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and Carpenter in the morning. They
| left and l rushed off to the Playhouse
to have a closeup with Brady. He
had called Cochran at his hotel. The
| papers had been full of Cochrans
coming and his having Carpenter
! under contract. Nobody knew any
thing about it's being a gentlemen's
as he is.
When Brady pulled the match bus
| mess on Charley he was hot for it.
| England had never had such a match
in all her history and Bill and Charley
were all smoked up. A short talk
with Brady and he agreed to meet
me in Cochran's room at the latter's
| hotel, the next morning. l was no
sooner ushered in when in walked
Descamps and Carpenter and NAL
let. This is going to be good'' says
Kearns to himself. I had pitted my
self against five of them and not a
dud in the bunch.
1 had made up my mind that Old
Boy Cochran would fall for a little
salve and ] came prepared to lay 1t
on thick. 1t lays best when applied
to a mans vanity. Charley proved
to be only human after all.
"Mr. Cochran" I began as Brady
Us anu uelOle ne cOQ1u get
anything off his chest. i've read a
lot about you. 1t has been my mis-
fortune never to have met you before
this. l know all about you and your
reputation for being England s
sQuarest shooter. a man of your word,
a sportsman without peer in your
own land, and it is indeed a privilege
to take your hand" l got ahold of
Charley's big fat paw and hung on to
it while / tried to shake the settings
out Of his teeth.
I'm happily sandwiched in between
two good SpOrtSmen and men of their
word. I'm safe as far as I've gone"
thought Cochran would push the
buttons out Of his vest as his chest
kept swelling. l resumed:
Nov I've come here to ask YOU to
be fair with me and with Carpenter
I want Carpenter to box Dempsey.
I've been talking to Brady and he
seems to think that if you two gentle
men took the bout to England you
could outdraw the same bout if it was
held in America or Canada. What I
am driving at in particular is that
you have not guaranteed this idol of
France enough money. Your agree
ment calls for $4,000 to meet any
man you select. You've expressed
but you must realize that sac, 900 is no
money at all for Carpenter. He's
worth much more
Makes Some Progress.
I looked around to see how every.
thing was sinking in and so far so
good. l had profound audience and
Mr.. Cochran'S neck was as red as a
turkeys. Brady was eying me in
silence
Time to strike. I let fly. "Mr.
Cochran, as gentleman and a sports
man. IL you We're shown that you We're
standing in the way of this fine boy
making some real money would you
allow a mere gentlemen's agreement
to stand in his way? Wouldn't your
spirit of fair play and true sportsman
ship prompt you to release him from
that gentlemens agreement. if this
chap was shown some real money!"
What do you call real money!"
asked Cochran with bite in his
voice
Il can get Carpenter 100000 for
fighting Dempsey in England or this
country"
"Silly boy, You can get no such
money in England or any place else. :"
Would you release him from that
agreement If I did? Cochran looked
at me and said. without the least
hesitation"
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tier was to get $40. =
900 for his end.
why, that's no
money for this
great champion of
yours" I told Des-
C a m ps, through
Mallet. It's per-
fectly absurd to
ask this interna-
tional favorite to
meet some egg
over there and get
only forty grand"
I talked myself
blue in the face. I
had made no men
ton of what |
get over that
$4,000. We talked
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ln6n, now can
any one reckon
that he'll do it
now? No one ever
knocked me off
my feet--nor even
staggered or dazed
me. And | guess
some of the men
] fought could hit
then with almost
as much power as
Dempsey can hit
now.
d e M p 8 @ Y
dropped w Ill ard
seven times and
couldn't keep him
on the floor. He
hit the big gia mt
az least 100 times
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ROSS TO TRY LONG SWIM

CHICAGO, August IS R.-Norman
Ross, former Olympic aquatic cham
pion, has announced that he will at.
tempt to swim from Los Angeles Har-
Dor to Catalina Island and win the
$4,000 offered by William Wrigley,
jr. He suggested next June as the
likelY date after Winter training
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cause this lnStlnCt
has to be gov
erned and changed
into an instinct to
put the club into
the blow. There
is a vast differenct
between swinging
t h e body a n d
swinging the club,
but once the golf
er will govern
his actions just
enough to give
him a feel of the
club swinging he
will quickly sense
the difference. The
body moves for
ward easily, with
a,Sf o,ovy A@A~{-
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whatever. as the club starts forward,
and the player whips the club into the
ball wholly with his shoulders, arms
and wrists. The body should have a
feeling Of being pulled through after
the clubhead.
Copyright 1925)
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The success of Johnny Weismuller
of Chicago, who holds more than half
the world records for mems free
style swimming, is said to be due to
his large feet, He wears a No. IL
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I IHII 6N UEI6IIIIIIItU 10 IdIIU &c 1IIS
self. asked McKetrick to get
Descamps and Carpenter to. come to
my office. He said he'd do it. In
they came with their friend, Capt.
Mallet, who acted as interpreter
/ asked Descamps if he was tied up
with Cochran. | was tickled when
he admitted that this contract was
simply verbal one, a gentleman's
agreement to box any man Cochran
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CORBETT WOULD TIE UP >.
RICHARDS FIGHT PLANS
By the Associated Press.


HLApELPHIA August 25-When Jim Corbett clip the
himself ~
Jim claims exclusive right heavyweight contest
stadium
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GERTRUDE Crawl
EDERLE'S Stroke
By L. De B. Handley 1n.!.ee.e. .! Olympic Team:
ARTICLE TX.
The Crawl Stroke for Distance Swimming.

IT belief still is prevalent in many communities that the d
practical tor swimming
l there to disabu those who hold it.
York used the crawl her sue.
su crossing this and although hampere
combined speeo
achie by OF
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SCOTT BACK WITH SOX.

Everett Scott, veteran shortstop,
has been returned to the White Sox
by Cincinnati.
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For the first three years of Davis
Cup competition, in 1900. 1902. 1903,
the play was confined to teams rep
resenting the British Isles and
America.
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Inside
-ByChester Horton

1t is instructive in the golf swing to
want to help" with the body. This
instinct for putting the body into the
blow is what fools many players, be-
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NEVER HAS K. O.'D A GOOD
FIGHTER, GENE DECLARES
Asserts Champion Had to Land Many Blows to Stop
Willard and Carpenter and Hit Gibbons 500
Times Without Getting Results.
BY GENE TUNNEY.

@ MTo hgIe Jack Dempsey e bea me base their eoncusohs
all opinion that the champion is of the
rated hitters history.
Dempey never knocked out really good his lifetime He's
good fighters mind but merely good onhe has
that ordinary Before
statement, study his record-and what does one learn
And don't overlook the that of
his of the Jack Dempsey today who undeniab
three
is credited with less so nov.
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FIGHT GAME
FROM THE INSIDE
CHAPTER XXXVII.
BY JACK KEARNS.

York with the Carpenter match mind
and Dan
wv to m rounding those Frencfmen
well known Carpenter and Descamps
both OF whom
fought a his
New York had Tex off simply
He had wired back
Impossible. Cochran OF London.
flying New York talked the with Tex and
offering when talked Carpenter and Demp
talking Carpenter and Descamps he
couldn't them from their with Cochran.
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One valuable thing is that one comes
up against great number of different
kinds of games. Variety of opposi-
ton is important I'm keeping game
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So, why shouldn't feel supremely
confident of beating him? 1 don't
think that Dempsey, in his best day.
could have floored me. If he couldn't
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D. C.. MEN CLEAN UP
IN CANOE REGATTA

With the exception of a single
point scored by the Philadelphia
Canoe Club. Washington paddlers
made a clean sweep of the four events
of the comedy regatta. which closed
the four-day meeting of clubs OF the
Middle States Canoe Racing Associa-
ton yesterday at Philadelphia.
Potomac Boat Club won all four of
the events and registered a total OF
81 points. Washington Canoe Club,
winner of seven national titles in the
cedar boat racing events on previous
days, accounted for eight points.
Aubrey Bogley and Otis Biggs took
the tandem overheard and tandem
gunwale events. Bogley captured the
10O.yard a.lend race and G. Millar,
E. Millar, A. Biggs and o. Biggs took
the quad hand padding race.
Jimmy Burch of Potomac Boat Club
and Bill Havens of Washington
Canoe Club tied for honors in the
canoe fitting event and probably will
settle things on the Potomac at an
early date.
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their control considerably. In this
swing through the West the Ma
tionals have been hitting we'll enough
and getting enough runs to win many
more games than have come their
way. 1t has been the Wildness Of
the slabmen that has proved costly.
All Have Been Affected.
Most Of the starting pitchers have
gone along we'll enough for a few
lnings, then suddenly lost the loca
ton Of the plate and disaster has fol-
lowed. Ruether at Chicago, Crowder
at St. Louis, Johnson at Detroit and
Murray here were guilty. of such
lapses 1t also happened that there
were no passes in Johnson's case, but
the hits that brought about his
downfall were made by batters who
had waited for big counts in their
favor, thereby compelling the veteran
to get his pitches across.
Nor have the National relief pitch
erS been immune from attacks of
wildness. Several times they have
stopped rallies after relieving q team
mate in distress, only later to find
the plate on swings. AS a result of
this inability to stick to a task they
have started. 1t has been necessary
at times for the pitchers to work
out of turn. And that has not been
so good for a mound corps already
weak numerically and physically.
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Pittsburgh dropped Brooklyn yes
tertiay. 9 to 5. Ray Kremer's steady
pitching being ably supported by MS
mates at the plate.
cincinnati could gain no better
than an even break from Philadel-
phia, losing the first by Z to and
winning the second, 10 to >. Pete
Donohue called it a day after allow
Ing five safeties and putting out two
men. the enemy amassing seven runs
IN The opening frame Of the first
game.
Eddie Roush and Rube Bressler
led d smuggling attack that accounted
for the second contest.
Kent Greenfield allowed the Cubs
only five hits and won for the Giants,
10 8. Travis Jackson. Giant short
stop. turned in Il home run, two
doubles and a single. Freddie Lind
strom Of the Giants also had a homer.
Larry Benton pitched the Boston
Braves third consecutive shutout.
setting down St. Louis, 5 to 0. He
granted only five safeties, two of them
doubles.
The Yankees resumed winning
stride along with Babe Ruth's thirty
sixth home run of the year and de
feated Detroit. . 20 S.
Cleveland won from Washington
Z TO 3.
Al simmons also recorded a round
trip smash. which gave Philadelphia
a 2-to-l victory over Chicago. 1t was
his sixteenth circuit punch OF the
year.
Sixteen hits by the Boston Red SoX
gave Bryan Harriss a 7-to-5 decision
over the Browns, Emory Rigney, Bos'
ton shortstop. trip.ed for the winning
runs in the eighth.
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MATS NEED VICTORY TODAY
FOR EVEN SPLIT ON YEAR

en- the Nationals get home tomorrow
worse off in their seasons standing
gton on July Is for their second tour
the Nationals were a game above the
Indians was needed today to assure
II with figures showing just an even
e-that defeat by the Tribe yesterday
lane for the third time this year.
Manager Harris used Peck and
Moon Harris instead Of Myer and
Judge in the lineup yesterday. But
1t was with only a hope that they
might swing the Nationals into the
victory column. Bucky expects to
restore the regulars to their berths
today.
johnson swung a. mean fail against
the Cleveland left-hander. In three
trials against Smith. Walter banged
two singles and once sent Jameson
far back for a catch of a liner. In
the only trial against Miller. he had
a safety taken from him by a remark
able leaping catch by Joe Sewell.
Twenty-one homers have been clout.
| ed by the Nationals and the clubs
Western swing. The number of
round,trippers afford some idea. of
how much larger is the playing field
in the Clark Griffith Stadium, than
those of these Western plants. I'm
agine 81 homers in 16 consecutive
games in Washington! 1t isn't done.
Twenty.fOur runs have been scored
by the Indians in the four games
played. Speaker has driven across 10
of them and he did so in the three
games his club has won. Spoke still
Is a bad actor in pinch.
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This string oc games with the
Yankees promises to he trying one
for the National pitching staff. De
spite their recent reverses in the
West, the Yanks are in fine fettle and
80 far this season have been espe-
callv difficult for the Champs t6
handle. Clashes with Bucky Harris
club have been quite profitable TO
tho HuEmen this year. Ten OF fif-
teen encounters with the Washing
ton outfit have gone the way of the
New Workers.
jump to New York Saturday.
After tomorroNs double header
single games will lie played against
the Yanks in Washington on Thurs
day and Friday. Then the Nationals
will jump to New York for a two
ply bill Saturday. Next sunday the
Athletics win come to Washington
for one game, their last Of the sea
son in the National Capital A day
of idlencsS for the Champions Will
follow, then the Western contingent
will begin it's final invasion of Clark
Griffith stadium this year.
If the National pitching staff funC-
tons in any way approaching proper
form, the club ought to make good
showing in its next seven games in
The East. But 20 function properly
the hurdlers will have to improve
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McCarty, who opposed Hughes or
the mound. was found for IL bingles
walked three and struck out two
Flynn relieved him in the final and
BANKED his opponents.
Marcus ChaconaS welded the big
stick for Fashion shop. getting three
hits in four times at bat and drivirc
In five of the winners runs.
Post Office meets Treasury toda 3.
seeking a second victory in the Do
partmental League play-oR series.
The Postal men nosed out their rivals
Yesterday, 6 to ;. with a sixth inning
rally that Melted them all OF their
runs. The sixth was had one for
Pitcher Johnny Laycock of Treasury,
Post Office getting seven of its nine
hits during the session. Treasury hi'
Brinkman for II safeties. Reckert of
the winners accounted for home run
Shipping Board and Public Build
ings and Public Parks hattled ~
an Hall tie Yesterday in q sevenir
ming tilt In the Potomac Park LeaEu"
Shipping Board was BANKED by Ham
ilton for five innings and scored hr'
runs in the sixth and six in the se'
enth The opposing nine tied thing
I'D with a four run rally In the last
nalt OF the Ilndl.
American Security and Trust. hoo>
ed to meet the Riggs nine Saturdav
for the championship of the second
Bankers League series, took 7-to-t
beating yesterday from the u. G. Fin
gineers. Cole pitched for the win
nerS.
Fire6ghters of AlexandriaS No.
Motor Company. champions OF the
Virginia towns fire company league.
are seeking games with Washington
teams. Manager Edwards is booking
at Alexandria 81.
Union Printer tOsserS. preparing
| for a defense of their title I'm the an
nual International Typographical
| Union tournament at St. Louis or
August 20, meet the d. G. Fire De
partment nine today and Thursday
at the Ellipse. On Sunday the Typos
tackle the Dreadnaughts at AleXan-
dria.
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In the meanwhile Babe Ruth, Tony
I4azzeri and Goose Goslin. three Of
the players that will show their wares
In Thursdays game, continue to clout
homers and keep their places near
the top Of the list of American League
hitters. The Babe got his thirty
sixth home run yesterday at Detroit.
while Lazzeri brought his total to 10
and Goslin hit his fourteenth.
AS announced previously, the up
per Fifth street gate in the northeast
corner Of the park is to be used by
Members of The Evening Star Boys
Club. Theboys are to use the seats In
Sections @, r, and T Of the upper
grandstand, and they are cautioned
again that no running around or
moving to other parts Of the stands
will be allowed.
The bandsmen will have the pick
of the seats in Section @; the rest Of
the choice positions will go to the
early Corners. The gate will be opened
several hours before the time set Tor
the start Of thes game.
The BOYS Club button is the only
| Identification necessary. But each boy
| must have his badge or go away
disappointed.
Twenty nine names were added to
the roll today They follow.
Loren Leonard Midland. Va.
Mike and John Broderick, 7Oi Upshuf
'' Harry Miller. Hyattsville. Nd.
Paul Rosenberg. SOC 7 street southwest
Burton Frank 426 Fifteenth street south.
Oscar oildenhorn. 44oQ Georgia avenue.
Aureiius and Eugene Battagha. ga 1rv'
David Freilicon, -e34 Columbia road.
Lester Jones, $40 Webster street.
6:sar Hines. Addison, ,ys; v .
Joe Sullivan. 411e FOURTH street
Andrew Murphy, 1921 street northeast.
Kenneth Foster. 1915 Thirty-thtrd street
Eiwood Taston, Gaithefsburs, Nd.
Jack Katz. 200 r street.
| Joseph Hurvitz sac / street southwest.
William Buckholtz. 46s I street south.
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FRENCH RACKETERS
TO SAIL TOMORROW

BY the Associated Press
PARIS. August 10.-Three mem
bers of Frances Davis Cup team are
leaving tomorrow for the United
States. more hopeful than ever be-
fore of bringing back the trophy
which stands for world supremacy
in lawn tennis team play.
Rene Lacoste, Henri Cochet and
JACQUES Brugnon are sailing on the
OLYMPIC from Cherbourg. The other
member of the team. Jean Borotra,
is detained here until next week by
business. The team will have non
playing captain in Pierre Gillou. an
official of the lawn tennis federation.
The players expect to remain III
the United States until the end OF
September. entering the national
championships in which Lacoste ana
Borotra will form one doubles com
bination and Cochet and BruEnon
another. The lineup for the Davis
CUP matches has not been decided.
All the PLAYERS are in fine condition
and have been practicing regularly.
I.ecoste said today he had COM
pletely recovered from the series OF
illnesses which followed his Winter
trip to the United States.
II think our chances are better this
year than ever before" he said. but
in opposing your Americans one can
only be hopeful, not confident. we
have only a week in which to prac-
tee before meeting the Japanese. but
that ought to be enough, for all of us
are in fine fettle.
Japan plays Cuba in the final
round of the American zone at Mon
treal. beginning August 10. The
winner comes against France. repre-
sentinG the European zone. The re-
suit of this meeting decides the chal-
lenger. to meet the United States,
holder of the cup. at Philadelphia,
September 8. 10. II.
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nc WdS.
If a boy who has been playing
guard on the foot ball team is dis
covered to be better quarter, then
he has wasted time playing at guard
when he might have been polishing
up at quarter.
There is a temptation, Of course,
for every boy to try to be an all
around star in track and field. A
boy would like to win the sprints, the
distance runs, the jumps and the
weights. Trouble is he hasn't the
strength to do all. The first few
events he contested in would get his
best efforts. In the others he wouldn't
be so good.
If you want to be 100-yard man.
the 50-yard sprint and the 220-yard
run won't hurt you. The 50-yard
sprint will make you a better starter:
perhaps, and the 220 will help you
gain a smooth stride. But longer
runs will wear you down. for the
sprints may seriously affect your
style. and generally unfit you for the
spirits.
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500 mark. But a victory over the
their return to Clark Griffith Stadiu
break for the entire campaign to dat
sent the champions below the $3.50 I
They dropped below 500 for the first
time after they we're licked by the
White Sox in Chicago on June IS.
They fell below that mark again after
a walloping by the Red Sox in Boston
on June 90. The third defeat at the
hands of the Tribe in the present
series also will send the Nationals
home with more losses than wins for
this trip. They came into Cleveland
with six victories in IL starts against
Western representatives. But with
only one game left to play before the
trip ended their record was, games
won, Z, games lost. 8.
This series has been a total failure
for George Burns, Indian first sacker.
who is shooting for the twohase hit
record made by iris Speaker, with SO
doubles socked in 1923. George has
not come through with a two baser
since the Champs came to town, and
he had expected to get the necessary
eight doubles for a. new record while
they were here.
Joe SewelI left the Indians lineup
after the first inning Sunday a sick
man-twas said But he was not so
sick yesterday. when he went back
to his shortstop position and handled
clearly seven difficult chances.
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John Tanning 4SS street southwest.
j.. Roland Clear. 424 Fifteenth street
southeast.
Isador Feinstein. $50 Sixth street SOUTH
west.
isador Keller. 400 J street southwest.
James Weldon. 1902 Seventh street south
west
Eugene Mothershead TOO + street south
west.
Vincent Ricucci. 70 New York avenue
NOrtheast
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NETMEN PLAYS 7 SETS
TO TAKE BOSTON TITLE

BOSTON. August 10 R.-Frank
LYONS. Boston College tennis cham
pion, had to play seven sets to cap
ture the city singles championship
today.
He defeated Leo Allen, 81, 6-3,
Is, in what was presumed to be the
final match. but Jack Davis, last
years winner, arrived at the courts
with the announcement that he had
not been notified of the tournament.
Davis demanded a chance to defend
his title. Lyons promptly took him
on and won, g., 7-5, 81, SIS.
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TERMINAL TEAMS PLAY
FOR RUNNER-UP HONORS

Pullman and Black and White Taxi
mines, deadlocked at 1-all in the post
season fight for the championship of
the Washington Terminal Y. NJ. c. A
Base Ball League. have postponed the
remainder Of their games until next
Monday to allow the play-off for sec
ond honors to get under way.
Southern Railway. runner-up for
the title in the first series, and Amer.
lean Railway Express, winner Of sec.
ond place in the final half, are meet.
ing in a five-game series for second
honors for the season. The first
game takes place today at 4:45.
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Doubeeadr With lanks Tomorrow
JUSTICE FANS" RUTH
FOR FISHLESS FISHING

BY the AssOC.ateu FrcsB.
DETROIT, August 1o.-George
Herman Ruth. the slugger. had three
strikes called on him yesterday with
out lifting his bat from his shoulders
when Caleb C61lett. Brighton, Mich
Justice of the peace. fined him $l5
for fishing N Michigan without IL
cense last June. Ruth paid $50, the
additional $35 being the fine against
his companion, Paddy Sexton. De
troit real estate man.
81 engineered the whole party,
Sexton told the court. And l
caught all the fish. Ruth isn't guilty.
He isn't a good enough fisherman"
II didn't catch any fish," quoth
Ruth. but 1 was fishing so I guess
I'm guilty"
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OGG LEADS FIELD.

WORCESTER, Mass, August 10
HD.-Willie Ogg, home professional,
with 148, led a field of 81 at the Wor-
cester Country Club in the New Eng
land qualifying round for the national
professional tournament. Other quail
ifiers were: George Aulbach, Arlemon.
$50: Aleck Simpson. Manchester,
Conn. ISL: Donald Vinton. Plymouth.
1874; George Macleod. Belmont. 1856;
Jack Staff, Hartford, 156.