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INSTALLMENT SWIM
WILL BE HELD AT Y

K. +. Martyr, swimming director of
the Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton, has announced new Install
ment PLAN endurance swim, to begin
July Is and continue through August.
The new contest will differ from the
recent Channel" swim IN that con-
testants will be permitted to swim as
long and as often as they wish, with
in wide limits. The swimmer who has
negotiated the greatest number of
laps in the Y NJ. C. A. pool when the
contest closes will be adjudged victor.
Entrants will be divided into three
classes, according to their swimming
ability. There will be a class for
quarter-milers, another for half-milers
and a third for those proficient in
mile sWims. Emblems will be award
ed winners in each of these classes
Those in the first class will be per-
mitted to swim as much as a quarter
of a mile daily, those in the second
group not more than half mile daily
and those in the last group not more
than one mile per day.
The total number of laps swum, not
the frequency with which contestants
visit the pool during the week, will
decide the winners. Martyr points out
that a swimmer who does mile in
one week by making one trip to the
pool may be outdone by another swim
mer who shows up every day or so
and completes shorter distances.
| In order to swim mile the contest
ant must cover &C lengths of the pool.
Coach Martyr already has begun
enrolment of those desiring to enter
| the contest.
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POOR WORK AT OAKMONT
FAILS TO DECEIVE ALIENS
Bobby's Eleventh.HOur Decision to Participate
Along With Barnes and KirkwoOd Increases
Interest i'm Event Set for Next Week.

In the last six years a Briton has
won the British open but once.
Arthur Havers turned the trick in
1923. In the other five years Ameri
cans have captured this title. Jock
Hutchinson, born in Scotland. but now
an American citizen, won in 1921. The
following year Walter Hagen, Ameri-
can homebred professional, succeeded
Hutchisom as British open champion.
After losing out in 1923 to Havers by
one shot. Hagen came back and won
again in 1924.
In 1925 Long Jim Barnes, a native
of Cornwall, England, but an Ameri-
can citizen for the last 10 years, be-
came the title holder and last year
Bobby Jones won the cup and the
honor of being the first American
amateur golfer to win this classic.
The regard Britishers generally
hold for Bobby Jones and his golf
game may be cleaned from the fol.
lowing comments made by one of the
British professionals to this writer
after the open tournament at Oak
mont:
Jones Best of EN- All.
do you know" said the foreigner,
this score of 301-,meaning the total
of Tommy Armour and Harry Coop.
er-convinces me that there was some
ragged golf played here and that none
of the contestants was playing what
you can really call championship
golf. Certainly a man to win a ma
tional title should come close to
equaling par in four rounds.
II am not deprecating the ability
Of the American players, for do not
mean to do so when 1 say that of the
entire field Bobby Jones is not only
the outstanding golfer, but the only
one with a sound game. The others
may flash, but they have not the
game for consistent winning. And
how Jones ever came to play so
poorly is quite beyond me. Evidently
he had not played enough golf prior
to this tournament"
tCopyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03
TRAPSH00TERS TIE
IN HIGH-GUN EVENT

DR.. A. V. Parsons and Joseph
Hunter, each with AZ hits in SO, were
high scratch shots yesterday in the
weekly competition of the Washing.
ton Gun Club at the Benning traps.
DR.. Parsons won the trophy on
the toss.
The fact that field of 13 par.
t1cipated did not prove unlucky, as
good scores ruled
DR.. Parsons, showing well through.
out the race, registered "a to win the
four months trophy contest and gain
his second leg on this award.
In the handicap test nine shooters
hung up perfect totals. DIR. Sylvester
triumphed after a warmly contested
miss-and-out race.
Burrows and Wilson We're ranking
shots in the HELEN Cup competition
Tomorrow the club will hold holi
day shoot with a 100.singles race
| carded. Three prizes will be awarded
under the Lewis Class system,
Yesterdays scores follow:
Hunter. AT; Parsons, At; Dulaney
As; Blundon. As; Sylvester, As; Bur
rows. A: Hogan, Al; Livesey, az; Wyn
koop, AZ; Wilson, Al; Wilson, 3S
Morgan, SS; Glaze, 35.
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week that he is the premier performer
In golf around this section of the
country, winning all his matches, ex.
cept the final round against Houghton
with ease. Houghton struck a fine
streak of golf at Norfolk, playing over
a Well trapped and scientifically con.
structed course, whose fine distances
We're nullified by hard ground of a
character that enabled the long hit.
/ ters to reach 500-yard holes with a
drive and midiron. Under such con.
dltions Voigt's steadiness shone with
the same brilliancy he has displayed
under more normal ground conditions.
In the final round he cut loose with
brides on the first two holes and got
away to such long lead that Hough.
TONS gallant stand over the last eight
holes was not good enough to win.
Voigt's victory marked the first
time in the history of Middle Atlantic
Gon Association tournaments that
any man has been able to win the
championship twice in succession.
DIR. j. #. McClenahan, chairman of
the green's committee of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club, re.
manned over in Norfolk to spend the
holidays at Virginia Beach, playing
solI at Princess Anne.
Public links golfers of Washington
Will compete at the two big public
links courses next Thursday and Fri.
day in medal play contests to choose
the four-man team to represent Wash
ington in the national public links
championship early in August and to
settle the Washington public links
title. Entries for the qualifying rounds
for the national title close at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.
Two players will be selected at East
Potomac Park and two at Rock Creek
Park in S6-hole medal play Journeys
scheduled for both courses next Thurs
day. The following day the four men
Will play Is holes at Rock Creek at
$3.50 and Is more at East Potomac
Park, starting at o'clock, for the
District public links title.
Tom Armour of Congressional, ma
tional open champion, is scheduled to
start an exhibition tour with Bobby
Cruickshank tomorrow, playing
| match in Connecticut. He will be
busy most of the Summer with exhibit
tions.
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came through for fourth place. Miss
California was first with an average
speed Of 39.13 miles per hour for the
five miles. Christopher Ripp, Jamaica
Bay, N. y, drove his Baby Peerless
to second place and 1t, owned by
H. l.. Brown, Orange, Tex, was third.
Determined to show the racing fans
that she could win if the motor be-
haved, Mrs. McF'arlan, with pole po-
sition, started the $40 event with a
burst of speed and stepped on it all
the way. The first lap found the
woman driver leading the Miss Cali
fornia by almost a half mile, and al
though the last lap of the race was
run in q downpour of rain, Mrs. Nc
F'arlan increased her lead to win by
three-quarters of mile. Her time
was 41.S6 miles per hour.
The best time was made i'm the ISL
class, limited. when Jake Lemm drove
the entry OF Waugh Brothers, Peoria.
ILL.,, the Boots IL at a speed of
43.062 miles an hour for five miles.
The boat. however. blew valve and
withdrew from the other events. 1t
will be ready for competition again
tomorrow. The Baby Peerless fin
ished third.
No class saw all of the entries go
to the post, due to the epidemic Of
uufuV motQFs. --.@-s--sz.
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Jones Bic Threat Pros British Open Champion Golfers Make
ACCIDENT TO WRIGHT
COSTS ROWING TITLE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HELEY ON THAMES. England
July 2.--Joe Wright, jr.. Toronto, suf.
fered an accident at the close of the
race and was defeated in the final for
the diamond SOULS by r. Lee of Wor-
cester College, oxford.
Lee won by a length in the slow
time of Q minutes, seconds.
Wright was leading by a length
when he crashed into the boom at the
side of the course. 10 yards from the
finish.
j. Beresford. holder of the title,
was eliminated by Lee in a semi.final
heat. Wright. son of a former Penn
coach, was the favorite.
Wright won his semi-final heat in
S:57. while Lees victory over Beres-
ford was in 9:04
The Thames Rowing Club won the
grand challenge cup for Fights in Z
minutes Is seconds. defeating the
London Rowing Club.
First Trinity College, Cambridge,
won the ladies' plate for eight-oared
crews from Third Trinity, Cambridge,
by IN lengths, in z minutes 20 Sec
onds.
The sky was overcast. but tres
mendous crowd turned out to watch
the finals.
Premier Baldwin was present.
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MACKENZIE BADLY BEATEN
BY QUINN In LINKS FINAL
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ ARDEN CITY, N. Y, July g.
A Overcoming the medalist ink
which has held good with
~ only three exceptions in the
history of major tournament
competition. Watts Gum, Georgia
Tech senior, today won the Intercol-
legiate Golf Associations champion
ship by defeating Roland Mackenzie,
Brown University sophomore, 10 and 8.
Watts was in championship form to-
day. He won the medal with 78--76--
75-73-302, good enough, ordinarily,
to beat any field. He came through
four rounds of match play without a
close call. Starting the 36-hole final
today the smiling Southerner went
around the hard Garden City course in
So, establishing an all-time competi.
tive record. Never before had any
golfer. professional or amateur, ira.
versed the course in competition be.
low II.
In taking only 81 holes to beat Mac
kenZie, he gave the Washington, D.
c., youth the worst beating he has
suffered since he broke into promi.
nence two years ago by winning the
medal in the national open. Tonight
the Albanian was casting for the ma
tional amateur championship to be
held over the Minikahde course at
Minneapolis, starting August 90.
Seven brides emblazoned Gums
path over the morning Is. On the very
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MRS. HIRD LEADING
IN CLUB GOLF PLAY

Mrs. II. B. Hird with a card of 101
led field of seven starters in the
first days qualifying play in the
Manor Club woman's championship
yesterday. Mrs. III. B. Peary, jr.,
with 1O4-27--77 had the low net
score.
About dozen more women golfers
of the club are to play today in the
medal round.
Other scores made yesterday follow:
Helen Fay, 104-22-S2; Mrs. c. e.
Quinn, 113-30-S3; Mrs. George See,
11I-27-S4; Mrs. J. D. Taylor, 117--
S0--S7; Mrs. D. n. Burnham, 125--
24--101.
Prizes will be awarded winners in
the woman's championship and vic
tors in the recent mems championship
tomorrow afternoon, following q spe-
cial exhibition match in which G. j.
Voigt, A. l.. Houghton, Earl McAleer
and II. G. Pitt will play.
The prize presentation will be
followed by a fireworks display and
dinner.
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BY BUNKER.

IN UBB and Mediocre Golfer,
when you make a shot you
meyer in intended end. to make ss and and
be cast down.
Be not sad at heart over the rot
ten shot that cut brace of strokes
off your medal.
A punk shot that gets home should
be accepted for what 1t does. not
what it is.
Don't imagine that the greatest of
players do not often profit in ways
they never imagined. They do--not-
withstanding their usual resem.
blance to infallible machinery.
Last August a section of the
crowds that watched the Canadian
open championship at the Royal
Montreal Golf Club was ranged about
the eleventh tee as the defending
champion, Leo Diegel, drove off in
the first round.
Marvellous! What a beauty"
These and other cries were heard as
Leo tore off a shot that ate up some-
thing like $40 yards of the 515-yard
hole.
At the same hole in the second
round this sene was repeated. And
the calculations of wonder and adj
miration seemed warranted, for now
Leo drove fully $50 yards. AS in
the morning, his ball finished up right
in the middle of the fairway. AS in
the morning, too, he got home with
a mashie and holed birdie a. 1t
was beautiful to watch.
Not What He Intended.
Nevertheless. Leo says of those
shots:
"They were the freakiest drives
ever made. In neither case did /
come near doing what ] intended"
Let Diegel tell his story.
ITO the left of, the hole" says Leo,
there was an out-of-bounds fence.
On the right the twelfth hole ran
parallel.
During the practice rounds, I
drove nv bali out of bounds every
time / came to the eleventh tee.
began to think the hole had me
linked, and when. in the first round
of championship play, 1 took 40
going out, must admit l began to
think what I would do on the
eleventh while / was still playing the
tenth.
when ! reached the eleventh tee,
L
to play out of bounds here. I'll
shoot over into the twelfth fairway,
from which I can get good shot
to the eleventh green, and play it
safe"
Something happened on my DOWN
swing. My ball started to head
across the rough on my right, but
suddenly began to hook. To my sur
prise it swung into the middle of
the eleventh fairway and allowed me
to get home with a mashie for a
| birdie 4. / came home with 80.
"At the eleventh in the afternoon
| I still felt / should drive to the
| twelfth fairway. But q shot just like
the one in the morning came off.
Another birdie resulted.
The mysterious circumstance in
this performance 10 that Lee should
have hooked all his drives on this
particular hole as he did. His drives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03
WOMAN PILOTS WINNING
BOAT In FEATURE RACE
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press,
r HOUSTON YACHT CLUB RACE
COURSE, SHORE ACRES,
II Tex, July "A plucky wom-
II 4 an, who owe came motor trou-
BILE and piloted her craft
through a steady rain at the finish,
won. the feature race at the opening
of the Mississippi Valley Power Boat
Association regatta here this after.
noon.
Mrs. Bertha McFarlan of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, the only woman driver
entered in the regatta, sent her Fraz-
zle VII roaring to a brilliant victory
over Miss California in the $40 event
after she had made game fight to
finish fourth in the Isl class. un-
limited.
The Miss California, competitive
champion in its class. driven by
Richard Lyons and owned by w. o.
Harris, San Bernardino, Calf, finished
about three-fourths of a mile behind
Mrs. McFarlan in the $40 event,
Mrs. McFarlan's motor was acting
up at the start Of the ISL class, I'M
limited, and it was not until after
the four boats entered in the event
had completed a lap that the FRAGILE
VII took the course as q late entry.
The woman driver pushed the super
charger job at q record speed for a
lap to overhaul one Of the boats and
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HOLIDAY GOLF JOURNEYS
LISTED BY VARIOUS CLUBS

medal play for the Marc Goldman cup.
Beaver Dam Club players are to
compete tomorrow in a handicap tour
nament for the Presidents cup for
men, which must be won three times
to secure permanent possession. To-
day the golfers of the club--w0men
and men--are to take part in fam.
lily foursome.
Argyle Country Club players are TAX
ing part today and tomorrow in S.
hole medal play handicap tourney.
The schedule rounds out busy week
for the men, many of whom started a
ship tourney of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association at Norfolk.
At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
George Voigt, District and Atlantic
champion, will pair with A. l.. Hough-
ton, runner-up in that event, against
Earl MeAleer and Harry G.. Pitt in an
exhibition match at the Manor Club.
All four golfers will make an attempt
to break the course record of 81 now
held by Houghton, made In the in
terdepartmental tourney few weeks
ago. McAleer recently shot the sec
ond nine holes in 30 in winning the
club championship.
One of the outstanding feats dur
ing the Middle Atlantic tourney last
week at the Norfolk Country Club was
the made on the 477-yard fifteenth
hole by HI. H. Hume of Norfolk.
Hume played his second shot with q
midifon on the par 5 affair, which
raises the question, When a player
negotiates a hole in 3 better than par,
what is it? If one under par is
birdie, and two under is an eagle.
what is three under par? Some here
call it a cuckoo.
Golfers at the Washington Golf and
Country Club yesterday played on the
new sixteenth green for the first time
since last Fall when the green was
planted to bent. The new green II
now one of the best on the course.
The schedule for the national pub
lie links championship, to be played
at the Ridgewood Golf Links of Cleve-
land, August 1-6, inclusive, has been
announced last night by the United
States Golf Association. Qualifying
rounds will be played August 2 and
8, the lowest four-man team score to
win the Harding team trophy. Eight
cen hole match play rounds will start
Thursday and continue through Fri
day, with the championship finals
scheduled for Saturday at SO holes.
Lester Bolstad of Minneapolis, who
won the tourney last year at Buffalo,
will not defend his championship,
since he has Joined private club.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

IN 9TH George j. Voigt, success.
* full defender of his Middle At
lantic Golf Association cham
O pionship, and A. L, Houghton,
runner-up in the sectional
tourney which closed Thursday at
Norfolk, plan to enter the United
States national amateur champion.
ship at Minneapolis the third week in
August.
Voigt played in the biggest anna.
teur test last year at Baltusrol, but
Houghton has played twice in the
amateur title chase, but has not yet
qualified. The championship will be
played August %, %, "a, 20, rs and
q at the Minikhada course.
Both men should be eligible for the
competition on the strength of their
tournament records this year. Voigt
undoubtedly will be eligible, for he is
ranked by all the experts as one of
the real stars of the country. Hough-
ton has won two tournaments about
Washington and been runner-up In
two more this year.
Several prominent Washington stars
are expected TO compete in the sec.
ond annual invitation tournament Of
y
the Severn River, to be held next Fri.
day, Saturday and Sunday, with an
18-hole qualifying round billed for the
first day. Entries for the tourney
close Wednesday, July 6, with course
privileges extended to all entrants for
the duration of the tournament. be-
ginning July 5.
Voigt, winner of the tournament
last year, probably will not be able to
play in the event, as he Is booked fer
an exhibition match at New Market,
Va, July with Roland II. Macken-
zie and another exhibition at the new
Forest Greens Country Club, above
Baltimore, July 8. In the latter match
Voigt will be paired with w. r. Nc
Callum against Clifton Richardson,
the Maryland State title holder, and
Nate Mather, professional at the For
est Greens Club.
More than 100 golfers from Balti-
more and Washington played in the
Sherwood Forest event last year, the
final of which found Voigt defeating
Roland r. Mackenzie only few days
after the return of the Columbia lad
from trip abroad with the American
Walker Cup team. In beating Mac
Kenzie. Voigt set new record for the
first nine holes.
Sherwood Forest Co., has announced
that an effort will be made to get the
entries of such players as B. Warren
Corkran of the Baltimore Country
Club, Charles McCourt, former holder
of the Maryland State amateur title,
and several other prominent Maryland
golfers. Invitations already have been
sent to Frank K. Roesch Of Washing
ton, Houghton, Harry g.. Pitt and
Earl McAleer of Manor and to other
prominent amateurs around Washing
ton.
DIR. Harry e. Kelsey is chairman of
the committee in charge of the tour
| ney.
Members of the Beaver Dam Club
are competing today in a family four
some tournament, the partners in the
event to be man and wife. The tour
ney is an innovation around Washing
| ton.
yoigt again proved at Norfolk last
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UIlly On0 0ACCPliOH GA
;: 81 Fl !. ss s: ;s.
the links the Fourth of
July. Chevy Chase, without formal
event, is the only local club without
a tournament of some sort for its
members. Chairman Thompson OF
the golf committee said last night an
affair of some character might be held
if desired by the players-probably a
medal play handicap tourney.
Three of the clubs which will hold
July events will also hold Journeys
today. Out at Congressional today a
blind pig tourney is scheduled, with
the mythical par number to be drawn
out of a hat. Tomorrow the golfers
of the club are to compete in an IS.
hole match play against par tourna'
ment.
While the woven of the Manor
Club are playing the final rounds for
the club championship today the men
golfers will play the final round of a
36hole sweepstakes event. Tomorrow
the club will hold a member-guest
tourney, with each member entitled
ito bring one guest to play in the
event.
Out at Four Corners, Md, where
the testing Indian Spring layout is
situated, the members of the club are
to compete today in Scotch four
some event, and tomorrow will play
in miniature tournament, with a
qualifying round Of nine holes and
match play rounds over the same dis
tance.& The first fight of eight will
play from scratch. Handieaps will be
allowed in the lower flights. Enough
flights will be provided for all the en-
trants to play,
Washington Golf and Country Club
golfers are to compete in a match play
against par tourney tomorrow, while
Columbia players are scheduled to
take part in a medal play competition.
Tournaments of similar character
have been provided for both men and
women players at Bannockburn.
Golfers Of both sexes will compete in
separate events. including a flag tour
nsy, driving contests and approaching
and putting events.
Town and Country Club players are
to compete tomorrow at Is holes,