Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1935, Page 14

SPORTS. College Golfers’ Consensus Puts 144 as Winning Score in Qualifying Test. FIGURE 15715 TOP T0 MAKE RIFFLE Charlie Yates Meets Lots of Class in Defense of National Title. BY W. R. McCALLUM. NE HUNDRED AND FORTY- FOUR to win the medal. One hundred and fifty-seven to be the top figure to qualify, and & total score of 610 to win the team championship. ‘That was the consensus of school- boy opinion at Congressional today as 130 of the leading club swingers from 31 colieges throughout the United States took off the wraps and started to shoot the works in the chase for the intercollegiate crown now worn by lanky Charlie Yates of Georgia Tech’ The Yates boy. one of the better amateur golfers of the Nation, finds his titular crown slightly askew today as he strives, like the rest of the lads, to qualify over the 7,055-yard layout served up for the lusty-hitting boys by the Congressional Golf Committee. For Charlie, viewing the biggest and best, field ever gathered for the inter- collegiate tourney, avows in his be<t Southern drawl that “it's going to be a tough tournament to win, and you| can't make any man & favorite.” But | if there is one man to stand ouc in this stellar field it is this same Yates, a lad with a far better swing than he | had last year, a cool scrapper under fire, and an indomitable match player. Greens Bother Riegel. IS chief rivals, from where we sit, | seem to be imperturbable Don | Fdwards, the big blond boy from Stanford; Spec Stewart, the burly Stanford lad; John Pischer, the tall boy from Fort Thomas Ky.; Charlie | Kocsis of Detroit; Tommy Dwyer of | Stanford: Joe Lynch of Georgetown, and dark-haired Bobby Riegel of Richmond. This same Riegel is the | 19-year-old kid who won the South- ern amateur championship at Rich- mond on Saturday, and who yesterday played his first round of the Congres- sional course. He wasn't so good, but he was splitting the middle with booming tee shots and putting like & ham. “I can't find the touch of these putting greens,” he said. “But T'll get 'em tomorrow.” All the lads were out there today running through the first 18 holes of the 36-hole qualification test. To- morrow they will go through the same schedule, with 32 to qualify for the hog-killing on Wednesday, the two 18-hole match play rounds in which champions are going to be bumped off to make way for the 36-hole quarter-final round on Thursday. ‘The last three rounds of the cham- plonship all are at 36 holes, with a 36-hole semi-final Priday and the #ame route slated for the finalists on Saturday. Weather Is Ideal. YDU could find yourself plenty of '™ pin money today on either side of the argument that 70 would or wouldn’t be broken by those long- amiting college boys during the medal rounds, but most of the dopesters clung to the prediction that 143 or < | i 'GRANT THREE-TIME CLAY COURT CHAMP 144 would be the low figure for the Tennis Mark Second to Tilden's entire 36-hole qualification test. Gone was the high wind which shot | the scores up yesterday, and a perfect June day, with the temperature high up in the 80s, greeted the opening of Set by Atlantan in Defeat of Parker. By the Associated Press. the tournament. The day is made to | order for scoring, and the lads may hit that sub-70 mark today, even in | the face of predictions. Joe Lynch, | president of the Intercollegiate Asso- | ciation, and Roland MacKenzie, club | pro, were out last night setting the cups and tee markers, which occa- sioned a few wise-cracks about Lynch, & competitor in the tourney, knowing more about the cups than any one 'HICAGO, June 24.—That mighty little man from Atlanta, Ga. Bryan (Bitsy) Grant, today had achieved his third national clay ourts singles tennis championship— a record surpassed only by big Bill Tilden himself. The featherweight Georgian con- quered young Prankie Parker of Mil- waukee for the second consecutive year in yesterday’s final to take per- else. But it was all in fun, and Joe | manent possession of the title trophy. will have no edge on the rest of the | 1ads today. i Joe will defend his long-driving | ehampionship along about sundown | tomorrow. He won the driving cam- | petition last year, and if you want to #ee some real slugging come out to Congressional tomorrow afternoon to watch the lads smite ‘em. The an- | nual dinner of the association will be held tomorrow night. OLSEN WILL TACKLE MAT ‘RUFFIAN’ HERE His Foe, Katan, Now Is Regarded Roughest Wrestler—Wright, Donovan Have Grudges. FOR those who like the rough, tough stuff in their wrestlers, Promoter Joe Turner will present John Katan in one end of a double-header feature | of the mat matches to be held Thurs- day night at Griffith Stadium. The roughest in the business is what they say of this fiery Greek heavy- weight who will tussle with Cliff Olsen to a finish. Even rougher than George Zaharias, who has been regarded as the meanest on the mat by local fol- lowers of the business. Athletic com- missions of several Sttaes have banned Katan because of the brutal tactics he employs on the mat. The co-feature involving Jack Dono- van and Reuben Wright also may bring out some rough stuff. These two grappled in an exhibition at.the ball yard during the recent Shrine convention with the tussling becom- ing so bitter that police had to in- tervene. JOHNNY BYNG TO COACH Washingtonian Likely to Handle Ends at Naval Academy. ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 24— Johrny Byng, former Western High and Devitt athlete, and now'sa junior leutenant in the Navy, who was a notable all-round performer at the Edpenas s aéiég g Eggga £ HHE i E K courts crown in 1930. Tilden, at the height of his game as an amateur, won the championship six times. Grant had to come from behind twice yesterday in downing the clever Milwaukeean, 4—8, 6—1, 3—6 6—3, 6—0, but finished with the most deci- sive display of tennis in the history of the tournament. Parker made & bristling battle of it for three sets, but Grant, firing away at the young- ster’s backhand weakness, took com- mand and won handily. Grant won his first national hard | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Skeet Shooting Exhibition Here Lures Thro Here's & section of the crowd that visited the picturesque grounds of the National Capital Skeet Club yesterday to witness the trick shot feats of James G. Lavack, former member of the United States Olympic team. In & special match against the pro Larry Williams, jr. (left), was nosed out, 24-23, but the 14-year-old marksman was the winner of the shoot-off of a club handicap match against Dr. William P. Reeves and Dr. J. R. —Star Staff Photos. Currey. |COLLEGIATE TENNIS | TOURNEY WIDE OPEN 85 Players From 37 Schools Go | for National Title Left Vacant by Mako. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, June 24.—There was no such thing as a favorite today as the fifty-first annual national inter- collegiate tennis charapionships—pre- sented west, of the Alleghenies for the first time in the history of the event— opened on the clay courts of North- il | western University, The graduation of last year's three ranking stars—Gene Mako of South- ern California, winner of the singles championship in 1934, and now a member of the United States Davis Cup tesm: Gilbert Hunt of Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. runner-up to Mako last year, and Jack Tidball, for U. C. L. A. ace— and the high caliber of the field com- bined to make the affair a wide-open battle. - The meet, inaugurated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1883, at- tracted entries from every section of the country. Eighty-five players rep- resenting 37 colleges were on deck for opening round singles matches this morning. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR EDD]’! AINSMITH clouted & double and triple to lead Washington to & 7-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Walter Johnson was to face Ray Collins on the mound today in an effort to make it three out of four for the Senators. Jerry Travers, national open golf champion and four-time winner of the national amateur, yesterday won the Lynwood Cup at the Hunt- ingdon Valley Country Club, Phila- delphia, by defeating Max Marston, New Jersey title holder, 2 and 1. Les Peine, Western High School third sacker, smacked out two daubles to aid Drillery in defeating Government Hospital, 5-4, in & Potomac League contest, Doyle and Kellerman, Agricul- ture, defeated Gable and Warren, Post Office, 6—0, 6—0, as the Aggles scored a 5-0 victory in the Departmental Tennis League. Tolman and Pitch, Smithsonian, turned back Thurtell and Stratton, Interstate, 6—4, 6—3, to score the only victory by the museum team in losing & 4-1 maich in another Departmental League tennis fray. By the Associated Press. AWHUSKA, Okla., June 24— A new chief ruled the tribe of Indian goifers today. The fairway scalp of Eugene Standingbear, defending titlist, dangles from the belt of John Whitehorn, 45-year-old Tulsa Osage, as a result of his 2 and 1 victory yesterday in the 36-hole final of the national Indian tourna- ment at Pawhuska Country Club. ‘Whitehorn, who has been play- ing the game seven years, finished out the final round and had 138, two under par, for the 36 holes, - Standingbear had even par. The craggy, bronzed warrior and * Takén OF and Other Metals Welded Wins Heap Big Golf: Victory Whitehorn Two Under Par Dethroning National Indian Champ—Swap Razzberries. violated most of the rules of golf etiquette as they toured the lay- out, unmercifully kidding each other at missed shots and occasion- ally reverting to primitive grunts as putts falled to drop. The gallery, too, including some blanketed Indians, chided the players. A number of brilliantly blanketed women and their men declined to follow the match, sit- ting cross-legged at strategic s around the greens. 3 Both golfers were attired nattily in the Iatest country club garb, and their caddies, Indians also, were loaded down by fancy assort~ ments of clubs of recent desigm. $1 WELDED $1 Put On, §50c Radiators Repaired " WELDIT, Inec. 516 1st St. NW.,, Bet. E& F ME. 2416 * COOPER GOLFING FOR SECOND TITLE Would Add lllinois Crown to That He Won by Fine Game at Medinah. By the Associated Press. OCKFORD, Ill, June 24—Tn Medinah Country Club open championship — Lighthorse Harry Cooper of Chicago today started de- fense of his Illinois State open title over the Rockford Country Club’s par 71. course, ™ bril- f liant vietory yes- terday at Me- dinah, where he posted a 72-hole total of 289 to beat out Johnny Revolta of Mil- waukee in the first annual Me- dinah Country Club $3,500 Open, checked in today | certain that he was finally “on”! his game after Harry Cooper having failed in his attempts to win the National and Western open crowns, The Chicago pro came from behind | in yesterday's final 36 holes to pass| MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1935. Revolta, the early leader, with a pair of 27's. Cooper posted successive rounds of 73—72—172—72 for his winning total. ‘The value to the victor was $750. Revolta's 290, earned him $475, with the rest of the prizse winners finishing in the following order: Alvin Krueger, Beloit. Wis., 202 strokes; Denny Shute and Jim Foulis, both of Chicago, 295; Jimmy Thomson, Long Beach Calif., and Ky Laffoon, Chicago, 207 each; Tommy Armour, Horton Smith and Prank Walsh, all of Chicago, 298 each; Bill Heinlein, Indianapolis, 209; Byron Belson, Ridgewood, N. J, and Ray , Los Angeles, 301 each, and Dick Ketz, Chicago, 302. With the exception of Revoita, the stars who competed yesterday at Medinah and two weeks ago in the Western open were on hand for a try at Cooper’s crown. HORSESHOE TEAMS MEET As & warm-up {0 the opening of the Metropolitan Singles League to- morrow night, three-man horseshoe teams of Maryland and Virginia will battle tonight on the fown courts of Brentwood, Md. starting at 7:30 o'clock. Shooting for Maryland will be Lee Fleshman, State champion; Joe Merryman and Temple Jarrell, with Bill Moore in reserve. Virginia's pitchers will be Boo Henson, Metro- politan champion; Ed Henry and George Thompson. SAV0YS CHALLENGE. The Savoy A. C. is seeking games with out-of-town teams. Call Adams T744-M. SPORT ‘SIPAMTID by only ¢ points in their chase for first team honors, | with two matches remaining on the schedule, women's golf teams from Chevy Chase and Congressional locked | horns today at Manor in a contest that will go a long way toward deciding the team championship now held by | Chevy Chase. The latter team has been in the lead for the last fortnight, with Congressional close on its heels. ‘Today’s matches will bring the team for Woodmont on July 1. Chevy Chase might widen its lead over Congressional today, meeting Indian Spring, while the Congressional outfit clashed with Army-Navy, ‘Women’s golf activities this week also include a match with a Richmond team to be played tomorrow at the Chevy Chase Club. Miss Susan Hack- er of Chevy Chase heads the host aggregation, while Mrs. R. C. Welton of the Country Club of Virginia leads the players from Richmond. AINING for the Hershey tourna- Houghton, Indian Spring manager, and Carroll T. McMaster, Woodholme pro, whacked out & 1-up victory yes- terday over Ed Dudley and Leo Diegel, Philadelphia pros, in an exhibition match at Woodholme. The proceeds of the match went to Warner Mather, former Woodholme pro, who has been 11l for two years. Dudley had the best acore of the | day at 74. Houghton bagged a 77, & contest up to the final match slated | ment which starts on Thursday Al | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE . by W.R.MECALLUM while McMaster was %5 and Diegel did riot hole out all his putts. Woodmont Country Club golfers will move into their second match in Au- gust against the Baltimore Suburban Club with a victory to their credit in the series for the Edgar Kaufman Trophy. They licked the visitors yes- terday in & match at Woodmont by 22% to 10%. The women players tied, each team winning 9 points, Ralph Beach, Suburban pro, scored a 72 to win from Gene Larkin, Woodmont | mentor, | _Craig McKee grabbed the Tribal Bowl trophy from Volney G. Burnett | at Indian Spring, beating the golfing fireman in & 36-hole final round by 3 and 1. EOV!R at Manor two favored teams | to win the two-man team contest | were licked in the second round of | the tourney. Harry G. Pitt and Bill Harvey fell before R. R. Reagh and M. 8. Brown, 1 up, while Dave Thom- s0n and his son-in-law, Tommy Bones, were licked by E. P. Knapp and W. L. Jones. J. C. Putnam and George McGehee tied for first place in the blind bogey tourney at Manor, both with net scores of 71. Mrs. W. B. Young and Russell M. Brown shot a score of 79 to win the | “gooty” tourney at Beaver Dam. Mrs. | D. E. Mattison and W. B. Moore were | next with 81, Eddie Bean and Mrs, | J. M. 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