Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1929, Page 23

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1929. SPORTS. Finkenstadt Makes Stirring Golf Shot : Girl Ball Star, Barred, Pulls for Team" STARTS ON WINNING WAY wuo’s WHO IN THE OP BY WONDERFUL RECOVERY| - Backed Up Against Fence, He Pitches Ball to Green for One of Greatest Feats Ever Per- " formed on Links Here. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HETHER Robert L. Finkenstadt wins or loses in the Colum- bia tournament today, he at least has had the satisfaction of making what a small gallery which watched him play .the seventh hole yesterday afternoon acclaim as one of the finest shots ever made on a golf course. Finkenstadt beat Harry Pitt yesterday in a match that was productive of the best golf shown by two amateurs about the Capital this year. The former District " title holder ended the contest when he took a spoon and drove the seventeenth green—280 yards away—to hole out in 3 and win by 2 and 1. But in the afternoon he played indifferent golf up to the seventh hole and was 4 down playing the of Indlan Spring, who knocks the seventh to plugging Elliott Spicer ball short and straight and putts like a Travis. At this hole jt seemed that Finkenstadt, who is playing in his first Wuhlngton tournament since he left the Capital in 1922, ‘would surely become 5 down and see his chance of beating the slim Indian-Spring player go glimmering. Spicer poled out a fine tee shot plumb in the middle of the fairway, while Finkenstadt hooked to the rough, right up against the new wire fence which . has been constructed along the bound- ary line to keep the caddies from tear- ing up George T. Dunlop's beets and strawberries in their search for golf balls struck over the fence. It looked for all the world as if Finkenstadt would lose the hole. But 8 u’r wmed his niblick shot and the the road’ well down toward Ch’ tenth green. Few See Thriller. Saum and Harry Gilligan sat on the eighth tee and watched Finkenstadt uproot an out of bounds t so_he could take a swing at his ball. They watched him swing his_club back against the steel fence so he could see mf)oulns the shot. -win; d not be made properly, and there in front of him loomed a waste of bunkers and hazards with a lot of bite necessary to keep the ball on the abbre- viated putting green. It would be lucky, all lll'o‘d, i kaemlldl could get the ball out in fiu n ‘wonder 0! Finally e wond.urn—thnt hall "arched up_in high arc, hit & slope at the right llde of the green, and came to rest 15 !ezt from the cup. We have seen many great 8ol shots, but mt., We aver, was one of the finest we ever have wi ‘ndmeon,hebutunzmenrhun ‘To make the shot beuer he might have ‘haled it for a but he didn't have to, for Spicer pwked up his ball and conceded the hole. Pinkenstadt was then 3 dmmm\;ut ing and Lh:n downed r., of lndhn Bpring in.a tans the afternoon. mat ?mdnud m hottest golf of the w. or nothing but birdies ‘would win ho! ‘Bannockburn Golf | Club members started play today in the fairway han- dicap tournament arranged by Chair- man Byrne of the golf committee for both woman and man players. The contest is a' two-day affair, with ',he entrants divlded into three classes follows: Class A, handicaps of 12 md under; class b, h-ndln‘m‘o( 13 to 19, inclusive; class C, ps of 20 to 27, inclusive. The tourney will end tomorrow afternoon. Activities of the Senior's Golf As- ysociation of the Chevy Chase Club keep up without a respite. ‘Three tourna- ments are being competed in at present by some of the seniors, who have won their matches, and other mumeyl mu are to come. ku'l:,ll:&{u ‘ hy put up e trophy P for. the seniors, the time and conditions to be announced later. Members of the .ol! committee have put up a trophy m g0 to the member who shall turn mhe three best net scores between .vune 18 and October 31. Charles V. Wheeler and Rear Ad- miral W. H. Standley have won their ‘way to the final round in the competi- tion for the Perkins plate. Wheeler de- feated Gen. D. C. Shanks § while Standley won from George chflith.n, jr, in a 36-hole match by 3 and ‘The eommmee headed by Gen. Shanks, has arranged a_handicap two- ball foursome event, which will start June 30, with one match puy round a week until the tourney is completed. Half the combined handicap of the wflwsl.lnu will apply, and the strokes layed alternately. Pairings or Lhe n round of this event rol]nv WP Hom and Admirsl R. M. Jackson Q6 vs: Minor and G Pat- ek (0 PwoL Hiver and nmm ‘Miller 13) vs.'Admiral C. B. Me n (8); Admira f ortn is_(18); Di i R, Stantor At Mendenhall (5): Gen. D. C. Shanks i Dr. W. G. Br v, Admiral W. -5 Ihndlev D. Hoover (9) D. Cramp- Pinch hitters who will be used for those who default, are as follows: . M. wright Admiral G. Tucker C. L. uggles. Gen. Charles en. Harty Tavior, . Braciey Da- rry. %I sht , Herbert Putnam, rlu"x.. Fraiey and Col. unm Elaborate arrangements have been made by C. L. Noble, president of the Winged Foot Club of Mamaroneck, N. ., for the accommodations and conven- jence of golfers who will play in the national open championship at Winged Foot, week after mext. Fred McLeod lnd Gene Larkin, who g ashington for the open chlmpiomhlp, hAvo recelved letters advis them of accommodations and soliciting their wishes as to rooms. A special section of thpat:!lllbhvm].h.l;dbeen set aside for the essional newspsper men where they may lunch without delay. Roland Hancock of Lyncht of .last year’s nat 5 and 4, | Frazl B. . = League, followin; clared that Hancock is going fo be 2 formidable hurdle in the national. R. J. Hewitt scored a hole in one on the eighth hole of B course at East Potomae Park mfivrd-ymalmnl » No. 2 iron from the tee on 201-yard af- fair, which placed his ball in the eup. YOUNG RACKETERS 70 CARRY BURDEN Lott Does Not Think Tilden or Hunter Will Play in Cup Matches. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, June 15—Sailing today for Europe, George Lott, third ranking tennis player in the United States, delivered himself of the opinion that neither Big Bill Tilden nor Frank Hunter will be called upon to help the American Davis Cup team in the inter- zone finals at Paris or the challenge round against France in the same city. Lott sald he did not believe Hunter would figure in American Davis Cup phnlltmlndmdmonlyllhzwn the British . championship at Wimble- don, or ‘“does something else sensa- “We young fellows can lose as well as they can,” he added, “and '.ho Mek- ings may do us & lot of good.” ‘The other "younl fellows” Lott re- to 1t vived American zone competition, while Lott was com| his career at the essey already and Lott plans to join them at ‘imbledon. Although “fit as u fiddle,” ‘as he put s fine physical condition can be -mumud to the fact unz he has bun g.“ shortstop on Chicago's team as well as hlnl |ml- versity’s principal standby in GIRLS PLAY FOR NET . HONORS ON MONDAY Phoebe Moorhead and Josephine Dunham will meet Monday evening at 5 o'clock on the Columbia Country Tennis Association champlons! Both have uhnwn lmp "lium play of Miss Dunham mz one of the most improved racketers the feminine contingent hmubout. Her court generalship and clever work generally has evoked comment. Miss Moorhead and Miss = Frances ‘Walker will face Dr. Elizabeth Chick- ering and Mrs. Ruth Martines in the doubles final at § p.m. Tuesday, also on the Columbia courts. Semi-finals were staged yesterday when Miss Moor- head and Miss Walker defeated Mixs Dorothy Kingsbury and Miss Corinne er, 6—4 and 6—3, and Dr. Chick- Dunam. ang. Mrs. Siasy V. Pope an . Mary W. Poppe, 6—0, 6—38 and 6—4. EXPRESS, PULLMAN NINES TIE FOR TOP Express and Pullman nines today are tied for first place in the race for the first-half series title in the evenlniloop Railroad Y. of the Terminal the 10-to-4 Vk'bl’! registered yesterday by Pullman over ress. ‘The tie Wlll be played off at a date soon to be sef an mked 17 hits, taking the Pullm; V.| lead in the third inning and hflm“'}: Smithson led the winners’ attack, ering five hits in as many tries, lnflud- In%: double and four singles. ls keen nvnlry tween g Express won rwe um a bitter struggle with ‘:'m\ and then went ;n to schieve r. | the elty week-day league champlonship. ‘Thompson's. D‘lry outhit PH!\I Shop, 11 bingles to 6, as them‘ won, 8 to 7, in the Industrial W\Ie West Washington Baptist came from behind with & will to paste a 14-6 de- feat on St. Alban’s nine in Georgetown Church League. Capital Traction outs! Railway Mail Service to trim that team, 18 to 9, HUSKIES WIN TWICE, By the Auuuua Press. ISON, Wis., June 15.—Two Uni- venuy of Wuhh‘um 1920 TieD FOR EIGHTH. TB+74 +70+77 =299, 1921 TIED FOR FOURTH. 78+ 71+ T7+77=303.. 1922 “TIED FOR SECOND. T4 172170175289 1923 TED FOR FRST, WON PLA T+ 75+ 76776 = 29(9 1924 FINSSHED SECOND TA+73+75+78 =300 1925 Club courts in the final for the singles | 1, title in the annual Wemen: District | all in :c:emlnll Y. M. C. A, morning loop | of the MOVE ON TO ‘KEEPSIE’ victorious !n%&m? being | seem apply to dustry: TiED FOR FRST, Losf 77+ 70t70+74 %2251 FIN 9H1[9326 ISHE A 70+79+71 +F"7R§T=2 93 1927 “TIED FOR EIGHTH 76 +77177+79 =309 1928 TIED FOR FIRST,LOST PLAY-OFF T3+ TN+73+77 = BOBEY ‘There's only one Bobby Jones, and the other great golfers in the world must be thankful for that fact. In considering who's who in the com- ing champlonship, you must give long and deep thought w I 27-year- old Southerner, who will be playing in his tenth straight Unlftd States tournament, and who, in the or in a tle 94 —BY FEG MURRAY " WHO 1S AROUT TO PLAY IN HIS 0 TENTH Metropolitan Newspaper Service Criteq.Srates ‘open ‘cnam ps"""’."m"" open cl jon And bear in mind, too, that in same space of time young Jones hu won two British open tournaments (1"0 and 1937): and four United tates amateur championships (1924, 1025 1927 lnd 1920) His greatest record was, I think, in 1926, when, -s the Unmd suus amateur cham- virtue of his victory over -m Gunn the previous September, he won the British and American open titles within the npu:e of 17 days, with an Atlan! ge be- tween them! And thwuxhout 1t all he has kept his fine sense of true US. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP sportsmanship, followed the nmteur rule to the letter and the hatband has not exanded - meh So you have to rate this * Jones (as Joe Willlams has mmpd him), this perfect golfing machine, as one of the favorites to win the United States open. Notice his 36 rounds in the past nine champion- ships. Not one round in Lh. 80, even back in 1920, when he only lfl years old. And divide 2814. hll and aggregate score for the nine chnm lonships, by 36, the number of roun d you'll ind he's averaged 74 5-18 strokes per ; ound, or approx- imately 41 strokes per hole! DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEEHAN. Paddock or any of the other “fastest humans,” if the mathematicians of the A. A. U. and the International Fed- eration do not figure him out of his last records when they convene around the adding machines. He is George Simpson of Ohio State University, who is credited with running the 100-yard dash in 92-5 seconds, which is one-fifth of a second lower than the recognized world’s record. v Tmz is 2 new “fastest human,” faster than young Mr. Some of the old-timers of the days of Bernie Wefers are inclined to credit the breaking of records in this event to the improvement of the manufacture of split-second stop watches, rather than to the im- provement in the human breed. Which is the way of old-timers who croak that nothing can be as good as it used to be. Within the last few established records for events ln track and field sports h"l m broken. m fact, the records been going in the events :}\eu“i’t. i3 possible w kup permanent reco: accol time and distance. It cannot be lsid to the lm vement in mechanical devices an improvement in the facilities -nd in the conditions under which these events are staged today. ‘Take the mn ot l'\mmin( for instance. There is scarcely a week thout & swimming record being lowered if comes under the head of news. Some of these records are not particularly important. They clusuy swimmi records g to the style by the -wtmmen. but the fact re- m!ng that the hum: ; consequent!; no mechanical devices to be im: M to base ball and intercollegiate foot ball, there are no standards by which the improvement In um bfied ct Ath- letes—if any—can be notion is '.hl! Babe Ruth is '.gm.m'- ph{er of all e and bue dumb predecessor, Ofll \lr! 0. lmfl of The methods hlv- chnnm both hn ball_and in intercollegiate foot ball. Basing his argument on the im- rovement of the breed of athlete thz myer e{ predecessors. Agal 1s & maf ter of personal oplman 1t does not seem to be backed by any concrete evidence. For in the heavyweight division we have as candidates for the heavyweight championship, Senor Paul- no Uzcudun, Max Sechmeling and Josef Paul Cukoschay, At the current wrmnnenmuyhna by a streteh imagina! to figure these three w-wnummchm.any. Jelma .Yohnwn “:\d Pitasimmons. vould be hrfl to body who remem- bers Je re Bammy Man- ell ! runners-up in the | 1 division as being better than Gans, N olgast. Or, ’g.oin( into the middleweight division, anybody the | announcements at all the prize fights staged in the State of Missouri. If the gentlemen who can soothe the breast of the swine can keep the’ prize fight | be customers in order in that State movement may spread to other States. Of course it hardly is probable that the movement will e: d to New York. Mr. Joseph speaker Mr. Hum be in dlnm‘cl :Ialmr‘l ::‘l"pc s some persan of smalle: a) But Mr, Humphries treated m’." ouyd speaker with disdain. He ignored it lnneuneonienu s egard calling, Mr. Humphries maintained 1y might be able to make a understand th just & little patience, but that no mero hog_caller Crowd tinderstand, owine . the sreater crowd un ind, owing to the greater density of mind on the part of the pl'.l‘md of the manly art of modified murder. An Exeiting Contest. HOG-OA.LU:NG contests are quite ular in the South and in the Middle west. Solm of the most excit~ ing hog-calling contests have been held at the Dover Hfll Club, which is near Sapelo Island, ‘in South 9 The contests at '.hln amateur, the h 1) contest to which nll the pro!eulona.l callers will be invited. and & hundred and fifty-three across three swamps md"l creek. o 'Thn calling for numb‘br; even ew years ago was won ‘Thompson of Chicago. Mr. %mp- son from the veranda of the Stag House at Dover Hall called in 32 hogs and four polecats in three calls, the number wed in this event. Because he was a guest of the club the referee of the contest permitted him to count the Wlbfil‘ though e rules of e are observed Mr. Ban Johnson & former member of the club has & uniqus record, th going to insist that Mickey | Sonigtratie crumor. A pevd Walker is a great improvement on This rule does not the eaulifiower in- Hogs and Customers. Almnunmu at the Kansas uu»utnnm being made by th'ehlmmho' of that city. According to dispatches, he and saf MIDGE GLADMAN TAKES PENN-EASTERN NET TITLE June 14 (#).—For {AMMUNITION’ TAKEN FROM TRAPSHOOTERS By the Associated Press. WINDSOR, Ontario, June 15.—The Shawnee Gun Club, scene of the grand international trapshcoting tournament, was raided {:,awrw for the second time within two days by provincial lice, who arrested one man and seized ) qummy of liquid. tor Arthur Moss said the seizsure Indu d eight. barrels of beer, 22 bottles beer in liquor, two dozen bottles of a basement cache and two of liquor behind a bar. The police raid the previous day also seized two jugs of liquor. H. Stinson, who was on Chatge"of keeping fiyor Tor el and of keep! r for an placed under $1,000 inds were “&a‘lt‘:"fin“” a?é‘a‘i trapshootars crowd un from all of Canada nnd the United smu e police said a charge would ged against the club in connection lod he | with the latest ral d McCARTHY IS PLAYING IN MET. TOURNEY FINAL NEW YORK, June 15.—Maurice Mec- ity to engage Paul Haviland of Yale in the final of the Metropolitan amateur golf chnnplomhlp on the Montclair course here today. Mecmhy dztuted Philip Finlay of d in the semi-finals, -vumu scored over Charles Ghe)dnn, Lehl‘h 1 up, -Small Fingers Assist Control BY SOL METZGER. Jones, Smith, Hagen, Pmeu nul most stars, whatever the grij ‘FN! it with their fingers wrfl civu 3 lon;er mflluu for uu with—that is, longer dl.luncs from wrists to wmn the first fingers actually hola uu club. This added fi,’""’ clubhead velocity 'hen '.lu nal zfi"“h is spplied in driving wi None of them neglect the Ilittle finger and its next door neighbor v CLOSE. 10 108 when hold!xu the club. But m o almost solely ‘;«.n 'fi LASS WHO HIT BIG HOMER PHILOSOPHIC UNDER BAN Margaret Gisolo of Blandford, Ind., Is Unique Figure in Legion Base Ball History—Won 14- BY R. D. Inning Title Game. THOMAS. POLOISTS PLAYING SEMI-FINAL MATCH Third Cavalry riders of Fort Myer and the Farquier-Loudoun team of Middleburg, Va., were to face this after-~ HILE 350,000 players under the age of 17 fight it out for a | whi national champlonship under the direction of the American | Fort Myer Legion, one who might have been the outstanding figure of the host in this greatest of all diamond wars looks on with pathetic helplessness and bitter disappointment. Out in Blandford, Ind., little Margaret Gisolo roots like a sport for the home town team, but ponders on the sex discrimination which bars her from its battles. A home run that broke up & 14-inning contest may have been chiefly responsible for Margaret's plight. Anyhow it was this which |} first riveted upon her the attention of American Legion officials who later ruled out all members of her sex. Margaret was 14 years old snd weighed only 90 pounds when she wal- loped the homer that likely will become historic as the Legion tournament gains tradition. It certainly will be recorded as the only four-base blow ever struck by a girl in the tournament. Incident- ally, it won a county champlonship. Dan Sowers, chairman of the Ameri- unum committee of the Legion and its Pt ares yommeicy. o was ns 30 yest Y. complete arrangements with Clark 011(- fith for use of ‘the Nationals’ park to play the finals of the Eastern division on August 20, 31 and 22. Star Second-sacker. “We were mighty reluctant to let Mar- garet out,” he sald, “but it was almost n . Traveling with the BUNION RACE CLOSE AS FINISH IS NEARED By the Associated Press. . hind and has no of finishing ofl:fit than third. At 's_start Gavuzsi's lead over Salo was nl.nuulnmu seconds. 'nu elapsed time unmunr Slovg Vonow: 3 b 1 Sem Richman, New Yo 2ea| FIGURE DE MAR TO WIN PRE-OLYMPIC MARATHON LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 18 (®). —Gurenul)olnr veteran Melrose, marathoner, was an outstanding 8 | Tavorite i 'a. Reld"of over half & hun dred runners to win the first annual pre-Olympic marathon, over 26 mfl- and 385 :-.rds of pavements Mar faced & half dozen - chief competi- tion in the race, first of several similar events to be held annually under nu auspices of the Los ‘Times to marathon runners for the 1932 Olym- pic games here. pida L0 BRITAIN AND HUNGARY SPLIT TENNIS SINGLES BUDAPEST, H‘lfll‘fl June-18 (P).— Great Britain and Hungary split aven in the first two singles: mndxu of their semi-final round Davis Cup tle. 2 and 1,|English kacs sets, 6—4, 6—3, 6—2. ARG R AR A ELEMENTARY BASE BALL TO CONTINUE NEXT WEEK .m-ng School n!no. Tepiesenting the western section of the city, d«um Blow School, eastern section holder, yesterday, 11 to 4, in the m of & '.hmw-nmn‘ series for the junior p. TENLS B e was of game. Janney ook :éc Jaa"in the frst nning and TILDEN FALLS VICTIM TO EGYPTIAN RACKETER t sets, O—.swm mur and l’l*‘ semi- In the doubles, Tilden and Hunter beat the French D\Inlll! and Landry, 6—1, 6—32, OWEN’S TEAM PRIMING FOR A DOUBLE-HEADER wFIGHT LAST NIGHT. Ay LA a.ull. “Wis.— Milwaukee, Reddy Blanchard, Baf Oreek (C) .fl'n “She was & real star last year. She not only played second base well, but was a natural hitter. The plwhen, favored her not in the least. As a mat- ter of fact, some of them bore down to prevent humiliation of being socked by & girl. That homer of her's was an honest-to-goodness clout.” ARRESTED AS GAMBLERS. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, ‘June 15; (#).—Eight officers and directors of the 8t. Petersburg Kennel Club, two of whom are city commissioners, Chatgt ation of gan bling m A Tal T s S he A jump to safety from a- plane with a broken wincr v 10,000 feet in the Qir— " Paul Collins tells. of i to the. correspondent of the North . American Newspaper Alllance, who is writing this series of true stories, of the daring feats.of the Rough Riders of the Air Mail which will begin exclusive pub- .. lication in Washington in The Star St'arfin'g' This Sunday, June 16'- Each one of these stories re- counts a feat of surpassing hero- ism—and pays tribute to.the courage and cool-headedness of the men who are shouldered with the responsibility of takmg the mail through at all costs— risking life if need be. : We read of sensational flights staged for exhibition or the breaking of records—but little is known of that corps: of men who “fly with the mail”—adher- ing to a schedule—and who: don’t wait for fair weather or favorable conditions—but must take off on time regardless:of ; everything. You'll get a new viewpoint of what service in the air mail entails when you have finished' with this series of adventures— ‘which begins in The Sunday Star tomorrow—and continues every e%/emng and Sunday untll completed s