Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1930, Page 42

SPORIS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 10, "1930. SPORTS. Golfers Aim at Jones’ Scalp : Culpeper to Have Another Big Shoe Tourney MUST CONQUER Hib T0 WIN OPEN TITLE Grind Is On, With Number ot Players 'Given Chance to Dethrone Bobby. BY PAUL R. MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. INNEAPOLIS, July 10.—Beat sational game that made him one of the world’s greatest. The “Haig” has centered his efforts la; on the out- ward nine in ice and has turned in two dazzling 32's, four under par. Armour’s chance appeared to rest in his superior iron play. While Inter- lachen requires healthy drives straight all the way, it is more of a course for an iron expert of Armour’s caliber. Farrell and Diegel, threats in any man's tournament, appeared strictly on [top of their games. The strain and worry has passed from Farrell's face and he is banging out his shots like he |did in 1928, when he defeated Bobby in the 36-hole play-off for the title. Diegel has been a trifle wild in practice with his pitches to the elevated, trap- ped greens, but he is none the less the Diegel who won the professional golfers title a vear ago. Interlachen, stretching over 6,672 yards, doesn't boast the tough reputa- tion of many of the former national |open scenes, but it does have pitfalls M Bobby Jones! | 9 t old galore. The rough holes are a great sy b og? Al menace for those who have a habit of Interlachen today, as Ameri- ca’s golfing stars—and & Britisher, | too—faced a blazing sun and a veritable | purgatory of traps and bunkers in thelr | first major offensive for the cherished | National Open championship. If the emperor of golf has cracked under the mental strain of his invasion | of England, he has failed to reveal it | during four days of practice on the | championship course. The Jones drives | haven't been quite up to his standard, | but his iron and putting looked Jjust like they have for the past eight seasons. It was the same Bobby ‘Jones against virtually the same field he con- quered at Winged Foot last year. Threatening among the 142 en- tries were the “big ten” of pro golf— Walter Hagen, Horton Smith, Johnny Farrell, Gene Sarazen, Tonimy Armour, MacDonald S , Diegel, Al Es- pinosa, Bill Mehlhorn and Denny Shute. A host of dangerous amateurs, including Great Britain's single entry, Oyril Tolley, and the present and former American national amateur champions =Jimmy Johnston and Von Elm—also were granted outside chances. Jones' Greatest Rivals. From a glance at the championship course and past performances, it ap- ared that Jones' chief menaces were agen, Parrell, Armour and Horton Smith. They have shown good golf ‘;llnplnl their drives along the fairway ringe. A ball landing 1 foot off the fairway is in & more dangerous lie than a ball sliced or hooked 20 feet off, as the rough thins out away from the fairway. Greens Declared Tricky. ‘The greens are of a bent texture, and the golfers complain each has three to four different slants.or ‘There are eight {l! 4 that can be reached with a drive and a sound mashie niblick shot; there are four easy par 3 holes, four par 5 holes that promise to produce birdies and two par 4 holes that require use of woods in the fairways. These last two holes are expected to make or break golf hopes. They are the first and fourteenth, and there is trouble for any golfer. Estimates on the total needed to win the 72-hole medal play championship today varied between 287 to 206. Hagen, one of the shre game as played and as a player, esti- mated 294 would win. Jones thought it would be around 292. “If any one gets a 287, we all might as well pack up our war clubs and go home,” Bobby said. ‘Today's initial drive was 18 holes. A similar round will be played tomorrow, with a final 36 holes Saturday. After Friday's round the low 60 and ties will fight it out over the final 36-hole during practice rounds and Hagen, es- pecially, seemed to be back to the sen- icurney. If a play-off is necessary, as it has been for the past three years, 1t will be decided over 36 holes Sunday. THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE: NTERLACHEN COUNTRY CLUB, Minneapolis, Minn., July 10.—“This battle will be the hardest champion- ship that any man ever won,” re- marked Walter Hagen as he looked over the list, “and I don’t care who that man is. Here are 150 of the best golfers in the _world, with only one or two left out, and most of them are playing sur- prising golf.” This about explains the start of the epen golf championship of the United Btates over the Interlachen course to- day, where from the first tee-off every stroke may win or lose the greatest prize in golf. ’J!:ere was a day and time when Great Britain, especially Scotland, dominated golf. That day has passed. Today the greatest prize of this ancient game that goes back 500 years is the open cham- plonship of a country that was discov- ered less than 500 years ago. man— | a5 Armour and Di to the pres- . It is almost unbelievable, but is it true.” Here at Interlachen, with its hills and wvalleys, its rolling Northwest country, there are veterans and youngsters just out of the caddie class. Here is Mac- donald Smith, who tied for the same open title 20 years ago. Here is the amazing Walter Hagen, who after 59 days on the Pacific is back to try for the big crown he won at Midlothian first 16 years ago, and who today is playing the best golf of his career. If you wander out on the course you will run across the alert Gene Sarazen, ‘who won the open in 1922, and who is more confident today than he ever was PR tha and is champi p for two months an now at the peak. You will also run across Johnny Far- Tell, who beat Bobby Jones in the play- ©off two years ago, and Johnny is keener than he ever was in his life to win @gain. You will run across the young, easy-going, smiling Horton Smith, one of the star sons of Missouri, who is gathering more experience day by day, and who will be worth watching, for he is playing well, and always using his head, which is one of the main factors in a championship of this sort. You will also meet up with Tommy Armour, the lean, lank, black-haired Scot, smart and skillful, one of the great golfers of the world. Armour is, not only one of the greatest iron players that ever lived, but also one of the best wooden club players. If his putter is working, watch out for Armour. And then there is Leo Diegel, nervous- high-strung, but one of the great golf- ers of the game, capable of breaking 70 at almost any start, over almost any course. ‘These are only a few of the big field that today is battling for the big prize of one of the oldest games, a game that has swept the Nation and more actual players than any game ever in- troduced into sport. Against One Man. Tm: talent struggling over Inter- lachen today is the finest class of golf, the best field that ever went into action, old and young, and yet the one thought is whether or not the pick of the game, amateur and pro, can break up the mad, stamPeding rush of Bobby Jones, who has finished 1-2 every year since 1922, with one excep- Even the amateur list is unusually strong, for it includes Jimmy Johnston, the amateur champion; Cyril Tolley, twice British amateur champion; George Voigt, the semi-finalist at St. Andrews; George Von Elm, who has crowded the leaders closely in the last two years, Gene has been training for this | figy and eight or ten others who.are capable of flirting with 3 Don't forget ick Evans on this list. Can they stop Jones? This is the hig question and will continue to be the big question as the field, one by one, steps to the green turf of the first tee and hammers a drive down the long, narrow fairway of the first hole. Only Jones himself doesn't seem to be worked up over the situation. He looks to be in the finest condition he has _yet shown, lean, brown, perfectly conditioned after a hard two months’ campaign. He is hitting the ball with the same old slow, easy looking swing that is never hurried or rushed—a swing that goes to the top of the back swing before it ever starts down, with a turn of the body that leaves him in perfect position to hit against the left side. And yet it is & big mistake to figure that even a Bobby Jones has any set- up against this field. There are too many good ones who may suddenly be- come hot. This is a great test for any golfer who can use head and hold his courage. It is & great test for a golfer who can use his putter on greens t may be extremely baffling, and in this respect the three men to watch are Jones, Hagen and Horton Smith. They are three of the finest putters in the world. They are cool headed, not easily discouraged, able to keep their concentration on the big job, working all the way through. Against them you find an entry such as Diegel, who is quite likely to keep his second shots so close to the pin that he won't have to worry about his putter. ‘The same is true of Tommy Armour. Any (guermwho is straight from th; tee and who can handle an approac) el can un& their irons is capable of beating par in more than one round. : ‘The big test of this championship is sticking to the job, minus discourage- ment and fluttering duck fits in time of trouble. There is always a terrible in- clination to weaken and decide that only a flock of birdies will be any use. Too many of them overlook the fact that all the others will also run into trouble here and there and make their share of mistakes. Hagen realizes this to the fullest ex- tent, and this is one of the main rea- sons that Hagen will be dangerous in reaching again for a crown he wore 11 ago and has never quite T ed since. But he has won four British opens meanwhile and llv‘.ol:. a you've a first-class chance until his final putt leaves him out. ‘What will the wuaf fellows do here? Hagen thinks this will be a tournament where experience counts, Most tourna- ments are that way—it takes a lot of seasoning to prepare any golfer for the nerve test for the job of concentration which this champlonship demands. It takes more than one trir under fire as a rule, although there h. . been one or two exceptions. As Walter Hagen explains if, there must be three or four sinking spells for each man, even for a Bobby Jones, and the winner must survive these with a stout heart and a cool head and keep on playing golf. Some survive the first or second and then collapse. A few sur- vive them all—and these always have a chance. (Copyright, 1930, by North American N Daper Alliance.) e BUYS JOCKEY KEISER. CHICAGO, July 10 (#).—S. N. Hol- man has purchased the contract of Jockey P. Keiser from E. F. Snyder. Keiser will ride for the Rancocas Stable during the remainder of the Arlington Park meeting. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S; 7th & F 1529 Fourteenth St. N.W. Decatur 3320 Conventently Located on Fourteenth Street wdest observers of the | W- OMETHING ‘more than half & hundred Washington golfers are to take their clubs in hand to- morrow and brave the twin ter- | rors of the Severn River and the | that body of water in ualif golf tourney tomorrow. With nearly 50 players entered and paired for the qualifying round from the Capital, it appeared today that as entries, Washington would have the largest representation in the Sherwood Forest event it ever has had. Not all the leading players of the Capital have entered, but among those who have sent in their names are many promi- nent contenders and a few who have won_golf tournaments. Fhn C. Shorey, winner at Woodmont, who has been burning up golf courses about Washington lately, is one of the contestants, being billed to start at 1:55 tomorrow with Roger Peacock, another youthful star. Here are a few of the contestants in the tourney from the Capital: M. L. Brownell, A. Strohm, . Doris, J. E. McKeever, Martin M c. Inerney, John Thacker, Wilbur Seay, :| Maury” Fitzgerald, Charles Ryan, Vi ney Burnett, Joseph O'Hare, John L. Quigley, Alton Rabbitt, R. R. Shay, A. McCallum, W. K. Wimsatt, jr.; Lin say Stott, M. L. Kraft, Mike Oliveri, A, E. Alexander, J. B. Heron, Harvey Tull, Dr. L. 8. Otell, J. Owens, Jack Powell, Frank M. Robert Bowen, Ray Farrell, Thomas D. Webb, W. N. Baldwin, James G. Drain, John Downey, J. M. Hunter, jr.;. W. Byrn Curtiss, R. J. Quigley, R. T. Ha rell, Frank K. Roesch, M. F. McCarth; . J. Cox, A. T. Wannan and J. Dulin. Most of the Washington men are listed to start in the medal round after lunch, but & few of them have been paired to start before noon. The tour- ney will start with an 18-hole qualifica- tion round tomorrow, to be followed by the usual four-match-play rounds. The semi-final and final rounds will be played on Sunday. In past years Wash- ingtonians have dominated the tourney. rardi, D. Bannockburn golfers are in for a couple of days of fun and mutual re- crimination when they play in a two- ball foursome over the Glen Echo course over the week end. The tournament listed for Bannockburn will consist of 18 holes medal pllfi. ‘with full handicap allowance. It will be played in the usual two-ball style, with one ball to be played by each twosome, each man stroking alternately. But it differs from the usual two-ball event, for the contestants are not to alternate in driving. If one member of the twosome has driven on the previous tee and his partner holes out, the first zeember shall again drive off the next will close at 2:30 Sunday afternoon with the club professional. The gents who control the destinles of the United States Golf Association are giving the prospective contestants in the national amateur championship plenty of time to get in their entries for the title chase, to be played at Philadelphia September 22-27, inclusive. Jones Thinks 293 Score Will Win Open Tourney INNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 10 (CP.A) —Bob Jones, who should know something about, such things, belleves a score of 293 will win the United States national open golf champlonship that started over the sun-blistered Interlachen course here today. Others differ in their opinions, but the concensus is that:the winning figures will range somewhere between 288 and 204. 3 Such surmises, of course, are based on the absence of any heavy breezes during the championship. 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Entries will be received from players who have qualified for the match play rounds in the champion- ship in any of the past three years. Any other amateur, who belongs to a member club of the' U. 8. G. A. and has a handicap rating of 3 or less, based on the Callkins system, may submit his entry, together with a statement of his competitive reécord for the past two years, to the championship committee before August 26. The ability of all such entrants will be investigated and they will be notified at least two weeks prior to the tourney of their acceptance or rejection. Stevinson qualified in the champlon- ship at Baltusrol in 1926, did not play in 1927 and 1929 and failed to qualify at Brae-Burn in 1928. Pitt played in the 1928 championship, but missed qualifying by two shots. Billy Howell of Richmond, holder of the Mid- Atlantic title, has been recommended by the Middle Atlantic Golf Association for entry in the amateur championship. These long par 5 holes are just so much easy meat to J. Logan Hopkins, the rejuvenated long hitter of the Washington Golf and Country Club. Last week Hopkins played three rounds of the Annapolis Roads course and in two of the rounds he scored birdie 4s on the long 565-yard fifth hole. Yesterday he played the course again and again he holed a 15-foot putt for a birdie 4, the lone birdie scored on the course in a game in which Albert R. MacKenzie, W. C. Evans and J. G. C. Corcoran played. WILL BROADCAST RACE. CHICAGO, July 10 (#).—Description of the Arlington Classic at Arlington Park Saturday will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting 3 Central stan Co., starting at 'd time. 1 Layout at Interlachen, Battle Scene of Open MINNEAPOLIS, July 10 (#).—Here is the par and the distance for In- terlachen’s 18 holes, scene of the thirty-fourth United _States ~open golf champlonship. Par, 72; total yardage, 6,672: Hole 1—478 yards, par 4 Hole 2—370 yards, par 4. Hole 3—180 yards, par Hole 4—506 yards, par Hole 5—178 yards, par Hole 6—343 yards, par Hole 7—352 yards, par Hole 8—387 yards, par Hole 9—485 yards, par | Par out, 36. Hole 10—344 yards, par 4. | Hole 11—484 yards, par 5. Hole 12—530 yards, par 5. Hole 13—194 yards, par 3. Hole 14—444 yards, par 4. Hole 15—408 yards, par 4. Hole 16—315 yards, par 4. | Hole 17—262 yards, par 3. | Hole 18—402 yards, par 4. H Par in, 36. CONSIDINE, MITCHELL REACH TENNIS FINAL Bob Considine and Dooly Mitchell, | first two ranking tennis players of | Washington, will fight it out Saturday for the city championship. In the city tournament on the Edge- moor courts, Considine defeated his doubles partner, - Tom 4—6, 6—3, 7—5, and Mitchell eliminated Billy Jacobs of Baltimore, the Middle Atlantic fllnlor champion, 6—4, 6—2, to gain the nal. 3. 5. 3. 4. 4. 5. collegiate flavor, for Considine is a stu- dent at George Washington and Mitchell 1 is a Hoya. Today at 3:35 p.m. Considine and Mitchell were to meet the Army doubles champions, Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, jr, and Thomas D. Finley, in a semi- final. In the other semi-final, scheduled | at 5 o'clock, the Navy's No. 1 Leech Cup pair, Comdr. C. C. Gill and Lieut. G. S. Smith, were to take on Ensigns Jimmy Farrin and Bill Howard. G. W. MAY STEP OUT. George Washington University, it is | understood, will have an out-of-town foot ball training camp this year, prob- b} sea resort C Saturday's battle will have an inter- | INTEREST IN GAME 1S AT HIGH PITCH Leading Citizens to Strive for Honors—Women Enter for First Time. ULPEPER, Va., where the North- ern Virginia finals of the metropolitan district horseshoe tournament were held last year, is coming back strong for the second annual championships sponsored by The Mrs. Berkeley G. Calfee, county cor- respondent, has this to say about it: a smiling man these days, for not oniy did his good horse, Boston Boy, come in | both days of the Culpeper show, but entries for the coming horseshoé tour- nament are pouring in thick and fast, and the entrants include some of the most prominent people in this and the ldi‘ainln‘ counties of Madison and Rap- pahannock. | _ “Not that prominence means anything | when you get to swinging a horseshoe, | but the names on these entries do mean that people in general are taking a great | interest in the sport and getting mighuy ond of it. “Something entirely new in horseshoe pitching annais here is the entry of sev- | eral women. | . “The courts, which are in the same | location as last year, in a shady lot at | the side of the Weaver Motor Co. Build~ |ing on North Main street, have been the scene of many battles lately as ex- perienced players toiled to keep in trim and novices sought to ‘get the hang of the thing.'” | "Amon’ those listed to play are the mayor of Culpeper, R. 8. Browning; Town Manager S. F. Von Gimmengen, Rufus G. Roberts, editor of the Virginia Star; George W. Hawkins, Culpeper champion; Fiddlin’ John Smith, run- ner-up last year; Wade Massie, jr., and | J. E. Keyser of Rappahannock; Capt. | Calfee, veteran of the Civil and Span- | ish-American Wars; E. O. Willis, vice president of the Second National B: Makers of the famous “Dick Weaver, county chairman, is | | first of the field in the steepiechase on | R. G. Spotswood, Russell Guinn, Allen Frazier, C. H. Robson, all of whom did well last year, and scores of others.” From which we take it Culpeper will have a wow of a tou t c- cording to Mrs. Calfee, anteed when Dick Weaver chairmanship. | JANTRIES for most of the Washing- ton preliminaries closed yesterday, | |~ _and this morning’s mail brought a | | flock of -,zpncmom. It will be a week | | or two before the number of participants | in the metropolitan tournament will be known, for the out-of-town lists are still open. the ANY requests are being received to delay Washington preliminaries on | playgrounds which for sometime | iave been without regulation shoes, due | to late action by Congress on District | appropriations. Pitchers in the neigh- borhoods affected want more time to | practice. OWN at Berryville, Va., where W.| N. Rutherford is chairman, the tune-up competition is so close | that a keen struggle for champlonship honors is almost & certainty. Among the leading pitchers enrolled | are Page W. 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