Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 52

L00K UPON BURKE, VON ELM AS PREY Undefeared on Own Course, Meet Famous Pair Two Weeks From Today. BY W. R. McCALLUM. WO weeks from today a big fellow who bunts a golf ball a long way and a little chap only a shade more than half his size will step out on the first tee at the Indian Spring Golf Club to play an exhibition match before a lot of Washington folks against the winner and runner-up in the national open golf championship. ‘o most golf professionals in the k> ces (and Washington is rated as one of the provinces because it is off the main stem of golf) such & mateh would cause & lot of quaking and shiv- ering of knickered knees, but to J. Mon~ ro Hunter and Diffenbaugh, fessionals at the Indian Spring Golf Blub, it will be just another exhibition golf match. And one they expect to win. tional and never have thelr colors been dragged in the dust by an opposing pair. Only once have they been licked, and that licking came in Baltimore. Never have they lost a se- match around Washingior, have played some of the best rious golt e Jand over their own Lalliwick at such ir of stout-hearted com- g illy Burke and . | against LEVELAND, August 22.—Another series and the Nationals will be through in the West this sea- son, Tomorrow afternoon the Johnson band will jump into a four- game set with the Tigers on Navin Fleld, in Detroit, a set in which it. will have & chance to make certain of the edge over the Harris-led horde in the 1931 cam- s eeded by the Na Only one win is n y the Na- tionals in Detroit to clinch. the series with the Tigers. Harris' henchmen already have been defeated by Johnson's jousters 11 times in 15 games. The Nationals have won five times in seven starts in Detroit and six times in eight starts in Washington. the series would ‘Tucking away Tiger give m%ltmfls the advantage over three Western clubs in the annual tus- sling, They have licked the Browns and the Indians, In Chicago, however, they failed to get that win needed to make sure of the yearly set with the White Sox. But that s stands 11 games to 7 in fayor of the Washington club. The Nationals ought to cop in this when they tackle the White Sox in four games in Griffith Stadium next month. FOR the opener of the :2& ‘Iu:n:‘o):\ ‘Tigers - Manager Walter Jol plans to send to the pitching slab young Robert Burke, who only two ago hurled himself into base ball fame by blanking the Red Sox without yield- ing them a hit in a clash in Washing- - and Al Crowder | o Ay later t oe suffered by the Na- tarted it the g was well under way. - | Burke has done much good pitching the Tigers this season, and de- spite his two setbacks during this trip hewghthbe;mmmwmnke | more trouble for the tottering team rep- | resenting Detroit in the American into Griffs Bid Farewell to West With Tiger Series Starting Today; Need New Material | CATCHER and an outfielder must be picked up for the Nationals before next season rolls around, but if anything has been done to get them Manager Johnson claims to know nothing abou “We must get an- | other catcher and another outfielder be- anyw] prospects 3 don’t know where there are any worth consideration.” € Johnson sdmits the Nationals still are lookis Park daily for practice before the gets under way. A new base ball law prevents the Indians or any other major club sign- ing a player directly from the sandlots, but there is nothing in the law pre- venting a club tipping off its farms to the many fine prospects it uncovers, baving the farms get them, then buy- ing them in at the end of the minor season if the prospects develop. Seems a pretty good system, even though it yield but a player or two of major caliber every two or three years. ONTAGUE, not much of a hitter against other clubs, but & pitcher- pounder against the Nationals, flashed plenty of speed in the first in- ning today when he beat out a bounder to Cronin. It was his seventh safety in 15 times at bat in the series. After picking up Burnett’s bunt in the second session, threw the JIMMY JOHNSTON 18TH GREEN~BEVERLY COUNTRY CLUB and eighteenth green are shown above. Among prominent contenders for the ti of St. Paul, 1929 winner; Johnny Goodman of Omaha, and T. Philip Perkins, fo JOHNNY" GOODMAN - The national amateur golf championship will be decided this year, August 31-Scptember 5, over the Beverly Country Club course, at Chicago. Club house by Jones is discarding are Charlie Seaver of Los Angeles, Jimmy Johrston er English amateur champion, who now lives in New York. KLEIN GIVES PHILS | league piicher ALTHflUOH the schedule gives the off- xt week, Nationals en off-day ne: ] © | That's & new one. o for an average of 476. Hadley | ball so wide of first that Myer, who | had hustled to the base, had to leave | it to knock down the sphere. Myer | was charged with the error, however, | the official scorer claiming he should | have reached first quicker and been bet- | | ter balanced to cope with such a throw. | | _Rice enjoyed the Cleveland pifching during the five-game series. He helped | himself to 10 hits in 21 times at bat | Kamm made the banner infleld play | when he ran over in front of the short | field, with one hand scooped up & siow | one that had bounded by Perrell and | threw out Hadley in the fifth. The | | heave beat Bump to the base by a whisker only. | ©Old Man Rice showed ‘em how in the fifth when he tore in and bent double to grab Sewell's liner a few inches above the ground. BREAK WITH CARDS Champs Win Opener, 6-4, but Clouter’s Two Home Runs Telt in Second, 6-5. By the Associsted Press. HILADELPHIA, August 22— The Cardinals and Phillies split s double-header today, the Champs winning the first, 6 to 4, and dropping the second, 6 to 5. ! By the Associated Press. a | ROOKLYN, Atlgust 22.—The | hopes of Chicago Cubs of rising in the pennant race suffered a | severe shock today when Brook- |lyn beat them in both games of & | double-header while the New York Glants were winning two games. | The Robins won the first game, 8 to 1, on a six-run rally in the eighth, | then came from behind to take the second, 4 to 3. | | The Brooklyn rally broke up & pitch- | duel between Lester Sweetland and | Hollls Thurston in the opener. | Adolfo Loque failed to survive the | first inning of the second game, when Grimes outpitched a trio of Phillies | Vince Barton's homer helped the Cubs | | get & three-run jump, but Fred Hei- hurlers to gain the decision In the first | Dy ' Diched eight and two-thirds | 9 | game, while Bartell's steal of third base | ghytout innings, and Brooklyn caught and dash to home on Wilson's wild up with Pat Malone’s fast ball in the I i £ !, £11 e g 1 F h i i gi!ii | éfi’ i % i g’ 3 : J i £ k % i WO of Washington's three en- trants in the nationel amateur championship will leave Capital this week for the Bev- erly Country Club, near Chicago, scene of this year's simon pure title chase. Tommy Bones, the Columbia south p-w,huchmcedhhmhdmt.o\n. to by automobile, and with his and | father jeave Washington Wednes- dl} afternoon for Beverly. ohn C. Shorey, Kenwood Club star, other Wi the entrant who qualified at Richmond on July 28, plans {to leave for Chicago next A g 8 ; : E ‘ B i i 1 § L B Friday. film companies for several months. | " “Roland, provided he has been play ing a good deal of golf this Summer, _e e of the biE | hEla fiave an excellent, ehance to do souten Jones over the 36. | el i the chAmBIECHR, roiand has e 1433 and certainly the | Leod firmly bel be rated as the leader teurs had he not announced from the pri deal this Summer he hes s grand hance to win, even though the United amsteur gam States Golf Association thinks so little BElgur EAMS. el be well worth |Of hie chances ghat they 180G 0 Fr watching and any man who goes out ;’::';»‘“ the Ingian Bpring oo September 6 will| As'for Bones and Shorey. they Wi kg A o 00| g5 very well to qualify. 'For some ,.fl"'n"‘m four master shOMAKETS raqson it s unususl for & golfer in Bis first essay at the big-time tournament to qualify, even though he is capable of shooting a pair of 758 over any course. Witness the three failures of George Voigt betor’ez he ':nmt;hef‘l:]'lmed;l at Brae-Burn in 1028, an Mount Rainier League Will Make of several other big-time stars to qual- K a ity before they overcame their fear of sl iy Hiowell, the meteoric Richmond o] to be ly Howell, e A ceting.of the, Mount youth, who pepdmbnzl'yh!lflnfl‘: Dest pros- e t developed an ‘Middle Atiantic tor since MacKengzie and | Voigt left Washington, also will be out s first test for the big cham- CALLs.'Bd;JLING CONFAB Billy also will do well to}| medal if he gets past the two open. Teams wi ol get their applications in The Battle of Beverly BY . GRANTLAND RICE. Ouimet and Guilford. HE first time I saw Francis Ouimet hit 8 golf ball was at Garden City in the amateur championship of 1913, when he planted a mashie shot 8 feet from the cup on the eighteenth green and Just missed his 2. He had a 75 that round and later gave Jerry Travers the hardest battle the champion had Outside of Boston he was almost unknown up to that point—a youth of sbout 20. A short while later at Brookline, in the United States open, he had to finish 3-3-4 to tie Vardon and Ray—and he did just that The next day in the play-off, sandwiched in between the two great English stars, he wasn't believed to have a chance. He not only won, but beat their best ball with & 72 over a rain-soaked course. Here was the most dramatic golf match ever played, and will remain 30 until you and 1 have e divots replaced above our dust. . Ouimet stopped the march of Jerry Travers ip. That was 17 years ago, but Ouimet, still all competitors, no matter what the game, is factor, as he proved at Pebble Beach two years final round. Ouimet is still & fine golfer B e §E1 18 B [ | E % i E F ) i jeing and playing a good | Bolton grabbed Hadley's bat 'n the eighth, but for no good. He fanned. commotion in the match play rounds. | | notwithstanding his age of 19 | years, is a seasoned competitor. He is not known at all in the North | and West and will be a big surprise to | | a good many folks if he gets into the | | match play rounds. | Billy has all the equlg:n!n'. & cham- | plon should have, but plays in too | tournaments. For his own good | confine himself to not more than a haif dozen a year, and one of | them should be the National Amateur. | fact that he could not ‘:zhy in the qualifying rounds for the Pro- | wanted to play it was the P. G. A. and | Freddie had figured out that with three | piaces open, he was a good choice to | y. 9"Brior to his tonsil operation Freddie | | had been assured he would be recovered | He has not swung & club for more than | & month, | ID you know that part of Billy | Burke's unusual accuracy on the long shots come about through a forced compromise in his swing made the fact that the third | mTer is missing? | Golf experts have commented at 1 | on the unortbodox swing of Burke, and | his amazing straightness from the tee | and through the green. but some have ¥ overi the fact that because he | | cannot ggntkhtly with the left hand | | he has forced to compromise by | | locking his right side against & hook |and does most of his work with the | | right hand. | . We have been told for years that the | Jeft hand is the hand and the wer hand in the golf stroke, Blliy's 1eft hand lost much of its power some years back when he lost his third | finger in an accident. | Indian Spring on September 6. | NJ© snnouncement having been forth- 1 coming either from the District | Golf_Association or the Maryland State Golf Association as to avoidance of the confiict in dates between the District amateuf chamj and the Maryland open, the two probably will be played concurrently. | The District amateur is scheduled | | for Burning Tree on September 10 and | 11, wkile the Maryiand open is sched- | uled for Congressional on September 11. | | Paflure to change one or the other of | he dates will keep many of Washing- | {ton's leasding amateurs out of the | | Maryland open, which is a 36-hole | | model play event. Night Games Put Crimp in Signals TLANTA, Ga., August 22 () — One result of night base ball has been to put & erimp in the wigwagging of signals from catcher to_piteher. In day base ball those mysterious in time to play, but he had a relapse. | i, | Notice his stroke when he appears at § throw gave the Phils thelr winning tally in the ninth inning of the second contest. In this game Chuck Klein hit his thirtieth and thirty-first home runs of a home run. Rhem started in the box for the Red Birds in the second game, but was re- lieved by Lindsey and the latter was charged with the defeat. Collins went the distance for the victors. 8t. L. 5.3b. Kl Da HOA POREPON PR — onwossanwa., PR I | -l Totals ...381137 & - Totals ...36 Thatied tor 3. nbort 7 'elenis > 8t. Louts 3 Phonaeionia 0§ 338838 8 Runs—Prisch, Bottomles, Wilson (2), Gel- bert: Grimen” Bricken, ket ). iy Error_—wilson, Huns batted ~in—Bottom @. Grimes. ¢ It s 7 A0 S Hurst. 8 Lovts. 1. off Blake, 3: o B 3 w;,l‘kl. tl : ings. 3. Eiliott: 8 in 6% innings: off , 1 10 1 ing Ju'by plicherhy” Blake (Watking). 25 ine pltcher— mpires Messts Mugerk nd” McGre minutes. ABH O.A rf Wb o2 [PES PRS- 2 H 1 1 1 2 0 0 o 3 1 o 0 1 1 2 ] 0 e 2| coououlium, Totals 8, Leuis fladelohi Runs—Prisch. Bottomley, 3.7 Colling." Bri R H I m, 7 in & innihes; off A T “Mariin) iteher— indsey. essy: " hour and 50 minuses e | HSIRT | seventh and eighth. 'Doul’s single, Bissonette’s double and a I : -} > Ohleago. | Jur A Wilson,If. 1&“,3 { eet] | ‘Totals | Chicago | Brookiyn ' Ri —~Cuyler. Deadtl A S'Doul, Wilson. Boocorma” = Bl oa Totals ...3 0000000 11 00000326 x—8 issonette, Pinn (2). Gil- Lombardi, ' Thursten. Runs t Thurston_€3). Slade. Two-base hits—Wilson, Gil- Cuyler. _ Bacrifice—Lom- plays—Grimm _(unagsisted): iade” and_Bissonettc. Left on 5. Bases on i Chicago, trgek | out By 3, 4 *\fessrs of game ¢ al erermncso® W =% 2| coninornond SECOND GAME. oShiesso. ABH.O A, _BKivn inn. 2. ibert. 3. ., lede.ss Lovezc Luaue.p. Heimachp. 248 Totals . or Barton in ninth .3 90000 ;o010 0 Runs—Cuyler, English, Barton, Herman, Gilbert, Errors n. PPrOveSr wowwsrenaul H 8 0 gflmmJ b. o artnett.c. H ok H | Malone.p. . 3 Toti als .. 371024 B tred”'f 0 H crine £ Brookivn. ‘Biruck out ne. 7. > HilteOff %: off Heimach. 1 in 85 B (prederiel) Unm: a erick). _Um- Klem. Donnelly and Stark. 1 §ame—1 hour and &1 minutes. BOBBY STEVENS FAILS Bobby Stevens, former Western High shortstop, who flashed with School . | Newark, will be returned to the Bears a2 | by _the Philadelphia Nationals. Stevens is the second Washington boy majors this season. starred for Tech High and later Duke, was with the Yankees for a time, only to be farmed out for further seasoning. lzu ite hhg:e l;flllck-l, both Stevens and Werber have been tagged vrospects. In turning back Stevens, the Phillies recalled Inflelder Hugh Willingham from the same club. Wooqunt to Hold Field Day Four Star Golfers to Stage Match as Main Feature of Affair Next Saturday. OUR of Washington's leading amateur golfers will put on a F show for the home folks at the Woodmeont Country Chub next Saturday as main feature of the Woodmont Club's annual field day. Detalls of the field-day clubs. The Washington player won the Chevy Chase tournament the following ~ week, succeeding Harry Pitt as the victor in the chase for the Taft Tropl Pitt_ won the Baltimore Country Club, Indian Spring and Columbia tournaments in & row, affer a g‘oo; c} 3 it eiunmnam&wmmcnfi eside over the field-day events -: urbane Cine ong fiy by Finn brought the | | winning run. | ul i1 | New York 5 and shortstop to fall to stick in the | Bill Werber, who | ) hy. | Cubs Jolted by Twin Defeat As Giants Win Double-Header By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 23.—The Giants made a clean-sweep of their four-game serles with the Cincinnati Reds by taking both games of the closing double- headar today. The scores were 6 to 0 and 5 to 1. Jim Mooney, rookie southpaw, turned in his third siraight victory since com- ":l'uun from Bridgeport, outpitching B Johnson, Cincinnati ace. Mooney gave only four hits, -two by Taylor | Douthit, and struck out six. Fred }slch led the Giant attack with three ts. Bill Walker won the second mound duel, besting Ownie Carroll as each pitcher gave only six hits. The Giants bunched five of their blows in two big frames. ‘The Reds had men left on base in every inning but the ninth. FIRST GAM] andon “N%or. ABHO i is,f. ach. i > 5 | serisswanns PR IR »| cooocoomor » 2| coommmmeas & ot 4 58wl Bl wsrsooswus: ol cosnooroous! H Totals .. .3 *Batted for J 1Ran for Ho | cincinnati - 28 | _ Runs—FPullis (2), Leach, Terry. Ott. | nefield. Errors—Crabtree, Styles. = Runs batted in—Ott, Leach, Fullis. Hogan, Verses. | Two-base hits—Crabtree, Leach (2). Verger. rec-bace hitePullis. dtolen basé—Pullls. Play—] poarshall o Ty, York: ~‘éiu th. 8. ey, | P e | é"‘“"' oo balle—Of o . x—6 Hun- oont out—By Mooney, 6; PhitE s L s ‘g )4):'m,. nging T b Plufi'm"—'i" = looney (Styles); by )y (Ter- (et Wi R, S 1 hour and 37 min . alker,p. Totals ... in ninth. 00 000 0000 | coccouonand ol cosooremesi Bl msuwnrnnwad ol vonussores™ Totals .. *Batted for © 25| cwonurcons? ol [ ° Bt Cincinnati . | New York . Runs—Crabtree, ‘Pyllis (2) | 2. Errors—Marsha Roush, Terry (3), hy H ) e x ry § | | | CONQUERS BUCS, 2-1 | Beats Spencer in Eighth Game of 1931 Between Teams to Be | Decided by One Run. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, August 22—The Braves won another ' battle from. the Pirates today, 2 to 1, and took the last series between these two teams in Bos- ton this year, three out of four Za had a i the better of Spencer. " He allowed five hits, includ- |ing a double and a triple by Paul Wa- ner, to the seven the Braves garnered off "the Pirate moundsman. The wining run was scored in the fourth. ~ Berger led, stole second and came home on Worthington's sin- gle. ‘This game was the eighth between Pittsburgh and Boston year to be won by a one-run margin. Boston. ABH.O A 8| cnvsrera | suuoomon-? Totals Pittsburgh . Boston. ... ©® | sonoroums ? M - Runs—Theven | batted n—Blets | Ree & e Bsien” P Waner. rifices—Spencer, . Waner to Grantham: i Sheel TENNIS TOURNEY OPENS Play Singles Today. It the sun is shining play in the City Tennis League closed tour- nament will start this morning &t when the under way. al wuoooeoscso B TEANS LOOP NS TOMDRRDH | Begin With 22 Senior | Teams in Action. OMPETITION in the newly or- ganized Playground Tennis League, the largest net loop in this section, and possibly in | the country, will open rnumw!ynflnmrch‘uwmnn action. The matches will consist of and one doubles and will be played on 10 courts in various sec- tions of the city. ‘Bumwun;mhlve hu?lL divided In'g our 1oops. Te W ng:y-o the mong the winhers o cf . Competition in the junior class will b’ conducted, on the same basis that teams compete. Junion play | will start Wednesday. | " Senior loop matches will be staged Mondays and Pridays and the jdnior 'wofinwn Junio: ‘Sostch this week will be I r played Wednesday to avokd conflict with the boys’ playground meet on October. at 10 3 92 | Tuesda: v. The leagues will end during Morning matches will start o'clock and afternoon matches at o'clock for the time being. U contests will be considcred Time schedules will be al- 1| tered after schools reopen. ; sc] 3 .| The league schedule this week fol- MONDAY. SENIORS. A—Bloomingdale vs. Pirst and A \t iflm‘h ¢ i o oy ‘aoon) ¥s. Virginia A b ‘Avenue; Hoover vi. B—Columbia Heights Avenue, at Park, at Ti at t Hukoma ‘Burtousr. . Mitchell an v, Moat- e SECTION BoTwin_Osks ve. Tenley, at Twin Oaks® chase ve. Habpy Hol- low, at Chevy . S, —Rosedale dale, N Geornime); Firsi and New York ‘Thomson, at Rosedale (after- It Wieatl " Virginia Avenus 3 jey vs. Virk A Peabody vs. Garfleld, st Oa: vs. T S (after- . st Bur- N_C—Gpliin . Corcorsn. at (m ) Gooks V- ‘at_Ceorgetown: Mitchell vs. Moat- T t Montrose (afternoon). w% Case vs. Twin OuiE. Sin Oaks: Reniey vs. Happy Hollow, at 5 at Happy Hollow. lew, at T Burror SECTION A—Bloomingdale vs. Rosedale, ot Rovedate: First and New York Avenus V. s at Wheatiey: tley, va. Gar: feld, at" Garfeld:” Thomson V3. Hoover. at fION B—Columbls, Helghts ve Park 3 , ot ko B T Bt BB at View. Pa C—Georgetown vs. Corcors “Omlmwll: ‘Montrose vs. Mitch D—Cheyy Chase va. ollow. . Twi " "Tenley ve. Happy Hollow, i Kooy Sotsw ning) agdaie ' vs. ana New York Avenue, at Rosedale ¢ noon). B_Park View vs. . at N Prakoms | Park va. Golumsia s, at Takoma; Hamiiton vs. Iows, at 5 SECTION C—Gallinger’ vs. Mont ae " (msorn e}’ Gooks, v u“nfin at “ln"nr (al ase vs. Tenlex, vs. Twin at ell, il vy Chevy Happy Hel in Oaks. at Twi TEACH SCOUTS SWIMMING Intrenched in Various Zines as Guests of Airport Pool. © | ing and life saving, from expert . | mers. > | sy Roger ywthorne. 3 mummmaum | Capital City League Members to |/, 70 PLAY JENNINGS FOR MUNY HONORS Beats 0’Connell of Chicago. He and Markey in Title Match in Doubles. By the Associated Press. Dmorr. August 22.—Dooley will try again tomorrow to dislodge George J. Jen- throne from which he has ruled public parks tennis for three years. pion and runner-up last year, won their semi-finals in the national the former defeating Fred Royer, Dallas, 6—3, 6—3, 6—3, and the George O'Connell of Chicago, 6—1, 6—4, 6—3. Chicago in tomorrow’ since Mitehell and Thomas Markey wil Jennings has held the singles cham- Ip three years, and for four years winning L. Mitchell of Washington nings, jr, of Chicago from the Jennings and Mitchell, cham- public parks tournament today, Washingtonian disposing of This insured a complete Washington- meet, Jennings and mflum"fi been -.xnmber of the | doubles team. Mrs. Virginia Baer the defending title holder. ———e SWEETSER GOLF WINNER His 150 Betters Pro Players in Cape Cod Open Event. Playground Competition to holes this YALE AND HARVARD TRIUMPH IN TENNIS ;!onomflze Finals of St. Morits Tourney, With Eli Players Winning Two Titles. By the Assoctated Press. ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, August 22. —A ' combined ~Hervard-Yale tennis v:;;n mfl up with both the cs championships today e Saraet Onritte ST aa Robert W. Ryan, of ‘won Yale, singles title from Jack Breese, WOMEI’'S WESTERN . DRAWS GREAT FIELD More Tian 160, Tucluding @fany Stars, Start Play Tomorrow. Mrs. Tyson Defehds. * o it Amostatedihess, - - £ i CHICAGO, August 22.—A Tegord- field in jumbers and_ quality for the women's Wi fairways . of ’ E 35 §eaf DAY and EVENING MEN ONLY INSTRUCTOR—LIFE GUARD On Duty ly Class Instruction Free