Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1930, Page 21

FEATS INTWOBIG TOURNEYS DECDE Finishing Next to Jones in| British and U. S. Opens Insure Top Place. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, August 12—Mac- Donald Smith is certain to be ranked the foremost professional golfer of the year when the final returns are made. The veteran Scot assured himself of that honor when he finished second to Bob Jones in both the United States and Brit- | over the Keller course, one of the best | Sity coaching staff and a foot ball ish opens, for it is upon national championships that _rankings must be based, with performances in minor events taken only as supplementary evidence of skill and greatness. Golf Aces Are Made By Two D. C. Players The new Accomack, Va., Country Club received its hole-in-one bap- tism last Saturday when Edward C. Johnson of 2115 Pennsylvania ave- nue turned the trick. Johnson, who was accompanied by John Mapp, former State Senator’s son; Dr. White of Teller, Va., and Clifton Johnson, also of Washing- ton, teed off on the 192-yard sev- enth hole and drove the ball out of sight. _After 15 minutes of search- ing Johnson put another ball on the ground and was almost Teady to play it when a shout from Mapp halted him. The ball was found in the cup. Johnson had a 40 for the nine-hole layou | 3. 3. Bush made & hole-in-one yes- | terday in the 150-yard No. 3 at Rock Creek. His score for the nine was 41. A. H. Hiltz was his playmate. when they tackle the $10,000 St. Paul open. The tournament will be played | public layouts in the country, and the | winner will be handed a check .for | $2.500. | Horton Smith and all of the leading | professionals will be in the field, for with the two national opens out of circulation the paid brigade cannot | who have played the Congres- | sional Country Club course have | made vain attempts to knock a | ball on the surface of the putting green at the fourth hole, 360 yards from the tee and over a bad piece of terrain, if | the straight line to the hole is to be taken. Tommy and Sandy Armour have tried it and failed. So have all the long-hitting amateurs who have gone over to Congressional to play that | lengthy layout, among them M. Parker | Nolan, who has been hitting a golf ball | considerable distances now for two or | three years. At last along came the man with the | necessary wallop and the ball hit in | the proper spot—in fact, the only spot | | which will put a tee shot on that putting green. The fellow is Mike Palm, late of the Georgetown Univer- layer of note a few years back. Mike leaned into one of those long wallops he hits every now and then, poked it straight | over the bunker at the left side of the |fairway and found the ball in the | middle of the green, where he had a | reasonable putt for a deuce. Twos have | been obtained on that fourth hole be- STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE | BY W. R. McCALLUM | OR many years the long hitters|lumbia, at Columbia, next Sunday. The | affair partakes in no way of the nature of a formal team contest, but is simply a get-together of a number of members of one club with a similar number of members of another club. Gene Larkin, assistant pro at Chevy Chase, and holder of the Maryland State title, was in a favorable spot— three strokes back of the leader—as the Philadelphia open championship tour- ney moved into its final phase today over the course of the Cedarbrook Country Club, near the Quaker City. | Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase twice has won_the title, and this year he sent a_ thoroughly capable proxy to the championship in the person of the per- sonable young Larkin, the lad who won the Maryland State title from a stellar group of pros at Baltimore last year. Gene coupled together twin rounds of 75 yesterday for a 36-hole total of 150 in the Philadelphia open, and started the third round today only three strokes back of the leaders. These were George Griffin and John Scheubel, both of Philadelphia, who registered 147 for the first two rounds. ney. Kenneth Allen led a small con- tingent from Baltimore with a 36-hole total of 157. Larkin is referred to in the Philadeiphia papers as the “only Larkin is the | only Washington player in the tour-| ESDAY. 32 DOUBLES TEAMS IN EASTERN EVENT; By the Associated Press. | RYE, N. Y., August 12—Thirty-two | teams start play today in the men's doubles in the Eastern grass country | tennis championships at the West- chester Country Club, as the majority of the singles players turn to team competition. Big Bill Tilden and Francis T. Hunter, former national champions, have been eeded at No. 1. A newly-formed all- Jersey combination of John Van Ryn, East Orange, and Gregory Mangin, Newark, have been placed at No 4, | while the teams of Fritz Mercur and J. Gilbert Hall and Harris Coggeshall and | ur F. Coen, jr., complete the seed- | ed list. | On ‘the basis of past performances | the favorites in the woman’s division of the singles play should have little | trouble advancing today. The feature | matches bring together Miss Marjorie Gladman, Santa Monica, Calif,, and | Miss Grace Surber, New York; Miss Mianne Palfrey, Brookline, Mass, and Miss Clara Zinke, Cincinngti: * Miss Edith Cross, San Francisco, and Miss Anne Page, Philadelphta, and Baron- ess Levl, Italy, and Miss Ethel Burkardt, | san Prancisco. AU T | side, as they say. | James J. Corbett, that as an actor | tennis player he is a great actor. GUST 12 DOWN T WITH W. O. den Again. mpest brewing in the tennis teapot. seems to center around Mr. Willlam Tilden, 2d. | m Tilden, 2d, has been about the best tennis e United States and possibly in the world. t he is a great showman. He is the Babe atnot of the courts, if it is permitted mateur game to the coarser sports| Mr. HERE is another little tel Once again it Now Mr. Willia: player developed in th Also it must be admitted tha Ruth, the Jack Dempsey and wh: to compare this ostentatiously al which are frankly professional. Let me set myself right be: am out to annoy the nice peop! happens that tennis is one of my est Hills to the Riviera. I have play of Mr. William Til play, but for the drama William Tilden is an actor on the 1f he could put some of the theatricals he puts into his ten- his into his work on the stage he would be quite a successful Thespian. But they say of Mr. Tilden, as they said of is a great tennis player and that as & cannot have everything. Mr. Tilden has been responsible for many of these little tennis tempes's and constantly has been annoying the solicitous gentlemen. who have been endeavoring most earnestly to give amateur lawn tennis the appearance fore proceeding, lest it be taken that I le who control the sport of tennis. It favorite sports to watch, from For- den, not onl: that he puts into it. HE LINE McGEEHAN enjoyed particularly watching the | y for the tennis that is in his f In Good Again. | YN ADVANCE of the last Davis Cup | | matches, William Tilden, 2d, de- | | clared that he was through with Davis | | Cup competition. He insisted that he | | would attend the matches in the role | | could not report, and he had his bread | |and butter and the rest of it to con- | sider. | | But just before the Davis Cup matches were held in France, Mr. Tilden staged |what the boys call a comeback. Playing as brilliant tennis as he ever played | | he beat Jean Borotra at Wimbledon. Rene Lacoste was out of Davis Cup | abruptly and theatrically of the American Davis Cup Squad had been given permission to appear & little late at the tournament by an op- ponent. When he appeared to take his place he found that it was taken by Wwilliam Tilden, 2d, who had come as into that ournament as he had into the Davis Cup competition. Bell announced that he would protest to the president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. But it hardly is likely that the United States Lawn Tennis Assoclation will do anything rash in connection with Wil- william Tilden, 2d. He showed at Wimbledon that he might not yet be through so far as championship tennis is concerned. They might need him again when the Davis Cup matches come around again. As I said, Mr. Tilden is a great tennis player and he gives a good show. He has entertained and thrilled thousands on the tennis courts all over the world. They say he has done much for tennis. Undoubtedly. But it is my notion that one Jean Borotra of France has done more for the sportsmanship of tennis than & hundred Tildens could do. And e | of reporter, since, if he competed, he if this be treason, scatter ashes on my lawn tennis court. LEESBURG TENNIS TEAM WINS FROM ARGYLE, 5-4 In a tennis match at the Argyle Country Club, the Racquet Club team That the national opens are thel afford to overlook any loose sheckels e R uwn Dhreat: for the title, L e O rimary test of a golfer's skill is proven | that happen to be tossed on the greens. ¥ Lhe{wldrhdn:rn‘vn(rl'mlfi érgflmrfl:‘);]:{ | “The professionals will be kept quite some of our best shot mak busy during the next four weeks with T“d e'g::oer t;-:‘x;‘nral:;t‘_m-; w::'fl“#fi the | the ‘erlrmLupq;n fi)llmflnu immediately mmediat y d e e i o o the sEciinal | coe it el O (3 A and 910,000 6% or Winter tournaments, the players | rouis open scheduled for September. Lurb!o}:eugflar,:v:‘]srt‘:am‘:rnd _:3;]: ;2:&'} | A(‘terh those hml‘ems] the pros will start IS ishi their strain in a national championship can- | 3,“‘;‘,’,"5,“0,,_ e ot be overrated. as & player's reaction | T to it is the real test of his ability. 'D. C. PLAYERS SCORE Mac Smith survived the mental strain | in the two national opens better than | IN jUN'OR NET PLAY any of those who chased Bob Jones to the dflm“} linl", h}!ls 0 on !htebfltna; round at Interlachen was a great bit of | SoIf, for he restised that the task of | 57 the Aseoclated Freas. icking up seven shots on Jones in 18| CULVER, Ind, August 12.—Third- oles was an almost superhuman task. |round play continued in the national Yet he clung grimly to the work and | jupjor tennis championships here to- made up all but two. Too much praise | cannot be paid the veteran Carnoustie day, With the first seeded player, Karl man for his play at Interlachen, and | Kamrath of Austin, Tex. scheduled to it was one of the crowning achieve- | take the courts for his initial match. ments of a long and brilliant career. |~ q Nia roung matches were played But Smith has played consistently | well in most of the other champion- | vesterday, Donald Morrison of Wash- . C., and Bill Reese of At- ships of the year. He was one of the |ington, stars of the Winter season; pesformed |lanta, winning their way to the fourth notably in the Canadian open and | round. events around New York. Mac may| Wilmer Hines, Columbia, S. C. never win a national Open, for he is | seeded second, defeated Dick Johnson getiing along in years, but he has been |of Grand Rapids, Mich. in straight good enough over a long period to have | sets in his first match yesterday. Scores captured severai W an ordinary | were 6—1, 6—4. break in luck and deserves a place | In the national boys’ tournament, among_the great professionals of all | Frank Parker of Milwaukee gained the time. It will be many years before we | fourth round with two straight sets see another with so perfectly grooved | victories yesterday, losing only two & swing as that of Smith, or one with |games in defeating A. Speas of Elkhart, more courage. Ind., 6—0. 6—0. and J. W. Spalding of The tussle for second place among | Bronxville, N. the professionals still is open and likely | Parker has def will not be decided until after P. G. A.| Monica, Calif. defending champlon. championship. Horton Smith and Leo | three times this year. Cohn opened the Diegel might be said to hold the ad- |defense of his title by downing N. vantage at the moment. Leo tied for | Thwaites of Grand Rapids, 6—1, 6—0. second place in the British open an . Tay Horton was third-at both Hoylake and | 6—3. George Boynton of Atlanta. Ga Interlachen. If Diegel retains his P.[second in national boys' ranking, ad- G. A. title he unquestionably will rank | vanced to the third round by defeating next to Mac Smith. But if the “Joplin | George Specht of Evansville, Ind, Pine” should win in the P. G A. his|6—1, 6—3. performances in the two national opens| Billy Doeg, Santa Monica., Calif., along the Winter trail would place him | young brother of John Doeg, Davis Cup next to Mac and make the season | player, turned in a sparkling perform- entirely a Smith-Jones affair. |ance in winning from Dick Inglis of The pros return to the business of | Cleveland in the junior tournament, playing for heavy money this week '6—4, 6—0, 6- ted Jay Cohn, Santa | fore, but no golfer, so far as is known, has had a fairly short putt for the deuce. Sandy Armour holed a chip | shot not so long ago for a deuce and other twos have been secured on the | hole. And then, just to show that the | mighty wallop at the fourth hole was not a fluke, Palm got back of another at the long eighth and nearly hit the ball into the bunker guarding the green, 70 yards from the tee. His ball stopped | just”four feet short of the hazard. He was playing with Frank S. Hughes and Charles McGinley. Of course hard ground conditions have contributed to the lengthy wallops that are being hit these days from the tee, and Palm had a big wind behind him on both the fourth and eighth. But W. Carlton Evans had no wind behind him the other day when he poled a big shot from the seventh tee at Columbia, which went into the bunker ordinarily | supposed to catch the second. And then at the twelfth he knocked the ball so far on this par 5 hole that it went far down the hill, away past the spot where good tee shots are supposed to go. - | It seems rather patnetic these da: when such holes as the twelfth at Co- lumbia, the fourth at Washington, the eleventh at Chevy Chase, and the eighth at Congressional, all par 5 affairs with the exception of the one at Chevy Chase, can be played with a drive and a light iron, frequently with a mashie second shot. The holes were not intend- ed for any such thing, and it makes golf quite a different thing from the game of soft ground when the tee shot! rolls a matter of 10 or 15 yards. | Greenkeepers at a few of the local clubs, able to get enough water to keep | their putting greens in shape, have | found that the Poa annua grass, which makes a fine putting surface, is going out under the hot sun and leaving | only the hardier bents to fight the bat- tle of the putting greens. Poa annus, as its name implies, is an annual grass | which reseeds itself, sometimes several times a season, but it has not been able to withstand the heat of the Summer. The bent grass will fill in the spots left by the failure of the Poa annua, and the latter grass itself will come back n.; soon as rain and cool weather come along. Nearly twoscore golfers of the Wash- |ington Golf and Country Club have been signed up for the match with Co- Roland R. MacKenzie, star amateur of Columbia, is in Canada, where he has gone on business, and has taken his golf clubs with him as a matter of course to play when he finds time. ‘There may be four local golfers in | the national amateur championship at Merion, Pa. Roland MacKenzle will play and entries for the tourney have been filed by Miller B. Stevinson of Co- lumbia and Harry G. Pitt of Manor. The latest golfer to file his entry is John C. Shorey of Bannockburn, who has sent in his entry to the United States Golf Association. MacKenzie is the only player who is automatically eligible by reason of qual- ification over the last three years. The others have submitted their competi- tive records and will hear from the U. S. G. A. as to acceptance of their entry some time shortly after Septem- ber 1. There is little doubt that all the Jocal entrants will be accepted. Mprs. Mallory, Ill, Out Of Title Net Tourney NEW YORK, August 12 (#).—The name of that great campaligner, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, is missing from the list of entrants for the na- tional woman's tennis championship for the first time since she rose to fame 15 years ago. ‘The one-time queen of the courts was seized with a serious {llness early in the year and has not yet fully recovered. It is doubtful whether she ever again will engage in important tournament play In this year's' tournament, be- ginning next Monday at Forest Hills, younger players will compete for the title won eight times by the indomi- table Norsewoman. Nine of the country’s first 10 ranking feminine players are entered, headed by Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, champion for the last three yeors. Because of ill h~clth, Helen Jacobs, No. 2 in the list, will not compete. Betty Nuthall of England, who was eliminated in spectacular style by Mrs. Mallory last year, constitutes the only foreign threat. THAT’S WHY THEY GOT LITTLE STORIES OF FAST SUCCESSES INUMBER NINE] RAMON NOVARRO His Spanish forebears conquered Mexico . . « won the country in ten brief years. But Ramon alone con- quered America, conquered Europe, and all points east . .. in scarcely more than a camera’s flicker. For Ramon gave the world a thrill! NATURE 1S KIND TO NOVARROS AND OLD GOLDS THAT'S WHY THEY WIN. AND WIN SO EASILY And that’s the tale of another young conqueror, OLD GOLD cigarettes. New England surrendered in just two months. “You win, OLD GOLD!” said the Middle West. From coast- to-coast the victory spread. And OLD GOLD in just one year became the country’s fastest growing cigarette. Because OLD GOLD, like Novarro, offered the world a brand new thrill Finer tobaccos gave a mellower taste 'y Better tobaccos ended throat-scratch. *» Change Your Stance | For Different Shots| BY SOL METZGER. | Watch your-stance? It means 80 | | much to start anything right. This old axiom applies to golf. Ever notice how the majority of stars | change theirs when they leave the tee and have a pitch to play? Usually they drive with & square stance, toes parallel to the line they are to wallop the ball. But. when they play the pitch up to the green they open the stance. That is, the left foot is drawn far- ther away from the direction line than the right. Usually, too, their feet are brought closer together. Jones almost_makes his heels touch Why these changes? " wiLo BiLL's" LTANCE FOR ) MASHIE NIBUCK 16 OPEHM B o e— -6 Take Bill Mehlhorn, a long hitter. Bill drives from a wide stance. It gives him better purchase. But when he pitches his stance is much narrower and_it's also open. The reasons are clear. The iron shots are more compact. That is, the arms are closer to the body. An open stance permits that. As the irons are for direction, rather than length, no need arises for the wider and more bracing stance. When your approach shots hit the geen do they trickle off into the send? ant ‘to make them fall dead? Send | stamped. addressed envelope to Sol Metz- | ‘wer. in care of this paper, and ask for his'leaflet on “The Art of Pitchin There was first the controversy over Mr. Tilden's journalistic work. The United States Lawn Tennis Association set down the dictum that an amateur tennis player must not profit dlrec(_ly or indirectly through participation in the super-amateur game of lawn tennis. Mr. Tilden protested that he was a writer by profession and a tennis player for the love of the sport. In Who' but a list of his literary works shows that he started writing just at the time he first became the men's singles champion. This, of course, may have been pure coincidence. Naturally a championship tennis player must have a trade or pro: fession, unless he has an inde: pendent income, and Mr. Tilden's position _seemed logical enough. But the United States Lawn Tennis Association seem to low rate Mr. Tilden's literary ability to such an entent that they felt that, if he were not about the most prominent tennis player in the world, there would be no great demand for his literary work. A compromise was reached. It was agreed that Mr. Tilden might write concerning tennis as much as he pleased so long as he did not write accounts of the tournaments in which | he participated. Mr. Tilden signed this agreement with obvious reluctance, but he signed it. A little later Mr. Tilden, preparing to take part in an attempt to retrieve the Davis Cup, broke the rule openly. He was withdrawn from the Davis Cup team. Whereupon the French, who were handling the tournament, seeing | a possible falling off in the gate re- | ceipts, started to storm. They appealed to Ambassador Herrick, who appealed to the United States Lawn Tennis Association, and Tilden was restored to the American Davis Cup team. The | Americans did not recover the Davis | Cup, but the gate receipts were very satisfactory. Contrast this amateur discipline with | the professional discipline of Base Ball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Lan- | dis. Babe Ruth, the biggest thing in | flouted the discipline of | base ball, Judge Landis. He was suspended for several months and the gate receipts of the New York Yankees fell off & (Copyright, 1930.) J THERE JUST A FEW YEARS LAT quarter of a million dollars. s | | Who, Mr. Tiiden is classed as an author, United States Lawn Tennis Association, | American_ players ~ were performing | wonderfully well. | " It began to appear that the Ameri- | | cans might have a chance to recover | |the cup provided Mr. Tilden played, | and played as he played at Wimbledon. | But Mr. Tilden had sworn that he was | through with Davis Cup play. He felt that he had been badly treated by the | and the association, on the other hand, | felt that it had been annoyed sufficiently | by_Tilden | But with the chance of the Davis Cup being brought back, the U. S. L. T. A. swallowed pride until it choked and pleaded with Mr. Tilden to reconsider the determination not to play. They waved the Star Spangled Banner and appealed to his patriotism. For a while | Mr. Tilden was obdurate, but he event- | ually permitted himself to be persuaded. The American team did not bring back the cup. The pride-swallowing only choked the American tennis of- ficlals, ~ William Tilden, 2d, must have laughed sardonically in the sleeve of his sweater. The U. S. L. T. A. re- vealed the fact that nothing mattered excepting the cup. Mr. Tilden made the | gentlemen who took it upon themselves | | to discipline him and regulate his ac- | | tivities sit up and beg. | The Dramatic Entrance. 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