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IN NATION AGAIN
Mew Northwest Champion May
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Burgee in Year or So.
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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In a ion rfr.n'ly ta acdreta the gratiust
ln r!M of a h:sh school. Th. r'Aika. ltll
hta ha'.r brushed n1 his best berkt.. brain.
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NEHAL.EM. Or. July 10. (Special)
Fourth of July motor racea on tne re-
halem River by the Nehalem River
Motorboat Club offered many surprlaea.
Bibr Bell, the boat built by Harry
BelL especially for the free-for-all
race, was a surprise even to the owner.
The engine was new and the boat was
placed In the water late In the arter
noon before the races, yet the little
speeder went over the two and a half
mile course at beter than Si miles an
hour.
The Baby Bell Is equipped with a
four-cylinder. 10-horsepower engine.
which was set In the hull July 2. No
opportunity was given to try her out
or note the position. Mr. Bell found
a few defects In the position, which de
creased the speed of the boat, but these
will be remedied.
Probably the greatest surprise of the
races waa In the two-horaepower en
gine clasa. It was an old-time Indian
canoe, upon which an engine had been
fastened. Alvln Thompson conquered
the craft, however, and went over the
course in record time.
Owners of boats, built especially to
win thla event, were surprised when
they saw the canoe take the lead at the
start and gain throughout the entire
race. When Thompson passed over the
line on the last round, ha was more
than a quarter of a mile ahead of any
competitors. Once the canoe came
near turning ocr. when rounding la
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