Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1931, Page 44

rl)—2 SUCCESS N SOUTH ' 15 BOON FOR GENE Regains His Old Swing and Rivals Mark Made by Horton Smith. OT since Horton Smith burned up the bunkered landscape two Winters ago with a par-shattering burst of victories in a large group of Southern ' tournaments has any competitor been so overwhelming- ly outstanding in Winter competi- tion as has little Gene Sarazen, the unaffiliated Italian-American, who has just won first prize of $5,000 in the La Gorce open, and has rosy dreams of succeeding Bobby Jones as the open cham- pion. Starting his campign last Fall over at Woodholme, near Baltimore, where he cleaned up the best of the local field to win the Middle Atlantic open title, Gene has romped through fleld after fleld, picking up the dollars where they lay and packing away enough money to assure him s comfortable season on the links even if he does not win another tourney, which is not at all likely. Straightens Tee Shot. SPORTS. BY W. R. McCALLUM. simmering undercurrent of resentment by golfers against mandatory use of the larger and lighter golf ball broke out in a blaze today. M. H. Maler, chairman of the Golf Committee of Beaver Dam Country Club, speaking for his club and its members, suggested in a letter to the golf editor of The Star that since there is so much resentment at his club against the new sphere, the Golf Committee may take action permitting the legal use of either the old or new golf ball in the 1931 events there. Heretofore, while there has been a good deal of conversation against man- datory use of the 1.6x1.55 ball, made the only legal pellet for play since Jan- uary 1, most golfers have used the new sphere, and no club yet had taken up the matter oflchuy until Beaver Dam broke the ice toda Here is the way M-m describes the feeling at Beaver Dam: “There is still much resentment to- ward the new large size golf ball, which has been adopted the U. 8. G. A. as_the official ball, of the Beaver Dam coun'.ry Club. Quite & few of the members are of the opinion that the club should adopt an arbitrary rule permitting the use of either ball in its tournaments. No ac- tion has yet been taken respecting such procedure by the Golf Committee, but no doubt it is & subject that will be ed before the start of the 1931 n: edule of events. It is hoped complete the schedule very shortly. Affords Much Exercise. “In this connection there is one mem- p | ber at Beaver Dam, Paul Gerardl, who y Jones and old John Black. And 'JIAG year om—clwny: on the t.hltriu ight straight & '.hl‘!n il“ might s en oul BW from the hook that h“g get & cost him & few matches. He went to is \lnum-l.ly enthusiastic as regards the new large size ball. This member doel not comment very often on his game, being of the retiring kind of golfer who listens to what the other golfers say. However, last Sunday after playing 18 holes in the rain he came into the club house thoroughly soaked, when some one asked him if he had been playing with the new ball. Paul promptly re- learn | plied that he had and had enjoyed anywl K the shot with a little fade at the end. Ever since, until last year, Gene has been to get back in the old -up & tournament here t. The North starts at Pine- and the Southeastern his last two chances to clean up in the Winter League. little ex-caddie has won in the way of profes- d Miami this year, T o o E? under & cloud for Jong. He is %o, remain out of the lead considerable stretch. Smith p almost everything in the the Winter of 1928-9 and e North to win exactly noth- has won about_every- in the South to date this Winter. & Winter golfer only, or will he win the big tournaments in BY SOL METZGER. Certain facts are obvious about the new golf ball. It doesn’t take an ex- yer, for examp’e, to tell one played both the new and old balls, that pitch shots to gresns are ‘om‘ to be easier to execute. ‘The reason is clear when you place these balls side by side. The larger ball offers a bigger target to start with. On top of that # sits up higher on the turf, farther from the ground itself. That places its center NEW BALL TAKES LOFT. A~ line well above where the center line of the old ball would be under like conditions. fi:nvlwhln the main idea is to hit Shore Jjunior netmen, who e | all - |land tional | Willlamson 1is playing with it immensely. That in his opln!en it answered his purpose much THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Mandatory Use of New Ball Irks Golfers at Beaver Dam better in every respect than the old ball did for the reason that he had the privilege of hitting it more times in order to reach the green and that after he got on & green he was also permitted to use up more strokes to sink the ball, hence he got considerably more exer- cise by playing it than he ever got be- fore. Mr Oeurdl had many followers in his vi Now, Mr. Maier, we are of the opin- fon that you are perfectly at liberty | to take such steps for the Beaver Dam Club as you see fit with regard to the size and weight of the golf ball. But you and your assoclates are like all other golfers, You want to do the right thing at all times. The U. 8. G. A. says that the only legal golf ball in use at the present time is one whose weight does not exceed 1.55 ounces avoirdupois, and whose diameter does not fall short of 1.68 inches. May Handicap Players. But in your local club tournaments you and your committee have the final say as to what ball shall be used. How- ever, do you not think that if your members play consistently with the old ball (when they can get it) they will be at a severe disadvantage when they go to another club to play in a tourna- ment in which all competitors are re- quired to use the new sphere. Whether Beaver Dam decides to make & rule for its own members to permit them to use either ball, there IS no doubt in mind that there is a vast and growing under-current of criticism against obligatory use of the new sphere. No matter what the pros may say (and their word carries great weight) the duffers generally feel that to|the great kick of the game has been taken from them. never to come back. In plain words the thrill of the lenm-hy tee shot has been removed and never will they be able to brag about ti distance they drove. The new sphere, they say, may be only 6 or 10 yards shorter than the old for the fine hitter, but to the duffer it is nothing more nor less than ruination. Call It what you will, by any name, the duffers do not like it. They may gvt used to it when courses get fast, t at the present stage of the game it is the most universally disliked in- novation among the rank and file of golfers we have seen in a good many years of watching golfers try to knock & round ball into a little round hole. WASHINGTON NETMEN WIN AT INDOOR PLAY - Shore and Latona to Oppose in Maryland Junior Contest in Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Md., March 26.—Frank and Anthony Latona, Washington have waded through ition thus far in the Mary- junior indoor tennis champlion- ships, will clash tomorrow on the board court in a quarter-final match, begin. nl at 6 o'clock. Shore, seeded No. 2, reigns a aslight favorite over Latona, No. 7. Both swept over local opponents last night on the 5th Regiment Armory courts. Shore downed A. Borleis, Balti- more, 6—2, 6—4, after Borleis had de- feated Henry Buchanan, Washington, 6—3, 6—4. Latona’s advance into the select circle of eight was even more decisive, 7 e Henry - School boy Baltimore, 3 Gilbert Hunt, Washington boy, con- tinued his winning ways in the boys' class by eliminating Irving Marks, Bal- timore, 7—5, 7—5, in a quarter-final match. Hunt meets Edgar Willlamson, Catonsville High, tomorrow and, as seeded No. 1, will be fa- vored to capture the title should he down the Baltimore youngster. Stuart Taylor, Episcopal High, bowed to - Clay Delauney, Gilman Country School, in a fifth-round mateh, 6—3, 26, 6—4. Straight Off Tee OLFERS of the Inter-depart- mental League will hold their annual tournament on June 1 and 2, probably over the course of the Indian Spring Golf Club, which has been the scene of two previous tournaments of the Government play- ers. Meeting yesterday at the Treasury Department, the league golfers chose theéke dates for their tournament and elected the following slate of officers: R. A. Bryant, Patent Office, president; M. A. Shipley, State Department, vice president; Ralph A. Shepard, Treasury, secretary, and John T. Harris, War De- partment, treasurer. Homer 8. Pope was named to the chairmanship of the Committee on Course Selection; John T. Harris named chairman of the Prize Committee, and detalls of the tourney will be handled by R. R. Shay, chairman of the Golf Committee. The entry list in the forth- coming tournament, which is both an individual and team competition, Vfl] be limited to 200 players, in three han cap classes. The present individual title holder is Tom M. Belshe of the War Depart- ment. A number of cups are gnnually offered for the team play, headed by pionship, and a cup is offered for the individual title winner. Fred McLeod of Columbia decided not to go to Pinehurst for the North and South open championship “be- cause Iulklnf is hard on the feet.” Columbia's little golf doctor Washington weather is good enough 101’ him and has about decided fo up minor tournaments SayyAy. l'wddle jokingly remarked today that “4t 1s & long way home from mhun'-. and I don’t want to miss any half- inch putts anyhow. It's !00 hlrd on the nerves.” Freddie always has been up in the | money at Pinehurst and his remarks carried with them a half-sul d | chuckle. He knows if he went to Pine- | hurst he would be up there battling for lice of the dough. the Mellon Trophy for the team cham- | FIFTY TRY FOR TEAM AT ALEXANDRIA HIGH Hudson and Backus Are Leading Slab Candidates—Loss of Fletcher Is Felt. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26.—Pifty candidates are drflling under Coaches Maurice Given and J. F. Wilson for places on the Alexandria High nine, which opens its season here April 2 in & game with Western High. Jack Hudson, ace of the Alexandria American Legion Juniors, who won the Virginia Legionnaires’ tournament last Summer, and Billy Backus appear the best moundsmen llable this season. Hudson is a t-hander and relies upon a fast ball to carry him along, while Backus, a southpaw, has a won- derful assortment of curves. Gerald Turner, & husky youngster, | Pk who 1is trying for a place on the team for the first time, is showing up well behind the bat and has displayed a wonderful whip in practice thus far. His batting and work with the pitchers has been all that could be expected, according to Given and Wilson. Mahoney, another new-comer, prob- ably will earn the berth of understudy to Turner, Jimmy Bruin, captain of the Amer- ican Legion Juniors last year, and Hugh ‘Travers, veteran outflelder, worked out for the first time yesterday afternoon, returning from the rest period granted them by Wilson and Given lfler play- through e hard basket ball cam- Bruin is a shortstop. iz, mfl.::{xtcllll“ -r:gimlober are a lon, ‘Travers l’or"%m& * The lnfllld Qvumt planned by the Maroon and Orange mentors has re- ceived a severe setback by the loss of Bill Fletcher, first baseman, and Wood- row Godfrey, hot corner guardian, both of whom " have been lost through scholastic difficulties, However, Wilson and Given hope to develop two capable performers from the new talent. Godfrey and Fletcher were stars with the Legionnaires last Summer, ‘Twenty aspirants for places on the track w:‘r:n are practicing under Coach J.F. W Feur meets have been listed, including a dllll meet with Episcopal Higl School’s Junior v.rmy the Maryland University games, “C” Club meet and the third athletic district of Virginia track and fleld games. e Miner Wins 0dd Game. Miner Teachers’ College basketers of this city downed Coppin Normal School quint of Baltimore, 50 to 34, in the rubber contest of a thres-game series to win the colored intercity norm school title, Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. BARCELONA, Spain.—Frankie Ge- naro, New York, and Victor Ferrand, Spain, drew (15). 8T. LOUIS. —John Schwage, St. Louls, outpointed Johnny Risko, Cleve- land (10); Dave Knost, 8t. Louis, and Gene Stanton, Cleveland, drew (6). DENVER, Colo.— Andy Callahan, Lawrence, Mass, outpointed Mickey Cohen, Denver (10). NOLAN MOTOR CO. Sales Service NEVER CLOSED 1111 Eighteenth St. N.W. Decatur 0216 Deep Sea Divers Save Golf Balls HICAGO, March 26 (#).—Diving suits with masks and other equipment of the deep sea diver is the latest for golf bal] re- trievers. A Chicago concern, which has made & big business out of saving golf balls from a watery grave, to- day advertised it was at last pre- pared for any water hole, with re- trievers equipped with diving suits and_masks. “Our divers clean up the water holes and retrieve the lost balls in an hour or less on any course,” read the advertisement. It is estimated that the players on the average golf course lose from $900 to $1, Dfll) worth of balls a season. The Medinah Country Club of Chicago, last year lost and recovered more than $1,200 worth of balls. SHIELDS GREAT HOPE OF AMERICAN TENNIS Big Youngster Shows Net Worth Against Frenchmen, Who Win Indoor Contest. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 26.—Frank X. Shields, a Big Bill Tilden in physique if not yet in stroke, stood today as an omlnoun shadow across France's Davis hopes of & year or two hence. e strapping New York City young- ster, runner-up to John Hope Doeg of Newark, N. J, in the national tennis championships at Forest Hills last Sum- mer, won both of his singles matches in the international indoor team competi- tion with France, which France won three matches to two, and won them in such_decisive fashion as to send Ameri- can hopes soaring. His straight Ae'. defeat of Jean Bo- rotra, Davis Cup veteran and leader of the French team, on Monday night was the most decisive the boundin, of Biarritz had ever sustal rs at the hands of an American. Just to prove it was no flash in the pan, Shields came back last night to defeat Chris- tian Boussus, France's main among the younger more decisive fa , giving the Frenchman but seven points in three sets and five of those in the first. Standing well over six feet tall, broad shouldered, long armed, the American youngster rifies a serve across the net in the manner of Big Bill and ecovers more court than the bounding Borotra. At 21 he is a better tennis player, ex- perts say, than Tilden was at 24. The international team match, modeled along Davis Cup lines, was won by France largely because Berkeley Bell was not quite up to the class of Boussus, Borotra and Shields. The fragile-appearing Texan lost both his matches and then George Lott, jr., and John Van Ryn, the Philadelphia pair, bowed to the French doubles team to make defeat certain. RICH GOLF STAKE Pinehurst Tourney Attracts Many Fine Shotmakers. PINEHURST, 8. C., March 28 (#).— Cash })rlm totaling $5,650 lpurred a host of money players to efforts to get away to a running start today in the 72-hole North and South open golf tournament. A $1,500 share awaited the cham- lon. ‘The schedule called for 36 holes today and & like number tomorrow. Young Paul Bunyan, White Plains, N.' Y., pro, who won last year, was on hand to defend his title. Arrayed against him was a field of more than 5, including several former national open champions and some of the most seasoned shotmakers the Nation affords. D. C., THURSDAY, Out of the Rough Ufl”" il |l gy /i ""% '@‘g “mw'fl'hl'lllh 1\ W e \L". i nm il !1””l“) 'E‘[‘N I‘:‘ifim”h“ I W JL HE WON Tz BRiTisH OPEN FOUR. TiMES AND THE AMERICAN OPEN Twice ¢ H [ MARCH 26, 1931 mlu nlfl wuml i i ‘nh L = PR AN, Pl 1“1 iy M e SPORTS.’ "\II‘ it P v‘lnl it A HE RECENILY SET A NEW COURSE RE CORD AT CORAL CABLES Wil{ A SMASHING S8 /1 CLAIM NO CONTRACT BOUND JACK TO FIGHT Dempsey’'s Attorneys in Chicago| Suit Would Show He Didn’t Have to Face Wills, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 26. — Thwarted in their attempt to have an injunction issued in Indiana kept from the rec- ords of the Coliseum Club's $500,000 breach of contract suit against Jack Dempsey, the former champion's attor- l‘\e'y:?-'ndlt yuezldnl}ed wDI'hnw that no contract _ex or & Dempsey-] Wills fight. SR The Coliseum Club is suing for dam- ages claimed through Dem; Lgu} 's alleged failure to go through with a contract to meet the Negro heavyweight chal- lenger before he lost his title to Gene Tunney in Philadelphia in 1926. The court yesterday ruled that the injunc- tion, under which counsel for the plain- tiff claimed Dempsey was in contempt of court by fighting Tunney, might be admitted to the records, a blow to Dempsey's case. 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