Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1930, Page 29

. SPORTS THE EVENING 4 how during this enforced lay-off Celie { found poise and confidence in herself. The old fear of defeat was gone. She came back to tennis with new eager- ness and new determination. Celie came to the Riviera in January to begin serious preparation for the coming season. Her first few weeks, naturally, found her far from her best and she met defeat at the hands of Miss Ryan and Mrs. Owen, but, unlike her previous seasons, these defeats did not affect her confidence. She accepted them sportingly, &s always, but instead of worrying over them put them aside from her thoughts and kept her mind fixed on the coming events. Her game | was steadily improving and she was| gaining in physical stimina with each week. GERMAN GIRL SHY EXPERIENCE ONLY $Big Bill” Believes Trip to America Would Be Big | Aid to Her Game. Defeats Star Players. Then came the two big weeks of the | Riviera season, the tournaments at| fonte Carlo and Menton in February. Most of the great European stars, in- cluding Miss Ryan, Mme. Simone Mathieu, the French champion: Bar- oness von Resnicek, the German title z | holder; Mrs. Owen, Miss ey an: I had hardly heard of her at that |,;.y Gthers of note, played in one or | time. | both of these events. Calmly, brilliantly Mile. Contostavios was one of theand decisively Celie Aussem won both Prench stars of the day, whom|tournaments, beating Mme. Mathieu iled as & successor to the in-| straight sets in both finals, a note- Lenglen. Mlle. Contostavios | worthy achievement for any girl. She her first match of the tour- | followed this by a brilliant tournament the center court against|at the Cannes Club, where she beat wn, so I decided to watch. | Baroness von Resnicek, 6—3, 6—2, and I wandered into the stand and idly | Mrs. Owen, who had previously beaten atched a few games, all of which were | Miss Ryan, in the final round by the bitterly contested and most of which | gverwhelming score of 6—0. 6—0. ostavlos lost. Her opponent| Celie had come into her own and to- ibby little miss who looked | day must be recognized as ene of the t a child, but she could cer- | great players of the world. | ay tennis. Her remarkable re- |~ Throughont the Riviera season I had | Mile. Contostavlos’ best | the pleasure of playing mixed doubles | ghots had the big gallery in continuous | with Celie and thus was given a won- | applause. No one took her really seri- | derful chance to study her game and | BY WILLIAM T. TILDEN, 2 T was one beautiful May after- noon in 1927 when the French | championships at the stade | Francais, in 8t. Cloud, were | %ust beginning that I first saw| elie Aussem as a tennis player. Lewis Gets Golf BY W. R. McCALLUM. F all the hard luck incidents that can and have happened on the golf courses about the golf-ridden Capital City, we believe that which has just occurred to Reeve Lewis, jr., of the Chevy Chase Club takes the palm. Lewis made a hole in 1 yesterday on the fourth hole at the Chevy Chase Club, a hard enough hole to make in three strokes. The bad part of the af- fair is that the youngster, whose father used to be one of the leading golfers of Chevy Chase, and who comes by his accuracy from the tee naturally be- cause his daddy was so straight, was playing alone, and only his caddy saw the ball soar high in the air from the tee, gree and disappear in the hole. It might be compared to Doc Cook at the North Pole without a gumdrop, or Sharkey in the ring without a punch, or George Voigt playing a round of golf without a putter. And think of the razor blades, botties of ginger ale, golf balls, pipes and the numerous other articles which young Lewis will not get because he went out without a partner. He was due to play yesterday after- | noon in the qualifying round of the Co- lumbia tourney and thought he would play a few practice holes at Chevy Chase first. Along came the fourth hole and the holed shot from the tee, and now Lewis wonders if his hole in one really is an ace, or just something that hap- except take a long hop on the putting | HINGTON D SPORTS Ace, but, Sad To Say, He Was Playing Alone| | Ainal Tound will be played tomorrow, | with the final round carded for Friday. Roger Peacock, the junior champion of Washington, who hails from Indian Spring. Urban used to be known as a great bowler. In late years he has almost abandoned the alley sport for golf and, although he has been playing only three | years, with_the natural aptitide some men have for handling a ball in any | sport, he has improved about 50 per | cent faster than the average mortal. | The other day he shot a 31 on course A | at Rock Creek Park to beat Al Price, the | Rock Creek pro, and yesterday he went | out to Columbia and shot a fine 177, | many strokes better than golfers who | have played five times as long. And at | that Urban wasted several shots on the | last few holes, Asher will long remember the Co- | lumbia qualifying round because of the | remarkable last nine holes he played to score a 32 and go into second place in the first day of play, only one shot behind the splendid 71_registered by Peacock. Asher, who is Fred McLeod’s | star pupil and a student of the game if | ever there was one, got real “hot” com- ing home, after an indifferent 40 for the first nine and picking up three birdies en route, shot the last nine holes in 32 to tle the amateur record for that distance. Some years back Leo Diegel shot the | last nine in 29 strokes to win a hatful of money from Guy Standifer, and three or four years ago W. Carlton Evans went wild with his putter over that last | nine to score a 32, but Asher's score will stand as the finest piece of golf | that has been uncorked over that nine but were cheering her brave ef- Name Meant Little. “Who is she?” I asked one of the | the German,” was the geply. That meant little to me beyond “ & name at that time. I had heard quite good deal about Celie Aussem—how e was, what a remarkable playe she would become—during my visit to Berlin earlier that same year and now Tecognized in the flashing little figure | on the court a shy, charming little lady | I had met casually in Berlin. “Why, of course,” T said, stupidly, “it is Miss Aussem.” | The result of that match which Miss Aussem won and went on to take her | place among the great stars of the game is now tennis history. That was almost four seasons ago, and from tha period Celie has changed from a prom- | ising youngster to a great star. All has not been easy for this girl. She has had her setbacks as well as her prog- ress. There have been times when she seemed to be going backward instead of forward, but behind all the superficial | variations of her game her talent glowed clearly and rose above any tem- Porary discouragement. Is Fond of Game. When T first saw Celie, her game was | moteworthy primarily for its steadiness and her remarkable ability to cover court. It was a case of get the ball back until her opponent missed. It was not = game that showed all the necessary requirements of & great champion. She | lacked attack. She lacked confidence end at times she lacked concentration. She had two great assets. She had a great love for the game that kept her always keen and willing to work to im- prove and she had youth with its eage! <exuberance and speed. On these tw assets, I was sure a great game could be built, 'but was at times doubtful if it would be. The season of 1928 found a distinct step forward in Celie’s game. I found definite signs of a growing attacking power in her style. No longer did she rely on her opponents’ errors alone to give her points. She hit out for her own and often won them. True in so doing | she lost a little of her steadiness, but at the same time she gave evidence of becoming a really great player. | Unfortunately, like 50 many girls who | are approaching the top in tennis, | Celie's game was taken aImost too seri- ously by her closest friends. They were 80 anxious for her to win that they be- | gan to make her fear defeat. Celie be- | an to grow nervous and seif-conscious « in her matches. She was so anxious to make good for her well wishers that she overtried. She grew stroke conscious and began to think more of how to play ‘ than where to play. Due partially to this added strain and partially to an ac- tual physical effect on her eyes of to0 great continuous concentration, she be- an to develop the eye strain which in | he following year threatencd to put an end to this charming player's career. Eyes Cause Trouble. The season of 1929 was & disastrous | one for Celie. She was so troubled by | her eyes that her timing went off and her game seriously deteriorated. She met many defeats that were the direct Tesult of her eye trouble. The terrific strain on her nervous 'stem took its toll, and, following Wimbledon, Celie, for the second time in a year, wi ordered off the courts, and none 0o soon, for | .she was both physically and nervously | n a very run-down condition. | Care and her long lay-off did won- | ders, and a complete cure brought her back to the courts this Winter in per- fect condition. Somewhere and some- | Just & splendid stroke maker. her temperament. Hers is a great game. | There is no weakness in her stroke | equipment. Her service is a fast and reliable slice. Her ground strokes are fast flat drives of fine accuracy and depth. She can volley and smash with severity and reliability. She uses a chop stroke and drop shot with good judgment. She has retained all her old speed of foot in court covering. Yet it is not in her game that Celie has made her greatest improvement. It is in her match temperament. She used to be “stroke conscious,” thinking of how she hit the ball rather than where she hit and what effect it would have on her opponent. This year she has become “match conscious.” She now plays her matches with an eye to the effect of her game on her opponent. | She is always alive to the situation as shown by the score. She is no longer she is | now a_conscious thinking tennis player | of craft and cleverness. | It is this change that has carried Celie into the front rank. She has gained the confidence in her own ability and judgment without which no player | | can scale the championship heights. If she does not allow the best intended advice in the world from all her many | friends to lead her back into the error | of fearing defeat, she will go on along | the path of success which today she is modesty and magnificent game would | win her instant recognition and make | her a popular idol. R Germany could send no greater envoy of good will and friendship to the United States than her charming champion, Celie Aussem. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) YOUNG RACKETERS HOPE TO RENEW TOURNEY PLAY Players in the District boys and juniors’ tennis tournament were hope- ful of resuming competition today on the Rock Creek courts, rain having held up_the matches for two days. The Middle Atlantic sectional cham- plonships at Richmond, in which the local winners will compete, may be post- poned trom June 20-21 to June 27-28 at the request of Richmond and Norfolk tennis leaders. These two cities have junior players they desire to use in the Hotchkiss = Cup matches, which are scheduled on the same dates as the Middle Atlantic affair. THREE D. C. NETMEN ADVANCE, TRIO LOSES| BALTIMORE, Md., June 11.—Three Washington men were scheduled to play today in advanced rounds of the Maryland State championships. In the first round Dooley Mitchell | won by default from H. Goldman and in the second defeated E. J. Shields, 10-8, 6-4. Bob Considine defeated N. Salzman, 886, "lO;B, and Warren Magruder, 6—4, T—5. Frederico Sendal of the Mexican em- bassy advanced to the third round by owning R. B. Jones, 6—3, 6—4. Washington representatives were eliminated, Herbert Shepard losing to Jean Hofmeister, 6—1, 6—1; Edward Yeomans to Robert Ryn, 9—7, 2—8, 9—7, and Fred Mesmer, Georgetown University, to Walter Beuchelt, 2—8, 6—0, 6—0. 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And particularly because he had taken 40 over the first nine, three putting the first green for a 6 and missing a short one on the fourth Roger Peacock’s score was one of the finest bits of golf that has been un- corked about Washington in a long time. The youngster played flawless golf on the first nine, with the excep- tion of the sixth hole, where he took | 5, compensating with a birdie 2 on the eighth. Coming home he took 6 on the par 5 twelfth, but scored a birdie 3| on the seventeenth to make up for this Bob Barnett, the fine-playing Chevy | Chase professional, bagged a real birdie on the eighteenth at his home course the other day in a game with Gene Larkin, his assistant. “Bob hit & screamer from the _eighteenth tee,” Gene said. “We watched the ball soar toward a bird that came across from the thirteenth fairway, and we saw the ball hit that bird squarely. Bob walked up the fairway, remarking that it would be his luck to have hit a robin. You know Bob is & tender-hearted fellow, and when he came up to the bird it was | mistake. a robin, sure enough. |~ Fourteen scores of 79 and better were “The bird had been struck squarely | turned in vesterday, and it seems, con- by the ball and almost cut in half | Sidering the class 'of the field which Tender-hearted Bob picked up the dead | Was listed to start today, that Colum- bird tenderly, and with loving care DPias experience of last year is to be smoothed. its feathers and took it over | duplicated. It will be remembered that into the rough, when he laid it down | Scores of 77 played off for places in gently. Then he went to play his sec- | the first fiight last year and that 85 oha shot and almost missed it com- | Was the last qualifying score in the last Pletely.” flight. Eight men turned in scores of 77 or better yesterday, and it is quite Yandes Wheeler of Chevy Chase to- | Possible that the 77s will not be in day knows the thrill of making an eagle | When night falls today. on a hard par-4 hole. Wheeler knocked | out a lengthy tee shot on the third hole | The probable winner of the women's at Chevy Chase, and hit his jron second | District golf championship for 1930 was so well that the ball went in the hole | likely to be decided today at the Wash- for an eagle 2. This is the first re- |ingten Golf and Country Club in the corded time that the present third hole | meeting of Mrs. Dorothy White Nicol- has been made in two shots. son, the defending title holder, and Mrs. —- J. Marvin Haynes, runner-up for the Arthur Urban, who used to be one of | championship last year. Mrs. Nicolson ‘Washington's foremost bowlers, and to- | and Mrs. Haynes are generally regarded day s ranked as one of the leading pin- [as two of the three strongest golfers spillers in the National Capital, will not | about the Capital, and they were drawn forget the qualifying round in the Co- |together in the second round of the lumbia tourney for a long time. Neither | title chase today. Both won their first- will Clyde B. Asher, vice president of | round matches handily yesterday . the Columbia Country Club, nor will hes featured the Three New Yar;lAtee‘Cup Y;achtsw To Race for First Time Today Two extra-hole mal EW YORK. June 11.—Three yachts built for defense of the America’s Cup are to meet in competition today for the first time. Enterprise, Weetamoe and Whirlwind, the boats owned by New York syndicates, will race in the special contest arranged for them by the New York Yacht Club, and against them to measure their speed, will be Resolute and Vanitie, the veterans. Only Yankee, the Boston craft, will be missing of the new ones. With Whirlwind and Enterprise competing the extremes in the new cup boat construction will appear. Whirlwind is the largest and has the smallest sail spread. Enterprise is the smallest and has the greatest amount of canvas. Amateur crews will do the sailing of the yachts and professionals will handle the canvas and stays. Each will have a professional master on board, but he will direct the paid hands only. This arrangement will be carried out in all the races during the Summer and on the defender that is chosen to meet Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V in September, Here are the main facts about the yachts: WEETAMOE. ENTERPRISE. Skipper ...George Nichols . H. S. Vanderbilt Designer Builder . ‘WHIRLWIND. .Paul Hammond .L. F. Herreshoft .G. 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A famous Spalding knicker value at $3.85 Spalding Imported Sweat- The Spalding Drommie— Golf knows no finer shoe ars are great values at $12 $7.50 # $15 1338 G Street N.W. first round yesterday, Mrs. Y. E. Booker of Washington eliminating Mrs. Alma von Steinner of Beaver Dam on the first extra hole, with a par 4 to Mrs. von Steinner's 5. and Mrs. Betty P. Meck- ley of Beaver Dam scoring & 4 on the first extra hole to win from Mrs. G. M. Bruns, unattached golfer. The semi- MISS KRUCOFF OUT OF NET TITLE PLAY With Frances Krucoff unable to de-| fend her title, play will start at 5 o'clock today in the District Women'’s Tennis League tournament on the Rock Creek courts, at Sixteenth and Kennedy streets northwest. Mrs. H. Clay Thompson, chairman of the tournament committee, has an- nounced that all entrants 10 minutes late will be defaulted. Before matches are played entry fees must be turned in to Miss De Sousa. | Doubles and consolation pairings will be drawn at 7 p.m. tomorrow. | ‘Today's pairings: SINGLES—FIRST ROUND. 8§ o'clock—Josephine Dunham vs. Goldle | Crist, Florence Seward vs. Dorothy Kings- Marian King vs, Margaret Graham. Louite Omwake vs. Mary Burke, Frances Walker vs. Dorette Miller, Mrs. Clay ‘Thompson vs. Esther Jolley, Mary Ryan vs. ice Rose. 6 o'clock—Phoebe Moorhead vs. Katherine Berrall, Betty Cochran_vs. Mari xas, Sarah_Moore vs. Mrs. A tinez vs. Clara ~Alderton. Cecyle Jennie ‘Turnbull, Betty Whitfield McKelvey. HITCHINSON IS SELECTED AS BEST ARMY ATHLETE WEST POINT, N. Y, June 11.—Re- v Raver ve. vs. Edith ceiving the Army Athletic Association | saber for general excellence in sports and gaining & letter in basket ball to add to his collection of four already won, as well as a minlature for being team captain, Richard C. Hutchinson of Owatonna, Minn., closed his career at the United States Military Academy | tonight for Toronto. adjudged the best all-around athlete in the corps of cadets . . « the war against Spitting is a crusade of decency...join it. smoke CERTIFIED CREMO! Tilden Sees Celie Aussem as Coming Champion Among Woman Tennis Players EASTERN PIGEON SPEEDY TRIO OF OLD LINERS IN RACE OF 505 MILES A bird from the loft of E. M. Eaton, | TO FACE CANADIANS |land, Tenn., at the rate of 1,286 yards | | a minute to take first place in a race | | held by the National Capital Concourse | | Association. Fifty-six lofts were repre- | The results: Norwood SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 11.—Three University of Maryland lacrosse players were on the first team as the American picked squad practiced here for two games with the Oshawa team, Canadian champion, to be played in Toronto Fri- day and Saturday. The Americans leave The first team lined-up as follows: Kelly, Maryland, goal; Kearney, Rut- gers, point; Utz, Pennsylvania, cover point: Heagy, Maryland, first defense Jenifer, Princeton, second defense; Beckman, New York U., third defense; Paige, Colgate, Center; Finnigan, Unlon, third attack; Latimar, Rutgers, second attack; Stevens, Yale, first at- tack; Gould, Dartmouth, out home; Evans, Maryland, in home. The reserves are: Evanson, Rutgers, goal; Galbraith, Hobart; Fuade, Harvard, and Brophy, Syracuse, defense, and Smith, Yale; Rosen, New York U., and Champion, | Cornell, attack. | All three Maryland men seem sure to start the game against the Canadians. Holmead. ... J.Krahling Copanhaver Mt. R'T Loft. GOLF CAPTAIN IS HOST AT ST. JOHN’S BANQUET With their captain, Franklin Parks, as host, members of the St. John's golf | team will celebrate a victorious season | at_a banquet at Parks' home. | St. John's won seven confests and lost two, twice defeating Gonzaga, Georgetown Prep and Devitt and tak- ing a default from Western. The two | losses were to Bethesda and Western. Three players will be lost by gradua tion. They are John Hershaw, Frank Welier and Hanlon O'Donnell. Capt. Parks, John Ruane and Lloyd Carey make a strong nucleus for next year's team. TEXAS LOSES 38 ATHLETES. AUSTIN, Tex., June 11 (#)—Gradua- tion deals a hard blow to the University of Texas this year. Thirty-eight ath- letes finish their studies, including 13 foot ball letter men and 4 of the 5 starters on the basket ball squad. “4m” 19.%‘9'“ L&mu o e e 2 |S but it's worse if DEVITT WILL STRESS TRACK NEXT SEASON With interest in base ball on the wane, Devitt Preparatory School likely will make track and field a major sport next term, it is announced by J. Leigh- ton_Cornwell, sports director. “Base ball” said Cornwell, “appar- ently is losing its appeal for our boys. We have always turned out several | first-class performers in field and track, and for this reason we may stress this sport.” Devitt already has booked the Navy Plebes and Georgetown Prep for dual meets next year, and events with other schools are pending. Gonzaga is considering, too, the | proposition of minimizing base ball in favor of track. EX-MARINE IS COACHING. SHANGHAL, June 11 (#).—The physi- cal director of the foreign Y. M. C. A, here is I. H. 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