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10 D TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. OA, SUNDAY. M 4, 1013. GOLF III SOUTH IS FAR 0FHI1 Brooklyn’s ‘Big Four’; Manager and Players Who Are Relied Upon to Advance the Dodgers to First Division Berth in National League By Tick Tichenor. T HIS question no doubt has been aske< players nei In the Amateur United States? There Is but question and th are not yet in tl Is doubt has often y have Southern lade, any showingj mpionship of the answer to this that our players i«s of the North ern and Western golfers. If you | take the handicap list or the United States Golf Association of I those who are eligible to enter this] event you will readily see that this is a fact. On this list there are! four hundred and forty-two names. If you will examine it carefully you will And that of this number onl> twenty-five are Southern players Thus there are nearly twenty players from other parts of the country to one from the South. If ypu will look further you will] see that Nelson Whitney, of New i Orleans, is the only player from the | South ranked as good as four, while j there are twenty-four playe/s rated better than four and forty-four at this figure. There are one hundred and two players rated at five and of this number the South has six. Rated et six are one hundred and seventy- two men of which number eighteen are Southerners. Whitney Only Southerner. Thus it will be seen that in the first sixty-eight players as ranked by the U. S. G. A. Nelson Whitney Is the only one from the S. G. A. In the first one hundred and seventy players in addition to Nelson Whitney are found R. G. Hush, Jr.. F. G. Byrd, J, P. Edrington, N. A. Hattie, Ellis Knowles. W. P. Stewart. The other eighteen Southerners, hose names appear on this list and who are handicapped at six are George W. Adair, (.*. N. Aldridge. J. B. Bush. Douglas Gall, Leigh Carroll. R. H. Oonnerly. K. W. Daley. K. L. Dalglish, Charle.- Dexter, Jr., Bryan Heard, Lewis Jacoby, F. M. Lewis, r, H. Hunger, George C. Oliver. W. E. Stauffer. J. F. Turner, Milby Por ter, and the writer. In some way the name of Albert Schwartz, of New Orleans, has been omitted from the list. This is , very evidently an over night as he was included last year and is one pf the very best golfers in the South as he showed last year, when lie won the low score medal in the qualifying round of the Southern championship It is therefore easily seen that there are few players in the South who have much of a chance to quali fy In the amateur championship and therefore few of them care to make the attempt with such little chance ©f success attending their efforts. Only Two Have Qualified. Last year the South sent a team ef four to this event, three of whom bad been Southern Champions and one twice runner-up, and it was hop ed that some of them would at least qualify, but not a one of them did. Only twice, if my memory serves me right, have Southern players ever qualified in this event. In 1908 Nel son Whitne\ was successful and In .1910 Ellis Knowles was one of the elect. But no doubt you ask—why is it our playerd are inferior? If this condition exists what fire the rea sons which cause it to be so? 1 am of the opinion that there are Several answers to this question. In the first place the number of our players arc far smaller than in tlie East and West. In fact, if we exclude the winter resort courses, w hich are used practically entirely by players from other sections, you will find that there are only about a dozen eighteen-hole i ourses In th© South, while around Chicago alone there are more than this number In the next place we have not been | playing the game long enough. No* country or people can take up a new athletic game and ut once become proficient in it. It takes time to de velop golfers jbsl as it takes times in develop topnotch placers In any t/ther line of sport. Lack Professional Teaching. But it may be ergued that we have been playing golf in the South for ten years or more. This \n quite true but it has only been within the last fix years that the game has really become popular. Then too thosM who took up the game ten years ago had no opportunity to secure pro fessional coaching and they therefore fell into habits w hich have handicap ped them ever since. Most of the topnotch golfers of to-day began to play when they were kids, when their muscles were pliable and when it was easy for them to acquire a free and easy swing. Take the case of Nelson Whitney and Ellis Knowles, who are generally accepted as the best players in the South, and both of them began to play when they were in their teens. No where can better evidence be produced that it requires time to be come proficient in golf than in the case of the American professional, who until two years ago had prac tically no showing against the Scotch men. who had come to thin country to teach the game. But in the last two years the home-bred pro has come into his own and three of the team of four, which will represent America in the British open tourna ment as well as the French open are boys who learned the game on this side of the Atlantic. Our Courses Are Too Easy. Then there is another reason. Our courses are too easy. They are not properly trapped and there are too many parallel fairgreens. This gives the player an opportunity to make a really bad shot and suffer no penalty. We have not put a premium on di rection by having sufficient hazards to catch the player who is off the line with his shots. Take any course of any club, w is a member of the Southern Association, and see how many allel fairgreens then are on it see how many chances there are for a man to slice or pull his shot fa off the line to the hole and yet hav as good a chance to reach the greet a§ the player w ho was on the din « lin> to th hole. Think of the num Armor Boxing to Encourage Sport © © Q © © © 0 School Boys Can Engage in Bouts N EW YORK, May 3.—The latest thing in the boxing line ar mor protection. This novel ap pliance Is the invention of Guy Otis Brewster, Physical Director of the Dover (N. J.) Hlfch School, and is intended to protect boys and girls from injury nr difiguration when en gaged in a boxing contest. Six school boys from the Dover and Wharton High Schools gave a demonstration of armor boxing at the monthly en tertainment of the Physical Educa tion Department at Thompson’s Gym nasium, Teacher.”’ College of Colum bia University, which was witnessed by a number of men and women connected with the department. Parents of children have been strong in tehir opposition to box ing. Many young men have received several fatal, injuries when engaged in the sport. It was to remove this objection and demonstrate that under his method of conducting boxing con tests Mr. Brewster could entirely eliminate all possibility of accidents and restore the confidence of parents in the exercise. Land Many Hard Blows. In order to afford a prac tration of the efficiency o tector six school boys were to the spectators fully eq the competition which wa: on the round robin plan, boxing one minute with the boys. The entertainment la: half an hour. During that hard blows were delivered, boy suffered the slightest ience from the mauling It from his oppoients. Nor appear to be any chance of f his pro introduce nipped te did the injury r Th« smilii humo blows der s to los taliat ners. g fr< m the 1 the thei grea ' hoi er portion protects the heart, liver, and stomach, ending at the waist line. Felt pads are used where the protector comes into contact with the head or body in order to absorb the shock of the blow. The protector is fastened with strap and specially made clasps in order to prevent any pnrt of It being torn away or loosen ed from blows. It is set close to the body in order to afford perfect freedom of action for the shoulders and arms. Straps of webbing cross the top of tht* head, and in order to give greater security a wide band of webbing is brought under the chin, which helps to keep the headpiece firm and not interfere with the head movements. The straps of webbing hold the lower section of the protector close to the body. Object to Encourage Lads. In describing nis principle to the spectators after the exhibition Mr. Brewster said his obpect was to en courage boys and girls to take up box ing for the benefit of it,* exercise. His protector was designed to enable the youngsters to learn to box quicker, hit freely, and enter the friendly bouts without fear. He explained that there was no possibility of injury to the contestants, and very little shock, even from the hardest blows. It of fers opportunities to engage in a deal of exercise in the ^shortest possible time. Boxing, he said, should be encour aged to teach boys and girls self-con trol, discipline, tactics, and with the protector the fine points of the art could be acquired with all danger eliminated. The mask removes the sense of fighting and brutality and teaches the youngsters the co-ordina tion of striking hard blows and fear less defense. The rules governing box- Jake Daubert, the brilliant first baseman, is here pictured taking a wide throw. At the extreme left is shown Zach Wheat, the star left fielder. In the center panel is the gritty leader of the Dodgers, Bill Dah- len, and at the right is portrayed Nap Rucker, Brooklyn’s great southpaw pitcher. Daubert. Wheat and Rucker are all former Southern League per formers. protector follow mty-four-foot jdns and eight-ounce here shall be t each man sh ry other man in. Each roui minute and «a 11 consist of ijout they returned to theii still smiling, and rested me arrived for them to ei other bout. Protector in Two Parts. her pair mtinuou* of boxing, viz.; men on a team. ce w i t h pposing il shall consist of h man’s r<**>t period he time between bout four minutes. ation of the jening bell to the e couple leaves the liters and the box- The contestants the six cardinal toot work; ■t parrying ducking; 5. s; 6. self- All-Filipino Team On Way to America Foreigners Will Arrive in San Fran cisco About June 25—To Tour Country. ’M ANILA. P. May 3.—A crack ali- Filipino baseball team composed of fourteen of the fastest players in the Philippines, have left Manila, for a tour of Japan and the United States. The team expects to arrive at San Francisco about June 25. The aggre gation of athletes is under the man agement of Director Alejandro Al bert, Manager E. F. Willets and Ad vance Agent Arthur E. McCann. The program calls for about twelve games in Japan with the leading col leges. One game in Hawaii, en route, and about fifty games in the United States with class “C” and “D” league teams, the fastest semi-pros and col lege teams. The natives her* have made won derful strides in tin progress of tne national game and the managers of this team are confident that their boys w ill make a creditable show ing. Although the members of this team ar*' all Filipinos no two of them speak the same language, so they are obliged to speak in a tongue other than their own in order to carry on a conversa tion among themselves*. BOOE MAY SUPPLANT HOFFMAN. PITTSBURG. May 3— If AUie Hoffman, now covering center flei'i for the Pirates. ‘ falls off in his wark | Fred Clarke w ill supplant him witn ja youngster named Everett Booe, who is said to be a speed merchant and a corking good hitter. Smoky Ci*v critics seem to think that Booe w*U displace Hoffman before Decoration I Day. Sox-Giants World Tour Is Mapped Out Both Teams Complete Arrangements at Conference; Tourists Will Leave Chicago Oct. 14. NEW YORK, May 3.—The world's tour of the baseball teams represent ing the Giants and the White Sox was arranged this week at a conference between Manager John J. McGraw and a representative of Charles A. Comiskey, ow ner of the White Sox. The tourists will leave from Chi cago on October 14, and will plav through to the coast. Honolulu will be the first stop after the players embark on their long sea journ^v. The outfit will then p 1 its way to Japan, and will give exhibitions ia four of the biggest oitlep in the land of the slant-eyed inhabitants—T<tkio. Yokohama, Hakodate and another large city. Two games will be played in China, at Pekin and one in Hong Kong. Ma nila will be the next destination of the pilgrims, and then they will show the natives of India how the Ameri can game is played. Then will come a trip through Europe. Exhibition games will be played at the capitals of the various nations. The junket to Australia has been abandoned. The sojourn will consume four months, the players getting back to- the states in time to go South for spring training. They will have k o become acclimated again. GIANTS AFTER JAMES. NEW YORK, May 3.— McGraw. if the Giants, is said to have offered Ames. Crandall and Groh for Pitcher “Bill" James of The Boston Braves. But Boston intends keeping James, who looks like a real find. Operation Beat Wolgast-Naughton © o o © © o © Coghill Is New Australian Hope By W. W. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO, May 3.—As a rule there is little sympathy for a dethroned idol. For that mat ter the wildest tumult a boxing arena knows is that which arises when a titleholder is being humbled. And its all very human. A new king of the ring is welcomed with shouts and yells and pains of joy and a similar demonstration jars his eardrums when he is being counted out later in his career. No one wants to see a champion go on for ever. It can hardly be said, however that there was any gloating over the pas sing of Wolgast. There was a pa thetic angle to Ad Wolgast’s most recent showings, in fact. In his affair with Tommy Murphy, Wolgast’s actions from first to last were those of a fighter who recognized all too well that his old-time strength had dwindled and that it was necessary for him to make the best use Of what little was left. The Wolgast of a couple of years ago was a wasp. The Wolgast of April 19—in comparison—was a but terfly. He knew his physical limi tations and instead of cutting loose with his old-time abandon, he behav ed as though doubtful as to how far his condition would carry him. This means that he was an entire ly different Wolgast. Ad Keeps Own Courts-©!. Before the battle he kept his own counsel for obvious reasons. For one thing it would never do for a whis per that all was not well to reach the opposition camp. When it was all over. Ad told how dog tired he was. His right side—where the knife slit was made—felt as though the muscles were tightly drawn.. His right leg felt at times as though it would double under him. Wolgast went the entire distance on his grit, and this is no reflection on Tommy Murphy, who fought a heady, clever battle and who in the minds of Western sports, is the equal of any man in his class to-day. But Wolgast’s is a sad case. It was not really Ritchie or Murphy who relieved him* of his prestige. It was* the surgeon who operated on him. When they took out Ad’s appendix his championship came away with it. McVea Finds Ewers. Even as far as Australia the crash of a toppling white hoae is heard occasionally. They ai^ sorting out the heavy weights down yonder just now and Sam McVea has taken a hand in the hunt for a white champion. Recent ly in Western Australia McVea. lo cated a fellow named Harold Ewers. Harold stands six feet four inches and has been knowrf as MeVea’s pro tege. tege knocked out another giant nam ed A If. Pooley in three rounds. Then Ewers and Gordon Coghill, Australia’s most promising heavyweight at pres ent, were matched Coghill, by the way, is the fellow who knocked out Syd Fitzsimmons, a nephew of old Bob a couple of months ago. Ewers and Coghill met at the Syd ney Stadium on the night of March 12, and MeVea’s giant bit the dust in the opening round. It was a smashing right hander which caused him to stretch his “listless length upon the carpet” and now McVea is minus a protege-. It was a hard blow to Sam as he had visions of bringing Ewers to America for the purpose of polishing off the white hopes of this country. Willard a Sky Scraper. Talking of sky scrapers, Jesse Wil lard is highly commended for the strict manner in which he has at tended to business since his arrival on the coast. Directly he felt far enough recovered from the operation on his nose, to suffer the caress of a boxing glove. Jesse went into camp at the Ocean Beach and trained as seriously as though he had a match in sight. Since arrangements were entered into for a May bout between Wil lard and Gunboat Smith, the Kansas City hope, has put in his time' in the mountains around Harbin Springs. There is a fully equipped gymnasium there, a monument to Jim Jeffries’ championship days, and Willard makes good use of it, in addition to taking advantage of the exceptional opportunities for healthful outdoor work. WUlard will be back at his camp at the Beach early in May. Judg ing him from the seriousness with which he has attended to his prepa ration so far. he will be in first cla condition when he faces Gunboat Smith. Smith to Meet Wiliard. In view of the Approaching heavy weight contest, comparisons of the records of Smith and Willard are In order. In a disclussion which took place a few days ago it was instanc ed that Willard’s great range had stood him in need when he boxed Luther McCarty back East. “Well, Willard’s stature will not prevent Gunboat from reaching him,” said a sport who had witnessed the Smith-McKay bout in New York. “This fellow. McKay is even taller than Willard, I believe but Gunboat found his jaw with little difficulty.’ “Yes. but McKay’s straight left is much easier to work past than Wil lard's,” said another. This early season talk is an inti mation that the Willard-Smith match is one that will lend itself readily to argument. It is possible that Gun boat, on the strength of his deaden ing punch, will be a slight favorite when betting begins but Willard will have a big following. j By Bill Bailey. C HICAGO, ILL.. May 3.—Buck Weaver, demon shortstop of thu White Sox, must change hi* pants of course. Morris Rath al ready has done so. Other athletes in the American League who have been in the hafoit of concentrating some eighteen or twenty square yards of real estate on their trousers’ legs must do the same. President Johnson of the American, League is out with a demand for cleanliness and neatness. He can't figure why an athlete should try to take on the appearance of his sur roundings. The President of the league is quite a hunter. He un derstands why nature gave to some wild animals the color of its sur roundings. So that it would be bet ter able to conceal itself from its enemies. But the league executive doesn’t figure a ball player in the role of the hunter and he thinks there should be some contrast between a baseball uniform and the ground. The President is on a still hunt in this instance. He hasn't reached the demanding stage, but that will fol low, if his peaceful representations are not followed. Here is the way he is going about it. Orders Uniforms Washed. Silk O’Loughlin, umpire, strolls to the field and sees Morris Rath. Mor ris’ uniform was once as white as the driven snow. Once is correct. But that was a long time ago. “Morris, I would have that uniform scraped and then washed,” says Silk. “What for?” queries Rath. “So that you could remain In the game. It would pain me like every thing, Morris, to come out here some afternoon and be compelled to inform you that you couldn’t get in the game until you had changed your pants.” Of course Silk laughed as he de livered this oration. But It wasn't exactly a friendly laugh. One of those mirthless laughs in which you are tipped to be on your guard as there’s something likely to happen to you. Players Should Look Neat. “Why shouldn’t the players bs neat?” queried President Johnson. Then he proceeded to answer his own question. “President Comiskey's team has two home uniforms. Two were purchased so that it would always be possible to have a clean one. “I understand perfectly well that athletes can’t be spick and span and I don’t expect them to. But there Is no occasion for a man allowing his uniform to lose all semblance of its original color. Men must slide and that means that his uniform must get soiled. But the fellows I am after the fellows who have the worst appearing uniforms, do not ac cumulate the dirt that way. “They chew tobacco and spit upon/ their gloves and then they wipe their gloves on their trousers. They become unsightly and many of the fans do not like that, especially the female enthusiasts. With two uniforms there is no reason why a fellow shouldn’t be neat and tidy, with no more dirt on him than he picks up in the natural course of the game.” ENGLISHMEN NOT ASKED TO YALE-HARVARD MEET OXFORD. ENGLAND, May 3.—The athletic authorities of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge have not yet received any formal Invitation from Harvard and Yale to participate in a track meet at Harvard stadium in June or July this year. The secretary of the Oxford Ath letic Union, however, expressed the opinion yesterday that it would ne impossible to send a team from the English universities in June, as ex amination would then be in progress, while the month of July would, he thought, be too hot. No action will be taken by the English universities on the invita tion to take part in the American Olympic games at Chicago from June 28 to July 6 until the Harvard-Yale matter has been settled. EXPERT SAYS MARATHON RUNNING IS BENEFICIAL BOSTON, May 3.—Marathon races are beneficial to young athletes rather than injurious, in the opinion of Dr* J. H. Cunningham, Jr., an expert ex aminer of the Boston Athletic Asso ciation, as given in the current issue of the association’s official organ. Dr. Cunningham says that during the seventeen years he has had med ical supervision of the contestants in the association’s annual Marathon he has not had a single case of even slight injurious effects resulting from the race. "The best physical condition is es sential,” said Dr. Cunningham. “In fact, the conditions of the runners finishing this 25-mile race are quite as good as usually seen in runners after a quarter, half or mile run,” CHANCE TO TAKE REST ON TRAINER’S ORDERS NEW YORK, May 3.—Manager Frank Chance of the New York American League team, after several days of active service at first base. Is laying off again. Hal Chase has re turned to first base. Chance has been ordered by Train er Barrett to rest until his' injured leg is in good shape again. He had not fully recovered from the wrench he gave it In Brooklyn just before the season opened. Lelivelt is booked to succeed Chase in center field, and Derrick, who has been nursing a spiked hand, to get back into the game at short. DE 0R0 WILL SUE FOR TITLE BILLIARD TROPHY NEW YORK, May 3.—Alfredo De Oro is again national champion at three cushion carrom billiards. John W. Horgan, who won the title and accompanying John W. Lambert tro phy from James Carney at Denver j? March 14. last year, refused to a.c J^« a challenge by De Oro on Marc!® J of the present year and refuses' surrender the emblem. Legal actfilj will be taken to compel a transfer tp l the trophy to De Oro.