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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-05
Collins Terms Charles Albert Bender Greatest e American
GOLFERS TUNING UP
FOR $4,000 EVENT

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES. January 5--Los
Angeles golf courses teemed with ac-
tivity today as the hour approached
for the preliminaries to the $4,000
open tournament. Nearly 300 play
ers, both amateur and professional,
representing the best from IS States,
England and Canada, We're entered.
Thirty-siX holes of qualifying play
on the courses of the Los Angeles,
Brentwood California, Wiltshire,
Midwick and Hillcrest Country Clubs
will determine before night the 1928
players to qualify for the start in
the ~ holes of play at El Caballero
Country Club Friday. About 40 of
these 1913 Already are chosen, these
being the foreign layers and leaders
in the national open and local cham
pionship tournament of the past year.
who are exempt from qualifying
play by virtue of their past perform
ances.
These top-notchers are practicing
on other courses Out of the 12S play
ers who qualify for the entry list
only "a will get into the final 36-hole
championship flight Sunday That
field will comprise the Ga low scores
and ties at the end of the first 80
holes at Caballero, Is of which will be
played Friday and Is Saturday.
The one-day interval in the play
Thursday will be devoted to practice
on the various courses.
The Ell Caballero Country Club Of
fers a real championship par 80
course, Sc out and SO in. It's record
was set last November 10 by Jack
Tarrant. professional at the club, who
then went over it in &c.
Greens are in excellent shape,
bit fast now after the cold weather,
but with rising temperatures pre-
vailing it promises TO offer its best
challenge to the entrants.
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With the BowIers

Brooklyn for the second half of our
match with the Orpheums," said
member of the Washington intercity
match squad last night. We'll, that
won't bother us. Newly planed and
shellacked alleys always are much
faster than the ordinary ones, and
this Washington bunch simply dotes
on fast alleys. We ought to hit bet
ter on them next Saturday night than
we did at Convention Hall last
Wednesday in the opening block of
the match"
There may be something to this
squad members contention, too. New
" shellacked alleys mean nothing to
the fast-ball bowler, like Glen
Wolstenholme or Howard Campbell.
They can get plenty on the ball on
any kind Of an alley. But according
to all the sharks, newly shellacked
drives aid the curve-ball artist as
well as the hook ball specialist. Each
can control his shot better on a
speedy alley
Maybe Brooklyn is digging its own
grave by refinishing its drives.
This is busting" season for the
pin-topplers. Here's another member
of the Three Games of the 600-C Class
Club. The Arlingtons did this kind of
counting in their Athletic Club
League match with the Ahepas. The
scores of the Arlingtons We're COL, COS
and COS. Clark, second in the Airing
ton lineup, led the attack with set
of $50. with high game of 15l. And
the Arlingtons took all three games.
In taking the odd game from the
Daughters OF Isabella in the Wash
ington Ladies League, the CONNER
Gals cracked a game just 16 pins shy
of the women's District record. when
they totaled SAB.
Keller girls were in a bowling mood
when they encountered the fair bowl
ers of the Ninth Street Church and
took all three games of an East
Washington Church Ladies' League
match. Keller's set was 1869 to 1851
rolled by the Ninth Streeters.
Rena Levy sent the pins flying
while rolling with the Columbians
against the tIilltoppers in the Wash
ington Ladies' League. She got scores
of 14O, 11S' and 119 for 374. Her team
took all three games.
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CONFLICT IN GOLF
CLASSICS AVOIDED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 5.--American
and British golf officials have buried
the Ratchet and international compe-
tition on the links once more is in
prospect.
The controversy over open-cham-
pionship dates, resulting from the fix
ing of both the British and American
title events for the week of June 20.
has been settled with a change on both
sides of the Atlantic. The American
fixture has been moved ahead to June
IA. 10 and 16, while the British cham
pionship has been set back to the
week beginning July H.
The truce brought no change in the
plans of Bobby Jones. however. The
winner of both titles last year reit-
Grated his intention to remain on this
side of the Atlantic next Summer,
thus passing up an opportunity to de-
fend the British championship.
The compromise opens the way
however, to an invasion of this coun-
try by a team of British professionals,
which will oppose an American con-
tlngent for possession of the Inter
national Ryder trophy. The cup was
won last year by British pros in Sc
ries of matches abroad.
ATLANTA. Ga, January ) P).-
Change in the date of this wears Brit
ish open golf championship will not
alter Bobby Jones decision not to
defend his title. He made this dec
laration in reiterating that his law
studies at Emory University here and
business interests would prevent him
from devotinG sufficient time to prep
aration for the event
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SARAZEN, ON G0LFING.
SPREE, AGAIN SCORES:

MIAMI, Fla, January C4).--Gene,
Sarazen apparently is on a golf Spree
Twice handwriting now he has
topped off splendid performance with.
a display of fighting quality and
emerged winner from open tourna-.
ments attracting some of the countrys
best. q,
Yesterday he finished the Miami
Beach open tournament four strokes
under Jock Hutchinson of Chicago,
after stretch drive. He pocketed
1000. Last week he shook off Willie
Klein of Wheatley Hills, n. y. and az
the end of 72-hOle march pocketed
$3.50. and the Miami open title Klein
won last year.
SaraZen's winning score yesterday,
was 271, L strokes better than his
mark in the Miami tournament
Hutchinson, who did not show well in.
the other tournament. stayed with
Sarazen until the fourteenth hole of
the last round. where n on a par
3 ruined him. In the morning round
each scored IS, three under par. and
were tied
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D. c MEN TO SPEAK
AT GOLF SESSIONS

Three Washington men are on the
speaking list of the annual meeting
of the green's section of the United
States Golf Association to be held at
Pittsburgh, Pa. in connection with
the annual session of the association,
Friday and Saturday.
The annual report of the chairman
of the green's section will be read by
II. L. MISSIONER of Washington on
Friday and a, few minutes later o. b.
Fits of the Department of Agricul-
ture will review the activities and
accomplishments of the green's sec
ton.
Westover will speak later in the
day on turf grass experiments at
GAINESVILLE, Fla, and on Saturday, DIR.
John Monteith, jr., of Washington,
will address the green's section on
progress in control of brown patch.
Other speakers on the program in
clude Alex Pirie. president, Profess
sional Golfers Association of Amer
lea, and Rodman E. Griscom of Phila-
delphia. chairman of the greens sec
ton committee.
DIR. ]. r. McClenahan of Washing
ton and G.. II. Chasmar of Columbia
and possibly several other representa-
ives OF local CLUBS VIII dtLcIlu the
meetings at the Pittsburgh Athletic
F'indley S. Douglas is
chairman of the section.
Restriction of entry lists in the
local golf tournaments, problem
that has assumed increasing proper
tions from year to year. is certain
again to crop up this year, Only one
local club at present has a set system
of keeping the size of the entry list
down. Chevy Chase. which imposes a
handicap limit on the guest competi-
tors
The other clubs have not yet initi-
ated move in this direction. although
there is discussion at Columbia of
limiting the entry list to personal
invitation, as is done by the Baltimore
Country Club. The Baltimore system
has worked. out very well, particularly
as the entries are drawn from the
entire Eastern Seaboard. Columbia
usually holds the largest tournament
around Washington in point of size
of entry. 1t has drawn more than
800 players for several years.
This problem, while pressing. is not
regarded as so important as that of
cutting down the number of Journeys
or of transferring some of the big
events to the Fall which is practi-
cally free of big events.
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EVANSVILLE, Md, January o.
With sports of all kinds, as in former
years, going big in the more thickly
populated areas of the upper section
of the county and with activity becom-
ing more marked in the southern end,
Prince Georges County enjoyed a full
athletic year in 1926. The boom in
the southern section manifested itself
particularly in the Organiza ton OF
strong base ball teams in communI-
ties that formerly were without rep
resentation on the diamond, or had
mediocre mines.
The high spot of the year doubtless
and the feat that brought the county
most prominence was the great show
ing made by the soccer ball team of
Hyattsville High School that, after
humbling a number of the best elev
ems in the State. including Barton
High, defending champion, bowed to
Havre de Grace High at Baltimore
in the final tilt in the elimination
series for the championship of the
Western Shore.
HyattsvilIe in Limelight.
1t was banner year generally for
Hyattsville High athletic teams.
Marked superiority was shown by the
local ScHOOlDOyS III ANOI OlIly
did they easily capture the county
title in the annual championships,
but won first honors among the coun-
ty schools of the State in the Univer-
sity of Maryland interscholastic meet.
1t was the work of Kenneth Watts
alone that brought victory to Hyatts
vile in the Maryland meet. He
scored all the II points made by his
team, achieving one new record for
the track and equaling another
Laurel and Upper Marlboro high
schools also had sturdy track teams.
Seat Pleasant won the annual track
meet for the rural schools Of the
county.
Laurel High won the county base
ball title. There was no basket ball
championship series among the county
high schools. Hyattsville, however.
had five that gave most of the rank
ing schoolboy combinations around
Washington stiff opposition. Strong
regular and reserve quints represent
ed Company F. National Guard. of
Hyattsville. and number of the most
the District fell before the Guardsmen.
Field ball was introduced as a Fall
sport for high schools of the county,
and Hyattsville High won the series.
1t was the first time girls athletic
team of this school had ever won
county championship.
Sandlot base ball had a big year
and good teams represented Mount |
Rainier, Maryland Park, Riverdale, |
Hyattsville. Mitchellville, Seat Pleas
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TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BASE BALL.
BY EDDIE COLLINS.
H-Charles Albert Bender.

sometimes got into serious trouble
Against the Giants in 10 we were
going along easily in the fourth game
with the count Go in our favor until
the seventh inning. Two got on with
two out when Fred Merkle came up.
Chief" had Just whitfield Catcher Will
son and was bent on showing up
Merkle. who was corlIing hitter, as
every one knew, but who could do lit.
tie with Bender when the Chief. was
careful.
Merlxle Hit Mile.
lie put over two strikes on Fred
and then, in spite of the protests of
Ira Thomas, Bender deliberately
tossed one up Merkle's alley. A
pitch that came across the letters on
his shirt Merkle could hit a mile. He
just naturally lost that ball and the
Giants had three runs. AS we won
we didn't kill Albert.
On another occasion we We're hay
ing one of our usual battles in Detroit.
The Tigers could not use Claude Ross
man against us because we ratified
him so that if he got the ball with
one or more of us on bases he was
likely to throw the game away. In
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HOPPE WILL STRIVE
TO RECOVER CROWN

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. January 5.-Willie
Hoppe tonight will begin his fight to
recover the world 1872 balkline title
snatched from him by Jake Schaefer
of Chicago two years ago.
In the path of his attempted come
back stands Eric Hagenlacher, cool,
quiet, calculating German star.
Hagenlacker, the man who uneX-
pectedly overthrow Schaefer last
Spring. apparently has no fears for
his championship. In two previous
matches he won victories over Hoppe.
But Metropolitan students of the
game consider the veteran former
titleholder to be playing in such brill
liant form that they have installed
him n favorite to regain the honors
he held for more than a decade.
Hoppe. who for many years ruled
supreme in every branch of the balk-
line game. enters the opening 500
points block of the 1500-point duel
without a championship for the first
time in his career. He lost the last
of his crowns--the 1871 diadem-to
Schaefer almost a year ago
Recent exhibition play apparently
has put Hoppe in his best form In
one match against the japanese play
er, Kinney Matsuyama. he put to-
Sether seven runs exceeding 200
points each. one reaching as high as
342.
Hagenlacher. who has not defended
his championship since he defeated
Schaefer, mas yelled his form by
secret practice. The former German
champion has been playing in this
country only a little more than five
years, but each season he has made
rapid strides, until today he is con-
sidered by critics one of the greatest
opponents of the nurse that ever held
the title.
The match, to be staged at the
Hotel Pennsylvania. win be refereed
by Albert G. Butler. Play will start
each night at s o'clock, with the final
block to be played on Friday.
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GRAND CIRCUIT DATES
FOR SEASON ARRANGED

LEXINGTON, Ky. January CP).
Dates for the 1927 grand circuit
meetings which will be held through
out the Summer and Fall have been
awarded by stewards of the circuit.
Following is the schedule:
Toledo, July IL to 16.
Detroit. July Is to 49,
Kalamazoo. July % to 80.
Grand Rapids, August / to g.
North Randall. August 3 to 90.
Goshen August % to 27.
Syracuse. August 20 to September 8.
Indianapolis September 5 to 10.
September II to II, no meeting, courtesy
to Kentucky State Fair.
Lexington. September 10 to October /.
Atlanta October 3 to 8.
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this case they filled the bases on Ben.
der late in the game. with two out,
and Jennings sent in Rossman to hit.
Claude was a great slugger and not
afraid of the Chief Albert disre.
garded Thomas sign and Rossman hit
a home run.
AS soon as the ball left the bat Con
ME n1otioned Bender to come in and
he was on the bench when Rossman
had ambled around the sacks. Stand
ing on the plate, the elated Tiger
lifted his cap, made us a bow, and
called out:
I'm not much of sharpshooter,
but ] can drive the Indian to his wig
want"
Thomas was SO sore that Connie
had to take him out of the game also.
Being undemonstrative, Chief never
had much trouble with umpires. Most
of the jumps don't mind decent kick
II ii is not made too obvious to the
fans. Once the Highlanders came
over to Philly and brought Tim Hurst
with them.
How Bender Was Fired
Tim worked all alone. Late in the
game, which was close. Elberfeld on
third and Chase on first started a
double steal. Bender intercepted the
catcher's throw and caught Elberfeld
off third several feet. Tim, looking at
second, didn't see the play and waved
both players safe.
Albert was furious. He slammed
his glove on the ground with great
violence just as Hurst turned around.
and the stands were hooting to beat
the band.
Tim walked UP to Bender and said
in his blandest manner:
MIR. Bender, will you pleace pick
up the glove? That's a good boy.
Now carry it to the clubhouse You
are through for the afternoon"
And he was.
Copyright 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-05
By JOHN A. FERRALL.
- HE Old Timer looked closely at
the Kid and then shifted the

"Ah." he said, burning
rope, What's the idea of
smoking that sort of stuff do you
consider tobacco injurious"
This is a high.class cigar, pro-
tested the Kid. removing it from his
mouth and looking with considerable
pride at the fancy band around it.
'They are two for quarter"
Two for a quarter exclaimed the
Old Timer, astonished. ooh, I see,"
he said. you've already smoked the
20 cent one"
The Kid prepared to make come
back, but the Old Timer held up his
hand.
Never mind about that snappy re-
tort he said. "All / want to know
is whether you have been hitting the
eggnog or anything similar before
coming out to join in this game.
me hit up home brews with IS
people whitfield in New York alone by
the stuff this week. cried the Kid.
Say, I'm almost afraid to drink
lemonade"
"Oh. all right" comforted the Old
Timer. II Just didn't want you to
get started here and have the heat
bring out the kick in the stuff and
make a nuisance of you. The man
ager is still sore about what happened
Saturday night"
The Kid went out and shot four
boxes in order to catch UP with the
rest of the bowlerS. Then he came
back to the bench and wanted to know
the details of the Saturday night
occurrence.
Why" explained the Old Timer, "a
man came in here and started bowling
by himself. He appeared to be per-
fectly sober, / understood, but | sup
pose the heat and the bowling thawed
out the stuff he had been drinking.
Anyway, the manager noticed that he.
had stopped bowling and since he did
not start up gain but merely stood
looking at the score sheet. he went
over to collect. Then he saw that the
man was just starting his third game.
He left him standing there, but when
he came back in about 10 minutes the
man was still there.
I'm front Of the score Sheet" asked
the Kid. ''He must have been
paralyzed for fair.
A Problem i'm Mathematics.
He was still showing signs of life, Z"
said the Old Timer, "but not many
Apparently he seemed TO be up
against some problem in scoring his
game. The manager asked about it
and the man explained that he had
bowled two games, which the man
ager could see from the score Sheet
and had made a spare III the first
box of his third. He had then shot
the second box and was trying to
figure out his score
II see" commented the Kid: che
had forgotten what he made on the
spare"
NO he told the manager he had
counted one pin on the spare" said
the Old Timer. THE manager then
wanted to know what was wrong
You counted one on the spare he
said. and that gives you II in the
first box. There is nothing compli-
Gated about that. / see you've al
ready entered the figure one on the
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Holiday Spirit on Alleys
Tells in Bowler's Figuring

score sheet; just add another one and
you have It'll in the first box"
Fair enough" agreed the Kid.
Apparently it wasn't that easy for
this man." said the Old Timer, for
he turned to the manager and cried;
'Thass jus whazznatter. After i
wrote that one up. there / just
couldn't figger on which side of it
l should put the oZzer one--thass
whaZZ botherin me. You tell me
where l put the oZzer one-in front
of the first one; or behind the first
one? JUS tell me that -
Say" said the Kid, amazed, che
must have had some of the stuff that
Uncle Charlie fixes up now and then
it certainly must have been real
Fisherman's Bait"
'Fisherman's Bait?" asked the Old
Timer. That's new to me-"
The Kid explained.
1T gets it's name from the story
of the boOtlegger who came up to
where a guy was fishing and wanted
to know what luck he was having.
The fisherman said he had not caught
a fish all morning. The bootlegger
reached into his hip-pocket and took
out a flask. Put some of this on
the worm before you place it on the
hook, and see what happens he sug-
gested. The fisherman did so and
lowered his line into the water again.
In just about halfa minute there was
a whale of a Stirup belOW and he
hauled in the line
Yes, yes said the Old Timer He
had landed a whoppec!"
A HOOtcfi Worm.
Not exactly that" explained me
L hnts tod ~,
was that worm with a stranglehold on
a husky fish. punching it in the eye
with his tall
Wow" said the Old Timer. And
then you signed the pledge?'
I'm off the stuff forever" admitted
the Kid. That's my New Year reso-
luton"
yes; the same one you made last
year" agreed the Old Timer. Fisher
mans Bait! Migosh, what stuff-how
do they manage to throw it down and
get it into bottles?"
II dunno" admitted the Kid "And
WhlSkey once was a medicine"'
'Oh, you can still get good stuff
by accident" argued the Old Timer.
why, l read only the other day of
a man who had been fiat on his back
in the hospital for nearly two years;
couldn't even sit up in bed. Some
body slipped him a half pint of sky
blue water and--you wouldn't believe
it-he left the hospital two days
later
What do you know about that?"
demanded the Kid, astonished.
Eyes, sir said the Old Timer, pick
ing up a ball and preparing to throw
it through the back wall OF the alley.
1.-TWO days later he left the hospital
they took him to the cemetery"
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WALTER REED VETS
TO SEE BOXING SHOW

Fifty soldiers at Walter Reed Hos
pitaI, wounded in the World War,
will. through the courtesy Of John S.
Bick and G.. S. F'orsberg. have OPP
portunity of witnessing the boxing
exhibitions at the Arcadia Sports
Club during January, the first of
which will be held tonight at the
Arcadia auditorium.
Joe CLANCY, brother of the we'll
known Kayo King George CLANCY,
will trade punches with Harry (kid)
Grooves of the Arcadia Sports Club
in the main Offering of eight rounds.
In the semi-wind-up of four rounds
Sailor Mackena will take on Jackie
Saunders.
In the opening exhibition, also a
four-rounder, that will start at $50
O'Clock Dick Richardson of kenil-
worth. and Johnny Conroy of Mohawk
Athletic Club will face
Two other good bouts are to com
plete the card.
The first golf cIuh in Wisconsin
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r. YER consider this, bowlers :?
l. The anchor man is the pinch
hitter" of the bowling game
IL with this difference: Nobody
ever blames a pinch hitter for
the loss OF "A base ball game. If he
comes through, he is the hero; If he
does not--well, it was a forlorn hope
anyway.
The anchor man gets criticized now
and then. but his position still has a
big edge in the business of hogging
the spotlight.
Probably every bowler not an
anchor man feels like committing
murder now and then when he puts
over a set around 400, only to have
the account OF the game feature the
final shot of the anchor man, who
won the game with strike in the
tenth box-though his game was
only 103.
Taking the reverse side of the
shield, the followers of a team oc-
casionally go home "cussing" their
anchor man, who blew a one-pin
break in the tenth, permitting the
other team 10 cop by a pin or two.
only to read in the papers the next
day that the feature of the game was
the shooting of Bill Whosis at anchor,
who compiled a set of 391.
Bill may have done just that thing,
hut the fans remembered only that
blown spare break in the final box.
There is considerable food for
thought on the part of those who are
of the opinion that the duckpin game
&c being overdone in this city in IA re-
cent news item concerning the gain
bowling has made in Toronto. Five
wears ago Toronto had less than 100
alleys; now it has more than 500.
while the item does not say so, 1t is
likely that the tenpin game is the pop
ular Toronto sport and this means
that the girls are TO great extent
barred. Washington is logically a
better field for the sport than Toronto
10 begin with, and here the game is
duckpins. open to every one. Write
your own ticket.
Rudy de Glantz of the Entomology
t.arn pulled bit of effective psycholo
sv on the leading Accounts five of the
Agile League not so long ago. Ento
r,olosv had dropped nine in row, bu'
,n.tead of coming out strengthened FOL
arc match with the leaders, Rudy
ulaced only four men on the drives
and shooting with a dummy score pro
aaeded 10 take two of the three games
pudv insists that if the leagues con
..i,utton had permitted him TO rol
with three men he would have cleaned
IN the match.
"Se they are Sticking the alleys II