Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1930, Page 32

C—2 s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1930 SPORTS. ~ Smiths on Verge of Golf Come-back : Vardon Sees Romance in Hickory Shaft HORTON AND “MAC” NOW CLAN'S STARS Each Seems Ready to Put Up Fine Contest for a Major Links Crown. AN FRANCISCO, Calif., De- S cember 23.—Smith used to be a grand name in golf when Willie and Aleck were winning national open champion- ships, and it may come back to the top next year, since there no longer will be any reason for the Smiths to fret about keeping up with the Joneses. Unless all calculations go haywire MacDonald Smith and Horton Smith will be two of the strongest candidates for the United States and British open championships that Bob Jones volun- tarily surrendered by retirement. It's about time young Horton Smith broke through and won one of the two major open championships. He has been campaigning along the front lines of the game for three full seasons and improving each year. He was not far behind in either the British or American open last Summer and played some keen golf in the P. G. A. Veteran professionals say, after ob- serving Smith both on the fairways and in slow motion pictures, that a slight break of the left wrist at the moment of impact is the only noticeable fault in his game. It is likely that no one knows better than Horton the flaws in his game, and since the young man works diligently to perfect his play the fault may be overcome before the next campaign opens. Fine Trim Now. Horton Smith ordinarily is one of the straightest shooters in golf and also is a fine putter. But he needed a certain smount of seasoning to steady his e for the big championships and began to show an improvement last Summer. Smith has been playing much with Sir Phillip Sasoon, the close d of the Prince of Wales, during she past several weeks and when he launches into the big Pacific Coast tournaments next month he likely will be in fine trim for the Winter cam- paign. "Donald Smith, too, can be counted on to win some of the big purses along the trail of golf. The Carnoustie vet- eran intends to devote the remainder of his golfing years to playing only in | the more important championships and | instructing a few chosen pupils. His | embition is centered, of course, on the | British open, which will be played over | bupont :L; native Carnoustie course in Scot- d. And after that comes the United States open at Inverness. Unless Mac’s smooth game breaks perceptibly he will be among the leaders in both of the big | ¢ championships, for with Bob Jones gone there is no other player who can com- pare with Smith for smoothness of stride. i Of course, Walter Hagen may come | back to annoy the Smiths. Walter has been out of the limelight too long to suit his tastes and pocketbook. He finds himself without a single title for the first time in many years and such » condition obviously must be remedied. Hagen Hitting Better. ‘Tommy Armour told the writer some weeks ago that Hagen was hitting his shots far better than any time in sev- eral seasons and was in fine physical eondition. With Jones in retirement— the Haig never could play his best with Bob on the same golf course—ths old Duke is likely to stage a comeback that | will startle the golf world. | in no | Department), EXTENDED STAR TOURNEY FORCED BY HEAVY ENTRY Two Days Are Added in Order to Prevent Jamming Competitors Into Original Schedule—Roll- ing to Start Each Night at 6:20. quests to bowl on the nights of Decem- ber 20 and 30, however, the committee was forced to shift some of the bowlers to another date. ERE will be three squads & night for each of the eight dates. The first squad will roll at 6:30 o'clock, the second at 8 and the third at 9:30 o'clock. On the first squad there'll be two bowlers to an alley. The second and third squads will have three to an alley. The complete schedule will be pub- lished in The Star tomorrow. A daily list of contestants also will be given, starting y. ECEMBER 26 will be “Kensington Night.” Due to the activities of Gene Rainey a surprising number of entries were obtained from Kensington. These Montgomery County duckpin glpg;s will have a big time Decem- T 26. 'ESTERN UNION night will be De- cember 27. Through the hustling Joe Brocator, 40 or more entries from the Western Union League were obtained. December 20 will be Georgetown Recreation and Suburban night. M’PHILOMY IS CLASS OF TYPO PIN LEAGUE Averages 116 to Lead by Safe| Margin—Hodges Second, With 112 Pace. WO more bowling nights have been added to the schedule of The Evening Star’s third annual Yule- tide singles tournament which opens Friday at the Coliseum. Due to the overwhelming num- ber of last-minute entries, which came through the mails in heaps, the Tournament Committee, of which Arville Ebersole is chair- man, last night decided it was im- possible to jam the competitors in the original six bowling nights and will extend the big duckpin party through Tuesday, January 6, and Wednesday, January 7. The lengthened schedule now includes the following bowling nights: December 26, 27, 29 and 30 and January 32, 5, 6 and 7. Arville Ebersole and his committec laboriously strived to assort all entries last night and accommodate each spe- cific request. Due to the exceptional number of re- KING OUTSTANDING LAUNDRY BOWLER Arcade Ace, With Average of 118, Has No Rival—Bergmann Second With 109. Earl McPhilomy, Standard Engrav- ing Co. bowler, with an average of 116, stands far above the field in high average in the Typothetae League. Hodges of Washington Typographers is second to McPhilomy with & 112 aver- As far as individual averages are concerned, King of the Arcade Laundry | bowling team has spreadeagled the Laundrymen’s League. His average, 118-10, is more than 9 points higher than F. Bergmann, second in the league. King, however, has rolled only 12 games to Bergmann's 24. Gwyer of Bergmann and Sparks of Washington hold high game, 147; while Gwyer, a 102-average bowler, holds high set rec- ord with 390. Team Standing. age. Individual averages and total pins follow: JUDD & DETWEILER. Crockett | Smail . Morrison Dern ] 3] Arcade No. Cenr | Holls Ambassador s Efite ot Arcade No. '3 Washington | Batley bt Si=det ) Bergmann Md. Div Season Records. pie4m, same—Bergmann Zoric De- ‘team Set—Arcade No. 1, 1,601 individual games—Sparks (Washing- 7 (Bergmann), 147. B sei—Gwyer (Bérgmann), | Ct verage—P. _Bergmann ment), . Mehalick ~ (Manhattan), D (Bergmann Zoric | High mel gh High on). 147; Gwyer High individual High indiyidual (Bergmann_Zoric High strikes—G. High spares_Eustace 7. BIG PRINT SH SonaaBen 22338, 9 RIEsuLE I ] ze= g sesge King BERGMANN Pettit Koch .. 21 Hughes 30 Eustace 30 Cocuzzi : F. Bergmann.... 24 Si=== soegé ZORIC DEP. 12 EaSu- 5 his fifth British open. be a good idea to keep a weather eye peeled on Hagen during 1931. Johnny Farrell is still another who | should come up on his game and be a Jeader in the national championships. John has done little or nothing since winning the United Stetes open in 1928, but the fine game the black-haired Irishman always has at his command cannot fail much longer. The 1931 championship season should Epithet Is Among Horses to Go TUnder Hammer in June. NEW YORK, December 23 (#).—The | racing stable of the late Gifford A.| Cochran will be sold at auction at Bel- | mont Park early in June. Among the 20 horses in training | Mijies which will go on the block will be Epithet, a son of Epinard out of Fairy Wander. Epithet won _the Hopeful Stakes in August, giving Jamestown his | only defeat of the season. Other crack ebbs ... | Humphrey vi S. Mehalick Buckey ... G. Mehaifck o > o Thayer ‘WASHINGTON TYPOGRAPHERS. Hodges ... 51 Wells ... Taylor "I Desmond Ransome . 5 STANDARD ENGRAVING McPhilomy BHEEEE gagses =3 o 85333 EaEe gz ¢l IR 83823 LT8RV FEpss Satuss d of.w.w 3 gugens” 288 o - SE85NE Campbell Fox 972 | Pabrizio 100431 | m{l{umu ; er oo 833 | Wehausen 9238 | 5 e BERGMANN | Me1ntyre racers which will be sold include the Beasel, Flying Heels and Polygamous. o G o SeiagE8 Stepnens Spiess . . Bonifant “Inside Out” Golf Swi;lg Regarded Aid to Player, Pro, Considers It Only Another Fad. HE prevailing tendency to re- gard as the only perfect golf swing one that forces the club-head to come into the ball from the “inside out” is re- garded as a fad by George Sargent, formerly professional at Chevy Chase, former national open cham- plon, and the man behind the ides of perpetuating by slow-motion pic- ture camera the swings of Bobby Jones, Joyce Wethered and Harry ‘Vardon. “We have been prone,” Sargent says in the current issue of the Pro- fessional Golfer, official organ of the Professional Golfers’ Association of America, “to go to extremes in the golf swing. One year it was all fau to do one thing; next year is a good i reasonably good, but swallow_ it hook, line : on of all else. are advocating that method do not mean you should actually swing very much from !.h;‘lmlfl- :)uv.. :\;: g try to swing that way in ore avold the great besetting sin in fill-cumnl across. In other wi out is & counter-action prin- ciple, but it is & good one if properly understood.” sreat feature of the swing of ‘Tyre Jones, it seems, 15 not 94-17 | o Burgess Help | Wright Although Sargent, Noted | g..5:" - Myers Donn’ . | viana Raley . ot Sttt alone that he swings from the inside out (which he does, with a slight Joop at the beginning of the down- | ward action of the club-head), but that for a distance of a foot or more at the ‘mx:’mrll of thehdc:n’wnrd arc of the club the club-head is travel- | ing in a straight horizontal path | NATIONAL PUBLISHING toward the hole, with the face atf |Giecnwood brd exact right angles to the line of the shot. He carries out this principle m]- greater degree than any living fer. 'o'rhn. apparently, is the essential int of the golf swing, and all the eories of “inside out,” wrist prona- tion and everything else should b: subordinated to the fact that the club must be traveling when it | meets the ball in an exact groove | with the line chosen for the flight | of the ball, Most _ players, wacan 25352 m Oliver GEORGE A. SIMONDS C: | McClosky Moreland . Norris Heimbuck Rowzee ... ey 233 caban O Prain .. Schombert CENTRAL PRINTING Shipton 35 Ruppert V. Glossbrentier | Cross it | Beckwith | Stoggs i 5. Glossbrenner particularly the higher hand! c‘g players, are cursed with a slice, which comes from the fact that the club, when it meets the ball, is traveling from the out- side in, forcing ths ball across the face of the club with a right hand spin. That is what causes the slice. and that is simply the purpose of the “inside out” idea. It may be a counter-action theory, but if it forces the club to travel in a horizontal groove when it m-ets the ball and thereafter, for a short distance, it will have done its work. Many fine golfers do not always swing from the inside out, but when Rogers SARAZEN TO COMPETE. LOS ANGELES, December 23 (A).— Gene Sarazen bele?rlphed friends here last night he would enter the $10.000 NOOD GIVES GOLF A“FAVORITE” CLUB England’s Old Master Says Great Players Don’t Like Steel Implement. BY O. B. KEELER. ARRY VARDON, the old H master of golf, writing in the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, considers the larger ball, about to become standard in the United States; steel shafts, lately legalized iIn Great Britain, and other matters, waxing eloquent and a bit roman- tic over the shaft question. ©Old Harry is not what you might call a steel-shaft devotee or even a convert. “To be sure,”” he says, “steel shafts may be better than many hickory clubs now in existence. It has to be con- fessed that they have become very pop- ular, although it is an interesting point that Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen have always preferred hickory.” After stating his belief that the steel shaft “never will make a bad player into a good one,” Harry approaches the ro- mance of the hickory shaft. " ICKORY,” he writes, “has made one big contribution toward the glamour of golf. It has given us treasure known as the favorite that club—the one which, in the eyes and hands of its owner, is different from all the others in the world. “Can Mechanized steel provide the equivalent? I wonder. “On the eve of the open mixed four- somes at Worpleton last year, Miss Joyce Wethered broke her pet mashie-iron, the club with which she played those marvelously deft and deadly little shots from around the green up against the hole-side. “Twice she had the head reshafted, but to no purpose. Nothing could re- place that old shaft. . . . A steel shaft would not have broken, perhaps. But then, could it ever have provided such a club as Miss Wethered's old mashie-iron?” Harry then recalls Ted Ray's famous old “bolt-head” driver, which I remem- ber he was using in 1913 on his first tour of this country; and later, in 1920, when he won our open championship at Inyerness, Toledo. “I never knew a driver like that one,” writes Harry. “Ted used it many years —80 many years that at last he had to glve it up, because it became creaky. . . It had four small steel bolts run- ning through the head from the back, finishing flush with the face; but that was not its abiding glory. Its virtue lay in its shaft. Everybody who waggled it found instant confidence in it, and everybody who was allowed to try it drove well. “If Ray wanted to get home with a very long second-shot through the green he ‘took this driver, and he has sald that it never failed him. I think it must have been the only shaft of its kind in the world. And I fancy nearly every golfer has a pet club affording a corresponding sense of security and pleasure. I wonder if there are such, with steel shafts.” ERSONALLY, I have been deriving a good deal of amusement this year in the boosting of the newly ac- quired “torsion” by steel shaft makers. Ait first they boasted of a lack of tor- sion. handers — husbands and wives, better get sharp. The annual yuletide bowling scrambles are on. Pennant chases, no matter how wild and wooly, are forgotten for g spell. ‘Washington’s _thousands. of bowlers, | Snns-—nm stars — dubs — left- ] | starting tonight, will concentrate on &flvfld\lfl orts to bring home the on. A myraid of tournaments loom up— The Star tournament starting Friday at the Coliseum for men, women and children, “lefties” and orthodox; Gino Simi's Left-Handers’ tourney, starting tonight at Rendezvous; the “One-Ball” classic, starting tonight at Convention Hall; the “Dubs Delight,” beginning Friday also at the “Hall”; the “Husband- and-Wife” event, and neighborhood sweepstakes galore. Tonight two events will occupy the spotlight. Gino Simi will open his tournament and 50 or more southpaws are expected to roll the first five-game block at Tad Howard's Rendezvous. ‘The first five games of John Blick's annual “one-ball” 10-game tournament ;U{] be bowled tonight at Convention all. In defending his title this year, Larry Fitzgerald of Mount Rainier will find himself up against a tough array of left-handers. In pre-game skirmishes, however, he holds a slight edge over Harry Alken in the matter of voluble bowling feats. Georgie PFriend is defending cham- plon in Blick's “One-Ball” tourna- ment. Friend has won first prize money for the last two years. The en- trance fee is $3 plus the cost of games. Entries for the Left-Handers' tour- nament will be received up until start- ing time tonight, which is 7:30 o'clock. Friday will usher Variety, Wealth of Tburneys Offered to Capital Rollers| | More Than 100 Players to Tae 0t night of The Star tournament and the “Dub” tournament. Bowlers averaging less than 100 in any league will roll the first five-game block at Cenvention Hall and the sec- ond ab Arcadia. The entrance fee is $2.50 plus the cost of games. The annual “Husband - and - Wife” tournament goes on next Monday. Both three-game blocks will be rolled at the Arcadia. There is no entrance fee. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Miltner are the de- fending champions. Red Megaw and Betty Hoffman are the winners of the “blind pig” tourna- ment for the benefit of the unemployed. George Isemann and members of the committee drew names last night at Georgetown Recreation. Megaw's 379 and Mrs. Hoffman's 307 were the highest. Bernie Prye and Winifred Hiser with 376 and 293 were second and Tom Howard and Margaret Miltner were third with 354 and 308, respectively. Christmas special events at Hyatts- ville are drawing plenty of interest. A three-ball turkey tournament at the Hly;x"tuv“h Arcade will be run off to- night. Burt Parsons with 649 and John Deputy with 641 got off to a big start in the first night of the Christmas sweepstakes. Parsons’ games were 120, 141, 1493,/ 129 and 116. Deputy's were 119, 137, 135, 139 and 111. A match drawing unusual interest tonight is slated for the Arcade when | the Dixie Pigs and Hyattsville of the Suburban League clash at 8 o'clock. Bert Sheehy, Harry Hilllard, Francis Halloran, Oscar Hiser and Arthur Whalley will roll for Hyattsville, while the same line-up of Pierce Wolfe, Harry Wolfe, McCall, Horace Snowden and AGUA CALIENTE OPEN GOLF STARTS TODAY in Qualifying Round of $25,000 Event. By the Assoclated Press. AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, Decem- ber 23.— Professional and amateur golfers prepared to open the preliminary qualifying skirmish today in the sec- ond $25,000 open Winter tournament over the Agua Caliente Golf Club course. More than 100 players were to tee off in the first 18 holes of the 36-hole qualifying rounds to gain places in the field of 100 which will play for the $10,000 first money and other awards in ,the tournament proper January 13 to 16. Tony Manero, winner of the recent Pasadena open, was numbered in the field. Among others were Gene Sarazen, Long Island pro; the title holder, Al Espinosa, Chicago pro; Eddie Loos, Chi- cago; Alan McCafferty, Salt Lake City; Jim and Frank Fogarty, St. Louis; Tom Rankletts, Ohio; Jim Heany, Rochester: Lew Waldron, Ohlo; Clarence Clark, Tulsa; Eddie Stokes, Denver, and Ralph Guldahl, Texas. Foreign golfers, professional or ama- teur; prize winners in the first $25,000 open of last January, the 30 low and all ties in the 1930 national champion- | ship and the 32 qualifiers in the 1930 | P. G. A. champlonship were exempted ualifying. The 40 pros and five simon-pures already entered came from these groups. | from g TEAMS TO COMBINE. Southerns and Sterling will combine next Summer and enter the Capital City Unlimited League. All early ap- Hugh Waldrop will shoot for Dixie in the opening ' Figs. plicants are asked to get in touch with either Bill McQuade or Prank Stanford, ket et s eSS RR oSttt All Xmas Merchandise All Christmas Goods Must Go! Regardless Of Cost! 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