Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 78

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 17, 1929— SPORTS SECTION.’ - There Will Be No Reduction of Golf Tourneys About Washington During 1929 THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE PLANS FOR SEASON - CALL FOR BI LIST Manor .CIub May Add Event’ to’Array Held Here in 1928 Campaign. HERE will be no reduction in! the number of invitation tourna- | ments to be held around Wash- ington this Spring, if the tenta: tive program adopted by the ex- ecutive committee of the District Golf Association last week is ratified by the snnual meeting of that organization at the Racquet Club tomorrow mght. If the Manor Club holds a tourna- ment, the number of formal affairs will be augmented, instead of reduced, Manor has made gestures toward hold- ing a tournament for a year. It now is awaiting the formal opening of its new nine-hole layout before arranging the event, but it is almost certain the: club will ask for a tourney date tomor- row night. The tentative schedule provides that Washington—as has been its custom | for many years—will again open the tournament season, with its invitation event scheduled for May 1-4, inclusive. The following week will follow the four- day event of the Town and Country Club, with Chevy Chase coming along the next week. Then will come the Indian Spring tourney, which will fol- Jow the lead of Chevy Chase and end its event on a Friday instead of Satur- day. A lapse of two weeks then will occur, but it is expected & host of Washington golfers will garticipate in the Middle Atlantic Golf Association championship at the Baltimore Country Club the week of June 2. Then there will be another lapse of a fortnight with the Congres- eional Country Club tourney on June 26-29, inclusive, winding up the local Spring schedule. Following that event usually come the Bherwood Forest and Maryland Country Club invitation tournaments, which are slways attended by & number of Wash- Ington golfers. The District juniors will play for the Albert R. MacKenzie championship cup on September 5. while the high spot of the local golf season will be reached on September 26 and 27, with the playing of the District amateur championship for the title now held by Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia. The association, in its new constitu- tion, will seek to definitely fix the | method for playing the District amateur championship at 72 holes medal play. Heretofore it has been the custom to decide the manner of play at the an- nual meeting, but if it is fixed by the constitution, as the executive committee hopes will be done, the method of play wlfie probably not be changed for some time. Several influential golfers around ‘Washington feel that there already are too many invitation tournaments and favor cutting down the number by some method. A plan propounded by Dr. Bruce L. Taylor of Congressional a ¥elr ago, in which he still believes. has ‘ound favor with Homer S. Pope, chair- man of the Indian Spring golf commit- tee. Under this plan the clubs would hold invitation events under a “stag- gered” system, with a club holding’ its tourney only every two years. So far the plan has not found favor among the other clubs, but it may work out in | future years. 3 i The District Golf Association ‘also seeks to have the handicap limit on \entries for its championship raised from 12 to 14, belleving that by this method more entries will be received and more golfers permitted to compete for the premier local title. Guy Mason, chairman of the Congres- sional golf committee, still is in favor of holding a tournament for duffers of all the clubs, with the minimum handi- cap allowance placed at 18. His club has bid for an invitation tourney late in June, but he is personally in favor of staging a “duffers’ ” tourney later in the year, in addition to the other event. Mason claims that only a half dozen men around the Capital are likely win- ners of invitation tournaments, and tha® a duffers’ tourney, with a minimum handicap limit set at 18, would have much more interest than the usual no handicap limit tournament. Beaver Dam—the popular club at Landover, Md—which is under the management of S. G. Loeffler, plans to formally open on May 1, although the course now is open for play. Recent rains have made Beaver Dam soggy, as are many of the other local courses, but it is in good shape nevertheless. Yesterday’s formal opening of the Rock Creek Park municipal links found a great throng of golfers—glad to be released from the tedium of Winter golf | on the short course in West Potomac Park—playing over the hilly layout near Sixteenth street. Manager Al Farr re- ported that play was far heavier than during a normal Summer day. The layout in East Potomac Park, whose formal opening was delayed be- cause of wet weather, was to be opened early today, and was expected to be | thronged with golfers. Another hole in one has been record- ed on the 150-yard sixth hole at Indian Spring, this time by one of the new members of the club. The fortunate in- dividual is Hugh A. Kerwin of 632 A street southeast. Kerwin was playing | with former Gov. E. P. Morrow of Ken- | tucky and his son. Fe hit his ball with | a mashie iron, saw it arch up toward | the pin and on a direct line with the hole, roll gently to ‘the lip of the cup and drop in. Friday afternoon the younger Mor- row, who learned the game in Ken- tucky under the tutelage of Billy Burke, was around the last nine at Indian | Spring in 37, which is only one over | par, and is the best he has ever ha on that nine. : Monro Hunter and George Diffen- baugh, the Indlan Spring pair, who have never been beaten on their own heath or in matches around Washing- ton, are looking forward to another successful year as a two-ball combina- tion. Although they have not had much opportunity to practice, they have hit a few balls during the Winter and be- lisve they will be as successful as they were last year, when they lost only one match—to a pair of amateurs over the | rough Clifton Park course in Baltimore, | with which they were unfamiliar. i Maurice J. McCarthy of the Wash- | ington Golf and Country Club, a stu- dent at Georgetown, and another Wash- ington amateur, are to meet Hunter end Diffenbaugh in a match early next month, after McCarthy and a group of Georgetown students return from an Easter week golf trip to Pinehurst. W. R. Little, D. Gruver and Drs. T. D. Webb and T. J. Rice, with their wives, are leaving within a few days for | Pinchurst, to continue the golf war which is usually fought out by this quartet on the Washington Golf and | C:untry Club front. Columbia members who have not used the course during the Winter will find | several changes in addition to the ex | ceptionally well designed new sixteenth | hole. The fifth green has been rebuilt and newly trapped, and a new trap has been constructed at the left side of the | eleventh green to keep play on the line to the hole and away from the twelfth fairway, while the trap short of the BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HEY say there's nothing new un- | der the golfing sun and that the | alleged new grips and, stances | and swings tried out from time | to time are merely adaptations | of old methods which have been tried | and discarded. | But lately a new putting grip has| come into general use among the first- | class professionals and a few of the leading amateurs which is finding wider | favor every day and which is claimed | to obviate that old evil of missed putts —hooking—which causes the club to turn to the left of the hole and gives the ball a side spin which causes it to veer to the left over a level surface at the end of its run. The new grip—and it isn't strictly new to the top-notchers, but will be new to thousands who haven't seen its action work out—is called the inverted overlapping grip. It is being used by Bobby Jones, John Farrell, Tommy Ar- mour and a number of lesser lights | and is coming into increasing promi- nence by reason of its almost certain mechanical superiority over the com- monly used overlapping grip. Tommy Armour uses it for chip shots, too. So does Tony Penna, the assistant professional at Congressional, who grew up under Tommy's wing at Westchester- Biltmore. And so does J. Monroe | Hunter, the mighty hitter of Indian| Spring, whose fine putting has been | more or less forgotten in the thrill of | seeing him get behind a tremendous | wallop from the tee. It must be good | if these experts, inciuding two reigning | national champlons, use it, and from| our experience it is good. OME time ago in a tournament a contestant was talking over the o next day’s match with a friend. “You ought to have at least an even chance,” the friend re- marked, “even if he can outdrive you 10 or 15 yards. That won't glve him any big advantage.” “On the other hand,” the contestant said, “I think it gives me the advan- tage. I'd rather play first every time and let my opponent play the odd, provided, of course, I can get home with practically the same club he has to use. I don't know how others feel about it, but I'd rather shoot first. It makes it a lot easier.” There is something more than idle chatter to this point of view. If the player who plays first happens to drop his approach on the green anywhere near the cup he makes it much harder for an oggonent who has to follow this effort. t suppose the one who plays first misses’the green? Even here there is a tendency on the part of the second player, the longer hitter, to play things safe. to steer the ball, to be sure o! reaching the green. The difference is about this—the one who plays first is more likely to try to play just a normal golf shot to the | green. He has nothing else on his| mind. The one who plays the odd car- ries the temptation to play against the | other fellow’s shot. If the other fellow | is close to the cup, or even comfortably | close, there is a tendency to tighten up, to over try. If the other party misses the green there is the feeling that one now has to play it safe and be sure to reach some part of the green, and this feeling often leads to an attempt to steer the ball. Extra length, of course, is a big fac- tor on longer holes. It is also a fac- tor where the shorter player has to use an iron or a spoon against a mashie. But even this doesn’t always follow. Few who saw it will forget the hard match Bobby Jones had against Dick Jones at Baltusrol in the first round of the 1926 championship. Bobby con- fesses that it. was one of the hardest matches he ever had to play. And he gives the reason—on hole after hole he was frequently 40 or 50 yards past Dick from the tee. “I would come up with a mashie shot to play while he ington, and is ready to plant the re- sulting hillside with grass. Tearing down of the hill will remove the prob- | ablility of good tee shots being destroyed | by striking the hill, which protruded | slightly into the line of play. Compara- | tively few other changes have taken | place at Washington during the Win- | ter. Arthur Mattingly of Columbia is one of the old guard of Washington golfers. He has been a member of Columbia for more years than he cares to mention and is one of the last remaining players of that group of illustrious golfers who were headed in skill by Dr. Lee L. Har- ban two decades and more ago. Lately Mattingly has been experimenting with various lengths of shafts for his golf clubs and has arrived at the conclusion that for him a long shaft and a slow swing work out better than a shorter shaft of regulation length and a fast swing. Just now Mattingly’s wooden clubs measure 48 inches in length, and it tekes a man of his size to swing them accu- rately. His frons are of corresponding length and, all in all, his clubs are un- doubtedly longer in the shaft than those of any other golfer in Washington. It is true that Mattingly has length- ened his tee shot by the use of these | long shafts, but he also claims his ac- | curacy has not been disturbed by th change. His friends claim that “Matt’ does his greatest damage on the golf course with an old, antedated putter, | which he uses in most unorthodox style, but with the greatest efficiency. He is one of the finest putters to be found around Washington. | To secure these results his putter has | only its heel resting on the ground, with | the toe cocked up in the air, and he | strokes the ball with a fine touch. The | first finger of his right hand is down | the putter shaft, and with this unusual | style he has acquired a reputation as a | putter second to none at Columbia. Bannockburn is moving slowly ahead with the construction program outlined | early in the Winter by Dr. T. J. W. Brown, who is in charge of the course. | The dam constructed just back of the scventeenth green is nearly completed, and Dr. Brown hopes for a sufficient | flow of water in the creek in front of | the green to make a small lake on the near side of the putting surface, and convert the hole into 2 real water hole, | Although the Winter hes not been over- ly suitable for working the gre: siderable progress has con- ade in| green has been removed. Greenkeeper Whaley has almost com- pleted the job of tearing down the hill construction of the ne | second hole, which is b ¥ come much of the climd to @0 front of the tenth green at Wash- .green on the hilltop. ‘New Grip for Putting Hailed As Stroke Saver on Greens | its speed dies away at the hole. | placing the small finger of the right {of the right, a direct inversion of the Tales of a Wayside Tee By GRANTLAND RIC f {on an approach shot, to see what they ? | Many top-notchers have _estimated that with the old overlapping grip, or with the older twin-V grip, most missed | putts are missed on the left side of the | hole. The new grip s not insurance against missing putts on the right side of the hole, or on the left side, either, if the putter is faced that way. It doe however, make it far more certain thai the old method, that the putter will| not be brought around to furnish an | artificial left-hand spin to the ball as| Here is the difference: Instead of | hand over the first finger of the left, as in the old grip, the first finger of the left hand is placed over the little finger ordinary overlapping grip. This pro- cedure forces the right hand to domi-| nate the grip, instead of the left, which | would ordinarily produce a pull or hook in a long shot. But in putting, with its comparatively short swing, it pro- duces the opposite effect. The right is constantly working against a Stiff left elbow, and a completely stiff- ened left side, and it forces the club through the line in the direction of the hole, making it almost impossible, unless the body is rotated, to bring the club around to the left of the line. It works and works admirably, as it must do to have been adopted for constant use by such top-notchers of the game as Jones, Farrell, Armour and Hunter. Just at this time of year, when put- ting greens generally have not been rolled, putting is more or less a mat- ter of chance, but on the smooth greens of Summer, this grip will work wonders in t?:a\'idmg insurance against hooked ! putts, . had a spoon or a long iron. After the tee shots I felt the advantage was all my way. Then Dick would step up and play a long iron or a spoon to within 18 or 20 feet of the cup— sometimes much closer. That made all the difference in the world. I was the one now under pressure. The psycho- logical turn had changed from me over to Dick. We were all even, so I felt I couldn’t afford to miss.” They were even in this match com- ing to the thirteenth green. Here Bob Jones holed a 12-foot putt for a four, while Dick Jones missed a three-foot putt for a 4. Bobby took one putt on this green, while Dick took 8, And that meant the match, as they halved the next five holes in par. And when the match was over, the longehitting winner admitted the heaviness of the pressure he had to face. The next year at Minnekahda frequently he used a spoon from the tee, Most_golters will tell you they would rather have the other player shoot first will have to play against. But I am not sure this is any advantage, espe- cially if the other side happens to be a fairly steady iron player. When you have 15 yards advantage off the tee you feel the edge is your way. But when the other man slaps one on the green from further back this edge dis- appears. The same thing holds good in putting. You have a four-foot putt, | and your opponent has one of eight feet. You think you have him. Then he holes the eight-footer, and when he does your shorter putt is now an en- tirely different problem. In place of having the hole almost won, you sud- denly realize you must hole a pretty good one to scrape out a half. Suppose he misses? Well, you ex- pected him to miss any way, and you still have to hole out to win. I'll ad- mit I'd rather have a four-foot putt to hole than an eight-foot putt. But I've seen many a match turn upside down Jjust because the golfer with the longer putt rammed the ball into the CIIEI. golf Psychology plays a big part and the big Fsycholoflul advantage consists in applying the first punch, in doing the first damage. Hand the shock ;4: éo}\'xr opponent before he can hand ou. BROWNS WIN IN DEBUT OVER COLUMBUS, 4 T0 3 By the Associated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 16.—The St. Louis Browns opened their 1929 base ball season by defeating the Columbus team of the American Asso- clation here this afternoon, 4 to 3. The Browns took an early lead, gaining 2 runs in each of the first two frames, and although Columbus threatened several times, Stewart and Blaeholder, who shared the Brownie pitching bur- den, retired the side in the pinches. 00000 010100-3 9 1 B | of the Community Center department TILDEN 1S BEATEN IN A 3SET MATCH Loses to Hunter in One of.‘ Three Exhibitions in Tech High Gym. IG BILL TILDEN bowed in high good humor to his friend and | ancient rival, Francis T. Hun-| ter, Iast night in a three-set | marathon which featured the indoor tennis exhibition at McKinley | High School under the joint auspices and the Washington Public Parks Ten- | nis Association. Hunter won two straight after dropping the opening set, | 5—17, 6—3, 9—1." In_another singles match, Johnny | Van Ryne scored over John Hennessey, | 11—9. Due to the length of the set, | a second was not played. Tilden and | Hunter, paired in the doubles, defeated Hennessey and Van Ryne, 7—5. Tilden lost enough points in the | singles on close decisions to have made | up the difference between the winning and losing score. But through it all. Big Bill smiled and seemed to be en- joying himself. To those familiar with his play, it was obvious that the lanky Philadel- phian was not up to the mark. He was pale and a little thinner than usual and for once in his life his service would not respond consistently to his will, being materially weakened by & shoulder injury, while his backhand was conspicuous for its absence of either consistency or power. His overhead vol- leying, on the other hand, was mag- nificent, as was his powerful cross-court drive and his work at the net upon the rare occasions of his advance to the forecourt. Hunter appeared to be in excellent form and sent across shot after shot which fairly scintillated. Many of his remarkable “gets” brought forth storms of applause from the several thousand fans who turned out for the affair. Van Ryne and Hennessey amazed with thelr speed and versatllity. Their match was interesting also in that neither broke through the other's serv- ice until 18 games had been played. Van Ryne then crashed Hennessey's attack, assuming the lead at 10—9, which he turned into victory by annexing the next game on his own service. Every man won his own service i the doubles until Hunter and Tilden reversed the order in the eleventh game. They had little trouble in wind- ing up on their own service following this break. LIGHT SIGNED FOR BOUT WITH DIVODI MARCH 21 ST. PAUL, March 16 (#).—Billy Light, St. Paul, has been signed to meet Andy Divodi, New %York welterweight, here March 21, in 10 rounds. Divod! was scheduled to meet M. Sul- livan, St. Paul, next Monday, but that arrangement was upset when Sullivan contracted influenza. TIGER FOUR BEATS YALE. PRINCETON, N. J., March 16 (#).— Princeton’s indoor polo team defeated Yale, 8'; to 6, here today and won the series for the year, two games to one. Bobby Jones Likes To Use Rusty Iron Bobby Jones never had his irons polished during the amateur golf champlonship at Brae Burn last September, which he won, Many stars are particular about this. While they like -to keep their irons looking bright, they have found, as has Jones, that the “sweet spot,” the actual hitting surface, which is well marked, is best left to rust. ‘With this rusted surface they be- lieve the club will better grip the ball, especially when there is any moisture on the grass. A film of water over a highly polished iron 5 = * 80 ONES LE: '.IYNJC ES LETS HI6 BETTER GRIP BALL~ AT ORAE. GORN THEY WERE. MEVER POLISHED { surface may permit the ball to slip off the blade. We all know that a film of ofl must coat the bearings of an auto to permit the parts to slip and not wear. Lacking it, fric- tion wears them out. The rusted center which Jones’ irons always have, give him confi- dence in the gripping power of these clubs. Nothing strange in letting nature help the golfer in this way when we recall that not long ago star golfers punched holes in the * faces of their irons to give them a rough surface. A ball tends to slide up the face of an iron when properly Score: (] 230 0412 1 Lioyd and Shinsult, Columbus . $t. Louls..:'’ Jablonoswki, 18, Dankritz; Stewart. Biaeholder and Ferrell, hit. This rusted face enables the iron to better it. lCuDI'Y?I t. 1929.) No. 3 Hole at Burning Tee Is a Potent BY W. R. McCALLUM. T doesn't look so tough, but thel terrifying stretch of rough and | bunkers, otherwise the third "hole | at Burning Tree, has come to be | known as a potent score wrecker. | Good golf around Washington finds one | of its peaks at Burning Tree and the | third hole is on the topmost rung of the ladder of difficulty, notwithstanding | its inoccuous appearance. There's an old golf axiom that a man who is playing well scores par on | all the short holes of a golf course. | Yet, many a man has had & fine round of golf at Burning Tree and been un- able to pick up a par on this difficult | 145-yard stretch. Set down in a forest of pines, with a | background of tall, thin conifers, the | third green at Burning Tree presents ' one of the prettiest pictures to be found | at any local golf course. But its diffi- | beauty, for nowhere around the Capital Is there a mashie shot hole that bristles with more terror and real hazard. In front of the terraced greem is a deep bunker, so deep that a man play- ing a ball from its bottom cannot see the green at all. At the left stretches a shellow trap, from which a putter may 1t the | b» played In ordinary Summer weather. | ing the course with r-| Io the right the ground slopes sharply | sionals, from the the old ! toward pine woods, in which a geod ife | hole. is a rarity, Between tee and green Score Wrecker stretches a deep ravine, which forms an ample hazard with its rough and rugged ground. ‘The green itself is so constructed that the best kind of shot is played high in the air to hit to the left of the pin and run down the slope toward the hole. A ball hitting on the right edge of the green is not nearly so apt to stay on the putting surface as one that strikes on the left side of the pin. The green usually is quite fast in Summer, and for that reason most of those who are familiar with the hole attempt to keep | their ball below the hole so they may have an uphill putt. Considerable difficulty has been ex- perienced by the greens force at Burn- ing Tree in keeping brown patch away from the putting green surface. For a time last Summer the green was not in use and the pin was placed in the shallow bunker at the left to constitute | a temporary green. But in the Spring | peulty is in direct inverse ratio to its|and Fall this third green, as most of | | the others at Burning Tree,'is spongy and true, one of the best putting sur- | faces to be found anywhere. | ‘The hole is characteristic of the de- signing work of Marshall Whitlatch | and Colt, MacKenzie and Allison, who | built the Burning Tree course. We remember one day last year play- | group of profes- | ck tees on every | Only one man was able to reach ! the third green with a mashie, The Amateur Scramble. | ITH the amount of money be- | ing displaced in one spot or | another around this coun- | try the amateur situation doesn't face any gentler | days. It may grow tougher and tougher. In some places the athletes are un- | der charges. In other places the clubs are viewed with deep suspicion. Now Mr. George F. Smith, a Texas | editor, brings up a situation which doesn't leave the A. A. U. any too well | placed, as far as one can peer into the | situation. The complaint follows: | Dear Mr. Rice: We want to call your attention to our A. A. U. girls’ basket ball tournament last week and | the further fact that there is nothing amateurish about the financial ends of the Southern Assoclation of this well known body. Twenty-one girl teams entered -| our meet here. Each team paid an | entry fee of $7.50, plus 25 cents for | each player: that averaged over $10 | a team, a total of $210 that went to the A, A. U. | Twenty-five per cent of the gross receipts of $1,129.75, went to the A. A. U.. calling for another check of | $282.43 | A. A. U. referees, their traveling and eating expenses; added $206.50 more. | Trophies cost $250 and purchased | from the A. A. U. (when they were | worth about §150). | ‘That results in four checks paid them | that total $948.93, and while the A. A. U. might be extolling and yelping the amateur idea in sport, we believe they have “Jesse James' horse” at- tached to their ballyhoo wagon some place. Knowing of several times that you have used publicity in one way or an- other for amateur sport, we are sen ing this data on to you for further ex- pression if you see fit to do so. ‘Thanking you in advance, I am very sincerely yours, GEORGE F. SMITH, Editor Scurry County Times-Signal. | One of the vice presidents of the Southern A. A. U. admits that he can't | see where the 25 per cent “cut” comes | in. Neither the Texas delegation | that had to pay the same. T of athletics—as follows: 1. Amateuar athletics — where there are no gate receipts, no money involved, no restrictions on where or when the amateur can play his or her ypes. HERE are three types or brands me. 2. Organized amateur _athletics— where gate receipts are charged and where the clubs or the competitors, or both, profit financially in one way or another. 3. Professional athletics — where every one involved gets paid. The first brand is the foundation of ama- teur sport. The second may be nec- essary, but wherever gate receipts are charged and money is collected, there is bound to be a certain amount of scandal and trouble and evasion. This all may be 8 meces- sary evil, but no one is going to de- velop a formula that will clean away all the spots. ‘The first and the third branches are the easiest to handle, since most of the details are simplified in advance. In these two cases they either get no re- |one stroke less than Mrs. Jones. ward at all, or the financial reward is the basis of operatiol A Month Away. ‘ T wasn't much further back than| I yesterday when the Yankees nalled | the Cardinals in the fourth and final game of the last world series, Now the calendar shows that a new season is just a month away, and there are early indications that this season may be the most interesting in some | years. There are four clubs pretty well | matched in the National League, | with a fifth not so far behind. | Tn the American League there is no | great chance that the Yankees ill | wreck the race as they did last year through most of the Summer, where at one time they were 13 games in | front. They don't figure to leave the | Athletics and Browns, among others, | stranded that far back this Spring and | Summer. Later on the Athletics came | back to make a race out of it all, but | the rally was a little too late for Spring | and Summer gate receipts. | A | U | ! Where “Yankee” Came From. READER sends us the origin of the name Yankee, from William | Gordon's “Independence of the | nited States” (1788) “It was a cant—favorite word with | farmer Jonathan Hastings of Cam- | bridge ebout 1713. The inventor used | it aften to express excellency. A| Yankee good horse—or Yankee cider | and the like. The students of Harvard used o hire horses of him; their deal- ings with him and his use of the term on all occasions, led them to adopt it Well, it has been a Yankee good ball club since 1921, with six pennants out | of the last eight starts. So far as the heavyweight division is | concerned, the facts of the case seem | to be that no one yet has proved any | championship class. Mediocrity can make a lot of headway, but it can't| reach and hold the top. MRS. MIDA CAPTURES FLORIDA GOLF TITLE, By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla, March 16.—Mrs. Lee | Mida, Chicago woman, was queen of the | Florida golfers of her sex today, by de- | feating Mrs. Melvin Jones, defending | champion and fellow townswoman, in the championship flight finals, of the | woman’s State tournament. | Mrs, Jones, playing a great game, | forced the match to the nineteenth hole | before she lost 1 down. ‘They halved the first two on the out | nine. Mrs. Mida won the third by a stroke, going 1 up. The fourth was halved and Mrs. Mida won the fifth again by a single shot. The sixth, seventh and eighth were even. Mrs. Mlda went 3 up by taking the ninth, Mrs. Jones— out .5 2358583 356445 a— 5463455368 40 In...6 56464445 5408 ‘Three of the holes were played in men’s par and nine in one stroke over. ' WOMEN HAVE 77 CARD. SOUTHERN PINES. N. C., March 16 (#).—Glenna Collett of Providence, R. 1., national woman’s champion, and Mrs. Harry V. Maxwell of Spring Lake, N. J., Carolinas champion, proved the winning combination in the best ball tourna- ment, held by the Silver Folls golfers of Pinehurst. Miss Collett and Mrs. Max- well turned in a best ball of 77, despite a plus eight handicap for the forme 6 43 64891 In ....8 Mrs. Mid; out .. Robt. Burns | By the Associated Press. CORBETT LEFT LEGACY BY EARLY-DAY FRIEND| CHICAGO, March 16 (®).—Jim Corbett in the old days in San Francisco, while he was heavy- weight champion of the world, had a Kkid friend and admirer, Michael McDonald. | Both Corbett and MeDonald later took to the stage. Time passed and McDonald left the theater to become a starter for taxieabs at the Sheri- | dan Plaza Hotel here. ! He died yesterday, and when the | Yellow Cab Co. sought information | as to the assignment of his $1,000 insurance, which the company ear- ries on all employes, it found Mike's will left his estate to James J. Corbett of New York City. “COURSE IS CLOSED,” BUT IT IS INDOORS “The course is closed.” Clarence Jones, locker chief extraor- | dinary, made the announcement in a | doleful tone yesterday at the Washing- | ton Golf and Country Club. Outside it looked fit for play, and down on the seventeenth and eighteenth holes be- | sweatered figures struggled with par. “What do you mean, Clarence?"” | “Oh, I mean the indoor course,”| Clarence repfied, a wide grin spreading | over his countenance. And it was true. The little hole in the floor of the pas-| sage way from locker room to grill- room, whichshas been a source of much | pleasure to the members of the club| during the Winter, when snow and| winds forbade outside golf, was filled | with cement, | The indoor course is closed and no maore will 10 or a dozen men gather to | match their skill against the tricky rolls | of the floor and brave the hazards of | rubber mat and the door steps in a| friendly game of syndicate putting. | Many will mourn the passing of the | indoor course at Washington, but it be. came too great a nuisance. When the games waxed large members not in the | contest were scarcely able to walk from | the grillroom to the locker room and from the lower floor to the upper floor without breaking up the careful putt of one of the participants. Chairman Power of the Washington house committee promises to secure a| putting board of type similar to that used in the sun parlor at Columbia. NET TITLE IS TAKEN BY MARGARET BLAKE BROOKLINE, Mass., March 16— Margaret Blake of Lenox became the women's national indoor singles tennis chempion today by defeating Mrs. Charles J. Hubbard, jr., of Boston, 6—3, 6—3, in the final match of the cham- plon:::lp tournament on the Longwood courts. In the women's doubles, Mrs. Wight- man and Sarah Palfrey retained their national indoor title by defeating Mrs. Hubbard and Miss Blake, 6—2, 6—2. This victory gave Mrs. Wightman, one of the game's most prominent players, her thirtleth national title. Miss Blake then played her third match of the day, teaming with Richard Harte, the former Harvard athlete, to win the national mixed doubles final from Miss Palfrey and Malcolm T. Hill of Boston, in a rugged three-set match, 5—17, 6—2, 6—2. Miss Blake and Harte yesterday | Ciuct, | champion, with 293, was one stroke eliminated the defending champions, Mrs. Wightman and Henry L. Johnson, | jr., of Boston, in a three-set semi-final | match. | much stronger than GOLF TITLE GOFS T0 HORTON SMITH Youthful Professional Brilliant 284 to Win Florida Open. Has By the Associated Press. ACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 16— Young Horton Smith from the Ozarks of Missouri packed away in his bag of clubs tonight the third golf title of the Florida Winter season after leaving a heavy field in his wake to win the Florida open with 284. With his steady cards of 70—72—-70 —72, the Joplin professional claimed $1,000 prize money. but not until after Frank Walsh of Appleton, Wis., had played the last stroke on a scintillating round of 67 this afternoon to hoist himself from fifth place to a 285, on2 stroke behind the Missourian. Johnny Farrell, the American open champion, required two strokes over par on both rounds today and watched Smith, with whom he was tied at the halfway mark, gain a two-stroke ad- vantage, finishing third with a 70—72— 72—72—286. Densmore Shute, Youngstown, Ohlo. slipped from third place in the final round this afternoon, bringing up a 3 to add to his 215 for a tie in fifth place with Tommy Armour, Washington, at 288. Sixth came Ed Dudley. Los Angeles professional, with 290, and next ranked Craig Wood. Bloomsfield, N. J., who got off to a bad start in the initial round yesterday with a 77 and was forced to card a 291 for the 72-hole route. Henry Bridgeport, Conn., defending ahead of a bracket composed of George ‘Waggaman, Tampa, and George Christ, Davenport, Fla., who required 294 to tie for tenth place in the money. Al Watrous, Detroit, needed 295 and Willie Klein, Miami, took a total of 296. Walter Hagen, New York, and Wil- liam Mehlhorn. White Plains, N. Y., who started off the tournament by playing in the same three-some. wound up in the same bracket with Clarence Hackney, with 298's. A siroke ahead of them came Billy Burke, West Port, N. Y., who had 297. NORTON BEATS RICHARDS IN SOUTHERN PRO EVENT PALM BEACH, Fla., March 16 (#) — Brian I. C. Norton. former South Afri- can amateur net star, sprang an upset in the annual Southern professional tennis tournament here today when he defeated Vincent Richards, present na- tional professional champion, in the mls in straight sets, 8—6, 7—5 and Norton deserted the amateur ranks last Monday to enter the tournament for cash prizes. Not having played any competitive tennis in two . He was not even seeded as a favorite. His first round saw him eliminating Paul Heston, runner-up to Richards last year. In the semi-finals Norton downed S s, oo e s climax play over Richards today. Norton adopted Richards own style of play to defeat the champion at his own game. Neither rushed the net very often and Norton's baseline game was Richards. with the NEW When all smoking seems: ~try the: Robt. 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