Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 42

‘D4 s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 1,” 1931. SPORTS." Armour and Sarazen Are Rated Slightly Above Rest in “Wide-Open” Tournament TOMMY REGARDED AS ONE T0 DEFEAT Gene Strictly on His Game Again and Chockfull of Confidence. BY W. R. McCALLUM. is really “open” for the| first time in eight years.“‘ Lacking - the psychological edge that Bobby Jones held over the professionals for the stretch from 1923 to 1930, when he won his last open title, the 151 professionals and amateurs gathiered here at the historic Inverness battle- ground will start tomorrow morn- | ing in the first of two 18-hole| medal play rounds that will wind‘ up late Saturday afternoon to| crown one of their number Amer-| can open golf champion. And as the final day of the tourna- OLEDO, Ohio, July 1.—An , I open championship that foot putt with the lurking thought, “If I miss this, Jones may win.” What of the three competitors from Washington? Frankly, we belleve Mun- ro Hunter, the big slugger from Indian Spring, may go somewhere in this championship. He arrived here yester- day and immediately, despite the scorching heat, went out to get ac- quainted” with the twists and turns of Inverness. He has the big sock from the tee, and Inverness will yleld to that, provided he 1s fairly straight. Hunter is convinced, like most of the others, that a quartet of 73s will win this championship. That is a total of 292, and to shoot four 73s means a total of 8 over par, for par is 71. Al Hough- ton and Freddie McLeod are straight as drawn string from the tee, but it will take more than straightness to win when 150 others are shooting the works and knocking off birdies all over the lace. Hunter has been working hard on his iron shots for the last three weeks, putting in frequent practice ses- sions with Fred McLeod, and believes he has this part of his game under bet- ter control than it ever has been. e ARMY TENNIS PAIRS IN FINAL TOMORROW Robinson and Stone Will Battle Hills and Hobbs on Colum- bia Club Gourts. The doubles champions of the Army | LINKSMEN SIZZLE: FREE-FOR-ALL DUE Ten Embraced in Experts’ Consensus of Leading Open Contenders. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. (OLEDO, Ohio, July 1.—The golf- ing brigade, its ranks filled with the crack shots of Great Britain and America, has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. This superheated situation may apply to the competition as well as the weather for the open champlonship of the United States, starting tomorrow, over the narrow fairways and pleasant decetving hillocks of the Inverness Club. Yesterday ran a temperature of 94, and the prediction was “warmer” for today. Bobby Jones, who began his open competition here in 1920, and figured conspicuously in two of the hottest tournamen‘'s @f them all, at Worcester in 1925 and at Interlachen last year, will be crowned tomorrow when yes- will select a comfortable, inconspicuous ment fails on July 4, would it not be terday's victors in the semi-finals, the | fitting that a native-born American due of Lieut. Stanley K. Roblison should win the title on which Jones had | and Lieut. John N. Stone, and the a strangle hoid for eight years? | team of Maj. J. Huntington Hills and spot_tomorrow from which to witness the battle for the third of the four crowns he wore in 1930. Jones Idle First Time. season, and Ed Dudley, the new West- ern open champion. P to this week there was consider- able ballyhoo for young Henry Ootton, who refused to team because of the restrictions volved if he won the open. Since then he has been displaced as the No. 1 for- and performances in practice at Inver- ness have ocsughf the fancy of the cfl‘:lu. gt ocuracy g 8 fnnuum through the narrow Toveinets airways. ‘This and the well u-u?od character of the layout make up for its lack of back-breaking distances. It measures 6,529 yards. Par is 71, and the boys have been treating it a bit roughly. Leonard Schmutte of Lima, Ohio, shot & 68 in practice yesterday for the lowest figure 30 far, but Cooper, Alliss and othe! including Harold Sampson, the Californian, have turned in scores within a stroke or two of | this. There are only two par 5 hole, the 492-yard ninth and the 516-yard twelfth, MRS. HIRD IS WINNER IN GOLF TOURNAMENT Her Net 32 Is Best in District Association Event Held at ‘War College. RS. H. B. HIRD won the nine- M hole handicap tournament of | the District Women's Golf As- sociation at the War College yesterday, with a score ,of 40, which, with her 8-stroke handics ve her a net score of 32, Sixty women com- ARMY NET TEAM NAMED join the Ryder Cup|Leech Cup Line-up One of Boldiers’ it ‘The eign threat by Alliss, whose fine record | will play the Navy July 18 at vy | John Helms, Lieut. Harold Brooks, Ma, Chase in the six singles and thre Abner Y. Leech, jr, trophy, yesterday | Stone. was named by Maj. J. Huntington Hills, captain of the Strongest and Youngest. Army's Leech Cup team, which | H. Hills, Maj. Leland 8. Hobbs, Lieu dou- P, W. Newgarden, Lieut. P. K. Morreil, bles matches for the possession of the | Capt. R. C. Drake and Lieut. J. N. Not only is this squad one of the quad. strongest to represent the Army, but ‘Those named follow: Flying Cadet | also one of the youngest. Dolf Muehleisen, Lieut. 8. K. Robin- |rell, Stone, Helms, son, Lieut. David D. Hedekin, Maj. J.|have not been out of West Point l('ml:.v the s ehleisen 11:'24. 'wis and Brooks while Lieut. champlion, 18 25 and Mus Arniy lost last year, 8 to 1. INVITED TO HAWAIIL HONOLULU, July 1 (#).—Or State has been invited to npreunm mainland in the annual Christmas and New Year games with the University of Hawall. Drake University and the West Coast Army team probably will be brought here for the October and December games. Let's have a look at the foremost com- I petitors and see how the chances of the best of them assay. First and fore- most in the great fleld which has gath- ered here at Toledo is none other than Tommy Armour, the graceful swinger and master of the irons, who really de- veloped his game at the Congressional Country Club, where he was the pro- fessional from early in 1926 to the lat- ter part of 1928. | Tommy is the most feared competitor | in the field. No doubt of that. For he holds three national championsh keen to win this on % we'l as any one e's the boys admire Tomn brains. The cthers have golf brair Tommy, granted that b up. has that slight edge thet wins cfi.flmmonsh:ps in th: final run to the finish. * Gene Sarazen, I should say, is the next fancied competitor. Gene is strictly back on the game which won him the open back in 1922, is putting well and has inimitable confidence. ‘These two are the stand-outs. is a naturalized Scot and the other is & native-born Itallan American. Merely a Guess. ‘Then comas & flock of others. Throw them all in & hat and take your choice. Your guess is as good as any one's. There are Horton Smith, the Joplin flash of two years back, whose game, for some unaccountable reason, has gon» far back: Walter Hagen, the old “Duke.” who had a spurt in the res-nt Westorn open, but was abe to make nothi it; MacDona'd Smith, the sm swinging Scot. who should have won years ago #nd app.oaches the end of his persoral championship trail still without & major title: Henry Cotton, | the cocky Britisher, who told the Brit- ish P. G. A. to take a running jump | when it tried to make him live up to the restrictions imposed on the other members of the Ryder Cup team: W. H. “Bill” Davies, one of the most fancied of the British competitors; ~Archie Compston, the man who should have been fighter, but became a great golfer; ‘D&ey ‘the ‘Hollywood _idol, who would make any flngper‘s hea beat faster and who can shoot consid- erable golf, as he did in winning the Western open a few days back: Al Es- pinosa, the same who tied with Bobby Jones for this championship two vears | back; Johnny Farrell, Craig Wood and | 8 few others. All of them have 2 chance—and a good chance. | Inverress is & course where anything may happen. The whole trail is one of twisting, tortuous golf, where frayed nerves may dumn a mashe thot into encless troub’e or jumping muscles may run up a 7. The seventeenth hole alone can ruin any competitor, and the eight- eenth, even though it is'a short stretch of only 325 yards, can cause lots of grief. They ‘are only typical of the| whole layout. Anywhere along the | bunkered stretch endless woe can come to_any man. Personally, we think this tournament 1s to, be won by an outsider—a man to | whom the winning of a major champion- | ship is unknown. And of them all our two choices to go far in the title chase | are Billy Burke, whose name used to be Burkowski, and “Whiffy" Cox, are the two men who are most likely to crash through. To date neither of them has ever worn a major crown. Cox holds | the North and South open crown and | Burke also has won that championship. | But & major title is as foreign to both as a topped putt to Bobby Jones. This championship is the most_open affair that has been held since Bobbr Jones finslly came through to win at Inwood eight’ vears 220. | “elieved of the Jones complex, all the boys are going out *o shoot the works without reservations, and every one pre- s that the course record of 69 for Inverness will not stand up much after the first round. That Jones complex is hard to put your finger on, but it has been there just the same. In other open championships it has been sub- | stantially the field against Jones. The | burden was on Jones, and how well he | shouldered it is seen in the story that | he won four out of elght and was run- | ner-up in three more. But he is not in there today. and no longer does the Jones complex nag and tear at frayed nerves as the leaders contemplate & 6- | Highest quality—three full pounds to the can —constantly tested to maintain unvarying good- ness. Thot's the secret of BlueRibbonMalt's leader- ship and ever- increasing popularity. Blue Ribbon Malt | oIt ;21 be 4 &ufi um: Bobby has ever n on the side lines for an Amer- Columbia Country Club. ican open. To judge from the Violent The final will begin at 2 o'clock. | character of the advance speculation, as Robinson and Stone, last-minute Well as the intensive training of the | contenders 1 Maj. P. W. Newgarden and Lieut. P.|mined to make the mos, of the K. Morrell, 7—5, 6—2, to advance to | Georgian's competitive absence by turn- \or. | ing the tournament into a free-for-all. the semi-final round. In the atter- ‘P10 (OUCEAMERT TR0 & Trte or e noon the Robinson-Stone combine o4 Giavers tdday was that the win- climinated the seeded No. 2 team. ne Herlits the wide-open character Li=ut. Dave Hedekin end Lieut. Millard | 5¢ 'the championship chase, could be LBl el ] picked from one of these ten: The seeded No. 1 pair, Majs. J. M. Popim n 20 mne B o “G. A. and Hills and L. 8. Hobbs. ea downed priish open chemplon: Gene Saraze Cart. R. C. Crane and Lieut. J. 8. {he 1922 American open winner; Per Moran, 60, 6—3, 4—6. 6—2, to 8d-' Ajlics, the British pro from Berlin vance to the final yestord Billie' Burke, the Connecticut clouter; — MacDonald Smith, the veteran Scot GETS ACE AFTER 23 YEARS. ROSLYN, Long Island, July 1.—Jack | ican opens last year: Densmore Shute, Dowling, professional at the Engineers’ | the Ohio favorite; Walter Hagen, who Country Club here, and a golfer for 23 | won his last American open in 1919; Maj. Leland S. Hobbs, clash at the ol E . 45— . B, F 5 | from Long Island who was runner-up | | to Jones in both the British and Amer- | years, made his first hold in one yester- One | day. 'He scored an ace on the 105-yard | fourteenth hole with a mashie niblick. Harry Cooper of Chicago, runner-up in 1927; Wifty Cox, the Brooklyn sharp- shooter who has moved up fast this THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE LEVELAND, Ohlo, July 1.—10 k- ing back a few years through go'f opcn champlonships one still remembers the split in the gallery—the charging herds that fol- lowed Walter Hagen and Bobby Joncs Then Jones began to gath>r in most of the crowd and only scattered de- tachments followed the others, until the Georgla entry had finished his | day's work. . It will be different at Toledo tomcr- row and on through Saturday’s finish. ‘There will be many galleries, split here Pointers on Golf The eyes of the golf world will be on Tommy Armour tOMOITOW at Inverness, when the ranking British open champlon begins play in our national open. Tommy, th> Scot-bred pro. is considered soundest of any golfer with his frons. Note him play a shot end for quite a perceptible time you'll see him keep his head down after the ball has been struck. Looks like proof that the eyes don't remain on the ball, else Tommy would im- mediately raise his head to follow ARMOUR'S HEAD STAYS ©OowN — T4 Y it in flight. Bobby Jones admits that he does not look at his ball when driving, but kceps his head down and his eyes cn the area of ground where the ball rests. This is in keeping with the find- ings at the University of Illinois: namely, that the head must remain immovable and that it is not nec- essary to focus one’s eyes on the ball to stroke it properly. Are you a victim of this slicing business? In an illusirated leaflet Sol Metzger analyzses “slicing” and suggests & cure. He will gladly send this leaflet to any one sending a stamped, addressed envelope. Ad- dress Sol Metzger, in care of this aper. csrc (Copyright, 1031). and there, and it will be interesting to see just which stars carry the greater numbers, have & hunch this bestowal cf pub- li= interest wil involve at least four entries—Tcmmy Armour, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen and Mac Smith. Armou: and Hagen may hav light lead over Sarazen, but the peppery Lakeville pro always a crowd pleaser, and he will have his share. Armour has earned his right to one of the top places through his recent record in three big championships, and the exhibition of form he always has on display. He is one of the star stylists of golf, and his iron play up to the pin- is always good for continued applause. Walter Hagen's recent return to old form, especially around the greens, has made him once more a popular fa- vorite, and he will have a large section | of the steamy and steaming multitudc | at his heels. | There may be decided changes in the gallery’s affections and interest after the first day. Any leader who happens | to step into a bad start will scon lose his following. There will be too many | at inverness with a chance to win, and the populace always likes to be there with the winner and carry the story of his winn'ng shots back home. | In regard to the fourth man mention- | ed. the old query returns, What about |Mac Smith? What a great thing it would be for Mac if he could forget | he was in an open championship, if he could eliminate all thought of the pangs and bitter disappointments of 20 years, and just decide to play four rounds of golf. But this is impossible. He may turn the trick for the first 36, but not the entire 72. He is far too great a golfer to finish a career without winning a major championship, but each year the Job gets tougher and the road rougher. There are numerous other figures who will have their share of public interest. Young Henry Cotton of Great Britain is one. George von Elm is another. And vou can add Leo Diegel. There ought to be at least 20 galleries of fair pro- portions and a few others composed of straggling groups. There will'be quick and sudden shifts as word comes in that so-and-so is out in 32 or 33, or that whocls is burning up th= coul When this happens rival galleries be- gin to breax up and disintegrate in a hurry unless the players they are chas- | ing also happen to be stepping on the | elusive neck of Old Man Par. (Copyright. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) 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