Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-14
Rowing the Sports World

By the Associated Press.
France has a new golf prodigy. She
SIS Mile. Manette lie Blan, just turned
II.
Beginning tournament play some
what timidly last year, Nine. LIE Blan
quickly shot up to pominence when
the new season began this Spring. In
tn Coupe Femina, the medal play for
French women, she finish I'd third.
Ahead of her was the former cham
pion, Nine. P. P. Munier, an the
newer champion, Mile. Simone Thion
de la Chaume.
The following day young Mice. lie
Blan made her place as a rising star
secure. In the second round of the
closed championships at st. Cloud she
defeated Nine. Munier.
Mile. lie Blan first bIossomed on the
course at Sart, near her home town,
Lille. Her father is a prominent
manufacturer and her brother one of
the best golfers in Northern France.
Part of her education, including golf,
was acquired in England.
IN caging a total of 2S6 points in
nine games in which she played for
ward for Scarboro (Me.) High School
little Dagna Olesen has made a bid
for the high scoring record in basket
bali.
Her teammates believe che set an
other mark for the State when she
scored % field goals for a total of Sc
points against the Buxton High girls.
In only two games did Dagna fail
TO score more than 20 points. The di-
minutive players accuracy in shooting
field baskets offsets the disadvantage
of her height.
Jacob r. Meadow, Newport, Ark,
base ball player and tennis star is con-
WINGED that athletics blend well with
studies.
Meadow has been base ball captain
at Arkansas College three of the four
years he has played there and has
twice been college champion in tennis
singles.
He had a scholastic record of go
for his four years in the college and
now has virtually an average of A in
his graduate work at the University
of Arkansas. He has just been award
ed a graduate fellowship in chemistry
at the University of Iowa.
French rowing crews hereafter will
undergo long courses of intensive
training before international events.
Experts, alarmed at the mediocre
showing of their Fights, have decided
that the French physique is the best
in the world for scientific rowing but
that training methods in the past
have been too haphaZard and that
technique has been too much neg
Jected.
The ardent temperament of the
Frenchman is given as one reason
for the lack of technique. In his prac-
tiee he burns with a desire for speed,
and the long-distance pulls of an
American college crew, trained in
measured cadence, don't appeal to
him.
Teams from a score of colleges and
universities, playing everything from
baseball to tennis. will represent the
floating university" when the second
college cruise around the world is
begun next September.
Ebert +. Freeman of the Univer-
sity Of Michigan has begun prepare.
tions for contests that will include a
base ball game with Oriental batsmen
on their home diamond. tennis
matches with Acknowledged racketeers,
swimming meets in the midPacific,
the Indian Ocean and the Mediterra-
mean.
Athletics on the first college cruise
proved the practicability of competi-
T1on with foreign teams.
Despite the increasing interest in
the Philippines in such Western sports
as base ball, tennis and foot ball, the
great national game still is cock
fighting.
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