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Evening star., 1927-04-21

raj of the D. A. r. from Tennessee,
who sponsored the resolution.
"As secretary Of the Washington
Chapter of the American Association
for the Advancement of Atheism,
wrote Irvine, Il hereby denounce the
efforts of your organization to force
Bible reading in the public schools.
sit is an anachronism of the TWEEN
tieth century that supposedly intelh-
gent women should engage in at
tempts to pump silly, stupid and
obsolete superstitions into the brains
of the children of the United States.
"Why don't you try to teach facts
instead of foolishness-science instead
of theology?
1.-THE A. A. A. A., led by such great
American atheists as Bishop William
Montgomery Brown, E. Baldwin julius,
Charles Smith, Freeman Hopwood,
Linn A. Z. Gale and Stanley Clark,
accepts the challenge of organized
bigotry. and will wage increasing war
fare against your efforts to poison the
minds of young Americans.
State Reports Read.
Carrying out long established d.
A. r. precedent-the reading of State
reports in order of progression, Wyo-
ming coming first this year-the
congress at the afternoon session lis
tened attentively to the State regents,
who gave the 1927 resume of work ac-
complished.
Mrs. Samuel Gordon MacCracken,
Oregon State regent, reported that the
State now has 10 chapters, embracing
1887 members.
Oregon has paid in fun for her state
box, also bought 81 400 worth of bonds
and subscribed for 19 chairs; has also
paid for one-fourth of a chair which
was offered as prize in the magazine
contest and given $50 in gifts. The
full amount is $11,837,50.
The givers of chairs are: Quenett
Chapter. honoring Miss Anne NJ
Lang; Quenett Chapter, honoring Mrs.
Lulu d. Crandall; Willamette Chap
ter, honoring Mrs. Carrie Beaumont;
Chemeketa Chapter, honoring Mrs.
Seymour Jones; Mount Ashland Chap
ter, honoring Mrs. Gordon MacCrack-
en-; Multnomah Chapter, honoring
Mrs. James 3. Montgomery; Multno-
NAH Chapter, honoring Mrs. Isaac
Lee Patterson; Crater Lake Chapter,
honoring Mrs. j. H. Anderson; Eula-
Iona Chapter, honoring Mrs. r. T.
Wattenburg; Matthew Starbuck Chap
ter, honoring Mrs. J. l.. Soule; Coos
Bay Chapter, honoring Mrs. Annie
Lowe Wolcott; Umatilla and Grande
Ronde Chapters, in name of the chap
te4s; Mrs. Mary Huddleson, in honor
of James Howard Huddleson: Mrs.
Mary Phelps Montgomery. honoring
GOV. John S. Phelps; Walter T..
DOwnes, honoring Mary r. Taffe;
Charles Wood Eberlein. honoring
Marian Winchester Eberlein; Anne
| and Elizabeth Lang, honoring their
colonial and reverend ancestors; Anne
NJ. Lang. one.haf chair. given by four
vice presidents general as prize in
| ma gazine contest. Charles Wood Eber-
lein, honoring Elizabeth Platter; chill
| dren of ArvaZena A. Cooper, in her
| honor.
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Changing about of women from job
to job in industry is now easy, since
most of the factory work done by
women today requires little skill or
experience
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c. A. R. DELEGATES
END CONVENTION
Dance to Be Held Tonight.
Gen. HeImick to Speak at
Arlington Tomorrow.

The 32d annual convention of the
National Society Children of the Amer.
lean Revolution adjourned this noon
following the reading of reports of
member societies and the passage of
resolutions thinking the National Red
the Marine Band for its music and
various speakers for their addresses.
Delegates to the convention then
paid a visit to the Pan American
Union at the invitation of Dr l.. S,
Rowe. director general. The Dis
trct Of Columbia State Society will
entertain the delegates on board the
presidential yacht Maytiower this aft
| ernoon at o'clock.
Reception to BE Tonight.
Members of the society will attend
a reception and dance tonight at
| $50 o'clock at the Gordon Hotel.
Mai. Gen. Eli A. Helmick, inspector
general United States Army. will ad-
dress members of the society tomor-
row morning at il O'Clock at a wreath
| laying ceremony at the tomb of the
| Unknown Soldier. Mrs. Frank S, Ray
is chairman for the occasion and the
wreath will be p, s~G O. the tomb
| by George HancocE T@c ION Of the
Ethan Allen Society. Chicago. follow
ing the singing of America" by the
gathering,
Will Visit Mount Vernon.
Elaborate preparations have been
| made for the annual pilgrimage to
| Mount Vernon by steamboat at 10
| o'clock Saturday morning. The ar
rangements are in charge of Mrs.
Lawrence Quirollo. John Greer An
drews, bugler and Trimble Sawtelle,
! flag bearer, will head the procession
from the boat to Washington's tomb.
A wreath will be placed on Washing
| toms tomb by Ella Elizabeth Buntin
and Virginia Dorsey Lightfoot and
on that of Martha Washington by
| Ellen Scott Barnard.
Mrs. Josiah A. Van Orsdei, national
president, will welcome the delegates
| following the singing of The Star
| Spangled Banner" The history of the
tree will be told by Col III. II. Dodge
and the story of Washington's child.
| hood will be told by Mrs. Eleanor w.
Howard vice president Of the society.
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The University Players Of the
American Association of University
Women will present Clare Hummer
comedy, "The Robbery" at the club
house, 1884 / street. Saturday, pm.
Mrs. Lyman b. Swormstedt will give
a reading and the pupils of Gladyse
Wilbur will dance, with Miss Alice
Morris at the piano
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.. The Tennessee Society of Washing.
ton will have a bridge and 500 party
Monday, $50 pm, in the Gavel Club
719 Thirteenth street, for the benefit
of the society's work.
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The Wild Flower Preservation So
ciety will take a special bus opposite
Raleigh Hotel, April "a at 9:45 am,
for a trip to Bull Run battlefield. Ar
range for seats before April o. 1t
stormy will be postponed to May L.
Leader, Mr.. Thomas.
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The Biological Society of Washing
ton will meet April %. pm. in new
assembly hall of the Cosmos Club.
Speakers. +. G. Lincoln, r. S. Palmer
and A. H. Howell, all of the United
States Biological Survey. Visitors are
welcome
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The annual tournament of the
Speech Reading Club will be held
April 2G. 8 pm, at 2515 Cliffbourne
place A contest in speech reading
will be conducted by Mrs. John Gil
fillin of Minneapolis.
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The Stearns Bible class will meet
tomorrow, l pm, at Mount Vernon
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DR.. James A. Burns, president ot
the Oneida Institute of Kentucky, viii
talk on Mountain Education" at the
luncheon of the Washington Round
Table in the University Club tomor
row, 12.30 O'clock
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The Caravan Club of Almas Templt
will meet in the Raleigh Hotel to
morrow, 1880 o'clock.
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Alpha Delta Phi luncheon tomor-
row. 1890 pm, at Franklin Square
Hotel.
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East Gate Chapter will have Its
monthly card party Friday at Masonic
Temple, Rhode Island and Mills ave-
nues northeast.
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The Washington Highlands Citizens
Association will meet, o'clock, in the
Congress Heights School.
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CONTEST FOR D. A. R.
LEADERSHIP CLOSE
Mrs. Sherman Walker or Mrs.
Charles BiSSelI May Get
Biggest Vote.

Continued from First PageD
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FUTURE.

THE Lure of the Great Northwest, ;"
by Frank Branch Riley of Oregon, viii
be described and pictured Friday, 8
pm, in the auditorium Of the New
Central High School Building. Free.
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Triumph. No. s, Daughters of Amer,
lea, will have a 500 card party, s
O'Clock, in auditorium of Masonic Ten.
pie, Eighth and i streets northeast.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

The Rubinstein Club will hold It's
last card party of the season at 8
o'clock, in Oysters Auditorium,
Twenty sixth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
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Women's Alliance, All Souls
Church, will meet tomorrow, IL am,
in Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard
streets. Dr. William A. White, su-
perintendent of St. ElIzabeth's Hos
pital, will speak at noon. Luncheon
at ! pm, Mrs. Paul Brockett, hostess.
Meeting open to all interested.
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DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon, author, will
give a free lecture, o'clock, under
auspices Of the Woman's Guild Of
Calvary M. E. Church. Subject: ~
New Look at the Old World" Public
invited. Music.
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M. f. Church, DR.. X b, Moomaw In
charge.
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A revised constitution and bylaws
will be considered by the Thirteen
Club at it's meeting, 8 o'clock, at the
Willard Hotel. Radford Moses, presi-
dent, will preside.
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The Georgetown Clinical Society
viii meet at dinner, 1880 o'clock, at
the Hamilton Hotel
Evening star., 1927-04-21

The Washington Academy of Sciences
will hold a joint meeting with the
Anthr0pological Society of Washing
ton, SIS o'clock, in assembly hall OF
the Cosmos Club.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

The Ladies' Aid of Hamline NJ. r.
Church will have a dinner and sale
at Sixteenth and Allison streets. Sale,
3 to o'clock. Dinner, $50 to Z.
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Atheism Association Replies.

The resolution attacking the Ameri.
can Association for the Advancement
of Atheism and putting the d. A. r.
on record as being in favor of pro
moting the use Of the Bible in the
schools brought a sharp reply today
from II. j. Irvine, secretary of the
Washington chapter OF the associa-
ton. 1t was addressed to Mrs. Flora
Myers Giilentine, vice president gene
Evening star., 1927-04-21

The first school for gypsies In Eu-
rope will soon be established at Uzho-
rod, Czechoslovakia.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

The Takoma Park Baptist Ladies'
Aid Society will serve a chicken din
ner from $50 to o'clock in the Sun
day school house, Piney Branch road
and Aspen street.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

Alpha Delta Pi Sorority will give
dance at the Grace Dodge Hotel.
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T..
The Choir Guild of Epiphany Chape
will have a card party, o'clock, at
Epiphany Chapel house.
Idaho Council, No /. d. Of p, will
serve a chicken dinner. 5 to O'Clock,
at Pytlfan Temple.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

Spring ceremonial of Almas Temple
Of the Mystic Shrine will take place
at the Arcadia, 7:30 o'clock.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

The Society of Natives will give its
qannual dinner, o'clock, at Rausch-
er's. Program and dancing.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

Miriam Chapter, No. %. O. Z. s..
will serve a chicken dinner from 4:30
to O'Clock at Northeast Masonic Tenn
pie, Eighth and f streets northeast.
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modations in the Executive office.
Practically half of the delegates and
their guests who had anticipated at
tending the reception. consequently
will be unable to go. President Cool
idge, who has addressed the COntinen.
tai Congress on previous years, sent
the Congress a letter this year instead
of addressing them in person
Reporting on social service work at
Ellis Island, New York, Mrs. Charles
Reed Banks, national chairman, IN
charge of that work, announced that
instead of providing materials for i'm
migrants in two detention rooms as
formerly the y. \. r. are now Gov
ering all detention rooms, eight IN
number.
Evening star., 1927-04-21

At the United Lodge of Theosophists,
Hill Building, Seventeenth and
streets, the subject study will be Re-
incarnation; S:15 o'clock.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
NUMBER of members of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Profess

A NUMBER of members of the
" Middle Atlantic Golf Profess
"A sionals' Association are COM
4 \ peting in an 18-hole sweep
stakes medal play competition
today at Burning Tree Club. Tonight
the pros will tender a dinner to
Tommy Armour, new national open
champion. The function will be at the
Congressional Country Club of which
Armour is the professional.
Playing more consently, William
CBrick) Wood, assistant professional at
the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club, yesterday defeated Walter
(Reds) Cunningham of Burning Tree
Club in the first annual assistant pro-
fessional golf championship match
over the Indian Spring course. Wood 8
card was rs against IS for Cunning
ham for the Is holes. Monday Wood
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and Cunningham battled to 162 tie at
Sc holes and yesterdays competition
was the play-off.
The cards:
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NET TOURNEY FINALS
t ARE CARDED TODAY

Boy and Junior net championships
Of the District were to be decided to-
day on the Chevy Chase Club courts.
Frank Shore was to meet David
Lkgum for the boys crown. Shore
has played impressively in the prelim-
inary battles. Yesterday he took the
measure of Butler in the third round
60, g, and eliminated John r.
O'Hanlon ia the semi-finals, IS,
81.
Legum advanced to the semi-finals
at the expense Of J. 3. Considine
whom he defeated. 6-3. e.. He re-
ceived a default from Middleton Train
to take his position in the title round.
Milton Baker was to face Eddie
Yeolnan for the junior title. Baker
defeated c. Woman in the third round
yesterday, winning his first set with
ease, GO, but having a stiff strus-
gle for the second, in which he was
extended to Sc. His semi-final en-
counter with James Lowe was almost
a repetition. Baker took this tilt,
6-1, IS.
Yeoman advanced by virtue of two
holly contested triumphs. scoring over
Cuthbert Train in the first, 4-6.
"a, IS, and over French in the
second, SIS, 81.
The quartet who We're to figure in
the finals today will go to Richmond
as the District Of Columbia's repre-
sentatives in the sectional singles
events for boys and juniors to be
staged under the auspices Of the Mid
die Atlantic Lawn Tennis Association.
July and g.
Results yesterday:
BOYS
Third round-Train defeated Believe g.
SO 81. Legum defeated j. B. Cons-
dine. 6-3 g.: Shore defeated Butler.
O.. g.; O'Hanlon defeated Miles. 6-3.
Semi.fnais-shore defeated o'Hanlon
= 81: Legum won by default from
Train.
Third round-Lowe defeated Hitzz; 4-6.
d So: Z. Woman 'H defeated Train.
4--s. Cd 7--5: French defeated Bowen.
6-1. Ct
Semi nals-Baker defeated Lowe. 6-1.
p; +. Woman defeated French. So.
81.
Word comes from Baltimore that
Louis kurland, winner of the harding
Cup junior championship of the Dis
trict last year, has reached the semi
final round of the Baltimore center
event and was favored to enter the
final bracket today. Billy Jacobs,
Maryland boy champion, was another
survivor in the Oriole tourney and one
of the probable finalists.
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game between Park View and
Maryland A. G.. mines, scheduled for
Monday, has been cancelled. A num-
Der of Marylands tossers would be
unable to play.
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BY o. II. Keller.

Golfers who have attained emf
hence in the game have one trait
in common with their humber
brethren who are still trying to get
on the underside of 100. They will
practice at curious times, and in
odd ways.
| remember the first article about
golf / ever read--a shockingly long
time ago-in some magazine in the
good year 1897. 1t was devoted to
this quaint game of golf, lately
introduced in this country. The first
national championship was played
in 1894, and corporals guard COM
peted.
The article must have been pref
ty well done. 1t held my juvenile
attention, then concentrated on
base ball. to description of golf,
and it concluded with these lines.
as clear in my memory today as if
/ had read them yesterday:
And at last you come to the
place where you fight out the dis
puted point on the floor. with an
umbrella and the baby's rubber
BALI"
It's fact--you do. And you
play wee pitch shots off the floor,
at the imminent risk of chande-
liers and objects of art on the
drawing room table.
On shipboard, when golfing
team is going abroad to compete in
the Walker Cup match. for exam
pie, they'll rig up platform of
life RATS so the combatants may
drive into the Atlantic Ocean over
the ships rail; or they rig up one
of these cute little revolving de-
vices that is supposed to register
the distance of drive.
I've seen Bobby Jones and Fran
els Ouimet and Bob Gardner. and
the rest of the American Walker
Cup team, seeking long drives over
the Aquitania's rail. to fall at what
looked absurdly like short mashie
range in the cobalt water of the
Atlantic. The boys never could
get used to the seeming curtail-
ment of their 250-yard pokes.
And I've seen Bobby Jones, for
an hour at time. in hotel room
playing wee niblick pitches from
the heavy nap of the carpet to a
narrow bed, trying to make the
ball stop on the bed.
4 remember tnat BODILY In 1873,
at the Del Prado Hotel, in Chicago,
put in a lot of practice on that
curious cut-shot with the niblick
that spins the ball UP almost yer.
tically and holds it dead where it
stops. 1t has its use, that sort of
practice. Next day. in a practice
round. Bobby was in a pot bunker
beside the ninth green at Floss.
moor. and. the wall of the bunker
was about the height of bed. and
the hole was cut close to the
bunker. Bobby went down into the
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DEFEATS HOUCHTON. 2 UP.
BY GAINING EARLY LEAD
Loser Makes Strong Bid After Being 3 Down al
Turn-Only One Stroke Difference in Their
Medal Scores-Birdies Frequent.

down t2-footer for an Eagle at the
sixth to win.
Noigt annexed the short seventh
with when Houghton Clipped far
past the hole and took three puts.
And Noigt became MP at the eighth
when Houghton hooked into the woods
and took a ), Voigt winning even
though he overpitched the green.
Houghton won the ninth with a par A.,
when Weight hooked his second shot
far into the rough and was trapped
with his third.
Both men on the green from the tee
at the 197-yard tenth. HoughtOn lost
the hole when he blew a three-foot
putt only to get the hole back at the
eleventh, when Noigt pitched out of
4 trap into the woods across the green
But Noigt. continuing the see-saw
progress of the match which existed
from the third hole on, won the
twelfth with a par when Houghtons
tee shot was again hooked into the
trees which border the fairWay.
Houghton came right back to win the
thirteenth with a birdie 3, an fS-foot
putt finding the cup. They halved the
fourteenth in SIS. both finding traps
with their second shots. Houghton.
with a magnificent spoon shot, won
the long fifteenth, securing q birdie 4
against Noigt's ). Although Foughton
was trapped at the short sixteenth. he
got half when Noigt failed to get n
chip shot dead from the upper edge
Of the green.
Houghton Makes Bid.
That left Voigt up with to go,
and both men proceeded to pull their
second shots into traps near the green,
a half in resulting. Dormie l up,
Voigt poled out a screamer and laid
his pitch shot inside the fine second
shot of Houghton at the eighteenth
Houghton made a game bid for 20
foot putt. and conceded Voigt his
Shooter for a 3. Voigt winning the
hole and the match. up.
Cards of the final match follow:
z zs,S' aattSiss ass / So
z zcisa' :: as 3 5 3-ss-55
Houghton and Richard n. Tunstar
of Norfolk played off their tie for low
qualification score today. They tied
on Tuesday at ISL and were still tied
at the end of an 1S-hole play loft.
Harry G. Pitt of Manor won the
first flight consolation. while J. H.
Hoffman of Washington annexed the
sixth flight.
In the third fight the youthful
Robert c. Hird of Manor lost in the
semi-inal to w. A. Jones.
S. G. Watkins of Columbia won his
way to the fourth flight final. where
he lost by 3 and to T. c. White.
Horace G. Smithy of Columbia won
the fourth flight consolation from J.
A. Hagen.
Hoffman won the sixth flight final
from r. L. Mutt, jr.
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than hole it, If YOU hole it. they
say it's lucky. If you lay it dead,
they, say, Great shot"
Bobby has an acute sense of
values And he is as expert stu.
dent of human nature as he is of
golf. Which is saying a good deal.
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BY w. n. MCCALLUM.

n NORFOLK, Va, July 1,-George
J. Noigt of Bannockburn was
" on his way back to the Capt.
4 tai today bearing with him
the historic championship
trophy of the Middle Atlantic Golf
Associa ton, which he won here YES
terday for the second consecutive
time. defeating A. l.. Houghton of
the Manor Club in the final round.
Noigt planned to stop off in Rich
mond for the day to play a round
over the Hermitage course with his
friend Jimmy Thompson and expect
ed to be back in the Capital tomOr-
'ow, bringing to an end a weeks cam
paign In Virginia which served TO
being home to the golfers of this sec
ton once again the SteadnesS and
versatility of the Bannockburn
player.
Although Houghton pushed him to
the limit, carrying the match to the
final green before bowling in defeat.
Voight always was in hte lead after
the first hole was played and always
appeared as the winner of the final
match.
Houghton threatened consistently,
however, coming through with
burst of good golf beginning at the
thirteenth, which almost squared the
match and carried the contest to
the eighteenth hole,
Voigt Swamps Hufty.
Voigt went into the final round by
administering a and 5 defeat to Page
Hufty. long-hitting Congressional
Country Club golfer, the third of the
year Hufty has assimilated at the
hands of the premier golfer of the
middle Atlantic section.
Houghton reached the ultimate
round by defeating H. II. Hume. Vir-
ginia's sole remaining golfer. of the
first two rounds, on the sixteenth
green. 3 and ..
Hufty broke into an early lead on
Voigt, but the Bannockburn star
caught the Congressional youngster
at the sixth and was never headed
thereafter.
Houghton was always in front of
Hume.
Brilliancy and consistent shot-mak-
ing alone won for Voigt in the final
round, for he turned up and won
the tenth hole to run up margin he
needed against the strong stand
Houghton made over the last eight
holes.
Voigt started with brace of brides,
running down a 15-foot putt at the
first and driving on the second green
335 yards from the tee. to win with
a birdie 3. They halved the third hole
in par 4s, although Voigts bid for
another birdie barely slid by the hole.
Houghton won the long fourth. SOC
yards, with a birdie 4, laying Voigt
a stimie. Voigt got the hole back at
the short fifth. where Houghton was
trapped, but the Manor Club star ran
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YOUTH SCORES OVER ACE
AS COCHET BEATS TILDEN

in this little world of ours he said
The victory was hard won. The
scores tell the story of how age did
its best, reaching its peak in the
deuced third set and striving with
out success to check the whirlwind
finish that youth alone could give.
The match was won at Is, 4-6,
-. G--4. G-3.
Assuring an all French final. Jean
Borotra. present British title holder
defeated the third "musketeer.' Rene
Lacoste. in the other semi-fina'
match.
America still had one hope left,
however. while Elizabeth Ryan fell
in the semi-finals before the fast and
accurate stroking Of Ella dc Alvarez
Helen Wills already has reached the
woman's final and will oppose the
Spanish girl Saturday for the priced
tiara of Wimbledon championship,
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
w YIMBLEDON, England, July
n Youth has the power
NA of heart and nerve TO
fight off crushing odds
and perform miracles in
the last few strokes. Age can but
shoot its bolt--and bow its head if
that is not enough.
This, Big Bill Tilden has discovered
and admitted.
Beaten by Henri Cochet of France
in match that doomed his present
hopes of coming back against the
great French trio. the veteran Amer
lean could but smile somewhat for
lOrnly i'm the memory of his own age
of tennis miracles.
Il used to win this sort of match
myself" he said. But are we down
hearted? Mo-" He added with the
fire of the man who undertook Il
tennis crusade to France in the tWi-
light of his career in a gallant at
tempt 10 win back his world SUI
premaCy.
age. / think, 1t is" unused Tilden.
For his conquerOr, the spry little
Frenchman who eliminated him last
year from the tournament for Til
denis own American championship,
Tilden had nothing but praise.
"Cochet is the best tennis player