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he pening Star. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON P, 03 MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1930. PAGE C-1 Alumni Sports Financing, Butler Plan : Pro Golfers Invading Agua Caliente HOLDS ENDOWIENT WOULD END ABUSE Ceclumbia President Would| Have Grads Contribute | to Purify Athetics. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 22.— Endowment of college ath- letics by alumni in order to end the influence of gate receipts is suggested by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in his an- nual report, published today. He also proposes “an Academic League of Nations” with jurisdiction over college sport. ° “The abuses of intercollegiate athletics are many and various,” says the report, and it is exceedingly difficult to bring bout their remedy. So obsessed are many alumni with a passion for vic- tory at all costs that they are quite willing to shut their eyes to very dis- creditable happenings _which Teflect sadly upon their own colleges in a way which no series of victories on the thietic field can possibly overcome, “The enormous cost of these inter- collegiate foot ball contests and the still more enormous revenues which are produced by them, if a team or a ?lnwulnr institution gains a reputation | for success, are a constant and justi- | fable soyrce of academic as well as Ppublic criticism. | Strict Pay Penalty. | “Those institutions whose administra- | tive authorities stand up straight, and even lean over backward, in the mat- | ter of conditions of admission and | standards of scholarship in colleges are | ished on the playing field when 0se Who Tepresent them come in con- | test with'athletic teams constituted of very different material from theirs. | “Perhaps what is needed is an| academic League of Nations to take | jurisdiction over this entire field of | 2ndeavor and to preserve what is ex- cellent while shutting out what is un- | becoming and unworthy. “Perhaps the one satisfactory and | nent solution of these problems | is that athletic sports,-being a well- recognized part of undergraduate life and qundergraduate training, should be suitably and adequately endowed by the alumni. Were this done, it would then be possible at one stroke to bring to an end the importance and influence of te receipts and put base bell and ,t:ol ball, for example, on the same excellent plane that rowing has long occupied. Until something of this sort is done, Columbia must remain one of those colleges which pays the penalty, if penaity it be, of insisting upon the | acy of intellectual ideals and in-| llectual accomplishments.” Some Favor Butler Plan. NEW YORK, Decemver 22 ().— Views of prominent educators witn re-| gard fo Tormation of an “Athletic League | of Nations,” proposed by Dr. Nicholas | Murray Butler to provide a free gate at contests, were published in the New York Times today. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, said the proposal was worth considering, but expressed doubt that alumni endowment was the proper remedy. He added that there was some hysteria about overemphasis of foot ball. Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University said such an| tion was “extremely desirable.” S. Gates, president of the University of Pennsylvania, said the | suggestion was entitled to sympathetic consideration. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, head of Swarth- | more College, pledged his support on the basis of a brief account of tae plan, | but thought the evils of academic sports | cam: from spectators. | Maj. John L. Griffith, commissioner of athletics for the Western Confer- ence, declined to be enthusiastic, saying athletics had rules and organizations enough—if they were adhered to. “The trouble is,” he added, “that the pessi- mist of the day has invaded college Tanks” CHICAGO, December 22 (#).—Maj. John L. Griffith, commissioner of ath- Jetics of the Western Conference, de- clined to be enthused over the proposal of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, whose annual report recommends the establishment of an athletic “leaguz of nations.” “We" have rules and organizations enough,” Maj. Griffith said. “If we would live up to present regulations everything would be all right. I do not think there is any need for drastic Tules as far as foot ball is conc:rned. In the majority of colleges conditions are not perfect, but I don't know of any social, economic or political insti- tution in America which is perfect.” GEORGIA TECH CLASH HAS BENNIES ON EDGE Franklin Five Drills for Tilt Saturday—C. U. Will Finish Trip Tonight. | | | Benjamin Franklin University basket- ers today are buckling down to the hardest part of preparation for their battle with Georgia Tech on the Tech High School court Saturday night. The Accountants figure that <f they can upset. the Golden Tornado their place in the basket ball sun will be achieved, at least for the time being. It appears | that they face a tough assignment, as | the Southerners are reported plenty | Pon rklin, however, has n_well in thvs for and is| Eetormined to g ie visitors all it has, | C:tholiz University was to wind up | a three-game Northern foray tonight | aga‘nst the Knights of Columbus quint | pt New York. The Cardinals will be | striving hard to win in order to bring | their season's percent2ge to .500. After trimming Maryland State Normal in the | opener, C. U. lost to Rider Cillege and Manhattan College in the first two games of its trip. Georgetown, after a lay-off of several days, will return to the hardwood Fri- day night, opening an invasion of Manhattan Island with & stand egainst the Brooklyn Knights of Columbus at Brooklyn. ~ The Hoyas will engage Crescent A. C. Saturday night also at Brooklyn. Gallaudet and Southeastern Univer- sity are to meet in the Kendall Green gymnasium in another game here Sat- urday night. Lou Spinelli of Catholic University and Forrest' Burgess of George Wash- ington prel to give Del Cosgrove 4 ©f Galiaudet, leading scorer of the Dis- trict college group for the past two seasons, & stern battle for honors this ‘Winter. § lo"’nr‘ is setting the pace with s second with with 21, o T 80 THEY ARE DRIBBLING AND PASSING ON COURT FOR STRAYER’S THIS SEASON ROGER LEVERTON. SHERB ROOME. ek 3, W ashingtonians To Vicious Bite of Golf Bug' BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HOSE whom the golf bug has bitten generally stay bitten for the bal- lance of life. If golf relinquishes its hold on a dyed-in-the-wool golfer it is usually because of adverse financial circumstances, or business en- | tanglements that make the time nec- essary for golf impossible to take. And when the golf bug really gets a good nip at the individual, how it bites in and grips. It is worse than the most defermined tick for sticking qualities, and the queer forms it manifests make their appearance in many ways. Out at the Chevy Chase Club there is one rabid golfer who is quite de- termined to improve his game. He is not a mediocre golfer by any means, but a man who can usually be depended | upon to score in the high spots, and | 2iways is in the low 80s when he misses the 30s. The queer streak that golf sometimes manifests has come ‘on him in a peculiar and intense way. So determined is he to improve his golf game that he carefully notes the reasons for his mediocre shots, takes the notes home at night and endeavors by the aid of his mistakes of the day to correct the evils that ruined the shot or_shots. ‘The man is George E. Elliott, and George is not by any stretch of the imagination a set-up for any ranking amateur about the Capital. If correc- tions attempted as he attempts them are any good, Elliott may be found wlnrl:lillilg a big tournament or two after a while, R. R. W. BAKER has been a mem- ber of Chevy Chase for ever so many years, but not within the memory of most of the younger gene-| ration "has Dr. Baker been seen with more than three clubs on a round of the course which he plays fiearly every day. Dr. Baker is extremely effective with these three clubs, and according to the men who see his scores every day, he plays consistently in the high 80s with a wooden club and two irons. Admiral H. P. Norton, U. S. N., re- tired, who has been a member of Chevy Chase for many, fnany years, has an idea that concentric markings on the | faces of his iron clubs will grip the| ball better and direct it straighter on| | the line, so he has had the faces of all his iron clubs deeply grooved with concentric markings. | Over at the Washington Golf and Country Club, the club title Lolder and District amateur champlon, plays a shot that would strike most observers as being somewhat unorthodox. After | seeing Frank Roesch hit out a mag- nificently siruck high jron shot most | golfers would be,amazed, after having | asked him what club he used, to hear | him reply: “I used a mashie niblick.” | Frank has been known to knock the ball 170 yards with this mashie nib- lick with extreme accuracy. Of course he turns the club over until it assumes the loft of a No. 3 iron. Henry D Nicholson, lest year's club champion | and ine itk this what simi'ar Then there is feshion. E ©C. “Cunny-thumb Gene,” as he is s times called at Washington, who points the club for a pronounced slice and gits off a ball with a pronounced hook. Gene grips the club with his right hand far under the grip and toes the | the | (Genc) club out as if he would knock ball off to the right at a 90-de angle. But he straightens out the club- | face-on the down swing, and it usually | flies straight down the middle with & | tall-end hook that gives it consider- | able run, 'RED MCLEOD, the little miracle | worker of Columbla, has a mashie- niblick that #s priceless, It looks like a plece of junk to the usual golfer who picks it up. It weighs only a shade more than 15 ounces, which is considered far too light for the beit-r mashie-niblicks, but to Preddie it is | Jiterally worth its weight in gold. He| hes saved himself many matches by his magic from the sand traps with this light instrument, and he would not part with it for any money. And Freddie is Scotch. He was recently asked to appraise the club for an Icé company which sought to appraise all the clubs Juntil they resemble the handle of a | diction will take. | Building to React Oddly in his shop, but was unable to place a value on his pet club. Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase has a queer mannerism. Bob’s hands are short, and his fingers are stubby. One would naturally think he would have all his club grips mhade as thin as possible. But the reverse is trué. ‘The grips of Barnett's clubs are built up base ball bat. ‘The answer is that Bob grips them in the palm of the left hand, and he plays them with all the effectiveness of a Tommy Armour, who has long, strong hands and uses clubs with a thin grip. ‘This game of golf is a game of para- doxes and there is no telling, when the golf bug bites, just what form the ad- R Mount Rainier Game. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., December | 22—Mount Rainier basket ball team will meet Maryland Avenue Baptists of | Washington in the Mount Rainier High | School gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. HARRY SPERLING. oA NORMAN FREEDENBERG. New Golf Ball Will Stay Fuss and Cuss All Ye May BY JEAN BOSQUET, Assoctated Press Staff Writer, ASADENA, Calif,, December 22.—The court was held in open air, and amateur and pro comprised the jury gath- ered there, with old Judge Publico. “This court is now in session, folks,” they heard the bailiff call, “so gather ‘round, ye golfiing blokes, and bring defendant Ball!” With Armour, Cooper, Diegel there, the Haig and others too, the Pasa- dena open air took on a gorgeous hue. Before the bar John Ball was led, to stand there, sleek and large. “Pipe that balloon,” a watcher said, “he’s bigger than ‘a barge!” “You're charged with stirring up a scene,” the sunburred clerk be- gan, “on fairway, bunker, tee and green, among the- knickered clan.” The prosecution opened ~wide, with ringing _ allegatfon. “He's wrecked our putts!” the D. A. creed, with righteous indignation. “He rims the cup and loops the loop, and tries a barrel roll, instead of heading for his coop and plopping in his hole. We hafta smack him like & ton to get 200 yards, and when our daily round is done we hate to see our cards.” The prosecution rested there and John Ball went to bat. Defenders took the witness chair and said “he’s not too fat. When treated right he does his stuff on fairway, tee and green, and if you muff and make the rough you're only venting spleen. “‘“The ball's to blame!" you guy: all claim, no matter how vou've swung, and any time you're off your game, the ‘New Ball Blues' is sung.” ‘The old Judge Bono Publico the jurymen addressed. He said “both amateur and pro I've heard, but I'll be blessed if any difference I can see between old ball and new. They both go in the traps for me and do_some looping too.” . ‘The jury foreman had his say. He sald “we'd like to know, where on & howling, windy day this Mister Ball will go.” Then old Judge Bono rose and hissed, “in all this wind today, no fact of import have I missed and this I have to say: “You may howl loud, you may howl long, but be that as it may— in spite of dirge and anvil song, the new ball’s here to stay!” OUTSIDE GONTESTS KEEP BIG TEN BUSY Intersectional Games Domi- nate Pre-Championship List.| Penn Tour Is Flop. BY the Associated Press. [HICAGO, December 22.—The usual holiday lull in Big Ten basket ball will not be so no- ticeable this season with 13 games listed before the championship campaign January 5. ‘Wisconsin and Illinots will provide | the action tonight, the Badgers meeting Missouri at Madison and Illinois en- tertaining the Little Giants from Wa- bash College. Iowa will meet Creighton at Omaha, tomorrow night, and Chicago | will be host to Bradley Coliege of Peoria, | 11, Saturday night. Intersectional contests dominate the | remainder of the pre-season schedule. | On New Year Eve Brigham Young Uni- versity’s five will play at Chicago, while Purdue will meet Pittsburgh at Pitts- burgh and Wisconsin will go to Mil~ waukee for a game with Marquette. New Year night will find Alabama at Northwestern, Ohio Wesleyan at | Michigan and Indiana at Philadel- phia to play Pennsylvania. The pre conference season will wind up Satur- day, January 3, with three games. Ohio Wesleyan will invade Chicago, Notre Dame and Northwestern will play their return engagement at Evanston and Illinois will meet Bradley for the se and time, at Peoria. Pennsylvania’s invasion of the Mid- | dle West turned out to be total loss, Wis- consin, whipped the Quakers, 25 to 12, ‘Thursday night, and Notre Dame de- feated the Eastern outfit, 31 to 19, Fri- day night. Michigan put on the finish- ing touch Saturday, winning by 46 to 22, at Ann Arbor. The victory was the | | Wciverines' “third straighs. Northwest | ern also made it three in a row, beating | Carleton’s stubborn five, 31 to 22, and Minnesota mauled Beloit, 39 to 18, for | its third triumph 20 Years Ago In The Star J. Ed Grillo, sports editor of The Star, says it is certain, following the recent American League meet- ing at New York, that the sharp- bladed steel spikes worn by base ball players will not be discarded. | Agitation looking to_their abolition was started when Ty Cobb acci- | dentally spiked Frank Baker two years ago. ! M Street High and Armstrong | Tech High will meet in their annual basket ball game Saturday night at True Reformers’ Hall, Twelfth and U streets. M Street lost an 8-7 game to Howard Academy last week. Alexandria Basketers Start Saks Quint Series Tomorrow LEXANDRIA, Va, December 22. —Saks Clothiers of Washington will oppose the Alpha Delta Omega FPraternity quint here tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock on the Armory Hall court in the first of three contests to be played by the local team this week. Standard A. C. will be entertained Friday, while Eldbrooke Church s listed for Saturday. ‘Two combinations of girl bowlers here are drilling for an active cam- paign on the drives, One includes Viola Hudson, Thelma Schroyer, Audrey Nalls, Reita Butler, Agnes Wakeman, Helen Grant and Mae Starnell, and the other Theresa Haynes, Christine West, Mildred Haynes, Ruth Stryke, Carolyn Peake and Rhose Theimer. Robert McDonald, manager of the newly organized Richmond, Fredericks- | burg & Potomac Railroad Co. team, is making pretentious plans for his team's |New Year basket ball carnival at Ar- | mory Hall ‘Two games, followed by a dance, have been arranged. Plans are being made by the Schreiner Brothers, a strong junior basket ball team, for performing in senjor cage circles this Winter. Five brothers, Pred, Lewis, Wallace, Ru- dolph and Ad Schreiner, make up the squad. Methodist Episcopal Church South will shortly make its debut in junior basket ball ranks. Tony Ruocco, manager of Iroquois A. C. foot ball team this season, is han- dling the club cagers. Senior teams wishing opposition may telephone him at Alexandria 2273. Six former St. Mary's Celtic cagers have been signed by Del Ray A. C. basket ball team in Johnny Pierpont, Larry Kersey, Billy Travers, Ray Heber- SOCCER DRAWINGS DUE Cup Tie Semi-Final Games to Be Listed Tomorrow. Drawings for the semi-finals in the Washington and Southeastern District Soccer Assoc'ation Cup tie will be made | £t a meeting in room 2-of the District row night 8t 8 o'clock. Newport News, which drew & bye in the second round, #iil be among those in the semi-finals. N Marlboro, Washington-Concords and D. C. Kickers are other mzlmx which | will take part in the semi-finals. All| three won tight second-round matches yesterday. Marlboro downed Fashion Bhop, 3 to 0: Washi -Concords conquered Rockville, 3 to 2, and D. C. Kickers overcame Rosedale, 1 to 0. Army defeated Gaithersburg, 4 to 1, in'a Capital City League gamme, deal- ing the Marylanders’ title hopes a blow. GEORGE BRANDT HONORED Playing left end for the Uniyersity of North Carolina freshman foot ball team the past season, George Brandt, for- mer crack all-around athlete of Cen- tral High School of this city, showed | so well that he has been picked on an | all-State freshman team selected by a committee of coaches of the Tarheel State. Brandt not only shone brightly on the gridiron for Central, but in hi last year at the Columbia Heights school also won his letter in base ball, basket | The @ signal achievemen! ball and track, it Eastern-Emerson Tilt Tonight To Give Line on School Fives 1D rivals will get at each other egain tonight when Easiern and Emerson meet at besket ball on the Eastern court at 8 o'clock in the main game of a double- header arranged as the feature of the annual alumni reunion at the Lincoln Park school. Central and Eastern lightweight quints are to face in & pre- liminary at 7. Eastern, which downed Emerson in all three of their meetings last season, is favored to again_turn back the proteges of Coach Sanborn - tonight. Sanborn tutored the basketers at East- ern a few campaigns back. In games last season Eastern downed | Emze‘mon. 34 to 28, 43 to 32 and 32 to 24. Thus far this season Emerson, with several leading members of its souad | g, ineligible as the result of class room difficulties, has lcst -all three of fits starts, bowing twice to Central and once to Business. Central had to hustle to trim Emerson, 22 to 18, in their first tile, but the Blue was an easy winner in the second game. The score was 26 to 19. Business 1 the well is | known daylight out of the Sanborn- the count being 28 to 10. 's game will fur- for those who are try- . coached crew, Tesult of nish some dope ing to get a compas public high teams, pley January 9. tive line on the which begin title St. John’s will be out to down Tech, defending public high champion, when the quints square off tomorrow after- noon at 3:30 o'clock on the McKmley hardwood. The Kaydets, in trimming an alumni team Friday night. 16 to 8, nn{i l{ludlrllla, have shown well. n lone game Tech went down be- fore Catholic University freshmen, 27 to 29, after a bitter struggle. Tech and St. John's did not meet in basket ball last season, Hyattsville High may offer Central plen:fl of opposition when the teams get together tomorrow afternoon on the National Guard Armory court in the | & Maryland town. Hyattsville nut up a strong fight before succumbing to usiness in a 26-to-17 encounter last week on the losers’ floor. Central and Woodward quints were to battle this afterncon in ‘ihe Central gymnasium. NE§ LUCKY. Only four members of the University of Southern California first wwmuuwmmmm ling, Babe Clarke and Louis Latham. They augment a squad already com- posed of Ed Watts, former Blue Ridge College player; Eddie Von Deck, Dick | Perry, Marshall Frinks and Bob Rober- | son. Mor2 than a score of Old Dominion ! | Boat Club membors are using regularly | |the new handball court recently com- | | pleted at their club house. R, F. & P. Railroad cagers have games pending with three of the strongest teams in the Middle Atlantic States in the Fadco Five of Frederick, Md.; Richmond Blues and the Alsatia A. C. of Hagerstown, Mt ‘The following Alexandria basket ball teams are seeking games: Alpha Delta Omega (unlimited). Manager Ralph Scrivener, 1012 Prince street. Telephone Alexandria 1700 be- tween 6 and 7 p.m. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Co. (unlimited). Manager Robert McDonald. Telephone Alex- andria 2256 between 5 and 6 p.m. Dzl Ray A. C. (unlimited). Manager Carroll Rush. Telephone Alexandria 2053-J between 5 and 6 p.m. % St. Mary's Lyceum Five (unlimited). Manager Robert Vogt, 21 Washington avenue, Rosemont, Alexandria. Tele- ghonfi Alexandria 1498 between 6 and pm. Central A. C. (junior). Manager Broaddus Carver. Telephone Alex- andria 2264 between 8 am. and 4 p.m. Clover A. C. (junior). Manager Bill Hammond, 312 North Pitt street. ‘Whitestone’s Store (junior). Man ager Owen Creegan. Telephone Alex- andria 1155 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. FIRST INDOOR BEATING FOR WASHINGTON NETMEN Bow to Hopkins Team in Winter League in Baltimore—Shore, Stam Winners. BALTIMORE, Md, December 22— No longer can the Washington team of the Baltimore Winter Indoor Tennis League boast a clean record. The Dis- trict netmen bowed to the Johns Hop- kins team yesterday in a 5-2 match on thc 5th Regiment Armory courts. It was their frt defert in the league, | which they entered at the stait of last seascn. | Frank Shore and Colin Stam were the only Washington players to tri- umph, the former defeating. Morton Shapiro, 6—3, 2—6, 6—3, and the lat- ter Arnold Silverman, 6—2, 6—2. Billy and Eddie Jacobs, brothers, home for the holidays from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, bolstered the Baltimoreans. Washington played with- out two mainstays, Bob Considine and Bud Markey. Summaries: LES. Jacobs (J. H.) defea 6-3; Shapiro, 6-3, 2—8. 6-3; G (J. H.) defeated Bill Buchana; Emanuel Farber (J H) d Yeomans. . 6—3; Colin St Arnold Silverman, 6—2, 6—2. DOUBLES. jie and Billy Jacobs defeated Dool: Mitchell and Bill Buchanan, 7—5, Yeomans and Shore and Goldberg and Shi Piro yere tied, 6—3, 3—6 (postponed). 64, 6—4: ted Clyde defeated | Brentwood Hawks will face Hyattsville | o'clock, with the Guardsmen and Dor-A | A FLOCK OF u:coims. Helene Madison, Seattle’s girl swim- " set mer, ”in 1.2 world and 37 American New York Center Of Amateur Golf NEW_ YORK, December 22 (#).— With the passing of Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, the metro- politan_district seems to have be- come the amateur golfing center of the United States. Within the district now are such figures as George Voigt, Maurice McCarthy, Eugene Homans, T. P. Perkins, Cyril Tolley and Jess Sweetser. .Three of, these, Perkins, Tolley and Sweetser, are former British amateur champions. SIX IMPORTANT TILTS | FOR EASTERN QUINTS Penn-Fordham Game Is High Spot ,of Pre-Holiday Basket Ball Schedule. By the Associated Press, | NEW YORK, December 22--The Christmas -holidays reduce the Eastern | college basket ball schedule to a mini- | mum this week, but leave a half dozen important contests on the program. Most_of the_decisive action should be fought at Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh. Penn's five, after a disastrous Western trip, meets the undefeated Fordham outfit at the Palestra Satur- day night. The Pitt Panthers, a strong team despite the loss of Charley Hyatt, battles Dartmouth on Tuesday | Syracuse on_Saturday. ures in another big-time battle, meet- ing the unbeaten Columbia Lions, East- ern_Intercollegiate League champions, | at_Syracuse tomorrow night. Temple University invades New York Saturday night to see whether it can stop_the five-game winning_streak of | Nat Holman's College of the City of New York courtmen. St. John's of New York, a veteran array that won 23 games out of 24 last year, battles Union here tonight. Cornell makes its last start of the holidays against Buffalo tonight. BRENTWOOD MAKING | COUNTY LOOP DEBUT Will Tackle Southern Methodist | Basket Ball Team Tonight in Prince Georges League. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 22.— Southern Methodists and Company F, Hyattsville National Guard, will meet Dor-A in Prince Georges County Bas- ket Ball League games in the National Guard Armory here tonight. The Hawks and Methodists will clash at_7:30 taking the floor later. Hawks, defending league champions, will be making their debut in the loop this season. It was not certain until Saturday ‘that they would again play in the league. Mrs. Kaske, manager of the Hawks, has submitted the following list of eligible players: La Vere Kopp, Claude Simpson, William Fellner, Dean Win-- chester, H. Ensor, B. Phillips, Willis T, Doc Hessler, C. Mahaney, Stan- ley O'Donnell, S. Fellner, H. Haretstack, H. Mann, O. B. Howland id Edwin Pierce. - Basket ball teams of Company F, Hyattsville National Guard, broke even with Washington quints in two hard-foyght games on the armory floor here. The Guard Regulars bowed to the Anacostia Eagles in a 28-22 battle, but the Reserves conquered the Astecs, 17 to 14, in an extra-period struggle. Games are sought by the Company F Reserves for Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Telephone Dutch Richard, Hyattsville 378, Monday. and Tuesday nights after 7:30 o'clock STARS GET IN LINE - FOR $25,000 OPEN Manero, Winner of Meet at Pasadena, to Play—New Ball Held Faulty. By the Associated Press. ASADENA, Calif,, December P 22—The $4,000 Pasadena open golf tournament, won by New York’s slender pro- fessional, Tony Manero, today was written into the annals of the ancient and royal game as the battle of the three putts. Meanwhile, the golfing trail led toward Agua Caliente, Mexico, where the biggest Winter event on the coast, the Agua Caliente $25,000 open, gets under way tomorrow. Some of those who failed to collect in the 72-hole event ending yesterday blamed the “balloon” ball, new to tour- nament play. Most of those receiving the larger cuts at the payoff declared it was only a mental complex. All agreed that the three-day contest was lost on the putting greens. Walter Hagen, Detroit, admitted he frittered away comeback chances with frequent three-putting. Horton Smith, of NewYork, who won the 1929 tourney over the same course, said the new lighter but larger pellet consistently re- fused to go down. He was a dozen strokes higher than last year and tied with Hagen for fifth place, five behind Manero, Naturally, Tony was the leading ex- ponent of the new ball. He had cards of 73-71-74-69 for a 287 total, but fin- ished three ts over par. Mortie Dutra, the thland’s leading expo- nent from Long Beach, Calif.,, three- putted the final green and finished with 289. 4 Herman , Port Chester, N. Y., and Al Espinosa, Chicago, were third with 290, each. New ball regardless, the treachery of the creeping bent greens had something to do with the excess putting. Charles Lacey, former British professional, but now of New York, said he found diffi- culty in mastering western greens. “I took at least 30 excess putts,” he complained. He finished with a 306. Manero's par-plundering finish of 69 was duplicated by Frank Welsh of Chi- cago and Olin Dutra of Santa Monica, Calif. Only ‘one_other player broke perfect figures. He was W. Cox of Brooklyn. Of the amateurs, Johnny Dawson, Chicago, led the list with a 299, finish- ing in eleventh place. Russ Thompson, Glendale, Calif, was second, a stroke behind: The leading money winners: Tony Manero, New York, 287—8$1,000. Mortie Dutra, Long Beach, 289—$600. Hermin Barren, Port Chester, N. Y., Ray Mangrum, Dallas, Tex., 291— $231.15. Detroit, 201 — Frank Walsh, Chica; . Willie Hunter, Montel New York, 202— $112.50. Walter Hagen, Detroit, 202—$112.50. will get under way tomorrow. lap feature race at the Legion-Ascot Speedway yesterday in 50 minutes, 2% victory over the 6212-mile course. Walt May of Southgate, Calif., finished sec- 260—$575. Al Espinosg, Chicago, 200—$375. Tommy Armour, $231.15. , 291—$231.15. llo, Calif., 201 ~-$231.15. Horton Smith, The big event of Winter golf on the Coast, Agua Caliente’s $25,000 open, LOS ANGELES, December 22 (#).— Shorty Cantlon, Detroit, won the 100- seconds, lapping. the field. It was Cantlon's third consecutive «:‘rl:gdnnd Francis Quinn, Los Angeles PracticaL HRISTMAS GilFT Why not give Florsheim Shoes for Christmas? Any man will enjoy and appre- ciate such a fine gift tificates are now available at this store that allow select his own style and size . Cer- . The Florsheim Shoe ‘IO Men’s Shops ' .14th at G 7th & K 3212 14th to