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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28
LISTS CLOSE TONIGHT
FOR TENNIS EVENTS

Entries close tonight at 6 o'clock
for the boys and junior net cham
rionships Of the District Of Columbia
to get under way tomorrow morning
on the Chevy Chase Club courts.
Otto Glockler. Chevy Chase pro, is
receiving the names at the club and
will make the drawings late tonight.
All participants in the events are
expected to report tomorrow morning
at the courts for their tirst'round
matches.
Tho winner and runner-up of each
event will be sent to Richmond, Va,
by the Middle Atlantic Lawn Tennis
Association TO compete for the sec
tional titles July and 8. This is the
first year that sectional boys and
junior championships have been
staged in this region, and it is expect
cd that their inclusion in the net pro-
gram will be a big factor in the de-
velopment of the game in the Middle
Atlantic States,
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Wv WIMBLEDON, England, June
n / 2S.-Awakened after mid
wv night by an agent of a
world known promoter in.
quiring whether he would
consider an offer to become a profess
sional tennis star, Bill Tilden declared
that he would not-"not for a million
dollars-just now"
The figures mentioned in the offer
to Tilden are understood to have been
much below those which have been
talked of in the newspapers as f1aunt-
ed before the. faces of the amateur
tennis players competing in the VIM
bledon tournament.
please stop that flow of money"
Tilden said sleepily to correspondent
of the Associated Press, who called
few minutes after the promoters
representative had left. Il have two
extremely hard matches to play be-
fore l reach the championships. If
/ lose either l wouldn't be worth half
of what these gentlemen promise me.
/ play tennis because l like the game,
that's how I feel just now. How /
will feel six months from now nobody
knows. Don't you think Brugnon
played great tennis against me?"
The shadows Of professionalism
which have been lowering above VIM
bledon's simon-pure amateur skies the
past week have not ruffied the cool
demeanor of Helen Wills, or the other
California girl, Elizabeth Ryan.
Miss Wills even refuses to discuss
the reported propositions Of promo
tiers, and 1t is looked upon here as a
certainty that the offer of $4,000 for
a two-year contract offered to her is
as good as refused fatty.
Spreading like wildfire through the
stands, the reports of professional
offensive created rather tense atmos-
phere, for Wimbledon Is virtually the
| birthplace of amateur tennis.
| Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree, the
English champion, and Miss Betty
Nuthall, the sensational schoolgirl,
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: IN this country, and who won brace
: OF big tournaments in the South last
Winter.
sandy Herd. one of the greatest of
rhe uro<es sionals in Great Britain, was
playing with r r. Burton. the Oxford
University expert, at Con1be Hill, near
London.
Now Herd, as everybody knows,
has made more holes-in-one than any
other man alive-17, the last / heard,
perhaps more by now.
The eighth hole at Combe Hill meas
ures les yards. Standing on the tee
Sandy. with pride, drew from his bag
a well worn jigger.
C This is the club wi which have
made mony a hole-in-one, he told
Burton.
the club.
by jove," he said, II like that. Let
me buy it from you. won't your"
NO. no. he said. He paused a
moment.
"I'll tell you, though" he went on,
sI'll let YOU have a shot WI it"
Burton played the jigger.
And he got a hole-in-one!
However, this isn't the climax of
the story.
That afternoon, playing the eighth
hole, Burton got another ace.
No doubt about his eligibility to
the inner. shrine Of the Hole-in-one
Three Aces in Round.
All this is by way of leading up to a
much disputed question, namely
What is the most remarkable hole-in'
one performance on record?
On a number of occasions players
have made two aces in a single round.
Only last Spring, dispatch from Van
couver. British Columbia. stated that
K. Tanaka, a local golfer, had made
two roles-in-one during round on
the Langara course at South Vancou'
ver A member of the Charleston, S.
c., Country Club is even reported TO
have made two consecutive aces some
years ago.
These are highly interesting per
formances, but how do they compare
with the following feat, of which Alex
Armour was the unwilling, but ad
miring victim?
Alex and Charles Robertson, a
bachelor of science in the department
of agriculture of Edinburgh Univer
sity. We're playing a friendly match
over private SouiSo az 4AAHDahA'
Three times during the round,
says Armour, 81 made 2. And every
time I made 2, Robertson made a
hole-in-one!
1T so happened that the course
was a miniature one. All the holes
were short, ranging from 80 to 12C
yards in length. But the holes or
which Robertson scored his aces av
eraged about 100 yards. This is q
sufficient distance to make his feat
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N YORFOLk, Va, June 28.-Wltn
George J.. Voigt of Bannock.
VI burn leading the field in de-
l. Tense of his championship,
the second half of the 36-hoie
qualifying round of the Middle-Atlan-
tic Golf Association championship got
under way today over the course OF
the Norfolk Country Club. Voigt had
a card of 70, two shots over par.
Two strokes back of VOigt as the
second round started today was Rich
ard n. Tunstal of the Norfolk Coun-
try Club, one-time tennis star. Only
three shots back of Voigt were Harry
G. Pitt and "A. l.. Houghton of the
Manor Club, who scored rs to tie
with f. M. Savage of the Elkridge
Hunt Club.
Two Of the outstanding entrants
from Washington were dangerously
close to the fringe of the first flight.
AS Miller b. STEVENSON Of Columbia
and Charles NJ. Mackall of Chevy
Chase will have to improve their game
over the second round If they expect
to qualify In the championship flight,
only three of the Washington group
of nearly q score are in a good posi-
ton to qualify for the first flight.
Mackall was in a bad spot by virtue
Of an 81 yesterday. He was out In AZ,
but took an on the 192yard tenth
hole, playing three shots in trap be-
fore reaching the green
STEVENSON played poor golf to run
up total of so strokes.
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$1,000
swing?"
Second among the queries in popu-
larity is:
"IIow and where do you shift the
weight to the right leg?"
1t is evident to me that weight
shifting bothers golfers moro than
any other single phase OF the thing,
yet Notwithstanding is a matter the
golfer need give but little attention,
actually, if other details of his swing
are right.
II you start the back swing with
the hands, and keep the hands lead
ing all the way, the body will auto
matically follow in proper order and
YOU will have q good unison of action
all the way through. For some golf
ers | advocate very definite SHIFT
of the weight to the right leg at the
very beginning of the back swing. a
beginning golfer can do that because
it at least enables him to hit the ball.
For elderly men it is a good practice,
too. Afterward. if they get to shit.
ing too much, so that the right hip
projects out too far, they can more
easily cut it down.
Without this quick shove-over Of
the weight the beginning player is too
apt, have observed, to let his weight
fall forward, toward the ball, so that
at the top he is directly over the ball
or in front of it, instead of in back
of it. The weight shifting may pro-
duce some body swaying. but it is
better to sway a little, as Ted Ray.
the great British player always has,
than to fall forward.
The one point the golfer need con-
Germ himself about is this: Merely
showing the hips to the right in the
back swing Is not shift of weight,
and such action will produce too much
looseness about the middle body. The
weight should go over till 1t Is d.
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YOUTHFUL CHAMPION
HONORED BY OMAHA
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr., June 28.-Johnny
Goodman, 18-year-old former caddy
and the head" of a family Of nine
brothers and sisters, has become the
Lindbergh Of his home town since he
took the Trans Mississippi golf title
from veteran linksmen at Broadmoor,
Colo.
Johnny came back to Omaha in
triumph yesterday to be met by the
mayor, James c. Dahlmap; a group
Of city officials and crowd Of cheer
ing fellow citizens.
Good luck greeted Johnny in the
form of an educational fund-started
by Arthur Mullen, attorney, and
Democratic national committeeman.
The fund will insure for Goodman
an education. His benefactors also
pointed out that Johnny would not
have to turn professional.
Johnny's mother is dead and the
elder Goodman disappeared several
years ago, leaving the son to watch
the flock of nine. Goodman became
promising golfer shortly after he
began caddying on Omaha links.
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Scores Of the Washington contin-
gent and the leaders follow:
SWEETSERS TRIUMPH
IN FATHER SON GOLF

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 28.-Jess Sweet
ser and his father, George, won about
every prize in sight in the annual
father and son golf tournament OF the
metropolitan district.
Taking alternate strokes at the same
ball, the Sweetsers covered the IS
holes of the Garden City Golf Club
links in an SO for the low gross score
which gave them their second victory
in recent years. They won the event
in 1919 with an "a.
The Sweetser team scored its second
triumph of the day when Jess, the
former United States and British anna
teur champion. whacked ball 242
yards "a feet to win the long-driving
contest.
The prize was a cigarette case, which
will do Jess little good, as he does not
smoke.
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That Inner Shrine Needed for Select en1be
G. W. U. NETMEN BEATEN

PHILADELPHIA, June 2s.-Two
George Washington University play
ers were eliminated in the first round
OF the college tennis tournament that
started yesterday at the Merton
Cricket Club here.
Donald Sickler and Harrison Du~
rand lost their matches in straight
sets.
Detweiler, another George Wash
ington student, got by the opening
round. but fell by the wayside In
tho "9econd
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TT WASN'T A SHOT To BOAST ABOUT

neve them and when we got up to
the green and some one dug my ball
out of the cup l still could not credit
them with being truthful. l thought
they had palmed counterfeit ball on
me. 1t wasn't until some time after,
on their solemn assurance that they
were telling the truth. that I finally
credited myself with having made a
hole-in-one.
But / never boast about it."
(Copyright 1927
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TILDEN WOULD NOT. TURN
PRO FOR A MILLION NOW

player, also have been offered sums
of no small consequence to turn pro-
fessionals Mrs. Godfree refused, but
it is stated that Miss Nuthall is "con-
sidering the offer" although her
mother is not in favor of having her
enter the professional field. AS the
girl is only 16 it would be impossible
for her to sign a binding contract.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

Topping the list of week end events
at the Manor Club, the women mem
bers will battle for the club champion
ship in a three-day celebration Of the
Fourth Of July. Saturday and Sun
day they will play Is holes medal
play for club honors. On the same
days there will be sweepstakes events
for the men.
The biggest program ever planned
for the club will be run off on July
4. In the morning, teeing off not
later than IL o'clock, according to
AL Treder. the club pro, there will be
best-ball member guest handicap
flag tournament and while this is on
the women will play for the putting
championship of the club. AT 4:30 the
putting green's will be turned over to
the men for the putting champion
ship.
The driving contest will be put on
at $50 and in this those long hitters,
Earl McAleer, Harry Pitt and Al
Houghton who has just won the Con-
gressional Club tournament are eX-
pected to furnish the fireworks. Fol-
lowing this there win come the award
ing of the prizes in the various events
as we'll as the awarding of the prizes
in the championship flight last week
end. There will be swimming events
in the big pool, fireworks, dancing
and dinner.
A set of three ivory billiard balls,
oro IJSo5 il, cha Y11Yion chin
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This is the season of the year when
new members are being admitted TO
the Hole-in.One Club in hordes.
With the vast increase in the army
If golfers, aces are becoming so COM
mon the club really ought TO be re-
organized. 1t ought 70 have an out
err court for players who make
ordinary holeS-in-one. and an inner
shrine, reserved fer those whose aces
are made in highly unusual circum'
stances.
Jock Hutchinson. who helped him
self 10 win the 1921 British open cham
pionship with holo-in-one, would
make a worthy member Of the inner
shrine. So would Eddie priggS. who
was one az the recent low QuaAfierS
for the National open hy virtue 81 an
ace. And unqueSlyonahly the hero Of
the following story should be adj
n1itteSS.
But Herd Wouldn't Sell.
The incident was described u me
by Alex SANDY Armour Of the Con-
Srsssionsl Country Club, the older
Brother az Tommy Armour, who is
considered the best long iron player
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LITTLE OPERATED UPON.

BOSTON, June 2S.-Louis Little,
Georgetown director of athletics and
foot ball coach, was recovering today
from an operation for acute appen-
dicitis performed yesterday at Brooks
Hospital here. Little was attacked at
Leominster, Mass. where he has been
spending his vacation.
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TREASURY NETMEN WIN
FIRST HALF OF SERIES

Treasury netmen clinched top hon
ors for the first half of the Depart
ment League yesterday by sweeping
Commerce, 5-to.0, in a doubles engage
mnt.
Summaries.
Charest and Purton Treasury defeated
Judd and Yeojanus (Commerce1. 6-3. e..
STAN and Bayliss Treasury defeated Ora
zoe and Herrin tCommerce). 4--6. g..
Hubbard and Cross tCommercel 2--6. Cd;
e.; Coe and Gardner1 tTreasuryl defeated
11-9: Dawson and Seidel Treasury de-
feated Gibson and Shafnus tCommerce)
6--4, g..
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v v WILLIAM WOOD of Wash.
ington Golf and Country
AN Club and Walter Cunning
ham Of Burning Tree Club
will face Thursday morn
ing at 10 o'clock at Indian Spring to
settle their tie in the assistant pro-
fessionals' 36-hole tournament. Each
had 1862 when play ended yesterday.
Gene Larkin of Indian Spring was
third, with 1913.
Wood rallied gallantly to deadlock
Cunningham. The latter faltered in
| the final going and Wood flashed some
nifty golf to make up a 4-stroke ad-
vantage held by his rival.
The cards:
Woodworking:
IN 2n' .: :::::: SS45S5S5 44-4sss-sa
2 fs .: :::: tSttss444ts--44SS- so-lea
2 f% . ::::: S95t55tttt2a--ssss-
Afternoon:
2 IN .:::.:.: 4425443sSSS6155-s5-1e
Other scores were:
Gene. Larkin. Indian Springs, s6-S2-
1853: Clyde De Havers, Rogers Fore. So
so-,-172; Bob, Scott, Baltimore Country
Country s2s s3- Leo KssssnaR BALI Bali
h ndran ROCK SRticcF Greek 0s7M014i7s Bin Hardy
Chevy Chass ss-93rl3o BIZ ILL., Ma 10y
e sfessona s sSi l. Stevens srt Manor mon
05-S9-I84
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A set of three ivory billiard balls,
such as are used in championship
matches, costs about SIS.
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By the Associated Press.
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~ HERE is one question that
comes to me more often than
any other single query.
"Where Is the weight Of the
body at the top of the back.
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VOIGT. WITH %, LEADING
in GOLF TOURNEY TESTS

YoRFOLK. Va. June 28.-With
George J. Voigt of Hammock
III burn leading the field in de-
' Tense of his championship,
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dom of the seas with the little
woman of the evening.
&*x
There is. dinner scene in act
two that Is quite funny, but the
overstudding of the dialogue with
today's slang detracts. other
spots have moments of humor and
interest. particularly the" good
night scene between Penelope and
her slaves and Ulysses set-to in
the last act with his man, Iro.
Individual performances are ali
worthy with Mr.. Atwill struggling
under what may be called the only
straight part in the piece. Hilda
Spong is fine as Penelope. That
grand deliverer OF tough character
parts, Ernest Cossart, keeps Iro a
very live clown. The really alIur-
ing performances of the evening
are those of Jane Chaplin, as the
captivator of Ulysses, and Harold
Waldridge, as Telemachus, the
half-baked son.
IL you haven't seen "The Road
to Rome" you may, with reserva-
tions, care for this step. child.
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strength of the company in one of
the best things on the bill.
Among the musical hits this
week are ''In the Movies" "Call
Me Up on the Telephone" Snow
Man." and Whats the Use of
Crying" The costumes are some
nifty and the scenic effects are
pleasing to the eye.
On the screen is Aae Murray In
Valencia" splendid, well acted
and finely presented feature.
Arthur Manville's boys provide the
melody in an excellent manner.
-H. s.
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Y. M. H. A. TROUPE
READY FOR
CURTAIN

Every modern stage dance, with
a few bordering on the ultra, will
be seen in the first public show
Ing of the twelfth annual Y M. HI.
A. minstrel show, which was given
Its premier last night at Walter
Reed Hospital,
The soldier patients went wild"
over the show, and called for re-
peated encores.
Among the dance features are
the "dervish whirl," by Hershey
Kaplan; the Black Bottom, by
Pauline Aein, winner Of cup in
a recent contest here; Matthews
and Mack in fast clogs and soft
shoe: the Foggy Bottom. by Flea
nor Patlen and Sis Cohen; !; Rus
sian number, by 11-year-old Helen
Dick, and an old-time waltz, feat
uring Eva Rosenbloom and Flora
Alpert.
The Foggy Bottom is the girls
own variation of the popular
Black Bottom, and went over es.
pecially big with the soldier pa.
tients.
The show was directed BY John
Baldwin, assisted by Andrew L.
Oehman. Harry L. Wender is in
terlocutor.
Dancing will follow the per-
Torrance at the center tonight.
with Ochmann's Orchestra fur
nishing the music.
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GORILLA" ROMPS
DOW N NINTH
STREET WAY

A very creditable performance
of The Gorilla, . Ralph Spence's
screaming trayesty on the mys-
terry play, was given by Lewis
Talbot's players at the Gayety last
night. Although this three act
play has been seen here before it
has lost none of its mirth- provok-
ing powers, while some of the
timid ones in the audience were
glued to the chairs when n1ys-
FERROUS happenings flashed before
their eyes.
The escape and pursuit of the
gorilla through the aisles rocked
the house with laughter and was
one of the funniest scenes Gayety
patrons have seen this season.
As Mulligan and Clarity, the
square head" detectives, Brad SUIT
ton and that old Roman of the
"10-20-30" days of yesteryear,
Corse Payton, kept everyone in a
continuous uproar. Walter Asher
was effective in the role of Arthur
Marsden. Salome Hanlon played
Alice DENLY, the only female char
acter in the plot, convincingly.
Other members of the com.
pany whose talents contributed
materially to the success of the
show include Dan Quinlan, Cur
bow Hayes, George Kinnear, Ray
Hamilton, w. HI. Riano, as the
gorilla, and ]. B. Cunningham.
The show was effectively staged
by Walter #. ScOtt.-H w.
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rsa y
Comparison of this piece to-
"The Road to Rome" IS newt
able. Both treat satirically of
epochs in history; the first with
Ulysses return from the siege
of Troy; the second, with Han
nibal's failure to sack the seat
of the empire. Both rely on the
modernistic touch to archaic set
ting but, whereas the Sherwood
essay was wittily sophisticated
and altogether pleasant bur-
lesque, "The Adventurer" is
funny only insofar as the
Bishop of Leeds would be in an
autographed slicker. You can
laugh for the first five minutes,
but after that it becomes some
thing of a chore to keep it up.
Further there is a last act
that will promote fell and sum-
mary attention from the play
jury in New York. 1t puts any
thing in "Red Light Annie" or
Ladies of the Evening" to
flight over the back fence.
Ulysses has returned after 20
years at the wars to find Pene-
lope so squat and bromide that
he declines to reaVel his iden-
tity. She's still weaving her
web and disrupting it nightly,
though such artifice seems I'M
necessary in view of her great
decline from the Olympus Of her
youth. Also the son he had pic
tured twanging his fathers bow
at the receding wild bears, is
a puny dull-wit whose exercise
consists of laughing at his own
jokes, pretty bad ones, too.
Ulysses gets away from it all
by the expedient of decamping
for night with a pretty little
harlot. Here is the third act,
laid in a prostitutes house just
before dawn with Ulysses in
bed, apparently unclothed and
dialoguing some decidedly raw
stuff with his small companion.
1t all ends with the Trojan
giant dispatching his shabby
aide (who had helped Penelope
complete her webb to the castle
with the injunction to declare
he is the returned Ulysses and
the latter decamps for his king
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IT'S A GOOD BILL, MAKE
NO MISTAKE

Inspired by Enor Gyms work. Hearst Cosno-
poitan Magazine fluffy and amusing picture
this week filling the big house show after shofor
at ALL except that the public likes fun of this kind
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Mr.. HAMP UP TO
HIS OLD
TRICKS

Little snatches of fine humor,
good melodies, agreeable dance
numbers and a supply of rough
house comedy are found in Happy
Hours" the medium of the Strand
players at that theater this week.
Once more we have Irwin B.
Hamp and his droll assistants
shooting the laugh numbers and as
usual they make good. Billie La
Motto, Terita Schaeffer and Kath-
leen Butler are stars of the song
and dance creations and with a
fine chorus of good-looking young
women assisting them, these fea-
lures Of the show prove delightful.
The closing number, in which
selections from III. M. S. Pinafore"
are rendered, introduces the full
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NATIONAL S NEW FARCE
GETS THE SMILES

With hardly enough SATIRE nesse plot depth
It box office Honeymoonng High" so-caled
Psychic Cyclone in the second of infant
at the National Theater manages send Mr. Cocran paying
guests out into the night with smiles their faces however
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A POP-GUN BLAZES AT
HISTORY
Ry HAROLD PHILLIPS

The historic background of this old world is beginning
like shooting gallery.
Not few of the antique that painted
efugences being right canay these days
with everything from air-rfles shrapneL Look!
George Washington Helen of Troy, Are Hannibal
Gaahad Celni extra high explosive needed this
reputation); Ulysses and others.
Rupert Hughes Washington human John
Erskne made Helen shrewish dmneering loneliness and
also motyaed quite physical for Galahads quest
Shaw made something of hawt of Joan and Shrwoos
personal Interpretation of Hannibal is that he great
warrior in the field but gentleman with pardonabe weaknesses
when alone with pretty Celn 1.-THE Fire
brandt course the Ceini he. himself, claimed
Comes Cazni of Italy, who makes fatuous Ducy
out of Penelope thereby excusng Ulysses ngorous but salts
flying end in a brothel.
This latter in "The Adventurer" at Beasco,
Lionel Atwl M Calzns artillery pop-gun he doesn't
hit the mark Robert Sherwood could show better craftsmanship
with tray of