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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-21
BY BOBBY JONES.

american Open, British Open end Ameri-
can Amateur Cham2ion).
NICE first undertook few years
ago to write little something
~ about golf, have had good
many inquiries from worried
enthusiasts. And some of them have
been pretty hard to answer. Now comes
one which comes close to taking the
prize: my correspondent this time
writes: You lay considerable stress
on keeping the right hand out Of the
stroke and making the left (the weak
err assume the burden, which gives
rise to the question: why don't people
play left-handed, thereby giving the
right arm (the stronger) the bigger
load?'"
Frankly, I cannot assign any very
convincing reasons why a person snoulo
not play just as well left-handed as
right-handed. Any number of objec-
lions to the left-handed style have been
urged, but it seems to me that few OF
them II any have any real meat IN
them. One golfing physician advanced
the theory that the swing OF a lett
handed player compressed the region
around his heart and therefore i'm
paired his physical efficiency. rms
one should not attempt to pass judg-
ment on for I know nothing whatever
of the possible eft of whatever COM
preston might result. But I do feel
that some Of the other reasons are
patiently unsound.
Made for Right flanders.
In this class I would place the idea
that golf courses are laid out for right
handed golfers and are therefore more
severe upon the unfortunate who may
prefer to stand on the other side OF
the ball. I don't believe there is a
thing in this. The only two considera-
tons which might work to the advant-
age of the Highlander are that he
can obtain superior clubs, and possibly
more intelligent instruction because
most Of the good pros themselves hap
pen to play in the same way as their
pupils. Aside from these two things,
it would appear that the only thing
to be consulted would be the comfort
or preference of the individual.
The general prejudice which has
grown up against the left-handed
method has been fostered by the knowl-
edge that there are in the world very
few really expert players who play the
game left-handed. It seems to me
that we need look for no occult reason
for this. Considerably fewer than one
person Of each 10000 who play golf
deserve an expert rating. do not
know the exact figures, but should
say that there would not be more than
one left-handed PLAYER in each three
or four hundred If we take it at
in 400 and the number of golfers in
the United States at 100000. we
should expect to have, according to my
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FOUR MEET EVENTS
WON BY BERL|NGER
Second in His Fifth Contest
as Other Americans Score
in Canadian Games.

BY the Associated Press.
n AZ ONTREAL.. Quebec, June 90
M Barney Berlinger, Penn's great
W. all-around athlete, captured
four first places in the golden
Jubilee track and field games Of the
Montreal Amateur Athletic Association
here today.
Berlinger, starting in flve events all
told, won the shotput with a heave OF
AZ feet 315 inches; the javelin throw,
178 feet inches; the discus, l22 feet
7 inches, and the high jump, feet.
He placed second in the pole vault,
which Ralph Johnston Of Notre Dame
won by clearing Is feet.
The only Canadian record that fell
during the day was smashed by the
Cleveland girl flyer, Stella Walsh. Miss
Walsh ran the 200 meters In 26 seconds
fiat to shave three -flfthS of second on
the mark established by Dallas Crea-
mer of Toronto in the British Empire
games at Hamilton last year. Previous
ly Miss Walsh had won the 100-meter
dash in IL 3-5 seconds, with Mary
Vundervleit of New Liskeard, Ontario,
second.
other United States winners in
cluded william Mccormick and Alex
Wilson OF NOtre Dame, Clark 5. Cham-
berlain of Michigan State, Lee Sent
man of Illinois and Thomas Coulter of
Carnegie Tech.
Mccormick ran away with the two
sprints at 100 and 220 yards, Chamber
lain scored a double In the mile and
2 mile, Seminar won the 120-yard high
hurdles, Coulter the 440-yard lows,
while Wilson conquered Phil Edwards
of the Hamilton Olympic Club in an
invitation 600-yard race after Edwards
had won the half-mile.
An American team, composed of
Wilson, Percy, Coulter and Mccormick,
won an international half-mile relay
from Canada.
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ezes Is Rushing Olympic Work PoJosts Start Tomorrow
Function of the Left Hand
In Swing Is Most Important,
Bobby Jones, Tells Linksmen

| figures, 400 experts, which Is high one
of whom might be q lcft-hander.
One thing which my correspondent
assumes, do not know to be the case.
namely, that the left arm of a right
handed person Is necessarily weaker
than the right. That, it seems to me,
would not follow, just because he might
have greater use Of the right in GER
tain performances requiring more
perfect control. It is my idea that the
left arm should control the golf swing,
but its junction can be performed with
| out the players having the use of 1t
that would be required for accurate
throwing, writing or any number of
other acts which are accomplished
normally by the right. conceive that
there are certain definite reasons why
the left arm should take the club back
and why 1t should dominate the hit
ting stroke, and do not admit that a
right handed person would be able to
pull the club down from the top, in
back-handed fashion, with any more
powerful effect with his right than with
his left arm, even though he might be
able to throw better with the right.
Motion of Arm Simple.
And here is another thought. Re-
member that the motion of the left
arm is simple-straight back and
straight down-and that the use Of the
right has to be a good bit more deli
cate. Would not right-handed person
be better able to perform those more
delicate actions with his right hand
than he would his left, as he would be
required to do if he were to switch
over? I wrote some time ago that I
thought that a golf swing was some
what like the gait of d trotting horse
in that 1t was not able to be directed
by natural impulses. And the hama
and arm which is not working on a
track and has to be watched is the
right. I think that I, who am very
right handed, would prefer that it be so.
No, do not believe that person
who is naturally right-handed would
be happily playing golf left-handed,
even though he may have been success
full batting left-handed. There is
great difference between the batting
swing and the golf stroke. But do
believe that our prejudice against the
ieft-handed style Of play is groundless.
If were Just beginning the game and
should find myself definitely more COM
Portable on one side of the ball than on
the other, think should remain on
'A-'1' downright. 1esf,)
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wv YITH So entrants already in
M line, the third annual Z
v v mile run, feature Of the
yearly independence day
community celebration at Takoma Park,
will be the biggest yet held there and
one of the largest ever staged in this
section. The race will start at 1870
o'clock in the afternoon at Thirteenth
street and Ohio avenue and end with
two laps on Whittier Playground, Tako-
ma Park. 1t will be staged under
A. A. U. sanction.
Heading the entries Is William (BiD
Agee, who has won the race both years
and is favored to again triumph and
gain permanent possession OF The Eve
ming Star Cup. Agee, who formerly
ran under the colors of the Emorywood
Athletic Club of Baltimore. now is
representing the Stonewall Democratic
Club of that city.
To date only four strictly Washing
ton runners have entered and the Ath-
letic Committee, of which John G.
Post Is chairman, is urging more Dis
trict men to get in line.
Entries will be accepted by Post at
1918 Blair road until Tuesday June 80.
WashingtonianS listed to compete in
clude Jerry Looney of the Knights of
Columbus; Haskell Clark and Erven
Nicholson, unattached, and Milton Nc
Gehee of Plumbers Union No. S. Har-
old Greenfield of Takoma Park, I'M
attached, and H. G. Lewis of Boyds,
Md, representing the Howitzer Com
pany, National Guard, of Kensington,
are runners entered from nearby ter
ritory.
whether Mike Lynch, veteran dis
III Ia I'LL
ticipate has not been announced.
Stonewall Democratic Club and Balti-
more Cross Country Club will be heavily
represented, IS having entered from
the former club and 81 from the latter.
Agee is both the national marathon
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In CHESS CIRCLES
by FRANK B. WALKER

ME eighth game in the match
. between Bettinger and Knapp at
the Capital City Chess Club
required two evenings for its
completion, and this match has con-
sumed two months.
Then comes a match between Byler
and the winner and match between
the subsequent winners and Walker.
These matches are regarded as too
prolonged for most competitors.
r. F. Lowell, former District chess
champion, but now a resident of Provi-
dence, r. l., spent the last week in
the city. W.
Another District champion, ". Sour
min, is now residing here. He is not
diving serious attention to chess these
days.
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YOUNG RACKETERS VIE

Play in the Middle Atlantic Juniors
and boys tennis championships will
be staged Friday and Saturday on the
Wardman Park Hotel courts. Junior
and boys singles champions and run
ners-up from Washington. Richmond,
Norfolk, Baltimore and West Virginia
will take part.
Charley DAILY and Ricky Willis, win
ner and runner-up in the recent Dis
trict junior competition, and Gilbert
Hunt and Nathan Ritzenberg, winner
and runner-up in boys tournament
here, will compete.
Victors here will be eligible to repre-
sent the Middle Atlantic section in
the national Juniors and boys tourna-
ment to be held at the Culver, Ind,
Military Academy in August
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LACROSSE LEADERS
LOOK TO OLYMP|CS
Winner and Runner-Up Next
Spring May Play Series
on Jaunt to Coast.
.HRE win be no international la

HERE will be no international Ia
crosse series next year because
Of the olympic games, but 1t is
the present plan Of the Inter-
COLLEGIATE Lacrosse Association to have
the winner and runner-up Of the play
on series next Spring stage half dozen
exhibition games in the larger cities on
a jaunt to the coast. The play-ot
winner would be the lone Yankee rep
resentative in the olympics at Los
Angeles.
Not only will there be no international
series next year. but the future OF the
matches is in doubt, despite that the
series which st. Johns College OF An
napolis, Md, won from the all-star
Canadian team at Baltimore on June Is
and Is, was a financial success. This
was in contrast t. the games played at
Toronto in 1880.
Johns Hopkins University was host
to the team as to facilities and Henry
Iddins, treasurer of that institution, was
business manager of the series, ana
Lewis j. Korn, president OF the Inter-
collegiate Lacrosse Association, attrl-
butes much of the success of the two
kdulCo w IT'LL
This years two games, in which st.
Johns won on total goals, S TO 3, were
unusual. st. Johns got all It's goals
in the opening clash; four of them were
scored in the first IL minutes, and IT
led, 4 to 2, at the close OF the half.
Canada won the second tilt, played at
night, to 0, and thus each team count
ed only one goal in the last 80 minutes
of play. In fact, st. Johns scored its
fifth tally in the first three minutes OF
the last half of the opener, so that
actually just one point was registered In
81 minutes Of combat.
So hot was the final tilt that nearly
5000 fans sat through a heavy rain in
the last half to see 1t through.
A. E. Lyon, president Of the Canadian
Lacrosse Association, and Joe Lally,
donor of the series trophy bearing his
name, were among the Dominionites to
witness the games.
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C. c. Bettinger, class c, won the
Spring handicap tournament at the
Capital City Chess Club, with the final
score Of won, none lost. Parsons and
Davis, both class G, tied for second
place, and Parsons won in the play-off
A. Y. HeSSe, class A, finished fifth.
An unusually interesting end-game
position, in which Capt. G. H. Mac
kenzie, former CHAMPION CT the United
States, wins in brilliant fashion. The
position:
White-K on KKt, Q on KRIS, RS on
KB and KB3, B on o., KITS on KR4
and KKKt 3. Ps en- KR2, KKt2. KB4,
O., OBJ, QKt2, QR2-14 pieces. Black
K on KKt2, @ on OBJ, RS on KR and
XXI, BIS oneQ2. Q3SKt on kits, Ps on
KR2, KB2. KB3. O., Obs, QKt2,
QR2-14 pieces. How would you play
it? Send solution to Chess, 14e6
Meridian place northwest.
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Pointers on Golf
BY SOL METZGER.

Women usually have flexible wrists.
That makes it necessary for them
to employ more than the usual care
in executing chip shots from points
near the green. Such shots, as
played by Glenna Collett, are exc
cuted with firm wrists.
The stroke is straightforward
swing of the arms, the wrists flexing
but little. The ball is picked clean
of the turf. Such shot is used to
arc your ball over intervening haz-
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Summaries Of latest matches:
cR pnqs9es0se "a; Mar!on f sStier 7c9i de-:
NJ Moses tcoIS defeated NJ. sewali (Mt.
F.; 2s: sLi IS; lK < gerrall g. W. de-
Rose tWardJ defeated z. vest (Mt: P);
2.6. sS. "a; 9 YOUNG &c W defeated d
ward. = defeated C. Jansen mt. Pr. 50,
e2;s. Moore. Ward defeated d. A. ~ ET w
defeated D. Miller (Nats0, 81. Ga; p.
Miller (Nats.l defeated <. Knauss tR. c.,
Morris g. WI So. IS; P. Keyser Mats
defeated n, Tolman tMt. P1s ell 80 g ?
rs. 6-3: b Willetts (Nats) defeated A,
Fbbeson lR. c.: 6-3. 81; L. Cate &c. W0
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ARMY FOUR is VICTOR
Scores Over Harvard, SIS, in Final
of Handicap Event.

WOODMERE, N. Y, June 20 (P.-
Flashing closing squirt that would not
be denied Army's polo four defeated
Harvard, to 5, in the final round Of
the intercollegiate handicap tourna-
ment today. The Cadets victory earned
for them possession fer one year of the
Gouverneur Morris trophy.
The cadets, lowest handicapped team
IN the tournament, we're given two
goal handicap to start with but Har-
ward opened the game with rush and
quickly moved into a four-three lead.
Army pulled itself together after the
third period, however, and forged ahead
on fourth period goals by Beebe and
Cusack. Armys ace performer, Lieut..
Rogers, gave the Cadets Ga lead with
q spectacular goal in the fifth and this
advantage was maintained until the
final minute Of play. when Crispin
Cooke started late Harvard rally.
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PEGGY WATTLES VICTOR.

PITTSBURGH. June 20 (P-Finish-
ing a 36-hole test with an aggregate of
164, Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, N. Y, to-
day won the annual two-day woman's
invitation golf tournament at Allegheny
80 yesterday.
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AGAINST "NO HlTTERS"

Babe Ruth, King of Swat, former
pitcher and a man of the base bail
world" doesn't care for no-hit games
He says:
"There is no worse jinx to a pitcher
than no-hitter. Once a pitcher en-
tiers the hall of fame, he is followed
by troubles. Look at Yves Farrelll
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TO MEET IN BALTIMORE.

CHICAGO. June 20 (P.-Baltimore
was chosen for the 1882 meeting and
Armstrong Patterson, Detroit. was re-
elected president today at the final seS-
sion of the United States Foot Ball As
ISOLATION.
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COLUMBIA NET TEAM
HOLDS LEAGUE LEAD
Has a Comfortable Margin Over
George Westinghouse in
Women's Loop.

Columbia racketers continue to head
the pennant parade in the Women's
District Tennis League as the result of
latest matches. They hold a rather COM
Portable lead over the second-place
George Washingtonians, who, in turn,
have only a scant margin over Ma
tionals. standing third.
All matches must be PLAYED or de-
faulted by June 81. league officials have
announced.
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MOUNT RAINIERs PLAY

MOUNT RAINIER. Nd, June 20
Mount Rainier unlimited class base ball
team will engage the Kanawha nine of
washington here tomorrow at o'clock.
Mcmillan or Gearhardt will hurI for the
MountA
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CUP TO GRINSFELDER
Wins Hecht Co. Golf Tournament
on Baltimore Course.

on od4tAuore Oourse'
H. ]. Grinsfelder of the Hecht Co.,
Washington, won the handicap golf
tournament, which was a part of the
entertainment given by Moses S. Hecht,
president of the Hecht stores, to the
executives and merchandise managers
Of the Hecht organization. at the Wood
holme Country Club in Baltimore. His
card read 10l. Handicap of six gave
him a winning net of 95. He received
a silver loving cup. There was triple
tie for second place among Malcomn
Hecht and JEFF Miller of Baltimore and
Charles B. Dulcan of Washington.
Following the links competition, the
party gathered at the Suburban Club
in Baltimore for a banquet, at which
M. S. Hecht was host.
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TO RACE ON DIRT TRACK.

CHICAGO, June 20 R-Louis
Schneider of Indianapolis. winner of
his home towns 500-mile auto race
classic Memorial day, will seek dirt
track honors tomorrow in a 100-miIe
A. A. A. sanctioned event at the Roby
Speedway.
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FRONT ROYAL VICTOR.

FRONT ROYAL, Va, June 20.-In
one of the hardest fought games of the
season, the All-Stars today defeated the
hard-hitting Hose Company No. 5 OF
Martinsburg, w. Va, to Z. Each club
garnered six runs in the first inning.
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PLAY AT RIVERDALE

EVANSVILLE Md, June 90
Hyatttsville All-Stars will meet Union
Printers of washington on the River
dale Field tomorrow at o'clock. Lefty
Waters is slated to hurl for Hyattsville.
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TIP FOR FISHERMEN.

HARPERS FERRY, w. Va, June 20,
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers were
muddy this afternoon.
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1t Proved Nothing.

TT may be that Primo Camera
or in the pure Italian pronunci-
alton of Joe HUMPHREYS. Primeero
Caneera-can fight, but he came
no nearer to demonstrating it
against Patrick redmond at Ebbets
Field, Brooklyn, the other night
than he has done in any of his
other starts. Certainly Primeero
flattened Patrick. but then Patrick
seems to have what the psychologists
might call a mattress complex,
meaning horizontal tendencies.
There was a sad, far-off look in
the eyes of Patrick as he stepped
to the center of the ring to pose
for the instructions with Camera.
You see the same look in the eyes
of dove that is being looked at
by the rattle snake and you can
see the same expression in the face
Of a cottontail rabbit.
I do not say that Patrick had any
intention of going into the tank,
which is an expression which the
boys have when they mean to indi-
cate that a gladiator Is entering
the ring to kiss the canvas with ss
much speed as possible and with
the idea of sustaining at little physi-
cal damage as possible. But Patrick
was beaten before the bell rang.
Any time you see that look in the
eyes of a gladiator the decent thing
to do is to toss in the sponge, the towel
and the bucket before the bell. OF
course, this is unconventional. but
the circumstances would Justify it.
The referee should be authorized to
take summary action when fighter
steps out of his corner with the
rabbit look in his face.
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Is a Good Swinger.

WHEN Patrick came out of his
w corner he burrowed his chin
in the natural buffalo hide
which covers his chest, but Camera
did not have to hit him on the lower
maxillary. - He hit him on top of the
head, on the chest, on the forehead.
everywhere. 1 think that the punch
that finally disposed of Patrick was
a right to the shoulder. Once dur
ing the round Patrick did hit Car
nera in the mouth, but the blow
only seemed to annoy Signor Car
nera. If Camera had been wearing
a mustache it probably would have
tickled him to the extent of making
him sneeze. Fortunately, he was not
wearing a mustache for the draft
from the sneeze might have blown
Patrick out of the ring. They say
that the force of compressed air is
terrible at times.
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ards. 1t is played with the more
lofted clubs, such as the mashie-
niblick and niblick.
I'm helpless when it comes to
long iron shots" How many times
have you heard this? Address Sol
Metzger, In care of this paper and
ask for his free. illustrated leaflet
on Long Iron Shots" Be sure to
inclose a stamped, addressed en-
velope.
(Couyrieht, 1917
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w YITH So entrants already in
M line, the third annual Z
w mile run, a feature Of the
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Copyright. 1917
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-18
The Divine Sarah.
Manchester Guardian0

Manchester may well take intere5s in the celebrations that beginning of the centenary of Mrs. Siddons For if the divine Sarahs career had been left to the mercy of London man. agements it is doubtful whether she would have lived to be painted by Reynolds the Tragic Muse, to fire Hazlitt Scott, Byron, and Dr. Johnson to rhapsodical encomums, and to dominate the Engsh-speaking stage as no woman before her. Her future seemed secure enough when Garrick gave chance at the age of barely twenty to play Portia at Drury Lane It a great opportunity for the irrepressibe girl who had insisted declaming Shakespeare and Milton in the servants hall Of the WarWickshire establishment where she gagged ladys maid. But her first London season was an unmistakable failaure It needed the more bracing airs of the provinces to wait Sarah to fame and she not long in finding a favorable gale. Her Manchester debut in 1776 her first experi- ence of a whrlwind exclamation, and for some time after she moved like young queen from one to an- other city of the North, playing to adoring crowds in Liverpool, Manchester, and York London had to wait to experienced the full force of a per- sonality that could send members of audience off in faint by the anguish of mad scene and so mpregnate theatre with tragedy that the players who had to follow in farccal piece com plained that they could not recover their spirits What was the secret of dominance that has had no equalP The contemporary critics apt to be more lyrical than helpful. Hazlitts Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from shrine" reads rather like tract from the hgh-flown with which Sarah herself used to pack the addresses she loved to deliver to her audiences. But those who deigned to be more coldly analytical make it clear that in her cadences and ntonations, in her sense Of rhythm both of dction and of movement, she cast spell as potent as the theatre has known. In these days, when naturasm is the note would the old magic survive? Could she have dealt triumphanty with St. Joan2 Perhaps 1t is well that the experiment cannot be made.