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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. XEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, rAUCTT 21. 1917, Nedect of Officials Caused Watching the Champions Ba tie at Hot Spring i'ioper Spirit Is 'Displayed By Uncle Wilbert's Offer Superbas to Miss Drilling 'f 1 -T- 1 'i By (From a Staff TJOT SPRINGS. March Correspondent.) 21 Developments today in connec iff t-i A WAUwm IS a good thin that th report that two of the sailors escaping frorrt the interned s'ntps in Philadalphia had been drowned while I 1 J.

tion with the military drill at the camps of the Brooklyn Superbas and Boston Red Sox tend to place the National League cham pions in an unpleasant light. The I attempting to eiuoc the guards proved incorrect. It they had been drowned, it is a cinch that the Kaiser would have demanded heavy indemnity for them, and equally a cinch that the indemnity tne plan to make a late start is already known. Not so the Red Sox, according to President Frazee. When questioned this morning regard ing the intention of the world's sure, we arc going to drill.

so sooner, only we had to wait for what arc they doing over in the Brooklyn camp?" He was informed that the Superba players had voted not to drill because they could get only verbal a line lot ot patriots they would have been paid. The lives of foreign enemies are very precious to our powerful pacifist ag'itators, while those of our own people are as negligible as Wheezer Dell's batting" average. We are also glad to hear that the Brooklyn Superbas do not appear to have been as much at fault in neglecting military training" as was at first supposed. The truth seems to be that instead of finding" a drillmaster waiting" for them at Hot Springs, as Boss Ebbcts, the players and the newspapermen expected, one was not provided until a week before the date set for departure on the tour with the Boston Americans. Somebody must have fallen down on the job, and fallen hard, as Ebbets certainly had been led to assume that the Army would provide a non-commissioned officer to instill the elements of drill.

Stories from Hot Springs, before' the arrival of the Superbas, were to the effect that Colonel Gandy, the commandant of the reservation, knew all about the proposition, and would furnish the man. If he more titan verbal instructions in a week time if they wanted to." resident F.bhets explained his part in the matter thusly: "A week bcrnre we started for Hot Springs I wired Messrs. Dillon and Ebcl, leaders in civic matters here, asking their assistance in Left to right H. H. Frazee, president of Boston Red Sox; Manager Wilbert Robinson of Brooklyn; Charles H.

Ebbets, president of Brooklyn Superbas. Line of Putt Smoothed by Caddy On California Oiled-Sand Greens CRESCENTS EXPECT VICTORY TONIGHT time going in to the cup. Then the pntt is played. Meanwhile, if it is a four-ball, the players have picked up their rubber cores to have them out of the way of the "smoother" when their turn arrives to play. It's no trouble to mark a ball's place.

All you have to do Is to scratch a line in the sand. This sand is of such a consistency that when the putter follows the ball low down and shaves the ground, a little shower of brown sand is thrown up. Time Lost in Smoothing Sand. The time consumed in what Scripture would call making the rough places smooth is considerable. Allowing that two minutes time is consumed in tilts on each green, in a four-ball match, that would mean more than half an hour wasted in J8 arranging the drill.

They endorsed Candy, the commandant of the Government reservation. We arrived six or eight men short, but I went ahead with the details. N(i Drill Tm idod, "I called upon the Colonel and he promised to assign ci'hcr a commissioned or a nun-enmmissioned officer fur the work, Cufortunutelv, the olfl-cers here all on sick leave and none was immediately available. Fnal-y, the Colonel secured an officer who could attend to the duly in the afternoon, hut Robbie demurred, because it would interfere with his best workouts. Ho preferred the morning drill.

"Eventually, Sergeant Major Tront-Rla came along on furlough and agreed to undertake the morning instructions. It was then up to the players and their action decision that it was too late followed." Willing to Drill at Home. Manager Robinson, speaking for the players, said: "If the drill had started when we came here. 1 know the boys! would have been eager for it. AVe've got one or two men like Chief Meyers and Jimmy illckman who manual of anna and they would have! been a bit; help to the Instructor.

hen it came to only a week of verbal instruction before going on a barn-: storming trip, when everything would! be forgotten, wo decided to post pone the drill. We are as loyal and patriotic! us anybody and are ready for the i it should come. I "If Mr. Ebbels wants tis to drill; every morning at Ebbcts Held, wc are i willing." Pouhls So Enthusiasm. Robbie said ho would take up the question of morning drills at Ebbets' Field when the players reach Brook-j Jyn.

lie refused to comment on Fra-zee's intimation that the Superbas are! slackers other than to say: "I don't think the Ked Sox are keen on the drill. Why, Jack I tarry told me they weren't going to take ii up. They've got to show me." A wag in camp, who compared the! expression of loyally and patriotism, of (lie Brooklyn players with the fam-' ions "jingo" policy of Uncle Sam In lhe distant, pnsl, handed the following! parody around lasi night: We're patriots and loyal And. by Jingo, wo can light, this military drilling--Xot hing doing. Hans! good night! AVildcal Hunt Cold weather and wet grounds set the Superbas back a day in training! yesterday and Robbie hung out the: double session program today.

Heavy; lain last night, however, made the ball' park a quagmire Uncle Wilbert or-1 ganized a wildcat bunt yesterday that i was a scream, lie look thp players' iibout nine miles over the in automobiles, providing a passenger car for the scribes and himself, and an open bus for the men. There were four dogs and four gunners. When they reached the hunting grounds, fact that the Superbas voted down the new owner said: Vt'e start today and would have done an army officer to take us in hand. instructions. are, said Frazee.

"They could get the plan and referred me to Colonel Military Training For Minor Leaguers NEWPORT NEWS, March 21 The Norfolk, Virginia League, club and the Buffalo will train at Norfolk, yesterday arranged with the commandant of Fort Monroe for the services of a drill sergeant. It is planned to teacli the ball players the rudiments of preparedness. Hobble chased the bus back to town. All except Daubcrt, Merkle, Meyers and Olson, who were wised up and got. seats on the mudguards of the car, walked back.

It was good for their wind, said Kobbie. Nary a wildcat could be found. Sherry Smith bagged a lonesome squirrel, and baby rabbit was caught and let go. AVheezer Dell followed what he thought were wildcat tracks and was abandoned. He returned to camp tired and empty-handed.

Jack Coombs, a mighty nimrod from Maine, went after small birds and wasted twenty of Hi -Myers' valuable shells. Others just hiked. All got back in time for the races be sure of that. I.nst Conference Today. Boss Kbbets agreed to Zack Wheat and Charley Stengel a fnal hearing today, and it is like'y tint the holdouts will cither be signed up tonight or will depart for home.

Kbbcts says he has offered Whuat close to which is as much us any other outfielder in the league is getting, excepting possibly Benny KaulV. The club owner declares he has met demands more than half way and has reached the limit. Stengel announced that he had been approached by Jack Coombs with an offer on behalf of Ebbcts of a $400 bonus if he bats .310 this season. That was Stengel's 1915 average and Kbbets is willing to pay if be repeats. Stengel sent back, word that the Inducement wasn't, hie enough far from it.

TbbetH thereupon called all bets off. Up at Camp Majestic Frazee is in the same position in regard to Harry Hooper and Duffy Lewis. Frazee has stopped all dickering and sajs the only way his holdouts can talk to him is to place their contracts in his loiter box at the hotel. Stengel's Argument. Talking about the bonus offered him for batting .316.

Stengel said such an would upset teamwork. "Why, I'd be up there thinking about nothing but base hits," declared Charles D. "I would be inclined to double cross Robbie if he asked me to bunt, and try to pole that old ball out for a base And I'd be working against I'reffer. who, I hear, has a bonus for winning twenty-five games. It would be me for these base hits, regardless of winning the game with inside work for Old Jeff.

It looks bad to me." the termination of one of the fastest bouts ever seen between heavyweights. There was no let-up during the' entire ten rounds. Klynn only landed about four clean blows. Klynn weighed in at 187- pounds, and Dcvere 6 pounds more. The latter had the advantage in height and reach.

In the other ten-rounder Willie Burns, weighing 117', pounds, substituting for Joe Garry, who was overweight, gave Georgie Maas, 116, a complete surprise, but had to be satis-tied with a draw. Ked beat Joe I'aul in the six-round preliminary. Albany 21 The Slater-Davis bill, designed to mnke boxing in New York State unlawful, and which was introduced at the request of Governor Whitman, last night, was reported favorably by the Assembly Codes Committee. Since the Kxecutivo first demanded the repeal of tho boxing law, opponents to the Slater-Davis bill have urged that the Governor accept a compromise that would prevent the abolition of the sport. It became known last night that Governor Whitman would accept no compromise of any kind and would use every means at his command to compel the passage of the repeal bill.

Rosi on, 21 Joe Kgan of this city was given a decision over Mike O'Dowd of St. Paul, in a twelve-round bout here last night. A year ago O'Dowd stopped Kgan In the ninth round of a bout hero. The men are middlewelghts. Charley White snd Krankio Callahan are In training for their bout at the Clermont S.

C. on Thursday night March 20. Karrell will meet Paddy Murphy in the main go at the Clermont S. C. next Saturday night, and in a second bout Ked Allen boxes Soldier itartticld.

Tlie Port Washington Club will feature featherweights tomorrow night. K. o. Krankie Williams and Jack Courtney will clash. The amateur boxing championships of the Association of 1 he A.

A. It. will be held at the New York A. ('. ton ght, tomorrow night ind Saturday night.

Freddy Welsh has been offered by a Toledo promotor for 11 bout with Johnny ivilbano on July 4, Silent Martin anil Joe llorrell will box in the star hunt at the Broadway ('. next. Saturday night. Bat-ling Sweeney and Joe meet In the Keinl-llnal. Benny Leonard will box In tile lub lint gave him his start when he 'aces I'ackcy Ilommey In the start bout ut the Kalrmont A.

tomorrow night. He boxed his first professional mulch at that club, did not have one around the" place, it would strike an outsider that he might have used his influence to bring in one from some other post. Here's the Proper Spirit. That the Superbas' hearts are in the right place is demonstrated by the offer of Uncle Wilbert Robinson to have the men drilled in the morning when they are at home. This offer should, be accepted at once by the club and the players, and with enthusiasm instead of with mere acquiescence.

Having associated with them for several years, we cannot believe that the players on the Brooklyn team are so utterly stupid that they cannot see that they are working for their own benefit by offering to show their willingness to prepare themselves to do their bit for their country. Apart from air considerations of patriotism, their participation with a hearty good will in the military exercises is a dollars-and-cents business proposition, if. while everybody else except the domiciled foreign foes and the home-grown renegades. Is taking an active part in preparation for. or conduct of a war.

the high-salaried ball players remain supremely Indifferent and scorn to bestir themselves, they may count on an aroused public driving them out of the game, and leaving them to seek) their livelihoods at other occupations, to say nothing of the opprobiuin which will be attached to their conduct. This is such an open and shut proposition that any child of seven could read the signs aright. It is reasonable to suppose that the Brooklyn and other ball players will not be utterly blind to their own selfish interests, regardless of the opinion some of them might entertain about the bitter hardship imposed by ordering them to do an hour or so of useful athletic exercises for their country every day. Yankees Will Profit. Military drill at the camp of the New York Americans in Macon, has been a howling success, say the reporters.

It has made a hit with the players, and it will make a hit with th public. The results will show at the box office, war or no war, and a full treasury means a maintenance of high salaries. One fundamental principle that many ball players overlook Is that when the money persists in remaining away from the treasury, it will fade from the contracts. The Yankees have had sense enough to plug for an innovation that will help the club through themselves, and they are sure to profit therefrom. After a drill yesterday at Macon before Colonel Everett V.

Smith, of the Sixteenth Infantry, overseer of tho militia regiments in the 8outh, it was announced that Sergeant Smith Gibson, who has been drilling the Yankees, will not only stick with them in the training camp, but has been detached from recruiting service, and will remain with the team in his official capacity all through the season, both at home and on the road. Will the New York Club lose money by paying Sergeant Gibson's expenses on the road in these troublous Semi-Pro Two players, an outfielder and a fUn loot season were with CHiuiu-i, vim the Homecrcst team, are open for engagement with a light semi-professional team. Address Pete 1930 East Fourteenth street. The Bellewood A. and S.

Club will travel' this season and is open for booking with light semi-professional teams. Address Harry nocneri, in East 162d street, tsronx. The Corona Arrows would like to book games with home teams averaging 17 to 19 years. Address Joseph Waag, 1 Summit avenue, Corona, L. I.

will nripii their ine season on April 22 at Bridgetown, with the local team. The Olympic Baseball Club, a semi-professional team of Clifton, N. would like to hear from semi-profes sional teams. Address William rank- ovic, 21 Lincoln place, 1 imon, i. j.

Fencers to Compete For Long Island Title flutes Barnard, the foils star of the Crescent Athletic Club, who has just been appointed chairman of the fencing committee, announces a nnmnetltinn for the iunior champion ship of the Long Island division of the A. F. L. A. Tne airair win iii 1- U.T.m, o-vmnOHtlim.

nil ('llll- 111 1116 l-tw luv'ii' ton street, Saturday evenlng.M arch 24. Through tne couriesy ui mo new chairman or tne nouse cummiuee, William F. Hagarty, women will be admitted. PA11KOTT LEADS HENSSELAEH. nvnv N.

March 21 Harry Par- rott left euard on tho Rensslaer Poly five, has been elected captain for next season. He entered the Institute from tho Newburgh High School and has k.w... r.ilnntit to Athletics, hnvlns- made hiH letter in the engineers foot ball team, and is at present assistant fhanager of baseball. His guarding was one of the feature of the season OKIOI.ES W.WT GAMES. The Orioles of Mollis, L.

a team which made, a good record In the Junior Eagle Baseball League, would like to book games with amateur trav- fi-oio 1ft tn 17 years. Address Harry dc Heisthal, Villnrd uvenue, Mollis, i. AMERICANS WIN AT HOCKEY. Seattle, March 21 Les Ca-nadlens of Montreal, National Hockey Association champions, lost last night to tho Seatttle Pacific Coast Hockey Association champions, 6 to 1, times? It most distinctly will not. Make a bet on that.

The drilling by the Yankees is going to prove one of the best and most legitimate advertising schemes in the history of baseball. The same goes for the Chicago White Sox, who have been as industrious as the Yankees in their drilling. You could not imagine Charley Comiskey, the greatest advertiser the sport ever knew, missing a chance like that. Boxing Appears Doomed. A weak-kneed Legislature, heeding the behest of a halo-rattling Governor, is expected to kill the boxing game.

The Slater-Davis bill, aimed at the sport, was reported favorably by the Codes Committee of the Assembly last night, and the grand pose of the chief executive of the Empire State before a comparative handful of the professionally pious Is about to be accomplished. These will applaud the pose with great gusto npw, and knock him in a week, because the continuance of their incomes from subscriptions demand that they continue knocking. Folks who have followed the pitiful play of petty politics by the Governor in this matter, and who are interested in seeing Americans encouraged to use their fists Instead of a knife or a bomb, will remember and vote accordingly long after the professional reformers have abandoned their complaisant tool with an equine giggle. Rickey to Boss Cardinals. Branch Rickey, former manager of the St.

Louis Americans, and at present general adviser of that club, has been signed to a contract for three years to act as president and business manager of the St. Louis National League Club. The St Louis Nationals were recently put on the market as a popular subscription enterprise, and it will be up to Kickey to put tnrougn that deal and make it a success. All be will have to do will be to win a pennant every year to please a horde of small stockholders, every one of whom will consider that he has an inalienable right to mix in the club's affairs. Rickey's salary is said to be $16,000 per year under his nevf contract, which the St.

Louis Amer. leans threaten to light. If Rickey Is successful in placating thpse stockholders and holding down that Job for three years, he will be worth about $500,000 pet year as an executive for United States Steel, If ho is not grabbed by an infuriated public and compelled to exercise his marvelous talents by bossing the Democratic party. Frank Force. Loses Fulton.

Frank Force has lost Fred Fulton. Frank has been managing Fulton of late, but a Wisconsin court has decided that Mike Collins, who is credited with discovering Fulton, has a prior right to the heavyweight boxing challenger of Jess WiUard. Collins' contract with Fulton has five years to run and if the decision is effective Fulton will have to cancel the matches made for him by Force or turn over to Collins. Also, the Wisconsin Boxing Commission has decided that Les Parcy shall not box in its State until Darcy proves that Edward Timothy O'Sulli-van was not Darcy's manager, and so hod no right to bind Darcy to matches in Wisconsin, which Darcy now seeks to avoid. Meadowbrook to Play In Big Polo Series San Diego, March 2i Teams representing the Meadowbrook Country Club of Long Island, N.

and tho Miami Valley Club will meet today in the first game for the Pacific Coast All-America Polo Trophy. The winners will play Del Monte Friday. In the final game. The Meadowbrook four will be composed of G. M.

Heck-scher, C. P. Beadleston, Malcolm Stevenson and C. F. Burke.

Overton and Ray Ready for Match One of the most important mile races in tho history of indoor athletics will be staged at Madison Square Garden tonight when Joie Ray of the Illinois A. C. and Johnny Overton of Yale clash In a special event at the games of the John Wanamaker Commercial Institute. Many other good events are carded, among them being the P. S.

A. L. relay championship. MISS BJIRSTEDT TRIUMPHS. San Diego, March 21 Miss Molla Bjurstedt, national woman's single champion, defeated R.

F. Sco-vel of London, a noted English tennis player, yesterday, on the Coronado Country Club courts, 6 4, 4 6, 6 S. It was a special match game and a large audience applauded Miss BJur-stedt's victory. WRESTLING ENTRIES CliOSBI. Entries for the Metropolitan Association A.

A. V. wrestling championships close tonight with J. W. Stumpf, chairman, 200 Broadway.

The championships will be held at the following clubs: City A. New York A. C. and Crescent A. C.

George Bothner will wrestle Young Munday and Harry Stevens will meet Tom O'Rourke's unknown in the bouts at the Star tomorrow night. GAINS CRESCENT FINAL. Archie Baxter Jr. reached tho final round In the Crescent A. 0.

squash tennis tournament yesterday when he defeated N. F. Torrance 15 10, 15 10. Baxter was strong on low shot. PLAN BIG ItOAD Rl'N.

The annual Central Park handicap 4V4-mile road run of tho Union Sst-tlement A. C. will be huld from tfee clubhouse on 1 0 -UH street, Manhattan, on Sunday, April 1, at 2:30 p.m. Gus Christie Fails to Impress In Victory Over Buck Crouse Indications point (o a record crowd being at the Brooklyn Ice Palace tonight. The Canadian Club of New York, under whoso auspices the contest is golnff to be held, states that practically every one of the tickets has been sold.

In addition, the Crescent Athletic Club demanded more than one-half the house, and these seats also have been purchased. The contest promises to be the mo3t interesting one of the season. Arthur Knowlson, chairman of the hockey committee of the Canadian Club, has picked an excellent Ail-New York team, and as the players have managed to get in one good practice they feel sure that, they will be able to give the New Mooncrs a good run for their money. It has been decided to start the game at 8:30 p.m. The doors will open one hour earlier and the first arrivals will get the seats.

Barring only a few seats in the little balcony, which are to be set aside for Lord and Lady Aberdeen. Mayor and Mrs. Mitchei, Borough President and Mrs. Pounds and other invited guests, the scats will not be reserved. The Crescent Athletic Club has no intention of being beaten.

It will have its strongest team on the ice. Mitchell is to play goal. Browne and Heffer-nan will be seen on the defense. On the forward line there will be Conway, Desjardins. Roach and McCarthy.

Against this aggregation the Canadian Club will line up Smart, Brit-ton, Tom Howard Hobey Baker. Russell Ellis, Marshall Peabody and Reggie Young. Lord Aberdeen will be the honorary referee. The regular officials will be B. Garon and S.

Paton. The goal umpires will be P. Stuart and Jack Howard, Tom Howard W. J. Croker, R.

L. von Bernuth and George T. Stebbins will be the timers and penalty timekeepers. Manual Admitted To Baseball Tourney Manual was formally admitted to the high schools championship baseball tournament at the meeting of the games committee yesterday. At the February meeting it was thought that Manual would not be represented by a baseball team this year, but after a schedule had been drawn up the Seventh avenue institution applied for admittance.

The tentative schedule, printed In The Eagle recently, was formally adopted at the meeting yesterday. Five Brooklyn teams Erasmus, Commercial, Boys High, New Utrecht and Manual will compete in the tournament. Play will start on April 21. The schedules of eighteen high school tennis teams were approved at the meeting of the games committee yesterday. More than SOU entries have been received for the seventh annual inter-seholastic games of the Princeton Club, which will be held next Saturday afternoon at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory.

Over 10.000 tickets have been distributed in the schools whose Icutns have entered. Varsity letters have been awarded five Broklyn athletes at C. C. N. Y.

They are Schmidt, Boys High; Simon, Eastern District; Bornstein, Boys High, and Eiten and Lipton, Eastern District. All played on the basketball team. Bill to Tax Anglers In New Hampshire Concord, N. March 21 Anglers who come from many States to enjoy the fishing for bass, lake trout and landlocked salmon in Lake Winnipe-saukeo, Lake Sunapeo and other waters In this State, and foir brook trout in the mountain streams, will have to pay for their privilege hereafter, if a bill passed by the House of Representatives, yesterday, becomes law. The bill requires that fishermen must obtain State licenses, for which a small fee will be exacted.

oranges and in a few years develop it Into a great industry should be able to work out a way to get rid of the oiled-sand greens. Probably the desire behind the development of the orange industry was by no means so Intense as is Hie ambition of the Los Angeles golfer to have real grass greens. With such a desire burning in the bosom of every golfer in this wideawake corner of the world, why should not the near future see real turf green here? It will when the Los Angelnns realize what a tremendous attraction for tourists perfect golf links are and how the production of the real thing In the way of putting greens will tend to draw golfers from all over the country to this section who now are Inclined to choose some other spot if by doing so they can get the advantage of grass greens. The average golfer wants no Eden on earth without a links and he wants no links without grass greens. If Los Angeles claims to be an Eden It must live up to the other part of the (ipfclal OorresponJent'e pf Tho Eig Liven of (tolfprn all ronilnj u.

Out In California larai. Wt can putt and Jrave behind Footprints In the oily Los Angeles! 15 Standing in the gallery of the Evans four-ball match last Saturday at the tee of the seventh hole of the Midwick Country Club links, a. woman looked down the steep drop to the green, 147 yards away, and exclaimed: "My! doesn't that putting green look just like a big brown pancake?" The comparison was not inapt, for no' hing else can so describe the appearance of these Southern California oiled-sand putting greens. They are all circular and loom up like so many dar'f blots on the otherwise green landscape. Curing the dry perkid in mid-sum-mcr when all the verdure here is burned a pronounced brown, there is a harmonious blending of these, "pancakes" wbh the parched fair greens, I ut just now.

when the rainy season can hardly be said to be finally over, the Incongruity between the dull putting "greens" and the vivid emerald of the fairways Is striking. Just why these pancake greens are lh fashion is not clear to one who has studied such a course as the Lido links at Long Beach, L. I. Ask a native golfer why there are no grass greens and you will be told that there is no way to keep the grass from burning up in the rainless succession, not merely of days and weeks, but of rrtonths. The next natural, inevitable nucry that comes to the lips of the visitor is, "But won't sprinkling keep the grass alive?" Ground Will Xot Hold Water.

"Stranger, look here," will come the reply with a certain tone of pity, "you don't know our soil, you don't. Why, in tho middle of the dry period it cracks open wide enough to swallow not only a golf club, but, by thunder, a whole bagful, or a small caddy. "Sprinkling's no good when you have no earth body under the grass to hold the water. Why, man, sprinkle a green here all night in July or August and by 10 o'clock in the morning it'll look as if it hadn't had a. drop of water in years.

Porosity, that's the thing that makes grass greens impossible. Close up this earth so it'll hold water and we'll show you what we can do." Ordinarily the visitor goes away impressed by this explanation and seei'ng a certain worthiness, if not actual beauty, in these odoriferous oiled sand contrivances because to him they seem to make "greens" possible here, and hence make golf practicable. These greens are made by mixing sand and oil in certain proportions. This brown mixture is then spread upon the ground to the depth of an inch or possibly more. The earth underneath being what is popularly known as "hardpan," furnishes a bed almost as hard as brick or cement.

When a ball hits such a green coming down from a high pitch, it bounds ten feet high or more and where it will stop not even the caddy can guess. The tees are all cement, and hence a brassie or a driver with a half brass sole is used on the tee, as the back edge of a plain wooden driver bottom would be worn off in no time on the flint-like tees. Every approach to a green must be of Hie run-up kind, owing to the certain bouncing of the ball from a Pitching being entirely out of the question, trapping across the entrance to a green is not. thought of and would be as anomalous as bunkers on a tee. Consequently every fairway is open to tho green practically after the drive.

Once the cross bunkers to catch a drive are passed, there is no more cross trouble to worry one. Smoothing Off the Line of the Pntt. Arrived at the green there ensues the tedious wait for the smoothing of the pathway of the putts. The tine oiled sand naturally receives impressions from players' shoes, and these footprints must be smoothed out. If Longfellow had been a golfer, one might Imagine him as having got his Inspiration for the line.

"Footprints on the sands of time," from playing on Southern California links. As the stranger approaches one of these "pancakes" for the first time, he naturally looks about for the flag. He is told that the black thing in the middle is the flag. To him it looks like a piece of soiled carpet. That's exactly what It turns out to be.

The "flag" proves to be a section of carpet rolh.d around a piece of wood about two fpet wide. This piece is attached to the "flagstiek." the small end of which rests in the hole. The caddy removes the stick from the hole. and. selecting the ball that Is "away." proceeds to drag the piece of carpet over the line of the putt as a gralner draws his graining Instrument over the varnish compound.

As the caddy nenrs the ball, the player lifts It and replaces it after the "smoother" has passed. Not. satisfied with the degree of smoothness he achieved on the out trip from the cup, the caddy may elect tu cover the path again, this I holes of play. I Not only is the path smoothed for a player's first putt, if he overruns and has to play back over footprints, the caddy and the carpet are again called upon. Say that the path has to be leveled for six putts on each green, then the allowance of two minutes does not seem too great.

Where, as at the municipal links, most of the players carry their own clubs, one of the players will do the "tracking" for the others, being similarly served when he comes to make his putt, or he may officiate for himself as well. ,1 Of such greens, of course, there can be no undulations, as the term is understood when speaking of grass greens, hut nevertheless there are rolls and irregularities beneath the oily surface that have the most surprising effect on a putt. "Time and again have I sighted a putt over an oiled track, smoothed down apparently to a dead level, and could have sworn there was nothing to throw the ball off. and yet it has rolled off after starting true and running true more than half the distance." said James Martz. the professional at the Griffith Park links.

"You see the base on which the oiled sand is laid may not be regular and still the irregularity, unless very sharp and pronounced, would not appear on the oiled surface. I believe that it is easier to detect irregularities en a grass green for that very reason." Sweeping Stone in Curling' Suggested. Sometimes a player will start a putt before the smoothing carpet has crossed the hole and then will the scene resemble a man with the broom in curling, sweeping away the stone to aid the slide of his partner's "iron." Again, the man or caddy with the carpet "flag" may notice some footprints in the line of the putt after the ball has started and run the smoother ahead of the ball after it has started. On the leeward side of a green, the odor of oil is perceptible enough to make a Bayonne, N. man think that he is near the Standard Oil tanks In his home town.

The local golfers believe that they' are doomed to have this kind of green forever, but a golfer who has looked critically over such a course as Lido is likely not. to take so pessimistic a view of the Southern California golfing future. When one realizes that the sand was pumped out of the ground to be used for the Lido links at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars, and that afterward this great excavated area more than 0,000 yards in length was filled with grasp-growing earth, shipped in from other places, one begins to see the possibilities of replacing non-grass-prowing earth with soil that will produce grass and hold it alive through the dry period here. Lido Soil Replacement Shows Way. If earth replacement has been so successful at Lido, where the rising of salt water to kill the grass has bad to be fought against, the question naturally arises why the soil here cannot be dug up on the putting greens anil removed to the depth of several feet and then replaced by a soil from elsewhere capable of sustaining put-ting-gren grass.

Nobody would suggest leaving such Imported soil to the tender mercy of the cloudless sky for month after month, for such neglect would leave the grass to be burnt as before, but if such earth were as regularly watered, as are the house lawns that are kept green throughout the year, why should not the putting grass be kept alive? Moreover, an Interesting question Is why lawn grass is not a victim of soil porosity as much as putting grass. The answer given is that tne lawn grass is kept continually wet. Well, green sprinklers are now so made that practically continuous wetting of greens is possible, especially when the use of water is so generously encouraged by the authorities, provided it makes for the benntifying of the city or the enhancement of the attractiveness of the landscape anywhere. If depth enough were given to the imported earth, there seems to be no reason why it would not hold the water put on It to keep the grass alive. The question of cost of watering should not enter into the consideration of the matter In these day when country chilis in the Middle West and East have gone to the enormous expense of piping all their fairways so ns to have tho grass alive on the fair greens In the driest periods, if such expense can be undertaken elsewhere for the fairways, should an otherwise up-to-date Los Angeles club hold back when It Is a question of watering only eighteen greens? The golfers of a section sufficiently jx'C'fcTesJiive to take up the culture of AllhoiiRh Ous Christie, the Milwaukee; middleweight, decisively trounced Jluek ('rouse of I'itlshtirs; in the star bout at the Broadway Sporting flub lust nitsht.

it was clearly shown that Christie lacks the finesse that would 'make him a first-rater. (Ins knocked down for counts of eissht and nine in Ibe first round, and each time v.ood back lonK enough to allow the l'ittsbun; scrapper to clear his head fulticiently to stall throunh Hie rest of the round. In the fourth round Christie had ('rouse down for a count of nine, and did the same thins. Lew Uussell proved no match for "Warren Cuwiek in the six-round bout which was stopped by Referee Johnny Jlaukop In the fourth round, to save Kussell from a knockout. The fours resulted as follows: Johnny Howe defeated l'rankie Kd wards; Hilly Kenton stopped I'ntsy (Inen in the tlrst round and Iiatilinf? Chuck knocked out Young Oscar in the first round.

Albany. March 21 T-ncnuse the Legislature of failed to make proper appropriation for the salaries of the members of the State Arhletic Commission Frank S. O'Neill, formerly chairman of ibe commission, was represented by his attorney before the I'ivlsion yesterday in 1:11 effort to obtain confirmation of the award of niude by the Court of Claims. O'Neill was chairman of the Athletic Commission from May 1 91 to October HI and claims that he was entitled to compensation at the rate of 2 "1 0 per month, the Court of Claims awarding hint the above amount. The appeal v.

as taken by Attorney General Woodbury, who asserts that the provisions of Chapter 6H0 of the laws of which provided that all members of the State IJoxins Commission should receive a salary of did not provide funds for that purpose. Hoslon, -Northern boxers Avill have to show their best to defeat Kime of the contenders from the South at the National Amateur Athletic t'nion boxing championships, to be held here on April '1 and one of the entries recrlvcd is from Itussell laneri. youthful middleweight of Hay SI. I.ouis. who is said to have (rreat speed.

I.andrleil repre-acntcd a New Orleans club at the national championships last yenr. recently deposed of I.andrleil In three rounds. Hob Mevore of Kansas City defeat Jim I'lynn. the veteran vywc'uht. in every round, ex 'cpt the fifth, which was even at the I'lonc'r Sport luff Club In M'M'lvl'au.

int nbrht. Klynn (lave an eshiHUon of puni h-a hsorh-lrK rarely seen in the roped circle, and was still lrcny mid Ht.