Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 30

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. TUESDAY, A UGUST 14, 1928.° SPORTS. - U. S. Has Fine Malerial for Davis Cup Tennis in Young T rio, Richards Avers HENNESSEY, Lo, COEN GREAT TEAW {Growing Popularity of Game Here Indicates Capital Boys Can Prove They Have Likely to Attain High Degree of Promi- ~Stuff” if Given Chance, Says Pro Star. BY VINCENT RICHARDS, Professional Tennis d States doesr about future Day ition =0 long John George Lot and Coen are able to swing iare to Cup hese boys need a bit more season- they are not far from the too Hennessey and Lott are foreign play They a:e able to any kind of con- i they like elay courts bet- grass get & chance. the younger lavers can prove they have the stuff ose Hunter and Tilden had played singles and doubles in the chal- ge round in Paris and lost the Where would the United s be next year? experience Lott and Hennessey r did them a world of good not be surprised to sece the Davis Cup one of French Liked Youngsters. Previous to the challenge round against France Hennessey was beating v in trial matches, while young Coen were taking measure. It must be said, ever. that the sudden action of the ed States Lawn Tennis Association barring Tilden on the eve of the t Italy must have af- of both Tilden and and the practice week it was in- t ng 1o note the attitude of the French officials and tennis fans. Most of them were incensed at the barring of Tilden. Then the sterling play of Lott T essey asserted itself. and the impres 1! ranked No. 3 on the team and that Lott and Hennessey feat him any time they wanted on they felt a good deal bet- ter, for they realized that the gate re- ceipts wouid not be so bad after all (e us. in an amateur game, how the “gate” has so much to do with the run- ning of things. Yet one must consider that money to send teams all is a question at times whether the reaches the amount the expenses for instance, the sending of to Australia for six months. cover 50.000 miles, and the gates be gdod or the players may have i pay their cwn expenses. And who fl\\;ri\nrd of an amateur player doing that Tennis Body Taetless. Tilden is & professional or amatour, there serms little doubt in en=>s mind concerning the way the on was handled in Paris by the committes. It was simply a case of washing dirty 'mn in public. It would have been far better to wait until the team ar- in America before bringing up, charges against Bill 1 have great respect and admiration for Tilden’s behavior during the trying ~riod Many other players would er have heen able to stand a five- t match against Lacoste under such rircumstances. It was really remark- 2hle that Bill played the tennis h> did in the singles against Lacoste and for two sots during the doubles match. 1 would have liked to see the Tilden 1920 playing Henri Cochet in the ngles match during the challenge Never have I seen Cochet in h brilliant form. I predicted four ars ago that Cochet had the makings test tennis player who ever greats and I still stick to that line of | There are not any heights he | thought. can't reach in tennis if he wanis. The difference between Cochet and Lac is simply that Cochet is nat: born player and Lacoste is a made one. Copyright. 1972 paper Allianee. SARAZEN GIVES TIP 70 BRITISH GOLFERS While eminent American professional golfers were in England in quest of the open championship—which. as all know, Walter H: en won—some of the most serious critics of golf on the other side went to school; this is to say. they went to the shore hotel at Sandwich where the Americans were staying and sat at the feet of the masters of the geme. One of these American masters ad- vises the writer that he does not know how much the English learned, but that certainly they got & lot of infor- mation. Gene Sarazen made a tremendous hit with a very sage remark, which spread throughout England in the short time that elapsed between the close of the open and the sailing of the Yankee mercenaries for heme “The difference between English and American golf.” said Saerazen, “is this When a er comes to the front in vour country the firet question you ask is “How far can he drive?’ The first thing we want to know about a new n star is ‘What kind of a putter That was al had said all that was necessary h decided, by jove, that npl the nail on the head, and it be at and practical demonstr gave way to the del ng R. McReynolds & Son Studebaker SALES 1423-1425-1427 L St. N.W. Decatur 686 = iNG KOLY 101 ALL HANDS An Honest Stated Fact 1's the King of ‘Em All! Onee 1 Always Preferred by North American News. | Gene said, but evidently all surprising if the as a compelling subjeet of | | TENNIS THRIVING IN D. C. nence in Net Wor ITH an imposing array of junior net stars appearing on the local horizon, the District bids fair to be well | represented in the net world within the next decade, both | in_quality and quantity. | " Never "before has such a field of youthful racketers gathered in this section for championship play as that | entered at Chevy Chase Club for the | District boys’ and junfor events this past June—or that which competed later for Middle Atlantic honors at | Edgemoor Club In the District events more than 1100 boys under 18 years of age were | assemiled. owing to the untiring ef- forts of Paul Harding. chairman of the junior net committee, and to the | co-operation of the Chevy Chase Club | officials, who donated the use of th club courts for the week of the ch pionships. | At Edgemoor champions from civic were gathered representing | cities, towns and hamlets throughout |the Middle Atlantic States. Harding |and his local committee worked un- | ceasingly to make a success of this af- fair, also, and the Edgemoor players | yielded their limited court space gen- | erously to the voungsters in the inter- lest of net progress. Youngsters Are Developing. Since the boy and junior events have been pushed locally by Harding | during the T few years, promisi | luminaries have come to the front. to {take their place among the top-notch- | ers in the senior ranks. Bob Cor | dine, recent winner of the public par championship in Washington and semi- finalist in the national public parks |event, got his early training at the | !local junior nets. as did Dooley Mitch- |ell. finalist 1n 6 in the national | public parks event, who was District Junior champion in '25. And now comes Frank Shore, the 16- | year-old who won the District junior | | championship this year, who performed | impressively at the senlor nets at Edge- moor this past week, reaching the quar- ter-finals in a field of 96 netmen. Shore | | events also was runner-up to Billy Jacobs of Baltimore for Middle Atlantic honors. | _Robbed of its tennis center, the old | Dumbarton Club, Washington net in-| | terests have been laboring under a | handicap during the past two or three| s, but one to which the enthusi- jasts have rallied gallantly, with the | | generous aid of local country clubs, | { which have opened their doors and of- | fered their courts to the racketers for | important events until a new tennis {club _could be located. This past Pall| the Edgemoor Club was obtained by the | | netmen, with its two courts forming | the nucleus of the future battleground | for District title campaigns. Three more | courts since have been added, and others are to be put in as fast as time and club funds will allow. In the interim, Columbia and Chevy Chase Clubs have come to the rescue. Columbia has loaned its courts for th Army elimination tournament and the women’s senior District events, which formerly were staged at Dumbarton | Club in conjunction with the men's championships. Chevy Chase Club held girls' junior championships in addition 10 the boys' and wiil be the scene of | DESPITE COURT SHORTAGE Id Within Decade. | bring the national public parks event | to this city in 1930. If this plan ma- | terializes it will mark a new era in local tennis, with the first national | ovent ever staged in the Capital | The past two years also have seen the inauguration of the first indoor net | play in Washington. Tilden, Alonzo, | Emmett Pare and Tom Mangan have ! | performed in two indoor exhibitions at the new indoor court in the Arcadia and one indoor championship tourna- ment_has been staged. with Mangan and Phoebe Moorhead winners in the two classes. | Despite the handicaps of limited court space. tennis interest in Washing: ton is decidedly on the increase and no | lack of opportunities are offered. during {the Summer season at lcast. for the voung aspirant to gain experience in | local competition, The one crying need is for more in- door courts and facilities for turf court play. And the latter is being cared for to some degree in the group of turf courts for which plans now are Z:’;n{’s' drawn at the Indian Spring Golf ul GOLFERS ARE AIDED | BY MATCHED CLUBS| BY WALTER I American Professional and ampion. ) “Do matched clubs make a differ- ence?” and “What club do you use?” are questions asked of me almost daily Yes. matched clubs do make a differ- ence, a derided difference. In golf, as| i anything else in which tools or im- plements of play are required. the kind of tool is important. The more skilled the workman the more important the t00ls My first advice to a begiuner has al- ways been. “start right with a uniform set of clubs.” Playing with mismated | odds and ends is as great a handicap as I know. @Golf depends largely on proper timing and rhythm and it is es- sential that the irons or woods should contribute to ease of accomplishment of these two factors. | Every golfer who owns a bag of non- related clubs has one or more favorites | in the assortment. These possibly feel | just right and instill & certain amount | of the confidence. But the player seems never to get the hang of the others, and as likely as not they are the most im- portant clubs of the lot. Now with a matched set of clubs, to| ike the “feel” of one is to like the “feel” of all. because each club is re- lated to every other club. Some shots will be more difficult than others. but there is no “jolt” going from one club to th> other. I use clubs consisting of a matched river, brassie and spoon, and nine matched, solid, stainless steel frons as follows: No. 1. driving iron: No. 2, mid- iron: No. 3, mid-mashle: No. 4. mashie iron: No. 5. mashie: No. 6, spade masnie; No. 7. mashie niblick; No. 8, niblick, and No. 8, putter. British Open the Leech Cup service matches next! (Gopyright. 1928 by North American News- Saturda In addition. Chevy Chase Club staged | an invitation tourney early in the Spring. bringing to Washington stars of international note, and later ran its | annual closed club tournament, where | the sensational play of 12-year-old Joc McLean furnished another forecast of | | future stardom from the junior ranks. | | Washington's tennis star is on the | rise in another direction as well. Ne- | gottations are under present to Keeps Colors i paer Allince.) | | REACH CHECKER FINAL. SANDUSKY. Ohio. 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AQM6 IM MAKING SWING = RESULT ASLICE i | SOL METZG Yes, a slice will result in trying to cure a slice, such as described in vesterday's article, if the golfer de- cides that in order to keep his body and arms back of the clubhead at contact he will use only a most re- stricted pivot in playing the shot putting the burden almost entirely on_his arms : such a golfer, so Bob MacDonald 4 invariably takes the club straight back from the ball without any body movement. This pushe his arm away from his body in the position shown in the accompanying sketch. Once the arms get away from the body then trouble begins accumulating for the player. He has little control over them. Usually a slice results because his body, not wound up by the pivot, tends to swing forward as h starts his down- swing. That will throw it ahead of his arms and they in turn will swing out and then pull the clubhead in across the ball to make contact and with the same old result—a slice Keep the arms close in and pivot with your body as you start the left back in control of the club; other- wise, you slice. Get rid of your slice and v improve your score by 10 Sol Metzger has prepared a fine il- lustrated leafiet on “Slicing.” which he will send to any reader requestinz it. Address Sol Metzger, care of this paper. In writing inclose stamped. dressed envelops 'Ti»lden Not Named to Perform FAVORITES BEATEN . In East-West Tennis Matches EW YORK, August 14.—The list | By the Associated Press of players in the annual East- | West tennis matches has been | posted for the world to see,| and lo. “Big Bill" Tilden's | name does not head the list. As a mat-| ter of fact it doesn't appear at all and thereby hangs another tennis mystery. “Big Bill.” now awaiting trial on charges of violating the amateur ruie | of the United States Lawn Tennis As- soclation, has been a familiar figure in Fast-West matches for years. Many | was the duel he fought with “Little Bill" Johnston in this annual series. | Now both_apparently are out of the | picture. “Little Bill's” absence is vol- untary. He announced his retiement some months ago. But “Big Bill" evi- | dently is off the squad by official de- cision. The Eastern squad for the matches. | | which will be played this Friday and | saturday at Forest Hills, will consist of Richard N. Williams, Philadelphia, eap- tain: Francis T. Hunter of New Ro-| chelle, N. Y.; Dr. George King, Watsor Washburn and Teizo Toba. all of New Yo John Van Ryn of Princeton. | Gregory Mangin of Newark and Fritz | Mercur of Harrisburg. Pa | The United States Tennis Association, | in announcing the squad, said its mem- | bers would “include” these eight, leav- | ing a iule loophole for the inclusion | of Tilden, but few icmats observers be- | lieved that the Philadelphi?n would be | named. Tt was pointed out squad is named by the Eastern Lawn | Tennis Association, which apparently took the position that Tilden’s partici- pation in further amateur play should await the verdict of the executive com- | mittee of the U . L. T. A. when it| tries Tilden on August 24 This stand is in apparent conflict with the attitude of the U. S. L. T. A. itself. The parent body recently an- nounced that Tilden had been selected | as a member of the American squad which will engage the French stars in a team series next month. The parent as- sociation seemed to feel that Tilden, as the ranking No. 1 player in the country. | was entitled to a place on the squad unless his coming trial results in a de- cision adverse to further amateur play b e thet the Tastern | set with the contestants on even terms. | that he was Innocent until proved gullty. | The West's cause in the intersectional | George Lott of Chicago and John Hen- nessey of Indianapolis, Davis Cup stars: John Doeg of Santa Monica, Calif., and Alan_Herrington, Neil Brown and Rob- ert_Sellers, all of San Francisco. | ‘Tentatively it was announced the two- | day program would consist of five sin- | gles and three doubles matches. An added attraction will be an exhibiticn match between Helen Wills, women's champlon of the United States, Great Britain and France, and one of the country’s leading man players, yet to be selected. MEN’S TENNIS PLAY | 70 END TOMORROW With the singles final and one doubles zemi-final match scheduled today. play in the District tennis championship tournament will be completed tomor- row, when the remaining doubles semi- final and final matches will be staged After two days of idlencss play was resumed yesterday, when Larry Phillips | and Deane Judd eliminated the rank- | ing Army pair. Col. W. C. Johnson and Maj. R. C. Van Vliet, by taking the de- ciding set, 6 to 3. The first two sets | were played last Friday, when darkness | halted play at the end of the second | Jack and Don Dudley then defeated Judd and Phillips in rather eady fash- ion, 6—3, 8—6. The latter pair was unable to muster the same strength that was shown against the Army team Today's singles final will bring to- gether Maj. R. C. Van Viiet, Sheridan | Cup winner and ranking Army Leech | Cup ace. and Thomas J. Mangan. jr.. twice titlist of District ranks and in the midst of a big season The ranking Navy Leech Cup doubles | team was scheduled to get into action | in the preliminary to the singles final Lieut. Comdr. Vincent K. Godfrey and Lieut. R. M. Watt, jr. were to meet Jack and Don Dudley in a doubles | | New York, national junior tennis cham- 'BALTIMORE NETMEN JOHNSON WILL LEAD IN JUNIOR TENNIS| ARMY TENNIS TEAM By the Associated Press. Col. Walte C. Johnson, the Fort Bene CULVER, Ind., August 14—With tWo |ning Infantry veteran of the eourts seeded players and one ranking con-|who has been selected to captain the testant eliminated, the national Jumnr}hmy Leech Cup team in its annual | conflict this week will be upheld bY | annis championship tournament went|ciash with Navv's star racket wielders into its second day on the Culver Mill- |4t Chevy Chase Club Saturday after- tary Academy courts today. 'noon, believes Army's chances of re- William Hazeltine, Philadelphia, seed- S2ining the laurels which Navy has ed fourth, and E. Mendel, Utica, seeded | held the past two years are better than eighth, lost out yesterday. Hazeltine €Ver foll ‘before R. Joyce Portnoy, St. Louis, | Personnel of the Army team was an- B4 62, and Mendel, after winning [nounced following the selection of Col. his first mateh from Benny Laevin, |Johnson as captain. Members of the Grand Rapids, Mich., 6—2, 6—4, lost to icam. all of whom will not play, is G oot 'St Louls, 63, 6—3. _|as follows: Col. Johnson. Maj. R. C. T A eaire of Mexico City, boy |Van Viiet. Maj. L. 8. Hobbs, Capt. J. ae e Shisids of | H. Hills, Lieut. David D. Hedekin, Mai. champlon of Mexico: Prank Shields of | 1, "pinley, Capt. C. W, Christenberry, | Maj. T. Newgarden, Lieut. J. R. Pitman and Maj. P. C. Paschal. This line-up includes most of the 1927 players with the addition of Maj. Van Viiet. who was unable to play last year as he was stationed in Panama. Lieut. R. B. Oxrieder, who figured in last year's matches, was not named. Ten playess are named for each team { However, several do not play. Four singles are played and the same men who compete in the singles, with the | addition of two more players, compese the three doubles teams. Play will begin at 2 o'clock Saturday. One of the largest galleries in the his- tory of the Lee~h Cup matches is ex- pected as both teams have bsen makin tennis courts will uiusual preparations for the annuai pion, and other ranking players, were to get into action today. Besides Shields, top ranking players who remain in the tournament include | Walter Thomas, Elmora, N. J.: Keith | Gledhill, Senta Barbara, Calif.; Joseph Coughlin, San Franeisco: CHff Sutter, New Orleans, and David Jones, New York. TO INVADE SUNDAY| Rock Creek Park be the scene Sunday of the first inter- oAt ity il pachh CORFAIEnt in whiclt | o sr s GLEEOMDER (0 Termome ths cup local municipal netmen have engaged |Comdr. Godfrey. captain of the Navy this season. Play will start at 3 o'clock. | team is confident that his force will ‘Baltimore racketers, old rivals of the Win th2 honors for the third successive Capital City parks stars, will furnish year. the opposition in six singles and three P GOTHAMITES LIKE CRICKET. doubles matches Washington's team will be selected Cricket. England's national pastime, has a big following in New York. from Bob Considine. local champion: Dooley Mitchell, Maurice O'Neil, Larry Phillips. Leopoldo Coronel. Frank Shore - and Colin Stam. BASE BALL ;2% 2:30 P.M. Eddie Jacobs. Elmer Rudy. William AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Jacobs, Edward Jacobsen. 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