Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1935, Page 14

14 SPORTS. T HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1935. BPORT Cox Threatening to Make Other Pro Golfers Here Look to Their Laurels JOVIAL LINKSHMAN FINE SHOTMAKER Wiffy Is Likely to Grab Good Share of Coin in Capital Matches. BY W. R. McCALLUM. IFFY COX, the Brooklyn bombardier now firmly en- trenched in the Kenwood Golf Country Club profes- sional berth, has been having a flock of successes in exhibition matches around Washington since he left his job at Dyker Beach to take over Al Houghton's old post. Some of his success has been due to good partners, but most of it has been the result of some consistently fine shotmaking by the former gob himself. For Wiffy, as good a mechanical maker of golf shots as you could find in a day’s travel, is more than a great big playboy who goes around kidding his opponents into a state of somnam- bulism to set the stage for the killing punch. The Cox man is one who can sdminister the killer's punch himself. Good-natured and jovial at all stages of any golf match. Wiffy has that attribute of champions—the knack of shoving home the winning shot when he needs it most. He has proven that in the little matches which have revived an otherwise dull late July and early August. And at the same time he has given the gal- leryites a laugh or two along the bunkered route. The Cox man is just about as colorful a performer as you eould dig up. And besides and above that, he packs a big golf punch. Looms as Houghton's Rival. He has plived in only one little tournament of the middle Atlantic pros, but when the season opens up again late this month, and the boys begin having their little Monday afternoon brawls, you can look for | Wifly to start gathering in the dollars. Today he looks the chief rival of Al Houghton in the little sweepstakes tournaments. Al was the big shot for three or four years, winning most of the affairs, but Wiffy is going to give him a rub. And Wiffy will be no pushover in that forthcoming series of tourna- ments—the Maryland open at Rolling road, the District open at Indian Spring and the National Capital open at Kenwood ‘When it comes to holding a put when the checks are down, you cold pick 8 far easies spot than to bet against Wiffy, for he grew up in that tough echool of golf around the public course in Brooklyn where they give and ask no quarter. Wiffy hasn't really been serious about his golf since he came to Wash- ington. “It's too hot here to prac- tice,” he says. begins to get cooler I'll get out there and work a little bit on my game. It certainly needs it.” With or without practice he is a tough nut to crack, as the rest of the boys have found out. Par Shooter Loses to Three. THREE deuces on one of Washing- h ton’s better short holes. It isn't being done very often, particularly on ‘such a good one-shooter as the twelfth at Congressional, a hole which plays about 210 yards. Jack Gilmore, Dr. Robert A. Keilty and Bill Samford were the perpe- trators of this assault on par. Dr. Otto Wendt got a par 3 and lost the hole to all the others, who holed lengthy putts. WILL BURY ZALUSKY. MINNEAPOLIS, August 13 (#).— Funeral services will be held here to- morrow for John J. (Jack) Zalusky, 66, major and minor league ball play- er of a quarter century ago, who died Bunday at his home here of a heart ailment. “STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE by W. RED MCcLEOD is giving the boys the double-cross. For years the newspaper lads have been writing about the miracle bunk- er shots made by the little North Ber- wick Scot with a mashie-niblick of his own design, » small-headed weapon 80 keen you could shave with it. And now Fredie has gone to steel- shafted clubs and has abandoned his little razor-edged blade in the bunk- ers for a No. 7 iron. And the funny Jpart of it is he plays those cut bunker shots as well with the deep-faced iron as he did with the narrow little mashie-niblick. It's all very discour- aging, for a lot of folks had gone and learned how to play the shot with the same weapon with which Fred had ‘won international renown, and now he double-crosses them by using a different bat. But the new club is lethal. We watched him play from three bunkers yesterday at Columbia with the steel- shafted 7 iron, and twice he knocked the ball close enough to hole the putt. It was all part of a level par 70, spun by the old master in one of those funny rounds where he was missing tee shots and holing putts. With good tee shots he might have been 66 or better, but as it was he scored 84—36—70, starting with a 5 and fin- ishing with another 5. Miller B. Stevinson, Columbia’s per- ennial champion and an entrant in the national amateur sectional rounds next | week, fashioned himself a 71, even with a lot of mediocre golf in it. “Steve” retains the ability to bang those putts into the cup and he is a great man under pressure when a 6-footer is needed for a half. THI boys were sitting around the | beer guessing on what will be needed to qualify at Indian Spring next Tuesday. Stevinson had it that 154 will be needed to make the grade in the sectional tests here, but Fred McLeod probably hit it nearer when he #aid 156 will be in. “Indian Spring isa tougher golf course than it has been for years,” Fred said, “and when the boys get out there playing against the pencil they won't do so well. It all depends on the number of places.” But if Volney Burnett, the fire lad- die, plays anywhere near as well next Tuesday as he did yesterday he will grab one of those places. Volney wound up a round with a blaze of birdies yesterday to score a 69, which happens to be two under par, getting out in 36, one over, and coming home “But when the weather | 5 i < SSISTANT DEPUTY ADMIN- ISTRATOR EDWARD O. A MATHER of the N. R. A. to- day attempts to show there | is one very much alive worker of that once lively organization when he meets Tony Latona for the cham- pionship of the Federal emploves’ tournament on the Potomac Park | | courts. | After conquering his only other city | ranking opponent, Ralph McElvenny, Mather has everything to win, noth- ing to lose in today's title match.| Should he trim Latona, he would have to be considered in future rankings of the District, for both Tony and McElvenny are rated within the first | five players of the Capital. To say nothing of the glory that would be Mather’s among his fellow workers | should he win the tournament. | Yesterday Latona again was found | | on the championship doubles team ori | all Federal employes when he and | McElvenny tripped Dean Judd and Hy Ritzenberg in four sets, 6—3, 3—8, | 6—2, 6—2. Last year Latona had teamed with Frank Shore to gain the | same title The woman's singles championship also will be decided this afternoon, with Mary Ryan meeting Clara Tabler | for the honor. Miss Ryan is the de- fending champion of the tournament and Miss Tabler is a former City of Washington champ. They will play at 5 o'clock. | AGAIN breaking into the “big time,” 4} District Champion Barney Welsh won his first-round match at the nineteenth annual Newport Casino | tournament yesterday and advanced in company with Grant, Shields, Budge, | | Parker and Mako. If Barney's got to | be put out in the early rounds, we MARCH LEAVES NET VOID Goes on Vacation, So Channing, Is Without a Partner. | Vacation plans of the family have removed probably the strongest dou- bles team of the boys' playground tennis tournament now in progress but keen competition is prevalent in | the many matches on the Montrose, | Chevy Chase, Rosedale and Takoma courts. Harry March, who with Charley Channing comprised the team favored for the junior championship, left the city with his folks early Sunday. The | junior title now is a wide-open battle with no one team a favorite. Summaries: Seniors. Montrose—Sau rose) defeated coran). 6—2. 6—: Xy iMitchell) ~defeated’ Raf (Montrose), fi—4. A—4 Rosedale—Spanton and Robbins (Bur- roughs) defeated Adams and Granger (Garfield), 3—8._ 6—2 5: Stassull and Bovd (Rosemont) defeated Chick and Dea- vers (Potomac). 6—1. 6—3: Contreras and defeated Licklighter o) " Ttaltans (Garfield), and Pierce defeated (Burroughs), 6—2, 6— Juniors. Chevy Chase—Valenza and Buckingham (Chevy Chase) defeated Ballelegna and Renee (Happy Hollow). 6—0. 6—2: Li nd Bortz (Eaton) def: and Noon (Cooke). & e—Sokol and Hardy on and Valenti 2 6—2 Burroughs) | Wiley Glasmire were successful, Knott and Edwards (Hoover), King and Mallor_ (Takoma) | alsh. and Carr (Brookland). Ro | defeated 626 Takoma- defeated DUPLIN BECOMES COACH Special Dispatch to The Star. WINTHROP, Mass.. August 13.—| Ralph Duplin, former Georgetown base ball captain and foot ball quar- terback, has been named assistant foot { ball coach at Winthrop High. He also { will teach mathematics. | | Duplin was graduated from George- | town in 1928, was coach at George- | town Prep for a year and for the | past four years has been coaching all sports at Millis (Mass.) High School. | Winthrop each year has sponsored one of the strongest foot ball teams in the Boston area. R.MECALLUM in 33, three under. He finished with | three birds in a row, to give Russ | Hollebaugh, Spencer Overton and Ed- die Barnes a large and juicy headache, even though meticulous Overton pounded out a 72. There is one man who probably will qualify next week. | If care has anything to do with it he will, for Spencer never has made a bad shot because he didn't try. SHE lost an argument of words at Rock Creek Park last week, but Mrs. J. T. Powell of Manor holds the decision in another golf argu- ment today. She won the miniature tournament staged by the Women's District Golf Association at Wood- mont yesterday, pounding out a final | round win over Miss Bertha Israel in the home club by 1 up. Other winners were: First flight—Consolation, Mrs. Prank R. Keefer. Chevy Chase. Second flighi—Mrs. L. T. Powers. Indian Spring. defeated Mrs. R. F. Thompson. Army-Navy: consolation, won "by Mrs. W. R. Woodward, Army- Navy. Third’ flight—Mrs. J Johnson, Army-Navy. defeated Mrs. Theodore Lonn- quest. Kenwood. 3 and 1: consolation. won by Mrs. A E. Dedicke, Army-Navy. Fourth | fight—Mrs. . . _Kenwood, de- feated Mrs. F. Kenwood: ' co solation. won 'by’ Mrs. W. A Stephen: Woodmont. Fifth flight—Mrs. Jack | Kenwood, defeated Mrs. R. C. Miller. consolation, won Mrs, Kenwood. Sixth flight—Mrs. A. . Tucker, Beaver Dam. defeated Mrs. Lee Perley. Kenwood. 2 up: consolation, won by Mrs. H. A, Knox. Congressional. Seventh fleht—Mrs, J. L. Dale. Kenwood. defeated Mrs. George Goetzman, Congressional. 1 up; consolation, won by Mrs. R. E. Joyce, Kenwood. ENWOOD'S golf team will move over to Beaver Dam Sunday to play the campaigners from Landover | in another team match. The Beaver Dam braves have licked Manor and the Hermitage Club of Richmond on consecutive Sundays. Wiffy Cox and Russ Hollebaugh, Kenwood pro | and club champion, will oppose Cliff | Spencer and Martin McCarthy, Beaver | Dam leaders. Another tournament will be staged tomorrow by the Beaver Dam Boost- ers’ Club. Ed Brooker will have charge of the men's program, while Mrs. R. M. Brown will handle the women'’s event. @FADI0 OFFICIAL PHILCO SERVICE | LS.JULLIEN.Ine 1443 P St.N.W. NO.8076 rermmlly hope it will be by one of | he bigger stars, just to give us an inkling of how good Barney really is— | nationally. Incidentally, Barney might be using this tournament as his last hard training before defending his national public parks championship at New Orleans next week. Spencer Howell of George Washing- ton University’s team, licked his cap. tain, Ted Pierce, yesterday in a sec: ond-round match of the Embassy WELSH AND MAKD FACE AT NEWPORT D. C. Netman Among Those Feared as Top-Flight Players Get Tests. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT‘ R. I, August 13— Top-flight players in the New- port Casino tennis tourna- ment crossed their fingers to- @ HE toadfish, which always meets death . violently,. by being banged against the side of the boat or by having its throat cut by a disappointed angler, now is being sought, not by fishermen, but | by the medical profession. According to Dr. Charles R. Linegar of the Georgetown Medical School, there is something in this ugly fish that is beneficial in the treatment of | kidney disease, Dr. Linegar has been experimenting with these toadfish and needs more to carry on the work, and the best part of it is that if delivered tournament in one of the features of day, for the third and fourth round alive and unhurt they will be paid for, the day, and lent credence to the be- lief that Welsh had expressed recently when the District champion said that | Howell was a great prospect. Ham- | pered by an attack of scarlet fever, Howell saw little service with the Co- programs appeared full of grief for those trying to play themselves into form. None of the group was forced to extend himself during yesterday's opening competition, featured by the C. O. D. Here is a chance for some ;nnglrrs to reduce the cost of their | fishing trips. Saturday and Sunday were not pro- ductive days for fishermen, especially lonial netmen this season, but Now | ieaqy performances of Bryan (Bitsy) | those who still fished. According to | appears to be in top shape and ready | Grant of Atlanta, national clay court | Capt. Robert E. Lee at Shadyside, few to give 'em all a battle. | and Eastern grass titlist, and Rod- | fish were landed by any of his boats He meets Charley Channing, Cen-|erick Menzel, Czechoslovakian Davis | on this side of the bay, but that one tral High's soaring young racketer, at 4 o'clock today, at which time als the veteran Strand Johnsen plays Ray | Stocklinski. Cup star. Top-seeded Frank X. Shields, who halted his film career to make the Eastern grass swing, drew Ramsey | boat fishing off Bloody Point Light re- | turned with 112 medium-size hard- head. He said plenty of schools of blues have been seen breaking water OUBLES matches were to fill the | POtts, jr. of Memphis as his third- | on both sides of the bay, but they will program of the Chiselers’ Tour- nament this afternoon on the Monu- ment courts, with Sponsor Bobsey Turney teaming with Austin Rice in a first-round match against Saunders and Hoffecker. Rice, in company with Dave Legum, led the seeded players a bit further along the unde- feated path yesterday, although the latter had a tough time before he put cut Johnny Caducio, 4—6, 6—4, 6—4. Up at Mountain Lake Park, one| ranking local racketer and a younger Capitalian advanced to the second round of the Western Maryland cham- | plonships. Ricky Willis, captain-elect | of North Carolina's 1936 team, and al- though Willis was forced to three sets to subdue Fred West of Lynchburg, 6—2, 3—6, 6—1. It is possible that Sara Moore also may enter the women's play. it round rival, Budge Playing Willman, ’]‘HE second-seeded Don Budge and his Davis Cup teammate, Gene Mako, wars, Jess Millman of Los Angeles and Bernard Welsh of Washington. Frankie Parker of Spring Lake, N. J., runner-up to the absent Wilmer Al- lison last year, found G. Ramey Dono- van of New York as his third-round foeman. Enrique Maier of the Spanish Davis Cup team was pitted against J. Gilbert Hall, New Jersey veteran, seeded seventh on the list of eight. Gregory Mangin of Newark. ranked sixth in the draw, shared a third- round bracket with W. L. Van Alen of Newport. The other favored player, Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., was down for a second-rounder against S. Matthews of Newport. not strike. Capt. H. T. Burns, U. S. A, fishing | | Sunday from one of Capt. Lee's boats, | landed some Lig sea trout in shallow | water off the mouth of West River. faced sturdy opposition from | | two newcomers to the major tennis (CAPT. HARRY WOODBURN says that anglers still fishing Satur- day and Sunday off Solomons Island had very poor luck, but that the trollers picked up many nice speci- | mens. Capt. Buck Travers of Hoopers | Island took a party from Solomons | Island Sunday afternoon and they | landed, trolling, more than 75 big blues weighing from 2 to 9 pounds.| L3 | Last Saturday several local anglers | visited Windmill Light off the mouth of the Rappahannock River for the black bonito. L. L. Louft, with sev- eral fishing buddies, arriving at day- break, at 6 a.m. landed his first black bonito and before noon had made four additions to his catch, the largest weighing 38 and 40 pounds and the | smallest 3 pounds. | | Harold Vermule headed a party of | employes from the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. to the bonito grounds last week end. They landed | only two of these gamesters, weigh-| ing 12 and 14 pounds, but caught 35‘ blues and 27 hardhead. In his party | were N. J. Krone, J. Gooch, B. L. Lieb, C. Stansburg and B. F. Lusby. ‘ OUTHWEST MIDDLES continues to be the scene of much fishing banter that passed between them | activity. J. T. Scrivener, Charles| Hottel, Kinney Grimm, William J Wetzel and Gardiner Ryan ewent there | last Saturday and landed 27 blues | the stadium to continue their work- | running in weight from 5 to 7! pounds, with the majority of them landed four sea trout weighing from | 4 to 8 pounds, fishing below No. 14 buoy of Southwest Middles. W. B. Garrison also fished these | grounds last week end with Alex | Gusdorf, Clarence Grosner, Julian Brylawski, Sam Lidoff, Frank Stout | and Sam Becker. They landed 19 blues weighing from 4 to 7 pounds, six small sea trout and 12 large headhead This week the moon is just right for good fishing and many blues and sea trout should be landed in Chesa- peake Bay. In the lower Potomac some small sea trout and hardhead are being landed, but, according to Capt. L. M. BRITISH NET TEAM KELD REAL THREAT Chances of U. S. No Better Than Even in Cup Play, Says Helen Jacobs. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 13.—The feeling at Forest Hills, where the British and American Wightman Cup teams are practicing for their matches on Fri- | day and Saturday, is that the British | are going to make a real fight this year. _ The players were practicing on ad- joining courts yesterday, and the would not give one the impression they were preparing for an interna- tional tilt. Today they move into outs. J Helen Jacobs, America’s No. 1 player | closer to the 7-pound mark. They also! and three times national champion, | was of the opinion that the chances were 50-50 that United States would | turn back the invaders. “They are really good this time,” she said. Miss Round Evasive, (O THE other hand, Dorothy Round, | PITTSBURGH, Au the English star, refused to ad- mit that England had no hopes. She parried questions with: “It doesn't < do to discuss chances before a match, It might bring bad luck.” “You're hopeful, then?" asked. “Hopeful? Oh, yes,” she answered. The British team will present a she was These fish, he said, are breaking water | Springgs of Piney Point, the rockfish, line-up taken entirely from its first between Cedar Point and Cove Point and below Cedar Point in Cedar Point Hollow. Blues and sea trout are plentiful at this time. but only those trolling are rewarded with good catches. while making their presence known, are not striking. Western. 1 Des Moines, 7. 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T W NEW J singles and doubles play will be made tomorrow, There was considerable speculation as to whether Mrs, Sarah Palfrey Fa?yln, ranked second nationally, or | Mrs. Ethel Burkhardt Arnold, une ranked but a winner in the recent Sea= bright and Manchester, Mass., tour- naments, would be nominated for doubles duty with Miss Jacobs, Minor Leagues International. Buffalo, 10; Albany, 4. Newark, 5; Toronto, 3. Baltimore, 6; Montreal, 5. Syracuse, 11; Rochester, 4. Southern Association. New Orleans, 7; Birmingham, 4. Texas. Tulsa, 12; Beaumont, 3 s San Antonio, 4—2; Oklahoma City, |3—a. | | Fort Worth, 1—3; Houston, 0—0, Dallas, 6; Galveston, 1. Three-Eye. Bloomington, 6; Springfield, 2. Decatur, 7; Fort Wayne, 6. Piedmont. Wilmington, 7; Asheville, 3. Norfolk, 8; Richmond, 3. Portsmouth, 7; Charlotte, 6. BOWSER TO AID AT PITT Former Panther Named Assistant Foot Ball Coach. ust 13 () — Pitt athietic officials have announced the appointment of Charles W. 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