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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
VOTCT. MACKENZIE EFT AL.
HELD TOO GREEN TO WIN
Jones Regarded Most Likely to Snatch Amateur
Golf Crown of Won Elm, With Ounet, Evans,
Gum and Johnston Conceded Chance.

| i'm the race. And the third round
| should find the oldtimers still stick
/ inC. around-men like Jones. Won Elm
Ouimet. Gum and Johnston.
Also Chick Evans of Chicago is far
/ from through. He is playing better
than ever this year and will take q
world of beating from any man in the
! field Chick has had his troubles over
the last four years, and they haven't
helped his golf game a bit Yet
through 1t all he has maintained that
mastcrful touch with the irons that
was his when he was king of the anna
tour realm. and if he could putt like
Bob Jones he still would be one OF
the real threats. Putting alone beat
him at Baltusrol last year. for he
Outplayed Jones up to the hole. only
to falter and fail on the siX-footers.
So there they are--Non Elm. Jones.
Ouimet. Gum, Evans and Harrison
Il. Johnston. There is the group to
be feared. Any of them. two or three
Of them. may not survive the first
two match-play rounds. But it's still
n safe bet that one Of this group of
six will win the championship. ANA
teur golf is odd that way.
1t has been n long time since a real
surprise was staged in the amateur
championship since the day chubby
Davidson Heron gave Bob Jones
such a wallopinc in the final at Oak
mont. That was the first real Sensa-
ton in many years and the last for
eight years, barring Jess Sweetser's
victory at Brookline and Watts
Gums march through the field at
Oakmont. six years later.
Fut Sweetser was heraided-known.
And Gum didn't win. So it isn't
likely that any one but the established
and known masters will be up there
the final day. battling for the title
And from the looks of things, it
wouldn't he at all surprising to find
a repetition of the final of last year
and see Bob Jones and Won Elm
again matching shots for the cham
,,innchin
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BY BUNKER.

y the same day that Walter
Travis died in Colorado,
J Bobby Jones came forth with
a suggestion that possibly a
less lively ball would be ad.
visable in future championships, thus
emphasizing the facts that the tire
mendous driving of today has taken
many of the shots and much OF the
strategy out of the golf.
The coincidence lies in the cirCum-
stance that Travis was the greatest
exemplar in history of the short. ac-
curately hit ball. | doubt if. in all his
career. Travis ever drove a ball $50
yards, yet he won our national anna
teur three times and the British anna
teur once. and also nearly won our
national open.
OF course there have always been
long hitters in golf. When Travis won
the British amateur in 1904 he beat
Edward Blackwell, who was a ire
mendous driver. Blackwell, quarter
of a century ago. often registered
drives of more than 300 yards He did
this in the finals match with Travis.
On many holes Blackwell reached
the green in 2. while Travis was on
| in g. But Travis finesse with his
| Dutter halved a lot of these holes and
won others.
When he wasn't getting Blackwell's
| number with fine puts, he was get
| ting it with accurate chipshots and
we'll placed run-ups.
Sinks Two 7O-Foo:ers.
In his recent triumph at st. An
! drews. Bobby Jones sank puts of so
| 90, Is and 100 feet. But these puts
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ZONES ANNEXES DISTRICT
TRAPSHOT CHAMPIONSHIP

from 20; Morgan, 81 from q, and
FaWsett, SO from %.
Scores made by others than winners
in the morning follow: II. l.. Worth
ington professionally. SO; j. II. Hunter,
81; DR.. Slime, DR.. Parsons, +. Stubenef,
80; DR.. Sylvester. Sc; w. Wilson, SO;
Maj. Smith, IS; r. M. Miller. 80; Or.
Wynkoop, rs; G. d. Richardson, 20;
G. S. Wilson, ga.
Additional afternoon scores:
Britt, &c from 16 yards; DR.. Stlne'
SO from 10; w. Wilson. SO from 1G;
Richardson, so from 16; DIR. Sylvester
70 from II; j. Cain, 70 from 16; Live
sey, 70 from 18; Jones, 76 from H.
and Maj Smith, Is from 10.
Col. George HELEN, donor of the
trophy bearing his name, has decided
that in order to give all opportunity
to get in the 300 shots required in the
competition that hereafter events
| may be staged as often az desired,
provided there are five contestants at
hand. Thus far there has been only
! one event on this trophy each Satur-
day afternoon. The competition will
close with the/August 81 shoot.
DIR. w. d. Monroe with four legs Is
setting the pace for the trophy. Frank
Burrows with three is second. The
! first award is a life membership in
| the Amateur Trapshooting Associa-
| ton with which Washington Gun Club
! Is affiliated.
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Half Dozen Have Chance.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NJ MINNEAPOLIS, August 90
~ N Practice rounds today topped
N off the grooming process for
4 many of the 168 golfing
stars entered in the ma
tional amateur tournament over the
Ninikahda course here next week.
Over the gently rolling fairways
and occasional hilltop greens the thlr'
ty-first amateur championship Will be
fought out by field considered one OF
the strongest ever entered in this
classic
Representing the outstanding anna
tours in all sections Of the United
States and parts of Canada, the entry
list includes more than 80 players with
national regional or State titles 10
their credit.
While George Won Elm, the defend
ing champion, from Los Angeles. and
Bobby Jones Of Atlanta have had the
leading roles in pre-tourney predic-
lions. their practice performances
have been outdOne by many lesser
lights.
An Array of Talent.
Besides the we'll known trophy win
ners, from major champions down to
State finalists, there are many young
men OF great promise ready for the
bitter fight, eager to uncrOwn the
champion or climb to the list Of the
elect.
Only two national amateur cham
pions of the last IS years will be miss
ing from the qualifying starters-the
two JesseS Guilford and Sweetser, the
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MARBERRY'S RESCUE TITLE
MAY co TO Wiley MOORE

Wiley Moore of the New York
Yankees bids fair to win the relief
pitching championship away from
Marberry of Washington this season.
Moore now is one of the top-lofty
pitchers of the American League. He
has won IL games and lost 5, and 1t is
only fair to him to say that some of
the best pitching he has done was in
! the games he lost.
Wilcy's record for complete games
is infinitesimal compared with his
record for winning games. He has
pitched only three complete games to
date. and it is not likely that he will
be asked to pitch more than three
more for the remainder of the season.
HIS forte has been pulling out some
body else's bad ones, and as the
Yankees seem to have the pennant
about won, the chances are that he
will be saved for the world series.
When the series starts, the Yanks
will desire that Moore be sprung upon
the National League as an entirely
new and modern sensation. There Is
no pitcher like him in the National
League. If the Yanks play the Cubs
for the championship of the world the
Chicago team will find some difficulty
in solving Moore's particular style,
unless base ball possibilities mislead.
Were Moore to win two or three
more games this season without los
! ing any more. he would finish his
! American League year so near the top
of the show that his Importance will
| be impressed more strongly than ever
as a ball player.
The observers who named Moore for
| a big year in the Spring were about
two-this writer and another. Moore
has proved to be the third cog in the
Yankees success. Without him there
' might have been a pennant for The
Yanks, hut not by any such surplus as
| they have accumulated.
Moore is one of those bashfulfy
confident ball players who are worth
their weight in gold. Cy Young was
one such. He was diffident to the last
degree, and even in the later years OF
his long experience never could dis
cuss himself without blushing. He
! gladly talked base ball with his
! friends, but when they tried to talk
Cy Young to him he fled. After he
won his first major league game, no
one could find him. He ran from the
| clubhouse to Il street car and hid him.
self in his room at the hotel, fearful OF
facing praise.
! Moore's triumph this year is the
greatest triumph OF an aged ball
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GAINED HIS PROFICIENCY
BY SIECES OF PRACTICE
His Ability on Greens, Not Dimmed yJones' Feats,
Made Him Championship Will Aid 1927
Wnner-Linksmen Often SupersttiOus.

II was going to sink il. The hume.
was 80 positive I almost knew M
ball would go down.
ION every other putt during tho
championship l had taken great care
in sighting, measuring the distance.
etc. This time | took one look ana
tapped the ball. 1t went in for >
while Francis missed his short Onc
and / won the hole. 1t was the turn
ing point in our match"
Whoever wins the championship
which now impends at Minikahda will
be entitled to due credit for his skill
and courage, but, in honest heart-tO
heart conversations with himself. he'll
be inclined to ask himself if fate
didn't play big part in his success.
S!lerriIi's Old Shirt.
When you talk about fate you aren't
far from the matter Of superstition
| II must be admitted that golfers. like
any one else, are superstitious on oc-
| casiOn
| One of the big figures OF the 1915
amateur championship at the Detroit
| Country Club was Tom Sheriff..
| Before the tournament began Sher-
| rill won in the four-ball trophy
matches. He happened to be wearing
an old shirt, which he had found very
comfortable. SO, the next day. when
the qualifying rounds were played, h"
| put it on again.
II had good luck in this old shirt
yesterday" he said. 80 l guess I'll
try it out another day"
! Tom qualified. so he was bound 20
sport the garment again, though 1t
! was getting more and more soiled.
Wearing it. he went through the early
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Dy the Associated Press.
r AXE GENEVA. Wis. August
1 2O.--A far-driving woman who
has played tournament golf for
IL only three years came out of
the Far West and won the
woman's Western golf championship
today from a field that included six
former title holders by defeating in
the finals girl who never before had
reached the semi-finals.
The new champion, Mrs. Harry
Prcssler of Los Angeles, played par
golf nearly all week and was not far
above par today In defeating Bernice
Wall of Oshkosh, Wis. ) and 4, in
the 36-hole match.
Miss Wall had little chance to win
as she could not play her short APP
proaches and puts with the precision
she did in going through to the ulti-
mate round.
Mrs. Prcssler outdrove Miss Wall
on nearly every hole and frequently
by 30 to so yards. This left the Wis
consin lass the task of reaching with
eXactness for the green's with a spoon
or a brassie. while her opponent could
pitch home with mashie.
But Seven Strokes Over Par.
The defeated golfer did pretty well.
ut that. being only seven strokes over
par for the 81 holes played, while Mrs.
PreSsler was four above perfect fig
ures. The Pacific Coast star was at
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Federal Bowling League will have
representatives of every Government
department this year, increasing the
number of championship contenders 10
20 instead Of TO- as was the case last
wear. A meeting will be held next Fri
day at Tumble Inn, Nineteenth and
3 streets, at o'clock, at which time
all department teams will be repre-
sented. All of the 1867 teams VIII
be back in the race.
This league is an outgroWth or 70
tomac Park Athletic Assoclatloh'
which now has more than 2,500 mem
bers paying dues, which are used
largely to defray expenses OF Federal
League base ball teams. Members
pay so cents annually. which entities
them to membership cards which en-
title the holder to special discounts at
various local stores.
A. r Koch. president and leading
organizer, has been very active in the
bowling and base ball leagues. He is
assisted by G. X. Hodgson, secretary
and treasurer, who has handled the
finances in a manner which lncited
the commentator of Maj. A. Z. NC
Bride. General Staff, who is auditor OF
the association.
The association has on its roster
several of the members of the Federal
Cabinet in addition to Army and Navy
dignitaries. Some of the distinguished
members are Secretary of war
Dwight f. Davis, Secretary of the
Navy Curtis d. Wilbur, Secretary OF
Labor James j. Davis. Secretary or
State II. B. Kellogg, Secretary OF
Commerce Herbert Hoover, Chairman
Of the United States Shipping Board
T. V. O'Connor, President of the Mer-
chant Fleet Corporation, Gen a. c.
Dalton, Director of Public buildings
and Public Parks, Lieut.. Col. U. 5.
Grant, Sd. and Director of the Vet
Grams Bureau, Gen. Frank Hines.
Junior Order u. A. NJ. Duckpin
League will open its season on Sep
TENDER q with 10 teams, representing
s chapters, in line. They are indie
pendent, j. NJ. Read, Capitol. Reno No.
/ and No. 2, f. J. Ross. Liberty No.
and No. 3. Old Glory and Benning.
Officers are w. S. Campbell, president;
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JOE DUNDEE WILL BATTLE
DRAKE IN GERMAN RING

BALTIMORE, Md. August 20 P).-
Max Waxman, manager of Joe Dun
dee. welterweight champion. today
announced he had accepted an offer
guaranteeing ST., 0G0 to match the
Baltimore fighter with Eilly Drake,
German welterweight, in a decision
bout in Dortmund. Germany on DC
toher II.
WaXman said he stipulated that
Andre Picard, Dortmund promoter, ar
range payment of travelling expenses
and was awaiting his reply.
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CHICAGO PRINTERS NINE
TAKES TOURNEY HON0RS

CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 20 w.
BY defeating st. Louis twice To-Day
Chicago won the championship OF the
Union Printers National Base ban
League. The scores were 6-2 and 3'2'
Strama of the Chicago team per
formed the iron man stunt by pitch
ing both games. He won the f1rst con-
test somewhat easily. with the as
sistance of De Caluwe, fleet-footed
outf1elder of the Chicago club, who
made three singles in five times at
bat.
The losers wasted many opportu-
mites, getting three hits and base
on balls in the second inning without
scoring.
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the Benning traps, when he shattered
81 in 100 to point the way to 10 trap
shooters who took part in the morning
competition.
Shooting from IS yards In the al
ternoon phase Of the 200-bird race, DIR.
A, V. Parsons hung up IS which
was regarded fine considering the dis
lance, and which earned for the vet.
eran shooter the title Of District OF
Columbia champion.
Distribution of prizes in the 100
target race was under the Lewis class
system and r. d. Morgan and Sher.
wood Bostwick, with strings of 81 and
81, respectively, were victorious IN
class A.
c. c. Fawsett bagged an IS and W.
A. Brandenburg an 81 to capture class
? Il laurels.
w. A. Brown and George Emmons
tied for first in the third class, each
with 81, but Emmons won the toss.
+. X. Colbert was runner-up to DR..
Parsons in the afternoon competition,
1is 90 winning him the yardage trophy.
Winners from the various yardages
were DR.. Wynkoop SSx1O0 from Ii
yards; Brandenburg, So from IT: EN-.
mons, IS from 10; P. Stubener. "
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RAILROAD OFFICES HERE
TO SELL FIGHT TICKETS

Fight fans of the District who
are planning visit to Chicago to
see Jack Dempsey attempt to re-
gain from Gene Tunney the heavy.
weight championship relinquished
to the ex-Marine at the Sesquicen.
tenniaI battle last Fall will be able
to obtain their tickets right i'll
town.
Through plan perfected by
Promoter Tex Richard the big rail-
roads throughout the country will
make reservations for seats In the
$40, $50. $50 and SIS classes. Start
ing tomorrow and until September
10 applications for tickets will be
received by the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad at its Office in the Wood
ward Building and by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at 6l3 Fourteenth
street
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player being introduced to base ball
for the first time in the history of
organized base ball. Kids have come
in and occasionally have played well
in their first season. Moore is an
elderly gentleman as such things so
in athletics. If he has 10 years left i'll
him as a pitcher he will be throwing
the ball when most elderly men will
be playing golf as last resort. 1t
isn't likely that he is good for 10 years
more. but that cannot alter the fact
that he is a pitching marvel of the
DAY. In season when pitchers are
none too good, this honest son OF
Oklahoma has created an atmosphere
about himself that always will invest
him with an aura that few base ball
players attain.
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WOMAN'S WESTERN GOLF
TITLE TO MRS. PRESSLER

her best on the second nine of the
morning round scoring 40. or 1 below
par. She never reached the game she
played in the previous matches, Wh"re
she scored three successive Kos.
Drives of 225 TO $50 yards and even
longer were not uncommon to TINS
woman. who. although the wife rf
professional for seven years. meyer
took enough interest in the game 20
play in Journeys until three years ago,
She never before had played in This
event. but announced when she ar
rived at the Lake Geneva Club that
she had come TO take the Champion
ship to California. Her worst round
was the qualifying one. in which sha
was 3 above par with 81.
1t was an ideal day for golf, with
bright sun and no wind.
The champion, who succeeds Dor
othv Page of Madison, Wis, defeated
by Mrs. Elaine Rosenthal Reinhart
in the second round, won the first
hole, but lost the second and third
to be down tor the only time. she
got the fourth with birdie, the sixth
and seventh with pars and the eighth
with another birdie to be 8 up. She
lost the short ninth, taking a bad ..
as she did again in the second round
but by taking four holes on the set
ond nine and losing only one she was
5 UP at the halfway mark.
The Westerner never got more than
up. and Miss Wall. taking advan-
tage partly of putting slump at the
start off the afternoon round. cup the
lead to 8 up at the twenty-third, only
TO drop off again until a series OIL
four halves in par or better ended the
struggle 5 and 4.
The cards.
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Wv viO will win at Minikahda:
a On the eve of the national
wv amateur championship
y which opens tomorrow over
the picturesque course near
thn Twin cities Of Minnesota, conleC-
lure in the sporting world turns 10
the small group Of men who nave
chance 10 snatch the crown from the
head Of George Won Elm.
And a small group it is. There are
not more than five or six men who
have 4 real chance and actually. with
less SWcetsCr missing. the Champion
shin is held. by those who know, TO lie
between two men. One of them Is the
champion himself and the other is no
one else but the king of them all,
Bobby Jones. who has lost just one
amateur championship match in TWO
years.
Yes. Of course. there are Ouimet and
Maraton, Held and Stein. Dolp ana
Dawson Johnston and Gum, ana
even Roland Mackenzie and GeorGe
Noigt. But when the boys get down
to real serious business on "Wednesday
after the smoke Of the qualifying
round has cleared away these two,
Won Elm and Jones, will lie the most
feared compel torS in the tournament.
their two most dangerous rounds
come on Wednesday, the two lS-hole
match-play rounds IN which real
star NAV have bad putting streak
and fall before a lesser light. who
couldn't heat him over the champion
ship distance. Sc holes.
Half Dozen Have Chance.
Five or six have chance. And
the others are way outside. To begin
with. it is asking too much for any
of the group of Washingtonians to
win the championship. The pressure
is Just too much, when the title chase
really gets hot. for such compare
lively inexperienced campaigners as
Noigt. Mackenzie. STEVENSON, Standl-
fer HOughton ct al. to expect 10 stay
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~HICAGO. August 20.-Peace-
full in mind and in no hurry
whatever to settle down to
~ the task of training, Jack
Dempsey today lowered at
tentively at the side of his ailing
wife, Estelle Taylor. He announced,
however he would go to Lincoln
Fields Monday, not only TO look over
his camp, but to start active work.
The first week. according to present
plans, is to be little more than a
limbering up routine. interrupted by
visits TO Chicago, particularly TO Mrs.
Dempsey's sickroom in her North
Shore hotel apartment. After the
first week the former titleholder will
see little or nothing of Chicago until
his battle September % with Gene
Tunney.
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FOUR CAPITAL ELEvENS
ON CALVERT HALL LIST

-Four Washington teams appear on
the foot ball schedule of Calvert Hall
School, Baltimore.
Eastern High will be engaged in
the Lincoln Parkers' stadium on Sep
TENDER so in the opening game for
both elevens. GonZaga will be enter
tanned in Baltimore October 8. Catholic
University freshmen will be taken
on at Brookland October ii and
Dewitt will be tackled in Baltimore
October 20.
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MAGUIRE, SECOND Stacker,
is PURCHASED BY CUBS

TOLEDO, Ohio, August 20 P).-
Announcement was made today OF the
sale TO the Chicago Cubs of Fred
Doc) Mcguire, star second baseman
OF the league-leading Toledo team or
the American Association.
The Cubs are understood to have
outbid Pittsburgh for him. Toledo
will receive cash and a player for
Mcguire, who will report to Chicago
next Spring.
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NOVICE GOLF PLAYER
MAKES A HOLE IN ONE

w. f. HUMPHREYS, a golf novice,
joined the Hole-in-One Club yester-
day at the Beaver Dam course. when
his mashie shot, off the fourth tee hit
well on the green and the ball trickled
into the cup. The hole is 145-yard
affair."
Humphries has been playing golf
only IL little more than month.
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BY d. Is. KELLER.

| HERE may be nothing in the
thirteen superstition. but
you would have difficult
time convincing Bobby
Jones of it's innocuity, II
there happens to be such a word.
Or me, after the thirteenth hole
in the third round at the 1927
United States open golf champion
ship at Oakmont.
The short thirteenth hole at Oak
mont busted the worlds champion
he was champion at the moment
AS conclusively as the long
twelfth, or ghost hole, broke him
eight years before in the match
with Davy Heron on the same
course. Well, maybe not quite so
definitely. the Heron affair being
match play, and the recent bust
ness being medal play, in which
Bobby stood up to the thirteenth
hole with two-thirds Of the tourna-
ment back Of him and one-third left
to play.
Here was the situation.
Bobby had never been right from
the start of the great Oakmont
course. His first round had been
saved from blue ruin by wonderful
putting, long puts holed in crisis
after crisis, 1t might as we'll have
been an so as the 76 he turned in.
His second round was better played,
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BAT NELSON Is REFUSED
LICENSE AS A REFEREE

CHICAGO, August 20 R).-The
cherished ambition Of Battling Nelson
to referee the Dempsey-Tunney
fight on September 22-faded today.
The SIS the one-time worlds light
weight champion left with the State
| Boxing Commission as fee for a
referees license was returned to him.
That implies his application was de-
MED.
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MRS. MALLORY IN FINAL
ROUND WITH MRS. CHAPLIN

RYE. n. Y. August 20 tP).-.Mrs;;
Molla Mallory. New York. natlonai
champion, and Mrs. \. II. Chaplh'
Hyannis. Mass. today qualified 10
meet tomorrow in the hnal 1or the
Eastern women's tennis title.
Mrs. Mallory defeated Penelope
Anderson. Richmond. Va. 6-3, Ga.
and Mrs. Chaplin defeated Mrs. Anna
H. Hubbard EdGewood, Md, g.
e., in the senitinalS