Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 36

| English Professional Golfers Helped by “American Influehce, ” Hagen Asserts. STATUS IMPROVED, | SAYS YANKEE STAR Now Treated About as Well as American Pros—Aids in Their Play. BY WALTER HAGEN, British Open Golf Champion. ERLIN, May 28.—I was frank enough, following the U. S. | Ryder Cup matches in| Great Britain, to tell a| number of British journalists that I considered “the American influence” had taken hold of British professional golf, and I think it has, In 1922, when I first visited the old country, played at Deal and finished nowhere, I was thunder- struck by the position of servitude of the British professional, and - since that day I have noted a marked difference, irear after year. Now the best of the British brigade are treated about as well as the best of American profes- sionals. It is a cinch there was no_inferiority complex on the part of our British op- ponents at Leeds. They were as well dressed as our men and had as much confidence. George Duncan, British captain, and Archie Compston were ‘writing for the papers before the match, and I want to quote a few things from thelr sayings: Make Reps as Prophets. “The Ryder Cup will stay in Eng- land,” wrote Duncan at the very time when on the London Stock Exchange, I am told, the odds were 4 to 1 against the British side. Campston said: “We have acquired the American golfer's attitude. We think that none of these chaps has anything on us., We shall beat the Yanks.” Now Compston and Duncan have feputations to maintain in Great Britain as golfing prophets, and they evidently t it when they wrote this. In any event they won and they made a good Job of it, and interest in international goifing competition is so much better off. I hope I can last another four years, make the team, and be on a winning American side in Great 3ritain, for there is no denying it is harder to win this Ryder Cup abroad than it is at home. It will be a fine team, either British or American, that will go to the other fellow's home lot and win. 1 suppose our defeat at Leeds was a shock to the average ayoru lover in the . United States. For after the way we defeated the British at Worcester in 1927, following American successes in the British open championship, and on top of the slaughter of the British | amateurs at Chicago last year, about every one in America had an idea British golfers were a set-up for Are Well Matched. ‘This may be so in amateur golf, but 80 far as 'fro(essmnl golf goes, there is very little in the gap that separates the countries when it comes to team strength. In 72-hole medal play com- tition our boys still have the edge. ‘e have 50 much of this sort of com- petition for large purses that our men are perfectly accustomed to it, and thus avoid the strain which is on most of the 1. SPORTS. STRAIGHT ORE than half the invitation tournament. schedule which affords a continuous golf spree for six week:aulor lhe:u of ‘Washington ers been completed, and from the re- sults of the tournaments two facts stand out. These are: That Harry G. Pitt, by any standard of com , 18 the out- standing golfer of the season to dal And that Page Hufty, if he were as good a finisher as he is in the early stages of a golf match or even in the middle of a contest, would be pushing Pitt, to the limit instead of being rank- ed below the Manor Club star. Four major tournaments have been played so far about Washington. Three more remain this Spring, for the cham- ionship tournament of the Middle At- antic Golf Association, to be played next week at the Baltimore Country Club, is a local tourney in so far as serious competition is concerned. All the men with a chance to win—and many who don’t—attend the mid-At- lantic championship event. Out of the four tourneys already played, Pitt has won two of them. His victories have come in the biggest events, and the most popular, judged solely by the size of the entry lists. He moved through the match play rounds in the Chevy Chase tourney in impressive fashion, mowing over his opponents with com- parative ease, although forced to the seventeenth hole in the semi-final to beat W. B. Moore, the sweet whistler CUTS DOWN LOFT ON THREE WOODS BY SOL METZGER. "L ‘U5UAL SET.OF 490D 16— - ORIVER-79° BRALLIE~T75 4POON —71° K16 LOFA ON HIS SET After all sorts of experimentis, Bobby Jones has adopted wooden clubs with less loft than those used by others. The idea is to get length via low carry plus run. The stand- ard Joft of the three woods—driver, braasie and spoon—is 79, 75 and 71 degrees. The loft on the respective wood's in Jones' bag is 82, 79 and 73_degrees. Naturally, the less loft the lower the trajectory. Jones reached these conclusions " after various tests. Prancis Ouimet told the writer that when Jones was at Harvard he was e?eflmenflnx with a big-headed driver that had a face as near to a right angle as any club ever made. It eventually led to smothering the ball and was cast from Jones' bag. Ouimet doesn’t believe in such lit- tle lofted woods for clubs as Jones uses. He sa that the average player has difficulty enough hitting the ball clean off the fairways and that he would gain strokes in the end by having the standard lofts exaggerated in order to insure pick- { British. For with them the open is the . big event of the year. | osricht, 3630, By Norin American News- paper Alliance.) . AN g.:hhrye ball clean. We are not all Joneses. Undoubtedly Oui- met's advice is sound. _THE EVENING “STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. MAY 28 OFF THE TEE ] from Beaver Dam. through the field at Indian Spring was not so impressive, for all his matches were close. He should have been beaten in the final round, and_right there is where Hufty's lack of finish- ing punch comes in. The Congressional lad, be it known, is a vastly improved golfer this year. He has eliminated the loop in his - swing which made his driving irregu- lar last year, and his spade mashie work is worthy of Jess Sweetser at his best. But somehow, even though he is an excellent putter, a long hitter and chock full of quiet confidence, Hufty has not seemed able to administer the killing punch this year. He won the Town and Country Club tournament, to be sure, but only on the twenty-first nole, after he had been dormie 4 on John C. Shorey. At Chevy Chase he was 2 up with 5 to go on Miller B. Stevinson, and Stevinson beat him, 2 and 1. To make the matter more cogent, Stevin- son won four holes in a row with par golf. Not a birdie in the lot. Yet when Hufty needed pars to keep a lead that looked safe, he couldn't get them, and Stevinson coasted in to win with par golf. Right there it seems to us, as we watched that match, that Hufty was playing his opponent instead of the golf course. ‘That conviction was strengthened last week when Hufty met Harry Pitt in the final of the Indian Spring tourney. Pitt was ragged over the first nine, and Hufty was not so good: but he was good enough to be 3 up with 6 to play and then 2 up with 5 to play after he had lost the thirteenth hole by taking three putts. There was the same deadly parallel. He was 2 up with 5 to go on Stevinson at Chevy Chase and 2 with 5 to go on Pitt at Indian Spring. Sandy Armour says 2 up with 5 to go never wins & golf match; and if Hufty's case is used as a yardstick, it seems to be the truth And all Hufty needed to win the Indian Spring final was four pars, for Harry Pitt did not win any of the four holes he won in a row with birdies. Instead he won them all with pars, just as Stevinson had done the week previous. If a golf match could be terminated at the twelfth hole instead of the eight- eenth, Hufty probably would be the out- standing golfer of the year. Instead of that, he has not been able to maintain the winning pace, and he cannot be ranked anywhere than below Harry G. Pitt's game has all the power of This Sale Extended Until June 3rd ¢ INCLUDING * --- SGALLON CANS MOBILOIL, $3.99 Tires, Tubes and Auto Accessories at Unheard of Prices P PALDING SALE that will help you ~enjoy the holiday! His _movement | %% Ninth St., Near H St. 1929. SPORTS. last year, when he was noted as one of the longest hitters llh‘mg the ama- teurs about Washington. ut greater than the power in the Pitt tee shot, or the accuracy of the Pitt putting is the will to win that keeps him plowing along level with par when the other man shows the slightest sign of wilting. There isn't any doubt that Pitt is the outstanding amateur about Washington £0 far this year, and if he keeps goin as he has done, the record will stan the same after golf is over for the sea- son. Page Hufty is a very fine golfer, but he reminds us of Chick Evans of many years ago. Chick was much the same way. He played magnificent golf for: the first 12 holes—piled up an apparently safe lead—and then dropped it.” Time after time from 1909 to 1915, Chick Evans should have won the ama- teur championship, but he did not, because, he could not keep a lead. Harry Pitt's best golf has been from behind, and we have seen Page Hufty and Stevinson play some fine golf when they were down. Stevinson, in particu- lar, is a fine fighter whom a deficit of a hole or two does not rattle. Hufty re- marked today, as he reviewed his rec- ord in tournaments, that it might be better for him to go into the final stages of a golf match in the rear rather than in front. But if we may be permitted to interpose a word of well meant ad- vice, Hufty thinks too much of match- ing the other fellow's shots and not enough of playing the golf course. The methods of Pitt and Hufty differ, for Pitt plays the course, while Hufty ap- pears to be playing an individual. Frank K. Roesch is the other tourna- ment victor about Washingtén this year. | But Roesch was beaten by Hufty at ‘Town and Country, failed to make the first flight at Chevy Chase, and did not enter at Incian Spring. ‘The board of governors of the Inter- departmental Golf League will meet tomorrow afternoon to sift out the en- tries for the annual tourney of the league, scheduled to be played at the Manor Club next Monday and Tuesday. Entries from the Navy and Commerce Departments, the Government Printing Office, the Tariff Commission and the Shipping Board were to be filed today. Entries were recelved yesterday from 44 man teams for the Mellon Trophy event. That round of golf shot by Gene Larkin yesterday at Chevy Chase, when the sorrel-topped assistant to Bob Bar- nett registered a 68, is remarkable for the fact that the card does not include a 5 on those long holes at Chevy Chase nor did Larkin secure a 2 on a short hole. He played 17 holes in par and had a birdie 4 on the long eighth hol tting out in 34 and coming back he same figure. e, in Make the most of the holiday—it’s a long time till the next one. Here are some Spalding specials that will help—some special tennis and golf combinations o marked at prices way below their real values! —consisting eci“'” FOR i .al/! The “Ace” Combination A complete set of Thistle clubs with bag, putter, niblick, mashie, midiron and brassié; in steel-stayed bag. 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EDGEWOOD, 3; KANNS, 3. m:!nfl‘“'!-‘!_.l!i’ gether leading contenders for the T B T Yeatman (E) d:Jelted Wi ad, 64, | HAN -3 < | 84 h ) in Tom Mangan and Dooley, Mitehell | purd, ‘atEina, ‘and, Bastaner Ve, ine ‘and | S5 Brown (K diiehied i, (=1 CRNSERNTEN: 'Frazier and_Hill vs. Wilhelmsen and e R e “ snremmeation begin Thursday and women’s doubles wan, Priday. Today play was carded only | Docy. in_the men’s singles. Byes In matches yesterday the younger |Stolar 111 players again showed impressively.|rer,” Shepherd and Shepherd, Crust . 8—4. Bernara Welsh, Western High player, | Gruse. Sinciair and Howehstein. Gilford and | 6-3; grani. (W defeated. &, Fix. 108 who gained the spotlight Sunday by | Seldel Martines and Martinez, Moorhead | 6—1i Kolght '(A) defeated O'Neal, 6—4. and R tley. [ eliminating Bob Considine, District public parks singles title holder, fell be- fore Dean Jufld.Mbu(l:hPlh‘ltc'l —L t\l\)):fll: L Norman and Rowan vs. Detweller and | 3 rest, erstw] vin, King_an vs. Merry and || o, * gave Clarence ares! Ivin, King and partner ve Merry and || -Not Paint—Not a Polish—But a System District champion, a real battle before Car Cleaning is our Specialty—not & yielding in three sets, and Clyde Yeo- |h5ad #nd, Jansen: Oraham g N ced: sen: . side line mans, Unlversity of' North "Carolina | sen mateh: Jolley and Ryan va. Krucoft and Rightway W, m. y racketer, downed Bob Burwell. Mrs, Charles E. 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