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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

INTRODUCTION TO SALLY. BY
Elizabeth" author of elizabeth
and Her German Garden ETC.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
A STORY Of outbreaking laughter
a all along its way. Elizabeth"
never better than here. And this is
saying q good deal, for even yet-after
SO many years--mere mention Of the
German Garden Is as provocative
OF mirth as it was on the day Of its
tirst appearance. The theme Of Sally
10 that OF the sheer loneliness Of O.
young woman, the theme of that dew
astating charm which has given un-
dying fame to the Helens and the
Cleopatras, q renown such as none OF
the excellencies Of plain goodness has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
IDA GILBERT MYERS.

THE STORY OF MANKIND. BY
Hendrix Van Loon. New York:
Boni & Iiveright
Evening star., 1927-07-06
by LAWRENCE PERRY.

TT now appears that the dropping
of Brown by Harvard in foot ball
came as surprise to the Bruno
/ mans.
There were none of those pre-
liminary hints which, as rule, pre-
cede such drastic action as the drop
ping Of one old and honored rival.
On the contrary, the news came out
of the blue, so to speak, or to be more
specific, came via announcement by
the newspapers.
When Princeton decided that rela-
tions with Harvard had gone far
enough, the first intimation of the
Nassovian attitude came through the
same medium, the newspaper, and
Harvard lifted her eyebrows over what
she rightly regarded as an ethical
breach.
But evidently Harvard took it less
seriously than appeared. One, at least,
may judge so from the following edi-
torial in the Brown alumni monthly:
'"The Harvard theory" writes the
Brown editor, lis reported to be that
only the Yale game is a fixture and
that other visitors must not expect to
be invited to Cambridge except when
| it happens to be convenient
"All right; so be it. Somehow, it
| hurts a little when old friends are
Evening star., 1927-07-06
RED SOX NEARING RECORD
AS OCCUPANTS OF CELLAR

traordinary batters of all time. Ruth
was wanted by Boston as a pitcher.
He was a good one and would have
made an enviable record as pitcher
had he stuck to it. Jack Dunn Of Bal
timore had taken him out Of school
in that city. The New York Giants
wanted Ruth, but they lost out when
he was put on the market.
Boston took Ruth and sent him to
Providence to get a little work and
then took him on. With Boston. Ruth
helped to win a world series as q
pitcher. His batting became more and
more attractive and at length it was
decided that he was too valuable as
batter to be kept out of the game and
used only as pitcher at intervals. The
plan of making him into an outfielder
was helped by the fact that he show
ed ability to play a position in the
outfield as we'll as pitch.
Ruth's Sale Melted S1S5,OOO.
Ruth's sale to the New York
Yankees meant a net profit of more
than $135 900 to Frazee. That Is one
of the largest sums that any base
ball owner ever made by selling
players contract to another club.
The loss of Ruth shattered the Bos-
ton team and shattered the faith of the
fans in the American League. The
task to get Boston back on the base
ball map has been one of the most Sc
we're in the history Of major league
base ball. Neither league has made
much headway with it. Neither league
is likely to do so unless better sue.
cess is met in finding young ball play
ers and making something out of
them. Both Boston clubs are handi.
| capped by the fact that they do not
| possess large assets with which to Sc.
cure players. The patronage has not
helped them to that extent. although
the Boston fans have stood by their
teams rather faithfully.
Evening star., 1927-07-06
BY O. B. KELLER.
(For the Associated Press. J


AS Tommy Armour kept plug
ging away, after his second round
at Oakmont in the last open
championship. when he added the
first par busting round of the
competition, a II, to his rather
depressing rs of the first round,
/ began to hear stories of Tommy,
which, well as I knew the lanky
Black Scot, l had not heard be-
fore.
Tommy was up in the running.
Tommy was a single stroke back
of the lead, Galloping Harry
Cooper occupying that place as
the final round started. 1t was
Tommy this, and Tommy that. as
in the famous old Kipling ballad.
And they told a good bit of Tom
my's war history, which lacked a
lot of being uneventful.
They told how he was gassed
and sprayed with splinters of high
explosive shell, and how the latter
penetrated his face and destroyed
the sight of one eye, though you
could not tell it by looking at him.
and how his left arm was wounded
and a cluster of drawn fibers still
handicapped him in damp weather.
They carried Tommy off the
battlefield every little while in the
war and they carried him off the
battlefield at Oakmont, but not in
horizontal position. He made
one of the gamest fights and one
of the greatest finishes ever seen.
both in the tournament and in the
subsequent play-off with Harry
Cooper.
got a great kick out Of the
Evening star., 1927-07-06

first finish, especially, and the
stage was set as by a crew from
Olympus, as the Black Scot stood
on the 72d tee for his last fling at
the championship. Cooper was in.
Coopers score was on the board.
301. AS he stood on the ultimate
tee, Armours strokes Tailed 29S.
All he had to do was birdie 3
on a tough hole of 460 yards, to
tie.
Ten thousand fans ringed the
huge arena that was to contract
by half after the drive and then
close in, a sWirling vortex about
the green, for the finish.
Armour came out with a great
drive. He had two strokes left.
His iron shot never was excelled
under anything like the circum-
stances, I am sure. 1t was never
foot off line and was rolling
straight for the pin when it ended
10 feet short. Tommy had one
stroke left as the milling crowd
charged home. Around the sud-
denly diminished arena the spec.
tators, suddenly quiet, rose tier on
tier. Through a lane Armour and
his playing companion came on the
green. Tommys lean, handsome
face was sunken and seemed dust
ed with gray powder. He was
under the most killing strain
known to sport, or, fancy, to life.
While his partner putted and the
referee replaced Tommys ball,
which was lifted. Tommy could not
keep still. He turned his back on
the play and swung his own put
ter twice, tentatively. His turn
came. He walked up to the ball
and lined the putt. He walked
along the line, and picked up two
Evening star., 1927-07-06

For 80 consecutive weeks, dating
back into the 1926 season and into
the current pennant race, the Boston
Red SoX have been in last place IN
the American League. In all iikell-
hood they will be there for half as
many more, since the possibility of
their emerging from the bottom seems
to be very remote this year. That
will make As weeks in the cellar
during 1926 and 1927.
There have been base ball teams
that have done worse. but what
fate for the city of Boston, at one
time referred to as the best base
ball city in the United States. There
never has been any city that knew
more about the game of base ball
and few that knew as much.
The Red Sox today have per-
centage of but little over 200, after
dropping four straight games to
Washington. They have won Is
games to date, which just about puts
them in a class with Reading in the
International League. Reading has
won IL and lost 81.
Carrigan May Drop Out.
When Bill Carrigan took hold of
reported to have told his friends that
he would try it for a year and see
what he could do. If at the end OF
the season the Red Sox were no bet
ter off than they were in 1926 he
doubted whether hew ould remain in
base ball
With June ended, the Red Sox are
almost exactly as weak as they were
in 1926, so there is beginning to be
some concern expressed in Boston
among Carrigan's friends as to
whether he will stick it out next year.
Evidently the team is much like that
of 1926 and doomed to get no higher
than it did a year ago.
The beginning of the complete down
fall of the Boston team dates from
the process of dismantling, which took
place under the ownership of Frazee.
who sold much of it piecemeal to the
New York Yankees, and tremendous
slice of it when he sent Babe Ruth to
New York at big gain for himself,
although Ruth was not developed by
Frazee.
The big home.run hitter went to
Boston when Joe Eannin owned the
| Boston club. There was not the
slightest suspicion then that Ruth
would develop into one. of the most ex-
Evening star., 1927-07-06
By FRANK I'll. KING
{ (AssOciated Press staff Writer,)

CT. ANDREWS, Scotland. July
6.-For a thousand years the
lairds and lads of Eifeshire
~ have played golf on the historic
links here where the British
open championship starts July IL.
Tradition has it that Dutch ar
tisans who came to build the great
cathedral brought the game with
them. The cathedral is in ruins. but
the game has spread to the ends of
the earth.
Only the musty pages of history
explain the unique characteristics of
the most famous of all golf lay-outs,
the "Old Course" Some of the
famous holes have been copied in the
United States and elsewhere, but as q
whole the golfing problems of ST.
Andrews. the atmosphere and the ira
dtion of the place, defy reproduction
or even imitation.
Nine Holes at Start.
In the beginning there we're but
nine holes. Outgoing and incoming
players shot for the same cup on the
same green. Those were ilyllic days
of uncrowded fairways. An outgoing
player at the fifth waited for home
l.
was, to the latter. the thirteenth.
When congestion became intoler-
able new greens were made close to
the old ones. The fairways were
widened somewhat; not much, for
there wasn't room. Thus the holes
run parallel, the first and eighteenth,
the eighth and eleventh. and so on.
"Uninteresting golf, surely" say
the unknowing. "Playing home over
the outward route" But; the novice
is usually wrong at st. Andrews.
The "Old Course woos. wins and
holds the love of most golfers. Capt.
Bob Gardner of the American Walker
Cup team, which retained the inter-
national cup here last year. is sypical.
"The first time 1 played at ST. An
drews, the course seemed the worst
in the world" said Capt. Gardner.
The second visit it seemed only fair.
The third visit convinced me the Old
Course is the best golf in the world
The lay of the land at st. Andrews
is such that each hole presents new
problems every round. They say you
can play the "Old Course" lifetime
and never master it. Nearly every
hole can be played a halfdozen diff
ferent routes.
Most of the green's are on plateaus
and wind always presents difficulties.
st. Andrews demands mastery of the
pitch and run and the run-up shot
to the green. It is safer to roll the
ball around the course with putter
than to send it soaring high into the
| air.
The double greens make enormous
putting surfaces Watts Gum sank
a 90-foot putt during the Walker Cup
Evening star., 1927-07-06
CANADA TO SEND MANY
FAIR SEX TO 0LYMPICS

Canada is planning to send strong
delegation to compete in the women's
events in the next Olympic games.
Rosa Crosse of Toronto is credited
with being one of the best girl sprint
ers in the world.
Another member of the Canadian
team will be Miss Catherwood of
saskatchewan, who is a marvel in the
high jump.
Evening star., 1927-07-06
Ouimet Uses Push
Shot of British
RY Sol, AIETZGER.

One day Francis Ouimet saw
"Nipper" Campbell play an odd
shot. 1t was OH a One-shOt hole
and when Francis saw the ball
leave the tee with low trajectory
and come to the green he was
amazed to note that it stopped like
a mashie pitch with backspin.
Nipper explained that it was
push shot to be played into the
wind. a ball that flies low, reaches
its mark and stops. much to the
surprise of an OnlOOlxer.
Ouimet set about mastering the
shot for international purposes and
it has helped him tremendously i'm
many of them, for few golfers have
Walker Cup competitive record to
equal that of the former United
States open and amateur champion.
Evening star., 1927-07-06
lnals Are Steadily Sinking Race for National League Pennat
vIRGINIA-U. M. GAME
MAY BE PLAYED HERE

There Is a real chance of Wash.
ingtOn being the scene this Fall of
one of the foot ball classics of the
section, the annual Maryland-Vir-
ginia battle. Virginia officials will
meet within n month to consider
advisability Of waving the local
rule that fOrbids Cavalier teams
from playing on other than their
own field or the campuses OF Op-
posing teams.
Maryland. of course, would be
more than pleased to play the game
i'm Washington and, i'm fact, does
not really consider that Virginia
\ would have to change its rule, as
the Old Liners consider the Capital
City a home field. Not only does
Maryland obtain many of its stu.
dents from the District, but the I'm.
stitution is officially tied up with
Washington, as its Agricultural
School, extension service and ex'
pertinent station do work in con-
junction with the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Evening star., 1927-07-06
BRITISH OPEN is PLAYED
ON FAMOUS ssOLD COURSE

matches last year. The home folks
would hardly believe it. AS q matter
of fact, one can putt almost 200 feet
over the rolling, velvety turf to the
fifth and fourteenth holes. From the
edge of one big green a caddy stand
ing at the flag seems like a speck on
the horizon.
The eleventh hole, 14S yards. is the
most famous short hole in the world,
and the most deadly. The green
slopes. behind it is the River Eden.
almost in the center of the green is
the "Strath' bunker, deep and terri
BILE. Here Bobby Jones tore up his
card in the open championship of
1921.
Championship hopes are often blast
ed at the eleventh and at the seven
teenth the ''Road Hole" The latter
calls for a tortuous journey over a
fence jutting into the fairway. then
a long shot to plateau green, backed
by a gravel road and dotted with
bunkers, one sliced into the green
itself
Evening star., 1927-07-06

tiny impediments. He walked back
to get the line again. He stood up
to the last stroke that would save
his chance at glory.
Behind me heard man speak
ing, under his breath.
THAT fellow once jumped out of
a British tank and strangled a
German officer with his bare
hands," said the low voice. do
you think he won't sink that putt?"
He sank it.
Then, as if struck physically by
the shattering roar that converged
from the gallery. his knees sagged
and his broad shoulders dropped.
He moved aimlessly, as if not
knowing where he was. But he
was at himself next day. to win a
great play-off. 1t was Tommy this,
and Tommy that-but never Tom
my wait outside, in that champion
ship.
Evening star., 1927-07-06
WORLD CHAMPIONS LOSING
GROUND TO BUGS AND CUBS
Current Month Thus Far Has Proved Disastrous TO
OFarrell's Team, Which Spurted in June to
Raise Hopes of ST. Louis Fans

the fallacy Of trying to count out
a fairly young pitcher who lives for
his own game.
Hills case is the counterpart of
that of Jack Scott when he joined
the Giants after being rejected else
where. Not that Hill had an ailing
arm. but he is an old and matured
fellow who at last Is coming into his
own after being written a failure by
smart managers of base ball teams.
Evening star., 1927-07-06

II
falling sickness seizes them
VI no team seems to fall harder
4 or fiatter than the st. Louis
Cardinals. They assume the
horizontal position periodically when
they are playing away from home.
Fighting gallantly on their own
pumpkin patch until the end of
June. the Cardinals made the St.
Louis fans think they were on their
way to realization of another pennant.
They left home to take up an open
date at Chicago on July /. and behold
what has happened to them since that
time.
The Cards were licked July l in
Chicago. G to .; on July , they We're
beaten. to 4, and by similar score
on July 3. Then they went over to
Pittsburgh and received two thrash
ings on the Fourth of July and an
other one on Tuesday by the lopsided
score of Il to .. Thus all the good
of a half-month of valiant effort was
lifted skyward by explosive. Today
the Cardinals position in third place
is menaced by the Giants, while the
Chicago Cubs and the Pirates go
merrily on with their little argument
over first place.
Inconsistent i'm Batting.
The total runs scored against the
Cards during this setback was Al.
The Cards scored IS, which is an
other indication of the fact that the
team cannot bat consistently. That
in itself might not be so bad as the
inability of the team to win consist
emily away from home.
The first eastern trip of the cham
pionS was a 90 affair in their favor.
That was playing ball at a per-
centage of 800 AS Pittsburgh did
no better than that. the St. Louis
fans felt there We're some things in
the world worth having after all.
They expected the champions to set
tie down on their own ground and
show something of the brilliant work
that won for them in 1926.
So they did. Now they have got
away from home again and have been
annihilated from the moment that
they have left. and the jolt that they
received at the hands of the Cubs
and the Pirates is enough to knock
them back to the end of July. Their
percentage has sunk to .557 and it
will take at least three solid weeks
of better than 600 base ball to get
them back again where they will be
as lilpOSlIlS lIlSy HOAS at lHS CilN
of June.
Few teams have suffered worse
around the first week in July than
the Cardinals have suffered this sea-
son. Not even Alexander could win
for them, and Flint Rhem, who was
such a good winner in 1926, even if
he was not consistent, is playing
the typical in-and-out base ball that
almost invariably follows the career
of a young man who holds out for
higher salary before he is matured,
but when he has the impression that
he is the greatest pitcher in the
world.
YOungster Disappointment.
With all the good qualities that
the St. Louis team had last year, it
was the vigor of Rhem that carried
the team on when other things
failed. This year he may have vigor.
but it is mixed with the rashness of
a youth who sits around the home
town all the Winter bringing him
self to believe that the base ball
world will survive or fall with him.
The Pittsburgh team, bunged up
and banged up, is making a great
battle with crippled and injured.
Meadows and Hill are the pitching
pair that are helping the Pirates on.
Meadows more and more is proving
Evening star., 1927-07-06
HARVARD JOLTED BROWN
BY DROPPING GRID GAME

treated so. especially if there is no
tactful and courteous explanation, ac-
companied by politely expressed re-
grets.
I'VE like to think of Harvard as
stressing the amenities, whereas i'm.
mediately previous to the Associated
Press announcement of the omission
Of Brown from the 1928 schedule, the
Brown athletic authorities, unless we
are in error, understood that there
would be no such change without CIV
ing them first an opportunity in the
matter"
Evening star., 1927-07-06
NEW PLEBES GET BUSY.

ANNAPOLIS. July 6.-More than
GO members of the new plebe class
at the Naval Academy reported to
Coaches Bob Butler and Buck Walsh
for preliminary rowing instruction
yesterday. The Sailors are the first
of the intercollegiate group to begin
preparation for the 1928 season.
Crews will be picked in about three
Evening star., 1927-07-06
TRAPSHOOTERS TO MEET.

To discuss means of creating more
interest in the Washington Gun
Clubs trapshooting events, the or
ganization will meet tomorrow night
at o'clock at the apartment of w.
G. Blundon, 800 West, Clifton Ter
race. A full attendance is urged.
Evening star., 1927-07-06
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

Charles Cole, Bill MCGUIRE, A. T.
Wannan, Bob McCartee and many of
the stars of other years have entered
the tourney, over which Jim Preston
will preside.
Pairings and starting times for the
qualifying play at both courses fol-
low:
ROCK CREEK PARK.
s:30-L. d. ,Connor. D. T. Mcdonald and
:35--L Goodman. o. II. Moore and
~ :4oMa. j. Brown. W. R. Burns and
452E. H. Leonard. t. Simmons and
s:5o-;Walter Johnson. Stanley Simmons
I .ns s:{5|g. : H. f. Cox. Capt. de sveshnikoff
aDs :d6!J g. ) ish' B. .Dulin. Michael Oliver and
S:o5-J, Z. Wannan. Ted Meures and
= 9;Io@R; L. Burdof. W. H. clampitt and
a:i5w-P. r.. Coleman. DR.. N. J. Burtt
an9 9;a6MR. Dfsnfj d Smith. D. W. Smith and
9:as@D' Il. Burrows. S. W. Goodwin and
= 500. p. Johnson, E. B. cissell and
8 35-N, A. Pixton. A. f. Alexander
o:4o-P. S. Cline. f. NJ Ford and w.
9:45wJ B. Lyon. C. L. Lane and J. B.
= 9:5o-Edwin Burr H. Wagner and s. V.
8 55-,GG;, A. Mccarthy. II. W. Day and
10 :oo--john R. Miller. S. w. Heine and
Evening star., 1927-07-06
EAST POTOMAC PARK.

s:30-H. L Hamill. Russell B. White and
s:35--W. NJ. smale. w. X. winsall and
Roland Burdorn.
40-H. H. Lurton. William colsett and
s45mR. E. Grove. X s. Giles and G. l.
50-R. f. Lewis. J. Brodern and NJ. s.
855-J H. Dolan, Ted Rutley and c. w.
"a. schumapn. Robert MacCartee and
9:05--J. j. Reardon. ]. A. Faust and D. c.
Sterry.
9:i0-J P. Lawlor, L. s. Daye and Lewis
Fuchs
alb D. Robertson. Buck Sterzer and
o:20-K. S. Giles R. c. Bartlett and E. Y
Johnson.
9:25-Robert Burton, John Boyer and
O:3O-Charies Cole. Ralph Bennie and
H. ei;35MBilI a aIsin0'iMs Mcclure. Vincent Downing
J. II. Prevail and p d. Griggs.
The entry list is the largest ever to
compete for places on the Washington
team and includes several former
team members-Sam Parks, j. r.
Miller, r. II. Brown, w. A. Mcclure,
! C. A. Cole, jr., and j. ID. Boyer.
Evening star., 1927-07-06
sEABROOK WANTS FOES.

Seahrook A. c. nine is after games
for July 10 and II on it's diamond with
unlimited teams. Call Manager Harri-
son at Lincoln 1922 between 1880
a m and $50 pm
Evening star., 1927-07-06
CRESCENTS WANT GAMES.

Pop Dulin's Crescent A. G. tossers
have a permit for use of an Ellipse
diamond Saturday afternoon and want
a game with any team for any time.
Call Franklin 1925
Evening star., 1927-07-06
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

N YEW YORK, July 6.-When the
falling sickness seizes them
VI no team seems to fall harder
1 or fiatter than the St. Louis
Evening star., 1927-10-28
/. {. CLAFL|N DIES;
VICTIM Of STROKE
Washington 0ptician Sue.
CumbS After Sudden Attack
at His Office.

Harry Edwards Clafiin. widely
known Washington optician and
prominently identified with civic and
fraternal organizations here for many
years, died at his residence, 1927 Long
fellow street, today. He was stricken
with paralysis while at his place of
business at, 922 Fourteenth street,
last Wednesday.
Mr. Claflin, who was 54 years old,
had been in business in this city for
the past 80 years. He was a native
of Wisconsin.
Long prominent in the Masonic fra
ternity, he was a member of b. r.
French Lodge +. A. A. NJ; was a
Knights Templar and belonged tC
Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine
He also was a charter member and
past vice president of the Lions
Club, a member of the City Club and
the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Eunice Clafiin; two daughters, Mrs.
w. W. Deitrick and Mrs. Frank Her
man; q son, John Edward Clafiin; his
mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Fl. Clafiin, and
three sisters, Mrs. Harold T.. Warner,
Mrs. Melville d. Lindsay and Mrs.
Julia A. Payne of Philadelphia. All ex
cept Mrs. Payne reside in this city.
Funeral services will be conducted
at his late residence Monday after
noon at 2 O'Clock. Rev. Godfrey
Chobot will Officiate. Interment will
be in Rock Creek Cemetery.