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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, POItTLAXD, JTJIT 11. 1013. 3 EGa'I may bob up IN NATION AGAIN Mew Northwest Champion May Drive Off at National Burgee in Year or So. RECORD UNIFORMLY GOOD OREGOXIAN CAMERA MAN FINDS TIME TO WORK WHILE FOLLOWING ELUSIVE WIUTE PELLET OVER LINKS OF PORTLAND GOLF CLUB. Rigid Amateur Rules of United States Golf Association Criti cised Case, of Football Coach, Now Cited. BY ROSCOE FAWCETT. After you are an accepted fact the publicity folk, sort of lay off. Take, for instance, the case of the new North west golf champion. H. Chandler Egan. Ten years back H. Chandler Egan was almost as conspicuous a National figure In sportdoro as Christy Mathew aon, Eddie Plank and some others we remember. ii. C. Egan began to open the eyes of the golfing world first as Intercollegiate champion, representing Harvard, and then as National amateur champion for two years 1904 at Bal tusrol, N. J., and In 1905 at Wheaton. the Medford golfer remains an even greater, finer figure in American golf, if such a paradox is possible. "With little or no opportunity to wield a driver, midiron or mashie. Egan gave a fine acccount of himself at the recent San Francisco Exposition champion ships, came north and won the North west amateur championship at Tacoma against a classy field and then, as cap sheaf, won the open event at the Pot latch tournament at Seattle. Medford boasts of a "Golf Links," but the links are like all new courses rough, pebbly and almost impossible to the expert golfer. Egan manages to get about 18 holes per week on this course, but, as good "lies" are rarities and most shots on the fairways have to be "teed," this practice is not for the best. Although Egan used to be master of his midiron, at San Fran cisco he seemed to have lost all his magic control, due, he thinks, to the "teeing" in practice rounds. Considering these handicaps it is a wonder that Egan retains enough "gawf" in his system to win the cham pionship of Podunk Township. And yet. when he captured the Potlatch open event a fortnight ago he scored 9-78-72-77. Also he had two 77s in the qualifying rounds at the North west titular event at Tacoma; a 74 in his match with H. II. Pringle. a 71 with JtJd tt. Hushes, a 73 with O. W. Potter, a 70 and 74 with Jack Neville in the semi-finals and a 77 and 74 with Paul ford in the Northwest finals. Add a 77 In the preliminary round at Seattle the next week and you'll find the totals to be 1049 strokes for 14 rounds of golf, an average of under 75 to the 18 holes. If there is any golfer In the country xravers or iravis or uulmet or Chick Evans, who can beat that for consistency under such adverse condi tions, please step up to the bat and be anointed with Perma paint. Mr. Egan's first name is Henry, but he parted his name on the left side years ago because It jarred on his sensibilities of euphony. He is about 32 years old many years short of Travis' 53 so it wouldn't sumi-ise folk out this way to bear about Egan's going back East within the next few years and copping off another Na tional burgee. Just at present, however, he is too busy managing the Egan Orchard Company at Medford to go into the golf business exclusively. And that's very nearly what golf requires when you re in ine Dig show battling against tne major leaguers. iiere s a new Swedish gymnastic movement ior you. .Braid, vardon. Taylor and all the nig goir professionals tell you to start tne drive with your weight equally distributed between the two legs. That is to say, at the beginning of the Biance nan your weight Is- carried on each leg. Then they tell you that you must not sway the body, must not move away from the hole either at head or hips, yet they distinctly assert mat at tne lop or the stroke you must have all your weight on the right foot. Try that and if you succeed you have qualified for the contortioners club. "When Jim Thorps was mulcted of his Olympic medals because it was discov ered that he had played bush baseball somewhere in Virginia or thereabouts, we imagined that the fuss stirred up would bring about a sensible interpre tation of the word "amateurism." The United States Golf Association is following along in the same groove however. Recently George H. Brooke football coach at the University of Pennsylvania, was entered in a tourney for the championship of Philadelphia. He played in the qualifying rounds and was then barred from participa tion because he had acccepted money for coaching a football team. The absurdity of this rule is all the more evident when it is explained that Brooke holds many amateur medals for racquets and court tennis. The logic of it is as clear as the bottom of Guild s Lake. Byron Houck, the I-ederal League pitcher, who Is a Uni versity of Oreeon hnv i j from the tourneys of the Portland Golf Club for the same reason because the " P ., "tea states Golf Asso elation forbid. lne powers that be in the various lines of sportdom will awaken to the absurdity of the whole arrange ment and will meet on some middle ground more sensible and fairer to all Gibbons to Buy a Summer Camp. BRAIXERD. Minn., July 10.BraIn j "'cay entertained Mike Gib bons the St. Paul phantom, who sized up Bramerd on hi, way to Crooked Lake, where he will invest some of the money he has made in a Summer home - . ..v. o a, iia.4ifcing camp. Sunday Baseball Booking. capital Mill versus Ueivertnn T ton. l!:30; John S. Beals versus OsweKo at Os-eKo. 2:30; Newsboys versus Hawthorne Merchants, at East Twelfth and Davis 30 Kenton Club versus Vancouver Barracks.' at Vancouver. 3:30; Foresters of America versus Peninsula Juniors, at Peninsula Park School Troy Laundry Company versus Pacific Coast Bircuit Company, at East Twelfth and Davis. 3:30; Piedmont Artisans versus Brooklyn, at Canemah. 2:30; White Cap Juniors versus Peninsula Juniors, at Penin sular School, 10:30; Ben Hurs versus Waver, ley Caddies, at Seilwood. 3:30; Estacada ver sus Portland Moose, at Estacada, 2:30; Ames, Karris & Neville Company versus Olds, Wortman & King, at East Twelfth and Da vis streets, 3:30; Gresham versus Bricklay ers, at Gresham, 2:30; Alder Crest versus Oakhurst Grays, at East Twelfth and Davis. 12:ai; Vancouver Barracks versus I -any & Co., at Vancouver, 1:30; Pioneer versus La Center, at Pioneer. 2:30; Golden Rods ver sus Alberta, at Columbia Park. 12:30: Hal nler versus Clatskanie. at Rainier. 2:30; Ta borslde versus Photo-Stero. at 'East Eight ieth and Market streets. 12:30; Meier rank versus The Annex, at Estacada. 2-30; Union Meat Company versus Dundee, at Dundee. 2:30: Antonlan Club versus Tabor Giants, at Fifty-ninth and Powell streets. 2:S0; Woodlawn Cubs versus Woodstock Firemen, at Woodstock, 2:30; Flelschner - Mayer verans Gilbert Whit. Sox, ot Gil bert, 2:30; Doc; Cabin Bakery versus Garden Home, at Garden Home. i30. 7 I. ' i. r -.If: - - : - t. . .. . z r.nt tit m (. ? 1 1 . . ;-f , -' . . '. . - l i " i ' 1 l - .4 .... - - -w t J t - J . : 4 TJ z 1 Dr. M. C. Hoi brook Irft aad Geo rice ottagr, Croaalaa; Over lf Bridge. 2 Mtsa Klaa Keerber Pnttli New Grass Green at the Xlnth Hole. 8 Harry ITatt. the C'lab frefeaalosial. AGGIES TO GQ EAST Michigan Team to Return Game on Portland Gridiron. SCHEDULE IS PREPARED Dr. Stewart Annonnces Arrange ments to Meet What He Terms One of Strongest Teams Trip Will Be Second of Kind. WOMEN GOLF PLAYERS PRAISED BY CHAMPION British Title-Holder Says Standard of Play of Fair Sex Is Underestimated and Tells Common Fault and Where They Excel. VARDON OX GOLF. He says that tbe standard of play araocr women golfer ia considerably under-estimated; names tha con ditions under which the best women srolfers would beat the bewt men players; tells of a common fault of women players, and names the best woman golfer ho baa ever seen. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallla, July 10. (Special.) For the first time In the history of Far West ern football, a Coast team will take the measure of the gridiron warriors of both the Middle West and the Atlantic Coast. This has been made possible by the schedule Just completed by Dr. E. J. Stewart for the Oregon Agricultural College team, and which has been approved by President Kerr. According to this arrangement, me Oregon Aggie team will meet tne VlrhlMn Agricultural t-oiifge at. inaa- lng, Mich., and will also test the might of the famous Syracuse aggregation in a game at Portland. December 1. The trip to iansing win uo io that a Coast football team ever nas made to an Eastern gridiron, and the visit of the Syracuse team to tnis toast will be the second Invasion ever made hv an Eastern sciuad tne first ana only trip was made in 1906. when Michigan came West and piayea Cal ifornia, winning 47 to 0. Dr. Stewart believes mat tne two Eastern teams he has on the schedule are two of the strongest in their re spective sections. The Michigan Aggies in 1913 Jumped to tne iront oy aeieai lng Michigan University, 13 to 7, and Wisconsin University, 14 to 7. Last year they came near repeating the per formance, when they played Michigan and lost by a score of 3 to 0. Syracuse defeated Cornell during the 114 sea son by a score of 16 to 0, and drubbed Michigan by a big margin of 34 toO. This last performance was done Just one week before Michigan gave Har vard such a hard fight for Eastern honors, in which the Harvard team won by the narrow margin of seven points. Bringing the big Syracuse team to the Coast is considered a real ten strike by Dr. Stewart. He had some difficulty in negotiating the trip and says ha also had some trouble in warding off attempts on the part of other teams to interfere with his ar rangements with the Eastern visitors. The University of Washington also lost after attempting to schedule the Syra cuse team when they heard that Stew art was making his negotiations. According to present arrangements, the Eastern team will meet Montana on Thanksgiving day, coming on from there to Portland for the game on December 1. In addition to the two big Eastern games, the following schedule baa been prepared for the Aggie team: Septem ber 25. the alumni at Corvallis. Octo ber 2, Willamette University at Cor vallis; October!). Whitman at Corvallis; October 16. Washington State College, at Corvallis; October 23. open date; Octo ber 30, Michigan Aggies, at Lansing, Mich.; Jovember 6, Idaho university, at Corvallis; November 20, Oregon Uni versity, at Eugene; November 30, open date; November 25, open date; Decem ber 1. Syracuse, at Portland. The college squad will start prelim inary work September 2 at the New port camp. They will pass two weeks at the Coast - In preliminary training under the direction of Dr. Stewart Everett May and Coach Pavey. Stew art plans to take 3a men to the sea shore, among whom will be seven of last years regulars and two subs. Stewart feels that, he will have to de velop almost a new team tbjs year, as he is losing the backbone of last year's aggregation. The old stars who will be absent when the roll is called this Fall are Huntley and King at the end positions. Smith at right tackle. Moore at left guard, Anderson at center, and i. .. . . . ... I V-U f . t ' - t y vv l ; BT HARBT VARDON. British Champion. T Is good to know that, even In this period of stress. British golf has not been entirely unrepresented on American links. It Is now a matter of history that Miss Vera Ramsay, of Leatherhead. in England, who crossed to the States on the Lusltania on the last trip which that Tesssel made be fore being torpedoed, has qualified to hold the championship of the Boston Women's Golf Association until next year and her success somehow makes me feel alt the more acutely my own disappointment at having had to give up a tour on which 1 had set my heart. However. domestic considerations must command rexpect where it is not imperative duty that calls a man away. As one of our proposed party re marked, he had had "submarines for breakfast, subma rines for lunch, submarines for tea. and subma rines for dinner" from the moment that he announced In his home that he Intended to go to America, and the situation when the vessel on which he inH h a n lr ft (I Vi passage was sent ,,"rTr Vardesu to the bottom of the sea can be readily imagined. Not being eligible for war service. I had made up my mind for one more visit to the States, in all probability the last. I hope it may be possible next season. Mention of women s golf reminds me of a subject on which I feel strong ly. It is that the standard of play among the fair sex Is considerably underestimated In most places where men 'golfers congregate. It is often discussed in a spirit which Indicates that the speakers regard it as a rather poor imitation of the real thing. I can only Imagine that they have never had an opportunity of watching the best women golfers. I confess that I have been surprised many times by the ex cellence of their shots, and, consider ing that they are handicapped in the matters of physique, the quality of heir golf seems to me to be remark ably high. Match Women Vonld WIk. If a long series of matches were held between prominent men amateurs and equally distinguished women play ers, with the latter receiving a half, I believe that the men would be beaten. So far as I have been able to Judge, this applies as much to America as to Britain. W ith. say Mrs. A. Jackson, the woman champion, and Francis Oulmet. the amateur champion, show ing something like their correct re spective powers In a contest of 36 holes. 1 doubt whether the man could concede a half. To be sure, nine strokes are a good many to give, but 1 am assuming now that the match would take place on a well-bunkered and full-length course of 6000 yards or more, where physique alone would tell heavily. The rkill with which the leading lady golfers play approaches and putts is such that they are handi capped only in the, long game and in recovering from bunkers; and per haps their sole real weakness Is In the latter department. It la a pity that, when men and women meet In more or less public contests, the women often fail to dls play their true form. It may be that they try too hard or. on the contrary, that the spirit of rivalry Is not quite so grim as when they are engaged in later!? strife. Whatever the ejcpla- 'IF v. V -) I- 1 v I ' . t M V 'ft Welcome To Camp B.V.D." irst thev named it "Camp Comfort," but H they've changed it to "Camp B.V.D." be- -IL cause nothing calls up the thought of Summer Comfort so instantly as B.V.D. It's the Under wear of red-blooded, right-living men who find clean fun in keen sport, from tramping to camping. You welcome .to Camp B.V.D. even though you're desk bound and town-chained! Wear it, and be cool and comfortable all summer long. It won't bind or irritate. It lets the air at your body. It wears long and washes fine. You are sure of its quality of material, integrity of make and true-to-size fit. On every B.V. D. Undergarment it tevueJ the B.V. D. ReJ ltven Laid made: FORTHEl RETAIL TRADE BEST (7V Mm Jt. V. a r. Of. 4 fmmltm C-.) B.V. D. Closed Crotch Union Suits B.V. D. Coat Cut Undershirts (Pat. U.S. A. 4-30-079-15-14) and Knee Lencth Drawers. 50c $1.00 and upwards the Suit. and upwards the Garment. Firmly insist upon seeing this label and frmff refuse to take any Athletic Underwear without it. The B.V. D. Company New York, nation may be. I have the Impression that they are seen at their best on.y :n tnclr own competitions. Rather more than a year ago. I played several matches at Le Touquet, in France, against a lady who was oossessed of no small measure of ability on the links, but who could not for the life of her exhibit her cusom- ry confidence In any one of these contests. Even when giving her tt.-olce a hole, I still won; and at last she issued to me a stern challenge: he would give me a stroke a hole If I woulo use one club only and that ciuo wnicn sue would select. I ac cepted, and she handed me her niblick well, i won againby no and S to play, and that without taking any of tne stro-tes. W.mesi To Flurried. She waa too flurried to hit the ball properly, and the same condition has been observed In other contests In which women have opposed men. That Is why the results of these matches are apt to produce fallacious ideas as to the respective abilities of the sexes. To see women at their best on the links, they must be watched In their own particular tournaments. I must confess that there are more really bad players among women than there are among men, and my experi ence as a teacher telta me that the rause of their failure Is. In a large number of cases, the circumstance that they turn their left wrist the wrong way at the beginning of the swing. The commonness of this fault where women golfers are concerned Is truly extraordinary, and It has puzxled me greatly. The only explanation that I can con celre Is that most of them play the piano and that they develop an un conquerable habit of arching the wrists in tho same way as when strlk lng tne Keys ot tne Instrument In ques tion that Is to say, bending the wrists In such a way that they are looking up to the ceiling or. the sky. This Is pre clsely what women vlo In a great num ber of Instances on the links. Vrt.t Belongs fader kaf. One of the most Important principles of the golf swing (it is not far from being the chief) la to turn the left wrist gently towards the body at the beginning of the swing; unless this be done the wrist In question will be bent outwards at the top of the swing and then the club will be in a hopeless po sition for a straight shot. The left wrist absolutely must be disposed un der the shaft (not arched outwards) at the top, and it Is In this connection that women golfers exhibit their most pronounced weakness. Their keenness is splendid. In Brit ain, at any rate, I am sure that, taken as a body, they are much more In earnest about the game than men. Of ten you will find two men contesting a match in an easy-going frame of mind, but I have never seen women so dis posed. Even though nothing tangi ble depends on the result, they Strug gle for all they are worth and seldom talk during the round. Personally I like to observe this spirit. Oolf 1 serious game, which is not worth play ing at all unless you concentrate the whole of your attention upon It. Proof of the keenness of women la to be found In the seal with which they arrange and contest Inter-team matches. These events are almost dead in Britain so far as men are concerned. but they are fast Increasing In Inter est and Importance among women (or were doing so until the ar started) and there Is tremendous rivalry for places in the county teams. Brat Wooaaa Gelfer iuril. The best woman golfer I have ever seen Is Miss Cecil Leltch. Borne years ago an allowance of a half preved suf ficient to enable her to beat II. 11. HII ton. and 1 think that on similar handi cap terms she would win three times out of four against any prominent ama teur of th mala persuasion. She and Miss Gladys Ravenscroft have an advantage over most members of their sex In the circumstance that they are long drt'ers. 1 saw the match between Ml. Leltch and Mr. Hilton and could not help being im pressed by the frequency with which she drove almost as far as her op ponent. Equally noteworthy about t FLE1SCHNER, MAYER & CO. Wholesale Distributors B. V. D. UNDERWEAR t Miss I-eltch's play Is her power of re covering from difficulties. he hits shots from long (rut and other un pleasant places with a measure of skill and strength that few people could hope to excel. At one time her Iron snots were not quite right and I meant to tell her that she would Improve three strokes a round if she altered her awing with the iron. But appar ently she had discovered the point for berselt. lor when next i una ner play there was nothing wrong with the iron fchots. Her sister. Miss May Leltch. who Is left-handed, would be quit aa good it on'y she would practice a little. Sometimes she does not touch a club for a month or two. and yet ahe is al ways at scratch and breaking records. Aa putters women are on occasion almost uncanny In their excellence, es pecially when they attain a condition of nervous tension which Is evolved so often In the critical stage of a cham- Dlonshlo. Then Is the time to see what the fair sex ran do on the green: the frequency with which the holing of a long putt by one player la followed by a similar feat on the part of an op ponent who la fighting for a half seizes the Imagination. There la a wonderful determination about women which quells f heir nerves. They make a man putt better. I was playing a lady on my home course the other dsy and. having beaten her many times. I confess that 1 tried to miss a putt on the last green In order th the match might finish all even. And the ball went down, much to my as tonishment. Perhaps that la the best way to hole a long putt to try and miss it. -nivrlrht. 113. fev Whelr Synalrat.. lac.) This is th. fifth of a r!-s of arllrlra on volf that Mr. Vsruon. th. Uniun chsmil'n. is rli.nr slrrl.lly for this p.ir. Tt. sixth article will nnr nn Sunday. HEW BOAT IS WINNER BABY BKIL, LAIXCIIEU AT SEH.t tESf OS EVE OK RACES, 5PEEOV. lower marking buoys, but Thompson showed skill In handling It. The other winners In the four races were: Alfred Anderson, second In the free-for-all; Albert Crawford, second In the two-horsepower rare; Joe ltovakin winner In the eixht-horse- lower and under class, with Alfred An derson, second. uphus larsen won the flshboat race, with Charles Joest Inx a close second. The f;hboat race waa the closest and prettiest race of the day. Trout Planting Is Krjil Secrrl. VANCOUVER. Wash, July 10. 8pe- clal ) Under a new rilling the stre.ma In which young trout or other game fish are planted will not be mad. known to the public hereafter. Some place In the county 47.000 cut-tbrnat trout were planted. They came from Green River, near Seatt.e. and were brought her" by L II. larwln, Slate Fish Commissioner. nd were planted by J. M. Iloff. Uame Warden. To dale. 1 To 000 trout have been planted In Clarke County streams since Jan uary 1. The fioTernor ef Kansas rI 3o ml'es In a ion rfr.n'ly ta acdreta the gratiust ln r!M of a h:sh school. 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