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$50 TO lose by six pins to Mount Her
mon: Rook, Lanhardt and Fisher of
the latter team contributed games of
iZ", ~ and 127, respectively. in ac-
curing $50 total. The previous high
losing effort was that of Harmony.
which scored ga against La Fayette,
only 10 lose the contest by 81 pins.
Whiting continued it's winning streak
by adding six games during the week
Inc set against Pentalpha was I'M
usually close, Whiting taking the first
by one pin and the final after a roll-off.
Harding seems TO be unable to break
ITS long losing string. the last IS
games failing TO show a win. This is
the second occasion Harding has run
INTO an unfortunate streak. as Is
games went into the losing column in
succession just prior to the present
bad run.
Arthur II. Urban has been appoint
ed official scorer for the remainder Of
the schedule. relieving John p. Evans.
Other interests required the attention
OF the latter.
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PIN RECORDS MADE
BY MOUNT PLEASANT

Mount Pleasant NJ. r.. leader in
the North Washington Church Duck
pin League, broke TWO records LIS.
week, not only for this season but
for last season as well. This team
rolled a set of 1907 and game Of
513. The previous set record was
held by Columbia Heights Christian
with 1909, and high game record by
Emmanuel Baptist with J11. Mount
Pleasant also leads with total pins.
23.3l1 i'll IS games. and total spares
with 49,. Wallace Memorial leads i'll
strikes with 81.
Bell of Mount Pleasant also broke q
record for this and last season by roll
ing Il set of 395 the highest previous
set record being 500. held by. Illuge OF
Emory ilamm of Emory holds high
individual game for the season with
1J3
Al the end of the second round, cal
vary Withdrew its team and Bright
wood Park NJ T.. replaced ii.
Below will be found the individual
and team records for the As games
rolled up 10 and including January -:
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NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGI F..
Team Standings

With the veteran John Harvllle in
form. the King Pins increased their
lead over the logging Joseph philips
club to two full games by winning al
of their engagements from the Lin
woods Harville turned in a neat 402
set, missing a great chance to break
the league record of 400. which was
established the previous night by Jack
Whalen of the Phillips CLUB.
Despite this record performance,
the Dubois mana ged club was unable
TO win more than two games from n
Auth Provision Co. brother sausage
makers. Last seasons champion s
Youthful star made his record in an
unusual manner. After opening fire
with 144 game. he allowed himself
to slip. and the end of the second
l0-frame string found his mark 1903.
With all of the odds against him, he
turned in mark after mark, and the
tenth box found him leaving the 6
and pins standing following his first
ball He needed both to crown him
self with glory. while a miss would
have meant gloomy day. Urged on
by his teammates and opponents as
well, he picked each pin neatly from
the drives and placed Bailey's 4o6
count in the discard.
Capt. Phillips of the Belmonts dis
played fine craftsmanship when he
declared his set with the Mount Pleas
ants postponed after he learned that
his club would have to face "A much
weakened team. Rather than take
this advantage. and possibly gain on
the Joseph Phillips club. Phillips said
if fate decreed him TO win that he
wanted to beat the strongest opposi-
ton always.
In the other TWO sets rolled both
the Regulars and *. of c. tiveS made
clean sweeps of their series with the
Internal Revenue and Cyclone clubs
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PUBLIC DEBT GIRLS LEAGIE.

Registered Accounts jumped into
the fight for first place last week
by tax ing three games from Regis
tiers. Accounts, however, failed to
take advantage of the situation and
lost two of the three games with
the Securities team.
Accounts and Registers are tied
for first place in games won and
lost. but accounts has 21,542 pins for
a total to Registers 2l.234
Three players now average 80 or
more. Miss Prebe of the egister
by a 305 set pulled up to 50; Mrs.
Parker, Registered Accounts, retained
second place, with 95-l3, while Mrs.
Lohnes. Accounts, remained in first
place with $685..
Lila Hicks of Independents and Bea-
trice Finn of Correspondence. each
rolled 1913 game, high for the season
for each.
Rosa Fox and Helen Greenwell. both
of the Securities team, and Irene LIE
Gendre of Audit. all made new high
sets for themselves last week
The Securities team established high
game for the season, with fS3.
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EAST WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE.
Team Sfandinss

There We're a couple of setbacks
for teams in this league during the
past week. The Douglas team that
was pushing Ninth No. for first
honors was given a good drubbing
by Gorsuch, the latter taking the
entire set from its opponent.
Waugh also upset the dope by
taking Ninth No. . into camp for
three games.
Harry Streiter of Eastern has
finally forged TO the front and is
leading the league averages with Ill.
taking the lead from Ralph Andrews
of Ninth No. l, who now has 109.
Horner is tied with Ernest Ander-
son for high strikes. each having 81.
Al Souder leads in spares with l31
and also has high set of 800.
Seaton still holds high individual
game record with 1J9.
Ninth No. ] has high team game
with sos and high team set with
j .704.
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Records to Date.

hecOrds to Date.
High team ,set-La Fayette 100
H!gh team gane-La Fayette o.
halgh individual set-Rosenberg Gompers
high individual game-Rosenberg. Com
pers. 1850 . "o'''
The meek and lowly Federal Lodge
team sprang the biggest surprise of
the season by making a clean sweep
OF the set against the league leaders.
40-pin handicap deciding all three
, games. the first by eight and the final
by only two. The Federal bowlers
were not 10 he denied, as they rolled
splendidly. Doc Holmes. Benny Morris
and Jimmy Cox taking turns in spill
ing enough pins to decide.
Earlier in the week La Fayette
dropped the first to Dawson and then
TOOK the other two, rolling 627 game
In the final, which establishes a new
league season record. being 10 pins bet
ter than the earlier mark hung up by
he same team. Capt. Malcolm Watson
was the high gun with a set of
3e2, the best total of the week.
matched by Hal Supplee of Harmony
who started with SO game and then
! finished with tallieS of ISL and 13S
Harmony threatened to surpass the
new record recorded by La Fayette
turning in game of 622 against
Acacia. Every member of Harmony
registered good games, the scores
ranging from 1913 to 112. Washington
Centennial hung up a game of 615
count, climaXing a match in which a
clean sweep was made. Earlier in the
week this same team dropped three to
Parker, a 20-pin handicap telling.
Ollie Pratt of Joppa distinguished
himself by clicking off 156 pins, the
best individual effort of the week, in
the second game against French.
Oddly enough, it was in the only game
lost by Joppa.
Columbia, No 8. ran into a tough
break when they piled up a game of
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day he got off car ON Wisconsin ave
nue. and ran all the way across the
course to start a match in the Siamese
cup competition in time. Like most
youngsters who get somewhere in
golf, Fuller early showed a fondness
for the game and was always expert
menting with various strokes and
styles.
Now he has attained d particularly
free and pleasing style that gets him
great distance off the tee with a hook
at the end of his tee shot that gives
the ball the run which means added
distance. His putting style is peculiar
but very effective. When he addresses
the bali the toe Of his putter is raised
off the green, and only the heel
touches the grass. With this unortho-
dox method. however, he is very sue
cessful, standing out as one of the
finest putters about the city. His
success on the green is ably backed
up by fine control of the intermediate
game, for Fuller is also one OF the
leading opponents Of mashie play
around Washington.
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individual sets ever rolled in league
competition in this city.
He started with 1873 which also
established high individual game for
the season. rolled l43 in his second
effort and finished 1871
But for bad splits in the last three
boxes of his third game, Earl un-
doubtedly would have established d
new District record.
lakewood Printing 60. contributed
high team game of the week with $50.
while Judd & Detweiler rolled the best
team set ,591.
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reported from Australia that no teaIi.
would be sent here until 1927. and
now according to AustraI. this much
is practically certain. Australia viii
not SEND a team TO America till one is
sent there "
According to Austral. all the enthu-
SldSIS OF the country are disguise
with the decision Of the American As
soclatlon over not sending a team la
Australia in the coming wear. 1t is bv
Tar the kindest thing we can do TO the
United States Of America Association
10 say this outright, without beating
about the bush. We are not going 10
forget how much they have done for
the game: but Australia deserves some
thlng also. Quite apart from that. till
We get some more money we cannot
AFFORD 10 send teams abroad and con
tests against America would have
given US that money"
The writer also makes the state
ment that Australia could have gor
more money il the Davis Cup finals
had been played at Forest Hills IL
stead OF Philadelphia
This last statement comedies with
that OF Manager Hawkes.. who sal
last Summer during the inter-zone
match with France at the West Side
Tennis club that the interZone profit :
were greater AT L crest HIS than tleN
had been at Boston for the year be
fore. Australia did not play in the
challenge round last year for the frs
time since 1921. when Japan met tlt.-
United States, and of course this cos
the country a considerable sum ~
money. In 1924 the challenge round
was moved 10 the Germantown Crickef
Club and the national championship
brought to Forest Hills instead. This
was according to the arrangement
made by the United States Lawn Ten
mis- Association with the West Sid
Club in financing the cost of the new
concrete stadium at the West Sid
Tennis Club.
Ausrral takes the United State
Lawn Tennis Association to task To-
having gone back on its promises Ia
send out a team this year whethei
Australia won or lost in the Davis
Cup. That is a sad state Of affairs
considering how readily Australia has
responded To the Davis Cup respon
Sibilities. Failure here means that tn
authorities must organize fitting pro
grams for the leading centers in which
the best Australian talent will be en
gagged He then tells of plan l."
bold matches in the leading Australian
CenterS between ranking stars
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journal Takes Like Stand.

In the same issue of the Referee
story of the same tenor appears ON
the front page in which the United
States Is declared 10 have repudiat ted
its promise TO send a tennis team t.
that country The United state
Lawn Tennis Association has repu
dated its promise" states the article
THAT is what its refusal TO organize
a team TO visit Australia means. nov
that the Davis Cup matches again
have been won by its representatives
The promise was definitely made. and
il was interpreted on this side Of the
world as an appreciation of the 70
peated visits to America of the Davis
Cup team at great expense TO thu
Australian Association and personal
inconvenience 10 the players who IN
dertook the trips"
1t is known that some OF the players
who have represented Australia have
made the trip to the United States n
a sacrifice to their business interests
though there have been ADVANTAGES
TO balance this loss.
The writer states that Australia has
been a fairy godmother TO other coun
tries in different branches Of sport
She sends her sons land daughters
abroad he states. lat her own eN
penSe. These sporting representative
are invariably attractive drawing
cards at big functions in other lands
and thus help TO build up the finances
of sport there. But. unfortunately. no
fitting reciprocal spirit is shown 10y
the other side. The controlling minds
in Australian lawn tennis, in sendinG
abroad the teams in the future. oughl
to consider the value of dispatchiug
an official representative. armed with
power to make arrangements of :,
giye-and-take character for return
matches in Australia Evidently the
competitors in different sports AMI
games who travel abroad are not alb.
to achieve this desirable end And as
Australia dearly needs the stimulus
of international competition. rivah,
and exemplars, it is to be hoped fresn
ground will be broken in aiming al
this objective"
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DEMPSEY WILL GET HIS.

TAMPA, Fla. January 80 Up
Probably for the first time in MANY
years the public will not have to paw
to see Jack Dempsey fight He will
give slx-round bout here Wednesday
Tree or charge 10 the public. OF course.
Dempsey will get his money. but this
time it is coming from a realty or
ganiZation.
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written an interesting series of
memoirs covering more than TWO dec
AIDES of title competition. Coming
from such an authority as TraverS,
regarded as one of the few really great
golfers of the world, the "reminiscences
probably will meet with II sympathetic
reception from golfers generally for
their very authority is proof of heir
quality.
Even though in his first article,
Travers dropped into repetitive allit-
erative terms, alluding to the ''croon
of the cleek." the music of the
mashte, and other word pictures, his
words carry with them the true har-
mony of a game based entirely on
rhythm of stroke and mind. They are
most interesting contributions TO cur
rent discussion of the game Of golf of
today and over the last TWO decades.
Max Beck. steward ut the Washing
ton Golf and Country club. is in Ger
many visiting relatives, and will re
turn TO the city late this month
Beck Will come back to u different club
from that he left for interior decor;t-
tors have been busy transforming the
clubhouse into a much handsomel'
place.
are laughing at the discontinue OF
one of the best players of the club
who was the victim of bit of sharp
thinking. This man. who is really Al
fine player, and d long hitter. had
been in "A slump lasting over several
weeks. Almost invariably playing in a
iour-ban match. he and his partner
lost, and as sometimes hapenS he
Srumbled at the lack of skill of his
partner, admittedly not so good Il
golfer himself. His grumbling got
on the nerves of the partner. who de
termlned to stop II. and one day after
the pair had been defeated and bit
of good natured kidding" was going
on in the locker room to the accom-
paniment of complaints that he got
no help" the much maligned partner
produced The score cards of the
matches IN which the pair had en-
gagged.
The cards showed the partner had
won more holes during the period
under discussion than the good play
er himself and he was quoted to the
tune of much 'raZZine -
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SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
! AS RIVAL FOR BRITISHER
One of Few Linhsmen in World Who Has Defeated
f. English PROFESSIONAL Whom He Conquered
at Columbia Club Here in 1921.
BY WALTER K. McCALEUM.

all the discussion regarding the probable
| O Abc a
OF seldom
the Yet
in a
cial he Il to
penaC on
Diegelv ats
that the Friendship
hole by
His card for the
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X. P. BOWLERS LED
BY COLUMBIA NO. I

Columbia No. ! team again went
to the front in the knights of Pythias
Bowling League last week when it
took the odd game from Capital, with
which it had been tied for first place.
Calanthe and Webster No. teams
that won the ma jority of their games
during the week still are deadlocked
in third place.
In the match between Calanthe and
Webster No. | team. De Glantz, roll.
in lead position for Calanthe, set
a new league mark for the season
with a set of 405. The best previous
mark was 1874, held by his teammate,
Gilbert.
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The Australian Association looked
forward to the coming Of the Ameri-
can team as providing the means for
the sending of combinations to this
country to challenge for the cup. The
treasury of the association has been
exhausted through the heavy expenses
incurred in sending teams to the
United States for the last five years.
Last Summer John y. Hawkes.. man
ager of the team, stated that his cOun-
try would not challenge in 1926 be
cause of lack Of funds. Later it was
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High team game-Legal. $50.
High team set-LeFal. 500.
High individual game--Stoner. Legal. 152.
High individual set--Stoner and Roberts.
Legal, 372.
High spares-Stoner. Legal 90.
High strikes-Roberts Legal. 20.
High individual average-Stoner, Legal.
INl 81.
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gel I'm Running Mitchell Match Australian Rackete1s Nele s.
LEGAL QUINT LEADS
SHIP BOARD ROLLERS

Legal and Reconciliation teams are
staging a merry race for first place
in the Shipping Board Bowling
League. At present the Legal quint
leads with a two-game advantage
over the Reconciliation outfit. League
statistics follow:
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AS is often the case. it remained
for the Iowly Friendship team to whip
the strong Mount Pleasant aggrega-
ton Undoubtedly Friendship heart
lily enjoyed taking two games from
the league leaders. Despite the fact
that his team was the losing end.
Earl Steele furnished the best rolling
of last week when he ran up a total
Of $50, having games of ll3. ~ and
145. His teammate, c. II. Croft. also
was in good form. smear1ng the
NAPLES TO the tune of 1913.
The Mount Pleasant total FOR the
three games was l .5G4. which would
ordinarily have taken the entire set.
but Friendship was not to be denied
and. encouraged by handicap of 80
pins per game. each man on the team
stepped out and rolled above his
averag e. Johnson being the best per
former.
Amity won two games from Har-
mony. due largely 10 the excellent
rolling of Ward, whose l2S and 120
second and third games aided ma
terially Wards set was 34S. Baker
rolled well for the losers.
Central was awarded the first two
games by forfeit, Brishtwood failing
to place a team on the field until the
third game which it also lost.
The Golden RuleSalem contest was
postponed.
Covenant won the odd game from
Columbia with SiSlen Of the former
team turning in the best total.
Murphy rolled we'll for the losers.
A good duckpin match was the re-
suit of the Eastern-F Fred ID. Stuart
set-to, with Eastern turning in its
best set of the season / sos. and win
ming two games. Lund. captain of
the winners. boosted his average con
siderably with games of 1914. 102 and
$40 for q BAG total. Loeffier. anchor
man for the winners, took the high
game honOrS with 1871
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Records.
High Individual average-Kluge. Emory.
lOS-1.
Second high individual average-Riggles
Calvary and wallace 101-
Third high individual aveage-Ashtord.
Mount Pleasant, 106-27.
Highest number strikes-White. wal
lace. %
Highest number spares-lsrael. Mount
Pleasant 80.
Highest Individual game-Hamm. Emory
1913.
Highest individual set--Bell. Mount Pleas
ant. 1875.
Highest team set-Mount Pleasant. 30
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FAWSETT is LEADER.
OF D.C.TRAPSHOOTERS

&. {. Fawsett. j.. =. Williams and
T.. ID. Morgan were the leading marks
men of the Washington Gun Club in
registered shoots during the past year,
according To figures made public by
The Amateur Trapshooting Associa-
ton.
tawsett scored ,066 breaks in i $50
taSsets for an average OF 1858. viii
liaXs' mark was 1888 and Morgan S
SPA
Dr. A T.. slime. w. r. Burrows
+. =. Liyesey. George y. Emmons.
DR.. ]. G. WynkoOp, DR.. w. u. Mon
roe and DR.. A. Y. Parsons follow in
order.
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OUR CLUB CHAMPIONS
Chevy Chase-C. Ashmead Fuller.

assessor the finest about the Capital
the who have gotten the 70mak his
difficult Ashmead Fuller who the holder of the Chevy
of the the Fuller
the other
missed going through the larger
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PETWORTH BAPTIS'
WALLACE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN,
IMMANUEL BAPTIST

MEMPHIS, Tenn, January 80 Up.
Ray Moss. right-hand pitcher OF
the Brooklyn Nationals. said here
he considered the contract rendered
him by the Robins satisfactory and
that he would sign it and report ut
clearwater. Fla. February -.
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League statistics follow

Records to January 81.
High individual gank-Gilbert. Calanthe
l1:i.
394.
High team game-Calanthe. o91.
High team set-Columbia No. l. go.
High fiat game-Koch, Capital 95.
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YANKS FAILURE TO VISIT
ANTIPODES CAUSES BREAK
Will Not Send Davis Cup Team Here Until America
Sends One There-lnternationa Play Needed
to Replenish Tennis Treasury

Australian Davis
VI until this TO the
made by Au the leading coun
the Sydney Referee.
This which will
that the international
the United Tennis
American will be Australia his Winter -
TO send
disappointment Australia
L. s l. T. A approved the
But
players make the long the project W.
dropped with - ~ P'0'Not ""
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TYPOTHETAE LEAGUE.
Team Standings.

McPhilomy, anchor man of Stan
ford Paper Co., topped his many bril-
liant efforts with a AIT set last week.
This Of course is high for the league
and incidentally one of, the highest
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ODD FELLOWS LEAGt Z
Record Performance

Record PERFORMANCES.
High team game-Mount Pleasant. $50.
Uirh Individual rance H Croft. 1855.
High individual set-P. Elicit, 300.
High individual avcrage-HarvilIe. llo--'
Greatest sDares-HarVIlle. 12s.
GreIfasf STR ikrs-I .nnd. u
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Georges Carpenter won the hantaIfl-
weight crown OF France at the age
OF u.
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WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE.


Running true to form, the first nv
teams all made cleanups in thei
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Detailing the competitive exp

DefaIllng the competitive expert
snces of one of the outstanding golf
ers of all time, the only man to win
'he amateur championship of the
United States four times, Jerome d.
irravers, the iron nerved man of New
Jersey. who was the second amateur
tc y.il the oren championship. has
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Jones and Gum are campaigning in
the South this Winter. sharpening of
the game in preparation for the big
test to come in the Spring. But
Roland Mackenzie cannot practice.
His father hopes he will arrive in
England in time to get two weeks
practice George Won Elm, living in
a climate of perpetual balmy
Weather. has ample opportunity to
keep his game right. The others. Out
nlent. Gardner. Guilford and Sweet
cor must trust to the WorklnS-out
process they will get before the
matches and what little practice they
can get this Winter.