Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 34

. SPORTS. RN 4% THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY. AUGUST 30, 1028. More Interest in Jones Than i OVER BRITONS CONCEDED However, There Is No Telling What U. S. Amateur | Champion May Do—First Clashes Are Held on Rain-Soaked Chicago Course. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. Y HEATON. I, August 30.— /\ / There was far more interest /\/ in Bobby Jones than in the Walker Cup matches when the fifth international duel siar amateur golfers of | ed States and Great Britain the Chicago Golf Club It was generally conceded the Americans would again win agement, but there was no tell- what Jones was likely to do. is playing the greatest golf of career. His own coun- ¢ saw him on the keen edge > js at present. Great Britain mar- play at Suningdale and St but he is even better at this e on r s to the opening of the Walker Cup play Bobb seven consccutive rounds of play. had scored under 70| | By the Associated Press. | HICAGO GOLF CLUB, Chicago. battlefield Great Britain and the United States today re- newed their battle for the ‘Walker Cup. It is really a war for good will. While the opponents fight with all their golfing acumen to win the victory, there is a marvelous fraternity between the two teams of eight men who stood at at- tention today for the first affray. In the first clash there were to be four two-ball foursomes over 36 holes. In each foursome two Americans had to play one ball between them against | two Britons, alternating in stroking a | single rubber pellet in match competi- tion. A point goes to whichever pair | wins in the 36-hole match. and in case | of a tied match, each pair gets a half point. Each Win Counts Point. ‘To complete the tourney, the men will lost four of those rounds hitched | BOT,4 ‘ay. each victory to count totaled exactly 270 strokes, an strokes per round and That is by far the great- | gaining the most points out of a max- | imum of 12 will get the Walker Cup. of scoring this battle-scarred | ogereq by George H. Walker, on his re- ever has seen. obby began tuning his game some three weeks ago. not only for the match with the British. but also for the na- tional amateur that opens September 10. He spent several davs on the keen greens of Asheville, N. C., courses, and when he arrived in Chicago every shot in his kit was in tune. His 30 on the second nine at Flossmore on Tus was one of the greatest exhibitions of shot making ever recorded. Little won- der that the gallery was stampeding at his heels today. and that every player was a bit worried over the prospects of having to face the Georgian in the amateur. America was cxpected to make a grand clean-up in the two-ball four- somes that inaugurated the interna- tional matches. With the exception of Phil Perkins. the British amateur cham- | and Capt iam Tweddell, the | champion. none of the invaders playing particularly keen golf. All { the Americans. on the other ‘were inspired by Jones' marvelous p! and were shooting well. Most of the Britons’ troubles were found around the greens, for the putting carpets in this country arz much heavier than those of England and Scotland. Jones had Chick Evans for his part- ner in the foursomes. Bobby's great driving_and putting were expected to offset Chick's shortness from the tees and inaccuracy on the greens. Evans £till is a master of the irons, and the combination of the two games was con- tidered sufficient to win points. Pair of Long Hitters. Harrison Johnston of St. Paul was paired with Francis Ouimet—another tremendously long hitter mated with & tirement as president of the United States Golf Association in 1921. after an informal meet of this kind had been played in Great Britain at the conclu- sion of the British championship. Perhaps the thoughtfulness of four Americans in covering their steel clubs during a terrific thunderstorm yester- day during fnal drill for the battle kept the American golfing army intact. Francis Ouimet, Jimmie Johnston, George Von Elm and Jess Sweetser were on the eighth tee when a heavy bolt of lightn! struck a wire fence near them and t threw the golfers to the ground. They made their way as best they could in a blast of wind and rain to the clubhouse, nearly half a mile away, and were hurried through Capt. Bobby Jones. August 30.—On a rain-drenched | play 8 single matches at 36 holes the| | point as in the foursomes, and the team | { ! cause of a generou {get his birdie 4 | The quartet seemed none the worse for their shock and drenching. but only | the strain of battle will show whether | their muscles were stiffened by the| exposure. The rest of the Americans and all the Britons had concluded their practice and thus escaped the | elements. | ‘The rain made the course heavier, but all 16 golfers are fair to good mudders, | 5o that the stiff par of 35—35—70 for | the 6,554-yard links seemed in danger | at_the hands of the selected amateur golfers of the world. To make sure; fhat the par was difficult enough for | the length of the course the holes were all measured anew from the tees that| are in use. The result was the cutting of par on the first hole from 5 to 4 and the reduction to par 70 of a links | that meeds only a few yards here and | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. LL this talk about “hat tricks" and freak shots in golf games came to a climax at_Indian Spring yesterday when Reld W. Digges of Bannockburn, one of the golfing stars, who will make a bid for the national amateur championship, secured the trickiest birdie on {hole it has ever been our pl watch Digges and J. B. Murphy, chiefly be- handicap, were dor- mie 3 down to C. I. Putham, and the chronicler of this golf yarn, and Digges, realizing that the match was drawing to a_close, said to Murphy, “Well, Murph, guess we had better step on it and win these three holes.” The four- some had played the last nine first. So Digges atteripted to crack out a long cne from the seventh tee and in the attempt. turned a_little fast and half topped the ball. It shot out straight for the middle of he expansive—and ex- | pensive—water hazard that crosses the | seventh fairway and then did the freakish thing that enabled Digges to That doggone ball hit smack in the midst of all that watery anse, and then, instead of burying its nose in the aqua, took one long hop and ended far in the middle of the fairway We had_hit a good for us, and_Digges’ ball wa Then the Bannockburn s ing to get home in 2, puiled his sec- ond shot into a trap. And. from that fearsome ebyss he laid a 120-yard attempt- pitch shot dead to the hole, having no | more than a three-foot putt for his birdie. Meanwhile, we had his ball had barely crossed the water hazard. and when he pulled his second shot_into the trap, we thought it was his third. So we leisurely topped one toward the green, believing a 5 would halve the hole. Oh, what a blow it was when Digges holed his three-footer and announced he had a birdie. Indian Spring’s greens, by the way, are in virtually perfect condition, not- withstanding the havoc that has been caused by the brown patch to greens on other courses ahout Washington, Perhaps the secret lic: in the fact that Dick Watson, the Flying Scot, and greenkeeper at Indian Spring, raises his mower blades through the week and permits a heavy stand of grass to come hot showers into warm clothing by [in during midweek. SAVE TIRE MONEY 10,000 GUARANTEED 7 Different Makes to Choose From High-Pressure Cords 30x37: CL s. | mobile there to make it par 73. At that the | course is not particularly difficult. It deadly putter and canny workman. George Von Eim and Jess Sweefr, has wved especially easy for Bobby Jfllfi!‘.’fll’! he has scored 68 twice and | Whe formed a winning combination at |67 once, including a card of 32 twice | Bt. Andrews in 1926, again were part- ners and playing well. Von Elm has plaved fine goif all season, while Sweet- ser has had some remarkably low rounds in the East. vaders should not take more than of the foursomes—which would make it necessary for the homebreds to win only a few of the singles on Friday to Tetain their heretofore unbroken hold on the big silver urn. The Chicago Golf Club, which was and 31 once on the second nine, which is nearly 200 yards shorter than the first half. . When Captain Jones and Captain William Tweddell of the British team selected stheir teams the line-up inston. leng-driving Min: snd Prancls Ouimet, who ‘amateur and open kine. ustace Storey and T. A. Torrance Britons. Roland MacKenzie siant youths, against Jonn B. Beck and Dr AR allum. selected when two former British champions were unable to take part in the matches ‘The Americans were favorites in all four matches today, but the Britons one of the charter members of the | Were thou¥ht to have a slight advantage U. S G.A. is in fine shape for the plav. and Chicago again turned out a galler; time center.” D. C. COMBINATIONS LOOK TO POLO PLAY In preparation for the annus! Fall tournament of the War Department Polo Association, which will consist of both high and low goal play and which will begin October 3, teams of this sec- tion are working hard. On the Potomac Department fours will engage the 3d Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery com- binations of Fort Myer in practice tilts starting at 3 o'clock Participating in the Fall tournament are expected to be at least two War De- partment teams, 3d Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery outfits of Fori Myer, and fours from Port Hoyle, ; Fort Ben- ning. Ga.; Governor's Island and Fort Humphreys, Va., hate been invited to compet Park oval Satnrday afternoon two w"1 HAGEN, IN STRONG FINISH, BEATS FARRELL BY 1 UP DETROIT, Mich., August 30 —Coming through with a typical finish, Walter Hagen, British open title holder, de- feated Johnny Farrell, vouthful Amer- open champion, 1 up, at the West- n Golf and Country Club yesterday the opening match of their 36-hole world” championship seres Hagen finished in 149, three over par, and Farrel scored s 150. Each scored because of their familiarity with four- some play. On the other hand, the in- that entitles the city to the | vaders have thus far been unable to of “Americe’s greatest golfing | solve American greens, which they deem fast. and to school themselves to pitch to the built-up and undulating greens common to champlonship courses in America. # 73, one over par, in the morning 18- hole round. 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