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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-20
BY TED vOSBURGH.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

" CREST HILLS, N. Y, August
l. 20.-Eighteen Fasteners, seven
Californians, two Middle West
l. erners and five formidable Eng
lish women today remsined in
the second round of play for the ma
tiOnal Women'S tennis championship OH
the West Side Stadium turf.
Suffering fewer losses proportionately
than any other contingent, the English
forces came through the opening round
yesterday with colors flying, while
Canada, Brazil, Sweden and Bermuda
were counted out and the battle mar
rowed to an Anglo-American affair.
All five OF the English Wightman Cup
players survived to cause trouble for
American contenderS, Great Britain'S
sole casualty being Mrs. D. A. Aston.
player Of no great pretensions, who
was speedily eliminated at the hands
Of her country woman, Mrs. B. C..
CoYell.
Add to the Interest.
As result of the success Of the Brit
ish stars a series Of interesting inter-
national battles was in prospect for the
second round today.
Most promising OF these, perhaps, was
the scheduled encounter between Sarah
Palfrey surprising 16-year -old Brook
line, Mass, girl, who. outplayed older
and more experienced opponents to win
the Eastern turf title just two days
ago, and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd Bar
ron Of the English team.
Miss Palfrey. playing at the rapid
clip that carried her to the Eastern
crown and to a smashing 6-3, 6-l
victory over Ruth Bailey of st. Louis
here yesterday, was conceded close TO
an even chance to defeat the English
player.
Largely because of her youth, Miss
Palfrey was not included among the
eight Americans seeded in the draw,
but her play the last few days indicated
that she undoubtedly has arrived"
Mrs. Shepherd Barron, considerably
older, Is far more experienced in i'm
portant tournament play. In the final
OF the East Hampton tournament few
days ago she had little difficulty in
defeating Nudge" Gladman. seventh in
the American ranking, in straight sets.
The Palfrey-Shepherd-B Barron match,
which is included among the feature
encounters to be staged on the stadium
center courts" promised plenty of in
tereSt both because of Miss Palfrey'S
youth and clever playing and because
of the peculiar double wind-up" serv-
ice which characterizes the play of her
English opponent. Mrs. Shepherd-Bar-
ron. incidentally, Is from India and
perfected her unusual strokes in COM
petition there.
Among other important matches
billed for today was that between Helen
Wills, the defending champion, and
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Sesouicentennial Stadium at Philadel-
phia the night that Dempsey and Tun-
ney fought. There was no wild shout-
ing. The crowd was too dazed and
fascinated by what was happening.
They were so daZed by 1t that they
could only look in silence, incredulous-
though it was happening. The unde-
featable was being defeated.
OF course, this did not happen at
Forest Hills. Pressed to call on all
her reserve forces and control, Miss
Wills came from behind in both sets.
In this she furnished, probably
quite unintentionally, some Of the
great showmanship that William
Tilden 3D. seemed to produce with
elaboration and supreme faith in
his powers.
Since the Davis Cup passed, 1t seems
to have been up to the woman players
to bring the thrills to Forest Hills.
There is quite as much demand among
the followers Of lawn tennis for the
return match between Miss Nuthall and
Miss Wills as there was for the return
bout between Dempsey and Tunney
after that bewildering spectacle at the
battle Of the Sesquicentennial.
Great Shows in Tennis.
THOUGH Mr.. William Tilden, I'd, has
i developed plenty of showcraft in
mems tennis, the women'S tennis
seems to be more dramatic in spon-
famous way. The passing OF Mrs. Molla
Bjurstedt Mallory as women's singles
champion seems to me to be q more
dramatic and moving show than the
loss of the mems singles championship
by William Tilden, I'd. The tennis
fans are not as sentimental as the fight
fans or there would have been much
sobbing and hysteria over that little
tragedy of the courts.
I always felt that there was the
one tennis match that would have
drawn quite as many spectators as
did the Battle of Slightly Less Than
Three Million at Chicago, with half
of the ballyhoo. This one was the
match between Miss Helen Wills and
the incompatible Mile. Suzanne
Lenglen. with both of them at the
peaks of their games, as the experts
say.
1t was not that this match lacked
any too much in the way Of ballyhoo at
that, for the trip of Miss Wills to the
Riviera, where she was beaten every
time she faced Mile. Lenglen, furnished
plenty to instill into the Imagination Of
those who do not play or know the
6oAAC bAA0t tAALo hlCCShAB WOAAA Nc OAAS
Of the most dramatic THAT could be
brought about. The possibilities made
the professional promoters sad.
Mile. Lenglen, on the tennis courts,
was a greater actress than William
Tilden, I'd, was a tennis actor, and,
besides, she probably was the great
est woman tennis player of all time,
and would have continued to be even
until today. When she turned pro-
fessional she spoiled one Of the .
greatest sports spectacles in the
world.
Some experts see the possibilities in
the near future of one not quite as
great when Miss Nuthall faces Miss
Wills later-but not this year.
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either take a divot or scrape the
grass down to its roots beyond the
ball. hf
Swing through and under the ball
with your lofted clubhead to THAI
point. It's loft will cut 1t under the
ball, roll it up the face OF the club
as you continue through with the
stroke and toss 1t high into space
with plenty Of backspin. Hit down.
but In doing it don't hit the ball on
top. The down hit merely means
that the low point Of the arc OF your
swing is just ahead Of the ball.
Next-the right elbow on irons.
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TR0EH, WITH 1877 IN 200,
WINS TRAPSHOT TROPHY

DAYTON, Ohio, August 20 R.-
Frank Troeh of Portland, Greg, topped
a field Of trapshooters in eight events
to win the opening days trophy of the
grand American handicap tournament.
Out of the 200 registered targets for
the day he finished with a score OF
1877 breaks. All entrants shot from the
16-yard line.
Other winners for the day, with their
classes, were as follows:
Glass Al, A. PenderErass, Phoenix,
Class 30. y. Bnz. Oshkosh. Wis. 1877
Glass C-ChsrleS H. Mason, Kennett
SQure. Pc. 1872:
Glass D-J. H. Brookman, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. 1874.
Glass Oscar Wuerz. New York. l85.
Of the day with his 1879. but was unable
10 repeat In the shoot of against Troeh.
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ond Mackenzie Go to amateur Golf Championship Tournament
''Hitting Down.
Method Explained

One must have a definite idea of
what he Is going to do when he pre-
pares to play an iron. You hear SO
much about hitting down that un-
less one stops to analyze just what
is meant by hitting down he'll be
attempting the impossible.
You do hit down at the ball, but
not along the arc in the upper half
Of the sketch, as many suppose. The
idea is to have a point just In front
of the ball on the line Of flight. Hit
down to that point. II you do you'll
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Must Be Very, Very Good
To Get Rich as Amateur

The Massachusetts, golfers have
been warned that they will lose
their amateur standing If they
accept travelling and hotel ex-
penses, and quite right. too. But,
it is asked. why don't they get
good enough to write articles on
how to keep out of traps and
pronate the wrists. and then they
can buy the old hotel and there
won't be any trouble.
Anyhow. 1t is about time this
expense money thing was taken
up and Strengthened out. Sport
is getting to such pass that the
first thing you know somebody is
going to pay a rodeo riders ex-
penses. In fact. there was case
on this order a couple Of years
ago. Will Rogers and Doug
Fairbanks both paid the same
riders fare home after the rider
had sold his horse to Haywood
Broun and six other people to get
car fare.
1t always has seemed that this
case of expense money almost
verged On professionalism.
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GOLF SEEN AS MENTAL.

Charley Betschler, veteran golf pro.
Of Maryland, sizes up the new golf ball
In these words: Golf Is largely mental.
II golfer thinks the new ball makes
brassie and spoon shots easier they will
be easier. II he thinks the new ball
will exaggerate his hook or slice 1t win
do that
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GRID STAR TURNS PRO.

CHICAGO. August II CP.-Walter
Holmer. one of the greatest triple threat
stars in Northwestern University's foot
oall history, has been signed to play with
the Chicago Bears this Fall. Homer
captained the purple last season and
was named all-Big Ten fullback.
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The Heavyweight TanSle.

ONE trouble with the heavyweight sit
~ uation as 1t stands today is that
five or six of the leaders are about even,
and by the time they begin to get I'M
scrambled there should be two or three
youngsters coming on. In this list
George Godfrey occupies peculiar sit
uation. He probably could take any Of
the BUNCH now in action-or inaction-
but for the most part he has been
rather q dull, uninteresting fighter to
watch.
There Is a general feeling among box
ing promoters that II he ever won the
title the slump in receipts would be
something of an avalanche, and profess
sional boxing Is as much a business as
stocks and bonds or real estate and
millinery. Still. 1t will be interesting
to see how long civilization will last
without having a crown wearer oficially
established on the now vacated and
somewhat moth-eaten throne.
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THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

writes Old Timer. walter johnson
won 416 games in the American League
and Grover Alexander 374 games in the
National League. but old Cy Young won
Sill games in both leagues. He pitched
against the pick Of the bunch in the
two major circuits. He had to step
against such batters as Delehanty,
Keeler, Wagner. etc, in the National
League, and later on against such hit
ters as Cobb, Lajoie, etc, in the Amer
lean League.
Il am not taking anything away from
johnson and Alexander. They are
among the two greatest that ever lived.
But Cy can go along today hitting his
drives down the middle and sinking his
three foot puts without bothering about
any purSuer in either league. They
can't find one man today who can win
even 80 games year and not more
than one or two who will reach u.s."
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DOWN THE LINE
WITH w. o. McGEEHAN-
Tennis as a Spectacle.

IT NAV imagination to compare lawn
formerly supposed to be ladyke sport to
comparison
game with przehghtng outside OF lawn en
OF some OF Team
such intercollegiate foot ball polo can produce IN
while there Is " "A :"
Word of base ball .o.. ~ ~. Golf
Poher sort on goH
links this stage and the spectacle mas
milling the course
moments hardly in the spotlight -
drama such as only the prize TING @
Germantown where the
racqueteers OF france IN na
all the world ike worn Ola
haote, tv the traditional younger better man"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-20

SCOTT IS AFTER LONG.
Tots Long. please call w. p. Scott,
Lincoln 2Ol4-W, between 6 and z O'Clock
today concerning a base ball game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-20

A NY citizen Of the United States.
~ foot ball coach or otherwise, who
"A desires to increase his foot ball
4 A learning can be accommodated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-20
WILL. BE 0NL y:D..C.
L|NKSMAN To PLAY
Capital Fans Also Have an
Interest in voigt, Now
New York Resident.
BY WALTER r.. McCALLUM.

V " WASHINGTON will have one
representative in the ma
NV tional amateur champion
ship at Pebble Beach, Calf,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-20

. CREST HILLS, N. Y, August
- 20.-Eighteen Fasteners. seven
Californians, two Middle West
l. erners and five formidable Eng
Nch tI,oraar fcdau iInad In
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Amundsen Supplies
Under l8-Year Snow
AT South Pole Base
Explorers Aide Explains
Byrd's Inability to Find
Cache of Food.

BY Gable e. The star and Chicago Daily
news. Copyright, 1929.
OSLO, January 22.-Capt. visiting
who accompanied Roald Amundsen to
the South Pole and is now the only
survivor of that expedition, has given
this correspondent an explanation of
the disappearance of the AmundSen
party's house and food depot at the
Bay Of Whales, Antarctic, as reported
by Comdr. Richard e. Byrd's expedi-
ton.
I'VE arrived at the ice barrier in
January" said Capt. Visiting, land
commenced Immediately to build a
house comprising combined sitting
room and bedroom with 10 berths and
kitchen. New snow came in such
abundance that in April only the roof
of the house was visible and we had
to build stairs down to the entrance
door.
About mile from the house we laid
down food depot. Both house and de-
pot now naturally are buried under the
snow and Comdr. Byrd shall have to
dig away 10 years of snow to find our
camp. hope he finds the depot be-
cause Of the fine food 1t contains. The
food must be as fresh now as, it was
In 1912 and there is sufdcient to last
eight men one year, including canned
food, coffee, tea, sugar and dried fish. +"
Capt. Visiting was asked to accom-
pany the Byrd expedition, but refused
because he wanted to search for his
missing friend AmundSen.
II wish could make the trip down
to Comdr. Byrd's camp now and point
out our depot to him." Capt. Visiting
said.
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ARTISTS AND BUSINESS MEN ii
BUSY ON BAL BOT1EME PLANS
Annual Event of Arts Club
Will Be Held Evening of
January 20.
Display in Shop Windows
Being Arranged as cad
vance Stunts"

Utilizing the talent of many artists
and having secured the cooperation of
local business men, the Art Club will
give its Bal Boheme at the Willard
Hotel January %, an art event COM
parable to the BeauX Arts Ball in New
York City. Based on authentic art
history, the bal has become a civic
art and educational event in addition
to its carnival aspect.
Business men are taking an active
interest in its promotion and success.
Architects and painters are at work
upon the decorations, while artists and
assisting in designing costumes and
scenery. Actors and musicians will con-
tribute entertainment either in the main
event or In the various advertisements
of the after-Supper period
Lawyers, scientists, writer's and bust
ness men have been assembled as an
outstanding group of Washington men
by Roy L. Neuhauser to take charge of
floor activities" in the management of
the throng OF merry-makers that are
expected to attend.
Displays in shop windows Of various
modernized adaptations of Egyptian and
Oriental art works are being arranged
by Washington artists, headed by
Francis Benjamin Johnston and Dorothy
Trout, as advance stunts" of the Bal.
Attaches of the Egyptian legation
have given advice and assistance in the
designing of the window scenes and it
Is expected that the Ministry of Egypt,
Mahmoud Samy PaSha, and Mime. Samy
PaSha will attend the Bal.
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y
LEJEUNE is H0NORED
AT MARINE MEETING

Mai. Gen. John A. Lejeune. COM
mandant Of the Marine Corps. was
honor guest last evening at the meeting
held in Woodmen's Hail. Grant place,
by the National Capital Detachment Of
the Marine Corps League.
Gen. Lejeune, in an address, gave an
outline of the activities of the corps,
stressing conditions in China and Mica
ragua. They did not fire a shot in
China, he said. With the exception of
the permanent legation guard at Picking
there is left at Shanghai but one regi-
ment Of Marines, and these, 1t Is ex-
pected, will be withdrawn as soon as
conditions permit.
Reports from Nicaragua, according to
Gen. Lejeune, are very encouraging,
and he stated that the malcontents yet
remaining In the field are composed, of
less than one-half Of / per cent Of
native Nicaraguans.
Gen. Lejeune presented a past COM
mandant's jewel to First Lieut.. Willard
N. Hart past commandant Of the
National Capital Detachment of the
Marine Corps League. Capt. William
G. Stott of the third precinct police,
present commandant Of the local de-
tachment Of the Vague, presided at the
meeting,
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EMBASSY LIQUOR
SEIZED BY POLICE
Truck and Driver, Lacking
Proper Papers, Freed as
SnarI UntangIed.

The efforts of Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury Lowman, ana two repre-
sentatives of the State Department were
required last night TO convince police of
the twelfth precinct that truck con-
tanning 624 quarts of assorted liquors,
the property of the French embassy,
really was consigned to the embassy and
that that excuse was not being used
merely as blind.
A large truck loaded with liquor, was
stopped on Rhode Island avenue north
east about $50 O'Clock by Motor Cycle
Policeman Thomas Heide and Watson
Salkeld, and Detective Charles E. Berry
of the twelfth precinct. When the
driver and his companion could not
produce any documentary evidence of
the truth of stheir assertion that the
liquor was from Baltimore and con-
signed to Jules Henry, secretary of the
embassy, the vehicle and themselves
were taken to the station. The men
were charged with transportation and
possession of liquor. They gave their
names as David Trabing IS years old,
and Conrad TRADING, 80 years old,
brothers, living in Baltimore.
The embassy was notified and claimed
the shipment, but still the police proved
obdurate, refusing to release either men
or liquor without official sanction. That
sanction came about an hour later from
police headquarters and about the same
time Secretary Lowman and the State
Department men arrived at the precinct.
News of the seizure spread throughout
the neighborhood and by the time the
truck left the station, a crowd was on
hand.
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SIS, 900 IN SILvERWARE
AND TRUNK VANISH
Consignment Disappeared From
Entrance of Downtown Hotel.
Search Is Being Conducted.

Police today are searching for trunk
containing $1,000 worth of silver jewelry,
which disappeared mysteriously from
the entrance Of downtown hotel
Saturday night.
The trunk, in charge of Howard s..
Marshall, salesman for the Interna-
tional Silver Co., Meridian, Conn, Is
said to have been placed in front Of the
hotel by Clyde Schillings, 80 years old,
employee of the Union Transfer Co.
Schillings says he remembers leaving
the trunk in front Of the building, po-
lice claim. and says that ended his
responsibility.
George Kite, 81 years old, 6lS A
street southeast, assistant head porter
at the hotel, explained he signed for
the trunk Saturday night and recorded
the receipt in his books.
But when Marshall arrived from
Connecticut last night and asked for his
trunk, it could not be found. He re-
ported the loss to police.
Marshall believes the trunk has per-
haps been misplaced or sent to one OF
the other hotels by mistake, and The
hotel and transfer company are con-
Quoting private Investigations.
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FIREMEN ANSWER $50
CALLS THIS MONTH
Total Sounded Since January / In
clude 81 in Past "a Hours.
One Fatality Noted.

The District Fire Department has
answered $50 fire alarms thus far this
month, counting those turned In up to
9 am. today. OF these, 81 came in dur
ing the "a hours Immediately previous
and resulted in the death of one per-
son and narrow escapes for Is others.
This activity, although 1t has kept
most of the departments apparatus on
the run a goodly portion Of the time,
is still below the pace set in January.
1928, the departments record month,
when 5O7 alarms of fire were answered
during the course of the month.
Among the larger fires the depart
ment has been called on to handle this
month were the Dulin g. Martin blaze,
the fire at 922 Fourteenth street, in
which several families were rescued;
that in the Glendower Apartment. II
sixth street, in which Miss Carrie
Goodwin. "a, lost her life, and the fire
in the storehouse of the Hecht Co., 6ls
z street.
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RETURN FROM FILM
TRIP INTO L|BYA
Washington Woman and
Companion Made Pictures
of Border Fighting.

Miss Dorothy Quincy Smith Of this
city and Miss Lloyd Preston of New
York reached Washington yesterday
following their return to the United
States from their second Journey into
Libya, italian North Africa, on which
they made motion pictures OF desert
frontier fighting and the first air views
of the ruins of the ancient Greek city
Of Cirene.
When they made their first trip to
Nalut in the Tripon Atlas last year,
Miss Smith and Miss Preston brought
back with them such an acceptable
collection of photographs and motion
picture reels that when they contem-
plated a second venture, the govern
ment of Tripolitania was instructed to
escort the young women wherever they
wanted to so in the regions about the
the Tourage oasis of Gadames, located
about 1000 kilometers in the Sahara,
as their goal
Escorted by Caravan.
They were escorted INTO the desert
by small caravan, and, after making
pictures OF the country they saw, they
were returned to Tripoli City, with the
distinction of having been the first
American women to have received off,
cial permits to visit the oasis. From
Tripoli City they were sent to Bou
N'Gem, near the Cirenaica frontier,
where are located the ruins of an old
Roman fort.
Captured by the Italians only six
months ago, the town Is the last post
behind Italy's present fighting lines.
Miss Smith and Miss Preston reached
the place during the fighting at Socna
and Hon, 800 kilometers to the south.
There they made pictures Of the
Eritrean Road Guards, Arabian cavalry
and squadron of Caproni ambulance
planes, which had been forced down
on their way to Hon.
Film Ruins In Cyrene.
In Cyrenica the American girls went
by airplane to Apolonia and Cyrene. It
was on this flight that they made the
first motion pictures of the ruinSeQf the
Greek city of Cyrene, which was >the
scene Of a civilization in the SeyenSl
century before Christ. In their travels
Miss Smith and Miss Preston visited
Derna, scene of the first foreign war
Of the United States, where they saw
the ruins of the American fort, erected
in 1904.
The girls reached Italy just after the
eruption of Mount Etna and en- route
to Rome they were obliged to detour
through two deserted villages to avoid
three lava streams. At Rome their
films were proceSsed and they first saw
the results of their travels on the
screen Of the Colonial Museum theater.
Miss Smith, the daughter Of E. Quincy
Smith, local real estate broker, 3110
woodland drive, is a graduate Of Ameri-
can University.