Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 25

SPORTS. THE EVE FOR BEST PLAYERS Members Wager No Average | Linksman Wil! Beat 45 First Time Out. LTER McCALLUM. ough the woods of nearby nd, S. G. ructed for the Leoffler has Beaver Dam Country Club nine holes of golf, now the sezond nine regular 18 holes of the club, S S nd to none around Wash- ington. One of the longest nine-hole layouts of any about the Capital, the course, even in its now unfinished con- dition, es up as well as any nine we have seen hereabout. We had the of the which pleasure of playing it in company of two members of the club, who struggled and fussed like everyone else with the tree-bordered holes laid down through and the intricacies of the ¢ of Leoffler’s pet. us came G. W. McCarter, chairman of the golf committee at In- dian Spring, who was 2 under par for the first two holes of the first nine, but encountered difficulty on the sixth to take a form-fitting 8 when ball struck a tree, and thereafter | out to sea o first nine of the regular 18-hole | the last nine isa| layout is “wow.” good, but Nothing but rigid adherence to the straight and narrow path to the hole will reward the man who ex- pects to shoot par for the layout, for all the fairways, wit' only three excep- i have been cut t the undergrowth has not the player who finds his pellet If he can play it he is luckier. | Ts a “Tight” Course. The course, in the parlance of the ht.” That is to say, the ball must be kept straight and the grecns are so constructed that must be approached from the angle or not at all. Leoffier has built par 4s as the tenth, 449 yards, which Tequires two real pokes with the wood to get up. The hole is only a yard short of being a par 5. But a touch of genius shows itself in the construction of the eleventh hole, where bordering woods and the slope of a hill have been verly utilized to make a bang-up dog- hole that requires unerring accuracy from the tee if the green is to be open- the second shot, which should right ed up be a pitch, With the hard ground of Midsummer, | the ditch which crosses the fairway at the twelfth may be reached from the tee, but normally the hole plays with a ve and light iron and the ditch can| be reached except by the longest | hitters. The green has two levels i amply large. Like the two preceding holes, thirteenth goes down and up between rows of bordering trees, where a slice or hook usually results in a lost ball. | A ditch crosses the fairway, about 180 vards from the tee, and is sure to be poison to the moderate hitter, for his good ball will hazard. The long hitter should have no great trouble in getting past this %:an{ld. but the ditch, quite apparent- V. rough the woods. | been | 0 that if the ball is struck off | such dainty little | the | just about reach the | = Tm;ss S XA IN ‘N ROW THAT A FRENCHMAN/ % HAS WON AT, . WMBLEDON. It “was obvious from the very start that Henri Cochet would win the Wimbledon singles crown. It was his turn. Those French muske- teers are like that. There's noth- ing selfish about them. Lacoste | had won in 1925 end 1028, so he | didn't even enter this tournament. Borotra, too, had wen twice, in 1924 and 1926. He merely played through this one, 1 suppose, to give it the customary all-French final. They've had them S0 many years now at Wimbledon that theyre used to them. So Henri Cochet, the former ball- boy of Lyon, has won his second Wimbledon crown, having beaten is meant to make a three-shotter | of the hole, although two good pokes | with the wood will reach the green, sitting up on top of a hill The fourteenth is a par 3 one-shotter, | which takes a stiff poke with the mashie to a green shaped like a kidney | bean, with a long trap cutting in from | the left, which must be carried to reach the hole. Fine Dog-leg Hole. The fificenth is another very fine dog-ieg hole of 367 yards, where a good tee shot will leave a pitch over a ditch to a large green lying in a hollow. But here again sugzestive heads up into the imagina- tion as the player strives to keep his ball in the middl The sixteenth although its distance of 481 yards is uphill. The second shot is blind and is intended to be played st entirely surrounded et up on a hill overlooked by is have again clev- utilized the natural slope of the ground, augmented by a serpentine- shaped trap, to make the seventeenth a hole of great difficulty. This hole is a par 3 affair of 218 yards, and takes the woods thrust their ugly | s another hole that | be reached in 2 by the long hit- | a firmly and sccurately hit iron or £poon shot to reach the green. Play to the eighteenth, 556 yards, over a hill. which makes the tee shot a blind affair, down a long slope, at the hottom of which is another of the in- cvitable water ditches. and up to a green in front of the clubhouse. That. new nine. even though it was placed in play only a month and a half agn, and has been nunder construction less fhan a year, has putting greens that are up to the standard of the others at Beaver Dam. And all the other greens are exceptionally fine. At Beaver Dam, we are informed, the club members will lay a small wager that the first time around the new nine no player, unless he be an expert, car. break 45. It scems like a good bet, for 'those tree-bordered fairways are rank poison to any one who has the slightest inclination to be off the line. The 18-hole layout makes an excep- tionally fine test of the game, and places Beaver Dam 0ii & par, as far as Rolf facilities are concerned, with the most difficult layouts around the Capi- tal. CENTRAL HIGH COURTS WILL OPEN TOMORROW | Tennis courts at Central High will be opened for play tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock, under direction of the com- munity center department of the pub- lic schools and will remain open Wweek days thereafter. The courts have just been put in first-class_shape. Further information may be obtained from Paul Blocker at Columbia 7744, | | Wm&ww«wow is | A bunker and took three putts. | | the slogan of the day at Washington. E. P. (Eddie) Brooke authorizes the, statement that various scurrilous rumors | | concerning his clubmate, V. Calvert Dickey, and the new smaller paper | money recently issued by the Treasury | are not true and have no foundation in fact. Brooke was approached today at the Washington Goli and Country Club, | where both he and Dickey play, by an- other golfer, who asked this question: “Eddie, i it true that Dickey has | raised the price of playing golf with him, now that the paper money 1s smailer?” Brooke went into consultation with |, HARROREIR JES SONECT o oW and | With 310, W. Davies, two more of Dickey's playmates, and | | after considerable investigation found | | that the yarn cerning “the man who | | never gives up” is not true. Dickey | achieved the reputation of never giving | | up after topping his tee shot into a | ditch at the third hole after his oppo- | nent had poled out a perfect drive and had an iron shot to the green. But| Dickey kept plugging away, and finally won the hole by sinking a 30-foot putt >r & 6, when the opponent went into | Dickey | is the author of the “taxi-ride” episode, | which has become a classic at Wash. ington. | Here is the way it worked out. DirkP_v‘ was playing in a four-ball match with a partner who gave him no help on the first nine. And in consequence his side lost the initial nine. So Dickey made a match with his partner for a small sum of money. adding, “They may ride on my back. but I'm going to charge them taxi fare just the same.” Since that time Dickey’s taxi rides have become famed institutions at Washington, and the other players of the club have taken up the idea. “No more taxi rides” is Dickey also instituted another popu- lar fad at the Virginia club, the custom of playing birdies and pars. He goes out almost every day with the same foursome, and they all play “something” on pars and “something” on birdies. One day, after Dickey had been get- ting fewer than his usual share of pars, he breezed over the course with 11 pars and a birdie—13 pars in all. “And I would_have_gotten five more pars,” he said, “but I wanted to leave the boys with money enough to get home.” § Dickey has the most aptly cultivatéd | slice ever seen around Washington. Al- ways under perfect control, he. starts the ball far to the left side of the course, and it always comes around in the mid- dle of the fairway. He is a deadly put- ter, and a 6-footer to him is like a 2- footer to any one else. With this culti- vated and intentional slice, his never- say-die spirit-and his deadly putting he is one of the hardest men to beat at 73 8~ NINTI CLOSING OUT to QUIT BUSINESS $30,000 Stock of Auto Accessories Tires and Tubes to Select From OUR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN SALE NOW ON. All Fixtures for Sale Sth Near H St. NW. ‘Washington. ST-N: The Genius of Wimbledon. ho C i HAS JUST WON Metropolitan Newspaper Service Borotra in the final in 1927 in five sets. Poor Jean Boroira! He has lost twice to Cochet in the final and once to Lacoste. Cochet, too, has tasted defeat in the final. as Lacoste beat him last year, 6—1, 4—6, 6—4, 6—2. Truly it looks bad for the United States in its quest for the Davis Cup with these three flying Frenchmen going at such a great pace. Cochet is the true artist of the tennis courts. And what a charm- ing and graceful tennis player he is! Inherent tennis genius has been his; his_victories are not the prod- uct of hard work and self-making, as in the case of the machinelike ) ) G STAR, WASHINGTON. Feg Murray e i “20F LyoN5. FRANCE - HIS SECOND WIMBLEDON SINGLES ROWN. HE BEAT TILDEN, THEN POROTRA, IN STRAIGHT SETS 1If ever & champlon tennis player was born, Cochet is that man. He imbibed the game from his child- hood at Lyon, where his father owned courts and where he him- self acted as a ball-bo lis in- stinct for wielding a racket ccr- rectly came naturally to him his style is easy, fluent and beau- tiful to watch. Henri is the only man e win at Wimbledon who ha sets down in each of the la rounds and yet come throug. victory. That was in 1 different this year when he feated Timmer, Tilden and Bor Jithout, the loss of a set! |THREE GOLFERS TIE STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE | FOR IRISH HONORS Mrs. Felix Guggax won the women's | gy (he Associated Precs tombstone tournament at the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Club | Archie i mous rard’s Cross, wound up in a triple tie | for the lead with 309 when the hole competition for the Irish open golf champlonship ended yesterday. | They had to play off for the title today. yesterdey. Alded by a handicap of 13| strokes, she planted her flag on the edge of ghe cup at the tenth green of the scheduled nine-hole tournament. Mrs. R. T. Phinney finished second. | With the aid of an 18 handizap, she | lanted her flag near the cup at the inth hole. A handicap tourney will be held for the man members of the club tomorrow and Sunday. Bannockburn has scheduled a_two- | Sunday, with the competitors to team |3 up regardless of handicap. It is to be played in regulation Scotch foursome‘ style, with one ball to be played by | each pair of players, except that the | players will not alternate in driying. If one member of a twosome has driv- en on the previous tee and his partner holes out on the green, the man who played the last stroke on the previous hole will idle, while his partner drives | off the tee. A selected score contest will be | layed by the woman golfers of the | club, with the second nine to be played | and scores to be selected on holes No. | 11, 13, 15 and 17. Play must be com- | pleted’ for the entire nine hole: ' | 18, 713 and 77. |77 and 79, and Holland, | and 79. PORTMARNOCK, Ireland. July 12— Compston and Abe Mitchell, fa- stars, and L. Holland of Ger- 72- Compston’s 18-hole scores were 81, Mitchell had 80, 173, 76, 78, 16 Tom Renouf of Manchester was fourth Wallasey, fifth with 11; Herbert Jolly sixth with 213, and Ray Barber of Cavendish seventh, an- other stroke behind. | Prime Minister MacDonald Is Returned to Golf Club FLGIN, Scotland, July 12 (#).—At a speclal meeting the Moray Golf Club unanimously returned Prime Minister Ram: MacDonald to the full rights of membership, of which he was deprived in 1916 for his pacifist utterances at the time. The members of the club rescinded their regolution of September 1. 1916. D.C. NET CHAMPION PUZZLE PRESENTED Howard’s Defeat of Van Viiet, : £l _ Mitchell’s Win Over Man- i gan, Upset Dope. lE 1 modate the crowd of fans, all-| agog today over the news of the | downfall of two veterans by two young comers, who undoubtedly will throng | the grounds of the club for the semi: final and final rounds of the thirty-fifth | District title tourney. It is a puzzle as to who will wear the crown. It will not be Maj. R. C. Van Vliet, | the present king of the local courts. He | bowed to Ensign Bill Howard, Navy stdr, day in a youth-age battle, 9—7, DGEMOOR CLUB will have to g2 a-borrowing or hire a grand | stand or something, to accom- | 6 | Nor will it be Tom Mangan, former | title holder and runner-up last season. | He fell before the onslaught of Dooly | Mitchell, another youth, in the best| | match yet staged during the tourney, | 6 —8. i Play Semifinals Today. | Finalists were to be decided this aft- | ernoon, with Mitchell meeting Clarence | Charest, the only veteran left, and| Howard ' facing Bob Considine, ranking | | survivor. i Charest scored over Louis Kurland of | PBaltimore in the most bitterly fought | grind in the history of District tennis, | 9—1, 12—14, 6—4. | Considine had his hands full in'do: ing_ Ensign John McCue, 6—4, 4—6. | 6—3. In fact, there wasn't a match of | | the quarter-finals that was not packed | { with action and thrills. Never before | has the_ caliber of local tennis reached | the heights touched in the nrrsen(‘ | event. | | One, or at the most, two of such | matches as were witnessed yesterday, have been the most that former tourncys | have been able to produce. | Mitchell and Mangan provided the stellar tennis of the day, their hard- | driving games being coupled with keen | court strategy and amazing consistency which brought forth frequent bursts of appreciation from the gallery, which stayed while dinners grew ccid and | darkness descended. | It was Mitchell's headwork which | finally gave him the edge in the de- | cjding set. Repeatedly. he forced his opporent behind the baseline with a deep drive and folloved up with a short | return. which forced him to go to the net, where the voungster scored on his weakened return cr by a neat cross- court pass. Howard Mixes 'Em Uj Van Vliet's lack of confidence in his overhead game—which, by the way, is d one when he is in form—proved his downfall, at the hands of young Howard, who used his own overhead at- tack most effectively. Time and again the defender had sn opportunity for a clean smach in the fcrecourt, but failed to capitalize it with the result the youth landed on his returns or passing drives. ard played consistently, alter- nating his chop and drive in the back court and putting a tremendous amount of power behind his aerfal shots. His service, which has near cannon-ball speed. was one of his most dependable weapons, Considine and McCue staged a stir- | ring baseline duel, featured by the fine recoveries of both players and the stay- ing qualities of the Navy netmen in the long rallles. To McCue, apparently |there was no such word as “pass.” ! Many times when Considine had every right to feel that he had placed a bail definitely home, he would find it com- ing back at him while McCue un- twisted himself from a corkserew turn or rose from the dust where he had | spread his length in trying to reach| the unreachable | Considine did some court gymnastics, | too. which brcught down the gallery, picking them up at his feet in the forecourt to place them at a beautiful | angle. | Stage Regular Grind. Charest and Kurland just ground it out in long, exhausting drives. The | Baltimorean continued to hit the base | line with characteristic frequency and | it was only the veteran's unconquerable | spirit and occasional net smashes which | gave him the edge. | An Army victory was scored yester- day in_the only doubles match on the card. Maj. W. M. Robertson and Lieut. K. Robinson downed Deane Judd and Larry Phillips, 4—6 advance to the se WAR WHITE FOiJR7WINS, ‘ Despite that they had a five-goal | handicap War Blues fell before War | ‘\Vhflr‘s in a 10-8 polo match yesterda:; on the Potomac Park Oval. D. C. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929. -SPORTS SHOOTING AROUND IN LOW 60°S ST CLOUD COUNTRY oLUB BY 0. B. KEELER. For the Associated Press. Since Aubrey Boomer, the English professional, clicked off that 61 at the St. Cloud Country Club, out of Paris, in the French open champion- ship. while our young friend Horton Smith was doing 66—66—70—71— 273 to win on his twenty-first birth- day, a lot of people have asked me what sort of a toy course St. Cloud, pronounced approximately San Cloo, might be. St. Cloud is not a toy course, as most of the other competitors dis- covered. In 1926, when I was there, it was a pretty course all set about with woodland. and’ not much above 6.000 vards long. It was extended to 6.507 for the recent competition, but the turf was well baked and a man who was driving far and very ac- curately and sinking long putts might hope for one of those rounds you dream about and wake up in a cold sweat, The greens are not traoped tightly, as a rule. and huee shots mav be aimed at them with some confidence. This, I faney. was the answer to Boomer's astonishing Tough to Pitch Over a Hazard BY SO, METZGFR. TO PLAY HI5S PITCH OVER TRAP OPEN FACE OF IROM (A)-CuT UNOER BALL WifH SLICE. (8)-NORMAL LCFT OF SAME IRON, Ever see Bill Mehlhorn chip one dead to the pin from just off the green with a hazard to jump? It's 2bout the hardest shot in golf. The need for it arises when a long ap- proach not only misses the green but its flanking traps. Your ball is in the rough. a trap intervenes and the flag is on the near side of the green. The position of the flag is the rub. To make such a shot elevation, cut and exact judgment of distance are demanded. 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East Lake was 6,600 yards around. g |GOLF STARS ENTERED | FOR ONTARIO TOURNEY TORONTO, Ontarlo, July 12 (£ —A strong field was entered in the seventh | annual Ontario golf championship at the London Hunt Club today. Eighteen holes of qualifving round play was the schedule for the first day, match play | starting tomorrow. Entered in the championship were such stars of Canadian golfdom as Ross Somerville, Alex Gray, Don Carrick and Bill and Frank Thompson. All of these but Frank Thompson have title at least once, and Somerville and Frank Thompson also have captured the Canadian open crown. Bill Thompson, a former Hamilton star now making his home in Chicago, also has won the Ca- nadian open title. won the | Newest Nine Holes at Beaver Dam Country Club Are Match for Any Hereabout MOE S FAVORITE N WESTERN GOL Picked to Retain Title for Portland, Which Dolp Failed to Defend. By the Associated Press. ANSAS CITY, July 12—Pori- land, Oreg., again mav be the hometown of a Western ama- teur golf champion despite Frank Dolp's failure to de- fend his title at the thirtieth annuai | tournament at the Misston Hills Coun- try Club here The excellent tournament spirjt of Don Moe, another Portland boy, who | rallied to win his quarter final match, 4 and 3, from Carey Ballew, Jr, Kan- sas Citly, after being 4 down at the end of 18 holes, has made him e than ever the favorite of the four semi-finalists who begin another 36- hole grind tod: Moe is paired today with John Leh- man, Gary, Ind.. Big Ten go!f cham- pion frcm Purdue in 1928. Lehman eliminated last year's runner-up, A. L (Gus) Novotny of Chicago, 1 up o galn a semi-finals place. Art Sweet, golf writer from Chicago. and Gilbert Carter, dark horse from Nevada, Mo., meet in the other semi- finals match. Sweet won easfly fr-m H. J. Kaiser, Racine, Wis. 8 and 7, ’whlle Carter defeated Lawrence Mnl- ler, Quincy, Ill, 2 and 1. 'SHORE IN NET FINAL "IN MARYLAND EVENT Frank Shore was to meet Bil today for the Maryland State junior |met title on the Mount Washington | courts, Baltimore, todav, having upset | calculations by eliminating Henrv Cla- | baugh, defending title-hoider, yester- | day, 917, 6—3. Shore was the only to be seeded in the eve Shore chopped steadi r | baugh's defence, forcing the latter | errors by his baugh has a hard-dri | more place than Shore, but ecould no% | match him in consistency. | Jacobs eliminated Aaron Miler. 6-—3, 6—0 in his advance to the title round. | *“Shore's victory came as a surprise not | only because he was playing the cham- plon, but because he already had suf- | fered defeated at Clabaugh's hands this season, the Oriole junior having scored | over him at Norfolk. 'MEXICO INVITES STARS 70 TENNIS TOURNAMENT | MEXICO CITY, July 12 (#).—An- nouncement was made 10G: ¢ the Mexican Tennis Association Mexican championship _ tournament | would be played late in September, as an accommodation to the French team. The French players can not come Tater. The association has invited Helen | wills, Tilden, Hennessy. Van Rvn and | Mercur from the United States. Cochet. | Borotra, Lacoste and Brugnon from | France, Elia de Alverez nd Manuel | Alonso’ from Spain and Prenn 2nd Moldenhauer from Germans. Taeohe | of-town plaver | ANGLERS’ GUIDE. CHESAPEAKE BAY AND LOWER POTOMAC RIVER POINTS. HIGHATAND LOW TIDES FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JULY 13 AND 14, | Washington saturday Sunday Saturday Sunday 1 Saturday Sunday .Saturday Sunday ..Saturday Sunday .Saturday Sunday -Saturday Sunday (Comptled by United States | Annapolis | 1a | Chesapeake Beach... | Solomons Island ... | 2 Benedict .. Point Lookout Rock Point ........ 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