Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1931, Page 31

ARSI i Columbia Golf Tourney List May Beat Indian Spring Mark nearly 400 entries already in hand and the certainty that many more will come in before the list officially closes at 8 o'clock tonight, the entry list for the Columbia Country Club, invitation golt tournament may go beyond that of the Indian Spring Golf Club invita- tion affair, held a fortnight ago. Although the Columbia caumry Club event is not scheduled to start until next Tuesday —June 9—the club ‘Tournament Committee, anticipating an exceptionally large ent: list, which may go to 500 names, already is con- sidering the use of three qu-.nmng days instead of the two days allotted to the medal round. The committee does not want to start the players in threesomes, as was done at Indlan Spring to care for the unprecedented number of entries. In place of this method Columblia, if it is found necessary, will use part of Monday for the quulmng play in- stead of starting the players in three- sdmes. But there is as yet no assur- ance that such emergency measures will be necessary, although indications to- day were that the entry list would mount by noon far past the 400 mark and move on toward the 500 mark. Nearly 800 invitations have been sent out, but of course not all of those whom invitations have been sent will be_able to play. Led by Billy Howell, holder of the STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE OTWITHSTANDING reports that have come out of Norfolk regarding the entry of Roland N R. MacKenzie in the Middle Atlantic tourney, which starts at Vir- ginia Beach on Thursday, the Columbia Country Club star and Walker Cup team member, will not play in the sectional championship. Roland is 3,000 miles away, far out in Los Angeles, and could not arrive here in time to play in the tourney unless he hopped a fast plane. ‘ Entries for the Midatlantic closed this afternoon at the Princess Anne Coun- try Club, but a few post entries will be | . accepted. The pairings are to be an- nounced tomorrow for the medal round { which will be played Thursday. Among the star golfers from Washington who will play in the tourney are: Harry G. | Pitt and G. F. Miller of the Manor ! Club; Miller B. Stevinson, Albert R. ! MacKenzie, Gardiner P. Orme and Tommy Bones of Columbia; V. G. Bur- ! nett of Beaver Dam, and many others. | A large number of players from Balti- . more, including Alex M. Knapp, B. Warren Corkran, Talbot T. Speer and Harry A. Parr, 3rd, have entered the tourney, along with crack players from Richmond and Norfolk. Billy Howell, the champlon, is entered, as are Chan- dler Harper, Portsmouth, Va. youth who won the Virginia State title last year; S. Q. Collins, champion of the Princess Anne Country Club; Dave Ewell of Richmond and Pat Dillon, for- mer State titleholder. Most of the Washington delegation will leave the Capital on the boat tomorrow night for Norfolk. Six women golfers ers of the Capital were playing today in the qualifying round of the Maryland State women’s cham- | pionship tourney at the Rolling Road Golf Club of Catonsville. Mrs. Betty P. Meckley of Indian Spring, who won the District women's title last week for the second time, is an entrant, as is also Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Colum- bia, runner-up in the District title event. Other entrants are Mrs. Harry A. Knox and Miss Virginia Williams of Cengressional; Mrs. Frank R. Keefer of Chevy Chase and Mrs. J. T. Powell of the Manor Club. 'AVORED by far better weather than that which prevailed yesterday, ap- proximately 90 golfers employed by Uncle Sam played around the Indian Spring course today on the final day of the Inter-Departmental Golf League annual championship tourney. That there will be a new individual champion is certain, for Tom M. Belshe of the ‘War Department, who won the title last vear, took a pair of 91s in the rain and mud of yesterday and knocked himself right out of the championship. John J. Lynch, the rotund Treasury expert, who plays from the Argyle Country Club, shot 82 and 86 to take the lead in the gross competition for the first day's play and place second in the net event. The team champlonship cannot be decided until all the team members have played today and even then some of the teams will not have a complete score, for some of the golfers decided the weather of yesterday was not worth the effort and withdrew from the tour- ney. Under the rules of the competi- tion, their scores are scratched and their teams made ineligible for the team title. But there are plenty of prizes i in the three classes and for gross and |, "4 net_scores. The net leader yesterday was W. H. Young of the Department of Agricul- ture, who had 193—42—151. Lynch was next with 168—16—152. Fewer than 20 players broke 100 on the rain-soaked and soggy course. Many penalty strokes were incurred by knocking the ball into water-filled bunkers and conditions as a whole were far from satisfactory for scoring. But with better weather con- ditlons today lower scores can be ex- pected. Pointers on Golf BY SOL METZGER. In golf you look at the ball; in base ball the place you intend throw- ing it to. How confusing, thought Walter Way? He is the man who became a club champion in two years and whose story to this end I now setting down. He heard of an incident in the play of Hagen, such as occurred to Bobby Jones on the last hole of his qualifying round in the 1930 ama- teur. Bobby drove so far down the fairway that his ball was in a swale from which he could not see the eocegy PI«MLD OVER GL!N -3 aflr.ui MERION B T e— S-2g green. Jones correctly estimated the pitch as 90 yards But his ball car- Tried over the gre Like mcldenu oonvlnced Way that hitting & ball so many yards was pure luck unless you could see the target. In other words, there was something similar between throwing & base ball and pitching a golf ball. Are you a victim of thig slicing ess? In an {llustrated leaflet Sol Metzger analyzes “Slicing” and gests a cure. He will gladly send leafiet to any one sending & stamped, addressed envelope. Ad- dress Metzger, in care of this aper, e (Copyright, 1931.) Middle Atlantic Golf Association cham- plonship. an? winner of the Columbia mmqy last’ year, the entry list con- tains every name of note among the | top-notch_golfers in this sector of the land. Al the stars of Washington clubs who have figured in tournaments and other years are entered in the tourney, as well as a host of visit- ing players from Richmond, Norfolk | and Baltimore. In addition, according to Chairman James of the Tournament Committee, there will be a few visit- ing stars from the New York sector, led by Robert Gwathmey of Baltusrol. | Veteran golfers of Columbia who | have seen the course year in and year out since the club moved over from Georgla avenue to its present location are agreed that never before has the Chevy Chase layout been in better con- dition. The fairways, which many thought would not come back after last year's drought, are better than ever, the greens show the effects of tender care and careful grooming and the vhole ‘course bears evidence of the | care it has been given it in antici- | pation of the forthcoming tourney.,| The new tenth green probably will be put in use next week for the first time. Pairings were being made today by ' the Golf Committee for the qualifying round, and those which were post- | to | marked prior to 6 o'clock tonight and | will be recelved at the club tomorrow will also be accepted. The pairings probably will be announced tomorrow. HE old best-ball combination of J. Monro Hunter and George Diffen- | baugh, both of Indian Spring, | worked to perfection yesterday in the | pro-pro tourney played at the Manor | Club under the auspices of the Middle | Atlantic Professional Golfers’ Associa- tion, and the Indian Spring combina- tion won_the best-ball affair by two strokes, shooting a card of 64 over the rain‘soaked course to beat Ralph Beach and Clff Spencer of Baltimore, who scored 66. Although both Hunter and Diffenbaugh had individual cards of 73, they teamed admirably together, Diffen- baugh picking up no fewer than five birdies, while Hunter contributed three more. Little George had four of his birdies in a row, holing a chip shot at the ninth for a 3, getting a bird 4 on the tenth and nearly holing his tee shot at the short eleventh for an eagle ace. He then secured another bird 3 on the twelfth. The golfers played the “woods” nine as the last nine holes. Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park and Al Houghton of Kenwood finished third with a best-ball card of 69. Beach had the best individual card of the day, registering a sub-par 69 through the = sloppy going. R. Cliff McKimmle, former assistant pro at the Army-Navy Country Club, | been named professional at the ‘White Flint Country Club on the Rock- ville road, and will be there on week | ends until later in the season, when he | Wfllkbg at the club every day during the | week. DAWES CUP AT STAKE Central Golfers to Meet Wenem Team Next Saturday. | Central High School's golf team, with a string of victories against high school teams to its credit, will meell ‘Western High School golfers next Sat- urday in the final round for the Dawes Cup, emblematic of the high school team championship. Central already h‘s numbered West- ern among its victims in the swath it has cut among the schoolboy .golfers, taking the scalp of the hitherto un- defeated Georgetown Prep team last Sunday at Garrett Park by 5 to 4. Among Central’s victims this year have been Washington and Lee, Tech, Swavely and Western. Here are the results of the match | last Sunday: Quigley (C.), defeated | Nyhoft (G. P.), 1 up; Duvall (C.), de- | feated Fanjul (G. P.), 1 up; Finn| (G. P.), defeated Graves (C.), 1 up; Kneibley (C.), defeated Zubrod (G. P.), 4 and 2; Duncan (C.), defeated Don- | oghue (G. P.), 2 up; Cary (G. P.), de- | feated Ruckman (C.), 2 up. The first | foursome best ball was won by George- | town Prep and the next two four- somes were halved. A A U MEET CANCELED | Lack of Interest Shown in Afllir Carded Saturday. Because of lack of interest the Dis- trict Association A. A. U. track meet scheduled for Saturday at the Univer- | sity of Maryland, College Park, has been canceled. In announcing the calling off of the | event, J. Kip Edwards, chairman of the | U. committee in charge, sald that an earlier date would be set for the meet next year. | This year's dlte followed the close | of the school and college season. It is | likely that the event in 1932 will be T R S ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., To Defend Title MIDDLE ATLANTIC GOLF CROWN AT STAKE THIS WEEK. BILLY HOWELL. RESUME TITLE TENNIS Mitchell and Mangan Carry on in Men’s Singles Match. Play was to continue this afternoon in the final of the men’s singles in the City of Washington tennis champlon- ships on the Rock Creek courts. Action was to start at 4 o'clock. Competition was to be resumed from where it was stopped Sunday when rain halted play. Dooly Mitchell was leading Tom Mangan, 3 to 1, and the score in the fourth game of the first set was deuce when the downpour came. We complete your Snapshot Record.. 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ILLY BARTUSH, Paul Jones and George Hagen all have dipped into the famous airplane spin of Jim Londos here and Rudy Dusek may or may not on Thursday, but, whatever the outcome, local wres- | ling followers who invade Griffith Sta- dium may be assured a real battle. Dusek never has been pinned here and very few times anywhere. The “Nebraska wildcat,” that State's wrestling “Ace Hudkins,” has been per- forming in local rings during the latter part of the Winter and has only one {"draw to mar his record—if & draw with Jim McMillen can be called a mar. !n any event, Londos is due u: hlve heven!nl at the btll Daviscourt-Frank Bfuno- wlu lan should be good. Colorful, strong and well versed in the art of bending bones, these grapplers, meeting in a finish bout, may steal the show from Londos and Dusek. ‘The leading preliminary will bring to- gether Tiger Nelson and Sandor Szabo, Hungarian matman. Son Jennings and Oscar Nygren, the latter a newccmer and fairly highly rated in the game, will clash in an- other 30-minute prelim. ‘While Promoter Joe Turner is unde- cided as to who will be the in the fifth bout, he intimate himself may take the mat, probably against Mario Giglio, who once de- {lel'ld the ex-middleweight champion ere. Joe made a hit in the job fund bene- fit show when he rassled rings around Dutch Green and more than a few fans | him to have requested an encore. ‘Tickets are on sale at Turner’s An- napolis Hotel office. Because of a championship match, women will not be admitted free this week as usual. TUESDAY, Jones—*“Feel” BY BOBBY JONES, American Open, British Open, American Amateur Champion « “that a fairly good golf- er—that is, one who can play close to 80 on oc- casions—can sometimes possess what we call the ‘feel’ to such a degree that he can hit the ball really well, and then can suddenly lose all sense of hitting until he can’t play at all? Is it be- cause he can’t play while he is think- ing about his swing?” It seems to me that this question implies that the better &lalyer. or expert, is able to play golf wi king of anything at all except where he ‘wants the ball to go. I know a good many fine young chaps sued in_big-time oomb!utlon who would be highly pleased if this were so. nquesuonlbly there are times when Tommy Armour, Gene Sarazen, Horton Smith and other first-class players oan play the game subconsciously. There are times when they have the “feel” just as the 80 player may have it. But it is a fine thing for the average play- er to remember that the most accom- plished golfer can lose the touch as sud- denly and for as little apparent reason as any one else, and that although sometimes he can immediately dmver and correct his fault, there also are | times when he is entirely at & loss for | & remedy. And this does not mean that he does not know how he should swing a club. But golf is a difficult game to piay con- | sistently well because the correct swing is not a thing which the human body can accomplish entirely naturally. To hit the ball correctly the golfer always has to be under a restraint. I have always, in my own mind, likeped this restraint to that under which a trot- ting or a pacing horse must labor in a race when he must hold to an artificial | gait, although every urge must be for run like blazes. So any golfer may for a while have the “feel,” lo tht he mly think that he can in that way easily and muu--uy ut the trouble is that the moment some mental im- Sir Isaac Newton proved that the law of gravitation rules the universe » » 7 JUNE 2, 1931 Good Golfer Always Must Be Under Restraint, Says Bobby Comes and Goes pulse or physical necessity suggests to one of his muscles that it do some- thing else at a particular time, it is likely to yield because the thing it is ot R goller Wit depends. upon golfer w] upon finding the “feel” more or It dentally never can hope to play sistently well, day in and out, for this very reason. He must know to hit a golf ball and he must know when and where in his swing to apply the restraint I have mentioned. The answer to the question which started all this is, “Not because he can't play while he is thinking of the swing, but because he isn't sure what he ought to think about, and what he ought to try to do.” Grant, of course, that there could be people who have an irreproachable conception of the Bolf stroke who yet have not enough muscular control or sense of timing 8o that they can play well. Still that does not alter the proposition that the man who has the muscular control and sense of timing cannot play consistent- ly well unless he knows what he*is doing. But I think it shows what the prob- lem is when we realize that even the man with the control, the sense, and the knowledge finds intervals when his game is off and he can't find the rea- son immediately. There are so nuny places to look and so many checks to make—and sometimes lhe trouble is | found to be in the simplest and least suspected place. Golf is a game which must always be uncertain. I don’t be- liece that any one ever will master it to the extent that several have mastered billiards and chess. If some one should | do that I think he would give it up, but that is a danger which most of us will be willing to risk. (Copyright, 1931.) PLANS BIG RACING PLANT. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 2 (#). | —James N. Crofton, president of the Agua Caliente Jockey Club, has an- nounced plans for a similar $2,000,000 racing plant near here. His statement | came a few hours after another pro- | moter sald he proposed erecting a track | at San Diego. | PLAYGROUND MEET TODAY Monroe School Is Held Likely to Retain Its Title. Monroe School athletes were figured to have a good chance to retain their C-3 elementary schools track title in the cif rflefl scheduled this afternoon ne lmel‘nt’ - start s o'clock. Heretofore it has been held on Satur- day morning. 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