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Show $P0RnJGHT &r Grant land Rice -officeMr;: " Jr Alexand. r fftbMrie n the Hh.-lf iSIbJpllLub0,,r s""'r rhl ?pwE7 an avtul ,Jln " tinw " p"' ' 1 Jmu jttT u rsi,its "ir;i11 ,Mkn .w... ont.'ni "at8 merely pretty IMcLi CVtUllJ ...4. ;.f I r, TBi0h 0 "! Ulliil work i wo LBellht7i a 'lr--mc did Jm tM ,h ' lmi" 'CepHblo yM "must u''ar U1 ih" 1 ZM h ,h nothing at .,' Pretty rf' his lexi- jltf "Ml bother about this -'sPL001 jm&T as one could hop-. o Jm - tempfrmenui qulvo ,M so than many -no h - Bban his hr of rnl)jff)r sin"e' inp Oo Kcrenltv he Ml!. h. ,h. E Duncan m"nt10nstho soul of an artist that isn't satisfied to be twenty feet from the cup when the right effort should leave the ball only ten feet away If Jones had been content to work only for a score at Skokle he might asil have won. We recall two Chances where by playing safe he COUld have chipped or pitched to the edge of the green, twenty to thirty feet away from Ihe cup. In each S be went boldly for the pin across deep traps, where ihe shot failed t,, come off. ' Why didn't you play to the right ' some one asked him T couldn't play for the pin doing that,'1 he said. The perfect ohot would leave him a putt for a three the safe shot wouldn't In each case he took !s. The golf philosophy of Hagen and Jonei Ifl quite different. 1 I don't play to pick up Htrokes,' says Hagen "I play to save tbem " Jones doesn'r play to save them he plays to pick them up wherever he can. Hagen plays boldly with a strong dasli m caution Junes only plays boldly, wit), caution thrown to the winds. Win him It is Cm pig or nothing; perfection per-fection or pay thi penativ DI NCAX'S WAV. George Duncan happens to be cast ' In the same mold No man ln sport ha more of the artistic ln his soul "I never bother much about how 1 score," the Scot stylist remarked a year ago. "I am only interested in the way hit the ball. If I am hitting hit-ting the ball as I ought to hit It, tht rest or It In unimportant." We hv aoen Duncan refuse mafiy chauces to Play for safety Ho has always preferred pre-ferred to take the risk, no matter nrhet the hazard, if n flue stroke could bring him to port We hav. sees both Jones and Duncan, Dun-can, after victorious matches, as badly bad-ly dissatisfied as If they had been beaten because they had not been 1 hitting the ball There Is no satisfaction to ellhor In having some opponent beat himself. him-self. i hi-: i mo A B ICING On about beyond there's but one goal Where step bj utep the dreamer mounts. For those who know the artist's soul When nothing but perfection counts. i And though they Rlog along the beat I A long way off by dawn or dark. Through days of triumph or- defeat j Their far gaze never leaves the mark. The Scnbright turf tennis gathering I which begins next week will be one 1 of the closing stretches for the Na-tional Na-tional championship and tho Davis- CUp'. The field here Will number the select from west and east, or east and west, aj you pare to arrangi I Just at present the order ln the Oer-manlown Oer-manlown march seems to be Tllden and Jornson, but from Richards. Patterson Pat-terson Anderson, Williams and others there is enough tub-nt in sight to make 'his next championship one of the star features on the long list, Tllden still look3 to be supreme. I He has everything that he ever had J I before, and through greater experl- ' I i-nre, Is more likely to play his best i game against the hardest test. He i ha-s greater COnflde&CB HOW than he I has ever known, and this confidence 'backed up by speed and skill of th I highest order, will leave him an Im-I Im-I pregnable fortress for this season at I least, if he doesn't reach keen edg too soon. There is a question whethei I any tennis pluy i ever lived who COUld stop Tllden on turf an he In today A leading tennis expert on I told us that he considered Laurenca I Doherty the greatest player of all lime Doherty would find ln Tilde. i ( an opponent worthy of the best he had upon the court. |