Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 21

YOUTH HAS SHOWN HIS LINKS METTLE Western Title Winner Sent Perkins to 22d Hole in 1928 Tournament. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HE Pacific coast, which has grown fine foot ball players and oarsmen and many great base ball stars, never has produced a national golf champion. George Von Elm was a resident of Los Angeles when he won the amateur, but not a native of the Golden State, and California's reflected glory was rather synthetic. But the far Western sebtion now has & splendid young player -and perhaps a future champion in Donald Moe of the Alderwood Club, Portland, Oreg. Moe was medalist and then champion in the Western amateur tourney at Kansas City and his performance left no_doubt as to his golfing abilities. The East had a glimpse of Moe, who is only 19 and a student at the Univer- sity of Oregon, in the amateur at Brae Burn last Fall. He was one of three in the national field to qualify under 150 and then gave Phillig Perkins the hardest battle the British champion encountered before he was slaughtered by Bobby Jones. Moe carried Perkins to the twenty-second hole in the first round and through inexperience missed several opportunities to knock the Englishman out of the championship. Other Clever Players. Moe is said to be the best of several young players who_are making Port. iand famous along Pacific fairways. He has a brother who is quite a golfer and there are two Dolps who have won considerable golf fame, Frank Dolp having twice been the Western amateur champion. Donald is & thorough as well as stylish player. He hits long wooden shots and is an excellent putter. Once he adds tourna- ment experience to his reperatory of | shots he will become an outstanding performer in national as well as sec- tional events. ‘The Pacific Coast contingent in the coming amateur at Del Monte, Calif., in September may give the Eastern invaders all sorts of trouble. In ad- dition to the Moes and Dolps, Oregon will have the doughty Dr. O. F. Willing and Rudy Wilhelm in the fleld, and California will enter Dr. Paul Hunter, Fay Coleman, Johnny McHugh and Charlie Seaver. Seaver is the youngster who attracted the attention of many professional stars during the Winter tournaments and is progressing rapidly. Since the East may not have a full representation at Del Monte, the championship may re- solve itself into a battle between Jones and Von Elm and the Far West. One of the surprises of the Western . smateur was Chick Evans’ fallure to qualify for the champlonship, The Western long has been Evans’ favorite hunting ground. He had won the event eight times gince 1909 and four times in succession. After failing to qualify for the national open Evans had hoped to do well in the Western and rehabllitate his golf fortunes. But & bad first round prevented him from even qualifying. Outmed to Make Trip. Ouimet, Evans’ contemporary, was & spectator at Winged Foot during the national open. Fully recovered from a serious operation, Ouimet is 20 pounds heaver than any time in his life. has just resumed playing golf and an- nounced hig intention of competing at Del Monte. In fact, he may make the transcontinental trip by air. Francis is eager to win the amateur champlonship once more before he re- to the less exacting routine of a club player. With his new weight and strength he may do it, should Bobby Jones stumble and fall along the way. Lack of endurance always has been Oulmet’s drawback. The Bostonian has reached the semi-finals of the amateur four times in the last six years. Oulmet may outlast Evans in the champlonship flelds by several years, for he still is a master putter, and the veteran who can save strokes on the greens always is likely to be formidable. TROOP E EASILY TAKES FORT MYER TANK MEET Before a large gathering, Troop E natators easily won & swimming meet among Citizens' Military Training Corps units at Fort Myer. Troop E scored 58 points. Troop F was second with 25 and Machine Gun Troop third with 8. Results: ‘Two-length swim—First. W. C. Monfort, second, M. A. English,” Troop E; nk Chandler. Trocp F. t] J._W. Pix, 0op E; third, R W. G. Troop. . Pashley, Troop Dillman, Troop F; thizd, H. nop E. ving—Pirst. P. T. Bowman, Troop W. 1. McEilicott, Troop E; taird, M. G. Troop. E._Fix. Tro Fancy di second. ,_Ensweller, Relay race—First. Troop F: second, Troop E; third, M. G. Troop. E H. NIGHT TENNIS MATCHES WILL BE STARTED HERE An_Exhibition match, in which sev- eral leading District piayers will par- ticipate will mark the formal opening of the night tennis courts at Seven- teenth and B streets tonight at 8 o'clock. ‘Ten courts will be {lluminated by Yowertul lights on 30-foot poles. The ights were tried Saturday night and proved highly satisfactory. | Wethered’s Stance " Opposite of Jones’ BY SOL METZGER. Roger Wethered, crack British amateur, plays his iron so that con- tact is made as the clubhead reaches the lowest point of the arc of his swing. He opens up the face of the iron considerably and employs a no- ticeably wide stance, threin differ- radically from Bobby Jones ‘:\fm stance s with feet quite <lose Wfifl!fl'. ote Wethered's grip for the shot as sketched above. Left hand well over shaft and fingers of right hold- ing club. Wethered plays the shot as though he were cutting the legs out from under the ball. As his club goes through it seems to skid out along the turf after making contact. The stroke is & left-hand stroke ‘with him, / Anything can happen in golf, and don't be surprised if your drive ends up in a milk bottle, & rowboat, a bird’s nest or a spider web. Balls have been found in strange places, but none stranger than that of Mary Clay (now married) of Paris, Ky., who smacked a sizzling drive off the sixth tee at a certain course in Florida, which ended up right in a grapefruit! Miss Clay was playing in a foursame composed of Miss Sally Lockhart, C. O. Taylor and Ralph M. Baker. The grape- fruit was hanging on a tree about five feet from the ground. Seventeen years ago a Mr. Me- Evoy, a member of the Middleton FOUND HER IN A GRAPEFRUIT/ ( 6. HOLE .00 O CKLAWAHA HOTEL COUl , FLORIDA, 1915) Dr.Eare WeLLs, ~-f F Lo5 ANGELES ITCHED INTO AN AIRPLANE . MarcH. 1928 QY S IRSE, EUSTIS, ELES, shot. But when he came up to his ball he found it resting snugly in a donkey's ear! The burro tossed his head and ran away as McEvoy ar- rived, the ball falling to the ground and saving the golfer the trouble of lifting from an “unplayable lie.” Now for Dr. Earl Wells (pro- nounced “Oll” Wells in the East Side of New York). Dr. Wells was playing in a foursome at the Pro- trero County Club in Los Angeles a year ago last March. As he was about to pitch high over some bunk- ers on a par five hole, a very low- ENTI IRELm SWINGS Club of Cork, Ireland, drove off the third tee of the club course and strode on his way to play his next GORDON LOCKHART, A NOTED SCOTCH PRO, MISSED THE BALL ON TWO SUCCESSIVE THE LAST BRITISH OPEN, flying plane from a nearby aviation feld passed directly in the path of his ball, which could be plainly seen to drop into the fusilage. Dr. Wills then played another ball from the previous lie, without penalty, accord- ing to rule 17, section 2. Now for Mr. Gordon Lockhart, Imagine the poor man’s embarrass- ment when he, a famous Scottish pro, missed the ball entirely, not once, but twice in succession, and in the British open at Muirfleld, too! That is surely cheering news to duffers. Harry Vardon once missed a putt that hung ‘on the lip of the cup—this in the United States open, too—but that was sheer carelessness. TWO D. . GOLFERS RETURN T0 FORM Ballantyne and Chasmar, Former Stars, Again Are Displaying Skill. O made them formidable com- petitors in other years of two veterans of the game about Washing- ton. One of them is a two-time winner of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association amateur championship, who has not played competitive golf for nearly & decade. The other is a fine player who has not shown at his best in tourna- ments, but always has been one of the stalwarts of the game at Columbia, the club of which both are members. Old-time golfers about the Capital will remember Willlam C. Ballantyne of Columbia, who won two major champlonships about the Capital, was a winner of several tournaments and one of the best golfers who ever played about Washington. Ballantyne retired from competition about eight years ago, and had not played about Washington until a few days ago. In other years he used to Tomp around the Columbia course in the low 70s, and always was able to shat- ter 80. He has come back to the game, as the following incident will show. With D'Arcy Banagan as his partner, he played the other day at Columbia. Ballantyne and Banagan were all square with thelr opponents at the eighteenth tee, and Banagan got off & tee shot that left him with a very hard shot to the green. He turned to Ballan- tyne, and remarked that he would bet- ter bear down a bit on that hole, as Banagan was not in a favorable spot. Ballantyne retaliated by knocking his second shot on the green and sinking the putt for a birdile 3 to win the match. ‘Ten years and more ago Bill Ballan- tyne was one of the finest golfers any. where in this section of the country. A long hitter and a determined fighter, he was one of the sternest competitors of Bob Pinkenstaedt, when the latter was at his best. That Finkenstaedt has not lost his game was shown re- cently when he won the Columbia tournament. Finkenstaedt and Ballan- tyne were tournament rivals, with the trend of victory going toward Finken- staedt as he obtained more experience at the game. Ballantyne virtually gave up golf back in 1921 and according to Banagan has not played at Columbia since that year. The other veteran who has come back with a vengeance is G. H. Chas- mar, chairman of the greens commit- tee at Columbia, who for many years has been the possessor of a great game, but has not been able to produce it in tournament play. Chasmar is known to the better golfers at Columbia as one of the finest shot makers in the club, but because of a queer psychological quirk, never has been at his best in the tournaments. Time after time he has gone around Columbia in 73 and better. For a while Chasmar lost in- terest in golf but recently he has-been playing a good deal and playing ex- ceptionally well. Sy, NEWPdRT TO HAVE POLO AFTER 15-YEAR LAPSE NEWPORT, R. I, July 22 (®).—For the first time in 15 years Newport has added polo to -its Summer sports. Mrs. Moses Taylor has made the sport possible by the construction of a regulation polo fleld at Sandy Point Farm, the residence of the late Reginald C. Vanderbilt. Matches will be played late this sea- son between Newport teams and those NE of the bright spots of the current golf season has been the return to the form that of other cities, reviving memories of the i9lg Westchester Polo Clul, . Wes! BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. AS the long-existing dominance of Washington golfers over the best in the midatlantic section definitely come to an end? Have Baltimore golfers, with spear-head of the attack, backed up by such fine golfing youngsters as Alex M. Knapp, John S. Grimes, Harry A. Wisotsky, and Fred A. Savage, jr., Te- versed the turn of events which usually have found Washington players winning the invitation tournaments around the two citles? As golf followers in the Capital scan- ned the returns from the Sherwood Forest tourney, which ended yesterday, and looked back over the tournament of the Baltimore Country Club, and the Middle Atlantic Golf Association cham- plonship, it appeared likely that Balti- more has been able to wrest from the Capital the golf laurels, which it held for so many years prior to the advent of Roland MacKenzie, George Voigt and the other golf crusaders from Wash. ingfon, who have dominated the Bal more tournaments, in which they el tered for nearly a decade. The real answer to the question prob- ably will come at the forthcoming tour- ney of the Maryland Country Club, which opens on Wednesday, and will find & strong fleld of Washingtonians seeking to thrust aside the Baltimore threat for nupremcy. For while a large number of Washingtonians entered the Sherwood Forest event, won yesterday by John S. Grimes of Rolling Road, the Maryland State amateur titleholder, the fleld did not number such established stars of golf around the Capital as Mil- ler B. Stevinson, and Albert R. Mac- Kenzie of Columbia, Harry G. Pitt of Manor, Roger Peacock of Indian Spring and Page Hufty of Congressional. Had a few or all of these men entered the Sherwood Forest event, the result might have been different, and inasmuch as many of them, and many others of the best around Washington are to play in the Maryland tourney, the forthcoming tilt probably will go a long way to prove whether or not supremacy in tourna- ment golf has been taken over by the players from the city of Monuments. The Baltimore and Maryland Coun- try Club tournaments are the largest affairs of the season around Baltimore. For nearly a decade Washington golfers either have won the events or have figured heavily in the prize lists, with Roland MacKenzie, Voigt and Stevin- son the men most feared by the Balti- more delegation. This year, however, the Midatlantic tourney, played at Bal- timore, found an all-Baltimore final for the first time in two decades. Wash- ton golfers were left out of the championship picture almost entirely. The Baltimore Country Club invitation event was won by Alex M. Knapp, who was runner-up to Grimes in the Sher- wood Forest tourney yesterday. Baltimore golfers are not the trav- elers that the players of Washington are. Only a mere handful of them have played in the tournaments around Washington this season, while some 30 Washington players competed in the Midatlantic tourney at Baltimore, near- ly 60 played at Sherwood Forest and a score more played in the Baltimore Country Club invitation tourney. B. Warren Corkran, ranked as Baltimore's ace, has not played in a tournament around Washington for several years. It will be interesting to watch the progress of the Maryland Country Club tourney to give a lead that will deter- mine whether or not Baltimore is again to assert its supremacy of other years Grimes won his way to the final of the Sherwood Forest event by downing Lieut. F. S. Holmes of Annapolis, while ngg administered a 5 and 4 trounc- ing Karl P. Kellerman, jr, of Co- lumbis, the tourney medalist and the lone hope of Washington to win the a peat foraye against, Kaapp. bat vess orays agal pp, but yes- urguly he outplayed the Yale lad all the wa; losed him out on the sixteenth green in the final. M. F. McCarthy of Beaver Dam beat James G. Drain of Washington in the first flight consolation final. John C. | by the veteran B, Warren Corkran, s the | i . e Mike Oliverl, last year's | 6.6 in golf in this section of the coumrx':'p"; ea Shorey of Bannockburn, who won the fournament in 3927, beat Byrn Curtiss STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE of Indian $pring in the second flight semi-final and then went on to win the final from Comdr. W. S. Popham of Annapolis. John R. Miller of Beaver Dam won the second flight consolation. The fourth flight consolation was won A. T. Wannan of East Potomac Central High School golf tesm cham- plon, annexed the fifth flight final from | *’r} a ‘W. M. Leonard of Baltimore. Harrison Brand, jr., won the sweep- stakes event at the Chevy Chase Club yesterday, registering a gross score of 83, with a handicap of 15, which gave him a net of 68. W. C. Crane, with 82-13-69, and Lieut. Gordon B. Sher- wood with 75-6-69, were tled for second place. Fourth pl went to F, W. Coleman, who registered 86-14-72. Leroy Sasscer and R. G. Henderson tled in the flag tournament at Indian Spring yesterday, both holing their last strokes in the cup on the nineteenth green. Sasscer played with a handicap of 5, and Henderson had an impost of 22. ' George C. Gist, playing with a handicap of 5 strokes, played his last shot a short distanca from the cup on the first extra hole. Clinton Dowling, who scored 90— 13—77, and H. A. Smith, who had 105—28—177, tled for first place in the blind bogey tournament staged at the Bannockburn Golf Club yesterday, both hitting the lucky number on the head. The numbers on both sides of 77 found & number of players tieing at 76 and 78. Mrs, Robert F. Cole won the wem- en's event, with a score of 48—6—42. Forty was the winning number in this tourney and Mrs. Cole’s net 42 was the closest to the number. Mrs. Middleton Beaman was second, with 48—4—44. Professional golfers of the Middle At~ lantic section were scheduled to com- pete today in a sweepstakes tournament at Indian Springs, paired with ama- teurs from the clubs about Washington and Baltimore. ‘Tony Sylvester, Bannockburn pro- fessional, yesterday revenged himself for a previous defeat administered to him by W. L. Pendergast and L. F. Pass, when he paired with Luther Florine, southpaw golfer of the club, to win, 6 and 5. Sylvester had a score of 75 and the better ball of the professional and his amateur partner was 70. ‘W. W. Spurgeon and W. C. Tupner tled for first place in the blind bogey event staged at the Harper Country C}u;»1 yesterday, each with net scores of 71. EDGEWOOD TENNIS TEAM INCREASES LEAGUE LEAD Edgewood, league leader, and Kann, and Woodridge and Acacia teams are to meet Saturday in_Capital City Tennis League matches. Edgewood added to its lead in"latest encounters, scoring over Acacla, 4 to 2, and Woodridge, 2 to 1. Summaries: Edsewood, 4; Acacia, 2. Singles—Thore (A.) defeated Robins, 7—S, o S Catman ) dtieate Hoberts: 83, 6—2; Ford (E.) defeated R. Fix, - Spencer (E.) defeated Knight, 10—13, 6—2, 6—3. Doubles—Robins and Yeatman (E.) de- £ ind" Riieht (A defeated Gardes and Bpencer, 1—6, 1—5, 6—4. Edgewood, 2; Woodridge, 1. Singles — Gardes (E.) defeated O'Neal, B»—l.‘l—]: Allman (E.) defeated L. Lavine, ubles—L. Lavine and O'Neal (W.) de- ted Gardes and Spencer, 13—11, 10—3. TEAM STANDING. W . ood Club. 51 g‘i Rcasts Mutuni Li 1 49 GINGER A. G. HERRMANN 750 Tenth St. Southeast Phone Lincoln 1981-1982 ARE CARDED TODAY Lone Upset Occurs in Play in Singles, Which Goes Into Fourth Round. PENING doubles play was sched- uled today in the District Public Parks tennis champion- ship tournament. cam& ition ‘was to begin at 5 o'clock on Monument, Potomac and Henry Park courts. The singles champion and the victors in the doubles will be awarded the handsome Evening Star challenge cups for one year. These trophies were placed in competition last year and will go to those t winning three times. Bob Considine is the singles title holder and Dooly Mitchell and Bill Buchanan are the doubles champlons. Fourth round singles play will get under way tomorrow. In the only upset yesterday Herbert Shepard, seeded No. 7, was beaten by John M. Garnett of Monument courts, 8—6, 4—6, 10—8. Hugh C. Trigg, former public parks title holder, defaulted tos A. P. Koster. Trige was called out the city on business. Bob Considine and Dooly Mitchell, runner-up to Considine in the singles title round last year, were among those reaching the fourth round yesterday. Considine eliminated F. D. Suttenfield on the Monument courts, 6—3, 6—1, and Mitchell brushed ide Richard Willis, 6—1, 6—1, and Goldsmith, 6—1, 6—4, Rock Creek. Other front-rank netmen who came through included: Morris O'Neil, erst- while public parks title holder; Frank Shore, District junior champion: Larry Phillips and Everett Simon. All were seeded. In turnfng in his surprise win over Shepard, Garnett outsteadied his op- ponent. After winning the first set, Garnett lost the second, but came back to take the third after a bitter struggle. Yesterday's results and wgy's scheduls - ROCK CREEK PARK. COND ROUND—Frank 8ho; Robort A Lotd, 802, 63 A R Yarels der .. Plerson by default defeated _Morris e, or. Tl 6t defei b B r A M stein defeated E. 2 Steln @ H. O'Bri defeated feated C. Walfonstein™ 60, 6-2; Thomas E, . H. en, 75, rr dge defeated Alvin Wi , 951 Rands " Robinson deteated "Bob D ROUND—She 601; "Shocmaker detested allensrein: 46’ 88 Bimon defeated Stein. 9; ‘Robinson' defeated Dodve, 84, 48 HENRY PARK. SECOND ROUND—Morris O'Nell defeated John Yeomans, 6—2. 6—0: Addison Grant defeated Robert Dunlop, 60, 6—0; Robert 8. Burwell defeated H. C. Armstrong by de- ault; Murray Gould defeated Henry E. Stan- ton. 64, 1: Herbert Shepard defeated Frank Scdivener, 6—0, 6-—0: John M. Gar- nett defeated George Considine, 6—4, 6—4: William Seidell defeated . Hulber{, 64, ; K. Branchard def 'd Kurt Krause, 1—86. 61, 6-0. 6—0. -THIRD ROUND—Morris O'Neil defeated Addison Grant, 3—86, ), Mur: Gould defeated Robert 8. Burwell, Herbert Shepard, 8—6, 4—86, 10—8. s MONUMENT PARK. SECOND ROUND—F. Buttenfleld de- feated A. H. Stanton. 12—10; uM ifl'l defeated E. M. Byr) 6—0; Tk, 68, 63, RO ird Tound—ob Considine defeated Sut- 00003 Bl dcitated sermang, By &1 "Btaubly defeated Edsar, 4—6, 63, POTOMAC PARK. Second round — Dooly Mit Richard Williss 61 61 1. Goldomiin de feated J. W, Dubose, -6, Tob; Richard Edee defeated Pat Deck, 63, 6—4; Maurice Goubeau defeated A. A, Howze, 61, 61; H G Moore, A. P. Koster won by default ‘from Trige; Douglas Love defeated D. P M. geber defeated Chester 6_2; Maurice Hoflman defeat- 1 by default Iy, 1 64 3 Lo = A Mitchell defeated Edge defeated Gou- efeated Koster, 6—1, ed Rathseber,” 6—4, TODAY'S SCHEDULE, 5 P.M. DOUBLES. Monument—Seidell and Dec! and Trige. Birch and Dlflntrk Davies nd Scrivener, Love and Staubly vs. Crews » o Bryroe and partner vs. imon' and Newb e RS, 28, Noxty, v Bulber Mitchell and Buchansn vs. and Gardes, Mitchel Stanton and Stanton. Grant and Krause vs. Hoffecker aj ;¢ Edgar Ritzenberg, Neale anc ssman ng Moncure and Poliard. P va. |CALIFORNIA NETMEN IN WESTERN TITLES By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 22.—Two Western tennis assoclation trophies today were on the way to California, in the pos- session of Keith Gledhill of Santa Bar- bara and Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. Gledhill yesterday won the finals of the men’s” singles from Vines in a great five-set tussle, 12—10, 0—6, 6—2, 5~17, 6—1, while the pair worked together in the doubles to conquer Red Royer and George O'Connell of Chi- cago, in another bitter five-set match, 6—2, 3—6, 6—2, 4—6, 6—4. Zinke of Cincinnati, Clara Louise lost her women's singles title to Ruth Bailey of St. Louis. The St. Louls girl was steady and won easily, 6—2, 6—3. Miss Zinke and Ruth Oexman, also of Cincinnati, took the doubles from Mrs. Ruth Reise, Saginaw, Mich., and Mr Barbara Duffy of Cleveland, 4—6, 7—! n».,.w Royal Tire Stores Penna. Ave. S.E. LW, Al enstein. | <5 | Youth, in Sensational Rise, | | Lott Named to Replace Hunter In Davis Cup Play With French By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 22.—Selection of the United States Davis Cup team to play France in the challenge round starting this Friday in Paris, with George Lott of Chicago sub- stituted for Francis T. Hunter of New York, was an- nounced today by the United States Lawn Tennis Association, The other three members are Big Bill Tilden, Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., and John Van Ryn of Orange, N. J. lay in the singles, while the crack Van Ryn, which has been cutting a Tilden and Lott will ‘f combination of Allison an sensational figure abroad, will play the doubles. Lott’s replacement of Hunter is the only change from the line-up which defeated Germany, 5 to 0, in the interzone com- petition concluded yesterday at Berlin. No official e: announcement of Philadelphia, national list Hunter ranks No. 2 and Lott No. however, on the basis of past performances; that Lott's stood, chairman of the Davis Cup committee. lanation”of the shift was contained in the team selection by Joseph W. Wear of On the 3. It was under- chances of winning against the Frenchmen were considered brighter. Hunter has seldom been impressive against any of the French aces. Lott, one of the best volleyers since Vincent Richards, has been a candidate for the Davis CuP was taken abroad with the squad la: team for several years. He st year, but this is the first time he has been named for challenge round competition. The Chicago star will not be 23 years old until next October. His selection, along with the inclusion of 24-year-old Wilmer Allison and 23-year-old- Johnny Van Ryn, puts youth in the majority on an American Davis Cup team for the first time in many years. The veteran Tilden alone remains to represent the old guard, but is still the singles ace. With the possibility that Rene Lacoste will not be able to lay for France, American tennis officials believesthe challeng- fng team will have more than an outside chance of winning back the cup. It is assumed this situation was taken into ac- count in nominating Lott, who has at times risen to brilliant heights as a singles performer. achievements was the straight-set defeat of Lacoste at South- ampton two years ago. He has also defeated Tilden in tourna- ment play, but was beaten by Hunter in the semi-finals of the national championships last September at Forest Hills. Lott has played only one match so far in Davis Cup com- petition this year. His studies at the University of Chicago, for which he won the Western Conference title this Spring, kept him_from taking part in the American zone contests, until the final round against Cuba at Detroit, where he played and won the last singles contest. One of his most conspicuous GILF WIS WFE FANE AND NONEY Becomes Runner-up in California Event. ROM the background of medioc- rity to a position of golfing prominence has stepped Prancis Stevens, jr., of Los Angeles, Calif,, & chap of 19 Summers, ‘who promises to make more than an or- dinary bid in the national amateur championship at Pebble Beach. ‘This curly-haired youth's golf won him a bride, a wad of money, a stock exchange seat and considerable renown all in a few months. An induigent father provided the tangible items—the sport pages introduced the lad to a ?ubllc ‘who had never heard of him be- ore. ‘The golfing ability of Stevens' prog- ress came to light during the 1929 Cali- fornia amateur championship, when he finished as runner-up after wading through a fleld of favored stars. His fine game and coolness under fire won him the admiration of critics whose consensus was that, under proper con- ditions, he should go far in the game. ‘The Los Angeles boy has been play- ing and practicing for years, but never before had entered a major tourna- ment. When he wanted to get married a_couple of months ago, his dad said, “Beat me on the links and we’ll talk it over.” He did that and entered the State amateur competition with his golfing bride in_the gallery. When the youth worked his way to the semi-finals the father became excited and said. “Make the semi-finals and you get $10,000.” ‘The boy collected. He lost out in the final, but a seat on the Los Angeles exchange is promised him when he is 21 years old. ‘To more thoroughly familiarize the junior member with the hazardous Pebble Beach course the Stevens fam- ily has taken up residence on the Monterey Peninsula. CADDIES ENTER SECOND | ANNUAL OPEN TOURNEY LOS ANGELES, July 22 (#).—Toters of the clubs for 362 days of the year, Southern California caddies will come into their own here August 5, 6 and 7 in the second annual $1,000 open caddie golf tournament. Two hundred qualifiers, twice as many as last year, are expected to turn out for the 72- hole event. Johnny Farrell of New York, former American open cl pion and noted also as the best dressed professional, will have to look to his honors. A spe- clal prize is announced for the caddy with the most sartorial appeal. U:S.NETCUPTEAM NOW GIVEN CHANCE France, Though, Despite Losg of Lacoste, Is Favored In Challenge Round. By the Assoclated Press. America plays France this week on the red clay courts of the Roland Garros Stadium for the fifth time in the Davis Cup challenge round. What seemed at the start to be just another pleasant trip for this country’s team de- veloped into prospects of a real battle, France will be favored to win, with or without the ailing Rene Lacoste, but the Americans now have at least & fighting chance and a fighting array. The sensational young doubles team of John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, victors over the French champions as they went on to win at Wimbledon, looms as a decisive factor. Not only will they have a good opportunity to score a point for the challengers, but they will give Big Bill Tilden the day of rest between singles matches that the veteran needs. Big Bill no longer can shoulder the three-day burden. The memory is still vivid of how he came to grief on the last day of the challenge round of 1927 at Germantown, where the French rallied on the last day to win the Davis Cup for the first time. He has scored only one singles victory in each of the last three challenge rounds. France, minus Lacoste, will count upon Henri Cochet for a double victory in the singles, but Tilden, as well as Fighting George Lott, may upset Jean Borotra, assuming the Basque is given the other singles assignment for the cupholders. At least there are the elements of a much closer contest than appeared possible a month ago. “BATTLE OF CENTURY” FOR WOMAN RUNNERS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 22.—Another “battle of the centu a test for sprint cham- pions, will be held Saturday. Not for Simpson, Tolan, Bracey, et al, but for the outstanding womapg,sprinters of the country, who will fight it out in the women's national A. A. U. champion- ships at Soldier Field. Headed by Betty Robinson of the Tlli- nols Women's A. C., winner of the 100 meters in the 1928 Olympic games, & field of 25 girl stars has been entered for the event. Olive Hasenfus of Bos- ton, Katherine Maguire of St. Louis and three New Yorkers, Jessie Cross, Carrie Jansen and Mary Washburn, all members of the Olympic team, will race against the champion. Eleanor Egg of Paterson, N. J., Metropolitan A. A. U. | title holder in the event, also will com- pete. The South will have two threats in | the race, Margaret Whitcomb of Dallas, Tex., holder of the Southern A. A. U, championship, and Olive Kruger of | Chattanooga, Tenn. Several other members of the Olympie team have sent in entries. Jean Shir- | ley of the Meadowbrook Club, Philadel- phia, holder of the women's high jump record, is entered, and will encounter competition from Miss Maguire, who held the record before the Philadelphia girl shattered it last Winter. Championships will be decided in 11 events, all to be held Saturday unless entries necessitate preliminaries. “*Be sure to see it Z%e New BUICK ‘Windshield SATURDAY uly 27