Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1930, Page 35

SPORTS. National Open Championship No Cinch NONE IN TEN YEARS HAS HAD RUNAWAY Barnes Last to Decisively Conquer Rest of the Na- tion’s Best Golfers. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. a race track of the national open golf championship at Interlachen are very, very remote. Such performances are quite as out of date as stage coaches and husking bees. The keenness of the competition and severity of the championship courses quickly discourage such ideas on the part of any par-breaker. It has been 10 years since any one took the bit in his teeth and spread- eagled the field. The last time the open developed into a runaway was in 1921 when Long Jim Barnes led at Co- lumbia, in Washington, D. C., by 9 strokes. Sir Walter Hagen was the first to emerge from the dust raised by Bames' large feet, and he was 9 strokes behind the transplanted Cornishman. Since then Cyril Walker's 3-stroke advintage at Oakland Hills is the lar- gest margin any winner has had. Competition in the open has speeded up fremendously since the war. Prior to 1923 there had been only 6 ties in 24 champlonships. Since that time ther= have been five, and the last three came in succession. So the chances of ¢ ti* are far greater than a one-sided 'HE chances of any player— even Robert Jones—making | Has Had Four Ties. nut. a player as Bobby Jones ulty in getting a tenable has been in four ties and missed mothz.r by only one stroke. He tied with Bob Cruikshank in 1923, Wil- lie MacFarlane in 1925, Johnny Farrell in 1928 and Al Espinosa last Summer. In 1926 he headed Joe Turnesa by one strote, and did that only by a sensa- tional finish. Jones umquestionably is the world’s greatest playes, but his mar- gin of mpenm-lty in the United States m mall, and there always is the ctf.hltsomeonewmbenhlmn Almost evzry championship sees some player or players break out with a round on the first two days of play. But they always retreat in the stri_. of the last 3¢ holes, and even Jones’ raid against ps wa- halted on the final nine at Winge=s Foot last year. It was many years ago that George Low, now retired and nvtng in the highlands of Scou.l'?g said "gowfuhnn lx:xm:dleg‘ same. R neves hus chang and it finds strange moments in which to “umble” its followers. Gene Sarazen is the writer’s choice to give Jones the battle at Interlachen and perhaps win the championship. There's no especial reason for selecting Sarazen other than that he was pla; such Erven 80 ISSUE ENTRY BLANKS FOR CANOE REGATTA Entry blanks for the annual Wash- ington” Canoe Club regatta Saturday, July 12, have been distriouted. | It is expected that the Yonkers, N.| Y., Canoe Club, which came within an ace of beating out the Washington club for first honors in last season's regatta, will again be represented and that other strong groups will show their wares. Competition will be over a half-mile straightaway from the Three Sisters Islands to the old Aqueduct Bridge. Harry and Karl Knight, veteran de-| pendables; Herman Vollmer and per- haps Joe Mawson, will represent Wash- ington Canoe Club in the annual Inde- pendence day regatta of the Philadel- Ek'ltll Canoe Club Friday in the Quaker y. running at Minneapolis. Gene declared he was hitting the ball better than ever and has been practicing assiduously for the coming battle. Sarazen has the game and the determination and this combination when clicking is hard to stop. Shute Also Danerous. Densmore Shute, who finished third in the 1929 open and played brilliantly in Winter tournaments, also will be dangerous. He has been out of the pub- lic eye for several months, but has spent the time getting ready for the cham- pionship. A long, straight hitter, with unruffied temperament, it should bring him near the top once more. MacDonald Smith, Johnny Farrell, Tommy Armour and a dozen other crack shotmakers are bent on halting Jones, and they have the shots to make his going tor- tuous. Mac Smith and Jim Barnes played great golf in the British open and there still is a kick left in these old veterans. Jones will be the gallery favorite to win and the winner on form. He prob- ably will win, but the odds will be noth- ing like the 4 and 5 to 1 offered on him in the British open. The chances are the 1930 struggle will again end in a tie, perhaps a three-cornered tie, for there have been none of those since Vardon, Ray and Ouimet finished the 72-hole course all even at Brookline in 1913. If there must be a tie, one could wish for nothing better than to see Jones and Hagen, or Jones and Horton Smith, or Jones, Smith and Hagen going out in the play-off. That would settle, for the time at least, the ques- tion of superiority among the three. ———— DELIVERING PAPER ROUTE MADE ATHLETE OF ROCKNE By the Associated PFress. Knute Rockne used to deliver papers on the North Side of Chicago «s a lad, and he had to run a mile before he reachel the first customer’s house. That early conditioning, Rockne de- clares, helped him later in his sports career, and helped to interest him in athletics. Maj. John L. Griffith, Big Ten ath- letic commissioner, is another who says he became inuren'ed 1n track athletics improbable he will be out of the ying splendid golf during the Winter that it | Wis. seems delivering papers a boy in Beloit, . He \ued to run the full length of his route. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D; STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ITTLE does Ralph Little of Wash- ington care for ditches, even on the seventeenth hole of the Vir- ginia club, where the slope of the hill carries most balls down into a deep ditch, to the discomfiture of many golfers. So little does Littie care for ditches that yesterday he vowed he would get a par on that tricky hole, even though he knew his ball went in the ditch from-the tee. So he gritted his teeth, went down in that fearsome hazard with his niblick and smote that | O ball so successfully that it carried to the green and ended just four feet from the cup, not a bad shot when you figure that he couldn't see tje green, and that the ball had to risesalmost straight up and then carry sogaething like 75 yards forward. Still breathing determination Little stepped up to the putt and knocked it in the hole for a birdle 3. “Laugh that off, you fellows,” he said. *“Just because I went in the ditch, that doesn’t mean I won't get & par. And I really think par for this hole should be 3 and not 4” With him in the game were Frank C. Jfurd and John Graham, and that shot/didn't sit so well with them, for at that point they thought they had Little “In the bag.” And on the same hole, a bit later in the day, Frank Roesch came within an inch of holing a pitch shot for an eagle 2. His ball, played from the extreme right side of the fairway, hit the edge of the cup and rolled around, stopping only an inch away, after Roesch and pave Thomson, the club professional, had halved the sixteenth hole in birdie 3s. Thomson and E. T. Rice beat Roesch and Ralph Fowler by a single hole, Thomson sinking a 6-foot putt on the last green to put the match on ice. R. J. C. BRADLEY won the week end competition at Washington, an event in which pars and birdies counted as points, with a total point score of 38. He was aided by a handi- cap of 14 strokes. In second place in class A was L. D. Nicolson, who phyad a 14 handicap and counted 35 po! Harry D. Cashman was third, wnh u points, and Charles R. Cherry was fourth, with 31 points. In class B Harry C. Gretz was the winner, with a total of 39 points. Gretz was aided by a handicap of 20 strokes. H. Mac- Namee was second with 38 points and F. X. McGovern was third with 37 points. E. J. Swift scored 36 points. MONRO HUNTER knocked out a « slashing tee shot that went nearly 400 yards on the tenth hole at Indian Spring yesterday to set the scoring machine in motion which trans- formed an apparent defeat into victory for he and George Diffenbaugh over Frank Hartig and R. Cliff McKimmie, professionals at the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Club. Hunter and Diffenbaugh played the first nine holes indifferent to turn 1 down, but at the tenth Hunter cut loose with that phenomenal tee shot and the home boys played the last nine holes in 32, to win the match by 4 and 2. ‘OWARD NORDLINGER tied the amateur record for the Woodmont course yesterday with & mark of 71, COMFORT sought by millions — discovered in L PALM BEACH SUITS! 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Rohaut, 229 Fourth Avenue, New York City PALM BEACH SUITS T e A R T R holing out all his putts for a 33 on the first nine and 38 on the second nine. The old mark of 71 was set two years ago by Harry G. Pitt, Manor Club star, before the new system. of double tees was put in use at Woodmont. Pitt's score was made in the qualifying round of the tourney, and at the time, since it was made under medal play rules, was accepted as the amateur record for the layout. Nordlinger started by hol- ing a lengthy putt for a 3 on the first hole and chipped in from off the green at the fourth for another 3. Here is hls"s_core, with par for the course: 43 43469 Nordlinger. . 43 43871 ECAUSE Winship I. Green was not yet recovered from injuries re- ceived in an automobile accident ‘more than a week ago, the final match in the two-man team tourney at Bannockburn was postponed yesterday until some time during the week or next Sunday. The final will be played between Green and E. M. McClelland and G. F. Wesley and Fred Rade. ANNOCKBURN golfers trekked over to the Argyle Country Club yester- day to absorb a man-sized trouncing at the Mands of the Argyle club swingers, the home boys scoring 21, points, while Bannockburn scored by 2!;, A summary of the matches follows: M_A. Shipley (Argyle) defeated W. L. Pen- dergast (Bann). 2 u DI Este (Argyle) defeated L. F. Pass (Bann.), 4 and . Best ball-Argyle, § and Tom Belshe ~(Atgyle) "defeated John Thacker (Bann.). 4 and 3 Lynch (Ar- &yle) defeated W. H. Alexander (Bann.), 4 and 2. Best bullv-ArJyI'. 5 and 4. J; A Cox (Argsle) defedted J. T McCarthy (Bant)-8 uh S Bl (Argsie) de- feaved Norman, 3. mu (Bann.), 4 and Begt ball-Arevie, 4-and 3 . Q. Wood (Bann.) defeated M. B. Olivert C., MONDAY, JUNE 30 1930. {Aresier. 8 and 4: John Dudley (Arevle) de- feated Burgdorf (Ban: nm blll~Blnno:kb\|rn. "ana 1. Reatdon (Atsile Gefeated C. C HOnth (Bann .3 Ana 3, Melvin Krafe (AL gvie) defeated E. J “Doyle’ (Bann), § and . Best’ bail-Argyle, 5. Alex Batizasien “Tar deteated D 3T W, Brown' (Bann ), 2 * Jon Baidwin’ (Averie) deten E | (BannJ, 5 204 4. 2; 8. "Robin: n (Aresie), all Best ball—Argyle, 2 1 Wannan CATEvie) defeated S Gibion (BAn )" and 4. Harves Shipley (Argzle) defented W. F. Byrne (Bann.), 8 nd 7. Best ball—Argyle, 5 and 4. ARENCE M. CHAREST, national veteran singles tennis champion, played W. H. Alexander, one of the younger golfers of Bannockburn, to a tie in the final round of the event for the Henry-Williams Cup at Ban- nockburn yesterday and the match will be played over this week. Alexander was dormie 2 up, but Charest squared by winning the last two holes. TIRST round matches in the com- petition at the Tribal Bowl at I dian Spring were finished yester- day with the following results: Byrn Curtiss defeated G. C. Gist, 4 and 3; T. M. Belshe defeated E. B. Wagner, 2 and 1; J. Willlam Harvey, jr., de feated Elliott Spicer, 1 up in 20 hole: F. E. Early defeated C. M. Whitman, 3 and 2; Dr. E. R. Tilley defeated Homer S. Pope, 1 up in 19 holes; D. F. Mastbrook defeated Harold Graves, jr, 1 up; H. L. Lacey defeated L. W. Sasscer, 3 and 2. EARLY 100 public links golfers were playing today at Rock Creek Park and East Potomac Park in qualifying rounds for the national pub- lic links championship. The 10 low scorers today at both the public courses will play 36 holes tomorrow over a different course to determine the four men who will make up the local team. . A six-day motor cycle race will be held in the Alps from July 29 to savare, * | Third Cavalry CAVALRY FOUR TO MEET WAR BLUES FOR TITLE BALTIMORE, June 30.—Third Cav- alry Yellows of Fort Myer, who have been cleaning up in polo tournament het | play around Washington this season, will face War Department Blues of Washington here Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the championship game in the Southern half competition of the Southeastern circuit. Yellows defeated the Blues, 11 to 7, to gain the Argen- tine Army Cup title recently in Wash- ington. Yellows gained the final in the intra- circuit play when they vanquished Maryland Polo Club Blues of Baltimore, 10 to 6, here yesterday. It was an easy victory for the Yellows. The Balti- moreans had a 3-goal handicap. ‘The line-ups: THIRD CAVALRY (10). ronmon. SCORE BY PERIODS. 1212 Ma. Pojo Club Bites *Goals earned, Reteree " Sichanan Biakisten Time—Six periods of 7% minutes each. |ROWING CLUBS PROVIDE FOR PILKINGTON TROPHY Amateur rowing clubs in the United States are now contributing to & fund for a James Pilkington memorial trophy. It will be lomethlng like the Diamond August 3. Entries from France, Italy and Switzerland will compete. Sculls of English rowing, s perpetual trophy for championship sl.nz?e SPORTS. ‘C-38 Erring Right Elbow One Cause of Slice The one big cause of slicing in golf is an erring right elbow. Few of us can make the plagued thing behave. It wanders, or tends to wander, away from the right side, and to assume, at the top of the swing, a position similar to that shown in the sketch. ‘When the right elbow plays freely it gets too far away from the right side. When that occurs yvur downswing will be from outside the line in and across the ball- sure slice. The right elbow must stay in close to the right side, otherwise you cannot control the awing, force it to the come through and upon the direction line from inside. A golfer is no better than his tee shot. Sol Metzger has prepared a free illustrated leaflet on the art of driving. Send for it in care of this paper and inclose a stamped, ad- dressed envelope. (Copyright, 1930.) for Even the Incomparable Bobby Jones BLUE RIBBON TURF MEET ON AT ARLINGTON PARK CHICAGO, June 30 (#).—Chicago's blue ribbon turf season—a 30-day pro- gram bulging with $650,000 in gold— opened today at the ultra-fashionable Arlington Park course. Featuring the inauguration of the ex- ceptional program, which promises ts surpass any other in American turf his- tory not only in aggregate purses, but in *the general class of peting thoroughbreds, was the $7,500 added inaugural handicap, a 7-furlong dash out of the chute for 3-year-olds and up. CALZA MEETS BANKERT IN WRESTLING FEATURE George Calza, Itallan heavyweight, will have it out with Hiney Bankert in the feature match of the weekly wrestling program tomorrow night at the Washington Auditorium. Other encounters are scheduled be- tween the “Masked Marvel” and Mario Giglio, Jake Luskey and Carl Pozella and Rudy Dusek and John Maxos. —_— DUTCH FISSLER VICTOR IN ROUGH WATER MILE LONG BEACH, Calif., June 30 (#).— The annual one-mile rough-water swim here was won yesterday by Dutch Fissler, New York Athletic Club, holder of the quarter-mile back-stroke record. He finished first in 22 minutes. Jimmy Triolo of the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, was second. 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