Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 21

SPORTS. Tilden Is BIG BILL MAY RANK FRST TENTH TINE Although Stopped by French| He Has Held on to Top Rung at Home. BY ALAN J. GOULD, Assoclatgd Press Spor Editor. HREE years ago, Big Bill Tilden was abruptly checked by the surging rush of youthful French- men, after capturing the United States singles championship six times in a row. Over the period of 1920 to 1925, Big Bill was supreme. The rec- ord of seven championships, first set by | Dick Sears back in the eighties and equaled later by William Larned, ap- peared well within the grasp of Tilden until he ran into Cochet in 1926 and then Laceste in Cochet turned back Frapks hunter for the singles crown in 7928, Tilden being in official disfavor as an aftermath of his player- Writer row and was ruled out of action Now, the lanky American is back home after his last big campaign abroad, with no more Frenchmen in sight for the rest of the season. As a conse- quence, Big Bill has a royal chance to wade through the field at Forest Hills, starting September 7, to recapture the national title and ecqual the Sears- Larned mark. Should he do so, Tilden automaticall would clinch the No. 1 ranking position on the national list | for the tenth time in a row. Despite his | ups and downs of recent years, he has | never relinquished that dominating po- sition at home, although he was re- instated just in time to be put at the | head ot the class last February for lhe! ninth year. In the 10 national singles champion- ships he has tried for since 1918, Tilden has been champion 6 times, runner-up 3 times to R. Lindley Murray, Little Bill Johnston and Rene Lacoste, and quar- fer-finalist once, when he bowed to Henri Cochet. Little Bill was Big Bill's victim five times in the national finals and once in the semi-finals, in 1921, when Tilden's conquest df Wallace Johnson in the final represented an anti-climax. HEN Babe Herman first broke in with the Brooklyn Robins, his @akwardness in the field frequently made it doubtful whether he would block fly balls with his glove or his head. The Babe is still several kilome- ters short of the Tris Speaker standard of outfielding, but his heavy hitting has offset anything his critics may say about his defensive ability. Herman has been batting consistently around 400, threat- ing to give Brooklyn its first champion batsman since the palmy days of Jake Daubert and Zach Wheat. Herman is only one of the big sur- rises this year in the National League’s ig batting rampage. Chuck Klein and | Lefty Frank O'Doul of the Phillies also have been connecting. O'Doul led the parade earlier in the campaign. Klein 3% well on the way to beating Rogers Hornsby's league record of 42 homers | for a single season. EN years ago, Babe Ruth, after hit- ting 29 home runs for the Boston Red Sox and setting & new record, was sensational enough to be purchased for $135,000 by the Yankees and signed to 2 $30,000 contract. Klein, well beyond the 30-mark in August, in his first full ear as & big leaguer, is understood to ie working on a $3500 contract for 1929, e By the Assoclated Press. RYE, N. Y., August 16.—Four men | and four women—only thres of them from the East—remained in the run- ning today for the two singles cham- pinships of the annual Eastern Grass Court,_tennis tournament. In the men's singles the East still has big Bill Tilden and Frank Hunter, first two ranking players, to depend upon, but in the women's division only 16- year-old Sarah Palfrey of Boston re- mains to carry the banner of the At- Jantic seaboard. Although Tilden has dropped a set to nearly every opponent in this. tourna- ment, he was favored to beat John Doeg of Santa Monica, Calif, in the semi-final. Hunter’s opponent 1s H. W. | (Bunny) Austin of England, and the | match was regarded as something of a toss-up with Austin holding whatever | edge there was. In the women'’s division, Miss Palfrey, who gcored An amazing victory over Mrs. May Sutton Bundy of Santa Monica, defending champion and na- tional champion in 1904, was to meet Mrs, L. A, Harper of San Francisco in | the semi-final round. Mary Greef of Kansas City and Ethel Burkhardt of San Francisco were matched in the other bracket. FORE NEW STAR TO what might be expected from some one whose record has been replete with ef- regardless of the rules,” Brundage de- clared. trials at Cambridge last Summer prac- tically every member of the A. A. U. NG STAR, - WASHINGTON, D. Cy FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929. SPORTS. onceded Great Chance to Annex National Tennis Crown This Year By the Associated Press. In_the lithe frame of Johnny Van Ryn rests one-half of the power and skill of the world's greatest doubles tennis combination. And whether acting in concert or singly, Van Ryn, former intercol- legiate champion, is a tennis machine that lends encouragement to Amer- ica’s hope of recovering lost world laurels, Just two years past voting age, this former star of Princeton, who ‘with Wilmer Allison, the blond Tex- an, caused such devastation in their European foray, is regarded as one of the young Americans who ap- pear as potential successors to Til- den and Johnston in the role of world champlons. It has become a legend of tennls that Davis Cup play either makes or breaks a player. If this be so, then the world will come to recog- nize the individual greatness of Van Ryn as it does his ability as a doubles player since he and Allison won_the Wimbledon title and swept the French team off their feet in the Davis Cup matches in Paris. Fresh from his baptism in Davis Cup play, Van Ryn has returned to try his *hand at the major tennis honors of the United States, where e ranks sixth. The Orange, N. J., star Is worthy of producing a brand of tennis to worry the greatest American play- ers. His game is charcterized by the absence of a vulnerable point. All his strokes are played well, with his forehand drive as his best scoring weapon. In appraising Van Ryn it is well to remember that he is only 23, while Bill Tilden, acknowledged the world's greatest tennis player in his prime. was 28 when he became in- vincible. The years should deal kindly with Van Ryn. PADDOCK ARQUSES A A. U. IRE AGAIN Brundage Declares Article, Written by Runner, Full of Inaccuracies. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 16.—Charley Paddock, center of many an Amateur Athletic Union storm, again has drawn down upon his head the full force of offi- cial condemnation. Answering statements made by Pad- dock in the current issue of Colller's Weekly, Avery Brundage, president of the A. A. U, declared yesterday that Paddock, “by admitting that he has been sailing under false colors and never has been an amateur honestly,” has “confirmed the suspicions”, that nearly caused his disbarment from the 1928 Olympic team. “Paddock’s article is filled with in- accuracies and untruths, is sensation- alism of the rankest sort and is just forts to cash in on the athletic prowess Brundags said that after the Olympic IN JUNIOR TENNIS By the Associated Press. CULVER, Ind, August 16-—Junior ‘Boehmer, a St. Louis youth, who ap- ears as much at ease on the courts as *Big Bill” Tilden himself, today chal- lenged the march of Keith Gledhill, the elongated sharpshooter from Santa Baibara, to another national junior tennis singles championship. Upsetting some of the greatest stars in the Nation during the week to gain his opportunity, Boehmer was matched against Gledhill in the sémi-finals of the championship round. -While he was a distinct “underdog.” he looked like a serious threat to the Californian. In the other battle of the semi-final round, Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena, Calif., seeded second only to Gledhill, was matched against Robert Bryan of Chattanooga, Tenn., another “dark horse” of the tournament. The finals will be played tomorrow. Two championships, in the junior doubles an® woys’ doubles, were up for) decision today. In the junior event, Gledhill and Vines were matched against Bryan and Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., and were not expect- ed to have much of a battle, while Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Calif., and C. R. Hunt' of San Francisco were matched against Dick Hebard of White Plains, N, Y., national boys’ singles champion, | and Marco Hecht, New York. Hebard, a favorite to defend his gingles crown, today had Ben Friedman of Philadelphia for a semi-final oppo- nent, while Cohn met Frank Parker, diminutive Milwaukee youth, in the other half of the round for the boys’ !llle.l RAMBO OF LAFAYETTE WILL COACH PERSIANS PHILADELPHIA, August 16.—Al- though he still has another year at La- fayette College, S. Lee Rambo, veteran, has accepted a position as physical di- rector of the ,American College at Ceheram, Persia, and will sail from New York Saturday. Rambo was & member of the varsity backfleld squad at Lafayette for the last two seasons, and Coach Herb Mc- Cracken counted upon him as one of his mainstays this Fall. He plans to institute some of the American college sporis among the Per- slan and Arabian students enrolled at { | track and field committee and of the American Olympic committee felt that Paddock “repeatedly had capitalized his athletic fame, and had, therefore, forfeited his amateur standing.” Under the rules, however, the case reverted to the A. A. U. district in which Paddock was registered as an athlete, This district, the Southern Pacific "Assoclation of the A. A. U, cleared the sprinter and the national registration committee concurred. Pad- dock then went to Amsterdam with the team. Paddock's charges that he was “cheated” out of a place in the semi- final round of the 100-meter dash at the tryouts; that the heats were “sceded” in an effort to eliminate him; that the time announced for his heat was two-fifths of a second slower than actually was, and that he was forced to return to the West Coast to compete in the section tryouts at Los Angeles, all were categorically denied by Daniel .‘14 AFerer, secretary-treasurer . of MRS. MARTINEZ, MISS WAKERFORD WIN AT NETS MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Md, Au- gust 16.—Marywill Wakeford.and Mrs. Ruth Martinez have survived prelimi- nary play in the Western Maryland tennis tourney and were to compete today in semi-finals.. Miss Wakeford is slated to meet Mir- iam Sullivan of Pittsburgh, seeded No. 3, whordowned Mrs. Margaret Graham of Wagshington, 6—2. Mrs, Marti- nez'’s semi-final o] ent was to be Margaret Carspecken. Miss Wakeford downed Mrs. Adele ‘Winchester, 6—3, 6—1, in the quarter- finals yesterday, while Mrs. Martinez was disposing of Dolly Harris, Ratcliffe College star, 6—4, . ‘Two upsets marked the semi-final play in the men’s division. B. 8. Arkle of Wheeling, W. Va., defeated Sam Cohn, the ranking player: of the tour- ney, 9—17, 8—6, and M. C. Rhinehart of Pittsburgh scored over Bill Ramsey, seeded No. 2, 6—3, 10—8 Woman's doubles and play was to get under way today. Miss ‘Wakeford is teamed with Mrs. Graham in the woman’s event, while Mrs. Mar- tinez is paired with Dolly Harris. BRI “TALL TIMBER” AT COLGATE. Eighteen members of this year's foot ball squad at Colgate stand 6 feet or taller and average 196 Tixed doubles | S08ch— Aims to Travel 500 Miles To Play Six Golf Courses DES MOINES, August 16 (A).— Russell Haas is planning to travel 500 miles next Tuesday, play nine holes of golf in each of five towns, ;lnd top off the day with a few holes ere. Haas proposes to take-off at 4:30 am. in an airplane for Ottumwa, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Fort Dodge and Ames. In each town he is to play a round of golf with a local golfer. Last year he played Des Moines' five golf courses with an average score of 75 for each 18 holes. | Straight Off the Tee R. JOHN MONTEITH of th Department of Agriculture is looking forward to the largest turnout of greenkeepers and greens committee chairmen ever entertained in Washington when the United States Golf Association Greens Section makes its annual pil- grimage to the turf garden at Arlington next Monday. During the two-day | visit to Washington, the visitors will be given an opportunity to see any or all of the golf courses about the Capital and observe the effect of the unusually prolonged heated spell on the putting greens. They also will be shown a strip of a new kind of velvet bent, which has been developed by the de- partment and is believed to be more highly resistant to brown patch than any grass yet discovered. The program for the second day of the meeting will be in the hands of the Middle Atlantic Association of Greenkeepers, which also will give a dinner for the visitors at the Hamilton Hotel next Monday night. Comdr. 8. K. Stoddard is the winner of the Tomahawk Cup at the Indian Spring Golf Club. Playing with a handicap of 18 strokes per round, Comdr: Stoddard turned in a total gross score of 343, which made his net total for the four rounds of medal play 271. He scored a gross 78 on his last round, which enabled him to finish the event a stroke in front of I. J. Henderson, who played with 22 handicap and had ; net total of 272. Comdr. Stoddard’s ounds were 94, 84, 87 and 78. Hen- derson’s rounds were 97, 93, 92 and 88. R. A. Bryant finished in third place with a net total of 279, while fourth gg?)ce went to Donald C. McNeale with Four youthful golfers around Wash- ington, all of whom have figured up in the big tournaments, are to meet shortly in a challenge match. The four are Tom Bones, jr, and John Owens of Columbia and Henry D. Nicholson and Frank 3 h of Washington. The Columbia pair will play the Washington pair in the first of a series of home-and-home matches at_Columbia on Sunday. Roger Peacock and Byrn Curtiss, two up and coming young golfers from In- dian Spring, are slated to oppose Sid- n’::tr.n (z Moore m:' Ar:hla Clark, u,- s} professionals at Congressional, :’n a match at Congressional on Mon- ay. STAGG, 67, LOOKIN TO GRID CAMPAIGN By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 16.—Amos Alonzo Stay celebrated sixty-seventh birthday today. Next month the, “grand old man” of ill start his _fortieth team this Fall. The 67-year-old foot ball genjus man- ages to beat his 18-year-old son on the ' courts about every other day. : : \ CALIFORNIA COACH NOW IS ON “TRIAL" Price, It Is Declared, Must" Have Winner This Year or Lose His Job. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. VERY time a breath of foot ball wafts eastward from California you hear something about t opposition to Clarence Price, the coach at Berkeley. If he doesn't win this year, his lot will be a widely opened gate. Assuming that there is a strong op- position to Price, a disinterested ob- server can feel nothing other than amazement that such a condition should exist. For Price, to the writer's mind at least, has done a magnificent job for the University of California. ‘When upon the death of Andy Smith Price inherited the 1926 team, he had an outfit of which no coach in the world could have made anything. In Philadelphia shortly before his death Smith told the writer that his prospects for the next yéar were absolutely nil. ‘This was the squad Price was called upon to handle following Smith's death. It did not win against any conference rival, and no one who knew anything about the material expected that it would. But the following year, 1927, Cali- fornia held three of the greatest elevens ever developed on the coast, Stanford and Southern California and Washing- ton, to close games. Beaten in all of them, the Bears showed a lot of power and a lot of foot ball. That was Price’s second year at the helm. Last Fall his team defeated Oregon and Washington, held Southern California, 0-0, and tied Stanford, 13-13. California has some exccllent mate- rial in hand for the approaching season, and the writer is firmly convinced that the team will reflect the genius of/its coach beyond anybody's denial. Clearance SALE All makes and sizes. Lowest prices. 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So he -began experimenting with stance and swing, and found that even though it wasn't a bad one, he had a slight loop in his swing with the wooden_clubs, which produced the ef- fect of hitting the ball from the outside in, instead of from the inside out, and which cut down his distance, even though it aided his accuracy. He had been using an open stance, that is with the right foot advanced beyond the left on the line to the hole. And in the course of his experiments, he tried pull- ing that right foe around until he had approximated a square stance, of quite the sare efficacious style as that | used by Tommy and Sandy Armour, Change Helps Him. Moore found the change thoroughly worth while. For one thing, it com- pelled him to hit from the inside out, or rather alded hitting from the in-| side out, and almost completely elimi- | nated the swing across the body, which | cut down his distance. Now his club swings free from the back swing on a4 loop that brings it into the ball still | moving forward instead of across the | line, and as a result he is getting vastly increased distance. } Yesterday, for example, he knocked one on the second hele down tq the| Golf Challengers ‘ BY BRIAN BELL, Associated Press Sports Writer. | EORGE VOIGT is a golfer of | undoubted ability, who has | threatened repeatedly to win a major championship. | Last year he was the med- alist in the amateur, with a brilliant | 36-hole score of 143, after he had failed to_qualify at Minnikahda in 1927. Predictions were freely made that | voigt would move straight into the finals with Bobby Jones, as they were |in different brackets. The raven- | thatched Voigt, however, was defeated | in the semi-finals by Phil Perkins, Brit- | ish amateur champion, and it was Per- kins, not Voigt, who furnished a Jones | hoRday in the final. | Voigt has won many lesser titles. He | has had a long lease on the North | and South amateur title and he is the | only amateur to capture the Lgng Is- { land open. In 1928 he ran through a long string {of invitation tournaments, winning most of them. He was not so good a | year later and found it hard to get | started. |~ 'The former Washingtonian, now a | New Yorker, is a great iron player, with a heavy accent on accuracy. He is not | a long player from the tee, but nor- | mally is a great putter. | 'The Pebbie Beach course, where the | 1920 championship will be held, pays dividends for accuracy, and Voigt's en- | thusiastic supporters declare it is “made | for him Moore, Little Congressional Pro, Is Displaying Fine Golf! dip in front of the green. The ball carried over the corner of the trap which is supposed to keep the big hitters from taking the short cut and left him but a simple pitch to.the green. On the eighth he got back of another and knocked it 360 yards or more, 50 far that he had only a mashie niblick shot left to the green on this par 5 hole. Sidney hadn’t driven so far on the eighth in so long he had forgotten the | shot and he proceeded to dump the ball in one of the traps that fringe the | green. But he covered the nine holes | in 36 strokes, which is one better than | par, and is no mark for any man to laugh at. Newcomer to United States. Moore has been in this country only | a little more than a year, coming to| Congressional from the Dunwoodie Club | of New York, where he had been with his brother. His first big splash in the local professional firmament came at the Annapolis Roads course, where he | registered a cool 70, which set a new | record for that testing layout, and incidentally won him quite a nice piece | of change in the amateur-pro event | played that day. | A few days later he went over to| Rolling Road, near Baltimore, where he and his partner finished in sccond place | in the junior amateur - professional | event. Moore has negotiated the Con- | gressional course in 70 once or_twice, | and is hopeful of cracking the 70 mark | before many more days roll around. = | Notwithstanding his small stature he | is'a very long hitter and is one of the very best putters among tHe local pro- fessionals. If Moore keeps on the path he is traveling he seems destined to| make a name for himself as a playing | professional. _Another lad in the Con- gressional shop—Archie Clark—youth- ful and popular North Carolinian, has just made a 71 over the Congressional | course. Clark is another youngster who | knné:ks the ball as far as any one can‘l send it. Left Arm Controls Entire Backswing BY SOL METZGER. ESPINOSA WiTe A \STRAIGHT \\LE.Ff ARM et (i (g r— ‘Watch Abe Espinosa and Tommy Armour play their long or short iron shots and again you'll have proof that the trick is to control the en- tire swing with the straight left arm. Also, you'll discover that there is no body sway and little pivot or hip turn. The left heel remains in contact with the turf, too Just @ straight back low swing that is unhurried, with the grip of both hands firm on the club. There is no overswinging, either, as the sketch of Espinosa at the top will show. ‘Then comes the wrist cock and a slow start down swing with the straight left arm, the wrists remain- ing cocked for that final unleashing of power. until just before contact with the ball, the smash through that speeds up the clubhead at con- tact. This, in turn, imparts back- spin to the ball as well as eleva- tion. And it's a straight through }’;n in order to keep the ball true to ne. Incident of Davis Cup Matches Arouses Discussion in German_y, By the Adsociated Press N_incident of the Davis Cup wide discussion. Germany won the European | Britain when H. W. “Bunny” Austin | sustained a wrenched thigh ich ulti- | ing match to Daniel Prenn, the Ger- man ace. | matches has unloosed a nation- | zone final match from Great | mately forced him to default the decid- Tennis circles now are debating the | | question of whether a match should | continue when one of the players is not in condition physical 1 A number of physicians said they | favored terminating a match as soon | as the physical unfitness of a contestant | becomes apparent. One holding this viewpoint is Dr. Her- | ann Engel, sports physician for the | “Blau-Weiss” tennis club, | ‘An_end should be put to a contest by a medical examination at the mo- | ment when it becomes apparent that | one side enjoys a handicap because an | injury has been sustained by the other,” | he says. “This would make for more de- | Always MOR Miles - and Power mental to health and more from a sporting point of view.” Those who disagree assert it is ex- tremely difficult to say just when the moment for medical intervention arrives. They fear that the most interes matghes may be spoiled by some o officious doctor. Their remedy for acci- dents caused by over-straining, is a greater reserve of first-class players. sthetic COMPETITION IS SCARCE, S0 GIRL STAR PLAYS MEN WICHITA, Kans, August 16 (F).— There weren't any Wichita women who would enter a tournament against Mae Ceurvorst, southpaw tennis player, 5o she had to enter the men's tournament. Playing against the sterner sex, she says, gave her the needed experience to win the women’s singles championship of the Missouri valley. Now she secking more fields to conquer. For Every Car And How/ R R QR S NET PLAY CLOSE ON PLAYGROUNDS | Three Sets Rule Among Boys. Girls’ Matches Are Not So Hotly Fought. featur- and sct matches in the girls’ he third round of robin net ay at the | & the interplayzround rour | series was completed yeste | centers. | Mike McReady of New York Avenue featured the junior boys’ pia ; ing over Sam Minnie of Rose | 6—4 McReady, though ors, has pro diest. furnished tourney for bo ace of Garfield, & The 16-16 ) and Albert Ba yesterday, but w vas not completed s expected to be sectional” goal in the colored, lay, scoring over Goldic Wood Butler of Cardo - clafm the section 2 meet the winners of | the colored doubles ¢ | Louis | sirable: decisions of a nature less detri- (Rosed Colored e 3 30, defeated ROWS TO KEEPVIN 1:RIM. For f. 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