Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1929, Page 73

ROLLING ROAD CLUB FVENT OPENS PLAY D. C. Amateur Championship at Congressional Is High Spot of Season. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HE season of tournament golf again is advancing upon the golf legions of Washington. An August without a big tourna- ment has passed and with the .eoming of expected cool weather club and invitation events again dot the If calendar as thick as missed putts g a duffers’ match. Not only do all the clubs have tournaments of one sort or another for their own members only, .but no fewer than four big open events are listed along the golf horizon as Summer passes swiftly into Fall and the legions of the links who do not lay during the warm months take heir implements in hand again to make ready for the Fall golf wars. The Rolling Road Golf Club of Ca- tonsville, Md., takes the lead in usher- ing in the golf tournament season for the months of October and September with its invitation tournament, billed to start over the Rolling layout between Baltimore and Ellicott City next Wed- nesday. Quite a group of Washington players will make the trip over to Ca- tonsville to play in the event, although many of the entrants from the Capital will be from the Indian snflnsnoolf Club, which has been closer to ling Road, through the medium of frequent team matches, than any other Wash- ington club. Bannockburn Invitation Event. No sooner will the Rolling Road tour- nament be completed than most of the golfers about Washington will be pre- aring for the Bannockburn invitation ammamem.. the first of three major events to be held in the Capital area during the Fall. The Bannockburn tourney, won last year by Frank K. is scheduled for September inclusive, and entries close Sep- ber 15. This tournament will be conducted on the so-called Pinehurst system, in which all entrants must qualify in the flight rated by their handicaps. The following week will come the h t of local golf for the year, with the playing of the District amateur championship at the Congressional 18-21, tem! 7 THE HIGHEST GOLF COURSE mv# 3600 FEET A- Joe LAND()A()INNIPEG) FLAYED A BO-MILE HOLE, CROS5%-COUNTRY. IN 753 STROHES W 1901 E.THNAPP OF WeSTBROOK, TEED UP HIS TG 9 208y g WASH, THe LONGEST GOLF HOLES IN e WORLD ARE AT e COHANZICK C C. NewJemeyg HOT SPRING S, ARKANSAS. AND EVIAN-LES- BAINS.fng, EAcH 19 700 YARDS LONG. ) MAVE A HOLE gm:flyuwwfi AT TeYATEYANENG, L oA (1] 4HeRE 15 A GOLF COURSE AT WITH A 7TOYARD HOLE, THE GREEN BEING 70 YARDS HIGI HER THAN THE TEE/ {PARE, MANGIN FALL INU. S, NET EVENT Day’s Play—Outstanding Favorites Score. BY TED VOSBURGH, Associated Press Sports Writer. OREST HILLS, N. Y., September 7.—America’s Davis Cup team en masse swept through the opening matches of the forty- eighth national les cham- plonship at the West Side Stadium this afternoon without the loss of one set. Big Bill Tilden, starting after his seventh American crown, lost only glllnlp ma:lln m:nnmu.‘ his youth- P rotege, Strachan of 5 , by scores of 6—2, Chitage Thidens peincipes Sival, mowed icago, 'S val, mow down Elilott Binzen of New York at 6—1, 6—0, 6—1. ‘Wilmer Allison, the Texan, crushed Emmett Pare of Georgetown Univer- sity, rational clay court champion, at 6—4, 6—2, 6—4, and Johnny Van Ryn, his Davis Cup doubles partner against the Prench, brushed aside the lanky Springfield, Mass., player, Edward Mc- Knight, at 6—2, 6—2, 6—2. The first international campaigner, Frank Hun- ter, finalist last year, needed all his famous nghm;’ spirit to subdue young Eddie Jacobs Baltimore, 10—8, 7—5, —1. Many of the opening day's matches were one-sided, but the gallery of 2,500 received & surprise or two near the end of the afternoon when Norman G. Far- quharson of South Africa’s Davis Cup team, was blasted out of the tourna- meni by a former Cornell player, Edgar F. Dawson of New York, 8—10, 6—1, 6—3, 6—4, and Gregory Mangin, pride of Newark, N. J., and Georgetown Uni- versity, met summary elimination at the hands of Arnold Jones of Provi- Farqul to Bunny Austin of En of foreign stars, whi placed eighth among the leading Ameri- can_contenders. The only other break in the seeded ranks came when German Upmann of Cuba’s Davis Cup team was spilled by J.l_d_: Mooney, Atlanta, Ga,, Among the day's other surprises was the uphill struggle Johnny Doeg, the glant Californian southpaw, was forced to wage to defeat Jerry Lang, one time Columbla ace, at 5—7, 4—6, 6—1, 6—4, Victims of Upsets in First | NE of the finest bits of golf that has been eonmbuugmalm any outfielder for the Washington club, who bats and hits a golf ball in same way, from the unorthodox side of the plate—or tee plates. Sam found himself 3 strokes back of Byrn @urtiss after the first round in the competition for the Namandji Nindj trophy @t In- dain Spring, and, not being used to ggxg wuofle‘. he proceeded to lessen ap. l«' :ell dld he succeed that he shot If was wierd and wonderful. for him the uncannily accurate strok- ing of a Jones, nor the monotonous ac- curacy of Horton Smith. Sam offers in his golf. and fourteenth And at the end rs for a 70. no discredit twelfth, _thirteenth were much the same. Sam needed & brace of That he didn’t get them to him, for on each en his putt skidded lightly by the lip of the cup. As a piece of mastery in recovery work, mce"n winning effort is in a class by itself. And then there was Jack Gilmore, who _plays with an iron from the tee at Congressional, accepting a stroke handicap on the long holes from M. Parker Nolan and Sidney Moore, stick- ing his_third shot 10 feet from the pin at the long tenth hole at Congressional | to sink the putt for an eagle 4, which was turned into a literfl 3 because of | the stroke handicap. For that tenth hole at Congressional, after masquer- ading for two years as a par 5 (which it is not) has n changed back to a par 6, and isn't a good 6. What is the cognomen for a hole 3 strokes KI‘;’&?’ than par?. Would it be a eondor, |?1-“r d.;l albatross; or merely a humming | But the prize luck yarn of the sea- | |son was brought back from Richmond by A. F. Bergman, secretary of the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers’ Association. R. Cliff McKimm! Virginia State open championship. [ A ‘Then he went out in the afternoon and t | chairman Shanks of the ; 3 ) um,“&u&s-mz;cx. | ment will complete their engagement | often stumped for a comeback by way of repartee. But he was stymied the other day by L. W. Laudick, who told a small group of golfers in the Columbia locker room how Everett Eynon could have taken five putts on the sixteench green at Columbia and still would have won the hole from Banagan, The big aide to Fred McLeod ran into consid- erable trouble on this hole and finally got down in seven strokes. Senior golfers of the Chevy Chase Club are !rou:dln‘ well along toward the second round in the competition for the September Morn Cup, l;’;‘ln(ed m comm! tee for those members who remained in the city during August and early September. While eight matches have not yet been completed, most of them :nmv':‘been played with the following re- Gen. H. P. M Oroy (1), by aeiaults Adsirel M. T Ta F shoged ', Shan, B, Benjamin (18], by 'default: Brantiey (13) defeated' William ¥ Ham (151; by default:"E. O. Wagenhorst (7) defeated Admiral W. H. Standley (4), 6 and D. C. Shanks (12) defeated Arian V. man_(12), by default: Hugh M. Sout! (6) defeated E. H. Loftus (7), by default. Robert Stead, Jr. chairman of the golf and grounds committee, and Dick Watson, the club greenkeeper, are con- vinced that the new twelfth green at the Chevy Chase Club will materially | improve the hole and make & better sec. d shot than the shot to the present . The new green is nearing com- letion and will shortly be planted o grass, expected play during the Fan U0 10 be in RAIN HALTS MATCHES IN MUNY NET LEAGUE Rain interferred with play in the Public Parks Tennis League yesterd: Potomac and Monument teams, how- ever, managed to complete seven matches, with the former winning four. Rock Creek and Henry Park played sev- eral matches. Potomac and Monu-| Tuesday evening, at 5 o'clock, on the| Potomac Park courts, and Rock Creek and Henry Park play will be completed t: | champion H tional indoor doubles or - championship for BOSTON GIRL WINS NET CROWN AGAIN Miss Palfrey Easily Defends Junior Title From Miss Marlowe. By the Associajgd Press. PHILAD! , September 17— Showing the same consistent tennis that she displayed throughout the week’s tournament, Sarah Palfrey of Boston today retained the girls’ national singles lawn tennis champ! ip by defeating Cati, I sitaight sss: The saorts wee . sets. The scores were 6—2, 6—1 ‘With her sister, Mianne, the yesterday won the national doubles title for the time. The sisters also hold the les s third na- Miss Marlowe, Pacific Coast and California State junior champion, served first, but lost the game at love. She then retailated to take the second Gen. | 8ame on Miss Palfrey’s service. The champion took the next three games principally on a number of placements. In ‘the fifth game Miss Marlowe gained a love point on a kill at the net, but that was about the only time the Boston girl allowed th= Holly- wood player to come to midcourt. M,ss rblln‘rll)w! is particularly effective at the et. ‘The sixth game, on Miss Palfrey's service, went to Miss Marlowe after it had come to deuce. The seventh game was won by the champion after it had been deuced, and a pair of placements and two nets on the part of the Californian gave the champion the first set. Miss Marlowe did not play the second set with the same confidence as the first and got only one game, the second, on Miss Palfrey’s delivery. ‘The girls displayed excellent base line driving throughout the match. Miss Palfrey had some difficulty with her service. The first always failed to go in and she served several double faults. The Boston champion earned the -{glnuse of the gallery which crowded tl Philadelphia Cricket Club house porch and stands by the beautiful placements the sent down the side lines when she needed a point. Miss Marlowe could not get near them as BANK NETMEN TO PLAN POST-SEASON TOURNEY literally burned up the course, playing | Wednesday evening at § o'clock on the the first nine holes in 32 strokes and | Rock Creek courts. getting back much of the ground he had | “gymmaries of the Potomac-Monument | To discuss plans for a post-season lost in the morning. A torrential rain- | mgtches: | tournament, teams of the Bankers’ Ten- storm burst and McKimmie, like the | "SINGLES—O'Neil (P) defeated Staubly. | nis League will meet at Harriman other contestants, lost & few shots. But | 36, 6—3. 6-4; Walsh (M) defeated Bd- | Go's office tomOrrow night at 8 o'clock = ‘when he went info | 6—4; 8—0: Garnett (M.) defeated Gold. | T . the big blow came smith, 6—4, 8—6; Hermann (P.) defeated | It is hoped to have at least one repre- ::::n gxmdngd dl::ogrecg“fl:;’: &a Silva’ 78, 6—1: Rathgeber (P) defeated | sentative from each bank present. Second, round o e tourney and make | SSURLEE GRS he sy (5 az. | LEREYT Al for the season il be Pitt and Carnegte, both using Pitt's| \b & S4-hole aflair, thus throwing out | 52) osarlo'snd Silvt i) deicaiea Poiinrd | .mm...'.“cmpm'& to buy a fleld cover, | IR W —" | m"‘i"’?"c: "and Goidsmith of Potomac on extra . 5 Country Club. Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia is working himself into first- class playing condition to defend the title he won last year over his home course, and will take a lot of beating before he drops the title at Congres- | | | (barring pitch and putt and indoor courses) is the three-hole links on the Isle of May. Golf has been played at a much higher altitude than at the Gulmarg, India, course. Capt. F. E. 8. Ada once held a putting competition 16,- 000 feet above sea level in one of the passes into Tibet, and the in- mates of the Tibetan Mission at Gyantse played the game at a height of 13,100 feet in 190 6—1. As Kenneth Appel of South Orange, |N. J, felt ill, his match with Frank Shields, New York, was posf ed until | tomorrow morning. This will the only | match played until Monday, when the tournament proper resumes. ‘Two Englishmen did a similar stunt & few years previously, play- ing & 20-mile hole in 608 strokes. Rupert Phillips and Raymond ‘Thomas were the gents in _question. and they started at 2 p.m. December 3, from the first tee at Radyr and finished at 1:30 p.m. December 5 at the eighteenth hole at Southern- down, averaging 58 yards a stroke. (That's about my average on a regu- sional. He won the Congressional in- vitation tournament last June. The | dates for the District titular event are September 25 and 26. The following week the Manor Club swings into action with its first annual invitation tournament, an affair that will formally introduce the course FUNNY game, this golf! And funny people, these golfers! Back in 1901 a Mr. E. T. Knapp of Westbrook, U. 8. A,,t was 30 l.fletct:ge :y laying “‘cow] ure pool” A e &ez l:ll .""D;S‘" up on top of a hen's egg, slightly denting the egg at one end to afford a hold for the : 1S antes on. Bie dome. or. cise Ken Penner of the Cubs is not sea- Alllhfi%d!n!:ld Dl;ohél a;)me. ltzr e‘:e he had read abouf ‘aggott, the soned. He has pitched for Portland, Sacramento, Houston and Indianapolis. through the pine woods to most of the local golfers. Many of them have heard of the difficulties of that new first nine at Manor, but only a comparative few have sampled its terrors. The fun will come in the qualifying round as the fleld tries to avoid the woods, and suc- ceeds only in getting into other sorts of trouble, Doubtless September will ‘bring the usual late rains, which wil make the Manor Club-course & much better layout than it is now, for fast fairways do not make Manor any easier, ‘The dates for this tournament are Oc- tober 2-5, inclusive, and Chairman Ray F. Garrity and his golf committee as- sociates are leaving no stone unturned to make the first invitation tourna- ment of the club a.record breaker for hospitality and good sport. Annapolis Roads Plan Tourney. The Annapolis Roads Golf Club, owner of the great course down on Chesa) Bay, where the Severn runs into the bay, already is planning a tournament for October, although the dates have not definitely been decided upon. The event probably will be a two-day medal play affair, in order to get away from the Stiff formality of match play tournaments as they usually are held about Wash- ington and Baltimore. It will be strictly & personal invitation event, with invita- tlons limited because the course is a nine-hole affair and it will be impos- ::I:lzo‘tgr .unhmm‘; lth;‘n 75' or 80 play- ver & nine-hole layout durin, lhf;t r:lt]l of ?;wbe\;. 4 i ‘ween these larger affairs are scheduled many purely club events, Indian Spring has an impressive Fall schedule. 8o has the Washington Golf and Counrty Club. Columbia plans to hold its club championship as early in October as possible. And during the month of September the woman play- ers will not be idle. Next Tuesday they are to play in a miniature tournament at Congressional and the following ‘Tuesday Mrs. Frank R. Keefer of Chevy Chase will lead a group of eight woman players to Richmond to play s team :r!,(ngrrlbol ;.hevli:l'rmux from the Coun- ub_ of ia, led 5 Charles Withers. i During the same week, the women's championship of the Chevy Chase Club is to be played, and within a short time the star golfers of the city will engage in warfare for The Evening Star Trophy, held by Winifred Faunce of the Manor Club. The Star cup event will be played at the Chevy Chase Club October 7 and 8. And we must not overlook the Army golf championship, billed to be played over the course of the Army, Navy and Marine corgn Country Club beginning September 24 and continuing for five days. Yes, golf about Washington is due for a busy {.‘ln;‘e during the coming month and a alf. Junior Tourneys This Week. 8o thick and fast do the tournaments come that junior title holders of two clubs will be crowned next Tuesday, when the junior championships of the ‘Washington Golf and Country and the Indian Spring clubs will be settled. James G. Drain will defend his junior title at the Washington club, and Roger recently crowned king of the he won s“:,th;.n:‘ :lt. dl:l‘del-;: mwm:ml Washington has another highly in- Peacock, District FILIPINO NET TOURNEY. Play in the second annual closed 'nurnzment for Filipino Club members will start next Sunday on the Monu ment Courts Entries are now belnf - ceived by the athletic committee ol club. - BALTIMORE FOUR SCORES. English professional, who once shot nine holes in 41, driving off of the face of a watch at each tee. ‘Then consider the case of Joe Land and Hugh Fletcher, Winnipeg golf pros, who played a 50-mile hole across wheatflelds, woods, lakes, ditches and farmyards, Joe Landing winning with an “eagle” 753, while his opponent had a_“birdie’ 802. ‘They started at the Kirkfield Club and finished three days later at the Alcrest Club, and were accompanied six caddies and two checkers, and, oh, yes, & lunch wagon! lar course!) They played around swamps, woods and ploughed fields, being aided by two large ordnance maps. The Teyateyaneng Golf Club, South Africa, not only has a 37- yard hole but also one that mea- sures 619 yards long, which is ex- ceeded in length only by the three 7700-yarders mentioned above—un- less my records are incomplete. The eleventh at St. Annes, England, is to be the 599 yards, and is sup) in the world GIRLS'D. C. TENNIS = TOURNEY THURSDAY Fourth Annual Junior Net Championship Entries Close Wednesday. HE fourth annual District of Co- Jumbia junior net champion- ships for girls will be played on the Edgemoor Club courts, start- ing Thursday morning, Septem- ber 12, at 10:30 o’clock. Entries are open for both singles and doubles events, and will close for the singles, Wednesday evening. 7The draw- il:r will be l:m:hwneed ‘rhur;ldlny l]lwnl- throug| e press. players should enter their names with Caroline Jansen, chairman of the tournament committee, at North 7186, before Wed- nesday evening for singles and before Thursday night for doubles. Miss Jan- sen will receive entries after 4 o'clock every afternoon from now until the hour that the lists close. Matches will be played off in the morning so far as is posible. Any girls unable to play before 3 o'clock will have their matches arranged c¢n_the court of Mrs. Fred Keplinger of Bat- tery Park, Md, who has kindly con- sented to turn her court and equip- ment over to the committee for use during the tournament. It will be an open season for the singles title, now held by Marian Wells, who will be ineligible this year since her eighteenth birthday canre before the first of January of last year. All girls who are under 18 or who passed their eighteenth birthday since January 1, 1929, are eligible. Clara Alderton also will be out, of the running. opening the doubles field to all comers, too, for it was Miss Alder- ton who, paired with Loveye Adkins, won the doubles crown in 1923. Miss Adkins will be one of the strong threats in the singles list, however, if she , a8 18 expected. ntry fee ol .50 will be charged for singles play and 50 cents per per- son for the doubles. KOZAK WINS GOTHAM PRO GOLF TOURNEY By the Associated Press. FLUSHING, N. Y. September 7.— |FAIR BRITISH STARS listening for the news longest on a cham ‘The smallest course SNAKE IS IN GOLF CUP | OF SHOTPUT CHAMPION By the Assoclated Press. ‘To Herman Brix, national A, A. U.| shotput champion and former tackle on the University of Washington foot ball team, golf holds more thrills than all other sports put together. He won a set of clubs this Summer and thought he would try his hand at the ancient Scottish pastime. On_the eleventh hole at a Seattle club Brix had beginner's luck to sink a chip shot and he roared with glee. A few seconds later he let loose with a second and louder yell. In reaching into the cup for his ball his hand grasped a cold, clammy substance that wasn't metal. It was a snake. MAKE TENNIS SWEEP By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, September 7.—The British woman members of the Wight- man Cup team made a clean sweep of the _exhibition tennis games with America by taking the concluding singles and two doubles matches today lut:edr winning all three encounters yes- ay.* Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, after losing the first set at love to Miss Ruth Balley of St. Louls, recovered mastery of her strokes and won the last two sets, 6—4, 6—3. Miss Betty Nuthall, English cham- plon, and Mrs. Phoebe Watson, easlly disposed of Miss Mary Greef, Kansas City, and Miss Marjorie Gladman, Santa Monica, Calif., 6—3, 6—2. Miss Gladman then paired with Miss Edith Cross, S8an Francisco, in a last desperate effort to wrest one victory for America, but fell after taking one set from Mrs. B. C. Covell and Mrs. Shepherd-Barron. The scores were 3—6, 6—1, 6—2, ‘The British players, accompanied by the two Californians, left tonight for the Pacific Coast. 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