Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1929, Page 47

THE EVEN NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1929. ' Difficult One-Shot Holes Loom as Bugaboos to Mightiest of Links Stars FURNISH BIG TEST * OF TITLE TOURNEY Four Par 3 Greens Call for Stiff Pokes—Von Elm and Burke Feared. tion by members of the Senior’s Golf Association of the Chevy Chase Club for the Peter Cup is now under way and is sched- uled to be completed by Saturday. Here are the pairings: i W. G. Brantley (13) vs. Ben 8. Minor (11, . ©. B. Drake Tfl third round in the competi- a vs. L. O. Cameron (9) oOf Rice (7), E. M. Talcott (7 vs. Dr. G. Miller (8), Gen. D, C. Shanks (12) miral H. 1. Cone (25) and Gen. R. drew & bye. kburn Golf Club has an- BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. hooanee s Tinger competition for women AMARONECK, N. Y., June 27— | starting on July 1 and ending October The United States national|3l. The event will consist of the best open golf championship will |selected score for 18 holes, and at least be won by the s ter | nine holes must be played for the ringer who can show the greatest | SCOTes to count. An entrance fee of skill on the first four short holes that | 50 cents must be paid, and f“""‘ must, furnish varlety, but no rellef, on the |register with the club professional. ‘west_course of the Winged Foot Coun- ‘who used to hold m. the :e;:e tm:g of the cmm- S el » Y. no other open cham- pionship have the one-shot holes ever oocupied _the lmgonmce placed upon those at Winged Foot. Par for each of the four holes is 3, and four times 3 is 12 atrokes per round and 48 for the championship. But the gallery gossips are wagering that not more than a half dozen play- ers in the entire fleld can show better than 50 strokes for the four one-shotters ‘when the championship is finished. ‘The short holes are not short ones in the sense that they can be reached with a spade mashie or a light iron. Every one of them requires a stiff, ac- curate poke with a heavy club, and the difficulty may be increased if head ;;mda whip over the course during the ay. ‘The first short hole encountered is No. 3, where a s or No. 1 iron will be needed for 214-yard carry. A is necessary for the 180-yard seventh, and the shot on the tenth may be either a full spoon or a No. 1 iron. The thirteenth is the worst of the lot, | $8¢d “and there are occasions when a brassle | (7% is needed to get home across the 213 yards of trouble. farther and straighter and with a ther swing. ngbh&u the 'one player in the field untroubled by the one-sot holes. Hi preference in short holes is for holes that demand a stiff shot. He has thrown away more shots in open cham- pionships on one-shotters calling for a mashie niblic or spade mashie shot than he likes to remember. Lost on Short Ones. It was his inability to make par on abbreviated holes that lost Bobby the nship at Oakland Hills, Wor- chester and Olympia Fields and it was the short ninth at Scioto Valley that almost robbed him of victory in 1926, So the Georgian is well pleased with the short one at Winged Foot. ring the practice rounds a close check was made on the play of the short holes and the ?number oh(“pl:z:r reaching the greens one sl = d on.ly one in four. There will be t‘m'in h:lli;ytmd mm?e fours an and n:;y t.h..nl h’p-n Tegistered by these Ifing molochs. 'DAs the champilonship started George von Elm, the blonde Detroit amateur, and Billy Burke, the Portchester pro- fessional, had moved into the ranks of the favorites. Von Elm is pllytn, mag- t | nificent golf and possesses the faculty of keying himself to a keen edge for & championship better than almost any one in the game. Burke, who won the New York open last week, is an unor- thodox player who rocks and sways at the top of his swing, but always scores well. MacDonald Smith is rhyinl well enough to make him one of the feared players and there is a tht chance that the veun:l sctx:’t‘ searc] ‘{m' the open shampionship began at Scarsdale 1910 may come to an end here. Harri- awesome appearance from more than one fine player will suddenly seized with n tremors and send shots skittering off line. Then the fun will ‘The long holes of the course are only ordinary. Winged Foot has had no rain of m&eeonuquenu for several weeks and fairways are hard ed and {free from the troublesome clover. There is not a hole on the course the hitters are not reaching in 2, and were it not for the four short ones some re- STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE | National Public Links Tourney down the professional berth at the Ban- nockburn and has been operating, wi Henry D. Miller, a golf school for the WO 3 n appo! pro- Tessional ‘and instructor at the Loudon County Golf and Country Club of Pur- cellville, Va. Walker has been making several trips a week to Purcellville to give golf lessons and direct work on the cot urse. The Purcellville club next week will hold a two man medal-play event over it course, in which several of Washing- ton’s leading amateur players have en- tered. The affair will be played July 3 and teams may be entered through the club secretaries. Score card for the rearranged golf course of the Town and Country Club, worked out after months of effort by Morris Simon, have arrived at the club and now are in use. The cards show the new distances obtained for the course by construction of a number of new tees and are made up in what is probably the most convenient manner of the cards of any local clubs. In- stead of running down the card, the scores will run across the card, which s |1s & much more convenient manner of keeping score. Space has been left on :lhe card for points and holes up and lown. “Just & piece of tough luck. No one was to blame.” That is the way Guy Mason, chairman of the Congressional Country Club golf committee, described the disqualification yesterday of Harry G. Pitt and J. ti Murphy, prominent contestants in tfie Congressional tour- nament. Pitt and Murphy, playing in the qualifying round, both were auto- matically disqualified because they played more than one stroke outside a hazard with the wrong ball. ‘The situation was this: On the seventh hole both played their second shots into the bunker at the left of the green, a bunker which was filled with mud and muddy sand. balls were so covered with mud that neither could be identified. Mur. rnhy did not know Pitt’s ball had gone to the hazard and not seeing an- other mud-covered ball, only one he saw out of the bunker. Pitt then played what he thought was his ball, and they putted out for a brace of 55. The mistake was not discovered ‘until they washed the balls on the eighth tee. It was a perfectly natural mistake and one which might have been made by any gilfer or golfers, but under the rules both men were disqualified. The strange part of the rule is that they might have played a dozen shots in ithout disqualification, but the moment they played two shots out- side the hazard they were ruled out. in | Both played the same make of golf ball and the only possible identifica- tion mark was a cut on Murphy’s ball. Up to the seventh hole Pitt had played he shot t.her Reveals Much Ambition Here from each park to qualify for the team. ‘Ties will be played off. At a later date the four men will get together and play for the captaincy of the team, which will be tantamount to the Washington municipal links cham- plonship, Leoffier will put up the money—approximately $125 apiece-— for each contestant to play in the na- tional championship at the Forest Park Golf Club of St. Louis on August 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Entries for the Washing- ton elimination contests close tomorrow ?t the It.wo parks, and t:le se.hf. for fi'}l’e four places promises to a rough, tough affair. p Two_familiar faces will be missing from the list of contestants this year— those of Charles W. F. Cole, jr., and John R. Miller. The rule in national public links golf is that when a con- testant joins a private golf club, he is no longer eligible as a public links' championship entrant. Cole, who has been captain of the Washington public links’ team for the last two years and city municipal links champion for the same length of time, became a member of the Indian Spring Golf Club during the Spring. Miller, who was the inter- departmental champion last year and has been a member of three Wash- ington teams in the national public links event, has become a member of the Beaver Dam Country Club. It seenrs to be the ambition of the public linksmen t6 join private clubs as soon as they have acquired a degree of pro- ficiency, and they could have no better ambition. Many of the best golfers around Washington started their careers on the public links and several of them have been lead: contenders in the national championship. Some Star Products. Such fine players as Harry G. Pitt, A. L. Houghton, John C. Shorey, George BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. VERY public links player with scoring aspirations apparently is looking toward a chance to represent Washington in the national public links cham- plonship early in August. Only a little more than a week has elapsed since Concessionnaire Leoffler announced that July 8 has been set as the qualifying date for the Washington entrants and invited prospective contestants to send in their entries. The public links golf- ers have not been lax in this matter, for more than 60 of them had sent in their entries up to an early hour today and by the time the entries close to- morrow afternoon the field is expected to pass the 70 mark. Manager Farr at East Potomac Park, strangely enough, has fewer than half the entries, but the bulk of those he has received constitutes the class of the city in so far as public links competi- tion is concerned. Manager Harry Graham at Rock Creek Park has 38 entries today, which tops that of East Potomac Park by 14, and expects more by tomorrow afternoon. Potomac Park to Simmer. Down at East Potomac Park, where the hottest competition will be staged on July 8, such stars as J. D. Boger, who has represented the Capital in other public links tourneys: Francis Horton, the interscholastic title holder; C. M. Merrill, another former Wash- ington man on the public links team; J. B. Dulin and A. T. Wannan will be in the thick of the fight for the two places available. The field at Rock Creek Park does not boast such well known stars, but this does not mean that the struggle for the two places in the out- town park will be any the less keen. Here is the way the affair works out: The entire list of entries will play 36. J. Voigt, Page Hufty, and Earl McAleer holes at Rock Creek Park and East Po- learned virtually all they know of the tomac Park on July 8, with two men gme on the wind-swept reaches of East tomac Park or the cloistered fairways of Rock Creek Park. Granted that human beings ways trying to better themselves, why is it not perfectly logical that the leading plsz:n of the clubs? ‘Ther bting the fact that the graduates of the public links have contributed a large share of | the drama and romance in the | events about Washington, and tnat without them the competition would not be nearly so keen as it is now. So the event on July 8, which will find upward of 70 golfers among themselves for four places will doubtless be productive of some fine competition and some good scoring, though Washington never has been for- tunate enough to produce a national public links champion nor even a near champion. Al Houghton has the best record, for he went to the semi-final in the competition at Salisbury in 1925. CABIN JOHN PLANS TO PLAY SATURDAYS Al Sadtler, business manager of the Cabin John Junior Order nine, is plan- ning the organization of a base ball team to play Saturday games, his ob- Jject being to give players who are not now playing Saturday ball a chance to do so anr give ‘those who are per- Fet in some. gosd practice. by Bleing some rac Saturday. ® ¥ s * He hopes to be able to send the team into action for the first time Saturday, and he wants the ‘following | to call him at Bradley 201-F-14 in re- gard to joining the team: ‘Wengel, Hamilton and Holtzman of | the Ku Klux Klan team; Terrett, Show | and C. Brown of Independent A. C.; Lyons, Edinger and E. Wesley of Eas- tern A. C.; ler of Addison A. C. and any other gzfl“" of their caliber who are interest Jones, W. W. Davis, F. Hill, C. Morgan A. Sadtler are nh&en who have al signified their inten- tion of signing. Collett’s Style Like Toe Dancer BY SOL METZGER. Miss Glenna Collett has about the oddest movelnent of her left foot during the golf swing of any star. I recall & few years back, after her swing. His theory was that it caused her to lose her ce. It's an odd stunt she does with it. goes back up comes the heel of her left foot until at the top her weight on this foot is balanced by the tip of her left toes, much like a Not only that, but she pivots this foot a bit on its toe until its sole almost faces the direc- tion of her drive. she starts her down swing, As she toe dancer’s. But as as article, ground “nut cracker” fe a reverse of the up swnig toe pivot, ts her left leg braced to ARt against. recently related g she snaps her lat:‘l‘:eel to the ”» DIAMOND CAB TEAM BEATS STRONG FOES Despite the fact that the Diamond Cab Co. base ball team is represented on the diamond this seasou for the first time, it is showing strongly, having taken to camp some of the best teams hefi’ 11'3“1!6 ing 6-4 vietory the -innf - over the clever Saks nine was the latest win scored by the Cabmen, who also hold victorles over Army Headquarters, Wi n Barracks, Potomac A. C., ead Ramblers and Fort Wash- gu last night at Harvey's Res- luran! A game for Sunday with an limited class team in or out of the city is sought by the Cabmen. Address C. H. . Smith, 1735 Fourteenth street, or telephone North 6200 during the day. un- USED CAR SALE For details see our od Classified Segtion THE TREW MOTOR CO. in an earlier jon, with ”ED ”0‘1’ HOADS. 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