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NET CROWN IN AIR
AS FINAL|STS QUIT
British Women, Pals, Split
Singles HonorS and Win
Eastern Doubles.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ YE, N Y. August 15.-The East
- ern turf court tennis cham
pionships will have to get along
this year without a women's
singles title holder.
Joan Ridley and Mrs Elsie Goldsack
Pittman, Britons both and close friends,
walked of the courts of the West
chester Country Club yesterday after
dividing the first twosse Of their final
round match for the women's singles
crown and declined to finish it.
They said they wanted to save their
strength for the doubles and that they
considered their action in refusing to
continue the singles match perfectly
proper"
VIII Split Prises.
It was decided to award them first
and second prizes to be divided as they
saw At. Neithef's name will appear on
the trophy.
The British girls won the doubles,
beating Josephine Cruickshank of Santa
Ana, Calf, and Mrs. Marjorie Gladman
Van Ryn of Philadelphia, 1911, As,
6--3.
In mems singles the defending cham
pion, Cliff Suffer of New Orleans, ad-
vanced to the semi-flna1 round, along
with Frederick G. Perry of England,
Gregory 8. Mangin of Newark, ". j.,
and ]. Gilbert Hall Of South Orange,
N. j.
Suffer nosed out Berkeley Bell Of
New York, 100. As, 6-1; Mangin
trounced George Patrick Hughes of
England. 6-2, 60; Hall defeated Jake
Hess, IT., of Fort Worth, Tex, 60,
6-2, and Perry defeated John Van Ryn
OF Philadelphia, 8-6, 6--3.
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By BOBBY JONES.

FTER all, when we consider the
~ linitless number Of different
~ situations which come up in
even q week Of golf and the
vastly different characteristics, mental
and physical, of the individuals who
play the game. it is not hard to see
why it is so difncult to prescribe thus
and so to be a general rule.
The professional teacher giving pr1-
vate lessons has some chance. II he
knows his Job, he win be able to teach
and correct, starting at some point
which he will select as the foundation
point Of his pupils swing. But, because
his problem is balancing every motion
in proper relation TO all the others,
there is no possibility Of q general or
shotgun prescription being able to take
his place The best that any one in
my position can hope to do Is to assist
somewhat in giving the player or pupil
the proper conception Of what he should
attempt to do, leaving the business Of
developing the swing to his personal
instructor.
Within a maze Of straight left arms,
lateral hip-shifts, slow backswings and
cooked left wrists, sometimes 1 think
there is danger Of losing sight Of the
end to which we are driving. These
things are details. We might even say
that they are niceties which we look
for in the more highly developed swings
Of the experts But I think the be-
ginner would serve himself best If he
would forget these refinements during
the early stages OF his golflng growth
BY all means, let him first understand
what IL is that produces the well d.
rected shot for which he is striving so
hard.
The things am going to say are al
most absurdly simple. but / believe there
are things too seldom remembered. The
FIRST one Is that straight shot Is most
efnciently produced when the club face
at the instant OF impact is square or
at right angles TO the line Of flight and
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VICTORY SCENTED
4 FOR SSHOOTERS
Makers Are Experimenting
With Several Weights.
Size Unchanged.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~HICAGO, August 15.-The
writer has semi offlcial in
~ formation that the United
States Golf Association
soon will get around to the bust
ness of putting more avoirdupois
into the standard golf ball. Which
is precisely what has been ex-
pected, but which, nevertheless,
will constitute a great victory for
the common people, i. e., the gen.
tlemen and others, who never
break 95, but keep courses from
reverting Into very fine corn fields.
Just what the weight Of the reformed
ball will be has not been determined.
But the size, 1853, will be permanent.
which should occasion few complaints
for no one can gainsay the fact that
the balloon ball is much easier to hit
than the old 1862, that burrowed into
the fairways and had the elusiyeneSs Of
. flea.
1.5S Is Ideal Ball.
Several manufacturing concerns have
been experimenting, through the Sum
mer, with balls 1853 in size, but Of
. various weights The first experiments
were conducted with balls weighing
, 182, which was the heft of the old
sphere But, according to one of the
findings Of one company q ball 1.6S
in size and 162 In weight was top
heavy and did not perform with the
best results According to this in
. formant the best behaved ball, tested
30 far, has a weight Of 1.58. Such a
ball, according to the findings on the
experimental range, drives quite as far
as the old 1.62xl so; puts accurately;
sits down nicely upon the greens and
at the same time plays well through the
fairways.
However. there is no certainty the
United States Golf Association will
select q ball Of that weight. Before
voting any further change in the ball,
the u. s, @. A. will necessarily study
the results Of the experiments con-
Quoted by all the leading manufactur-
ers OF the country. The association
members still are ducking the ana
themas brought down by the last
change In the dimensions of the ball
and this time want to be certain the
alterations viii be satisfactory to
every one-or nearly every one.
Victory for Duffer.
But It Is quite certain that change
viii be made although 1t may not be-
come effective for some time. The
United States Golf Association can
make q change with the cooperation
of the manufacturers so long as they
did not alter the size of the ball. The
manufacturers spent money in the con-
straction of molds for the 1853 ball
and would not junk that equipment
without q protest But so long as the
change concerns only the weight the
present equipment still would be sery-
iceable since it is no trick to add q few
more drains to the weight Of the ball.
Realizing the increasing dislike of
the golfng public for the 1.55x1 SO
ball It is unlikely that manufacturers
viii have any great surplus on hand at
the end Of the season, in which event
there would be nothing to prevent the
u. S. @. A. making any changes ef-
fective for 1892. But 1t viii be
victory for the duffer. who never has
had many 30 far as the game Of golf
is concerned.
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w YOU'D you believe that Q
AI golfer could make 4S0-
yard par hole in strokes
and only hit what he termed
one good shot2 Well, It has been done
out in the open spaces Of Virginia at
the fifteenth hole Of the Washington
Golf and Country Club by Samuel
J. Roberts.
That fifteenth hole at Washington
Is quite golf hole. If good player
hits a fine tee shot, the green can be
reached quite easily in two shots. From
the point of distance alone 1t is not
so long, but the hole has more than
a local reputation as destroyer OF
scores Lots of folks come up to the
home at Washington, in and out OF
tournaments, to wall disgustedly: Il
was going all riglk until l struck
that fifteenth. took a 10 there
on the other hand. from a really
good tee shot the green may be reached
with an iron and the iron need not
be a long iron either, even in these
days of fairly slow fairways. But when
q golfer only hits one good shot on
the hole and gets an eagle the deed
Is well worth chronicling.
Sam Roberts plays lot Of golf at
Washington. He is capable OF hitting
long wallop with wood or iron, but
he does not always do it. On the day
when he made his eagle on the fifteenth
he missed his tee shot. The ball barely
got out of the rough at the foot of
the hill beyond the tee. Then he
popped mashie shot up around the
bend, where the fairway curves to the
left. And here is where the big point
in Sans eagle comes in.
He took q big iron from his bag, q
midiron that he depends on good
deal to recover from trouble. He hit
that ball q lusty whack and 1t dis
appeared over the hill toward the green.
There was not shade of doubt It was
on the green, but when Sam came up
he found the ball in the hole. The
midiron shot was fully 200 yards in
length.
One day last year the Pardoe broth
ers-C. H, and Ed S.-were play
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has been cut down, but it Is still web
beyond the four-base harvest OF the Old
days when Home-R Run Baker was Lead
ing both leagues with nine home runs
Or even back in 1919 when Babe Ruth
broke out with 80 home runs and bo.
came the sensation Of the year. -
Gehrig and Ruth may work their way
up to 40 homers. or on beyond, with six
weeks left. Klein and Foxx should pass
the 80 mark. Ruth and Simmons have
been UP around $50 most of the years
In the meantime, good pitching haS
been rewarded with flock of shutouts
and low-hit games With q no-hit game
on Saturday and two one-hit games b
day later, the increased effectiveness Of.
the pitchers is easy to see.
They all have q chance, both the
sluggerS and the pitchers, to prove
their stuff.
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ton of Louisiana State, and Josh Cody
Of Vanderbilt. although he said that
Vandergraaf of Alabama was also q
splendid tackle,
For his guards Shaughnessy took Babe
Sington OF Alabama, and Red Roberts
OF Centre. Roberts played end but
Shaughnessy claimed that he would
have been an ideal running guard
Peter Pund of Georgia Tech was his
choice for center, Other centers he
mentioned were Day Of Georgia Tech
and Weaver of Centre
Shaughnessy picked 30 McAIillin OF
Centre as all-time Southern quarter
back Other quarters of whom he
thought highly were Lester Lauten-
schlager OF Tulane. Micky Moore of
Loyola and Dodd Of Tennessee.
His halfbacks were Brother" Brown
and Peggy" F1ournoy, both of Tulane.
His fuliback was Pooley Hubert Of Ala
bana. Shaughnessy mentioned all those
great backs OF Georgia Tech, such as
Guyon, Barron. Stripper, and Flowers,
but preferred his own choices.
Canada always has produced tine ath-
letes. Many, such as Percy Williams,
have shown speed. but almost all have
had stamina. Most OF the hockey and
lacrosse players are Canadians and those
pastimeE take plenty of endurance.
Jock FilHnan reports that the new
Canadian LacToese League "a doing
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patch been so bad on the
putting green's of the local
golf courses. In both the
large and small sizes Of brown patch
and its allied growth, called "Pyth-
ium," this fungus has wreaked
greater havoc on putting green's OF
the courses about the Capital this
year than in many seasons
Last year, even though there was
an extended hot spell. the nights
were not moist enough and humid
enough to encourage brown patch
growth. But this year conditions
have been ideal for brown patch
propagation, and the net result is
that nearly every putting green
around Washington that Is not
totally covered with brown patch
Is spotted with bare spots where
the fungus has done its work.
For those folks who do not know
how brown patch works, It may be
explained IN this manner:
Along comes warm humid night
with hardly any air stirring nights
such as we have had for more than
q month. A heavy dew descends on
the delicate blades Of putting green
grasses and forms q veil over the
grass. The hot early morning sun
comes up and the particles OF water
act as small magnifying glasses re-
fracting the rays OF the sun through
the blanket Of mist. The grass roots
burn an die In the rejected EayB
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D. C. ARCHERs DO WELL

CANANDAIGUA, N. Y, August is.-vs
N. s. Williams, washington. D. c., was
twenty eighth In a field of 81 In thns
mems championship event In the an-s
nual meet of the National Archerw4
Association here yesterday. He had I
score of 779 IN the double Americana
G. r. Debruler, r. d. Thompson and
w. o. Robinson were other WashinES
tonians to finish on the championship
list 20
Mrs. Josephine Taylor, Washingtonk
was fourth in the wornen's champion&
ship, with 1854. 40
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CHICAGO GOLFERS SUNK

CHICAGO, August Is up. - Two
youthful CaliforTt1ans Douglas Mackay
and Johnny Nichols, both Of Long
Beach, meet today TO decide . tourna-
ment designated ne the Chicago City
golf amateur championship. All Chi
cagoans seeking the title fell by the
wayside early In the competition
Mackay won his way 10 the finals
by defeating Barney Lucas, Los An
geles, runner-up year ago. 2 and /.
IN the 36-hole Semi-dnal. Nichols. just
IS years old, swamped Harold Miles OF
Evanston, and 6.
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of the best pitching stats base ball has
Hallahan, Haines,
Grimes, Rhem and johnson being the
front-line defense. It Is no easy mat
ter to keep on beating talent of this
sort and the Cardinals must bump into
a slump of some sort before Giants
or Cubs have much of q chance. They
also have their full share of reserve
strength. which has been q big factor
in a campaign so full Of ills and &C
cidents and hospital lists.
Anyway, the Giants have q hand
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spare. Schaaf knows more than Retz-
laff and Is the better boxer, but he
doesn't throw his punches with the
same venom Retzlaff strikes like the
cobra. He isn't interested in a mere
sting.
SO whatever happens to the legal
side, Carnpolo might as well get ready
for one of the warmest evenings Of his
tall career.
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COSTLY CRAFT SEEK CUP
Quarter Million Worth Of Boats In
eO-Mi1e Race Today. pa

MONTAUK. N. Y, August Is GP.--
They tuned up . quarter million dol~s
lars worth of trim mahogany racinG
craft today for the classic OF this naotof
boat world, the Gold Cup race, - be.
run OF in three so-mile heats s.-lakB.
Montauk. -
Eight sleek and gingerly handed
speed boats were prepared to battle 81
out IN this picturesque setting IN A.
durance. =
Tt was an intersectionaI tussle for
these rich mems playthings, each WORTH
upward OF $4,000. with Dick Loyne9
of Long Beach, Calf. and Horace =,
Dodge, Detroit sportsmen, representa-
ing the West, against a sextet Of fast
Eastern boats.
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ebatng Heavier Sphere Tennis Change Puts Girl in Lmehgh
St. Louis Rules
In Junior Golf

CHICAGO. August Is tP.-Youth-
~ full golfers cycling the Western
junior championship are moan
ing the st Louis Blues" today.
For the second successive year the
junior title goes to st. Louis in pos
session OF 18-year- Robert Coch-
ran. He won it yesterday by defeat
ing Charles Becka Of Chicago, I and
6. Cochran had command of the
situation practically from the NTH
hole.
Charles Collins, another Mound
City player, won the title q year ago.
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D. C. RACKETERS BEATEN

MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Nd. Au-
fsist is.--BaTnard Welsh OF Rockville,
Md, and Randolph Shields OF VIM
chester and Alan Staubly Of Washing
ton, D. c., and Bill Clardy Of Pitts.
burRh were eliminated in the doubles
IN the Western Maryland tennis cham
pionships here yesterday.
Both duos were defeated by Drs.
David and John O'Loughiln OF Pitts
burgh. welsh and Shields were downed
ia the seui-fluals in a 6--2, Sc, 81,
6-3 match. and Staubly and Clardy
bowed in the third round In q 81,
e--3 encounter.
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A. A. U. TO MAKE PLANS

To Nominate and Look to Winter
Affairs on August 27.
Nominations for officers and plans
for Winter activities will be made at a
meeting Of the District A. A. U. Asso-
citation August ~ at 729 Fifteenth
street.
Election will take place September 81.
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of the Cubs each
pitched a one-hit
game. On the same
day Al Simmons OF
the Athletics broke
up q Yankee bat2
tie with two home
runs. There have
been any nuTnheF
of 10 and 2&1
pitchers battles
this season, and
yet there will be at
least five or eaM
who should pass
the 30-home-run
mark before the
last game Is over
The 6one-Ylin cro.
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TIME fifth game in the match be-
tween j. w. Byler and G. C.
Bettinger resulted IN q draw
A after two sittings, as did the
fourth game. The present stand
ing Of these players Is: Byler, 2; Bet
determine who shall play r B. Walker
for the match championship Of the
District. Il requires three wins draws
not counting) to settle the match.
S. Flohr. champion OF Czeehoslovakia,
and G. Stolz, champion Of Sweden, re-
Gently played q return match at Prague,
S.hen Flohr reversed the previous match,
s~sSing by the score OK 10 and ;
draws.
r. Spielmann. champion Of Austria,
and Pre- Of JugoSlavia recently played
match, Spielmann winning, TO and
draws.
Frank J. Marshall, champion Of the
United States, has cablec 70 his wife
that he viii arrive home on the s. s.
Rochambeau On August Is. bringing
with him the RUSSELL Hamilton trophy,
the emblem Of international team
championship, won ct Prague by the
United States team.
Dake OF the United States team has
been invited to play m q ftrst-class
tourney at Antwerp; Horowitz and
Steiner viii play In big international
tourney at Bruno, and Kashdon will
give exhibitions in Europe and England
before returning home.
THE London Evening Standard re-
4 Gently had 3 paragraph stating
that two Labor members. Benson
and Denman, under the eye OF the
speaker. started playing chess IN the
House OF Commons, employing 3 pocket
chess board Chess rs . game is the
only pastime permitted m the Palace
81 Westminster.
The final score Of the United states
team ax Prague was Is follows:
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B1Onal League race.
If the Cardinals
can hutter safely
through the hunt
ing fields of Giants,
Dodgers, raw e S
and Phillies with
out having too
many feathers shot
away they should
be safe enough the
rest OF the route.
They look safe
enough now, but
there isn't much
that is certain in
sport until the last
score is In. The
Cardinals C ON e
along with one
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SpeedbOat Meet
Is Being Staged

THRILLING competition was sx-
i pected to mark the power boat
regatta this afternoon on the
Tidal Basin, starting at l o'clock.
Speed merchants from Washing
ton, Baltimore. Annapolis and other
points were TO vie for trophies. Com
petition was 20 continue until late
afternoon.
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YANKEE NETMEN LEADING
Take All of Doubles-to Overcome
Italians Singles Margin.

CERNOBBIO, Italy. August is CE9.-
A Harvard-Yale tennis team, which lost
four out Of i've matches to an Italian
squad, won all four doubles to take q
lead OF five to four. M T. Hill and
A. G. Ingraham, Harvard, defeated De
Etefania and Bonzi OF Italy, Ga, 6-1,
who also lost to @. A. Holloway and
w. r. BaScombe OF Yale, 6-3, 80,
"a
". Breeze OF Harvard and r. w
Ryan OF Yale defeated Mangold and
RADIO OF Italy, Ga 3--6, 6-2. and
the latter pair also lost TO Power and
Werner Of the American squad, So,
e2
Five singles matches viii conclude
the play today.
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in the regular game.
There now are four teams In the
league: The Montreal Maroons, the
Canadiens, the Toronto Maple Leafs
and the Cornwall team. Next year,
they expect to put teams In Brooklyn
and New York, at Ebbets Field ana
the Yankee Stadium.
Most of the lacrosse players are
drawn from the ranks Of professional
hockey, Such hockey stars Is Con-
acher, Stuart, Cooper. Bailey, jackson,
and q number Of others now are play
ing In this league The hockey league
is trying to find some way TO make
them abandon lacrosse. They have the
same fear that the players Will be hurt
that owners Of big league ball CLUBS
have when their men play professional
foot ball or basket ball
It is a noticeable fact that many Of
the hockey stars were lacrosse players
before they ever strapped on skate.
This box game is drawing good CROWDS.
When Jimmy McLArin and Billy Pet
role meet at the Yankee Stadium IN
New York the 20th OF this month,
there probably will be plenty Of specta-
tors on hand.
since Billy gave Jimmy q pounding,
and Jimmy came back and gave Billy
a boxing lesson, the fans have wanted
to see the fast little fellows In another
match.
McIarin always has been . drawing
card in New York and Petrolle won
himself q host Of admirers m his past
few bouts, Whatever else 1t may be.
this Is likely TO be . fight.
tCopyriEht, 1891, hy the North American
newspaper Alliance Incl
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enough 10 give AiAs
idea Of an all-ttHne
Southern team.
Hts ends were
Lynn Bomar OF
Vanderbilt. an d
Moon Ducote OF
Auburn. The lat
ter, q bear OF a
foot bali player,
made his reputa-
ton largely at full
back. but ais o
played end g n d
that is " h er E
Shsughnessy placed
him. He also spoke
highly of Fincher
of Georgia Tech.
AS tackles, he
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AIRCRAFT NINE WINNER
Captures Marine Post Title BY
Beating Signal Battalion.

QUANTTCO, Va, August 15.-The
Mare Corps Aircraft Squadron's base
ball team won the intra-post ehampioHs
ship yesterday by defeating the Signal
Battalion club, 8 to 5. as
The winners hoped Of to a 3-to-t
lead in the second inning and then
clinched the game by scoring five more
runs in the third. Second Baseman
Bevens' home run with two mates on
base featured the third-inning rally.
In addition to the homer, BevenS also
socked q double and q single for q
perfect day at bat. 80
Maj Gen. Smedley Butler will award
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out by law. but
whatever happens,
the other viii be
Just as tough.
Schaaf can DO q
lot of fighting, and
so c an Retzla Fl
Schaaf can punch
and take 1t, and so
can the Duluth de-
stroyer.
As remarked be-
fore, they are two
Of the best that
have come along
in some years, with
Schaaf the more
experienced fighter
with something to
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Mat Matches

~ the Associated Press.
NEW ROCHELLE. n. Ys-Jtm Lon
g0s, Italy, 1850.
pNTIsADELpF1IA.--R Steele, Cali
tf.1o.271.
NCCAhS TER. ~ I'd fDonl George
nefeated Joe MAlcewicz two cut Of
three gAGalcawfcz, iirss 27.40; George,
DO end 0:sEls
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HOUSTON NEAR REMNANT

Wins First Half in Texas League
and Leading in Second.
DALLAS, Tex, August Is lP).-The
Houston Buffalos captured the first half
Texas League pennant in play-oT with
Beaumont, winning three games out of
five.
The Buffalos have q 10-game lead
in the second half, which practically
assures them the full season league
championship.
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@S@A
surrounds q f1eld
200 feet long and
100 feet wide. The
game is played at
night, under cleo
trio light. 7 h e
ordinary h &C k e y
field Is about the
size of q foot ball
field. Because OF
the limited area.
teams are cut to
seven men each,
This me is
lightning fast, the
ball being in play
aim ost continu-
ously. They use a
somewhat smaller
Stick than they do
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~LARK D. sHAUGNESSY
whom Knute Rockne once
hailed as one Of the really
great foot ball coaches, has re-
turned to New Orleans. Before he left,
and his many friends here in New York
hated to see him go, he was kind
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YATES IN GOLF FINAL

MONTREAL, Quebec, August Is 6ps.@~s
An international final pitted Arthur
fDuckyl Yates OF Rochester. ". Y.e
against G. Ross tSandyl Someryiils a
London. Ontario, IN the 36-hois tttan
nuud Of the Canadian amateur SOD
Rtonship todaE,