Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-08-04

Rye. n. Y. Aug. 3-(AP)-Nation
al leaders in the women's tennis
ranks had little trouble in. sweeping
through the first two rounds of the
New York state championship tour
nament at the Westchester- Biltmore
Country club today. Miss Helen
Wills of California. national cham
pion, who was defeated at Seabright
last week by Miss Elizabeth Ryan of
England, went through tzrD sets
without allowing her opponent, a
game. while Miss Eleanor Goss, Mrs.
Marion Zinderstein Jessup and Mrs.
Mo,la Bjurstedt Mallory also won in
straight sets. Miss Ryan also was
victorious, eliminating Mrs. Walter
Pritchard in two love sets.
New York. Aug. 3.-(AP)-Babe
Herman, leading featherweight ichal-
lenger, won judges decision. over
Lew Hurley of New York in a ten
round bout tonight, scoring a knock
down in the tenth and decisively
outpointing his opponent all the way.
Chicago, Aug. gap Mickey
Walker, welterweight boxing cham
! pion, arrived here today and began
/ training for his 10-round no-decision
J bout with Billy Wells of Great
| Britain next Friday night at East
| Chicago, Indiana.
\ New York. Aug. 3.-(AP)-More
than 40 players who have qualified
| in the last three national amateur
golf championships have entered
this years tournament, which starts
4 at Oakmont, Pa, August 81, the u
| ). Golf Association announced today
! The list includes Robert T. Jones
Jr., of Atlanta, and George Won Elm
of Los Angeles, finalists last year. as
well as many Of the former cham.
pions of the event Among others
are William F. McPahl, Norfolk
Mass; Eddie Lowery, Norfolk
Mass; Francis Ouimet, Fred Wrigh,
and Jesse Guilford, Boston, an6
george Morse, Rutland. Vt.
Chicago, Aug. 3.-tAP)-wee
DICK Kerr, hero Of the 1919 world s
series which resulted so disastrously
| Tor number of his mates on the
chicago American League baseball
cup. may expect prompt, favorable
ACTON on his petition for reinstate-
ment into organized baseball said B
b. Johnson, president of the Ameri-
can League, tonight, when informed
that Kerr IN st. Louis had sent the
league head Geographic appeal.
New York, Aug. 3.-(AP)-
American baseball fans often Jest
because a cricket match lasts two
Gays but British sportsmen have a
chance to smile If they should hap
! pen to read that the Buffalo and
! Rochester International baseball
teams today finished game that
was started July 5. This. however, 4
not the record, as in the 1920 the
| New York and Philadelphia Nation
ais also started contest on July 5,
which after protest by the Quakers
was ordered replayed from the
seventh inning and was completed on
September with "a victory for the
| Giants.
Aurora, Ills, Aug. 3.-(AP)-The
second weeks grand circuit program
will open at Exposition Park tomor-
row and will continue through Fri
day. There are six races on Tues
days program. the feature being a
mile and a quarter race for 2.1O
PAGERS, the purse being $500. Sec
rotary Clifford R. Trimble announced
that the $4,000 trotting derby will
be continued under the old system,
| three mile heats to the race. There
| will be eleven starters in the derby,
which will be worth $4,000 to the
winner.
Forest Hills, n. Y. Aug. s.
(AP)-William 7. Tilden, 2nd., pair
ed with William M. Johnston, de-
feated Vincent Richards and r.
Norris Williams, 2nd.. in an exhibit
ton match on the grade courts of
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