Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1930, Page 11

s Decisive Victories Rare in Open Golf : Seat Pleasant Shoe Pitchers Primed THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE. TIES AND ONE-SHOT MAREIS FREQUENT Horton Smith May Be First Native of Far West to Capture Crown. UKILS. Players Who Started Final Rounds in Open By the Associated Press. INTERLACHEN, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.,, July 12—Qualifyers for the final 36-hole round of the national open golf championship today, with their first and second round totals: Horton Smith, New York.... 73—70—142 “Bobby Jones,' Atlanta. 7113144 arry Cooper. Chicag MacDonald Smith, New Tommy Armour, 'Detroit Wilfred Cox. Brooklyn. . Johnny Farrell, Mamaroneck, N Y. % . a oNew York , Darien, Conn Bob Shave, Cleveland. . Billy Burke, New York. Jack Forresie . "Detroit Dudley. Wiimington, Dei William Mehihorn, Pensacol W. Kozak. Douglaston. Jim Barnes, New York Leo Diegel, T. P. Perkins. Long Beach. N.J. Francis Gallett, MilwauKee . Willie MacFarlane, New York BY H. G. SALSINGER. INNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 12.—Fifteen out of the last eighteen national open championships have re- sulted either in ties or one-stroke victories. Four out of the last five ended in ties, the only excep- tion being the 1926 tournament at | Scioto, where Bobby Jones finished | one stroke ahead of Joe Turnesa. If the 1930 tournament does not carry 2 play-off tomorrow then it will be the | exception rather than the rule. Horton | Smith starts the third round this morn- | ing with 142, a two-stroke lead over the | field, but nine golfers are within five | strokes of him. | Should Horton Smith win the 1930 championship, he will be the first player | born west of the Mississippi to wear the | open crown. His chance is fairly good since Smith has not been in the habit of cracking. He is one player who, in all | previous tournaments, has kept ham-| mering away at Jones' lead and Jones | has always been in the lead where | Smith was in the field with the excep- | tion of the Savannah Open last Winter, | where Smith beat Jones by one stroke. | Lacey a Youngster. Among the first 10 there is but one stranger {0 major tournament play. A 23-vear-old player by the name of Charles Lacey furnished the sensation of the second round by shooting a 70 and gaining a tie at 144 with Harry Cooper and Bobby Jones right behind Smith. Lacey came to this country three years ago from Gerrards Cross, London, Eng- land. He arrived here as a caddy, but now he is a professional and he is play- ing his first major tournament. | Outside of Lacey the field is well | established in major golf. All are vet- | eran_campaigners. Macdonald Smith | and Tommy Armour, who tied for the und lead, could not keep up the esterday, but both remain in ex- | cellent challenging positions. Harry Cooper .is finally up among them again and if he can keep from becoming overconfident he has a good chance. Overconfidence has been a fault of Cooper's in the past. Johnny Farrell, who had an 8 for his first hole in the tournament, is tied with Armour and “Whiffy” Cox and behind them come two veterans, Walter Hagen and Johnny Golden. * Hagen in Warm Spot. Hagen is by no means out of the tournament. “He is 5 strokes be- hind Horton Smith and in an excellent position. Hagen's best play always has been done when behind in the last half of a tournament. That is where he prefers to be. He argues that it is easier to shoot at a lead than to worry about having your lead shot at. Farrell is making a spectacular come- back. After beating against bad breaks and mechanical errors in the first round and finishing in 74, he tyrned in a par 72 yesterday and started this morning 4 strokes behind Smith. It is doubtful if the 1930 champion- ship will be outside the list of the first 10. The title will also remain in the United States. Cyril Tolley, the only British entry, after shooting an 80 on ‘Thursday, shot another 80 on Friday and was eliminated The final struggle presents nine pro- fessionals against one amateur, but that amateur happens to be a gent named Jones. (Copyright. 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) JAPAN, ITALY SPLIT IN DAVIS CUP PLAY By the Associated Press. GENOA, Italy, July 12.—Italy's am- bidextrous tennis star, Georgio De Stefani, came through with an un- expected victory against Japan yester- day, but his countryman, Baron Humbert De Morpurgo, ill and suffering, met defeat. As a result, the home forces broke even with the Japanese in the opening Mmatches of the European Zone Davis Cup tennis final, the winner of which will play the United States for the right to_challenge the French. Voshiro Ohta managed to snatch one set from De Stefani, the latter winning at 6—4, 63, 4—6 6—4, but De Morpurgo lost in straight sets to Takeichi Harada, 6—4, 6—3, 7—5. Fans and experts alike had regarded Ohta and De Morpurgo as almost cer- tain winners. Harada took the breath away from 4.000 Italian fans by carrying the Baron along at such a terrific pace that before the crowd realized what was happening the Japanese had won. BARNES, C IN FINAL OF TOURNEY By the Associated Press. | DES MOINES, Iowa, July 12.—Two ©of America’s most promising tennis per- | formers, Bruce Barnes, the Austin, Tex., comet of the court, and Harris Cogge- shall, Towa’s foremost strokemaker, were | paired today in the finals of the men's singles in the Missouri Valley tourna- me; Barnes went into the finals yesterday | by beating the defending champion, | Wray Brown, in five sets, 6—3, 6—4, 0—6, 2—6, 62 Coggeshall overpowered an arch-rival, | Junior Boehmer, St. Louls, to win his | way into the championship match. The | scores were 6—1, 6—2, 6—3. In a_decided upset in the junior sin- les. Jack Lynch, 15-year-old Taft,| school boy. surprised Willlam Kansas City, seeded No. 1, to -5, 6—2. Another favorite, Jay Cohn, Santa Monica. Calif., national boys' champlon. had & hard struggle to defeat Hal Surface, Kansas City, 6—1, | —1, 7—8. Coggeshall and Junior Coen, Kansas | City. were matched against Brown and | Ted Eggman, St. Louls, in the finals of ! the men's doubles i Ruth Bailey, St. Louis, and Mae Ceur- | vorst, Wichita, Kans., were foes in the finals of the women's singles. FITZGERALD .ANDVBERGER MAKE A SWEEP IN MEET| Richard Fitzgerald and Ralph Berger cleaned up yesterday in the first of & series of weekly track meets planned for the Ceniral Community Center, held in Central High Stadium. Fiizgerald won all three events in the 70-pound class—the 40-yard dash, 60- yard dash and broad jump. Berger barely conguered Jack Cum- berland in a third attempt to_settle supremacy in_the 60-yard dash, 85- pound class. In two previous races the boys breasted the tape tied. BOYLE GIVES LONE HIT. Boyle, pitching for Hayes Playground, allowed Peerless nine just one hit as his team won a 3-0 ball game nsmdw:fi. with a i Rz He also socked the app homer, triple and s singl sacrifice in four tries oggesHALL | [\] |ing in the tournament. Rogers, Denver...... Joe Turnesa, Elmsford. N. Y. Emerick M Willie Hunter, Los Angeles Al Watrous, Detroit i . Frank Walsh, Chica Francis Scheide: Robert " Crowley, .o Al Espinosa, 785—178—153 7578153 18184 Jack Burke, Houston. Tex *George Von Elm. Detroit. . *Johnny Goodman, Omaha, Nebr. ... Ted Luther. enny Shute, B 81—74—155 77—-18—185 n Otts Eddle Schultz, Troy, N, ex_Avton, Springfleld, Bill Tinder. Anderson. In Evans, Chicago tra, Long B K Til, d.. 79— 81—75—156 7680156 T8—78—156 7581156 8076156 7779156 878156 Calif. *Dick *Donal Chicago:.: " oe. Portiand, "Sout] ines . Arthur Ham. Detroit.. Jim Foulis. Chicago... 2Amateur. D. C. LINKSMEN LEAD IN SHERWOOD EVENT ANNAPOLIS, Md,, July 12—With two ‘Washingtoh lads tied for the qualifying ‘Martin, d K. M medal and eleven Washingtonians in | the first flight, Capital players domi- | nated the annual tournament of the Sherwood Forest Golf Club as the match play rounds got under way to- day over the picturesque course of the club high above the Severn River. James G. Drain of the Washington Golf and Country Club, and John C. Shorey of the Bannockburn Golf Club, who tied yesterday at 79 for the quali- fication medal, were paired in opposite halves of the draw for the match play rounds, with Drain opposed to Luther Florine of Bannockburn in the first round, while Shorey played Jimmy Armacost, a Baltimore public links player. John J. Lynch of Argyle registered an 81, and was paired against W. Byrn Curtiss of Indian Spring, stellar south- paw golfer, who shot an 84. Talbot T. Speer of Baltimore played Maury Fitz- gerald of East Potomac Park. Fitzgerald shot an 82 yesterday. Other Washingtonians in the first flight and their scores follow: Robert Bowen, Argyle, 82; John W. Owen, Co- lumbia, 81; J. Monro Hunter, Indian Spring, 84; Roger Peacock, Indian Spring, 84; W. J. Cox, Beaver Dam, 83. Frank K. Roesch, former Washington Golf and Coupntry Club champion, is in the second flight, with a numb-r of other Washingtonians, among them the long-hitting Lindsay Stott of - Ecaver Dam, while the third flight in:iudes Volney Burnett of Beaver Dam, A. E. Alexander and John Thacker of Ban- nock’bum, J. B. Dulin and Frar’: Ge- rardi. Karl Kellerman, winner of the tour- ney two years ago, found the combi- nation of fast fairways and keen putt- ing greens too much for him and slip- ped down to 90 in the medal round, Wwhere he found the fourth flight and was opposed to John I. Tierney of Con- gressional, who scored 92. More than two score Washington players qualified in the tourney and are playing today in the match play rounds. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C. GOLFERS LOOK *ONIN CLOSING DAY [Houghton, Thorn and Shorey Fail to Be Low Enough to Continue. INNEAPOLIS, Minn,, July 12.— Three Washington professional golfers, who came to Minne- apolis a week ago with high | | hopes of playing tbrough the national | open championship, were on the side lines today watching the battle of the Smiths and the Joneses and the othe | | gentry, who were able to score 156 or | better for the first two rounds of the | title chase. A. L. Houghton and A. B. Thorn turned in 36-hole cards of 159, three strokes too high to make the group of 69 players, who qualified for the last day today, while Mel Shorey, the other ‘Washington entrant, had a card of 161 and also was oat of the championship. Houghton yesterday added an 81 to his 78 of the day before, while Thorn had the best score of the Washington contingent, with a 77, to add to his | 82 of the previous day. Shorey, who had scored 79 for the first day, had 82 yesterday. At the close of the opening round Houghton was conceded the best chance to qualify for the last day of play, but he started his second round yes- terday shakily and by the time he had reached the ninth he had little chance to qualify. He slipped over par on the first and second, took 3 putts on the sixth, and took 7 on the par 4 seventh, when he drove into the rough and wound up the nightmare by taking 3 putts. After the turn he played the first six holes in par, but took 5s on the sixteenth and eighteenth for a total of 38. ‘Thorn played the best golf of the Washington pros, registering a 39 for the out nine even with’a 5 on the par 3 fifth. At the twelfth he picked up a birdie 4, but at the 262-yard seventeenth he again took 5, two strokes over par, and finished with a 4 for a 38 and a mark of 77, the best score registered by any of the Wash- ington contingent. All the Washington men agreed that Interlachen, with its heat and its rough-fringed fairways, is too tough a course for them. Their scores yesterday follow: Par out— 4435 Houghton.. 5 Shorey ‘Thorn In par— Houghton. Shorey ‘Thorn ANOTHER NET TITLE Bob Considine and Dooly Mitchell were to face this evening at 4 o'clock for the District tennis singles cham- pionship on the Edgemoor Club courts. In an exhibition, starting at 2:30 o'clock, Jimmy Mitchell, young Columbia Coun- try Club pro, and Paul Heston, seasoned pro of this city, were to clash. Considine and Tom Mangan are still the District doubles titleholders. They successfully defended their champion- ship yesterday when they vanquished Comdr. C. C. Gill and Lieut. G. 8. Smith, y Leech Cup players, in straight sets, The scores were 6- 6—2. Outsteading their opponents Considine and Mitchell were decidedly superior to the Navy combination. Fine placements and numerous_opposition errors aided the winners. In two of the three sets they came back after mediocre starts with sparkling rallies that brought vie- tory. Their uphill struggle in the second set was the high spot. After the Navy pair had won the first five games and had set point in the making their rivals suddenly found their stride and went on to take the next seven games and the set. In the opening set, after dropping the first game, Considine and Mangan came back to win the next five and then after losing the seventh, when Lieut. Smith put over four service aces, contrived to land the eighth and the match. Lacey Messes Up By 70 Score, Tying for Second | BY O. B. KEELER. (Written for the Associated Press.) INNEAPOLIS, July 12.—History repeated itself about 40 min- utes before sunset at the In- terlachen Country Club yes- terday, when Charles Lacey, youthful English professional from that extraor- dinarily tough golf course known as Pine Valley, kicked in with a card of 70, two better than par: went into a tle with Bobby Jones and Harry Cooper, in second place, and caused about 60 high- priced war correspondents to rewrite the same number of leads for the palla- diums of today. Nobody, you see, had heard of Charles Lacey, except that he was play- True, he had 74 on Thursday, but quite & num- f competitors had done that, and as playing very late in the after- , and Horton Smith, with a 170, had gone ahead of Bobby Jones, who in turn had pulled ahead‘of Tommy done T | Armour and MacDonald Smith, leaders in the first round, and Lighthorse Harry Cooper had come up with another par 72 in a tie with Bobby, and everybody was quite too much agog to bother about this mysterious Mr. Lacey. Has Chance for Record. The press house was warm and the wires were hotter and everybody was getting his story out at top speed, and then came Lacey with a par 4, left at the last hole for a 69, the course rec- ord, a clear title to second place by himself and all sorts of famine, pesti- lence and earthquake for the corre- spondents, who had already got their leads on the wire. Well, it turned out not quite so bad as all that. He hooked his drive and his second shot and got into a bunker and worked out & hard 5 for a 70. And history repeated itself-—that is to say, the history of John H. Junor, in 926, at Scioto. ‘This is what the Hon. Junior did, four years ago. ‘Wild Bill Mehlhorn had turned in a 68 to lead the field in the open cham- pionship and Bobby Jones was second, with a 70. And all the boys and girls were pouring in to the telegraph opera- tors, filing their night leads and their overnight_ stories, with nobody out on the course that any body had ever heard of. And all of a sudden, just at sun- set, a popeyed courier came galloping up from the front with the report that one John H. Junior of Portland, Oreg., stood on the eighteenth tee with & par 5 left for a 70, to tie Jones and bust all the stories. 5 Golf Writers T shall never forget the scene that followed. Forty wild-eyed members of the fourth estate lined up along the | | balcony of the club house and chanted | in unison: “Hope he takes a 10! Hope he takes a 10! Did John H. Junior take a 10? He did not. He took a par 5, and got his 70, and all the stories had to be recalled | and rewritten, and next round he got | back to form and took an 80. But the | war correspondents do not love John H. | Junior to this day. Now, of course, I do not know what | fate is In store for Mr. Lacey. He may | g0 ahead and win this championship. | However. I am forced to state that he | is not destined to any immediate popu- larity with the newspaper profession. He caused too many carefully designed | leads to be scrapped and rewritten One more feature of the second day's play may deserve a trifle of comment— | Bobby Jones’' famous shot at the long | ninth hole across Mirror Lake, which | bids fair to take rank with Columbus’ first crossing of the Atlantic, Washing- ton’s crossing of the Delaware, and Hugo Eckener's little journey by Zeppelin | around the world. Jones Makes Great Shot. Bobby had shoved his drive over a bit too far and found himself with what he considered to be a light spoon shot to the ninth green, the idea being to fade it in from the left with the aid of a convenient breeze which was then operating from that quarter. Bobby had some trouble with enthusi- astic spectators, who took turns scam- pering across the fairway, and took his stance for the third time before he could get the shot away, which he did very badly, indeed. He smacked the ball about the belt line—in fair territory, you might say—and it came out with & ducking trajectory and a superabun- dance of overspin, striking the water about three-fourths of the way ACross, bounding, striking again, onto the bank. He pitched a yard fro in and holed @ birdie 4. i Azt ‘;‘“fi B:)bbyl lost a stroke to his great professional rival there, as HoT~ ton Smith, pll"ing just ahead of him, spanked a full spoon shot onto the green and holed a 20-foot putt for an eagle 3. One spectator insisted the Jones ball struck a lily pad. Another said it was & bullfrog. Walter Hagen took Bobby's side of bzx debate. B “Anybody who can hit a ball wit that much topspin deserves to run it across & said Sir Walter, who umber of miracles him- | Smith out in front of the pack and en- | B NTERLACHEN COUNTRY CLUB, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, July 12— As they come romping down the stretch at Interlachen late today there ought to be at least four or* five pounding hearts that are pretty well bunched. And in addition to Bobby Jones, who is always around in these home-stretch gatherings, one of them will be a tall, lanky, blue-eyed son of Missouri by the name of Horton Smith, who was 22 years old back in May. In the midst of the milling yester- day Young Smith handed them a sec- ond round that made Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Tommy Armour, Mac Smith, Johnny Farrell and a number of others sit up and take notice that a serious challenger had arrived on the scene who meant business. I saw every shot_that Horton Smith | played and I saw him grind out a 70 that might just as well have been a 66, for he seemed to be using a rifle shot. most of the time in place of a golf club. It was as fine a round of golf as any one has ever seen in an open championship when you consider the way he went about it. Horton adopted a unique idea and put it into general effect. This idea consisted in hitting Jhis drive smack down the middle and then rapping an iron shot 6 or 8 feet from the pin. It is a system that seldom fails, even if you are putting with a broom. is a system that landed young| abled him to pick up 3 strokes on Bob- by Jones before facing the final day. You will hear more about this round later, where he was out in 33 and might Jjust as well have been out in 30. Class in the Stretch. HE finish yesterday was a certain tip that there will be class in the stretch as they suffer and struggle through the last 36 holes that will proclaim either a winner or a tie before sunset today. Here not more than 5 strokes apart you have Horton Smith, Bobby Jones, Harry Cooper, Macdonald ~ Smith, Tommy Armour, Johnny Farrell, Walter Hagen, Whiffy Cox and John Golden, with Leo Diegel and others only a step away. These are all seasoned campaigners. | They can play golf and they have known the flame and fire of competition and they are all capable of tearing into par with a_pickax. Facing the final day there has been no championship that carried so many thrills and that left more high-class talent all set to Lattle for the big prize. Armour and Mac Smith, the leaders on Thursday, slipped a trifie, but in these hectic opens the leaders of one day usually slip the next. You can only be at the peak so long, and not for very long. A razor edge doesn't last as many days as a battle ax. Hagen went out in 35, but faltered coming home, although there were all the old indications of much better golf ahead. Harry Cooper, who tied with Armour at Oakmont three years ago, came through with another 72 to tie Bobby Jones and prove again that he will bear more watching. Johnny Farrell, another ex-open champion, turned on & brand of golf that will keep him in the middle of the big pursuit race. After starting with an 8 on Thursday, Farrell has played the other 35 holes in 2 under par, which is marvelous work when you have a poisoned poignard sticking in your heart. And that is precisely what an 8 is on the first hole of an open championship. Don't make the mistake of overlook- ing this black-haired, slender, blue-eyed Irishman from. Quaker Ridge. The Big Duel. N many respects the duel between Bobby Jories and Horton Smith yes- terday must be classed as one of the epics of golf. Mac Smith, Armour, Magen and others had slipped just & triffie through the cross-winds of the morning round. As Horton Smith and Bobby Jones squared away later on, a big gallery of 10,000 or morc split apart—about half to follow the lanky entry from Missouri and the other half to watch Bobby Jones. Smith was playing just ahead of Jones. Smith could hear every cheer that roared across the valleys and bounded back from the hills. Jones could hear the roaring applause that greeted every fine shot that Horton Smith played, and he played his full share of them Bobby was leading Horton by a stroke when they began. At the first hole Smith had a 4 and Bobby had a 5, =0 they were all square on the total count. And then young Smith began to play about all the golf there was. He got a birdie 3 at thc second by sinking a 10- foot putt. He had an 8-foot putt for a birdie 2 at the third, and the ball hung on the lip. He had a 5-foot putt for a birdie 4 at the long fourth, and the ball scraped the tin. He got his 4 at the fifth. He might just as well have started 4, 3, 2, 4, 3 with any luck. He had putts for birdics at the sixth, seventh and eighth holes, but could not locate the bottom of the cup, althoug): each attempt was closer than a banker's judgment on collateral. And then he came to the ninth hole, 485 yards in length, with one of the 10,000 lakes waiting for a poor second. Smith's tee shot stopped 6 feet from the water. He picked out an iron and hit the ball dead on the pin, 12 feet from the cup. And then he tapped his putt in for an eagle 3, to get out in 33. I mention these few detalls to show just the brand of golf that Horton Smith played. It was close to uncanny, for he had a 33 that might just as well have been u 30. Jones Responds. OBBY JONES and Horton Smith were all even as they stood on the ninth. Just after Bobby hit his drive at this hole he must have heard | the wild roar from the Horton Smith gallery. At any rate he failed to catch his second correctly and the ball, hit- ting the water 40 yards from shore, skipped by the water lilies and finally ran on to dry ground. | As Walter Hagen explained it—‘“he never topped the shot, or it would never have crossed the water He caught it with ar over spin. half smothered, and when yeu do that water is the same as concrete or rubber. It wasn't as bad a shot as the gallery thought it was. But it wasn't the type of shot that Bobby usually plays.” Just over the water Bobby pitched stone dead and got his 4 for a 34. So here were Horton Smith and Bobby Jones all square with nine holes left. But when it came to the last nine Horton Smith played the better golf. He made just two mistakes on this last | nine, which is long and narrow and which happened to be swept by a cross- countering wind Horton cracked his pitch too boldly at the tenth and he faded his tee shot at the fourteenth, but the rest of it was just as good golf as any one could play. ‘There was just one hole that pushed Jones back. This was the fifteenth, a fairly simple 4. He hooked his tee shot to the edge of heavy rough, missed the green on his second, barely got to the edge on his third from more rough and then needed 3 more to get down for & 6. “This is the only hole that had me steaming,” Bobby said later. “It is a simple enough 4, but that one mistake | cost me two strokes. I wasn't keen to lead the field—not this fleld. I'd have liked another 71 and if I hadn't blown that tee shot it would have been easy enough. But maybe I was lucky at frvmslariass | long 510-yard fourth hole, he hit n} |games. In the first match with Lon- D. C., SATURDAY, nine as well as I hoped to hit them, but for some reason that I can't figure out I haven't played that last nine any too well. It cost me a 37 the first day and a 39 the second day. And yet it is the type of nine I usually like to| play. But that again is part of the mystery of golf. You can never tell.” 0’{! of the big surprises of the sec- ond day was the brilliant 70 of Charley Lacey of Pine Valley, leaving him tied with Bobby Jones and Harry Cooper at second piace. Lacey is only 23 years old. He is a young | Englishman whom George Duncan rec- ommended strongly three years ago. He came over at the age of 20 to try his luck. This is his first open cham- pionship, and after his 74 on Thurs- day he had a putt for 69 on Friday that almost dropped. Young Lacey has been playing fine | g0lf all the way, and he may be one | of the big surprises of this champion- | ship. He has a fine, free swing and a | cool head. If he doesn't get overcome by the last day's strain, he will do ex-| tremely well, despite his lack of expe- | tience, always a big factor in these | open championships. The Best Shot. 'HERE always is a certain amount of interest in the best shot of the day. The palm goes to young Jimmy Thompson. Jimmy was piaying | with Walter Hagen. Coming to the Another Dark Horse. terrific belt, but sliced his tee shot to| the rough back of a tall tree. | There was no chance to shoot for the | green. But he took his chance on a| wide hook to the right of the tree dead in his line. Playing from heavy rough with a No. 4 iron he planted the ball on the green just 12 feet from the cup, and this on a hole that found most of the leading golfers using a brassie from the fairway to get home. 'HE galleries at Interlachen have been the largesb in goif history, in spite of an unusual heat wave that has plastered extreme punishment on the two big crowds. Every record will be broken with so many stars bunched— especially with Horton Smith and Bobby Jones among the leaders—for the crowd has sensed impending drama. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance) CAGLE ACCEPTS POST | AS ASSISTANT COACH| By the Assoclated Press. JACKSON, Miss., July 12.—Christian Keener Cagle, former West Point foot ball captain, has accepted the position as assistant grid coach at Mississippi A. and M. College. A telegram of acceptance was re- ceived by President-elect Hugh Critz, who had notified the Louisianian of the approval of his contract by the board (’a{! t;ustee!. Cagle at present is in New ork. Cagle, who is to report September 1, will spend three months each of three JULY 12, 1930. MUNY NET LISTS CLOSE THURSDAY Plans Also Being Made for National Play Slated Here in August. I : ciation’ championships, which will start next Saturday, will close at 5 p.m. Thursday. They may be filed at the welfare booths at the Henry, Monument, Potomac and Rock ka‘ courts, at room 1046, Navy Bulilding, Seventeenth and B streets, or at Spald- ing's. For the first time women will| compete. There will be singles and dou- | bles play for both men and women. To be eligible for the championships a person must be a bona-fide resident of Washington or environs, and must not have been since January 1 of this year a member of any private club having tennis courts. Each entrant must pay a fee of 50 cents and $1 for each event entered. Bob Considine, singles champion, and Maurice O'Neill and George Shoemaker, doubles victors a year ago, are expected | to defend their tiles. | Winners in the Washington cham-| pionships will be eligible for the eight annual national public parks tennis championships to be played on the pub- | lic courts here August 18 to 23. This| competition will be under auspices of the United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion. Singles play will be the first in order, with the doubles champlonship set for August 20. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, will be honorary referee of the national cham- plonships. Davis Obear of St. Louls will be referee and Robert E. Newby of this city, treasurer of the Middle Atlan- tic Tennis Association, will be assistant referee. Entries must be in the hands of Winfree E. Johnson, 1046 New Navy Building, this city, not later than August 8. Visiting players and officials will be entertained at a get-together banquet and a sightseeing trip. Davis Obear is chairman of the Na- tional Public Parks Committee of the U. S. L. T. A, his associates being A. T. Campbell, Benjamin H. Dwight, Paul W_ Gibbons, E. L. Griffey, Winfree E. Johnson, J. Mills Newton and Simpson M. Sinsabaugh. Winfree Johnson heads the National Public Parks Championship Committee. Other committeemen are Robert E. Newby, Karl Baetzner, Felix M. Silva, Herbert Shepard, Robert Considine, Maurice O'Neill, Willlam Buchanan, Robert M. Furniss, Stanley Haney, Alan Staubly, Mrs. George B. Vest, Mrs. Clay Thompson and Miss Margaret Ryan. Officers and members of the General ‘Tournament Committee of the Wash- ington Tennis Association are: Louis I. Doyle, honorary president; Winfree E. Johnson, president; Clar- ence M. Charest, vice president: John G. Ladd, secretary-treasurer; Robert E. Newby, A. Y. Leech, Capt. Frank W. Hoover, Arthur Hellen, Lawrence Baker, ‘Thomas J. NTRIES for the annual Washin ton Public Parks Tennis Aseo years at the Mississippi school at a sal- ry of $3,500 a season. IN CHESS Capt. Gore and Mangan. CIRCLES By FRANK B. WALKER OW that another cable chess match between London and ‘Washington is practically as- sured, the matter of preparing for it is of vital importance. The question of financing the match and of selecting the team are entitled to first consideration. ‘With a view to advancing both causes, J. W. Byler has made a suggestion worthy of consideration—that there be preliminary tournaments for the pur- pose of aiding in the selection of the team, each entrant in the opening tournament to pay $1, to go toward defraying the expenses of the cable match. There might be 30 or 40 play- ers who would willingly enter such a tournament and contribute $1 aplece for the cable match. These players could be separated into groups of 8 or 10, each player in a group to play with every other player in the group. Having done so, the play- ers having the four highest scores in each group could play another tourna- ment, and would pay another entrance fee or $1 or $2 each. And, instead of this method, there might be an elimination tournament, a player losing two or three games drop- plr_R‘ out entirely. en, again, there are some mem- bers of past cable matches who are what might be termed ‘“seeded” play- ers, who would not care to go into such a tournament, and provision might be made for them. What is desired is that a winning team be lined up. It cannot be ques- tioned that a team composed of play- ers who are playing match chess will stand a much better chance for vic- tory than a team of “skittle” players. Match play requires study and means improvement, while “skittles” is sim- ply pushing the wood around, with lit- tle probability of improvement in play- ing skill. The sul?ested plan is, I believe, a new one. It is customary for some in- dividual, or a committee, to select teams in chess matches. A tournament such #s proposed would give a com- | mittee & line on the match strength of the different players, and would tend to elevate the playing ability of the par- ticipants. NE proposed change in the rules for the next match is to increase the playing hours to nine, instead of eight, as provided in the previous matches. | ‘This is for the purpose of increasing | the number of moves made in_ the don, the average number of moves made was 25%; per glmm In the second match it was 2625 moves per game. | Many games are only fairly started at the end of 25 moves. In the cable match between the House of Representatives and the | House of Commons, played in 1897, the playing hours were from 2 to 7 on two succeeding days. Two games were completed the first day, the games being 16 and 19 moves in length. The remain- ing three games were completed on the second day. These games averaged 53 moves per game, and were completed inside of the 10 hours allowed for play. This is much faster than was the rate of play in the cable matches of Lon- don vs. Washington. The 1897 match was cabled under the ordinary chest notation, while the moves in the recent matches were transmitted according to & code. It is believed that the code is not nearly so rapid a method, though it is much less expensive. The Scarbarough. England, tourna- ment resulted in a victory for E. Colle of Belglum. Maroczy of Hungary, was second; Rubenstein of Poland, third, and Sultan Khan of Great Britain, tied with Ahues of Germany, fourth. The scores: nan 8 Gruenfeld . Bergeant LI ‘Thomas, Michell, Yates, Winter and Sergeant were on the last cable match team against Washington. Khan prob- ably is eligible to play. J* is under- stood that Miss Menchik, the woman champion, is acquiring citizenship in Great Britain, and may be qualified to play in the next match. rule governing this question reads as fol- lows: “The players shall be players of Washington, D. C., and players of the city of London, England.” In the Easter premier tournament held at Canterbury, England, this year, players mentioned above finished in the following order: Sir George Thomas, Winter, Yates and Miss Menchik. Only two points separating the first from the last player. 'HE third of the series of interna- tional team matches is scheduled to begin at Hamburg, Germany, July 13. These tournaments are conducted by the International Chess Federation. The first tournament was held at Lon- don and the second at The Hague. The team representing Hungary came out first in both tournaments. There are 20 entries, and each team is composed of four men. Each day there will be 80 representatives of these countries playing at 40 boards. The tournament will end July 27. The solution to the end-game study given last week is as follows: 1P to QB7, RX Kt ch: 2K to QB3, R to Kt 8; 3K to B2 and wins. Here is a two-move problem by E. Millins, which will be difficult to most. White—K at QBS8, Q at QKt8, R at Q3, B at QB6, Kt at K2, P's at KKt4, KKt5, Q6, QB2, QKt3. Black—K at K4, Bs at Q4 and QB4, P at QKt5. Solution next week. HE following game was played in the Vienna tournament of 1910. It is one of the shortest in master competition. CARO--KANN DEFENSE. Black, White, e, Black, Tartakower. Riti. Tartakower. 4 P-QBI 7 B-Q2 QK ch 10 B-Kt§ ch K. 11 B-Q8 mate. The following “skittle” game. played between two local players in 1896, is a companion to it. Gwyer must have been studying Lasker’s “Common Sense in Chess.” RUY LOPEZ. Black, White, Gwyer. 8 RX Kt ch 9 Kt-@5 10 KtxB ch 11 Q-RS 12 QxRP ch 13 R-RS mate. White, Black, 3 Hanna. B-K: Castles K-R | P-Q3 KxQ 7 KtxP e SOCCERISTS TO ELECT | AT GATHERING TONIGHT Officers and delegates for 1930-31 will be elected at a meeting of the Washing- ton and Southeastern District Soccer Assoclation Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the playground office in the District Building. POLO PLAY POSTPONED. NEW YORK, June 13 (#).—The n tional junior polo championships, sched- uled to open tomorrow at the Rumson Country Club, near Red Bank, N. J, has been postponed for a week. The first game now is to be played July 19, and in the meantime a new draw will be made and the playing schedule en- tirely revised." 2 e BABE'S HOMERS “LOST.” TORONTO, July 12 (#).—The New York Yankees slammed out & 16-to-11 victory over the Toronto Leafs yester- day in a seven-inning exhibition game after the Leafs had won their rey International League contest from Jer- SPORTS. Club Goes Inside Of Direction Line BY SOL METZGER. Leading golfers disagree as to the length of time the face of the club- head is at right angles to the di- rection line during contact. Some claim it swings through in this po- sition for several inches, others that it is only at right angles at the mo- ment of contact. The movie camera has not yet settled this moot point. ‘Whatever does happen makes lit- tle difference as long as one swings through properly. The proper swing through is to bring the clubhead onto the direction line from inside. Then swing it on through. That's the practice of Lou Berrien in his teaching, and it's a mighty sound one. Swing through, do not hit, and strive to make the clubhead go straight through the ball after you have brought it upon the direction line from inside. Then you can't go far wrong. You won't slice, either, if you let the left arm do the job before the body gets into the swing. Learn to putt Sol Metzger has prepared a new illustrated lea: let on “Putting” which he will send free to any reader requesting it. Ad- dress Sol Metzger, in care of this paper, dlnd k}don & self-addressed, stamped envelope. Gopsieht, 1630 M. A. TITLE DOUBLES T0 OPEN TOMORROW Play in the Middle Atlantic Tennis Association doubles championships will start tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock on the Congressional Country Club courts. Until last night it was uncer- tain whether the competition would ge under way today or tomorrow. Sixteen teams have entered the lists, with Tom Mangan and Bob Considine, District champions, seeded No. 1. This pair won the Middle Atlantics in 1928, but did not defend their honors last year. Billy and Eddie Jacobs, who cap- tured the championship & year ago, are not entered. Dooly Mitchell and Edgar Yeomans, & new combi on which is expected to show strongly, are seeded No. 2. First-round matches will be played tomorrow morning, with the quarter- finals in the afternoon. Semi-finals are scheduled Monday and the final ‘Tuesday. ‘The pairings follow: First-round _matches, 10 Mangan-Bob Considine vs. Harry Hill and partner, Alan Staubly-Sidnes Wallensiein vi. muel’ Herrick-8amuel Herrick, ir.; Frank Roberts-Edward Griepenkerl vs. John W. Dudiey and_partner, Robert Burwell-Frank Taylor ve, Bud Markey and partner, Dooly Miichell-Edgar Yeomans vs. Clarence Daw- son and partner. A. O. White-Patrick Walker Fr hore-Anthony Latona, Owen na parines. Pat Deck-William Seidell ve an . Pat Deck-William Seidell vs. R. Winton Eillott-G. E. Barber. o'clock—Tom GIRL DEFEATS MOTHER FOR STATE GOLF TITLE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. July 12 (P)—Fritzi Stifel, Wheeling, defeated her mother, 4 an 2, yesterday to win the women's West Virginia golf championship. Mrs. E. W. Stifel, also of Wheeling, rut up a brave bajtle against her glof- ing daughter, who has been a national figure in tournament play, but Miss Stifel brought her prowess to bear on the incoming nine holes, Mrs. Stifel was only 1 down at the twelfth hole. UNLIMITEDS SEEK FOES. Weekdays games with unlimited and senlor nines are sought by the District Title Co. ball team. Call Finley at National 8885. ! | | Southern A—11 PANHOLZER LOOKS FOR TOUGH GOING Champ’s Crown Is Wabbling. Goff May Hold Lists at Clarendon’s Open. AYMOND J. PANHOLZER will start the defense of his title as horseshoe cham- plon of Seat Pleasant Wed- nesday and isn't half optimistic . of retaining it. Thirty players |are in line, with more expected before the Seat Pleasant deadline falls three days hence, and among | the lot are several that Panholzer admits likely will be too strong for him. ‘The Seat Pleasant preliminary is ac- counted one of the toughest in the entire metropolitan district champion- ships, sponsored by The Star, and the winner will be a formidable candidate for the metropolitan crown. But for a series of unlucky breaks, Panholzer probably ‘would have gone much further in last year's competition. As it was, he was runner-up to Champion Merle | Heilmann in the Prince Georges County finals and showed to advantage in the Maryland play-offs after a fatiguing journey cf several hours. “If I do as well this year,” he sald today. “it will be more than I expect. I doubt that I'll get past the Seat Pleasant_tournament.” Panholzer is chairman as well as defending champion at the Maryland town and has made the following plans: Five matches will be played each eve- ;:r:g of next Wednesday, Thursday and ay. One game of 50 points will consti- tute a match except in the final, which will be two out of three 50-point games. Any player failing to show on sched- uled time will be defaulted. In case of rain, the schedule will be put back one day. No matches will be played on Saturdays and Sundays. Playing dates will be published in The Star and posted at the Seat Pleas- ant fire house. THE following pairings have been made for Seat Pleasant: ‘Wednesday. R. J. Panholzer vs. W. Miller. G. Cady vs. W. Chaney. F. Van Rueth vs. W. Bowman. N. Duvall vs. P. Hampton. W. Dunnington vs. H. W. Hotchkiss, Thursday. Louis Palmer vs. F. C. Hardesty. W. Maloney vs. I. Main. E. F. Roberson vs. E. McChesney. - J. C. Blackwell vs. D. Chaney. F. F. Martin vs. K. Nugent. Friday. William Bettis vs. P. Kraft, E. Chatterton vs. H. Donn. J. E. Quintrell vs. W. Phelps. . _O. E. Lamp, . F. H. GOFF, new chairman at Clarendon, will be out of town for several days and likely will extend the entry deadline a week. The major looks for a large field at Clar- endon, where a hotly contested tourna- ment was held last year under the direction of Carl E. Swenson, who also g:nnzed the Arlington County play- s. H wood Park, in Montgomery County, nnounces the following entries: Howard Kacy, Joseph C. Cissel, J. Os~ car Blades, Apdreas Loeffler, Karl Jar- rell, Marshall Davis, Branson Thom: Ray Moore, George Stambaugh, Wllll:; Miller, Charles Marcellena, Ralph Boyd, J. Reginald Boyd, Richard Stimson, Hugh Buhrman and Howard Bailey. ‘Wynnewood Park is making its debut in the Metropoli tournament. None of its glnyen 1is expected to advance far beyond the preliminary, but as Bailey puts it: “We'll have some fun and that's the :fixx l:ae-." i T etropolitan entry pi would be doubled if all pitc sumed the same attitude. ers with community pride could help prime their champion for further conquest by swelling the Qn"fl and giving hi 'OKE BAILEY, chairman at Wynne- Don't be bashful, you duffers! body’s welcome to this horseshoe more matches to pitci p.fl. ing party. ’ STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE BY W. R. McCALLUM For several years Joe Kaufman and his gang of go-getters at the Woodmont Country Club have started the heated days of August with a Fleld day at the club in Bethesda, which is always marked by an exhibition golf match. This year the club has departed from the usual and instead of engaging four professional golfers to show their wares on the Field day, scheduled for August 2, has made arrangements for four star ateurs to put on the golf show of the | day. In the quartet will be Max Weyl, the Woodmont Club champlon, paired with Howard Nordlinger, the brilliant young- ster, who tied the amateur record for the course the other day and is a for- mer club champion, against Roger Pea- cock of Indian Spring, the District junior champion, and John C. Shorey of Bannockburn, winner of the Spring invitation tourney of the club. The match will start about 1:30 o'clock. M. Parker Nolan, who has been aptly dubbed the Congressional “Slege Gun,” got all his long and short snots work- ing in harmony yesterday and tied the 3 | amateur record for the course with a glittering 69, four under par, Nolan, who is a big hitter from the tee, but has been off with his medium irons lately, scored 36 for the first nine, notwithstanding a 6 on the par 5 eighth | hole, and then burned up the last nine to score & 33 and tie the amateur rec- ord made last year by Page Hufty. ‘The payees in the match yesterday were Hufty, Clarence B. Murphy and Joseph D. Bayliss, who stood in awe as Nolan blazed his way around the torrid Congressional course in 27 putts, Nolan found a trap at the eighth, after picking up birdies at the fifth and seventh, and took a 6 on this hole, where he had a 4 and a 3 for a 34. He three-putted the tenth green for & 6, but got a birdie 2 on the eleventh and canned a 25-footer for another deuce at the short thirteenth. Straight par golf then followed to the eighteenth, where he secured another birdie 3, to score a 33 for the back nine, three under par. Here is Nolan's card, with par for the course: Out—Par Nolan . In—Par ... Nolan ... Dam ster, who won the District wom- en’s champlonship early in June, still is playing winning golf. Two days ago she finished second in 2 woman's tour- ney at Schenectady, N. Y., with a card sey City, 11 to 1. Babe Ruth hit a home run with the bases full and later clouted another with no one aboard. WRECO0S BOOK CADILLACS. Washington Rallway & Electric Co. diamonders have booked a game with the Washington Cadillac . on the| former's diamond at Seventh and son streets northeast tomorrow at 3 o'clock. of 89, scoring a 44 and a 45 to finish a | stroke behind th Tom Flaherty, one of Washington's outstanding fans, goes everywhere and sees everything In sport. Tom is the | feliow who has sponsored the Walter Johnson dinners, which have been a feature of the late Winter for the past two years. He is out in Minne- apolis now, watching the battle of Jones and Smith, and pumn’ for Tom- my Armour to win the national open. e winner of the event. | ‘We got a wire from Tom today, which, strangely enough, failed to mention the heat, but averred they are having a great tournament out there in the ““cool” Northwest. Bob Barnett, the Chevy Chase profes- sional, who wds stricken Thu with an internal ailment and was re- moved to Garfleld Hospital for treat- ment, was taken home yesterday and will rest for several days while phy: cians treat him. Yesterday morning it was said that a “minor” operation would be performed, but physicians, after con- sultation, decided not to operate, and gnrneu was taken home later in the ay. Capt. Warren J. Clear is the o‘fllng golfer of the Washington Golf Country Club who has secured an eagle 3 on that terrifying fifteenth hole and has put the eagle in for the ringer con~ test. Clear sank a 10-foot putt for the eagle after reaching the green with two mighty wallops, Ralph S. Fowler is the possessor of the only birdie 3 on the eighteenth, The par 5 fifth has been made in 4 by many of the ringer tourney entrants, but no one has been able to score an eagle 3 on the hole since the tourney opened several weeks ago. Herbert H. (Tack) Ramsay, vice president of the United States Golf As- sociation, is the author of a new meth- od of picking the winner in the national open golf championship. He disclosed his method, which he said never has failed, in a radio talk last night for the host of golf bugs who are watching via air the torrid championship in Minne- apolis. “Here is the way,” Ramsay said. “It never has failed, and I want you to know how to do it, so you can dope the winner in any tournament. Take dewn these names after I repeat them. Hor- ton Smith, Jones, Lacey, Cooper, Ar- wlt::‘ulr. F"r?u' Mlclsmltrh and n. e each on a slip of paper, place them in a hat and shake the Rfi '?hen carefully draw out one name from the hat, and you will have the winner. Of course your draw may not be right, but the method is right. 'You can't bea fundamental I HAWKINS MOTORS Service f | | 1529 Fourteenth St. N.W. Decatur 3320 Conventently Located on Fourteenth Street