Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1931, Page 29

SPORTS SECTION- - The Sundlay - St Tennis and Golf Part 5—4 Pages ° o K3 < rand Easily Out runs Sun Beau : Favorites Score in U.S. Tennis Singles wenty Grand | NATIONALS SECOND WESTLAND BEATEN BY BUT HALF GANE BY VET'S PUTING Hit LightAIywin Taking 7-0, Winning of Amateur Title 7-3 Beatings—41st Homer | by Bostonian, Aged 38, Clouted by Gehrig. Stirs U. S. Golfdom. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EVERLY COUNTRY CLUB, Chicago, September 5.— Nearly a score of years after he wrote one of the most thrilling and romantic chapters in American golf history, Francis Ouimet today completed a spec- tacular come-back by regaining the amateur championship of the 1 United States. | The 38-year-old Boston veteran, as popular a figure as ever strode | the links, conquered Alfred J. (Jack) Westland, Chicago’s district | champion, to recapture the crown | he last wore away back in his | BY JOHN B. KELLER. EWILDERED by an excep- tional brand of New York pitching while their own hurlers were fair targets for the Yankee batters in yesterday’s pastiming at Griffith Stadium the Nationals today hold second place in the American League race only by the skin of their teeth. Licked in both ends of the Saturday double-header, the scores against them being 7 to 0 and 7 to 3 in order, Johnston's charges had their advantage over the third-place McCarthy crew cut to half a game. | seagon just With the end of the 23 games away. that's annoy the Nationals. They have oc- cupid the runner-up berth so long losing it would be painful indeed. And the Yanks are closer now than at any other time since the Washington club established itself in the second posi- tion o May 27. Never in First Game. something 1o youthful prime of 1914. Ouimet's victory in the final round| 6 and 5. duplicated the margin by which he defeated the great Jerome D. Travers | at Manchester, Vt., 17 years ago. i lacing the veteran cn the pedestal of | Averican amateur golf from Which| Robert J. Jones, jr. stepped intol re- titement, the triumph struck a chord of | national enthusiasm _such as have few golfing events since Francis himself, 1913, first sprang to tame by beating Ted Ray and Harry Vardon for the| open championship. | Th: 1931 champlonship final, over| a course in which par was equalled or | beaten only twice all week long, was| not particularly thrilling. Nor was it marked by a display of superlative golf. except in the few spots in which Ouimet gave a gallery of £500 spectators an | exhibition ot the shot-making skill | that mad> him virtually a world cham- pion at the age of 20. Francis had entirely too much experience behind him, from which to benefit; too much | control at the critical stages and too| much skill on the greens for the ga and capable Chicago star to offset. Victory for Experience. | It was a great victory for experience in a tournament which from the out- set was overrun by the golfing youth of the land. Ouimet was the oldest of all the 32 qualifiers, by far the most ex- perienced and the only former cham- pion to get into the match play bat- tle. In five successive matches Bostonian took the measure of five op- ponents who averaged less than 23 years of age. His hardest conquest was over the 19-year-old “boy wonder” from Richmond, Billy Howell, who carried | Ouimet to the thirty-fifth hole before yielding in the semi-finals After his 1914 conquest and prior to this tournament, Ouimet had reached | the semi-finals six times. Once he got to the final, in 1920, only to b2 turned back oy Chick Evans. With the big goal in sight again today, the veteran lost no time seizing and keeping command of the battle. Ouimet was 4 up before Westland had a chance to shake off his prelimi- nary feeling of nervousness, inspired by his first appearance in a national cham- pionship final. Seven holes weie under the bridge before Jack emerged irom his sireak of wildness to make the only The Nationals never were in the first game from the start. The Yanks stepped out for a healthy lead before Carl Fischer, heaving for the home side, Xnew what was going on and latter they gave Bump Hadley some rough treatment. In the meantime the left- handed Vernon Gomez made the best of the local batting talent look foolish to score a soft win. The Yanks collected but eight hits in the initial encounter with each of the Washington slabmen yielding a like amount. One of the hits, however, was Lou Gehrig's forty-first’ home run of the season, a loit over the right field barrer made off Fischer while Babe Ruth was resting on second base | in the first inning. Another was a homer driven into the sun parlor back of left field by Sam Byrd in the eighth aiter Bill Dickey had raked Hadley single, The Yanks also got six and three paved the way to runs five safeties were made off Go- mez and the Nationals waited until their last two batting terns for three of them. Two of those three were of the infield variety. Despite their few hits the Nationals had several scoring chances for every now and then Gomez became a trifie wild. How- ever, the home boys always found him able to brace remarkably whenever danger threatened. Second Goes in Last Round. Lioyd Brown and Charley Ruffing were the chuckers at the beg.nning of the second game. Brown passed*out, but Ruffing lasted. Brown took & sound pounding right off the reel and seemed fortunate that the Yanks got no more than the three runs they did at the outset. He steadied after that to pitch a good game until the ninth and in the meantime the Na- tionals had punished Ruffing in two | rounds, finally deaglocking the game with & two-run raly in the seventh That was their l'st flash, however, while Brown blew in the ninth and Fred Marberry, who was rushed to his relief, also found the New Yorkers bad medicine | In the second game the Yankees made 13 hits and the Nationals 7 That was just about the diffetence | between the two clubs, too The first inning was enough for the | Yanks in the first game, for in it they | put across three runs with a pass and two hits. The pass went to Byrd, who scored on the first of the two hits, a double slammed against the scoreboard by Ruth. Gehrig's homer followed and the Yanks were well on the way to victory. se: lead. Margin Cut in Half. Over a stretch of six holes, Westland cut Ouimet’s margin in half, from 4 up to 2, at the thirteenth hole. Ouimet had taken three putts on two greens. He had been forced to negotiate a full stymie with his niblick on the eleventh to save a haff. He was in a trap to lose the thirteenth. It looked as though Westland might ride the crest of his rally into the lead. Ouimet’s putter came to his rescue at this critical stage. he holed a 15- footer to win the fourteenth, canned one from 6 feet to capture the fifteenth hole and then made the greatest re- covery of the day to halve the sixteenth, | on this 44-yarder, into the wind, Francis hooked his drive under a tree | and was forced to play a safety shot, while Westland got home nicely in two good pokes. Ouimet carried a hillside and several traps to reach the green, but was 25 feet beyond the pin. with | a downhill putt on a tricky surface, | with Westland “dead” for his 4, Francis hit his putt crisply and it went true to the cup. bouncing around the edge before dropping, while the crowd let loose a wild roar. | Restores Ouimet’s Confidence. This stroke, heart-breaking for the | slim Chicagoian, was of vital importance | in restoring Ouimet's full confidence. | He made a great recovery from the | rough, back of the green, to win the seventeenth with a par 3, and easily | got his half at the home hole to finish | the morning round 5 up. | It was give and take, in the high wind of the afternoon round, but at| no stage did it appear Westland had a chance to do more than extend the match Although Ouimet dropped the nineteenth he came back to capture (Continued on Second Page.) Yanks Carry On, A pass to Ruth, Gohrig's infield era- sure and Chapman’s single meant an- other New York run off Fischer in the third. The first score off Hadley was registered in the fifth. It came from a pass to Gehrig and singles by Chap- man and Dickey. Dickey's single that opened the inning and Byrd's homer coming after two were out accounted for a brace of alien markers in the eighth The Nationals on three occasions managed to have as many as two bat- ters on the runway at the same time | without getting anywhere. Manush be- | gan their fourth with a triple and Cronin walked. But Harris popped out, ‘West let a third one go past and Bluege Torced out Cronin. With one out in the | sixth Cronin strolled and checked in at | third when Harris doubled. West fanned this time and Bluege lofted out. Myer opened the eighth with a bunted single ard Manush got a hit with a topper down the third base line. nin, though, drilled into a double ly and following Harris's walk West ind to the shortstop. wn had little that fooled the New rs in the opening round of the ¥ 1 Bro v the | { THIRD PLACE YAWNS [ Gehr Cha Totals 5% WASHINGTON Myer. Maniish, Cronin H. West. Kuhel. Spencer, Fischer Hadley, Totals Score by innings York Washington Runs_batted in Dickey. New man. Home Chapman_(2) really serious threat to the Bostonian's o Chapman, Lary. Ruffing.’ p." . Totals ’ WASHINGTON. Rice. rf Manush, Cronin, e Myer. West. Bluege. Kuhel. Spencer. ¢.". Eolton, Brown. Marber udze Ne 2 Washington Runs Bluege. base | Chapman. hie play—Cronin to Myer t New bases. on bal out—By Rufng, berry. off Marberry. 1 in % inning. Losing pitcher —Brown brend and 58 minutes WINS ARGENTINE STAKE BUENOS AIRES, September Mineral, the favorite, Club grand prize, feature race of the revolution>ry anniversary holiday pro- | gram at the Palermo Track today. The | ¢ race was worth 50,000 p-sos, $15,000. is. man, arris. o, Bluege, WASHINGTON, D. ( SUNDAY MORNING, & SEPTEMBER 6. 1931. r Double Win : Ouimet Again Champ After 17 Years <> cto < < PERSISTENCY PAYS OFF. AT 20 FRANCIS ELECTRIFIED SPORTs™ WORLD BY DEFEATNG ALL GREATS TO WIN THE AMERICAN OPEN (N 1913 MAYBE WERE NOT GOING TO SAVE THE BACON,AFTER ALL ..... THE YANKS THREW A PAIR OF SEVENS YESTERDAY Z 2 i _ ?‘?Qs WHAT HAZARDS BARRED EVERY GREEN FOR. THE GAME VETERAN /// \T LOOKED LIKE TAPs FOR FRANCIS AFTER THE GRUELLING MATLH WITH HOWELL THE KING! | = THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN THE HISTORY OF GOLF ~HE TOOK OVER BOBBY JONES'MANTLE YESTERDAY BY WHIPPING JACI WESTLAND IN THE NATIONAL AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP AT CHICAGO -QUIMET WON HIS ONLY § OTHER NATIONAL SIMON- PURE TILT IN 914, WHEN WESTLAND WAS 10 YEARS OF AGE ‘= Beundsr Accounts for Lone f =, Bingle—Red Sox Defeat | ‘ME Walberg in Final. = Bfim game of a double-header to- day which the Athletics and Sox divided. Earnshaw beat the Boston- ians 8-to-0, but the Sox garnered a 6- to-3 win over Rube Walberg in the nightcap. Marty McManus as lead-off man for the Sox in the eighth hit a roller which got away from Shortstop Williams to mar Earnshaw's hitless pame, It was the second one-hit game for Earnshaw this season, Not a Boston runner reached second. ‘Wilcey Moore gave Walberg a set- back in the second game and although Earl Webb got his fifty-sixth double of the season, it was Sweeney's batting that was the feature of the game. Phila ABH O.A Boston. ABH O A. Bon et Cochrane.c Moore.lf... . Fox:.3b FIRST GAME AB R o somssmauo. SuamBHE oG o 2. EARNSHAW YIELDS THT A AS ST ooZesuwmnsa [ESTTPTN-1 ! o00smsmsunE al couonmoman® ol bessnssmow> B saousosoas> ol 035553353556 onsmsossss™ ol se353305027 4 3¢ 014 0o o _Ruth, rd 120, Farris. Three-base runs—Gehriz. Byid. Stol Double plays—Sewel Lary 1o Ge! OSTON, September 5 (P— George Earnshaw let the Red Sox down with a lone hit in the P! v Gomez. o T &5 (none out in fourth) Quimet Is On SECOND GAME. His Triumph cn Links b1 o > owasa55> sumwoarwal in a while in sports. S| cmwwmoore, are rare. ] 3 > ] i ton gelfer, who has bee ss lorg-faced b wearing o 1b. < amateur golf championship of 1914. i p '?) - 1 the throne once s> tightly 0 3 0 movie star, 2l cousscestmca> @ ol sn2255930205M = coscomsss™ 5 @l somss0s0ms0my | cosommerag 5 o 5 | sorosorovortx Bl mowmtmwonn wes5a3300 o5 [} 0 0020 03 in—Gehrig, Lazzeri (4 Rice. Mas i Ruiine, " Both OBre c s fen Sacrific SSTIRD. sonian Institute as a relic. batted M'Laugh'n.p Totals ...40142710 Totels ...30 ted for MacFavden in sixth. | tted for Lisenbee in eizhth 2 0 Philadelphta ... 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 Boston ".+..".0 6 0 00 0 0 0 Cramer. Cochrane | proved it does by smacking down t! =l 259359530330 8l oosommunansn~ 0 0 0 0 1 York. 10: —Off_Ruffing. 3 4. by Brown, 1: by 1. Hits—Of Brown. 12 in 8is innings cf Richmond, Va., in the semi-fina 18 of Chicago in the finals. Umpires—Messrs. Ormsby, Hilde- and Dinneen. Time of game—-l hour This man Ouimet is class. He was around popping off golf aristocracy when you_and I were young, Maggie and, maybe, longer than that. Back in the days of bustles and weskits, horseshoe scarf pins and swinging doors Francis was nicking a visiting English golfer of prominence and slapoing the underpinning from be- neath some of the homebred hope- fuls. | % by Ru E : 1 nshaw. T s " Todt. Three-bace hit—Foxx | bl piays—MacFavden. McManus to Evee- ney; MecManus, Rhyne to_flweeney. on bases—Philadelphia. 10: Boston. 3. o oalls —Off_MacFayden. 2: off Sirdck out—By Earnshaw. 3: by Lisenbee. 1: by McLs 5 (®).— | won the Jockey about | | den. McGowan. . E. Miller). ' Losinz pifch: Urnpires—Messrs. Owens. Campbell Time of same—1 hour and second set-to of the day and once #7ain they staked themselves to a good | lead. Byrd lofied out. but Sewell | walked and Ruth singled. As Gehrig | forced out the Babe a run was carried | over by Sewell. A single by Chapman and a stroll by Lary crowded the sacks. | Lazzeri poled a one-bater to account for two more scores. Griffs Score at Last. The Nationals got back one of the runs in the fourth frame Lronin | eroacked » «ng'e under Ruffing after | Manush _went out &nd was helped SI | i American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York. 1.7 Washington. 0-3 Phiindetonia, 8:3: Boston. o Cleveland. 10: St. Louis. 5. Detroit, 8: Chicago, 3. Standings in Major Circuits NDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1931, | minutes. | _Phila, ABH | Bishop.2b... 4 1 | Cramer.rt.. O.A _Boston. ABHOA | [TORRBTeN Scotland on fits collective backs whe: ers into his golf bag at Brookline. Qilyetiet... Gentlemen, that was an outrag: Connoliv.c W.Moore. National League ‘ YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Brooklyn, 1-1. Chicago, 3' (10 Boston, 5. ol omasonoson! Totals % in ninth | to go through a Hne. 978 73| Against him were pitted Vardon, 01 2 000310 x+6 __Bishop. Cramer, E. Miller. Rhyne.| Rav. Tellier and Reid, England’s and eengy (1), Van G Er-| Fronee's greatest goifing stars. At innings). °a Philadelphia . Boston ........ uoIsoR 0% moN | s staiiaq oFwANUD around the circuit by West's infield re- | tirement and Bluege's one-base knock. | Two were out in the seventh before | the Johnson band began the making of the tallies that lifted them to even | torms with the McCarthy minions. | 7 Ry Brown launched the scoring attack Philadelphia . with a_single and pulled up at second | Wi | PrudmpEI uonrasem | “puwarard i 11115/12/16/16113/93/38] 10/ | 7112/12/13111113)7 Sweeney ‘zl.w‘/‘fi“" CImD-Rm‘Pth- A?ll:‘é!r‘l R . .. Williams “Runs batted In T | that period of our national epidemic Menen T "ts" | the United States rated as well as a dry Senator in a wet district. base hits— We had very little standing in the goofing world, in other words. We had to wire St. Andrews for permis- sion to use the word “golf” and we wom. e3nud19a | Swel . Left | LLLEe] plavs—W. M to : 0. Miller to McManus epey basee—Philadelohia. &)1 5 on T 2 uor eur By Walh uck out— SimpiresooNiessrs, | Campbell B .1 8101 7/12110/15/16| when Myer clouted for a base. Rice | Ne 1 14! rifled a single over the middle sack | cCle to score Brown and put Myer at third | st. base. e Umpt . Omens. " Time of game—1 hour and 43 min~| a1 wore tam o'shanters and whirled it our words or we thought it would Pittaburgh be impossible #o hit a golf ball down Boston .. TO PLAY FOR LEGION. the boulevard. Det Manush grounded to Lary and the| ci Philadelphia 110/5817: shortstop elected to get to second ahead | pos Cincinnati 43| DETROIT. September 5 (P.—Coach Games lost.. 4 Charles E. Dorais _has announced that of Rice instead of making the easy| ™ Games the University of Detroit foot ball team | locker rooms contain play on the batter. He reached the bag | a trifie late, so Myer toted in the| GAMESTODAY. deadlocking run. IN. Y. at Wash. Neither side got anywhere in the gh at Boston. S (Continued on Second Page.) oit "3t “Cnicaso. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at Boston (2). Chi a ¢ N, Phila. '(3) " 8t Detroit (2). GAMES TODAY. 8t. Louls at Phils Bosto; Pitts. would meet De Paul University of Chi- cago in a game on the night of Sep- tember 22, during the national con- vention of the A'IIIQHCIB Legion here. GAMES TOMORROW. Bost. at Brooklyn (2). hila. Lo, ) Gincin. at Bitts. (). 8t. L. at Chicago (). Cinein. Brooklyn. st N. V. a4 Chicase. King” uj outside domination of our golf. @ There's old man Francis Ouimet, the the heads of his clubs try- ing to repeat his victory in the national Now he's up there again settled into held by Bobby Jones, the A:lanta barrister and | top and getting that it looked like it was | just as quickly. 0| going to be turned over to the Smith- | failed that it looked like the only way But it belongs to Francis and he | courageous Southern kid, Billy Howel and romping away with Jack Westland He first came to real golf prcminence throwing the ancient and honorable board of governors of the just as ancient and honorable St. Andrews of | | he stuffed its greatest ccllection of golf- | America’'s 20-year-old unknown ama- ______|teur golfer went through that national 33 72717 open in 1913 like old Red Grange used Just at the moment when St. Andrews was about to rule that all country club icture of the Prince of Wales and all club dance music was to include “God Save the popped Francis, and out went & @ TOM DOERER \/ARDDN/ RAY, TELLIER, BEST N ENGLAND AND -~ FRANCE =y TAUGHT A LITTLE BOoY NAMED JonES TO CONTROL Y\ His TEMPER YEARS AGO 7, e e of Exceptions Adds to Rare Happenings. BY TOM DOERER H. YES, they come back once! But both the occasions and come-backs Yessir, Ouimet put America on the golfing map, and gave some of our boys a notion that maybe we could play some of that cow pasture pool without any outside help. History shows that we were no pikers when the idea registred. And to make it a lasting impression, we sent Bobl Jones over to England to show the boys over there how much we had improved ,on what they taught us. But Francis got nowhere fast in the ! meanwhile. He was in one national ! event after another, coming up to the turned the other way He tried so often and n | he was ever to regain that crown was 'to pull a truck up to the back door | some midnight and haul it away. He | couldn't go it with those grass cutters, 11 | anyhow. So you may rest assured that all America is feeling in the pink this morning as it reads of that old mas- ter's comeback at Beverly Hills, It cheered with the boy Howell, it rooted with Westland, a youngster with a little more age upon his shoulders, and it sent up a salvo of cheers for McCarthy, the fighting boy golfer. It did all of that, maybe, because it felt that Ouimet’s chances, all of these years of try'ng, were to be as futile as previous efforts. And we do not like to waste cheers, gen- tlemen. But when the Boston veteran came | into the final, lugging his years and his | hepes and with his bespectacled eyes | still focused on a bauble that was 17 years away, we cheered much in hope and little in confidence. Now he's up there and you'll hear the cheering for a long while. Those who can't rcad their golf or leave it alone will get Ouimet\ from morning until taps, in word and picture form, his life story, what he's doing for the-kiddies n sian kittens or canary birds. And we'll take it standing up, too, | sistent old timer. POLO GAMES SCHEDULED War Whites Will Play Virginians Tuesday and Thursday. War Whites and the Fauquier-Lou- doun poloists will oppose at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday cn the polo grounds and again on Thursday. l;l'he hw.-.r f:r‘:k and P‘auquie‘r-lnudwn riders have en even in two games this season. of the Nation and his fondness for Per- | | because all the world loves a winner | and twice as much when he's a per- | < WHITNEY'S HORSE 8 LENGTHS AHEAD Simply Galloping at Finish. $50,000 Hopeful Stake Is Won by Tick On. BY ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. ARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., September 5. — Thundering down the stretch like a runaway locomotive, Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand today administered a sound whip- | ping to Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Sun | Beau in the fifty-first running of the Saratoga Cup. Sun Beau, king of the older horses and leading money winner of the world, ran a game race, but met his master in the big bay from Mrs. Whitney's Greentree Stable. At the end of the grueling mile and 6 furlongs the 6-year-old veteran from Kilmer's Binghamton, N. Y.. barns was eight lengths back of Twenty Grard's | fiving hoofs, while th> Beiaid stud's Sir | Ashley, the only other starter, finished a half length back of Sun Beau. The race, figured to be a duel be- tween the two kings of the turf, was merely & rout for the winner of the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes | and co-holder of the 3-year-old title | with his only conqueror, A. C. Bost- wick's Mate. Sir Ashley was out in front for the first half mile. but as the trio flashed past the grandstand for the first time Linus (Pony) McAtee sent Twenty Grand bounding out in front. Easily Increases Lead. As if sensing the triumph of the vear-old champion, which was a 0-5 favorite in the betting. a ca- pacity crowd of 30,000 let out a mighty yell. Answering the cry of the thou- sands, Twenty Grand fuither increased his lead as he swung into the back stretch. with McAtez endeavoring to hold him back Charley Phillips, riding Sun Beau with all the power in the 6-year-cld legs of the son of Sun Briar. made his move midway in the back stretch, but the gap only widened. They turned for home and the cry of the multitude grew louder and loucer as it witnessed a great horse being defeated by an even greater horse. Without so much as touching the son of St. Germans-Bonus with the whip, McAtee galloped Twenty Grand past the judges' etand eight lengths in front of the Kilmer ace. The time of 3:011-5 was 61-5 sec- onds off the track record set by Mrs. John D. Hertz's Reigh Count in win- ning the 1928 renewal of the race, but &r racing strip was far from being its st. The victory, worth $8.250 to Mrs. Whitney, increased Twenty Grand's total s to $219.825. Second place net- ted Sun Beau $1.000 and sent his earn- | ings soaring to $356,.44. | Big Stake Is Demand Financially the $50,000 Hopeful occu- pied the top place on the closing day card, but the interest was in the Twenty | Grand-Sun Beau race. The Hope.ul, feature of the final day | at the Spa for 27 years, went to Tick On, an 8-to-1 shot, from Mrs. Louis M. | Kaufman's Loma Stable. Nineteen of the turf's ranking juveniles started the battle over the six and one-half :u | longs, but when they flashed past the finish line Tick On was two lengths |in front of Mrs. Grah Fair Vanderbilt's Sweeping Light. another outsider, with Polonaise, one-third of the W. R. Coe entry, another length back in third | place. Stretched to the rear of the three leaders were such prominent championship contenders as Coe's Os- culator, Victor Emanuel's Morfair, J. J. | Louchsheim’s Economic and the highly regarded Greontree entry of Espinca, Curacao and Semaphore. Tick On's victory, which only further complicated the 2-year-old champion, ship situation, was worth $45.950 to Mrs. Kaufman. | victory for Mrs. Kaufman's small stable since Twink carried her straw and red 7. | silks fo victory in several of the rich | juvonile features three vears ago. The Jittle black co!t stepped the distance in | 1:20 3-5, nearly four seconds off Boo- | | jum'’s record, established in winning the 11929 ren-wal of the historic race. | Third honors of the day went to C. V. Whitney's Beacon Hill. which won | the Saratoga stesplechase handicap and | 6- |$7359 when he finished the two and | one-half miles 50 lengths in front of | | Mrs. Robert V. McKim's Messmate, sec- |ond. the only other jumver of the orig- ; inal fie'd of four to complete the course. | Veteran’s Victory Enthuses Britons By the Associated Press. | ONDON, September 5.—Francis Ouimet’s victory in the American | amateur golf championship to- | day was good news to British golfers, | for over here they are loyal to the | oldsters of the gare. Ouimet at 38 is & veteran among the field of young- ’ lht:rs he beat, none of whom is known Te. { Ever since Ouimet beat Harry Var- don and Ted Ray in 1913, the Brit- | ish have watched his play. and with | numerous visits to this country he | became one of the most popular Americans who ever competed here. He won the prized St. George's Vase in 1923 and competed in all inter- national matches with fine sports- manship and rare good humor. Ouimet succeeded even in persist- ently refusing Scotch and soda without offending his British friends. “Thanks awtully, but I'll just have a glass of water” said Francis. “Quaint, very quaint indeed,” thought the British, and they asked him again and still Quimet asked for water. It became a great joke dur- ing the celebrations rouowms Jess Sweetser's victory in the British amateur championship at Muirfield in 1926. Scotsmen asked the Bos- | tonian to-have a Scotch and soda | just to hear with their own ears wh'eg:er it was true that he preferred wal | | | It was the first imporiant | & + ¢ WEAKER ENTRANTS * PUTINTO DISCARD Yeomans, D. C. Netman, | Sends Gledhill Five Hard | Sets Before Succumbing. ‘ BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Sports Writer. ESTSIDE TENNIS CLUB, Forest Hills, N. Y., Sep- tember 5.—Some of the excess baggage was cleared away today in the opening round of the golden jubilee na- tional men’s tennis tournament, a score of the weaker entries going into the discard as a sort of pre- liminary to the main show start- ing Monday. A sizeable first day crowd sa¢ through the afternoon at Fores' Hills and watched the brighto.: lights go through the motions. There was an occasional flurry of excitement, such as when Julius Seligson, the husky New Yorker, forced the British ace, Frederick Perry, to go four sets. but for the most part the day’s program was cut and dried. Johnny Doeg, this country’s left- | handed champion, started the ball roll- ing with a 6—3, 6—2, 6—4 victory over Keith Werner of Los Angeles, and the otheis paraded after him into the fec- ond round. Frank BShields of New York, second ranking American, over- whelmed Federico Sendel of Mexico, 6—0. 6—1, 6—0, and Clifford Sutter, the steadv New Orleans star, eliminated Lester Stoefen, Los Angelcs, 6—3, 6—4, 6—4. They were the only members of the domestic seeded list to see action. Perry Leads Invaders. Perry, Britain's brilliant internation- alist and cne of the tournament fa- vorites, led the foreign brigade through the initial round with a four-sat triumph over Seligson, former intercol- legiate champion, 6—4, 4—6, 6—0. Neither Perry's team mate, George P. Hughes. nor any member of the French team nad a chance to unlimber today. They, with Wilmer Allison, Ellsworth Vines. George Lott. jr.. Sidney B. Wood, jr., John Van Ryn and other American Stars, were accorded byes in the open- ing round. R. Norris Williams, 2d. veteran cam- paigner from Philadelphia, supplied the closest thing to an upset on today's program when he eliminated Canada No. 1 star, Dr. Jack Wright, in a spec- tacular five-set match. They almost had to turn on the lights before the 40~ year-old former_champion finally won, 3—6. 6—2. 6—3, 1—9, 8—6. Dr. Wright was the second Canadian player to pass from the picture, Mar- cel Rainvilie, that country’s No. 2, hav- ing lost an earlier match to Martin Buxby of New York. Suffering from what he described as a “stiff neck.” Rainville defaulted after Buxby had won the first two sets, €—0, 6—1, and hed taken a 3—0 lead in the third. Yeomans Extends Gledhill. Keith Gledhill of Santa Barb: Calif.. present intercollegiate champion, had a narrow escape in his first matcl when he was forced to five long sets 1o climinate Edgar Yeomans of Washing- ton, D. C. The scores were 5—1, 6—4, 6—4, 6—8. C—4. Bruce Barnes of Austin, Tex., dis- mosed of Arnold_Jones of Providence, R. I, 6—2. 6—2, 7—5, in a feature match on one of the outside ecourts. Wilbur Coen, jr.. of Kansas City, turned back Edward W. Feibleman of New | York, 6—3, 7—5, 6 k | The distinction of winning the day's most one-sided triumph went to Karl Kamrath of Austin, who disposed of | Mario Gonzalez of Buenos Alres with- out the loss of a game. Kamrath and Barnes will meet in one of Monday's matches. b Newark. | Kelth Werner, Los Anseies. -2, 64 rances X.' Shieids. New . defeated Frederico Sendel. Mexico. 60. 6-1. 60 Keith Gledhill, Santa Barbara. Calif. de- feated Edgar D. Yoemans. Washington, D. C., 7. 6-4. 6 4. 65, 6 4 George J. Jennings Keqneth D Fisher. ) defeated 4 . Chicago. defeated York, 11—9. 6-3. ! Marcel Rain- three games of final Martin Buxby, New Rainville. Canada. 6 | silie” detaulted” after et) Sadakazu Onda. New Yo dore A. Eggmann. St. Lou ansas_City Wilbir ohen. ir.. Ki feated Edward Feigleman. New York, Karl Kamrath. Austin, Tex. atio V. Gonzales, Buenos Aires. N York. defeated 1. 6-0. 3—0. rk. defeated Theo- by defaul defeated 60, 60, Jones. Brooklyn. defeated Paul New” Gnidine, deteated New ' Orleans. defeate Lester Stoeten. Los Angeles. 6.-3. 6—4. 6—4 Edward Jacobs, Baltimore. defeated Lieut R. M. Watl, jr. Brooklyn. 6—4. 9-7. 75 o 5. Frede 5 | gergated G, "Frederick Roil. Philadelphia; e defeated Julius | 5 York. 5. 46, 6.-0. James' L. Van_Alen. Newport. R. 1. de- | tgated Wiiliam Crum’ Thompsoh. Poriiand. Edward G. Tarenzioli. New York. defeated C.” Alphonsc Smith. University of Virgini 61 5—7. 6_4. 6 Donald M. Frame. New York. defeat arl Fischer. Woodburs. ooy o 5—1. LT Clayton’ Lee Burwell. Charlotte. N. €. defeated E. Ramey Donovan, New York. ., 9—11," 6—3. 6- Tex. defeated R I & York. defeated 6—3. 75, 6—1 Austin. Providence. Bruce Arnold W. J 6—2. 7 Herbert L. Bowman. New iles Verstraten. New York.