Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1928, Page 70

2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, SEPTEMBER 23, 1928—SPORTS SECTION.. 'Frank K. Roesch Victorin Bannockburn Event:Sweeping Changes Duein Golf Code Washington G. C. C. Cham- pion Downs Manorite for First Big Tourney Win. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. OMING from behind after his opponent had piled up an ap- parently conclusive lead over the first six holes, P‘:arnk K. Roesch, champion © Washington Golf and Country Club, annexed the invitation golf tourney of the Bannockburn Golf Club yesterday, downing Harry G. Pitt of the Manor | Club by 3 and 1 in the final round. It was Roesch’s first big tournament victory around Washington, although he won the District junior title two| years ago. In his march to victory he | eliminated two men who were accepted | by the United States Golf Association as contestants in the national amateur | championship, although Roesch's ap- | plication to play in the same tourna- ment was rejected by the authorities «f the national golf body. Roesch has won the champlonship of | the Washington Golf and Country Club for the past two years and is regarded | 2s a likely winner in the tourney to be | layed next month | Pt Won the champlonship of the | Middle Atlantic Golf Association in | June, after having won the Chev Chase tourney a few weeks previously Pitt started out by playing the first three holes in one under par, to win two of them from Roesch, holing a seven-foot putt on the second green for | a birdie 4 and annexing the third when Roesch underplayed his second shot. Roesch should have won_ the fourth, | but took three putts and Pitt won the fifth when the Washington lad under- layed his pitch to the hillside green. | hey halved the sixth in par 3s, with Pitt running down a 10-footer for the half and Pitt holed a 20-footer on the | geventh for a half in 4. | Tide Turns at Eighth. But at the eighth the tide of victory which apparently was carrying the Manorite on to an impressive victory | definitely turned to Roesch, for here the Washington lad started a streak of steady golf that overshadowed the ragged work of Pitt, won five of the next seven holes and enabled him to close out the midatlantic titleholder on the seventeenth green. From the sixth hole through the sev- enteenth Roesch was exactly par and against such golf Pitt's ragged work, especially around the putting greens, did not avail. Time after time Pitt lost & hole by poor work on and around the green, usually the best part of his strong game. | Roesch, on the other hand, was steai- iness itself. He played the third, fourth and fifth holes poorly, but soon settled down into the steady drive which gave him his first big tournament victory. Roesch is one of two local lads wh> have beaten George J. Voigt in match play in recent years. He eliminatea Voigt in the Columbia tourney two | years ago. Roesch won the 130-yard eighth with & par 3 when Pitt’s shot went across the right edge of the green. And Roesch won the ninth to turn only 1 down when Pitt overplayed the green with his second shot and missed a 15- footer for the half. They spilt the long tenth in par 5s. with_Pitt playing a fine pitch to get the half. The match was squared at the down hill 170-yard eleventh, where Pitt took three putts to enable Roesch 1o win, with a par 3. The Washington lad played a fine second shot over the green at the twelfth, while Pitt reached the green with two shots. But again Pitt’s’ putter failed nim and he got only a half when he blew a three-foot- er to win with a 4. No. 13 Unlucky for Pitt. The tide of battle swung definitely toward Roesch at the 160-yard thir- | teenth hole, for here Roesch’s tee shot was hole high on the green, while Pitt’s shot went far to the left and he fnu;a on a 10-foot try for the half n Roesch also won the fourteenth, with a par 4, when Pitt underplayed a chip shot, although the Manorite made a bold bid for the half in 4, hitting the cup from 20 feet around a partial stymie. They split the short fifteenth and the long sixteenth in_ regulation figures and Roesch won the seven- teenth to establish the winning margin of 3 and 1. He reached the green from the tee on this 183-yard hole and Pitt, who had pushed his tee shot, failed to et his chip shot close enough to hole his bid for the half in 3. Roesch reached the final round by a 3-and-2 victory over Albert R, Mac- kenzie, veteran Columbia player, while Pitt won his semi-final match from Karl F. Kellerman, jr., of Columbia by the same margin. At the conclusion of the final match Roesch needed a 4 on the last hole for a 74, four over par. The cards: Out—Par (Bse holes not played out.) Roesch has reached the semi-final round in several of the local tourna- ments in his short career in tournament play, but never has won an invitation event before. He is a tall, slim young- ter with a well-timed swing and is an excellent putter. Time after time yes- terday he laid his approach putf so close to the hole on the slippery Ban- nockburn greens that Pitt conceded him the next putt. Prizes were presented at the con- clusion of Bannockburn's excellently oE- s v erated _and enjoyable tournament L. C. Pate, president of the club. Results in Other Flights. Results in the other flights follow First flight_corsol forey” {Banrockbu, (Columbie). 5 and 4. aggett Dam) defeated T. M. Beishe (Ar- 1 up Final—Shorey defeated Bag- cond flicht (semi-final)—C i w ) defeated C. W.Stoddard ( d R E. Cross (Argyle). 5 (Beaver L r White up. Pinal’ Mood (Bannock- b, Beebe (Bannockburn) Abadie (Congressional) ¥ Chapin Fourth flight—J sion: o ). 2 ar cburn ) burn), 1 up. Govern. 2 and 1 Fifth’ flight—G_ W. Billings bu defeated M de Quevedo Wardwell Perley Wardwell G._C. Billard Final—Kimbell defeated Mc- (Bannock- (Bannock- 1 up: S (Bannock- defeated A H (Bannock- 1 Final defeated >r_ K. F. Kellerman (Colum- defeated L_W. Moore (Bannockburn) Otto Thacker (Bannockburn) de- D_Drain (Washington). by de: Kellerm BROTHERS GRID RIVALS. Eliot Putnam, ineligible at Harvard | Iast year, is back for quarterback this o deteated Thacker, | Ability to Relax Asset to Von Elm BY SOL METZGER. | What makes George von EIm's | game so outstanding is the ease with which he plays his shots. He is relaxation personified with a driver in his hands. There is no evidence of strain or effort to hit the ball a mile as he takes his stance with VON ELM LIRAIGHT LEFY —~ (OMROLS BALK- SWING ~ NOTE. BO0Y WINOING UP [ 43 the | < STANCE. BALL OFF LEF{ HEEL HE'6 RELAYED =a ball off left heel and feet not far apart. The club comes back with a straight left control, around and up. "\Why continue to slice when the fauit can be absolutely cured by fol- lowing a few simple instructions? Write Sol Metzger, care of this paper, and request his illustrated leafiet on ing.” In writing inclose stamp- ed, addressed envelope. (Copyrisht. 1928.) ARMOUR IS SECOND AS FARRELL LEADS By the Associated Press. SHINNECK HILLS, N. Y., September 22.—Johnny Farrell, national open golf champion, led the fleld of 25 today at the end of the first half of the first annual professional invitation tourna- ment played over the national golf links of America. Farrell played the first 36 holes of the 72-hole competition in 147 strokes, a single stroke ahead of Tommy Armour of Washington, former national open champion. In third place with 149 was Bobby Cruickshank of the Progress Club. Three stars tied at 152 for next posi- tion, Gene Sarazen, Bill Mehlhorn and Bill Burke. e FIRST ROUND ENDED IN CLUB TITLE PLAY With the exception of one match which was postponed by darkness, the first match play round in the champion- ship tourney of the Indian Spring Golf Club was concluded yesterday. The second and third match play | rounds in all four flights will be played today, with the final round scheduled for next Saturday. Results in the tourney follow: First flight—Roger Peacock defeated J. W. Haryey. 3 and 2: W. P. Di Este defeated W. Frost deteated d 0 i Georze Foley defeated R E. Reed, 5 and 4. Second flight—C. B. Allen defeated A. von W. B. Vogel defeated E. B : 3. F. McCarthy defeated H. E. C: : W. L. Moo E. L Hutchinson. 5 and 4: V. M. Green de- feated F. T Unde G. N. Berry- 2 and i; C. O. nderwood. 1 up: man defeated U. H. Stefly, Appleman defeated C. M. Whitman, 1 up in 9 holes: Harry A. Grant defeated John T. Harris. 3 and 1. Third flisht—C. P. O'Connell defeated H, A Allen, 5 and 4: E. H. Campbell defeated F. L. Hudson. 2 and 1 M. M. Merrill de- feated R. J. Quigley. 3 and 2 C. T. Shrop- shire defeated C. A. Metzler. 2 up: E. J. Healy defented J." L. Quigléy, 3 and 2; John 8. Blick won from J. S.'Seymour by McKenney' defeated R. E. 1: L. A. Reeves defeated A. Dr. T. A. Utz and W. A. t 19 holes: W. E. Foster de- ,'6 and 4; G. L. re_defeated Harper defeated Norman Landreau, 3 up; 1 J. Henderson defeated E. M. Nevills, 3 and 2: C. C. Caywood defeated F. O. Graves, 4 and 2: ‘Garnet Lee won from J. R. Zimmer- man by defsult. FORT MYER RIDERS PLAY STRONG POLO Outstanding play of the Fort Myer teams, the 3d Cavalry and the 16th Field Artillery, featured the polo exhibi- tion yesterday afternoon on the Potomac Park oval in which the former handily took the measure of War Blues, 12 to 3, and the latter squeezed out a 6-5 tri- umph over War Whites in a thriller. ‘Work of the Cavalry riders, who took the lead in the second chukker and increased it as the match progressed, was of particularly high order. They got on the ball faster, rode harder and strung out more effectively than any of the combinations. Capt. Cunningham and Capt. Devine did the bulk of the victors' scoring, while Capt. Fox regis- tered two of the losers' three tallies. Victory of the Artillerymen came only after the most gallant uphill fight. Maj. Cortlandt Parker, former War Department performer, playing his first game with the Fort Myer outfit, com- ing through with the deciding shot in the dying moments of the battle, War Department led until the fifth chukker when the Artillerymen tied the score at 5-all. Maj. Adna R. Chaffee was the high scorer of the game, however, with three goals. In addition to Capt. Devine and Capt. Cunningham the 3d Cavalry players were Lieut. Makinney, Lieut. Bosser- man and Lieut. Wofford. Maj. Milling, Maj. Talbot, Col. Williams, Maj. Eager and Maj. Crittenberger held forth for the Blues aside from Capt. Fox. Lieut. Roper, a newcomer, who : Lieut. Benson and . Bosserman were Artillery riders in addition to Maj. Parker. Lieut. Bosserman was loaned to the Artillery-~ | men by 3d Cavalry to take the place of Lieut. McClure, who is temporarily out of the game. Aside from Maj. Chaffee, War Whites were represented by Capt. Hastey, Maj. Hoyle and Capt. Shafer. = | DISTRICT LINKSMEN LOSE IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE. Md., September 22— | All three Washington players in the | annual golf tournament of the Rolling Road Club were beaten today, but one of them remains in the consolation division of the first flight. Byrn Curtiss, youthful left-hander of the Indian Spring Club, lost in_the first round in the first fiight to E. L. | Caldwell of Rolling Road by a margin of 6 and 4, but won his consolation match in the afternoon by downing Comdr. J. B. Pollard, 3 and 1. G. H. Chasmar of Columbia d feated F. A. Schleunes of Rolling Road by 7 and 5 in the first round of the second flight, but lost in the second round to Frank M. Sweeney, former Maryland amateur title holder, by 6 and'5 | A S Gardiner of Columbia defeated F. Cole in the first round of the fourth flight, but lost in the second round to Cecil Spedden, 4 and 3. THREE LOYOLA ELEVENS. There are three Loyolas—colleges or Fall and his kid brother, Sam, with the freshmen last year, is also & quar- ter candidate. universities—in foot ball. Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans are their J hames, ST, ANDREWS CLUB DEBATING REFORMS British Solons Considering Bigger, Lighter Ball and May 0. K. Steel Shafts. BY FRANK H. KING, Associated Press Staff Writer. T. ANDREWS, Scotland, Septem- ber 22.—After next week they may have to call it the Royal Modern instead of the Royal and Anclent Golf Club. The solons of British golf gathered in the old gray city for ;l;é annual meet- ing of the governing y of the game are about {o sit in legislative session on revolutionary issues concerned with the problem, world wide in its ramifications, of getting the little white ball into the cup in the fewest number of strokes. Americans may have answered to their own satisfaction most of the prob- lems before the St. Andrews sages— better ball, whether to permit steel- shafted clubs, whether to institute qualifying rounds for the amateur cham- pionship and 36-hole matches there- after and what and when is an amateur. But the Royal and Anclent in the past has stood as solid against innova- tions as the sea rocks hard by the St. Andrews clubhouse. When it comes to innovations the “R. and A.” i5 as un- changing as the tides that roll on the white beach near the new course— “new,” but older as a golfing ground than any layout in the United States. Tradition Rules St. Andrews. Tradition has ruled St. Andrews for generations. In Scotland golf has been as unchanging as the Constitution— the American Constitution, not the British—but_this year there are signs that subversive propaganda, fostered by American agents, some say, has been at work, and changes that will shake the British game to its depths are expected to be announced. The first concerns the golf ball itself. The Royal and Ancient Club will act on a proposal to adopt a new ball to super- sede the present one on January 1, 1930, and is expected to act favorably. This despite a howl of protest from British golf experts, who, howling for the rank and file of golf—the very rank, in fact the dubs, duffers and 18 handi- cappers, accuse the Royal and Ancient of betraying British golf into the hands of America. They say this “new” ball is the ball America has been trying to foist on the old country for several years. ¥ As every one knows, or perhaps hasn't been troubled, the dimensions of the present golf ball, before it has been battered about by the average player, are 1.62 inchés in diameter, and 1.62 ounces in weight. The new ball is to be larger, 1.68 inches in diameter, and lighter, 1.55 ounces. May Lift Steel Shaft Ban. After the golf ball comes the ques- tion of the steel-shafted club, outlawed in British champlonships, and therefore “bad form” in all competitive compe- tition, even to a putting match. St. Andrews hasn't anything particu- larly against the steel shaft, in fact might be expected to be enthusiastic about this tool, for the finest of steel is made in this country, while all hick- ory is imported from America. And the hickory shafts, while more expen- sive, aren’t as good as they used to be. “Save the fine hickory for the golf- ing virtuoso, the Bobby Joneses,” Jack White, who makes many clubs for the American champion, told the writer, “let all the others use all the steel they want.” The ban of the steel shaft may beé removed at St. Andrews the coming week. Then come questions about amateur- ism, upon which no one in all the wide world of golf doubts the Royal and An- cient’s ability to act wisely and with the best interests of the game always at_heart Finally, that subject of widespread concern, not to say alarm, in this coun- try, particularly since the debacle of the British Walker Cup attacking force in Chicago, “what is the matter with British golf? Cyril Tolley, former, indeed very for- mer, British amateur champion (he hasn't done much since he won in 1920), declared in detail and with em- phasis in the public prints that the old fogies of the Royal and Anclent who govern the game in this country are mainly what's the matter with British golf, with a secondary ailment of 18- hole matches instead of the double dis- tance in major competitions. ‘Without perceptible loss of an iota of dignity, but nevertheless somewhat in despair and no doubt a little hurt by criticism from such a callow youth, the venerable golf surgeons of the Royal and Ancient are in the mood for a kill- or-cure remedy. They are believed to favor any sort of matches to restore British golf to its former high prestige. If they approve qualifying rounds for the amateur champlonship and pre- scribe 36-hole doses for the survivors, then it will be up to the likes of Mr. Tolley. FRENCH NET TEAM SWAMPS CANADIANS By the Assoclated Press. TORONTO, Ontario, September 22. France swamped Canada, seven matches to one, in their two-day international lawn tennis team exhibition contest, winning all four matches played today. Canada’s only victory was scored in the singles yesterday by Dr. Arthur Ham of Toronto, over Christian Boussus, :{x‘ersof France’s most promising younger Today, the Frenchmen swept the courts clear. Boussus, out for revenge for his defeat by Ham, defeated Gilbert Nunns, third ranking Canadian player, | in straight sets, , 9—7. Henrle Cochet, American and French cham- pion, crushed Willard Crocker, 6—4, , and Plerre Landry, another of the up-and-coming French youngsters, de- feated Ham, 7—5, 6—3. palln dthem do‘;xbflcxi %ochit and Boussus re efeat Crocker e and Ham, TENNIS TEAMS TIED FOR LEAGUE HONORS Winning two postponed matches from Montrose Park, played during the past week, and losing one to Rock Creek, the Henry Park team is tled with the Rock Creek squad for first Place in the Public Parks League, neces- sitating a play-off which will be staged this morning on the Columbia Country | Club courts at 9 o'clock. Six singles and three doubles will be played and the winners will have only a brief rest before starting out for their first meeting in the District of Colum- | bia team championships which got un- der way yesterday, the Public Parks | League ‘drawing a bye in the prelimi- nary round. Standing of the teams in the league was announced last night by Robert Newby, secretary as follows: ‘Team. Won. Lost. Pct. Play. Henry 35 9 546 2 Rock Creek Monirose + H Potomac Monument H 348 88 488 29 32 31 # 2 whether to have a bigger and perhaps | HENNESSEY BEATEN IN SINGLES MATCH By the Associated Press. CHIOAGO, September 22.—George Lott and John Hennessey, national doubles champions, went into the finals of the United States intersectional team championships today, but Hennessey once again was the victim of the jinx that has followed him since returning from Davis cup competition. Hennessey, who has failed to win an important singles match since Davis cup play, had as his nemesis today young Sam Silpin of Philadelphia. twenty-sixth ranking player and a former Drexall Institute net ace. With no apparent regard for the reputation of the Indianapolis star, who ranks sec- ond among the Natlon's best, Gilpin swept through a straight set victory in the singles, 6—2, 6—4, on the Chi- cago Town and Tennis Club courts. Qoing into the finals with Lott and Hennessey were the youngsters of the Auctralian Davis Cup team, Jack Craw- ford and Harry Hopman. ‘The Australians played sterling tennis to eliminate the flashy Eastern Associa- tion team of Johnny Van Ryn, former Princeton player, and Gregory Mangin The sudden and complete collapse of Hennessey, so dumfounded the gal- lery, that it overshadowed the brilliant work of Lott of Chicago, who evened matters by defeating Frits Mercur of the Middle States team, in straight sets, 6—1,6—2. With the result of today's matches hinging on the doubles, Mercur and Gilpin fought gamely for the chance to go into the finals, but yielded to the superior play of Lott and Hennessey, 4—6, 64, 6—4. Mercur and Gilpin started out as if they knew nothing of the prowess of the Lott-Hennessey combination and before the national champs got going the Middle States players had taken the first set 4—6. The second and third sets, however, were different stories. Hennessey began to play more like the Hennessey of double fame and went to the net to beat Mercur and Gilpin at their own game. Lott and Hennessey took the deciding sets by the same score, 6—4. Hopman overwhelmed the brilliant Mangin in their singles match in straight sets, 6—1, 6—4. In the doubles the Australian rose to tennis heights to help his teammate Crawford take the match from Van Ryn and Mangin, 6—1, 8—6, 7—5. Van Ryn, however, won his singles match with Crawford, 6—3, 6—0. In the finals tomorrow, Crawford wil be palred with Lott and Hopman with Hennessey. VIC'S NINE TO PLAY. Falls Church, Va., junior_class base ballers will engage Vic's Sport Shop nine this afternoon at 1 o'clock on Plaza Fleld. 77 SCORE 1S MADE BY MAUREEN ORCUTT| CASCADES GOLF CLUB, HOT SPRINGS, Va. September 22 (4 Practically all of the 116 golfers seeking the national woman's championship now held by Mrs. Miriam Burns Tyson of Kansas City. today took advanta of practice rounds. Mixed with the gossip and conversa- tion among the hundreds here was admiration for a 77 .turned in by Maureen Orcutt of the White Beeches Golf Club, Englewood, N. J. The score was 6 under women's par for the 6,388-yard mountain course and considered unusually good. Most of the | scores in the feminine players' practice rounds, averaged well above 80, the majority of them over 85. ‘The South has four outstanding players in the quest for the title in Marion Turple of New Orleans, Mrs Dalton Reymond of Baton Rouge, Mrs. | David Gaut of Memphis, and Miss Dean | Vanlandingham of Charlotte, N. C. Glenna Collett of Providence, R. 1., former national champlon, has played well in practice rounds and is regarded as_one of the outstanding favorites. In addition the fleld includes such well known names as Mrs. Henry Stet- son, Edith Cummings, Marion Hollins, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd and Vir- ginia Van Wie. ITreasury Netmen Reach Final REASURY match | the win this afternoon court Yesterday the Banker apital C m ital City I lic Parks | the champlonship ha cided in this loop. H Creck, each with 35 wins and 29 losses, are tied for top honors and will play iulf a team match of six singles and | three doubles this morning to decide | the winner, which will face the Bank- | ers this afternoon. Headed by Charest Judd, 7—5. 6—4, the Treasury took all [of the seven encounters with the Bu- | reau of Standards yesterday in a fash- [ion which suggested that the winners the Henr of t s to he Cap- who scored over : 5, lof the other bracket in the team cham- |} of | plonships will | the won from the | k and Rock | In Play for D. C. Team Honors have to put up some first-class tennis to hold their own next | Sunday. Bankers and Capital City Leaguers common consent played only six natches instead of seven, as neither quad had a fourth doubles team avail- able. 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