Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 42

ON, D. C, THURSDA SPORTS Win National Open in Withering Heat THE LISTENING POST D—2 JULY 2, 1931 Score in 290s Figured Good Enough to haps the latter two would prefer to tackle the German for the title. If the winner of this Cleve Aged Sage, Never COLF BALL BURSTS || THE SPORTLIGHT |Ij( FIGHTS IN ONE AFTER TEE WALLOP British Ryder Cup Captain Ordered to Bed—Voigt, Kirkwood Out. BY W. R. McCALLUM. NVERNESS COUNTRY CLUB, Toledo, Ohio, July 2—“The fellow who can knock the ball around in 290 strokes will win. An average of 721, strokes.” Freddie McLeod of Columbia, the the ‘This championship is full of dramatic possibilities and United States tra tion. It was at Inuerness in 1920 that Ted Ray, the big Englishman, beat Harry Vardon to the wire. Will a Briton repeat? It was at Inverness that Bobby Jones entered his first open and he now re- turns as a spectator, with his golfing wars behind him. It was at Inverness that Walter Hagen made a desperate struggle for more than 60 holes to win two years in & row and beat back the British charge. Now Hagen returns, figure, one of the first choices in the the oldest ex-open golf champlon:mon; fleld. of the United States, was speak- ing. Freddie won the champion- ship back in 1908, and as he drove oft early today in this thirty-fifth riational open championship his mind must have strayed back to the days when the championship was more than a set of limber lads trying to get ahead in the world by winning themselves a g0lf championship. “The fellow with the thickest head and the strongest pair of wrists will win.” Thus spoke J. Monro «Hunter, the big hitter from Indian Spring to- day, as he poled out his opening tee shot in this torrid little chase that every one admits is as open as the tem- rnmn is high. Leo Diegel, the human jumping jack of golf, a thinner and ‘wiser Leo, to judge by appearances, thinks the winning score will be below 290, and he may be right. But a real Jook at the scene of the champlonship and the ensemble of perspiring brows, heated nerves and jumping muscles would lead any one to belleve that the e who ean break 205 will win the ottest championship on record. T was at Inverness that Tommy Armour played in his first big Amer- ican tournament 11 years ago, then & young and almost unknown Bcot who ‘hnd just come across. Now Armour starts at Inverness holding the British, | Canadian and P. G. A. champlonships, to make his bid for a fourth major | title in less than 12 months. It was at Inverness in 1920 that Leo Diegel offered his first bid for fame, where a spectator’s loud cough on ene his chance to win by two strokes. Now Inverness is waiting for them all—Armour and Hagen, Mac Smith and Sarazen, Cotton and Allls and Compston, Shute and Wiffy Cox, Farrell !and Burke, Horton Smith and Diegel, Espinosa and the Dutras, with others who were then unknown caddies, and now potential stars. It will be at Inverness that George Von Elm will make his first bid on the professional side in the national open championship, and he will be another worth looking at. Inverness today is full of spoken and unspoken queries. Can Armour hold up under the strain of four big titles | in a row? Can Mac Smith shake loose the ancient hoodoo and play his game? Can Hagen win a United States open BY GRANTLAND CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 2.—One hundred and sixty-one survivors playing as well as ever, a formidable | RIC from more than 1,100 entries started at Inverness today to locate the trail that Bobby Jones abandoned. These 161 survivors, battling for the open golf champion- ship of the United States, present the most wide-open tournament ame has ever known in one of #ts major title wars. 2 or 15 stars is good enough to win, including such British stars as Henry Cotton, Percy Allis and Archie Compston. Any one of only to miss out. Here is their chance, with the devastatis Bobby Jones on the side lines, looking on, and scat- tering galleries all over the course. ‘There 18 the biggest sort of chance that Inverness this time will bring about & tie among two or more leaders. Six men came close to being tied 11 tightened up to help back the rush of modern scoring. \ | Inverness will find a great fleld in | action this week, and the first day will | be a hard battle to get by under 74. There cannot be much slipping for the winner with 50 many stars in hot pur- suit, and they all know it. ‘There will 18 holes today, 18 holes on Friday and then 36 holes on Satur- day among the survivors who happen to beat the pruning knife. And only | those under 150 Friday night will have | any ehance to pop in the final winning | putt late Saturday afternoon. | JNVERNESS is an interesting test be- cauce it carries so many possibilities in which a fine shot can get a big reward and a bad one costs heavily. There was the green that Ted Ray beat | of the closing holes cost Leo a 7 and | par where others were running into | | trouble. | " Inverness is closely trapped and & | combination of sound wood play. good |long iron play and accurate pitching is needed. It isn't a battlefield of killing length, but its barriers | quite enough to stop any wild marches. | It should tell one of the big stories of golf by Saturday night. | (Copyright, 1 by the North American New. r Alliance, Inc.) Layout of Links years ago over this same course, now | are | For Open Event| TOLEDO, Ohlo, July 2 (#.—Par and Details of Cleveland Title Affair Will Be Given Tomorrow Night. desire to hear & blow-by-blow description of the Max Schmel- ing-Bill Stribling fight at Cleve- tomorrow night when Babe Hunt and Pietro Corri get together may have both, for Matchmaker Angy Gerrin of the Mid-City Boxing Club will have a radio hook-up at the new stadium while both the Cleveland and Laurel bouts are in progress. Originally scheduled for last night, the 6-bout card, which will include 42 rounds or less of boxing, was postponed until tomorrow because of rain. Fearful that too long a layoff might react to their disadvantage, Hunt and | Corri today were to resume light exer- | cising. A substitution in the 6-round | event will find Young Harry Wills of | Baltimore replacing Gorilla~ Jones of | New York as the opponent for El Kadir (Billy Edwards). Mickey Diamond, the Philadelphia battler, reported yesterday with a sick stomach and Matchmaker | Gerrin may be forced to make another substitution. Arthur De Beve was to meet Diamond. GUARDS GOLF AGE LIMIT Birth Record Must Accompany En- | try for Junior Tournament. In order to avoid any misunderstand- ing in regard to entrance requirements | in connection with the American Legion junior_golf tournament, to be held at| | East Potomac July 21, Francis J. Mc- Donald, department athletic director, AT LAUREL REWA - ISTIC followers torn between a | T f land and to see the real thing at Laurel | Wil BY WALTER TRUMBUL! HERE is much fear of a low gate at the Schmeling-Stribling bout in Cleveland. In fact, the pro- ~ moters possibly may take a jolt. Just before Tex Rickard left on his final trip to Florida, he gave me exact figures on bouts he had held over a space of ten years. You will admit that Rickard was a good promoter. Well, here is & list of his 20 most profitable mlt;chu The figures indicate gross re- 930 | of " Btribling 1 509.135. 430.639.30 385.040.70 00 | proached_$1,000,000. | previous 50 | ditions. $343,549.70 than he drew the old Manassa mauler in Am‘bm- z, in Miami Beach, Sharkey drew $405,000, and against Tommy Loughran, New York, he drew $254,501. The Miami Beach bout gained impetus from the fact that it was the last bout Rickard arranged and also because Jack Dempsey was used as window dressing. It seems fair to say two things: Had ‘Tunney returned to the ring as cham- plon and fought Schmeling when 8harkey did, the gate might have ap- Were Schmeling to fight Sharkey in New York, instead Cleveland, the gate might be even¥larger than in their meeting; although this is doubtful, because of business con- But, when you figure that Berlenbach 0| and Stribling, and Sharkey and Ma- loney drew under $250,000, and that 30 | Berlenbach and Delaney, and Sharkey naeiMeLarin, New York 19308 harkey-MeTinue. New York 138.143.40 The first notfceable thing about that list is that there have been five $1.- 000,000 fights, that in all of them Dempsey was one of the contestants and that the five grossed $8,485,357.62. Tunney, eat champion, and Firpo, reeking with color, couldn't draw half as much against another opponent as they could against Dempeey. 'HEN Dempsey fought Sharkey, he was supposed to be one of those hollow shells; yet Sharkey against Schmeling—the latter adver- tised as the “coming Dempsey,” in & bout which was for the title—drew $749,035, & splendid gate, but less by 20 | and McTigue drew under $200,000 in good times, it seems doubtful that we are going to see many gates of half a million or over in the immediate future. UST as Ketchell couldn’t beat John- | son, 50 Walker couldn't beat Greb or Loughran, but they say that he has grown heavier and stronger. One thinj you must say for Mickey Walker is thal he has heart. Neither Sharkey, nor any other big man, is going to scare ;h‘: 1;Ien-u«mf I:n;‘udo«‘ ickey will do share of the fighting, as X the bout lasts, it e It seems rather interesting that Tun: ney and Dempsey favor Stribling’ chances, while Sharkey and Tommy Loughran pick Schmeling to win. Per- will be & joke champion. This is not because Carnera may not be able to fight, but because nobody knows wheth- er he ¢an fight or not, and those who control his ring destinies are afraid to put him to the test against any really good man. ‘To make & profit on the affair in Cleveland the promoters must have at least & $300,000 gate. You can re it out for yourself. The stadium will cost $40,000 in rent, the two main bout fighters will get 55 per cent of the take in, the performers in the other bouts must be pald, and costs of tickets, ushers, advertising, ticket men and a dozen other things must be met. ‘The selection of George Blake as referee for the Stribling-Schmeling bou! in Cleveland is in the nature of a guar- antee that neither contestent will be favored by the third man in the ring. Blake has a well earned reputation for both hon and ability. A referee can just about win a close fight for either contestant if he is not on the level. official ‘There are methods of | Along. Wrong, Picks Max YORK, July 2—There was joy at Max Schmeling’s camp in Conneaut Lake Park, Pa., ‘when word came from Youngstown, ©Ohto, that David Edmunds, 75-year- old fistic sage of the steel mills, had picked Schmeling to win Stribling. Edmunds, & steel worker, has long been famous in Youngstown for his ability to call the turn on heavy- weight championship fights. He has not called one wrong in 39 years. He started by picking Corbett to beat Sullivan and has been right ever since. breaking boxers, turning them out of | position, letting them get away with certain things, which ean give one man & big advantage. The Jack Curley Wrestlers' Associa- tion, Inc., is thinking of adopting an song, such as “Merrily We Roll TENNIS TACKLE and BATHING SUITS after waiting 12 years? Can Horton | the yardage for the Inverness Club, | requests that all entry blanks be ac- | It's Really Warm. They talk about the heat at Inter- lachen last year and the heat at Wor- cester back in 1925, but they haven't Yelt anything like this Middle Western heat, which bears down and in and around on all of the competitors and tors alike until the wariest neo- mtn the gallery is convinced that any man who can play 72 holes of golf in weather like this should have the championship without further argu- ment. ‘The fleld had narrowed down to 144 hardy gents as the open championship started over Ivernese’ parched fairways today, 80 parched that we saw a golf ball, hit straight and true from the tee, inte mushy rubber half way down g course and finish 100 yards down the sun-scorched fairway a lop-sided thing of flopping gutta percha and rub- ber string. You know it's hot when a Ryder team captain, has been ordered glged by his doctor—to keep out of the brolling sun at all costs. George Voigt, former Capital amateur, will not 5'". Neither ] Joe Kirkwood. And think the rest of the British are usiastic about the heat that en- ‘v:‘lz: I“Y:mm today you believe in Difficult to Breathe. ‘Washinfton in its hottest days never knew such enervating heat as this. Crowds gathered on street corners searching for a breath of breeze that is not to be had. Water was shut off from the golf course for drinking purposes for fear of typhoid. Contestants swathing towels around their necks to keep the perspiration up, using resin on the grips of their clubs to prevent them from 1 out of sweat-moist- Nevertheless, there are 144 men, some with thick and some with thin skulls, out there today trying to win this na- tional open championship and our guess is that if onme of them manages to shoot four rounds of 73, he will win. Jumpy nerves are bad enough under the ordinary champlonship strain, and when you combine them with heat like this, when every man feels like snap- ing at his best friend, anything may pen. That is why, in a few words, champlonship is ‘strictly an open. Our hunch is that some comparative unknown is going to knock the dope for a row of ice cubes and win. Some one_like Billy Burke or Denny Shute or Whiffy Oox. Not Horton Smith or Tommy Armour. Tommy does not like heat of this variety, although he treats ft with his usual nonchalance. Horton's glmo has gone flooey, and if he wins e will have to come back to shape mighty fast. Sarazen Formidable. Gene Sarazen looks good to win, and if the little Italian-American from New York displays today, tomorrow and Saturday anything like the golf he showed in a friendly round late yester- day, he will romp home. Gene likes blistering last rounds, but he will have them here from first to last if he wins. So far he looks like the single best bet in the fleld. Tommy Armour? ‘Well, Tommy has changed his putting stances and has gone back to that old mallet-headed wooden putter he used three or four years ago. He is knock- ing them in the hole fairly well, but Tommy doesn't like heat. McLeod looks like & boiled lob- ster after two rounds of golf in this | atmosphere, Freddie doesn’t string along with the boys who think 200 will be broken. “Téo much bad rough, too many tricky places around these greens and two much grief possible anywhere along the route,” so says Freddie, the vetéran of 25 national championships. Smith, the sensation of two years ago. find the lost road back after a season's lapse? Can Gene Sarazen stay close enough to the leaders to put on one of his famous finishes? HAT chance is there to put a new name on the cup that has never been written before? Von Elm, Mac Smith, Golden, Cotton, Compston. | Cooper, Allis, Diegel, Shute, Cox and Espinosa are in this class. Many of them have threatened to the last hole. where national open golf champlonship began today: out. Par. . In. Par. Yards 1 + 34! 0 1 2 3 g s » B totals—Par, 71 dlasnsassy g H Gra BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. OLEDO, Ohio, July 2.—Direc- tion and safety rather than distance was the aim of ‘Thomas Dixon Armour, reign- ing British open champion, when he started his drive for the United States open golf champlonship at the Inverness Country Club today. The Inverness fairways have been narrowed to the width of a plece of baby ribbon and in many instances they do not measure more than 30 feet in breadth. This narrowness combined with dangerous out of bounds on many of the holes makes heavy wooden shots fraught with peril. So Armour, who is one of the smartest of all professional golfers as well as being the greatest of modern iron players, plans to play anything but & game of wooden clubs. On the first, fourth, seventh and tenth holes, Armour will drive with & number 1 jron. With that weapon, Armour is fully in his ac- curacy and since it takes two shots to get home on any of these holes he will lose but little in sacrificing distance for direction. Armour will be the first player since Jerry Travers ruled the ama- teur brigade to drive with an iron Monro Hunter, has figured out that he will use & spoon from the tee on most of the holes. “On some of these holes I can knock the ball far enough with a spoon, anyhow,” he says, “and on some of the others I would rather play my second shot from the fairway than from that darned rough.” Monro should know, for his arms were tired yesterday from ploughing the ball out of that innocent-looking rough. . Rough That Is Rough. ‘This rough is far different from the rough we know around Washington. They seem to run to hay out here in the Middle West; and the hay that fringes the narrow fairways at Inver- ness is that twisting, clinging stuff that takes a club and twists it around s0 all the wallop of the blow is lost. The traps are not bad; somewhat ar- chalc, as Hunter describes them. But that rough will set them all on their ears. And even after you get the ball on the green you haven't got it in the hole. The puiting greens here—all of them 20 years old or more—haye more twists and turns in them than a China- man's mind. We saw repeatedly balls that were ticketed for the bottom of the cup run up to within inches of the lip, break away and end 3 feet off. It's the old story all over again. The guy that gets around with & 6 or so on his card and who gets down all the 3-footers will win. But it won't be below 290. OPPORTUNITY TO round out our used car Stock we need ten automobiles. As an inducement to secure these cars without delay, we are willing to make spe- cial allowances on your present car toward the purchase of a brand-new Franklin of the latest series, This s not a clean-up of old models. The factory has assured wus that the present series will be continued throughout the year. 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A bit of nervousnesss on the starting hole coupled with a shoulder wind and it is mighty easy to slice out of bounds. - A fellow who is striving to prevent a slice is likely to hook into the traps on the left-hand side of the fairway. “By driving with an fron I hope to pick up four 4s on the first hole in the champlonship rounds. If suc- cessful in that I figure to pick uj a one or two shot lead on the rea field on that hole alone. And if I can pick up another on the fourth or tenth, I will start the final round in fine shape.” Armour had some definite opinions as to this champlonship. He wagered the gallery at Inverness would be the greatest in the history of golf. A number of the lads took him up on that one, for the $3 admission tax has put the chill on a number of golf enthusiasts. Mr. Armour also declared the second nine at Inver- ness was the toughest championship test offered since the 1927 open at Oakmont, in which he defeated Harry Cooper for the title. “The eighteenth is one of the best I ever have seen. It is an easy four in practice, but wait until the fleld tries it on the final round.” In view of the topographical con- ditions of the course, Armour and several others ict that the win- ning score would be between 281 and 294 strokes. Armour was the big favorite as the championship began, with Percy Allis of Germany, Gene Sarazen, Billy Burke, Ed Dudley, Wiffy Cox, Harry Cooper, Al Espinosa, Henry Cotton of Great Britain, Macdonald Smith and Bill Mehlhorn also among the leading choices. Many close fol- lowers of the game give Bobby Cruickshank, the wee Scot from New York, a chance. Cruickshank has not threatened for the championship since Bob Jones defeated him in the play-off for the 1923 title at Inwood. But Bobby has at Jast regained his confidence and is hitting every shot well. ‘The writer has seen the last 11 open chlmpkmsh-lrs and this is the hardest of them all to predict. There are at least 20 players in the field ‘with shots good enough to win. smarter and cooler. | Boys who have not attained their |SENDS ARRAY OF RUNNERS companied with birth records. Entry blanks may be secured at the American Legion headquarters, Shore- ham Building, and the East Potomac course. No fee is charged for this tournament. | seventeenth birthday before June 30, 1931, are eligible. Baltimore Has Bulk of Entries in| July 4 Race at Takoma. Washington will be greatly outnum- | oered in the seven-mile race to be run | Saturday from the District Building to| the end of Takoma Park but Haskell Clark, Bob Ratower, Jerry Looney and Jimmy Montague, the local entrants, are hopeful of coming through. Over 80 entries have been received with Baltimore sending the largest number. The Democratic Club will send 26, Baltimore Cross Country Club, 23, and Ramsey A. C,, 13. Pointers on Golf BY SOL METZGER. ‘There must be something in Cole- man R. Griffith’s findings in his re- search work at the University of Illinois about driving a golf ball. ‘The eyes, according to results there, are concerned more with the mat- ter of balance than in focusing one’s sight on the ball. Science tells us that the muscles of the body are connected through the brain with the eyes, and that our sight serves to keep body balan and the ]Vl’\::clu Teacting to what they ad- The moment the position of the head s changed, muscular reaction is also altered. Thus, to ditve well the head must remain immovable. ‘This leads to one conclusion, namely, that the feel of the swing is more important than sight. That is why blindfolded beginners make more rapld progress in driving than those who start in normal ways. Have you used up two or three strokes getting out of a sand trap? 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