Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1931, Page 11

SP ORTS. TH. E EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1931 Von Elm and Burke Boot Crown About : Tennis Queens to NEITHER APPEARS WILLING TO WIN T Each Has Title in Grasp in Marathon Play-off to Continue Today. BY W. R. McCALLUM. NVERNESS CLUB, Todelo, Ohio, l July 6.—There may be 1,149 other gents who would like to win the national open golf championship, but you wouldn't think George von Elm and Bmy[ Burke cared a hang about wear-|by 20 yards. Burke knocked his ap-|third and fourth rounders in the ing the open crown, judging by the way they are booting it around out here in Ohlo. They Friend’s Arrival Inspires Von Elm INV!’RN“ CLUB, Toledo, Ohio, July 8 (#)—George von Elm felt the need‘ of lnd(:ld'(rlf’:l‘:'n ‘:v couragement yesterday for his play- off with Billle Burke for. the United States open golf title, and wired Silas Newton, millionaire ofl man of New York, as follows: “Could win if you were here.” Newton left his Leng Island home last night, took a train to Cleveland, finished the trip by airplane to ‘Toledo and, arrived at the course during the third hole of the after- noon round. Shortly after his friend's arrival Von Elm put cn the spurt that moved him in front for the time being. Newton will be on hand to lend encouragement through- out the additional 36 hcles today. shot barely missed the bunker at the right, and Von EIm out drove him | proach shot up 30 feet short and Von | Elm pitched up to within 12 feet. | Burke putted up 3 feet short, and as | Herbert Ramsay, president of the Golf Association, marked the ball, Von Elm | D. G. NET TOURNEY DEVOID OF UPSETS Singies and Doubles Reach Advanced Rounds With Favorites Coasting. TILL falling to produce anything in the way of an upset, the fourty-fourth annual District of Columbia men's singles and doubles tennis championships was to | continue today with four third-round | matches and two fourth-round affairs in the singles and a flock of second, BRITISH GOLFERS BUSY Three Ryder Team Members in Chicago Open Tourney. CHICAGO, July 6 (#).—Three mem- bers of the British Ryder Cup team and a number of America’s tournament mong the entrants in the fourth arnual North Shore oYen golf tournament at the Sunset Valley Club today. Charles Whitcombe, British captal By Hary ‘Hampion and Mot A Ty n_ an ortie Dutra, while Archie C ‘was in the same foursome with Estal 3 up with Chick Evans, Abe Espinosa and Harry Cooper. The British team yesterday lost a 91;-t0-5'% decision to & picked Chicago pro group, with Al Espinosa leading the way with a 89 over the Bryn Mawr Country Club course. NEW LINKS OPENED, VOTED FINE LAYOUT doubles at Rock Crek. As has marked the majority of the tournaments this year, favorites easily are in there again today in an-|looked his putt over from all angles. | came through victoriously, five of the Anacostia Coarse Christened With other 36-hole play-off for the title a lot of other guys would like to have, setting all sorts of golf precedent and trying hard. ‘To date the net results of their strug- | the green as he did on Slpurfll,};. but | gles over the last two days has been a | tle. They battled 36 holes to nnnlheri tie in & scheduled 36-hole play-off yes- terday, which now stretches out {0 72 holes. ' And at the end of that 36-hole play-off George von Elm got another birdie on the eighteenth hole of the his- toric old Inverness golf course and again there was & tie for the champion- ship. If they go on like this we'd bet- ter break out the Winter clothes, but most of the boys predict they'll get out of the trenches by Christmas. 1If they don't break the te today they may as well put on a brother act, call them | both champions and send them out over | the country touring under the colors of | the United States Golf Association as twin American open golf champions. | IT‘! all right to say that never before has such a thing happened as a 72- | hole play-off for the open cham- plonship The real truth of this scrap at Inverness is that neither Billy Burke nor George von Elm cares a hoot about winning. At least, you wouldn't think 50 if you looked at the way they tossed the ball around that last nine holes of the 36-hole play-off yosterday, and again ended in the inevitable tie ertheless, they are out there toda starting at 10 am. and 2 pm. play ing for the national endurance golf championship. Billy Burke, the American-born Pole who strengthened his wrists and got his tough determination as a puddler's as- sistant in an iron mill at Bridgeport. Conn., had the championship all locked up and sewed in at the twenty-fourth hole of the play-off yesterday. At that point he led by four shots. Then George von Elm, the blond tiger from Cali- fornia and Detroit, stepped in and told Mr, Burke where to get off by shooting four birdies in a row at him. And after the boys came out of the flurry of birdies and squared away for the final nine Mr. von Elm had picked up six shets on the Pole and was two strokes in the lead facing the last nine. Up to that sixth hole Burke had the cham- pionship all bedded down. And after | Von Elm ended his hot streak he had the championship all laid away, leading by two shots with nine holes to go.| Now you wouldn't think any man in | the world could spot George von Elm a two-stroke lead with nine holes to go and catch him. But that is what Billy Burke did, and. furthermore, he picked | them all up and went into the lead : within six holes. Then Burke had the | championship all laid away on the six- teenth green. T was that kind of a play-off, quite the weirdest exhibition of in-again, out-again golf we ever have seen Some one remarked that the bovs were out there shooting craps for the title. | And that is just what it looked like. | But had Billy Burke holed the 4-footer | he missed at the sixteenth he would today be the open golf champion of the | United States. And, as the cards finall lay, had George von Eim holed the 6-footer he missed at the seventeenth he might be the champion. You simply | cannot tell about these things. | The first round of the play-off was | merely a warm-up for the boys. They got around in 73 and 75, with Burke leading by two shots. George picked up one of them at the first hole of the afternoon round when Burke half. topped his iron second and got a 5 to Von Elm's 4. But then it became George's turn to look like a dub golfer, | for he booted two shots at the second | hole and Burke picked up two shots | with a 6 against Von Elm's 4. They split the third and Von Elm picked up & shot at the fourth, only to lose two more at the fifth, where he fought his way to the green via the rough, and took & 6. At that point Burke led by four shots and looked like a sure win- ner. But Burke's tee shot at the sixth hif tree and George started his run of birdies with a 3 and whittled 2 off Burke's lead. Von Elm scored his second birdie by canning a 10-footer at the seventh while Burke was 3 putting the green, and they were all even within the short space of two holes. Then George, atill coming strong and looking like a champion, holed a 40-footer for his third birdie at the short eighth, while Burke blew a 4-footer for a par 3, and Von Elm led by two shots. They both got down good putts for birdie 4s at the ninth, and Von Elm was two strokes in the lead with nine to go. At the tenth he hooked his second shot and lost a stroke, leaving him 1 in the lead. They halved the eleventh and twelfth in par and Burke stuck up great iron shot 6 feet from the pin at the fourteenth to get his birdie 3 and square when Von Elm's 20-footer rimmed the cu So they were all even facing the fifteenth or thirty-third hole. And here Von Eim made the tee shot and third shot that should have cost him the championship and didn't. He pushed his ball into the rough so deep he had to blast it out with a niblick. Playing safe to avoid the ditch which crosses the fairway, he dumped his third shot into a trap | and finally got down in 6, while Burke | took a 5 to go into a l-stroke lead. O they came to the sixteenth, where the ex-ironworker blew that may cost him the title. Here they both spanked out fine tee shots and Burke knocked his second shot within 4 feet of the pin. Von Elm was on 20 feet away and his putt barely missed to the 4-footer. have a 2-stroke lead with two holes to go. enough to bring him heme the win- ner. He forgot to hit the ball, and it didn't go up to the hole. The seven- teenth was much the same. with the situation reversed. Here Billy pushed his second shot to the rough at the right of the green, while Von banged a great iron shot to within 6 feet of the pin, leaving him a straight uphill putt for a birdle. Burke chipped down 8 feet away and holed the putt for a par 4, and George obliged by missing the putt that would have squared. They stood on the thirty-sixth tee with Burke leading by a shot. Von Elm was in the same situation that faced him Saturday. He knew he needed a birde to tie. In sharp con- trast to the tle on Saturday, when more than 5.000 of Ohio’s finest folks draped #themselves over the natural amphitheater in which the eighteenth green lies, they were not more than 700 folks out to watch the drnmntlr‘Ph!lndr!phla‘. finish of the play off. Burke's tee | | h | of the green, the putt | Then Burke stepped up | If he holed it he would | Elm | | Just as on Saturday, that putt had to | go down to tie. And just as on the previous day he stroked the ball smoothly and into the hqle it went for the tying birdie. George didn't put|blue ribbon net event; Frank Shore, on the theatrics and stagger around they did have a hard time Burke hole his putt. And it wasn't an singles choices winning yesterday. Daybreak Round of G. P. 0. Garnett Beats Judd. Tom Mangan, twice winner of the J. L. Moorehead, Hugh Trigg and Gene Herman were the favorites to advance yesterday in the singles. easy putt to hole either. He had left himself 3 feet short, and any one can miss a 3-footer under the grinding prisee of knowing that if he doesn't ole it, it may cost him many thou- ‘undz of dellars. But Billy holed it and they had tied again. WE said there were 1,149 other guys who would like to win this cham- pionship. Well, there were 1.151 entrants back in May before the quali- fying rounds and 153 survived the qualifying rounds and 144 started in the | tournament. And at the end of it here Aare two of them booting the cham- plonship all around this fine golf course. One them may want it. but you wouldn't think so to watch them 36-hole_pl fls started back in 1928, when Jones and Farrell tied, and Farrell won. Jones and MacFar- lane staged an impromptu 36-hole play-off back in 1925, but that was because they were tied at the end: of the scheduled 16 holes. 8o, in 1928, the powers that be figured out if an- other tie was forthcoming 36 holes would be enough. And now Von Elm and Burke have played 108 holes and still they were tied. If they wind it up tod: they will have played 144 holes. And they may keep on forever. It never has happened before and 1t | probably won't happen again. But if they had quit at the end of 18 holes as they used to do in the play-offs for these championships Billy Burke would be the winner but he's gone a long way to win it. The big kick of the morning round came at the twelfth hole. Starting with only a handful of people follow- | ing them, Von Elm went into a 2-stroke lead at the second hole, which he birdied. but Burke quickly whittled him down to his size by continuing his re- lentless and successful chase after par until the stolid ex-iron worker had worked himself into a _2-stroke through the fifth. Here Billy had clung to par, while the blonde from Cali- fornia had gone out to sea op the fourth and fifth with a brace of 8s and looked to be ready to blow higher than Ben Franklin's kite. In fact George got a gmd 6 at the fifth. It might have been ar worse. Billy sank a twisting 20-footer to halve the seventh in birdie 3s and they eplit the eighth, with Burke adding another shot to_his lead by holing a 15-vard chip shot for a birdie 4. That put him out in 35, while Von Elm, who ad pushed his tee shot to the right, had a 5 and a 38. EORGE picked up & shot at the tenth by making a most remark- able 4 where he was bunkered from the tee and sank a 20-footer. Burke got a good 5 there and they both scored par 43 on the eleventh. The twelfth hole at Inverness is 516 yards long, down a narrow fairway with a green tucked away on top of a hill flanked with tall pines and fringed with shallow sand traps. Before today the hole has been played into the wind, but today the wind had shifted and was behind the players. George socked out a pair of great wooden-club shots that put him on the green in 2 with a putt | for an eagle, while Burke half flubbed | his second shot and from the rough he put his third shot over the green. That left him with one of the trickiest shots in the game. He had a two-stroke lead and it looked as if he might lose all of it and maybe more. His shot must be pitched to a green going away from him and it must carry heavy rough and land on the green. He knew Von Elm would get his 4 and he might take 6 or more. Carefully he took his stance and a niblick and pitched the ball down to- ward the green. It hit on the edge rolled down the slope and then, with a roar from the crowd, | which then had grown to sizable pro- portions, came to rest between the flag and the edge of the cup. Instead of a 6 or 7. he had made a birdie 4, and instead of picking up a brace of strokes Von Elm only halved the hole. That was the big kick of the round. George took a 4 at the par 3 thir- teenth when his tee shot was bunkered lunr(l! Burke then was three shots in the ead. fifteenth in par fours, but Ven Elm | |took a 5 at the sixteenth, where he | tossed the championship away Satur- | day, and was four strokes back with | two' holes to go. Burke was in the | rough from the tee at the seventeenth and lost one of his precious strokes and George picked up another at the eighteenth, where Burke was bunkered | from the tee and took a 5, and Von | Elm's bid for his fourth consecutive 3 on this hole hit the cup and stayed | out. Their scores were 73 for Burke |and 75 for Von Em. which is good | enough golf in any man's language in | such a tough test as the play-off for the open. BARNEVELDT AGAIN WINNER. SAINT CLOUD, France, July 6 (A).— Count De Rivaud's Barneveldt, winner of the Grand Prix last Sunday, cl?- tured the Prix du President de la | Republique. The race, last big classic of the Parisian racing season, wi worth $16.000 Records for Week In Major Leagues | NEW YORK, July 6 (®.—Last | week’s major league records of games won and lost, runs, hits, errors, oppo- |nents’ runs and home runs: American Leagué. |Teams. = W. L. R. H. E.OR.HR. | Philadelphia. 6 53 92 17 39 6 |St. Louis ... 6 | New York | Cleveland | Boston .. | Detroit . Chicago Washington, 2 | 2 3 4 5 5 5 2 6 Brooklyn ... 6 Pittsburgh. . St. Lou's ... New York . Chicago |Boston . | wumworwa 2 4 4 4 4 5 6 Cincinnati. . He still may be, | lead | They split the fourteenth and | | A mild surprise came when Muscoe Garnett eliminated Dean Judd, 5—1, | |88, 6—4, but it was not figured an |"Pe detendi ‘ | e defending doubles champion: | Bob Considine and Tom Mangan easiis | triumphed over Packer and Mehl, 6—1, | |60, and the seeded No. 2 duo of Dolf | Muehleisen and Lieut. S. K. Robinson | | was defaulted for faflure to put in| appearance, YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. BINGLES. |, Becond reund-—Cons, by default: Taslor defeated [§=3: Morrison, etented H."pucnanen, 61 defeated Rathgeber. 6—1. 6.1 Charest de- | tented” w. - | deetea, Jonmbens 8=y, ‘a—b: e et oyt won from ©Oyr Abrams, 6—1, | n - | efeated | ugento, | Brown. . 62 !ecle:‘tfln eate | 83 Trig defeated Birng. e el deteated En‘vd,dfln P oryihe. 601 83 5 | teatea”Statbiy. 64, -3 Ellioir detonted Heiskell. 6—1, 8—3. 'Ladd defeated Krause. 83, 6.3 Considine def ; 8-2. Morrizon defeated Garnett defented - Judd Moorhead defeated "Willis, . 8 co'e 2 Walienstein 86, | 4“8 63 5, Gar- mubor R el | Garnett, | Hermann defeated Maubo; | &3 Bem rene. | Shese ManEan ‘deteated " Latona,” 61 defeated Pin:, b [ nd—Goul | baad-atewood. ¢ TE o nReE, delated ough won from Lisut & i Dol Muehieison: B iy Nobingon and econ i Ntaean o p.c:.;’\’"{‘:fi?, L pEa one eated Feliows-car hegd-Moorhead - deteared Ho 62,61 ‘Bhepara by defavl o ated Krause-Gran: 61 Trize Pirst rous dine defear- ndel-8taubly 1 86 Moor- facker-Rifzen_ unt won from | t: Gould-Ritzen- * 4—b. 62, 60 A g Harmann-Teige de. Elliotr. 80, 61 Markev. | o Rockman-Stewart: O Naill- | | miot ™ det allenstein- Willts. 68, Third round—Deck-Setdel def - mann-Trie 6 2.8 4 e TODAY'S PAIRINGS. RINGLES, Third round (4 o'elock) | Morrison. Harris ve Charest vs. C. B Garnett: Elilof Fourth round 5 o'clock)- Sendel; Shore vs. Trigs. DOUBLES Second round (4 o'vlock)--Hill-Lov Brown-Doherty 5 o'clock—Garnstt-| vs, Goubeau-Robarts Third _round (3 Mangan ve_ Winner of Tavl + Considine vs lancaard. 5 o'clock- dd arkey vs ve aney o'elock) —Considine. Hill-Love n ne; ricl and Elliott vs. winner of | 8 ocioek—o Garnett-Haney vs. Goubenu-Robarts match. ALBERT BURKE “DARK HORSE” IN PRO TENNIS Briton Competing With Tilden, Richards Kozeluh American Championship. | By the Associated Press. FORSET HILLS, N. Y. July 6— Tennis experts have nominated Bill | Tilden, Vincent Richards and Karel Kozeluh as the "big three” of the Amer- | |ican professional champicnships, start- | ing at the West Side Stadium today. and Albert Burke of Great Britain as | the principal “dark horse.” Burke, who is pro at a Prench club, never has competed before in this country and his work in his first-round | match with D. Daniel Martella of Wil- | mington, Del., was to be watched closely. | and for Night Workers. ‘The Government Printing Office, rep- resented by four proofreaders from the night force, had the honor of unoffi- cially opening the new Anacostia golf course Saturday. Coming to the course directly from & warm eight-hour ses- sion in the big printery, they shot the first ball into the gray dawn of the eastern sky at 4:50 a.m. Fairways on the new course were bet- | ter than could be reasonably expected | considering the dry period when the grass was starting last Fall, and the | greens were keen and perfectly shorn. These greens are “pretty,” inasmuch as | the approach from the fairways is per- | fect, yet an ounce of extra pressure and the ball finds itself in a sand trap in| the rear, with side traps to catch an | errant shot. Two elevated tees on | the fourth and sixth holes add zome- | what to the level contour of the course. | Golfers are going to find some dis- courzgements in deceptive distances. | according to the early birds who opened the new ocurse. Waving trees, rippling water and elevated tees on two shots impress the golfer with miraged dis- tances. And on the first two holes, par fours, golfers will do well to stick to their slices, for a slight hook will land the ball in the Anacostia River. The foursome informally opening the course was composed of V. G. Burnett, F. H. Colt. L. E. Boeglen and A. J Benton, all of the night G. P. O. proof room Some difficulty was experienced on | the first few holes, owing to the early morning haze, but no balls were lost and the foursome was enthusiastic over the prospects of the new course. ‘The scores of the first foursome were Burnett Colt Benton Boeglen . Par for course 1234 7 8574 5 6564548 | 6564 L] 6964 7 4453 4 COEN TWICE WINNER Captures Singles and Doubles Net Title at Nassau Club. GLEN COVE. N. Y. July 6 (&) — Wilbur F. Coen, jr. of Kansas City defeated Edward W. Feibleman of New York, 6—3, 7—5 6—4, to win the' Nassau Country Club invitation singles | tennis champlonship yesterday. | Coen ~nd Eddie Jacobs of Baltimore defeates E. T. Herndon and Lieut. R M. Watt, jr, of New York in the doubles final,” 6—2, 6—4, WOMEN TO VIE ON TURF Rich Purses Offered at Arlington in Two Races This Week. CHICAGO, July 6 (/). —Women of | the turf wiil try for their share of Arlington Park’s rich purses this week in the Lassie Stakes and the Illinois Oaks. The Lassle, for two 2-year-old fillies, at five and one-half furlongs, with $10.000 in added money, will be decided | Wednesday, and, from the size of the | prospective fleld, should gross $25,000. DOEG AND HALL BEATEN. MONTCLAIR. N. J. July 6 (®).— Perrine Rockafellow and Wiillam Ayde- | lotte, defending champions, won the | New Jersey doubles title, beating John |77 Hope Doeg of Newark and J. Gilbert Hall, South Orange, 6—3, —4, 3—6, 6—3. Jones; Comps BY BOBBY JONES, T Columbus during the Ryder Cup match there were some very long drives hit with the new ball—and some of them were hit into the face of a fairly stiff breeze. One which I saw Diegel hit on the seventh hole in the foursomes on Friday, considering the wind and the topography of the hole, was as long as any drive I ever saw. And Archie Compston of the British side, playing against Bill Burke, drove so far on the eighteenth that he was able to reach | this 490-yard hole with a mashie-niblic second. Of course in this instance the wind was helpin® but even so, the length was amazing. All of which brings to my mind a certain conversation I had with Charlie Hall, himself one of the longest hitters the game has ever seen. Charlie holds the opinion that the greatest length on a tee shot is obtained by striking the ball a little bit after the club passes the low point of its arc—in other words, when the club is traveling slightly up- ward. He says that he is*able to pull up with greater force than he can push down, and that he can produce more power in this way than he can by strik- ing the ball & downward blow. Of course, Charlie was speaking only of a full driving shot. I remember quite well when Archie Compston first began to experiment with his driving swing, working toward this same ideal which Charlie Hall de- scribed, of taking the mall either with a sweeping arc, or even slightly upward. It was at Oakmont in 1927, when the British Ryder Cup team after playing their match at Worcester were com- peting in the American open champion- ship. I played several rounds in prac- tice with Compston and watched with interest the thing he was trying to work out. Stops Ball Quickly. Prior to that time Compston, a big, powerful chap. was hitting the kind of tee shot which sends the gallerv into ecstacies, but which really is of little use so far as length is conczrned. He was hitting the ball a terrific wallop, but he was striking it a decidedly downward Contact on Upswing Is Best For Distance From Tee, Says | said that he believed that this was a | worked on this idea, and now, I believe, ton Hard Hitter blow. The resulting shot started off on a low trajectory and appeared to be going to travel a mile. but as it went on it would rise abruptly and finally drop almost vertically without any run. Compston's great power enabled him to get. very good distance everr hitting the ball in this way, but one never has so much length they do not want a little more. In the course of one of our rounds he made the observation that most of the Americans were swinging on the ball instead of punching it down, and better method. From that time he | he is hitting the ball farther than ever. The downward blow produces the peaking flight which I have described, because it imparts a backspin to the ball. The flatter or ascending stroke takes the ball squarely in the back, | and while I do not believe it 1s possi- bie to impart a topspin to the ball, certainly this kind of stroke starts it off with a minimum of backspin. The ball then fiies in an arching trajectory, it strikes the ground at an oblique angle and it keeps on going. Two Fairway Shots. ari #n this same way there are two dif- ferent shots which I play with a wood club from the fairway. ~When I plan the shot to pitch all the way up to the green and sit down when it strikes the ground, I hit it down, and when' I want all the length I can get and do not need to stop it quickly I try to get the club under the ball and strike while the clubhead is moving | more neerly parallel to the ground., Of course, I cannot accomplish this un- Jess the lie is fairly good and there is some grass under the ball. Often the occasion arises when it is not possible to hit the ball in this way with a brassie and yet it can be done with a n. In that case the spoon will give tg:o:renter distance. Leo Diegel makes the same variation in his strokes with a No. 2 iron to obtain a greater length occasions. mof course, just like anything else in golf this business of hitting the ball up can be overdone. The best way, I think, is to try to strike it squarely in the back. But it is often useful to remember that the shot tg:'pr‘:,r:’s‘: down does not make as mu through & head wind as is popularly supposed. o £ 1000, | (294), $650. | All thare throughout this Nation, who THE TIMID SOUL. HAVING HEARD OF PEOPLE G AN ELECTRIC SHOCK BY TURNING OMN A LIGHT OR USING THE P HE TAKES THE PRECA HONE WHEN WET UTION OF WEARING RUBBER GLOVES AND RUBBER SOLED SHOES WHILE BATHING — S P sl o @ 198 wyv. TR ISUNE. wie. NATIONAL OPEN PROS 102 Public Linksmen Battle GIVEN CASH AWARDS Perkins Gets Medal—Von Elm and Burke Battle for $1,000. $750 to Runner-up. By the Associated Press INVERNESS CLUB, Toledo, July 6. —The United States Golf Association has awarded all the prizes in the na- tional open golf championship with the exception of first and second money. | It still is a toss-up as to whether Billie Burke or George Von Elm will collect the winner's purse, amounting to $1,000, out of the total of $5.000 distributed altogether among 21 players. Second money_amounts to $750. T. Phillip Perkins, New York, was | the only amateur to finish in the select | list, tieing with Walter Hagen and Mor- | tie Dutra for seventh and eighth places Perkins recelved a medal for his work A list of the prise winners, already decided, with their scores and the prize award: | Leo Diegel, Agua Calients, Mexico MSB(;" Mehlhorn, Pinewald, N. J. (296), | ‘x‘fhmy Oox, Brooklyn, N. Y. (206), Gene Sarazen, Great Neck, N. Y. (296), $450. Walter Hagen, Detroit (207), $200. Mortie Dutra, Long Beach, Calif. (297), $£200. *T. Phillip Perkins, New York (297), medal. Mac Smith, New York (209), $108. Johnny Farrell, Mamaroneck, N. Y. (299), $105. Al Espinosa, Chic: (299), $108. G;xov Paulten, Fort Wayne, Ind. (300), Frank Walsh, Chicago (300), $77.50. Herman Barron, Port Chester, N. Y. (301), $57.50. Ed Dudley, Wilmington, Del. (301), $57.50. Harry Cooper. Chicago (301), $57.50. Al Watrous, Detroft (301), $57.50. Charlie Guest, Deal, N. J. (302), $50. | ‘Tony Manero, New York (302), $50. ‘aiohn Kinder, Caldwell, N. J. (303), 5: | Olin Dutra, Los Angeles (303), $35. *Denotes amateur. e $ TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va., July 6.— The Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers both were muddy this morning. For Places FIELD of 102 golfers today began a two-day 36-hole battle at East Potomac in the qualifying rounds for the National Public Links champlonship for the three re- maining berths on the Washington team. Capt. Bradley H. Burrows, who reached the semi-finals last year in the national event, automatically won his | position on the team, but he will be | joined with three teammates by to- morrow evening when the second 18 will be finished. The 20 low scorers of today will play | again tomorrow, with the three lowest | completing the Capital City team. R. PATTISON and Mack Myer almost tossed away the two-man | team championship at the Manor Club yesterday on the seventeenth and eighteenth holes when they were 2 up | with two to play, but a pair of par 5s on the extra hole, the first of the woods nine, gave them the victory over Ray F. Garrity and D. L. Thomson. Byrn Curtiss and Tom Belshe will meet Friday in the final of the Tribal Bowl tournament of the Indian Spring Golf Club. Curtiss, in the semi-final round. de- feated Leo Pass, 2 and 1, and Belshe defeated George Gist by the same margin ;!'“g'e final will be a 36-hole affair, Howard and Whalter Nordlinger yes- | terday won the Scotch foursome tour- | nament _at the Woodmont Country | Club. The Nordlinger brothers scored | a best ball of 85 with a handicap of | 13 for & net of 72, while A. E. Steinem | and Gfibert Hahn. with a gross of 95 and a handicap of 16, ran second | with 79. | F. 8. Pomery. with & gross of 80 and | a handicap of 10 for a net of 70, won the weekly sweepstakes yesterday at Kenwood. Maury Fitzgerald. the golf scribe. was second with a gross of 78 and a handi- cap of 7. A. H. Marshall won the blind bogey | tournament at the White Flint Coun- | try Club with a gross of 96 and a han- dicap of 20 for a net of 76. J. E. Mayer, with 107—30—77, was Amateur Sailors In Chase BY LAWRENCE PERRY. YORK, July 6.—There was & eolemnity about the start.of those 10 little salling yachts on the race to Plymouth, England, from Newport on Saturday that is not commonly associated with a yacht race nor, in fact, with any sporting event. held a brief for brave manhood should know about this transatlantic thresh, should follow it with unflagging inter- est as these 98 men and one woman fare over 3,000 miles of surging deep, facing dangers, rigors such as men faced in the dim dawn of ocean navi- | gation. These sloops and schooners range in size from 36 to 71 feet, most of them have no wireless and are fitted with the simplest conveniences. Seen from the deck of an ocean liner at sea and the biggest of them at any distance would look like a toy yacht. They de- pend upon sail power alone. And they are skippered and manned, not by in- durated professional seamen, men who have spent their lives knocking about the sea, but by amateurs, among whom are largely rpresented some of the best blood in this country. Gentlemen sail- ors whose artistically designed craft have fared on Summer seas Seasol after season usually inside of headlands. May Be Hardships Ahead. ‘What lies ahead of these daring argo- nauts? All the hardships and all the perils that have given authors of sea novels their material since books were printed and which before that are an important part of the sagas of deeds. |and subdue them. And that is worth Brave Peril Across Atlantic the moan of the vessel's haunting fog | horn was sounding its warning. Ahead Iay the limbo of fog, wisps of it were | trailing shoreward, .hrmxdlnsi the green shores of Narragansett and hiding sea- ward perspectives. | Incoming ocean liners may have oc- | casional word of the intrepld racers: | for the yachts are salling right through the transatlantic Summer lanes. But for the most part there will be silence. perhaps for nearly a month when, if | all goes well, the craft will begin to pass Holyhead. Jauntily Set Forth. ‘There will be storms to meet, hurri- canes, indeed, are not unknown upon | the July Atlantic. Then will come | times of trysail, or, indeed, there may | be days when the racers will have to lie hove to, bows to the seas, riding out the worst that old Atlantic can send until the elements subside and the race may continue. But these seafaring gentlemen are prepared for all that comes-and so are their craft, small but sturdy. High they will rise when the moun- tainous waves come, but joyously they will coast down into the hollows and climb the next while the gale whines | deep sea chanteys through the rigging | and gear. Jauntily as buccaneers they set forth on Saturday. Some of the crew were in red trousers, bared to the walst, others were in blue. 8till others wore shorts and socks of vivid hue and all were brave and colorful. Their fare will the rugged fare of hairy-chested mariners; their accommodations will be crowded with spare sails and spars. ‘There will be no fun save the fun that strong men get who meet the elements while. worth while and may the the winds be kindly and Even as they passed the old yellow Brenton - Reef htship on Saturday SPORTS. A—I17 ield Sceptor in East —By WEBSTER WO HE_I_EN—S—L[]UM AS SEABRIGHT FOES Mrs. Moody Flashes Strong Service in Only Public Match of Year. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, July 4—Mrs. Helen Wills Moody sends word that she will arrive in the East for tournament play about July 15. This means that in all probability she will be the central figure—man or girl— at the classic Seabright tourney, which starts on July 29. Mrs. Moody’s absence abroad in recent years at this season has made her appearances at Sea- bright sporadic, and when in this country other engagements have from time to time prevented her appearance in the famous matches on the Jersey Coast. But now the understanding is that she will enter this tournament and in- asmuch as the American girls now at Wimbledon, Miss Jacobs, Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Van Ryn and the rest, will have re- turned in time to play at Seabright, Mrs. Moody will have plenty of oppor- tunity to sharpen up her game. Her Throne Safe. Helen Jacobs' improved play in Eu- Tope has given some zest to the out- | Iook for meetings in this country be- tween the champion and her sister Cali- fornian; but those who have followed the careers of the two girls have no | feeling that Mrs. Moody need do & great deal of worrying aboui her titular lau- Tels, even granting that her play this Summer has been confined to private games so far as singles are concerned. In her only out-and-out public ap- | pearance in California this Summar Mrs. Moody participated in an exhibition st in mixed doubles as one of the fem- | tures of the California State tourna- ment. Paired with Neil Brown against Alice Marble and Gerald Stratford, she revealed- what coast critics declared to b* the strongest service she has ever shown. while her backhand was extraor- dinarily fine. No Tssue Involved. that the failure of the awn Tennis Association y abroid fo play on the continnt and at Wimbledon this | vear involved, as has been intimated, no issue between the Berkelev girl and | the assoctation. Precedent alone with- held the United States Lawn Tennis | Assoctation from action The custom is to send American girl | players abroad with expenses paid only |in the year when our Wightman Cup o > - team goes to England to meet the Br! in City Line.Up Euk 55 moioyialon ish girls. The British association follows | the same policy. So, for example, when the American tram went abroad last second and W. 8. Furlow, with 86—8— 78, was third. year no British girls were sent here for subsequent play. True, Miss Betty Nuthall came over and, incidentally, ‘W. H. Arnold, with a groes of 89 and a handicap of 19, yesterday won the flag tournament at the Argyle Club. von the American singles title; but she came over on her own, just as Helen Ja- cobs and Mrs. Harper are now abroad on_their own DO!L is lzlnt-rps',mg to note that John AMUEL J. ROBERTS was the win- | DO%8 Will compete in the national sin- ner of the “ringer” tournament, Lt 2S defender of his 1930 title He Which began last Saturday af | Washington. Roberts had a best ball of 70 for three rounds. No limit on the number of holes was made. is not yet in form for important Joseph Jordan and Capt. W. J. Clear matches; but always he has been ex- tremely slow in coming to his peak and tled for second with 77—21—56 and 8—12—56, respectively. the chances are that by September he will be prepared to give a good account \U. S. DAVIS CUPMEN WILL REST IN PARIS Prepare to Meet Britons or Czecho- slovakians in Interzone Tennis Finals July 17, 18 and 19. No scores were turned in by class A players vesterday in the sweepstakes tournament at the Indian Spring Club but D. M. McNeale. with a card of 95— 15—80, won the class B event. The class C winner was Robert Brownwell, 99—20—79. The men's putting championship at the Manor Club yesterday ended in a triple tle between C. H. Gerner, D. M. | McPherzon and J. F. Victory, each with | a putts for 18 holes. " C."A. Metzler, | t , was second. TT. Powell, with 38 putts, won 57 the Astociated Press. the women's tourney, with Mrs. H. T.| WIMBLEDON, England, July 6— Titeman and Mrs. Mack Myer tying, The British tennis championships are o7 4600 A WIth 40 saoh. over for another year and once more | patient Britons have been forced to Another competition ended in a tie | stand by while most of the titles went at Manor Club, the blind bogey tourna- | to other lands. Of the five titles de- ment. 8. M. Grogan, 80—18—71; R.|cided, three went to the United States, Clayton, 84—13—71; H. E. Patton. 93— | one to Germanv and one to Great 2271, and J. F. Evert, 91—20—71, Sidney B. Wood, jr., won the Britain with the lucky number at 71, Were men's singles crown, George Lott and deadlocked. John Van Ryn the men’s doubles and The second winning number was 80, Lott and Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of H. W. Offut, with 104—-24—80, winning. 'Oakland, Calif, the mixed doubles, An octuple te resulted when the third | The women's singles went to Cilli lucky number was 77. The tie Was 8S Aussem of Germany and the women's {;o,llo;s:m? L. Thomson. 8710 | doubles to Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd- . . weller, ~; B ieorge | Bar d Phyllis & - . Miller, 80377 C. W.'Schafer. i S —15—77; J. O. Rutter, 82—15—77. The American Davis Cup team of W. F. Byrne, 83—16—77; E. J. Camer, | shields, Wond, Lott and Van Ryn left 97—10—77, and Dwight N. Burnham, for Paris yesterday, intending to rest 90—13—77. a few days before beginning practice — e - for the interzone finals against either HAS TWO0 HESTONS NOW. Great Britain or Czechoslovakia, July Two sons of Willie Heston, old Michi- 17, 18 and 19 Great Britain and Czechrslovakia will n foot ball star, are students there. oth play- foot bal stage their European zone final-round battle at Prague this week end, with the winner meeting the United States in Paris. The survivor of this lattar contest, gains the right to meet France in the chalienge round at Paris July 24, 25 and 26. Pointers on Golf et iatiasenssianaasl Emerson Sheoes Carried in an unusually complete line of custom styled mens shoes in a wide range of sizes and widths to insure proper fitting of YOUR foot. BY SOL METZGER. The average duffer desires & low drive. It is more important this year to gain such a result from the tee, else distance will be lacking with the lighter ball. In Bobby Jones' early days he habitually teed his ball low or else set it on the Bermuda grass turf. His idea was to hit it down with his driver and thus keep it low. 0ddly, it seemed that his ball start- ed low, then arose to the crest of its fiight whence it dropped on the ground without run, That defeated the objective. The good players are the good putters. Sol Metzger has prepared an {llustrated leaflet on “The Art of Pitching,” which he will gladly send any one sending a stamped, ad- dressed envelope to him in care of this h bessean Copyright. 19: TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F nowesT ALt FOR MEN 911 Penn. Ave. N,W. 1t is very gods of “all speed them on their way to sure haven.