Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1931, Page 47

sP ORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1931. SPORTS. D8 Brilliant Field Looms at Chevy Chase Club for Iis Annual Golf Tournament LINKSMEN 70 VIE " FOR HISTORIC CUP Pitt Will Seek Fourth Taft Trophy Triumph in Row in Event Next Week. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. " x rxsmc-ron‘s oldest and most historic golf troph- ies will be put in com- petition again for the twenty-first consecutive time next week, when the annual invitation golf tournament of the Chevy Chase Club starts over the fine course of the club near Chevy Chase Circle. Around the Taft and Sherman cups, presented to the club back in 1911 by the then President and Vice President, centers much of the golf tradition of the Capital, and the tournament, which will open next Tuesday with the first day of a two-day qualifying rcund, probably will draw one of the best fields to compete in an invitation event this year. Already the entries which have been flowing into the golf ccmmittee indi- cate that not only a large number of golfers will play in the event, but that the field will include all the finest players in this sector of the land. The Chevy Chase tcurney always attracts a number of fine players from out of Washington and this year will be no exception. Will Have Four Flights. The Chevy Chase tournament Is strictly an invitation afiair, open cnly to members of the club ana invited guests, and will be in charge of the club golf committee. Members of this committee are Robert Stead, jr., chair- man; Irving J. Carr, F. §. Craven, R. P. Davidson, W. Jasper Du_Bose, A. McCook Dunlop, George E. Elliott, C. Ashmead Fuller, Emmons S. Smith, jr., and Ross D. Thompscn. Tuesday and Wednesday will be given over to the qualifying round with match play rounds scheauled for Thursday and Friday. Four flights of 16 will qualify in the event, and club privileges will be extended to all tour- ney entrants from May 11 to May 15, inclusive, For the last three years Harry G. Pitt, the long-hitting star of the Manor Club, has won the Taft trophy, which goes to the winner of this historic event. On two of these occasions Miller B. Stevinscn has been the runner-up. The Pitt-Stevinson duel has been the outstanding high spot of Chevy Chase tournaments for three years and if both qualify this year and are paired in oppcsite halves of the draw, their progress through the tourney will be closely watched. Prior to the start of the winning streak of Pitt, George J. Voigt had won the Taft cup twice con- secutively. Here are the winners of the Taft trophy in the years since 1910: 1911, Walter J. Travis; 1912, Thomas M. Sherman; 1913, B. Warren Corkran; 1914, L. L. Harban; 1915, E. E. Jack- son; 1916, Walter R. Tuckerman; 1917, D. Clark Corkran; 1918, Robert L. Fin- kenstaedt: 1919, Cameron D. Buxton; 1920, Walter R. Tuckerman; 1921, Rus- sell Smith: 1922, George S. Lycn; 1923, Chris J. Dunphy; 1924, Miller B. Ste- vinson; 1925, Roland R. Macl ‘WRONG?:.. left arm bent too ;-3 much,relying onwrists J“which results inweak, # sloppy effect. BY JOHNNY FARRELL, Former American Open Champion AS TOLD TO ALAN GOULD. No. 10—~Take the Penalty. If it isn't well known already, it should be fairly obvious that you can’t win in golf with sixes and sevens. I know you will remind me that Bobby Jones tied for the open cham- plonship at Winged Foot in 1929 despite two sevens on his card for the last round, but he was lucky enough to sink a 12-foot putt on the last hole to gain that tie. However, since Jones is always the exception when golf is being dis- cussed, I guess this proves the rule. I have studied the cards of many big tournaments, and I find that the fellow who wins usually has played safe, refusing to run the risks that may mean a six or a seven. I daresay I have lost a half dozen important tournaments in my career by taking chances, doing foolish things that I can go back and pick out later as the cause of a fatal extra stroke or two. Tommy Kerrigan, my first teach- er, would have won many a big tournament or championship but for his unwillingness to take the penalty for a poor shot, trying instead to make up his mistake, only to into more difficulty. So in advising the average tourna- ‘ment player I say: “Play safe when you are in & tough spot. Don't take the long 1926-1927, George J. Voigt; )92% 192; - g je J. 3 3 and 1930, Harry G. Pitt. chances that you h miraculous three or four, but which ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER N the Potomac River around Wash- ington anglers are catching white | perch, which have been in our[ midst for several weeks. Last Mon- day afternoon the annnal run of her- ring put in its appearance on the high | tide and a great many of these fish| have been snagged in the river around | Chain Bridge and up to Little Falls.| Some few shad also have been caught. Next Sunday high tide in the Potomac reports that there has been no hcok- | at Washington occurs at 2:32 a.m. and] 2:50 pm. Any time during the morning | hours from 7 o'clock throughout most | of the day will be good for the arglers 0 go out after these fish, as they ride and fall with the tide. A report circulated yesterday morn- ing that the Tidal Basin was full of | herring caused a lot of youngsters to| get excited and go after snag hooks and | lines, but the Office of Public Buildings | and Parks does not permit fishing in| the Tidal Basin until the 30th of thxs‘ month, and Lieut. Butler, in charge during the absence from the city of Col.| Grant, informed us that the rule issued showing of fish caught, as they are all around. C telephoned in / that there are plenty of fish in the Bay, but that owing to weather conditions they have not commenced to bite and cnly a few boats have been out. He says that trout weighing from 21 to 4 pcunds are being landed in the nets and also some very large hardheads. George M. Might, at Leonardtown, and-line anglers attempting to fish on account of the weather, but that the trap netters off Airdale, Md., just three miles up the Bay from Point Lockout, have been landing trout weighing from 1 to 8 pounds, rock from 2 to 10 pcunds, flounders from 1% to 5 pounds, blue fish from 2 to 5 pounds and some very large hardheads. He al:o reports the first crabs of the season have made their appearance in the waters of the lower Potomac and in the Bay and are large and fat, Next Sunday, the fourth annual de APT. ROY WARD, at Herring Bay, | Do Not Take Foolish Chances In Golf Play, Farrell Advises RIGHT... 1eft arm fairly straight to give ‘control and power. ULL TRON (%@ (55 SHOT . ¥ Mastery of the full iron shot is one way to keep those card-spoiling sixes and sevens out of a round, Johny Farrell says. usually means a sloppy six or seven. Be content with the five. You can win with fives, but you can’t win with sixes and sevens.” I should say probably 99 per cent of the players have the fault of not playing safe. If they stopped to analyze ‘their results back over no more than a half dozen rounds, they would find it was just common sense to do these things: 1. Play out of the woods instead of through them. 2. Go for the green instead of the pin on most approach shots, espe- cially if the cup is located on a pro- jection or beyond a trap. 3. Use the right club in a bunker, remembering that the first objective is to get out. SCHMELING PICKS CAMP. CLEVELAND, May 8 (&) —Max Schmeling will train at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa., just across the Ohio border, for his titular fight with W. L. “Young” ' | Stribling here July 3. F the new larger and lighter golf ball has made any difference in the scoring capabilities of Washington's leading amateur linksmen, the dif- ference is not visible to the naked eye. One major golf tournament has been played and another is in its final phase today. Two qualifying rounds at meadal play have been run through and the same names that figured last year in the first fiight figure again this year. ‘Furthermore, the scores made in these qualifying rounds, even though they may be a shade higher in the aggregate then they were last year, cannot rightly be laid at the door of the new ball, for there has been no evidence in the two tournaments which have been played to show that the new ball has any effect on the scoring of the leading Simon- pure linksmen about the Capital. N the Washington Golf and Country Club tourney the winning score of the medal round was 73, exactly the same count with which the medal was won 1n the previous year's tourney. And the qualitying round in the tourney this year was played in a_ high wind, which should, if anything, have pushed the scores a shade higher than they were last year. On the other side of the picture, it took cards of 79 or bet- ter to qualify in the tourney last year, while scores of 81 made the first flight this year. But an observation of the scoring in the match-play rounds, after the wind had died down, indicated that the scoring certainly was as good*with the big ball as it was with the old sphere. For example, in_his first match-play round Tommy Bones shot the Washington course in a flat 70. Harry Pitt, after an indefferent start, played the last 14 holes in three strokes better than par, and other players re- ported that they had found no trouble in getting around with the new ball in | par figures. ONRO HUNTER, Jr, of Indian Spring, knocked the ball around the Woodmont course two days ago in 74 strokes to win the qualifying round with approximately the same | total that won the medal last year. And in the initial match play rounds the competitors scored as well this year as they did in 1930. If they scored higher this year it may as well be attributed to the bare spots left by last year’s drought on the fairways as to the new ball. Certainly the conclusions to be drawn | from tournament play with the new ball {sround Washington this year indiacte that there has been no lack of ability to score. Both Washington and Wood- mont are fairly short rourses. Neither | of them are easy, by any stretch of the | imagination. But it may be that on a | longer course, where the second shots are mostly long iron rather than pitch, | shots, the scoring will mount a trifle | with the new ball. On the other hand. the new ball is easier to control in the | | play to the greens, provided there is | |not & high wind. The coming tourna- ments at Chevy Chase and Indian Spring, together with those already d, should give a definite line on the ability of the best amateurs about the Capital to knock the new ball around in approximately the same scores they made last year. But the jury already has returned a | part verdict, and this verdict is that the | new ball is no harder to score with than the old sphere. The result may be a bit STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE inclusive, but they are of record, never- theless. To bring the matter of scoring with the new golf ball nearer home, two golfers playing in the match play rounds of the Woodmont tourney yes- terday played so far under par that their opponents were overwhelmed by the brilliance of their golf with the big | sphere. Jimmy Herrman, long hitter of the Washington Golf and Country Club, had five birdies on the first six holes in his second round match against Jesse Baggett of Beaver Dam and fin- ishing the nine with a 6 on the par 4 ninth hole, scored 33, which is 3 under par. He ended the match on the eleventh_hole, winning by 9 and 7. John C. Shorey bagged three birdies in the first five holes against J. Monro Hunter, the medalist, and turned with a 34 to be 4 up. Shorey and Herrman were the favor- ites to go to the final round at Wood- mont today. Shorey opposed Alton E. Rabbitt, unattached player, in one half of the semi-final, while Herrman played Forrest Thompson, veteran Beaver Dam star, in the other half. In addition to the fancy scoring put on by Shorey and Herrman, several other funny things happened. C. A. Ryan of Indian Spring knocked his tee shot through the trees on the first hole and then proceeded to hole a mashie niblick pitch over a bunker for an_eagle 2. Dolph Atherton, unattached, found his regular putter working badly, so he proceeded to try out his other clubs and learned that his driver put the ball in the hole better than the others. He putted most of the way around with his driver, finally missing a two-footer | on the eighteenth green that would have given him victory over Maury Fitzgerald. Then, when they went to the first extra hole, Fitzgerald got a miracle half and went on to win the match on the twentieth hole. Mike Oliveri of Argyle lald Donald Healy of Georgetown a stymie on the eighteenth green to halve the match. Healy retaliated by holing a chip shot on the first extra hole to win. The Shorey-Hunter match was a great exhibition of courage on the part of both contestants. Shorey was s> hot on the first nine that Hunter, even though he played the nine in 38, was 4 down. Then Shorey won the next hole with a birdie 3. At this point the tall Indian Spring lad took the match in hand, winning three holes in a row to go to the fifteenth only 2 down. But here he missed a four-foot putt for a half to go dormie 3 down. He came right back to win the six- teenth with a birdie after nearly put- ting his tee shot out of bounds, but the match ended on the short seven- teenth, which was halved in par 3s. McINTYRE GOLF LEADER. BENTON HARBOR, Mich, May 8 (#).—Nell McIntyre, Indianapolis pro- fessional, led the field at the end of the first 36 holes of the blossom festi- val open golf tournament. His 145 was two strokes better than the score of Johnny Dawson, Chicago amateur. Al Espinosa was third, with 148. R ch »81.95 ity, chromium plated High quall with 4-inch bevel glass Designed for any _c: regularly at 84, low price. CHROMIUM HINGE MIRROR ...........0 N'S—Way When it comes to value—you’ll find TAUB- CHROMIUM TIRE MIRROR MAN’S entries lengths safe! values in Auto Supplies, plies, Etc. mirror. . 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The hunter trials will be held over the fa- mous Maryland Hunt Cup courses. The judges are all well known in the horse show world. Gus A. Thompson of Paducah, Ky, and Lewis E. Waring | of Rumson, N..J, will be the saddle class judges. COl. Adna R. Chaffee of Washington, D. C., will be the military i\:ldse lo mount arbiter, while Henry ley Reeve, Haverford, Pa., and John P. Bowditick of Framingham, Mass., will be the judges for the hunter and jumper classes, RICH STA E ATTRACTS Trotting Horse Owners Looking to $60,000 Hambletonian. GOSHEN, N. Y., May 8 (/). —Lots of trotting horse owners have their eyes on the Hambletonian Stake, the richest prize a trotter can win. Nominations for the 1933 Hambletonian, which closed May 1, totaled 510. It costs $10 to nominate a horse for the race. ‘The Hambletonian is a stake for 3- year-olds, nominated as yearlings. The 1933 stake is expected to be worth about $60,000. ‘This year's race will be run here August 12. | ANGLERS’ GUIDE. 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V;”\rw}l‘;;:nlqsu 1;\:1 mgfluoull.c. | in Was n_Sunday. games call | Alexandria 1155 between 6 and 8 p.m. | St. Mary's Celtics have s double- header with the Virginia White Sox Sunday. One hundred local newsboys will be the | guests of Joe Turner at the wrestling show to be staged at the Washington Auditorium tonight. Alexandria High was to face Fred- ericksburg High in a third athletic dis- trict series game here today on Hay- don Fleld. 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