Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1928, Page 14

14 SPORTS. 3 NOVOTNY-MOLLER DUEL NOW 15 Veterans Chick Evans and Frank Dolp Are Facing in the Lower Half. - By the Assoclated Press. | HICAGO, Ill; August 24.—Two | doughty collegians, survivors of | a group of university golfels.; who played havoc with hopes | of British Walker Cup players and many of the favorites in the West- | amateur golf championship, Bob o' | Jink, were to have the opper bracket all tu themselves in the semi-final round today Gus Novotny, a former University of Tlinois star meets Lawrence Moller, a Notre Dame junior from Quincy, Ill, in the upper half of the drawings, which was swept clean of aspiring young golf- | ers. Two old timers at match play. Chick Evans of Chicago, and Frani tland, Oreg., were pitted | Novotny Defeats Willing. r Ilini star, runner-up in | n Conference in 1923, yester- ued his devastating work on | Not satisfied with blasting | ng champion and defeating | John Al the Princeton captain, in| one of the two extra hole matches of the | tournament, Novotny yesterday eliminat- | ed the hardy old timer from Portland, | Dr. O. ‘Willing, Northwest champion | and twice member of the American | Walker Cup team. | While the match between Willing and Novotny went to the last green, where it ended in a spectacular display of | naking it should have ended long | that station and would have done d not the Portland dentist been g so uncannily. Moller we 't into the semi-finals when he defeated Rial Rolfe, Illinois gradu- | ate and 1923 Western Conference cham- | pion, in an all-university match that| was bitterly fought until the sixteenth hole of the afternoon round, when the Notre Dame player won 3 and 2. Evans Seeks Ninth Title. Chick Evans, who, incidentally, is gunning for his ninth Western title, around the course with Kenneth of Chicago, twice winner of the ‘Western Conference title, and won with- out much effort, 6 and 5. Hisert was no match for Evans, who had a lead of 2 holes at the end of the morning round. In Prank Dolp, Evans mee old veteran, who holds the West Coast chamj . Dolp went around the morning round yesterday in 1 over par 72 on the rain-soaked course, and played in even “ar to defeat Ira Couch of Chi- the first 15 holes of the afternoon mund‘l c2go, former junior champion, 4 and 3. | and the best score of the day. | Thé two finalists will meet over 36 holes tomorrow. JUNIOR GOLF CROWN | T0 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL { | By the Associated Press. E | CHICAGO, August 24.—A 15-year-old | Chicago girl, Rena Nelson, who had| never played in & champio; tourna- | ment before, is the 1928 Western wom- golf champion. like & veteran over a rain. | | | to he: title fourney. i Miss Nelson displaced Jean Armstrong of Chicago as champion. The former titleholder did not compete, having left the junior c'ass for larger fields. Patricia Stcphenson of Minneapolis eand Mildred Hackl of Chicago tied for medalist honors with a pair of 80's. YANKEES GET A CATCHER. | DES MOINES, Iowa, August 24 (#). | —Arndt Jorgens, catcher of the Okla- | homa City Club of the Western League, has been sold to the New York Yankees, | it was announced todsy. The purchase price was not announced. AL THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, gy HOUGHTON - SIX WASHINGTON GOLFERS | TO SEEK AMATEUR TITLE | IX Washington golfers—an un-, Hufty played in all the local events, | usually large number—and two | but won only one victory, annexing the‘ who reside in New York, but also | Indian Spring tourney. | are members of local clubs, will Voigt and McCarthy cannot be called | play in the national amateur golf | local entrants by any stretch of the championship at Brae-Burn, West New- | imagination, for neither will represent ton, Mass. September 10 to 15, inclu- | a local club. Both, however, are well sive. Denying the applications of three | known here for their golf achievements | local players, but accepting the entry about the Capital. | of six others, the United States Golf | Houghton and Pitt plan to motor to Association yesterday lived up to its| Boston about five days in advance of premize that it would notify the en- | the champlonship, in order to obtain f-ants in the championship of their rligibility or non-eligibility to play at ractice for the event. Stevinson will ave Washington the night of Septem- least two weeks prior to the title chase. | ber 5 for Boston, while MacKenzie will Roland R, MacKenzie and Milier B.| go to Boston from Newport, R. 1., where Stevinson of Columbis were automati- | he will play in the Gold Mashie tourna- cally eligible to play in the amateur | ment ed annually by T. Suffern Ciaseic by reason of qualification in | Tailer on his private course. previous years. But the committee on | Out of the six Washingtonians eligible eligibility also accepted the entries of | to compete in the amateur classic, the Peid W. Digges of Bannockburn, Harry | Capital probably will have not more G. Pitt and A L. Houghton of Manor | than one or two in the 32 who will and Page Hufty of Congressional. The | qualify. Roland MacKenzie is virtually applications of John C. Shorey of Ban- | a sure qualifier, for he has not missed nockburn, Karl F. Kellerman of Colum- bia and Prank K Roesch of Washington | for entry in the championship were re- Jected George J Vi present Distriet noion, wio wot in a squabble with District Golf Association last year and hes not played in any of the local s this vear, while being domiciled in New Y ix eligible, although he is entered from the North Hills Club of Long Island Bannockburn memb runner Maurice J. McCarthy, a e Washington Club and the Metropolitan amateur. | ble. although McCarthy is | entered from the Old Platbush Club of Brook N Y itt and Digges Newcomers. Of the entire group only MacKenze | Btevinson and McCarthy have qualified | in previous amateur championships. | Hufty and Houghton have tried qualify on three occasions, but have | been unsuccessful, while Pitt and Digges | are nmewcomers to the amateur cham- | pionship. Pitt won the champlonship | of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association | Jast June, while Digges was medalist in | @e same event. | Houghton has been medalist in three | jocal tourneys this year, and won the ‘own and Country Club tourney, in sddition to_being runner-up in the Maryland Country Club u:um-mmt| TROUSERS| To Match Your Odd Coats | 'EISEMAN'S, 7th & F[ T T TR ST qualifying since his first essay at the amateur at Plossmoor in 1923. Both he and Stevinson qualified at Baltusrol in 1926, and Stevinson downed his club- mate in the first round. Notwithstanding his admitted fine game, Voigt has been unable to qualify in two attempts. Last year he was sajd 1o have been disturbed by an incident which occurred on the sixth green at Minikahda, but it looked to us as if poor Voigt also is a member of ' golf and not anything outside the match kept him from making the grade, Tommy gave no specific reason for can- celing the affair, other than that he did not care to play. Mrs. James L. Fieser of Washington knows today that it is not necessary to hit a fine tee shot to obtain a birdie on a short hole. l’hg‘n( yesterday at the Virginia club _wif Mrs, Charles B. Stewart, Mrs. Pleser drove a fair ball down the middle on the 210-yard four- teenth hole, leaving the ball some 50 yards from the hole. S8he then pltched her second shot into the cup with a mashie. PHOENIX A. C. AT WHEATON. Phoenix A. C, nine will be the attrac: tion on Wheaton diamond Sunday at 3 o'clock against Brook Grubb's Sflver Spring outfit. The management of nix A. C. has announced that ar- rangements could not be made for the game previously announced as booked with Mount Rainiers, Disappointment was expressed in many quarters yesterday that Tommy Armour of Congressional has canceled the exhibition match in which he and his brother Alex, also of Congressional were to have plufi'va J and George Diffenbaugh of Bpring, on Beptember 8 and 9. Indian Munro Hunter | Hunter | was keenly disappointed, declaring that | he and Diffenbaugh have looked for- ward to the match for several weeks and have practiced assiduously for it Call Potomac 3501 FOR PROMPT ROAD SERVICE HOOD TIRES A liberal allowance will be made for your doubtful ti ] MARTIN J. BARRY Every plipe smoker knows that the better his tobacco the better his smoke, That's why so many men are turning to | 1d Briar Tobacco 1636 Connecticut Ave, “PHE BEST PIPE SMOKE EVER MADE!" United )Aul-fihlmum Co,, Kichmond, Va., - MAckenzZiE- ) WASHINGTON GOLFERS ELIGIBLE FOR NATIONAL AMATEUR TOURNAMENT Reio DiceEs- D. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 24, 'SPORT MART LEAGUE | the week end schedule of Sport Mart | This is the only insect class contest TRACK VICTORIES SCORED | BY STAR CARRIER BOYS| The Evening Btar carrier boys won | first places . in the annual interplay- | ground track meet held Tuesday on Plaza Field. They were Phil Clark and Robert Lucas, both of whom work under Route Agent H. F. Patterson. Clark won the high jump In the 100-pound class and Lucas the 70-yard dash in the 115- pound class. New records were made by both boys as representatives of the ‘Weightman playground. BERWYN NINE BOOKS TWO. Berwyn, Md., A. C. nine will entertain local teams on the Berwyn diamond tomorrow and Sund ‘Washington Gas Light Co. nine appear there tomorrow and National Circles Sunday. Both tilts will start 1928. Two Collegians Survive in Western Golf : America Favored to Hold Walker Cup BRITON'S TOURNEY GOLF NOT STRONG Western Amateur Meet Play Indicates Invaders May Be Outclassed. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. F _a fairly formidable British Walker Cup team. taking the field at Chicago a week hence, annexes the international gol! trophy played for between amateurs of the two great golfing nations, it will mark the first victory for the simon pure representatives of the tight little isle. For Britain's links warriors, suc- cessful in defense of their own cham- plonship for so many years, have been as unsuccessful in their attempts to annex the Walker Cup as they have been in their efforts to lift the Ameri- can amateur championship. This year's British team appears to lean toward new faces, particularly in | the top sector of the invading band. ‘Thomas P. Perkins, the present British amateur champion, and Dr. William ‘Tweddell, last year’s champion, are but two of the six invaders who have drawn their initial assignment to Walker Cup matches Meanwhile America is reactionary, | at least to the point where all of the | members of the defending team are | veterans of these international matches. Based on the uniform success of the | Americans in the past four matches, | they should have no great difficulty in retaining the cup. For if Britain could not win with Tolley, Wethered and Kyle, how can it hope to win with the yvounger and less experfenced players who compose the British team of to- day? | Do Not Appear So Strong. A weathervane pointing the way to a probable American victory was the unlooked-for defeat of all four British | qualifiers yesterday in the Western | amateur championship at Chicago. | They fell and fell fast before the on- slaught of a group of youngsters from | Western colleges and the Pacific North- | west. And the strange part of it is that only one of the contestants in the Western—Chick Evans—is a member of the American Walker Cup team. The logical conclusion would be that if the | British can be beaten in match play by men not deemed good enough to make the American team, the best America puts in the lists. But a glance at the British team heedless play, and golfers who have built up a reputation by downing the best of the older rank of Britishers. Tommy Perkins, called by many the most promising young player produced in England since the war, will oppose Bobby Jones, ace of the American out- fit. Perkins is 24 years of age, and a consistently good performer. In his course through the British | amateur championship he is said to have averaged around 72 in his matches. Such golf as that over the HAS FULL SCHEDULE Lionels and Earl Clarks will open 2 0 | League tomorrow on No. 2 at 1 o'clock. ki carded. Sunday Midget nines are schedulad to play Sunday_as follows: | Sam Rices vs. Mavis, Plaza, 4 o'clock Sam Rices vs. Arlington, Plasa, 1| o'clock. Arlingtons vs. Ty Cobbs, South !lv‘ lipse, 5 o’clock. | Mavis vs. Rovers, South Ellipse, 11 o'clock. | Lionels vs. Ty Cobbs, No. 7, 1 o'clock. | Lionels vs. o'clock. Junior games scheduled for Sunday: Sam Rices vs. Langleys, South El- lipse, 3 o'clock. Meridians vs. Vistas, No. 3, 1 o'clock. Postons Annapolis Sunday Chesapeake Beach..Saturday 9:53 Sunday Solomons Island Benedict Sunday Sunday Sunday 3 . 5 Aces, North Ellipse. Fi Colonial Beach .... Sunday (Compiled by United States a well earned victory | over Cardinals in French's Insect League yesterday. while Brookland Boys' Club and Corinthians were re- | celving forfeits from Lionels and Sena- | tors, respectively. | Postons gathered a score of hits to Just nose-out their rivals, 9 to 8. Hollis was the big gun in the winning attack. He collected four safeties in five trips to the plate. FRENCH NETMEN TUNE UP. BROOKLINE. Mass, August 24 (4. | —Four of the six French tennis stars, | who have entered the national doubles | tournament here next week, tuned up their games yesterday on the courts at | the Longwood Cricket Club. Those prac- | ticing were Henrl Cochet, the Davis | Cup veteran; Plerre Landry, Christian | Boussus and Rene Debuzelet { SCHEPTAL IN SEMI-FINALS, . FORMBY, England, August 24 (). — Stewart Scheftal. youthful New York golter, entered the semi-finals of the | boys’ amateur championships today, de- 1 3: ‘William Currie of Great Britain, T SPOR’ how can | they hope to make headway against ! shows them to be men of sturdy match | play tendencies, not to be hurried into | m 10:58 a.m. ..Saturday 8:43a.m. 9:48 a.m. ..Saturday 9:48a.m. 10:53 a.m. Saturday 8:47a.m 9:43am. Saturday 9:37 a.m. 10:33 a.m. Saturday 9:47am. 10:43 am. T 8. lChiCI[O Golf Club battleground will take the best that Bobby Jones has to eke out a victory. Dr. Tweddell is known as the slowest man in golf. Where his painstaking care and careful scrutiny of the ground to be covered may be a bit exasperating to his op- ponents, British golf writers tell us it surely steadies the doctor and makes him a most difficult opponent to beat Little is_known on this side of the games of R. H. Hardman, J. B. Beck { Capt. G. N. Martin and Dr. A: R. Mar- Callum, except that the last mentioncd is an Edinburgh physician who gave promise four years ago of becoming & golfing great. Maj. C. O. Hezlet, the reck of Ireland, he of the unbecoming | style, but great golf facility, is a familiar figure to followers of the international matches. So are Eustace F. Storey and | W. L. Hope, who is a member of the British titled class. All three of these | played in the matches in 1924 and 1926, as did Tommy Torrance. On the American side we have tried | and experienced campaigners, with Ro- | l]and R. MacKenzie and Watts Gunn | probably the least experienced of the | I Francis Ouimet of Boston is the horse of the American team, having played in the informal match in 1921 and in the four later Walker Cup con- tests. Bob Jones also played in three of the matches and in the 1921 con- test, while Jess Sweetser has played in | the four recognized cup matches. Chick | Evans has appeared twice, while Von Elm. Harrison R. Johnston, Gunn and MacKenzie have played but once—in 1926—when the Americans won in Eng- | land by the scant margin of one-half | point. ‘The history of the international matches shows that although America's golfing greats have had difficulty in | winning in Britain. they have had lit- tle trouble in annexing the matches on | this side of the water. At the National links in 1922, America won by 8 points to 4, and at Garden City in 1924 the winning margin was 9 to 3 In 1923 the issue hung on the out- come of the last match, played at St Andrews, when Dr. O. F. Willing of | Portland, Oreg., finished strong to annex | it and save the cup for America. And | In 1926, Roland MacKenzie holed a lengthy putt on the final green to save the half-point margin by which America won. | " If the British win this year the re- sult will be a decided upset, for even though the new members of the British | team have earned their places by vic- tories in competition over members of other Walker Cup teams, they can hardly be classed on paper as the equal of the Americans. Not many of the Britishers will remain in this country to play the American amateur, for most of them intend to go home immediately after the Walker Cup matches. DIXIE LEAGUE FED UP It is well for the Southern Associa- tion that Birmingham is back in the lead in the second half of the season From all indications, the Southern As- sociation has had its fill of the divided season and will not continue it in 1929. | _The Atlanta club upset the race in | the Southern by using ineligible play- | ers. Bad business. Not only does that immediately affect the Atlanta club, but | it has a bad bearing on the league in | general. When games are thrown out | because a club has used players who | are illegal, there always is an impres- { sion of laxity in management which is very hard to fight down. The fans lose confidence in the game. t ANGLERS’ GUIDE HIGH AND LOW TIDES FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. AND 26, AT CHESAPEAKE BAY AND LOWER POTOMAC RIVER POINTS. High tide. . .Saturday 3:04 a.m. 3:59 am. Saturday 12:35 a.m. 11:43 p.m. 1:24am AUGUST 25 Low tide. 3:37p.m. . 10:15 p.m. 4:33pm. 12:48 pm. 11:3¢ pm. Coast ! 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