Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 60

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C AUGUST 7, 1927--SPORTS SW""&'T(!\"V.' i lany Tragedies Occur on Links : Unusual Inlerest Being Shown in Title Tennis ARMUUR 15 VICTOR 'KAUFFMAN BEATS SERRICK |GIANTS SWANP BUCS TICKET SALE IS HE: FOR PUB HOGNORS| N FIRST OF SERIES| Ry UBLIC LINKS HONORS —— | FOR NATIONAL TOURNEY IN CANADIAN OPEN — e | — ’LEOD TELLS OF TOUGH LUCK IN D. C. TITLE PLAY Jackson Matches Thorn’s Great Shot, But His Bull! on Green and Lays Him Stymie—Wind !Washington Player Shoots | 288, Nosing Out Smith by Single Stroke. N | | ! S | By the Assoctated Pross — | PITTSBURG, August Victor on 37th Green in Match That Is Grueling| d nts pounded Carmen b RS 3-Up The and Joc to anne series from | marking the | ¥ in 10| inva undod Carmen, Davis Cup Matches as Well as Championship Sure vson for 13 hits today | the fi struggle of a | pittsburgh by 9 to venth vietor for N [Starts on the present | ston. | Hill was driven from the mound in ! the fourth, when the Giants scored | four runs. ! Dawson could not hold the {as the 1ded two runs in the and two more in the ninth Triples by Grantham in the sevontia respectiy led to Attract on Account of Uncertainty That Marks Both of Big Events, Battle—Pittsburgher Twice Overcome Lead Held b, Curv W n Fails Duncan in British open. y Foe From New York. BY BUNKER. | But HAT is the toughest luck | bac shot you ever = | Here's on de ribed me by Freddie Mc vd, the former open champion, of the Columbia Country Club. Lreddie | itnessed the shot himself \e up during the play for pro pionship of the Disirict 1t Chevy Chase st round, Pe tharn were h which ¢ drive : ishie niblick pit wckso a good drive, but wsed off the tee and had t¢ shie iron for his second. point 50 or 60 yards hack of Ja all, however. he stopped hi he hole. Peter, “How can | BY LAWRENCE PERRY. | EW YORK, August | approaching the v vanee of ticke men Al sin next mont! th n | gn the Davic Cup team as at the pres 1< | Mt time. With nothing settled as I | the third s ituation i the a immediately and slipped i covered it again. wker grow very s he tried again and azain to | the ball exposed. Vardon saw | i he let this continue he might If become affected “If 1 bungle this pl the championship, To the marker he said “Don’t try any more. T se o can remember where the ball is | Armour, wh llso the United | | “Without a @oubt, this was one of | States open champion, wound up the | the most difficult piays that ever | final 36 holes with a 73 and a 70. Two | up in o great champfonsh s marked his first two rounds. wreen was uphill. o had to con. | Americans made a sweep of the first te on lifting a hidden ball from |10 places. Heading the Canadian en- nd. Nevertheless, Vardon | trants was Andy Kay, Lamblon pro- of the bunker in splendid |fessio 297. Bob | nd went on to win the title, |Cunningham of Toronto, playing on ast, by the way, of the his home cour was second among came to the master. | the Dominion contestants with 300. 2 e S MacDonald Smith of Great Neck, Wind Didn't Help Mim. Y., the defending champion, made A real hearthrogker in the way of |a gallant hid to retain the title and | tough-uck shots was that of George |turned in a brilliant 6) on the fi Duncan i ng to tha final green | round, one stroke better than Armour, in_the 192 itish open at Sandwich, llv\n he wa troke behind, never- Valter Hagen had finished with 300. | theless, for the T2-hole tolal, and had | "1t was ‘sweet for the champion (o Duncan could tis if he could ring up |to be content with second place. | iy on that first hole, no doubt, for s | Witiam Burke, the ~ Greenwich. |45’ first time they plaved It Ser Conn., youngster, landed in third place | grove the green, 3 o gt ik Al a longish putt for an eagle 2 when uones Kauffman was ready to putt for a gl | hirdie 3. And it was a bitter spot for the runner-up, for ch hrilliant play there in’ the n he took a on the hole the next two times and ot to a birdie and a par. It was a heetic match between the two veterans of public golf courses to determine which of the two for runners-up would finish second and which one would be chanpion for tho first time. When Serrick won the irst three hole : with an cle and two . he looked like a detor Dby all odds, but Kauifman would not quit, halving the next six holes, five of them in par, to reach ants ifth auch ex- RN e ociated Press. TO, Ontario, Augus the ninth suc v the ¢ | open s nship ha it will cost | taken by an American player, Tommy | . thousht, | Armour of Washington, D. C., crowd- | {ing ahead of crack field today with | if 1!a 12-hole total of 285 | By the A cited, TORO keep th h to and and to Paul | eighth | the P | waner | frames, | rates” runs. Fitzsimmons | New York. B Y, | Reest.sb Lind'om,If, Hounh. ot ¢ | been recor | United State: tion. his 1 Lewis White of Texas up with Norris W the questing narks of s a clock and a piayer. And , ws as much about dy B < bles play as any man in the worl Uncertainty as to what will happen | These two might well develop into : n the cRampionship matches, as well | te t could be_ignored, de 15 the prospect of stirring encounters, | sy record of the Tilden-Hunte elicited unusual intercst in the | com? rope. ming tournament and this is makes the Davis reflected in the way in which favor start on August 15 able locations in the stadium at For- ~edented importance est Hiils ara being taken up come o - or may not be held about it me went the route for s the bright side of the o A vight si th girs, o dominated nning to bos rs comparatively t vla | ad- | The contr shiftin | ot shape By the Ascociated Press LEVELAND, Ohio, August 6.+ Carl Kauffman of Pittsburgh is national public links golt champion tonight, and he knows that we won it, for to conquer William Serrick of New York in the 86-hote final he had twice [ to overcome a lead of 3 up, sce a lead { of 3 up he finally acquired melt away and then o to an extra holo to ¢ the victory. not ; Totals. . tted tor Taylor in four for Geoch 1n’ ninth jnoin: { for Dawson in ninth i . 010420002 00000011 Hornshy a fellow heat that? A minute late as if Pete was hole after mashie niblick dead on the pin But he had fearful luck. His ball yolled up 2 feet from the cup,| only to curve around so that he lai WHAT [ NEED 115 A COMPASS, ( HAVE You ONE IN YouR PoCKEY IN. New York ough, it looked 5 Pittshucgh to halve the ide a beautifu of 100 yards t ghi He 1 pitch as one feel | for the h in the defe An optimis logic will Johnson in Good Trim. uation who is el Davis some war t the ked growt rest resulting from the one or two men no longer |inating the situation, that several | jg voungsters are due to bla ross the | irmament any time and that forei ors now are upon our shores burst One Johuston say ' the coming gr vill decide whethe heoming trip to the E: ast he will make as of with \ | : ‘ it tourr {not his for will be the t{ tennis play presen in lawn fact t are dc o pade o G Ry ne s made stupendous effort rantham & rge a off Dawson Fitzsimma innings: o) miich ‘Little Bill"” feels that he in health right now tha | he ever has been, and ho attril his condition to care regarding r | dulgence in the game which he h confidence in, their ability to|exercisad throughout the Winte American eagle with the [ Spring and Summer thus far. nce—is worth the loss of [he is supremely ansious to im is position in the 1926 ranking v found him at No. 4—below Big Tilden, Manuel Alonzo and Ha the Japanese stav. Not since 1914, t seven to finish: Grand Raj Mich 3 ell, moroneck, D Leo Dicgel, White Plains, Walter Hagen, Pasaden: 3: Willie MacFarlane, Tucka- | and Joe Turnesa, Elm: ,"and_Bobby Cruick- Purct N. ¥ The winning score th five strokes higher than s total | last year—71- Johnny | rrell, who has been having a vear, finished three notches higher than he did last year, but he was stopped in_ his consecutive winning. | { Farrell had won his last six tourna- | ds, Losinz BIG FIGHT TO HELP " RAILROADS, HOTELS " " ‘No BUT IF You'LL WAIT A MOMENT - VLL RUN QVER MACPHERSONS; AND BORROW: Hi5 POINTER | ear was| Two Bills Different. erve the tende the second year o shnston’s appearance in big-time ten | nis, when he was ranked No. 6, has ha ‘occupied so low a position as tha in which he now finds himself. In 1913, his first year, he was rank BALL BURIED | to obs UHDER SHIFTING By the Associated Press. SAND CHICAGO, August 6.—Railroads are anticipating an extra busines | about half a miliion dollars because | the Tunney-Dempsey fight, a sympo- | sideration with whi who, as the past years. will he Ame | isa’s chief veliance, are being han dled by the Davis Cup authoritie o with to Ser- ¥ """ himself a dead stymie behind Thorn's ball. “There wasn't much in the surface of the green to help Pete with that Stymie,” says McLeod. “He missed s Evervone will admit that Jackson g0t no good break on this occasion. Guessing Where Ball Lay. McLeod is universally admitted to e the best professional in America &t playing out of a bunker. One , wonders how Freddie would have fared if he had had to make 2 tough luck shot from a bunker that once confronted Harry Vardon. Vardon styles this shot “the most trying I ever had to make.” Tt came up during the British open championship of 1914 at Prestwick. ‘At the time he and J. H. Taylor were coupled and it chanced that they were running neck and neck in the lead. At the eleventh hole, in the third round, Vardon was bunkered at the left of the green. master at playing out of a bunker and ordinarily the play he faced would have offered,no great difficulty; but 1it chanced that now his ball was buried in sand. The marker scraped away the sand #0 he could see the top of the ball. Harry was a past | He went out in 34, and, with the last ! nine holes very hard, there being but one short one in the lot, he arrived at the sixteenth needing 2, 4, 4. He got his 2 and first 4 and drove per: fectly to the left in the last effort of that heroic battle. The wind was left to right as George prepared to play his second. “Just his shot,” every one said Duncan trusted the wind to bring his ball around to the groen. His hot appeared perfect, but the wind played traitor. His ball didn’t come around. It went into a shallow hol- low at the left of the green 30 yards from the hole. At the edge of the green, squatted in front of the encircling gallery, Hagen said to a friend: . “That's strange. 1 played my sec- ond to that exact spot on my last round, and I took a 5. Are you sure \ds a 4 to tie me?” s a tense moment. Hagen stood up. Then he sat down asain. Duncan caipped. He w 5 yards short. He, 00, took a5. Hagen was | champion. But what a_marvelous effort! And what bad luck to have it fall short! Even Hagen would have preferred a tie and a play-off. (Copyri iht. 1927.) [ STRAIGHT OFF THE ASHINGTON'S golf prestige, | already established for 1927 by the victory of Tommy Armour in the mational open championship, bids fair to be enhanced late this month When the largest and most skilful delegation of golfers ever to enter the 'amateur championship fares forth ,toward Minneapolis where the ama- teur title tourney is to be plaved over the picturesque Minikhada 2 Tommy Armour’s Oakmont v vos nq flash in the graphically shown vesterday at Toron- %o where the tall Scot flashed a 70 over the last round to nose out Mac- Donald Smith, defending title holder, to win the Canadian open. Armour now holds two natiopal titles, equal- ing Bobby Jones' record of last year when the Atlantan held the British #nd American open championships, and if the Scot, who represents the Congressional Country Club, keeps on in the same golfing vein he has en- joved for a month and a half he may Annex the Professional Golfers’ Asso- title at Dallas, Tex., in ember. ¢ wins that event, too, he sitting on top of the pro- world in truth, although Without question he is the ranking pro of the year without that title However, winning a match play title and particularly Walter Hagen's pet championship, is something different. For Hagen intends to hang onto his match play champlonship, even though he may not show so well in the medal play events. With the Voigt case settled insofar #s his entry in the national amateur champiorship is concerned, Washing ton will place in the simon pure title chase a brace of men who have at- -ted national notice and another who qualified and won a match in the amateur of last year. Roland R. MacKenzie is estab- jished nationally. Winner of the quali- Ifving round in the 1925 championship dnd a member of the Walker Cup team last year, MacKenzle 18 one of the ranking players of the country. Thourh Voigt has played in only one mnational nd failed to over the have made him a n: and he is sure to be one nding dark horses at Fven though compari- us, it 13 none the less t Roland MacKenzie has mable to win a match from in more than a vear, and that + is the leading piayer of the Mid- ntic section is well establighcd these two men in the fleld on should make aquite a the amateur of this year, : the Capital once more into tional golfing limelight as it was at Oakmont last June. Outside aid in golf rec s a fa- vorable vote from J. I. Lee, secretary ithern Railway Golf As- the fourth hole at st Potomac Park, a , he topped his drive on 1rd hole. Taking a full swing b he hit a good ball, would have gone far past the Just at the moment the ball s to Ko over the green a little dog #rotted across the putting surface. The bull struck the dog and stopped a foot from the cup, enabling Lee to secure a birdie 3. - Argyle Counti Club a of artificial aid which a player to make a literal * 4 on a par 4 hole. Charles H. 1 missed his drive at the 428- yard third hole one day last week £ind failed to get over the creek with his second. He then used a midiron £n1 hit a good shot, which apparently ‘azux bound te be over the greem and m e n was | in a golfing | ut of bounds when the ball in mid struck a robin and bird and_ ball | dropped within 5 feet of the hole Wat- son holed the putt for a par 4. Trees around the sixteenth green at the Washington Golf and Country Club have been cut away, enabling ‘members on the clubhouse porch to see the green from the house. y first hole at the terror of the lengh Club will the Congressional Count be made within a few da when the | new first green is put in se and the | top green abandoned, tempo t least. The new hole will be \rds shorter than the old and will ake a par 5 three-shotter of the starting hole instead of the terrifying stretch of distance that now greets the player at the Maryland course. The new green is hedged about by wire netting to protect its surface, but it had a fine stand of bent grass, and, according to Peter Jacksoh, the club green keeper, is now ready for lay. P Bunkers at both sides and the rear of the green are to be built as soon as word is given to place it in use, a job that will not take m than a few days. A new ond tee is to be con- tructed immediately back of the cighth tee and the rough cut across a corner of the second fairway, mak- ing a sharp dog-leg out of the hole. When the new fi green is put into play, par for the course will be re- duced from 73 to 72, for the present hole, measuring 610 yards, is a par 6 affair. Homer §. Pope has been named to | re the handicaps of members of the Indian Spring Golf Club and al- ready has embarked on his task. Pope | find that the g est ixmn'm(mwm; made by any club member since |h(‘= | handicaps were orizinally given was that of George F. Foley, an employe of the Shipping Boar Foley's 24 handicap was cut to 16. Indian Spring Club members and guests are competing today in a Seotch foursome tournament, with club's handicap allowance. At least three Washington plavers re on a team representing the Gibson Island Club in a match today at Gib- son Island with a team representing the Baltimore Country Club. A. Mec- Cook Dunlop, a member of Chevy Chase, is playing No. 1 on_the Gibson Island team, opposing B. Warre Cockran of the Baltimore Country Club. Friends of Charles Michelson of the New York World will be glad to learn that he has recovered from an injury suffered in getting out of a trap at Indian Spring several days ago. The six men who are to’represent Washington in the national amateur championship expect to Jeave for Min- neapolis early next week to practice over the course in advance of the tit! play. Members of the group are Ro- Jand R. MacKcnzie, Miller B. Stevin- n, George J. Voigt, Page Hufty and Charles M. Mackall. ' The tourney will start with the first 18-hole qualifica tion round at 18 holes on August with the best 32 scores at 36 holes medal play to constitute the cham- pionship fiight, which will start two 18-hole match play rounds the morn- ing of August 24. The last three match play rounds will all be at 36 holes. The first elght names in a ranking list to be prepared by the United States | Golt Assoctation will be seeded in the draw for the match play rounds. Her- bert H. Ramsay, who recently con- The first move to take away some of | ments Smi Burke's 68 were the final round. is 73 Light Horse” Hart tied for the United States open with Armour, enly to lose in the playoff, took a 78 on the final 18 and finished with a total of 300. the best Par for the cou Billy Burke Knows How to Use Mashie William Burke, a bit over a year ago a caddie at Pasadena, Fla., proved the sensation of the golf world last Winter in that same State. In one tournament, the Central Florida open, he picked up two. atroluss on Waiter Hagen 1h the first round, although ]rlzl)’ilu; with new cl 1t is a delight to watch Burke a mashie. He used it up to cards, the approximate range club. Viewing Bur N PLAY BALL OFF LINE BETWEEN DOWNSWING HEELS “wUNES L INE TO HOLE, PO s O round gives one fine ideas as to its possibilities. Opening the blade as at A in the drawing, Burke plays a long pitch with great force and striking results. The force secms to exert itself entirely in added height. That causes the ball to drop almost straight down on the green and bite. He says that the harder you play a mashie the more stop you can put on it. That is true. Gripping, as shown at B, Burke depends mol of run, although this ball ckspin. His short pitch and run (Fig. C) from distances up to > yards is played with the sol~ of the club resting in natural position on the ground. On this shot he takes little divot, merely cutting the grass. Burke's stance is open and he plays the ball off a midd} lino between his heels, catching it on the downswing. (Copyright. 1027.) GUILFORD IS AHEAD IN MASHIE TOURNEY By the Associated Press. WPORT, . 1., Aug. 6.—Je: Guilford of Boston took the lead one sfroke today on the second 18 holes of the Gold Mashie tournament on Ocean_linke, the private golf course of T. Suffern Tailer here. By steady play a4l some marvel- putting, Guilford. the permanent sor of the first gold moshie offered for competition, overhauled Fdward Drigzs, jr. Metropolitan champion, who had’ taken a brilliant 69 the previous d Half way of the 72-hole contest,” Guilford tonight d of 145 to Driggs’ 146. ancis Ouimet and J were tied af 147; Roland Mackenzie of Washington had 153; Rickard A. Jones, jr., 156; T. Suffern Tailer, jr., 157, and Dexter Cummings, twioc intercollegiate champion, 159. The final 36 holes wid be played tomorrow. ou: PO COLUMBIA, DARTMOUTH NEW YORK, August 6 (#).—Co- lumbia and Dartmouth have signed a two-year agreement in foot ball, ef- fective pext year. The teams will re- new their gridiron warfare October 20, 1928, at Havover. The Dartmouth schedule for 1928 likewise 18 in the making, with games listed against Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Columbia and Northwestern. The Northwestern game will be play- ed at Evanston, Iil LIKED GOLF BETTER. Walter Hagen and Wild Bill Mehl- horn were both sandlot base ball stars, but turned down major league offers for more" lucrative careers as go!f pros. ducted an inquiry into the amateur status of George J. Voigt, is chairman of the champlonship committee which will handie (lv tournaments .. ...~ o i Roger Bresnahan was the first catdher to use shin ¢\|lri= h's. 69 and Armowr's 70 and|r scores of | ¢ Copper, who | Sweetser | TO MEET ON GRIDIRON | the quarter post s 36, where par is 37, down. ‘but still 3 Kauffman Forges Ahead. Then Kauftman forged to the front, and by winning the tenth with a par, the twelfth with a birdie 2 when he sank an approach shot and the thir- teenth with anothe match, on to I 3 down the next three ain. The four- ie, the fifteenth | to a par and the sixteenth by tal his three 6s of the through driving into the creck. The com champion won the next two in par, howev nd was only ! down at the half-way mar come home in 38 for a 77, e par Kauffman's luncheon agree with him, for he squared the match at the nineteenth and became 1 up by winning the twenty-first with a birdie. It was the first time he had heen in the lead and he quickly sank hack to even by his s he twenty-third, where his good b got a bad kick into a trap. But, found how nice it was |to be in the van, he took the next {three holes with two D and a | mediocre 5, while Serrick had his | wildest streak of the day. He had i outds seemed to ven Kauffman during the morn- | ing round, but for the first nine of the | second round was shorter and not so { etraight. He flubbed a drive at the | Afth and took 6 and sliced out of | bounds at the seventh and finally picked up when two trap shots prom- ised a 7 at best. Serrick Drives Well. That was the end of Kauffman's | winning, kowever, for a long time, | Serrick_took the twenty-seventh with «a par, the twenty-ninth with a birdie and the next two in perfect golf to |be 1 up again, while Kauffman took | a sad 5 on the thirtieth and a poor 6 | on the thirty-first. Serrick was again | outdriving his opponent, sometimes | getting well over 300 vards on the | fast fairways. | Kauffman squared it at the long | thirty-second with a birdie when Ser- rick was short with his run-up, and ke halved the next four, Serrick play- ling difficult shots dead from traps and hillsides on the last three hol |10 stave oft defeat. And so it seemed he would do again at the extra hole after he overapproacked, but the trickle of the sloping green fooled him and he ran past the cup, Where victoby lay, and could not attain it on the nmext attempt. The medal scores were not particu- larly good, Kauffman approximating while Serrick had 76— ving him 7_on the hole picked up. Kauffman had AS BALL 1S HIT \TION irons to 100 average and 99 of them will How does the iron club swing differ from that of the woods? swings are just the swin differ y. The iron club swing is a bit more upright. Also the timing at the turn, where the forward swing begins, is a bit slowe Thus, with the irons you give foning” effect a_little more You should do this—that is, a little more time at the turn—because the iron is heavier, and because of this weight it will not turn as easily or quite as quickly as the wood. The iron shaft i3 shorter, also less re- sillent. Lacking the length and the consequent stringiness of the wood club shaft, the iron pulls harder against the wrists and arms. That is why you must give it a little more time at the turn. As the irons get shorter in shaft length the stance used should be more open. This makes the swing g bit more wpr ke just par, squared the | k had taken 40 for a 76, 4 above | ssie | | | i | CARL KAUFFMAN sium of opinion reveals. E. M. Holt, passenger tive of the Pennsylvania lines, said his road already has applications for spe- cials from Philadelphia, Louisville, Cincinnati and two from New York and expected to realize at least $60,000 in revenues from the fight trains. ‘William B. Dixon of the Milwaukee | road sald his company has had sufti- and at least one each from | five birdics, while Serrick had onl lone and an eagle. Kauffman over par on 12 hol 11, giving the victor loser 24 perfect holes. The cards: Par, out.... 444543454—37 out (am.)— 3 345530 uifman 3 rick 345536 - out (p.m.)— wa nd th Kauffman Serrick In (p.m.)— | Kaufiman Serrick Exwa lioie: — 10—t} : Serrick, 5. {McTIGUE AND LOUGHRAN NEW YORK, August McTigue, recently crowned heavyweight champion by the York Athletic Commission, and |, Tommy Loughran, _challenger fron \Philadelphia, at ' Madison Squar Garden October 7. Mike's title. gained light: to be stake. ick on 4—40—78—155 ARRANGE TITLE SCRAP 4 6 P — Negotiations have been completed for a 15-round match hetween Mike | when Jack Delaney forfeited the championship ter the heavyweight ranks, will | City, Omaha, Sioux City, Superior y attle and Butt2, s th- 31 western raflroads reported heav mand for extra cars, but would not in. | dicate the number’ of specials they | expected to run. J. McGuire, representative of the Western Passenger Association, said he anticipated no reduced fares. Hotels also are preparing for heavy | business, with reservations already in | dicating the flood of visitors for the ‘fizh[. One hotel reported more th: 11,000 applications on file, with other | reporting from 100 to 500. Sy INSURES BIG FIGHTERS. NEW YORK, August 6 (#).—Tex e | | | | Dempsey to cover any mishap that might prevent either fighter from en- ing the ring for the world heavy- ht title match in Chicago Septem- | te | w ber REDS DROP CHRISTENSEN. | NEW YORK, August 6 (#).—Walter | Christensen, outfielder for the past | two seasons with the Cincinnati Reds, | has been released on option to Colum! |bus of the American Association. Christensen came to Cincinnati from St. Paul in 1925, after a brief stay | with the New York Yankees. a n BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, August 6.—Watch, Max Marston and W. K, Lan man of Columbus, Ohio, next yvear—th the final of the Shennecossette invi. tation tourney—the writer was im. T OPEN STANCE AS SHAFTS GET SHORTER SPREAD FEET TOO FAR APART stance, |taken is shorter. The open of the however, makes the uprightness swing automatic. As the club is turned over, at the top, there should be a back with it so that the left v top of the back swing, will point to- ward the ball. The left wrist should not break and go under the Kecp the left arm in close, as thi w the left shoulder around to the ht. When you hit with the iron so time the blow that the left wrist and the shaft will be In line with each othe as the clubhead gues through the:bail. Doing this will make your blow a di- As distance to be taken becomes shorter it is a good practice to grip lower down on the leather. «Also stand closer to the ball for the short pitches and other approaches, and, as you stand up closer, put the feet cor- respondingly closer together. The feet have considerable to do with the accuracy of short iron shot. Be sure you do not hdve them sprea ight as the distance to belelub thot way too far, as it is difficult to control the ing the 36-hole match between who will lead the Yale golf team match which marked rect hit and will make the ball go |y CONCEDING SHORT PUTTS IS BECOMING A BAD HABIT 1 b; to concede short putts. It was the more marked hecanse of a recent fncident in an important tourney when Johnny Farrell refused to accept the concession of a putt by his rival. Furthermore it was interesting be- cause right fiow a delicate point re- garding chivalrous ri on | green s up for adju by {Royal and Ancient It seems that in a recent match in England a player who stood dor: three smiled amiably upon his r | who had a yard putt to win th “I'l give you that.” he said Now the sinking of the putt would win the hole and would bring the lead- ing player down to dormie two. But the man who had the putt to malke ed to take advantage of the others generosity, just as in the re of Johnny Farrell. | Unlike_Farrell, the man missed the putt. Having thus missed, he of | course, held that he had lost the match, But the other man said nay; | he had conceded the puit and legaliy | the putt had.been sunk even though |in fact it had not been. s they were betting on | . as well as on the match, the | ated matter had to be taken | pr the both the nd Ancient and U. 5. G. A. recommend that players should | not concede putts to their opponents. The average golfer is very glad to ept the gift of a putt.” On the er hand, a man who takes his gol® and is inclined *o be a bit about it bme punctilious s the hane of an be inclined In such ease d compel him rules go, t the concess | there is no rule that wo | to_accept. | In fact, the spirit of play forth in the golf committee mendation would seem to be stiff-necked golfer who is deter to play out the hole. s set recoms- ith the nined Speaking of golfing complications, an | incident recently occurred in England, \t Walton Heath, which was not even ferentially covered by the rules, A player drove into the rou Searching for his ball, hs saw it lur! e leaf of a larze wead. ashie niblick, he delivered - ping blow lified to c the ball, if decant K, well onto the fairway. He was astonished (o witness the flisht before his elub’ of what seemed to be a covey of balls. When he got onto the course he dis covered three balls lying in various csitions with relation to the hole. 1lis astonishment was inereased whan he found upon examination that 21l of the balls that hal been lying hidden bencath the weed were of the ame male. Nothing to guide his decision which ball to piay, he eleéted to be sports: manlike, but at the same time fair with himself. He ignored the ball ! \which lay nearest the greon; also he representa- cient applications to assure four spe- | | elals from Minneapolis and St. Paul | United Kansas | tion Rickard has taken out $100,000 insur- | o %% i, ance on both Gene Tunney and Jack | “*qr Svidence i the tendency of both play- | than Main st the | | playea b | —the | Bill -Johnston, for instance. |little Californian will not arrive until | the third week in August. when he Wil g0 to Newport, It is probable | he will not participate in the tour | ment at the Casino, but will spend | his time in practice. Bill has done little playing to date, his idea I | that he will do better it he conser: his energ The Da mittee and the autho: Lawn cor in_this On the other har s insisting that more tenn: | more tennis is what he need: | times a day on the courts he {as not too much. And, v ston. the authorities are smi Iy and telling him to g0 to ar that he may crack in the proc s swallowed up in the theory that | Tilden knows what is good for hi | The two veteran sta and one ¢ selected to play on the Davis Cup | team nt to Newport the | week in fing. Eve in the be | they a with Tilden t possible sha e got to win th | thrie out of four sete. tainly is no longer a fiv | while Tilden may prove h: to go the long route at top speed. 1 gainst this prospec not in vears hean su 1 youngster to win a There ha chance for | depend > | to stand ing at No. 4, and 1915, when a youth arel 1d. he won the na { tional s defeating Manrice | McLoug! orris Williams on ¢ | vs, and, of course, was placed No | Norris ° ‘illiams turned the tables him t . following year. and John on was ranked at 0. 4 In 1919, the lapse of the two war year = Dill" again won the title, de feating Tilden. Is a Sad Demotion. Johnston was ranked No. 2 from inclusively, and went to . behind Tilden and Ric But in 1925 he was restorgd place just under Tilden. So | will be seen that his dropping to No 4 this year was a real demotion ani one that the popular Californian is anxious to re st Johnston is very hopeful about his ects for the national sing! Davis cup, which, as he r beolutely upon his stamina 11 endurance. He has all the neces- ary skill, as has often heen demon- rated, e by his ability to ihe Frenchmen off the courts in early sets What he needs and what he hopes get through careful prepavation A then a late dive inte sirenuous tennis is a driving force that will v him, no matter how long a match go it pr th 'ATLANTA HAS | BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. NE hears Jénes | contemplates a_partial rtire- | ment from the golfing wars| within the nest two v after he has undertaken the practice of law—and Steward Maiden, the keen little professional at | Lake is a guarding azains that day siduously gro probable to the great Robert Tyre. fe that ebhs and| { flows along Pes I has more pride in its volur {men, and the ¢ would be quite lost without at 1 it one. . Not since 1916, when the 14-year-old | | Tones started on the trail of fame at | Merion, nd Alexa Stirling won her| first national championship at Bel- | mont Springs, has Atlainta been out of the golfing spotlight for a single | moment. Now Alexa has bee | from Georgia these several yers, and, | with Bobby emplating the by Ilife of a 1 L it is up to K the kinz maker. to produce ecay sucee:: to that pair. < The Gunns and Carletor has them. he zreat Gunes the elder of tossed into three Summes believes, in the | a Carleton. Watts, mnn brothers, wa ena at Oakme zo, and to say that He he the | mildly. He was an even greater sen sation than Jones at Merion almos decade befor boldne: play made fonal championship lity an mateur ch na in Minikahg Hiantly all the Southern intercolleziate tiile; ! playing well in the Southern ama- teur and then capturing the national of golf ng roc- | brought st beating on. winni city, and Roland MacKenzie the we of his carce But good as Watts s, there are around East Lake who believo s tow-headed, freckle-faced broth- er, Will, ultimately will b~ the better of the two. Will Is only 16 and, like Bobby Jones, tha kast I course has been his playground sine» s as long a_putter. For two years Will has beem s to the old-timers uding the smil- who owns th T k_in the world. Only, | in the cas> of Mr. Ridley the lessons often were not free. | Will Earned Junior Title. Will entered his first cham Atlanta’ junjor—I nd there was nothing to it. this seas:n Judge Will of the golfing brothe younger son to enter amateur at Charlotte, N. cres predicted that the blond boy | with the squar2 jaw and silent tongue | was a bit too voung for such fast company. But Will qualified easily and went to the semi-finals, where he was heaten by the champion after tumbling Glenn Crissman and Ches- teen Harris, both former title holders. TODAY BASE BALL2A AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washingten vs. Cleveland around the clu . Chick Ric ummer passed up the ball farthiast from the hole. In other words, he played the dmiddle ball, e TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM, | tees, but h | best in th { buckle, he id Atlanta proud is putting it GOLF TRIO TO BID FOR JONES’ TITLE The younger Gunn Is a marv around the green He still lacl aceuracy and great distance off the approaches and putting pare favorably with the untry. ing to Steward Maiden, able golfing te ra- He has plenty behind the belt and is ¢ when the en wants to touch co a men nta has no fe 1 do ence he gots the d Carieton, the third of Maiden's coming s s sistant profes sional at He still is on the cheerful side of nd was quite athlete around Atlanta before -taking up golf as a business. Carleton Scoring in 70s. Carleton is playing East Lake con- ently in the low 's and has a game that needs but little combing to <e it flawless, Like Will Gunn, he will be cominz out within SeRsON i and Bob Jones ma nd some nade oppe ion in the national Jones is tak the national ar tance away. hand or tion of wk tters easy eur only a sh obby has his g more and there is 1t he will do at M another Jones-Von Eln ide the championsh that Jess Swoetser has i national compet. 5 X with t dise ion s will be the great her the citizens of t! 1y look forward w more thrills when Bobby : comparative qui and leaves the fair and bunkers to the gr bl Id city confid arranged for late this month London on the Thames from wich to Kew Garden: Waterloo Bridge. Summer cnd winter— year in and year out —the Try-Me Bottling Company sticks to MYLEX for the best of rcasons. Ask them. APREMIUMGAS . APR