Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1930, Page 68

Tilden Rates Richards BELIEVES KOZELUH BEST PAID PLAYER Big Bill, Though, Says Cochet and Lacoste Are World’s Leading Racketers. BY WILLIAM T. TILDEN, 2d. ICE, France, March 22.—The professional tennis cham- plonship at Beaulieu gave me opportunity to study the class of tennis played by the leading professionals of the world, and compare it with that of the best amateurs. Only Vincent Richards, Howard Kinsey and Harvey Snodgrass were missing, and each of these men’s games I know well. Certain facts were definitely borne in upon me. outstanding one is the difference between the class of tennis played by the pros of Europe and those of the United States. Only the three men I mentioned above. of all the pros in the United States, could stand for a minute against the standard of play shown at Beaulieu. The interesting angle to this is that Richards, Kinsey and Snodgrass at- tained their skill as amatsurs, and turned professional only after their ability was proved. Such men as George Agutter. Jimmy Burns, McNeal, Heston and Wood, excellent teachers though they are, are not in the same class as players with the average pro- fessional in Europe. I believe the reason for thic condi- tion is the professional tournements. of which Europe boasts a number. Thus there is a chance for competition for these professionals which the United States pros lack. ‘Then the Huropean professional is far more scientific and experienced than teachers. Only a few ced men exist ‘The outstanding examples are Agute ter, McNeal, Bums and Axuugzur's . |of its events for Mondays ing | their tournaments on Tuesdays, which REL.E i more variety of game than any profes- sional T ever have seen. His court cov- ering i worthy of Kozeluh. Only in his match temperament does he lack. | He i apt to blow up at the most unex- pectsd moments. as he did when lead- ing Kozeluh 3—0 and deuce in the first set at Beaulieu. However, Ramillon has been playing temnis only a com- paratively few years and his improves | ment is little short of phenamenal. There & no way to justify my rank- ing list. Imerely offer it as my opinion and not in any way to be considered as an accurate ju 3 4 men. t. 1930, by North American (Cepyrigh 'um iy HADLEY HELD LIKELY TO PROVE SLAB STAR ‘Continued Prom Pirst Page) among the clever left-hand slabmen of the eireuit. News- Buddy Myer has & sore arm, Or per- Bape it is only & tired arm and will mot do much work around the sscond for a time. uncom: and sorrow mingled in the life e president ;s ungnER . &E The first and | f . | 2rrangemen not be present t5 ald in running ef | hill, ule | from = NEHLHD STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ment came because several of the hurst, N. C,, next Thursday and Warner Mather of the Woodho!me A schedule of events for the sea- son is to be drawn up, which may include an open championship. For several years the pros held an opcn tourney “but the event was dropped after Leo Diegel won at Indian Spring in 1927. Last year a match play championship was substituted for the open tourney, which Bob Barmett of Chevy Chase won. The pros hope to arouse more interest in their affairs this year and to induce the amateurs to turn out in greater numbers for the rmum.t.eu’ruetvmu that were only fair- | ly popular year. The amateurs have been cold toward participation in the professional events, | and paid no attention to the ill-starred professional mateh play ehampionship of the Midatlantic section last year, which was started in a rainstorm and finished at the Suburban Club of Bal- timore on a day of biting wind. As we | | recall the final round between .Bar- | nett and Monro Hunter, there were four witnesses to the final round ef the match. Two of them were green- keepers at the club, one a newspaper- man, and the other the son of Hunter. The Midatlantic open was dropped because of lack of purses e enough 1o attract a representative field of pro- fessionels from this section and other parts of the East. But the pros hope ts cure this situatien by seeuring the promise of money in sufeient quantity to make it worth while for the prom- inent pros te play. With only a little more than 2 menth | to elapse before the tournament is | 5550 Gathunrion, Goit and: Cotmizy |ef the an Club golf committee is making id ltflku‘aww.:d what he hopes vm’g ) successful tournament. ~ The commit- tees appointed to handle the details at golf committee meeting are working toward their respective goals, 2nd the program for the event is mov- ing forward in satisfactory shape. The Washington event will open the Spring tournament season this year, gm{ “uhndd ;‘uu for April 29, 30 and Msy ‘The District of Columbia has scheduled most throughout hich is the day the pro- fessignals take off from their duties. Last year the women players held was satisfactory to the women and the pros alike, but this year, unless ts are made, the pres will the women's events. pri 7 ‘The sched: with a ministure - RN'S EAGLE WINS FIRST MONEY 'Beats H. Smith by a Stroke to Gain $5,000 Prize. Armour Third. the Associated Press. IAMI BEACH, Fla. Mareh 32— “Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of Pense- | cols, Pla. mnatehed the 85,900 | | top meney in the 72-hole sts,m La Goree open gelf tourns-| ment from Horton Smith, Oragston, N. | | Y. in a dramatic finish en the fnal | hole here today. Mehlhorn's score for | Women's Golf Association of the |, | the 72 holes was 285, Smith's 286. Mehlhorn uncorked an eagle 3 on the | | seventy-first, while Smith ran into luck to take 2 par 5 to put the Pensa- cola shotster one in the lead nipsand-tuck battle threughout i g3 the with tree gix naé i i aHR; g | take a pair of Cruickshank, | Burke, with |~ Tony vided the | burned up the | recest to score a i , was 2 | Craig Wood, Bloomfield, N. J., was next, with 293, to get $250, while Al Wetrous, Detroit, !auew.d‘ '!:}t\ 208 for lZMm Johnny Farrell, 8t. Augustine, - winner of the Arst Ly Gorce open top monsy two years age, and Gens Sars- fresh Mesdow, Long {;:emumfl':‘;y-:’u , Tan into ¢ ' TARLEY, AMERICAN BOXER, FOULS FILIPINO CHAMPION MANTLA, March 22 (). —Young tionalista of Manila was ewarded the decision over Max Tarley 2'!‘ cisco after being fouled m!x,n‘d‘o! a mu‘g“uhc - | free style went to Cuba. ROFESSIONAL golfers of clubs in the Midatlantic sector have postponed the annual meeting of the Middle sional Golfers' Association, which was schedul at the Indian Spring Golf Club, until or tomorrow Avgrfl 7. The postpone- pros from Washington and Balti- more are planning te play in the North and South open at Pine- Priday. Two of them—Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase and Arthur B. Thorn of Woodmont—also plan to play in the Augusta open championship, which will be held March |3! and April 1 over the picturesque courses of the Ay Club. The professionals felt that if they held their scheduled meet- | ing tomorrow they would not have sufficient time to practice in ad- | vance of the North and South open. Arthur B. Thern of Woodmont is to6 conclude a successful year as| president of the organization and is to be succeeded in office by Country Club of Baltimore. tournament at the Chevy Chase Club and will be followed two weeks later by the competition for the Phyllis Keeler Miller Memorial Trophy, at the Washington Golf and Country Club. Hugh MacKenzie of Columbia. hold of his tee shot at the u:nnu::?h the other day and planted the ball on the green only six feet from the hole. He missed the putt, however, for the eagle 2. The sevnteenth has been driven rather often this year, for the wind has been behind the ball most of the time. E B. , 1., drove a ball over the green into the between the green and the railroad tracks, and Miller B. Stevinson, the District amateur cham- plon, has, been on the green several times from the tee. ‘Tony sylvester, the genial Bannock- burn pro believes the com f sea- sen is geing o be one of the Wash- has ever enjoyed. Discouraging business conditions will not militate ageinst golf, according to Sylvester, who says he expects the best season he ever has had new set of steel shafted wooden clubs with which he is kmocking ‘the bell the proverbial mile. On his first game of golf this year ne scored a birdie 3 on the first hole at Bannockburn. “I can- ned & putt 50 feet long” Tony re- marked. The new greens at the fourth and twelfth holes at Chevy Chase are work- ing out to the satisfaction of every phier. to Dick Watson, the club greenkeeper. fourth was cted last year shertly after a new green had been built at the twelfth. A bunker was put in at the left of the fourth green and a grassy swale bullt at the back of the m to prevent s ball relling down the Back of the green to hole, and an entirely new green was con- structed at uhe twelfth, increasing the of the hole by about 25 yards.| have worked out well. M. Parker Nolan the Congressional ‘seige gun” behind 1 tremendous tee shot at the 500 at Congressional the other day, which left him only a spade mashie shot to get home. He missed his 3 by inches. ing of long tee shots, would hhli!ve that €. T, urulwdmvn hole %m:mm«mth-mm the fifteenth green and ran down the 15 rest only & few yards the . He was the green on with 2 niblick and nearly Roled 2 3. BAD WEATHER DELAYS DON’S RECORD ATTEMPT DAYTONA BEACH, Fa., March 22 ) —With beach conditions showing no indications of immediate improvement, the proposed attack by Kaye Don, British racing driver, on the world's | automobile speed record of 231 miles bwmmfl mmth;fi =2 £ he might and Don be sble to start his the day after tomorrow. WOMAN SWIMMERS T0 HOLD MEET HERE : Entriee for the first annual women’s District A. A U. Asso- ciation s held free ‘style. 180-7ard beck- 1 A fancy stale, 190 R wy iy FrnE SWIMMING RACES STAGED. HAVANA, March 23 (®. zonds of Mexies todsy won ths 300- meter breast nn"yk; n th:mucol o’é‘ c:':- tral American O es -meter c{flu Dela Rosa of Instep of Left Foot Has Weight BY SOL METZGER. A rertain golf writer asked Varden to explain foot actiop in the golf swing. Harry replisé he was not in- terested in it that i¢ took care of 1f when the club was properly the entire H iy ig' arms wit g £ b 0 w th ] 8 4 £ o : ag 3 N THIS WAY 2t Bannockburn. Teny has 2| China, yard twelfth hole' PROS SEEK CROWNS American to Make Big Bid for Open, Amateur and Women’s Titles. BY WALTER B. McCALLUM. i HE British are faced with a real | triple threat in golf this year, and it the argonauts who will set sail over the bounding At- Jantic late in April do not bring back all three major Britizh championships, it won't be because they did not try. Which 13 by way of relating that where other friendly golf invasions of Britain in past years by amateurs, woman players and professional gelfers of the United States have been impressive, the nflux of players from this country into the tight lttle isle this year will be far more impressive than ever before. i In the frst place, the Walker Cup | team, led by the 28-year-old Atlants barrister-golfer, Robert Tyre Jones, is | a real threat for both the amateur and open championships of Britain. 1In the n r of American plon, gowmg o joined by Walter Hagen, , and will defend title if he ecan get to Englan to play. And in the third portant of this | sport rivalry, Glenna Cellett, en's champion, is to head a team of woman plavers in an informal team on Api 22 tc eontast with British ! woman players ;n an informal team | match and later to play in the British wemen'’s championship. Numbered ameng the women who will go abroad this_year is Miss Virginia Holxderber of Baltimore, whe wen the women's mid-Atlantic title two years ago and i one of the strongest players in Lhis neck of the woods. Monopoly of British Titles. Americans have had a stranglehold on the British open champlon:hip since 1921 when Jock Hutchison of Chicage, | whose father is & caddle at St. Andrews, | stepped over the course of the lttle | gray city by the sea in res low enough to win the champienship by |a single shot. Only ence since that time has 1 British prefessional wen the title—back in 193¢ when Arthu: | Havers won by a shot n, who now nolds the title. have not been so su British' amateur championshi) | ts endless rounds of 18-hole matches, | but they have won ‘wice—first in 1904 | when Walter Travis tted Edward Blackwell out of the title, and ;n le;.‘e oflwhen 1‘ helz,ehllc Jfiu "-'“g ough! a serious illnass en | to_win the championship. ik The women's titls of Britain nsver | has fallen to an Amgrican woman, al- | though last Spring it looked for a time as if Glenna Collett was te overthrow | the graat Joyce Wethered. But Miss Wethered came through ‘:‘lflmpe‘r nt’}.\n“’!?u! the | and ref the championship for {dear old England. This yurp the | Weathered girl har announced she will not play’ in the British champlonships, | and thus an American 'um;ymb'\‘ the women's chamy p o in is removed. ! Probel the would like see defend her title. Woman’s Internstions! Play. | _Jones, Von Elm, Voigt | members of the Walker Cup team plan |to play in the British amateur cham- | plonship and srobably mast aof the ¢ | Walker Cyp team members will mgke helr 4 ST NS | | vislt & real holiday and compete [in the British oper as well With 5 n, Tommy | British titles may come te the | United States this year. Bob Jones | alone can be figured to have more than t{no&&memwmelgmrflmi ! men's champlonships, $ Glenna Cellett and her gues are | not completely s by the assort- ment of bad weat usually served up |in Britaln at tournament time, the | American women have an even | to win the British woman's tifle with | Miss Wethered out of the way. Of course, there i3 a chance the If she does, not an Amerizan woman stands a great chance to win. s TRAPSHOTS ARE LED BY LANE AND CULVER 5 Wiior: 11 g ot ver. [ K Hemms 2Dl e WONDER 30YS WIN. ‘With the pitching of Bell feat , the Wander flumm X 7 TILDEN REACHES FINALS OF CANNES TOURNAMENT CANNES, Prance, Mareh 22 (®).— Big Bill Tilden, the veteran American campaigner, reached the finals of the Cannes Tennis Club's tournament to- day by defeating the British tennis star, R. H. Kingsley, 6—3, 6—0. ‘Tilden and Wilbur Coen went into the finals of the doubles, defeating Lyt- tleton Rogers and Tamio Abe, 5—7, GREGALACH REPORTED FIT FOR GRAND NATIONAL WANTAGE, England, March 22 (#).— Gregalach, last years winner of the Grand National, will be fit and ready to run in the 1930 renewal of the famous steeplechase classic March 28, it was announced today. After a thoreugh ex- amination a veterinary said the horse was in good condition, and Gregalach seemed to prove it by finighing fresh after a 2-mile gallop. Easter Hero. another favorite which has been beset by injuries, worked well over 6 furlongs today THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH' 23, 1830—PART FIVE. Third Among Pros : U. S. Is Triple Golf Threat to England |JONES AND LEADING FENCING TOURNEYS LISTED APRIL 18-19, Eight women and five men will com- pete in fencing tournaments April 18 and 19, under the direction of Maj. Walter E. Blount, in the Italian garden of the Mayflower Hotel. Those who have qualified for the women’s District champlonship event include Miss Catherine Ekengren, twice winner of Blount medals; Miss Dudley Breckinridge, Miss Marjorie Mont- mery, Miss Priscilla Holcombe. a loft- g:nded fencer; Miss Elizabeth Bunting, Miss Mildred English, Miss Adeline Furness and Miss PFrancesca Under- wood. ‘The men are r Raul Vianello, chancellor of the Cuban embassy and or Martin Arostegui, both dis- tinguished Cuban fencers; Capt. Frank B. e and Lieut. Helmer W. Lystad, stationed af, the Army War Coliege, and | Lieut. T. J. Sands, stationed at Fort Myer, ex-intercollegiate epee chamy Judges, as in the past, be swordsmen who have won distinction here and abroad. |OPEN TENNIS TOURNEYS FAIL TO GET APPROVAL PARIS, March 22 (#).—Ths Tnited States Lawn Tennis Association’s re- quest for the approval of epen tennis championships, also for matches be- tween professionals and amateurs, was rejected by the International Lawn Ten- ;1!.:1 ;bdcnflm “by & very strong ma- ority.” The French members were most out- tion to the American proposal, whieh would permit open tournaments along the same lines as those conducted in gol The federation a _resolution asking that control of the Davis Cup matches b transferred to it from the present Davis Cup committee. ‘The organization admitted Brazil to membership. et MRS. MIDA GOLF WINNER. JACKSONVILLE. Pla., March 22 () —Mrs. Kee Mids, Mount Plymouth, Fla., and Chicago, will hold the | v«&men'n golt other 5 through : steady d today to dc feat Mre. John L. Holmes, Jacksonville 5 and 4, in the finsl committee of the Army, Navy and Ma- ing with a medal play handicap event on April 3 Plar in the tournaments will start at 10 o'clock, with luncheon to be served at 1 3 er members of the commitiee ave: A. An vice chatrman WOMEN LIST SERIES OF GOLF TOURNEYS s Mrs. T. B. Merchant has been ngmed general chairman of the woman's golf irman ABE ESPINOSA CHANGES, CHICAGO, March 23 (F).—Abe Espi- ms;. former Southern California golf srofessional, today signed as Medinah Club, Chicage. Por,mflab last three years he been pro at the lumbian Country Club, Chicago.