Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1927, Page 27

"SPORTS. GENE, ‘ROUGHING IT,’ STAYS| FINE PHYSICAL FORM Champion, Shunning Spotlight and Spending Great| IN Part of Time Out of Doors, Does Away With Intensive Training Before Bouts. BY ALAN J. GOULD. - (Associated Press Sports Editor.) EW YORK, October 17 (#).— Gene Tunney, shunning the spotlight and spending a good deal of his time roughing it in the woods, is already going about the job of keeping himself fit for his next title defense. Whether the heavyweight champion stakes his crown next in London or New York, against Jack Dempsey Jack Sharkey or Paulino Uzcudun, he will be in condition. Dempsey may have caught Tunney off guard in their famous seventh round, but he didn’t catch the blond marine out of condition. Stamina, built up by a year-round training program, saved the heavy- weight crown for Gene Tunney at Chi- cago. No one knows that better than Gene himself. “I never get ready for a fight by an intensive progra: of work a few weeks beforehand,” Tunney once ex- plained. “I'm in condition all the time. My natural preference is for a life in the open, where T can build up and develop my strength naturally.” The experts were a bit amazed at Chicago by the ease with which Tunney took matters before his return battle with Dempsey. The champion mingled in society. He did little strenuous work with the gloves, but what he dld was enough to keep him at the desired edge. No athlete was ever conditioned better for a hard fight than Tunney when he stepped into the ring at Soldier Field. If he hadn’t been at his physical peak he could not have got up from the resin and won after the terrific series of shots his jaw absorbed. By the time the ballyhoo starts next Spring for the next battle of millions Tunney will be in shape. He won't wait until Tex Rickard's elimination program has prowuced the logical challenger. “Boxing is my business,” the cham- pion says. “As long as I am in it I intend to make a thorough job of it.” With only Herb Joesting, Minne- sota’s line-crushing fullback, surviving last year’s all-American backfleld in WALTER, HAGEN TALKS IT OVER BY WALTER HAGEN. While Bobby Jones was making a onering circus of the national ama- ‘teur championship at the Minikahda iClub in Minneapolis a group of golf- ers and golf writers put in idle mo- ments discussing the future of match play in America. All believed Jonés so dominated the amateur match play championship that the best way to stimulate a lit- tle interest would be to hold a na- tional match play championship open to professionals as well as amateurs. Grantland Rice suggested it, and the idea was indorsed by all. Such a tournament would create intense interest in the qualifying stages, with a battle on between the amateurs and professionals for quali- fying places, and once the match play started some red-hot games could be expected. ‘Would Be “Hot Stuff.” I£ such championship could be ar- ral it would certainly give me a lot to think about, and I would enjoy nothing better than competing, pro- vided the best amateur and profes- sionpal talent supported it, as I believe it ‘would . A match play fleld with Jones, Evans, Ouimet, Von Elm and a few others representing the amateurs, and Farrell, Sarazen, Armour, Cruick- shank, MacDonald Smith and others representing the professionals would xive the golfers of America a real thrill, At present there is no common meeting ground at match play for professionals and amateurs. The pub- lic would like such a tournament. Armour’s Iron Gave Gallery Big Thrill A Real Thi - BY SOL METZGER. With one hole to go of 4 par 4, Tommy Armour needed : birdie 3 in order to tie Harry Coo- per and force a play-off for the 1927 United States open crown. Tommy smacked a perfect drive down the middle, came to his ball some 170 yards from home and looked over a heart-throbbingsituation. Therewas the green somewhat uphill, banked to the front. On its level above, the flag. It was trapped viciously 10 either side and banked with a mass of people, thousands of them, all quivering over the situation. Tommy took out his No. 3 iron. A quiet fell upon that great gallery, such a quiet as one only senses at a funeral. Then came a rhythmic swing, not quite to the full, the left arm not bending at all and a clean hit down into the ball. Hardly had the ball left the blade of his fron than a roar arose from those k of the green and in line with the shot. As the ball struck just over the bank deid on line for the pin, the roar increased, for every moth: er's son and daughter present, in- cluding the mothers and fathers, too, all knew that Tommy had a chance to tie. His ball came to rest 10 feet from the pin on a level green. That was a grand shot under pressure and it gave Tommy his opportunity, the chance to meet Harry Cooper for the title. Every- one knows what happeneds, 1927 college foot ball ranks, a ions, performances are not al deciding factor, least brightened all have the at Aweri Dartmouth leads the Ea margin, and runner of Notre assortment. Princeton hs Baruch and Ed Wi tern s Pittsburgh Welch. who was close to all-Ame; n choice last season. Tiny Lewis, Northwestern's battering ram, is a rival of Joesting’s for full- back honors, while Spears of Vander- bilt and Drury ef Southern California will be watched in other sections. There will be scores of other candi- dates before the season ends d in pu last season by Kaer of Southern California Friedman of Michigan, all of whom hung up their college moleskins last season. Brooklyn has a_habit of figurin a pennant contender every four v which mav have something to do the fact that the Robins are pufting forth unusual effort to bolster the club for the 1928 National League race, The signing of Dave Bancroft, for- mer manager and shortstop of the es, is the first move in the ion proce: Kiki Cuyler, Pirate outfielder, who was exiled from competition in the latter part of the season, is also being sought by Brook- lyn to strengthen the outer works. “The club already has one of the twirling staffs in the league, with ce, Petty, Doak and McWeeny as stars, but its batting punch and infield defense left much to be desired last season. * Brooklyn won pennants in 1916 and 1920. Another four-year interval found the club finishing second to the Giants in 1924 after a close race. Three straight years in sixth plc.> since then have provided the spur for next year's bid. well and a star in Gibby be: National Match Play Championship Proposed for Both Amateurs and Professionals. * * * % Plan Suggested as Way in Which Bobby Jones Could Measure Skill Aganist Best Pros. * K ok rill for the Fans, and Receipts of Tournament Might Go to Charity. This was demonstrated at Minikahda, when hundreds of spectators told me they would like to see me in there against some of the amateurs, espe- cially Jones. I must say they were silly, because no man would have had a chance against Jones the way he was hitting, but those who spoke to me were only indicating that the thirst for com- petition is very keen. Speetators do not care for one-sided games. I am inclined to believe that as far as the average golf follower is con- cerned it makes little difference whether the players he is watching are amateurs or professionals. What most fans seem to like is a close game and they will support any sort of tourna- ment which promises to provide the thrills of watching well known golfers coming to the home green all square, or battling out on the course with a one-hole margin separating them. Jones might walk through a mixed field as easily as he did the amateur field, but in trying to think up some means of stimulating interest in match play competition the idea of the open match play event was the only one that came up. One of the writers sug- gested that Jones might be made to play the best ball of the three other semi-finalists. An_ open match play tournament would in no way interfere with the national amateur championship, a great feature of the golfing year, or the professional match play champion- ship, which is getting to be a popular event, but it would bring together the best golfers of America at match play. The biggest thing in base ball is the world series, when the winner in the American League meets the winner in the National League. The same would hold in golf. One thing is certain. Bobby Jones would enjoy such a tournament. He likes to play against professionals and would do so more than he does if the United States Golf Association were not so strict. All golfers, from the 20-handicapy player to the scratch man, get the big- gest thrill from a closely-fought game. This is likewise the only sort of game the public cares for and while Bobby Jones might gallop away with an open match play championship, as he did with the amateur, the experiment would be interesting. Some District golf association might arrange such a tournament and give all of the receipts to charity. I am sure the best of the professionals ‘would enter it. PRO FOOT BALL. STANDING OF TEAMS, w. Team, r. Chicago Bears Green Bay Pa Cardi- York_Giants, 0. New York Yankees, 0. 0 ; Chicago Car- 6; Providence Steam GRID INJURY IS FATAL. PITTSBURGH, Pa., October 17 (). arry 19, star foot ball player for the srack High School at Natrona, a suburb, died last night from internal game on Saturday. BULLDOGS WIN, 12 TO 7. ‘Western Maryland semi-pro foot ball clevens opened their season yesterday at Cumberland, when the Bulldogs of hat city defeated Frederick Athletic Club, 12 to 7. HAS SCORED 87 POINTS. NEW YORK, October 17 (#).— Myles Lane's phenomenal scoring to- tal rose to 87 points when the Dart- mouth haltback made 34 against Tem- vle Saturday. Lane now overtops his nearest competitor by 30 points, DIXIE LOYOLA WINS. NEW ORLEANS, October 17 (#).— Toyola of New Orleans, using a con- sistent aerial attack, defeated Loyola of Baltimore here yesterday, 19 to 0. A crowd of 4,000 saw, the game, injuries suffered in a keen | already has developed for the but they can prospects of a flock of stars. | [ Not the least of them is Myles Lane, | shifty ball carrier, who corers by a wide | hristy Flanagan, climax | Dame’s backfield | a brace of stars in | tmer, Yale an out- standing ball carrier in Bruce Cald-| top-ranking ing | <uit of the mythical honors held | aker of Northwestern, | and | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, GET A LINE FROM BAaLL Yo A POINT (X) BEYOND THE coP DoN'T A CTUAL The soureat words In ‘ihe Webster file: Thev can’t roll in When they're short a mile. Nor can they roll in, either, if they are short an inch, so the first rule of putting should be to get 'em up_there. That isn't, however, the first rule. The first thing to do with a putt is to get the line on it to the cup—and the line should be te a_point a foot or so beyond the cup. It is surpris- ing how Aifferently you will putt if vou make the objective of the roll a foot or So beyond the cup. That invariably gets ‘em up. The main thing that makes putts fall shy of the cup, however, is a thing the golfer seldom suspects— plain looking up. Yes, you can look up on a putt just the same as when driving. The difference, it any, is | that you can do it more easily when putting. The reason for that is the MORIARTY AT BAT BY GEORGE MORIARTY, he. Detroit Base Ball Team. FeE T Loague Inird Bascman and for 10 “Years an American League Umpire. A Pair of Socks. ©Oh, boy! ‘What joy— Fifty thousand fans ‘Gone mad Begad! < How they rock the stands! What for? ‘Winning score? No, no begorry. ‘Wrong guess, Nothing less— This is the story: Pitcher tall, Curve ball Shoots from the mound, Batting whale Lifts flail, Heels in the ground; Mighty swing, Then, zing! Ball becomes a roamer. Simple truth: Gehrig, the youth, Or big Babe Ruth Socks another homer. There are players in the major leagues who pay a professional so much per lesson to teach them how to hit a golf ball properly. Many of these same players will lose their big league jobs because they have not learned to hit a base ball properly. Some players will never improve be- cause they will not try to improve. Base ball is work with them, but if they put the same amount of energy, time, patience and ambition into their professional endeavors as they put into golf they would find their salary checks mounting instead of dropping. All players are not like this, Take George Burns of Cleveland. Burns was never compared to Hal Chase as a flelder, nor to Ty Cobb as a base runner. He was a fairly good hitter, but by no means one of the leading hitters. He realized that if he could learn to hit into right field he would add many points to his batting aver- age. He changed his stance at bat. He changed his swing. The result was that Burns' average started climbing and kept on climbing. He set a new record last year for total number of two-base hits made in one season and was voted the most valu- able player in the American League. Two years before that he looked nearly through as a big leaguer. Phil Todt made himself a 50 per cent better ball player by learning to pull the ball into right. This Bos- ton Red Sox first baseman, like Burns, had carried the course of being a dead field hitter. The crack lead-off men in base ball are all supposed to be little men, be- cause the smaller the batter the less target a pitcher has to shoot at. Max Bishop of the Philadelphia Athletics is not a little man, but a crack lead- oft man. He made himself valuable in the No. 1 batting position in spite of his height by schooling himself to wait out the pitchers. He also better- ed his judgment of pitched balls. Johnny Neun of Detroit, was just a utility player until this season just closed, and he rarely got into the box scores. He learned a few inside tricks of base running, practiced hard, and became a 1regular first baseman. His batting and flelding improved along with his base running. Gene Robertson did not improve him- selfafter he joined the St. Louis Browns and he was finally shunted back to the minors. Then he started to im- prove so much that the New York Yankees bought him. A faiflure at St. Louis, Robertson became a star with St. Paul and beat his way back to_the big tent. Earl Sheely of the Chicago Whl(e’ Sox, is big and slow, but he developed the finest shift I have ever seen a fl‘:'e!t baseman use, and thus discounted hl.'i‘ physical flaws. uke £ewell of Cleveland, was about to be sent to the minors, Then he learned to hit into right fleld. He At Laurel, Maryland October 4th to October 29th, inclusive Seven Races Daily Special Baltimore & Ohio R. Trains Ly. Washington 12:25 P M. A e oo by AR EOT Direct to course Returning immediately after last race Admission to Grandstand, $1.65, ity Soand; g5 - First Race at 1:45 P.M. Player Fixes His Does in Competition on Diamond. Horton’s Par Golf Chart LOOK Lf- LY. SEE BLADE pin. It is a magnet for the eyes. Looking up is such a stealthy fault because it is done so quickly and so unconsciously. One can do it continuously without ever knowing it. When you look up, or look away toward the cup, which is the same thing, while putting, the putt per- sistently misses the cup by just gra: ing the right side. In other words, it is sliced the least bit. Regardless of the putting method or position, the player must stroke through the ball and should actually see the blade go through. All methods of putting will be bad, or periodically bad, if this fault exists, while on the contrary 'most any style of putting will get a good result if the player actually looks at the ball all the time he is stroking it. See the job clear to its finish, then look. There will be plenty of time to see it drop—if it does. Earnest Effort_to Improve Will Save Many a Big Leaguer His Job. * ok ok X Men Who Have Come Back Through Resolve to Develop Special Abilities.. * ok ok K alary by What He learned to hit behind the runner and he learned to push the ball through the infleld on hit-and-run plays. He quickened his wits and matched them successfully with those of batsmen and base runners. I know of no bet- ter catcher today than Sewell. I could name many others. The ball player who wants to better him- self can get all the lessons he wants and get them for nothing. If he practices diligently he will bring money into his pocket. A ball player fixes his salary by what he does in competition on the ball fleld. ONDAY, OCTOBER 1 SECTIONAL TRIALS ASKED FOR AMATEUR TITLE TILT Would Benefit Annual Tournament Whose Ranks Are Cluttered With Players Not Deserving Place in Competition of Major Caliber. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. MERICAN golfers not entirely insensible of their duty of lending aid to the United States Golf Association in conducting its business have been submitting numerous _sugges- tions during the past fortnight as to how the fathers of the game might better conduct the play of the na- tional amateur champlonship so there would be general satisfaction, from champion to caddy. Some of the suggestions have merit und thought, while still more are inclined to the facetious and usually include the idea that a moratorium should be declared until such time as Robert Jones is stricken with lumbago and no longer can dash over our best falrways. The consensus of opinion is that the U. S. G. A. might help the situation by tightening the eligibility lines for competiton in the amateur. As it is today, a player's right to compete in the amateur is based entirely upon his competitive record, which is passed upon by the championship committee. But a player might be State champion of Nevada, which would entitle him to some consideration of the amateur, and still be a worse player than a 10- handicap man in the metropolitan dis- trict. So it is easy to see there are flaws in the present system of han- dling the entries. Must Reduce Fields. The United States Golf Association, being the governing body of all Amer- ican golf, must also be diplomatic and quite frequently accepts what are known in the trade as ‘“‘courtesy en- tries"--usually players belonging to clubs where the champlonship is played. Those fellows are fiie chaps, but entirely misplaced in a national championship and do nothing more than clutter up the field during the two qualifying rounds. The amateur could be conducted much more smoothly if the ranks could be reduced, and to accomplish that the eligibility rules must be made far more strict than they are at present. It is quite likely the United States Golf Assoclation will do something along that line before long. One sound suggestion is that sec- tional qualifying rounds be held before the amateur, as is done for the na- tional open. A scheme could be worked out whereby those sectors with the greatest number of star players could be given the largest representation. Sectional qualifying rounds would weed out players whose game really did not warrant their being in the na- tional fleld, and would save such play- ers the trouble of making a long jour- ney to the championship course, If by some scheme the U. S. G. A. could reduce to 100 or fewer the field that was to compete in the qualifying rounds of the champlonship proper, it would then be possible to play the 36-hole medal test in one day. Play- ing a double round in one day would be no more of a strain on the con- testants than a hard 36-hole match, or two rounds on the final day of the national open. The whole busi- ness of picking the 32 to compete in the match rounds then would be com- pleted in a single day and there would be ample time to stage the 36-hole matches that seem so dear to the hearts of all of the leading stars. These suggestions show the trend of the players' thoughts. It seems logi- cal that if the U. S. G. A. really is dissatisfled with the present system of conducting the amateur champion- ship, it must start in by reducing the size of flelds that compete In qualify- ing rounds. From early merning until late at night, for two days, the cham- pionship course is covered with play- ers and most of them have little or no chance to qualify and are of no interest to the public. The course often is clogged by slow players, and in many instances players of consider- able ability are paired with men only a little above the duffer class, which reduces their chances of qualifying. Could Tighten Lines. With golf growing tremendously each season and the number of good players automatically increasing, something will have to be done to restrict the size of the fleld in the amateur champlonship, and the U. 8. G. A. might as well tighen the lines now. That move would save a lot of trouble. With the golf season almost over in the North, Southern and Pacific Coast resort courses are announcing Winter programs for those who are able to follow the Southern flight of the sun and the robins. Florida is planning another big Winter season and Cali- forna will offer a lot of interesting and profitable events for the amateur and professional. St. Augustine already has announced its Winter schedule, while Pinehurst, Miami, Palm Beach and St. Peters- burg will swing into line before long. The pro trail will not be so heavily paved with gold this Winter as last, but starting in California and swing- ing down through Texas, up into Arkansas and then over into Florida, the expert mashie wielder can pick up enough change to pay car fare and keep his feet out of the snow. (Cosright. 1927.) o Sam Rice Midgets closed a success- ful season with a win over 8. D. Emerys yesterday, 3 to 0. funney Keeping Fit for Title Defense : Golf Tourney Field Reduction Sought STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE EARLY one-hundred golfers from the Baltimore offices of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad gathered today at the Colum- bla Country Club to play a match with players representing the Southern Railroad offices in Wash- ington the second time teams repre- senting the two railroads have met on the golf course this year. Colum- bia is also entertaining the Kiwanis Club today. Several high officials of both rail- roads will play in the inter-railroad match. Twenty-eight members of Temple Noyes Masonic lodge arrived in Wash- inton this morning, after a_week end of golf over the Princess Anne Club course at Virginia Beach, where they competed for three prizes put up by the lodge and the Cavaller Hotel at the Virginia resort. Ralph P. Barnard, chairman of the entertainment com- mittee of the lodge, won the Cavalier trophy for the best 36-hole net score, and other prizes were won by Hilleary Hoskinson and Charles B. Lyddane. The prizes were presented last night hy Carter B. Keene. Assurance that the Middle Atlantic open championship will be a banner event with plenty of first-class com- petition has been given Robert T. Bar- nett, president of the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers’ Association by Leo Diegel, the title holder. Diegel will defend the title he won last year and will bring with him several of WALES WOULD GIVE JONES GOLF TROPHY By the Associated Press, SANDWICH, England, October 17.—If Bobby Jones wins the British open golf championship for the third successive time when the big event is played here next Sumi. v, he will re- ceive the trophy from (he most dis- tinguished 16-handicap player in the whole world of golf—the Prince of Wales, The heir to the British throne who was_elected unanimolusly captain of the Royal St. George's Club, where he plays most of his rounds in the late 90s, wants to see Bobby ‘defend his title and has expressed a desire to pre- sent the championship cup. While nobody in England has been informed officially that Jones is com- ing to participate in the open next Summer, nobody doubts that Bboby will be on the first tee when the champlonship begins. o Y BASKETERS TO HOLD FIRST DRILL TOMORROW Aspirants for the Y. M. C. A. basket ball team will hold their first practice at *he Y gym tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. Players are sought by Jolly Antler A. C. 100-pound court team. Write Manager Mike C. DiBella at 21 H street. the ranking professionals from the New York district. The tourney is a 72-hole affair, starting Thursday at Indian Spring. Pairings for the first match-play round in the competition for the Lib- erty Cup at the Chevy Chase Club were announced last night as follows: . Carr (10) ve. Frank P. Bouve (18) vs. J. R. . L. McGrew (12} v, . W. G. Dunlop {14) vs. Joseph Wheeler. Jr. (18)° va. Gen. Harry Taylor (11). W. C. Gullion (12) ve.— G. E. Elliott (11y, H. A_ Gillis (15) vs. Worthington_Frailey (6). L. B. Platt (127 A ol, J. B. Peter _{11). (8) va V. Wheeler Magon (7) v, (12). R, P. . C. Pratt Admiral hiteley . alte Chappell (13) (15) v A. Fuller (3 19y vs. J. D. Burnett (12) Col. F. W. Weed and Judge C. 8. Hatfleld were to play today the only match remaining unplayed in the first round of the championship flight in the Congressional Country Club title chase. Page Hufty, the defending champlon, will play the winner of the Weed-Hatfield match in the semifinal. E. R. Shipp yesterday defeated John M. Leavell to reach the semi-final and will play Monroe E. Miller. George H. Stiles and F. W. Shortal! tied for low net in the 36-hole medal play handicap tourney at the Argyle Country Ciub vesterday with net cards of 138 The tie will be played oft next Sunday. Third prize went to H. G. Cummings, with 145. AUTH SENIOR TEAM WILL BE BANQUETED In recognition of their success dur- ing the post season, when they went through the Capital City League schedule without a defeat, Auth Senior diamonders will be banqueted tomor- row night at Blossom Inn, at 8 o’clock. Bill Sanderson, who has remained faithfully at the helm all season, is i charge of arrangements and festi ties. All members of the team ha been invited to attend. Klansmen and Silver Spring nines disbanded following their division of g double bill on Wheaton diamond yed. terday. Knights copped the first, 4 o 0, hut were nosed out in the night cap, 5to 4. Hyattsville All-Stars closed a long season yesterday by downing Berwyn, 3 to 0. Hiser’s nine scored 39 wins against 21 losses during the season. Hair held Penrose A. C. to 9 scat- tered hits yesterday, allowing Cherry-" dale to win, 10 to Arlington AllStars meted out an 18-to-3 drubbing to Washington Red Sox yesterday at Arlington. Silver Hill took the first game of a three-game series from Triangles yes- terday, 9 to 5. Padgett was the win- ners’ star. cigarette preferred by experienced smokers In the remarkable growing popu- larity of the cigarette, many brands have bid for favor, but Camel con- tinues to lead by billions. Quality put it there—quality keeps it there. 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