Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1930, Page 29

SPORTS. BOBBY GREATEST CHOIGE IN HISTORY Hagen, in Wonderful Shape| From Trip to the Orient, Called Big Threat. BY PAUL R. MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Write: INNEAPOLIS, July 9.—Amer- fca’s big parade of golfing greats went through their final | rehearsals for the national| Golfer Has 60 Score, Claiming World Mark INDIANAPOLIS, July 9 (P)— Herman Eubele, professional at the Pleasant Run Golf Club here, today claimed a new world record for 18 holes on the difficult Pleasant Run course, boasting a score of 60 and a record of one eagle, 11 birdies and an even par on the other six holes. Although a score of 55 was once made by George Duncan on a short Swiss course, Eubele’s score, made late yesterday, was belleved fo be a world record for a links spread out over 6044 yards. The score was 13 under par. ~ Eubele played in a four- some. Eubele, shooting with machine- like precision, took 29 strokes on the outward nine and took two more on the incoming trip. His card and par for the course: Par—out 4 4 5 THE THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE. No Interludes at Interlachen. INNEAPOLIS, Minn,, July 9.— | There are some fine golf | courses where the tee shot is | the dominating factor. You either hit your drive as it ought to be hit in regard to length and direction or | you get out the big spade and start | digging 1n sand or underbrush. There are other good golf courses | where the tee shot is only fairly im- | | portant, but one must be master of the | irons to get around close to par. This | means open space from the tee, but a terrain full of trouble around the green, and above all things the medal play golfer dreads an_excursion into the sanded abysses where anything might bination of power and control for his long game and those six longer holes referred to above will be down his ley, if he is playing his game. And no | one can accuse him often of playing any one else’s game. You and I might almost play Hagen's game one day and then adopt the game of a blind cripple a day or two later, Just by way of variety. To Jones the “spice of life” isn't variety—it's tne mo- | notony of consistency, most of the time | at least. | But he realizes on this occasion he has a harder job than he faced at St. Andrews or at Hoylake, so far as talent | is concerned. At neither of these goli- | ing centers did he have to face Hagen, | Armour, Sarazen, Farrell, Shute, Mehl- horn, Dudley and a flock of younger stars capable of assaulting par with all | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €. WEDNESDAY, JULY It Is the Field Against Jones in Open Golf Jones Is Declared Fit And Is Picked to Win MINNEAPOLIS, July 9 (C.P.A).— The writer fancies Bobby Jones’ chances of winning the open golf championship. Bobby has the ap- pearance of the physically fit ath- lete and condition counts for quite as much in the long 72-hole battle as in any other branch of com- petitive sport. Over the past few seasons Jones has conditioned himself only casual- ly for the open. His preparations consisted of a few practice rounds and a tuning up of his short game. Often he was dog tired when he ap- proached the final round and the slumps he suffered at Olympia Fields and Winged Foot may be attributed to bodily fatigue as much as any- thing else. But it is different this year. He appears to be every bit as well con- ditioned as Gallant Fox, another | Northwest, they are doing 9, -1930. SPORTS. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE | BY W. R. McCALLUM i F you think that waiting on the outcome of the open week, you are by way of making a | mistake. For while the golfers of the | Capital aré keeping a weatier eye on the results from the big show in the | a bit of squabbling among themselves. For ex- ample, the third round in the competi- ton for the Perkins Plate is on today | at the Chevy Chase Club among the | seniors of that organization; at Ban- | nockburn the club golfers are in the | midst of their first round for the Tom | Moore Trophy; two clubs have Scotch foursomes planned for this week end, mont; Mel Shorey of East Park: A. L. Houghton of Harper, all Potomac | ital-bred amateur star, and a member of the Walker Cup team. | DON'T see how it is possible to| have 18 such fine, even putting greens.” George Diffenbaugh of Indian Spring was talking to Maj, Richard D. Newman, superintendent of | the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Club. “Major, how did you | do it. These greens are absolutely per- | fect. All the same speed, all the same | texture, and all equally good. Not a | bad spot in any of them, How on earth did you do it?" | Maj. Newman is & man with a great deal of experience in golf and with He started the game away .“ ‘C-3 Tourney That Starts Tomorrow surface itself is perfection, like those of all the other greens on the layout. Maj. Newman is scheduled for & toun of duty at the War College next years and meanwhile Capt. Jim Menzies hag come to Washington from Fort Riley ashington golf is | The four are Arthur B. Thorn of Wood- | and is learning under Newman the tricks of keeping that course in shape. A better teacher no man ever has had, | I championship at Minneapolis tmsjpmfmmmxs_ and George J. Voigt, Cap- | and Capt. Menzies undoubtedly wili carry on the work with the same fine spirit _and intelligent direction that Maj. Newman has given it. The course and particularly tl putting greens—will stand forever as a monument to Maj. Newman and to the man_who is back of it all—Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff, U. S. A, whose idea it was to have near Washington a great club where all the officers of the service could have their own playground. EARLY 50 woman golfers of the Capital journeyed down to Annapo- lis Roads yesterday to play golf. Ne tourney was held, but most of thé women played 18 holes and went and at two others h 1 play | golfers. yed | tournaments are sromaicap medal PIaY | Eck"in the mauve decade, before Bon. | bathing afterward. Mrs. J. M aynes r e ! : had the best score of the ds i The Chevy Chase seniors have con- | by Jones was born, when Jerry Travers, gt S ciided their sccond. round In' the Per- | Walter J. Travis. Max Benr, Findlay Other low scores B IR A "fi‘ kins Plate with the following results: | Dougias and Chandler Egan ruled the | e 5 S e, Harsison Brand. Jro S. Minor defeated Capt. E. S. Kel- | “Well, George, I know you're not | and Mrs. J. F. Cross. ¥ happen. For example, it was just such an oc- | casion that cost George Von Elm a 9 at | Hoylake, although he was within 30 wood | yards of the pin on his second shot. | This Interlachen test, where the open From the brilliant assaults already | starts tomorrow morning, seems to be ruler of the turf. Bob's face is a ruddy brown and he has a slimness of figure not seen in several Sum- mers. His eyes are sparkling, and if he is tired he most carefully con- ceals the fact. the vim and confidence of younger | | years that have yet to find how quickly | |the human pulse can start backfiring | in a pinch. And he must still ward away those | two hard battling pros who trailed him | open championship at old Interlachen | today as the world of golfdom doubt- fully wondered if it included a shot- maker capable of stopping the triumph- ant march of the one and only Bobby | she Jones, Ever since Bobby first trooped out of | Atlanta bent for conquest almost a| decade ago, he has been a threat to win | the most coveted of all American golf crowns. But this time, fresh from his | for the golfer who does not hit brilliant foreign victories, he stands out as the most prohibitive favorite ever to | compete for any golfing diadem, how- ever large or small. | It Dever before. made by the field on the championship | course, it does not appear to measure | up to Oakmont or Olympia Fields No. 4, former National Open scenes, in rug- gedness. Yet it is replete wnh'pltlalzj hi shots almost perfectly, The fairways| are lightning fast and narrow, fringed | with rough that has made Bobby and | the rest of the golfing greats take more | than one to get out. The greens, on | the other hand, are slow and elevated, Was Jones against the fleld as | Fequiring not only sure putting but sure | | pitches, It 15n’t overly long, extending | Probably the smartest national open | 6,672 yards, and only one water hole of | field in 36 years opposed him. Yet | Bobby was on top of the smartest, if | not soundest, game the royal and! ancient sport has ever known. The championship Interlachen course was | admirbaly suited to his shots and back | of it all was a burning ambition to sweep before him the major champion- ships on this side of the Atlantic as he has done in England. It was a serious Bobby Jones at Interlachen to- day—more serious than many of his golfing compatriots suspected. Many Going Strong. Hope springs eternal, however, and it was_high in the hearts of many of Bobby's 146 rivals who will fight against him on the 72-hole medal ba tle which opens tomorrow. Some be lieved the champion would crack under | the physical and mental strain of the | past month: others, like Walter Hagen, Horton Smith, Johnny Farrell, George | Von Elm, Gene Sarazen, Tommy Ar-| mour, Jimmy Johnston, MasDonald | reach very serious proportions in so far back tees, slowing other twosomes. After ened. He plays in the twosome ahead of consequence splits the fairway—on the | fs-.zy"d ninth. Par for the stretch | 72. 1 Forecasts of the winning total today range from 285 to 295, with 288 or| perfect par the more likel Galleries Offer Problem. A problem of galleries, which may as the contestants are concerned, con- fronted tournament officials today. Be- tween 12,000 and 16,000 or more are ex- pected to follow Jones on his rounds, but the fairways are so narrow on the | course that the crowd either will bulge on to other fairways or crowd back to the first hole there is a big danger of falrway crowding that may tax the con- testants as well as the marshals. Hor- ton Smith is one of those most threat- Jones and his friends fear he may be hampered even for his experience. All entrants except three American a strong combination of both elements. | Here they say 10 you—"First hit your tee shot to the right place; but when you have done that the problem is only | half over, for there 15 plenty of trouble also waiting for a second shot that isn't massaged in correct fashion.” Interlachen is going to put them all to work and it isn't going to give them | many resting places along the trail, by which I mean certain interludes of | carelessness that won't be penalized. It | will mnake them keep hitting the ball | with wood and iron, with driver and | brassie and spoon, with their No. 2s, | their No. 3s, their mashie and their | shorter pitches. Length and Control. HERE are slopes to the left and slopes to the right that must be watched as they run to matted trouble. There are hills and vales, | plateaus and valleys, uplands and low- | lands to be faced and conquered. And | there must be plenty of hitting. Just | consider a few of these distances where power will be & most important item. Hole. And these longer ranges are all well | guarded from tee to green by the lux- uriant rough of the Northwest or by the implacable pits and traps that man abroad—Diegel and Horton Smith. They are in no sense discouraged and | will go back to the big job of trying to beat Jones with renewed determination. Anticipating the heavy campaign he was to undertake this year, Bobby trained himself methodically all Winter. WOMAN HAS 75 CARD. ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 9—Mau- reen Orcutt, representing the Lido Club | of Long Island, set a blistering pace | around the east course of the Oak Hill Country Club yesterdsy to become | medalist in the qualifying round of the | first woman's New York State golf| championship. She scored a sensational 75, three over men's par. Rough at Open Course Does Not Belie Name MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 9 (CP.A).—A shot in the rough is a stroke wasted on this Interlachen course, where the United States Na- tional Open golf championship starts ‘Thursday morning. Not since the open was played at Scioto, Colum- bus, Ohio, in ‘1926, have the sharp- shooters of the game been faced with such impenetrable rough as they have on these Minnesota moors. The rough at Interlachen has not been mowed for several weeks and in the meantime there has been an abundant fall of rain that has made the grass luxuriant. It best can be compared to swamp grass and it is_impossible to hew | much to the architecture of the course. SARAZEN DECLARES TEST HARDEST SINCE OAKMONT MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 9 (N ANA)—"The toughest test since Oakmont.” That was Gene Sarazen's appraisal of Interlachen, where the national open championship will begin _tomorrow morning, and was given by Gene after | he had gone around the course several times. Sarazen's size-up of Interlachen co- incides with the earliest estimates of Jimmy Johnston, national amateur champion, who knows the course as well as any golfer, and Willle Kidd, veteran professional at the club, who contributed GOLF DATES ARE SET. CHICAGO, July 9 (#).—The eleventh annual junior championship tourna- ment of the Women's Western Golf Association will be held at the Evans- ton, Il Golf Club July 21 to 24. Entry will be restricted to players under 18 years who have not competed in pre- | vious W. W. G. major tournaments | Rust defeated E. K. Campbell, by de- { fault; logg, 1 up; Walter G. Peter defeated W. | G. Brantley, 3 2nd'1; E. M. Talcott de- | feated C. L. Marlatt, 4 and 2; H Gen. R. H. Allen defeated Ad- miral M. M. Taylor, by default; Gen,‘ Frank R. Keefer defeated W. F. Ham, | by default; Admiral H. R. Stanford de- | feated Capt. Chester Wells, by default; C. P. Hill defeated Gen. H. P. McCain, | by default; Gen. W. J. Nicholson de- | feated W. C. Mendenhall, by defauit; G. V. Worthington defeated Gen. M. M Patrick, 5 and 4; Gen. D. C. Shanks de- feated Admiral W. I. Cone, 6 and 5; Fulton Lewis, sr., defeated F. M. Sav- | age, by defauit. Third round—Peter defeated Minor, 1 up: Stamford defeated Hill, 2 up; Worthington defeated Nicholson, 1 up; Shanks defeated Lewis, 8 and 6. Out at Indian Spring four golfers re- main in the semi-final round of the competition for the Tribal Bowl, with the matches to be played by next Sun- day evening, and at Congressional the goifers still are competing in the initial handicap match play tourney of the season., On Sunday the Woodmont Club has scheduled a mixed Scotch foursome, and on the same day the Argyle Club has a Scotch foursome event listed. Meanwhile it has developed that Roland R. MacKenzie has decided not to go to Minneapolis, which leaves the | done the seemingly impossible in bring- Capital contingent in the open cham- plonship at four men instead of fi: kidding m he replied, and added with modesty, “they are pretty good. But I suspect, George, that your put- | ting greens at Indian Spring are just as good. They may be of different | texture, but they are just as good to putt on, and I don't think they have those tricky undulations near the cup | that our greens have,” | George Diffenbaugh was not the only | pro among the score who played at the service club the other day who marveled at those fine putting greens. They all did, and the farth they went, the | more they marveled: Maj. Newman has | ing bent putting greens in two years to | the peak of perfection. Today those | putting surfaces at the service club cer- tainly are the equal of any around | Washington, and equally certainly they are better than those at some of the courses. Out where the ninth hole is to stretch its length some day over property that the club has yet to acquire, Maj. New- man has built a putting green on top of the hill near the club house, which will ultimately be the ninth. Con- structed in three levels, this putting green now is the practice putting course for the club, and if you think you are a good putter go out and try to hole that putting course in 18 strokes for the nine holes. Some of those undulations will make 1 think yo not so good, but t! Undeniable Facts Prompt . . . quick . . . effcient service. Gas, ofl, greasing, lubricating and washing. A complete line of accesso- ries and Firestone Tires and ‘Tubes. One Square South of Penna Ave. on 12th 12th and © A Block Below Sts. N.W. the Raleigh Walker Cup players—Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland, Oreg.; Roland MacKenzie of Washington and Francis Ouimet of Boston,” open champion in 1913—will compete. They withdrew because of business reasons and much desired rest. Charles “Chick” Evans, Chicago ama- teur, who won the title at Minnekahda in 1916 with a 286, the lowest score in the open’s history, came in late yester- day, unannounced, and took his practice round over Minnekahda instead of In- As the contestants came out for their Smith, Leo Diegel, Bill Mehlhorn and Cyril Tolley, Great Britain's sole rep- resentative, were ready to match his card. They all have turned in good practice rounds and have reputations for campai brilliantly. This was particularly true of the vet- eran Hagen. Back from an exhibition tour throughout Japan and Australia, the “Haig” has adopted somewhat of an air of mystery. He shot a 32, four un- der par, going out Monday and then One”golfer ot great. mert Govsrved Hac ne golfer of it gen closely yesterday and remarked:final practice round today, they had a “‘Walter looks right. He looks far better |TeCOr to shoot at already as produced than 'a"year uge-andthe a | from their fleld. Yesterday, in defiance Jot of trouble.” to a scorching sun, Henry Ciucl of Hagen who' cailed’ Jo Stratford, Conn., and Whiffy Cox of Qoller 4 the ot I Brooklyn' toured ‘the course with a pair of 69s, 3 under par. They equaled the course record and topped by one stroke the best practice rounds turned in by Jones, Von Elm and a few others. Jones ‘was content to loaf along yesterday and spent most of his time making re-shots and tuning up his irons. Another hot day, with the tempera- ture ranging around 90, was expected by late this afternoon, baking the fair- v-ry's_’ even more and adding to physical worries. has devised to assist nature in tortur- ing the nerve-wrackad player. Consider also the short holes: Hole. the ball from the moist tyrf with anything short of a niblick. On many courses where national cham- pionships have been played it was possible for a player to recover from a wild shot with a long iron or even a spoon or brassie and without penalty. But not here. A bad shot costs at least one shot, sometimes two or three. pitis a horrid word, but it’s worse if on the end of your cigar Here again there will be few birdies fluttering around these velvet greens. Long irons and woods must be called | = on, and gufi' Jmtx}s‘t be eolnt;fll‘ed. But once controlled there wil less pre- IT mium on putting, especially approach | PROVE ’ HARRY putting, as the greens are none too large and expansive. When you hit | You said "B, P." means the green a big part of your trouble I8 | Bookish Person. But over. But, as they say about “Green | PA;_t:res"htline play, “Don't rlnlsl it.” If you want to enjoy a ese holes mentioned all have dif- | good book, light up a ferent qualities, due to the ever-chang- H ing contours of highland and lowland. gayuktghillie _0;88;-_ — rom then on, "B. P. will mean Bayuk Phil=- lies—the world's best Testing the Leaders. ILL this course,” some one has ten-cent cigar. Sincerely, asked, “suit Bobby Jones?” | B. P. C. ‘greatest week and then Armour Gets Attention. Another of the leading threats in the championship who has won the title and who likes Interlachen is Armour. What course doesn't suit a man | who can drive 250 yards or more on a | course in par I bee line and slap any variety of irons 72 figures this week and has spent most upon the green? | Séanting TOMORROW Jones has a fine com- Men! The big shoe event you’ve been asking about and so eagerly awaiting IS HERE and now it’s up TO YOU! orsheim Shoe 8 Afew fiy{fl'?‘.’ All $10 to $12 “FLORSHEIM” Men’s Shops 14th at G 7th & K 3212 14th SALE Men who've known what it is to wear Florsheims will be quick to add a new pair to their wardrobe at this lowered price. You'll do well to get acquainted with Florsheims now at this agreeable saving Low Shoes Included! by methods 1930 American Cigar Co. spit-tipping— . « « the war against Spitting is a crusade of decency...join it. smoke CERTIFIED CREMO! 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