Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 45

. SP ORTS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929, NEW YORK GOLFER OVERCOMES SHITH Match Is Decided on the 37th Green—Hagen, Diegel Are Winners. BY PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. OS ANGELES, December 4.— Horton Smith, 21-year-old pride of the Missouri Ozarks, today was listed among the missing as 16 survivors in the Professional Golfers’ Association championship went into their second round of match lay. e superb drives and putts of Craig | ‘Wood, youthful Long Island, N. Y., pro- | fessional, turned the trick of eliminat- ing one of the favorites in the first| round of match play yesterday, replete | with outstanding performances. Leo Diegel, defending champion, turned in a sparkling 64 for his morn- ng 18, a new competitive course record and a good start on an sd\'nntaqe‘ which enabled him to oust P. O. Hart, THE SPO ‘These men of purich an Have suffered long the ‘The taste of linament a The mongre! crowd, wit But in the ring these m Blood-spattered from a They crouch indifferent Thinking of come-back Staring at navel till the Drives them once more Behind each blow. The gloves are tattered, Have turned to thunderl Working Philosophy. When you come to a wall that has no gate there are three moves left— smash through — climb over — walk | around. But don't turn back. To quit in the face of a tough break 15 to miss the chance to ride forward with the turning tide. ‘Wheeling, W. Va., 10 and 9. No less outstanding was the rousing | comeback of Walter Hagen. Apparently | unmindful of the troublesome qualify- | ing round Monday which saw him stumble almost into elimination, the | five-time winner of the P. G. A. event| ended his match with Bob Shave of | Aurora, Ohio, on the twenty-elghth | green 9 and 8. Just to prove that the| course, which saw him medal a 149 on opening day, held no power over him, the great g” played the first 18 in | 5 under par, 66. Wood Win Upset. But 1t was Wood's victory over Smith which supplied the greatest upset in a duel which went to the thirty-seventh green before a birdie three forced the | Joplin,” Mo., professional into defeat. Among the chosen 16, 8 of whom face elimination today, was Fred Mor- | rison, medalist, the Los Angeles pro-| fessional fought an up-hill battle be- | fore winning 5 and 4 from Jo» Kirk- wood, trick-shot artist from Philadel- | phia. A former open champion, Gene Sarazen, Fresh Meadow, N. Y., stands | in Morrison's path today. By strange coincidence Hagen, Bill | Mehlhorn, New York, and Henry Cuict, | Mill River, Conn., the trio which was | forced into a twilight series to earn the | right to enter yesterday's play—all sur- vived their matches. Diegel will meet Herman Barron, Philad=Iphia, a comparative stranger in | big time golf, while Hagen is confronted | by Charlie Guest, Los Angeles profes- | sional. Both are conceded the edge | over their opponents. Task for Espinosa. Al Espinosa, Chicagoan, whom Diegel, | defeated in the final bracket at Balti- more a year wgo, must subdue “Wild Bill” Mehlhorn to continue in the race. Wood, flushed with the Smith | Victory, can count on Neil Christian, Portland, Ore., professional, to give him another tough round. The North- | westerner turned in one of the import- ant cards yesterday by _eliminating Frank Walsh, Chicago, 6 and 5 Other matches on today's schedule: Larry Nabholtz, Houston, Tex., \S.‘ Al Watrous. Detroit. | Nl-lem'y Cuici vs. Farrell, Long Island, Y. ‘Tony Manero, New York, vs. Eddie Schultz, Troy, N. Y. SOUTHWEST-BIG TEN | CLASH IS ARRANGED B the Associated Pre | DALLAS, Tex., December 4 —Direc- tors of the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children ha approved the rroposed “Dixie classic” foot ball game | New Year day between teams selected from graduating members of Southwest Conference and Big Ten elevens. | All proceeds of the game over ex- | penses will got to the hospital fund. | Present plans are that Ray Morrison. | coach of the Southern Methodist Uni. versity eleven, runner-up for the South. west crown, will coach Southwest “All | Stars,” while Jimmy Phelan, coach of the undefeated Purdue machine, will b2 mentor for the Big Ten aggrega- tion. The Big Ten athletes are expected to assemble in St. Louis or Chicago December 23, and come direct to Dallas for training. The Bouthwestern team gather here on Christmas or the day after. Phelan is expected to use two former It is the contrast of ups and downs in any game that makes it interesting. The entry who discoversh e can tal.e it and still come back is pretty well set. A blind man’s second sight is as good as the fellow who uses a fleld glass. The debater who gets excited in an argument rarely has the facts to back up his play. The cove who always is getting sore about something should practice run- ning backwards, since that 1s the direc- tion he is headed for. The Next Dempsey. Back before the war there were three heavyweight parties holding most of the limelight. They were Jess Willard, the champion. Fred Fulton, the plasterer, and Bill Brennan, who had just won 40 fights in a row, moét of them by knock- outs. Then a_young unknown by the name of Jack Dempsey came along. He was matched with Brennan as the last step before Brennan met Fulton to decide the name of the challenger who would face Willard. “I'd like to carry you, Jack,” Bren- nan said before this fight. “But I can't with a shot at Willard waiting.” Dempsey knocked him down with the first punch and knocked him out in a few rounds, the last fall being hard enough to break Brennan's leg. After that Dempsey had Fulton unconscious on_the floor at the end of 18 seconds. This generation won't see another Dempsey come along. Probably the next one won't. But it may see a young, fast, hard-hitting, aggressive youngster who will take over the spot- light within the next year and scatter most of the debris now hanging around. His name may be Fay, or it may be some one else. But whoever he is. no coming chal- lenger was ever in a better spot. A young man by the name of Von Porat might put some action into the present lullb y bowling over Phil Scott without any undue waste of time. He will soon have his chance, and once egain, he couldn't pick a better spot. R. L. H. wants to know what Pitts- burgh, Notre Dame or Purdue could ‘have done to Harvard on the day of the Yale game. They would have had all the trouble even the best teams can look for. Ben Ticknor would have still been the best defensive man on the field, and none of the three can show many better backs than Wood, Mays and Devens., Wood would have been the best passer on the field, regardless | of the team he met from any one of | the trio. There is a good chance that Harvard that day would not have beaten any one of thet hree, but the | winner would have needed no courier to tell him later that he had been in the middle of a foot ball game up to his ears. : So far only 7,345 letters have come in asking whether Pittsburgh, Notre Dame r Purdue should be picked as the out- Eherman, Tex., high school stars, Pest | Welch and E. B. Carraway, from his own eleven. Special dispensation has been granted Phelan to call on Notrs Dame for material, and he expects to invite Jack Elder, who last week ran 100 yards for the touchdown that de- feated Army . With 48 graduates to draw from. Mor- rison is assured plenty of material for the Southwest representation. Straight Left Arm Brings Club Back BY SOL METZGER. British golf stars, Tolley and Mitchell for example, advocate tak- ing the clubhead straight back from the ball along a continuation of the line of fiight when starting the backswing. ‘We have no quarrel with them. Our job is to set down in these little articles the theories and practices that the stars of golf advocate, We recognize that they know more about SHOULDER JOINT 15 CENTER OF ARC OF WING| (DI-QE(‘\'IOH LINE. s tml; it than most of us. Their standards of play are all we have to go by. Arthur Goss tells us that such . back swing cannot be made; that it is impossible from a physical stand- point. He says that the orthodox back swing is to take the club back slowly in control of a straight left arm, shaft and arm going back to- gether. As the swing is from the left shoulder joint, the club head must swi back on an arc inside the direction line. Next—The relation of arms and body in the swin Great golfers are great drivers. Improve gyour drive by ending stamped, addressed envelops to Sol Metzger, care of this paper, and re- questing his free leaflet on “Driv- rg.” " (Copyright, 1929.) THAT’S what you Clinch. Clinch—and Smash! RTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RIC Preliminary. d body-hook resined slam Of floor on face—yet they both look As though they didn't care a damn, There is small glory and they get Scant bally-hoo where they have known nd ‘sweat And leather blasting tooth and bone. Derisive cheers and catcalls fill h murdered sound, en are still— crushing ‘gund; t to the inrong, and of fight, gong into the light . . , A cyclone twists Punch-drunk they reel. but the fists bolts of steel. PHILIP M. HARDING. standing team. But the Winter league still is young, and this paltry and meager output will soon reach normal December proportions, to which there will as usual be no answer that makes | anyse nse or that carries any logic. (Copyright, 1920.) ‘DALY EAGER T0 LICK WHITE SOX BAD BOY | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, December 4.—Dan Daly | of Cleveland, who professes to be yearn- ing for an opportunity to gain revenge | for “Lena” Blackburne, former ‘White | Sox manager, will get his chance Mon- | day night. | * Daly has consented to be the first | ring opponent of Art Shires, the “bad boy” of the White Sox who decorated | Blackburne with two black eyes last | Summer. “I am a close personal friend of | Blackburne's and I want to get a crack | at this much self-advertised tough boy | from Texas,” Daly said in his successful | application ‘for the match to Promater | Jim Mullen. “His attack on Blackburne, a man much older than himself who can't fight, was the work of a coward. T'll prove that Shires does most of his fighting orally, and give Blackburne scme revenge.” | _Shires, meanwhile, is working out daily in a downtown gymnasium. His form is far from that of a polished boxer but he possesses a haymaker, | which starts from the floor and dam- \A%es his sparring partners once in the -;‘\‘ ile when it lands. Fights Last Night | By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS.—Eddie Shea, Chicago, | outpointed Young Montreal, Providence, R. I (10); King Tut, Minneapolis, | knocked out Joey Kaufman, New York (1); Lou Terry, St. Louis, knocked out | Jimmy Hackley, Indianapolis (1). NEW YORK.—Pete Sanstol, Norway, outpointed Sammy Farber, New York (8); Solly Ritz, New York, outpointed Vincent Sanchez, Spain (6). INDIANAPOLIS.—Billy Shaw, Detroit, outpointed Merle Alte, Indianapolis (10); Howard Jones, Louisville, out- pointed Mikey O'Hara, Cincinnati (6). LOS ANGELES.—Les Kennedy, Long Beach, outpointed K. O. Christner, | Akron, Ohio (10). gl e LEWIS ON MAT AGAIN. ‘TULSA, December 4 (#).—Ed “Stran- gler” Lewls again is to have a chance |to regain the heavyweight wrestling | title he lost to Gus Sonnenberg, former Dartmouth grid star. The two will meet here December 16 in a charity match | promoted by the Tulsa Junior League. ALL-AROUND WAGON. A combined water wagon, temporary ambulance and first-aid station, to be used at foot ball games, was presented to Ohio State University by Guy Bow- man, loyal fan, as a reward to the team for defeating Michigan two years in a Tow. et when you smoke a KING EDWARD. A long, cool smoke—mild, mellow and free-burning. KING EDWARD is a quality cigar filled with smoke enjoyment. Made om choice to- baccos—carefully aged and blended. Foil wrapped. D. Loughran Co., Inc. Dist Phones: hington, Nat'l ributors D. b C. 0391 & 4292 KING EDWARD An Excellent Cigar Price Five Cents SPORTS. Kid Neptune Kayoes Gene on Return Trip BY GENE TUNNEY. As written in the “Golden Book™ of the steamship Vulcania, on which he and Mrs. Tunney returned from abroad. “Having paid a visit to Miss Vul- cania on Thanksgiving day, 1928, at Pola, Istria, where she was being primed and fitted for her debut, Mrs. Tunney and I have had a sort of patron’s interest in her career. It has given us great pleasure to be able to book our passage homc aboard her. “Unfortunately, old Neptune, a respecter of no personagle or occa- sion—even Halcyon herself—started grumbling and waving his trident as Miss Vuleania passed the Rock of Hercules: the seas got rough, the skies gloomy, and I assumed a hori- zontal position in which I remained quite cold for the count of four days. “I have not the imagination to conceive bf possible improvement in the censtruction and comfort of the ship, and I think Epicurus himself would have only words of praise and amazement for the table and service.” SEVEN CONTESTS LSTED FOR SCHOOLBOY TEAMS | BASKET BALL. Tomorrow. Western vs. Hyattsville High, at Hy- attsville armory Landon vs. St. Anthony's High, at Brookland. Friday. Hyattsville High vs. Charlotte Hall High, at Hyattsville armory. Saturday. Central vs. Georgetown University Freshmen, American University gym. (preliminary to the Georgetown-Get- tysburg Varsity game). Silver Bliss vs. Alumni, armory. FOOT BALL. Saturday. Devitt vs. Gonzaga, Grifith Stadium, 2:30 o'clock. Tech vs. Stamford High, Stamford, Spring Conn. Gene Tunney, Home Again, Seeks Only to Live “Quietly, Simply” By the Acsociated Press. EW YORK, Dccember 4.—Gene Tunney is home again, not to fight, but to live * Lauder, spending 15 months abroad. uietly and simply.” ‘Tunney returned to the United States yesterday from Italy after with his wife, the former Polly It was a new Tunney who came back to the land that gave him fame and fortune. More gracicus than fistic reporters had ever seen him. the retired heavyweight champion of the world submitted cheerfully to photographers' demands while answering as best he could the hundreds of questions fired at him by reporters. Concerning the suit Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty has brought against him, ‘Tunney had nothing to say, but he was ready and willing to talk about boxing. Anticipating questions as to whether he would return to the ring, Tunney had a prepared statement for the perusal of reporters. “The echo of a rumor at home that I am contemplating returning o the boxing game to defend the heavyweight champlonship reached me in Italy This is in no sense true, for I have per- manently ended my public carcer. My great wish now is to live quietly and stmply, for this manner of living brings | me most happiness.” Apparently the thing that caused Tunncy the most_astonishment abroad | was the size of Primo Carnera's feet. Gene met Carnera, 6-feet 10-inch | fighting carpenter from Venice, at Lon- don. ‘Why.” exclaimed Gene, “he has the biggest feet I've ever seen. He has an- Kies like an_elephant. I met him in a | hotel abroad and couldn't help noticing |those feet in the carpet slippers. Gracious!” Tunney lost neither money in the | stock market _debacle nor weight abroad. | He scales 1921, pounds, just what he | weighed the night he knocked out Tom Heeney in his farewell appearance, and appears in perfect health. | Mrs. Tunney, fully recovered from an operation for appendicitis, was & strik- ing Aigure in a long mink coat with hat, | shoes and pocketbook to match. Femi- nine reporters confided that Mrs. Tun- ney's skirt was certainly not long, but wasn't exactly short either. TWO MORE GRID GAMES ON OKLAHOMA SCHEDULE OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., December 4 (A).—Two more foot ball games re- main in this area before the 1929 season is officially closed. Fans, looking to basket ball, had al- most._forgotten the contests scheduled for Oklahoma Saturday. ‘The Haskell Indians will play Tulsa University in Tulsa and Davis-Elkins | of West Virginia will meet Oklahoma City University here. COHEN CUE WINNER. Isadore Cohen last night defeated William Heath, 75 to 32, in the pocket billiard tournament in progress at the Arcadia. | YALE FENCE IS LIFTED, | THEN THIEVES REPENT ‘Thieves stole a section of the original Yale fence from a photographer’s quar- [ters in New Haven, Conn. recentlly. ‘The antique, valued at $10,000, has been }used for the past 50 years as a back- ground of pictures taken of every cap- | tain of the university. It was later returned to the proper | authorities. CUBANS TO VISIT. Basket ball and foot ball teams from | Cuba will meet Georgla Military Acad- |emy teams in a series of games in At- i lanta during the Christmas holiday sea- 01 HOPES T0 ABOLISH AT GAME CLIOLE Aims to Open Title Quest to All Grapplers Who Deserve Chance. BY JOHN J. ROMANO. AUL PREHN, former president of the National Boxing Associa- tion, as chairman of the wres- tling committee of the N. B. A., outlines the plans of that com- | mittee so that wrestling will regain its | place as a major sport. “The National Boxing Commission,” says Prehn, “is taking over sup:rvision of wrestling in a small way this year We plan to recognize all suspensions the same as we do in boxing. We do not recognize a heavyweight champion at present and we are not going to des- Ignate any particular wrestler as the title-holder. “Titles are won on the mat. In re- gards to Gus Sonnenberg, recognized in some parts of the country as champion, and Dick Shikat, who sports the title in New York and Pennsylvania, they will have to do more than wrestle the same little group over and over again before they will get any recognition from us. “I believe if we adopt a good set of rules, President Isaacs appoints a cham- pionship committee and that commit- tee decides the Iogical contenders in the various classes and have them de- cide the matter of leadership in a tour- nament and have the champions defend their titles every four months against a logical contender selected by the N. B. A, it would do away with the cliques who have been confining the champion- ships among a select few. “If the champion falled to meet one of the two men selected by the N. B. A. the title would be defaulted. The ~ Wood Victor in Pro Golf Meet Upset : N. B. A. Would Establish Wrestling Champ committee will draw up a strong set cf rules and recognize the winner of the tournament. In this way the men would wrestle on their merits and as a consequence the title would change | hands more frequently and a real leader | be datermined. |~ “There .are a number of States in | which wrestling is conducted, but not under the supervision of an athletic commission. I believe that most of these States would follow along the same lines that we %ould outline, and it will be only a short time until our or- ganization and its decisions would be recognized as authoritative, “Under this plan no wrestler could say he would be discriminated against because of his ability, If upon filing a challenge with the championship com- mittee and winning over one or two men listed as logical contenders he would then be permitted to meet the champion. In this way many of the evils connected with titles in the wres- tling game would be eradicated and the fans would be assured of contests be- !ing decided on their merit.” (Copyright, 1929.) 'MARYLAND TURFITES " G0OD AT PICKING 'EM By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 4.—A statisti- cian on turf results has come forth with the revelation that the best pick- ers of race track winners for 1929 were from New York, Kentucky and Mary- land, with Canadians last. In each of the three States 40 per cent of the favorites for first place came through victoriously, while in Canada the average was 33 per cent. Illinois' percentage of winning favorites was | placed at 35. Statistics for the vear of formful racing in the leading States and Canada: New York Kentucky Marvland Tlinots Canada Races run. First places. 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