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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAJf, PORTLAND, JUNE 25, 1916. PORTLAND GOLFERS QUINTET OF PROMINENT OREGON GOLFERS WHO WILL REPRESENT WAVERLEY COUNTRY CLUB IN DAVIS CUP COMPETITION AT SPOKANE NORTHWEST CHAMPIONSHIPS ' THIS WEEK. DAY'S SPORTS MANY GOING TO SPOKANE 33 Athletic Events to Be on Multnomah Field. Upwards of -25 Players to . Take Part in Northwest Championships. SPEEDWAY CARD IS READY 6 WOMEN STARS TO ENTER Several Already in Inland Empire Preparing for Play This Week. C. II. Davis, Jr., Cup Competi tion Is Big Side Event. BY KOSCOE FAWCETT. Portland will be represented, at the I6U1 annual Northwest golf champion ships of Spokane this week: by up wards of 25 players. Quite a number already have gone forward by automo bile and other modes of transportation and, no doubt, there will be quite a Portland contingent on the Spokana Country Club links today In practice rounds. Among Waverley Country Club and Portland Golf clubmen, players who have already set forth or will do so ; today are: Russell Smith, present state champion; Rudolph Wilhelm. of the Portland Club. 1915 state champion; Guy Standifer. C. H. Davis, Jr., captain of th Waverley team; C. H. Lewis. Forest Watson, D. T. Honeyman, R. C. P. Astbury. Victor Johnson, president of the Waverley Country Club; George Mayes, Wirt Minor. W. A. Pettigrove, j C. K. Williams. Graham Glass, Sr., Os car Menefee and R, P. Tlsdale. Women Players to Make Trip. Captain Davis, of the Waverley Country Club,' also has mustered to gether quite a formidable delegation of crack women players for the trip. Mrs. J. A. Dougherty, who won the Oregon state title recently, heads the delegation, which Includes Mrs. C. H. Davis, Jr., Mrs. Gay Lombard, Mrs. Victor Jobnson, Mrs. George H. Mayes, Mrs. W. D. Skinner, Mrs. Walter Cook '- and Mrs. Guy Talbot. No women play ers will be entered from the Portland Golf Club. Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane like wise will be represented by some clever women players. Mrs. T. B. Cur ran, of Tacoma, Is the- present cham pion. Miss Agnes Ford, winner of the Seattle Club championship a fortnight ago, and Mrs. Robert Wilson, 1915 club champion of the Seattle Golf Club, are the most dangerous Seattle women players. Chandler Elan Not Entered. Chandler Egan, of the Waverley Club, former National and several times Western champion, won the Northwest title last year. Unfortunately he will not be able to enteer this Summer be cause of business reasons and Portland hopes rest In Russell Smith, Forest Watson. Guy Standifer. C. H. Lewis and C. H. Davis, of the Waverley Country flub, and Rudolph Wilhelm, of the Portland Club. Paul Ford, tho youthful Seattle Club champion. Is the only really danger ous Seattle player, as Dixie Fleager will not attend. Spokane's chief re f liance Is placed on J. B. Ingersoll, Clyde Graves and John Doran and one or two others. British Columbia may not send any formidable team, owing to the war, and, sizing up the above list of stars, Portland enthusiasts may well feel en couraged. If J. R. Straight and M. H. Hartwell, of Waverley. definitely de cide to enter, the Portland prospects will appear even more rosy tinted. The Northwest title events are sched uled to begin tomorrow morning, with 18 holes of the men's qualifying rounds. The other 18 holes will be played Tues day, 32 men to qualify in the cham pionship flight. The women's quali fying round will be played Monday af ternoon, with 16 to qualify for the championship flight. The open cham pionship will commence Friday and the " final 36 holes will be played Saturday. The men's finals will also be a Satur day attraction. DriTia Trophy MatCnlflcent. One of the prime side attractions of ' the 1919 championships will be the Charles H. Davis, Jr., cup competition, "open to four-men teams from every recognized club in the Northwest. The 1 trophy Is a magnificent silver cup ' -standing about a yard hlph and capa ble of holding enough Halg & Haig to put a regiment under the mahogany. -It was put up this year for the first 'competition by C. H. Davis, of Waver ;Jey the man who has done more to J-evive interest in golfing In and about ' Portland this season than any other 10 devotees of the Scottish pastime. The ".club first winning the silverware four times will secure permanent posses - eion. Each club desiring to enter a team ' In this unique competition must name its quartet prior to the qualifying rounds Monday. The two teams then .' with the low aggregate scores in these rounds will constitute the team flnal '. ists. The final match Is Elated for Friday. Captain Davis has not named tht "Waverley team, but an exceptionally ' strong squad could be evolved from a ; combination consisting of Russell -Smith. Guy Standifer. Forest Watson .' and either C. H. Lewis or C. H. Davis. Mr. Davis is somewhat averse to en- terlng a competition for a cup present- - ed by himself, but. his friends Insist that this personal equation be not con- . sldered. There is a possibility that . they may persuade him to permit his ' name to be used. ; While any club in the Northwest Is eligible to enter this competition, as . well as the amateur and open cham pionships, the members of tho Pacific Northwest Golf Association are: Wa- - verley Country Club, Seattle Golf Club, ' Tacoma Country and Golf Club, Spo kane Country Club, Butte Country Club: Jericho Country Club. Vancou ver. B. C. : Everett Country and Golf Club, Fsaughnessy Country and Golf Club. Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club, Vancouver, B. C.; Vancouver Golf and Country Club, Bitter Root (Mont.) country ciud, Lewlstpn (Idaho) Coun try Club. Chester Thome, of Tacoma, Is presl dent of the association. It is possible that the 1917 North west championships will bo awarded to Portland, as the Waverley Country Club has made & bid for the blue rib- fion event. MANY GOLFERS TO COMPETE Sixty Middle Western Experts Ex pccted at Portland Tonrney. Close Ho 60 Middle Western golfers are expected to come to Portland after the Far Western, championships at Del Monte next month. This word was re ceived by Waverley Country Club offi cials In the week. Numerous Cali fornia golfers also will compete here in me post-western, together with a large contingent of Northwestern experts. If the crowd Is as pretentious as it now threatens to be, it is possible the qualifying round may be shortened to but on circuit of 18 holes. The post Western Is scheduled to -be held the week of July 21-29. 1 y-m y v.yy:Ky. y- -h lis- -J- mtfX w A--':. I ltTxT- ' A f- , - I , . Sirf. J'-,f I WVWv GOLF BULLS PUZZLE Golfers Have Trouble Select ing Weight Best Suited. SOME HINTS ARE GIVEN Conrse Must lie Considered Before Decision Is Made, but Objec tions to Weight Are Serious Enough to Cause Warning. Golfer's Magazine. There is no doubt but that the pres ent-day golfer has a wide choice in balls, but that this Is an advantage compared to the old days when each oan was practicajiy the same, both as regards size and weight, is somewhat open to doubt. There are, at the pres ent time, firms that make balls In four different weights and sizes. Probably the sizes do not vary as much as the weights do; but the fact remains that there must be a demand for such balls or they would not be made. Personally, cannot see how the average player can tell the difference between balls that vary In such an Infinitesimal de gree, and at the same time I am sure the advantage gained Is not worth the worry to which the player Is put before he finally decides which suits him best. Quite recently there has been an out cry In favor of standardizing the size and weight of balls, and although I do not Intend to enter into the whys and wherefores in this article. It seems to me that such an Innovation - could not fail but be a help to those struggling players who are being mentally torn to pieces over the respective merits of the ordinary and heavy balls. The player should decide for himself what kind of ball he should use, and when deciding should take into con sideration the course he usually plays on, and the weather that prevails over his home links. Let me state a fact hat might be of use to some players. mil 0&" v , OJ &k MW I totJ&es' y and that is, the heavy balls to get the distance that undoubtedly lies In them require much harder hitting than the lighter halls. The spring Is there, but Is in such condensed form that nothing but the most severe pressure will bring it out. Light Ban for Easy Hitter. For the golfer who cannot Kit hard I would advise a light ball. He will find that it does not require the force behind It for it to fly away, besides, it Is much easier for the weak player to pick up when playing through the green. I mentioned Just now that the player should take into consideration the course he plays on before deciding which ball to use. On a course that is wet and soft, a light ball will be found an advantage, as a heavy ball used under those conditions will be found to He very close to the ground, even if it does not bury Itself altogether. Simi larly on a course that requires a lot of pitching a light ball can be pulled up much more quickly after the fall than one that Is heavier. On the course that Is hard and dry. one upon which the wind blows a lot, and that calls for a lot of run-up shots, the small, heavy ball will be best found to answer the requirements. It is not so easily blown about and certainly flies lower, while for running up it will not so easily be knocked aside by any little roughness of the ground. Dry. hard courses upon which the wind blows a gale are usually situated on open spaces of land, commons, heaths and the like, and upon which grows a rough, coarse grass that holds the ball up as if it were teed on a heap of sand, quite different to the grass met with on courses around London, where, the grass being soft, and with a tend ency to lie close to the ground, espe cially In the Winter, the ball snuggles down until half of it Is hidden. To pick up a ball under those conditions re quires quite a knack, whereas If It Is standing up clear and sharp, the hitting Is easy. There is also quite a precep tlble difference in the feel of different balls when struck. Some appear heavy to the touch, while others again feel as if the club were meeting nothing but air. Some have a tendency to soar while others keep too close to the ground to suit a lot of players. Cliolee Blast Be Individual. No one can witU safety advise you what ball would suit you best, you must decide for yourself; what may appear an ideal ball to your friend, feels like a lump of lead to you, and one over which you have not the faint est control. Don't be guided by the advertise ments you may see In the papers. One WHT GOLFERS CANT WHY GOLFERS often sees that such and such & ball has been driven the better part of a mile, and while this la quite true, the fact should not be lost sight of that it is the man that does most of the work. Some ball's do fly further than others of that there can be no doubt and in consequence of this, quite a lot of golfers have practically ruined their play by a craving for length, forget ting that the most important part of golf Is getting near, and into the hole. This Is quite a different matter to the player who has always used a light ball and who has decided to take to one of a heavy make. The sense of touch re quired is totally different, and unless this is borne in mind the result will be some astonishing shots. If a player Is naturally a good man at approach ing, or has made himself so with a light ball,' he Is courting disaster to take to a heavy ball without first prac ticing hard with It. Much Practice Necessary. To take a Btrange ball out at the be ginning of a competition is a mistake, even If you feel sure you will get fur ther with it than you would with the ball you have' always played with. What you would gain In length you would certainly lose In the shorter game, and as you do twice as much ap proaching and putting as you do driv ing you will find yourself on the wrong side of the bargain. There are players who carry two differently weighted balls for use on the same course. ' and although there may be method In this madness, I do not advocate It for the ordinary player. After a man has become scratch or near It he can with Impunity play with two differently weighted balls. He is not likely to forget the difference, and knowing Just how each should be struck can generally manage to play the shot that fits in with the ball. But even a good player is liable to forget, and In playing a heavy ball as he would a light one finds, after the pitch, that it run richt across the crreen. wMIa if he has taken the light ball in mistake he will invariably be very short. The average player cannot do better than stick to the average ball. Let him find out Just which suits him best, and when he has done so let him play with no other. Swapping horses while crossing a stream always courted disaster, and so will a continual changing of golf balls. Dry Kilns Burn; Loss Is $25,000. SEATTLE, June 24. Fire early today destroyed four dry kilns of the Sobey Manufacturing Company's shingle plant at Ballard. The loss is $26,000. SLEEP By Briggs. CANT SLEEP. --- PLAYERS GET STALE Wooden Clubs Give Trouble to Best of Golfers. DAVIS AND NEVILLE CITED Jerome Travers Gives Some Advice, to Beginners and Repeats Old Warning Against Pressing. Accuracy Main Item. The novice is not the only golfer who Is troubled with his wooden clubs. The very best players sometimes go wrong In their driving. Jerome Travers, open champion, was off for months at one time, Harry K. B. Davis and Jack Neville, two of the best golfers on the Coast, went bad when they Junketed back to the Western championship last year. Russell Smith, the present Ore gon champion. Is another who had to discard his wood for a couple of years, and it was partly due to bis "come back" with his driver that he was able to defeat Rudolph Wilhelm for the 1818 Oregon title. His driving was fully as accurate and long as Wllhelm's and the latter is one of the best wood en club swingers in the country. Tips Are Given. Here are sopie tips by Jerome Trav ers on the drive: 'I grip the driver Jn the palm of my left harfd and the fingers of my right. Both thumbs are around the shaft. Most beginners point both thumbs down the shaft, which is very bad form and will lead to nothing but failure and dis appointment. I do not know a single player of prominence who does this. 1 stand with the ball opposite the left heel, with the right foot slightly in advance of the left. Although there are other stances for driving, I have found this one to be the most successful and satisfactory. I grip the club with the left hand at the very end of the shaft, so as to get all the power possible. Many novices grip part way down the shaft, which Is a mistake. The club should be started on Its up ward Journey with the wrists, then the arms carry it the remainder of the way until It assumes a practically horizon tal position. At this stage the weight is resting on the right foot. Without the slightest pause the club Is brought back, the weight shifting to the left foot. After the ball is struck the club follows through until It is in a horl zontal position, pointing over the left shoulder. Although the right hand loosens slightly in the upward swing, both hands should be gripping firmly at the moment of impact. Grip Is Described. "Do not attempt to grip the club with the left hand and guide it in its swing with the right. Instead of this both hands should grip the club tight ly, and each should do its full part of the work. Tho most important thing to rememDer Is to keep the head still and the eye fixed on the ball. In its back swing the club should not dip be yond the horizontal. I know this very well myself,-and yet It Is one of my worse tauits with the wooden clubs. This overawing- will produce a hitch or Jerk which is very apt to spoil the shot. "Beginners should strive for accuracy rather than distance. In fact, they should spend considerable time simply swinging the club as the professions tells them to with no ball In front of them. When they have acquired i good swing they should practice driv ing with a dozen balls, remembering all the time that pressing, trying to "kill the ball" is a grave fault they should avoid." SIUXICIPAIi LINKS rOPULAR City Without Place for Golf Play Will Soon Be Out of Date. CHICAGO, Til., June 2. (Special.) The city without municipal golf links will soon be out of date. Municipal golf courses have proved so popular in Chicago that some move will have to be made to relieve the congestion- Jackson Park Is crowded from morning until night, players waiting four and five hours on a week day for a chance to play IS holes, and Garfield and Lin coln parks are little better. Marquette Park is put out of commission every time that ltralns and will continue to be a fair weather playground until proper drainage is Installed. Warren Woods promised to relieve Garfield Park to some extent, but the commissioners have closed that course for the season. A Scotchman who arrived In this country recently from Carnoustie in re- Ply to a question said. "Aye. an" A' wud play golf, but whalr." He spoke of the large number of municipal courses In Scotland which were not only kept in the best of condition, but were a largre source -of revenue to the cities, each player being charged a small sum for the use of the course. This sum in most instances is some thing less than (5 for a year's play. Practically every village of any size has ono or more courses, many of which would compare more than favorably with the best that our country clubs offer. Take St- Andrews, tor Instance, which boasts of at least three courses of championship caliber. There seems to be a deep-seated opinion that to have a municipal course in Chicago It must be free to the public. And as the funds In the bands of the commissioners must have some limit, they are restricted in. the num ber of courses which they can keep in condition. Harlem, which Is operated by a private individual. Is crowded and pays from an Investment standpoint. And there is no reason why municipal courses cannot be operated along the same general lines. STAXDITEK'S PLAY MIPRO'tT.S Portland Golfer Regarded as Having Great Future. That Guy M. Standifer, of the Wav erley Country Club, is destined to be come one of the really great club swingers of the Pacific Coast Is the opinion of many of the local golf ex perts who follow the game closely. Although it usually requires from five to ten years of play to develop a three or four handicap score, Mr. Standifer was within the championship division after two seasons. He is now on his third Summer. Rudolph Wilhelm shot sensational golf against him and elim inated him from the recent state championship running, but Wilhelm said afterwards the he .was the one man he really feired at the outset of the tourney. "Three weeks after he took his first lesson he shot a 79 score, I am told," said Wilhelm. "Standifer Is a deadly putter and is particularly dangerous within 100 yards of the green. With any luck In the draw at Spokane he will figure in the semi-finals unless I am badly mistaken. Seattle Team Tentatively Picked. SEATTLE. June 24. (Special.) The Seattle team which will compete in the competition for the C. H. Davis. Jr., cup at the Northwest golf champion ships at Spokane next week likely will consist of J. H. Ballinger. Paul Ford. George Tllden and T. K. MagllL There is a chance tor one or two changes, but this quartet appears to have the In side track. In a German steel works a hydrsulle firess that can exert a pressure of ll.ooo ons has replaced a steam hammer that shook the earth tor a long dli&nc every tun it was ud. Fourth of July Programme Will Start at 2 P. M., Fred T. Mer rill Announces; Speedway Events at 11 -V. M. Thirty-eight events have been placed on the Fourth of July celebration ath letlo programme for Multnomah Field one week from Tuesday. The carnival of sports at the Rose City Speedway the same day will furnish further at traction. The first number on Multnomah Field will start promptly at 2 P. M. that everything may be completed three hours later. Fred T. Merrill announoes that he will start the programme at the Speedway at 11 o'clock In the morn ing. Following are the programmes lor both Multnomah Field and the Rose City Speedway on July 4: T. Morris Dunns, refer and ehalrmsa of vent a 100-yard oasn Hirh sciteoi; trial neata. lOO-yard dash OpB. men; trial haat. 80-yard daali Grajnmar school, up to SO pounds. bo-yam euo grammar acnooi. ev to iw pounds. bu-yara auQ-runmtr sonoot, iw pvuau and up. 100-yard cash O?on, boys vp to is-, trial heats. loo-yard dash rTla-h irhool ; r'nm. 100-yard dash Opn. men; final. loo-yard dash lioys, open; finals. SO-yard sack race. bo-yard fat men's race. IJO-ysrd dssh High schools; trials. 20"-ysrd dssh Open, boys up to lb; trials. 2'JO-ysrd dash Open, men: trlsls. 220-yard dash High schools; finals. 20-yard dishBoyt up to IS; finals. 220-yard dash Open, men: finals. Bicycle race Up to 13 years of sea. one fourth mile. Bicycle race 11 to IT years ot ace. one fourth mile. SO-yard hand-car race Boys up te 8 years of as a. bO-yard automobtl rac (foot-pedal power) Boys up to 8 years of sko. Bicycle rac 17 to 25 years of sse, ont hslf mile. Blcycl race Open, one-half mile. Four-men relay rtc Department stores. Four-men relay race Public utility. Four-mea relay rac Banks. 25-yard wslktns on hands. Ton-men team tus of war. Four-men rlsy race "Wholesale houses. Four-men relay race Clothing Houses. Four-men relay ract Gruiintr achools. 80-yard three-legged race. SO-yard hoppinc rac. Obstacl race. Egg race Married women. Nall-drlving contest "Women. Climbing greased pole. Catching sreased pig. Fourth of July Officials. Referee. T. Morris Dunne: starter. Martin Hawkins; scorer, George Berts; Timers, Pete Grant, Leonard Myers, A. B. MoAlpln; clerk of course, Karl R. Goodwin; assistant clerk. Fred NelBon; Judges of finish. Ianlel Cohn, F. H. Fleming. Leon Fabre. Jimmy Richard son, Roscoe Hurst; Inspectors, A. K. Green, P. L. Wilder, Georg Anderson; tnamhal, Isaao Swett: announcer, J. K. Werlein: as sistant announcer. Bill Smyth; chairman of relay team, Bam May: chairman of tug of war teams. Chester J. Hogue. Rose City speedway and track and open air arena All races, track and field events frs. Gates to track and bleacher seal! open free to the public all day; 11 A. M. Foot Races. 60-yard dash Boys under 12 years; first, . second and third prizes. 60-yard dash Girls under 12 ytars; first, second and third prlzea 100-yard dash Men undjr 30 yesrs; first, second and third prizes; troll and silver meaals. 100-yard dssh Men over so years; nrat. second and third prlsea. 60-yard dash Fat men over 200 pounds: first, second and third prizes. One-mile loot race open; go:a ana silver medal; four prises. Five-mile foot race open; gol ana silver medals, four prlzea Ten-mile foot rac Qpn; gula ara S11vr meuals, four prises. Horse Rac. Running and harness events, 4 to 4:S0 P. M.. before and after Intermission for boxing events in th arena. One. fourth-mile running rac Ponies nn ter 14 henris; first, second and third prlsea One-fourth-mil running race Ponies over " 14 hands; first, second and third prize. One-mile pacing rac First, second and third prlzea One-mile trotting rac First, second aad third prizes. 3:80 P. M. Boxing carnival In grandstand arena, wher admlslon .will b charged. Johnny Coulon. of Chicago, versus Billy Msscott (Portland's pride and Coast cham pion), in a six-round scientlflo boxing con test for points, together wilh several spe cial events and all-star bouts, matched from th cfam of the boxing experta of th West, from flyweights to heavywelghta Northwestern League News HERS are the leaders in hitting In the Northwestern League and their averages: Eldred. Seattle. .429; Johnson, Butte. .S46; Carson Blgbee. Tacoma, .825; "Dutch" Reutber. Spo kane, .325; Murphy, Vancouver, .21; Ken Williams, Spokane, .319; Diva Hillyard. Butte, .313; Roy Grover. Butte, .811. e Here Is what some players you know are hitting: Fries, Great Fall.'. .309: Eddie Uensor, Spokane, .802; Harper. Spokane, .295; Wufflt. Tacoma, .291: Ike Wolfer, Tacoma. .27; Coltrin. Spo kane, .873; Danny Murray, Spokane. .272; Leard, Tacoma. .255; Altman. Butte, .250. e Leaders In bsse stealing Blgbee 25. Brown 21, Hamilton 19. GIslason and Leard 18, Mensor 17, Morse 16, Carman and Bohne. 15, Shaw 14, Johnson 13, Cunningham 11, Bennett 10. Leaders In sacrifice hitting Coltrin 25, Calvo and Hamilton 14, Smith and Leard 13. Cadman, Grover and Healey 11, Fltzslmmons, Raymond and Wuftll 10. Leaders In home rani Hillyard t. Johnson and Reuther 4. Murray and Leard 3, McGinnis, Murphy, Brlnker. Bankhead and Haworth 2. Leaders in three-base hits Harper 7, Bohne 6, McGinnis 6. Reuther, Levin, Fries and Healey 4, Gislason, Coltrin, Hamilton, Hillyard, Bankhead and Leard 3. Leaders in two-base hits Johnson IT, Brown 16, Grover, Hillyard and Pappa 15. Blgbee 14, Calvo 13. Sheely 12, Reuther, Hoffman and Leard 11, McGinnis. Coltrin, Hamilton, Fltzslm mons. Brlnker, Bankhead and Fries 10. Leaders in total extra bases Hill yard 45, Johnson and Reuther 81. Bohne 27, McGinnis. Leard and Roberts 28, Harper 25. Bankhead an -Pappa 22. Murray and Blgbee 21. Brown and Brlnker 20. The leading pitchers: w. x- Pet. Evans, Rpoksn 11 1 .KIT Webb. Spokane 4 1 .S00 Acosta. Vancouver 11 3 .7S6 Ionardi Snokane-Tacoma ...... 5 2 .714 Callahan. Vancouver T 3 .Too Sutherland. Tacoma ............. 7 3 .T'lO Schmulz. Sesttl S 4 .602 Kastley. Seattle 8 4 -i7 WolTram. Seattle 2 1 .61" White. Great Falls 8 8 .T Lelfer. Spokane-Butt 2 1 . Peterson. Tacoma ............... T 4 .6."fi MoGlnnltv. Butt 4 .00 Hovey, Butte 8 2 .000 An electric fan has been invented in wht.-h the vane are covered with gauze, which enters a tank of water at each revolution and helps to cool the brezes the fan creates.