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WORLD'S CHAMPION LINKSMAN WINDS UP WASHINGTON'S MOST PROSPEROUS SEASON
SARAZEN PUTS
?FINAL TOUCH
I ON GOLF YEAR
Washington Experiences Its
Most Brilliant Season, Last
ing from April to December.
/",??? SARAZEN, world's cham
? T pion ?T?lier, at the instance of
y The Sporting Herald, brought
He year to a close in a most im
pressive and brilliant manner on
t he East Potomac Park golf course
iif a mid-December exhibition. The
eHampion produced a great climax
ta Washington's most productive
season. It is a strange coincidence
t hat Sarazen should end the season
and that Jock Hutchison, who is
paired with Sarazen on a tour west,
h ou Id have opened it.
Jock Hutchison early in April
wj>n the Columbia pro tournament
aad started off Washington's
greatest and biggest golfing year.
Johnny Farrell. the young Quaker
Ridge star, waa second. Hutchison
sdored 295 for 72 holes, which
waa better than he did in the
national open here in 1921 and but
phenomenal acore.
?In the firat tournament at the
ala, atrokes worse than Barnes'
Washington Oolf and Country
OTUb Donald Woodward, of Co
lumbia, defeated Herald Russell,
of England, in the final 2 up. The
Chevy Chase affair was annexed by I
the Canadian veteran, Oeorge S.
T.yon. while second honors went to |
Marshall Whltlatch. ?f the home
cliib.
MADE HISTORY.'
?Miller B. Stevlson made golfing
history at Columbia by annexing
that Wardman trophy. He defeated
Chris J. Dunphy, of Columbia, quite
handily in the final in the rain.
Later Dunphy came into his own {
by annexing the District champion- j
?hip at Columbia.
.Donald Woodward was runner- !
up to Tom Scaeser. of Maryland, I
y at:: Wilmington. In the Middle At-j
lahtlc championship tournament.
The women's championship was
taken by Mrs. L. O. Cameron, at
Chevy Chase. The Columbia
Country Club won the Middle At
laatic team title match played ut
Columbia in hollow fashion. J
Charles N. Agnew, Jr., took the
Diatrict public park champions'
championship from William Prend
aba? after going 1? holes.
The year was marked by some
exceptionally brilliant golf on the
paft Of the professional?- who ,
played here. Among the visitors
w?re Hagen. Kirkwood. S*razen.
Mitchell, Duncan and Farrell.
Of chief interest among local
golfers I? the fact that several of
'he older clubs were completely
reorganized during the year and
that ?eventi new clubs opened.
HAVE NEW COURSES.
? Indian Spring, the Congressional
Country Club, the Town and Coun
try Club, a revived Washington
Country Club course, an improved
Ch?vy Chase links and the new
Argyle Club, came into prominence
during the big advance made last
season.
Rationally the game took leaps
?no bounds It la a matter of his
torjy how Sarazen won the open
championship, the P. O. A. title,
the Southern honor ant] the un
official world's championship.
A list of champions of national
?cape follow:
Rational open?Gene Sarazen.
Tork.
National amateur ? Jesse W.
Swieetser. New York.
??rational women'??Miss Qlenna
Coliett, Providence.
Professional golfer??Gene Sara
zen. New York.
Intercollegiate?A. Pollock Boyd,
Dartmouth.
Intercollegiate team?Princeton.
Weatern amateur?Chick Evans.
Chicago.
Southern amateur?Bobby Jones,
Atlanta.
Southern open ? Gene Sarazen,
New York.
Western open?Mike Brady, De
troit.
Metropolitan amateur?Jesse W.
Sweetaer, Slwaney.
Metropolitan open ? Marty
O'laoughlln, Plainfield.
Metropolitan women's?Miss Al
?xa Stirling. New York.
Rastern women'??Miss Glenn?
Toilet, Providence.
CHAMPS' FALL
MARKS YEAR
ON GRIDIRON
fOontlnued from First Sport P?*e.)
Southern by a ?core of only 3 to 0,
but gained little or no glory in the
victory. Southern outplayed the
t hen champion Indians from start to
finish and got within a yard of a
touchdown
No team worked It? way to within
-Southern'? 25-yard line all season.
It?, opponent?, however, were not up
to the general standard of the Mo
hawk? and Mercury?.
KNICKERBOCKERS FAIL.
"fbe Knickerbocker club played
tha Mohawks a scoreless tie and
won aome fine victories, hut literal
ly killed Ita chance of winning the
? hamplonship by failing to meet
Mercury. The Southwest club cut
off, ?II relations with the Knicker
bockers, charging that the latter
rraiwled out of a scheduled contest
with Mercury In order to enter
their game with the Mohawks with
? ??cord clear of defeat.
Georgetown A. C , with ?n -leven
coached by Jack Hegarty. fbeurrd
prominently in the chnmuionchlp
struggle. Hegarty'? men held the
Mohawk? to a ?c?rele?? tie and
'lien lost to Mercury. I .a tei the
Mohawk? were played a second
? ?am? and the Indians won de
cisively.
So much for the unlimited class.
Th? middleweight and light eight
lasses ?re ?till fighting It out for
Ule?. The Mohawk Prep? and the
Stantons will play today ?t 1'nion
Park In what they term a cham
plrinshlp serie?. 1??? Sunday the
vfdhawks trimmed Ihe Kanswha*
in the middleweight class sud to
day'? game I? ?uppoard to decide
the title ?
ATHLETES WHO WILL TRY TO HOLD ON TO TITLES DURING THE YEAR
ii m ?*# ? im
?""\?
At the top, left to right, are Willie Hoppe, who regained hin laurels as champion billiartilrt:
Harrison Thompson, national amateur all-around champion; Walter Hoover, who won the world's
sculling title on the Thames; Jack Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion. The three tennis
stars are Molla Bjursted, American tennis champion; William T. Tilden, most brilliant of all
court sta?* and holder of the American singles championship; Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, who for the
past three years ha< held her crown as world's champion woman tennis player. The small insert
at the left ia of Mickey Walker, who toppled the ancient Jack Britton from the welterweight
throne. In the center is Benny Leonard, champion lightweight. At the right is Strangler Lewie,
champion wrestler.
SARAZEN TELLS HOW "HUTCH"
TAUGHT HIM TO USE BACKSPIN
Champion's Own Story of His Rise From Caddy to
Title-Holder Reveals Experiences at Toledo Tour
nament, Where Playing Safe Cost Him At Least
Two Strokes.
By GENE SARAZEN.
(From Caddie to Champion.)
REVIEWING my experiences in the national championship at
Toledo?which was the first national meeting I had ever
played in. 1 recall several instances where I might have
bettered my score.
I remember distinctly how 1 took a five on the eighteenth hole
on the first round where?had 1 been less timid or more bolder,
whichever you prefer, I might well have had an easy four possibly
a three.
The eighteenth hole at Inverness in a par four hole resting
in a sort of valley. A good drive enables one to get home nicely
with a mid-iron. - I think some champion did the trick with a
mashie iron.
The green is a plateau surround-^
ed by traps. N'aturally if you don't |
get on you are likely to catch the
trap. Many of the boys crept up on
the hole, so to speak, preferring to
take the safe route rather than
miss the green.
That IS what 1 did, after getting
a fine drive. Afterwards I thought
of how foolish that was. Short of
the green in two, I had to lay mv
chip shot dead?which I didn't do.
What is more, the percentage is
against you on getting the chip
dead y
I took a five for the hole. Had
I hanged away for the pin, assum
ing that 1 would have played the
?hot properly I would have been
putting for a three and would
probably have got a four at least.
Those little savings all count in the
aggregate?don't mistake that.
Of course a man possessing a
wonderful back-spin shot like Hutch
ison's has a big advantage on this
type of hole. He can always play
boldly to the flag. But every good
player Is able to play a hack-spin
shot to a certain extent. If he
can't he'd better learn if her ever
ixpects to win a big tournament.
Harnes, Hagen. Brady, McLeod.
Farrell, Kerrigan and others all find
use for this shot during some part
of tournament.
DITMI.s OF ??G?????.
I copied m.v? back-spin or "atop
pum" shot fi mi the famous Hutch
ison. He is easily the master of
this stroke. There isn't a man In
the world who has the control over
this spectacular shot ? hat Hutchln
son has. It was ut Toledo, In fact,
that 1 set out to learn Lhe stroke.
Hutchison's daring wan so Im
pressive I felt that I must learn
the ?hot immediately if I wanted
to be?bme champion. Von will re
call iliMi Hutchison led the qualify
ing round at Toledo?he seems to
always near the tup and that he
finished one stroke behind Ihe lead
er. Ted Bay. in the championship
proper. Had the peppery .Scot been
putting at all during that, tojirna.
ment he would have walked off
with the cup.
It was his hack-spin or "spade"
shot as he calls his mashlenlblick
that kept him with the leaders.
Sometimes he dropped the ball dead
so close to the pin that he had
only to walk up and tap It into
the tin.
I marceled at his wizardry in this
reapect, and after finishing my
third round?I was considerably In
advance of the Hutch?I went out
to watch him and to learn, if
possible, how he made th* stroke.
1 noticed, first of all. that Jock
took an open stance with the right
foot well forward. I noticed also
that he addressed the ball, had the
right foot rather than the left al
most opposite, in fact: that he kept
his hands far down snd that he
stood well over the ball. Ills hack
spin on this shot Is short and crisp
?the hands do not go hack much
further than the knee. He hits the
ball a sharp blow, catching it on
the downward swing.
I remember when I first tried
it took a chunk Of soil as deep and
as wide as my foot. I hastily re
placed the turf and looked around
to see If anybody had delected me.
T* worked hard on the shot with
out obtaining any really satisfac
tory results, so in meeting Hutch
ison st a tournament one day I
aiiid, "Jock."' how do you get so
much back-spin on the ball."
( lili h EVANS' SWING.
Hutchison, ever ready to help a
young fellow, said, "Let me see
how you play It."
After I had made my shot he
said. "You've got to catch the hall
with the club-head before It hits
the turf. You'll, have to keep your
eye glued right on that pill and
you'll have to be -careful noi to
cut the ball too much or you'll
have no ball for your next ?hot.
Oo Into the shot HARD with the
left arm very 8TIEF. But make
aure to hit the ball before the club
head strikes the ground; then you
pan let th? club-head axil right
through. But hold the club finn
all the time."
That was the big point I was
after?how to hit the ball?and
ufterwards I practiced for hour?
trying to hit the hall before the
club-head struck the ground. Even
tually I got control of this difficult1
stroke, although I don't liegin to
make the ball hop like Hutchison
doe?. That lad Is uncanny with his
spade.
I watched some of the othe<
stars in the tournament at Toledo'
who were near my size. I paid,
especial attention to "Chick" Evans
and the manner in which he plays
his iron shots. Nobody can control
a mid-iron or a masille iron shot
better than "Chick."
I noticed that he always had a
firm grip of the club?that is very
essential. Also that he held his
body perfectly still and allowed the
arm? to do all of the work. That
his pivoting, what little he does. Is
rhythmical and In perfect co-ordina
tion with the back swing.
Rut the chief reason for hi?
superb control and direction of the
Iron? is due to his three-quarter
swing.
With that kind of swing there is
never ?ny danger of slopping over,
of having the club wabble, or Of I
having the co-ordination of the
arms and body upset ? van?, with
a three-quarter swing, is able
always, to hit the hall a firm and
true blow.
W v. < III l> BOBBY JONES.
I also watched Bobby Jones. His
firm manner of playing iron shots
waa also impressive. 1 ' could not
help but note how firmly all of
these stars, Hutchison. Hagan,
Evans and Jone? played their iron
?hot?. Firmness is the key-note of
a successful Iron or inastile shot
and to obtain thts firmness one must
remember always to keep the left
arm straight and rigid.
Jones hart a way of dipping his
right shoulder on his inastile shots
which I liked und which I applied
to my own etroke. In that way
he gets power Into the shot. He
also throws his right hip into the
swing at the right moment which
Is just before the club-head comes
in contact with the ball. HI? whole
manner in hitting a mastite shot
denotes firmness anil power. A good
etroke to copy.
Leo DiegeL. who ir. my size, wae
going great guns at Toledo, but
Leo's form did not impress me
greatly because It is or was unique,
lie has changed his swing some
what since then. However, Leo
still has an unorthodox swing, and
while he get? remarkable resulta
and Is one of the best golfers in
the world, I wouldn't advise others
to try and imitate my good friend
too closely.
To begin with, Leo bas a peculiar
habit of addressing his club lust
behind the ball, of twisting his hotly
In an odd manner and of'bringing
his club hack along the outside line.
He hits the ball well enough and In
medal or match play he I? a tough
opponent. But I feel that I^o I?
a great golfer more because of hi?
wonderful heart and will power
than because of hi? golf ?wing.
4<T.Dyil(BM. ?J::. Ball sawdlcatavlac^a
CAPITAL FANS
HANDED STIFF
JOLT BY FATE
Milan and 1922 Griff men Prove
Unexpected Failure From Be
ginning to End.
(Continued frOW First St>ort Page.?
expected, went to Minneapolis and
deacon to Columbus.
As the warm weather approached,
Johnson and Moriidge began pitch
ing fair hail and the team l?egan
to climb a bit. In some strange
fashion the gane got moving and
slowly and painfully crept Into
the first division. For a day or so
they were in third place. Then
came their atrocious slide back
Into seventh place from which they
escaped in time to finish sixth.
The bright thing? about the
1922 Orlffmen were to he seen.
Ooslin, after two unfortunate
starts, each ending in an accident,
got under way and finished the
best batsman on the hall club,
averaging .324. Ray Francis and
young Brlllhesrt pitched some
cleaver baS<*V>tftl|. Handicapped by
illness. Morgrldge proved himself
the best lefthander in Ihe league
once more, winning eighteen victor
tea.
The Immediate future of the team
is pu/zllng. Donle Bush, utility
inflclder last year, has succeeded
Milan as manager. President Grif
fith has purchased a large number
of youngsters froni whom he ex
pects many good things. He ex
pected the same last year at this
time.
However, though Washington and
Boston \vure grievlously disappoint
ed by their haseball teams, there
was joy in many places, notably in
New York where both pennants will
fly next season and In Philadelphia
where the Mackmen, for the first
lime in eight yetars, crawled out
of the cellar, leaving that for the
Boston Red 8ox.
YANKKES FALL DOWN.
The New Yorke Yankees, enter
ing the world s?ri?e a big favorite
to win from the filants, proved a
terrible bust. They succeeded in
ttelng one game, but they never
took one victory. It was a wonder
ful triumph for a hall team over
several assorted athlete*.
Babe Ruth, like his club, was
a miserable failure in the series.
He made a fitting finish of a poor
year. He promises to he a better
boy in Ihe coming year.
Roger Hornshy, of the 8t lunula
Csrdlna's. had the home run rec
ord with forty-two circuit -drives.
His batting average of .401 was the
highest since Kd Delehanty had hit
for .408 in 1S99.
Oeotge Sisler led the Amerlcsn
League with a batting average of
.419 and established a new consecu
tive hitting record for forty-one
games.
Ed Rommel, with the seventh
place Mackmen. won twenty-seven
came?, a remarkable placa ?f work.
Six Lands Named
On Ohio State
Soccer Team.
OHIO STATE UNIVERS
ITY has a team of in
tramural soccer champions
who swear allegiance to no
leen than six countries. To
demonstrate the variety of
colors they doff their head
pieces to the players have
termed tehmeelvee the Rain
bows. The fifteen men on
the squad include eight Ar
gentinians, two Yankees,
two Colombians, one French
man, one Rumanian and a
Bol i v*an.
Twi'-e he won two games in a single
day.
SCOTT'S LONG Rl'N.
Everett Scott boosted his total io
986 games for consecutive appear
ance, lie has not missed a game
since July 20. 1016
Ken Williams, of the Browns, set
two Amenes ? League records when
he crashed two home runs in a
single inning and collected three
homers In a single game.
Charlie Robertson, with the White
Sox. pitched a no-hit, ro-man-reach
first game against the Tigers.
The Browns made a great fight
for the American League pennant,
leading -the race for many weeks.
However, their small pitching staff
cracked in the pinch, and the Yanka
just barely won, though a heavy
favorite all year. At varloua times
the White Sox and the Tigers
threatened to make trouble for the
two leaders, but they lacked the
strength to maintain the pace.
The Curdlnals promised to give
battle to the Giants, but injurie?
and Illness, together with the fail
ure of the pitching staff, caused
them to stub their toes, and they
finished In the ruck. The Pirate?
and CubH, at other times, looked
as though either might win, but
the Giants managed to win with a
wobbly pitching staff in the last
few weeks of the race. The Cin
cinnati Reds, with a fine rueh at
the clone of the campaign, finished
In second place.
EAGLES AGAIN~WIN.
The Anacostla Eagles triumphed
over the Lackey High School. Of In
dian Head, Md.. by a score of 2d to
I, in a game played on the latter'a
floor. . The guarding of the Eagles
was the outstanding feature of the
game, the school boys falling to reg
ister a field goal, their only score
being made from the free-toss Une.
The line-up and summary:
Essie? I.?rkey Hleh
? Mevef?.L. O.A. Nairn
W. Jamee.?. t>.O. Tolte?
M. Clara.t.. .C.. B. Knot
J Catieey . . L. F.t?, ?obey
M Merer?.?. 9.?*? ?rewner
?ubatimi >?me - t.l*??? *?? Caueey.
KleM ?nais H. Mayers Clark 14). Call
ee??. M Me??re 111. t.lseer (I), roule?
Malt? (II. U. Merer? (f). ?. saaaf?aa. 4??.
VIRGINIANS
DON WAR TOGS
TO FIGHT CARP
Sportsmen of Old Dominion
State Determined to Eradi
cate the Leather Back.
By R. A. ANGLER.
WARFARE will be waged
against the carp, with
the understanding that
no armistice will be signed until
this destroyer of fish spawn and
aquatic plant life has been ex?
terminated from the waters of the
State of Virginia. Just how this
vast undertaking will be accom
plished is yet to be worked out.
But, according to Harry Ken
nedy, representative of th? Poto
mac Angler? Association to the
Virginia Game Wardens' Conven
tion, held at Richmond laat week,
the Virginians are determined to
rid themselves of the pest regard
lees of work snd expense.
It seem.? that the carp ap?ele?
are growing with rapidity In th?
Inland waters of th? Old Dominion
State and quick action muet be
taken or the game flah along with
other families of the finny tribes
will be wiped out.
During the spawning season the
mud rooters play havoc with the
eggs, devouring all within their
sight. Even the spawn of th?
fighting bass family fall aa prey
to this creature of the soft fina.
As we all know, the bass Is the
personification of valor at ?pawn*
Ing time and all ap?eles of the
deep have the greatest respect for
him. Nothing but the lo?? or
death of the egg? from low tem
perature, heavy deposita of sedi
ment or other adverse conditions
will muse him to abandon his nest.
The carp, aware of the gamester'?
fighting ability, having often felt
the sting of his knife like fins,
does not approach in the clear,
but muddies the water With his
huge tail, hiding the eggs from
view of the parent. Being unable
to locate hi? nest the baas movM
onward, leaving hi* treasure at th?
mercy of the intruder.
Aquatic plant Uf? has he*n
greatly reduced and especially in
the rhicka hominy dial riet, by th?
destructive work Of the carp. Th?
carp's characteristic habit Is to be
on the move, nosing In the mud
bed. rooting up vegetation.
Carp are in abundance In th?
Chi'-kshomlny district and a? on?
sportsman said, he haa ??an them
rooting Ilk? pig?, with their no??*
in the mud and their tall? sticking
out of the ?afar
Plant? play an Important part In
the purification of water, taking up
th? carbonic acid gas liberated by
decomposition snd exhaling th?
oxygen essential In living creature?
Thus they prevent th? asphyxiation
Of fish Ufa
Ba
SAYS -BUGS"
er:
THIS WAS NO
MAMMY SONG
The Glutt Drove Floorbumper
Into the Canvas Like
a Nail.
-rJL?
HAPPIEST fight net fought
during holiday season was
fifty merry round? be
tween The Glutt and Floor- ?
bumper Jonas.
Battle took placa in a chim
ney. The Glutt weighed two
hundred ?rifts In his Xmas stock
ings. Floorbumper waa the ter
ror of Macy's basement.
Floorbumper picked one off
the canvas and depositad it on
account right on The Glutt's ex
celsior beard.
"It's a gift," said Tha Glutt
So, he exchanged it.
Floorbumper kept right on
hanging decorations on Th?
Glutt's tree. The Glutt chased
the overworked letter carriers
out for some parcel-posted am
munition. He delivered some an
onymous congratulations on
Floorbumper's icebox inspector.
Floorbumper's nose swelled ?up
three ^izes larger. He know
there was a Santa Claus then.
Floorbumper banged The Glutt
on his chisel shaped chin anil
The Glutt started looking for
the mistletoe. It was on the
canvas.
The Glutt packed up his
southern chivalry and pasted
the quarantine sign on Floor
bumper's neck. His neck was
so long that he had to use resin
on it like a violinist to keep
his collar from sliding three
octaves too high.
Floorbumper started to look
under the ring to see where
Santa had hidden his presents.
He came back and took several
la savatee jabs at The Glutt,
who refused the poisoned
chocolates.
Floorbumper crashed The Glutt '
on his bridgework, and teeth
fluttered all over the arena.
Poor folks started grabbing
them in hopes that Austrian
rubles would rally. The Glutt '
forgot nobody.
Caravans of police rattled up
and saw The Glutt and Floor
bumper fighting. The cops had
orders to raid all stags during
holiday week.
Whan brought before Rough
town's only living magistrate.
The Glu? explained that the
police had interrupted a re
hearsal.
He told The Glutt to forget
his rough life and go home to
his mother who had been wait
ing for him for years.
"A good soldier never looks
back," said the Magistrate in
his best holiday adenoids.
"Neither does a good chauf
feur," said The Glutt as he
kissed a sudden sweetheart who
was forelady of the jury.
And se the poor little match
girl had a merry Xmas after
all.
Army Seeks $1,605,000
For Miami, Fit*., Harbor
Recommendation for improvement
of Miami Harbor, Fla., at a cost of
$1.?05.?00 for new work and $25.000
annually for maintenance i? con
tained in a preliminary report trans
mitted to Congre?? by the Kngi
neer Corps of th? army.
The plan contemplate? a channel
twenty-five feet deep at mean low
water. 500 feet wide from that
depth in the ocean to near the outer
end? of the Jetties, thence son f??t
wide through th? entrance, reduc
ing to 200 feet wide aero?? Biscay??
Bay and following the route of the
?slating municipal channel.
Allotment of $17.000 for maint?
nane? and improvement of St. An
drew? Bay. Florida, wa? announced.
CHUMS ARE JOINED.
Joe Keliey u to join the ?ceut
lng staff of the Whit? 8ox, joining
hi? old chum. Kid Oleason, now th?
Chicago manager.
PAYS FOR BENTLEY.
The very latest about Red Causey,
former Otant who has been re
leased by Indianapolis. I? that h?
?rill go to Baltimore aa part pay
ment by the Giant? for Jack Bent
ley.
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LOUS
DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEW?LIY
South Bad of Highway Brt?ge
LTS
Dorbiae
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