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’‘¦ > I 2 * THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 15. 3923-SPOBTS SECTION. : , Work on Courses Here Continues Climate A ids to Net FamM Golf ¦— 111 Californians II 1 ¦ ¦ ' IWILL closely approach PLAN OF UNITED STATES’ PRETENTIOUS TENNIS STADIUM TILDEN GLAD JOHNSTON MAIN REASON OF THREEi ¦ I HIGH MARK OF LAST YEAR jAv 1 . • . 1 ..¦ '""’.'v' IS TO PLAY IN EUROPE FOR SUCCESS ON COURTS! CONCORD, Mass.. April 14.—The announcement that William M. John- Congressional and Indian Spring Intending to Add ston of San Francisco was going Can Play All Year—Ability to Meet Ball on abroad this spring, communicated to WUllam T. Tilden, 2d. of Philadelphia Full Layouts and Others Are Building More here today, met the response that lie Due lo Use of Hard Surface, and Backing J; would like to go along, too. "But I’m all tied up with pledges Holes or Making Improvements. to play in important tournaments Given Youths Are Other Factors. I with Sandy Wiener and I doubt very s much If I make the trip," he added. Tilden expressed himself as “de- COURSE construction about Washington, which it* lighted that Bill Johnston is going." BY SAMUEL HARDY. reached When Johnston played in England if* peak last year, will be continued, but in a slightly diminishing way. before he was not at his best, the (Captuin 19-4 l/nlted Stale* Da* Is cup team, t champion remarked. GOLFThough construction work this year will not be as large as that England see 01' lEX have been asked why it is that California has produced "All America wants to ol 1922. however, upward of $125,000 will have been spent on courses im- him at his best, and wltb the world many tennis players who have become championship in singles to be de- world famous. Other mediately adjacent to Washington by the end of 1923. Some of this cided for the last time at I coast states have not done so; indeed, one must across Wimble- travel lap-over last year. don this year, it is fitting that our work is a from ¦ gkx :JA Kfl best should he there.” continent to the Atlantic coast before encountering players of Three entirely new eighteen-hole courses are either to be built or ¦ Tt W'i ‘ Tilden said he and Johnston had equal to McLoughlin, Johnston, the Sutton sisters and Mary BrowiirHaU arc in process of construction. Congressional Country Club proposes to I ¦ | i .. discussed a plan of going to Europe together season and that Vin- These players arc known all over the world wdiere tennis is played, anther course to its ~ next add eighteen-hole layout, which, by the way, now is ' n cent Richards, national indoor cham- other Californians, such as the Kinsey brothers and Helen Wills, arc^ra; '-~ in use. Indian Spring, which now has a splendid eighteen-hole course, and young Wiener also were : rapidly gaining international recognition. Sj work another, is promised. Norbeck, pion, will soon start on it Out at Md., considering joining the invasion. All It is true that the Atlantic coast can of many has begun eighteen-hole under the supervision of his plans this year had been made boast more work for an course year | than can the Pacific, but it must be that & who have done good deal of 1 with a visit to England next in remembered tennis was Toomey Flynn, a course construction mind, he said, adding "it Is a ques- j played in America in the east, that a lasting hereabouts, and the Beaver Dam Club, Md., tournament schedule work near handover. has tion that will take some timet to j summer existed there for years before the far west held more than o< under way nine holes, which, it is believed, will offer a fine test for golfers. answer, whether it can rearranged leave i or two meetings annually. _ Virginia Toomey Flynn are now. In any case I shall not Out in and ( Bandy in the lurch. If he can’t go Furthermore, after the ir.aupura- finishing up their work of recondition- j across. X shall not. and even though of the Davis cup contests in lug and rearranging the course of j JACK ROSS, BRITISH PRO, he can we may not bo able to ad- ; JOHNSON-WILLARD FIGHT eastern players gained the furt: just other matters.” advantage of interntitlonal compev the Washington Go'lf and Country J IS COMING TO AMERICA | IS ATTRACTING THE FANS tion. a privilege that the California*- club at a coat of nearly $40,000, Part , tacked at first. Such names as Sea Word been * has received that Frank Poultry, general man- Wrenn, was done last year andj Jnck Hess, formerly professional I Slocum, Whitman. I.arneo.B&i of this work ager of Madison Square Garden, Wright. Ward the course will probably be ready at the Addington Club, decided and Davis becan ; baa New York, has announced that familiar in international play befoi to take up bin In 10,000 for play in its entirety b_v July. All | residence the A. C. PLANNING more than applications for the west had any chance to States. Hons has aa yet HANDLEY I'nlted not been received the greens been built, amphitheater Club, Hills, I’., reservations Have champions such experience. have and alUj ¦nude any nflllatlon with This which will be built at the West Side Forest L. will be the handsomest and most for the boxing bouts that are to with an Fall that remains to be done is the finish- Ain-.ri'caß golf club, so far aa la practical plant in the world for net play. It will cost $150,000, and will furnish unobstructed view for more than 13,000 be held in the Yankees’ stadium in Other Sections. ing up of sodding the lees, filling and known. He Is one of the best spectators. It is to be ready for the Davis cup challenge round matches, which begin the last of August. on Mny 12 for the benefit of the Tennis is played extensively through - BB knotsn British pros, having won ACMALL milk fund. Jess Willard and out the southern spates, where the Map conditioning TO YEAR sodding bunkers, and BE 1 the Kent professional champion- Floyd Johnson will elash in the climate often permits play the year the putting surfaces. ship in 1012 nnd 1014. He has final flfteea-ronnd event, and it around, and also in every middle Bjf for the boxing fans every- Hai “Ideal” Ceurir. also qualified the News of "Watch us grow,” is the slogan of is evident that western state; yet not a single player World tournament several times newly organized Handley Athletic : where are anxious to see whether from these places, with the pos-ibie BS Burning Tree, "ideal" course AMERICA’S TENNIS PLANT the the and played on the Scottish side CRIQUI, BOXER, of Petworth that plans to have wlllnrd is n “has bren” nnd also exception of Kreigh Collins of Chicy- FRENCH Club Johnson as a prospre- out near the Congressional Club, be- ngulnst the English team at Ful- base basket track teams to sise up go. ever attained recog- BpS ball, ball and llve opponent for Jaek Dempsey. international tween Cabin John and Bethesda, wcll in 1014 for the Red Cross to represent It in amateur circles this nition. Why is it. then, lliat Cali- B|S Md.. funds. He to thirty-three years WILL BE BEST IN WORLD year. « fornians alone been to com- is practically completed and will be have able Kg old. pete with success against the finest ready for play by early summer. This Dr. R. L. Eller, formerly of George- B|| players of the world when other west- B * predicted, immediately A FIGHTING FAMILY j town University, is coach of the track nurse, is OF it Car- ern and players have Ip will as une I squad, while Pemsin of middle western take rank of the finest Clarencecharge of the failed to do so? eighteen hole links in the country. i roll Institute is in bas- SOLDIERS permanent WILL to amphitheater. SCRAT In place, have a is have tennis On the Eugene e.'riqul, European feather- ket ball players. Robert E. Greer, the first Californians Chevy .Chase Club has finished the in their a very real advantage changes in Its layout and new greens . SPRING SHIFTS at Forest Hills, Long Island, weight champion, Is former manager of the Silver Spring climate w| INDIAN historic turf of the West Side Club who now in the players states. j over all However, nine, will coacli the base ball team. from other HI and tees have been built. AMERICA soon a court worthy United States to attempt to wrest i The equable climate that prevail# in there will arise coliseum of the traditions of Dr. Cuvillier, president I some conditioning work remains to Louis M. the Johnny and manager the Handleys, Is HONORS San Francisco and Los Angeles B members will world from | DISTRICT be done before the be and United players have history in game. the title Kiibane. of FOR tennis States who made the districts—the only sections that haV» I' allowed to play on the new greens. Scene of the of E. can trace his lineage back to the seeking games with unlimited teams notalile FAIR DATE international triumph Maurice McLoughlin over ii by produced players—permits ¦IS SEX EVENT in the city. He can he reached At Bannockburn the I construction play throughout the year. For Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding in 1914, the flash, to the tenth century ami numbers among his I calling 244, writing 203 boxers of Fort Myer, eight BS work.