Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1931, Page 35

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931, SPORTS. SPORTS. C-3 Professional Golfers May Be Doing Some Spoofing in Regard to New Pellet USED OLD SPHERE IN CANADIAN OPEN Four Out of Five Forsook Pill They Lauded to Amateur Golfers. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, July 14 (CP.A) — The writer is inclined to believe some of our golf professionals have been| kidding their public. Right along many of them have been telling John and Mrs. Duffer the larger and lighter ball is just the thing to make the game more enjoyable. And then what happens? The lads go up to Toronto, where | there is more freedom of the elbows, for | the Canadian open championship ‘and | find our Northern neighbors, with their customary liberality, are permitting the use of both the old and new sized balls. | There was a rush on the club shop to purchase a supply of the old balls, and a ballot among the contestants showed that four out of five were playing the | small ball in preference o the one now standard in the United States | Walter_Hagen, Tommy Armour and Johnny Farrell were just three of the | United States stars who went back to | the old ball. One who supported the | larger ball was Wiffy Cox, good old | Wifly, who was a stoker on the bat- tleship Nevada. You didn't find Wiffy throwing down the U. S. G. A. and neither did you find him among th leaders at the finish of the champion ship, that saw Walter Hagen and Percy | Alliss of Germany tie with a total of | Halg Coming Back. However, Hagen does not believe use of the old ball gave him many consider- with three birdie 3s. To do that he holed out with one putt on each of the three greens, and on the eighteenth dropped a 30-footer. Should Alliss defeat Hagen it will break the United States’ hold on the Canadian open that has existed since 1919, when Douglas Edgar of Atlanta won at Hamilton. It also would be the first victory a Briton has scored in any of the three major national open cham- pionships since 1923. The British Ryder Cup team, after two_more exhibitions, will return to England, while the American profes- sionals will descend to the Metropolitan open and then turn their attention to the $10,000 St. Paul open. CRABBE AND SMITH KEEP SWIM HONORS Victors in Mile and Springboard Events in National A. A. U, Championships. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 14.— Clarence (Buster) Crabbe, Honolulu boy pad- dling under the Los Angeles A. C. col- ors, and Harold Smith, his teammate, successfully defended their one-mile swim and 10-foot springboard titles, re- spectively, in the National A. A. U. outdoor swimming championships here last night. 3 Negotiating the mile in 22:144, Crabbe was followed by Austin Clapp of the Hollywood A. C. and Jack May of the Hui Nalu, Honolulu. Smith nosed out his teammate, Mickey Riley, in the opening event of today's program, the 10-foot spring- board diving. Farid Samaika, Holly- wood A. C., was third. Prank Kurtz of the Hollywood A. C. and Dick Degener, University of Michi- | gan, also competed in diving. Crabbe won the mile without serious opposition. He finished 75 yards ahead of Clapp, who led May by 6 yards. Crabbe was never pushed and failed to equal the mile record of 21:27. At a thousand yards Crabbe's time was| 12:2525. able advantage. “Perhaps it putted a bit better.” declared the Haig, “but I did no have the fairway lies I got at Inverness, | and I probably would have done as well with the big ball.” IN TITLE CONTEST Mr's. Martinez Plays Frances Walker for Public Parks Championship Today. RS. RUTH MARTINEZ, defend- ing champion, and Frances Walker were to face this eve- ning at 4:30 o'clock on the Rock Creek courts in the champion- ship match in the women's singles of the annual District public parks tennis championships. Mrs. Martinez downed Miss Walker in straight sets in their last meeting, in the quarter-final round of the recent City of Washington competition. Mrs. Martines gained the final yester- day when she downed Mary Ryan, 6—2, 6—2, while Miss Walker surprised some- what by eliminating Clara Tabler, seeded No. 2, 6—4, 6—3. Miss Walker's steady stroking told. Fourth and quarter-final round play | in the singles and quarter-final compe- | tition in the doubles was slated for the | men this evening. | Except for the victory of Frederico | Sendel and Alan Staubly over Maurice O'Nefll and George Shoemaker, District | parks champion in 1929 and runner- | ups last year, no upsets occurred in the | men’s division yesterday. Sendel and Staubly consistently scored hard place- | ments to win, 0—6, 7—5, 6—1. Today's schedule and yesterday's | summaries: SCHEDULE. WOMEN'S SINGLES, Final round—Mrs. Ruth Martinez Frances Walker, 4:30 p.m. MEN'S SINGLES. Fourth round—4 pm., Markey vi. W. Bu- han; "&UaTier-Ansl round—8 p.m. Mitehell vs. Staubly; Shore vs. Sendel. vs. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. But the fact re- | mains Mr. Hagen played the old one. | So perhaps the professionals really do not like the large ball as much as they | would have you believe. Hagen, who has been coming back on | the past | his game in fine style over month, has a great chance to win his | first_championship in two years when | he meets Alliss in the 36-hole play-off | at Mississauga today. The Haig is play- | ing from tee to green quite as well as | but occasionally he encounters | putting troubles that were foreign to | ever. him in his best years and loses out on the rugs. Walter still is a very formida- ble opponent in a hand-to-hand duel, and he will be good with a champion- ship in sight. Alliss Fine Player. He will meet a fine opponent in Al- liss. who is perhaps the best of ,#he British professionals. Alliss was second to Tommy Armour in the wagering be- fore the United States open, but never | 2 t started. In Canada, her was cool. the fair- 5 ably wide and the old ball | permissible, he performed like a cham- | pion. On the final nine holes he scored @ 32 to pick up six strokes and tie Hagen, which was a great performance. Alliss is a compactly built fellow who 1s fairly long off the tees and a real star in getting the ball up to the green. At times he is a great putter, and on those days almost unbeatable. He showed his putting skill on the first OUNG blood, is the cry of Man- ager Jim McAleer of the Washington base ball team. The Nationals’ prexy is about con- vinced that he must get a flock of vyoungsters if the Washington club is to improve. Walter Johnson _pitched well against Cleveland yesterday, but was handicapped by the inability of Catcher John Henry to hold his shoots. The Naps triumphed, 7 to 5. Ty Cobb's daring play has been largely responsible for Detroit's three wins over the world champion Phil- adelphia -Athletics in their current series. Detroit is in first place, with the Athletics second. Rube Marquard, after two years of mediocre work, is proving the New York Giants' best pitcher this year. Y5 R. Whelply, G. Vaas, J. Evans, and A. Nevius comprised & veteran crew which yesterday won a four- oared shell race, the feature event of the Analostan Boat Club regatta. Other participants included McDow- ell, Mather, Weightman, Edmonds, Green, Middleton, Fithmann, Combs, Nyman, Thomas, Bullough, Kupper, Rutherford, Tilson, Bowle, Bunzell West, Rogers, Watson, Wolfe, Davi son, Baser, Schmitt, Crane, Albert Heidenreich, Maddert, Brueil, Pom- eroy, Hammer and Garnett. Offi- cials included E. E. Hamsberg, Dr. round of the Canadian when he finished THE ‘Tubman and Alfred Dent. MEN'S DOUBLES, | _Quarter-final round—S p.m._Ritzenbers- | Gould vs. Seidel-Deck: 6 p.m.. Shore-Latona | vs. Mitchell-Buchanan: Garnett-Wallenstein < winner Markey-Yeomans and Neale- Phillips match; 5 p.m., Markey-¥eomans vs. | Neale-Phillips. | WOMEN'S SINGLES. | st round—4 pm. Graham-de Bouza vs. Phillpitt-Ryan; 8:30 p.m., Levy-Kronman | vs. Miller-Morris. SUMMARIES. MEN'S SINGLES. Fourth round—Welsh defeated Hermann, 886, 16, 7—5; O'Nelll defeated Deck, 6—1, Trig defeated Willls, 6—4, 632, 6. 6 1; Si Sendel defeated Sel | 6-2; Try | €1l defeated Phillips. feated Ritzenberg. 8 Garnett, 64, T 64, 527, 6-0. MEN'S DOUBLES. Second rour.d—Mitchell-Bucl Trigg-Welsh, 6—4. 6-3._Ritz defeated Packer-Mehl, 7— ‘Third__ round — Send O'Nelll-Shoemaker, 08, WOMEN'S SINGLES, round—Martinez defeated Ryan, Walker defeated Tabler, 64, an defeated berg-Gould 0. taubly defeated 5, 6—1. Semi-final |e=32," 6—2; |63, TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, July 14 —The Potomac and Shenandoah | Rivers were muddy this morning. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'’S, 7th & F INTERNATIONAL STANDARD OF QUALITY IN BOSTON OR BERLIN Its Gillette / N of meticulous demands and shrewd in judgment—prefer the Gillette blade for its unparalleled shaving Supreme quality has won for this blade more than a hundred million users. Gillette’s world-wide leadership Gillette performance. is the just reward of 29 years of precision manufacture and constant improwement makes this blade amazingly keen and preference of the vast majority of men everywhere when you demand Gillette, oy ITH entries for the District municipal links champion- ship to close tomorrow, only 45 golfers who play the pub- lic courses have rallled to the call of James D. Preston, public links im- presario, and entered in the tourney for the title now held by Bradley H. (Ted) Burrows of Rock Creek Park. Whether they think Burrows is too firmly seated on his throne or whether they are just lackadaisical about entering the tourney is problematical, but the entries for the District municipal links championship to date are only a little more than half the number for the tourney which de- cided the members of the Harding Cup team to represent the Capital in the national public links championship a week ago. All the golfers who have gone any- where in public links golf about Wash- ington over the past few years are en- tered, but the number is disappointing. Entries will close tomorrow and may be made either at Rock Creek Park or East Potomac Park. ‘The tourney, which will be played at East Potomac Park, starting next Mon- day, ds open to all amateur players who were not members of private clubs on January 1, 1931, and have not since that date enjoyed the privileges of & private golf club maintaining and sup- porting its own golf course. The re- strictions do not apply to boys employed as caddies who have not reached their 18th birthday. Under the amateur rules of the United States Golf Asso- clation, boys who caddie for money after reaching the age of 18 years are no longer amateur golfers. ‘Twenty-seven golfers have entered for the tourney at East Potomac Park, while 18 more have given in their names at Rock Creek Park. Burrows heads the list of prospective champions, and among those who will play for the title he won last year are 8. C. Wimsatt, tallest golfer about Washington; Robert B. Burton, Ralph Bennie, Wesley W. Billings, Arthur Urban, the bowler- golfer; Melvin Kraft, C. M. Merrill, John Connolly and 'Walter Barrett. ‘These are the outstanding stars in the tourney. An 18-hole round at medal play will open the event next Monday, with 18 holes more to follow on Tuesday. At the close of Tuesday’s round the first 30 and ties will be weeded out and those will play 36 holes on Wednesday, the total score at 72 holes to count in the championship. Preston believes the method of playing the national open champlonship is the best way of deter- mining a real champion and has adopted this scheme for playing the District public links title chase Need- less to say Burrows is a favorite to suc- cessfully defend his title. HE new nine-hole course at East Potomac Park which has been named course G, has relieved | much of the overcrowding at the other layouts in the down-river park and, ac- cording to officials of the Park Amuse- ment Co., there is scarcely any waiting for starting times nowadays, even on busy days. The new. course is on the short side and is not severely trapped, but it is better suited for play than the older courses, because the greens are not dou- ble greens—that is, they have been laid out for play oniy In one direction. The greens on the older courses were built for play from two directions and are hard to pitch to on_that account. Mel Shorey, the East Potomac Park professional, set a record for the new course the other day, when he nego- tiated the double circuit of the nine- hole course in 31—35—66. L FARR, manager of East Potomac Park, announces a District of Co- lumbia putting tournament to be run off during August, with qualifying rounds this month, in which he hopes all good putters about Washington, re- gardless of whether they are affiliated with clubs, will play. One hundred and twenty-eight players will qualify to play off at match play starting next month, on the grass green putting course south of the field house in East Potomac Park. The match play rounds may be played at the convenience of August 24. ‘The putting green is lighted for night golf and matches may be played either night or day. The final round at 72 holes will be played on August 26 at 8 pm. Stymies will not be played in any of the matches. Prizes have been offered for all the flights by the management of the Potomac Park courses. ‘The entry of Thomas P. Bones, star southpaw golfer of the Columbia Coun- try Club, has been accepted by the United States Golf Association for the qualifying rounds for the national am- ?'be]urzachampiommp at Richmond on uly 28. L HOUGHTON, pro at the Ken- wood Country Club, paired with Maury Fitzgerald of Kenwood yes- terday to win the amateur-pro tourney played yesterday at the Woodholme Country Club near Baltimore. They had a better ball of 72, 2 under par. CHff Spencer, pro, and Jimmy Arma- cost, both of Baltimore, finished second with 73. Mel and John Shorey tied with Al Treder and Maurice Nee of Manor, and Warner Mather and Al Londos of Baltimore for third place with cards of 74. ‘The Golf Committee of the Senior Golf Association of the Chevy Chase Club has decided that in view of the outstanding skill of the winners of re- cent putting tournaments they are to be penalized 4 strokes in future events. The runners-up are to be penalized 3 strokes, while a member who has been both winner and runner-up shall be penalized 5 strokes. The rule has been adopted, according to the committee, to give a chance to the man of average putting ability who feels that he has no chance against the stars. CAPITAL NETMAN WINS Hunt Scores. in Opening Round of Maryland Tournament. BALTIMORE, July 14.—Gilbert Hunt of Washington trounced James Fody, 6—2, 6—2, in the opening round of the State junior tennis championships yes- terday afternoon on the Mount Wash- ington Club courts. the contestants, but all matches in all flights must be completed before Hunt won the State boy indoor cham- pionship here last Winter. CONSIDINE, MANGAN HOLD_TENNIS TITLE Capture District Doubles Third Time in a Row by Beating Yeomans-Markey. Bob Considine and Tom Mangan to- day boast their third straight District doubles tennis championship, having vanquished Eddie Ycomans, new singles title holder, and Bud Markey yesterday at Columbia Country Club. The scores were 7—5, 9—17, ‘The win gave Considine and Mangan permanent pos- session of the Dumbarton trophies placed in competition in 1928. In each set the champions gained fat leads, faltered, and then rallied to win. Mangan and Yeomans stole much of the show. Yeomans conquered the veteran to win the singles and plenty of rivalry was in evidence yesterday with Mangan holding the upper hand. Mangan and Considine have yet to be beaten in doubles competition in the Middle Atlantic section. They be- gan playing together in 1928, TWENTY GRAND IS CHOICE CHICAGO, July 14 (P)—Twenty | Grand will go to the post a favorite in | the $70,000 Arlington Classic Satur- | | day, but A. C. Bostwick thinks his 3- | | year-old star, Mate, will give the big bay all kinds'of trouble, If not a beat- ing. Mate, conqueror of the Whitney crack in the Preakness and winner of the $50,000 American Derby, reached Arlington Park yesterday and _his | trainer, Jim Healy, said he had trained | perfectiy for the world’s richest 3-year- | old event and would be a good bet for | another victory over Twenty Grand. | “Mate doesn't like his races too often.” Healy. said, “and I think that | was the reason why he didn't do bet- | ter in the Kentucky Derby. He was a | little short in the American Derby and |only beat Pittsburgher by a nose, but |this time he’s right. And if we get | some mud Saturday, no one had bet- | ter bet Twenty Grand will beat Mate.” ' Tennis Cup Loss Seen by Borotra By the Associated Press. ARIS, July 14—France 18 strictly “bearish” on her prospects of retaining the Davis tennis cup-this year. No less a tennis authority than Jean Borotra has expressed the opin- fon that the tricolor probably will lose the cup it has held since 1927. Neither Henri Cochet nor Rene Lacoste will have time to get into first-rate playing condition for the challenge-round matches with either the United States or Great Britain, Borotra fears. Cochet, troubled by illness all year, now is suffering from an injured shoulder. Lacoste, al- though named captain of the French team, is not expected to play. In the meantime the United States squad of Frank Shields, Sidney B. Wood, George Lott and John Van Ryn is practicing strenuously for the interzone finals with Great Britain, starting Thursday. Shields has completely recovered from the knee injury that forced him to de- fault to Wood in the singles finals at Wimbledon. _— All Makes of Shock Absorbers Serviced L.$.JULLIEN,Inc 1443 P St. N.W. 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