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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-29
CHAMPION IS OUT
|. OF WOMAN'S GOLF
Mrs. Pressler and Virginia
Van Vie Victims of Upsets
in Western Event.
BY PAUL r. NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

| CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 80.
The skirmish for the women's Western
golf championship bounded into the
quarter final round today, but the twice
defending titleholder, Mrs. Leons
Pressler of Los Angeles, and Virgins
Van VIE Of Chicago, one of Americas
first ranking stars, were missing from
the fray.
Both were eliminated yesterday in 9
pair OF the most stunning upsets of q
decade of tournament competition, the
! champion falling before Mrs. Lee Mida
the Chicago veteran, Q and /, and Miss
Van VIE dropping before the steady
surprising fire of 16-year-old Rena Nell
son, little Chicago sharpshooter and
relgn1ng Western Junior title holder, l
up.
Now Is Free-for-AII.
The upsets turned the championship
fight into a free-for-all between the
eight survivors Mrs. o. S. Hill of
Kansas City, Mrs. Gregg Lifur and
Kathleen Wright of Los Angeles, Mrs.
Harley Higbie of Detroit, Bernice Wall
OF Oshkosh, Wis; Peggy Wattles of
Buffalo. Western New York chapimon !;
Mrs. Mida and Miss Nelson.
OF the octet, Mrs. Hill, who cap
tured the tournament medal with her
great II Monday, was slight favorite.
She had played the best golf of the
tournament and from past records is
the steadieSt match player in the run
ming. Mrs. Mida and Miss Nelson had
large hackers, too, because of their
great triumphs in yesterdays second
18-hole round.
In today's matches Mrs. Mida was
paired against Mrs. Lifur, former Cali
fornia champion, who has defeated Vir-
Villas, another Chicagoan; Miss Nelson
faced Miss Wright, who entered the
quarter final round by defeating Anne
Kennedy, Tulsa; Mrs. Hill who elm
mated Eva May johnson of Chicago,
faced Mrs. Higbie, Detroit champion,
| who entered the round by crushing
Helen MacMorran of Chicago, and Miss
Wall faced Miss Wattles. The Oshkosh
star, former Wisconsin champion, elm
mated Mrs. Julian Tyler, Cleveland
champion, yesterday while Miss Wattles
beat Mrs. John Arends Of Chicago on
the eighteenth green.
Miss Nelson Not Lucky.
Miss Nelson's defeat of the great Van
VIE was surprising, but it was in no
wise luck. She fought an uphill battle
all the way and her great wooden shots
off the fairway put her in the running
and finally ahead on the sixteenth car
pet. Miss Van VIE bettered her by one
stroke, a par 81, in medal play, but her
habit Of shanking approaches at crucial
stages gave the little Chicagoan, who
has played golf but four years, Just the
breaks she needed.
Mrs. Mida led Mrs. Pressler all the
way by shooting perfect golf. Four
times stymies were placed and Mrs.
Pressler was handicapped by three Of
them. It was the first time in three
matches in three straight tournaments
Les Angeles star.
So far not a single championship
flight match has been extended extra
greens
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ments to the tune of 10 over
spongy fairways and water-lcgged
greens and might easily have equaled
Jones 90 with any kind of break.
Like an Ajax barring his breast
to the thunderbolts. Won Elm fought
his way around that well-trapped
course. with the light of battle
shining from his eyes and the Ian
tern Jaw that had come through so
many ring battles unscathed stuck
out belligerently into the lsshing
rainl
Golf is a fighting game. as far as
George Won Elm is concerned. The
only player to defeat Bobby Jones
in the last five amateur champion
ships. you can't count the blond
Teuton out until the last putt has
been holed at Pebble Beach. George
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II rs on! You Wirii"

- The champion of Rossl
second shoe nowhere in par
That almost cost him tt
of Arlington County. Also it tau
probably never again will heed tn
The ringer merely tied the SEQ
pion OF Bancroft, were even with o.
Gliding 50-point game of gruellin
Kirchner won the first game b
So to 43. Then came a test of ski
ringer they threw with seldom
either able to forge ahead by mo-
time the score was tied or one led
A crowd of several hundred
that completely surrounded the
court was thoroughly on edge. 1t
was almost understandable when
the finish neared. Vice Chairman
Fred w. Watson spoke a piece
about fair play.
He said today: 1--WE found out last
night that horseshoe pitching is not
altogether a players sport. The spec
tator gets an undeniable kick out of it.
I've never seen more exciting situa-
ton than when Talbot and Kerchner
got ready for that last inning
Talbot was the first to throw. The
crowd leaned forward with the unison
OF a piece OF machinery when he let
loose. Neither of his shoes was en- the
stake, but one was mighty close.
Needed Ringer to Win.
THAT gave Kerchner a chance to
win with a ringer. He had thrown 4s
against IS for Talbot. The Bancroft
fans were praying fervently for ringer,
you can bet. But Kerchner hadn't any
left.
But one of his shoes was close. It
was SO close that the referee, Robert r.
James, got out his measure. He had
used it lot of times before, too. Tai
bott was a small fraction of an inch
nearer the stake.
Believe me, that last game was a
nerve wracker. 1t had the spectators
talking to themselves
Carl E. Swenson, Arlington County
chairman Of the metropolitan tourna-
ment. and Vice Chairman Watson will
accompany Talbot and Kerchner to the
State finals. Where and when these
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The term he has used to designate
| the tenth hole Is indicative OF the usual
type of game played at Washington, LOT
the members there are followers OF the
Nassau system of playing, and when
one side is far ahead of another side
the books are generally opened for new
business" on the tenth tee. In other
words an additional bet usually Is MADE
over the last nine.
Ben L, Fuller was the victim the
other day of practical joke, pulled
off by r. Goldsborough Hunt. 1t nap
pened at the fifteenth hole at WASH
ington, which is hard enough anyhow,
and Fuller made it harder. In FOUR
ball game were Hunt, Fuller, r. j. Nor
man and Irving Moore. They were
playing from the rear tee markers anu
Fuller had the honor.
| Unleashing a nightly swat, Fuller
| topped the ball and it hit the markers
| for the front tees square in the center,
bounding high in the air and falling
10 feet behind the spot from which II
had originally been driven. OF course
Fuller couldn't tee it up again and
had to play it where it lay.
But Hunt, who claimed to have some
jurisdiction in the matter since he had
a side match with Fuller, demanded
that since Fuller was away, he should
play his second shot before the others
hit their tee shots. Considerable dis
cussion ensued, until finally 1t was
pointed out that the rules state the
members of four-ball match all must
drive from the tee before the second
shots are played. Then the ball that
is farthest from the hole must be
played.
He asked us not to tell in too much
detail about it, but the story is too good
to keep, concerning D. G. Gruver's
mighty wallop on the fifth hole OF the
Annapolis Roads course. We were play
ing in a four-ball game with Gruver, j.
Logan Hopkins and T. P. Noyes, and all
had driven poor balls but Gruver. He
stepped up and cut loose with mighty
swing which was intended to knock that
ball a mile, but he wasted most OF the
stroke on the backswing, for he knocked
it lust three feet. Nothing daunteo
by this unseemly stroke Of fate, he
stepped calmly up to, the next one and
poled it out $40 yards. He got par
S on the hole. And the hole Is a real
par 5 affair of $40 yards.
One of the greatest golf shots we
ever have seen was played by n. j.
Norman yesterday at washington. on
the seventeenth he topped his tee shot.
the ball going less than 100 yards, and
leaving him that most difficult OF sho@,
a shot that must come In with o nook
to q terrain falling away from the run
of the ball. He had o space OF about
ten feet In width to hit on after carry
Of leo yards and the ball must Sack
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DIRT TRACK AUTO RACE
AWARDED TO LOUISVILLE

LOUISVILLE. KY, August 90 (P).-
The national dirt track championship
race, sanctioned by the United States
Automobile Racing Association, will be
day before the opening of the American
Legion convention.
The event was held last year at
Minneapolis and was won by Wilbur
Shaw, indianapolis who finished fifth
In the 500-mile race in his home town.
A $4,000 purse is planned for the
winner Of the main event, Mr.. Miller
said
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lived in California for six years and
knows this Del Monte layout well,
and he will have the moral support
Of thousands in the gallery.
At Merton in 1924 Jones beat Won
Elm. 8 and 8. George reversed the
decision two years later at Baltusrol,
2 and /. in a nip-and-tuck affair.
Since then Won Elm has been UNI
able to get by the "18-hole" stymie,
losing to Harry Legg in 1927 and to
Arthur Yates last year.
George finished fourth in the
United States open in 1923 and was
right up behind Sarazen and Denny
Shute this year, with 297. He has
played on several Walker Cup teams
and in 1926 tied for third place in
the British open with Walter Hagen.
He was born in Salt Lake City,
Utah, in 1901.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

when it hit and not run down into the
ditch to the right. He played the shot
perfectly. The ball rose to the right
of the trees, hooked in toward the hole
and left him an eight-foot putt. which
he knocked in for birdie 3. after APP
parently being completely out of the
hole. That shot made the third con-
secutive birdie in the foursome, COM
posed of Frank Youry. Don Dougherty,
Norman and the writer. The best ball
Of the foursome for the last four holes
of the Washington course was 4, 3, 3, 8,
which Is four under par
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Try Giraffe Shot
Out of the Ditch
BY SOL METZGER.

OF course you've found your ball
in q ditch or on the downward slope
of q hill a foot or two below the level
of your stance. You know the shot
where you try to bend over at the
waist in order to reach the ball and
then lose your balance as you swing.
Well, there is a sane way Of play
ing this lie. It permits of a some
what normal, orthodox swing with
whatever club you should use for
the distance to be gained. It's
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JOINS CRICKET IMM0RTALs.

LONDON. August 29.-Frank Woolley,
noted Kent cricketer, Joined the i'm
mortals of the game when he COM
pleted his Tooth century yesterday. He
scored 176, not out, for Kent against
Middlesex. Other players who have
Tom Hayward, H. B. Hobbs, C. p. Mead
and Pat Hendren.
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called the giraffe shot, probably be-
cause golfers have seen the pictures
Of CRATES drinking that so many
African big game hunters have
brought back to America. A giraf1e,
be It known, in order to get his
head to the water hole spreads his
front legs at about As degrees.
To play such shot you do as
the giraffe and swing only with the
arms. II you try to pivot you'll
sway and bungle the effort. This
spread of feet lowers the hands IN
a normal manner to the right Level
to pick the ball clean and hSaces
your body so you can't miss the
shot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-29

~ NE or the nneSt tennis players
ever produced In the Middle
West, George Lott, the youth
~ full Chicago star, ranks as the
younger generations outstand-
ing contender for the national singles
crown this season.
Lott is rated third in the United
States, behind Bill Tiden and Frank
Hunter, and If those old soldiers fail
to come through George is the logical
man to succeed to the title.
Three years ago Lott defeated both
Tilden and Rene Lacoste in minor
tournament play and was hailed as a
future champion.
Picked for Davis Cup duty in the
challenge round against the French
this year. George gave Jean Borotra
some worried moments and took set
from Henri Cochet, something Tilden
himself was unable to do.
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N 70 one would ever laugh at
M golf as a game that did not
bring out ones competitive
/ spirit and arouse players
fighting instinct If they had
CHANGED to see George Won Elm
playing his second round in the
1929 national open championship at
Winged Foot. New York.
For Won Elm, who had taken q
70 in beautiful weather the day
before. went around in miracle 70
during one Of the worst transforms
that ever doused a golf tournament.
Think of it! Two below par, where
players like Mac Smith, Jim Barnes,
Willie Macfarlane and Jack Hutch
ison were taking 78s. Walter Hagen
an 81 and National Champion
Johnny Farrell an 83!
George Won Elm defied the ele-
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Auto Bodies, Radiators, Tenders
Repaired; also New Radiators
Harrison Radiators and Cores in stock
Also S1S 18th, VI Block Below Ave.
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LARENCE WASHINGTON
JONES, the indispensable lock-
er boy at the Washington Golf
and Country Club, has turned
author. Jones' efforts in the


literary field have a practical bearing
on what he hopes may ultimately
become part of the nomenclature Of
the golf course. He has drawn up a
list of names which he suggests as the
names for the eighteen holes on the
golf course.
Clarence Jones has been with the
Washington club long, long time, and
naturally he has absorbed much of the
tradition and spirit of the Virginia
club. Some of his names go back to
the war days when woodrow Wilson
used the course almost every day. 9th
ers have a more direct bearing on re-
cent occurrences in the years that have
interviewed since the course was changed
from a short one to one. OF standard
length. For whatever they are worth
land many of them sound worth whtle)
here are Jones suggestions for the
names of the holes at Washington:
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Miss Helen Wills. the tennis
champion, and her hance, Fred
erick S. Moody. jr., photographed
in Alta Plaza Park, San Fran
cisco, just after announcement of
their engagement.
9 Associated Press Photo
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
Rep. CeIIer Wonders
Why Anyone Works
For Government Pay

ssThe more go into the subject,
The more I wonder why people work
FOR the Government at all Repre-.
sentative Celler, Of New York. told
the League for the American Civil
Service at the Interior Department
auditorium last night.
ssCOn1fnercial houses give their
employees bonuses. Many provide
group insurance. liberal retirement
plans. privileges Of purchasing stock
81 below. market prices, discount on
purchases Of supplies and other
goods. recreatIonal advantages, re.
wards for distinguished services and
Quick advancement.
tsPefinanency of tenure Is the
only advantage can see on the
eide Of the Government employee. =
The speaker then listed other EN-
Judgments paying far more than
kGovernment employees received.
Plumbers receive 11S per cent more;
Fleet metal workers, 1S5 per cent.
carpenters, 1903 per cent: painters.
i0S per cent: structural workers, 50
per cent; bricklayers. IS per cent:
pIasterers. So per cent, and railroad
employees, Sc per cent.
Representativ Cellar called the
present retirement plan a joke
ana spoke IN favor Of the Dale re-.
tirement bin.
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
CITIZENS ELECT

The election of officers of the
Edgewood Citizens Association re-
suited last night in the choice OF
III. Claude Turner as president;
Robert Role as first vice president,
and Thomas Clancy, secretary. The
association took formal action favor
ing the Community Chest.
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
TWO GIRLS HURT
IN AUTO
Times STAFF photo

Two school girls were treated to-
day for injuries suffered last night
when an automobile IN which six
members Ut sorority drive
ing home from a meeting over.
turned on road approaching the
Virginia entrance to Chain Bridge.
The accident occurred while the
girls were reported to have been
hufrying along a slippery road.
The machine was badly damaged
when it plunged into a ditch and
overturned.
Al notorist took the two injured
girls to the Georgetown Hospital
Winifred Raby, Is, Of the 400
block Fifteenth st. m. w. with a
fractured right arm and an injured
head, was the most seriously hurt.
She remained in the hospital this
afternoon.
stella Rich. is. Of the 700 block
Allison st. N. w. student Of
Central High School. suffered an
injured right knee.
The girls had gone for. ride
after attending the meeting at the
home 81 the Rabey girl, student
Of the Powell Junior High School,
Margaret Srnoot, 10. of the 400
block Clifton st. N. w. was at
the steering wheel She IS b
student OF Central High School.
All the girls were members OF
the Lamba Zeta Gamma Sorority.
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
NJ CARL DO WINS
COPS JAUNT

Comptroller General j. r. McCarI
and j. r.. Lusby, disbursing officer
for the District government, need
not be surprised II they spend most
OF their time in Traffic Court heres
after.
They turned down a voucher for
$44.84, the amount claimed by In
spector r. W. Brown, In charge Of
the Traffic Bureau, as expenses on
a trip to New York and Philadel-
phia. last month.
Brown was ordered on january
81 last to make the trip and return
ION business connected with the
Metropolitan Police Department. Z
According to McCari. ''ilo further
explanation Is found IN the voucher
nor has any since been submitted &
After Lusby originally turned
down the inspector s claim, the mat
ter went before McCarl TO review
He declared today that there Is not
"a sufficient showing to establish
that the travel was necessary to the
accomplishment OF any object or
purpose specifically provided for In
the police appropriation for con.
tingent expenses. and. thereby, mp
held Lusby'c action.
The ruling makes it necessary for
Inspector Brown to make detailed
explanation. IL he wants his s44.S4.
In the meantime, traffic tickets
may be expected to adorn the cars
of Lusby and McCarI.
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
LEADS tt
FAN|LYFIGHT

Because he saw his wife using
lspstick, william Carroll bakery
firm employe of the 500 block
Kearney st. N ii. assaulted her,
according to testimony today before
Judge Gus A. schuIdt III Police
Court
The wife, Mrs Viola Carroll. en-.
ploye Of department store. said
her husband does not approve of
her going out at night.
She said he denounced her last
night for wearing rouge, and for-
chilly took wad Of chewing gum
out Of her mouth. Last nights
quarrel, she said. il only a small
part Of what has happened In
recent weeks.
Carroll admitted he had pushed
bis wife against = wall explaining
she got cranky and pushed her.
He said the wife went to d party
BIT the home Of q friend. He told
her he didn't approve Of that par.
A4IOA1t AAlSAtutA Jul SUE went any
way. ne said. a next door neigh.
Dor. who heard screams after tlle
woman returned home, called the.
police The neighbor testified today
that Carroll was intoxicated. His
conduct is exemplary when he is
sober. she declared.
Domestic discord At the Carroll
home. according to Policeman wat.
son SallxeId Is almost weekly ocs
curTence. The policeman said that
Carroll took his wife from de-.
partment store dance at the May.
flower Hotel recently and drove her
into Rock Greek Park, backing her
eye. he was said to have been
angry over the wifess conduct at
the affair.
Judge Schuldt ordered the case
referred to probation officers. and
admonished the couple to try to get.
along better IN the future.
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
TEE
T0REP()RT
MERGER

The long delayed meeting
Of the merger subcommittee
Of the Senate District Com
mittee probably viii be held
today to report out the new
resolution authorizing a merger
of the local traction lines on
the terms recommended by
DR.. Milo r. Maltbie.
The subcommittee was schedules
TO meet Yesterday afternoon for TINS
nuy.nose but the final showdown
on the kellogg treaty in the Senate
prevented the holding of any COM
mittee meetings.
The new merger resolution has AZ"
ready been informally approved BY
the subcommittee and the formal
action Il nos expected to develop
any opposition.
AS soon as the subcommittee mas
formally approved the work OF its
expert 4 meeting of the fun
District Committee will be held 10
report the resolution out to the
senate. This meeting probably viii
be held tomorrow.
Tho new resolution wiz therefore
be well on the way to final
approval by the end of the week.
uaiess there Is some unforeseen
hitch.
Chairman zihlman of the House
District Committee has announced
that he will take action on the
merger resolution as soon as the
Senate committee has approved IL.
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
NO. ss1-THE HOME FOR THE AGED
Mothers Dollar Gift
Helps Boy IN Jail

what's dollar9 One wouldn't think this small sum
amounted to much.
Behind the bars In the Fourth precinct however youth
who would Be extremely happy he realized what an i'm
porant part single greenback had PLAYED ii his life
The Washington times., 1929-01-16

He is William Horace Wright. %,
of Richmond, Va, 4 former univer-
sity Of Richmond student.
Wright was arrested Monday after
he is alleged to have attempted to
pass forged check for an airplane
ride to Baltimore. Fl. e. Brodie and
Frank Varncy. headquarters detec-
tiyes. found series OF checks al
legged 10 have been forged In his pos.
session.
How many charges Of forgery
have you made against this stu
dent" Brodie was asked today.
Five, he replied.
But thought you had more than
that"
Well We could have made about
II. but as 3 matter of fact wen
only present about two to q grand
jury. even wish we could help
the boy more
Pressed to explain his unexpected
sympathy for Wright, Brodie ex.
planned he had seen a letter from
the boys mother IN which she had
Impressed him as sweet old lady
By sending her son q dollar to help
pay his expenses while he searched
FOR work.
TIL bet she did without some.
thing ID order To send him tEet
dollar Z, BrO1ie unused
The Washington times., 1929-01-16
PALMIST SUE 5
FOR LICENSE

Following close on the heels Of an
investigation by the District Attor-
ney's office into alleged graft by
a police captain in connection with
the activities of fortune tellers in
one of the police precincts, Mrs.
Rose Marine Adams, 800 block ID
ST. II. w, a palmfst and phrenolo-
gist, has brought suit to compel
the District Commissioners. Super
intendent Of Police Edwin B. Hesse
and Wade III. Coombs, superinsen-
dent Of licenses. TO issue her
fortune. teller's license.
Through Attorneys J. Il. krup-
shaw and Harry Friedman. she tells
the court she has been engaged in
telling fortunes by palmistry and
plrenoIogy In the District sor 10
years. and prior to July Was
always granted licenses without OBJ
lection. She claims she has sup.
ported her family through the me-
dunn of fortune-te telling and has con-
Quoted her business in q lawful
and orderly manner She is a
years of age and has four children,
she says.
Mrs. Adams says she cannot az.
count for the capriciOus7 action
Id refusing to approve her appllca.
ton, because Il Is IN the same form
it has alxaya been and contains the
names Be 10 credible persons certify
ing to her good moral character.
The fast application was made De
cennber 5 last. according ito the
petition. ana when the police head
refused to approve ii. the plaintiff
was informed she might have 2
hearing before the District Conc
missioners.
Although she rendered the pro
scribed fee OF SIS to the District
Commissioners when she had her
hearing she claims they refused Il
accept and grant the license.