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TILDEN SAYS FRENCHMEN
WILL BE HARD TO DEFEAT
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, July 12.-Home
from a two.month tour of Eu.
VI rope, William r. Tilden is
L thoroughly convinced that
Frances tennis stars are
going to be harder than ever to beat
in the Davis cup challenge round He
has a wholesome respect for Rene
Lacoste, Jean Borotra and Henri
Cochet, declaring that their game is
sounder and more aggressive than in
1926.
''One thing / learned abroad" the
former champion said after his@ ar
rival with his partner, Francis r.
Hunter, and other members of the
American party, lis that the French
are just as apt to defeat us as we are
to defeat them. AS for America s
chances, much depends upon Bill
Johnston"
Offers No Alibi.
Offering no alibi for his defeat by
Cochet at Wimbledon. the Philadel-
phian said he was unable to explain
the reverse that turned the sensa-
tional match from rout for his OPP
ponent to a Cochet triumph.
Discussing the Three Musketeers"
of French tennis, Tilden said that
Cochet is best at the top. La Coste
the best day by day and Borotra the
fiashiest.
II am in better condition now than
l was last year." Tilden said. THAT
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WILLS AND UzCUDUN
TO BATTLE TONIGHT

NEW YORK, July 13-Once the
most featured boxer in the heavy
weight division, Harry Wills, the
Brown Panther of New Orleans. will
try to turn back the years tonight in
his 15-round fight with Pauline Uz-
cudun, Pyrenees giant. at Ebbett
Field. 49, ..,-... ---=. .---
The crafty negro. now a prosperous
resident of New York's Harlem dis
trict, is pitted against one of the
strongest men in the boxing game.
Uzcudun's ability to assimilate pun
ishment has been demonstrated, and
although he throws" most of his
punches, he Is dangerous hurdle in
the path of Wills comeback attempt.
After II years in the ring, Wills.
long the logical contender for title
at which he never got a chance. is
slight favorite over his youthful
opponent. The Spanish woodchopper
has been dropped, temporarily at
weight program. Wills, after his
beating last year by Jack Sharkey,
passed completely out of titular con-
sideration.
Wills has nothing to gain in vic
tory. but Pauline can command re-
spect in the event he beats the negro
even though Harry has gone back a
long way.
Wills will have the advantage of 10
pounds in weight, inches in reach
and inches in height.
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Learned i'm Tunney Battle.

Jack Dempsey has learned his les
son from the Tunney fight. He will
tell YOU himself that he did not fight
his battle. Naturally we know that
Tunney had a great deal to do with
deciding Jacks battle for him when
he got him in the ring, but Dempsey
and his followers will point to that
famous fourth round and tell YOU that
if Dempsey had fought that way from
the first round the result would have
been different.
This explains Dempsey's method of
raining-working hard one day and
then resting so as to recoup his
vitality and store up energy. \ man
who trains this way will be in per-
feet condition for one great big effort
and that's all Dempsey wants. It's
like lifting some enormous weight
it takes a big effort and Il man
doesn't have to he in condition.
mean perfect condition for a long hard
grind--in order to put forth his best
effort for a short period.
What I'm trying to convey is that
Dempsey can, if he will. go in there
right now and for, say. three or four
rounds so at top speed before blow
ing up" Dempsey doesn't believe
there is a man in the world who can
stand before him that long If he gets
going right. No man ever did when he
was going what he calls right" and
he doesn't think Sharkey will prove
the exception.
The present plan is for hard work
today, and then more rest tomorrow
and Friday. Now I'm going to New
York to give Sharkey a few 200-pound
looks.
Copyright 1927
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SHARKEY NOT MINIMIZING
DEMPSEY AS AN OPPONENT
Respects Punching Power of Former Champion and
Is Not Neglecting Training-Favors New York
for Fight If He Meets Gene Tunney.

Muldoon, and that was the match
that established me as worthy chal-
lenger for the big title. On top of
this, since | have started TO train in
Madison Square Garden, the encour-
agement of the public has been some.
thing that l cannot help but appre-
ciate.
So taking everything together.
Buckley and I have decided that we
owe New York great deal and we
have decided that we will not sign
for the match with Tunney unless the
bout is staged in New York. It NAV
be that our end would be worth more
money If the match was carried to
ehlcago or Philadelphia, but money
doesn mean everything to us.
Not Undertaking Dempsey.
But first, of course, I'll have to
come through with Dempsey. and if
any one gets the idea that because I
am confident of my ability to win,
that l think my job Is a soft one, then
they are vastly mistaken. I don't
care what they tell me about Jack
having slowed up. I know that he
mas taken care Of himself and that he
still carries real kick in either hand,
And while he has that ANYBODY who
Climbs into the ring with him will he
taking chance.
fou don't see me laying down on
tne Jop OF getting in shape, do YOU?
ell the way | am working ought to
he good tip-off as to how soft 7
think. fighting Jack Dempsey is. The
soreness has all been worked out of
my muscles. A soreness that always
comes to every boxer when he starts
training. and yesterday 1 started TO
cut loose bit. tuned up a bit on
straight left and my right uppercrt
boxed six rounds, two each. with
Johnny Urban and Leo Gates. and ono
each with Marco Polo and Rocky
stone. | think / have great sparrinf-
partners and that they give me real
workout.
Mike McTigue and Jack Britton
cropped In to see me and said some
nice things, and l thought myself
mat my work was very satisfactory.
But ! regret to say I failed 20 satisfy
one critic. For the first time Mrs.
Sharkey was among those present. II
was the missus that found fault with
some of my stuff.
Mrs. Sharkey has only seen me In
action once and will not look on when
| tackle Dempsey. Asa matter of
fact | don't think she knows a. thing
about this business, but YOU can het
that / amt telling her so, At that
she has some wonderful lunches and
the few boxing bouts she has ever
witnessed she always seems T., pick
the winners. | don't know how she
does 1t. So | am going to pay serious
attention to the things she pointed
out.
downright. 1877
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

siege of work at the staff school at
Fort Leayenworth, Kans.
Shirley Povich, sports editor Of the
washington Post. won the coveted
mug-wlth score of S0-S-72. BRYAN.
with his scintiIlating 9 at the last
hole, went into a tie for second place
with Walter T. Haight of the Post,
both with net scores of 20. Two
others. including Harry Fry Of The
Star. previous winner, were but a
shot back at "A.
Capt. Cleland was presented by the
sport writer's with handsome travel.
ing bag. Certificates of honorary
membership in the barracks course
will be presented to Denman Thomp-
son. sports editor of The Star; Povich
of the Post, Kirk Miller, sports major
domo of the Times, and Roddy
Thomas of the Herald, Heinie Miller
and Norman Baxter.
Scores made in the tourney follow:
Shirley Povich. Post, SO-S-72.
r. E. Bryan. Times. 7S-5-73.
Walter I. Haight, Post, S4-11-73.
Roddy Thomas. Herald, S1-7-74.
Harry Fry, Star. SS-14-74.
Frank CrOnan, News, S4-9-76.
w. Fl. Hotel. Star, S3-S-75.
Heinle Miller, our Navy, 93-14-79.
Henry T. Rodier. Bulletin, 90-7-S3,
Denman Thompson, Star, 94-11-
So
Norman w. Baxter, Post, 1904
S.
Richard Tennyson, Post mine holes),
52-12-40.
Bryan was out in 81 and promised
to at least equal his score of the first
nine until he ran into his fulIsome
final hole, taking fl for the last nine.
Many Washington players are PLAN
ming to compete in the Summer tour
nament of the new Maryland Country
Club. near Pimlico in Baltimore, to
start week from today over the
course on Park Heights avenue.
George j. Voigt won the tourney last
year.
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UZCUDUN.
SHARkEY TO DEPEND
ON YOUTH AND SPEED
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Pfess
NEW YORK, July 13.-Jack
Sharkey may have his fighting faults,
but he is young and very fast for
big man, and these two assets, a
group of boxers have concluded after
watching the eX-Gob in his training
sessions, ought to carry him to vic
tory against Jack Dempsey at the
Yankee Stadium, one week from to-
morrow.
Mike McTigue. Jack Britton, Phila-
delphia Jack O'Brien, Soldier Bart
field, Jim Montgomery and others
who speak of the fight game from
experience have seen Sharkey in his
sparring antics and have named him
the favorite. All took in Sharkey's
workout yesterday, and while none
cared to take a side in the forthcom-
ing heavyweight issue, each saw
Sharkey's youth, strength and clever
ness as winning factors.
Sharkey's program yesterday lack
ed the fire and dash of the previous
day. Some of his partners made him
look bad by sidestepping his rushes
and landing often. Occasiona lily.
however, he would block a series of
blows with ease and then tap his OPP
ponents with snappy rigl . uppercuts
ana snort lefts. He was not punch.
Ing especially hard and 1t was Ap.
parent he was saving his partners
punishment to work for timing.
Tex Richard announce that the
advance sale for the fight Is near the
100000 mark.
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By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ II. ANDREWS, Scotland, July
13.-Any one of four Ameri-
cans-Bobby Jones, Bill Mehl-
- horn, Jim Barnes and Joe
kirkwood, among eight en-
trants from the United States and
an even 100 others, who qualified for
the British open-figures as a likely
winner of the golf championship now
in Jones possession, and which
Americans before him have held five
times in the past six years.
That was the opinion of British
golfers who at the close of 36 holes
of the weedins-out process were
searching the qualifying lists for
man to restore the British champion
ship to it's native land.
Besides the quartet of crack Amer
leans whom the British fear most
there is a reserve Of four more from
the United States to halt any am
bilious English assault.
This group is comprised of Larry
Nabhollz, John G.. Anderson. Walter
kennett and Tom Stevens. Nabholtz
attracted so much attention yesterday,
chiefly by his long. accurate driving.
hat he is ranked by many experts
close to the American big four"
Jones after a fine II yesterday re-
NAMED the outstanding favorite.
Mehlhorn added his second 70 today
for 1916, one stroke better than
Jones, and led the American con-
tingent.
There are number of famous
names in British golf missing from
the starting list in the championship
flight George Duncan, for instance.
who holds the st. Andrews course
record with a 6S, and who all last
week in practice was shooting within
Il stroke or two nf that figure, will
not he there, for he took four puts
on the first green, three shots in a
bunker at the second, and altogether
too many at other places for a days
total of 81 and an agGASgate of 1862.
Roger Wethered. another golf per
sonality carrying British hopes, pass
~ cut " it'll a 1851.
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RY O. Il. KELLER.

When the stories of ties in major
open golf championships are told,
you may be sure that the story of
1925 will not be overlooked, for it
was in that famous tie between
Bobby Jones. amateur, and Willie
Macfarlane, the bespectacled Tuck
ahoe professional, that SO holes
were required for the first time in
American golf to settle an open
championship that was all square
at the completion of II holes.
In Britain the play.off is pre-
scribed as SO holes: and we all re-
member The last tic experienced
there, when the tall young anna
teur Roger Wethered finished
level with Jock Hutchinson on Jock s
original home course, the classic
st. Andrews, where the British
open was played again this year.
That was in 1921, and Wethered
playing edrlier than Jock, would
have won the title, but for stepping
on his ball while backing toward it
after lining up his shot to the
seventeenth green and mourning a
penalty stroke. Jock was left with
20 to tie. And he shot the 70
and won the .play-off
At Worcester In 1925 Jones came
with rush after terrible start,
A round of Is, and went from
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for the tall. pedagogical profes
sionai, when he touched off a deuce
on the tenth green, and another ,
at the thirteenth. where Bobby took
a bad 1: and when Bobby. trying
with n mistaken ambition to get
home in , on the long, dogleg fif-
teenth, lost his last stroke and was
square, / began to see the hand
writing on the wall.
/ shall always regard Willie Mac
farlane's finishing nine holes at
Worcester in the play-off at 1925
as one of the grandest feats of golf
ever accomplished.
This thing is getting redicu-
lous." said Bobby to me, waiting
for Willie to play his second to the
thirty-fifth green, the pair still
square after 106 holes. l said yes,
it looked like going another round.
No" said Bobby decisively. 1T
will be settled, one way or another,
this round"'
And at the final hole he tried a
desperately close pitch to hit at
the front Of the small green and
roll UP by the hole, after Willie
was well on, but 40 feet past the
pin. The pitch was two feet short.
The ball rolled back into a deep
bunker Willie won great and
deserved victory. in 10S notes.-the
longest American open champion.
shin.
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4 RESIDENT II. A. Brooks of the
Manor Club will present the
prizes won by the competitors
in the recent womens cham

AthE|SAJEN H. "A. bfOOkS or the
- Manor Club will present the
prizes won by the competitors
in the recent womens cham
pionship of the club at the close
of the tourney of the Women's Dis
trict Golf Association tomorrow at
the club.
During the course of the tourney at
the Town and Country Club on Mon
day the Women's District Golf Asso.
citation was invited to- play in a tour
ney tomorrow at Manor. Most
of the women accepted. Prizes will be
presented by Brooks to Mrs. Fl. r.
Hlrd. wife of COmdr H. B. Hird. who
won the women's title. and to Mrs. II
b. Leary. jr., runner-up. The prizes
have been kept a secret until the for.
NAL presentation.
Manor will have two entries In the
Father and Son tournament being pro.
NOTED by Jim Preston. one-time ma ior-
domo of the Newspaper Golf Club.
other entries in the event from the
several clubs about Washington are
expected to bring the entry list up to
more than 80 pairs Comdr. Hird and
ms son. Robert G. Hird, and Russell r.
Edwards and his son. Burke, are to
enter from the Manor Club.
Members of the Indian Spring Golf
Gun will compete over the week end
III four-ball foursome tournament.
with club handicaps.
All he needed was n : on the ass.
yard par ninth hole to win the
tournament and the priced Cleland
trophy. But Il. L. Bryan of the Times
put too much body into a crashing
tee shot hooking it far over the sea
wall into the Washington Channel. He
repeated the stunt and the third time
he hit one far and straight. still with
plenty of chance to annex I and
win. But he topped his fourth shot,
his fifth went over the green. he
finally reached the putting carpet in
six and took three puts for a Q.
That is the reason Bryan is not today
the holder of the tin mug that be-
speaks accuracy and courage over the
Washington Barracks course. where a
group of sports writer's on the Wash.
ington papers gathered yesterday to
do honor to Capt. John r. ID. Cleland.
who is leaving Washington for a
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C0L0RED CLUBS MAKE
DEBUT AT ST. ANDREWS

ST. ANDREWS. Scotland, July IS
R.-Anconeus Dell, entrant in the
British open championship, is at
tempting to add to the gayety of golf
with colored clubs.
Dell appeared at the historic first
tee at st. Andrews with set of varie-
gated clubs, the heads painted yellow
and the shafts blue and red. He calls
for his clubs by their colors.
Dell is something of a golf1ng
footed swing. and explained that he
entered the championship to deter
mine what is the matter with golf and
why it is that Americans make low
scores and win championships. He
had an s..
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thirty.sixth place to tenth, then to
fourth. then to a tie in first place
with Willie Macfarlane.
Sunday morning they started the
play-off, and Willie gave an exam
pie of what he might accomplish
by holing putt of 20 feet-I paced
it off--for a birdie on the third
hole. He got Bobby down, in fact.
and Bobby got great break when
he sank 50-yard pitch for birdie
after two loose shots and picked
up stroke at No. IA. That tied
for the first round, as Willie, sink
ing his long puts with amazing
regularity. missed siX-footer for
the title at the home green.
/ spent the intermission between
rounds in Bobby's room and we
agreed that the providentiai break
almost the first Bobby ever had
had in a major competition-had
given him another chance at the
championship. When they started
the afternoon round, in blazing
temperature. about o'clock,
heard Bobby say TO Willie:
THE papers say it's los in the
shade"
Willie replied:
Well, it's lucky we don't have
to stay in the shade.''
And Bobby went on in beautiful
golf TO turn 4 strokes up on Willie,
and / was beginning to be sorry
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Retired Lightweight Champion of the World.
Wv YHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
n 1 Saratoga Lake, \. Y, July
wv 13.--Jack Dempsey varied
his training by emulatinc
a deep sea diver up at Lake
George today. We all piled into auto
mobiles and went up to the lake to
see the former champion start the
marathon swim there. When Jack
arrived at the starting point the mop
stormed the little dock to greet INN
and the fiimsy thing collapsed Inc
water was very shallow ut this point,
only a foot or so deep, and there were
no casualties, except that Leo +.
Flynn, who had on a cream -colored
creation that he insisted was direct
from Paris, but whichAbore striking
resemblance to the ones you see in the
''ready.made" windows in New York.
sustained "streaks in the trousers
and what one of the literary chaps
diagnosed as general dishabliment.'
1t was a great sight, hut Flynn cut
loose with a squawk which for virility.
volume and lasting power breaks all
records heretofore held by himself
and he's the worlds champion
guuawker.
OF course, there was Il mad scram-
Bile for shore. hut in the thick of the
excitement Dempsey noticed woman
who seemed to be having some diff.
Guilty in keeping her feet, He prompt
ly went to her assistance and. picking
her up, carried her to dry land.
Dempsey Keeps His Head.
think some of the boys are going
TO call it a thrilling rescue, but /
only mention it because it demon.
strates to me one thing. that has, or
may have. a bearing on the coming
contest with Jack Sharkey. That is.
Dempsey keeps his head" in an ex-
citing emergency. The action today
showed that he thinks quickly and
acts promptly. He was not the least
bit excited or clustered by the occur
ence, and although he was nattily
dressed, h gave little apparent heed
to his predicament.
Situations will suddenly arise in
the coming battle with Sharkey where
this GOODNESS and speed in action will
stand the former champion in good
stead.
Dempsey expects to carry swift,
sustained attack to Sharkey right
from the start. / believe that Demp-
sey and Flynn both are planning to
make the battle a short, cyclonic
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Dempsey Likely Depend Punch Alone Forthcoming Battle With Sha
Fights Last Night


By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO.-Sergt. Sammy Baker
New York. knocked out Mushy Gala
han. Los Angeles. Junior welter.
weight champion 81. Fidel Labarba.
Los Angeles. f1yweight champion. de-
feated Pal Moore, Memphis 40. mon
title). Stanislaus Loayza, Chile, de-
feated Sput Myers, Pocatello n0l
1gnacio Fernandez, Philippines, beat
Joe Lucas, Detroit 10).
NEW YORk.-Hilaro Martinez.
Spain, defeated Jack Civic. Pittsburgh
nM. Monte Mum, Nebraska. knocked
out Dan Bright. England 81. Joe
Click, New York, defeated Frank
Fink, Texas 1W.
SCRANTON, pa.-~Bud Cicerone,
Wilkes-Barre, defeated Pete Petrolle,
Fargo, n. Oak. (6l.
DENVER.--1rish Mickey Gill, Los
Angeles, and Joey Rychel1. Chicago,
drew 00).
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TREASURY RACKETERS
BEAT POST OFFICE-STATE

Post Office-State netmen put UP a
valiant fight before bowling to Treas
ury yesterday in a Departmental
League match. to 3.
The high spot was the match in
which Charest and Purinton of Treas
ury conquered Fowler and Considine,
e. 6-3. 6-3
Other summaries:
STAN and Baylies (T) defeated Byrne
and Crews Go, 6-3: Newly and Clayton
tP.) defeated Clark and Dowd 6---3. Sc
Mcncure and Gable tP.l defeated Polk and
Dawson SIS. e.. ct: Coe and Gardner
60.
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FRANCE MAKES A SWEEP
IN DAVIS CUP SERIES

EASTBOURNE. England, July 10
R.-F'rance made a clean sweep of
her Davis Cup tennis semi-finals
matches with South Africa, the French
players taking two singles after al.
ready having captured the three pre-.
ceding matches.
Rene Lacoste defeated Jack Condor,
7--5. 6-3, 6--1, while Jacques Brug.
non defeated p. d. B. Spence, CO,
6-3, Cd.
France will now meet Denmark In
the finals OF the. European zone elm
ination competition.
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BY JACK SH.ARkEY.

n YEW YORK, July 13.-There is
~ something ] would like to get
" off my chest, May be it would
l. he hest left unsaid until after
my meeting with Jack Demp-
sey one week from tomorrow night.
but these things leak out. and [ would
like to have it come from me in my
own way. Anyway. my manager,
Johnny Buckley, and l had an inn
portant meeting last night, and this
is something that we decided on that
may he of interest.
IL | beat Dempsey, then Buckley
and l are going TO insist that the
fight for the title must be fought
right here in New York. And these
are our easons:
| owe a lot to New York and the
New York Boxing Commission and /
want to show my loyalty in every
way possible, This town has been
wonderful to me. 1t was not until
New York had put it's stamp of ap.
prevail on my work that | really was
given any sort of recognition by the
world at large.
OF course, Boston must he excepted
| had my admirers up there, but this
is not to be wondered at, since it hap.
pens that ] live there. And even up
III Boston, for long time they we're
much stronger for Jimmy MaIoney
than they were for me- But the one
thing that / will never forget so far
as my boxing career is connected
with New York, Is the way I was
treated by Mcssrs. Farley, Muldoon
and Brewer after my match with
Eddie Huffman.
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and Usage girls. and I saw many In
dian girls with Eastern and European
educations, dressed in Paris and Fifth
avenue clothes, enjoying country club
life.
There are pretty girls in London,
but not in such numbers as in Amer.
lea, where ziegfeld doesn't have one.
half of l per cent of the beauty Of
the land
Copyright. 1927
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MANDELL GOES ON VIEW.

DETROIT. July IS O).-Sammy Man.
dell, lightweight champion. changed
his mind last night to climb into the
ring with a pair of overstuffed gloves
to box one round for the benefit of
his admirers. Mandell enters the ring
at the University of Detroit Stadium
Friday to defend his title from Phil
McGraw, Detroit Greek But Man
dells manager allowed him only a
light workout to keep his muscles
looSened up.