Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1931, Page 41

SPORTS. Newly Decreed Golf Ball of Heavie 7IE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1931. SPORT STARS ABOUT 5050 REGARDING CHANGE Armour One Not to Approve.f Hagen Feels All Players Will Be Helped. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. { EW YORK, September 15.— The United States Golf Association’s decision to replace the “balloon ball” with one of greater weight, has| failed to arouse any unanimous ' expression of approval from lead- | ing amateurs and professionals. A poll of a score or more of top- | fiight players reveals an almost even | division of opinion as to the wisdom of | the change which will bring into play | on April 15, 1932, a ball of the present | diameter, 1.68 inches, but of heavier | weight. The U. S. G. A. has ot yet | determined the exact weight of the new | ball, but there have been indications | that it will weigh 1.62 ounces, the same | as the sphere that was in play before | the “balloon ball” made its appearance the first of this year. The “balloon ball' weighs 1.55 ounces. One of the most ardent supporters of | the “balloon ball” has been Tommy | Armour, British open champion. Ar- | mour believes the “present ball is the greatest contribution that has been | made to the game” and added that he | was “sorry to see the ball changed.” | Sees Pros as Favored. | Horton Smith thought the latest change would make the game all the easier for the professionals, but that | the duffer would find plenty of trouble with it | “It will be harder to get off the ground for one thing,” said Smith, “and I feel it will respond to a hard blow much more sensitively than does the present ball.” Willie Klein agreed with Smith and | Ed Dudley said he had heard that ex- | periments with a ball of the same size | and heavier weight had developed that the ball “floats and ducks badly.” { Among leading woman players. Mrs. Helen Payson Corson said she did not like the contemplated change, on the ground that it would rob woman play- ers of lots of distance. On the other side of the fence were ‘Walter Hagen, Leo Diegel. Willie Mac- farlane, Gene Sarazen, Jess Sweetser, Chick Evans, Jock Hutchison and Gene Homans. Hagen thought the increase in would help “star and duffer, Diegel thought the combination present size and the old weight, cided upon, would be “perfect.” Sarazen enthusiastically approved the change and suggested further that players be | given the option of playing any weight ball between 1.55 and 1.62 ounces. i Sweetser Likes Change. Sweetser, favoring the change, sug- gested further that fields in major | championships play balls made possibly by one manufacturer and tested for distance. Homan's chief cause for sat- isfaction was that the additional weight would make the ball easier to play in the wind. Maureen Orcutt was chief among the woman proponents of the change. saying she would prefer almost any ball to tie one now in use It remained for Wild Bill Mehlhorn to come through with the most philo- cal comment: don't care what they make us play,” he said, “so long as we all play the same ball i Dr. O, F. Willing, Portland, Oreg., said_he thought a bit of added weight would make the balloon ball a great ball. | Have Matches in Wardman Event. Yeomans Given Three-Set Battle by Hunt. M and doubles were listed this afternoon in the men's di- vision of the Wardman Park tennis tournament. Play: also was to start today in the women’s singles with many of the front-ranking feminine racketers of the city competing. Featuring yesterday's play was the great, fight offered Eddie Yeomans, Dis- trict champion, by Gilbert Hunt, Dis- trict boys' titlist, before the latter suc- cumbed. The scores were 10—8, 2—8, 10—8. Eddle Jacobs of Baltimore, Middle Atlantic section player, made his_tourney debut yesterday, as he easily defeated Muscoe Garnett and Jack Purinton Today's program | MEN'S SINGLES. | 4 olclock-Mangan vs. Welsh: Rudy Ve Hull; Roll vs. 6teubly; Ritzenberg vs. Latona. | 5 oclock—Jacobs vs. Sh Degnan vs. winner of Ru ATCHES involving leading Dis- trict racketers in both singles No. 1 3 o'clock—Deck and Seidel vs partper; Trigg and Heney ve Doyle. 5 o'clock—Mangan e Shoemaker an Buchanan vs. Atwood vs Burwell Hill and and ‘Considine Mitchell and | ason; Ladd and | ubly. | dic Jacobs_defeated Mus- 6—0; M. G. Martinez de- nnor. 4—6, 61, 6—4; T. J. d_ Walter ' Berberici Roll defeated A. O. White, defeated Jack i Fred | enberg defeated i | Second Purinton. Martinez, nd 61, 6—1, round—Jacobs [ 60 Latona defeated Roll defeated on, an_defeated TRe 1gan defeated Hill, defeated Hount. trom Willis Markey, 6—4, | Formerly $7.50 to $10 NOW ington. | Shortly before Street reached the Association | Street Wanders From Coast | To Coast During His 31 Years’ With Base Ball GABBY STREET . T TR Here's how Gabby Street looked shortly after he broke in with the Wash- ington Senators in 1908. was ace of the Philadelptia Athletics’ his way up through the bushes. Note the old-: pitching staff while Gabby was working | fashioned mask. Rube Waddell (left) Mileposts in Gabby’s Wanderings Here's the wanderings. 1900—Jackson, Tenn. (Semi-pro) 1902—Hopkinsville, Ky. (K. I. T. 1903-04—Terre Haute, Ind 1904—Cincinnati Nationals ({ryout) chronological story of Sergt. Gabby Street's baseball League) (Central League). 1905—Cincinnati and Boston Nationals. 1906—San Francisco_(Pacific Coast . (Tri-State League) League, outlaw) 1912—New York Americans and Providence (Eastern League) 1913—Chattanooga (Southern Association). 1914-17—Nashville (Southern Association) 1917-18—Chemical Warfare Service, A. E. F. 1919—Nashville. 1920-21—Suffolk, Va. (Virginia League). 1922-23—Joplin, Mo. (Western Association). (Western Association). (South Atlantic Association) (South Atlantic Association). (South Atlantic Assoclation). 1924-25—Muskogee, Okla. 1926—Augusta, Ga. 1927—Columbia, S. C. 1928—Knoxville, Tenn. 1929—St. Louis Nationals. Coach. Manager. Manager. Manager. Manager. Manager. Manager. 1930-31—St. Louis Nationals. Manager. BY ALAN GOULD, Assoclated Press Sports Editor. . 2—Born Behind a Mask. ABBY STREET became & catcher because he was nat- urally “pretty tough,” possessed s good arm and a chattery brand of lsadership. They didn’t hand him his nickname | because he was a strong, silent Southern toy. It stuck to him so close that it required a squint at the record books to disclose he was christened Charles E. Street when he was born at Hunts- ville, Ala,, February 27, 1883. “I was always playing behind the bat from the earliest I can remember being on a ball team,” said Gabby “I was playing semi-pro ball around Jackson, Tenn., when I got my first chance to go with a professional team I was signed by Hopkinsville, Ky.. in | the old K. I. T.. or Kitty League, as it was called, in 1902.” | Ty Cobb, then only 16, hadn't broken into the professional game. Rube Wad- dell was the ace pitcher of Conniz Mack’s first American League cham- plonship club, in 1902, | The youthful Street’s peppery back- | stopping was not long in attracting at- | tention. He was not a heavy hitter, but they didn't expect catchers to oc- cupy the clean-up role in those days. Gabby got up to Terre Haute, in the Central League. and then recelved a tryout with the Cincinnati Reds in 1904. He was shipped back to the Indiana town for the season, brought up again the next Spring and traded to the Bos- ton Nationals. Not vet ripe for the big show. Street was released to San Francisco in 1906, He caught only 30 games in the Na- | tional League. Gabby arrived on the coast just in time for the earthquake and subse- cuent complications that ended thoughts of base ball for the time being in San | Francisco. He wanted to get back East and Jumped to Williamsport, Pa., in the Tri- State League, then an outlaw circuit, | but one season of this was enough. | To gain reinstatement, Strect re- | turned to San Francisco, played the | 1907 season there, caught 159 games, batted .231 and was bought by Wash- | i | 11:30 to Dinner 3%° 50c Blue Plate ,!1;3 2 25¢ CAVALIER'S ORCHESTRA 6 to 7:30 P.M.—10 P.M. to 1 AM. No Cover Charge Ladies Invited HAVANA JOE’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT 518 10th St. N.W. Open Sundays | | SIZES | Stol2 WIDTHS AAto EEE Capital a big 6-footer from Weiser, Idaho, Walter Perry Johnson, cam along with a powerful right arm and a fast ball that hopped past the batte: Lke a rifle bullet Johnson and Street met, liked each other from the outset and formed one | the most famous batteries of all | o1 time. Tomorrow—Off the Monument. REACH TENNIS FINAL. QUANTICO, Va, September Ma). Roger W. Beard and Capt. Hal CHAMPION ARMOUR PLAYING KIRKWOOD Pros in Match Play Rounds. Diegel, Sarazen Get 145 to Top Qualifiers. | By the Associated Press. | ROVIDENCE, R. I, September | 15.—Thirty-six holes of stroke competition left 32 survivors for | today’s first round of match | play in the champlonship tournament | of the Professional Golfers' Association | Tommy Armour, the defending cham- | plon, drew Joe Kirkwood, trick ghot {expert, for the first round. Kirkwood, ;now making Chicago his base, had rounds of 73 and 78 yesterday in quali- tying play. Walter Hagen, P. G. A. champion five times, was down to match strokes with Pete O'Hara of Verona Pa., and | the draw was none too lenient with | former champions, Leo Diegel of De- troit and Gene Sarazen, who captured yesterday’s medal with wounds of 173 and 72 for a 36-hole total | horn and Sarazen sgainst Al Espinosa of_Chicago. Billy Burke, the open champion, was one of the few to break 150 in the qualifying struggle and the fortunes | of the draw pitted him against Dave | Hackney of Lowell, Mass. Prior’ to the start of match play Johnny Farrell and Eddie Miller of Gadsden, Ala,, had to determine which one would enter match play. ness prevented completion yesterday of a play-off of last-place ties qualifying list. MRS. TURPIE SEi‘S PACE. BUFFALO, N, Y., September 15 () —1It was Mrs. Marian Turpie Lake against the field today in the women's | Western Golf Association tournament, | the Southern and Long Island champion | having shot an 86 over the first 18 | Poles yesterday to take the lead 15. — Potter, who yesterday defeated Maj. | Louis W. Whaley and Capt. E. E. Kalb- sleich in the upper bracket semi-final of he post_tennis championship, 7—9, 6—1, 6—3, Thursday will play Lieut Pressley Rixey and Pvt. Orlando in the final. Vines Laid Plans For Net Success ALLA WALLA, Wash,, Septem- ber 15 (A.—It was no sur- prise to his father when Ells- worth Vines, jr., of Pasadena, Calif., created a sensation by capturing the national tennis championship. The elder Ellsworth Vines, visiting here, said that his son started a definite campaign for a Davis Cup position four years ago and has just about accomplished his endeavor “All credit for Ellsworth's devel opment in tennis goes to his coac and to his own ambition to reach the pinnacle in tennis play,” sald o_elder_Vines R WANTED 1927 1928 1929 1930 FORDS Chevrolets Dodges Essex And Other Light Cars SPECIAL Trade-in Allowance This Week Only ] Our used car stock is low and we need used cars—NOW! L. P. Steuart, Inc. OAKLAND PONTIAC Distributors 14th & R. L. Ave. of America at the Wannamoisett Club. | of 145.| Diegel was drawn against Bill Mehl- | Dark- | in the | OUR intra-club golf tournaments have been scheduled for the Fall season by the Golf Committee of the Chevy Chase Club, beginning with the qualifying round for the President’s Cup, now in progress, and ending with the competition on October {31 for the cup presented to the club by former Japanese Ambassador Matsu- daira. Qualifying rounds for the President’s Cup began on September 12 and will conclude on September 26, when the 16 low net scores will be drawn for the first match-play round on September 28, 29 cr 30. The second round is to be played on October 1, 2 or 3, with the semi-final carded for October 5, 6 or 7 and the final on October 8, 9 or 10. Immediately following the event for the President’s Cup will come the tourney for the Liberty Cup, whose qualifying rounds will start September 26 and end on October 10. Match | play will start on October 12, with the | final round scheduled for October 22, 23 or 24. | Then will come the competition for‘l the Siamese Cup, presented some years | ago by the Siamese Ambassador, with qualification rounds set between October 10 and 24, the first round of match play for October 26, 27 or 28 and the final round of match play listed for November 5, 6 or 7. The competition for the Japanese Cup, scheduled for October 31, will wind up the season. This event dif- fers from the other tourneys, in that it is an 18-hole medal play handicap tourney. The winner will receive a replica presented by the club and will | have his name engraved on a plate to be placed in the club house. All matches in the match play events must be started not later than 2 o'clock and | players are urged to withdraw their | names if they cannot play through the tournaments. ! OU may be able to get your new | official golf ball within a couple of | weeks. Golf ball manul urers—or most of them—went into production on | the new 1.62 weight and 168 size ball last week and within a fortnight or two the new ball will be on the market. The announcement of United States Golf Association on the new golf ball, predicted in The Star last Sun- cay. came from headquarters of the United States Golf Association late yes- terday, and even though the fathers of | s Dy STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE By WALTER R. McCALLUM: golf_did not then specify the exact weight, John J. Duffer may be sure he will at Jcast have the old weight of 1.62 in ounces back with him. ~The new sphere will be a compromise, in fact, but a compromise that will meet with the approval of many thousands of golfers throughout the land, for the 1.68 size ball sits up well on the fairway and with the old weight of 1.62 ounces it will bore through a wind a little better and roll into the cup a little more often than the present ball weighing 1.55 ounces and being 1.68 inches in size But we can go further than that The new golf ball already has made its appearance around Washington. Fo several weeks past there has been av able to professionals a golf ball made in the 1.62 weight and the 1.68 size, even though the United States Golf Asso- clation did not positively decide upon the new weight until the association met at the amateur championship at Chicago two weeks ago. It will be a popular ball and should stabllize the | golf ball situation for many years to come, EARLY every professional and assistant pro around Washington is planning to play in the Mary- land open championship at 36 holes medal play at the Congressional Coun- try Club on September 25. But even though all of the eligible ones are keen to play, they are not so keen about the rate charged by the Maryland State Golf Asssociation to enter the tourney. An entry fee of $10 is to be charged to professionals and assistants, while amateurs and greenkeepers will be charged a $5 entry fee. The tourney is to be open only to amateurs, profes- sionals and greenkeepers assoclated with clubs which are members of the Mary- land State Association and only amateurs with State handicap cards will be eligible to compete. This means that very few Washing- ton amateurs will play, for compara- tively few of them have obtained State Assoclation handicap cards. It also means that players from the Washing- | ton Golf and Country Club and the Army-Navy Club will not be eligible to enter and that Mel Shorey, who holds down the professional berth at East Po- tomac Park, will not be allowed to play. The tournament will have quite a pot of gold in it, for the present under- standing is that the association is to lay $1,000 on the line for the boys to shoot ‘Which is considerable money in any language, if the notes are backed by the United States Treasu r Balloon Type Fails to Get Full Backing OHNNY HOLZBERG, the smooth- ewinging, tall youngster from Co- lumbla, who looks as if he may go| somewhere in golf around Washington, is the outstanding favor.le today to| | win the Columbia Country Club junfor champlonship. Disposing of A. S | Gardiner, jr., regarded as his chief | rival, in the first round of match play | sterday, Holzberg met William E.| | Shannon,’ 24, in the second Tound to- dav. | Holzberg turned on considerable heat | yesterday to beat Gardiner, finishing | | the match with a brace of birdie 3s to | beat. his opponent. Holzberg was 1 up| playing the sixteenth hole, and nearly | scored an ace on the sixeenth, when | his ball rolled just past the lip of the | cup ‘and Teft him an easy putt for the | two, which he holed. Then to further | embarrass Gardiner. Holzberg drove the | | seventeentn green from the lower tee ilnd rolled in an 8-foot putt for his ‘second consecutive duece, to win the | match by 3 and 1. Gardiner also drove | the seventeenth green and had a putt for a 2, but the ball failed to drop. Holzberg was the medalist in tourney with a card of 80, although | Billy Shannon needed a 4 on the last hole to tie. He made a 5 when his second shot, found a trap and a 10-foot,| putt failed to drop. Shannon met| Holzberg in_the second Tound today, while Page Cornwell clashed with Clar- | ence Dodge, ir. in the other match. Jack Powell, who won the champion- Fhip last year, did not defend his title this year. | "The urgent pleas of D'Arcy Banagan | | drew out nearly 30 youngsters for the | | tourney, ranging from little Karl Corby, a 9-year-old juvenile, to the big A. S. | Gardiner, jr. who tops the scales at around 200 pounds. Herbert T. Shan- | non, jr., and Wimbar Gardiner, brother | of A. S, put on a show late yesterday | that drew most of the interest !rom‘ the semi-finalists. Playing in the third | flight they came to the last hole all even, where both Shannon, who is barely as tall as his driver, placed his third shot on the green to tle with Gardiner, who outweighs him by more than 100 pounds. Gardiner rolled his fourth shot down close o the hole, lay- ing_Shannon a stymie, which the 13- year-old kid nearly negotiated. Then they went to the nineteenth. where Gardiner won with a 7, after they had recapitulated the score and finally de- cided that Gardiner had holed out in | one stroke less than Shannon. At that the youngster holed a 6-footer for his 8 Junior members of the Congressional Country Club are playing today in the club championship. a 36-hole medal | play event. The title was won last year the | British Girl Can Clout Golf Bali HICAGO, September 15— The entry of Miss Enid Wilsor . British champion, puts an en- tirely different compiexion on thc women’s national golf championship at Buffalo September 21-26. Her presence offers another serious ob- stacle in the path of Mrs. E H. Vare Glenna Collett), who is ambitious t win the title for the fourth con tive season and run her tot seven. Miss Wilson. who recently came {0 Detroit, via Montreal, will do m of her practicing for the champio: - ship on the courses of that cit x her first appearance in Detrc:t startled the galleries with the po of her driving. Playing over difficult Bloomfield Hills course, reeled off several drives of mor~ than 250 yards and on the seventh - reeled & shot of almost 300 vards by Thomas P. Bones, jr., who was 21 two weeks ago and is not eligible Fred McLeod, the golf sage of Co- lumbia, is back from a vacation in thr mountains of Vermont, bronzed a sun-tanned after 10 days of golf o the Ekwanck course. Freddie say is feeling fine, but has not entirel covered from a recent tonsil operati Five matches have been won and has gone by default in the compet for the September Morn Cup amor senifor golfers at Chevy Chase. Here are the results so far: J. H. Cowles d-- feated H. R. Stanford, by default: G D. C. Shankk defeated W. M. Spri and 4; J. M. Kenyon defeated W Brantley, 2 and 1: L. L. 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