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Playing the Field YVilli BILLY EVANS

|j~a HEN Jack Graney was starrJVx/J inig with the Cleveland ball tPJ club, he always was the life hf the party. A' mighty fine player, he also was a valuable asset to the Club, because of his temperament. On the long training trips in the fepring, there never was a dull mohient when Graney was a member

of the Cleveland team. It was the exception when a day passed Without one of his copyrighted laugh stunts. " In the heat of a ' pennant race, when the nerves of the athletes were worn to a frazzle, it was Graney who relieved the tension. It always was fair weather with Jack. He was an an optimist who could see good in

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everything. He looked on the humorpus rather than the serious side of life, the good rather than the bad. DEFENDS SPEAKER Jack Graney was with Cleveland in 1919 and played left field in the game which “Dutch” Leonard alleged was framed. Meeting Graney on the streets of Cleveland, a few'hours after the alleged scandal was made public, I asked him what he thought of the charges. “They are nothing short of ridiculous,” he replied. “No one could make me believe Tris Speaker figured in such a deal. "I played for years under Speaker. I He was a tough loser, always wanted ; to win. Why, h© played as hard in ,an exhibition game as a regular contest “A lot more conclusive proof than |has been presented so far must be me before I would give the charges the slightest consideration.” MAJOR LEAGUE DEBUT 'I pI OR a moment the conversaI H I tion shifted to the days gone l.——i by. I took occasion to re'mind Jack that I certainly was glad !the day he decided to quit pitching and become an outfielder, i “Do you recall that game in the old Highland Park at- New York. Iwhen you were walking the batters lon four wild ones as fast as they came to the plate?” 1 asked. “I’ll never forget it—my American League pitching debut,” he replied. "The home plate was swinging that afternoon. I just couldn’t catch up with it.” Then I reminded Graney how (he finally got a ball close enough for ; the batter to swing at, a line drive (resulting that struck Graney on the (Pitching hand, breaking one of the fingers. Jcck exhibited a badly scarred finger as exhibit A. A GOOD MEMORY EHEN the aonversation switched back to the game of Sept. 25, 1919, between Cleveland and Detroit, now under heavy fire. "Don’t you remember something unusual about that game?” 1 asked, trying my best to jog his memory. As I pulled that one, a broad smij* came over Graney’s face, then he ■broke out into a hearty laugh. I could see that Graney’s sense of humor had not deserted him. and I Joined in the laugh myself when he answered. “Sure I remember something unusual about that ball game. Take a look at the box score and you will see that I made three hits. "Say I never will forget that ball game.”

REACTION IS GROWING IN BASEBALL SCANDAL Many Fans Demand More Positive Proof Before They’ll Accept Verdict Against Accused Men.

B V United Perm t NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—As denials of Ty Cobb, Trisr Speaker and Joe Wood grow louder and stronger than the testimony involving them in a "thrown” game seven years ago, a strong reaction among baseball fans everywhere has set in. v Pans who at first believed Judge Landis must have had convincing evidence before he would besmirch the names of such popular heroes as Cobb anjl Speaker now are demanding the high commissioner furnish

Dixie Team Minus Vet Center

Bv United Prcttx TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 25.—Ala- . bama's Crimson Tide, headed for ■ Pasadena, Cal., for the New Year’s day gridiron battle with Leland Stanford, arrived here Friday minus “Sherlock” Holmes, veteran center of the teafn. Holmes was left in an El Paso hospital suffering from an i attack of appendicitis. The players spent the forenoon Friday sightseeing around the city. After lunch Coach Wallace Wade : took his men out to the University • of Arizona field for a heavy practice scrimmage. The Crimson warriors appeared tired from the long trip and lacked their usual pep in running through ■ their workout. The Alabama party, including Southern Conference officials and J more than one hundred fans, left on * their special train Friday.

Friday Basketball

llKill SCHOOLS Seymour. 3K; Lebanon, 34. Seottsburg 44. Austin. 19. Orotheruvllle. 26: Hanover, IS. Bainbridge. 52: Roachdale. 16. Arcadia. 85: I’rankton. 24. Oakland City. 33; Hazleton, 22. Krowimtown, 31 ; North Vernon, 15. Muneie, 21. Newcastle. 20. Young America, 31 ; Warren, 25. Gas City, 19; Summitville, 16. West Point, 35: Battle Ground.

NATIONAL TITLE FLAVOR TO POST-SEASON GRID CONFLICT

BET THREAT If Dogs Are Stopped, Why Not Horses? Bu Time* Special MIAMI. Fla., Dec. 25.—An attack against greyhound racing in Florida was made in a petition for an injunction filed in Circuit Court against the Biscayne Kennel Club, Inc., whicli operates a dog track at Miami Shores. -\ James M. Garson, Miami attorney who filed the petition, charges the track has the pari-mutuel betting system, and is therefore a "common nuisance,” and a gambling resort in violation of the law. The attorney’s action may endanger the scheduled forty-five-day horse racing meet of the Miami Jockey Club at Hialeah, beginning Jan. 13. The petition will be heard Dec. 30.

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Coach Mark Wakefield has several brilliant young net performers on his Tech High School squad. Outstanding among them is Maurice Massy, erstwhile football star, who has the reputation of being one of the most accurate shooters in this part of the State. He will be seen in action against Shortrklge on New Year’s day at the new National Guard armory. 17 BETHANY GAMES Bu United Press BETHANY. W. Va„ Dec. 25. The schedule for the Bethany College basketball team includes seventeen games. Os this number eight will be played at home. Six games are scheduled with West Virginia schools, including one with the Mountaineers.

more positive proof against the accused men. Cobb has returned to Augusta, Ga., practically in triumph, rather than an outcast. Tris Speaker has received pledges of loyalty from half of Cleveland. Joe Wood, who coaches baseball at Yale, seems to have the faith of the university in his honesty. Each of the ttfree involved by the testimony purchased by the American League from “Dutch” Leonard for $20,01)0, has declared he was un-aware-there had been an “understanding” to let Detroit beat Cleveland in the game of Sept. 25, 1919. This is the contest Leonard charged was "fixed.” Detroit won it, 9 to 5. Cobb and Speaker, as two outstanding figures of baseball for a score of years, have asked the fans to withhold judgment. Sentiment throughout the country seems to have responded to their request. “I never fixed a ball game and I never bet on but two in my whole life,” said Ty. "I’ve kept faith with the fans and with the ‘kids’ who follow baseball, and I’ve tried to be whet they thought me.” Augusta, his home town, believed Ty, and turned out in a monster celebration to welcome him home for the holidays, y GRID MEETING DEC. 29 390 Football Coaches to Attend Session in New York. Bn Ihiited Prrxx I COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 25.—A. A. Stagg, coach of Chicago University; W. O. Roper of Princeton; Maj. John L. Griffith, commissioner of athletics of the Western Conference, and G. W. Kennedy, chairman of the Princeton athletic board, will be the principal speakers at the annual meeting of the football Coaches’ Association in New York. Dec. 29, Dr. J, W. Wilce of Ohio State University announced today. More than 300 coaches and athletic directors are expectea to attend the one-day meeting.

Stanford and Alabama, Undefeated During 1926, to Battle New Year’s. Bu NBA Service PASADENA, Cal., Dec. 25. Stanford vs. Alabama. There’s a choice football dish for you. It will b© served New Year’s day In this city as the feature event of the Tournament of Roses. Stanford, champions of the coast, will clash with Alabama, best in the South, for what many of the football experts consider the national collegiate championship. It will not be Alabama's first trip West. Last season, after winning the •southern title for the second time, Alabama was invited to mingle on the gridiron with the University of Washington, undefeated on the coast. The invitation was accepted. Thriller Fray Recalled Washington was a top-heavy favorite. In its line-up was George Wilson, heralded by many as a better ball carrier than Red Grange. The outcome was regarded as a certain victory for Washington. For a time it seemed as if all the experts for once might be right, for Alabama trailed until the fag end of the game. Then, opening up a forward pass attack that bewildered Washington, the southerners came from behind to win a glorious victory, 20-19. So that the final game oj the 1925 football season, played on the first day of the new year, was in a sense the biggest surprise of all. * This Year's Record Undefeated in the South, Alabama in nine games scored 242 points while the opposition made only twenty, three touchdowns. In every game except the Sewanee contest, Alabama won decisively. Sewanee, p'aying its best game of the year, caught Alabama at low tide and held the southern champions to a 2-0 score. Glenn Warner of Stanford, always an exponent of the theory that a strong offense is football’s greatest weapon, saw his team scored on in every game but one, while winning all ten. Some Stanford Facts Occidental College, defeated 19-0, was the only opposing team that foiled to either score a touchdown or kick a goal from field against Stanford. I It is a rather interesting fact that the Santa .Clara College team, coached by Adam "Walsh, who captained Rockne's great Notre Dame eleven of 1924, piled up the highest score against Stanford, fourteen points. Since both Stanford and Notre Dame beat Southern Californ a by the same score, 13-12, Alabama’s showing against Stanford will offer much food for thought.

City Bowling Gossip By Lefty Lee

Last night found the all over the city in darkness. No league games were rolled as the spirit of the season prevailed, and all of the boys were infected. Turkey today is the menu for the Hombergers, Eders, Weinmans and Scearses, Eddie Hornberger and Mrs. Weisman winning the turkeys offered by the Capitol alleys- Eddie secured 267, which withstood all the other boys’ efforts. Mrs. Weisman had a game of 234 and won by a wide margin. •lolinny Filer came very close to a, perfect 300 to win the turkey offered by the Century alleys, having eleven si likes in a row and leaving the 6-10 spare on his final ball, which hit a trifle high, giving him 298. The Elks Club turkey was won on a three-game total basis, and when Scearse won this, we claim he made sure of It, for he had a total of 803 for his three, which is an average of 268 per game. Have you secured your partner for the Mixed Merry Widow doubles at the Elks? This play, starting tomorrow, will run the entire week and into Sunday, Jan. 2. This play reminds the writer of Johnny Baron and his Leaderkranz alleys out east years ago. The sweepstakes out there ran for two weeks at a time. You could shoot as often as you liked, as long as you changed partners each time. Fellow Bowlers—Do you remember when the announcement of a sweepstake called every one of us into action. Those were the days of real sport. "Harsh” would promote the play and he would see to it that the entries were in. In those days it usually attracted one hundred entries and they had to roll against Jerry Pritchett, Fred McCullough and the other tough boys, when they were in their prime. The Capitol frileys are trying to build up a large entry in their sweepstakes tomorrow by reducing tlie entry fee and giving special prizes to the boys with an average of 185 or under. This seems to be fair and should he well attended. After or before you shoot the Capitol event step around to Delaware St. and take a shot at the attractive prizes Eddie Harkenrider is putting up. Call Eddie and make your reservations today. The Werbe-Meissen and Reems Alley Five baffle will be resumed tomorrow night at 7:30 at the Capitol alleys, Last week’s match at the Illinois alleys the Werbe-Melssen boys were returned winners by a score of 2,878 to 2,836, so a red-hrtt game is on tap. BABK RUTH’S IDEA Babe Ruth says if Jack Dempsey is worth $700,000 for thirty minutes’ work, he ought to get 1150,000 for playing all summer

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Back Row (Left to Right)—Wade, celiter; Overby, guard; Mehring, forward; Hoop, guard. Hinds, guard; Earl Myers, manager. Front Row (Left to Right)—Millikan, forward; Clayton, guard; Florea, guard; Harrison, guard: Franklin, guard.

The basket aggregation representing the Polk Sanitary Milk Company has won four games in the Capital City League and has escaped defeat. The outfit managed by Earl Myers has much real talent on its roster, including

RING BOUTS Tex Changes Program When Rosenberg Cancels. It ii Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—An important change lias been made in Tex Rickard’s ambitious January boxing Charley (Phil) Rosenberg, bantam champion in some States, has refused to meet Bushy Graham of Utica on Jan. 7. Tod Morgan, junior lightweight champion, has lieen signed to box Phil McGraw, Detroit, on that date. Morgan will be fighting out of his class, fir the Greek hoy scales in the 135-pound division. The boxing commission has consented on nhe condition Morgan boxes Babe Herman, Pacific Coast contender for Junior lightweight honors, within forty days after the McGraw fight. Frankie Genaro. former flyweight champ, will meet Newsboy Brown of Sioux City in a semi-final to the Fidel Labarba -Elk.v (’lark championship gq Jan. 21. M'INNIS IS CLEARED Pitcher Boland Denies Giving “Stuffy" "Easy Ones” to llil. Bn Times Special DETROIT. l><)< . 25. —The name of "Stuffy” Mclnnis, newly appointed manager of t lie Phillies, lias been cleared of all connection with the "fixing” of games or the delilierate granting of base lilts to fatten batting ayerages in the shady days of 1919. Bernie Boland, who pitehed for Detroit in the now “famous” game which led to charges that drove Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker out of baseball, has denied saying he pitched softly to Mclnnis so that "Stuffy” could hit .300. "I pitched as hard to him as to ah.v one,” said Bernie.

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Recently Miss Helen Myers, star forward of the girls high school basketball team of West York, Pa., scored 61 out of the 73 points made by her team in a game. Her record was 30 field goals and one point from foul, an average of a goal from field for practically each minute of play. 1926 LOWER I. U. Grid Receipts Fall Below 1925 Mark. Bit Timex Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 26. Total receipts of the four home football games at Indiana University this fall mounted to. $21,113.18. The amount was more than SIO,OOO less than the receipts in 1925. Profit was made on all games this year hut the Mississippi contest. An attendance of 7.614 was recorded at the Northwestern game, in spite of bad weather. ,The Kentucky State game drew 5,000 spectators, and the De Pauw game was witnessed by 4,875. The M ississi PP* Hit drew the smallest crowd, 2,119. WILSON AFTER WALKER Btl V V.A Sereire NEW YORK, Dec. 25. —New names are beginning to flash into the boxing headlines following each upset, but a veteran is back again. Johnny Wilson, former middleweight champion, lias challenged Mickey Walker for a bout in New Jersey in January. It is rumored Walker Is all set to accept and Humbert Fugazy is working on the plans.

former high school and college cage performers. Wade and Hutchison of' the Polks ure, the leading point getters of the Capital loop, the former with 33 field goals and 7 foul

—LOOKING ’EM OVER—

JUST LIKE AN AMERICAN TOURIST Paolino Uzucadem, Spanish heavyweight pugilist, was arrested while visiting in Havana. ... He is learning Yunkee ways rapidly. ~ . Even to getting disorderly while in a wet country. Greatest stove league season on record. . . . Eight big league managers, let oul. . . . ’Nother scandal. . . . And Babe Ruth and his $150,000 demand yet In come! AND THERE’LL BE PLENTY OF SEATS Cardinal club owner says he hasn't weakened his team by trading Hornsby. . . . Chances are. however, he’ll have to give trading stamps witli baseball tickets to prevent the club income from weakening. Fire broke out in the Chicago White Sox hall park the other day. . . . Probably from an overheated hot stove league argument. MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENSES Young Si’-ibling defeated old Man Joe Lohman again recently. . . . The pro boxing sport needs more than a Judge Landis. ... It needs tlie judge and a wagon load of brooms. It used to be the liquor evil that worried the Nation. . . . But now it’s the evil liquor. WITH THE NO APPETITE BOYS Bachelors who accepted sumptuous dinner dates for today wished they had used some judgment during that Christmas Eve party. , Reporter, visiting Dutch Leonard in California, found the baseball informer dressed in outdoor fashion, sweater and plus fours. . , . Yes, dressed to run in case Ty Cobh showed up. Well, any rale, you won’t see any ball players loafing under the shade of the grand stand next season. HOW CLUB OWNERS GET EVEN New York Giants have scheduled twenty-seven exhibition games next spring. . . . There is no pay roll to meet In the spring. . , . And Drawing Card Hornsby has been added to the club- fc,. A.

Off the Backßoard

It was a day of rest and peatje for Butler’s Bulldogs today. But vacation for the Betters will be short. Paul Hinkle, athletic director and head coach at the Irvington institution, believes “Christmas day means a lot, but Christmas vacation to us — not a thing!’’ All last week the Blue and White performers were drilled hard in preparation for an invasion of Illinois. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday is going to he one big rush for the local collegians.

Tuesday It is Illinois Wesleyan at Bloomington; Wednesday, Lombard at Galesburg, and, Thursday, Chicago at the Windy City. The Bulldogs ought to have an easy time Tuesday and Wednesday, but Thursday will experience trouble. But, still, we think Butler will win that one. too. Martinsville trampled all over chelbyvilie Thursday night, the Artesians knocking off the Camels, 51-B*l. Columbus rode over Franklin 44-36 and Vincennes pushed over Bloomton 48-26. It seems basketball Is developing Into a game that is all offense and no defense. Evidently most of the Hoosier high school coaches believe the best offense Is the best defense. The best example of a game of this sort during the current season in the recent contest between Kokomo and Martinsville which the latter outfit won, 76-43. One hundred ard nineteen points Is an amazing number of points to be scored In forty minutes of play. It figures out to almost sixty field goals In the game. Three poin(s a minute! Clear the way! K. V. Ammerman, principal of Broad Ripple High School, Is making frequent trips to the Exposition building, Indiana State Fairground, these days. Work is going on In

earnest in the big cow bam where the local sectional and State final basketball tourna/ments will be held. Bleachers were dismantled last year after the finals and stored away. They were salvaged this year and Ammerman Is supervising the construction work. Twelve thousand scats wt y be erected with addition a 1 standing room. Along with Ammerman the

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members of the committee in charge of the State tournament are Fred Gorman, Technical; Simon P. Roache, Shortridge, and Russel Clunie, Manual. V _ t “Merry Christinas,” said Eddie this morning. So did the Old Settler. Now, we’ll pass it on Jujnu. “Merry Christmas!” Bloomington High School basketball teams have an interesting history. Delving into records, one finds that Coach Montgomery was the man /who first brought net time to the University city. He was called to Purdue in 1916 to teach, and Clifford Wells, now at Logansport, was

tosses and the latter with 19 field goals and 9 from tlie foul line. Other teams in the Capital City League are Indiana Highways. Ft. Harrison, Fletcher Savings, j?ost Office and Sugar Creek Creamery.

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given the coaching job. Wells had been one of Montgomery's forwards and was then Just out of high shcool, annd Bloomington fans looked askance at the selection because of iTliff's youth, but he came through and gave the school a State championship In 1919. The year before he had taken the team to the semifinals of the State. Then Coach Johnson took the burden uporv/Tiis shoulders and he has held It since. Aside from a notable fine of roaches and players, Bloomington always has been noted for being the first high school team in Indiana. to use the five-man defense. The new Northern Indiana Athletic Association has been organized. The main purpose of the body is to oppose the present system the I. H. S. A. A. uses in conducting net tournaments. The way the northern schools wish to run the tournament Is to decide the sectional championship through a percentage table and then bring the winners together to fight for the State championship. That system is no better than the present one. By the method now used coaches nurse along their players, building them up and putting endurance Into the lads. When tournament time rolls around the coach should have a well-developed team with plenty of stamina. It Is no concealed fact that the majority of schools up in the northern end of the State are dead set against the I. H. S. A. A. Perhaps Emerson of Gary Is a "little tough” because last season the school was ordered to forfeit all basketball games that an ineligible student had played Hf. Probably some of the other schools have been treated the same way. That Is the school’s own fault. Eligibility of students participating in athletics should be carefully investigated. BENNY LOST NINE POUNDS If it V /*; A Seeriee ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 25. Benny Friedman, captain of Mienigan’s football team! has revealed that he lost nine pounds the afternoon he played Minnesota ak Minneapolis, the last game of the year.

FOR POCKET CUE TITLE Rudolph to Play Champ Greenleaf In 450-Point Match. Btf United Press NEW YORK, Dec. challenge match for the national pocketbilliards title between Ralph Greenleaf and Erwin Rudolph, will he played in New York on the evenings of Jan. 20, 21 and 22. The match will be at 459 points, in blocks of 150 each night. NEW BODY 13 Northern Indiana High Schools Join Organization. Bu Time* Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 25, Another organization in the northern end of the State for the purpose of breaking up the present Indiana system in basketball competition has been formed. The new body is the Northern Indiana Athletic Association which replaces the Northern Indiana Basketball Conference. Heading the newly formed body Is Lloyd B. Hart, coach at Gary. Other members are Chelsea C. Boone, Elkhart; E. A. Spaulding, Emerson of Gary; Charles Leltzman, La Porte; Frank E. Cash, East Chicago. The thirteen schools belonging to the new association are South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart, Goshen, Plymouth, La Porte, Michigan City, Valparaiso. East Chicago, Hammond, Whiting, Froebel of Gary, and Emerson of Gary. The new organization will not only promote basketball but will take an active interest in football, baseball and track. ,

FOREIGN GOLF COURSES ARE SCORING PROBLEMS European Links, Especially in Scotland, Supply Real Acid Test, According to Jess Sweetser.

Bu XFA Service ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec. 25. ‘lf you want to face the acid test in golf, try some of those courses in Scotland!’ Jess Sweetser, the only American ever to win the British amateur, was talking. Sweetser, here recuperating from the strain of play he faced when lie accompanied the Walker cup team overseas last spring, was TURNER TILT South Siders to Meet Missouri Squad Sunday. The South Side Turners will meet the Smith Radio Specials of Girardeau, Mo., at the Turner gym Sunday afternoon. It will be the Specials’ first trip into Indiana and will be the only game playqd with a Hoosier team. The Missourians have not been defeated this year and are expecting to take the measure of the local squad. Members of the Turners who will most likely see action are Howard, Richards, Hutchison, Roberts, Eberg and Davis. The game will start at 3:15 o’clock. A. A. CHANGE Columbus Owner to Sell to Reds, Report. Bu United Press COLUMBUS. Ohio. Dec. 25.—Indications here are that the Columbus Senators will be under anew ownership after next Monday. This belief was founded on the report that Thomas E. Wilson of Chicago, present owner of the Senators, will accept the offer of Garry Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati National League club, Monday,

Drawing Power Duel, With Ruth the Favorite

Bn United Prrxx NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—New Yorkers are looking forward to a. “drawing power” duel between Babe Ruth Rnd Rogers Hornsby next year, and are betting upon the Yankee slugger. Hornsby, great batsman though he be. hasn't the personality of the "Bambino,” Is the general opinion. It Is realized here thafthe former manager of the Cardinals is no "showman,” and Ruth Is nothing else but.

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EVIDENCE AGAINST* LEONARD Wood Avers Facts Show Charge of ‘Fixing' Disputed Fray Unfounded, Bu Times Special NEW HAVEN. Conn., Deo. 25.-* (Smoky) Joe Wood, at his home faj Morris Cove, Friday Jpslsted that he was innocent of any wrong-doing in connection, with the alleged "thrown** baseball game between Cleveland and Detroit, Sept. 25, 1919, "I am guiltless." said Wood, who Is serving his third season as head coach of the Yale baseball team. At the time of the scandal, revealed by Commissioner Landis, Wood was a Cleveland player. The ball game In question was not "fixed,” Wood declared. If such a charge, made by "Dutch" Leonard, had been true, the conspirators would have placed more money than that ?600 admittedly put up, he argued. “You will recall the evidence before Landis showed that some more money could have been bet at odds of 5 to 2, hut was not because the were too short,” said Wood. “If game had been ‘fixed,’ and was certain. to he thrown, do you think that any bets at any odds would have been turned down?” Wood, a utility player with Cleveland in 1919, was not In the line-up the day the game which Leonard said was “fixed” for Detroit to win.

asked If American courses were more difficule than those In Europe. "American courses are all hard enough—for me,” the second ranking United States amateur explained. “But I believe one has to play harder golf over there. ‘‘ln fact, I'll never forget a statement I heard Bobby Jones make In the clubhouse one evening, after he had faced a formidable foe. ’Boys, you've simply got to play GOLF over here!’ was the way Jones expressed himself. "Their courses In Europe are harder, yes; hunkers are more frequent ar.d more difficult to divorce, after you get Into them. The weather, too, makes courses In England and Scotland more difficult to shoot than our American links. "We encountered wind that before had bothered our game. many a time I remember now thaW I had to turn half-way around on 1 some of my shots to buck the stiff l breezes that tore In off the coast. Thinking Necessary "I found, too, that I had to think more on those courses than I ever had to on a majority of our courses ' over here. Now do not take It that I appreciate those courses over there more than I do our own; for Ido l not.

"But in my own experiences I encountered more grief, more compuU sory concentrated on a greater number of shots on foreign courses than I did In America. "Think, that's It; you’ve got to think when you shoot those babies over there. The fairways were of a different sod. the rortgh was rougher and the greens—say, some of those greens Rre treacherous, and one would have to play the different ! courses dolly for a year, I believe, before he could grow to ’know’ them.”

BETTER DATS FOR SAM “Tar Baby" to Bo Given Benefit-^. Gets Christmas Cheok. Bu Hmei Special BOSTON, Deo. 26,—Sam Longford, the “Boston tar baby,” who lost his, money and his eyesight since hie, boxing career came to an end, wasj able to buy a turkey for Christmas, and is feeling pretty good about It, Reading the Negro heavyweight's plight a New Yorker sent a ohecW and Ram went shopping on Chrljß inas eve. New York fight fans are arranging a benefit show for Langford, who Is looking forward—os best he can with 1 his Increasing blindness—to bettor! days,

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