Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1931, Page 33

SPORTS. Banning of Sand-Wedge by U. S. Golf Association Surfirises Jones’ ex-Boswell KEELER SEES CLUB AS WITHIN BOUNDS Declares It Helped Bobby to Carry Off Honors in British Open. BY 0. B. KEELER (Writer for the Associated Press.) SEE by the papers that the United States Golf Association has ban- ned the sand-wedge, as it is called— the concave-faced, flange-soled, 25-ounce implement to which Horton Smith introduced* Bobby Jones at Sa- vanah last early Spring and thereby (very possibly) enabled Bobby to win the British open champlonship at Hoylake, later in the season. This is a surprice to me, though I should not go so far as to term it a shock, as I have absorbed so many shocks in golf that after giving up the| title of Boswell of Bobby Jones I think THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, wide enough to prevent the club-head from digging itself prematurely into sand or turf; a good cutting edge for shearing through heavy, matted grass or other vegetable obstacle and so much weight that it must be swung slowly backward, with corresponding momen- tum at impact, in cases of really dire distress. I did not write any of the advertise- ments for the now outlawed sand wedge. These are merely my own ob- servations of its functions. HE concaved and flanged blade, with a deep notch between the back part of the sole and the rest of the head, indubitably is a departure from the traditional form and make of golf clubs. There is no mechanical contri- vance about it, and the shaft is plain. It appears that the U. S. G. A, Com- mittee on Implement and the Ball con- sidered that the curious architectural design of the wedge was { o substantial a_departure from tradition. And that, of course, is that. Perhaps it was more a question of mathematics than mechanics. But the U. S. G. A. is the doctor, for this coun- try at any rate. BREADON SATISFIED WTIH CARDS’ LINE-UP Believes He Can Attend Schedule| Chips From the Mapleways BY R. D. THOMAS. WORLD duckpin record which has stood for a decade was re- called today with the announce- ment of an entry from Martins- burg, W. Va. in the Naticnal Duckpin Bowling Congress tournament to be held at Convention Hall, February 16 to March 7. Little importance is attached to the mark in this terriory, b2cause it made with rubber-banded maples. They are taboo here. Littie Johnny Vaeth, whom some hold was the greatest duckpin shooter in the history of th> sport, averaged 173 for five games against Martinsburg as a member of George Ismann’s Giants. According to Isemann, no one has come | clos2 fo this sinc2. Vaeth, by the way, assisted in the invention of th: rubber-banded pin. NE hears little these days of duck- pin doings at Martinsburg, but time was when the West Virginians doffed thei- lids to no group of timber topplers. They were good enough on: year to take the measurs of the Wash- ington Palace team, which was the high ranking quint of the country. Of the Martinsburg combination only C. O. Caskey will perform with the team entered in the national tourna- Roscoe Reichard's Hecht bowlers are cutting capers. They pulled the sea- son’s big upset in the District League by whitewashing the leading Northeast Temple team and quickly followed this achlevement with a record set of 1,779 in the Business Men's League. Poor bowling sometimes is conta- glous. Take, for example, a match rolled the other night in the Columbia Heights League by the Liondale Shirts and Arcade teams. In the match were several of the city's leading bowlers, in- cluding Carroll Daly, Eddie Espey and Tim Dunworth. A ‘bowler or two on each team couldn’t get started and finally the 10 went salty. Only Monk Fraser was able to beat 100. VERYBODY'S invited to shoot in the Potomac stakes, to be held to- morrow night at the Rosslyn tin plant under the direction of G. W Clark. The fee is 85 for singles and $10 for doubles, ‘The tournament is recommended by the Washington City Duckpin Association and the National Duckpin Bowling Congress. Catherine Quig'ey and Frank Mischou, with a score of 661, took the lead in the brother-and-sister tournament at the Mount Rainier Recreation. Mar- garet Miltner and John Martin are second with 633. The Mount Rainier establishment has D. €. FRIDAY, 100-0DD PROS START PLAY IN TEXAS OPEN Shute, Defending Champion, Pairs With Young to Triumph in Pro-Amateur Event. By the Associated Press SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. January 30— More than a hundred professi>nal links- men were to tee off today in the first | round of the tenth annual Texas open tournament, oldest of the Winter money events. A prize of $1.500 awaits the winner of the 72-hole test, ending Sunday. Eighteen holes were scheduled today and tomorrow, with the final 36 Sun- day. Fair Winter g:lfing weather was promised. A drizzle that caused tourna- ment officials to close Brack>nridge Park course the first two days of the week let up yesterday for the prelim- inary pro-amateur event. Twelve amateur and professional teams bettered par for the course yes terday and seven more equaled perfect figures—71. One pro, Abe Espinosa of Chicago, turned in a great 68 on his cwn hook. Densmore Shute of Columbus, Ohio, who won last®year’s Texas open with a subpar total of 277 for the 72 holes, paired with Lorraine Young, 20-year- JANUARY 30, 193 SPORT 5 "C-3 New England, Seaboard Lead Country in Note—This is the last of a series of stories surveyino the progress of golf natiovally during 1930 and its prospects Jor 1931. BY FOS! HAILEY. EW YORK, January 30 (#).— Golf in New England and along the Atlantic seaboard flourish- ed like the green bay tree dur- ing 1930 and the prospects for 1931 | are no less bright. In the thickly populated Eastern States golf is in the nature of big bus- iness, with milliors invested in prop- erty and club houses, and a weskly payroll that runs into hundreds of | thousznds of dollars. The Massachusetts Golf Association lists 117 member clubs, with 32 belong- Bowling Tonight CONVENTION HALL. istrict League—Convention Hall vs. King League — Salvatore Desio _ v& Schwartz & Son, Shaw & Brown vs. Heller Plating. Galt's No. 2_vs. A. Kahn, Blu- steins Wholesalers vs. Pearson & Crain, Von ewelers’ Golf Prosperity ing to the national organization; 54 clubs belong_to the Philadelphia or- anization. Fifty-three clubs in New York State hold memb:rship in the United States Golf Association, the largest representative of any State: 27 are listed from New Jersey, 25 from Pennsylvania, 12 from Connecticut, 10 from Dclaware, and four each from Rhode Island and New Hampshire. President Talbot C. Chase, president of the Massachusetts body, estimates that 3,000 men are on the payroll of ihe Bay State clubs and that the pay- roll runs abov: $50,000 a week. As a result of an appeal made by him on behalf of the Massachusetts unemploy- ment siiuation, 80 per cent of the clubs kept thelr workers through the Win- ier. doing repair work on the cours:s. Construction work in Massachusetts, |t s estimated, will cost more than 51,000,000 this year, with $500,000 of that amount being spent on two new coursés in the -Boston area. at West Roxbury and Brooklyn. Clubs have be'n formed, courses planned or addi- tional holes are to be added to exist- irg courses at Cambridge, Weymouth, Salem, South Braintree, Braintree, North Saugus, Lowell and onnecticut Golf Assoclation re- ported®play was greatly increased last Day and Knight To Lead Gridmen By the Associated Press. AY and Knight, or vice versa, will captain the S8am Houston State Teachers' College eleven, winners of the Texas intercollegiate * title, next season. Jim Day and Bobble Knight, both ready for their last year of competi- tion, have been chosen co-captains. courses are being constructed in Alle- gheny County. at a cost of $150,000, and play during the year was good. Phila delphla, enthused last year by the tional amateur at Merion, had a fine year and looks forward to increased play and course improvement in 1931. Golf wa: on the boom in New York State generally, with five new courses planned for the Albeny region and the 11 existing clubs reported conditions never better. Improvements to two clubs st Anburn, including the addition of nine hoies o the present nine-hole ‘ayout of the Auburn Country Club, will mean the expenditure of $100,000 this year. ‘The Midvale Country Club of Roches- ter will open its new course this Sum- mer and the esiablished clubs report conditions excellent. The Oakhill Coun- try Club, with a million-dollar club- house and two 18-hole courses, where the State amateur will be played this Summer, knows not of it if there has been depression. Meeting Without Even Sug- gesting a Trade. old San Antonio amateur, to capture first prize of $100. The two had a best ball score cf 65, 6 urder par. Shute carried _the burden for the first nine with & 33 and Young wave him | runner-up spot in the National Capital | Blenty of help with a 32 on the way in League &t the Lucky Strike and were| Each carded an individual 71. tied in the standing when the Parkways . - took two game. High lights were Car- roll Daly's 141-game and Red Morgans| JONES FAMILY INCREASES. ATLANTA, Ga., January 30 (#).—A 353 set. Baltimore is expected to have 50 |daughter was born yesterday to Mrs. Robert Tyre Jones, ir, wife of the team entries in the national and Wash- golfer. It is the third child in the ington 125. family. The other children are Clara Malone Jones, 6, and Robert Tyre Jones, 3d, 3. AMERICAN HORSE WINS. SANDOWN, England, January 30 (#).—The American turfman A. C Bostwick, riding his own horse Her h, day won the Village Sl“l‘ple- I shall attempt to copyright the nom de guerre of Shock Absorber. But I am surprised that the U. S. G A. put the old ban on the sand-wedge. | Steinner & Baum vs. Goldsmith & Co.. Jewel Shop vs. Domera & Co. Galt's No. 1 vs. Oppenheimer & Shah. LUCKY STRIKE. Capital League—King's entered a girl team in the national tour- nament year on the courses of its 60 member clubs and simiiar reports were received from the 2) pri lubs and 20 semi- )\'EH" ccursss in Maine. Golf course on or improvement is plan- :l at Portland, Hamden, Augusta and Eath. THe City of Manchester, in New Hempshire, is spending $15,000 in a public course and the Newport Country Club, at Newport, N. H,, has acquired land for a new course. ‘The Wilmington, Del., Country Club reported a 15 per cent ‘increase in play during 1930, and this was belleved to be a good index for most of the clubs in tte State. The customary improve- ments are planned for this year on the courses reporting to the ted Fress, e } Play on the eleven 18-hole courses and two 9-hole courses at Baltimore was above the preceding year in 1930 and considerable improvements are planned over the State in 1931. In western Pennsylvania two new The Eacstern district generally, from the Delaware Capes to the Canadian border, reported golf in the best con- dition of any similar geographical divi- sion of the country. ment. “Cap” Stler will attend as a spectator, or is his visit inspired by desire for just one more battle with Pop Parkway Filling Station and the Fountain Hams fought it out for th Palace _National By the Astociated Press ST. LOUIS, January 30 —§am Breadon is so well satisfied with his Cardinals and their chances to retain the Natlonal League championship they won last year that he believes he can attend a meeting of the league’s mag- nates without even slyly suggesting a trade to any one. “But,” he qualified, “if somebody wants to do a little trading that w benefit the Cardinals T'll get interested.” As_he prepared to depart today for the National League schedule meeting in New York next Tuesday, Breadon told reporters there were no deals pend- ing between the Cardinals and any other club, and “if I should do any trading it'llsurprise me. “We were the champions last year." he said, “and it’s up to the other clubs to improve in order to dislodge us from League - Brondaid | o vs. Drawing. Gui Breech Mechanism vs. Tube. ARCADIA. Building _Contractors’ League — James Baird vs. Butcher, Lake Stone vo. George A. Fuller No. 1, Southern Asbestos is. Rudolph & West. George A. Fuller No. 2 y is_captain of the Martins- 1. the other members of which , W. Tcop, Jack Crow- ell, Howard Hensler and Bernard Keys. Keys was one of the bright performers of the first N. D. B. C. tournament. He had a 400-set in one of the events. ory ULE 36, as I recall it, giving the royal and ancient pres-rintion_for | the “form and make" of golf clubs, | M vs. Sight, The United States Golf Association will not sanction any substantial de- parture from the traditional and ac cepted form and make of golf club: which, in its opinion, consists of a plai shaft and a head which does not con- tain any mechanical contrivance, such as springs.” The R. and A. also regards as illegal, which the U. S. G. A. does not, the center-shafted putter. But I did not see in the sand wedge head any “mechanical contrivance,” such as springs or otherwise. The sand-wedge, as rather profusely advertised and illustrated, is a niblick with a somewhat oval-shaped blade deeply concaved from the sole to the top, and with a flange sole extemding back from the edge more than an inch; & design which is supposed to have the followthg virtues: An abrupt loft on a ball struck fairly in the back; a sole [ ] Lo . Custom T llon Mertz & Mertz Co. 405 11th St. N.W. TROUSERS The deadline for the big tournament will fall tomorrow night. Secretary Isemann will be at Convention Hall to receive late entries. Lee, C Biandara art Marore. HYATTSVILLE ARCADE. Prince Georges County Ccmpany F vs. Suburb: Prince Georges County C. & P. Office vs. Community ‘Club. Prince Georses County Ladies™ League— v D. vs. Goid Diggers. ROCKVILLE. Rockville League—Chevrolet vs. TERMINAL “¥." erminal League — Station xpress Agency. Jersey Yard v ‘The Alexandria Recreation Five will invade Bethesda tomorrow night for the final set of a home-and-home series with Henry Hiser's national champions The Alexandrians, Bert Lynn, Ed Ro- bey, Wood, Theimer and Harrison, have a 31-stick margin. One of the strongest girl teams in " Seetion 2 the country, the Mitchell Dairies Maids of Bridgeport, Conn., has just sent in its entry. ONVENTION HALL'S girls will go to Norfolk tcmorrow for a clash with the Norfolk All-Stars. Mar- | guerite Brunelle and Doris Goodall will pair against two of Norfolk's best in doubles and Eva Gude will meet the Virginians’ best in singl Others to make the trip are Helena Meyer and Jean Welch. . To Match Your Odd Coats Montana_University of the Pacific Const Conference will have a lighting | chaseover a 2-mile course, The victory EISEMAN'’S, 7th & F, tem for foot ball games next Fall. ' was worth 200 pounds. O CLOCKED ... 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