Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1935, Page 12

A—12 Babe Didrikson Becoming Golf Marvel : Golf Captaincy Is Earned - - | 250-Yarders—Experience Is Her Only Need. HICAGO, July 8—Your agile correspondent recently saw Beaumont and other Texas points, play the game of golf. As fairways of Sunset Ridge in the Western tourney your correspondent of matched woods and irons and the price is very reasonable. In fact, you | use for any of us duffers keeping up the pretense of playing golf. That You'll hear a lot about the length| of Didrikson’s drives during the next ably will be the truth. She can out- drive any woman ever to pick up a| along with the average prnressmna]' player. The sixth hole at Sunset| open is being played, is well over| 500 yards and doglegs to the left edge of the green with a drive and/| brassie. Several times she whaled | packs plenty of punch for the long irons. | pion golfer, but she is going to be| within the next year or so. “She the greatest woman players of all time,” remarked Horton Smith, the with your correspondent. “Right now she is what I would call a muscle “She is much stronger than the aver- age woman and depends on her quires an easy rhythm to complement her power she is going to be a grand 120-Pound Girl Bangs Out BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. Mlidred (Babe) Didrikson of & result of the hike over the soggy 1s offering for sale one complete set name your own price. There's no gal Didrikson has us all whipped. few years. Whatever you hear prob- | club and furthermore can hit right Ridge, where the women's western | Yet Miss Didrikson was on the front | drives of 250 yards. and she also Miss Didrikson is not yet a cham- ! needs only experience to be one of famous professional, who jogged along golfer,” continued the Joplin Pine. | strength for length. Once she ac-| player.” She Is Excellent Putter. THE surprising thing about Miss '~ Didrikson's game was her skill| on and around the greens. She has a very fine putting touch, although still a bit nervous in competition. But | when she gets a match under way | she putts with fine accuracy and #kill. Also she is adept in chip shots | to the green and can play an ex-| plosion from the sands with the pre-' cision of a veteran professional. | “Babe” still has t learn tre fine points of the game. For example, on a short hole at Sunset Ridge she was trapped and tne ball lay 1 loose sand. The situation called for an ex- plosion shot, hut Miss Didrikson en- deavored to chip out with a light niblic and failed. On seversl occasions her choice of irons tor fairway shots also was very poor and cost her ctrokes. However, that is something that comes only with experience and the “Babe” has been playing competitive golf only a short tinie. The Texas girl Las & great golf temperament. She was two down to Josephine Souchek at the end of 13 holes in the quarter finals of the woman’s western open, yet rallied to win the match, and her opvonent was a very fine g-ifer “Babe’s” face is inscrutable in & golf match save| when she does a bit of clowning and | she never relaxes in her effort to win | every hole. She vou into the semi- finals of the western. while laying against physician’s orders. When told she should default ner match, ‘Babe” | replied, “When 1'in beaten, it will be out on the golf course” | Babe Has Slicked Up. | THAT was the spirit which made Miss Didrikson a champion track | performer in the 1934 Olympic games and which will make Ler a champion in golf. She has s.icked up a lot since I saw her in the Olympics. Her hair is well dressed antd she is stylishly attired, although ihe swanky costume | cannot hide the nower of her shoul- ders, arms and hands “Babe” is quite happy as a business woman golfer, al- though she would have enjoyed the chance to play in the woman's na- tional championship. I do not know why the U. S. G. A. declared “Babe” a professional, but I have a very good idea. The golfing papas were afraid that some day they might be asked to play with Miss Didrikson and that would have been 100 bad for their dignity and standing as golfers. After seeing the 120- pound “Babe” massacre a goif ball, any one with & handicap of five or more will throw away his clubs and start playing jack straws or go in for kite flying. (Copyright. 1935.) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WINS Ronald Hope pitched the Library of Congress base ball team to a 3-2 vic- tory over the Petworth A. C. yesterday on the Tidal Basin diamond. Sandlot Dia OE STANKUS' double in the| eighth inning with the bases loaded gave the Blue Flame Valet Shop diamonders a 9-7| victory over Murphy’s Five and Ten and clinched first-half honors in the National City League, Section A, for the Valets. “Lefty” Stevens led the winning attack with three bingles in four trips to the plate, including a home run with two mates on base. Scoring six runs in the second in- ning, the Cabin John nine coasted to an 11-9 decision over the Silver Spring Giants to annex the first-half pennant in the Maryland County League. Shorty Byron, with a brace of doubles, led the Johnnies at bat. Bonday pounded out 18 hits to crack an eight-game win streak of the Bokar outfit, 12-11 in the Atlantic & Pacific League. Smashing out 13 hits, the Jack Pry Nats hung up their fourth straight victory in the National City Midget League by defeating Versis Food Products, 9-3. Results: League Northes Virginia. Middleburg, 10° Herndon, 5. Arlingion™s: Mantssas. 3. Furcelivile, 21; v Marsha) 'lblem- Jack Pry Nats. 9: HNoian Motor Con £ 1 City Midget. ayground, 187 O'Dunnell's Sea : Versis Products. 3 8; Petworth Eagles, 4. TYPO NINE SEEKS SPORTS. Homer Standing By the Ausociated Press. Home runs yesterday — Solters, Browns, 3; Gehrig, Yankees, 1; Laz-| zeri, Yankees, 1; Higgins, Athletics, 1; ! Berry, Athletics, 1; Ott, Giants, 1; Bartell, Giants, 1; Sullivan, Reds, 1. The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 25; Ott, Giants, 18: J. Collins, Cards, 17; Johnson, Athletics, 17; Camilli, Phil- | lies, 17. League totals — National, 372; American, 363. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, “Business Women Golfers” Pack ’Em In at Exhibitions 0 MEET IN JAPAN . Select Group. swimming and diving stars, | champlonships which closed last | Vversity to represent the United States Will Defend International| The mee. which will take place American team will sail from San ‘ fi 7:7}1 practically the same | Miami, Fla.: Jack Medica, Seattle, year, the Union Printers | New York: Matt Chrostowski, Olney- when the annual tournament of the | Detroit; Danny Zehr, Chicago; Paul tournament begins on August 3. With | Los Angeles; Taylor Drysdale, De- played each year since 1908. first half of the Departmental of the best of the many famous ers are the same who won the inter- Chicago won, came back to repeat for his pitching staff, of George Roudabush, who started a brilliant Haney. Leading in some of the best per game, are Ray Homan, stop. Edwards has been with the Dewhurst joined the Printers two year are reported stronger, with the the host club of Cleveland. Howell Sets State Tourney By the Associated Press. staged a come-back over the teur title from Bobby Riegel, also of Howell played steady golf through Riegel, 6 and 5, to become the first contest has been played. the woods was unable to catch up. ies on the twenty-ninth and thirtieth 2 tire, clothing, insurance and sport- Best of A. A. U. Tourney Lot Training—Flanagan in By the Associated Press. ETROIT, July 8—Fifteen | the cream of the contestants in the National A. A. U. night, began training today under Coach Robert Kiphuth of Yale Uni- in a three-day international match with the best natators of Japan. 5 in Tokio August 17-19, will follow Honors With Same Team |rreliminaries in Osaka, Japan. The Th Won in ]934. Francisco July 16. at It will include Ralph Flanagan, team that won the cham- | Wash.: Jack Kasley, Detroit: John pionship at New York last werrmmx, Philadelphia: Peter Fick, will go after their eleventh title in | Ville, R. I; Jim Gilhula, Detroit; John 13 years next month at Cleveland, | Higgins, Olneyville, R. 1.; Ray Kave, union printers’ international base ball | Wolfe. Los Angeles; Art Lindegren, the exception of the war years of |(roit, and Russell Branch, Olneyville, 1917-1919, these games have been Although they were unable to gain an even split in their games of the League, Manager Norman Hutchin- son calls the present aggregation one printer teams this city has produced. With one or two exceptions, the play- national tourney in 1928 and 1929 and, after the lapse of one year, when another two years in 1931 and 1932. HUTCHINSON is well satisfied with Mosedale, who turned in a four-hit performance his last time out; Bill hurling career with Eastern High School almost a decade ago, and Tom hitting the team has seen in years, shown by its average of seven runs baseman; Jimmy Dewhurst, right fielder, and Girard Edwards, short- team since 1925 and played on seven national championship teams, while years later. All teams in the tournament this sternest opposition most likely to come from Chicago, Cincinnati and Mark as He Overcomes Riegel, 6 and 5. OT SPRINGS, Va., July 8.— H Billy Howell of Richmond Cascades golf course here yes- terday to wrest his fourth State ama- Richmond Two up after the morning round, the afternoon to build up a seven- hole margin at the turn. He defeated man to hold the State simon pure crown four times in the 25 years the Riegel attempted to stage a rally, but repeatedly hooking his drives into Riegel, former Richmond movie usher, pulled himself together to shoot bird- holes, but Billy, whose golfing career has run concurrently with spells as ing goods salesman, was too methodi- cal for him. third | | | | | | | | Billy closed out Riegel on the thirty- | first when Bobby's drive struck in a creek bed and bounced far up the mountainside. It was in a sense a return engage- ment for Howell, who won his first championship over the same course in 1928. Then, a 16-year-old school- boy, he whipped a fleld of veterans. He won it again in 1931 and repeated the next year. Not entirely clear, however, was yesterday’s victory, for Howell still is to meet Ross Puette, Richmond vet- eran, for a play-off for the medal of this year’s amateur. Tied in the qualifying round, they were to meet either today or tomor- row on the James River course. mond Dust National City Unlimited. Miller Furniture, 13; Cherner Motors, 7. Pig 'n’ Whistle. '18; 'Rinaldi Coalmen. 2. Georgetown, 10; Plaza Wine and Liquor, 2. Warwicks. 1 5 Blue Flame urphy's 5 & National City Junior. Simpson's Pharmacy, 10; Nation-Wide Grocers, 3. Auth’s, 13; Petworth Nationals Wizard Lock, 9: Hilltop Merchants, 0. Flour, 9; Montgomery 3: D. G. 8. Valets, 9; 10 Washington A. C. 0. Old Dominion. Virginia White Sox, 18; Franconia. 2, Clarendon Cardinals. 8: Rangers, 7. . 9: Park Lane, 3. . 14} McLean, 10. Clarendon A. C., 9; Forestville, 2. Police Boys’' Club. Michigan Park. 9: Modern Cleaners. 7. No. 11 Boys' Club, 11: New Deal. 5. ke & Otey Motor Co., 4; No. 5 Boys' Atlantic & Pacific. 1. Inaependent. Isherwood. 5: White Star A. C., 4. Read's Pharmacy. 8; Park Lane Midgets. ir Shop " 1 No. 5 Boys’ Ciub, Heurich Brewers Acacia, 17; Quan 8. Kann's Sons’ Celtics. 1. Georgetown A C.. 10-9: Meridian A. C.. 9; Fort Hi Soutkeast Business Men, 14; ton Terminal Branchvil tico. 9. Co.. 3: 8t. Mary's Hillsdales, 5-6. unt, 7. ashing- lls. 7. ywine, ‘2. B of Investigation, 3. Arlington Eagles. 5; Round Hill, 4, Ross Jewelers, 2: %A. C.. 26. Beabrook A. C.. 19: am, 3. White Haven. 20; Betheads. 7. H R. I, in the swimming events and | Dick Degener, Detroit, in the diving | events. Flanagan, a 17-year-old high school boy, handed Medica his third straight defeat of the meet. The West Coast flash, defending three titles, dropped 1wo of them to Flanagan, who nosed him out in the 880-yard free style snd the mile event. Medica lost the 440-yard free style to Macionis, a Yale University student. Flanagan was clocked in the 880- yard race at 10:07.6. which was an unofficial world mark, for the long course. Medica holds the listed world and American long-course record of 10:15.4. Chagrined by the three defeats, Medica said he would train intensive- ly for a comeback and predicted that | “by Fall I'll be a tough man to beat.” ANOTHER HICKS STARS. A Mrs. Helen Hicks of Fort Wayne, Ind., is one of Indiana’s better woman golfers. She's no relation to Miss Helen Hicks of Hewlett, Long Island, the business-woman golfer. CHICAGO, July 8—The crowds yesterday paid to see her team with of Joyce Wethered, British links ace, progresses. D. C., MONDAY, JULY 8, 1935. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. seem to grow as the American tour Approximately 4,000 Horton Smith in defeating Mildred (Babe) Didrikson and Gene Sarazen at the Oak Park Country Club. ‘The four are shown here, left to right: Miss Wethered, Sarazen, Miss Didrikson and Smith, leaving the course. SPORTS. BY BILL DISMER, JR. ARRY MARCH today knows just how Helen Jacobs must have felt. In fact, Harry thinks the losing Helen might feel somewhat better if she were fully acquainted with the facts of a quarter-final match he played in the Blue Ridge Mountain Tourna- ment at Frederick yesterday. Harry is certain Miss Jacobs must have suffered plenty after losing the match point that would have given her a glorious victory over her most bitter rival, but March is convinced that his illustrious feminine con- temporarily would be somewhat con- soled if she could but know that a former boys” champion of the Dis- trict tossed away 12 opportunities to take a match with the winning of but a single point. No less than a dozen times at the Catoctin Country Club yesterday Lloyd Rice of Georgetown Prep saw elimination beckoning him to the side- lines after the next point was played | against March. But after the match Rice's theme song seemed to have been “No. No, a Dozen Times No!" for on each occasion he rallied to turn back the tall Tech High captain. Observers claimed it one of the best and longest matches ever played in Frederick. Rice reached the quarter- finals in uphill fight against March, winning 6—4, 12—10, after dropping the first set, 2—6. OTH.'ER District boys fared bette than young March, however. Allie Ritzenberg, who was deprived of the junior championship this .year only because Big Brother Nate thought it would be safer in his possession, avenged Frederick's victory over Washington in the other quarter-final by defeating William Koontz of that city in straight sets, 6—1, 8—8. And Charley Channing of Central High, batted his way to victory over another Frederick boy, Max McCar- dell, to the tune of 6—1, 6—4. So Washington's hopes are not ex- actly dead. Both Ritzenberg and Channing have a bright future ahead in the tennis world and a victory in & tournament of this kind is not be- yond their reach. They are the lead- ing local netmen left. There are two others whose home is listed as Washington in the sum- maries and maybe it's our fault that we’d never seen Harold Landsman and Paul Faloner in action here. Al- though they never have been partic- ularly successful in local tournaments, they're still winning at Frederick, Yesterday Landsman trimmed another unknown Washington boy, Harry Mc- Ginness, 6—0, 6—3, while Faloner took Trago Brust of Frederick with the loss of but two games in as many sets. OVER at Annapolis yesterday twa teams gave each other practice for impending important matches for both concerned. A Washington team got the work-out it desired and a Navy team got the opposition. All of which is to say that a combination of local star netmen went over to-the Academy to lick the Navy Leech Cup team aspirants 9 out of 12 matches. Barney Welsh & Co. started yester- day to get in their licks for the return match with Philadelphia next Sunday while the Navy racketers are pepping for the Leech Cup matches with the Army here a week from Saturday. Washington’s only loss in the singles occurred when Frank Shore of No'th C'lina University, suh, was defeated by Gay of the Navy in two overtime sets, 7—5, 8—6. The Middies managed to split even in the four doubles matches, however. That championship team of Weish and McElvenny had no trouble with Lieuts. McCue and Dole winning 6—2, 7—5 and the Tarheel teammates, Shore and Willis, licked Howard and Lyman, 8—86, 7—5, but Tony Latona and Tom Markey were trimmed in the deciding set of a match with Gay and }memrl. 6—1, 0—6, 6—2, and Erana | |and Sherfy bowed to Von Heinbert | | and Organ, 6—3, 6—3. The summaries: Singles. Barney Walsh (W.) defeated Lieut. John McCue. La (W.) defeated Redgr: 82, H— Caskey (W.) defeated Young. 6- 1; | Stocklinski (W.) defeated E Doubles. Welsh and_ McElvenn V) defeated 5. Gay and McCue and Dole. 6—2 7 Kimmel (N.) defeated Laton: d Markey, 6—1, 0—6. 6—2° Shore and Willls (W) | defeated Howard and Lyman. 8—6. 7—5 Von Heinbert and Organ (N.) defeated Erana and Sherfy, 6—3. 6—3. — 5 OSSIE IS PEERLESS DEFENSIVE PLAYER (Continued From Eleventh Page.) fensively. He is rated as an idenx} type of ball player for such a game | as today's and for such a battle- ground. ]V UNICIPAL STADIUM is the big- gest ball park in the world. so big, in fact, that the Indians aban- doned the gigantic lake front bowl last year in favor of old League Park. Cleveland’s long-range hitters, F.qu‘ Averill, Hal Trosky and Joe Vosmick, | were unable to hit home runs in Municipal Stadium. Their prodigious flies were caught by expectant out- | flelders. In League Park, with its | 290-foot right-field fence, these same drives would have been homers. Myer is not a long hitter, but a | slashing type whose drives chiefly are low liners just over the infield. Both as a pinch hitter and as relief for Gehringer in the field, Buddy was expected to prove a valuable member | of the American squad. Griffs Shine in Classics. BO’I’H Myer and Bluege are regarded as ball players’ ball players. Cochrane has been highly praised by astute diamond men for his choice of the pair. And before this day is over the fans suddenly may become aware that Washington sent a couple | of pretty handy fellows to aid the American Leaguers’ cause. Nationals have figured prominently in these all-star classics. In 1933 Joe Cronin and Al Crowder were the Washingtonians present and both played major roles in the 4-to-2 vic- | tory over the senior circuiters. Cronin scored one of the runs, batted one of his team’s nine hits and handled his six chances in brilliant fashion to become one of the big fielding stars. Last year Cronin and Heinie Manush represented the Griffmen and again Cronin was a standout, getting a double and a single, batting across two runs, scoring one himself and taking care of his 10 chances in fine fashion. WANT RUNABOUT RACES Protests by well-known speed boat drivers have reached the office of J. A. Anadale, chairman of the Race Com- mittee for the eighth annual Tri-City Regatta, to be held at Herald Harbor on July 27-28, over the elimination of the runabout races in classes A, B, C, D and E from the schedule. Anthony Orth, Wilmington, Del.; Len S. Bailey, Philadelphia; W. O. Hempstead, 3d, Margate City, N. J. William Bigelow, Philadelphia, are among those who are fighting agaiust the elimination of the sleek miniature | cruisers. The protests will be taken before the Regatta Contest Board of the American Power Boat Association and officials of the Tri-City Regatta for early action. No reason for the omis- sion of the craft was forthcoming. \ PROMOTERS' WAR BREAK FOR FANS Many Ring, Mat Shows Loom as Legion Manager Bucks Turner-Ahearn Band. BY JOHN B. KELLER. AR is on between Washing- \/ v terests which means that until one side takes a ton sports promotional in- sound spanking at the gate fans must decide on Mondays and Thursdays| example, Otell has shot himself a whether they want mat mauling or | fist flinging for their entertainment. The American Legion, entering the | field against the Turner-Ahearn com- bine, announces through its manager, Howard Livingston, that it will offer a wrestling show every Monday and a boxing bill every Thursday at its cutdoor plant at Sixth street and Florida avenue northeast. The Turner-Ahearn band, long ac- tive in the promotional game, an: nounces it will carry on with its pro- | gram of fights on Mondays and mat melees on Thursdays at the ball yard on Georgia avenue. Somebody mixed in the war will have a sick headache and a strained pocketbook before the battling ends, but it ought to make a fine Summer. for the fans. Everybody Busy. RIG}{T after informing the public that it would resume activities in the fight game with a card headed by a Mike Belloise-Joe Rivers bout at its arena Thursday night, when the Turner-Ahearn bunch will offer Joe Savoldi and Jack Donovan in a wres- tling show at Griffith Stadium, the American Legion, through Manager Livingston, says it will have Everett Marshall and Max Martin topping a wrestling program at its plant next Monday night. Turner-Ahearn crowd will shoot with Harry Dublinsky and Bobby Wilson in their boxing bill lead. The Legion manager proposes to of- fer a program scheduled for 32 rounds as his initial boxing venture. In addi- tion to the Belloise-Rivers affair, booked for 10 rounds, a four-rounder invelving Kirkwood Burke, District Golden Gloves champion heavyweight, and Buster Buckley, Alexandria's newly converted pro, has .been ar- ranged. There will be another four- rounder, a six-round go and an eight- round semi-final. Tickets for the cut-rate Legion show may be had at 807 Thirteenth street from 85 cents to $1.65. Donovan Off Bortnick. N THE Turner-Ahearn wrestling presentation at the ball park Thursday night Savoldi, the former Notre Dame foot ball star, probably will go to the mat free to use his famed and bitterly criticized *“drop kick,” despite all rumors to the con- trary. It seems that Donovan is willing to take another chance against this weapon that dropped him when he met Savoldi here last month. Don- ovan only insists that some one other than Benny Bortnick referee the match. Joe Turner of the promo- tional combine has agreed to name another official. As in the boxing business, the Le- gion manager will cut the rates for his wrestling shows. The prices will range from 40 cents to $1.10. Back- ing the Marshall-Martin feature next Monday night will be a brawl between Leo Wallick and Maurice La Chaypelle. Their semi-final meeting will be to a finish. ALLOW NO DEADHEADS. Even officials and club owners of big league teams have to pay to get into the annual all-star games. SCHACHT STILL HURLER. Al Schacht, coach and comedian of the Boston Red Sox, does some of the team's pitching in exhibition games. A Do And next Monday the | | { | by a single hole. /4 by by Hagen DAKMONT FINISH With Best—Four “Frosh” Assoclated Press Sports Writer. world’s professional golf team erans and four youngsters at the fifth The veteran Walter Hagen will time since the matches were inaugu- SPEAKS FOR HIM on Ryder Cup Team. TEW YORK, July 8.—America's h supremacy from Great Britain renewal of the Ryder Cup matches pilot the American Professional Golf- rated informally in 1926. Play will Two-Year Record Compares BY BOB CAVAGNARO, hopes of recapturing the will ride on the shoulders of six vet- September 27. ers’ Association team for the fifth be at Ridgewood, N. J. Captaincy Is Deserved. | GEORGE R. JACOBUS, president of the P. G. A., announced Hagen's designation as playing captain. “There’s nothing honorary about his appointment.” said Jacobus. e thoroughly deserves the captaincy if for no other reason than his grand finish at Oakmont last month, par- ticularly in view of the adverse weather conditions “In addition to that, his scoring record for the last two years shapes up well with the other members of the team.” Paul Runyan, national professional titleholder, was named the No. 2 player. - The next two places went to “Slow-Motion” Sam Parks, jr, of Pittsburgh and big Olin Dutra of Monterey, Calif., 1935 and 1934 win- ner. respectively, of the open cham- | pionship. Two-Year Records Used. Tm-: other members, in order, are Ky Laffoon of Chicago, Johnny Re- volta of Milwaukee, Henry Picard of , Hershey, Pa.; Horton Smith of Chi- | cago, Gene sarazen of Brookfield | Center. Conn., and Craig Wood of | Deal, N. J. Laffoon. Revolta, Picard and Parks are “freshman” members of the squad and newcomers to international com- petition. The others have seen action in previous Ryder Cup matches, while the “Old Haig” is the only player who has been a member of all teams. Parks was awarded a berth because of his victory at Oakmont. Selections mostly were based on W.R.MECALLUM | official records of the association for the last two years, taking in all im- portant tournaments Laffoon qualified with an average | of 72.3 for 161 rounds: Revolta, 72.7 for 139 rounds; Picard, 728 for 89 | rounds; Smith, 73 for 127 rounds: Sarazen. 732 for 60 rounds, and NOTHER version of what seems | red-hot clubs of a brace of Kenwood Wood, 73.3 for 123 rounds. likely to become the standard | golfers on the 291-yard punch-bowl| amateur challenge match of the Summer will be played tomorrow at Columbia, when Parker Nolan, the big bam from Congres- sional, and Dr. Larry Otell, who knocks 'em dead with chip shots and 10-foot putts, trot out their best-ball wares against Luther C. Steward, jr., and Maury Nee. The boys played at Congressional last week and Nolan and Otell won But lots of things have happened since that time. For subpar 71, even with a 5 on the eighteenth hole, at Congressional, simply by way of letting the boys | know he is in shape, and Nolan has been hanging consistently around 73, while Steward and Nee, afraid of the humility of having a licking hunz on them on their own golf course, have | been out practicing every day. The big affair will start tomorrow around 1:30, and every one who has a spare dollar in his jeans is down, on one side or another, if you can believe the conversation going around. Over at Columbia next Monday another contest of considerable in- terest to the bag-toters of the day is due to come off. Harry Jackson and Billy Adams, two colored caddies, who have been lick- ing everything that came along, are due to tangle with a couple of Con- gressional lads with ideas of their own. The two boys from Congres- sional are Clyde Martin and Rudolph Hartshorn. Late last night, over in the angle formed by the woods near the ninth green, the boys were practicing hard and long. They view this match as one for the caddie championship of the city. But a couple of boys from the Washington Golf and Country Club are going to be pulled into the contest before long. They have some good golfers out there at Washington. LAYING over courses in the pink of condition, the boys are ex- pected to set a local record in the District public links championship, which started today at Rock Creek Park with the opening twin rounds of a 72-hole medal test which will end tomorrow on the flat course down at East Potomac Park. All the leading public linksmen of the city, barring only one or two, are in the thick of the scrap for the crown which John Connelly is allowing to go by default, and out of the scoring melee some one of the lads may shat- ter 290 for the double circuit of the Rock Creek and East Potomac Park courses. It took 301 to get in the team of four last year, and 296 won the tour- nament, but that mark should be broken this year. The courses, aided by a cool Spring and good weather, are in better shape than last year, and the field is as strong. Two entrants came in under the wire last night. They are Jack Keele and Lawrence Byers. ‘The four low scorers will go to the national public links championship at Indianapolis later this month. EL KRAFT, the young man who is due to become Woodmont’s leading golfer if he can ever get over the Howard Nordlinger hurdle, won the match play against par tourney at ‘Woodmont yesterday with a 76, which finished 1 down to par. Lester Olian and Gilbert Hahn finished in second place, 3 down to par. Out at Washington Jimmy Cor- coran, who has been over 75 seldom this year, gathered himself a form- fitting 69, aided by an unerring putter, to prove the mainstay of the team of sixteenth at Kenwood. They were | made by Henderson Dunn and T. | Mura, the latter a member of the Japanese Embassy staff. Three women tied for the Mechaw cup at Beaver Dam. They were Mrs. Max Taylor, Mrs. T. W. Perkins and Mrs. C. H. Offutt, all of whom finished with net cards of 82. Ellen Kincaid, the club champion, also scored a net 82, but chose to take the gross prize with her card of 91. John R. Miller, former “champion of club champions,” won the nine- hole miniature tournament qualifying | round with a card of 36. W. B. Moore and John T. Money tied for second with 37s. Match play rounds will start next Sunday. Playing with Paul Fogarty and Paul Carey, Matthew | Rettew holed an iron shot for an ace | on the fourteenth at Beaver Dam. Charles A. Metzler, former Central High School coach, and Byron S. | Beall are the two-man team cham- | pions at Manor. They whipped Ralph | Gisbon and L. H. Whitten, 2 and 1, | in the final round of the tourney yes- iwrdly. with Beall scoring a 76, the best card of his golf career. VER at Indian Spring, where Al | ™ Houghton bagged a brace of 695 n informal matches, Mrs. George Diffenbaugh, wife of the Indian Spring pro, won the week end tourney with a iotal of 21 points. Mrs. L. T. Powers finished second with 19 points 18 points. The match play against par tourney for men weant to F. P. Kelly, who finished 3 up on par. | Chester Leakin, C. M. Whitman and | George Gist all finished 2 up to tie for second. Bob Barnett, Chevy Chase pro, who is playing very well now, bagged a { par 4 on the eighteenth hole at Manor to win a match for he and Dick Lunn | sgainst Al Treder and Hickman | Greene. Barnett scored a 72 to lead | the scoring. Out at Congressional, Roland Mac- Kenzle scored a 72, despite a 5 on the par 3 ninth hole. Dr. John Shugrue finished with birdie 3s on the seven- teenth and eighteenth to score a 76. Southern Association. Atlanta, 8—3; Chattanooga, 4—2. Little Rock, 5—6; Birmingham, 3—1. Knoxville, 3; Nashville, 0. Memphis, 7—2; New Orleans, 1—6. Standing of the Clubs. L w. Ww. L. ooga 40 Rock 34 Birm'ham 33 Knoxville 31 Pet. Pet. 607 Chat' 404 Memphis_ 47 33 580 Litle 4. N. Orleans 44 37 .54 4 Nashville 43 39 .52 02 03 i 49 48 Taken Off and Other Metals Welded and Mrs. J. F. Gross was third with | STOPS FIGHTS NOW From fighter to peacemaker is the | transition of Robert E. Ennis, better known to boxing fans as Bobby Yeo- | mans. who yesterday was appointed justice of the peace for Capitol Heights by Gov. Harry O. Nice of Maryland. Ennis, fighting under the name of | Yeomans, was welterweight champion | of the Navy shortly after the war. H | was graduated from Columbus Un: | versity here in 1929, passed the bar | in Maryland and has been associated with Philip Austin. | Griff Notes OHNNY KERR, whom rumor hath trembling upon his coaching throne, failed to cover himself with glory in the first inning of yesterday’s game with the Yanks. | " Joe Kuhel, first up, smacked the !ball to the deepest center-field corner and was waved home by Kerr, al- | though there were no outs and the | play figured to at least be close. As it was a fast relay, Chapman to Cro- setti to Jorgens, it caught Kuhel at the plate with something to spare. | Jake Powell is having troubles at )the plate, not with hitting the ball, | but in driving it safe. | During the Yank series he walloped enough potential hits to bat .800. but great fielding by the New Yorkers cut | him down time after time. Yesterday Red Rolfe made two marvelous plays to rob Powell of clean hits and on another occasion Earl Combs backed up against the left- | field barrier to snag a long hoist Rolfe twice dove for pick-ups of | whistling grounders and recovered | quickly to complete the put-outs. | Lou Gehrig's homer in the fifth with the bases loaded was a prodi- gious wallop. A terrific wind, herald- ing the shower that followed, was blowing from right field. Even against this wind, however, there was no | doubt as to where Lou's poke would | land. It wenf'far over the wall. | Tony Lazzeri, the Latin from Man- hattan, did all right by himself yes- terday. Four hits, including a homer, bounced off his bat. Between ’‘em, Gehrig and Lazzeri batted across all of the New York runs. | There will be no action at the local | ball orchard today and tomorrow. But | Wednesday the onrushing Tigers, | winners of 10 games in a row, invaded | for a series. 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