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18 THE OBSERVED, SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1920. chass lines, a wimting stroke might be said toV AMATEUR DOINGS. LEAGUE COMMENTS. BILLIARDS STARTS. THE ORIGIN OF TENNIS SCORING.

ne wecu onsen, nt um tourtean tines are modern. Six year aco the resent writer animated GOLF. THE CHAMPIONSHIPS PROGRESS OF THE AMATEURS. that the fifteen system was based on the division SUCCESS OF THE HOME TEAMS. COMMENTS ON YESTERDAY'S MATCHES.

or tune oy clocx, quarters, each equal to fifteen minutes, making one hour of sixty. But clock dials were not Quartered, and whv BEMPSEY AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP. FIGHTERS AND THE COLOUR LINE. ONE OF THE MYSTERIES OF SPORT. (By "Croon should one ace be called 15 minutes? The count After tbo strenuous times associated with tbo opening round of the English Cap com also was taken, not by time, but by the game.

PROBLEM OF THE QUALIFYING HOUNDS. petition, it was a change to turn to the calmer as oeing more prontable to the maitre pausnwr or other owner. To repeat Gossslin, the people who introduced the fifteen system must have had a good reason for not using the score 1. 2. 3.

etc. Perhans we No little interest has been aroased by th announcement that the champion ot the game, Melbonrno Imxon, has arranged three matches, in which his opponents in turn will.be New-new, Falkiner, and Smith. As all of these may find this good reason in (A practice oj A SUGGESTION. ptaytng Tor money. Now the svstcm.

whoss oririn is matches will be decided prior to the championship, in which Inman, wtx holdn the title, will not compote, the results of the game should BRITAIN'S POSITION IN THE BOXING WORLD. give an interesting line to the chances respectively held by the three members of the obscure it is older than Babylonian culture, whence it came to Gneco-Boman Europe was used in the Middle Ages not only by reckoning the hour, bat also for money values, to a considerable extent. It must be understood thai in younger school- une of the most interesting ol series of games is the. fact that Inman will con- this erstem tho unit or standard was not 1. but 7V4 aso a necro.

Jack Johnson, 60; somewhat as the metre is now for measures. ao in time-reckoning the unit was one hour (60 code each of his opponents a start ox in 16,000, and the point which is no doubt exercising the minds of many of those interested in these affairs is whether he can do so with any not one Dsnoia emauer nu were expressed aa fraotioas of the unit 60. system was retained for the measuremei real hope of auccess. For many years past angles, and for tnnie-nckctune. But it was nevor Tho London amateur clubs, although having to undertake long jDvrocys, met with remarkable success in yesterday 'a Amateur Cup-tiea.

Nun-hoad, visiting Ledston Works Athletic, won a deserved 20 success by smart defensive tactics and pretty forward play, S. C. Sanders, who soared both the goals, being seen to great advantage in a fins gamo. Bromley, playing surprisingly well, beat Cfces-hatn United by 50, S. J.

Savidge doing the hat trick, and B. Metcalfe scoring twice; and Eastbourne, assisted by K. Farnneld, were unfortunate to lose a lis with Sneiton by 10, B. Flowers scoring the visitors! goal. Dulwich Hamlet, with the longest journey, accomplished tho beat performance, and their victory by 21 over Cardiff Corinthians was thoroughly deserved.

Tno gate at tits Tie was 140. The Hamlet were always the better eleven, but when H. Jenkins gained the home team the lead from their i advance into the half it looked za it' the CardiK eleven might win. Directly Nicol equalised Hamlet assorted a pronounced superiority, and a was a great movement that led to E. Kail registering tho winning goal.

All the Ilamlet players performed well in the second hah', and but for the goalkeeping ot T. Shcppard itV.ry would have won by a large margin. Loavesdon Asylum won a deserved 2 1 success over Southall, for whom H. Webster scored. The victors faded to convert a penalty lack, but with A.

Wells and W. Coucbmun scoring, ttiey won comfortably at the finish Lcaidoci not too strongly represented won a keen tio with Luton Qaroneo by 10, M. WrightsoD scoring a capital goal and A. T. Balaton alao playing good football for the home eleven.

Oxford Citv'a tie with Boots' Athletic was fun "iv popular system; oraiaary recaontngs louowedn (By A. Crawley.) The system of scoring by fifteens, peculiar to tennis (French paume) and kindred games, pelota, pallone, longue paume, and lawn tennis, is one cf the mysteries of sport. It has been discussed without success for 365 years. But it will not do to say, as H. de Kanteuil did in bis book on these games (1833), that the origin of the system will nover be discovered.

To argue thus is to be on the mental plane of the cricketer, who, when asked why a certain ball was called a yorker," replied, "Why, what else could yon call it Mr. Julian MarshaT, when advocating the adoption of tennis scoring for lawn tennis (which originally had rackets scoring), remarked, truly, that a stroke whose value is 15 creates more keenness in the players than a stroke counting one. This may be a psychological fact, but it does not help to discover why fifteen should have been selected instead of "one." The system is first mentioned in literature in 1435 by Charles d'Orlesns, who pun prettily thus J'ai tant youe aveeswes 4p A la paume, gut maintemaU J'ai qttarantc-aiiq; tur ban gag, Nous jouorat non pas pour neant. I have played Old Ace si tennis so Ions, that I am now 45: we nlav tor good stakes, not for cnaupions ox uie game nave always msistea ua conceding a start to all and sundry, and Inman is only doing what others have also done. The ojgurneat always haa been that until the holder of the title is defeated in a championship he entitled to regard himself as tho superior of any, 1 1 1 iL.i 1 1 1 atmosphere of the League tournaments yesterday.

While the games may be just as bard, there is not quite the same excitement, and this mav be equally as noticeable amongst the players "as it is with the spectators. It lias frequently been said that the advantage of being at home is worth a goal to the side playing on their ewn ground, and the results arrived at yesterday would certainly help to bear this contention out. Of the twenty-nine games decided in the three Leagues it is remarkable that in only one was the home side actually defeated. Only four games were drawn, and most of tho matches were closely contested, though bore and there an caUstandiag success is recorded. liromwich Albion can never, perhaps, make full amends for their failure xn tha Cup competition, but their chance of securing the League championship may help them to take a moro chv.erlul view of things.

At least, they are the position of being able to concentrate entirely oa their league games, and they stand a really good chance of finishing up where thoy are at the present time at the head of the First Division table. With the advantage of being on their own ground, they made no mistake about the result of their game with Blackburn Hovers, and their position at the head of affairs was strengthened by the fact that Burnley were only able to draw with Aston Villa, and Newcastle United were unexpectedly beaten by Oldham Athletic. The result of the match was one of the surprises of tho day, for although tbey were away it looked almost odds -on Newcastle seaunng at ltaAt one point. Sunderland managed to gam smother victory, though Derby County gave them a good game. The former are a formidable side, and may serioudy trouble the leaders before the finish.

The Arsenal had far from a happy experience at Manchester, whore they were badly trounced by Manchester C'tv. hut Chelsea made some amends me aomea and Araxo systems of etc Another popular sod primitive method was the division of any whole into halves and quarters. is, on the face of it, a sexage-aimal to whjob is appbed the primitive system of quartering a whole. The game then was the mat. The sexagesimal system was used and retailed akaiff with others, in money, and predominated' in 'tibe coinage of France between 1310 and 1410 according to actual records.

We find a aeries cf standard coins, variously styled, divisffite into 60, and, especially the century mentioned, quarters of thoa standard unit, value 15 each, fta primrUva quartering system being rkwrrirrarit ow natoac mJxiUv- tlmntSi ttia wiu nguuy uu iui Mm rauuu wnmpi on. be expected to play anyone on level terms. Whatever the merits of this argument may be, Inman's terms are acceptable to ujnss opposed to him, though what bis position wQl.beattsr. the decision of "this season's cfcsanptcnahin, rwa aooUher ohesnpion will bare to be found rem aim-to be seen. INMAN'S S0PEBIOBITX.

Whether, however, anrona wonld- be la rnflueooe of the Cross symbol, often stamped' on the reverse. Aotuarry tradesmen were allowed to assuming that the nturripion's form, has deterfor- op the world' heavy-weight title from the French-Canadian, Noah Brusso, who was known to all boxing men as Tommy Burns. Vo title ho retained for eight yoare. Jtboogh he only defended it ten limes during aba period, the reason for hU lack of fighting activity due to tho fact that there wan no heav-weighl boxer who could be put forward a so opponent with any reoaoriabie ciianre of Eventually he 'went to Willard, slow-moving, good-natured, massive man, ifh little claim to boxing skill. This wa oodoobtodly a defeat by arrangement one of those corrupt pieces of work which will swiftly WiOut professional boxing as a popular PeotSjcjg and will even exercise au injurious taAsx etteot on amateur boxing, unless a strong 'band is taken in the game bv an International Board of Control.

The accounts of this fight by experts who were preeeni bear out this and the kinema pictures are an irrefutable piece of evidence in support of the statement that Johnson was pai'f to quit. In this film, after the Texan negro has apparently been knocked out, ho shifts his position and throws has hand before his eyes to sliield them from the fan's glare. Since then tho title has again changed bands, and it is still a proud possession of tho whito race. A BOXER'S DUTY. But now the news eomcs that Jack Deanpsey, the heavyweight champion of tho world, has restated tho decision to uiado thrco years ago, that "ho draws tho colour line." n.

vwts just thirty years aro that John L. Sullivan, who claimed the world's cbanipionthin, suddenly draw the colour line. Strangely "Hough, this resolution coincided with tho visit to the States of too menacing figuro of Peter Jackson. Kven if champion's exclusion of tbo black pugilists from bis list of possible opponents is legardcd in its cot these corns in fo four pieces, and then were nsoa suae ne tsst wsn-xne esainpsotsasny- a doubtful point to decide. It is not nary lnnr ago legal tender.

Doubtless the system was centuries TyPICaX SPBOIMKNa of incidents. The City won by 10, the 1. I 1 TV 1 I. 7.. oiacr; mo ursfc mention ox yiramf tm ju tiuvu it was enough estabbsbed to bo the subject cf legislation by Philippe le Bel.

No other system of scoring is ever mentioned. It has always been Here are some typical specimens in the time oC( Louis X. (who curiously enough died from drmkiua ooid water after a hard rua iA tesmis vaj uciag scorcu uj aa. o. new, wuv, wiw ww wwi K.

It. Gr. Hunt, rendered tile victors nne sen-ice. The visitors had a goal dfcallorced, and the City known that it runs 15. 30.

45, 63. Forty-five was in 1316) there was a denier d'sr tUmwl, worth 15 sous; in 1340 we find the deuofs d'or, worth 60 sous, in 1348 she oViurr Sot Veou worth 15 cut down to 40, probably for euphony, in resent times, and was etui uses in crance uity years ago. Those lawn-tennis bandicappert who make sous, in Mil the cewonne worth 15 sous. Even before 1310 we bear of ouinjairu, coma worth 15 sous. In modem French, quime and owsnsaiu ra mi as we snouia say a ooxen or "score." a crack "owe au nave out reaa uxor xuswry books.

AN ESTRAOltDINABY SXSTXSI. On the face of it, it is an extraordinary system, 15 for each ace. Fifteen what? PoinUP But where are the others. 10. 11.

12. and so on? As My suggestion then is that She seoang by (By a Special Correspondent) In the conduct of this year's championships an entirely new principle will be introduced, an element which, unless we ore very careful, may rob them of their usefulness and their world-wide interest. Briefly, the proposal that competitors for eithor the Open or the Amateur shall take part in qualifying rounds beforo entering the championships proper. The British Isles is to be split up into well-doinod areas, each to have its eliminating competition for a given number of places in the final stages. Some such change in the government of these events has becorao imperative owing to the ever-growing and unwieldy number of entries.

Thirty years ago the amateur championship attracted about seventy players; in 1914, when it waa last contested, there were 232, some of wbom came from America, others from Canada, Mow Zealand, Australia, and the East. The conditions in the Open were similar. At Hoy-lake in 1913, whim J. H. Taylor won in a tearing, raging gale of wind and rain, the entries numbered .209, but in the following year, at when the players were compeilorl first of oM to compete in a qualifying round for lOO.placea, the number fell to 104.

This innovation had a very salutary effect upon the gentlemen who never bad the remotest chance of finishing oven in the first half-dozen, and, consequently, 30 per cent, of the people who bad previously encumbered the links and made life almost impossible took fripht and disappeared. But the qualifying round of 1914 was quite a different matter to that now proposed. Then the players all competed on the same day on the courses at Troon, a mite or so from the championship links. Under tho new scheme each area will conduct its own preliminary competition on any day it chooses, and on courses that, in some instances, are 600 miles from the place where the will finally be fought out. If tlie principal players wore equally distributed throughout the various districts there would be nothing much to complain of in such an arrangement, but when you come to examine the project in tho light of tlie cxperienco of tho Southern Section, which includes London and the Home Counties, thore are very formidable objections.

A TERRIBLE FIASCO. Are we to repeat the terrible fiasco of tho 500 tournament of October lost, when the members of the famous Triumvirate Vardon, Taylor, and Braid failed to qualify? I sincerely hope not. Just imagine it! Three of the finest golfers the world has produced, who between them have won sixteen championships, are not able to take any port in the match play stages because by a sheer accident uhey contrived to pile up too many strokes whi'o endeavouring to qualify among a rabble. Gail it bad play, if you like, hi which the consequences were not unmerited. But is it pos-sib4e to conceive of a representative cham- gionship in which neither Vardon, Ta) lor, nor raid appear I And perhaps the list mav be extended to others, such as Ray, MiicWl, Duncan, and Herd, all of whom aro included tie overcrowded Southern Section, and may some at least meet witli unexpected adversity which would preclude them from further participation in tho championship.

I would suggest that the winners and run-ners-up for the preceding ten years tibe war period not to count of each championahip should be ttraoted immunitr from tho niv- for this by a narrow victory at Stamford Bridge over Manchester United. The two Sheffield clubs secured one viotory tatwoon thorn, though on this occasion Sheffield Wednesday managed to win, while tho limited met with defeat. Sheffield Wednesday have had such a bad season that their success could scarcely have been anticipated. Trior to yesterday they had won only four games out of twenty-four, that their success at Evcrtcn's expense did not come out of turn. Liverpool's record carjnot bo described as being moro than moderate, although the advantage cn ground enabled them to gain fairly comfortable victory over Sheffield United.

Bo much success has attended the Tottenham Hotspur team that their chance securms; the double event the English Cup and the champion-shin of Uus fvuxmd Division is bean? freely dis oimzis, saa oy lour nrteens Do tne game, originated in the convenient application of i Gossclin observes (1579), the people who inlro- unit com value 60 sons, which was worth four coins value 15 sous. It is a well-known fact that, in those days and for centuries after, tennis was rjracttoathr alwavs slaved for staVea. Cme of me earliest'. codes of laws for tennis contains ducea tuu system must nave nau a eoou reason for not using simpler units." It would be absurd to suppose that 15 waa chosen as being better than why 15? And why four 15's for game? Five explanations have been attempted. Antonio Scaino, in his "Trattato deua Pall (1555) states that a match consisted of one game only.

Doubtless players would ploy the best of an agreed number of games. The game consisted wore given a penalty Belt, out uus was not. taaxn, as the referee after being porsusded to consolt his lmesznen altered bis deoiaioxu Ilford had to 6ght hard for their 21 success over E.1I.L.I but Loytoustcue, showing fine defensive and clover attacking football, easily beat K.N. Depot by 5 1. Tufnell Pork were fortunate against G.E.

RaiJway. Nothing was scored in tha irst ninety miautea, but dirootly oxtra timo waa ctarted W. Baxrett $ave G.E.R. tho lead, which thoy rejoined tntil gamo vba abandoned four miautci trom time through bad light. The foctba.ll in tho A.F.A.

Cun-tics was excellent. Aquarius beat Xotta Magdala. by 5 0, A. Jolliffo uid W. Mailett CHch scored twice, and II.

W. Noafcea once for the victors. Ovrehalton drew, 11, with Magdola Amateurs, II. Owen tccrin? for L.C.W. and F.

Bank boat NcciEcn by 31, H. J. Harrw scoxinR twice and A. W. Wood odoo for the Bank, and P.

S. Hojburn for Norsemen. Mertot, with F. Marlon-, G. WiUianvon, G.

Williamson, and 0. scoriiig' in the order naned, beat Old Owens by A 1, H. Whito gttiu tho loser's goal. Ciril SerTioa easily bent L.J.O. and M.

Banlc by 71. Wurblcdon disappointed a good crowd by loeinp their Sivrey Shield game with KtaxetotuanA by 21.. P. Cork floored for Wimbledon, and W. Harry registered both KinRtoniana Clapton, scoring good goals through S.

Barle. twice, and A Barber, won a keen Isthmian Leajju V. U.in.. .1. vtnnlA Ka Irani, Wat many keen judges of tile game were quite convinced that Inman could guve a good deal more than 1,500 start to any of 'his rsVab wii every bops of success.

On the form he displayed the last championship, Uus view was fully justi-. fled. For sheer consistency it is doubtful, indeed, if the records of the game "Mein anything finer than the form he then displayed? On the fans' of this, it is difficult to believe that Inman has deteriorated to any extent in ao short a tune. In any case, however, it seems tbat the whole question of start is one about which the controlling body of the game should have something to ssy. At the present time there are half a'dexen players before the public more or lies if eual skill, and one of the most difficult things to do is to handicap them with any sense of fairness.

In the tournament Inman is the scratch player. Stevenson receives 500, Beeoe and Newman 1,500. and Falkiner 2,000 in 16,000 up. Smith is not a competitor. To date, all calculations bare been upset by soma most remarkable results and while there was every reason to regard the handioap as a good one, some of tho results nave rather suggested thai the time has come whoa some of the younger players cannot hope to be handi-capped quite so leniently.

The present competition for the amateur championship, which is being decided at Orme'e Hall, in Soho-aquare, is certainly providing one of tho most interesting competitions of the aeries. Some of the earlier games did not attract a gnat deal of notice, and the form of some of the competitors did not warrant any great attention being paid to the games, though the lack of form waa made up for on at least two occasions by the closeness of the finish. The fine display given by Mr. W. B- Marshall in his boat with Mr.

A. E. Graham clearly showed that all thai had boon said about the former, who is by no means a newcomer to the championship, was fully justified. I do not think I should be wronf in saying that Mr. Marshall is.

very nearly the best player in the competition. In the moro delicate phases I should say he ia the best, but the delicate phases do not always constitute match-winning factors, as has been, seen time and again in professional championship games. In the beat referred to Marshall had the cures laws referring to stakes. Statutes of the realm are extant ordering tennis-stakes to be recoverable in the law courts; The money was placed under the corde (net), or moro often entrusted a third party. Kings and great men lost and won enormous sums.

These were reckoned by the bie coin, worth. 60 sous, and generally known in the heyday of paume as easle, and that it was an ail of degradation, a soul-soiling action to battlo with a black-skinned For in America tho racial feeling the black man roaches an intensity in some dis-tnots that litUo imagined in this country. But a professional boxer paid to fight. If he is not a ohanipioa ho can refuse to meet certain proposed opponents and tbo only ill-effects he suffers is that ho may possibly lose prestige. But if a Lonsdale bettjiolder fails tc moot the opponent nominated by the National Sporting Club, be he cussed.

There is a great deal to be done before the Cap final can he reached, but so far as the League championship is concerned the 'Spurs af poor, to stand a great chance. The lead they have established appears to make them almost safe, hut football is such a curious game, and the task is such a severe one, that it would be absurd to regard tho competition as practically over. Stockport County had done well enough to suggest that they would give tne spurs a goon game a nirite cuurnnne crown, xnus toe crowns pointed. Ill cno tennis court may be given br humorists double meaning, representing that the game of kings was not only played by crowned heads, bat played for crowns. Naturally, the commonest big silver piece woold be chosen as a convenient unit fcr the game being worth 60 sous, each of its four parts was worth 15.

And 15 was the txtfue of each of tho A strokes. Here, too, we have a simple explanation of the number of strokes, four. We noted that in the first mention of the system the author "played for good stakes." The present explanation is corroborated bv tho 52 victory orer Wokiny, for whom J. Wakcr- to love, a it was a treble when the winner was love 30 and than won the game. As deuce was played (in the form oooe termed advantage-all, i.e., only one deuce) the winner of a treble won by 5 fifteens to 3.

Why, one asks, all this troublo about singles," Scaino notes that the value of a treble was 15, the 5 strokes being multiplied by so a double would be 8, a single 4. Now, Scaino suggests that the use of 15 for an ace arose from the fact that a treble counted 15, but can give no reason why the highest possible reckoning of a game should have been made the score of each point. A significant detail is the division of the game into four quarters, especially connection with the fact that forty-fivo years later we first hear of set. In 1579 Oosselin says that paume was played in a sot of four games, no doubt on the analogy of the four strokes of the game. Sometimes the set was six, in which esse there waa no came all (4 detue black or white, be loses his belt, unless he can Hart-Lane, and they succeeded in doing so, but give a sound and logical reason for his non-1 th(( Tendon side won fairly comfortably in the appearance.

When the question touches a worlds 6IVa champion, it is a much more important affair. prospects of the English Cup coming it a champion saya in future will meet no fa, season were not improved by tho re- black man in glovo contests ho can no longer of tbo two postponed ti decided yesterday, l-o regarded as a worlds champion. Hj title S(Ah ho making a big bid for then logwafry shrinks to "worlds white heavy-1 stom LeaSu6 honours, and Gillbsjham tnado weight champion. Jack Dompsoy aotion rlit from sortition. Portsmouth's drawing tha colour Uno just as logical a.

rf Moto amo as a mTpT, for Bradford-City Joe Beckett three months ego had set hanwlf Uto Uni jiKns! but well in the First Division t-J wccla champion, supuaung mat, of jg thi season. method mentioned by Scaino of reckoning: a game ot or 4 as a single, as a cioume, and 53 as a treble. Such valuation has no meaning vdk ana u. uocrvrao Barnet and Chelmsford each scored two goals in a fast Athenian League game. E.

Pott a-nd H. Kinp, from a penalty, getting Bornot's points, and T. Maries, from a ponalty, and H. Henneecy rpplying for Cltelmsford. beat Utbridge Town 80, J.

Brywon and F. Calvert scoring three ranch, and H. Whitmorsh and F. Buckley getting the other two. In the presence tf IT.Tl.H.

Prjnoe Albert, the Army, who iwored four times inside three nvro-jtarv boot Tt.A.r. 73. CanLam llanibledoia whatever, unless (as in whist) the "pomes" re presentee, money. SMITH'S MATCH WITH FAT.KTNEB. THE LEAGUE TABLES.

da jcux). In the 18th century the set of eight beeia with 'C er To most poopln on this side of the Atlantic, IMmpsoy's oWsrioa will anyaar to ba the. otiteome of a geanane racial feeling again-st the black man. They will say, Who are the. hlaok heavy-weiehts to-day? There are none of whom Dompsey need be afraid.

If tbo colour bar had been nut uo d.d the hai trick, Sergeani McTavwh scored satisfaction of making tha highest break in this season's competition to date. It amounted to' l4l, and was in every way a very fine contribution, the fact that ho did not have to play from the baulk end of the table until nearly a hundred points had been scored clearly indicating that bis knowledge about the winner -carrnon movement is pretty considerabio. -DIVISION I. TUT. twice, and Corporal veil ani sergeant ioacn onoe each.

Sorprant Long twioo and L. Barry obtained the R.A.F. goals. Old Folferiaoa beat Old FinohleuiTis by 42. Goals.

tea years ago by any champion, when the black figfaten, Johnson, Jearmctto, MeYeo, and Lang- twice, II. Sawyer and H. Boa titer scor-Inc" for tha victors. wwrin? throturh Smith had a great deal the better of the play during the first half of his billiard match of 16,000 up with Falkiner at Thurston's Hall, in Leicester-square. The game will be resumed to-morrow, with the score standing: Smith (in play).

Falkiner 5,635. IN MAN v. NEWMAN. The tournament hast of 16,000 up at the Bur-roughes Hall, in Piccadilly, reached the half-way stage last evening, with Newman, who is ist receipt of 1,500 start from Iaraan, leading by 1,984. The feature of the play last evening was a brilliant break of 444 by Inman.

The score now stands: Newman (rec. Inman (scratch), 6,577. games witoout games an was inwnucoa, a doubling of the four-game set. Goaselin ssys that, as a "physical sign" (a sixth of a circle) is divided into 'ity parts, tennis players might be supposed to have taken this as tho basis of snoring. But -be prefers a derivation from the Bo man measure of length; the clima 60 feot; the (quarters of sixty are the intervals between chases, and thus were measures of length whoa you win a chase you win fifteen iaobea er so forth.

But fdf; azef, 'there wWe chase lines or measures, the chase was marked with a peg where the ball fell or ceased to roll. Thjs objection also rules out a later idea, that, as the modern French court haa fourteen THE DAVIS CUP. J. Dovino, beat Ongar Town by 10. Old Csti-eens with A.

L. Dies doin? the hat trick and A. Spring scoring, beet Burbiton Fill by 41. liininary stage. bow the system would work the following table gives tho v.

TnrNnnf rein monri a TjoslnotuimMia of. names or tnc pcayers wno would Dc exempted CAMBRIDGE ROWIXO. to-aay tne uams urp matcnes. xne uouDjes will take place on Monday and the Singles on Tuesday. Central News.

1 car. Course. Score. Score 318 Taylor 3E3 300 Taylor 30i IPOj St. 100O Mulrtield 1007 Hoylalto im Prcstwltk ewmoswcu 1110 riug.

tfu auouia trae seen Sunderland 2 through that trick. To-day there are no black 1 Bolton at fctavT-weigtU of any note." I Chelsea iXewcsrtlf United 35 A BLACK FIGHTEB. 1 fj But there is a fighter toxiny in America, a black I The Anenal 24 nan, who is a most formidable man in the ring. 1 Llverprol ZS His name is Harry WUU. Cast In the mould of ShelBctd United 9S Peter Jackson, but, more apgreesivo in spirit, ho -v "1 supplies tho key to Deuipwy's colour-lmo mvs- Midiued'roiiSi t-4 very.

He has speed, tho ciule of a Freddie Woth, ouu" J4 and a smAKliing pum-b oilher hand. Swifter Manchi-cr Vntd! 53 than Dempbry, he leant into fietic fame. Ko County 25 bowled tho lesser lights cf Auicritan pugiljsm Brndfonl ty SS over like ninepins in one, two, and throo rvands. Ulackhnrn Rovers Kvan tho rodoubtablo Sam Lungford was swif Jy 2 beaten by his terrific punch. But American opinion was against him.

Too lonff hid the ihcmtl'1 Americana borno tho thorn of Jack Johnson, a I black champion, in their side. It must not i Dl A GOOD SPF.Lti BY THK I XIVKRSITY 3iz -iaior an Winner. Braid BraW llafsy Brain Taylor Draiil Yardon 2B1 I Ball 21W Bran! 301 1SC-J Deal JWiJ Ft. Andrews. 1011 Sandwich 09 Herd 30.1 V)J Maesy 30.J Tbo Cambridge President is aiinlviuir nlentr (after ti) of beforo making any attempt to 1012 Muuflcld Cay Varaon 2a Taylor 01 Kay 312 J013 Hoylale lull Prostwlck aruon 3UU laylor 309 arrive at auyinnr uko a ueuuo uccauon in iuo eornpositiou of the University crew.

Hardly a day has parsed without some changes being made. This in undoubtedly tho wisest course An analysis shows that onlv sir nlavws W. L. D. ForAgrt.

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KoricsUPU. 20 2 2 70 11 41 LI 4 20 34 l.i 4 4(5 19 34 ...13 13 24 SJ 14 fi 2 42 28 tin 7 21 22 23 If, 1 iS 1' 12 10 45 30 27 8 0 10 24 20 20 10 8 (i 23 31 28 10 9 5 38 29 20 10 10 4 31 29 24 9 fi 38 2(1 24 7 9 7 20 al 21 8 11 5 22 39 21 7 9 32 0 14 3 2S 19 7 13 .1 23 (1 12 48 IS Id 4 24 14 2 10 7 53 11 4 17 2 2) 10 to adopt, so ny tlie time trie crew move to Ely some finality may 1 obtained- Tho President took his seat on Thursday for tho first time, and on tho same dsy his brother, the Rev. tl. Swann. commenced his duties no mentor.

The conditions wore rather blustcrv There wa3 no morning work done, awl Tottenham 24 lluddcrsndd T. -24 Uirmlntrham IllacMwol t' Stoke 24 Wmt nam United 24 Hull Otj Barrslcy llrlstol City 24 FnUiatn 34 Stockport County 24 Tom Ball having died latl year, would obtain tho certificate of release, Vardon. Braid, Taylor, Massy, Herd, and Biy. Surely, none would pretend that any of these men, whose skill is indisputable, should bo obliged to undergo the tortures of an introductory scramble beforo the main bueiuess commences. Besides, in tho modification suggested, the runner-up, who has mi seed undying fame by a more stroke or two, has tho comforting knowledge that for ten years at least he relieved of the responsibility, always accompanied with the greatest onoortairity, of qualifying.

Tm ns hope that when the eliminating rotUKls come to Uurv wncn tne crew asremmea at the noathouee alter luncheon it wrta decided to dispenrxj wi'h tho usual tub pair instruction and to launch the eight straightaway and have a longer outing. They puiled down to Bait3bito Lock in easy stages, and there disembarked for a few moments, and aftcrwardi continued down stream fo Olayliithc. After a short reit they coinmcrcerl the return journey, and had to meet tho stronf? breeze in Fcveral of tho reaches, but tho rate of Strops Itself happen agan. So, although both Wills and Deniptey came into the limelight together by a stnitiar daxzdug scries of speedy victories, 'the negro was never allowed to contest with tho white man for tho right to meet Jess Willard. When Willard was training for his match with Dempsoy, ho sent several requests to Wills to act as his chief spurring partnur.

At first Wills ignored th to messages, but on receiving a particularly urgent entreaty, backed up by an offer of a onsidorable sum of money, ho replied, I'm not a teacher of boxing and I'm not going to start now. If Willard wants mo to put tho gloves on With him, it must bo in. a This is no boast and I seriously moan it. 1 am willing to meet both Willard and Dempoey in contests on thn same night." After tho poor encouragement ho received from tho American public, ho becamo with profcniomsl boxing, and not being content with carrying on a monotonous knock-out programmo with tho leer lights, he returned to hi old work os longshoreman. Now, Fred Fulton, who is striving might and msin to bring off a return meeting with tho rhamnion.

played a trump axrd. After beating Frank Moran he threw out a challenge to Harry Wills. Jf this match comes off, I expect the negro to win. In this event, Jack Dempse.v would eithor have to reconsider his decision on the colour-liuo or tho boxiiHr world will Routh RlI'lilA Notts Foiwt IxHeoet City Pert Vale Clppton Orient Ilotherlilm C. Wolvr-rbiunpton liocoln City Coventry Uritnsby Town striking wm kept low, end nothing in tho nature crt a ast froKe vtm auernptod.

'me nistanee to Crayhitho and back, about nino miles, is the longest tho crew have accomplished so far. tv played on the St. Georire Hul crturse. Wcy. bridge, in May, some release will be afforded tho men of proved capacity.

TEH AMATEUR LIST. A similar system might with advantage be extended to the Amateur Championship, to bo played at MuirBeld in tho early part of June. If we take the finalists in tho ten preceding years, the following players would pass into Use first round of the match play stago Year. Course. Winner.

Itunncr-np. 1903 Prestwick a- 0. Barry lion. Osmund Bcoii SODTIIEIiM LEAGUE. Any razor is soon ruined by unskilful stropping most safety razors you can't strop at all, but there is one, and one only, that strops itself GOLFING OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY.

Cools. For Agst. rt. 43 18 31 43 22 34 44 2 S2 37 St I). 4 3 8 3 10 7 3 T.

C5 24 24 24 PortJTOonth Crvrtal Palace Cardiff City Watfonl P. Ranjcrj The second day's nlay in the Oxford and Cam IS I 11 14 13 Ill hrklio GolfiruT iaociotys threo davs' mectimr at 30 29 -the "Valet." 25 ltcadin change bis title lo whito heavyweight champion i Plymouth "jirgjit. it of tho world. Of oourse, Georges Carpentier 1 Swansea Town 14 may clear up tho situation. AN HONOUR TO PCGIUSir.

18 30 20 tt 9M Hoylake Robb Mr.C.C.Llngen. 1PJ7 8t- AndrewsMr. John Ball U. A. Palmer 1P0S Sandwich Mr.

E. A. B.Xaylor 1509 Mulr2tld Maivull Capt. 0. K.

Hutchisoa lloylase Mr. John Ball Mr. C. Aylmcr 1MI Treitwlck Mr. II.

ililt A.Laasen 1012 WestwardHoIMr. Ba.1 Mr.AbeMltcheU 191:1 St. ntllou Mr. Kobt. Harris fwirdon Touti Ilrsntlird Norwich City Poutlicnd Southampton 21 21 23 alerlftyr 'l own Kirfter Citv 2.1 That's why the "Valet" shaves cleanest and saves constant expense for new blades.

Just slip the strop through the razor head, and six to-and-bo strokes put a perfect edge on the blade. You can't strop it wrongly. s.i ai 24 21 3d 21 47 20 40 19 44 17 Ryo produced, som fine golf on the part ot tho old Oxonian, K. V. Ifoldemess.

who represented the Dark in 1G10 and 1911. Yesterday ho won the society's match-play tournament, boating FI. It. Campbell in the final by 6 anl 4. As an example of the winner's fine play, it may be mentioned that he had a putt for 3 at tho first three holes, for a i at the fourth, and a at the fifth, in semi-Sna! match against It.

B. V-fccont, whom he beat by and 47 The competition w.n fcr tho President's prize. This the putter which was csed by llugh Kirkaldy when ho won the Open Championship 1891, and which was given to Mr. J. L.

Low, tha Oxford and Cim-bridgo president who haa now presented it to Ihe society as a challenge trophy. The aeini-final and final vesterday Tceulled as follows: Semi-final: E. W. Hbldcrncra beat K. B.

Vincent by 5 and 4 E. R. Oampbofl beat ni Gillies by 3 and 2. Final: HoHemess beatCampl bell by 6 and 4. 1014 Salidalch In this case tho favoured lit is extended, the names of fifteen players appearing who would journey to Muirfield without first having competed in their rerpsctive sections.

The 8 II r. 9 7 12 7 14 0 14 4 13 3 It Hlliwall Athletic 24 Bristol Rovers 23 I.uton Town 2.1 Newport 24 Brighton Hove 23 Xorthwnptc-n 24 ALiliUluini 23 33 17 53 15 49 10 name of Mitchell is not included as be bos since turned professional, and of course is in eligible. I fully sgreo that there should be an LONDON LEAGUE. Goals. STAstOJUtO I (aa IBirstisrafl tsniists ol kravilr sUvM-alued, -strepssaai "Valet eliminating -round, lor in the past men have entered for the? championahip whose only claim to notoriety has been tlie winning of a monthly medal at their own particular club.

Their chief object was to have a splendid week's holiday on 21. put in hsnflsmna case usee vent F. W. L. For Act.

Ptn. 8 5 2 1 10 11 II 3 1 19 14 7 3 2 9 12 .1 0 3 3 I) 0 4 3 7 2 4 1 1 0 8 2 3 1 10 12 5 4 1 3 9 10 2 3 I) 3.0 2 17 0 NICKEL SET No. 50 eeetsXns tie sasji naelced in brauTilalir domed velveMmee Charlton Athletic. (Jrars AtMotle Harking Custom Heine 41-Catford Scnthcnd Ordnance Uinston Some of the blaek fighters have been an honour to pugilism, and havo helped to uplift tho fame by their courage, skill, and character. What ojeaner fighter or boxer can be named in the annals of the Ring; than Peter Jackson? Kvon in his caao a special announoe-xoen bad to be inado from the ring-side before bb contest with Joe MdtuUHo- an announcement, howover, which reflects credit on tho California clttb, considering tho racial feeling in the district, v.

Teter Jackson was a trie, genWetpso, clcanis his boxing as in his living. Ko whs always a protector of the weak in private life, and in the ring he hated to give unnecessary punishment to an opponent. When lie had Frank. Slavin hanging helpless on the ropes at the N.S.C., he turned appealing to the referee to stop the fight but being ordered to fight on. instead of landing a devastating knock-cit punch on the unprotected man's jaw, he mercifully sent home a gukk series of light left and right jolts, and lavia sank to tho board to be counted out.

After BUrin had recovered in h' dressing-room, Jackson came to visit him, and their conversation ended aa follows: Jackson Good night. Paddy. There cannot be two winners, but good luck to you." Slavin Good night, Peter." Last week's boxir prove that English boxer aro by no nuan a tart r.umber. Jack Marebant beat Johnny OrifriTli? (iho Akron Hath) in a 15-rounds contest. This was a contest between the English and American schoois of fight-xir- Griffiths waa a great fibtcr with a bij repuaatlOB in Amerim r-A frtiir-rrmnd k.o.

GOLF CLUB RESULTS. at the same price. POCKET SET No. In it the latest fans of StsdcBa in faldiriK wallet esse ot real hide, most durable aosl toarenseat tor Uarauing, ins pnes is las SOUTHERN AMATEUR LliAGt'E. Oasis.

Par Adit. Pt a historic link at trilling cost. Championiship courses, I am afraid, have been greatly abused by golfers who hacked about the turf ar.d never even pretended that they had the smallest chance of winning their -first match. I came across a man last September in the Irish Open Championship at P-irtruph wha actually admitted that his handicap w.ns fifteen, and that he was receiving a half from his opponent, in order," as he ingenuously put it, to make seme sirt cf a prame of it." Vhen I asked him what on earth he was iint; there at all, he whispered W. 0 111 7 13 IS 10 iirnarins Old Haberdashers II.

A. (lid Parlionians Korsemen Hicbsate DUI Ovens Csuco Old Wilsoalans 10 10 11 K) Ill Is 11 II) 8 8 confidentially, I am having a great time but SI ss Ilodhill scd Itrisatc. Tirrr.er lleijal Bogrv n. 4 uoan. siindriilce Park.

Jmlct Medal: Bojty: vf. B. Wlitte, 3 don. Portslade Victory Cup (Uold), won bv Moore. Monthly Bojty: II.

u. Clrveland, 1 down. hoccy ttcropHition 1. T. TymaM, 4 down, qcalillt lr.r Captain's Prize.

Camtwrliy Heatli Medal: Major H. 7 ciroals 7s. Worthing. Bogey t'oaetiticn Col. M.

M. Mac-soti, 4 doa-n. Monthly n. Itohlnsoa, 53 cet. llindhead.

Monthly Mriul: P. Atkuwon, or 12 equals S3: R. Daaor. 10911 equals S3; L. Browne, S5 equals 00: Com.

T. E. Turl, OT 7 equals 00. LraUirrbead. Monthly Bccm CipU Hoduinc, (5), doa-n.

Lpsotn. Monthly Medal: W. H. Stephens. Korean Eggar, and C.

A. Str.ilKk-5 with S2 net. Elthaai. Moathly A. C.

F. Jackjon 4 down. Mid-Surrey. Hoary: Senior: C. t.

Temrkx, 3 down. Junior: A. L. GuMara, 5 South Herts Monthly Medal (Scrad Class): D. D.

Goodhart, S9S4 equals 75. Burobam Rrecbes. Monthly Medal Capt. P. B.

B. Moriti. S3 7 equals 78. Shooters Hilt Monthlv Mrdal: Seniors: J. E.

Ostla-eher. 76 eqoaU 73. Juniors: A. J. Willis, II IS Safety Razor Of atfft-efns sVsJsrs slrssfara atortt Strops Itself and Saves Expense for new Blades, Tho AatoStrop Safety Ram Co Ltd 61, Not Oxford Street, London, WJC I.

AMATEUR TRIAL MATCH. tcyovr clever Francis Charles showed hint i' erous buer of th ninrcd, ever- I In the amateur international trial match, v.rfh Knii, trt he laved on the West Ham don't breathe a word." Tliat kind of impostor cannot possibly endure in future; if he is foolish enough to spend a guinea in a ridiculous effort to qualify so much the worse fcr him. There is one matter which appears to have escaped general notice, and that is: If we undergo a jlrrliminary acid test, what of the American and Colonial players Are they by an act courtesy to be allowed to forgo" the initial examination. Presumably, and on very excellent pounds, for it is liardly conceivable tbat a golfer can be such a consummate idiot as to travel several thousand miles, knowing ln-bomi type. Hut Marriiar.t kent to-morrow, F.

llellor (ifagdcla turn an um t. 1 iimtind Ground 1.,. r-- wiiii clean atxasrnt 1, conw Amateurs) wiu piay pi yi comcst on point. and K. Cutler (Wolverhampton Amateurs) in place of Lieut.

W. H. Harvey, who is injured. ll 1. Ii i whom Bngjin can kS? heatea IfWnk fag rou, tha J-taTanddh, Tof wasting much valuable time.

If he does then equals 73. IVihiU. Scratch Medal: C. O. Koeper, 01.

Senior 1 he must be truly a hopeless person. Medal: O. O. Ilooper. 31 equals S3, jnnicr: r.

t. FINE SCORE AT SANDY LODGE. Erie Bannister, the club professional, has just played a round of 63 at Sandy Lodge from the forward winter tecs. Tho details wore Out: 4, 2, 4, 4, 5, 3, 3, 4, equals 33. Home: 2, 5, 4, i.

5. 3, 6, 3, equals 35. Total, 68. The seventeenth hole was the only one not actually holed out. but the ball was on the lip of the hole in nve.

Thirty-two putts were taken for the round, rut-. 4 one putts and 14 two putts. Bnt.wbenaaw him pcf toSTwejLToi Bonc Night at th, AibVrrHall.7Sd noted ill-t4ml and iU-judged loads. I began li fcoW until two or three little incident, occurred rhsch re-assured me and led me to put down ha some- Sliepparu. to 13 eqoais si.

L'tttehamptcn. Monthly Medal: H. Blont. SI equils 7S. H.

James. tX'i eqnali SI. Monthly Bogey: B. S. Caslon and Cei Jeffreys.

3 down. TBFbridw Wells: Monthly Medal: Clilord ami J. W. Pearson tij with 77 net. Sorth Surrey.

J. Morthaer. 1 down W. W. Walcron, 3 down.

Beekenharo-Jlonthly Medals: Seniors; r. Warren, ta-5 equals 64, srd W. L. Robertson. 01 7 equals 4 tied.

Juniors: P. J. Davis, 11234 equals SS. wuw ifcwaHi (uapiay as osan. Awl .5 it has proved to be.

He will next meet Johnny Bssuun, and I expect him to yr.o. If so, he will bar a return match with Jack Britten, and GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. The Royal and Ancient Club announces that it has been dscided to hell ihis year's Amateur Golf championship at Muirfield the week commencing Monday, June 7, and the Open Championship at Deal in the week beginning Monday, June 28. The date of tho amateur event is that proposed by tho HonouTTible Company of Edinburgh Golfer, bnt the data of the Open is a week later than the period originally proposed. A football match between actors and boxers ck itsssSW Ssratt (sar Cs, LA.

(I. Nm OeMStAl 1 now- "VJM- ss Rsswa Stnte aW h-tm tW am eonfklent another rhanrpiocship tstia wiH brought home to England. PtflUL Isaetat- Oats ax Burachw Watts' BIBsSid Table.