Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 46

SPORTS. THE EVEN G_STAR. WASHINGTON, D, ¢, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929. SPORTS. Woman Golfers Gradually Reducing Margin of Supremacy Held by Man Players JOYCE WETHERED HAILED AS GREATES Glenna Collett, American Champion, Asserts Women Are Improving Their Links Game More y Than Their Brothers. Rapidl BY LAWRENCE PERRY. OYCE WETHERED'S victory in the British woman’s open at St. ‘Andrews after a three-year retirement has caused considerable discussion as to the proficiency of the English girl as compared 1 to the leading male players. day, with everything going well, Miss Wethered would be a match for any man in the world, and probabl For one thing, she has none of aficts most woman golfers when o] ficiency, inasmuch as her life has Roger, one of Great Britain's leading amateurs, and for another thing, she has an attitude toward defeat and victory which is thoroughly sporting. It is much more the custom in England for leading woman play- T OF FAIR SEX It has been stated that on her best y this is so. that nervous apprehension which pposed to men of outstanding pro- been spent opposing her brother what as follows: A player who could drive consistently a ball as long as Vir- Oh, Man. VELL ED- | "JusT GoT. BACKk FROM EUROPE ke N AH- | WAS THERE Two YEARS AGo S fWAIT?A MINV WELLT 1" WENTY To- LISTEN ED-| TuetonLy ‘PARtSTIS ‘PLACE - LIsTEN' THERE ASN'T A PLACH Te- we wenT, B° GERMANY AND. A MINUTE ED- —By Briggs 1 ALWAYS SAID, THERE S ONLY 'ONE -~ PARIS ~ SEE ParIS - AND & YoU'VE SEEMN THE WOELD/ wafr [ WEAKNESS AT BAT RETARDING GIANTS McGraw Looks for Slump to End Soon—Hustle Best Asset of Braves. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. EW YORK, May 24.—When | the Giants, who have not | been doing so well, and the Bcston Braves, who have been doing better than was | expected, took the field at the) Polo Grounds yesterday, John Mc- Graw was on the New York bench. Probably it was the first day of | real base ball weather this city has seen in some time which lured the great little manager out into the sun- concerning the Boston Braves is the spirit of the club. No player on it has to be urged to get out for batting or flelding practice. Each one is eager for exercise. The first Brave with whom I conversed was Sergt. Henry Gowdy. “Hank,” I said, “your club is & bit like the story of the man who under- stood all about the airplane, except one thing. What makes you stay up?” Mr. Gowdy. still looking about as young and fit as when he was catching for the Braves, instead of coaching them, smiled his sunny smile and re- plied: “I guess we have disappointed some of the people who picked us for the submarine championship. I told you this Spring that we might surprise them a_little. We have had pretty good pitching, except in those games with the Phillies, but I think the main rea- son we have done better than the dopesters predicted is that the boys are hustling.” This diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Eddie Farrell, with whom I had last talked at a most pleasant dinner, in Syracuse. Later, & saw him playing in St. Petersburg, but didn't get close enough to do more than cheer for him. Farrell always is welcome to a cheer from any one who knows him. “We have a fighting ball club” he said, “I think every man on it really g% ROME’ A'I‘JD IH_EM.TZZ. Jog ZELL!'S UPyy Tag.. o VENICE WAS ~AND - ¥~ | ginia Van Wie and Simone Thione de ers to meet the best men than in |7 chayme, ‘who, added to this, has the United States. The sexes are | Maureen Orcutt’s and Cecil Leitch's congtantly battling, on a handicap | ability to dispatch a screaming brasste. basfs. of course, and despite the | There also would be in the player's talk, Miss Wethered has been as | make-up ability to use the irons as shine. It is bad enough to have aball team which hasnt ez been hitting to is eager to win and to give the best he has.” ‘Then I saw George Sisler. The most famous player ever turned out by Michi- gan naturally is interested in his old university and we spoke, among other onDON 13 A GREAT - \ mAD THE MOST FuN N PARIS = BUT BERLy SWITZERLAND \& BEAVTIFUL- Paris = MY’ IDEN o s ¢ £ willing as any one to accept the | handicap, without which she would be beaten nine times out of | ten by such players as Bobby | Jones, Johnny Farrell and Walter Hagen. ‘The customary practice on the other side is to give a woman six bisques in 18 holes. This is to say that she can select the stroke given her on any hole she wishes, instead, as the custom is, of allowing her a stroke on every even hole, the woman being obliged to take the stroke whether she needs it or not. On the six-bisque basis it is doubtful 1 Bobby Jones or any one else would defeat the British ladies’ champ. She has beaten S. F. Storey, the well known amateur, quite easily on this basis. Glenna Collett, in her interesting book on golf, believes that given four bisques in 18 holes she would hold her own with | any male golfer in the world and that | on her best days she would need no| handicap at all. Some of Miss Collett's observations about golf as played by men and women are interesting, indeed. ~Women, she believes, are improving their golf much more rapidly than men. The present 10-stroke difference between par for men and par for women must shortly be revised downward, although in a gen- eral way the American champion ad- mits that the 10-stroke disparity about Tepresents the difference between the average male pleyer and his golfing sister. But men, that is to say the top-flight men, have reached the point beyond which they cannot advance, Wwhile women are ever progressing. She pic- tures the coming woman champion who will reYresent the supremacy of her sex over all golfers in physical stamina, skill and golf sense. The picture, she says, would be some- GET LINE OF DRIVE SAME AS WITH PUTT BY SOL METZGER. ‘There is only one way to hit a golf ball and that is on the line you wish it to go. This line is usually at the pin for the sake of clear- ness in description, though in play a drive is sent toward that part of the fairway that will put the golfer in the best position for his second shot. ‘To accomplish this result, to drive this ball along the line of flight you wish it to go, every good golfer, once he has settled down to playing his shot, imagines a line running through his ball in the direction he wishes to stroke it off the tee or along the fairw: just as he imagines a sim- flar line to the cup when putting. Get that line established in your mind when you address the ball. ‘Then concentrate on throwing your clubhead straight through on that line. That's the way Harry Cooper belts them so far and straight. You'll Alexa Sterling Frazer and Edith Cum- mmFs can play them and finally she would have the golfing genius and putt- ing skill of Joyce Wethered. Modestly, Miss Collett does not include herself in the composite. One wonders what sort of a golfer a composite Glenna Collett and Joyce Wethered, these two, no more, would make? (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) TERMINAL Y LEAGUE HAS LONG SCHEDULE Announcement of the complete sched- ule for the remainder of the season for the Terminal Railroad Department, Y. M. C. A, Base Ball League was made today. All games are to be played on | the diamond at the Union Station. ‘The card follows: Today—Southern Railwa. May 27—Washington T Southern Railway. May 28—Express vs. Terminal Post Office. May 20—Pullman vs, Washington Terminai Co. May 31—Southern Railway vs. e y vs. Terminal ne 3—Washington Terminal Post Office. sl o0 ok June 4—Southern Railway vs, Express. June S—Pullman vs. Terminal Post Office. priune 6—Wasnington' Terminal Co. vs. Ex- ress Jurie 7—Pullman vs, Southern Railway. | June 10-—Southern Railway vs. Washington | Términal Co une une Pulima: y vs. Pullman. erminal Co. vs. erminal Post Office vs. Expi Washington Terminal Co. June 13—Ter) v pojine ‘minal Post Office vs. Southern .vuno'u-zxym. vs. Pullm; June 20—Puliman Vs, Expr June 24_Terminal Post Offici Wash- ""5ums 35 Bapressvs. Southern Rail xpress vs. Southern Railway. June 26—Terminal Pos. Ofice vs. Pull- an. June 27—Express vs. Washington Terminal June 28_Southern Railway vs. Pullman, i—Washington ~ Terminal Co. vs. July Southern Rails 2—Express vs. Terminal Post Office. ress. vs. vs. ilway. July July 3—Pullman vs. Washington Terminal 0, July 5—Southern Railway vs. Post "Office. July 8—Washington Terminal Post Office. July 9—Southern Ri July 10—Pullman v Terminal Co. ilway vs. Express. Terminal Post Office. Terminal vs. July 11—Washington Terminal Co. vs. Ex- ess. July 12—Pullman vs, Southern Railway. July 15—Southern RailWay vs. Washing- ton Terminal Co. Terminal Post Office vs. Express. Terminal Co. Vs, July 17—Washington Pullman. Terminal Post Office vs. South- wa; July 1 ern Railway. —Express vs, Pullman. July 32—Terminal Post Ofice’ vs. Wash- Terminal Co. uly 23—Express’ vs. Southern Railway. July 26—Terminal Post Office vs. Pullman. July 25—Express vs. Washington Terminai 26—Southern Rallway vs. Pullman. ashington Terminal Co. vs. Southern Ralil vs. Terminal Post Office. uly 30—Express July 31—Pullman vs, Washington Terminai “Ausust 1—Southern Rallway vs. Terminal Post Office. August 2—Pullman vs. Express. Express kept up its fast pace in the | Terminal League yesterday, scoring over Washington Terminal Co.,’ 7 to 0. Vermont Avenue Christian nine came from behind to gain a 7-7 tie with St. Alban's Episcopal in Georgetown Church League. Treasury disposed of Bureau of En- graving and Printing nine, 8 to 5, in a Departmental League contest. In the Government League an early substantial lead enabled Printers to down Navy Yard, 7 to 3. Washington Gas Light Co., defeated Big Print Shop, 10 to 7, in the Indus- trial League. The losers rallied briskly drive with a far better sense of di- Tpction doing the same thing. the last inning, but could not over- | WAS IN MUNICH Tao THE MONT MARTRE - |3 - THE MO'MART - ALD N ROME - LISTEN HEN MONT- - 4 JeD KILEY'S /v L\STEN ED - anp CAFE DE LA PALX oa7 - ) W Xy "(\_—_ \.m s HERE are not many loud wails of anguish over the condition of the rough grass bordering the fairways of the locai golf courses this year. For the fact is that| there is hardly any such thing as deep rough any more, and the long hitters | are in their glory. They may stray fat from the line this year and still not| be in the heavy, clinging stuff that made straight tee shots invaluable in other years. Probably the reason for the almost total absence of heavy rough on the golf courses of Washington this year is the lack of warm, growing weather that would shoot up the grass to such length that hardly anything else than a niblick or mashie would extricate the ball from'its berth in the rough. But that argument falls flat when it is noted that the rough at most of the local courses has grown up and then been cut down. Perhaps the greenkeepers have agreed that the penalty for getting off the line is too severe and that a ball in the rough should not be so severelv penalized. But a survey of the courses about the Capital fails to disclose the heavy rough that has made fairwav play in past years a thing of beauty and joy. We well remember when to get off the fairway almost anywhere at In- dian Spring, Columbia, Washington, Chevy Chase, Congressional and the other courses meant a half stroke or more lost. And how such conditions emphasized the virtue of straight wooden club play. ‘The old saying' “He knocks them down the middle and keeps out of the rough” then constituted a definite virtue. But nowadays, with the rough scarcely more than heavy fairway, a straight tee shot is not so advantageous. To be sure, it is far better to be in the fairway than in the rough, even now, not apt to be in anything more severe than cut rough. Time and again this Spring we have seen good golfers take wooden clubs in the rough and knock the ball as far as they could hit it from the fairway. In other years they would have had to be satisfied with an iron shot to the fair- way, and frequently could have gotten in such heavy rough that a niblick would have had to be brought into play. Such places as the rough at the right of the eighth at Chevy Chase, the rough bordering the tenth and fifteenth at Indian Spring, the rough to the right of the sixth and twelfth at Columbia, come the Gas Co. 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The Baltimor women, Mrs. Haynes has been told, have several team matches next week and will not be able to play in Washington. Meanwhile she still is in negotiation with Norfolk, Richmond and Wilming- ton. Mrs. Haynes and several other Washington women may go to Wil- mington next week to play in a one- day medal play tournament at the Wil- mington Country Club. Mrs, Harrison Brand, jr. and Susan Hacker met in the final round of the French High Commission cup event for women today at the Chevy Chase Club, after both had scored close victories in the semi-final round yesterday. Miss Hacker, with a handicap of 9, went to the last thole to defeat Mrs. J. F. Dry- den, to whom she conceded two strokes. Mrs. Frank Keefer was beaten by Mrs. Brand, 3 and 1, in 27 holes, the over- time being ni by reason of the fact that they were square at the con- clusion of the regular 18-hole match. Mzs. Keefer gave Mrs. Brand 4 strokes. Virginia Holzderber met Mrs, W, D. 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All Spalding clothing, like Spalding Good value at $10. € | in the cul of the Indian Spring invitation tourney | today, their opponents were favored to win over the representatives of the host club and proceed into the final round this afternoon. Harry G. Pitt of Manor, holder of the mid-Atlantic title, was op- to Charles W. Cole, jr., of Indian Spring in one semi-final match, while Page Hufty of Congressional met Leroy Sasscer in the other. Pitt had a fairly easy time in two matches yesterday, as did Hufty, while both Cole and Sasscer were pushed to the limit to win. Cole was down most of the way to young/ Henry D. Nicholson of Washington and was all square playing the seventeenth. Both players were in the bunker at this hole, and Nicholson’s bid for a 3 lay 10 inches from the cup. Cole hit a 6-foot putt that was off the line, but it caromed off Nicholson’s ball and went to win the hole. Cole then ast hole, sinking a 10-footer had missed a won_the for a 4 after Nicholson 20-footer for the like. Z Sasscer was 1 down to young Roger Peacock (elngl to the eighteenth hole, but Sasscer holed an 8-footer to win the hole with a par 4. The first extra hole was halved, and Sasscer won on the twentieth by laying & pitch shot dead for his par 4. The first round found Joseph Di Leo, the medalist, going down to defeat be-\ | fore Nicholson, while that round also !saw a 24-hole match in which John H., | Zabel of Columbia won on the sixth extra hole when S8am S. Edmonston of Indian Bpl'lng missed a 2-foot putt for | a half. Ralph 8. Fowler of Washington lost on the nineteenth when J. A. Cox of Argyle laid him a dead stymie. The final rounds in the tourney are being played this afternoon. At a Fair Price All Grades ONE TALLY DECIDES IN 30 OF 80 GAMES By the Associated Press. Th the days before the lively ball came into use it was the policy of a big league manager to “play for one run,” the theory being that a single tally oft- times was sufficient to bring victory. With the coming of the so-called “rabbit” sphere, however, the pilots started going after runs in clusters. ;l'hcy figured one score .meant little or ess. ‘This season, though, single runs have | played unusually big parts. Especially is this so in the American League. During the first four weeks of play, 30 games out of 80 played were decided by one marker. JONES VISITS NEW YORK | FOR BUSINESS AND GOLF NEW YORK, May 24 (#).—Bobby Jones, the well known Atlanta attorney, has arrived in New York on business in the first place and for a little golf in the second. : ‘The national amateur champion plans to see what he can do about his putting | at the Winged Foot Country Club, | Mamaroneck, N. Y., over the week end. | It is at Winged Foot that the national open will be played next month and Bobby is one of the 1,001 entrants. 30c per Quart keep one awake at night without having a bad’ case of sinus trouble assisting toward insom- nia as a sleep destroyer, sinus trouble is just one jump ahead of a toothache. I asked Mc- Graw whether he didn’'t think the weather had been partly responsible for the} showing of his team, and he answered that he thought that it had much to do with it. “You never can tell about Spring base ball,” said the New York leader, “especially in such a Spring as this. The pitching has been fair, but the club simply hasn’t been able to get going. “Some of the best batters have been hitting far below their capabilities. A few extra hits would have made a lot of difference. We'd have won & num- ber of games we lost by one run. “You can't keep natural hitters per- manently in a slump,” he added. ‘They | will_begin to hit sooner or later, but | in the meantime failure at the bat has | made a good club look bad. It is tco | soon to tell much about the race.| Against us, the clubs which have ap- peared strongest are St. Louis and Cin- cinnati. Chicago did not seem so pow- erful to us, but it has been beating all the other clubs. It undoubtedly is a good team.” The thing which strikes an_onlooker U S TIRES ONCREDIT John McGraw. he 234 14 NW T different two-base Motor Oil what you have been wanting...itisa persons and things, of Fielding H. Yost. I also asked Sisler how the Braves had managed to do so well, “Sometimes,” he said, “we have had good pitching. Sometimes we have hit when hits did the most good. In one way or another we have managed to win games other persons think we should have lost. 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