Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1935, Page 15

PORTS. L3 GOES FOR COMEDY BUT BANGS EM IN New Kenwood Tutor Rated | Best Player in World With Long Irons. BY W. R. McCALLUM. HE man who is going to take over Al Houghton's old post at Kenwood is going to make competition on the links an {nteresting job for the remainder of the local professionals. Wiffy Cox, the Dyker Beach (N. Y.) comedian-golfer, who takes life and | golf with & heigh-ho, but is a leriou.s‘ and fine competitor, nevertheless, is| due to inject into the local field some real big-time golf when he assumes | the Kenwood berth within a week ori 10 days. Wiffy has reached an agreement on | financial matters with the club Golf Committee and the O. K. of the Ken- wood Board more or less is a for- mality which will be disposed of with- in a few days. The Cox man is a big-time golfer in every sense of the word. So far in his links career a major championship has eluded him, but there are plenty of fine players scattered over the land who never have won the national open. Such men, for example, as MacDonald Smith, Bobby Cruickshank | and Henry Picard. Wiffy, as a pro at a Maryland club, will be eligible for | the Maryland State open champion- ship when it comes along next Fail. He will be the biggest threat to Al Houghton's string of wins in the tour- ney since Ralph Beach tled the Houghton man two years ago at Five | Farms and lost in the play-off. Any guy who can come within two strokes of grabbing the national open cham- plonship, as Wiffy did in 1934 at Me- | rion, isn't one to be bothered about a | little matter like a State champion- ship. Shines With Long Irons. ! Cox is known among the pros a&s the best of them all with the long | frons. He can handle the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 as well as any man in the world and his putting is good enough. Stationed for several years at a public course in Brooklyn, Wiffy has become | one of the most popular pros in the “New York area and is regarded among | New York newspaper men handling golf as a potential national champ. | He is due to become just that around Washington. Certainly he is going to toss a lot of life into the local com- petitive situation, which long has been | dominated by Houghton and one or two others. Just what will become of the Nl- tional Capital open championship, for the past four years Washington’s big- gest pro tourney, hasn’t yet been made | known, but there is every probability that with Wiffy to work it up it will be played again next Fall on a “big- ger-and-better-than-ever” schedule. If it is held, the dates will be November 9 and 10, and again the tourney will be over the 54-hole route. On the | open tourney matter Hot Springs, Va., is coming into the tournament picture | next Fall, with an open affair for $2,500 on September 19 and 20. BIG TILT AT COLESVILLE. Colesville Cardinals will meet the | Mount Rainier Grays on July 4 on the Colesville diamond at 1:30 o'clock, OUTFIELDERS SOUGHT. ‘Two outfielders are needed by the Congress Heights Juniors. Telephone | matches in the District of Columbia | tered finding themselves playing quar- Ray Gousha at Atlantic 3553 between 6 and 7 pm. | rapidly that every match may be! OAKLAND, Calif., July 2— Here’s Don Budge, 19-year-old tennis star, flashing his style during recent tournament play in California. The youngster eliminated H. W. “Bunny” Austin, No. 2 British ace, in quarter-final play in England yesterday. BY BILL DISMER, JR. GIVE UP. I As a critic, observer and re-| porter of sound tennis, I'm just| a darn good fan, especially when the objects passing before my eyes are good-looking—even beautiful girls, | romping about the courts lke nymphs | in a fairy tale. Here, just when I thought I had| disciplined my mind, en route to the | | Columbia Country Club, to observe |only the technical points of the women's annual met tourney, the first thing I see is a bevy of comely lassies and all my good resolutions vanish. But things are happening among | this group of beauties, and in order | that “my public” may keep abreast of | developments in the feminine tennis smmum. let me outline them briefly. | Has Big Opportunity. TODAY Bobsy Turney faces her big opportunity to make her mark in| this annual tournament when she| faces Sara Moore, recent champion | of the city of Washington, in a semi- final match. Now, Bobsy already has| put one favored player out of com-| petition, having defeated Anna Dayett | and Dorothy Bergstrom, and if she’s| in the mood there’s no telling what may happen today. The other semi-final match brings | together the two Marys, Cootes and Ryan. They play at 4 o'clock, 15 min- | utes before Bobsy and Sara start their racket swinging. As for the doubles, there's a tourna- ment that's progressing! Beginning only yesterday, they already are in the semi-finals, the eight teams en- ter-finals in the first round. The teams of Dorette Miller and Sara| Moore, Frances Bassett and Mary | Ryan, Eleanor Craven and Betty | Kronman and Bobsy Turner and Mary | Cootes were the survivors. | took a little of her “spare” time yes- Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. £ | considered “croocial,” officials are planning to play the finals tomorrow or Thursday. A Few Notes. 'HANKS for the consolation tour- nament. Else we'd be seeing no | more of Virginia Rodgers and Funny | Carter, who are easy on the eves. | Both have been eliminated in both title singles and doubles. Frances Walker, former George Washington star, is teaming up well with Mary Ryan after being eliminated | in one of the early singles matches. Frances didn't enter local tournaments last year, and this is her first impor- tant appearance since 1933. | Connie Thompson, who is arranging the matches, recording the scores and aiding the press in every possible way, terday to substitute for Alice Stern from Baltimore, who didn't appear to play with Dorothy Bergstorm in the doubles. Connie and Dot lost to/ Bobsy Turner and Mary Cootes, but maybe it's just as well, after all. Some one does have to act as generalissimo. Sara Moore has a suggestion for Clara Tabler. After defeating Miss ‘Tabler yesterday, just as she did in the City of Washington tournament, Sara said that if Clara played half as hard against her own sex as she does against the men she'd be a greater success. And if T may be bold, may I state that, in my opinion, the City of Wash- ington champion and the winner of the current tournament will be one and the same girl! | Getting back to the men for & mo- ment, Barney Welsh didn't go up to| Providence after all, and we can't say | that we blame him after his five hours | of toil last Sunday. But. he's going to go after another With the tourney going abead so | championship on the Fourth, for Ray Gable, tenniser in chief at the Argyle | | By the Associated Press. Club, has announced that the final of t.ha Argyle invitation tournament, in- vo]vin: Barney and Tony Latona, would be played at 2:30 Thursday. All are welcome. Today's Schedule. Singles. 4 giclock—Mary Cootes ve. Mary . Moo | 5 ‘;Ctl e ‘0 bsey Turney 0 4 o'clock—Prances o 3°"6'clock—Jane Anne Griesh Hattie Myerhoft alla Domthy Bergstrom Vs, Borotny Kingsbury, Doubles. B:18 orclock_Dorette Miller_and Sars M or Craven ropman. 0“"5 and mlfliTufflC! defeated Oootes de- % Mary Qulrur umx.—.am )loon feated mzrflu Miiler. R—« Ryan defeated Prances Bassett, 7—8. 6—. Doubles. uarter-inals—Dorette Miller and Sara 'MoQ(n. de!e.led erlul. Hagner and Emil Davis, Frances Bassett an Mary Ryan de(ulrd Virginia Rod d Betty ed 8!’.*7 M' n apd Whitney Straver. Cootes and Bobsey Turney defeated Gan~ nie Thompson and Dorothy Bergstrom, 6—3. 6—2. UNSEEDEDNETHAN GRABS LIMELIGHT Seeley of Dartmouth Scores | First Upset in Eastern Collegiate Tourney. EW YORK, July 2.—The Eastern intercollegiate tennis championships were off to & flying start today with the word around to watch Ralph E. Seeley of Dartmouth, unseeded entrant. Seeley had to forego the tourna- ment last year because of his medical studies, but he stepped into the play yesterddy to eliminate Fourth Seeded Dave Geller of New York University, | New York State intercollegiate cham- | plon, 6—4, 8—6, and score the first | upset in the tournament. Edward J. De Gray, & Brooklyn, | N. Y, resident, representing the Uni- | versity of North Carolina, and Gardner Mulloy of Miami University also were outstanding in yesterday's play. De Gray lost to Norcross Tilney | of Princeton, third seeded, but not until he had shown flashes of tennis that threatened defeat for the fa- vorite. He lost, 6—8, 6—0, 6—2, after losing control of the drives and vol- leys that bewildered Tilney at first. Mulloy drew a bye in the first round and then used s hard, flat drive and overhead smash to defeat Willilam Whyte, Swarthmore, 6—1, 6—0. For team honors Princeton and Dartmouth took the lead in yester- day's play with three points each. Columbia had two and Pennsylvanis, Rutgers, Miami (Fla.), Cornell, Tem- ple and St. John's (Brooklyn) one each. | Miss Jacobs REAL TEST FACED BY HELEN MOODY Match With Mme. Mathieu Likely to Determine Her Comeback Status. By the Associated Press. ONDON, July 2.—Helen Wills Moody, former American cham- pion, faced a high hurdle to- day in her quest for the Wim- bledon singles title, in Mme. Rene Mathieu of Prance, seeded fifth, just behind Mrs. Moody. A Mrs. Moody, attempting a comeback after nearly two years of idleness which followed her injury and default to Helen Jacobs at Forest Hills, has , | shown flashes of her former brilliance and tennis experts saw in today's match a true test of her present play- ing ability. In another quarter-finals match, encountered Mlle. J. Jedrzejowsks of Poland. The Ameri- can titlist was expected to win easily. Dorothy Round of England, top ranked, and Joan Hartigan of Aus- tralis, ranked eighth, and Kay Stam- mers of England, sixth seeded, and Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling of Ger- many, seeded second, were opponents in other matches. ‘Budge Is Sensation. TH! unseeded Donald Budge of the United States, was the sensation yesterday when he smashed his way| to an impressive triumph over H. W. (Bunny) Austin of England in & two- hour battle that saw a crowd of 18,000 cheering wildly. Budge survived all his American teammates in the singles play by downing Austin, 3—86, 10—S8, 6—4, 7—5. ‘The victory placed Budge in the semi-finals with Perry, defending champion; Baron Gottfried von Cramm of Germany and Jack Crawford of | Australia. Piedmont. Portsmouth, 6; Richmond, 4. . | outing. HE opening day of the bass sea- son—yesterday—in our neck of the woods found the Shenan- doah River clear and the Po- fomac slightly cloudy at Harpers Ferry. The river around Washington also was a little cloudy, this condition begin- ning Sunday. No reports about the landing of any bass have been re- ceived, but we understand that boat- men in different sections, particular! in West Virginia, predict the best fish- ing season in several years. According to Joe Fletcher, no rock- fish were caught in the river in the vioinity of Chain Bridge Sunday. This may have been due to the cloudy con- dition of the water, but we are of the opinion that the larger rock have fin- ished their Spring mission and de- parted for points in salt water. Saturday and Sunday were not pro- ductive days for the majority of anglers. We attribute this to the fact that the extremely hot weather has had its effect on the fish. It enables them to get all the food they want and they are lazy. What is greatly needed now to better fishing is & good blow of wind for about 24 hours. Then the blues, sea trout and hardhead would commence to strike in large numbers. LABT Murdu the original “C. C. Sissies,” headed by C. C. Lipp, our host for the day, put out from Solomons Island for & trip to South- west Middles. The new boat of Capt. Preston Woodburn was engaged for the The distance to Southwest Middles is 30 or 35 miles from Sol- omons, which we made in two hours. Prepared for & big day, with plenty of peeler and soft crabs—the soft crabs for human consumption—this party fished and fished and succeeded in landing a total of 62 hardhead, run- ning from less than a pound to 3 pounds. Not = blue stuck his nose sbove water all day long and no trout was caught. It was just another of these bad days. However, we had a wonderful boat trip on a fine new craft equipped with a 120, eight-cylinder Gray motor. ‘Those in the party were C. C. Lipp, 1¥ | not eatching more and larger hard- SPORTS. Tom Sandos, Harvey Jones, Jim Haltl- gan, Bill Domer, Jim Duffey, T. O. Nichols, Bob Pyle, A. G. Keyser, Bur- ton Miller and the writer. The fish just were not striking on Southwest Middles. The water was in great condition, but the day terribly hot. After leaving Southwest Middles we motored back to Cedar Point, but here, again, we were disappointed in head. We did land enough to keep us interested, and one sea trout, & small one weighing about 1 pound, was added to the catch. Our boat captain told us he had cared for a party that landed 500 hardhead on these Friday night. We received reports from Sol- omons Island yesterday saying that early SBunday the fish continued on & hunger strike, but that in the early evening they resumed their usual habits and many were eaught, some of the boats returning with 200 to 250 hardhead. ' I ‘HE Silver Bpflnl Fire Department figured it was too hot on SBunday for any flru to break out and decided to go fishing. Six of the firemen motored to Shady Side and engaged one of Capt. Robert E. Lee’s boats for » trip across Chesapeake Bay to Pop- lar Island, and as usual, did not make any mistake. Their total catch was 193 hardhead ranging in weight from 1!2 to 3% pounds, all caught with shrimp. “We furnished almost the entire population of Silver Spring with fish, and the only reason we did not return with more was that we ran out of bait,” George Hamlilton, one of the party told us. With Hamilton, were Arthur and Ernest Brandt, Bunny and Harold Hsrman and Donald Swindell Some anglers are determined to land only one species of fish and will not be diverted, no matter how many other kinds may be caught. Such a party fished Saturday afternoon off ‘Tall Timbers and landed a 12-pound rock. Those in this party were George L. Bidwell, H. J. Wichman, W. B. White and J. J. T. Graham. ThG'Y 20 Years Ago IN THE STAR. ‘VWASHINGTON elimbed into the 4 first division yesterday when Bert Gallia held the Yankees to five hits while his mates pounded out & 5-3 victory in New York. Henry, Milan, Gandil and Gallia connected safely twice for the Sen- ators, while Roger Peckinpaugh led the Yankees' attack with & brace of singles. Either Jim Shaw or Doc Ayres was to take the mound todsy for the Nationals against Bill Pieh, New York hurler, Manager Mike Macdonald has announced the following players will start for the Tempelites to- morrow in their Masonic game sgainst the Outlanders: West, Dampier, D. Macdonald, A. Mac- donald, Dodge, Byrd, M. Macdonald and Thompson. Walker, McCarthy, Spicer, Leverton, Torney, Kirk, Newham, Riston and Hardester are to start for the Outlanders, Al Handiboe, former local sand- lot diamond star, who has been playing with Savannah in the South Atlantie League, will sue- ceed Perry Lipe as manager of that elub. - oo—————— —1 had as their guide Capt. J. L. Golds- borough and could have landed a number of hardheads, but it was rock or nothing for them. Some good size rock are being landed on the bars above Colonial Beach. 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