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ran - Oregon Sunday journal, Portland Sunday morning, may.. 21, 1922. Three Schools Entered in First Interseholastie Golf Championship Tournament in ffortland 4 xxxx High School Golf Event I Is Scheduled f OUP ' baa reached i the ; high school y ranka ,, . i . ' - . '. The first Interseholastie championship tournament on record to Oregon iriD be staged next week-end: on the municipal course - at Kastmoreland. The tourney will be staged under the supervision of F. EL Harrigan of . the Washington high school faculty. " I Three members of the Public School Athletic leagueWashington. Commerce and Benson have entered . jthe tourna ment, but no word has been received from the other members of the associa tion. OTSCEB P3TTKIESt WASTED : Players of the other schools desiring to enter the tournament are requested to call Mr, Barrtgaa at East 7289 or place their names on the entry list at the Bastmoreland clubhouse. The competition will be staged under match play roles, the low 16 players- to qualify for the championship flight. . - The players entered in the tournament are: vv L - CommerceRoy Moe, Andy Wells. El mer Smith, Dale Watson. Will TTltes. Waahington--Charle3 WUliams. Fred Walstrom, Lloyd Behrman. ' Marshall Crull and Eldon Beeks. i Benson Verne Perry, Thomas Bar rett and Archie Courtney. .. ;. (ETEEAI. ABK fADDDIES ' A number of the players entered have eaddied on the links and are fairly good players. Among them la Roy Moe, 'who was one of the Qualifiers in the city championship- tournament last fall. -.Interest to the - tourney is expected to grow each year. Play In the first annual tournament of the Seattle, Wash, high schools was staged last week. - Within a few years a girls golf tour nament may be staged. EasternGolf Chatter , Copyright, ISM TtTISS ALEXA. STERLIXa, who Is In iYJL business, to New .Tork-she is with 4 financial house absolutely refuses to capitalise her golf prestlge Her clients are those who wouldn't know a putter from a curling stone. - A .-. - - . . Why," asks a golf writer, should not left-handed golf players play as well as right hand players? He adds that in baseball "several famous batsmen hare been left handed. ; Several, well,' Just to name several, we submit Babe Ruth, Franklin Bakeri Whltey Witt, Ty Cobb, George SIsler, Eddie Collins, Tris Speak er, Elmer Smith, Hooper, Blue and Jamieaon, In fact, chiefly; because a lefty gets a freer swing at the ball than a right hinder who, 6ffers, as you would hit a tennis ball or golf ball the .port side In baseball as a class are the dead liest hitters. -.....;.,- ; Now thaj the Western Golf associa tion has adopted the stymie rule, a fruit less cause of conflict between East and West haa been eliminated. There never has been any real issue between the U. S. G. A. and the Western body.1 When the fact that golf . Is a " national sport and, that" our beat Interests are main tained : in conducting It without refer ence to sectional sentiment. It is gener ally; recognised there will be no more .trouble of anqr sort v--j i At a New . York uptown club where many lovers ef sport are to be found at the noon hour the statement was made today that able; left handed golfers were now to be classed with the dodo, the high v bicycle and the hoop skirt. Whereat a Southerner countered quickly with citation of, the fact that Michael Thomas of Nashville simply breesed into the semi-final of the recent North and South championships. , .- ! rrtHE BADEN Trotting association in X Germany, It is 'announced, will dis tribute 10,000,000 marks , for ' harness races this year. Reduced to real money this foots up to less than 9100,000, which, however. Is more than - any American track win distribute in purses, : , . A feature of the race meet it Con naught Park, Ottawa, May 19 to June will be the Chateau Iurier handicap for ' 3-year-olds and up at a mile on June 3, the birthday of King George, - -. It IS 44. years since Edward T. Goers won, heat In a race at Hartford with Alice, West In 2:29,, and . thatr was the first time he- rode a mile faster than J .30 in a race. . Since then the famed harness driver has probably driven 200, 000 miles faster than that behind horses. Title Golf Eyent for Caddies Western Assn. 'By Alexaader P. Jeaes (United timmm Btaff Oormpondnt) CHICAGO. May JO. Caddies who excel V-i at golf and not at making wise cracks about the game of the poor duf fer whose clubs they are carrying will meet In a national tournament here this summer, and 'shoot for a college 'educa tion. : -' ,;.- . ' . 5 It Is going to be the first national caddy tournament ever held 'and the Western Golf association believes the turn In the road for both tfie caddy and his employer,;-.".- -. -' -' Boys , who get a dollar a round for handing a. golfer- the wrong putter, los ing balls tn the high grass and making side remarks on how they would play a difficult lie, win have a chance to quit talking and show the gaOery jost what they can do. - They wiU be breoght here from an parts of "the country, expenses paid, and fight for the championship and the kid t ho wins will receive a college scholar ship. I - ' ' "Chick Evans, former national am a- tn, anil amaw - jVA,Y,TitfMh . AHiMf - T Gates, president of the Western Golf as ' eoclation, and other Influential golfers tare behind the tournament and every f detail la rompleted except setting the date. - .. ... "-. Aoeordmg ts Chlck" It ts gotng ts be (the biggest thing that ever happened In 'golf.' - , - Carrels of Fan Suaday at , - TlieOakst With the Elks - L V MM - : t AS A RESULT OF THE BllSSINGIJNKS-By Bud Fisher Initiatioir Fee Raised -tl-: r jtWKNTY-SIX years-ago, alliandful of JL Portlanders met and organized the Waverley Country dub. .5 j These men - were the pioneers of the game, in Portland, and UtfieVj did they think that some day the club's initia tion fee would reach the J500 smark, and they never dreamed of the epfit becom ing the most popular in the errantry. ; " The pioneers started out wish a nine hole course, and congestion iraa never given a thought "Them daws its gone forever at Waverley and th directors of the club recently voted -til raise the Initiation fee to $500, the highest Initia tion fee of any club in the Northwest. This action was taken to curb the ap plicants for membership, but according to Information, many are on jibe club's waiting list. , - From that little nine-hole eWrsV out tn the country at that time. gthe game has grown until Portland has four 1S hole and one nine-hole ooursea 1 opera tion, and within a - short time? construc tion work on another nlne-hela course will be started. ? -The 18-hole .courses are Waverley Country club, Portland Golf dob, Tuala tin Country club and the Municipal links in Sastmoreland. Hundreds) of r thou-J sands or dollars nave been expended tn placing these links on a par with other courses on the Padfle Coast.'! The handful of men who "pioneered" the game in Portland consisted of Wil liam Mackintosh. William MacMaster. C H. Burg! it. W. J. Hone ym an, K. K. Bax ter. J. W. Curtis, -Robert Miner, S. G. Bowley, C C. Robinson, H. E. Judge, Jams Met. Wood. . J. D. , Hart, Hugh Wallace. W. J. Burrts, H. C Campbell, William McKenkie, Robert Uvtngstene, A. H. BirreU. A. T. Hugglns, C W. Hal lamore, W. R. Mackensle. S. B. Unthl euro. Percy W. Ungley, J. !. iXmlap and Zewis Russell. Waverleys membership has gmwu until it has reached close to the 600 mark and the total number of golfers in Part land now surpasses the 5000 mark. All the courses, with the exception of the Tualatin club which has a- limited membership, are congested : on Satur days, Sundays. and holidays. Is Behind Move : rnere are to be eliminatkm tourna- menta for different districts, or In big cities where jthere are several eiuba Hera Is one of the things, aboot the tournament that will delight golf ers To get to the tournament a caddy tact only must shoot the best game In his district, but he must also have the best deportment record arouhd the, dub. If he is reported for dropping balls In the water hole so the caddies can, dive for them after dusk, he Is out. If ha wolfs on a tip and Is reported,1 he is Ineligible. Kvane started as a caddy ih ly and he Is eothnatastie about the tournament. Xa England the caddies ' are mostly grown men," he said. "In Scotland soma of the caddies have been en the links for B0 years, v But In this country they are American . soya, few of r- them over. 1 years old. "So we want to get them Interested In the game and tn making : something of themselves.' The caddy who enters into the spirit of the thing has a chance to bring glory to bis club, as xnaca as any member winning the' amateur or "open. He wiU be eligible to club membership some day. ; He will meet men whe- will be Interested tn his future, "W wast to e the cream of Amer ican caddies here and start .tnto thing mightyna." - : - The finance of the tournament has been arranged and kids elected to come to . the tournament won't be kept away on that account. - . . , . wiu ora mighty good golf, too.- Evans added. "A number of these boys wiU break SO. - Caddies in this district are pepped up over the coming tryoutm. - And even the greochieet dub. members are admitting i that; they never saw tb Eke f the i serrtoe they ar gmas - .. -. arm " V T '! " Jsy waverl Colorado Golf -Links to Be 8000 r Feet Above Level Bearer, May t (I. 3T. S.) Toar Ists and easapers la Beaver's moan-' ,talm parks will have epportaalty this year to enjoy golf r Bess feet nbove ea level ea a relQig aarfaee la the Colorado . Seekles. 4 A gelf eomrse Is belsg laid out east . of Buffalo Bill's Jeeseat mountain grave, and a elabhoste, rtllag la a sheltered spot, will be eoastraeted for the eomfort of the patrens. . , The site of : the r elabhevie is dl reeuy opposite the famous Geaessee aieaatala ski eoarte, aada spleadld view of tie mosstaias and plalas will be afforded from the elsbhomse Teraadas. - .i-1'-1.;:' It Is expected the Itaks will be la readiness t jaly 1. ! Never Too Late to j Change Style: of JVlaldng;GoU r tOmrrtsfar, 10Z2. by TTm Jaatael) " - ' F' IS never too late to try to change one's style in- golf. ; Harry Vardon almost completely remodeled ; his swing after he had become one of the expert golfers of Great Britain. He felt that he was taking too ' much t area and changed his style accordingly. ; . . . The tendency has 'been to eliminate the sweepers, those who reach far back and let go at arm's length to knock the ball Into the next county. If it were possible for such a drive to keep- his eye on the -ball throughout very mo ment of his -upward motion he might be able to outdrive all of the golfing com munity. '---.'v--ff f fJ r;H :;. ' M:'- i-f'j Nearly every Kngllwhman who visits the United States expresses himself upon return home as finding tn this country a race of men coming up in golf and who like the long game In preference to any other. : Naturally that calls for a hard, full swing and plenty of smash behind it. If the Americans' are more fond .of the long game i than the game of less force, but mora line accuracy they will not be likely to curtail then swing unless they find it injurious. i Arthur Havers, the English profes sional who is coming along with such a rapidity on the i ether side i ef the ooean. has so much freedom of his arms that It is a marvel to those who watch him play. Mr. Hilton says that he does not recall that he has ever seen it player who seems to be able to shoot out his arms eo freely and so easily as Havers. ENGLISH HATE STBOKO TEAM : In the English team which will be se lected to come to the United States to play It is generally conceded tn England that three- members will be Willie Hunt er, Cyril Kt Tolley and Roger Wethered, How the others win be choeen is atUl a r THE "United States lawn Tennis asso- internatlonal conf trenoe for nations in terested tn the Davis cup contest, to be held tn London July Immediately after the conclusion of the British champion ship at.vWnnbledoa.-ii;-iij!jj.; M,iri -v.!, j Phil Near f Stanford university, win defend the Intercollegiate tennla cham pionship at the national tntereollegiates at . Haverford, Pa, June 2f and, 17. The committee of - the Wbnbledon championship tennis - meet . decided ; to hold this year's tournament on the new ground at Wimbledon park. . Not Only Athlete " But Also Student & Harrison rhoanpsn the- aQ-rotmd athlete at Prmeetoa. is high ranking man ta his stadia and a likely candi date for Phi Beta Kappa honor. : Like his brothers, the former aQ-round cham pion, & Harrison - la studying for the ministry. . - ; , i MEMORIAL trmiLRD ! i i Hearts of Midlothian, one of the great soccer football teams - of Scotland, re cently Unveiled a memorial :' In. : Edin borgh to members of the famous "Ma roons who heard the final wblstle. ef the Great Referee while fighting the Hons in the -recent World war. - rrsT-vrr en . ; Admission ! Fee Menace to Golf Practice ' .4 - . .:.,.-..:.'". . IS GOLF likely to become a commerclal 1 lzed amusement In America? asks the New; York Post. j ;.", j ' ;! -1 1 This question was propounded among a .coterie of mid-western golfers during a 'discussion of the recent decision of the ! United' States Golf association to charge admission to Us championship tournaments and the exhibition tours of leading professionals. Th4 majority of the golfers felt that there was little like lihood : of such an eventuality, because of the nature of the game. Others held that, despite the jact spectators had to wane miles and fight for points of vant age to see the plays,' the marvelous growth of golf in America might lead to placing the game in the eommsxclal class.- ; j, - j ' J - -. . s . -j- PROS REAP HARVEST I i ! i Professionals of the highest type make enormous sums by : playina for the edification ' of buffers throughout the country; and . Joe Klrkwood. the Aus-Litle trauan trick - golfer, ' is : said to have earned a fortune last year by exhibit ing -his wlaardry. ' , ! -: - -1 ! Privately-owned golf links which are let out to all. comers for a fee have proved successful,, the Harlem club In Chicago having made such a large profit that several similar enterprises are un der way. the promoter feeling that they cab made as good returns on the-Investment as In the baseball or the theatrical business. Even the public links in Chi cago with a nominal fee make a profit, so numerous and persistent are the play era j .--k v ; t .". - '" --j While the charge for' admission to tournament play- Is Intended to keep down the galleries, the Income will be profit, and it la said that tn addition to taking - exhibition players about the country certain promoters have in view the scheme of staging full-fledged tour naments to which i admission will to charged. i i GET BIG PRICK "' ! The tours of BritIahprofessIonals, who made aa much as 1300 a day each. Started the idea; of the exhibition play ers, and the tremendous sum that could be collected from : golf enthusiasts was demonstrated during the war, when " the Red Cress exhibitions, ' instituted by t-Cica Mrvana, brought a shower of gold, one foursome at Lake Shore "Golf club. Chicago,, running the receipts up to six figures. And yet the spectators at a golf match i work marder," walk further; and contend more- actively than the players tnemsetvea Young Golfers to i I Get Gliance in Penn. i Pittsburg, Pa, May 10. TL P.) A flock Nef . young, golfers will spring up here a a result of the decision- of the Western Pennsylvania Golf association to) develop caddies and ambitious Junior pteyersii:-;j!--i;vT' Ja previo yearsyoung golfers were barred from competitive m", bujt the new ruling is designed to give yourf& players encouragemen' and serve a an incentive to develop their game. - The new ruling permits junior players to take part in ail matches conducted under the auspices of the .organisation, and also makes them eligible for places on the teams in league matches. ' ''. . : The United States G-olf association has ; always encouraged youngsters and It Will be remembered that Bobby Jones mane nis debut; in the national cham pionships when I he'iwas .,: li-years old. Dave Herron. former amateur champions played , in hte first national tournameat tn ; Detroit when pnly IS years old. - i matter of debate. One thing fcr very evident. The FngUsh team win com to the United States fully determined to try to a get s satisfaction for the beatteg which was given to the golfers of Great Britain when the United State players won to 1921. There win be no effort lost i to play golf of a type which will make It necessary for the United State team to extend itself, if it never ex tended Itself before. V; -r;," : It Is saidV that Miss Glenn Collett. after her season of. golf in the , United States to l22, may try for the British championship for-: women in 1923. . She will - devote herself . this season to, the Improvement of her gam In every way and hopes to be so much better by the eod of the year that she-wiU b eos Sidered fit to undertake the task of trying for a foreisn -""T'XJr"?';''lv Engli'sU Girl Looks Like a Coming' (ainp -; " By loan B. Pester ' ' j (Copyright 1023. by The Jnvrael) 1 AS MISS GLENNA COLLETT la oount- ii d a future championship possibility In tha United States. SO Is Miss Muriel WIckendea of England looked upon tn that country as a possible successor some day to Miss Cecil Leltch. Miss Wlcken don played In the girls championship at Stoke Poges last year.; and while she did not win. her style and .her freedom of execution were looked upon most far vorably by the critics who Watched her play. - t . As Miss Wlckeadon is not: yet It she will very . Ukely compete agate in , the Engllah , girls championship this year, and there are many who think that, this time the cue may zau to nerjoi. .- has BRirnrG- power 3 i-H- , Xa eommentiog upon the ptay of Miss Cecil Ieitch, H. H iiUton caus attenuon to the fact that her greatest asset is her physical power. He says 'that she may not be described as the most com plete or the most finished woman golfer In the world, but undoubtedly is the most successful woman golfer. There have been' others who nave hinted at sueh a thing-now and then, but none has come forward so frankly as he in ascribing to Miss Lietch one reason for: her: splendid success. ; She Is not afraid to put all ol her strenth Into her drive, and accuracy helps her to get distance because she plays her long shots remarkably well considering that ahe la not; afraid to take full swing, at tnem. Many players are more content to play for accuracy than ; they are for distance. Many, indeed, are unwilling to go in for distance, because the moment mat xney cut loose with all the strength that they possess they begin to slice, or pull, or both, and lose more by blunder than they rain by their occasional distance. . It Is Miss Lei ten's accuracy, combined with her distance and power, that makes It so hard for: other women! golfers to defeat her. - There may be longer drivers among the women, but they are xhesi tant -about taking up their shots With the abandon with which Hiss -Leltch makes her drives. ji STAB? TO CDatPBTB . ' : Fred jjDouglas - of New, Zealand may play in the Urttlaa open tnis year ana with others who . have : signified from foreign countries their possibility y of going to England, the championship of 1922 may be the most cosmopolitan tn the: history of Great Britain's golf. ; It would appear that the clans are likely to gather from all over to try to wrest the title from Jock Hutchison when he starts to defend It- - ' I " - - - Sfl a:,. ; M' ISS ALEXA snRLINOv' the former women's national golf, champion who was dethroned last year by Miss Marlon HoUlns, will play for North Hempstead C C of Port -.Washington N. Y.) this year. 1 1 1- Kansas. City (Mo.) is planning several additional nine-hole golf courses under supervision of r the municipal authorities- Kr -r -VrS. : . Mifh-m Rutgers college has added golf to Its athletic activities. ( . ij , , , t, Joe Novak, professional of the Spokane Country dub, will enter the national open championship to be staged over the Skokle Country club In July, .- -i- - tM ..Hi J MSA 'M-- Red Bluff, CaL, has started to build an lt-hols golf course. ;! i ' I .) - - - ,i i-. . ; ' i ... ' Sl'K i. ' . -PTank Tatum won the championship of the "Annandale Country dub by fa ef eating Fred LeBlond Jrv 6 ana , la a Ss-hol match.- 1 f. -. &"&: The ewnnTf city championship tourna ment of San Francisco willi be staged over the Lincoln Park, course, beginning May 1. May: 19 and 20 have been set aside as qualifying dates. ii ,- , J i ii " el ;if Mrs. C. S. Sweeney, formerly Violet Pooler, won the British Columbia Wom en's golf championship recently by de feating Mrs. Patterson of Oak Bay club of Victoria, 7 up and 6. The victory was the sixth straight for Mrs. Sweeney In the championship event. Chicago women golfers have organised a league of public-link players to hold an inter-club tournament this year. Over 100 women are expected to enter In the dty tourney to be staged this summer; s When the price la made high enough you ' can't keep them oat. for, towlt: It costs $1000 to acquire one; of the. 400 stock ' membership - certificates - In v the Women's National Golf and Tennla cjub at Glen Head, Long Island. J . It la ex chisively for women. Only few cer tificates remain In the treasury.,' - i Hutchinson May ;Tet Defend Open Crown The American' representation In the British ' golf tournaments tb!s year ' Is unusually light, : though v. 'there i Is sufficient .to enlist a number of for midable professionals for the open tour nament at Sandwich. June 19 to 23. Wal tor Hagen; Western open champion and champion of the professionala, is ex pected te safl late this month with Jim Barnes, who has Just mad Up his mind to compete with . the. Britona Jock Hutohinson also may be persuaded to go to England, it la understood, as he left his friends understanding tnat ne was willing to defend his title of British epen champion, provided ether American players went along. . . . Four Teams to Play ' - For Coos Co. Title '"l i ij - . Bandon, Or - May 20-Tbe race for the 123 baeebell championship of Coos county will be started Sunday, June 11. Four teams, Bandon, . Marahfleld, North Bend and Coqullle, make up the circuit of which O. W. Biggs of Marahfield Is the presidents Games will be played en Sundays ' only, -the holidays 'being left opes so that the squads can bring Port land aggregations ta their own lot or Show How Axwortiiy Appeared in Action Visitors to the Antricaa Museum of Natural History in New York city will soon see the skeleton of TLee Axworthy, 1 :S8, the first trotting staElon to beat 1 minutes. , beside i- that of Sysonby. in the exhibit illustrating; the evolution of th horse. - Uke- that of the great run ner, his bones are being placed te show his position at fall speed. . : t ' Many Ball Tossers Play Golf Pastime Keeps Fans From Park i'M' By Joka B, Poster "t" - 7 tGetnrtehlt, JS2S. by TtMr Joonal) - -6CT7 YOU ball player don't keep them .X golf bags out of sight, by and by you will be sticking on the farm cutting eordwood Instead of traveling around at tha exnense of the boss. said a rough- and-ready attach of one of the major league clubs to its players wane toe team was on the : training - trip this spring. Tou'r adyertislng the game tharwin give baseball Its hardest knock one of these days. When the west gets built up with golf, and golf league, as It Is bound to be. you and your baseball leagued won't be deuc high. . MORE GOLFERS COMHf O UP " Tolk are beginning to find out that they can play golf themselves. They don't have to stick around in ,the cold and watch a lot of men who are draw ing 15000 a year and more play a game for - them, and When . it comes, down it cases, there Isn't a man in the country but would rather get out and play F a gam himself than have somebody else show off for him. I ain't sayinV there won't be any baseball. That's nonsense, but X am sayln there 1 going to be a lot mora golf than there ha been, and when these other folks upon whom you depend for your dough - see : you gofn around with a meal sack of these here golf clubs, they begin to. think that you don't think a whole lot of- your own game. U You took like you're ready ito take un the other fellow. . If you" get me, you'll see that you're nothln but walkia' not to go to baseball, but to go Out to the links and try an Inn In' over the .coarse.' - " .1 U3CDEB BAST OX 80MS CLUBS - ; More rolf was nlayed by ball players the past spring than there has ever been. Of course, jocwrsw was cos, an Is Intensely Jealous of baseball, because falsi Interests lie la baseball to the ex clusion of almost anything elsai His money comes as he develops buslnesa He plays golf himself occasionally and enjoys going over th links, if they are not too hlUy. - v-'. - .L ( ..The Cubs play golr a lot. and o do th4 PHtsburghera Th manager of the Ki, Va, An oralf because liTm wr devotlnr more thought to it than they were to baseball. They Golfers Plan to J Organize a State Golf Assn. in July MOVE advocated by Th Jonrnal XX several years ago that ox lorming the! Oregon State Golf association will be jmade during the Oregon State cham pionship' tournament oa th Tualatin Country olub links July tt. 12, 14 and JS. With the numerous club in th state of jOregon, It ! Is believed that a state association can do much to adopt rules for th staging of th state champion ship event and team snatches. This year win be the first direct at tempt to organize a state association and a number of the prominent players of Portland are In favor of the organ ization. , - Tualatin Country club officials, are expecting a ; big entry in this - years event. i ' ' f Under the supervision of th . club's green keeper, : the course Is being kept up i la' tip top shape. .-- The excellent drainage facilities of the conns, kept tt in wonderful condition during the rainy spring season, : I ALLKY GOLF TEAMS TO PLAT! : Corvallis, May 20. The second lap of thai TH-Clty golf tournament will be played at the Country Club grounds Sunday, v Player frora Salem and Eugene will compete with the Corvallis team on the local golf course and dinner will '.be served the visitors at the club house, 1 Thirty-two players and a num ber ot visitors will be her .for the game. I ' ; , ' 'v-r.- .4- realization Broadway at .WELEST; gosJi&ty tUZO Tostriaf. 1379 Ctmp$1M13 ' Codan, too. Thev thouc-ht thev knew bow to play baseball, so they 'discussed golf 'an of, th tim. T s-.j Rath la a golf hound. V When he is not exercising tn any- other way, he is out on om course - with a 1 driver in his hand. Ruth likes -olf because he can drive th bail. Of course, he has to putt the baiuto get it out of th way now and then, but Ruth's - Idea of a golf course would be holes separated by S000 yards so that be could devote most of hi time to getting in good whacks at am .swuBer..or,..'uf--i-"i-4;.1ij;....- vk. SETKB Gint THOUGHT ' Som of th. Giants play golf In the winter time and In the fall;, even If the gam Is taboo tn the summer. Of these who play on that team the westerners are th best. : The Brooklyn play golf. and on 'of the principal varieties of the game; la Unci. Robbie, who not only likes: to hit the ball because he wa a .300 hitter when he was a ball player. but he likes th exercise which .tends to keen down a tendency ; to take on avoirdupois. 1 Robbie has a steady fight with his embonpoint. n' The 'Chicasno ... Box have f some good golfers, and so hav th Bostons, but the latter do not play much golf In th summer: season owing to the dis tance of most ef the courses from ; the ball grounds, and In addition to that, the Bostons are kept pretty busy with morn ing a practice and -Sunday game when they are on the road. -,.' -: The ball -players believe that a great deal of th rolf which IS played in j the United State Is ? played by men of wealth. - They ar prettyjf well , toi do themselves, and they think that It te too costly a game for the common man. so they never hav worried much about the fact that It might detract from 1 the attendance at ban games, but there . are those who have given the subject close study i who .begin to believe that 1 the middle west Is roing to become the great golfing center ot th world, r When that happens, they say league games tor gon championship win be Just as attractive and more so to th general run of men because they can compete In the games themselves and won't have to sit on the I hard side of bleachers at a per capita which is not so cheap as It might be. WaverleyPlay;er f T Makes 2 Holes in 1 John Napier of th Waverley Conntry club made two holes-ln-on Within three days playing over the municipal course la San Franolseo. TU I ..j Mayhap. John la trying; to get up a Tep to win him a place oa the Darls cup team that will represent! the Waver ley Country club In the Pacific North west championship tournament at Vie torla next month. Waverley Club To Have Starter To Speed Up Play '-"UX ... tt - ' i 'Tn order to avoid eesgettloa at Ue first tee ea Satardays, Saadays and holidays aad to start tee players off at regular latervais, officials of ye Waverley i slab, aav eagaged ..a tarter, x.,.v xrljt ,. . Sersral of the elsbs the PacIfJ eeast as th startlag tyitem aad flad It -helpful la handling the large nam. er of members whe play darlag the week-ends aad ea the holidays. - The plan is sbaflar'to tee on need a tears anasts, players being started every three or foar mlaates, Jodglsg from the gait set by the players whv precede them tf tke toe; Players can de a lot to avoid eosgettloa by walking smartly between the holes. Like the Unexpected of a wish which has never , encouraged into a definite hope, is the appear ' ance of a. fine car with a Knighl-type motor at $ 1 3 75 ! Few ever expected to see . this amazing motor in a worthy car at ' so ! low a price- The Will IGiitcar--well bred, well made, well behaved, r gentle tb its occupants.- . With ; Willys-Knight I Motor the highest development of the Knight sleeve-valve principle quiet, dignified, proud; : untroubled, and like a good friendship, improv er, with use. . s-'y ;; j ! - I -A r Willys Overland Pacific Gjmpahy , r ; FRANK C RIGGS, Blanager ; ! Davis streets. . Broadway 3535. . Americans to Play on: Fine British Linlci la imal Kicttar-Je, one ol the bMt Isooa "rt la mt Uritoia. bu trnuM 4 rr" , - rmtwicKa ott muu :-''':'KLi't,?ir rael Richard , " '': '.f :.;. -.r!' iWea Kmomm MAtua OoU JUptft. : ' !?j )' ; rwitttea. tor tatted nb) ; r . E T ONDON. I May 30. American goiters jut wno piey in tn : British amateur championship, which begins at Presto wick. May 22. will make the acquaint anc with on of th most historic clubs ' and courses of Great; Britain. - ,Fj Among th amateur player from the United; States will be Chapman, Parsons, Dixon land Anderson. U They will find the Prestwick course sufficiently full of difficulties to test their skill te the ut .!; j.k;,.--i v;- 1 :-1 j-"'-.--I :U ' Golf had been- played tn Prestwick In a desultory! way many years before la group of the playee formed th club In 1851. The links ar beautifully situated on the Ayrshire coast, three mile north of Ayr, and S7 mile south of Glasgow, white the whole neighborhood la included in th pilgrimage of th worshippers of Burn. r, , j" :, . All. GOLF THK&B y . ! f .From the summit of the irange of sand hills, known locally a th Himalaya, the golfers can see Ailaa Craig to th southwest, end the glorious Kymes pf Bute to th nprthard,t';Mi J-;5 ( f.J; Prestwick! holds, la the west f Scot land, the position held by St. Andrews tn the east; and amateurs will find jit offers a most exacting test. Its members originated the open golf championship when. In i860, they offered the challenge belt for competition. Tom Morris, the great i goir i professional, whe . won the belt outright ten years' later, learned hie game on' Prestwick' links, where he was green keeper.' Prestwick Is given ever entirely: te golf, i there being no ether pastime or Industries there. - ' ., . J:: HAS, MAyf TRAPS : : . j ,j -. Its smooth putting greens and springy . turf . and the natural ; lay of the land make It Ideal golfing country. : Th great sand hills, bristling with dents, valleys. . and rushing bourn and th stone wall ' offer enough trouble to make th player' ! either curs the day he was born, or tell of phenomenal shot that drive his fellow members to drink. j r.) There r are preclpftou bunker-cllffg. ' high, sand hllla full of "traps thai- . lenge to the -player through the enttr . 444 yards of the course, ' f ' ; ! The course to th first hot Is closely bounded by a high wall running along the rallwayi A high slice will put the player's ball on the track and if a train i happened tot be passing It would be car- j tied on to Troon, j ; j .. QBEXK8 SMAXX, '.,! There is a legend ef an economlo Scotchman, whoa ball thus landed In; car. He hurried back to the clubhouse and kslephoned th statfon master at Troon to send th ball back on th next train. -I'j'i . 4--1 - The second Is an easy three, but ithe third hole 1 protected by the "Cardinal s nob.", a bunker lined with thick timber, and so fatal In case of a bad shot that , golf era hav ruined many a good score digging out.' On player digging away his niblick was asked how many shots h had taken. : - S j--- T don't know," replied th suffetef. wearily, "bnt I went Into this place kt half past eleven and It Is now ton min utes of twelve. Ton can figure it out yourself." i -' -.'- -' . -I ) The greens r -comparatively smalt so that shots must be played well i up to the pin to escape bunkers or rough around the greens, y f , i ! ., The New Jersey Police Baseball league Is made up of eight teams la Newark and adjacent towns. ( - . I i- even been $2095 r.O.ZX Toledo I .:'t
