Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1931, Page 43

SPORTS. THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931. SPOR TS. D—3 Stevens to See Contract Through at Yale Despite Llis® Desire to Change Now WANTS A WINNER BEFORE HE QUITS < Sees Chance to End Regime in Blaze of Glery—Has Great Material. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, July 9.—Efforts of the Yale foot ball authorities were recently made, it was learned today, to buy out the contract of Mal Stevens, head coach, which has Yyet a year to run. The idea, it appears, was to get the projected new gridiron regime under way without the loss of a year. But Dr. Stevens, it is said, décided to remain at the helm not only because he has an aversion to receiving money for nothing, but because he has a sport- ing determination to end his adminis- tration in a blaze of glory. So far as material is concerned he will have a better opportunity to de- velop & winning outfit than at any time since he has been in New Haven, the line both as to regulars and substitutes promising to show unusual strength. what with an_end who promises to make gridiron history discovered quite accidentally in Spring practice and a lot of backfield men, including, of course, Albie Booth and Crowley, Dr. Stevens would be no true enthusiast were he to pass up an excellent chance 1o win such honor as will surely befall the man who starts Yale back on the ‘upgrade in foot ball. Stevens, who played in the Ygle backfleld as a transfer student from Kansas, was appointed head coach upon the retirement of Tad Jones after the season of 1927, in which Tad had the satisfaction of downing the Army, Princeton and Harvard and Brown and Dartmouth, losing only to Georgia, 14 10 10, in the second game of the season. In his first year of coaching Dr. Stevens saw his team defeated by the Army, Maryland, Princeton and Har- vard. In 1929 Yale lost to Georgia and to Harvard, but defeated Dartmouth, Princeton and the Army and Brown among others. Last Fall the team lost to Georgia and to Harvard, was tied by the Army and by Dartmouth and de- Zeated Princeton. All told the showing has not been too and‘in the case of Harvard it has en downright bad—three sequential defeats. The pressure upon a Yale coach who loses sequentially to Harvard s ternfic. Yale would not like it if Princeton were to win thus consistently, but somehow when Harvard wins she a way of smiling that rasps the El old grad to the marrow. So with Dr. Stevens retiring into medicine, plans are afoot for a pretty thorough' renovation of the Eli foot ball aystem and the reported offer to buy out the present coach’s contract indi- cates that they are in a hurry to begin THE O far as records show, there has| never been a golf match in the history of the game which demon- strated’ so well the uncertainties of golf, the very soul of golf, as the | battle between Billy Burke and George Von Elm. . In the first place, it must go down as |a record of gameness and'skill and stamina on thé part of the men—both winner and loser. There can be very little difference, just a split hair, when | one man scores 589 and the other turns | in 590, when you consider all the putts | on both sides which circled and llppedl and hit the cup but just failed 0| drop, each of these putts being worth anywhere from $25,000 to $40,000. There were any number of slight turns which, if they had happened to veer one way, would have given either man at least a 12-stroke lead in either round. Both were gambling for a birdie on almost every hole, and if the luck | had been banked cne way it might have | been & rout. It was an amazing thing, considering | |all the startling incidents that hap- | pened, the sudden and quick changes. | that the two should have still been tied | after playing 139 holes, or more than 560 strokes. You can figure what the odds against this would have been, even in a normal match. Unusual Turns. 'HIS Burke-Von Elm battle through | 144 holes will go down as the golf | classic up to date, starting as far | back in golf history as you may care to | wander. It showed what can happen | in_golf, even to the best. For example, Von Elm picked up 14 strokes on Burke upon the first and| last holes of the Inverness course.| | That crdinarily would have been more | | than_enough to crush his opponent. But he lost 15 strokes to Burke on the | in-between holes. In the forenoon of the last play-off | Von Elm sank a 50-foct putt for a 2 on the eighth green. In the afternoon round he missed an 8-inch putt. That's golf, for the high and low alike. Von Elm missed three putts in the afternoon less than 2 feet in length and thesz cost him the title. But Burke also missed two short ones, so there you are again There was another dizzy episode on | the final day. In the forenoon Burke | was leading by four strokes and seemed to be pulling away. Von Elm looked | to be doomed. Whereupon he sudden- | | ly turned and picked up six strokes on |the next three holes with 3—3-—2 | against Burke's 5—5—4. Within a few | minutes Burke looked to be the doomed | entry. |~ They were like two game but groggy | Aghters, refusing to stay down, refusing | to quit, the groggler one suddenly turn- | ing to land a punishing blow to kill | off_his opponent’s leading margin. There was as much sheer grit, game- | | ness and determination in this match | as anything sport has known, for the main punishment here was thrown | against the nerves and tbe brain. | been a weary and almost tottering op- | had two putts for a 70 and he could !to do so, which, under all conditions BY GRANTLAND RIC 'HE big feature of the match was Burke's afternoon round. He had played something like 30 rounds of golf in a little more than two weeks. He had been playing at top speed, right on edge, and few believed that he could hold this peak through the second play- off. He started away raggedly in the forenoon, to lose three strokes on the first two holes.’ He had finished one stroke back, a trifie ragged down the stretch, and looking to be well worn out. There seemed to be signs of a bad crash in the afternocon. The odds at this point were all with Von Elm, starting with one-stroke lead and somewhat stronger and fresher. . But in some manner Burke came to the first tee for the last 18. He looked as fresh and as keen as he could have looked two weeks ago. He started 4-3-3-3 and he might just as well have started 3-3-2-3, since he was putting for birdies on every hole, not so far away, the ball dropping twice and just circling the lip on the other two occa- sions. Tt must have been something of a shock to Von Elm to find what had ponent down the forenoon stretch, sud- denly back at the peak again. It was just as if a kitten had turned into a tiger. Yet Von Elm held on gamely against this unexpected turn as Burks reeled off & 34 for the first nine. He have gotten down in 4 if he had needed and circumstances, must take its place as one of the most remarkable golf rounds ever played. ERE are just two examples of how quickly and bewilderingly the scene changed. At the second hole of the first round Burke was in the open and Von EIm was trapped. Burke seemed to be on his way to pick up a stroke. A moment later Burke hooked his second to a trap, Von Elm reached the green to get his 3, while Burke was taking a 5. A troke switch in the twinkling of an eye! | Later on the situation just reversed | itself. Burke hooked to a bad spot | in the trap on his second. Von Elm struck an iron that flew straight for the pin. “He'll have a putt for a 3 and maybe pick up two strokes,” Mac Smith re- marked as the ball was in the air. But the ball flew over the green, Burke made a great recovery, and with a 4 against a 6 it was Burke that picked up the two strokes. These two examples show you how events developed through the two days’ play-off. They kept the crowds dazed and dizzy as almost certain advan- tages were turned the other way over | just the slightest mistakes. | I think one ©f the great strokes, Burke played came on the seventh hole of the final round. He was leading two strokes, with two holes left to play. Burke was just on the green, 45 feet | from the cup. Von Elm had an 8-foot putt for a 3. He might.easily pick up two strokes again and square the match it Burke faltered. Bus the Round Hill entry laid his long approach putt stone dead, less THE SPORTLIGHT | City Title Tourney Arranged For Young Horseshoe Hurlers I3 HUCKS, I can beat some horseshoe pitching on and the remark had far-réaching effect. Among those present were Richard S. Tennyson, assistant supervisor of playgrounds, and the horseshoe editor of The Star. The same thought popped into the minds of both and then and there was born the first annual Washington junior horse- shoe tournament. Plans for the event were now is extended an invitation to every bo; have reached his sixteenth birthday by al the city’s 83 playgrounds. the grown-u thifd annu: The Star. The same general scheme of the event for grown-ups will be followed in the boys’ two players to carry on having ;flsyA inaries. The intercity match between Westminster, Md., and the Vic Sport Shop team of Washington, announced for next Sun- day on the Monument Lot courts, has been postponed until the following Sunday. This from a tiny lad watching grown-ups practice rt. Starting July 27 championship events will be held on all of The youngsters will shoot their matches before 5 p.m., when the courts will be turned over to , who also will begin competition July 27 in the metropolitan district tournament sponsored by nto divisional competition, the city een laid out into eight divisions. Stage by stage the eliminations will progress until a grand finale for the city title. Suitably engraved medals will be given the winners of divisional play-offs in the boys’' tournament, and the East and West section champions and the city winner will be fittingly rewarded. There will be no prizes in the youngsters’ prelim- of those fellahs!” the Takoma Park playground, completed today and here and in town who won't eptember 1 to take Each preliminary will qualify NET LEAGUE IN ACTION Argyle-Standards, Lakeview-Wes- ley Heights Listed Saturday. Argyle will oppose Standards on the latter's courts and Lakeview will oppose Wesley Heights at Wesley Heights in Saturday's matches in the Suburban Tennis League. Standards is riding in front with a 10-game lead over Argyle. Standing of the teams: Standards Club Argyle C. C. Lakeview Wesley Heights .. INVADE U. S. FOR TENNIS L 1 19 LONDON, England, July 9 (#).—Joan Ridley and Mrs. J. B. Pittman, two of England’s star women tennis players who were not chosen for the Wightman Cup team, have announced that they would go to the United ®States inde- pendently to compete in the American champlonship and other tournaments. as the at than an inch away, which, situation stood, locked the door last in Von Elm's face. 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Brown dis- posed of Holmes in a four-set match, taking the first two sets 6—4, 6—4, only to see Holmes start an offensive that carried him to a 6—0 victory. Holmes fought courageously to stave off defeat in the next set. With the count | four games to one against him, the vet | won three of the next four and was fighting in the deciding fray as Brown | shot one of his many drives to right| back court for set point and match. The match was played before a large gallery and was a thriller. from start finish. Brown's hard drives and | bounding service kept Holmes on the | defensive most of the time, the deep | back court drives forcing the vet to fight from the base line. Brown reached the finals after a hard struggle, down- ing_such stars as Oscar Murray and Melton Lancaster. The doubles final will be played to- day at 5 p.m. on the Howard University courts, with Holmes and Murray meet- ing Brown and Wilkinson. BIFF JONES RETURNS, AIDS SPORTS PILOT Former West Point Grid Mentor Will SBucceed Fleming as Graduate Manager. By the Associated Press, ‘WEST POINT, N. Y., July 9.—Capt. L. M. (Biff) Jones, former Army foot bell coach, has reported for duty here after having spent a year at the Fleld Artillery School, Fort Sill, Okla. He been assigned by Gen. Wil- liam R. Smith, superintendent, as as- sistant graduate manager of athletics. iff” will serve as Maj. P, B. Flem- ing’s assistant for the coming year, and on expiration of Fleming's term as graduate manager next June will suc- ceed him to that post. Capt. Jones is thoroughly famillar with the Army athletic system, having been foot ball coach from 1926 to 1929. BELLE HAVEN TEAM SEEKS GOLF HONORS Determined to Overhaul Leaders| in Closing Association Match Saturday. ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 9—Only & | few points out of first place, Belle Haven Club's 12-man golf team will make a determined bid for the Tri-State Association title Saturday when the Summer schedule is brought to a close in a tournament at Winchester. The Alexandria team will play the Loudoun County Country Club of Pur- cellville, Va., while the Martinsburg (W. Va.) and Winchester teams will be opposed. Martinsburg is leading the associa- tion with Winchester and Belle Haven Here’s Lowdown On Shoe Toprney D annual metropolitan dis- trict horseshoe championships, sponsored by The Washington Star. Play starts July 37T. Entries close July 25. Titles at stake: Neighborhood, di- visional, sectional and city cham- plonships of Washington; town, county and State champlonships of Maryland and Virginia. ‘Tournaments in Washington un- der supervision of Municipal Play- ground Department; these in Mary- land and Virginia under direction of local chairmen. Entry blanks, to be issued 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 champions will receive bronze medals, suitably engraved. Divisional winners in Washington and county champlons 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 metropolitan district title. ‘Washington will qualify four play- ers for the grand finale and Mary- land and Virginia two each, the elght to play a round robin, Detailed information may be ob- tained by phoning of writing the Horseshoe Editor, Washington Star sports department, phone National 5000, branch 335. For information on the colored section of the tournament, commu- nicate with Arthur A. Greene, ‘Twelfth Street Branch Y. M. C. A, 1816 Twelfth street northwest, phone North 1054. Mat Matches close on its heels. A circuit drive by Yarter gave the | Alexandria American Legion tossers a 5-to-4 triumph over the Virginia Juniors | yesterday in a 13-inning battle, Sidney Welil, commander of Alexan- send the Legion Juniors base ball team to RQanville, Va. for the elimination | games in the Nation-wide Legion series. Nearly $500 is needed. | game at Hunton Field today. Sunday games are sought by the Vienna Fire Department unlimiteds. Phone Manager Phillips at Lincoln 3081 | after 6 pm. | Bill Hammond is anxious to list games | | at Alexandria 2432 after 5 o'clock. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS.—Stanley Stasiak, Poland, | 245, defeated Allen Eustace, Kansas, 230; Frank Judson, former Harvard wrestling dria Post, No. 24, American Legion, has | coach, 208, and Joe Malcewiecz, Utica, made public an’ appeal for funds to N, Y. 200, wrestled 45 minutes to a | draw; Hank Bruder, former Northwest- | defeate in player, 190, 195, ern foot ball Charley Peterson, Chicago, —— | minutes, 15 seconds; George Trafton, | Agents were to play Mechanical De- | 225, defeated George Kogut, Chicago, | partment in & Potomac Yard League!198, in 4:45. PORTLANG, Oreg.—Abe Kpalan, 225, threw Howard Cantonwine, T Kaplan, third three falls (Cantonwine, Kaplan, second, 31:0¢ 2:00). LOS ANGELES.—Joe B8avoldl, first, HAWKINS IS PICKED TO WIN SHOE TITLE Colored Twirler Shows Class in Magruder Workouts—Fort Berry Seeks Foes. | At the Magruder Playground the boys will tell you that Raleigh Hawkins will command a lion's share of attention this Summer in the colored section of | The Star’s horseshoe tournament, open- ing July 27. Hawkins gave a clever | exhibition of pitching last Summer in {his march to the finals and played a |good game against Phillip Johnson, the | champion. He's hot now. Miss Olive Rose, director of the Magruder Play- ground, expects & bigger tournament than last year. Fred Slade, chairman of the Census Bureau tossers, is grooming Dewey | Rutherford to capture the metropolitan title. * Rutherford is sweeping every- thing before him in the Census daily tune-up matches. Fort Berry twirlers are seeking com- | petition, writes Chairman Eugene James. | With Robinson, Brice and Marshall hot, | the boys are ready for the best from {the District. James, a runner-up in the 1929 tournament, was idle last Sum- n but will go into action again this vear, BAER IS ON HONEYMOON Fighter's ;other Objected Max's Union With Actress. _July 9 (P).—Max Baer, eight boxer, and his bride, the former Dorothy Dunbar Wells, who. was an actress, were on & honeymoon today. The former Livermore, Calif., butcher boy and his bride, congratulated by | Baer's manager, J. Hamilton Lorimer,” |said they would leave tonight or to- morrow for Oakland, Calif., to receive belated blessings of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob | Baer, his parents. Baer's mother had objected to the: union, with the assertion Mrs. Wells was “old enough to be Max's mother.” Lorimer, who carlier had expressed desire to sell Baer's four-year contra “cheap to any one except Jack Kearn said he had changed his mind. d de- ts to He announced in Oakland he 4 Ccided to see that the bridegroom ‘90 | until he learns something about 1 Baer and Mrs. Wells were married by. 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