Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1926, Page 37

IN TESTS AT SCIOTO LINKS WAS NOT mswmn Congressional Golfer’s Performance Best of Trial Play—Columbia Veteran’s Game Steady—Five District Entrants Start Today. v BY W. R. McCALLUM. S CIOTO'COUNTRY CLUB, COLUMBUS, Ohio, Ju’ly 8~Five entrants from Washington clubs—the largest entry from ‘the Capital since , the tournament at Columbia in 1921—started in the all-important first round of the national open golf ¢championship over this sporty and Rerve-trying course today. All will play today and tomorrow in _the first two ‘medal rounds, but « all may not survive for the third and fourth rounds of the 72-hole test 10 ‘determine the successor to Willie MacFarlane’s open’ chnmpionsmp Only 60 and ties of the 152 men who-started toda; in the final 36 holes of the title chase on Satur: 5 vnll be eligible to play Judged solely on the practice rounds turned in by the Washington contestants in the 1926 renewal of th and glory, the e chase for open championship pelf “Capital should have at least a bncc ‘of contestants in the struggle for the championship on Saturday. Tommy Armour, king of long iron players, from Congressional Country Club, shot the lowest score ‘of the day westerday, registering & 68 on a course tretched out to its limit of mearly 7,000 yards. Although Armour’'s 68 was not made ‘in medal competition, he holed out all his putts and scored B real 68. Fred McLeod, Columbia. pro, got around'in 75, hitting the ball well, but not getting down a number of putts Wwhich might just as well have dropped. Ralph Beach of Burning Tree was 768; Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase, 77, and Roland R. MacKenzie, amateur of Columbia, shot. a 76 on his first ‘round and was up around $0 in the Afternoon. Mackenzie Loses to Pros. Roland ' was the only Washing- fonian to compete in the amateur- professional matches played yester- day as a curtain raiser to the cham- ‘plonship proper. . Paired ‘with Keefe Carter - of Oklahoma, the Western amateur champion, Roland and his partner lost to Bill Melhorn of New York -and ‘Aly Watrous - of - Grand Rapids, the ' professional who fin- dshed second to Bobby Jones in the British ropen championship. * Roland was experimenting, plainly, and sometimes lamentably in so far as' the outcome of the match was roncefiod, but against ‘the exhibi- tion Melhorn -and Watrous put up even the finest game. of Roland. gnd Carter might not have prevailed. * Although two of the amateur dues won their matches against professional opponents, the paid:exponents of the game démonstrated their superiority in -three more, while one ~was halved. Bob Jones and Watts Gunn, Atlanta’s famous amatéur pair, took a thrashing at’ the hands of Walter, Hagen and Willle Macfarlane, suc- ecumbing by 5 and 3 to the -plenaid best ball" exhibition-put up by the national open champion :nd the professional match play. ¢ pione Hagen Had an individual ‘bail of 69, and the best ball of his team was 66 against a par 72. Beach_in M Start. i Runhpfim was the first Wash- ‘ ington .player to stafting®, on"hid fi mumi" Aty this morning paired with D. K. White of Wickliffe, Ohio. Bob Barnett start- o4 at 11:35 Jimmy Thompson of lemond son of Wilfred ’nwmncon. professional , Burhing Tros, and Rolana Matkensia kot away at 12:40 with Eddie Loos of the Lake Shore Club. of Chicago. Tommy Armour and ¥Fred McLeod Jeft the first tee early this afternoon, ‘Armour starting ‘at 2:20 with John T. Shea of Salem; Mass., while McLeod ot nwu.ym\fit.h zlaewey Weber of La- grange, IIL, at 2:25. ‘Bob Jonmes, with the finést chance any man has ever had to annex three national championships within a yeer, started at 12:50 with Clarence L. Wolff, oneof St. Louis’ best amateurs. Hagen, bracketed with Jones as a fa- vorite to win, started with an un- Ben Weichman - of - Ash- land, Ky. The pre-tournament dope picks’ this pair-ab the two most likely to come in under the wire late Saturday after: noon to win the fitle. Yet in’such & fi s has gathered here even play: the caliber of Jones and Hagen mnnot equitably stand out head lnd shoulders above the field. Bobby Cruickshank has hit another streak of the kind that got him into o tie g the title in 1923 Willle Mac- e 1% is playing the same plucky and dogged golf that won for him last year, and Leo Diegel—the same éxcitable and worried Lev of old—is hitting the ball far and straight, sel- dom off, the line, and then recovering in beautiful style. Puiting Worries Diegel, Leo.' who i8.'now the private,'pro- fessional .of Adolph Zukor, the movie magnate of New York, is & bit wor- ried about his putting, so last night hé went out to the practice green and worried about it soms more. If Leo worried less about his game and hit the ball without so much imagination he would have been champion years ago. Allin all, even though new faces cfop up from time to time, the old -up remains the same. Jones and Hagen have been favorites to win the way" today, ::u.l- 3 at the 470-yard eigh title lor mo last five years, with Jim Barnes, Mac Smith, Gene . Sarazen and Diegel coupled only wee bit behind them. Mac Smith's support-’ ers believe this is hll year, for early today by a nmnthl check came to. Columbus to cover any amount up to $2,000 at:the pre- valling odds against the Americanized Scot of the graceful style and un- hurried game. Tommy- Armour’s 68 came &s a re- sult of splendid putting and the in- comparable iron shots that Tommy. vay with when he is right. He 2 48 and four 3s on this baek- breaking course, where only the gent who is very long and very straight may hnpo to conquer. ‘Golfers Fear Rough. Scioto's rough already has most: of the entrants terrified, and properly 8o, for it is the most uncultured grass that ever snared & wayward golf ball. High wire grass, in which the ball nestles as if hunting a per- manent roosting place, fringes both sides of the narrow falrways, where the burikers do not maintain the even contour from tee ‘to. green. The bunkers themselves dare not the ter- rifying affdirs of other championship | wi; courses—chiefly : because they -were. completely flllod with ‘water in the cloudburst two days ago, and com pletely denuded -of -nd when - the ‘heavens opened up. . But the Mn!llll.lll of the .men hout the rough is something - else Hagen sums it up this a niblick ‘and get out, Mlm sure to get out.! Stout wrists and a steady head and hand are required even then, for this Scioto rough defies the spoon or driving iron to pull & golf ball from its intricate recesses. Howard Beckett, formerly profes- sional - at Washington = Golf - and Country Club,s now. at Atlanta, ‘is playing in this tournament, and play- ing well. He is ‘one of the big ‘At- lanta delegation pulling for Bob Jones to win. ~Sarazen's Fancy .Shot. Gerie Sarazen furnished ‘s cheice bit | P2k of gossip for the Columbus folks to high | BY omnmmt w we.m-nmm—amm‘m July 8-—The informed :ht' Wi od an {Mn mm btt“y:::"ywnx solfers shirts and get to work with -rn':.. the reporter writes, * with his kindly "dark eyes bmu into mine, deseribed 1! nation as h&fiukfifllmmfllflfllhtmfll sports.” ** “The ' Australians lkk you at cricket—your own game,’ Mr. Hagen sald. ‘You haven't got & golfer with sufficient pep to win the e!umphuhl). This French Suzanne len: licl There's 1o flr-b and there's - English- you all at teénnis, h-hx-rlnunmuntr( in ‘the world like man for kidding himseif 'M & whale | o8I of a fellow he is when he is licht 5 ‘What a hell, of a sportsman.he is!" {Copyright. 1926.) ¢ mmmxsmmr Mount ‘Vernon Savings and Wash- ington Loan and Trust nines of flu Bankers' - open golf championship is tikely: to be written ‘in ghc tall grass Cowuws (m» Joliy -The'ial stoey. ‘oF this year's siatignel duu(r.:nu a prairie. a periscope with unwillingly invade the lons.. & has been grown q‘ggm tournanient. It is. dccuod m.: this vear ho ‘would give the boys something to.shoot at. It is the straight line to. the pin; he says. -If they can't shoot straight they are out of ank and it is their own fault. ‘Base Ball play off madnnntofl-.yulo‘dnek CTh a post) on Monument diamond No. 9, Inside Golf y Chester Horto: One or two detalls should be watch- eod by the player who:makes his swing n of 1921. is n{rud some ou is going prairie fire which will burn up lfers of America. = may give the: coum u sone.idea. of WhAt | .mm:r Y & ot of the xperts have he opinion that a dark horse the winner. By the Associated red this 4 miles in an average [of about 73 of 74 strokes, including ‘the.putting of the little. white: ball into 18 tin cups, some ld« of the task ahead may be envisgge Jim Barnes’ jest lbout the Seioto links’ Ilmu'lunk m n?;nblr at EM early = today The first rmmd of the struggle for the national. open” golf championship, now held by Willie Mac- farlane of New York, was fought today on the gruefiag links of the ‘Scioto Cowitry Cfub, And all the jeading wielders of e mashic start: | were hotly contesting. for the supremie honor of American golidom. W“n a record score of 68, made by Tommy Armour of Wz!lungton. COLUHBUS. Ohio, July 8 U, D. C, in final practi as Babby Jones, Bri olen:mul golf title en and {en«dly‘ to. set the pace, such titans of the links American amateur champion, Walter holder, and Chick Evans, holder of the record uore of 286 for the event, whaled their way over 'the waving fairways, ‘were those who predicted the constricted ing terrain, the side siopes, the wind- Ing burn and the small, well trapped greens would force the total score for .| the 72 holes to close around 300, in spite of Armour's feat and the ex- cellent record of 33 made by Jim ‘| Barnes for the first. nine. WEST ERN SPORTS HIT MAT GAME IN JAPAN Proes. TOKIO," July - 8.—Wrestling, the time.] sport of Japan, in which the futtest and bulkiest nativés 1o supreme heights ‘of public adula- tion, .has fajlen to the ths of un- popularity and the obese matmen are thinking seriously of flnflln‘ other Hnks. burning up was not so much of | Jobs. a_joke 10 days ago. The country here- abouts experienced the dryest June in "l:'he years. Practically ‘no rain tell, vic pride Immediately - |'The eity' of Columbus an effort to take advantage of | o, 8ol plnnled on his s ‘heel— ; . the right W mnf because if it does the left side will dip down. “To get at the discuss at dinner last night when he | 78! holed a full mashie : niblick shot. to; the--group gathered around the Ol‘htuw&th didn’t see an- other piéce of at the long twelfth, where John m holed ‘a ¢hip, shot for a birdie 4 to halve Har: lflnr n .:ohnplon. who laid, nearly dead of & o of many another contestant, if Fred gets, his pitching and putting going in the style of the mflmm champlonship, he may have a chance here. If the pace is well down around 70 or 71, Fred. probably will not get his chance, but he ll.lood for 300 for four rounds on this'man’s golf course, and probably a score just under that will win. Tommy Armour seems to ‘have .ar- rived at the crest of his game a lit- tle too soon. If he can maiptain that keen edge taday. w and Satur- day, hewfll take & world 'of beating. Tommy-1s due; with bis Um‘bmcnt ot shots md ruflod rm’vl he may win, un-a ufi T. Mll ‘51. Ford 0il H'AWKINSf r Atdoliuc Oil Wm. C. Robinson ‘C Sclt Co. TM oldest oil cuaa.f'u""}’m"' Ay . Grent Vaboe & in the Julyj Clearance Sale of Hess ‘ Hess Shoes for mmy yean ha M vof with M 18 ington. They are the last word s “% At these special reductions it Sunday and Tuesday the rilns came to add comfort and condition to the course, and as the toyrnament opened there was nothing to complain of except the rough. This rough ever| Lanaf will live fn the memory of all who are participating; for no man humanly 1y can expect to compete four straight rounds without making its acquaint- ance. The man who visits it the least is lfkely to prove the winner. . Just who the lucky one will ke no one can say at this time. There is, of course, the “Big pull” for Bobby Jones, He is the popular favorite, but Bobby :Izmlell as he teed off. | task in his brilllant golfing career, A heavy casualty list lies ahead. It may enguif any of the great players. GOLF, WORRIES BISHOP. LONDON, July 8 (#.—The Bishop of London is worried over, the growth ‘of Sunday golf. = “I.cannot but m ‘with really grave anxiety. bc his ::wu—“n ceonference,’ number- well-meaning w'flhwfi men who have given up golft* At the recent tournament, held at the Ekoin, Toklo's great® wrestling auditorium, the attendance was’the smallest {n the history of the non. The drop Is attribated to various causes—base ball, tennis and. other outdoor sports imported from the ‘Western world and which are making great strides in the Empire. msmcm YACHT WINS " NORWEGIAN GOLD CUP OSLO, Norway, July 8 UP).—The famous Norweglan gold cup went to the United States as a result of 's victory was the mm for the United States in the regatta. Fifteen competitors, representing five countries, were in the,six-meter event, including a yacht owned. by Crown Prince Olaf. The Lanal’s time was 2 hours 66 | minutes and 56 seconds. 'The Nor- wegian yacht Varg, which finished secorid, was timed at 2 hours §7 min- utes 24 seconds. The Dutch yacht ‘Derreyter finished third in 2 hours 58 minutes 10 seconds. AR eI e Two are walking' from Montevideo to New York City. The dfihM is §,000 miles. > TROUSERS : TbflmYmOddCuh EMAN’S, 7the~d- Rain Was Threatening. Players stasted today with a diction that sain might dampen thdr u: not thelr ardor, before night fell on the scene of conflict. rounds, have not usually proved much as the outcome of the real contest. Many play indif- ferently, or try new shots, and the fact that, Jones took more than 80 strokes in his first round yesterday did’ not discourage his supporters. ‘The British open champion in truth relieved his friends’ feelings in the aft- rose | Wi o e W o) alter n A wmu MacFarlane, claimed 70 and 73. While the six professional pairs won' this event, 12/ to 3, by the Nas- sau . system of ‘scoring, Densmore Shute, West Vi champion, and ‘Alfred Sargent, 17-year-old son of ‘the Scloto professional, defeated as famous & duo of professionals as Bobby Cruickshank, once runner-up to Jones for the national open title, and -Jock Hutchison, first American to win. the British open event. amateurs won, 3 and 2, with a best ball of 71. Course Is Dificult. ‘The course is difficult. Fair enough, but none the less demanding, are the narrow fairways, and the long carries from the t over gulches to sloping grades, where fairly straight balls are shunted into. the tall undut, unless properly placed. Still fair, but difficuit, are the traps that clutch the miniature - greens like the clawing bezel of a ring. Again fair, but confusing, are some double track fairways, having an elongated protuberance of rough down the middie lengthwise of the course. But not quite fair are the numerous bald’ spots in.the fairway due to a long draught, which could not be overcome by the heroic use of street sprinkling wagons. The creep- ing, bent greens are in good eou- dition, but undulations make every putt a sclentific affair, . “Taking the mound in the seventh fo relieve. Tennile, Grant of the War- Navy nine checked a City Post Office rally and enabled' his team to register a 9to5 win in the Colored Depart- mental Base Ball League. .\:\ NSO eI FANANA A A VAL N \/\‘/\_/g/\)\/\/t/\[\/\/*/c/-/ V4 SIAINT T TN NI TNINTNINININI NI NI SINI NI NI TN F T~ T* % mer heat. “hottest day. TN AT NI NI AT AT AT T NI NI TSI AT NI T ST A taste of winter in the midst of summer heat! 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