Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1923, Page 5

GOLF STARS READY FOR AMERICAN OPEN AT INWOOD GRID COACHES PLAN PLAYERS ‘RAZZED’ —__ BIG LIST MAKES FOUR QUALIFYING ‘DAYS NECESSARY Smith, Hagen and Sarazen Are Favorites. ‘When the first golfer tees off tomor- Yow morning in the American ‘open golf championsh!p at the Inwood Coun- try club, Long island, he will open the greatest classic yet held in the his tory of the old Scottish game, Never before has such a galaxy of stars been entered for an open championship and the fact that the British and Scottish headliners will be absent will not be noticed. In point of numbers the field far out- @istances any other tournament ever hheld, either here or abroad, more than 250 of the best amateurs and profes- gionals in the country being entered. So large ts the entry list that the ofl- ¢lals have decided upon four qualify- ing Gays instead of three, and ag a re sult the tournament will extend over the whole week, being decided next Sat- Four Qualifying Days. Under the ruling of the officials as authorized by Robert A. Gardner of Chicago, chairman of the champion- ship committees, the field will be di- vided into four groups of about ninety each for the qualifying rounds, one group shooting each day. A certain mumber of the low scores each day, Possibly twenty, will qualify to shoot 4m the championship, thirty-six holes of which will be decided on Friday and the remainder Saturday. Gene the youthful New ‘York pro, who won the title at the Skokie club, Chicago, last summer, will defend it, but in Walter Hagen, Mac- Donald smith, John Black, Joe Kirk- ‘wood, Jim Barnes, Jock Hutchison, and a score of others, both amateur and professional, he is going to have some tough opposition. Smith the Favorite, Close followers of the game give Smith, the California pro who created somewhat of a sensation in the British open championship in Scotland a few weeks ago, a better than even chance te win, Although he has been playing golf in America for years, this is the first American open in which Smith has competed. His showing abroad, ‘when he shot consistent golf in a half ® dozen different tourneys, finishing ‘third in the British open, two strokes behind Arthur Havers, the winner, Places him in the front rank of Amer- fean golfers. e ‘Walter Hagen, former holder of the British open title, who lost it to Ha- vers this year by one stroke, is an- ether American who must te given serious consideration. Hagen is a golfer who is always up among the leaders, Many of the old timers are pulling for John Black, another Cali- fornia professional, to capture the title this year. John Black Entered. Black, the canny Scot, who admits having grandchildren, but who re- fuged to tell how old he is, got off a train from California last summer and ‘went out to the Skokie club and tied the club record without any practice. ‘That was the first the majority of spectators had heard of Black, but from then until the end of the tourna- ment the elderly gentleman and his ever present pipe were very much in evidence. He tied for second place with Bobby Jones, the Atlanta ama- teur. Incidentally there are a number of amateurs entered who are apt to be heard from, although !t is not often that an amateur cops the open crown. Chick Evans, who did it a few years ago, is entered and may do it again, although Young Jones and Jesse Guil- ford, the college star, are given better chances, Joe Kirkwood Has Chance,~ Another player who has a good chance to win is Joe Kirkwood, the Australian trick shot wizard, who now makes his home in America, Joe can do anything with a golf ball but make it talk when he {s giving exhibitions, but he always séems to have just a little bit of hard luck when he is shoot. ing in tournaments. In exhibitiéns he slices, pulls, and does other wierd stunts at will, and in match play he also does them occasionally, but not because he wants to. He was fourth in the British open, however. The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is Bopelessly rotten.” THE PINCH HITTER. ‘When the game has rone “agin” us But by some happenstance It develops we have in us At least @ fighting chance, It's up to him if ‘tisn’t Our vietory with = whizz— Most of the time it isn’t But now and then It ts. When the score ts two to zero And s couple guys are on And some reg’lar wenk-stick hero ‘Most of the time he doesn’ But now and then he does. Fils Job looks very eary, It's largely loaf, of course, But the fans construe it clieeay With razzing loudand hoarse: If he whilffs, they jeer; but pan not If he hits a homer—Man!— Most of the time hé cannot But mow and then he can, GUY LEE. AFTER GENE’S HONORS X JOE EIREWOOD. golfers in the country. SOMETHING ABOUT LIVE BAIT. HERE are. some days when it seems as if game fish will take nothing but live bait and then is when we have to hit for some Little brook to seine for minnows or hunt for crawfish and hellgramites, ‘The hellgramite is second to none as @ bass bait yet comparatively few anglers are familiar with this insect, or know only the larva stage of it. If you haven't tried the hellgramite for getting bass you will be interested in ‘knowing where and how you can lo- cate ‘em and keep ‘em, ‘The larva of the hellgramite remains in that stage for about three years, during which time you always find them in water. They like to hide un- der stones or under the vegetation on the bottom of swift running streams and as a result the fisherman can col- lect them very easily. The best way to get them is to walk up stream with a fine meshed landing net in one hand and a stick in the other. When you come to a likely looking stone turn it over with your stick and the hellgra- mites will float with the current right into your net. Nothing to it. The next thing is to keep the larva until you want to use em. We think you will have no trouble if you follow this method. Find a wooden box of most any size, although the larger you get the more larva you can keep. Fill the bottom of it with about an inch of gravel such as you find in the bottom of a clear stream. In this pvt your “animals” after wetting the gravel with cool water. Now you have to provide something to correspond with the stones in the stream under which the hellgramates hide. So put on top of the gravel some pieces of board of any size. The inseéts will crawl under these and stay. A top for your box is needed. It can be a Wire screen or you can put @ regular board cover, leaving, however, a hole so that you can pour water over the gravel from time to time as it must be kept moist, the excess water flowing out through the cracks in the bottom, Both ‘the adult hellgramites and larva are good for bait. The grown in- sects are good sized as the wing spread is something like five inches and th body about two inches long. With the wings removed these are good bait, although some anglers think they are not equal to the larva. The dobson or hellgramite has a mighty interesting history from the egg stage to the adult fly, but the thing that most fishermen are interested in is that it sure does get the fish. If you haven't tried ‘em better go insect bunting this summer, Then when you get to your fayorite bass spot just put one on your hook, expose it to some old bass that is down pretty. deep and refuses to get excited over your other lures, and watch the result. MANY NEW RULES THIS SEASON IN SOCCER FOOTBALL Running interference on the line of scrimmage from touch line to touch line will be permissable !n Canadian intercollegiate rugby football matches this fall. There was considerable re- duction in penalties. As a result the collegiate appear determined to run the game on their own code apart from the Canadian Rugby Football union rules. JOHN BLACK, Golf stars who will compete for the American open championship at Inwood, Long Island, beginning tomorrow. New York pro who won the title at the Skokie club, Chicago, GREASY JACKET FIRST REAL FOOTBALL TRICK Centre college’s “Sing Sing shift,” which caused so much discussion and amusement among football fans last season, recalls to those who have fol- lowed the game for some years such earlier sensations ag the Carlisle trick of hiding the ball under a halfback’s Jersey and one of the great innova- tions of the earlier days of college football, the introduction of the canvas Jacket by the Trinity team in 1890. The canvas jacket was first worn by Trinity in a game with Yale in 1890, and Walter Camp told the follow- ing story of the then epoch-making event in an issue of the Trinity Tablet Published in that year: “The old-fashioned woolen jersey has given place in great measure to the less comfortable but more perviceable canvas jacket. The change was first made by a team of Trinity college, Hartford. There had been a few ru- mors afloat to the effect that there ‘was a new football garment made of canvas which rendered it almost im- possible to catch or hold the wearer. No one at the other colleges had paid much attention to this report, and it ‘was not until the Trinity team stepped out of their dressing rooms at Hamil- ton Park that the Yale men first saw the new canvas jackets. “The men in blue looked contemptu- ously down upon the innovation upon the regulation jersey, and it was not until they had played for nearly half an hour and had many Trinity players slip through their fingers that they ‘were ready to admit that there was some virtue in the Jacket “The Trinity men, bound to give the new costume a fair tris}, brought some grease out with them, and each jacket had been thoroughly besmeared. They ‘Were, therefore, as difficult to grasp as eels, and it was not until Yale men had counteracted this by grasping great handfuls of sand that they were able to do anything like successful tackling. “That was the beginning of the can- vas jacket, and although the greasing Process was not continued, it was not jong before all the teams were wearing ATHLETIC PERIOD DEPENDS UPON CARE MAN TAKES OF HIMSELF GE and its relation to ath- letics is coming in for con- siderable attention Just now. Kilbane at 34 was an older man pugilistically than Jess Willard at 40. Over in England there is a man, Major George Putnam, who is 80 years old, and he plays lawn tennis every day. Fitzsimmons was Kilbane’s ago when he won the heavy weight champlonship. The Senlor Golf- ers’ association has many members in the sixties and seventies who play better golf now than men in thelr thirti jes. It all depends pretty much on how a man takes care of himself. In professional sport an athlete is regarded as @ veteran after a few years of competition. players and boxers can be under 80 and be referred to as veterans. Benny Leonard, the lightweight champion, is a dapper young per- son, but boxing fans speak of him as the veteran lightweight cham- pion. MAC DONALD SMITH. Gene Sarazen, the little last yearpwill defend it against more than 350 of the best amateur and professional LOSING CARDS. OSING cards are the ones which require all the study when there is a declared trump, but it is very dificult to induce players. to study a deal from that angle. In any de clared trump deal the losing cards in the declarer’s hand are the only cards which deserve attention, and whether to lead trumps is always yecondary matter. An interesting case in point is shown in the deal which follows: ‘THE HANDS. 5-10, 6, 4, 3, 2, HS, 7, Q. 2. ‘THE BIDDING, Score: 0-0. South dealt and bid one no North trump. West passed. bid two spades, East and South passed. West bid three clubs, and the bidding closed. North's ini- ‘al lead, ‘Tricks, N. Bw. JD 2D «KD 2H 3H Js AS QH 4H os 78 JO Qc ER 9H 40 60 xo OAC 9D 7D 58 10H qp 7% au ‘The opening lead made no difference, north having tried the jack of dia- monds in the hope that his hand might be of some use to his partner, When the dummy was disclosed the declarer could see that he had lost no tricks in the diamond or spade suits. In trumps south was marked with the king and the declarer hoped the jack might also be in the south hand, in which case it would not be necessary to lose any tricks in the trump suit. Only the heart suit remained, and this was more improbable than any, be- cause all the hearts in the declarer’s hand were losing cards. It was apparent that one heart might be discarded on the third round of spades, but to lose three heart tricks would mean failure to secure the game. Therefore west started at once to lead his hearts in order that he might trump one heart in the dummy. At trick six, had south played a small trump as he should, west would also have played small, and dropped the trump lead until after he had secured his heart ruff in dum- my. It was necessary to ruff with the nine of clubs in dummy instead of the smaller ones to enable the declarer to secure two rounds of trumps at once. It would have been possible for the declarer to ruff the third round of diamonds and established that suit in dummy, but the jack of diamonds at trick one had all the earmarks of a short suit. The next deal required better play and was more exciting. THE HANDS, S—K, 10, 8, 2. HS, 2. C3, 9, 2. D=10, 9, 8, 2. THE BIDDING. 5 Score: 0-0. East dealt and bid ‘one no trump. South passed. West bid two spades. North passed. East bid two no trump. South passed, West, bi ts, and the bid- 8. Ww. 20 8H 2D «ap oo a 8D 7D jo 7H 2H A 28 et as 108 3s 8H ID 9D “8 10D 78, KS JS ‘West bid properly with his two suit hand, and had a beautiful situation when the dummy was disclosed. It was evidently in this deal that the club suit was the only one which {t was pos- sible to attempt. After the declarer had ruffed the one trick there were the same number of trick in tae east and west hands, and the declarer mentally made the dummy hand the one to play from and his own hand the assisting one. It was necessary to conserve thi opponents might hold three hearts. The declarer spent his own trumps without stint and could have secured the grand slam, even had one of th opponents held five clubs or had he found three trumps in an opposing hand. At trick six it was safe to lead one round of trumps in order to re- enter dummy, {t then being necessary to ruff clubs only once more. “ * QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. DITOR WHIST COLUMN—I have always thought that in case of a misdeal in bridge, as in other games, the hand should be redealt. Two very reliable players have recently told me that unless at- tention was called to the misdeal be- fore the first trick had been played, it had to stand. One of these players told me she got this information di- rectly from the New York Bridge club. I also have a copy of the laws of 1920 which says a new deal ts com- pulsory. ‘Will you please publish your opin- fon of a misdeal, Very obligingly, Mns. J. H., Mount Carmel, Ill. ANSWER—Tha only code of laws prevail- ing 1p the United States is that of tha Whist club, New York City, ‘The New York Bridge club is another organization. It makes no @ifference whatever how many tricks have Deen played when the misload 4 ‘There must be a new deal by the pai % The other contention te ridiculous 7" EE tanto te re oC COS—h— EE McGinnity’s Stunts of Winning Fail to Attract Joe McGinnity’s stunts as a pitcher for his Dubuque team, in the Missis- sipp! Valley league, have become so common as not to attract further at- tention, The only way for Joe to get his name in the headlines now would be to lose three or four games in a row. Soccer Football Most Popular Sport in England ‘An idea of the popularity of soccer football in England can be had from the fact that the Lancashire Football asnociation looked after the interests ven leagues and 110 clubs "02 season, ventymine Itagues and 447 clubs under its jurisdiction. FOR BANNER SEASON BY WALTER ECKERSALL. Although the football season is quite & way off, it is interesting to note the Preparations being made by some of the coaches for what promises to be another interesting year. In most cases the gridiron mentors have hied themselves off to spots unknown, while others are engaged in teaching the rudiments at summer schools. Perhaps one of the best coaching combinations in the country is now at work at Illinois, where Robert Zuppke, ° successful teacher of football at the Orange and Blue institution, and Gil Dobie of Cornell are instructing the summer students on the fine points of offensive and defensive football Zuppke and Dobie are among the most resourceful coaches in the country, and the pair should hit on some ideas which may be new to the old game in the fall. Zuppke Pulls Old One. It was not so long ago that Zuppke pulled the onside kick out of the bag, and before that season was over prac- tically every team in the country waa using it. In fact, the play became a bone of contention between coaches, officials, and playsrs, with the result that the rules committee at its recent Meeting ruled it out from scrimmage. Zuppke has always been a firm be- Never in taking chances by tossing the ball on lateral and forward passes ‘While Dobie is more of the conserva- tive type and the pair are expected to reach a happy medium which may bring about something entirely new when the October and November games are played. During his time at Iinois, Zuppke has brought several new ideas into the game and can be expected to do the same thing this year providing he has the men to execute them. Rockne Also Teaching. Enute Rockne, without doubt one of the leading, football coaches in the country, has been teaching a summer school at Brigham Young university. The Notre Dame mentor is pretty well set in his ideas of the open game and if he has the material he can be de pended upon to dazzle most any eleven with a complex set of offensive plays tm which the forward pass is a dom- inant factor. Rockne is laying plans for a great year, one which will be about the hardest any South Bend outfit ever went through. Princeton and the Army will be met on successive Sat- urdays, in addition to Georgia Tech, Nebraska and Carnegie Tech, and others. The Notre Dame coach had @ successful spring practice and has a good idea of the men who will be available for this fall's team. As a result he {s planning an offense which is expected to worry the Hooslers’ opponents. Possibilities of Open Game. ‘When Princeton defeated Chicago last year Coach Bill Roper showed the coaches a féw things about the game. ‘The result of that hard fought struggle, which was won by the Tigers, 21 to 18, plainly indicated the possibilities of the open game. When it appeared as .if Princeton was hopelessly beaten the sons of Old Nassau threw the oval with reckless abandon. A lateral pass ‘Was attempted after a punt was caught. Unfortunately the pass was slightly forward. Otherwise Princeton would have made a neat gain. On another occasion the ball was thrown from be- hind the Tiger goal line. Plays of this nature tended to unbalance the Ma- Toons, who could not steady them- selves enough to stem the tide of de feat. This open attack displayed by Prince- ton will lead other elevens to resort to the same tactics in closely fought bat- tles. In fact, it was the same kind of play which enabled the Tigers to win over Harvard and Yale and shows be- yond all question that the Crimson and Blue elevens must change their tactics to successfiilly compete with Princton providing the teams are evenly matched in the future. Strong Iowa Team. Howard Jones, coach at Iowa, whose eleven defeated Yale last year and went into a tie with Michigan for the western conference title, had a suc- cessful spring practice. The Hawke; mentor tried out several new ideas and it 1s understood some will be put into execution this fall. Iowa, however, ‘will lose a number of stellar perform- ers, but indications are their places will be filled by recruits from last year’s strong freehman eleven. Fielding Yost of Michigan, ably as- sisted by George Little, had a banner spring workout and the Wolverines will be right back there fighting to retain the honors this fall. Ohio State is expected to prove stronger than year ago. In fact, Buckeye enthusi- asts have so much confidence in Coach Jack Wilce that they have ordered 7,500 tickets for the Michigan game, to be played in Ann Arbor the latter Part of October. Other Promising Reports. Stagg at Chicago, Ryan at Wiscon- sin, Phelan at Purdue, and Thistle- thwaite at Northwestern had encour- aging spring practice drills, and they are satisfied they will have teams which will make better showings than those of last year. Reports from the east hive it that another great year will result in the section and that coaches have completed plans for the fall campaign, Prison Ball Team Makes Trip Without Guards In charge of J. G, Duncan, secretary to Warden J. H. Townsend, the Okla- homa penitentiary baseball team jour- neyed from McAlester, Okla., to Dent- son without a guard and defeated the “Katy! Boosters, 6 to 5. Members of the team are under sentence of from one year to life, not a trusty being among them. This is the first time the Oklahoma prisoners have played an out of state team on foreign soil, ac- cording to Duncan. HOLLAND BIKE STAR HERE. reached tbe sum foremost btcyele ri: this country and will partic, mer'a events. BY FANS USUALLY HAVE IT COMING Collins of White Sox an Exception. BY L E. SANBORN. Baseball players agree, and the dope of the past and present proves it, that a hostile attitude by the fans of thelr “home” town affects the playing of most performers. There is no such unanimity, however, re the, cause of such attitude by the public. With a few notable excep tions the diamond stars who have been razzed by the fans at home are to blame for it, but none of the victims will admit it, of course. The great players who have not let fame and fulsome flattery turn their heads but have accepted their honors modestly and with an earnest effort to live up to their reputations, al most never have had to listen to & raspberry chorus from grand stand or bleachers either at home or on alien grounds. Even after they have passed thelr prime ané commen > +--+ some of their surpassing skill or prow- ess with the stick, the great mass of rooters respect and admire them. Rath Gets Razred. But the star who cannot stand prew perity without swelling up and show- ing that he {s running over with con- celt {9 bound to hear unpleasant sounds from the stands any time he falls to do what is expected of him or he begins to slip down hill. Ruth imagined he was bigger than organized baseball and listened to low- brow friends who advised him to try to show up Commissioner Landis. Ruth still is applauded when he wal- lops one out of bounds, but he doesn’t do it as often as he used to, and the fact he was treated like any other player by Kandis lowered him tp the estimation of some of his worshipers, who now lose no opportunity to raze him when he falls. Latest Escapade Costly. Bambino's latest affront to the pub- llc, when he disappointed the fans of New Haven by falling to appear at am exhibition game for which he had been advertised, did the New York club considerable harm in that section and cost a bunch of money. But it did Ruth greater harm, for he will hear from it all over the country every time he fails to make a home run. Ruth probably considers it a small matter that he missed that game, but it was the way he missed it that made the fans sore at him. The king of swat was too good in his own opinion to accompany the rest of the Yankees on a railroad train to New Haven, so set out in a motor car, forgetting thet the congestion of the state roads in New England on a Sunday made it foolish for him to attempt to drive from Boston to New Haven in time for a ball game. Any player who had the interests of his club at heart and knew people were going to pay money to see him, would have accom- panied his manager on that trip. Then he would not have been at fault if de- layed for any reason, Ruth never took a chance of missing a game when he was getting the money for barn- storming against orders. Fans Wise to Toney. Fred Toney walked out of a game and declared he was going to quit baseball again because of the Jeers of St. Louls fans who resented another demonstration of his well known grouch toward his teammates, So far as known no major Jeague player ever has been more conceited with less cause for {t than Fred Toney. The fans are wise to him. Carl Mays is another of the bad actors of the game who is beginning to get the razz from the fans now that he is on the down grade, Nobody ever heard anybody Jeering Mordecai! Brown when he was getting hit hard. Nobody taunts Alexander or Johnson if they lose a game. A proof of the depressing effect of hostility from the fans on a player and an exception to the rule that it is usually the player’s fault is found in Eddie Collins. Much comment is being spilled around the American league circuit and elsewhere over the remarkable work the White Sox cap tain is doing this year, when he was supposed to have passed his prime some seasons ago. The reason {s that Eddie Collins could not play his best three or four years ago because of the attitude of a portion of the Chicago fans. The men on that team now known as “ Black Sox" were constantly knocking thelr captain among the fans of thelr ac- quaintance because they could not count him in on any of thelr deals and dec: he was suspicious and held himself aloof trom them. Since the removal of that clique the home fans have changed and the re sult has been a steady improvement in Collins’ playing, with the result that he is giving a wonderful demonstra- tion this season. MANY CHAMPIONS ESCAPE ‘TIN’ EARS Although cauliflower ears are com- mon am Pugilists, few heavy- weight champions have been decorated with tin listeners, John L, Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Jack Johnson, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jess Wil- lard, and Jack Dempsey escaped bad ears. Bill Brennan started one for Dempsey in their fight in New York nearly three years ago, but quick treatment by a skilled surgeon reduced the ear to normal size, Jim Jefferics’ loft ear is dadly cauliflowered and ‘Tommy Burns’ right auricle is bat- tered. fi Among the little fellows. Johnny Kilbane, Benny Leonard, Mike Mc- Tigue, MieKey Walker, Jos Lyneh, and Jimmie Wilde still boast of pérftet ears.