Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 27

r THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AMERICANS SEEM BETTER BALANCED Teutons, However, Appear on Their Way to Power in . Davis Cup Play. BY ALLAN J. GOULD. Associated Press Sports Editor. NEW YORK, July 16.—By a strange as well as dramatic twist of athletic fortunes, Germany, France and Amer- fca are the principals in the closing Davis Cup tennis conflict of 1929. The competition in the most international of all sports contests has mnarrowed down to a German-American duel for the right to ehallenge the cup-holding | nation—France. The United States seems to have too much all-round strength for Germany to overcome in the interzone finals this week end at Berlin, but the signs are unmistakable that the Teutons now are on the way to being a definite power in Davis Cup affairs. France, the first to break up the old Anglo-Saxon domination of the tennis courts, in a year or so may find keener rivalry from Berlin's hard-court prod- ucts than she has had from the more cloistered domains of Wimbledon and Germantown. Australia, once so dominant, has assed from the contending picture, at east for the time being. —England’s gesture of revival is not yet conclusive. The United States still is seeking to develop talent to bring back some of the glory of the old Tilden-Johnston dynasty. Germany, on the other hand, in Moldenhauer and Prenn, appears to possess two unusually promising stars who may develop as fast as did Lacoste and Cochet for France. Germany has taken only three sea- sons_of competition to gain the top in the European zone of Davis .Cup com- etition after a 13-year absence from he field. The first of France's “three musketeers” to enter the is Cup limelight were Henri Cochet and Jean Borotra, in 1922. It was not until 1927 that the galloping Gauls broke down America’s defense to win the cup. My TOURNAMENT ENTRIES By the Assoclated Press. | NEW YORK, July 16—A number of | international stars have sent in their entries for the national amateur golf championship to be played at Pebble Beach, Calif,, in September. Among outstanding _players an- nounced by T. J. McMahon, executive secretary of U. S. G. A., who has charge of the entries, are Bobby Jones, Don Carrick, C. Ross Somerville, H. Chand- ler Egan, Harrison (Jimmy) Johnston, J. Sweetser, Harry Legg, Rudy Wil- helm, John D. Ames, Arthur (Ducky) | Yates, George Voigt, Eugene Homans, Dr. Paul Hunter, James D. Standish, jr., David Martin and Eddie Helb. Foreign golfers include: Cyril Tolley, Eustace Storey, T. A. Bourn, Maj. Guy | Campbell and Lord Charles Hope. The final date for receipt of entries is July 23. —_—————— LEADERS IN NET LOOP WILL MEET ON FRIDAY| ‘Edgewood and Woodridge Clubs, standing first and second, respectively, in the Capital City Tennis League will clash Friday. Kann and Acacia racket- ers also will meet. In latest encounters Edgewood and ‘Woodridge scored over the Kann net- men, 5 to 1, and 5 to 0, respectively. Summaries: Edgewood, 5; Kann, 1. Yeal 2. 6—2: Allman (E) defeated Vi 62! | Billups_(K.) defeated Spencer.’ 5—7. 6—3. | 8—3. Gardes and Yeatman (E.) defeated Rosafee and H. Smith, 6—1. 6—1: Allman and Spencer (E) defeated Graham and Vest, Woodridge, 5: Kann, 0. Grant (W.) defeated D. Birch, 6—3, 6—4: | Krause (W.) defeated Billups. 60, 6-0; L. | Lavine (W.) “defeated ~Brown, 62, E Grant and ‘Krause (W.) defeated D. Birch e and L. Brown. fecine Hedge- | 6—2. H. Lavins Lavine (W.) defeated Billups and cock, 12—10, 91 Team Standing. Edgewood Club . Woodridge Club ann Acacia Mui IILDEN, HUNTER REACH BERLIN FOR PRACTICE | BERLIN, July 16_(P.—William T.| Tilden and Francis T. Hunter, Ameri- can tennis stars, arrived unannounced | this morning from Paris and went | directly to a hotel. | They said they would begin training mediately for the Davis Cup inter- | ne final between the United States | and Germany which is scheduled to be- gin here Friday. John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, | younger members of the American team, | are expected to arrive Wednesday. | L 22 a 45 PARE, OTHER SEEDED NET STARS VICTORS CHICAGO, July 16 (#).—The field reduced materially, but with the seeded | 1ist still intact, keener competition was expected to mark the second day's play in the Western tennis championships at_the Skokie Country Club today. The seeded players, led by Emmett Pare of Chicago, defending champion and national clay court title holder, yes- terday easily romped through their opposition, with losses of but few games. Keith Gledhill, California .star, and Pare drew first-round byes, smothered second-round competition and were to | engage in their third-round battles to- day. Piay in the woman's champlonships, with a record field of 64 entrants, also was to begin today. GOLF CLUB WITH RATTAN SHAFT CRACKS LIKE WHIP A rattan-shafted driving club has been designed for f"""‘ that can be “cracked” like a whip. It is used exclusively for teaching purposes. Those who have used the new driver declare that it is possible to get better distance than with the ortho- dox clubs. 30 WINS, GRIMES’ GOAL. Burleigh Grimes hopes to win 30 games for the Pirates this year. He won 25 in 1928. - MARBLE CHAMP AT 55. An international marble tournament held in Europe was won by a 55-year- old man. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats BY O. B. KEELER. For the Assoclated Press. My own personal golfing experi- ences date back only a matter of 32 years, to the Summer of 1897, at Lake Geneva, Wis. But even in that brief span I have noticed a ten- dency toward increased cost in golf. Ah, yes—something of a tendency. I was just reflecting th2 other day that a first-class iron could be had of the professional in my early days for $2 and a wood club for $3 or $3.50, when I encountered in the Canadian Golfer a little story of the discovery of a golfing price list of 1886, issued by the famous old firm of Forgan & Son, at St. Andrews. made even the modest prices of 1897 at Conacher's shop at the Walworth Country Club seem a bit on the steep side. On the Forgan list of find items like the followin; Drivers, finest hickory s LTHOUGH the four players who will represent the Capital in the national public links cham- pionship next month probably will play to determine who shall captain the team, the winner will not be entitled to be called the District ‘municipal title holder. A championship tournament, at match play, to determine the District public links king is to be | held at East Potomac Park in Septem- | ber, and will gather together all the leading players of the municipal courses | in one tournament at match play to| settle the question of supremacy, under plans announced today from the office of 8. G. Leoffler, concessionnaire of the public courses. ‘The tourney probably will include several flights, with the winner of the first flight to be named the District municipal links champion. Not, for several years has there been held a true public links championship. The leader in the qualifying round for the national public links title locally, by tacit consent, has been given the title of District municipal links king. This tacit admission of titular rank fell to Charles W. Cole, jr., for the past two years. But this year Leoffier proposes to hold & match-play tourney as a regu- lar event to settle once and for all the question of the 1929 local municipal course title holder. Some persons feel it is unfair to call the leader of the national public links team the cham- plon, since the qualifiers for the na- tional team play in a medal-play test, while the true test of amateur golf, they assert, is # match play. This is one of the reasons behind the proposal to hold a match-play tournament later in the vear to determine the city municipal links champions. | The new title holder will take rank | with some notable golfers, for such fine players as George J. Voigt, John C. Shorey and A. L. Houghton have held the municipal links championship. Lieut. S. W. Marsh got a real birdie yesterday on the 345-yard seventh hole at the Army, Navy and Marine Corps the green, struck a robin on the carry, killed the bird and was deflected off the green, so that he took & 5 on the hole instead of the regulation 4. ‘The fourth round of the competition among the senior golfers of the Chevy Chase Club for the Peter Trophy, has ufill’tfl;‘u follows: . H. L. Rice (1) . M. Tal- cott(n 4 'ing 5 Admeial Ho 1. Cone (9] ef en. R. H. Allen a Phillips Hill (1 « o teated scraich) by de- | Minor (11 2) will play Ben S. ); Rear Admiral H. R. Stanford drew a bye. Gen. D. C. Shanks, the energetic | chairman of the handicap committee of | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE Country Club. His second shot, hit to | § shillings—say $1. Drivers, lancewood shafts, four- and-six. Drivers, greenheart shafts, five shillings—$1.25. A complete set of clubs, six in number, with six new balls and a Golfers’ Handbook, 34 shillings— 2 included a driver, a (what is called a brassle now), a “short spoon,” a cleek, an iron ‘and a putter. The price of the best gutta- percha ball was a shilling—a quarter. You may now pay twice as much for one fancy wood club as for this entire set, if you wish. The popular “matched” frons come nearly as high singly as this set of the vin- tage of 1886. Prices at the nineteenth hole have increased correspondingly, so I ‘understand. sponsible for the present activity among them, has begun to crack the whip over the heads of those golfers who play but do not turn in score cards. Regarding the Southgate Cup, which is to go to the senior who turns in the lowest net | score during July, Gen. anks says that no score cards have yet been turned in, adidng that “a very poor score may win through neglect of the members to turn in the fine scores they are shooting every day.” Mrs. Evelyn Glavis, Mrs. Helen Rhyne, Miss Ellen Voke and Mrs, P. Godfrey, are the semi-finalists in the women’s champlonship being staged at Rock Creek Park. In the second round of the tourney the results are as follows: Mrs. Glavis defeated Miss June Sterl- ing, 2 and 1; Mrs. Rhyne defeated Nita Burger, 2 and 1; Miss Voke defeated Mrs. H. B. Hird, 2 up; Mrs. Godfrey de- feated Miss Esther Barnes, 5 and 3. Second flight—Miss Rosella Rick de- feated Miss Margaret Wood, 2 up; Mrs. T. P. Hayden defeated Miss Isabel Mc- Gee, 6 and 5: Mrs. Lucille Zuendel de- feated Mrs. C. C. Grove, 6 and 5; Miss Mary Dalgleish defeated Mrs. J. T. Powell, 2 up. Twenty-two golfers from Washington clubs and the public links in the Capi- tal have entered in the Sherwood Forest invitation golf tourney, which starts with an 18-hole qualifying round on Friday. Numbered among the promi- nent entrants are W. Byrn Curtiss of Indian Spring, P. W. Calfee and Russell Jewell of Washington, R. C. Lewis and Lindsay Stott of Beaver Dam. J. G. Drain of Washington, A. T. Wannan of Rock Creek Park, Michael Oliveri of | Rock Creek Park and several other fine players from Washington. MUNICIPAL TENNIS LIST TO CLOSE ON THURSDAY Entries for the municipal tennis champlonships will close Thursday at p.m. Entry blanks may be obtained at any of the public courts and at Spald- ing’s and at Pearson and Crain's, WYKOFF BEATS BRACEY. CIVIC STADIUM, SEATTLE, July 16 (#).—Frank Wykoff of Los Angeles Athletic Club captured the feature 100- yard dash event at the Community Ath- letic Club twilight track meet here. His time was 9 7-10 seconds. Claude Bracey, Texas flver. was second. and Wesley Foster, Washington State College, was the senio) d the man who is re- Che FLORSHEIM : SHOE : It takes real shoe- hold its shape. they used the very lightest leathers—even the | 2 WMot Siples 10 Th &K EISEMAN'S, 7th & F T T BESSAT) Half the Weight FLORSHEIM Welter Weights out a smart light-weight shoe that will wear and Florsheim have the skill— laces are light weight—yet sturdy. third. of Usual Shoes making ability to turn ‘Man’s Shop MARIAN TURPIE'S 79 TAKES GOLF MEDAL By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, Colo., July 16.—Thirty-two feminine golf stars, headed by Marian Turpie of New Orleans, medalist in the qualifying round, and Mrs. O. S. Hill of Kansas City, the defending champion, and runner-up in the qualifying round, took the fleld today in match play for | the transmississippi golf title. Miss Turple, whose 79 for the 18 holes yesterday was three strokes under woman’s par for the difficult Denver | Country Club course, and Mrs. Hill, who | scored an 83, were the favorites as the championship play started, but they | were closely pressed by Ann Kennedy of | Tulsa, Okla., and Ruth Replogle of Oklahoma City, who tied for third place with 85. Miss Turpie and Mrs. Hill drew oppo- site brackets in the championship play. and, should they survive their matches during the week, will meet Saturday for the championship. Miss Turple and Mrs. Hill, paired to- gether in yesterday's round, drew a large gallery. The Southern girl, after a near disastrous 8 on the first hole, scored birdies and pars on many of the remaining holes of the round. Mrs. Hill, whose work on the tees and greens equaled her rivals, had trouble on the fairways, with a bad slice that sent many of her iron and brassie shots into the tall timber. Several remarkable re- coveries served to keep her score down. Miss Turple has won the medalist honors of the transmississippi three consecutive times. . M’LEOD'S 151 GETS MONEY IN PHILADELPHIA EVENT Fred McLeod, professional at Colum- bia, was the lone Washington player to finish in the money in the Butchart- Nicholls tourney yesterday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. McLeod scored 75 and 76 for a 36 hole, total of 151, Bob Barnett scored 78-77-155. and Gene Larkin and George Diffenbaugh of Chevy Chase and Indian Spring. respectively, scored 156 for the two rounds. Monro Hunter scored 80- in Washington, D, C. 14th at G 3212 14th LT 2 8yy#BsH B | | for a | painter. m;rllh pole” w;m where *“Ste asoline is tested in temperatures rang- fn( from 120 above to 40 below :er‘a. Al the right, is @ lest car getting the cold blast from the wind tunnel as it runs along on @ moving platform. Besides the “Standard” proving ground there is only one other labora- tory with apparatus complete enough 10 bring outside road conditions in- doors. It is the Bureau of Standards TUESDAY, Clubhead Forced With Right Hand Practice alone will improve your pitch shot if you know what you are trying to do. But be care- ful not to hurry too much the start of your downswing or to fail to keep the head anchored. Both wrists must be used in executing the downswing, if you let the straight left arm get the club under way. Then merely sense the line 0 LEFT 5TARTS DOWNSWING 801 RIGHT HITS | THROUGH CRISPLY ot N and force your clubhead through, with the right doing the hitting. Of course, the left wrist must have a firm grip, else your follow through will wobble because of the clubhead taking turf. Chick Fraser employs his right arm chiefly in stroking through the ball for a pitch. That's why you see his right hand coming around and over the top of the shaft at the finish. Some will tell you to get the right shoulder in low as you hit, Forggt it. The right shoulder has to do this. If you force it the chances are:you'll dig your clubhead in back of the ball and dub badly. gttt EILEEN BENNETT, BRITISH TENNIS STAR, TO MARRY LONDON, July 16 (#).—Announce- ment was made today of the engage- ment of Eileen Bennett, noted English tennis star, and Edmund Fearnley Whittinghali, son of the Rev. O. F. Whittinghall of Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire. Whittinghall, who is 28, is a portrait He piays squash racquets and other games, but mo_ ten: JULY 16, 1929.° SPORTS. 27 " U. S. Netmen Picked to Beat Germans : Considine Expected to Defend Muny Title ALREADY HAS LEG ON'STAR TROPHY Mitchell and Buchanan, Dou- bles Champions, Also Are Slated to Perform. OB CONSIDINE, who Sunday fell before Clarence Charest, in | the singles final in the District tennis championships, is ex- pected to defend his title in the public parks tennis title tournament which will start Saturday on the Rock Creek courts. In winning singles laurels last year Considine gained the first leg on the handsomely engraved sterling silver Evening Star challenge cup. Permanent n_of the cup go to the racketer first winning the crown three times. Considine last year defeated Dooly Mitchell, who won singles laurels in 1926 and 1927, In the doubles also Evening Star cups iwill be at stake. Dooley Mitchell and | William Buchanan won first legs on these cups last year when they achieved the title, scoring over Considine and Noble Wilson. Entries, which opened yesterday. must be in the hands of Robert Newby by 6 pm. Thursday. No telephone entries will be received. Blanks will be distributed from the booths of the Wel- fare and Recreational Association at Henry Park, Potomac Park, Monument and Rock Creek courts and from Spald- ing's and Pearson & Crain stores. The entry fee is $1.50, which includes the charge for membership in the Wash- ington Public Parks Tennis Association. ‘The event, which always draws a heavy entry list, will prove more pop- ular this year than ever, it now seems assured. Aside from Considine, Mitchell. | Buchanan and Wilson it is expected that such luminaries as Hal Fowler, | Morris O'Nell, Larry Phillips, Evereit | Simon, Bob Newby, Barnard Welsh, jr., | and others will compete in the | at strategic places to gles of the balls with such stalwart doubles combina- tions as Fowler and O'Neil and Con- sidine and Herb Shepard taking part with others.in that competition. ‘Winners in the singles and doubles as usual will be sent to the national public parks championships to be held at Buffalo, N. Y.. August 19-24. The e of the District contingent will be paid by the Welfare and Recrea- tional Association, under whose auspices the local event will be staged. e GERMAN TENNIS STARS MAY BE ASKED TO U. S.| NEW YORK, July 16.—Davis Cup stars of Germany. the latest sensations in the tennis world, may be invited to America to compete in the men's na- tional championships at Forest Hills in September, it was said at the offices of the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation Aum'dny, according to the Asso- clated 3 Considerable interest has been aroused in American tennis circles by the feat of Daniel Prenn and Hans Moldenhauer, singles aces, in eliminati J England from the Davis Cup play and qualifying to meet the United States team. Their presence, together with their country- me:., Henrich Kleinschroth and Dr. Heinz Landmann, doubles stars, would add a new international angle to this country’s premier tournament, which already is expected to include entries from France and Britain. EOLF MATCH WHICH ENDS AT MIDNIGHT IS PLAYED ‘WINCHESTER, Mass., July 16 (®).— Portable electric lights dispelled the customary darkness on the links of the ‘Winchester Country Club after sundown | last night long enough to allow Francis Ouimet, former national amateur cham- pion. to play a 14-hole golf match with William Winten, jr., that did not end until midnight. ‘When the contestants agreed to call it & game Winton was leading, 41 to 40. Three hundred persons, principally ‘members of the club, constituted a gal- lery that stuck to the end, despite a rather drastic drop in the temperature. In addition to two portable lights of 343 candlepower, & flood light illum- inated the tees and caddies were posted teh the flight BELLE HAVEN GOLF TEAM IS SELECTED ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16.—Charles F. Holden, chairman of the Belle Haven Country Club’s golf committee, an- nounced today the eight golfers who will represent the local club in the Tri- State Golf Assoclation’s tournament at the Blue Ridge Country Club, Boyce, Va., Saturday afternoon. ‘Those who have been named t6 play for Belle Haven are Beudrice L. Howell, C. C. Brown, T. E. Sebrell, jr.; Carroll Plerce, jr.; Bill Burns, T. Briley Clem, Louis Kane and Dr. “amuel B. Moore, Hdlden also announced the pairings for the first round of the club’s cham- pionship tournament as follows: Brown vs. Clem, Pierce vs. Carlin, Howell vs. Stacey, Garnett vs. McDonald, Weems vs, Pipes, Sebrell vs. McGowan, Burns vs. Kane and Rollins vs. Caton. Play in the first round must be finished by Sun- day at 7 pm. Columbia Engine Company, cheered by two victories over the week end, es- pecially the triumph over the Eastern A. A. in which Harvey Lunceford let the Washington nine down with only one hit and no runs, is seeking games for Saturday and Sunday. Phone Man- ager Billy Padgett at Alexandria 1774. Coach Lunceford has named Billy Travers, outflelder, captain of the team for the current week. ‘The municipal tennis tournament to be conducted by J. F. Wilson. superin- tendent of the Alexandria public recrea- ! tion department, will open on July 29, St. Mary's Celtics will play Naval Hospital here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Baggett's Park. Fort Washington Soldiers trimmed the Virginia A. C., 6 to 1, in a game at Fort Washington, Md. Carl Budwesky copped the Lindsey- Nicholson Corporation 18-hole handicap medal play tournament at the Belle Haven Country Club. BOBBY KEEPS HIM STEPPING. 0. B. Keeler, the Atlanta golf writer, has traveled more than 75,000 miles with Bobby Jones and will add a few thousand next Summer with another | jaupt to Europe. Rainbow? 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