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In CHESS CIRCLES
BY FRANK B. WALKER

governing this question reads as fol-
lows: THE players shall be players Of
Washington, D. c., and players Of the
city of London, England"
In the Easter premier tournament
held at Canterbury, England. this year
PLAYERS mentioned above finished in
the following order: Sir George Thomas
Winter, Yates and Miss Menchik. Only
two points separating the first from the
last player.
THE third of the series of interna-
L tional team matches is scheduled
to begin at Hamburg, Germany, July
Is. These tournaments are conducted
by the international Chess Federation.
The first tournament was held at Lon
don and the second at The Hague. The
team representing Hungary came out
first in both tournaments. There are
20 entries, and each team is composed
of four men. Each day there will be
80 representatives of these countries
playing at 40 boards. The tournament
will end July 81.
The solution to the end-game study
given last week is as follows: Up to
OBI, RX KIT CHI: ok to OBS, r to Kt
8; 3K to BIZ and wins.
Here is a two-move problem by Z,
Mullins, which will be dif1lcult to most
White-K at OBS, Q at QKtS, r at Q3,
B at QB6, Kt at K2, P's at KKt4,
KKt5 Q6. OBJ, QKt3. Black-K at
K4, BIS at GA and QB4, P at QKt5.
Solution next week.
THE following game was played in
Il the Vienna tournament of 1910.
1t is one of the shortest in master
competition.
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Lacey Messes Up Golf Writers
By 20 Score, Tying for Second

I shall never forget the scene that
followed. Forty wild-eyed members of
the fourth estate lined UP along the
balcony of the club house and chanted
in unison:
Hope he takes 1Oi Hope he takes
a 10!"
Did John H. Junior take 10? He
did not. He took a par S, and got his
10, and all the stories had to be recalled
and rewritten, and next round he got
back to form and took an 80. But the
war correspondents do not love John H.
Junior to this day
Now, of course, do not know what
fate is in store for Mr.. Lacey He may
go ahead and win this championship.
However. l am forced to state that he
is not destined to any immediate popu-
lar1ty with the newspaper profession.
He caused TOO many carefully designed
leads to be strapped and rewritten.
One more feature OF the second days
play may deserve a trifie of comment
Bobby Jones famous shot at the long
ninth hole across Mirror Lake, which
bids fair to take rank with Columbus
first crossing of the Atlantic, Washing
tons crossing OF the Delaware, and Hugo
EckenerS little journey by Zeppelin
Jones Makes Great Shot.
Bobby had showed his drive over a
bit too far and found himself with what
he considered to be a light spoon shot
to the ninth green, the idea being to
fade 1t in from the left with the aid
of convenient breeze which was then
operating from that quarter.
Bobby had some trouble with enthusi-
astic spectators, who took turns scam
pering across the fairway. and took his
stance for the third time before he
could get the shot away, which he did
very badly, indeed. He smacked the
Dali about the belt line-in fair territory
you might say-and it came out with a
ducklng trajectory and a superabun-
dance OF oVerspin, striking the water
about three-fourths of the way across,
bounding, striking again, onto the bank.
he pltched yard from the pin and
holed a birdie 4.
AT that. Bobby lost a stroke to his
great professional rival there, as Hor-
ton smith, playing just ahead of him,
spanked a full spoon shot onto the
green and holed 20-foot putt for an
eagle 8.
One spectator insisted the Jones ball
struck lily pad. Another said it was a
bullfrog. Walter Hagen took Bobby's
side of the debate.
Anybody who can hit a ball with
that much topspin deserves to run II
across pond" said Sir Walter, who
has wrought number of miracles him
aeaf IN n1s GA1
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JAPAN, ITALY SPLIT
IN DAVIS CUP PLAY
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENOA, Italy, July 12.-Italys am
bidextrous tennis star, Georgio De
Stefani, came through with an I'M
expected victory against Japan yester-
day, but his countryman, Baron
Humbert De Morpurgo, Ill and suffering
met defeat.
AS a result, the home forces broke
even with the Japanese in the opening
matches of the European Zone Davis
Cup tennis final. the winner of which
will play the United States for the right
70 challenge the French.
Voshlro Ohta managed to snatch one
set from De Stefani, the latter winning
at "a, 6-3, +6, Ga, but De
Morpurgo lost in straight sets tc
Takeichi Harada, g., SO, Is.
Fans and experts alike had regarded
Ohta and De Morpurgo as almost GER
tain winners
Harada took the breath away from
1000 Italian fans by carrying the Baron
along at such terrific pace that before
the crowd realized what was happening
the japanese had won.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
by W. r. McCALLUM-

For several years Joe Kaufman and
his gang of go-getters at the Woodmont
Country Club have started the heated
days Of August with a Field day at the
club in Bethesda, which is always
marked by an exhibition golf match.
This year the club has departed from
the usual and instead of engaging four
professional golfers to show their wares
on the Field day, scheduled for August
2, has made arrangements for four star
amateurs to put on the golf show Of the
day.
In the quartet will be Max Weyl, the
Woodmont Club champion, paired with
Howard Nordlinger the brilliant young
ster, who tied the amateur record for
the course the other day and is for
mer club champion, against Roger Pea
cock of Indian Spring, the District
junior champion, and John G. Shorey
OF Bannockburn, winner of the Spring
invitation tourney of the club. The
match will start about 1880 O'Clock.
M. Parker Nolan, who has been aptly
dubbed the Congressional Siege Gun"
got all his long and short shots work.
ing in harmony yesterday and tied the
amateur record for the course with a
glittering SO, four under par.
Nolan. who is big hitter from the
tee, but has been off with his medium
irons lately, scored SO for the first nine,
Notwithstanding a on the par eighth
hole. and then burned up the last nine
to score 80 and tie the amateur rec
ord made last year by Page Hufty.
The payees In the match yesterday
were Hufty. Clarence B. Murphy and
Joseph D. BayliSS, who stood in awe as
Nolan blazed his way around the torrid
Congressional course in AZ puts.
Nolan found trap at the eighth,
after picking up brides at the fifth
and seventh, and took a on this hole,
where he had 4 and a for a "a.
He three-putted the tenth green for
a 6. but got a birdie on the eleventh
and canned a 25-footer for another
deuce at the short thirteenth. Straight
par golf then followed to the eighteenth,
where he secured another birdie 3, to
score a 80 for the back nine, three
under par. Here is Nolan's card, with
mar for the course.
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4 A INNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July
M 12.-Fifteen out of the last
VI eighteen national open
championships have re-
suited either in ties or one-Stroke
victories. Four out of the last
five ended in ties, the only eXcep-
ton being the 1926 tournament at
Scioto, where Bobby Jones finished
one stroke ahead of Joe TurneSa.
If the 1880 tournament does not carry
o play-off tomorrow then it will be the
exception rather than the rule. Horton
Smith starts the third round this morn
ing with 142. a two-stroke lead over the
field but nine golfers are within five
strokes of him.
Should Horton Smith win the 1880
championship, he will be the first player
born west of the Mississippi to wear the
open crown. His chance is fairly good
since Smith has not been in the habit of
cracking. He is one player who. in all
previous tournaments, has kept ham
mering away at Jones lead and Jones
has always been in the lead where
Smith was in the field with the eXcep-
ton of the Savannah Open last Winter,
where Smith beat Jones by one stroke.
Lacey a YOungster.
Among the first 10 there is but one
stranger TO major tournament play. A
23-year- player by the name OF
Charles Lacey furnished the sensation Of
the second round by shooting a 10 and
gaining tie at IA with Harry Cooper
and Bobby Jones right behind Smith.
Lacey came to this country three years
ago from GerrardS Cross, London, Eng
land. He arrived here as a caddy, but
now he is a professional and he is play
ing his first major tournament.
Outside of Lacey the field is well
established in major golf. All are vet
eran campaigners Macdonald Smith
and Tommy Armour, who tied for the
frst-round lead, could not keep up the
pace yesterday, but both remain in eX-
cellent challenging positions.
Harry Cooper is finally I'D among
them again and if he can keep from
becoming overconf1dent he has a good
chance. Overconfidence has been
fault of Coopers in the past. Johnny
Farrell who had an for his first hole
in the tournament, is tied with Armour
and "Whify" Cox and behind them
come two veterans, Walter Hagen and
Johnny Golden.
Hagen in Warm Spot.
Hagen is by no means out of the
tournament. He is 5 strokes be-
hind Horton Smith and in an excellent
been done when behind in the last
half Of a tournament That is where
he prefers to be. He argues that it is
easier to shoot at lead than to worry
about having your lead shot at
Farrell is making a spectacular come
back. After beating against bad breaks
and mechanical errors in the first round
and finishing in "a. he turned in a par
70 yesterday and started this morning
& strokes behind Smith
It is doubtful if the 1880 champion
ship will be outside the list of the first
10. The title will also remain in the
United States. Cyril Tolley, the only
British entry, after shooting an 80 on
Thursday, shot another 80 on Friday
and was eliminated
The final struggle presents nine pro-
fessionals against one amateur. but that
amateur happens to be a gent named
Jones.
Copyright, 1880. by North American News
paper Alliance
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THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

INIERLACHEN COUNTRY CLUB,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, July IA
AS they come romping down the
stretch at Interlachen late today
there ought to be at least four or 1ve
pounding hearts that are pretty well
punched.
And in addition to Bobby Jones, who
is always around in these home-stretch
gatherings, one of them will be tall,
lanky, blue-eyed son of Missouri by the
name of Horton Smith, who was ~
years old back in May.
In the midst of the milling yester-
day Young Smith handed them sec
ond round that made Bobby Jones,
Walter Hagen, Tommy Armour, Mac
Smith, Johnny Farrell and number
of others sit up and take notice that a
serious challenger had arrived on the
scene who meant business.
I saw every shot that Horton smith
played and / saw him grind out ~
that might just as well have been
sc. for he seemed to be using rifie
shot most of the time in place of golf
club. It was as fine a round of golf as
any one has ever seen in an open
championship when you consider the
way he went about it,
Horton adopted a unique idea and
put it into general effect. This idea
consisted in hitting his drive smack
down the middle and then rapping an
iron shot or 8 feet from the pin. 1t
is a system that seldom fails, even If
you are putting with broom.
It is a system that landed young
Smith out in front of the pack and en-
abled him to pick up strokes on Bob
by Jones before facing the final day.
You will hear more about this round
later, where he was out in 80 and might
lust as well have been out in 80.
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BARNES, COGGESHALL
IN FINAL OF TOURNEY
~ tn. Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, July 1.-TWO
Of Americas most promising tennis per-
formers, Bruce Barnes. the Austin, Tex,
comet of the court, and Harris Cogge-
shall, IoWa's foremost strokemaker, were
paired today in the finals of the mems
singles in the Missouri Valley tourna-
ment
Barnes went into the finals yesterday
by beating the defending champion,
Wray Brown. in five sets, 6-3, Ga,
o-6, 2-6, 90.
Coggeshall overpowered an arch-rival.
Junior Boehmer, st. Louis, TO win his
way into the championship match. The
scores were 81, 60, 6-3.
IN a decided upset in the junior sin
giles, Jack Lynch, 15-year-old Taft,
Calf, school boy surprised William
Flynn Kansas City. seeded No. /, to
win rs, 60. Another favorite, Jay
Cohn, Santa Monica. Calf, national
boys champion. had hard struggle to
defeat Hal Surface, Kansas City, 81,
81. IS
Coggeshall and Junior Coen, Kansas
City were matched against Brown and
Ted Eggman. st. Louis in the finals Of
the mems doubles.
Ruth Bailey, st. Louis, and Mae Ceur-
worst, Wichita. Kans., were foes in the
nnals OF the women's singles
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FITZGERALD AND BERGER
MAKE A SWEEP IN MEET

Richard Fitzgerald and Ralph Berger
cleaned up yesterday in the first of a
series Of weekly track meets planned for
the Central Community Center, held
In Central High Stadium.
Fitzgerald won all three events in the
7o-pound class-the 40-yard dash, 60
yard dash and broad Jump.
Berger barely conquered Jack Cum
berland in a third attempt to settle
supremacy in the 60-yard dash, S5-
pound class. In two previous races the
boys breasted the tape tied.
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eagle ACCEPTS POST
AS ASSISTANT COACH
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, July 12-Christian
Keener eagle, former West Point foot
ball captain, has accepted the position
as assistant grid coach at Mississippi
A. and M. College.
A telegram of acceptance was re-
ceived by President-elect Hugh Critz,
who had notified the Louisianian Of the
approval of his contract by the board
of trustees. eagle at present is in New
York.
eagle, who is to report September 1,
will spend three months each of three
years at the Mississippi school at a SAL
airy Of $500 a season.
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GIRL DEFEATS MOTHER
FOR STATE GOLF TITLE

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. Va,
July IL R.-Fritzi Stifel, Wheeling,
defeated her mother, an 2, yesterday
to win the women's West Virginia golf
championship.
Mrs. E. w. Stife1, also of Wheeling,
ing daughter, who has been a national
figure in tournament play, but Miss
Stifel brought her prowess to bear on
the incoming nine holes.
Mrs. Stifel was only / down at the
twelfth hole.
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Class in the Stretch.

THE finish yesterday was a certain
l. tip that there will be class in the
stretch as they suffer and struggle
through the last SO holes that will
proclaim either o winner or tie before
sunset today.
Here not more than 5 strokes apart
you have Horton Smith, Bobby Jones,
Harry Cooper, Macdonald Smith,
Tommy Armour Johnny Farrell, Walter
Hagen, Whiffy Cox and John Golden,
with Leo Diegel and others only step
away.
These are all seasoned campaigners.
They can play golf and they have
known the flame and fire of competition
and they are all capable of tearing into
par with pickaX.
Facing the final day there has been
no championship that carried so many
thrills and that left more high-class
talent all set to LATHE for the big prize.
Armour and Mac Smith, the leaders
on Thursday, slipped a trifle, but in
these hectic opens the leaders of one
day usually slip the next. You can only
be at the peak so long, and not for
very long. A razor edge doesn't last
as many days as battle ak.
Hagen went out in IS, but faltered
coming nOule, dL6IlOuBn tLlcTe were I'll
the old indications of much better golf
ahead. Harry Cooper, who tied with
Armour at Oakmont three years ago,
came through with another ~ to tie
Bobby Jones and prove again that he
will bear more watching.
Johnny Farrell, another ex-open
champion, turned on q brand of golf
that will keep him in the middle of
the big pursuit race. After starting with
an 8 on Thursday, Farrell has played
the other IS holes in 2 under par,
which is marvellous work when you have
a poisoned poignard sticking in your
heart. And that is precisely what an
8 is on the first hole of an open
championship.
Don't make the mistake of overlook
ing this blackhaired, slender, blue-eyed
Irishman from Quaker Ridge.
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BABES HOMERs "LoST."

TORONTO, July IL (P-The New
York Yankees slammed out q 16-to-11
victory over the Toronto Leafs yester-
day in q seven-inning exhibition game
after the Leafs had won their regular
International League contest from Jer-
sey City, IL to /. Babe Ruth hit q
home run with the bases full and later
clouted another with no one aboard.
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POLO PLAY POSTPONED.

NEW YORK. June IL (P.-The ma
tional junior polo championships, sched-
uled to open tomorrow at the Runlson
Country Club, near Red Bank, N. j.,
has been postponed for a week. The
first game now is to be played July 10.
be made and the playing schedule en-
tirely revised
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Thomas, Michel. Yates, Winter and
Sergeant were on the last cable match
team against Washington Khan prob
ably is eligible to play. j. is under
stood that Miss Menchik, The woman
champion. Is acquiring citizenship In
Great Britain, and may be qualified to
play In the next match. The rule
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SOCCERlSTS TO ELECT
AT GATHERING TONIGHT

officers and delegates for 193O-3l will
be elected at meeting of the Washing
ton and Southeastern District Soccer
Association Tuesday night at o'clock
in the playground office in the District
Building
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BOYLE GIVES LONE HIT.

Boyle, pitching for Hayes Playground,
allowed Peerless nine just one hit as
his team won a 80 ball game yesterday.
He also socked the apple with q viii,
banging homer, triple and o single and
getttng a sacrifice in four trteA
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wREcos BOOK CADILLACs.

Washington Railway g. Electric Co.
diamonders have booked a game with
the Washington Cadillac co. on the
formers diamond ct Seventh and Jack
son streets northeast tomorrow at .
o'clock. rs
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Jones Responds.

DOBBY JONES and Horton Smith
ID were all even as they stood on the
ninth Just after Bobby hit his
drive at this hole he must have heard
the wild roar from the Horton Smith
gallery. At any rate he failed to catch
his second correctly and the ball, hit
ting the water 40 yards from shore,
skipped by the water lilies and finally
ran on to dry ground.
AS Walter Hagen explained 1.-THE
never topped the shot, or 1t would never
have crossed the water He caught it
with ar over spin half smothered, and
when you do that water is the same as
concrete or rubber. 1t wasn't as bad a
shot as the gallery thought 1t was. But
1t wasn't the type of shot that Bobby
usually plays
Just over the water Bobby pitched
stone dead and got his 4 for a "a. So
here were Horton Smith and Bobby
Jones all square with nine holes left
But when 1t came to the last nine
Horton Smith played the better golf
He made just two mistakes on this last
nine, which is long and narrow and
which happened TO be swept by a cross
countering wind Horton cracked his
pitch too boldly at the tenth and he
faded his tee shot at the fourteenth
but the rest of 1t was just as good golf
as any one could play.
There was just one hole that pushed
Jones back. This was the fifteenth, a
fairly simple 4. He hooked his tee shot
TO the edge of heavy rough, missed the
green on his second, barely got to the
edge on his third from more rough and
then needed more to get down for 6.
This is the only hole that had me
steaming," Bobby said later. ut is a
simple enough f. but that one mistake
cost me two strokes. I wasn't keen to
lead the feld-not this field. I'd have
liked another II and If I hadn't blown
that tee shot 1t would have been easy
enough. But maybe was lucky at
other spots, so have no kick coming.
I wasn't hitting mNeshots on the second
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UNLIMITEDS SEEK FOES.

Weekdays games with unlimited and
senior mines are sought by the District
Title Co. ball team. Call Finley at
National 1885.
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but for some reason that can't figure
out haven't played that last nine any
too well. 1t cost me q 81 the first day
and SO the second day. And yet
1t is the type of nine I usually like TO
play. But that again is part of the
mystery of golf. You can never tell"
Another Dark Horse.
GNE Of the big surprises of the sec
~ ond day was the brilliant 10 of
Charley Lacey of Pine Valley,
leaving him tied with Bobby Jones and
Harry Cooper at second place. Lacey
is only % years old. He is a young
Englishman whom George Duncan rec
commended strongly three years ago.
He came over at the age of 20 to try
his luck. This is his first open cham
pionship, and after his "a on Thurs
day he had a putt for SO on Friday
that almost dropped.
Young Lacey has been playing fine
golf all the way, and he may be one
OF the big surprises of this champion
ship. He has a fine, free swing and a
cool head. If he doesn't get overcome
by the last days strain, he will do ex-
tremely well, despite his lack of expe-
rience, always big factor in these
open championships
The Best Shot.
THERE always is a certain amount of
l. interest in the best shot of the
day. The palm goes to young
Jimmy Thompson. Jimmy was playing
with Walter Hagen Coming to the
long 510-yard fourth hole, he hit a
terrific belt, but sliced his tee shot to
the rough back of a tall tree.
There was no chance to shoot for the
green. But he took his chance on a
wide hook to the right of the tree dead
in his line. Playing from heavy rough
with a No. 4 iron he planted the ball
on the green just IL feet from the cup
and this on hole that found most OF
the leading golfers using brassie from
the fairway to get home.
THE galleries at Interlachen have
l. been the largest in golf history, In
spite of an unusual heat wave that
has plastered extreme punishment on
the two big crowds. Every record will
be broken with so many stars punched
especially with Horton Smith and Bobby
Jones among the leaders-for the crowd
has sensed impending drama.
(Copyright, 1890. by North American News
paper Alliance)
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CARO--KANN DEFENSE.

The following "skittle" game. played
between two local players in 1895, is
@ companion to it. Gwyer must have
been studying Lasker's Common Sense
in Chess"
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Decisive Victories Rare in Open Golf Seat Pleasant Shoe Pc
Players Who Started
Final Rounds in Open
~ the Associated Press.

by tAN hosOCldNGQ EEGsh-
INTERLACHEN, MINNEAPOLIS,
MINI, July l2.-Qualifyers for the
final 36-hole round of the national
open golf championship today, with
their first and second round totals:
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Mrs. Betty p. Meckley, the Beaver
Dam star, who won the District wom-
ems championship early in June, still
is playing winning golf. Two days ago
she finished second in a woman'S tour
ney at Schenectady N. Y, with a card
of SO, scoring A and as to finish a
stroke behind the winner of the event.
Tom Flaherty, one of Washington's
outstanding fans, goes everywhere and
sees everything In sport. Tom is the
fellow who has sponsored the Walter
johnson dinners, which have been a
feature of the late Winter for the
past two years. He is out in Mime
apolis now, watching the battle of
Jones and Smith, and pulling for Tom
my Armour to win the national open.