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Evening star., 1927-12-04
CUBS SIGN CUYLER
AT FANCY FIGURE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December :. - Hazen
"kiki' Cuyler, star outfieIder of the
to the Chicago Cubs for Infielder
"Sparky" Adams and Outfelder Pete
Scott, today came to terms with Presi-
dent William l.. Veeck and signed a
contract for 1928. The salary was not
announced, but was understood to be
one of the largest on the club. Cuvler
was said to have drawn more than
$4,000 with the Pirates last year.
Cuyler arrived here today from his
home in Flint, Mich, and was very
enthusiastic about becoming a mem.
ber of the Cubs. He said he was glad
to get away from Pittsburgh and will
give the Cubs everything he has 10
give Chicago a winning ball club. lie
was in conference with Manager Joe
Mccarthy, who stopped off here en-
route to the minor league meeting at
Dallas. Tex; William Wrigley, jr.,
and President Veeck
Cuyler said he held no III feeling
toward his former employers and
thought a great deal of Manager
DOME Bush. He said be regretted
very much that he was not playing
regularly with the Pirates last season
and explained that after he had suf-
fered an injury to his leg Barnhardt
played so well that he was used very
seldom. He said there was no real
inside story" as far as he knew for
his absence from the lineup and he
always was ready and willing TO play.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
FRENCH NET RATINGS
SHOW NO SURPRISES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PARIS, December 3.--t'rance's mus.
keteers of tennis--Rene Lacoste, Henri
Cochet, Jean Borotra and JACQUES
Brugnon, who comprised the Davis
Cup team this year, are ranked as the
first four in F'renchmen's tennis.
Pierre Landry is ranked No. in the
rating made public today by the ten.
mis- federation.
Another Suzanne tops the list OF
women players, this time not Suzanne
Lenglen, but Suzanne Deve, who has
held high place in French women's
tennis for some time. Helen Contos-
t2vlos is second, with less noted play
ers following.
There were no surprises in the rat
ing made public and no upsets al
though sporting writer's were inclined
to express a good deal of regret that
no real successor vet has appeared in
amateur tennis for the great Su-
Zanne."
The second five among the men play.
ers were Christian Boussas, Roger
Georges, Antoine Gentien, Lionel AS
lungel and Adrienne Aron.
In the women's classification COM
ing after Suzanne Deve and Helen
Contostavlos are Nine. La Fourie.
Nine. Matthew, Nine. Bordes, Mime.
Golding. Mile. Yvonne Bourgeois
Nine. Vaussard, Mile. G. Cousin and
Mile. Louise Conquet.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

| doubt they will run the tournament
off in the same efficient manner in
which they conducted the annual
amateur tourney in the Spring.
The p. G.. A. will give the new Five
Farms course of the Baltimore Coun-
try Club its first real test in big-time
| competition, although the sectional
| qualifying round for the same tourney
was held there last September.
Tommy Armour, the national open
| champion, now probably will not come
to Congressional before he turns from
the Pacific Coast to the South in quest
| Of Winter golf laurels.
Originally he intended to come to
Washington for few days after his
trip to the Pacific, but his present in
tention, according to word received
, from him here, is to go directly South.
| This probably means that the title
| holder will not be seen around the
| Capital until Spring brings the pro.
fessionals North, their purses heavy
with money, and ready for the Sum.
| mer season.
Tommy will go out to Olympia
Fields to defend his championship.
| He Is understood TO have recently
been in receipt of an offer to become
the professional at the Olympia
Fields Club, which operates four.
course golf layout about 25 miles
south OF Chicago.
Decision to play the p. G. A. at the
Baltimore Country Club, with the
usual club tournament in the Spring,
and the Maryland open in June.
probably means that the Middle
Atlantic amateur title tilt will go to
Congressional, since it is unlikely
the Baltimore Country Club will care
to hold more than three big events
during the season. Congressional and
Baltimore were both in the field for
the mid-Atlantic even last Spring
but the tourney was awarded 10
Norfolk because of prior claim.
New tees undeH construction at the
Washington Golf and Country Clu!
will lengthen the course some 15C
yards, bringing it up to a total length
of about 6,425 yards. the golf com
mittee estimates. The new tees are
under construction at the sixth
tenth. thirteenth. fourteenth and fif-
teenth holes, while there is another
plan to have q tentative tee placed
: near The tenth green for playing the
eleventh hole. e.-.-.-.---.---........ s-~
Evening star., 1927-12-04
MEEHAN is TO QUIT
AS COACH AT N. Y. U.
90
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 3.--John
"Chick" Meehan, foot ball coach for
the past three years at New York Uni
versity and one of the most successful
of the younger mentors. aannounced
tonight that he did not plan to re-
turn next season" to handle the Violet
squad. Meehan would not qualify the
statement other than say that circum-
stances that have arisen since the
close of the grid season had much to
do with his decision.
Meehan, an all-American quarter
back during four years of play at Syria :
cuse in 1913, IA. rs and '16. revealed
that he is considering offers to coach
four major college elevens next Fall.
one of them in the Middle West. He
would not identify the colleges.
Coming to- New York University
from Syracuse in 1924, Meehan dug the
Violets from the foot ball depths and
shot them to ranking among the fore
most sectional squads.
Only twice in the past two years
have the Violets been beaten, and both
losses have been inflicted by Nebraska
in intersectional clashes staged in the
West
Evening star., 1927-12-04
BASKETERS OUTLINE
elimination SERIES

Elimination series to determine the
Community Center Basket Ball
League unlimited and senior cham
pinships will begin about December
Is. Some of the best teams in the
city will participate. All entries are
expected to be in by the end Of next
week.
Teams eligible to compete from the
various centers are:
Central Center-Security Club, Cres-
cents, Woodlothians, Commercial Ma
tional Bank, District National Bank.
Montrose, Company c (Nationsl
Guard. Potomac Boat Club, Grey
hounds.
Columbia Center--Tremonts, Mount
Vernons, WoltZ Photographers.
East Washington Center-Nationa
Capitals, Live Wires, Eastern Props,
Trinity, Pontiacs, De Molays, Apaches,
Nativity. Paramounts, Comets.
Macfarland Center-Central Reds,
Park View.
Southeast Center-Roamers, Sioux.
Naval Reserves.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
RY RIjNEER.

~ JSPATCHF.S from Caldwell. y.
j not long since told how
Tom Washington, profession
H. ri at the Monomnock Inn,
there, had made two holes-in-
one in a single day, and, by so do
ing, had brought his lifetime total of
aces to II.
The dispatches didn't tell the half
OF Washingtcn's story. Feeling that
he must be an authority on holes-iIl-
one. / went out 10 talk with him.
Then / learned that once before
he had made two aces in one day.
Quite a number of golfers have
made two holes-in-ohe in single day.
Mike Brady, the great American pro-
fessional, had a lifetime total of II
aces, and so has Sandy Herd. the vet
eran Britisher.< But the records, so
faf Is ] know, do not disclose that any
other player ever hOled tee-shot
twice in a day on two occasions.
In this respect. Tom Washington
stands on an eminence all his own.
1t is doubtful il his record ever will
be duplicated, certainly never beaten.
The strange part of it is that al
| though he has been playing golf as
caddy and professional for more than
25 years. he is not well known, except
in northern New Jersey. Bur this is
because he has not taken part in
much tournament golf. giving his time
over to club work, instruction and
laying out courses.
Got His First at Is.
His first ace came early in his ca
reer. Playing in caddy match over
the old Forest Hills course, now the
l. ri L. L~ln
the ball on 170-yard hole. This feat
helped him to defeat his opponent,
Harvey Bingham, and incidentally to
win the match, which, until he fin
| ished, was tied. However, he did not
| need the ace to beat Bingham.
Years passed. Washington kept ad
ding aces here and there, until his
total began to be impressive. Then
two years ago, playing the Monom
mock Inn course in company with
| Frank Won Wagner and Frank Cart
| ley he holed out on the sixth hole
! measuring 179 yards, during two sue
ceeding rounds. 1t should be explained
| that the course is a nine-hole one. TC
| get in an 18-hole match the threesome
| played twice around.
! This feat should have been suffi
cient to satisfy the most overpower
| ing ambition. But Washington
kept on.
| Last October II he went out with
| Mrs. DR.. Englander and another lady
! for a. round of instruction over the
Overlook Hospital course at Cedar
Grove, n. T.. which he himself hac
laid out. On every shot, of course
he showed his pupils how to hold theil
club, how to swing, etc. On the 1856
yard fourth hole, both ladies havins
played first, and having done none
too well, he was perhaps little more
explicit lin his directions than usua
as he took his stance, and illustrated
with a No. iron, how the shO
should be made.
| Right then he showed he was wei
Evening star., 1927-12-04

My brother Billy met q colored
| heavyweight fighter, G. A. G. Smith.
Smith was barber and fought as
side line. He claimed the colored
heavyweieht championship. Billy took
boxing lessons from Smith.
His First Boxing Gloves.
One day Billy came home with
mysterious looking bundle under his
arm, and opened it. to show me a set
of boxing gloves, the first / ever had
seen.. He kept these gloves hidden
from me, but one fearfuily cold day.
between Christmas and New Year., l
came across them.
] brought the mitts out to what we
called the mems room, where the
boarders hung their clothes and
washed their faces. There were three
neighbor boys of my own age who
used to come over and help me do my
work, and asked one of them to put
on the gloves with me
While we were boxing, three big
French Canadians who boarded with
us came in and started to laugh at our
efforts. These giant fellows had been
drinking. | told the kid who was
boxing with me to let one of the big
Frenchmen take his place. All of
them accepted my challenge, one after
another, and in 10 minutes / had the
three wise-crackers stretched fiat on
the floor. My mother, hearing the
racket, came out, gave me- a licking
and took the gloves away.
Nature. handed me remarkable
body. Although under five feet four
inches tall, had a giants shoulders
and arms, and fast legs. I had the
strength of a man twice my weight,
even in a country Of strong men. j
also had wonderful endura and
speed. Until after my terrible battles
with Joe Walcott l scarcely knew
| what it meant to get tired. 1 gained
strength the longer fight lasted. no
| matter how much punishment | took.
Brother a Good Scrapper.
Under Smiths Goa ching Billy became
| a. good boxer. And don't forget Billy
could fight. I believe that if it hadn't
been for me Billy Lavigne would have
won the lightweight championship.
His only trouble was with his hands.
They got soft through work in a
bathhouse he ran at Saginaw. Billy
had brains as we'll as strength. He
died in 1906 at Seattle
Bill would learn tricks from the big
colored professional, and then he
would come home and practice them
on me. He had ambitions to become
a fighter, but / had no hopes higher
than the chores i was doing around
my mothers boarding house, which in
cluded driving an old blind mule.
also worked in a sawmil.
One day, when ! was 16, Billy came
home and told me he had arranged
a match for me. I was to meet one
OF G. A. C. Smiths star pupils. Morris
| McNally. We were to fight six rounds
at 120 pounds.
'"They think McNally is the goods"
chuckled Billy, but what you'll do to
him will be a plenty and then some"
Gosh. I nope you're right"
answered, trying to look confident.
! LcUi0ne's finish fights aCith Siddons
are delt qDith in the meat iastIlment OF
this series to be published Wednesday.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
SOCCER
SERIES TO RESUME

Action will be resumed this week
in the Municipal Playground Depart
ment's elementary school soccer
championship series.
Tomorrow CurtiS.Hyde hooters,
senior champions of the Georgetown
division, will meet Park View, Column
bia Heights division, division cham.
pions. in the same class for the west
section city tide. The game will start
at 3 o'clock on Plaza playground.
TO decide the senior crown in the
east section Lenox, Virginia Avenue
divisions best, will on Tuesday take
on Pierce, Rosedale divisions stand
ard bearer.
The junior west section title will
be at stake in game set for Wednes.
day between Park View and the
Bloomingdale division representative
which has not yet been determined.
Evening star., 1927-12-04

depend on the explosion, a. none too
sure way Of getting close to the
pin.
Last Summer Goss got into a
trap some three feet deep. The
sides had been cut down almost
perpendicular. hut he brought out
his putter, stroked the ball rather
hard and, much to my surprise, it
pumped up into the air, fell on
the green and rolled past the flag
some 10 feet. Naturally, wanted
to know how he had made the shot.
The lie was good, the ball not
being imbedded. The only way he
could climb the bank was to get
overspin. To make certain of
climbing it he also stroked the ball
on the upswing so 1t would rise at
an angle and strike the sand cliff
slightly above the level the ball
was played from.
AS result of this stroke the
overspin caused the ball to jump
into the air and fall forward. 1t
held the green because the bank
had taken most Of the force from
the putt.
Some time, when in a trap un-
der such conditions, try your put.
ter in this way and thump into the
ball real hard. You'll enjoy the re-
suit.
AS much golf soon will he play.
ed on the sand greens of the South
a few tips about putting on them
are quite timely. That will he the
subject Of the next article.
ACoDyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-12-04
NAVY SOCCER VICTOR
OVER PENN STATE, 81

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, December 3.-The
Naval Academy soccer team reached
its peak this afternoon when it cut
played Pennsylvania State. winning
by to ]. The victory not only marred
the record of the visitors. which had
been stainless this season. but pre-
vented them from tying with Prince
ton for leading intercollegiate horors.
The latter team has finished its sched-
uIe without defeat.
The visitors were without the serv-
ices of Serry. an Egyptian, who played
center forward in brilliant manner.
but who twisted his knee in a recent
game.
Somewhat more than half of the
playing was in Navy's territory, but
the visitors lacked the scoring punch
chiefly through the exceptional work
of the Navy backs, Burzynski and
Carlson.
The Navy made sudden dashes and
got by States defense in three of the
quarters. the visitors doing their scor-
ing in the last period, after the Navy
had finished.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
Golf Course Picked From Links Hereabo Would Test Any Expert
WILLIE HUNTERS INSPIRATIONAL SHOT
BY ". q. KELLER.

w Y1LIIE HUNTER, the
n wiry little Englishman
NA who won the British
amateur championship
at Hoylake in 1921 and
later ir% that year cut quite figure
in the United States amateur at 81.
Louis, liked this large country well
enough to regain in 1t. and after
going into the professional branch
of golf located at Los Angeles.
He is an extremely formidable
PLAYER in either match or medal
competition, and he is one of those
golfers who believe in the theory
of inspiration--for occasional shots,
at any rate.
T remember that back in 1923
Willie told me this story of q shot
which, he contends - and with
plenty of reason; know the course,
the hole and the breeze that usual
ly obtains there--he could not have
brought off without something be-
yond his physical ability to help
him.
1t was during the play for the
famous st. Georges Gold Vase in
1922, a medal competition held an
nually on the Royal st. Georges
course, and won the following year
by Francis Ouimet of the American
Walker Cup team, after a tie with
DR.. Willing, another American.
There was a tearing gale" said
Willie, land the difficulty of play
under such conditions can be APP
preciated only by those who have
tried the old course in a real blow.
cana IN fha seventeenth Tee of
the second and last round with two
4s needed to win. i felt could
get 4 on the home hole, which
I could reach with the second shot;
but in the face Of that blast Of
cold air, as l stood on the seven
teenth tee, [ resigned myself to the
hope that could get my third shot
close enough to the pin to get down
in a siSgle putt. l had no real
idea that !. or any one else could
get to the seventeenth green in
two shots that afternoon.
However, J. hit the drive as hard
as I could, and it went away very
low, with a lot Of run TO it-a good
wind d.cheater'--a MI found the ball
lying we'll on the fairwav, some
22o yards from the slightly ele-
waited green.
Now, breeze such as 7 was
then facing adds something like.
SO yards to q good wood shot, and
I never have been rated a long
hitter. Indeed, at the time, / sup
pose q large majority of the 200
competitors in the tournament
were longer hitters than ]. But I
suddenly decided to bang that ball
Evening star., 1927-12-04

qualified to instruct, for he holed IN
ace,
His Chance to Repeat.
This took place in the morning.
That afternoon Washington went over
to Branch Brook for r. friendly match
With Morris Sachs, physical director
at Overlook Hospital. Sachs knew
that once before Washington had
made two holes-in-one in a day. And.
Of course, he had heard of that morn
ing's ace at Cedar Brook. As they
started off, he said:
"Well, Tom, here's another day Tor
you to make two holes-in-one. You've
got one already. Now get the other
The thirteenth hole measures 29a
yards. Sachs drove a little over 200
yards, while Washington's ball an
peared to reach the green, although
this could not be seen from the tee.
They walked to Sachs ball and he
played his second. Then they walked
on and quickly had good view OF
the green. Two feet from the fs <
lay a ball.
"Gee, you're sitting pretty" said
Sachs. However, when they came
UP the ball was found to be his. not
Washingtons The latter's was not
visible.
well" said Sachs. jubilantly, 'h
you beat me here you1l have to hole
two"
A Surprise in the Cup.
They looked for Washington's ball.
A nearby groundkeeper tried 10 help
them He pointed to some chocolate
drop mounds in front of the green.
"T saw a ball bounce on one OF
them" he said. 81 guess maybe II
went into the bunker.
Washington looked into the bunker
but found nothing.
"Oh, WELL" he told Sachs, "you putt
out. If / don't find my ball in
minute, well go on"
Sachs putted and stopped to pick
up his ball.
SAY" he said. ''here's another ball
in the hole"
what kind?" asked Washington.
Sachs told him. They examined it.
1t was shington's.
Washington says that OF course
there always is luck i'm getting a hole
in one. But he figuBes that the fact
that he has played a great deal on
courses having a lot of short holes
| has had something to do in setting his
| record. Thus at the Monomock Inn
| the nine-hOle course measures but
| 1000 yards.
| Playlng an aDDreVlated course
| you get an awful lot of practice" he
says, ''in shooting TO the flag. sTou
get so you lay the ball pretty close a
| large part of the time. If YOU get
the breaks you make a hole.in-one
now and then
Very few OF Washiugton's aces,
however. have been made on exces-
sively short holes. He has had one
11Syarder, one 115-yarder, three 142-
yarders, one 160-yarder, one 1885,
yarder, one 170-yarder, two 179-ysrd-
ers, one 1S5-yarder, one 1Ss-yarder,
two 21S-yarders, one 226-yarder. one
246yarder and one 295-yarder.
Certainly thrilling record.
ltnnvriyhf 1917
Evening star., 1927-12-04
POWER AND UNDERWOOD
LOW NET GOLF VICT0RS

John I. Power and l.. u. Under.
wood, whose score was 1886, won
the low net prize in a two-ball, best
ball handicap competition yesterday
at the Washington Golf and Country
Club. Combined handicaps applied.
Low gross was captured by r. r.
Harrell and Frank n. Roesch. Their
score was 74.7-67.
Dan Ferguson and Robert Franc
caddies for Power and Underwood.
respectively, each was awarded a
goose.
Evening star., 1927-12-04

Shades of John Ball, Walter Travis
and the other brave spirits whose age
does not dim their judgment of dis
lance nor time their fighting spirit!
From way down under" WORD
comes TO Washington of man who
racentIv won the amateur champion
shin of New Zealand for the tenth
time. with 25 years elapsing between.
His name is A. d. s. Duncan, ana ne
has outstripped John Ball and All the
other many-time winners OF natlonai
titles. 80,
OF course. he hasn't had the stiff
connection that Ball and Travis and
Fob Jones have had, but TO win
championship 10 times in any com
pany is notable.
This chap must be quite a golfer,
probably somewhat along the lines
of Lou Nettleton, who surprised Eng.
land last Spring by leading the field
In the British open championship
after a lengthy trip from Australia
where he has been king or the anna
teurs for many years.
It would not he bit surprising u
Bob Jones piled up somewhat the
same record in this country if he
sticks in the competitive game long
enough, for no one has yet appeared
on the horizon who can give him
real game when he is right.
All Of which brings to mind what
q great chance Maurice j. Mccarthy
had last August at Minneapolis. One
up and three to go on Bob, and ther
fling it away. But that's one of the
sad stories of the game and Bob never
again will loaf along against a tough
youn2ster who might beat him.
All credit is due the loyal ant
energetic golf committee of the Balti
more Country Club, which has oh
tained for the Monumental City TIL
Professional Golfers Association
championship next year. Putting il
a bid of more than $4,000 against al
offer of $5, 900 from French Lick. tn
baltimore club has been awarded tn
=. G.. A. plum, which will bring NOR
publicity and well merited advertising
ahan anything else could have done
save one of the two other big ma
tional titles.
But the p. G. A. is big enough an
many persons are more interested Il
watching the pros battle at mattel
f,tay than at the mathematical proc
esses of medal play. DIR. Louis Coriel
end r. s. Belknap are to he congrai
NIated on their job. and there is n
Evening star., 1927-12-04
PIRATES GIVE TWO MEN
FOR SOUTHPAW PITCHER

PITTSBURGH, December 3 R.---
Mike Cvengros, southpaw pitcher, and
Ike Danning, rookie catcher. were
transferred by the Pittsburgh Pirates
tonight to the Wichita Falls Club of
the Texas League as part payment for
Fred Fussell, another sobthpaw pitch
err, who was acquired by the Pitts
burgh Base Ball Club from Wichita
two months ago.
Cvengros came to the Pirates from
New Orleans at the end of the 1926
flag race.
banning. Los Angeles boy. came
East with the Pittsburgh Club after
it's Spring training season on the Pa
ciic Coast this year and was farmed
out to the New Haven Club of the
Eastern League.
Evening star., 1927-12-04
Coss Makes Putter
Climb Sandy Cliff
BY SOL METZGER,

Arthur Goss, Everglades Club
professional at Palm Beach, with
whom the writer often plays golf,
has q marked fondness for using
his putter to get out of sand traps.
In previous articles 1 have dealt
both with his method and that of
Hagen's for this shot. a most happy
solution when one otherwise has to
Evening star., 1927-12-04
TRAINED EVERY DAY.

Willie Hoppe, who held the world
1872 balkline title for more years than
any man ever has and probably than
any man ever will, kept in training
81 weeks Of each year. Every day
he went through series Of exercises
and he never varied from the diet that
bis physicians prescribed.
Evening star., 1927-12-04

for the green. 1T was like a warm
flash all through my body. ] re-
member, and told my caddy in a
sort of burst of confidence that |
was going to hit the ball harder
than hell and hope
''The hope was realized. hit
the ball with everything I had. and
In a sort of dream I saw it roll np