Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1929, Page 34

SPORTS. THE . EVENING STAR, ‘WASHINGTON. D. C., TUESDAY JUNE 11, 1929. SPORTS.’ Former District Golf Champion Comes From Middle West to Play at Columbia ‘POA ANNUN'GRASS | | BOB FINKENSTADT ENTERE INVITATION TOURNAMENT , Barnett and Larkin - Only D. C. Men to Make “Open” AVATEUR GOLFER MeLeod STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE First Amateur to Crack Columbia’s Par Returns to Scene of Early Triumph—Battle With Miller Stevin on Recalled. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. O NE of the first youngsters to make a name for himself as a national ranking golfer from Washington is coming back to the Capital to play in the Columbia Country Club tourna- ment over the course where he learned his game. Robert L. Finkenstadt, holder of the District amateur golf cham- pionship and ranking golfer from Washington in 1919, 1920 and 1921, is an entrant in the Columbia event, which starts tomorrow. He has been living in Ohio and Chicago for several years. crack par on the course of the Coiu Finkenstadt was the first amateur golfer from Washington to mbia Country Club, recording this feat in 1920 in the second round of the District amateur title event, which he won by defeating Miller B. Stevinson in the final round. Stevinson then was a youngster at the game, having played not more than two years, but even then gave promise of developing inte the fine golfer he has since become by winning his wa round. Finkenstadt entered and played in the pational open championship at| Columbia in 1921, qualifying with Wal- | ter Hagen and scoring a 75 for the| medal round, which was one stroks better than Hagen and two strokes bet- | ter than Bobby dones. He later with-| drew from the champlonship, and the | following year left Washington for the | Middle West. | For three years Bob Finkenstadt was | the links king of Washington, winning many of the tournaments and perform- | ing in the fashion which set up Roland R. MacKenzie as the emperor of the game locally three years after Finken- | stadt left. In those days MacKenzie was a_tow-headed Iad in knee pants, | gradually absorbing the fundamentals | of the game from Fred McLeod and | laying the foundation of the game that was later to develop into one of na-| tional magnitude. After Finkenstadt left the Capit years his star was supreme. came MacKenszie and later George J.| Voigt. But the old-timers always have maintained that if Pinkenstadt had re- in Washington he would at Jeast have gained as much prominen: in golf as these players. He will pl in the Columbia event along with a field of brilliant golfers from every sec- | tion of the Eastern United States. The rumor which has come to Wash- ington that the Maryland Country Club fl?l not hold an invitation tourney this | year has definitely been put at rest by | ‘announcement by the club golf com- | mittes that such an event will be held at the club on July 25, 26 and 27. In past years from 40 to 60 ‘Washington players have competed in this tourna- ment. An a of what may be expected in the way of scoring by women golfers in the District women's championship at Columbia next week came at Colum- bia last Sunday, when Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes, former women's District title holder, scored an 84, equalling women's | par for the course. She was playing in & three-ball match with her husband | and E. B. English. Mrs. Haynes had 36 &ltu for the round. Women's par at Columbia has been changed from 82 | t0 84 to give the players a break on | two holes that were just a little more in the way of distance than the fair | sex players could hope to cover in two shots. Dorothy White Nicholson will | defend her title of District champion in | the coming tourney. L FISH AND GOLF TO KEEP BABE BUSY FOR A WEEK | NEW YORK, June 11 UP)—Babe| Ruth is going fishing. The big Yankee slugger has asked, and received per- mission of his manager, Miller Huggins, to spend a week at a lake and golf course near Washington, where he will rest until just before the Yankee's series with the Philadelphia Athletics, starting June 21. | “I am going to fish and play golf,” said Ruth. “Huggins said I might vio- late the club rule against golf in the playing season. I feel strong enough to go back into our line-up now, but the doctor says I can't take any chances | and Huggins agrees with the doctor.” | Ruth is nearly recovered from the severe cold that has kept him out of the line-up for the past 10 days. it P SEEK DIAMOND FOE. State Department's base ball team wishes to book & game for tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock on Monument dia- | mond No. 5 with an unlimited class nine. Call Crenshaw, at State Depart- ment, during the day or at Decatur 3776 after 5 p.m. THE STYLE 1S WOVEN IN “My wife’s a clever woman.” “Mine told me sen Collars, too VAN H PHILLIPS ‘NO STARCH » NO The World’s COL y to the final ROBERT L. FINKENSTADT. AF;HCAN IS SENT WEST FOR AMERICAN DERBY 5 BOON 10 GOLF Made Practical for Greens,| } Success at Baltimore Club Proves. has been accomplished by Bob Scott, greenkeeper of the Baltimore Country Club, | Dissatisfied with the putting quali- | ties of bent greens, and realizing that bent is an easy victim to the brown | patch” disease, officials of the depart- | ment sought two years ago to perpetu- GOAL set by greenkeepers of the North Atlantic sector two years ago with the backing of the Department of Agriculture |ate a grass called “poa annua,” which | |is a native grass, and which makes & | splendid putting surface in the Spring, | The drawback to the constant use of ‘poa annua” in the past had been that after it seeded early in May it had a 1 tendency to grow in bunches and make | a bumpy putting surface. | Sclentists of the department work- ed with the greenkeepers of the Wash- ington and Baltimore areas for more than a year before the stunt of keeping “poa annua” vegetating throughout the | year and prevention of its growing in | buches was discovered. Bob Scott is the | first to make it a practicality, although other greenkeepers in the mid-Atlantic section are moving now in the same | direction. Much of the credit for this new move in the direction of better putting greens | throughout the Summer is due to O. P | Fitts, course supervisor of the Colum- | bia Country Club, who has taken the Jead in the movement to perpetuate “poa | annua” and has put the Columbia Country Club course in the best condi- on this year it ever has been in. | "For years Fitts was with the Depart- | ment of Agriculture, and as one of its | experts he was vitally interested in the | movement to keep “poa anna” growing | throughout the vear. Several years ago | the grass was looked upon as little more | than a weed, but a weed which made a | good putting surface in the Spring. | Greenkeepers then hoped that “paa | annua” would fade out early, in order | that the bent grass might spread before | the advent of hot weather in the late | Spring. But now they have devoted their | efforts to keeping this “weed” going, and Scott has succeeded. On the old course of the Baltimore Country Club he has eighteen perfect | putting greens, and virtually every | square_ foot of the surface is | annur etuated far beyond the nor- mal g-ewing power of this grass by a re- | seeding proce: i DERBY CANDIDATES - FAGING TEST TODAY By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 11.—Four promi- | nent candidates for the American derby | Saturday, faced a test race today at | Washington Park. Windy City, winner of the derby trial at Churchill Downs a few days before | the Kentucky derby; Naishapur, sec- ond in the derby; Minctaur, which | finished second in the Preakness and | third in the Fzirmont derby, and Judge | Hay were favored to battle it out today | in the fifth race, which has been termed | the derby trial. Eastern horses have been slow in ar- | riving for the classic event Saturda: | but were expected to show up tod: | and tomorrow. W. R. 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' 25 OLUMBIA'S course was crowded | from an early hour y‘mrdny‘ to late last night with golfers practicing in preparation for the coming tournament of the club, which starts tomorrow with the | first half of the two-day qualifying round. More than 300 golfers used the course yesterday, according to a count kept in the caddie house. Woman golfers of the Chevy Chase | Club started play yesterday in the com- | petition for the Siamese Cup. Susan | Hacker, vice president of the Women's | District Golf ~Association, and one of the low handicap players at Chevy | Chase, went to the twenty-seventh hole to defeat Mrs. Harrison Brand, jr, in | the first round, first-round matches were: Mrs. (8) -1 4 i s 8) Frank R. Keefer defeated Mre. nd rs. 1 V. Cald elle Cameron (8) defeated Miss 0 (18), 4 and 3. Meanwhile, the members of the Seniors' Golf Association were compet- |ing in three tournaments which run | along almost simultaneously. _Only | few matches have been played in the competition for the Peter Cup, but the finai round has been reached in one metch in the event for the Perkins Plate. In this_match, C. V. Wheeler defeated Gen. D. C. Shanks, 5 and 4, while in the other semi-finals George B. Christian, jr. and Rear Admiral W. H. Standley finished all even at the | eighteenth hole and will play another | round to determine the winne | “Pairings in the third round of the morial Trophy by members of Senlors’ Association follow: the ar | Admiral W. Standley "(6) vs. C. Phillips | HIll' (12), Whiiman Cross drew a bye. Results of the other | event for the Morven Thompson Me- (G P. 8 Ridsdale (scratch) vs. Arlon V. Cush- | In the recent putting event for the seniors William L. Hillyer, who is af- fectionately known at Chevy’ Chase and | other clubs as “the father of golf,” won the event with a score of 35 for the double circuit of the nine-hole putting | | course. Hillyer is without question one of the best putters around Washington and has seen as much golf lpcally as| any man in the game. Six players tied at’ 36 _for second place. They were) H. R. Stanford, Benjamin Miller, E. M. | Talcoit, G. Y. Worthington, W. G.| Brantley and R. H. Jackson. i | _The board of governors of the Chevy | Chase Club, in accordance with its an- nual custom, has extended the priv leges of the Chevy Chase course to | members of the Columbia Country Club who will not play in the Columbia tour- - | ney and would be deprived of their golf | * ;by the tournament, which starts to- | morrow. W. E. Mehary has advanced to the | semi-final round in the event for the Henry-Williams Cup at Bannockburn. His match is the only one in the third | round which has been concluded. Re- sults follow: W. E. Mehary defeated Ma: and’ 3: Dr. J. R Mood_defeated 3 Whelen, 5 and 3: G. W. Scott defeated W. L. Penderzast, 2 up; R. L. Burgdor{ defeated L L and 3 Leo P. Pass de- | Thacker de- hy de- jor H. Robb. § H. | featéa Trew Bxvar, Thpt Jon rew Savov, 1 up; John | feated C. Dowling.'2 up: J. T. McCart | teated € H 'sev and 4 M. Yager. 8 an . ied Dr. John Jol GeTaull’ Egecne Baravano defeated tt, 3 and 3, in 36 h w. | Moore defeated T. W. MecGuire, i: jed, 5. O Scolt, | feated Martin McInerney, 3 | and Byrne defeated J. L. Bernard, | 2 an d'1. Third round— 3 ted Dr. 5. Third round—w. E. Mehary defeated D 5. Lamb defea | JUMArndt def 1 W. F. C. T. Lynes of Washington scored an | eagle 3 on the 487-yard fourth hole at | the Virginia course by a drive, an iron | shot to the green and a 20-foot putt. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 11.—The list of | qualifiers for the national open golf | championship follows: | Qualifyinz seore. ver John Goodman, Omaha Johmny Rogers. Denver Jock Hendrs n Hariford. Conn York A sfield, Calif nver | ack Byrne. | Rergie Myles. | Tom Raciets willie. Kidd. Minneapolis. | Larry’ Nabholtz, | Diek Grout.” Oklahoma Harold Jordan, Piaua vilfred ‘Reid, Detroit | Benn_Richert, 8t. Lou | Don Manion. 'St | Dave’ Ogilvy, jr. | Jack_ Burke: | Joe Kirkwood. | W Murra: Tony Lonwo. Archie Louis Cleveland €00} . Chicago Mount Vernon..... . Fort Worth Chicago . London, Ontario. . Detroit S Cincinnaif 5283383588523 23835555533532225823 Hackney. Atlantic Oity..] J."Voigt, New York. ... Newton, ‘Springfield, Mo Chicago i | nald, . Chicago, Emerick Kool Detroit. ... Billy Trovinger, Detrolt . Craig_Wood., Bloomtield, N. J Dan' Williams, West Field, N. J. . Sr. New York. Ira Couch, Bob MecDo ‘ummins, Clevelans Gullickson. Cleveland Jim Kenney. Toleds Albert Alcroft. B o Youngstown. . 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Va. Fredericksb Davenport, Towa.. 2in. Chica Louisville ster. N. V.. hevy Chase, o Eug Larkin, O ‘avistock. N. J. n, | Jack' Leach. Ti Morristow William Noon, Garden City, N. Emmet_Spicer, Nashville...' W. C. ford, Tii. . | Neil McIntyre, Indi “George Dawson, Chicago. *Charles C. Clare, New Haven st Nordone. Schenectady. MacDonald. New York. Sabol, White Plains, New York.. Thomas Harmon, Jr. Thomas Hughes. New eter Manning, Bristol, Conn ill Crevy, Larchmont. N. Y. J.'Grego, New York. dred. Pittoburgh. 0d. Washing! Pittsburgh. nes, 11, Pittsbui *Amateur am, 724 W, 26th tine. 1 duplicated, paid $25. be mailed on :l | qualifying round; Sweetser at New York | metropolitan_district test, at the Salis- | i« a par 3 hole. | for 146, to lead the field. A represented by golfers in the national open championship to be played at the Winged Foot Club of Mamaroneck, New York, on June 27 28 and 29. A trio of players from two Cclubs about the Capital qualified yes. terday in the qualifying trials at Phi delphia and Pittsburgh, while two more players who are members of Washing- ton clubs, but are not registered in the | championship from these clubs, survive the qualifying tests. Eight other Washington golfers falled {o qualify in the trials held at Pitts- burgh and Richmond. Those registered from Washington clubs who qualified for the open and their scores follow Oakmont Country Pa.—Gene Larkin Barnett at Chevy Chase, Fred McLeod, professional at ths Columbia Country Club and former opsn cham- SHINGTON clubs will be three local LEADS QUALIFIERS Goodman Has 140—Cooper,‘ Pro, Gets 143—Sweetser, ‘ Evans and Guilford Fail. | By the Associated Press. EW YORK, June 11.—On the principle of the survival of the fittest, the field of 1,001 seek- ing the national open golf champlonship has been cut to 50. ‘With 35 of the leading professionals Siub, Pittsburgh, and amteurs already assured of their places when actual championship play begins at the Winged Foot Club. | COMIE, Mamoroneck, N. Y., on June 27, more | “rirresdale, Frankfort Club, Frank- than 900 other golfers sought the re-| ford, Pa—Roland R. MacKenzie, Co- maining 115 places in the qualifying l‘\;rsnbu Country Club amateur, sccre round yesterday. The 36-hole qualifying tes ducted on courses in 19 widely scattered cities, brought disaster fo a number of stars’ who have figured in previous years, either at the national open, the national amateur championships, or In addition to these, George J. Voigt, former Washington amateur, who is a non-resident_member of the Bannock- | burn Golf Club, qualified in the sec- tional tests for the New York areas, with |a score of 151. And Maurice J. Mc- Carthy, Georgetown University golf and basket ball team captain and intercol- legiate golf title holder, who is a mem- ber of the Washington Golf and Coun- try Club, qualified in the same scction, with a score of 152. Four Fail at Pittsburgh. h. Three former national amateur kings failed to qualify—Jess Guilford, Jess Sweetser and Chick Evans. Evans once held the national open title as well. Evans failed in the Chicago's district - Ou“‘llor?n:l i tgg“?‘x;ixenwa?u;'g‘:;‘&; At Oakmont four Washington pro- runner- fithe in 1925, found the Oakmont course | fessionals falled to make the grade. at Pittsburgh too much for him, and | Keen putting greens combined with | Mike Brady, Ua Tl el el Dro. | cups placed on tricky portions of the | R rlonshin. fafled a¢ New ' York, |Beens to keep most of the scores high, | Evans’ companions in_misfortune at|and 162 was the qualifying limit over | Chicago included Abe Espinosa, Willie | the famous Pittsburgh course. Larkin Hunter and Gus Novotny. |and McLeod played consistently good | The honor of returning the lowest 36- | golf to qualify in the test at Pittsburgh, | hole score went to the youthful Omaha | where Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase, | amateur, John Goodman, former trans- | Arthur B. Thorn of Town and Country, | Mississippl title holder, who scored 140|J. Monro Hunter of Indian Spring and over the Omaha Field Cluh course. A |Alex Armour of Congressional failed to | stroke back of him was Johnny Rogers | make the grade. Armour was the closest | of Denver, while Jock Hendry shot a |of the local pros, finishing with a 36- neat 142 at Minneapolis. | hole card of 163, which was one stroke It remained for “Lighthorse Harry” | too high to qualify. He had par from Cooper of Buffalo, runner-up to Tommy | the eleventh hole for a card of 76 over | Armour for the open crown in 1927, to | the last round, which would have quali- record what was probably the finest |fled him, but he took a 7 on the long performance of the day. Playing o the Oakmont course, at Pittsburgh, one | teenth. | of the stiffest layouts in the country,| That long twelfth hole also spelled Cooper shot A 75-68 for 143 on his seeond 13 established a new | the popular Chevy Chase pro took an course record. Willie Klein of New |8 on this 600-yard affair, after he hldl York, went Cooper two better in the | taken a 6 at the 231-yard eighth, which Barnett finished with bury club. He scored a sensational 66 | a total of 167. Hunter scored 83 for his on his first 18 and then added an 80 | first_round of the course, and took 81 for hi: ond round, tw K 0 His 68 | non-qualification for Bob Barnett, for | high to qualify. Arthur B. Thorn was around in 85 over the morning round but ran into innumerable difficulties in the afternoon and picked up. The field at Oakmont was led by Harry Cooper. who tied with Tommy Armour for the spen championship over that course in 1927 Gene Larkin is a newcomer to open championship play, having graduated into the piaying professional ranks onl. two years ago. He came to Chevy Chase at that time from Indian Spring, where he had been caddie master for a yea: Last Winter he was in Florida, and only recantly he has shot two low scores fc tha Chevy Chase course, scoring 68 and 65 to set a new record with the latter mark JAcLend has been a consistent quali- fier in national open championship play having failed only thrice in more than a score of years. He did not qualify at Skokie in 1922, and Inwood in 1923, nor at Bcioto in 1926 None Succeed in Richmond. Down at Richmond, where A. L. Houghton of the Harper Country Club had scored a 67 a week ago, four local entrants all failed to make the grade. The local field was led by Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park, who scored 80- 80—160, 7 strokes too high to qualify. Those who qualified were Richard Lane of Richmond, who used to be a caddie at the Washington Golf and Country Club_and was professional last year at the Mannsfield Hall Country Club of Fredericksburg, Va.; Charlie Isaacs of Fredericksburg, Virginia State open champion, and Marshall Crichton of Durham, N. C. All had scores of 153, Houghton registered 77 for his first | round and picked up on his second round of the ccurse. Al Treder of the Manor Club scored 87 for his first round of the Hermitage Golf Club lay- out and picked up in the afternoon. Walter W. Cunningham of Burning | Tree scored 82 and 83 for a total of 165, many shots too high to qualify. At Philadelphia Glenn Spencer, the long-hitting pro of the Maryland Coun- try Club, who is well known in Wash- ington, scored 153 to qualify, while Ro- land R. MacKenzie, who had run down from New York to play, made the qual- ifying list successfully, with a total of Voigt and McCarthy were well up in the list of qualifiers in the New York area, with 151 and 152, respectively. Voigt is registered from the North Hilis r | twifth hole and three putts on the thir- | Club of Long Island, while McCarthy is registered from the Green Meadow Club of New York. COURTNEY, FIGHTER, WEDS. PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (®).— George Courtney, heavyweight boxer of Ardmore. Oklahoma, and Virginia Claire Howard, New York actress, were m: “This FATHERS DAY REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. olidsted Cigar Corp., New York. 602 Pennsylvania Ave CAPITAL CIGAR AND TOBACCO CO,, N.W.