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2 Burke’s Victory Fulfills Golf Axiom : NEW CHAMP “KEPT AWAY FROM IKES" Traveled 119 Holes in Open Before Getting Worse | Than a Five. | BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. | OW that the smoke of strife has cleared away and suffi- clent time has elapsed to permit a calm resume of the lengthy and torrid siruggle! for the open championship at Inverness, it stands out at one and the same time as the finest| and most sensational tournament ever played for the title which[ Bobby Jones relinquished after 11| years of work up there in the front-line trenches. Several conclusions come to mind about that tournament, among them the fact that Billy Burke, with his ef- foriless and unorthodox swing, was a “natural” to win the tournament over such a “tight” course as Inverness. | The terrors of the Inverness rough | were not exaggerated. It was rough and no mistake. When such golfers as Farrell and Von Elm lost a shot or two getting out of this tough timothy hay, | the troubles of the average duffer may be understood. The championship was just anothe: cxample of an old tourna- “Keep away from sixcs d a good chance to win.” 119 holes before he kicked up hi t six He played 72 Toles in the championship proper with- | out a 6, then played the first 36-hole | play-off without a 6 and went on to | the twelfth hole of the first round of the second play-off before he finally wrote down a figure above 5 on his | score card. The old axiom must have | something to it, after all. | VEN in the play-off the wise om! heads that knew the game of both players figured Burke to win. “He 1s too strajght with wood and iron, too close to the line at all times, for a man | like Von Elm to hold on,” they said.| “Put them on a wider course, where the penalty for a shot off the line is not so severe and it would be a toss- up. But on a course like Inverness, where straightness is the real test, Billy Burke should win.” Now, George Von Elm has a fine swing. He is naturally a long hitter, but he has a bit of body swing in his full shots, a well con- trolled s to be sure, but a sway nevertheless. And a sway is certain to cause trouble along the bunkered path, just as he found it on the fourteenth | hole of the final round, where he got | into the hay and took a 5 while Burke was going into the lead with a per 4. Over such a course Burke should win every time. The boys looked as if neither of them cared a great deal for the champion- ship as the lead vascillated between them over those two play-offs for the title. First Burke would get a lead, then Von Elm would pick it up and go into the lead and the gallery was kept on the hop all along the route. No one knew when the fireworks would start. In the first play-off Burke had a four- stroke lead going to the sixth hole of the afternoon round. But his tee shot hit a tree, he took a 5, and Von Elm got a birdie 3, and two shots had | been lopped off. 'Then Von Elm picked | up_another birdie 3 on the seventh to 5 for Burke and they were even. But George's hot streak was not yet burned out. He got down a 40-foot putt for a | deuce at the short eighth for his third straight birdie, while Burke was taking a 4, and Von Elm led by two shots. a margin which he protected by halving the long ninth in a birdie 4. Then Burke whittled steadily away at the lead and finally led him by 1 shot go- | ing to the sixteenth, where the Pole | from Connecticut had the chance to | put across the winning punch, but failed. Here he missed a 4-foot putt for a birdie 3 and Von Elm squared on the eighteenth with a 12-footer for his birdie 3. O it went through both play-offs. | First:one man and then the other would go into the lead as a pop-eyed | gallery wondered if there ever was to come an end to the vacillations in the | score. A tired Billy Burke shot a 77 on the first round of the second play-off to let Von Elm lead him by one shot with 18 yet to go. Plainly weary from the Jong grind, Billy looked ready to crack. How he cracked is shown by the fact that he played the first four holes of the afternoon round in two better than par, and with ordinary putting luck he might have played them in 3, 3, 2, 3, which would be four better than par. On none of these holes was the putt for a birdle longer than seven feet, and only two of them dropped. That start took all the wind out of Von Elm. but the plucky blonde fought back and squared the match again and again. No doubt about it, that play-off was the biggest thrill in golf this year. One of the crucial spots came at the short thirteenth. where Burke, with a one- stroke lead, put his tee shot in a bunker and Von Elm left himself only a 10- footer for a bird 2. Here the situation might change in an eye-wink. Von Elm might hole his bird and Burke might take 5. But Von Elm missed and got a 3 and Burke got a 4 and the match was square. And at the fourteenth George made the excursion into the tiger country that cost him a stroke. Billy had to hole a sloping saven-footer | on the fifteenth green to protect his | lead, and he holed it. And then Georges | blew a two-and-a-half-footer on the sixteenth to give Burke a two-stroke lead with two holes to go. How well Burke protected that lead! He knew that to put his second shot past the pin at the sloping seventeenth green might cause him three putts and he deliber- ately played it short. His approach putt left him only two inches from the hole. But George had an eight-footer for a 3. He had to go for the hole and he had to be sure to get down in two putts. To go too strong might lose an- other stroks and toss the championship out the window. Under the circum- stances to hole that putt would have been miraculous, and George had al- ready holed two miracle putts. He missed and Burke had a two-stroke margin with one hole to go. He took thres putts on the eighteenth for a 5, but he could afford to do that, after Von Elm had holed his 4. A great tournahent and a great ex- hibition of gameness and courage by both men alorg the route, where a blow-up cf tense nerves and jumpy | yuscles might not have been altogether | wmexpected. GODFREY WINS ON MAT Boxer Tosses Demitrof, Russian, in Straight Falls. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 11 (®). George Godfrey, the boxer, of Leiper- ville, Pa., scored in straight falls over Demtri Demitrof of Russia in a wres- tling match here tonight. Len Macaluso, formerly of Colgate, and Pat McGill of Nebraska, went 30 minutes to 2 draw. Jack Ganson of California received verdict when Louis Allaire of Quebec nd himself unable to continue after a series of rabbit pynches, | 6—2, Print Craftsmen In Divot Battle IVOT diggers of the Union Print- crafts Golf Association will have it out in their second annual 18- hole medal play handicap tourna- ment tomorrow, Tuesday and Wed- nesday, at the Argyle Country Club. Another tournament is being ar- ranged for October 5, 6 and 7. Mr. Strausbaugh is chairman of the Tournament Com:nittee, assisted by John Hipps and Cy Burriss, DIXIE RACKETERS IN TOURNEY FINAL Barnes and Burwell, Latter| by a Great Rally, Score in llinois Singles. By the Associated Press. ! HICAGO, July 1—Two young | Southerners, Bruce Barne: Austin, Tex., and Ted Bur- well, Charlotte, N. C. won | their way to the final bracket today in | the Illinois State tournament at the | Chicago Town and Tennis Club. | Burwell, by one of the gamest rallies seen on local courts this year, defeat>d | Karl Kamrath, 19-year-old Austin, | Tex., star, 0—6, 2—6, 8—6, 6—2, 6—4. Fighting brilliantly, he staged his .plucky up-hill battle after the lanky Texan had reached match game in the third set. | Barnes, the tourney's top seeded | player, moved easily into the final | bracket with Burwell by defeating his | teammate, Doc Barr, in straight sets, 6—1, 7—5. | Barr tried hard, but lacked the ex- perience of Barnes, who pulled him out of position consistently to smash | dazzling placements into the unpro- | tected regions of his opponent's court. | Frank Parker, the 15-year-old Mil- waukee star, won his second title in two days today when he defeated Hal | Surface of Kansas City in easy sets, | 6—4, 8—6, 6—1, to win the Illino State junior title, He won the boys title yesterday. | Play in the women's divislon also | left the semi-final stage with Bernice Ayer of Chicago and Mae Cuervorst. Wichita, Kans, moving into the final brackets. Miss Ayer had difficulty in | downing Eugenie Sampson of Chicago, 6—4, 4—6, 2. but _trjumphed greater accuracy and livelier play. Mae Cuervost had no unexpected opposition in moving through to the finals by eliminating Louise Hofmeister of Chicago in straight sets, 6—1, 6—3. In the women's doubles semi-finals Cuervost, Wichita, and Willeder, Chi- cago, defeated Krumberg and Mc- ‘Cracken, Chicago, 6—1, 6—2, and Gor- don and Trayford, Chicago, defeated through her | Bates and Vandepre, Chicago, by de- | fault. STANDARDS NETMEN WIN Score Over A—;;y)e. ;Mle Lakeview Beats Wesley Helghts in Loop. | League-leading Standards and Lak view won yesterday in Suburban Tennis League matches. The Standards defeated the Argyle Club, 6 to 1, and Lakeview trimmed Wesley Heights, 5 to 2. Summaries: STANDARD VS. ARGYLES. Singles. Judd_(Standard) defeated Dudlev, 6 4; Thomas (Standard) defeated Thur- tell, 63, 4—6, 8—6. Doubl Judd and Thomas (Standard) won by d Cragoe and _Doyle (Standard) d Dudley_and Bates, 4—6, 6—4, 6— Hubbard and Kronauer (Standard) defeated Spottswood and Gable. 6—3. 7—5: Morss and Schmid (Standard) defeated Thurtell and | Benton. 7—3. 8—6: Anderson and_ Birch (ATEYIS) deféated Wharton and Wrisht, at LAKEVIEW VS. WESLEY HEIGHTS. Singles. (Lakevi defeated Ladd, 6—3, cCabe ~(Lakeview) defeated Polk 6—1. 6—4. Stamm 6—2. M 51, Doubles. (Lakeview) defeated 4, 6—4: Atwood and John- defeated ‘Harrick and Har- Edminster _and _Burrus | defeated Hall and Fair- and_May nd Smythe, 7— tewart (Wesley ielghts d Ferguson and Cook, 6—3, 6—4. ick, T—5, 6—4: (Wesley Helghts) Fa s 3, 1 (L Ks, , 1—5: May )’ defeated Howell a 6—4: Stone and S! defeate YOUNGSTER WINS TITLE. SEA ISLAND BEACH, Calif, July 11 (#)—Charles Yates, 17-year-old Atlanta boy, today won Georgia's high- est amateur golfing honors by defeat- ing Dean Smith, Savannah, 2 and 1, Ln the finals of the State tournament ere. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE T HE ultimate outcome of the situa- tion at the Bannockburn Golf Club, one of Washington's old- | est country clubs, is causing { much speculation among golfers these | days. Quite a large group of Bannock- burn members have joined other clubs or are planning to do so, and some 45 of them have played the Manor course | preparatory to applying for membership ‘ there. The Bannockburn Golf Club toda has the status of a public fee golf | course. Any piayer inay use the course | by payment of a greens tee of 50 cents | jon week days and $1 on Satur- days, Sundays and holidays, and spokes- | men for the club say the club hopes to | continue its existence by the income | from these fees until such time as it can regain its status as a private golf or- ganization. Operating expenses at Bannockburn, combined with payments cn notes, ar: said to run to about §1,500 a month, and it is hoped that the income from greens fees will take care of these ex- penses. In any case it is probable that the Bannockburn invitation golf tour- nament, usually played about mid-Se) tember, will be abandoned this yea: With many of the older members of the | club gone, it would not be the same tournament anyway. Tony Sylvester, who has been the pro at Bannockburn for three years, remains with the club and is hopeful that the club will con- | tinue operation. 'O prominent members of the Co- | lumbia Country Club are nearing the Pacific Coast, where they wil spend the balance of the Summer play- ing golf and visiting Iriends. Clyde B. Asher, president of the Columbia Club, left Washington late in June, saw the Ryder Cup matches and the national open and then left for California with | his family by automobile. <Albert R. MacKenzie \nd Mrs. Mac- | Kenzie left Washington ‘last Wednes- day by train for California to visit their son Roland, who is with one of the movie concerns in lower California. ANY of the professional golfers about the Capital will journsy over to the Woodho!me Country Club of Baltimore tomorrow to play in an 18-hole amateur-pro tournament to be staged under the auspices of the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers’ Association. J. Monroe Hunter, president of the ANGAN QUALIFES | ing 5-1 in Mangan's favor. ! scratch. {in October. | national open is played, with two 18- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, HELEN’S HIGH HOPES HELEN SWEDT BETTY NUTHALL. OF F HE=- FEET AT WIMBLEDOM HELEN WILLS MOODY D@ v Y . 12 1931—PART FIVE. MISS HELEN . JACORS —THIS CALIFORMIA. MSS 1S GoIne T 85 A CONTENOER S FOR e NATIONAL - TTLE AT Rigits Reserved by The Assoclated Press TOPLAY YEOMANS Defeats Moorhead to Enter District Tourney Final. | Slated Today. I / Columbia singles tennis title at the Columbia Country Club to- day at 3 o'clock. Mangan yesterday joined Yeomans as a finalist when he easily downed J. Up- shur Moorhead, 6—1, 6—3. The match, | which was halted by rain Thursday, started yesterday with the score stand- The veteran quickly ran cut the set and continued | DDIE YEOMANS and Tom Man- gan will play for the District of Jones Finds O})ening Round Open Players, Not Sure of Touch at Start championship at Toledo with | Big Hazargd to a 75, he had shaken off . peculiar finx which had ridden on his | shoulders through the last three big | champlonships in which he had played. | This was the first time since the 1928 | open at Olympla Ficlds that George | ing round of an important competi- | tion. At least once, at Winged Foot | in 1929, he had outscored the entire field in the last three rounds, but the handicap of a bad start had given him | too much to overcome. | Seventy-five is not such a remarkable score over a course like Inverness, but | it left him still in the fight, whereas | before he had been almost completely out. And then following with a grand be more disastrous on & narrow course than to try to steer the ball down the fairway. Continually during the first round Tommy was driving into the rough or perilously close to it, and he had no chance to get away with that for very long. ‘Walter Hagen was in a fairly satis- actory position after the second round, doing it, he never appeared to be happy and confident. I saw him lock up on a short pitch from the rough on the fifth hole, where he took a six, and then &t the efghth, in the same round, he hit what was intended to be a short pitch and run from 10 yards off the green squarely on top, He appeared to jump at_the shot, not being certain of him- self_enough 'to trust & longer, smoother stroke. That surely was not the Hagen of old, nor even of Cclumbus the week to breeze through his younge: and less| 69, he found himself for the first time | previous. experienced foe. | Yeomans entered the final round | Yeomans today will be a slight fa- vorite to take the title, this despite a Joss to Mangan in the only match be- | tween this pair. | Monday the doubles final will be | played. The seeded No. 1 pair, Bob Considine and Tom Mangan, gained| the final round yesterday by defeating | Murray Gould and Hyman Ritzenberg, | 6—1, 6—0. The other duo to 1each the | final was Yeomans and Markey, who| yesterday eliminated Joe Rutley and | D:cn Morrison, 6—2, 6—3. | YOUTEI-AI l;éOLF VICTOR Beyer, 17, Youngest to Ever Take Pennsylvania Title. NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa, July 11 (#).—H. Lloyd Beyer, 17, who took part in match play three weeks ago for the first time, today was crowned amateur golf champion of Pennsylvania, the youngest person to win that honor in the 20-year history of the State tour-| recent graduate of Lower High School, defeated W. B.| McCullough, jr., 21, 5 and 3 in the final. association, will pair with his son in the tournament. N TUESDAY at the Chevy Chase Club will be played an 18-hole tourney open to amateurs holding membership cards in the Maryland State Golf Association. As not many of the local amateurs hold such cards the entry list from Washingtcn clubs is likely to be curtailed. Professionals also are eligible, but will play from OMEN’S golf activities about the Capital are to be curtailed during | the next two months, when only two tournaments will be plaved, but meanwhile from the offices of the Mid- dle Atlantic Golf Association comes an announcement that may be of consid- erable interest to those women who like tournament play. The association announces that if a | sufficlent number of entries can be| cbtained the women's championship | tourney will be played at Virginia Hct Springs during the first or second week If 50 or more entries can be obtained the tourney will be held, while if only a small field of 25 or 30 enter for the tourney, the event will be held elsewhere, prcbably at a Wash- ington club. Inasmuch as Hot Springs is_a delightful place, there probably will be enough entries to warrant Lold- ing it there. UBLIC-LINKS golfers are looking forward to the city municipal championship, to be played at East Potomac Park on July 20, 21 and 22. Ted Burrows of Rick Creek Park, vin- ner of the Manor Club tourney, will defend the title he won last year zgainst the onslaught of such players as Har- lan Will, Ralph Burton and others. The tourney will be played just as the hole rsunds and one round cf 36 holes, completing 72 holes of medal pla: Jim Preston, public links representa- tive here for the United States Golf Association, will run the event. Jh‘nl is trying hard to get together a suf-| ficlent sum of money to send a fiur- man team from Washington to the na- tional public links championship at St. Paul next month and is using various | expedients, such as raffling off sets of clubs, etc., to raise the cash. Any one wishing to make a contributi’n, how- | careful, Preston at the Senate ever small, should send it to James D. gallery. heading the procession at the end of 36 | holes. ~ George evidently sgrees with Sarazen that the first round of a that I do, that the fourth round is also | pretty tough if you have a chance to| practice if you know | pionship, Burke played as fine golf up | win, and particularly exactly what you have to do on the last eight holes. | ySeems To Affect AIL | HE scoring at Inverness seems to | indicate that all of the competitors felt this same uncertainty in the first 18 holes. Not one of the most favored ones did any better than a| moderately good score and numbers of them left themselves too much to make up. Strolling about the course watching one man here and another there, it was impossible to escape the | conclusion that the trouble with m of them was that they were excessively Very few were pitching fer enough onto the greens, and everyone seemed to be afraid of the putting sur- faces. On that first day I saw only two good sized putts go down. There is no denying that the greens were very diffi- cult. The competitors seemed to think they were of about the right speed and | that the texture of the grass was good, but some of the undulations which I observed were cruel. | Some of the boys characterized Inver- ness as a “tee-shot course.” By this | they meant that the drive was the all- important shot. The fairways were very | narrow and the rough punishing. There were few holes which called for very difficult second shots, when played from a good lie in the fairway, but there was trouble around the greens which was | easy to get into if the second had to | be played from the heavy rough. Steering Ball Disastrous. 'HIS fact worrled Armour consid- | erably. T watched him hit his first | tee shot in the opening round, and | it seemed to me that his choice of a | No. 1 iron on a two-shot hole indicated | Pointers on Golf BY SOL METZGER. The accompanying sketches of Jones at the top of his swing for a shot from the fairway with his brassie and for a drive from the te: more clearly explain what is meant by the upright and flat swings. His brassie has been picked up more sharply than his driver. On the backswing it does not follow a { horizontal line as it moves away from ball. Nor is the swing quite so lonT The trouble with most fairway sfiou is that they either hook or slice, Are you & victim of this slicing business? In illustrated . leaflet Sol Metzger analyzes “Slicing” and suggests & cure. He will gladly send this leaflet to any one sending & stamped, addressed envelope. Ad- dress Sol Metsger, in care of this " (Copyrisnt, 19313 In the first play-off Billy Burke's putter began to function. Had it done so in the tournament proper there | Thursday when he eliminated B“d"rnampxonamp is the hardest, although would have been no necessity for a Markey, who had beaten Dooly Mitchell, | he may make the same qualification | replay. ! seeded No. 1. For two weeks, during the Ryder Is, and competition, and during d play in the open cham- Cup to the greens as any one has ever shown. But the putts simply would not go down. His four rounds at Inverness were models of consistency. When a competitor can score 73, 72, 74, 13, without holing any putts, it is a pretty good sign that the other shots are in the groove. (Copyright, 1931) METROPOLITAN OPEN NEXT FOR GOLF ACES Brilliant Field to Contest This Week for Crown Now Worn by MacFarlane. By the Assoclated Press. ‘WEST ORANGE, N. J.,, July 11.—The travelling professional golfers and a few ambling amateurs, many of whom played in the Canadian open this week, will take up their abode at the Crest- mont Golf Club for three days next week when the twenty-fourth annual | metropolitan open championship gets | under way on Thursday. The field against which bespectacled ‘Willle MacFarlane of Oak Ridge must defend the title he won last year after & 36-hole play-off with Johnny. Farrell, is gne of the finest in history. Although no word was received from Billle Burke, new national open cham- plon, when the entries closed yesterday, Stacey Bender, president of the asso- ciation, said he had been given assur- ance that the former iron puddler would be among the starters. Another post- entry possibility 1s Tommy Armour, British open and American professional golfers’ champion, who won the met }(me in 1928. Besides MacFarlane, five professionals who once captured the championship | will be in the starting line-up. They are the veteran MacDonald Smith, Mike | Brady. Gene Sarazen, Johnny Farrell |and “Wild Bill” Mehlhorn. | The foreign stars are headed by Henry Cotton of England and Percy Alliss, English-born German profes- sional. Such _stars as Wiffy Cox, Olin and Mortie Duta, Joe Turnesa, Craig Wood and Tony Manero, Clarence Clark, Paul Runyan and Cyril Walker also will compete. WILL PLAY BENEFIT GAME Baltimore Black Sox to Oppose Hillsdales in ‘“Rubber” Tilt. Baltimore Black Sox will meet the | Hillsdale nine at the Griffith Stadium tomorrow evening in a benefit game. The proceeds will go to Camp Clarissa Scott for girls. This marks the third meeting of the teams, with each claiming a_victory, the Hillsdale winning the first tilt, 4—1, and the Baltimore aggregation coming out on top in the second, 11 to 6. CRAM WINS NET HONORS Defeats Wright in Southern Event. Anna Eoll Woman’s Champ. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 11 (®).— Donald Cram, Nashville, Tenn., seeded No. 2, defeated Lenoir Wright, Char- lotte, N. C., 5, 6—2, 6—2, for the men’s singles championship of the Tennis Association today. NO ONE RACKETER HAS LIFTED TITLE Task Too Much for Single Performer, Tilden Shows in Review of Duos. BY WILLIAM T. TILDEN, 2D., World's Professional Champion. HE history of the Davis Cup! I 1s always the hjstory of two .players. By this I mean that every champion nation held its position by virtue of pos- sessing two players or more of | equal ability. No one player, single-handed, has proved equal to carry his country to victory by winning three points. The first great outstanding pair were the| Dohertys, “Big” and “Little” Do| of England. These two great| stars carried England to world | supremacy by virtue of their out- | standing skill. Then came along the next pair of tennis glants, Norman Brooks and Antheny Wilding of Austraba. Aimost equal in ability, yet widelv different in method these two great musters held complet> command of the tennis world, | with only Maurice McLoughlin of the | | United States of America to threaten their supremacy, for many years prior to the war. | Then came along the Worid War with | its break in tennis competiticn and with | its close another combinacion of “big and “little” brought the world cham. plonships to the United Siates. This | time it was Big and Little Bill, Billy | We were fortunate to have with us two other great stars of equal class, R. N. | | Willlams, 2d, and Vincent Richards to place the United States for ahead of the Test of the war-torn world for sev- | eral years. | France's Great Fair. Once more a great pair of champions | came into their brilliant best together, this time in France. They were Rene Lacoste and Henri Cochet. They, 00, | had brilliant support in Jean Borotra | and Jacques Brugnon to make up the ! famous four Musketeers of France, who | took in 1927 and have heid to date, the HEN George Von Elm got by | that he had not encugh confidence in | D8Vis Cup. However the French are | the first round of the open | his woods. There is nothing which can | showing signs of passing and new pairs | of great stars are definitely appearing | on the horizor. It is again the United | States which boasts of these players. Back in 19820 to 1925 Australia with Gerald Patterson and Jo Anderson had | a pair of men who bid falr to become | the world's champion team, but faltered just short of their goal. Now in 1931, | the United States has Sidney B. Wood, X' Shields, the runner up. apparently | [ headed for certain glory in Davis Cup | history. Wil they succeed or will they | falter as did Patterson and Anderson | | just short of their goal, unahle to break | | the defense of the old guard? | “England, too, has & pair of young- | sters who' are ‘almost as dangerous a | combination s Wood ond Shields. | Thase two sre H. W. (Bunny) Austin and Fred_Perry, who probably are to meet the United States in ine interzone final of the Davis Cup tc decide the rightful challenger of France. ! Has Reserve Strength. | There is little to choose between the positions of England and the United States. “Bunny” Austin held two match | | points’ against Shields at Wimbledon | and was unlucky to lose. Wood scored more decisively over Perry, yet it was a | close battle. The United States has a | stronger supporting group in its other players than has England. In George Lott and John Van Ryn the United | States has the world champlon doubles | | team; also Wilmer Allison, Clifford Sut- | | ter, Gregory Mangin, Ellsworth Vines, Junior Coen and Keith Cledhill to back up our singles stars. England has a fine prospect in Pat | Hughes in_singles, with J. C. Gregory | {and Ian Collins dangerous in doubles, | yet somehow I cannot quite see Eng- | | land beating out the United States as | champion nation to follow France. | "It _Georgio De Stefani of Italy had | reached his_present form almost two years ago while Baron H. L. De Mor- purgo was at his best Italy would have had a great pair. As it was, Stefani arrived just too late and Baron De Morpurgo must go down in tennis his- tory as one of the great players who almost single-handed carried his coun- try close to victory, but could not quite | | win_the ultimate prize. ! | The same was true in Czechoslovakia. | Jan Kozeluh, brother of the great pro- fessional Karel Kozeluh, went off his | game just as Roderick Menzel reached | | Savings | WEAVER Tests I Buick Master 6. . Chevrolet, any DeSoto ........ | (Copyright. N Johnston and 1. who swept the courts. ‘g; | 8-1 having worked out two 74s to be only | jr., Wimbledon champion, and Frank | | had scored better than 79 in the open- |four strokes behind, but while he w: stein. §I | Sender v Automatic Machine [l Chrysler, 70, 72, 75, hhmk s0 each was almost singla handed 2t his best. Jean Washer of Belgilum some years ago was a great star with no support. G. L. Rogers of Ireland is playing almost alone tcday. Diemer Kool of Hollend faded before Heintz Timmer reached his best, so Hol- land never quite had a first class team, although both men were great players at_separate times. > No! The history of the Davis Cup is indeed the history of two players of equal ability. The road is strewn with the gallant but futile efforts of the mighty star who fought alone. It the simultaneous appearance snd ma- turing of Wood and Shields that leads one to say tnat the United States will be the next champion nation. This year?® I doubt it! Next? Wel} wait and see! 1931, by the No-th fewspaper Alliance, Inc.) PUBLIG PARKS NET FAVERITES SCORE Ninth Annual Events Starts on Three Courts—Fair Sex Play Today. AVORITES advenced yesterday as the ninth annual public parks tennis championships for men opcned at Rock Creek, Pctom: 2nd Henry Parks Play in the wome today_at oeloc Henry Mre. Ruth Martinez was sceded, Clara Tabler, No. 2; Frances No. 3, and Mary Ryan. No. 4 in_the men's singles and doubles also will be played today. Yesterday's results and tc ngs follow YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. FIRST ROUND -Hunt defeated Hofecker. 6—-1. Goubeau def Res . Trigg defeated Forsyth Buchianan defeat 4 feated A. Yeomau N Dreschler, by default Rosinsky. 0. 63 o ingles will sta P day's pair- e e. 6 2, 6 d a ._Stanton. defeated ‘Roberts. 6 feated Love. §- feated Shanno pencer. 6—1. SECOND EOUND defeated Br 6—1. 6—4: W. Buchanan defeated Do 1. 6—4: Heiskell defeated Burns 62 Weich defeated Parsons. 6- Hunter defeated Ra! 1.6-2: Herman defeated Wells, 8—6. 6—1. B._Johnson de feated Perkins. by default: O'Neill defeated senio, 6—0. 6 1. Pierce defeated Kane. 1. 6-1; Deck defea . 6—0. €2 Hunt defested Goubeau. Trige defeated H. Buchanan. . ise defeated Coe, 7—5. 7—5: Bhepa feated Koster. 6—0. 6—0. Willis defeated A, Yeomans. 6—4. 6-—3: D Mitchell defeated Parker, 6—1, 6-1: Boyd deleated Rathgeber. 6—4. 6—4: Phillips defeated Latona. 6—1. 1-6. &6 Staubley defeated Henry. 6—1 6-3: Packer defeated Ups 6-2. 6—0: H_ Ritzenberg defeated H.l Wallenstein defeated Clifton Yeoma Shore defeated Shoemaker. 6—2. 6—4 ith defeated Kious, 62, 6—4: Garnett ed Levy, 6—0. 6.3 Du Bose defented 63 Sendel defested Fellows, 62 Neal defeated Clvde Yeo- mans. 6—2. 63: Seidel defeated Lowe. 6—0. 6—3: 'Hanev defeated A. Stanton. 6—4. 6—3 THIRD ROUND W, B Heiskell. 6-—1. ¢ — 1 Herm 6—2; O'Neill defeated Pierce. 6 TODA MEN'S SINGL 10 o'clock Markey Ve, ¥s. Hunt. Trige vs. el Willis. Mitchell vs. Boyd, Grant vs. b cier. teuble: Henry defeated 64, C_8m defeat, G. Considin, we ore ve. Smith. s. Neale. Seidel vs, 5. MEN'S DOUBLES—ROCK CREEK. FIRST ROUND: 2 o'cl vs. Mathews-Forsythe, Drechsler-Hoffec itc h 3 3 o'clock—Garnett-Wallenstein vs. Roberts, Rathgeber and partner vs Ritzenbers-Goule P: Fellows- Shepard . winni Mathews-Forsythe match. Post-entries in the doubles will be accepted until 12 o'clock at Rock Creek. WOMEN'S SINGLES—HENRY PARK. o'clock—Dorette Miller vs. Helen Phil- ry Ryan vs. Gra 7 k—Clara Tabler vs. winner Miller- Philpitt match. Edith McKeivey vs. winner Ryan-Young match. Winners of 10 o'clock matches to play again at 11 TO STAGE NET TOURNEY Delaware Title Play Is Slated to Begin Tomorrow. ‘The eighth annual Delaware State clay court championship, held under the sanction of the U. 8. L. T. A, will open tomorrow at the Du Pont Country Club, Wilmington, Del. The tournament is open to amateur tennis players whether residents of Delaware or elsewhere. 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A leg injury suffered by Jacobs handi- capped the Baltimore star considerably 2nd it was necessary for Coen to assume e of work. Virg Hilleary of Philadelphia, fourtn ranking American woman player, defeatod M natic er, 1 of the State womens singles title eveni, 6—2, 6—2. Mrs. George Wightman and Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, three times na- indoor women's doubles cham ped to a straight set, 6— o J final of the State women's doubles play Finals in the Rhode Island men's singles and mixed doubles champ! ships will played tomorrow, with Vines meet edhill in the former 1 Palfrey and Clifford v Orleans playing Miss Ghill in the latter. Vines gained the final of the singles today when Jacobs defaulted, the Bal- timore hoy taking that course upon the advice of physicians. Miss Andrus and Gledh!ll likewise won their semi-final match in the mixed doubles on a de- 1ault. Mrs J. Dallas Corbiere of Boston and Ted Easton of San Diego forfeiting to them. Sarah Palfrey and Sutter earned the final bracket in that event through a fine vict over Miss Charlotte Miller Calif, and Vines, 2—6, TENNIS FINAL TOMORROW Postpened 12th Street Y Doubles Carded at Howard U. Courts. The dcubl of the Twelfth tr Y. M A. tennis tourney, will be played to- % cn the Howard The match ie Wilk should against Tuwey Murray. A large expected to witness the con- izes will be swarded to the meeting of the Washington T:nnis Association, which will be held Wednesday night et the Twelfth Strect Y. All members of the association are rzquested to be present. ETON CRICKET WINNER Harrow Is Outclassed in Annual Game—Baker Star Bowler. | LONDON. July 11 (P.—Outplaying their opponents in every department of the game. Eton defeated Harrow in their annual cricket match at Lords today. Eton mad> 431 for five wickets and declared its first innings closed. Ha row could reply with only 245 and 170 and was. therefore, beaten by an in- | nings and 16 runs. 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