easily disposed of Rath-
geber, "a, Cd.
POTOMAC. g: HENRY. /.
Singles-O'Neill tP.) defeated Considine
(H.D. ID. Cd: Trigg. tPl defeated Rich
ardson tH.l. 6-1. 81 Love tP.l de1eat-
ed, Jackson tH), 67-2. O.; Aranowsky
Doubes-oNeill and Trigg tP.D defeated
Considine and Stebbns tH.1. CO. 81.
Love and Ktsluik tP.( defeated Richard
son and Aranowsky (H-, O.. 3-o; 6-l:
Rathgeber and Gardes (P.l defeated Jack
son and Baetzner tH.), Go. e..
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noon of sparkling tennis came, how
ever, when Helen Wills, 19-yearold
national champion, FIVE times was on
the brink of losing the opening set of
her match with Mrs. Marion Finder
stein Jessup of Wilmington. Del, In
the women's invitation singles final.
Miss Wills won, 7-5, 6-2.
Mrs. Jessup Rallies.
A routine victory for the Pacific
coast visitor seemed in store when
Mrs. Jessup's delivery was broken In
the third game, but she suddenly be-
gan playing tennis of a superior or
der, taking four successive games and
reaching a count of love-40 with Miss
Wills serving.
1t was a tense moment The throng
was quite impartial. but would have
been delighted If the former Miss
Zinderstein could wrest a set from the
youthful titleholder. In her over
eagefness to end the set Mrs. Jessup
stroked the next service too quickly
and 1t found the net. Miss Wills had
a nes-corder that changed the flight
of the ball just enough to make Mrs.
Jessup net it. That made it 3040.
Mrs Jessup whacked one of her
speedy forehands down into the left
hand corner of the court. 1t was a
beautiful passing shot, but after two
of the Iinesmen had looked at one an
other they declared it out. 1t wasn't
out any more than an inch.
Still fighting, Mrs. Jessup volleyed
sharply and forced Miss Wills to net
and for the fourth time set point was
up. The Delaware resident spoiled IL
all by failing TO put the next two
service shots into play, and another
net t-corder by Miss Wills saved the
game. That was the beginning of the
end, even though Mrs. Jessup did
reach 1910 in the next game by two
pretty backhand volleys that whizzed
across the court at lightning speed.
Easily Wins Second Set.
BY this time Miss Wills was dis
playing all the poise which has carried
her to the crest in American tennis.
She mixed long with short chops, and
Mrs. Jessup seemed TO sense the in.
evitable, for her powers of resistance
weakened and she captured only two
points in the last three games of the
first set In the second set Miss Wills
dropped only two games and won with
ease.
Directly after her singles match
| Miss Wills played a one-set exhibition
doubles with her new partner, Miss
| Mary K. Browne of Santa Monica
Calf. with whom she is to play in all
| of the eastern tournaments this year
| Their opponents were Elizabeth Ryan
! playing her first American match
since she left her California home 13
| years ago to go TO England and Flea.
nor Goss of New York. Miss Wills
and Miss Browne, lacking in team
work, were beaten Is, largely be-
cause of their own errors.
The Longwood mems doubles was
a straight set affair. for Patterson
and Hawkes. are very jealous of their
doubles regulations and were un-
willing to lose set to a paiy of IL
| year olds, if they could help it. NAL
coin Hill and Henry Johnson. the
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,
The contest was thrilling to the
finish, as the winner had been down
nearly all the way and came from be-
hind with Il brand of golf that was
hard 70 beat, to wipe out Martin :
Lead at the thirty first hole and then
win the next three holes and the
laurels by scoring par on all of them.
Carter was not so good in the
morning round, taking 43 strokes for
The first nine and going 4 down. He
shot par 36 on the second nine and
cut Martins lead to up. But in
the afternoon the Oklahoman showed
his class by grabbing the first hole
with a birdie 8, winning the third
with birdie and cutting his disad-
vantage to l down by shooting only
one above par on the third nine.
Turning into the home stretch,
Carter seemed to sniff victory, while
Martin, after hanging on to his one
hole lead for three holes by halving
two of them in par and the other
with a birdie, began to slip. He took
one above par on each of the next
four holes. while Carter kept up his
perfect golf and was even with per-
feet figures for 16 holes played in
the afternoon, as against Martins
over.
Martin was not without honor as
he played we'll most of the way, be-
ing only two above perfect figures on
each rire in the morning with pair
of 3Ss. He was not so brilliant after
luncheon. taking 40 for the first nire
and slipping badly on only the TWEEN
ty-fifth hole, where he took one of
three skies he had during the day.
1t was only the brilliant fash of Car
ter in the home stretch that downed
the rugged Chicagoan, who is only
three years Carters senior.
During the double round Carter got
six brides, three in each round, while
Martin captured only three. Garter
had only two holes in six, and one of
these he might have made in less ii
he had not picked up from a trap.
Carter scored par on Is holes while
Martin shot perfectly on 19 holes.
Martin had seven straight pars from
The eighteenth to the twenty fourth
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Although the ROTC athletes had
points to spare in the aggregate, win
ming 81 credits to A for the CMTC
contestants, individual honors went
to George Tinker, high school boy
from Pennsylvania. He scored 15 of
the CMTC's points, winning the pole
vSult, broad jump and javelin throw,
being points ahead of r. S. Ellis,
attending the ROTC encampment
from Virginia Military Institute.
1t was field day for V. NJ. /.
Athletes wearing the crimson and
white of the Virginia college showed
In nearly every department of the
meet, and in of the Is events, V. NJ.
I. celors flashed first. OF the Z lead
ing contestants. V NJ. l.. had 3-ElliS,
j. A. Willis and II. f. Mui, the latter
a student from China, who won the
low hurdles and ran second in the
120-yard hurdles.
Detweiler Proves a Star.
Next TO Tinker, perhaps the out
standing hero of the day was j A.
Detweiler CMTC student from
Quakertown, Pa, who easily account
ed for both the one mile and two mile
runs. AT no time in either race was he
even challenged for the victory and in
the two-mile event was the only one
to finish really standing up" II. II.
Covington of V. NJ. l., collapsed atross
the finish tape for a, second, and c.
A. Newell. a CMTC student, was bare
" able to walk in and claim third
honors His claim was uncontested, all
of the other starters having quit be
fore the mile and half mark had
been passed.
The stadium here was packed with
students from both ROTC and the
CMTC, and a large gallery of friends
from both sides filed the grandstand.
There was keen rivalry every minute
of the contest and the ROTC students
gave the games the aspect OF a big
college meet by having regular, high
jumping and arm-waving cheer lead
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i've sets before the champion emerged
20, 90, 8-5
next three games to take the lead, 5
to L. Lott won the first two points
of the tenth game, but Tilden finally
saved the match by winning the game
and the set, to 6.
The closeness as well as the tense
ness of the match is indicated by the
3161 and Tilden 153. The match was
marred by many Interruptions, the
champion frequently becoming annoy
ed at the behavior of spectators, who
frequently applauded a stroke while
rally was in progress.
Harvey Snodgrass and Walter Wes-
brook of Los Angeles reached the final
round of the mems doubles by elimi-
mating Brian Norton and Wray
Brown, st. Louis entrants, in the semi
f1nal-round contests. The first two
sets were hard fought, but the Cali
fornians ran out the third set with
the loss of only two games.
Norton showed streaks of brilliancy
against Snodgrass and Wesbrook,
while Brown appeared tired, due to
the morning match in which he and
Norton defeated Thalheimer and
White Of Dallas, Tex. Snodgrass and
Norton won by scores of SIS, "a,
g.
The other semi-final-round match
in the doubles, between Tflden and
Al C'Sandy'D Wiener of Philadelphia
and Robert and Howard Kinsey of
San Francisco, was not completed,
darkness halting the play after the
Kinseys had won the first two sets
and Tilden and Wiener the third.
The match will be resumed early
Sunday afternoon and will be followed
by the final round, in which the win
ming team will oppose Snodgrass and
Wesbrook for the doubles champion
shin
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the victor. The score was 30, VI
Tilden at one stage-was within two
points of losing his title to the youth
ful Chicago but consistent playing
eventually enabled him to retain his
crown and gave him a second leg on
the singles challenge trophy present
ed by the United States Lawn Tennis
Association.
Lott, playing perhaps the most
brilliant game of his career, gave the
champion a battle all through the
match. His steadiness and his ability
to return Tildens hardest strokes
won the approval of the spectators
and added to the champions discom-
future.
Lofts steadiness gave him the first
set. Tilden, however, gradually be-
came more accurate in placements as
the second set progressed. and finally
won it. The Chicago youth began a
net attack which won him the third
set easily, the score of which was
6-2.
Tilden broke up Lofts play in the
fourth set, although the Chicago star
on four games of the set. The fifth
set was a battle from start to finish.
TiIden ran up a lead of to In
games, but the Chicagoan won the
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seeded teams to reach the final, found
the Australians shots had too much
sting and they had TO be content with
seven games, the scores reading G-2.
e., 6-3.
In the mems singles, which opened
the program, Patterson's overpower-
ing speed which had completely sub
dued Zenzo Shimzu a day earlier,
was noticeably absent as the contest
progressed. In the first set he fed
speed to the Japanese. Harada thrived
on It. holding his own deliveries with
comparative ease and nearly breaiiug
through Patterson in the eighth
game, when the Australian trailed,
$50, and had to uncork four vol
leyed placements to draw himself out
of danger. The first service break
was recorded against Patterson in the
eleventh game and Harada had his
own at love, Patterson making three
errors on service returns.
The high point in the match came
after Harada had piled up a lead OF
five games to love in the second set
The defeat of Patterson seemed
imminent. He was being passed, out
guessed, outsteadied and outclassed.
Patterson suddenly put aside his
speed. "I'll try a few soft ones" he
seemed to say. And from loves
patterson SO1t ones carried nln
through seven straight games. dur
ing which he dropped a total "f just
eight points.
In the sixth game, which proved to
be the turning point. a Patterson
| high lob eluded Harada's racket and
spun back into Patterson's territory
for a neat placement. Harada began
| to get the range on his passing shots
again in the third set and he won it
at 5-3 by sheer merit. Patterson's
struggle for points was futile, as the
| Nipponese was too steady and too
accurate. Patterson deliberately
threw the first point of the ninth
game in this set after a 'let" had
! been called. amid the cheers of The
crowd.
| After the rest, Patterson went to
Above in each of the fourth and
| fifth sets. Harada did make L fine
stand in the fourth, racing from love
/ 1 to 4-3, 30-an, on his own serv-
| ice. He shattered Patterson's deliv-
/ cry twice, but could not hold his oNn
| to reach 4-all and that was the be-
ginning of the end. Patterson did
not overeXert himself in the final
frame. He seemed to possess grea ter
stamina than his opponent He
swapped soft shots until the Japa-
nese fell into errors.
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GETS A II ON LAST ROUND
TO WIN BY SINGLE STROKE
Youthful Turnesa Is Second, With Brady in Third
Place--Macfarlane, National Titeholder, Is
Forced Out by Blistered Hands.
Bv the Associated Press


II July 1SCene climbed the bunkers
Grassy the golf throne
Willie Macarne under the title metropolitan
champion
long the ocky little Mea4
of
yesterday y holes the Wetcheser hills 1t that
defeat
Joe Tunesa of lad of his
and his caddie apprenticeship.
accepted the challenge with his 18hole
roundo the boy
On the home green by a single stroke, 295 to 200.
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One stroke back of TurneSa finished
the dethroned metropolitan champion,
Mike Brady of Winged Foot, in tie
with the veteran Siwanoy professional,
Tommy Kerrigan, while Bob McDon-
aid of Chicago, and Walter Bourne of
the metropolis club, leaders at the end
of SO holes, finished fifth and sixth
with 299 and 800, respectively, after
falling victims to the traps of the
Grassy Sprain valley.
Regains His Prestige.
Not since 1928, when he lifted the
professional championship following
his sensational triumph in the national
open of 1922, had SaraZen sat in the
seat with the links mighty. Several
times he had resumed loud knocking
on the door to major championships
without regaining entry. At Worcester
he was only two strokes from the
leaders, MacFarlane and Jones. And
even today it appeared that his quest
to regain place among the cham
pions of .mashie and niblick was to be
denied by young TurneSa.
But sensational golf at the finish
saved him. AAfter playing the first
of the final IS holes in a steady
3S, Sarazen was called upon to better
par figures by 2 strokes on the in
coming journey. He accepted the
challenge thrown down by Turnesa
with a string of par holes and 3
brides to close with a 14-foot putt on
the final green for victory.
More Players in Running.
No less than nine other players
figured in the running for the title
when the field took up its final 1S-hole
march over the fairways in the after
noon. But one after another they fell
a for. e l.
was really decided.
Bourne and Mcdonald got off to
bad start and never fully recovered
Both were uncertain on their an
proaches, yet both had an even
chance to overtake young Turnesa,
who had finished early with what
looked like winning 296 after play
ing an excellent " in the morning.
But at the sixteenth they hooked into
the rough and then played into sand
traps near the green. Bourne was
again in a sand trap at the short par
seventeenth, and there his chances
ended
Mike Brady needed 40-foot putt at
the eighteenth to draw even with
Iurnesa, but the tricky slope Of the
green defeated him. while Kerrigan
who had tied Turnesa at the end of
"a holes fell, like Mcdonald. at the
'L4SiS ttC HSetleu d puts.
Johnny Farrell of Quaker Ridge
went completely to pieces in the aft
ernoon round, taking an S3 after be-
ing within three strokes of the top
az the end of 54 holes. while Cyril
walker, former open champion, and
Willie Klein of Garden City, were un-
able 10 overcome erratic starts.
Hope-eSsly out of the running as
a result CT blistered hands. Willie
MacFarlane finally made good his
threat TO withdraw at the close of the
third round.
Leo Diegel of Glen Oaks also re-
signed to the nd-skirted knolls Of
the Westchester course.
Leaders In Tourney.
Following are the scores of the
first 20 with yesterdays 36-hole to-
tails and the 1S-hO1e roInds today.
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FRENCH DEFEAT DUTCH
In DAVIS CUP SINGLES

NOORDWIK, Holland, July 1S Up.
France won both singles matches
from Holland today in their first
round of tennis play in the Davis cup
finals in the European zone.
In the first match Rene La Coste
defeated H. Thinner. 81, IS, 6-2,
g. In the second match Jean Bo-
rotra defeated Diemer Cool, Go, Ga,
10-S.
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hole, but Carter was also going
strong at that stretch of the journey
so that he lost three of these holes
and won none of them.
Maybe that affected Martin, for he
never did so well afterward, getting
only two pars and one birdie until
the finish. Perhaps the rubs of the
green's that aided Carter helped to
down Maj tin, but he would not admit
it, merely saying he was defeated by
a better game.
The rubs came on the sixteenth
and the eighteenth green's, where
Carter's puts hit Martins ball and
caromed into the hole for halves in
par. and On the twenty-sev fair
way, where Carter's drive hit a man
in the gallery and bounded away
from a trap. On the seventh green,
Martins putt hit Cartre's ball at the
cup, caromed away from the hole.
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SPANISH NET PLAYERS
ADVANCE IN CUP PLAY

MEXICO CITY. July Is CP).-Mex-
leo was eliminated today from the
Davis Cup competition when the
Spanish team won a second victory.
In the singles. Eduardo Flaquer
Spain, defeated Claude Butling, Mex
leo, 10-12, 6-4, 6-l, IS. Manuel
Alonzo, Spain, defeated Ignacio Bor-
bolla, 6-4, "a, 6-2.
Spain won the first two matches in
the elimination play Thursday.
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COLLECIANS BEAT CITIZENS
In CAMP MEADE GAMES

AMP MEADE Md, July 8Colegae athletic training
decisive high school and sando experience here
- day when Reserve Officers Training comprised of
dents leading universities and colleges the Army Sd
field
Training Camp students comprised largely OF athletes from
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YOUTH FROM SOUTH WINS
WESTERN LINKS HONOR
BY the Associated Press.

ETROIT Mich, July 18The golf of the United States
moved percepy today when Keefe Carter 19yea
old oil fields of Oklahoma
Lochmoor Club by defeating
sell Martin Fogmoor Club Chicago thrilling
IS holes.
had south of the
line. The who
except Evans
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THDEN SENT FIVE SETS
TO DEFEAT YOUNG LOTT
By the Associated Press.

LOUIS July 8Wam T. Tlden 3D. of Philadelphia four times
clay successfully de-
defeating George NJ Lott sensa-
youth round of the the Triple
A Club.
the limit OF 1--WE sets before the champion emerged
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.

Atlanta, z: Mobile. 5.
Birmingham. b: New Orleans. >.
Nashville. IL: Memphis, 5.
Little Rock. 10. Chattanooga. 3.
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GOLF LEASE SAVES L. s.
MONEY, SHERRILL CLAIMS

@OL C. SHERRIIL
has been taken task by Banon Of Texas
with the privileges the public golf
Potomac Park Representative Blanon S c.
Loef,
valuable by the
witt during and
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Metropolitan Open Patterson and Helen Wills Score at Tennis
AUSTRALIAN DEFEATS Jap
NLONCWOOD BOWL FINAL
Is Sent Limit to Win From Harada-Californ
Girl Victor Over Mrs. Jessup, Is, %,
But Has Close Call in First One.
BY the Associated Press


II ROOKINE Mass, July Australs colors foaed high
when Gerald l. of Melbourne became
- Longwood Bowl singles and later with John
the Longwood doubles In
oulasted Tak Harada japan
81 IS SO, 6--3, 6-1.
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BLUE POLOlSTS WIN;
ANOTHER GAME TIED

War Department Blues scored over
the 18th Field Artillery four yesterday
at the Potimac Park polo field, to 8,
while War Whites and Third Cavalry
failed to come to decision, the count
standing 8 to after the end of six
regulation chukkers and an extra two
minute session.
Mai. Parker scored three times for
the War Blues against the Artillery
men from Fort Myer, one of his shots,
spectacular tally from difficult
angle, starting a rally in the fourth
which ended with the Blues register
ing a quartet of goals to break tie
and clinch the victory.
The Cavalry team went ahead with
rush in its encounter with the
Whites, but was checked in the fourth
chukker when Maj. Thomas brought
the ball out of a melee in front of the
goal for a counter, and Col. Palmer
brought one straight down the field
from the toss for an easy marker.
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Score by perlOdsA
Var wl,T,sIu Blues. .... / g ! 4 6 9-s
Goals-Mai Parker (3l. Col Morris t2)
Capt Kilburn. Capt Tate. Lieut.. Sharpe,
Lieut. Benson. Time of periods-6 min
utes. Referee--Col. Hayden.
War Whites Position. Cavalry
Maj. Thomas No. 81. Lieut. Palmer
war whites. m io .... o Q o1 %
Cavalry .....1 o o o 0-3
KiIburn Lieut. Byers (21. Capt Findley
observation-disclosures for Richardson. Rich
ardson for Kilburn.S Time of periods-6
minutes..i RefePee--Col. Hayden.
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Sarazen's card for the final IS fol
The Republican., 1925-12-31
TWO-DOLLAR CLASS

Requires a deposit of $500
each week, for the next so
weeks. On December !, 1926,
you will receive a check for
$4,000, plus interest.