Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1931, Page 45

SPORTS. SHORT PUTT MISS SHOOK HIS NERVE Exciting Moments in British Open Reviewed—Luck s Needed to Win. BY BERNARD DARWIN, Noted English Golf Writer. ONDON, June 18.—The more I think—in a rather con- British open golf champion- ship, the more I think it just about the most exciting I ever saw. Never did more people seem to have a chance at one time or an- other; never were so many unable to grasp jt. In 1911 we had a championship —one of Vardon's—where four or five men actually teed up for the last hole with real hope of win- ning. There had been nothing like that year until 1931. In nearly every championship there is one obvious man, and he the ultimate winner, who must be watched getting nearer and nearer to victory' as the holes are finished one by one in his last round, till at last he breaks through the ring of spectators around the eighteenth green to play the crowning putt. The last day at Carnoustie there were at least five men one wanted to watch, and the little corner of the course by the fir wood, where the seventh, eighth, twelfth and thirteenth holes almost converge, was &' wmrlpool of thrills and rumors. I have one purely selfish ground of satisfaction over y Armou! great win—namely, that from the be- ginning I bored all my party by telling them he was the best golfer in the field. I watched him in one of his practice rounds and after that I always wanted to be watching him. Faltered With Putter. Such iron pl effectiveness, I am sure I never saw be- fore. The only doubtful element was the quite short putt. Armour never faced it with confidence, and sometimes he missed it by & wide margin. I believe I saw the one that nearly lost him the champlonship—at the twelfth hole in the fourth round, when he was going at such a pace that it seemed as if nothing could stop him. At the next hole he was so nervous that he waggled and waggled over a little pitch till. the spectators had to look the other way in sheer distress— until at long last he mastered himself, 1aid the chip dead and went on his way again rejoicing. T:lklnt with him afterward, I told I had seen those two shots, and he said nobody could know how the miss- ing of that short putt had shaken him. [He felt almost broken, and what saved im, he said, was that his bad tee shot to the next hole (the short thirteenth) (had avoided the heather and the bunk- ers and lay clear on the grass. If he (had not had bhe luck then, he thought (he was “gone.’ Patience Effective. As it was, while he was trying to set- tle down to the chip, he thought of every conceivable thing in the wnfld md could not get down to only of the ball and the hole. Allthp more credit to him that he waited till t00 lively imagination gave him a ittle peace, and- refused to play the ot in & hurry. Those two holes gave me one of the most interesting little tudies in psychol Rnlf has aent my (way, and 1 was lucky in being in the right nllc. at the right moment. In the course of the championship Gene Sarazen made to qne a remark patently obvious, but none the lgss pro- foundly true: Il tell you, you've got to have the breaks to win a thing like this.” Gene himself emphatically did not have the breaks; if he had I fancy ing, jhe would have won, and the same may be said of Johnny Farrell. It was all a question of the wind, (Which, by blowing & little harder, can turn at least three of the homecoming jholes_at Carnoustie into par 5s. On the Wednesday of the champlonship the wind blew hard in the morning and dropped considerably in the afternoon; ursday it did precisely the opposite. [Sarazen and Farrell played their first jround Wednesday morning and their l‘l_’fl 'ld'hlglt;uy afternoon; Armour urado precisely the opposite. The inference is obvious, though the dvantage to one couple and the dis- dvantage to the other cannot be stated n exact terms of strokes. Matter of Luck. Armour was wholly candid about it, or Thursday, with the final two rounds o come, he sald he had had the luck pf the weather and had missed & chance pf gaining a clear lead. As long as the id blows down the links these things G Il happen and one can only condole . ote those who get the worst of the tragic seventeenth, hich lost him the prize, has been described at length, and I will not go pver the ground a . The fact thlt very wisely, an iron for safety, 0st completely missed the tee ot is at once nnlll.nl and entirely atural. The strain terrific, and omething has to be mllud sometime. e fortunate ones are those whose misses are not too calamitous. All of us in the crowd assumed pPurado knew what he had to do for last three infinitely tlylnl holes win. In point of fact I believe he fid not know; he had not asked, and, htly enough, nobody volunteered the nformation. It'is easy enough now to y that had he known he would not have taken six at the seventeenth, but it may be retorted that had he known he might h-ve,eou-pud before, n i.l all question of individual ment, and to my notion a man bt Jundol flery emotions was better n ignorance. He is a most indomitable ule hero, ahd while everybody was d to see Armour win, everybody was o sad to see Jurado lose, in the very lap, & chance that comes to most p only once in a lifetime. This is a hard, cruel game. m’fllfii. ‘”lv by ‘l:nm:.h Amerlun News- CZECH NETMEN IN FINAL eat Denmark in Cup Play and ‘Will Meet England Next. fter winning the two singles Tues- A R. Menzel ?'lnd Jan Morsalek today Ulrich and Erik Worm in the doubles, 9—7, 1—8, efeated Einar Dmmrt Czechoslovakis will meet d’ in h | zone final for right United States in the inter- Paris next month. fused way—about the recent|: whether for grace or | RYDER CUP TEAMS MEMBERS WHO ALSO WILL PLAY IN U l._bm. Those in the picture, right to left, are: Front row, George Duncan, Char Compston, Fred Robson, Abt['luu:hel.l. Arthur Havers, Ernest Whitcombe and Syd Easterbrool Brltlsh Golfers Arrlve for Battles With Amerlcans les whneanhe (captain), Bert Hodson and Billy Davies. Standing, Archie now in full swing over the rolling fairways of Rock Creek Park, the men are looking forward to the competition on July 6 and 7, which will determine the:four linksmen who will represent Washington at the na- tional public links championship out in Minnesota later in the Summer. Jnnm D. Preston, representative in ashington of the National Public Linkl Committee, has announced a dif- ferent plan for nominating the four men who will represent the Capital in the national public links title chase. Instead of playing an 18-hole ' tour- ney over both the big public courses, Preston has determined to play all the qualification rounds over the East Poto- mac Park layout, which he considers a better test of golf than Rock Creek. On July 6, all '.he entrants in the tous ney will plny, and from the number, ex- pected to be around, 50 or more, smaller number will be chosen. Aboul 30 will play on July 7 at 36 holes medal play to determine the three men who will accompany Bradley H. Burrows to |’ Minneapolis. Preston has announced that Burrows, inasmuch as he is an accepted star of the public links and went to the third round in the national tourney last year, will not have to qualify this year. He will go to Minneapolis without qunmy- while his three associates will be chosen by the qualifying route. Bui one of the questions that is puzaling public links golfers today under this new method of qualification is this, “With Burrows out, will the leader among the three men who make the ‘Washington team be called the city municipal champion? Why not let Burrows play H-IO. but not force him to play for the team?” ‘The leader in the qualification play the Harding Cup team has been re- garded for many years as the city municipal champion. i( Burrows doa not play this year, can the the qualification Y.u!‘ be called f-he m\mlc&l titleholder, in view of the t Burrows is nne‘l\lly Te-. garded as the strongest golfer of the public courses? OTH the tourneys now in m among the senior golfers of the Chevy Chase Club are moving well along toward the final round. Walter Peter and Harry C. Sheridan haye phyed an 18-hole match in the fourth round of the event !gl the Morven ITH the women's District | ‘ N} municipal golf champlonship |Posted: to choose the Washington members of [ g i} i STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE By WALTER R. McCALLUM: third' round, 'luz the following resul E. defeated Senator T. -7 Wl-llh. by default; Col. Clifford defeated C, Hill, 4 and 3; W. H. Hill ddnhd Vle‘bt Kauffmann, by default; H. M. Morrow defeated D. C. Shanks, 4 and 3. -In other matches in this tourney E. M. Talcott is pllred against J. J. Hamiiton, while E. Varela is to play Ben 8. Minor. ARRY G. PITT, ace of the Manor Club, and medalist in the current tourney, and- Miller B. Stevin- son otl columhl? Pitt's chl;{. rival vv:rll' "Vfi'l years of tourney \y, are opposite halves of the draw as the day of the big event at Pitt's score of 72, made on the open- of qualification, remained low throughout rday as more than 200 s thelr way through the fearsome woods nine of the course struggled to qualify in the five flights. players tied at 81 for two piaces in the first flight. . One of them—M. A. smple‘y.y o(flArxer—dld not appear for -off: n C. Shorey of Bannockburn sank 8 lengthy p\m across the first green for a birdie 4 to get in, and Herbert L. Lacey, wnh .whom Shorey played in the medal round, played two fine ‘wooden club shots to the green to get his 4 and qualify. Shorey, who is a threat to win the , 18 in the bottom . half of the draw, Stevinson. ¥ LTHOUGH Mrs, Stephen F. Colladay of Columbia was beaten in the first round of the Gibson Island tourney for women yesterday, Mrs. Betty P. Meckley, the District woman’s titleholder, is playing in the second round of the tourney today by reason of an overwhelming vlnnry over Mrs. ‘W. Egerton of Mrs. Colladay fell before uu flne nme of Mrs. W. F. Peterson against Miss Elizabeth Janney, also of Baltimore. At the end of the day, there were eum Le. WESTERN NET FIGHT NARROWED TO EIGHT |z ts | Rainville Opposes Big Ten Champ. Coggeshall Faces Tough Foe in 0'Connell. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 18.—The it for the Western tennis singles chamj today went into the quarter-final round, with ‘euht seeded stars remaining in the running. Marcel Rainville of Montreal, winner of Canada’s only victory over the United States in the American zone Davis Cup tests, was paired with Scott Rexinger of the University of Chicago, holder of the Western Conference title, at the M4, top of the upper bracket, with Herbert Bot ! N York, metropolitan c#bfl.%ppm:wmumu Harris Ocggechall of Des .Moines, Tows, defending champion, faced tough mlnmnkoconneflolcm ‘who eliminated jr jeck, while George Jennings, holder of the national public parks title, was matched with George O'Con- nell, veteran Chicago star. In the women's singles, Miss Cathe- rine Wolf of Indianapolis, defending title holder, was still in the race, with her hardest spots ahead of her. Clara Louise Zinke of Cincinnati, Mrs. Ruth Riese of Saginaw, Mich, a former champion; Mrs. Barbara Duffy of Cleveland, Mae Cuervorst of Wichita, Kl‘m and Mrs. E. C. Johnson of -De. trol len in. Mrs. Johnson scored the major pset cf the tournament yesterday, euxa\lmtm( Ruth Oexman of Cincin- CRACK SPRINTERS MEET Wykoff. and Williams Will Renew Rivalry Tomorrow Night. Williams of Vancouver, British Colum- BY -JAMES L. RENICK, Associated Press Sports Writer. followed: twosomes five “min- every - uulmmwweum:o'chekman- llchun Toles were “schieduled * for ] 81 1 : g2 EE E? 255 .“?IEE B L g it | 3 ity i i § i | E F i 2 5 Ex E_ i i E §§; il 1n Ten Aces Head Field of 120 Seeking Western Open Crown e¢==”" : AREN'T YOU ASHAMED OF YOUR CAR? ¢ bia, will race &ix other sprinters in a pre-Olympic meet. llvlnhu\enrnumemtvohnu the cinders since Willlams won unmo and 200 meter races at the 1928 Olympic games in Amsterdam. Since then Wykoff has set an unofficial rec uddn:-sumda(ormomfi. the distance they will race Friday. nother former title holder, were | 4 MARTINEZ-WAI.KER " KEEP TENNIS TITLE Duplicate Triumph of Last Year : Over Kiigsbury—Baver in ' - Women’s Doubles. to the score, history repeated itself yesterday whvn Mrs. Ruth Mar- tifiex and Frances Walker walked off the Columbia Country Club courts as the doubles champions of the Women's District Tek:g:n - le. Their n&r‘lumph was & repet; o year's and their final victims were the same—Dorothy Kingsbury - and Cecyle Raver. The score was 6-—2, 6—3. Mrs. Martinez and Miss Walker, win. ner and runner-up, respectively, in the Althousn the Kingsbury-Rever duo oo a -Raver duo & 2-1 lead at the -unrzr the seccnd set. However the ultimate winners recovered to take & 3-2 and 4-3 lead, and finally winning & much-deuced eighth game. | The ninth and final game ners-up. BANK RACKETERS START Federal-American, Commercial and W. L. & T. Win Openers. Federal-, Amzflnn Dommcrchl lnd Washington Trust opening hltuu o( t.he Blnklrl' Tennh League y, the first named win- three mwhu from District National, -Commercial sweeping over Columbia by ‘the same score, and the ‘Trust _racketers winning by default s k ‘ n wbaem-A--rxum< defeated Wil- teated ulicn, 65 s Caliats i 1"«7.-mmmv defeated Kaine [ .ffi‘ 1 Glamer” Commercial "o am- Willoughby and M nfi t and Gl o iy auited” ed e, to ‘Washingion Loan & 2L B TP 0 |2 STANDARDS NET LEADER Has Big Margin in League—Teams Primed for Saturday. ?elhy uflflghmh will M“lhlg.dl.rdl' an wi lew ur- gy ko . first match will be hyed on '.he Standard courts and st:x:: "z . lnmu the leuue by ards are a five. margin. i mve qum enough lef ose Jurado! ! that the one thing I " THE LISTENING POST BY WALTER TRUMBUL! EW YORK, June 18.—“The new ball?” asked Charles A. Whit- combe, captain of the British Ryder Cup team, just before the squad left their New York hotel for the Eoston train. “I don't think it will make much difference to us over here. - It would have made s lot of difference in our country, but you don't have our winds. No, we haven't played it a great deal, but we have used it enough to know how it acts. In still weather there isn't so much |'® difference. “The matches? It would be foolish pto try to predict the outcome now. All I can say is that our men are in good form and that we will do our best. Yes, Tommy Armour played fine golf. I don't think it is just to say he was man who expressed hirself most frankly on the subject of the new ball was George Duncan.: "/ “No, I dom't like it,” hs sald. “Do you know anybody who does? It is the worst ball ever perpetrated on a golfer.” If I waited to add 10 strokes to the game of the ordinary. goiter, T would just hand him the new ball. The one lhin Gotia 8 Taut The Bew bail mege faults. Because of more of the club h tact with it, which ampli- ly spin. "suee this new ball and you' don't’ get anywhere. If you hook it, things are not quite so bad. For that reason, it is pecessary to close the face of the club. Compson thinks he likes it, be- cause he plays the closed face and be- cause he is so big and strong that he” can get distance. But the man who . | can outdrive me 20 yards with the old t up. nwuwohdtboutlncsmlth. ruhnzmt golfer, but those two n‘nmdlbelthl.m. He 'l A lvle'nflld golfer, but he lll win a a champion helvwemn idered Abe Mitc] prtirt boxer; Brotd :hpul George another mlt veteran, qulck ol thwlht and action; Arthur Havers, who won the ch.lmphnahlp u Troon in 1923; Davies, Hodson, 8. A lhmrbtook and Ernest R. Whitcombe, brother of the team captain, the latter lour on their first visit to the United States. LIKE the new ball well enough,” nld Archie Compson, “Except in wind, it will go about as far as theoldblll llufllfllht(oruumm with skill ano\l:h to phy it. It takes a little more skill, that's all. The player r | whom the ne' ball really affects is the ; (man who scores around 90. said Coxpson, “I went up on hotel this morning and looked at it, and then I said to nlylel! must do is to g0 up in that tower. I did and so did most of the others. The visibility was ood and the view was marvelous. No, didn’t enjoy the elevators so much. It| was worse coming down than going up. Say, how about this Carnera? Is he really good or not?” It seemed fitting that the Empire State Building should bring Carnera to mind. Archie Compson, who is plenby tall himself, sald that he had on met the huge Italian on the oum hell, | i Oakmor ball ¢an only get 10 yards put me 'hb the new one. That isn't “The new ball is l.nnnltely harder fi) control,” eonunued Duncan. “Lighter, larger and with higher center of” lrlvlty it doesn't hcld the line. Its: makes the hol green and the nuchrat obstruction* will turn it. Our greens are faster than yours, !.zev:ad e yo have a different grass and you water your only course I know in the Mmum greens adapted to the new ball nt. Too much of the game is played on the greens, anyhow, and golf llélo game for a ball which is hard to put! “I think it might improve the game if all greens were smaller. But, in putting the new ball, you have to hit down on it. You can’t use a putting cleek with any good results. There is too much space on the ball below the center. You really need a putter with the face sloped forward. 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