Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 27

SPORTS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1928: SPORTS.” Mac Smith Looms as Open Golf Champion : Heavies Will Hold Stage This Week WINS ON COAST INDICATE THIS MAY B kill, Headwork and Courage, But ., Has Supreme Never Seems to Get Break E HIS SEASON 1 National Event. Has Great Self-Control. BY BUNKER. LIPPING h the California 1 schedule like a 90- acdonald Smith d_ attention on the experts to be year fer from Lakeville, s first national | s Verdes open | ctly one week | Los Angeles open record? | won in utive tournament d with an average of 71 | At Palos 74, 69, 0 hey were T4, | nament he ough not in | nald Smith tied for ampionship. but | brother. Aleck | that will ever nce then he has| the breaks. | m this year. He| He won the | ever plaved | e beat Gene ropolitan open les they fought | In the thb 66. That was Self-Control. two holes | centh Gene | and had to take | him 15 feet e for a two ! the lead with only | M nt it over. *“I"® had a break in my favor.” he said to himself “If 1 get greedy an v for a two. I/ ay run past and take a four like Sara- | square the match with a 3 t I'll do. Let the fu- that he had a 6-inch ree, and forced an- n came victory. sample of Mac's | 24 California open, | the Los Angeles Country Club, rd seventeenth hole wrecked pe. Fast and slippery, it had iownward slope from the fr: which was Classy Headwork. d short of the the ball ig the first day’s play no- n the right side of w strip of level | s space to the cup. he played w0 th ithin 15 feet of he ball along the 10 the cup, purposely g s. This precaution he tournament for him, although he was a stroke above par on the hole t he does not ational open. ars ir 2¢ mone; 1 P The he'd gladly give all this! are | | the same year. cash 1f in the next national champion- ship he could get his game to going as he did at Palos Verdes and Los Angeles 0dd Freaks of Luck. Some fellows have all the good Juck | One day not long ago. Tommy Har- mon, the professional of the Hudson River Club. one of the best of the story about Evans Bryant, a member of his club. Bryant has the pleasant- est kind of memories this Winter as he recalls the Summer of 1927. “On the fourth hole, one afternoon,” savs Harmon, “he made a hole in one. The hole measures 153 yards. Re- markably, he had an ace at the same place in 1926." The next day. during a visit to the famous Baltusrol course, I told Jack Forrester, the professional there, about Bryant's feat “'One of our members did better than t. last Summer.,” commented Jack e made two holes in one—the firs: on July 9 and the second on September 17. But I guess No. 4 holes must b luc! for his aces were made on No. 4. The third day I heard an entirely different story. It was that of C. Ralph Smith. the Canoe Brook veteran who popped suddenly into the limelight by forcing John Golden to shoot 140 to ;\m the 36-hole New Jersey Open of Smith and Paul Anderson. also of Canoe Brook. were playing Dan Williams and Johnny Leonard at Shackamaxon. At the 130-yard eleventh hole. Smith and Anderson won because Smith made a birdie two. But Smith’s birdie missed an eagle ace by just 1 inch. On the 221-yard fourteenth hole. Smith's tee shot actually hit the cup, but didn’t stay in. He didn't sink his putt, and Williams won the hole with a twa. But to miss two hole in one in a| single round as Smith did! Surely h had the essence of bad luck that after: noon Started Smoking in Game. Nowadays it is such a common sight to see a player in a big championship smoking_that nobody gives the matter a thought. Golf, by the way. is one of the few sports in which, even in national ama- ture events, a contestant can drag away at a pipe or cigarette. But there was a time when it was very bad form to smoke during a tournament. The amateurs simply didn’t do it F. G. Tait, who won the British amateur championship in 1896 and 1898, used to get a friend to carry his | pipe for him. Freddie was afraid to smoke in the open. but, he would man- ase to mix among the galleryites where his friend would be waiting with nis pipe. and then he would steal a few surreptitious puffs Hilton Started It. H. H. Hilton, one of the greatest perhaps the greatest, of all British amateurs, for he won the champion- ship four times, and also came across the Atlantic to capture our title, was | the first player to smoke regularly du ing matches. The fashion he was able to set because of his eminence as a golf practitioner soon spread. Hilton, by the way, was the first ana | only man to win the British and American amateur championships 1u He did it in 191 But although this record stands alone. it does not quite equal the feat of Bobby Jones in winning the British and American open championships in 1926, at & time when he still was hold- ing the American amateur champion- ship. MEET DATES TO BE SET BY DISTRICT he executive com- Golf As- the home Shannon, a past organization a weez of meetings of during which tourna- the local e of the prelim toward settl the z season g of t 017 bodies dates for e two All of Clubs Look Alike to Armour [l r4 Tt LM kS on 524 w20 [ BN WM SOL METZGYLR 10y Yoty i a9 i o PR elw close w1 the ) worth the wtuention of sny Much of Anou s length Lis iy woifer due GOLF BODIES big local golf bodies are within the next seven days The Middle Atlantic Golf Association will hold its annual meeting at the New Willard Hotel next Saturday night ct courses and assign dates for ng of the two big sectional annually held by that body— man’s and woman's champion- scheduled events the ships The District Golf Association will meet Mondey night, March 5, at the Racquet Club to select dates for the wo title events under its jurisdiction the District amateur champlonship and the junior title tourney. | . The woman's championship of the { District 15 held under the auspices ! the Women's District Golf Associa- |tion and the men's organization has no hand in it | At the Distriet assoctation however, it has been customary for several years past to finally arrange {the dates for the invitation events, { with the representatives of the several lubs indicating their preference for dates and settiing them by agreement among themselves, car a new problem presents of the questionnaire sent by President Steinem of the L trict association asking the views of the clubs on spacing the tournaments farther apart. While this matter has teen informally discussed in other years it has never before been crystallized in | an attempt o reduce the number of | Wurnaments in a given year i = No major construction work 1s in convempiation at Columbia in the im- | | meaiate future. The greens force, di- rected by O. P. Fitts, the new course supervisor, 15 buxy touching up the eourse and ironing out the small rear- rangenm that Wil bring the course thie of Bpring in top-notch conaition eral vemporsry greens n the course ax mowhe i very fite shisgpn Chevy Chase, like has o major WKes N prospect, the greens force ¢ engaged simply in stratghtening the sminl) Inequalities that always {rerop up the Winter. “Ihe entire corse bims been eovered with fertilizer wnd now awelts only the warm breath g W put 3 in topenotch condi- Wishinglon the only y. 5 the new o weveral mprovements reccmmended Lo Ve grect wny e new Ui i cleventh holes MeClenahian of the green Aipoed L el the project of w new shabeenth lyreen una pleenth tee wndl unti Hime hins demonstrated ite need, snd (mesnwinle vill go shesd with the other guested dmprovements . MAT CARD ARRANGED been wrianged pext Thursday Henato Gurdind mieet Al Kol B s, Dun Koloff, Bul will come Wi wrips with Joe of Wrooklyn, wid Joe Lirner loal fuwvondte will teke on Somsnof! of Californta mnjor in twelfth heen ot e s for for construction | Phree mutchies have v s wresting curd Wbt i the Arcadia twllan greppler, will George \ Paperts In pugthom generully agrce et blow bt The firet and most ‘m loxing s the slraight ’ younger golfers in the East, told me a | meeting, | ROD AND STREAM By Perry Miller: of the open markets of Maryland and Pennsylvania.” The principal_amendments to the virginia_law, now before the Legisla- ture, call for a closed season for bass from March 15 to July 1 of cach year; a bag limit of 15 bass in any one day or 150 in any one season, and, also, a very important amendment which pro- hibits any one to use fish berries, lime, or_ giant power, dynamite or any other substance for the destruction of fish, or knowlngly or willfully ny s dust, noxious substance or matler into any water course of this State above | tidewater, by which therein fish spawn may be destroyed, or to place or to al- low to pass into the water courses of HE arrest of the three men en- gaged in illegal catching of bass in Neabsco Creek recently by E. W. Decters, special game warden of the State of Virgin and also a representative of the Burcau of Fisheries, has brought universa praise_from all local anglers. This col- received numerous telephone s fishermen inquiring_ where Decters could be located in order to personally tell him how grateful they were for his good work in apprehend- | ing these violators in Virginia. The Izaak Walton League took up the matter at a recent meeting and di- rected Edward C. Kemper, chairman of the bass protection committee, to draft the following letter to Deeters: “Upon getting back to Washington from | (1o State any lime, OF Tetiise an extended absence I find copies of | of gas works, injurious to fish life, The Evening Star of February 7, con- | =4 cerning_the s you| The State of Virginia is certainly did on Neabsco Cre ting net | trying in every way to surround her fishermen who we the law | game fish with the proper protection, of Virginia by taking in nets and when the men who are now em- “First, let me say that the bass pro- | ploying illegal methods to catch bass tection committee of the Washington fand other fish realize they will m Chapter of the Izaak Walton League | picrc“money by catering to the wants | of anglers by encouraging good fishing jomns with the thousands of other anglers in Washington and Virgini, | instead of destroying it, Virginia will be at the head of the list of St | who fecl grateful to you |~ “At the next meeting of the Wash-| 1o ing forward to conservation of game | ington Chapter a report will be P 2 Maryland and Pennsyly the protection_committee of | which T am chairman, and 1 fecl S| two lies in the ointment at the present {which will ekpress iis appreciation to | {ime. The good that has been done in tangible form. by Virginia and the District of Columbia Yo e o Mhere I sent here- | enRcting bass laws prohibiting - their | with_some _documents which we have ) Sale, 5 groatly Do Oy ohen | gotten out from time to time about the LD e e | extermination of the bass by the l\l't‘, iy (l"]‘ )‘ ”I e ’“~ i | fisherman on the lower Potomac. The | O e DI e e act ‘8 | story is a familiar one to you. I know prohibiting the sale of b: nia are the | Since these statements were issued laws have been passed prohibiting the ex-| ploration of bass in Virginia and | District of Columbia, but as ki the net fishermen of Virginia con- tinues to take the bass in seines and trap nests and ship them to Ma and Pennsylvania now with the Ma vania_Conservation Com | will ultimately succeed in cl two remaining markets for our pal game fish “It would be appreciated you would let me have you d for among other things I wish fo propose your name to the Iz Walton League or a membership-at-large and if vou will accept that membership, which carries with it a year’s subscription to | Outdoor American. I will be glad. I| | believe it would be better in the work | { which you are doing for you to hold a membership in the league at large | rather than in the Washington chapter. “I take the liberty of sending copies | of this letter to Mr. Leech of the Bureau of Fisheries, and also to Mr. M. D. Hart, secretary of the Commis- | sion of Game and Inland Fisheries at | Richmand, Va.: also to Perry Miller, conservation editor of The Evening Star, whose writings have done more { to conserve the black bass than any | other one factor. “With deep appreciation of what you {are doing and more power to you in | carrying on a vitally important con- | servation work, I A_report from Baltimore states that J. B. Snyder, superintendent of the | Cape’ Vincent’ (N. Y.) station of the | United Stags Bureau of Fisheries, will assist Maryland culturists in the selec- tion and development ot brood and rearing_ponds for inland fish The Federal expert together with A M. Powell, Maryland State fish culturist will spend two weeks studying the selection and development of rearing ponds for trout and brood ponds for bas: The Maryland commission’s program alls for the establishment of ponds for game fish in Washington and Frederick | Counties, on the F n Shore. and at We new lake at C ngo, Md. princi- if ‘ One of our leading sports goods stor |also called this column expressing ap- | | preciation of the good work Deeters has | done in the past and is doing to appre- | hend violators of the bass law in Vir- ginta. The store informed this column that many of its customers wanted to make a donation to Deeters to encour- age him in his work. Those desiring to contribute should communicate with {Ollie Atlas of the Atlas Sports Goods | | Co. | | ~Judge Snow of Alexandria in talking | to the writer last ‘week also spoke I highly of the work done by this { warden in making the arrests. Snow said there is some new legislation before the State Legisiature giving the Commission of me and Inland | Pisheries more power to regulate fishing |in tide waters He says this legislation also provides for a special game warden | to patrol the shores of the Potomac to | | cateh violators of the bass laws When Glen C. Leach of the Bureau | of Fisherles was informed of this pro- posed new legislation by the State of Virginia he offered to provide & 30-foot | motor boat with a cabin for the use the State if the bill becomes a ia This boat, Mr. Leach says, will be placed in the Potomac without afly cost to the | State of Virginia “Good old Luckies | _In transmitting a copy of his letter to Deeters to Mr. M D. Hart, ¢ tary of | the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, Mr. Kemper says || “I now understand that there | bill pending before the Leg: put a special game warden on the low- er Potomac to break up the illegal taking of bass in that section. I hope that is being sponsored by you and re- ceiving the vigorous support of commission. Is there anythin do at thi: “Perry Miller The Washi Star, who has awakened widespreac public concern about the extermination of the bass by the net fishermen, tells me that officials of the Bureau of Fish- erles might render some valuable co- operation to your commission if a spe cial game warden is authorized. Or | sueh warden giving absolute protect o the bass would be equivalent to | hatcheries and would restore to the | Virginia side of the Potomac such | splendid bass fishing that the Staie would benefit by thousands of dollars and the net fishermen, who now make a thin lving by violating the law, would m: real money catering to the | angle ‘The history of the bass 1n | Maine is a strking example of can we done and of the splendid r turn to the natives, once net fishing 1= completely abolished “Would appreciate n word from you on this matter and any information that you may have about the effect is a ature to of Most Astonishing Golf Occurrences LOON, My match with Bert Elphick w one of the most amusing 1 e n | was productive, st any rate, of some of [ the most surprising happenings 1 hive ever seen in golf “The match vus for 36 holes, Pocono Manor and 18 ot Shawnes [ frst part was & ding-dong aftair [ would get the 1 even things up. 1 Play, always u rather ton, Phen whst biappened Bert diopped i hot " can tor s hole dnoone anthe seventeenthy o even matlers, wnd Dien Luried up i pirdie on the list Lo teke the lead, 1 ad two pars, but that didi't mean {unything vt Bert tiaee under on thiose Lwo ol We wenb over ta b Iewd bisck agal and me 10 Lhe eenth [ it aneshotter Delaware Hiver put b tee shot the hole wnd the Impwinsibile ? Naol ut wil nded e Diclas out his second, thi leetting & thice 1 daid my tee shiol Cluse enough o sk the putt 1or # hale twao, the hole and the msten, 1 never heard of 8 mun & money waleh einking two tee phots, o siy nothing of losing out In spite of 1t (Covynaht. 1078 by North Ameroas Newe waver Alllaice er played 18 at The I A4 and then w1 con 1o it wnee, 1100k the 2 up when we This Is & bean weross e arm of e Here again Elphck Wt the eup, but o maleh st sho e hoded vt e penalty No ASPIRANTS FIGURE IN PAIR OF BOUTS Godfrey and Uzcudun Mix It on Coast, Heeney Faces Delaney in East. the Associated Press, NEW YORK, February 27.—This is the week that the heavyweights come back into the fistic spotlight. The climination process will be taken up in two widely separated sectors. The outstanding non-union members of the heavyweight, clan, George Godfrey and Paulino Uzeudun, fight tomorrow night t Los Angeles. Two days later an offi- cial elimination in Madison Square Garden will bring together Tom Heeney and Jack Delaney. The non-unfon bout on the Pacific Coast may be the more interesting of the two, but it will have no bearing on the official program unless Paulino eliminates the “Black Menace.” Only a | decisive victory for Paulino can upset the prospeet that Gene Tunney’s June opponent, if any, is to come from a survivor of the Delaney-Heeney or Sharkey-Risko fights. 9 Godfrey Out of Luck. Godfrey, however, cannot hope to crowd into the championship picture, no matter what he does to Paulino or any other contender. His manager has said some disparaging things about Tunney and the other organization heavyweights. As a result, quest of a title match is likely to be just as fruitless as was that of Harry Wills It has been anything but a satisfac- tory Winter for the heavyweights so far. Busmess has suffered from too much elimination, fncluding the elimi- nation of Jack Demps But if the climination e old Manassa Mauler is no more lasting than that of some of the other contenders t e 15 dittle reason to doubt the possibility of a third Dempsey-Tunney fight Most of Tex Rickard's big shots dur- ing the past fow years have been with the heasyweights, but a few more fight- ! Godfrey's | | and in his workouts has shown that the ” ing terrors such as Jimmy McClarnin may make the promoter forget some of his concentration on the bigger brigade. The little fellows have been packing ‘em in this Winter to a greater extent than in years. The Canzoneri-Bass tilt for the featherweight crown, the Hud- kins-Baker welterweight clash and Mc- Clarnin-Terris fray have given the fans more exciting action than half a dozen heavyweight elimination bouts. McClarnin just now looms as the greatest drawing card any division has had, outside of the heavyweights, since the heydays of Benny Leonard, whose two famous fights with Lew Tendler drew an aggregate of more than $800,- 000. in outdoor arenas. A McClarnin-Mandell battle at the Yankee Stadium for the lightweight crown might easily be ballyhooed into one of the biggest outdoor attractions of the Summer. ‘There are at least three other “nat- urals” outside the heavy list—a return match between Canzoneri and Bass, a bout between Ace Hudkins and Joe Dundee for the welter title and a re- turn go between Tommy Loughran and Leo Lomski for the light heavyweight championship. MELLO GETS SECOND CHANCE AT HUDKINS By the Associated Press, BOSTON, February 27.—Al Mello of Lowell, New England’s outstanding welterweight, will get his second chance at Ace Hudkins, Nebraska wildcat, here tonight. Mello and Hudkins went over the 10- round route in New York City last Sum- mer, and the Lowell boy had the ace on | the ‘canvas, although he failed to keep him there and lost the decision. Hudkins comes here fresh from his asational vietory over Sergt. Sammy Baker of Mitchel Pleld, Long Island, Baker fight took away none of his scrappiness. He is a 10-to-8 favorite. The bout will be 10 rounds. BRITON IN LONG RACE. LOS ANGELES, February 27 (F Arthur Newton, 44, famous British dis- | tance runner, has arrived here to take part in the ‘transcontinental “running | and walking” marathon slated to start | from here March 4 and end in New York Ci ? “Tt’s toasted” Throat Irritation-No Cough. WOMAN BOWLERS PLAN ORGANIZATION CHANGES AVING disposed of the business of electing officers and choos- | ing a tourney site, the Wash- ington Ladles’ Duckpin Asso- ciation 1s contemplating sweep- ing changes in organization. It aims Lo devise a constitution, something it has never had, revise its voting system and generally rearrange its method of pro- | cedure. Much of this it expects to accomplish at a meeting at the Arcadia next Satur- day night, when each member league is to have a zepresentative present with the association officers. | Meyer Davis team of the Ladies’ Dis- trict League will go to Ealtimore Thurs- day night to meet the Bowling Center girls in the first half of a six-game, home-and-home match. The Meyer Davis team includes Capt. Eva Gemeny, Anna Willlams, Fay Morgenstein, Vir- ginia Yarnell and ILoulse Fobert!. ATHLETIC (LUB LEAGUE. Team Standing. Probably one of the best things the | 3/)'h & N. V. Ave. L asociation eould do would be to change its designation. Washington Ladies’ Duckpin Association is unnecessarily long and not 50 good in style. The term ! AN i : | “lady” as ordinarily used today ha'.} | | i | b Hiz neither the significance nor the dignity of the word “woman.” It is high tim that the bowlers discontinue its use, have the fair ones in other branches of sports. We have “women’s” golf organi- ations, *“wome; tennis associations and “women’s” swimming clubs here Let us h: vomen's” bowling federa- tions and “women’s” bowling leagues. It _might be well, too, to drop the word “duckpin” as much as possible in naming organizations having to do with the toppling of the little maples or the government of those who do the top- pling. The game itself is “bowling,” and the leagues should be known as “bowl- ing” leagues, not “duckpin” leagues. Perhaps the women's organization might find it advantageous to take a new lease on life under a changed name With petty political squabbles of the past forgotten, pursuing a new policy and designated as the Women's Bowl- ing Federation the woman bowlers’ cor trolling association ought to perform a worthy service in the particular sport to which it would be devoted. Incidentally, it is high time the men do something about the name of their controlling organization. Washington City Duckpin Association is cumber- some and furthermore the use of the word “city” in the association name is | nothing more than silly. Why not cut the title to Washington Duckpin Asso- ciation if no more drastic change in name is desired before the annual championship gets under w | at- he iy omads in thei | Union Printers lau | tack on i | Athletic | smothered the lowly {attempt to break an 1800 set 5 they fell of by 21 pins. 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