Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1929, Page 43

s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.- THURSDAY, JULY 25, 198, SPORTS. 43 . Golf Association Has Task of Cuiting 50 Names From Amateur Tourney List FOUR D. C. MUNY GOLFERS WILL GO TO TITLE EVENT Jim Preston Is Successful in Raising Needed Money to Give Full Representation in Tourna- ment at St. Louis. 205 HAVE FILED ENTRIES FOR CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY Foreign Stars and Celebri to Compete—Fownes Is Missing for First Time in Twenty Years, Ry the Associated Press. Nchampionship opens its first in entries totaled 205. The Western half of the continent, celebrating its first amateur, dominates the field with 134 entries. The East is represented on the entry list by 61 names, but these compose about the strongest possible delegation. the Pacific Coast. Bobby Jones, four times winner of the title, heads the contingent from East of the Mississippi, with George von Elm of Detroit and Jess Sweetser of New York as his strongest supporters. Ten foreign entries are on the list, including Cyril Tolley, British star, and C. Ross Sommerville and Don Carrick repre- senting Canada. Among those missing are William F. Fownes, jr., of Pittsburgh, who is ab- sent for the first time in 20 years, Max Marston of Philadelphia, the 1923 cham- pion, and Phil Perkins, former Brit- ish_champion and runner-up to Jones in_1928. Don Moe of Portland, Oreg., the new Western champion one of the most LHE SPO By GRANTLAND RICE T will be interesting to see whether Campolo turns out to be an- other eminent ring possibil fails to grab the opportun: He has size, strength, better than a fair punch. take a little and is not too easily di big men the ring has seen in a long time. A lot depends upon his ambition and his capacity for work. These were two of Tunney's leading qualities and the ex-cham qualifications that Campclo carri willing to work and learn, to improve his boxing and his punch from the best instruction he could get, Campolo can step around as lively as & middleweight. He has weight and height without any appearance of bulk. His muscular make-up should give him a world of punching power if he learns how to use it in full. He belongs to the type of material that can be easily im- proved and with a little more improve- ment he will deal out a carload of trouble to any one he meets. It has been said that any height above 6 feet and any weight above 200 pounds is useless in the ring. ‘There is no reason why this should be 50 if the excess height and weight can be properly trained. Most of this surplus stuff is all waste and in the way. Campolo, in his brief try- out the other night, gave evidence that he could use it. He still has to prove that he can take a without dropping or losing heart interest in the proceedings. And this happens to be a big part of the entire enterprise. He has a fair left hand, but with his reach he could de- velop a much better one, sufficiently useful to give him a good chance against any heavyweight he meets. At least he has the chance to get this far if he will only get all he can from the Traw material at hand. It Can Happen. S‘T)IDON'T you get Hack Wilson and Bing Millep mixed up in a re- cent article?” asks L. D. Not mixed up 80 much as interchanged. One of those flops where you mean to write Miller and for some fuzzy reason write Wilson, both being hard-hitting outfielders. It can happen around midnight with the thermometer still above 88. It shouldn't, but it can. More Psychology. 'ALTER HAGEN used to figure that 1f any one could pick up 4 strokes on him in the first 18 holes there was ,no reason why he couldn’t pick up 5 strokes on the same fellow in the next 18. The Yankees have been figuring that if the Athletics could pick up 9 or 10 games on them in the first half of the race there is no reason why they shouldn’t pick up 10 games on the Ath- letics in the last half. Sometimes it ‘works out that way and sometimes it doesn’t. More than a little depends on the other fellow. He may stick to the habit and pick up more ground in place of losing what he has. Psychology Is one thing. Putting it scross is something else again. One of the Old Slogans. JLL ROPER sang his slogan, “The team that won't be beaten can't be beaten,” into his Princeton teams. ‘The average was quite high and that is all one can ask. But every now and then the other team felt the same way about being beaten and that always complicated matters. “The will to win” usually is a great idea, but there has to be something more. The other fellow may have the same will to win and more stuff to carry 1t through. Luck works out the same way. The winner more often than not also is lucky. At least he has better than an even share of the breaks. But he has to have something on the side to make the luck count. And often this includes a temperament or a disposition that will stand up against the tough breaks until the good ones come. Many an en- try has wilted under hard luck where by hanging on he had enough good luck i eoming to carry him through. Another Crown Wabbles. 'UST how any one ever got Joe Dun- dee into action against a man as good as Fields is another mystery. Most of Dundee’s opponents for two years have been knocking everything off his! frame except his crown, where condi- tions always were so arranged that said crown had to remain on, even if his head was knocked off. In addition to the $50,000 offered, Floyd Fitzsimmons must have broken & world record along the line of per- suasive debate to bring Dunglee out of his stockade for a championship test. Or it may have been that Joe was getting fed up on the beatings he had taken while still clinging to pens to be one of the best fight centers in this or any other coun- try. So Fitzsimmons should feel safe in his guarantee, especially as the popu- lace at large always is more than eager to see & number of splinters knocked from any champion’s block. If Fields doesn't win, there will be nothing in the dope that one can look to. If he ' does win, he may bring the welter- ‘weight situation back to its old mark and wipe away some of the rust and dust that has collected in the last few years since Dundee took it over. The Hitting Factor in Golf. LARGE number of devoted divotees seem to think that the speed of the club head is regulated by the speed of the hands .n?" wrists in action. They know that the punch depends largely upon the speed of the club head as it slashes into the ball. So to get this speed they rush the hands back and rush the club head forward with fast traveling hands. The golf swing is the “application of centrifugal force, which means power from tl;a \n{lde!g:‘: Club-head power comes largely the work of the hands and wrists, but not from the speed of the hands and Fou gever get {he impression that EW YORK, July 25.—The officials of the United States Golf Association have a considerable job of pruning on their hands between now and September 2 when the national amateur dwgr, speed, some skill and something All the ingredients are there if he can ies From All Parts of U. stand in the West. Players sending Nearly half of these are from | brilliant figures in Western golf, will be | ably seconded by two other Oregon- | fans, Dr. O. F. Willing and Frank Dolp. | Phillips Finlay, the long-hitting Harvard | star, who lives in California, is another leading figure, while Jack Neville, Cali- fornia amateur champion, is among the | leaders. ‘The task of the committee headed by H. H. Ramsay, is to eliminate about | 50 of the 205 entries, and will be | worked out on a basis of ratings and | past performances. Players who quali- | fled in any one of the last three tourna- | ments are automatically eligible to com- | | pete at Pebble Beach. but only 49 of | | the 63 who receive this consideration | ! have filed entries, RTLIGHT with every chance for success, who scouraged. He is one of the fastest | pion had nothing like the physical es into action. But Tunney was added to almost endless practice. Bobby Jones' hands are in any great hurry, either in taking the ball back or in lashing it forward. But you do get the impression that the club is in a big hurry just before it comes to the ball and a few feet thereafter. Most of those who play golf get enough speed to the club head, but the trouble is they get it in at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Few of them can wait for club-head speed un- til the moment is right. The down swing is a_matter of increasing speed until” the final swish, swing, swat or snap. If this punch enters the swing too quickly, there will be no punch left when the ball is hit. Some canny golfers pick out a spot 3 or 4 inches beyond the ball as the main center of impact in order to hold the final wallop in reserve as a guard against hitting too soon. If a bad habit can't be cor- rected one way, it mey be corrected in another. Tough Shots. ‘The toughest shot in golf for me Is any shot from green to_tee. —F. L. H. But in most golf games I have seen The order runs from tee to green. There is & rumor around to the effect that the Davis Cup still is just as well satisfied with French wine as it is with ! synthetic American gin or Scotch. The genial duffer always is ready to try the impossible in golf. As for ex- nm‘fle, throwing his right side around and still keeping the club head travel- ing on the correct line of flight. A con- tortionist can do this with much prac- tice, but while many golfers look like contortionists at times they are not. The right should come more under than |around. When the right side whirls |around in one of those dizzy half-circles anything can happen—except good re- sults, . OLD DOMINIONS READY FOR RICHMOND REGATTA| ALEXANDRIA, Va, ,July 25—Old | Dominion Boat Club oarsmen topped- off their training for the twenty-first annual regatta of the Southern Regatta Association at Richmond, Va., Saturday with a stiff workout under Coach Walter Thrall late yesterday afternoon. ‘The Orange and Black oarsmen were to ship their racing craft to the State capital this afternoon. will Jeave tomorrow afternoon and row mond later in the day. All of the Old Dominion representa- tives are in tip-top shape. Coach Thrall has entered his proteges in five races, as follows: Junior four-oared gig—Brewster Marshal James E. Trout, Jullan Whitestone, Ra: mond Heberlig and Coxswain Jackson. Sub- stitutes, Taylor Rudd and Bob Duncan. Junior double sculls—Parke Bell and Ben- jamin G. Minor. Substitute, Lewls Bell. red shells_Brewster Mar- . James E. Trout, Jullan Whitestone, Raymond _ Heberlig, Milton Janney, Bob Duncan. Curtis Backus, Lionel Beeton and Coxswain Jackson. Substitute, Taylor Rudd. Intermediate single sculls—Lionel E. Bee- on. Junior quadruple sculls—Lewis Bell, Taylor Rudd, Benjamin G. Minor and Parke Bell, SPORT NIGHT ARRANGED BY HOLY NAME SOCIETY A committee of the Holy Name So- ‘ ciety of Holy Rosary Church is arran i ing for a smoker and athletic rally at Concord Club Hall, 314 C street, next Tuesday night at 8:15 o'clock. Principal speakers will be Kirk Miller and Jim Ring, sports and dramatic editors, respectively, of the Washington Times, and Father Buckley of St Francis Xavier Church of Anacostia. Italian-American sports figures of the city are specially ‘invited. They will be ‘introduced by Ben McAlwee, Wash- ington Herold sports writer. There will be an attractive entertain- . ment program, refreshments and other | features. Other members of the arrangements ! committee include Johnny Nicro, Joseph Marcellino, Brunello Landi, Leo Bal- g;‘:&j‘ ‘Tommy Caponnetto and Gino —_— TROPHY IS PRESENTED FOR POWER BOAT MEET The Evening Star has offered a trophy to the winner of the ladies’ run- about race in the power boat regatta to be held Saturday and Sunday at Her- ald Harbor, Md. ‘The battle for The Star trophy will be staged as a part of Saturday's pro- im. ‘r;ndlclthml are that thes regatta, which will be conducted under super- vision of the Chesapeake and «Potomac Power Boat Association, will prove nighly suecesstul " TODAY BASE BALL 2N American League Park WASHINGTON vs. CHICAGO Tickets on Sale at Park at 9:00 AM. ‘The crewmen | D. over the James River course at Rich-| {3 "), An 8 Starts Als Great Run BY 0. B. KEELER. By the Associated Press. Golfing reactions are curious things. In a certain situation in a championship & bad hole breaks a competitor. In another it sets him up. In the last open cham- plonship at Winged Foot, an 8 on one hole in the last round was within a single stroke of winning for Al Espinosa, while a 7 on an earlier hole was just as near to ruining Bobby Jones, in a com- fortable lead at the moment. ‘We have more of the 7 in another As for the 8, the story is four strokes back of Jones and, due to the latter’s 7 at the eighth hole, had gained back two of them at the turn,” But Al did not know of the 7 Jones was taking, several holes behind him. All he knew was that he had to pick up strokes on Jones. When he lost one with a 4 at the short tenth and another with a 5 at the eleventh, Al's case was desper- ate, STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE Sandy Armour of Congressional un-, covered a remarkable scoring perform- ance over his home course the other day. In the first place he started 7, 6, 4 on holes whose par is 5, 4, 3. In other words he was 5 over par for the first three holes. But he finished the round with a score of 71, which is 1 under par for the Congressional course. The really remarkable part comes in the way he played the four holes starting with the thirteenth and ending with the sixteenth. He nego- tiated them all in 3s, scoring & par 3 on the short thirteenth, a birdie 3 on the fourteenth, another birdie 3 on the fifteenth and a par 3 on the short six- teenth. In all he had six birdies in the round. Roland R. MacKenzie must wonder what it takes to get in the prize list in an amateur professional contest. We note that he and his partner finished sixteenth in a 36-hole best ball contest | at Montauk recently, with a 36-hole score of 140. The winning score was 125, and the next pair to the winners scored 130. Believing that the members of the senfor golf association of the Chevy Chase Club who remain in the city during August are entitled to a golf tournament among themselves, the as- sociation has put into play a “midsea- son cup,” competition for which ~will start next week and run through the month of August. Full club handicaps will count in the tourney, and one match round is scheduled each week until the event is concluded. Pairing for the first match round, to | start next week, follow: E. 1 lifford G HoNs L Rust (0, Rdmical T . Jack- son_(16) vs.'B. 8. Minor (11). Admiral M. M. Taylor (4) vs. Whits oss (13), John C. Letts (11) 1. v H. D. Ci ) vs. Gen. D (8) vs. 8), . Ci M. Southgate (6), Fulf 8. Ridsdale (0), Maj. H. B M 5 @ i Gen. H. P, McCain (7) vs. Admiral Staridley (5). Judge E. K. Campbell at 8. Freedman & Sons Distributors 618 K 5t. N.W. EXTRAC X PMALT xrract @ CINNATLO PLAIN or HOP Yavor Wheeler 13). | ‘Then he took & calamitous 8 at the par 5 twelfth, = “I knew then that I was sunk” sald Al, later. “In a word, I gave up. And I suppose I must have re- laxed.” At any rate, par on the last six holes at Winged Foot is 3-4-4-5-4-4. And Espinosa played them 3-4-4-4- 3-4. He lost three strokes to par with that horrid 8. He clipped two strokes from par on the next six holes. The strain was off. He shot his brilliant golf untrammeled. And, as the strain now had been shifted to the broad shoulders of Bobby Jones, that finishing burst by Espinosa picked up precisely half a dozen strokes on the tolling leader in the last six holes, and at the seventy-second green caused Bobby Jones to hole a 12-foot putt for a tie, when, a dozen holes earlier, it seemed the only question was of how many strokes he would win by. An 8 pulled Espinosa together for a final charge of astounding bril- liance, A 7 spilled Bobby Jones from a sure victory into a desperate tie. It all depends on the situation, in a golf championship. ‘The seniors will hold putting contests at 45 holes medal play next week and| {durin( most of August. ; Karl F. Kellerman of Columbia led the | small District of Columbia contingent | in the first day's qualifying round of the | Maryland Country Club tournament | yesterday, registering a card of 77, to | tie with Harris Jones of Baltimore, Who | was runner-up in the Maryland State championship a few days ago. Harry | G. Pitt of Manor, former mid-Atlantic champion, scored a 78, even with a 6 at the eleventh hole, where he hooked a tee shot far to the left and got in trou- ble around the green. ‘Waxter, jr., of Baltimore also turned in a 78. Most of the scores made yesterday were | not made public. CRAVEN NOMATIC GOLFER. | _Prank Craven, actor, claims to have played on more golf courses than any| player not a professional. He has sliced and hooked over 362 layouts. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. all in hand or g presario of Was| W ITH the fund to send a complete team of four men from Washington to the public links championship at St. Louis ledged, James D. Preston, public links im- ington, representative of the Capital on the national public links committee and mainspring of municipal golf hereabouts, today declared that the Capital City must become con- scious of its duty, and rally to the support of its public links olfers in their endeavor to lift the Harding cup and win the national title. Referring to the four-man team, which will represent Washing- ton as “a group of players, who have a splendid chance to win the Harding cup, and four men who are going to St. Louis to play golf and that alone/’ Preston declared that Washington has only done half its duty in subscribing to the fund necessary to send two of the men to St. Louis. 8. G. Leoffler, public links concession- naire, has guaranteed the expenses of two of the four, while the expenses cf the other two have been met by private subscription. The team is composed of Walter Barrett, Louis Fuchs, James F. Phelan and J. B. Robertson, none of whom has represented Washington be- fore in a public links championship of national scope. Urges United Action. “Washington should get behind these lic links will all give Barrett and Fuchs, Phelan and Robertson a friendly pat on the back, wish them well and “God ed” and hope they bring home the championship and the Harding Cup. Jim Meets His Goal. Jim has been successful in his effort to raise the $266 necessary to send the entire taam to 8t. Louis. With a similar amount pledged by Loeffler, Jim today has about $215 in cash on hand, and pledges that will go over the necessarv players, furnish the money to send | mark, if needed. So Jim is grateful for them away in overflowing measure, give | them the necessary phsychological push up the hill they need t win and in every way back them up in the hope that they may establish the Natiomal Capital as the home of a group of fine golfers. Washington should become municipal golf-minded and see to it that these four men who will take the time from their own business to go forth in the name of the Nation’s Capital are not seeking personal glory zlone, but ere truly representatives of Washington in every sense of the word. They ne encouragement, not only financially, but in_every other way.” It was Preston speaking. And he re- ferred in glowing terms to the gener- osity of Leoffler, who has furnished some $266 of his own money to see that at least two of the men will have their expenses paid to St..Louis. We happen to know that Leoffler gets nothing from this enterprise. If the Harding Cup is won by the Washing- ton team, or if the big prize is won by one of its members, the cup will not go to East Potomac Park or Rock Creek Park. Leoffler gets nothing out of the matter but the self-satisfaction of knowing he has done his bit. In this he is peculiar, for in only a lfew cities are the expenses of the public links dele- gates being paid. The neighboring city of Baltimore is now in the throes of de- vising ways and means to send a six- man team to St. Louis, and is in a quandary as to how to raise the money. New York has raised monev encugh so far to send one man to St. Louls. Other cities are in similar plight, and here in the National Capital the ex- penses of two men are guaranteed im- mediately by the concessionnaire of the public courses, who has nc obligation, implied or legal, to contribute a cent toward the expenses of th= quartat., For this Preston is teful. He is heart and soul behind public links golf in Wash- ington, believes in it, is certain it will be a bigger thing than it already is and is looking forward to a victory in the Harding Cup tourney. So the genial Jim's remarks anent Washington and its spirit toward pub- lic links golf are tempered by an at- | titude of thankfulness for the gift al- ready in hand. At the same time Jim firmly believes that not enough cogni zance is being given by the public links golfers at large, to the generosity of Leoffier and the lads who will repre- sent the National Capital at St. Louis. He hopes their compatriots of the pub- = THOUGH Bayuk Philadelphia Cigar is oneof the largest-selling ten-cent cigars in America, there are still some smokers who are not yet acquainted with the unique Bayuk idea of making cigars entirely of ripe tobacco. Are you one of them? Set fire to a Bayuk “Philli see how thoroughly this modern idea frees a cigar from bitterness and *‘flat- ness.’”” Bayuk “‘Phillie” is so true-tasting —so laden with mellow-mild flavor— so completely satisfying—you’ll scarcely believe a cigar can be so DIFFERENT | UNDER-RIPE WASHINGTON TOBACCO CO, 917 E ST. NW,, WASHINGTON, D. C, ‘These fully-ripe middle leaves are the oaly true - tasting leaves of the lant. many things. ‘Walter Barrett, who led the qualifiers at Rock Creek Park, is to leave Wash- ington on July 31, going by automobile to St. Louis. Phelan expects to be in St. Louls by August 3, giving him three days for practice. Fuchs and Robert- son will leave Washington the night of August 3 with Preston, to arrive in St. Louis on the following day in time for two days of practice over the Forest Park course, where the title chase will be held. ' Chicago and Pittsburgh both have won the Harding Cup twice. If either wins this year the cup will pass per- manently out of competition. But Carl Kauffman, present holder of the na- tional title, qualified sixth in the tests at Pittsburgh, and under the rules of the Harding Cup play, cannot repre- sent his city in the team match. With Kauffman out, Preston believes Pitts- burgh's chance of victory i slim, and has only to watch Chicago, while cast- ing a weather eye toward the team he hopes will bring the cup back to Wash- ington, where it rested in 1924. Control Dependent On Hitting Through ‘Woman golfers seemingly sense the value of hitting through on all shots better than men. Mrs, Harry Pressler, Western women’s cham- pion, who developed a sound game by the one route ible—practice —soon learned that no shot could be MRS, HARRY PRESSLER BELIEVES IN HIFIING THROUGH —~ HERE SHE 15 AT FINISH OF controlled unless one hits through. ‘'The 1ron shot can be controued far better than the wood by *nis hif- ting-through process because one is closer to the ball and can more easily swing straight through it and on a line for the hole. Concentrate on hitting through the ball, and not on hitting the ball, in the same easy way you play the shot when you sweep a daisy head off the turf with iron or wood as you make your rounds. WOMAN GOLFERS BATTLE FOR POSITIONS ON TEAM | CHICAGO, July 25 (£).—The Women’s | Western Golf Association Club team championship will be decided, August 12, in a “contest against par” over the home courses of member clubs. Teams of four players, named before August 8, will play 18 holes on their own courses under rules laid down by the as- | sociation, the best total score to be re- warded by possession of a cup for one year. Permanent possession will be 5::ned by three victories in the compe- ition. Par for all courses will be determined on an arbitrary basis, decided by the as- soclation. Regardless of local ground rules, holes up to 190 yards in length will be par 3; from 191 to 350 yards, par 4; 351 to 500 yards, par 5, and from 501 yards up, par will be 6. GREAT GOLF FIELD [N CANADIAN OPEN Diegel Facing Hard Road to Keep Title in Tourney Starting Today. BY BRIAN BELL. Associated Press Sports Writer. KANAWAKL Quebee, July 25.— Some of the best golfers, pro- fessional and amateur, in the United States and Canada, = started out today with joy in | their hearts to assault par in the Ca- | nadian open championship. ‘They thought they had a decided edge on the old gentleman before the | competition started and on every hand suggestions were made that par golf —in this case, 280 for the 72 holes— would riot be good enough to win. The Kanawzki course, getting its name from the Indians it displaced, was not able to defend itself to any great extent, for the weather was allied with the enemy. It has been hot and dry and golf balls {properly hit roll great distances. Its |long holes impotent, the course will have to fall back on the short ones, to rally round. The bold golfers may find trouble in plenty at the five one-shot- ters, ranging from 110 yards at the third to 240 at the ninth. Some of the teeth {are removed from the ninth, however, by a big punch-bowl green, offering an {inviting target for a spoon or No. 1 iron. A great field gathered for the ti event, rich in prestige, but offering only |a nominal monetary award. The win- | ner will get only $400. At least two strong amateur threats appeared, George von Elm and Ross Somerville, and there may be others lurking in the shadows. Leo Diegel, who won the championship for the third time last year, found his path to a fourth honor disputed by practically every star pro in the business. Only Al Espinosa, runner-up in the United States open, was missing and the Espi- nosa family was represented by Abe, Western open champion. Some startling scores were compiled in the practice rounds, but today was another day when :he figures might reasonably be expected to mount. 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