Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1931, Page 30

ca2 s PORTS. ! HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JU NE- 29, 1931. SPORTS:. Golfers in Open Will Play Encore at Toledo : Tie Is Unlikely With Jones Out INVERNESS ABOUT SANE AS IN 150 Few Changes Made to Links| Course That Upset Many Stars 11 Years Ago. I ers gather at Inverness, July 2, 3 and 4, to compete In the national open golf cham- pionship, they will be greeted by | practically the same course that caused the downfall of so many stars back in 1920, when this classic was settled there. Masters of the game from Great Britain, Prance. Argentine and Ger- | many will be handicapped more than | the American players. None of the forelgn guests who will be present has played the course, with | the exception of Abe Mitchell and George Duncan. Several years ago they | played an exhibition match at Inver- | ness against Bob McDonald and Chick | Evans. OLEDO, Ohio, June 20 (®.— When the world'’s best golf- Changed Only Slightly. i Inverness has not been changed ma- | terially in the intervening years. Hor ever, in the last 14 months there has been & quiet and determined plan of | development. | The first hole has not been altered. Those who have played the course will find the green located on the same bluff 400 yards from the tee. | The second hole has lost its easy | indifference. It has been lengthened and the green now lies more than 390 yards from the tee and is closely guard- ed against anything but an excellent | approach. | The tee on No. 3 has been moved back 15 yards. It was difficult enough | in 1920, and, with the added distance, | will be found more so. The fourth and fifth holes have not bren changed. | Each is slightly more than 400 yards. No Place for Slice. A sliced tee shot on the sixth will be welcomed by a generous bunker from which the second shot should be in- | teresting. Otherwise the hole has not | been changed. | The seventh hole, on which Ted Ray | played his great tee shot and Bobby | Jones his poorest approach, has been | alightly changed at the green. | The longer eighth hole will appear different. A deep trap in the center of the back portion of the green, which caused the cautious Vardon to play short in 1920, has been removed. It has been replaced by generous traps on either side of the green. The ninth remains unchanged. The tenth green has been closely | trapped, but still remains one of the | easy holes. This, however, cannot be said of the eleventh hole, which was rather indifferent in 1920. Its length has been changed to slightly less than | 400 yards. The green is narrow and | undulating. | No. 13 Green Rebuilt. 12 has_not been chenged but een_on No. 13 has been entirely This 135-yard hole is trapped No. the rebullt. as befits a hole of this length. ing but a true shot to the green with the P the player out of trouble. | ‘The-fourteenth -is-unchanged. Such action’ WaX linnecessary. Years of ex: perience have proven this the most diffi- | cult hole on Inverness. Two traps have been placed at the right and left sides, and partially in front of the fifteenth | green. The sixteenth has always taken care of itself and remains unchanged. The tes st No. 17 has been placed back and to one side in such a man- ner as _to accentuate the dog-leg ef- fect. The creek in front of the green, that caused the downf2ll of Vardon in 1920, has been covered and in its place has been located a formidable group of bunkers. | ‘Traps surrounding the eighteenth green have been enlarged. Otherwise it remains the same. Lying in a valley, with bunkers on either side from tee to green, this hole, from & spectator’s point of view, is one of the outstanding | finishing holes in the golfing world. et gri s D NET FAVORITES PUSHED | Lewis Only Star to Lose, However, | in Colored Tourney. Favorites are finding rough going all| down the line in the second and third | rounds of play in the Twelfth Street Y| tennis tournament, but only one has| been eliminated. The lone casualty was Roscoe Lewis. youngster, who conquered the seeded vet, John Wilkinson. Lewis was con- | sidered the real dark horse of the tour-| ney. He fell before the careful play of | Oscar Murray, who advanced to the| quarter finals. The match was a| thriller from the start, with both play- | ers stroking in top form. Murray will | meet the winner ef the Lancaster-| Brown match for the supremacy of the | upper bracket. | Perkins, another favorite, received | the scare of his life in his tilt with| Flipvin, dropping the first set, 4 and, after a hard struggle, emerging victorious, 6—3, 6—4. He plays Cook today, and the winner will meet the| winner of the Jones-Holmes affair for | lower bracket honors. Play starts at| 5 p.m. today on the Howard University courts. The doubles matches will also | get_under way. ‘ Murray ' defeated | E. Webb defeated | etented R. Hains. | Results: Pirst round—R. Lewis de T ) s d O. Miirray won ‘over J. M. Lancaster defeated L. 61 62 S. Brown won over F. r. by default: L. 'Cook defeated W. E. 64, B1: Jones defeated’ H. . 60, 6_1: T. Holmes defeated P. | .61, 60 O. Murray defeated R. Lew . 63, 6-4. Doubles pairings—Murray and Holmes v Jones and J. Sewell. Hasty and partner Terrell and webb, K. Flipoin and Kend- v ancas feated J. Wilkin- and’ Lewis and Stillwell, 3¢ Mavneld Wilkinson vs. SCORE TENNIS VICTORY Commonwealths Strengthen Grip on Third Place in League. Commonwealth racketers took a firmer | glp on third place in the Capital City | ‘ennis League yesterday when they | dcwned Clairmont by 7 to 2. H. Ritzenberg was the only singles | player to win for Clairemont, while the doubles team of Dubose and Garnett wzs the only successful duo of the losers. i | | | | | Singles. Summaries—8hore (Com.) defes Teluirmont) def-aiéd Shepherd, T (Clairmon| eated Shepherd, Lafona (Com.) defeated Gould, 6— Roherts (Com.) defeated Dubose, 1—6. 11 674 Knapp (Com.) defeated Reed. 6- &-; chary (Com) defeated Yap. 63, 63 Doubles. | Latona_and Shore (Com.) defeated Gould | and H. Ritzenbérg. 64, 3; Dubose and rnett (Clairmont) «defeated Shepherd and | gllll . 63, 3—8. 6—1; Roberts and oy 78om ) defeated N. Ritzenbers and Yap, 0. | s ’ | United States' first track victory. Noth- | 64 D. C. SWIMMERS IN MEET Leads in Polo Victory - Six A. A. U. Titles Staked Tonight in Glen ‘cho Event. Many of Washington's best swim- mers will compete tonight for six Dis- trict of Columbia A. A. U. champion- | ships at the new crystal pool at Glen Echo. ‘The mecet will start at 9 o'clock. The men will vie in the 60 and 120- yard free style dashes, fancy diving and 120-yard backstroke and breast- stroke. ‘Women will compete in the dashes and the 60-yard backstroke. GIRL OLYMPIC STAR CRITICALLY INJURED Betty Robinson Falls 400 Feet in Plane With Cousin—May Never Run Again. MAKES SIX GOALS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 20.—Betty Robin- son, winner of the 100-meter dash for women in the 1928 Olympic. today lay critically injured—her athletic career probably shattered by an airplane ac- cident. The 19-year-old Northwestern Unl- versity student yesterday suffered in- juries that at first were believed fatal when a plane in which she was riding | fell from about 400 fest. The plane was piloted by her cousin, Wilson Pal- | mer, who also was critically injured. Miss Robinson suffered fractures of | her left leg, left arm, right hip and| possibly a skull fracture. An X-ray| examination was to be made this morn- | ing to determine if she had been in-| ternally injured. She was semi-con- | scious at midnight. The accident occurred over an aban- doned airport and was witnessed by | parents of both victims of the tragedy. Palmer, who had purchased the airplane in partnership with Harold Brown and Peter Adanski, had attended an aviation | school and received a licens:. They | attained an altitude of about 400 feet when the motcr apparently stalled Palmer attempted to right the plane, but failed, and it fell. He did, how- ever, shut off the ignition, which prob- ably kept the plane from burning. Miss_Robinson became a member of the 1928 women's Olympic team when che was only 16 years old. She had| made sensational marks as a member | of the Illinois Women's Athletic Club| and in the international games won the | She | cet a world women's record for 100| meters at 12 seconds and retained it until she was beaten by Stella Walsh at Dallas, Tex.. a year ago. Miss Walsh set a new mark, and Miss Robinson | had been training under Coach Frank| Hill of Northwestern to attempt to re- | gain the title and record in the wom- en's A. A. U. championships at Jersey | City next month. Physicians at the Oak Forest In- firmary, where she was taken after the accident, said her condition was crit- ical, but_they believed she would re- | cover. They indicated she never would | HE War Department Whites, who yesterday overcam: a 2-goal handicap to triumph over 3d Cavalry of Fort Myer, 7 to 5, and win the annual War Department invitation cup series, can thank Maj. J. L. Devers, No. 4 rider, for the handsome trophy that is theirs. Many expert polo observers of the crowd of 10,000 that witnessed the White victory still were” talking to- day about Maj. Devers’ performance. The veteran White four clicked with machinelike precision to sweep their younger foes, e: inners of the tournament last year, before them, but it was Devers who bore the brunt of the attack. He made six_goals. The Whites equaled the 2-goal handicap before the first period was over, Majs. Devers and Patton doing FOR WAR WHITES, MAJ. J. L. DEVERS, | the shooting. ‘In the second chuk- ker Lieut. Noble put Cavalry ahead with a 65-yard drive, but Msj. Devers again broke through to knot the count. Again in the fourth chukker Devers broke away to score and put the ultimate winners ahead. The Whites counted again in the fourth, fifth and final periods. The second round of play for the | Argentine Cup was to_get under way today with the War Blues and Sixth Field Artillery clashing at 3:30 o'clock on the Potomac Park oval. Line-ups: | \ Cavalry Buries Noble ham ibrook Position. Eager 1 Rogers Ik Patton. e Maj. Devers Score by chukkers: w “C: g [ 1-7 e 1= *Two-goal handicap. Substitutions—Lieut. Ligon for Maj. Surles | Goals—Devers (6, Patton, Noble. Holbrook (3). ‘Referee R._Chaflee. Timer | Lieut”” "Woods williams | Time of chukkers—1 | | | Adna orer—8erst. ': minutes. FRANCES WALKER WINNER Defeats Mrs.. Graham in Final of Maryland Net Consolation. Prances Walker was an easy victor over Mrs. Margargt Graham, 6—2, 6—0, in the consolation’ final of the Maryland State women's championship Columbia Country Club yeste:: 3 Though the match originally was scheduled for the Baltimore Country Club, it was postponed because of rain, and since both girls lived in Washing- ton, the Tournament Committee per- mitted them to stage the final at Columblia. - VINES IS SEEDED NO. 1 Rated Above Defending Champ in Clay Court Title Event. ST. LOUIS, June 29 (/P).—St. Louis was the tennis capital of the country today, at least for the younger gener- ation’ of tennis stars, with the - ing of the National clay court cham- pionship. | Ellsworth Vines, of Pasadena, Calif,, | 19-year-old State titlist, was a favorite |and was seeded No. 1 above Bryan | Grant, jr, of Atlanta, the defending | champlon. Seeded No. 3 Was Berkeley Bell, | young New York star, followed by | Keith Gledhill, Santa Barbara, Calif, | No. 4, who Saturday won the national | intercollegiate singles title at Haver- | ford, Pa., by defeating Bruce Barnes, Austin, Tex. in the final. | Barnes entered in the clay court | event was seeded No. 5. Wray Brown, | Missouri singles titlist, was the only St. | | Louisan seeded in the draw. He was seeded No. 6, followed by Donald Oram, | Nashville, No. 7, and George Jennings, | Jr, of Chicago, No. 8. Jennings national public parks champion. EAGLES WIN BY 4 TO 1. HYATTSVILLE, Md., June 29 —A Owens, right flelder, former Washing- |4on Western High athlete, netted SKkin. | ker Eagles two rung and paved the way | for two more in the sixth inning of the game in which the Birds downed Hynttsville All-Stars, 4 to 1, at River- dale yesterday. Augustine, Eagle pitcher, | was reached for eight hits but was | stingy with bingles when they meant | runs.” He fanned nine. — . = BLADENSBURG REPEATS. BLADENSBURG, Md., June 29— Bladensburg A. C. ball team scored its Ice Company, 6 to 4, yesterday. Charley Gasch, Bladensburg = pitcher, allowed only seven hits and struck out seven whi'e Bladensburg was nicking Levi Fleshman for 11 bingles. LANDbVEB SCORES EASILY. } LANDOVER, Md., June 29 —Hitting hard behind the steady pitching of Huck Beall, the Landover nine drubbed | Prederick's Stores team of Washington, |20 to 7. here yesterday. Beall allowed | only eight hits and fanned 11. Sher- | man Redmiles. Johnny Hurley, Skip | Abigail and Beall led the winners' | attas EASY FOR MOUNT RAINIER. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., June 29.— Mount Rainier, unlimit>d class base ball team, scored a 20-5 win over Ross Council Junfor Order tossers of Wash- ington yesterday. It was the Mount's seventh win in as many starts. The | home club <helled Whitney for 22 hits. Mount Rainier will play Lozan A. C. here next Sunday on Mount Rainier | fleld. be able to run again. GAINS EDGE. AT TENNIS Pan-American netmen nosed _out Edgewood. 5 to 4, yesterday in a Capi- tal City Tennis League match. I was a ding-dong battle. with the doubles team of Garber and Martinez defeating Grant and Krause in the de- ciding match. Summaries: SINGLES. Sendel (P-A) defeated Elliott. 6—4. 8—6; Staubly « 1—85. v i Sratiings ip A Saré. 3. FRONT ROYAL AHEAD. 5. Gi 4B - df rhes. 3 36 6 'a""v"én 2R SR, Yio. | RIVERTON, Va. June 20.—In a slow | game here yesterday the Front Royal mans, 62, T sendel ana | All-Stars defeated Hose Company No. 4 d and Hill | of Martinsburg, W. Va.. 7 to 2. Pulliam, 5 8 3 {P-gA-)pdefeated Herman and Yeatmon 4% | pitching for the locals, struck out 11 defeated Grant and Krause. 6—2. 6—3. " . DOUBLES. Deck and Elliott (E.) defeated Staubly. 4—6. 6.-2. 9—7: Bo: men Suggestions on How to Pitch Horseshoes Given Beginners With scores of newcomers expected this year in the third annual tourna- ment for the Metropolitan area of Washington, sponsored by The Washington Star, a few hints on the game at this time may help beginners. The tourna- ment will open July 27. ORSESHOE pitching experts can throw ringers when the stake is hid- den behind a blanket angd there are some who can make a fair average of ringers when blindfolded.- They maintain that the average pitcher could do the same if he practiced long and earnestly. How to Hold a Shoe. ILE no two experts will agree on the best way to hold a horseshoe and mu doubtlessly will develop your own particular grip, two methods are rewith illustrated for the benefit of the neophyte. It is important for your success at the game that you adopt one hold and continue to use it. The man, woman or child who makes ringers consistently must practice until the pitch is made easily, with the eye judging the dis- tance and directing the movement of o the arm and wrist. § Grip the shoe in one of the two ways N llustrated and make ready to pitch. 9 D How to Pitch a Horseshoe. HE first rule of pitching the horse- shoe is to keep the eye on the stake. ‘The three fllustrations will aid you in ascuming the proper position and “following through,” as they say in golf. First, you grip the shoe and stand with feet together, close to the stake. Next vyou bring the ¢hoe at arm's lengih and sigh u that the opposite stake appears in the center of the shoe. (Figure 1.) Second, you drop the right arm with an easy swinging motion and bring it back past the v, at the same time stepping forward with the left foot. {Pigure 2J) ‘Third, you pitch the shoe by bring- ing the rght arm forward and at the same time stepping forward with the right foot. (Fig- ure 3.) The rhythm with which you per- form this motion determines the ac- curacy of your g&tch. provided you Your step forward must not carry you beyond the box, or more than 3 feet from the stake. shoe Game. O other game offers a com- bination of sport, skill and ) healthful exercise ave properly gaug- at such low cost. ed the distance. You can lay out a horseshoe pitching court in your back yard or in a vacant lot and you can invite your friends to play at a moment's notice. Tournaments and clubs can be easily organized and when you become adept at the game you will find opponents al- ways handy. Horseshoe pitching is & universally played game. Time was when horseshoe tossing was a barnyard sport. Old Dobbin fur- nished the shoes and the stakes were crude affairs improvised perhaps from bits of pipe. . Now the game has assumed a national popularity and thousands of people are playing, more in the city, perhaps, than in the country. Shoes of sturdy drop-forged steel and stakes of the same material. made in style and weight to meet the specifications of the American Horseslhwe Pitchers’ Association, are necessary to play the modern game properly. Laying Out the Court. W will add much to the game. ‘The illustration shows how an official court should be laid out. Place sec- tions of 2 by 4 and nail together 5o as to make two 6-foot squares. The stakes should be driven in the ground in the center of these boxes, inclining slightly toward each otier.’ Fine clay should then be placed around the stakes and ped down.. This clay should be moistened occasionally. The diagram indi- cates the other dimensions of the court, I it is not convenient to install the clay-filled boxes the ground should be waded up 50 a5 to prevent the shoes from bouncing and sliding. t it as you would a rifle, so | | The Modern Horse- ILE you can merely drive stakes in the ground 40 feet apart and start to | pitch, a permanent court of exact dimensions can be laid out easily and | | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE FEW junior golfers from clubs near Washington which are members of the Maryland State Golf Association are planning | to go cver to the Rodgers Forge Golf | Club of Baitimore tomorrow to play in | the junior golf championship of Mary- land. The tourney is at 18 holes and is limited to sons of members who have not reached the age of 21 years. En- tries close today with William Parker Hall, chairman of the Tournament | Committee of the association, at 1201 Baltimore Trust Buflding, Baitimore. | This tourney is the last of the cham- | pionsiip affairs of the Maryland asso- ciatien until next Septembe Maryland open will be piayed at Con- gressional, AVORITES fell like wheat before & mowing machine as eight golfers played through the second rcvnd in_the current competition for the tribal bcwl at the Indian Spring Goif Club yesterday. Leroy Sasscer. the | club champion and runner-up in the | recent invitation tourney, fell before the | fine game of Tom M. Belshe, former | Interdepartmental League champion, on | the last hole. J. William Harvey, jr.. who had been favored to go to the semi-final, was dropped by the long- hitting Leo F. Pass, while Harold N. | Graves, one of Indian Spring’s young- sters, fell before George C. Gist by a single hole. Herbert L. Lacey, another of the favorites, lost on the nineteen’h hole to W. Byrn Curtiss, the star southpaw golfer of the club. A blind bogey tournament, which was substituted yesterday for thefinal of the two-man team match at the Manor Club, resulted in three ties. _tison, S. T. Ea:ly and S. M. Geogan all had ret cards of 71 to go into the first tie, while W. H. McCarthy and R. L. Schreiner tied at 70. The next blind bogey number was 79, and for this D. L. Thomson and J. T. Tites tied, both with | net cards of 79. | OMAN golfers who will play in the Women's District Golf Association i tourney tomorrow at the War Col- lege course are requested to bring their caddies with them, if they expect to | have caddies to tote their bags. Mrs. | Earl L. Naiden warns the players that | there will be no caddies available at the War College and the players must | bring their own boys, if they want them. Henry J. Breslau and Robert Baum both turned in net cards of 70 yesterday | to tie for first place in the class A | sweepstakes event at the Woodmont Country Club. Breslau had a c2rd of 94—24—70, while Baum's card read | 83—13—70. Albert E. Steinem won second place with a card of 88—17—71 | In class B, Jeffrey Abel was the win. | ner with a card of 99—30—69. Henry King was second with 98—27—71. The = blended with accentuate the J'R. Pat- | class C prize went to Sam Classer with a card of 101—28—73. Fred McLeod of Columbia and J. Monro Hunter of Indian Spring. two of the Washington professionals who will | play in the national open champion- | ship, are to leave the Capital tonight | for the scene of the tourney at Toledo. | A 2e Houghton of Kenwood, the other | local qualifier, already is at Toledo. Here’s Lo;vdown On Shoe Tourney 'HIRD annual metropolitan dis- trict horseshoe championships, sponsored by The Washington Star. Play starts July 27 Entries clos> July 25 Titles at stake: Neighborhood. di- | visional, sectional and city cham- | pionships of Washington: town, county and State championships of Maryland and Virginia. Tournaments in Wastington un- der suvervision of municipal pla; ground department; those in Mary- land and_Virginia under direction of local chairmen. Entry blanks to be fssued shortly may be obtained from playground directors and chairmen. There is no entry fee. All prizes will be given by The Washington Star. Town and neigh- borhood champlons will receive bronze medals, suitably engraved. Divisional winners in Washington and county champions in the neigh- | boring States will receive silver | medals. "Gold medals will go to | Washington, Maryland and Virginia | champions, ' trophies to East and | West section winners in Washington | and silver plate will be awarded in the grand finale for the metropoli- | tan district title. Washington will _qualify four players for the grand finale and Maryland and Virginia two each, | the eight to play a round robin. Detailed information may be ob- tained by phoning or writing the Horseshoe Editor. Washington Star sports department, phone National 5000, branch 335. For information on the colored section of the tournament, com- municate with Arthur A. Greene, Twelfth Street Branch Y. M. C. A., 1816 Twelfth street northwest, phone North 1054 TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats | The world’s choicest tobaccos infinite skill to delightful aroma of the finest Havana leaf. 5| pionship proper. single to right with three on by Quincy | | second win of the season over Fleshmen | |EISEMAN'S, 7th & F| BOBBY WAS IN FOUR OF FIVE IN HIS ERA Emperor Will Attend Scioto Classic This Week as Newspaper Scribe. BY W. R. McCALLUM. ITH Bobby Jones on the side-lines at Toledo this week watching the pros play for the national open golf title he is to allow to go by default, the possibility of a tie for ' the championship appears smaller and smaller as the| chances of any man to stand out | above the field grows weaker and weaker. The era of the Jones reign in | golf is known among golf writers as the era of ties, and with Jones out of the championship, perhaps the golf writers will be able to cover the championship without the spectre of a tie looming as a gract cal certainty at the end of | 72 blistering holes in the' cham- Bobby Jones will be out at Toledo | watching the pros perform, but he will | be there in his capacity of golf writer, | crowding into the press tent with the | other newspaper men to write for the world his impressions of the champion- | |ship as he sees it from the sidelines. | And with Jones out the likelihood of a tie becomes smaller, for the rotund | | Bobby, in addition to being the world's | | greatest golfer, also has the dubious | | distinction of having been involved in | more ties for the championship than | any other individual who ever pulled on a pair of spike-studded shoes. Look over the records and you will | see how true this is. In the 13 years of championship play beginning in | 1903 and ending in 1932, there were five ties for the open champlonship. | Our own Freddie McLeod was involved | in the first of these, in 1908 at Myopia, when he won. In the succeeding 12 | | years there were only four ties. But |in the era beginning with the year | when Jones finally crashed through to | win, there were five ties for the cham- plonship, and Jones was involved in the play-off for four of them. In other words Jones had that something | the others lacked. If he could not win the championship outright he was | gopd enough to tie. In two of these play-offs he won the championship {and in two he lost. In four of the eight championships he was crowned king. | — | OBBY JONES started playing in the | open champlonship back in 1920 | at Toledo, where Ted Ray won | over the same course on which the to be gayed this He finished far in the ruck tournament. for his game | hadn't yet developed. Taen come | 1921 at Columbia, where he had a chance to win up to the fifth hole and blew it away with a 9 after putting two balls out of bounds. Sarazen won | outright at Skokie in 1922, with a grand last round of 68. Then along came the tournament at Inwood, where Jones tied for the first time and beat Bobby Cruickshank on the play-off there near {Be shores of Jamaica Bay. | where 15,000 rabid New York golf fans | overran each other to see the voung {master win on_ the eighteenth " hole. Along came 1924 and Oakland Hills and Cyril Walker was good enough to | win the title outright oversthat lengthy | course. with Jones second. | Then followed Worcester, the blister- ing championship of 1925, and again | Jones tied—this time with Willie Mac- | Farlane, the be-spectacled Scot from | Westchester County. They played 1% | holes through the torrid sunshine and | were all even. And they plaved 18 more on the same day, and MacFarlane | won on the thirty-sixth green. In 1926 Bobby played a spanking No. 4 iron shot to the eighteenth green at Scloto to win the title by a_single shot, and at Oakmont in 1927 he was out of the tournament after the | thirteenth hole of the third round. | where he took a 6 on a par 3 hole. So | Tommy Armour and Harry Cooper tied | just to create a diversion from the | Jones ties, and Armour won. UT Jones came right back the fol- lowing vear. to tie again for the | championship at Olympia He]ds,} where Johnny Farrell opposed him. They played 36 holes practically level. | for the championship. and at the end | Farrell needed to hole an eight-footer to win, He holed it and beat Jones by _that margin. Then came the 1920 championship at Winged Foot and at the end of 72| blistering holes Bobby Jones sank a 12- | footer to tie again for the chamion- | ship, this time with Al Espinosa. In| | the 36-hole ‘playoft, he played the finest | | golf ‘T ever have seen him play in a | | national open, shooting a 69 at Espinosa to take a long lead over the first round and _smothering the Chicagoan by | something like 23 strokes over the route. | His last championship came in 1930 at' | champlonship is week in that | | | | | | cleaners Call North 1060 Interlachen, and here he wound up his open championship career by holing a 40-foot putt for a birdie 3 on the eighteenth to win the title outright by two strokes. i Bobby Jones is the greatest producer of ties who ever has played in the open champlonship. With him out there is a chance that the golf writers may nct have to tramp around Inverness next Sunday. But if Bobby were in there the chances would be 50-50 he would be involved in & tie. Over the last eight | No years he has been in four of them.| Btrangely enough, he has won three | British open champlonships, and none | of them came after a tie. BELL WINNER AT TENNIS Defeats Kynaston for New York State Clay Court Title. NEW YORK, June 29 (#)—Berkeley Bell, former Texan, now living in New the long-suffering golf profes- Ylork. conqueredl Percy L. Kynaston of | sionals. A national open cham- Brooklyn in & five-set match to win the | plonship is on and a certain younf Southern New York State clay court amateur named Bobby Jones no longe: tennis championship, 6—1, 7—5, 26, | haunts their dreams of winning the 13;11“5.. 6—,:).d i | grandest prize of American golf. am Aydelotte and Perrine Rocka- | Jones' threatening shadow has beer t Ny ? o fellow of New York won the doubles. |jip00q from the fleld at last, and th defeating Bell and J. Gilbert Hall of | South_Orange, N. J., 2—6, 9—11, 6—4, | tonic of his retirement from the bii show has seized ‘the imaginations o 6—4, 7—5. the pros. They all have become firec with new hopes to win the covetec crown. To any one who has followed the national open struggles for the past decade the change can easily be no- ticed. Instead of the muttered ques- tion, “Who’s going to beat Bobby?” the question today “Who's going tc win?” It was a wide-open fight and | the long - subdued professional _iror | wielders could be seen almost every- where—on the golf course. hotel lob- bies and street corners—seriously dis- | cussing every pitfall on the champior ship Inverness larout as if they we:- going to win this time. Amateurs Not Considered. Several amafeurs were entered in thr 72-hole _championzhip battle, Wwhich opens Thursday and ends Saturda; over the trouble-infested Inverne: course, but none of them was grante:i even an outside chance. The name of | Johnny Lehman of Chicago, a lion- hearted youth with a fine game and the nerve it takes to win this major cLampionship, was mentioned brie! but no one considered him a seriou threat. It looked like a big romp foi the professionals for once all the way. If ‘any one professional was single. out of the field of 146 to beat, he wa- | Tcmmy Armour of Detroit, the present “Bobby Jones of the pros.” The cham- pionship course will be wop by the play- er wio can hit straight tee shots and play his irons, and Armour can do them both, especiaily the latter. After his triumph in the British open, Armour | came home for a needed rest and sand- | wiched in several leisurely drills at In- | verness while most of his principal | rivals fought through the heat and traps at Scioto in the Ryder Cup matches. | Armour didn't show much at Inverness | during his practices and his caddies | said his game was “'way off.” but he polished up just the same for the big | show this week. | Britishers Strong. England as well as America will con- tribute serious contenders for the va- cated throne. All 10 Rydsr Cup pi eis on both teams have entered the fray, with Walter Hagen, Gene Sara- ¥zen, Densmore Shute, Johnny Farrell, Leo Diegel, Al Espinosa and Billie Burke the big contenders from the American team, and Arthur Havers, W. H. Davies, Ab: Mitchell and Charles Whitcombe the hopes of the British team. Henry Cotton. who was ousted frcm the Brit- ish team because of his refusal to trave: [with his mates, was perhaps their big- gest threat. The young Briton has been at Inver: ness for a week drilling steadily. Ger- many had its Percy Allis, Prance i Aubrey Boomer and Auguste Boyer, while the Philippines had the diminu- tive Larry Montes, an impressive player with a magic putter, to round out the international threat, cne which suc- | ceeded last time at Inverness in 1920, baseman, who throws to first, com- | when Ted Ray of England won the pleting the double-play and retir- | title. ing the side. |~ Inverness was in excellent condition The natural impulse of the ave- |today for the test. A rain gave relief rage pitcher under these conditions | to the slightly baked fairways lasy is to throw to the plate, stopping | night, the rough was high ani the run. If he does this the run- |the fairways were dangerously n ner on third stops and jockeys Icng | r°w, and the undulating greens. well enough before he is out to en- | protected by yawning traps, were in able the runner on first to reach | excellent condition. Most of the field third and the batter to go to second | was on the battleground for practics base, and only one man has been |rounds today, and predictions of the retired instead of two. winning 72-hole total averaged around With two men out. of course, | 295, the one Ray turned in to give always throw to the first baseman | the local trophy its last trip over the for the putout. | Atlantic. il ALL PROS HOPEFUL Amateur Conceded Chance to Win National Open—Armour Prominent. BY PAUL MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. OLEDO, Ohio, June 29.—Old } Home week is here at last for | Big League Ball Double Plays by Pitcher. BY AL DEMAREE. (Former Pitcher, New York Giants.) With runners on base a pitcher should make his mind up in ad- vance just what he is going to do with the ball if it is hit back at him. With the bases full and nobody or one cut, he should field the bail to the plate for a force-out and the catcher relays it to first for the double-play. However, with runners on first and third base and one out and the ball is hit sharpiy back at him, the pitcher should ignore the runner on | WITH MEw: ON LIRST AND THIRD AND | %owf third, turn and throw to the second Al Demaree has prepared an il- lustrated leaflet on “Base Running” which he will gladly send to any reader requesting it. Address Al Demaree in care of this paper and be sure to inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. (Copyright. 1931) BEN Are You Interested in SWEEPSTAKES If so, Phone NAtional 5162 Liberal Allowance on Y, Ol i 36 ath ST, NW. CADAMS 8100 Ko Service—Charge Accounts Now! New low price men’s suits Bornot Cleaned Formerly $2 p- dyers Call and delivery 1752 M St. N.W.