Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1928, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 19%8.° SPORTS, " Brae Burn Course Will Severely Test Golfers in Balile for Amateur Crown TITLE MEETLINKS FOR LONG HITTERS Lengthy Carries Imperative on Many Holes—Rebuilt Part Difficult. BY FRANCES J. POWERS. HE course nobody knows! That's a becoming description of Brae Burn, in West Newton, Mass.. where the national ama- teur golf championship will be played next month. The premier event of American g0 England. after a no better site coul for it than Brae B Numerous bits yevision of sever: pionship in 1 nize it Even the home green fident Hagen sent his ca clubhouse to Charlie Hoffner was the that championship. alth est marksmen of tt fleld Only once in all the years has 70 | Deen broken there. and then it was ac- | eomplished Ray Gorton, & club | member, whose only other bid for fame was in the national amateur of 1914 at Ekwanok. where he tied for the qualifying medal with Bill Fownes Thie s evidence of the perplexing problem Brae Burn always has been And now thev have stiffened it up con- sjderably. Competent observers declare the improvements. made especially for the championship have added at least two strokes to the lavout Not Unduly Long. | The reconstruction has been super- | vised by Herbert Jacques. a member of the United States Golf Association ex- | ecutive committee, and he has no hesi- | tation in declaring the course will meet | with the approval of the severest critics. A fair course, it is difficult without be- h( llnd\ll' long. It will measure 6,604 in length. but is guarded by both | nnmsl and handmade hazards. One of the odd features of Brae it found on the first hole, where the long hitter must use an iron from tee. A brook rambles across the fairway some 280 yangs from the ele- vated tee, and with gny sort of roll are likely to land in thel wood 15 . In a medal lay tournament at Brae Burn last Fall, Plnhv the long hitter from Har- ‘Il‘. it his first tee shot into the far h.nk ol the brook and thereafter l%m will be imperative in pionship, and short hitters may expect an unusual amount of Qvuble Tegardless of how straight they ‘!'hzl! are two three-shotters that are !vzryumu the phrase means. No one ever has carried the fifth green in two, and Jesse Guilford, the famous siege gun, iz the only one who can boast of ever getting home with his second on the fourteenth. The “gun” per- formed that prodi feat a vear ago when playing in an -xhlmtmn match against Johnny Parrell and Joe Turnesa. Farrell was 63 for the first 16 holes that day and wound up with a 71. Jones Did Not Like Links. ‘When Bobby Jones was a student st Earvard several years ago. he had occa- sion to play Brae Burn a few times and, according to Bostonians, was frank in his dislike for it. He held no particular | grievance for any one hole; his detesta- | tion was for the general layout. It was | just not suited to his game at that time. However, it may have a different | reaction for him in September, for| there are few courses that now trouble the amateur king. Neither Prancis Ouimet nor Jesse Guilford has played the course recently. Tt is & stranger to Jess Sweetzer. George | T'on Elm and a dozen other prominent | piayers never have seen it. ‘Tournaments staged in New England flnn have been history makers, and with Brae Burn the test it is, there i every reason to expect the 1928 amateur will be & record breaker in many ways. “Pivot, but Do Not Sway,” Says Barnes = KT pring ( lub to Stage lndmn outhpaw E | Roland took him on and downed the | former national golf title holder in a setto with the miniature rackets. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. NDIAN Spring Golf Club has an- nounced that the first annual southpaw tournament, to be staged over the Four Corners course of the club, will be played September 13 In keeping with the Indian name of | the club and the aboriginee tinge given to all club events and club names, the tourney will be called the Namandjinid} tournament. It will be open only to southpaw golfers, and invitattons to be sent to all left-handed players in the mid-Atlantic sector Originally it had been proposed to hold the tourney late in September, but because many of the star left-handed golfers about Washington are youngsters still in school, the tourney is to be held before school opens in order that such stars as Bvrn Curtiss of Indian Sp: and Thomas P. Bones, jr. of Columbin It now appears that the local golf battle of the century is doomed to an indefinite postponement unless certain obstacles are brushed aside. The golf match between Tommy and Sandy Ar- mour of Congressional and the Mutt and Jeff combination of Indian Spring. Monro Hunter and George Diffen- baugh. appears to be on and then again may be off. It seems to have split on the rock of an admission fee, for while Indian Spring is willing to charge its members nd to the general public Congressional, where the first half of the mateh will be played, is not willing to permit a gate Tommy Armour to lose. insists that A gate fee be charged: that the mateh be played on are | J Sam Rice of Indian Spring. a member the Washington base ball club and a ar southpaw goifer, will not be able o plav. unless he leaves the bail club for the day. for the Nationals will be of the city. The date falls v and comes six days after sunior championship, which { on September 7 at In- men play for the entire net gate. As the situation stands, a tentative date has been agreed upon for September 8 and 9. although J. Monro Hunter, the big Indian Spring pro, has not yet been noti { that date. Hunter left early terday for Shawnee, and did not at- tend a meeting yesterday at Indian Spring. at which the terms of the match | were discussed MacKenzie of Columbia | The original proposal was to have a representative on the | gate fee of S1 charged for admission of United States plav- | to soe the contest. which, if ever played he city next Tuesday or | will be about the best thing in the Wednesday for Chicagn to practice for | way of an exhibition mateh to be staged a few days in advance of the playing around Washington this year. of the international matches. Roland | Congressional, through Guy Mason went out to Columbia last night to get| chairman of the club golf committee. in a few holes of practice, but |demurred at the idea of & fee, and In- Tommy Armour of Congressional fan- | dian Spring. feeling that cied himself as a ping-pong player, s | sional did not charge the other club Roland R. 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Hill, today block- ed the path of Mrs. Harry Pressler of Los Angeles, who is trving to chase an U-year-old jinx by winning the women's Western golf championship two_years in succession The two, each a master with the driver and No. 3 iron, were 50 near cqual that galleries generally didn't ven have a good guess as to the winner In the lower semi-final bracket were to other feminine golfing _wizar Dorothy Page of Madison, Wis., the 1926 champion, and Virginia Wilson of Chicago. They. ton. were evenly matched, having won their way through a welter of competition by excellent and steady golf. Mrs. Pressler. who says she has learn- ed much of her game from her hus- band, who is a golfing professional shot her way to the semi-finals ves- terday by climinating Mrs. Lee Mida of Chicago, 2 up. Mrs. Hill scored an easy victory over the dark horse of the tournament, Gertrude Boothby of Rochester, Minn 4 and 3. Miss Boothby, who won the driving apd putting championships at the speclal matches, gave Mrs. Hill a hard fight for the first nine holes, holding her even, but then dropped four straight holes and the match Miss Page's golf was ton good for Kathleen Wright, another Los Angeles star. The Madison girl collected three LONE YANKEE LEFT IN CANADlAN EVENT\ Py the Associated Press MONTREAL, August 17.—The sole | = eclipse any similer match held about | the Capital for several yea LA o ey i 5 Tommy Armour, Iast year's national | SUrvivor of the seven United State champion and already winner of three | players who qualified for the Canadian sectional titles this year, appears to be | amateur golf champlonship last Monday in & strategic position 'to dictate the|w k. Tanman of Columbus. Ohin. terms, for he has something more than ; S a local reputation to lose. Hunter and | enters the semi-finals today the favorite Diffenbaugh, on the other hand. even | to reach the last round. though they have Wn:‘(hr"' ';h'b"mw After climinating Silas M. Newton matches around Washington this year v G ; 5 and played the famed British pair— | °f Bronxville, N. Y., yesterday 3 and 2 Boomer and Compston—to a standstill, | Lanman meets Jimmy Mountifield, have nothing more than a local reputa- | young Edmonton player who has been tion | going quietly alonz “toppling over all ‘There is a feeling that the Septem- opposition in an easy fashion without acting much attention the zallel Mountifield disposed of his quarter- final opponent. Hugh Borthwick of Welland, Ontario, 8 and 6. In lLan- man he meets a fine match player who promises to make a strong bid to take the title across the horder for the first time In from standpoint of the size of the gate. for many persons now out of the city on vacations will have returned shortly after Labor day Boh Barnett. past president of the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers Association and chairman of the course selection committee, announced today | that the local qualifying round for National® Professional Golfers' Associa- tion tourney will be played on the course of the Indian Spring Golf Club early in the week of August 26. the other Somerville semi-final match, © of London, Ontarin up against another sturdy op- ponent in F. G. Hoblitzel of Toronto. Somerville. the champion in 1926 and the favorite since the beginning of the tournament when he won the qualify- ing medal. had a narrow escape yes day in his match with Carroll ‘Stuart of Ottawa which went to 38 holes. The young Ottawa player, leading one up at the thirty-fifth, ~ apparently cracked under the unaccustomed ~conditions when a large crowd gathered to watch . the end of the match. Somerville, a Mrs. E. L. King of Winona. Minn. | more experienced player. squared the is the season’s leading female gunner,| match on the thiriy-sixth, halved the with a mark of nearly 84 per cent on | thirtv-seventh and won the thirty- 1,250 birds th Gu Ro comes Last night's heavy rain added further to the accumulation of standing water | on the courses at East Potomac Park least a week of hot sun and | wind will now be necessary to thor- oughly dry out the layouts, which have large pools standing on them holes to be 3 up, hole at the turn or 3 under par. a trifle, only carding a brilliant 38 Then, Miss Page wilted e to come back and clinch the matrh on the fourteenth hole, an'i 5 ormer champlon, Mrs. Ela Rfltr‘r‘vhnl Reinhardt of Dallas, rr\ fell before the steady, machine- X\kn | game of Miss Wilson, 4 and 2. | Wilson lost three of the four short holes, but gained her big margin on the longer ones with her beautiful tee and spoon shots, Hot weather has prevailed during four days of the tournament and the fairways are baked hard ROCKVILLE TO HAVE RACING THREE DAYS _ROCKVILLE, Md be h rac irsday and Frid connect H h the seventy-fifth annual Rockvill» fair to be staged here. 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Three ired amateurs from all sectio, the nation are entered. including the fending champion, Bon Stein cattle Officials of the Western amateur asso- ‘ 1 to were endeavoring to g Bobby Jones of Atlanta. captain of the American Walker Cup team, and other members of the squad to enter. but out- ide of Chick Evans of Chicago and Jimmy Johnston of St. Paul, two peren- 1ials of the event, no acceptances wers received The British players shot practice 'dls over the hazardous course yes- and all of them played well was Fay Coleman of Los Angeles, winner of the southern California amateur title. who carded the best score of the day, 35—35—70. or two under A. Torrence, a member of Eng- team. was second with a 36—35— Stein. Frank Dolph and Dr O. F. 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