Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1935, Page 28

B—-10 o - D. C. Golfers Satisfied With Workouls :. | U Length of Course Is Seen as Advantage to Champ. Stamina to Count. BY W. R. McCOLLUM. LEVELAND, September 7.— Satisfied with their workouts over the lengthy course of the Cleveland Country Club, eight qualifiers from Washington for the national amateur golf champion- ship were to wind up their practice rounds tomorrow. Seven of them will face the starter in the opening 18- hole joust of the grueling title grind tomorrow. All the local lads have been on the battleground here at the Cleveland Country Club (as in Boston they call it The Country Club) for several days and have satisfied themselves with light practice, usually playing a couple of shots to each hole, particularly around the tightly trapped greens. Stretched out to its maximum length, the course of the Country Club measures around 6,900 yards, a little factor which will give Larruping Lawson Little a big advantage over the rest of the field and won't hurt big hitters like Harry Pitt and Roger Peacock. These two entrants from the Capital have been busting the ball & mile down the watered fairways here and seem to be in good shape for the opening of the championship. But the luck of the draw has thrown | two Washington lads together in the first round. Greene Plays Peacock. HICKMAN GREENE of Manor, win- ner of the Chevy Chase tourney last May, has drawn Peacock and probably will take a licking, for Pea- cock is strictly on his stick, is keen and wants to go places in this, his first match-play attempt in a national amateur title. Pitt drew the lone bye of the Washington group and Levi Yoder seems doomed to pass out early. He has drawn Francis Ouimet, and the 42-year-old Bostonian, always keen and in good shape in the opening rounds of a national, probably will push Levi out of the tournament by the sixteenth hole. But stranger things have happened than Francis Ouimet getting licked in the first round. He didn't get past the first round last year and if Levi can hang on and bang in a few putts he will give Francis a fast ride. The top bracket of the champion- ship draw finds four Washingtonians - in the first quarter with such stars as Scotty Campbell, Ross Somerville, the 1932 titleholder, and Zell Eaton. Pitt, Peacock, Volney Burnett and Greene all are in the top quarter. In the third quarter, cluttered up with such stars as Johnny Goodman, Chick Evans, | Bam Perry, Jesse Guilford and Maur- | ice McCarthy, are Maury Nee of Co- lumbia; Craig McKee of Indian Spring | and Page Hufty of Chevy Chase, the 1926 North and South champ. Yoder is the lone Washingtonian in the fourth quarter, where Ouimet, “Spec” Goldman, last year's runner-up, and Little are esconced. Stamina Counts a Lot. T'S no light job for a man out of | condition—this trek after the na- tional championship. It's almost as much a test of physical stamina as of shotmaking, for the winner must play 10 rounds of 18 holes or less. The Schedule calls for six straight 18-hole | matches, to be followed by 36-hole | semi-final and final matches. As the championship now is being run off it is quite a job, and despite the certainty that some one of the group of kids gathered here is going to have a warm round against Lawson Little, the burly champ from California is an odds-on favorite to repeat and win his fourth national title in two years. He won this one last year and has won the British amateur two years in a row. Lawson is mauling his tee shots so far that he is outstripping every one in the field by 20 yards and more, a feat which gives him a tremendous edge on such a lengthy layout. Furthermore he is keen to set a new record by cleaning up on all the major amateur championships two years in & row. It never has been done before. 104 GOLFERS PLAY - IN UPTOWN EVENT 18-Hole Qualifying Round Set for Tomorrow—Tournament Will End Friday. ONE hundred and four golfers will tee off tomorrow morning at Rock Creek in pursuit of the Uptown tour- nhament championship. Eighteen holes of qualifying play is the order of the first day, with 18 holes of match play each succeeding day until the finish next Friday. Following are the pairings for the flr:t day, with the starting times: :30. Harry Abrams, R. H. Kirchmeyer, Jack Sinclair; &:35 B. A. Bickerton, ’Lrs Madison, Bob ~Hefferman: = 8:40. James Mason. Reginald Philpot. Henry Bruce. 8:45. H D. Richardson. J. W. Reynolds, : 8:50. R. J. Filber. Dan Ring, . Thomas Cook, m J. Leizear. arry Yates, Joe Kupka._ Serge TFolk, . D. Bowers, P. H Malley, . B. Miller, Gerard Byron Baer, Julian Mur- ml: 9:25. Al Miller, Bill red Wolford: 9:40. John Tartiglia, J. E. arr, Milford Stein, 46, Charles, Peititt, George Marlow. 930, E A Burus Ray ohn Shields: 9:50, E. enry. Harry Graham: Herman Leapiey. . Murray, Allen. 'Eddie St 3 len. Eddie Stolark. Bob 1 Vecchio: Harry True; 10:05. Sa Robert Sibley. C. M. Charles: 10:10, J. McGrew. Byton Bacr, Marion Fove. B ol aude ppy. Phil Wi Delaney. Nick ler, Paul imer. George Zabel. Mel- % 10:35, Arthur Knable Neal Miller; IUA:‘(" G. M. 2 P g er. ir.; M. B. 11:05, Bob ~AtKins, Elw . Bob Morris: 11:10, J. L. Madden, R. L. Tarbett. William Leigear. 11:15. Roy Marcey. Frank McEleavey, Buck Morris: 11:20, J. L. Crutchfield, R. L. Sullivan. FLIES TO GOLF TOURNEY Haskell of Seattle Late Finding Out That He Qualified. SEATTLE, September 7 (#).—Dick Haskell, young Seattle golfer, who did not know until today he had qualified for the national amateur tournament, will leave by plane tomorrow for Cleveland. He will arrive Monday in time to meet Johnny Goodman of Omaha, former national open cham- PORTS. BY BILL DISMER, JR. HE'S been playing against the doctor's order since her skull was fractured by a horse’s kick last May, but the only fracture apparent yesterday was the break she made into the circle of leading wom- | en racketers hereabouts as she de-| feated Sara Moore, 4—6, T—5, 6—4, for the championship of the Army-| Navy Country Club's Fall invitation tennis tournament, Edith Clarke, an experienced horse- woman, with a swagger like a regular Cavalry officer, was advised by her physician against playing tennis for a year after her pet horse kicked her in the head after a spill last Spring. Yesterday she shouted deflance at the medico who said it “shouldn’t be al- lowed” by coming through in fine fet- tle after defeating one of the twp best feminine players the District has seen all season. MISS CLARKE was nervous yester- day, but so would any particl- pant have been in the closest wom- en's final played here this year. In a fitting wind-up to women's local net activities for 1935 the match went tae limit of three sets, with the winner experiencing the loss of the initial encounter. A bundle of energy, the colonel's daughter jumped into a 4—2 lead in the first setto, but at thst point she “cracked,” exactly as they said she did at San Diego in the semi-finals of a major tournameat earlier this year. She cracked to the extent of dropping the next four games and Miss Moore drew first blood. Then began the battle. A study of contrasts between Miss Clarke's tall blonde figure and the medium-sized brunette, the court was transformed into a battle ground of equal forces, with first one and then ‘the other holding the advantage, but never by more thon one game. Five times dur- ing that second set was the score tied—at 1—1, 2—2, 3—3, 4—4 and 5—5. Then the “bundle of energy” that was Miss Clarke turned into a human dynamo, hitting on all cylin- ders and hitting from all parts of the court. She leaped into the air, she ran from side to side, she charged to the net, she dropped back for lobs—noth- ing that Miss Moore could send over seemed out of her reach. She took the eleventh game at love for a 6—5 lead and she didn't fool with the twelfth. Getting set point on her| own serve at 40—15, she shoved a shot at her foe’s backhand and Miss Moore | returned it exactly where Edith de- sired her—into the net. That squared | the match. When, at the end of 10 minutes’ | intermission, Miss Moore called “I'm ready if you are, Edith,” she couldn't have foreseen how unready she really was. Spurred on by her father’s serv- ice friends, who jammed the little porch of the club house, Edith be- came a charging general, sensing vic- tory as only a matter of minutes. She | couldn’t lose in the first four games, | running after every shot, no matter | how far out of reach it seemed. The majority of them she got, too. When, at 4—0, she eased the pace, Sara took four of the next five games, but with the score 5—4, Miss Clarke | started the beginning of the end on | her own service. She didn't loiter here either. It became 15, 30, 40—love, | and, with the arrival of match point, | the new champion tucked it away as | she had in the second set—forcing | her opponent to backhand into the | net. THEY say Miss Clarke was mentioned for the Wightman Cup team by‘ those who saw her play on the coast. | She’s only 20 years old, and it wasn’'t so long ago that she attended Western High School. Next year she’s going to play in more tournaments, especially in this section of the country. Already she’s planned to accompany Charlotte Darling, Margaret Anderson and Edith | Moore, three ranking lassies of the East, on a touring trip of the East's most outstanding tournaments in 1936. She licked Miss Anderson, ranked No. 9 in the Middle Atlantic section, | 6—4, 6—0, in the semi-final round of the tournament she won yesterday. British Linksmen See Cup Victory LEATHERHEAD. Eng., September 7 (#).—The British Ryder Cup squad is so confident of lifting the international professional golf tro- phy that the cup has been insured for the trans-Atlantic journey. Speaking at a luncheon for the team, Comdr. R. T. C. Roe, the manager, said today: “The British team bas ‘got its tail up,’” he said, “and is far from suffering from an inferiority com- plex. We've gone so far, in fact, as to insure the Ryder Cup for a return journey to England.” The matches against America’s picked pros will be played at Ridgewood, N. J., September 28-29. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, EDITH Ci Edith Clarke, Playing Against Physician’s Order, Beats Sara Moore in Tight Net Final ¢ LARKE. N ESTEEMED colleague in this sports-writing field was to play a bit of tennis yesterday and if he found himself chpable of extending some of the city's best racketers more than 12 games & match will enter the Department of Playgrounds’ open Fall tournament, which starts next Saturday afternoon | on the Potomac Park Courts. Don't laugh at the mention of a sports writer playing tennis. I know it was an act of Providence that sent the week's rain to postpone a pro- posed tournament for sports reporters, | thus momentarily sparing the eyes and sensitive faculties of the game's de- ! votees from scenes too horrible to de- seribe. But this writer is different. | You see he was a tennis player be- | fore he became a tennis writer, which he was before he descended into just a general columnist. And he didn't take up tennis reporting as an outlet for a game which he liked, but| couldn’t play. By now you must have | guessed his name, for there’s only one | writer in Washington who was a Dis- | trict tennis champion before he be- | came even better known through another medium. | Yes, it's Robert (On-the-Line) Considine. And he wasn't going to be able to tell you before this morning whether he would enter his first tournament in almost five years. The hang-over reaction probably will be as determining a factor as the capabilities Bob finds he still has (or hasn't) on the courts, for after all,| you can't expect a guy to give up a month’s typewriter-tapping for a| week’s racket rotations. So if Bob| awakes with a “why-did-I-do-it?” feeling this morning it's pretty certain | that he'll not be among the entrants | on Saturday. y How do you feel this morning, Robert? THE first open tournament the Play- ground Department ever has sponsored promises a banner field for this last major net event of the year. Barney Welsh will be in it, of course; Dooley Mitchell is as interested in playing as he is in aiding its promo- tion; ditto Tony Latona; Ralph Mc- Elvenny promises his presence and Don Garber wants to risk his crown as champion of the embassy tour- nament in competftion with the big boys. The committee in charge, in addi- Manero Breaks In Glens Falls By the Assoclated Press. LENS FALLS, N. Y., Septem- ber 7.—Blazing home with a 2 under par 70 to add with his first round 69, Dapper Tony Manero of Greenshoro, N. C, 1930 winner, today gained leadership at the half-way mark in the $3,500 72-hole Glens Falls open golf tourna- ment. Tied at the end of the first 18 holes yesterday with three other sharp shooters, the little Italian's 36-hole aggregate of 139, five under par for the distance, gave him a single stroke lead over hard-belting Jimmy Hines of Garden City, N. Y. victor here in 1933, Hines, one of the quartet sharing the lead when the second round be- gan, shot a par-shattering 71 today to add with his 69 for a total 140, good enough to nose out Willie Mac- Farlane of Tuckahoe, erstwhile na- tional open king, and Herman Barron of White Plains by a single stroke. MacFarlane had rounds of 69 and 72 and Barron 70 and 71. Putter Bothers Kunes. GIINE KUNES of Norristown, Pa., recent Canadian open winner, experienced putter trouble on the second round and took a 73 to add with his lead-sharing 69 of the pre- pion, in & first-round match. Par, Sets Pace Golf With 139 montainous course here, and Turnesa, a dark horse, each came home with sub-par 69s, two of the seven who succeeded in besting regulation fig-| ures. Tied at 143 were Louis Barbaro of Harrison, West Chester caddie mas- ter champion, and Jerry Gianferante of East Lexington, Mass.,, each with rounds of 71 and 72. Four Tie at 144. A QUARTET of lesser lights were deadlocked with 144s, including Arnold Gray of Yonkers, 70—74; Al Brosch of Farmingdale, Long Island, 12—72; Fe Dale, Long Island, 72—172; Felix Serafin of Scranton, Pa. run- ner-up in the recent Hershey open, 75—69, and Bill Goldbreck of Mount Mosco, 72—172. Six strokes behind the Ileading Manero at 145 were the veteran, Johnny Golden, of Noroton, Conn., 72—73; powerful hitting Ray Man- grum of Pittsburgh, 74—71; John Kinder of Asbury Park, N. J., 74—171; Terl Johnson of Decatur, Iil., 72—173; Alex Gerlake of Catskill, 72—73; John Hocter of Rahway, 73—72; Harry T. Nettiebladt of Auburn, Mass., 73—72. Far down the line were such lumin- aries as Walter Hagen, United States Ryder Cup captain, who paired a 72 and 76 for a 148; slender Paul Runyan of White Plains, national P. G. A. ruler, with 76 and 73 for 149, and ‘Wild Bill Mehlhorn of Louisville, Ky., and Willie Klein of East Williston, | Norfolk chapter of alumni on the | for practice on the Monument Grounds | at 7:30 the Bethésda Leagye Long Island, each with 75 and 74 tion to Latona, Mitchell and Consi- dine, consists of Felix Silva, Bill Shreve, Mano Erana and, of course, Dick Tennyson. This group not only is making a bid for the largest entry list of the year, but also is going to no end of trouble in providing prizes a little out of the ordinary. Entries can be made at Spaldings, the Tennis Shop and the Playground Department in the District Building, registration blanks being available at all three places. Entry forms also can be obtained at any of th> public courts. A la Court. THIS Playground Department has kept things moving in a tennis way among the city’s younger play- ers this Summer more than any one organization. An interplayground league was started a month ago, just after the completion of tournaments for boys and girls, and tomorrow morning on the Chevy Chase courts a mixed doubles tournament will begin. While Willie O'Steen (girls’ singles champion) and Bill Contreras, both from Virginia Avenue, are regarded by some as the ultimate winners, there are more than a few that like the chances of Harry March (boys’ cham- pion) and Helen Orme, runner-up for the girls’ title. Altogether, 32 teams are entered, one from each of the playgrounds. Finals are expected to be played on Thursday. A complete squad of District net- men encamped at Frederick, Md., last night, and by this morning was ex- pected ‘to have the situation pretty well in hand. Led by the city's first two ranking players—Welsh and Mitchell—Hugh Lynch, Tom Markey, “Red” Thomp- son, Harry March, Ricky Willis and “Buddy” Adair will concentrate on the Blue Ridge Valley there during the | coming week. Eddie Jacobs of Balti- | more won the 1934 title by defeating | Welsh in the finals last year. Eddie’s in it this year, may this de- partment act as his personal weather guide by hoisting “storm warnings.” Frank Shore, who helped Welsh win the doubles title at Frederick last year, was to have entered the singles cham- pionship, but he cut his hand wide open in attempting to pry some auto- mobile bumpers apart on Thursday, and a split hand is no aid in tennis, VVELSH learned a lot of tennis up at Forest Hills last week, even though he was eliminated in the first round. Rainy-day bridge provided his education as he swapped stories with Wilmer Allison, Frank Shields, Donald Budge, Johnny Van Ryn and | E others. It was no news to Welsh to learn there was a demand for an entirely new Davis Cup team, with the ex- ception of Budge, but he was a bit surprised to learn there was a split of opinion in regard to young Frank Parker, Mercer Beasley’s star pupil, of New Jersey. Some forecast a bril- liant future for this year’s inter- collegiate champion; others ldn't “see” him. There was no mistaking the notion, however, that it was con- sidered a waste of time and matches to continue to carry Sidney Wood and Gene Mako on the squad. It's a pity, said the “experts,” that a New Deal for the United States Davis Cup team wasn't inaugurated the same time as F. D.’s. All this information Barney learned for nothing, but it cost him $17.50 to learn New Jersey's speed law. He assures us he wasn’t in too much of a hurry to get home—he just didn't realize. Where have I heard those words before? PRITCHETT WILL SPEAK. UNIVERSITY, Va. September 7.— Norton G. Pritchett, director of the newly created department of intercol- legiate athletics and physical educa- tion at Virginia, is to speak before the mdm.m”. 1t | Class Affair. ATINGLE, the 6-year-old gray S tor, won the silver bowl and tricolor rosette emblematic of the grounds of Meadowbrook Saddle Club. Under the guidance of Front Ander- in classes and scored 14 points to defeat the reserve champion, Xip- Virginia Horse Is Champion of Chevy Chase’s High- hunter of Turner Wiltshire, well-known Upperville exhibi- championship at the Chevy Chase horse show held yesterday on the son of The Plains, the Virginia horse turned in four splendid exhibiticns pema, owned by James N. Andrews of Keswick, Va., by a 6-point maigin. Proves Fine Attraction. 'HE show was one of the most in- teresting and the best contested held In the Capital area, Margaret Cotter took the ladies’ hunter class from a strong field and scored in two of the championship classes to tie with George P. Plum- mer's King Dominant as ‘the third highest scorer in the four title events. Approximately 1,500, including many figures prominent in Virginia, Mary- land and Washingtont society, a tended the show. Among them was District Commissioner Melvin Hazen. Summaries: GREEN HUNTERS — Winner, owner, Turner Wiltshire: rider. Frost Al King Dominant: owners, rs. G. P. Plummer; rider. L. Third, Kippema: owned and ridden by James Andrews. Fourth, Graystone; rider. Connie Moore. —Winner. Sandy; own- Myer Horse Show team: rider. Henri{ Luebberman. Second. Mani owner and_rider, Lieut. Col. C. L Lyman_ Third. Black Caddy: owrer and rider. Pred J. Hughes. Fourth. Gay Cock- ade: ‘owner, W. B. Bogert; rider, Robert oby HUNTER CLASS — Winner, _Satingle; owner. Turner Wiltshire: rider, Frost A derson. ~ Second. Rocksie; owner and rider, Margaret Cotter. Third, King Dominant: Plummer: Fourth. Kippema; owner and rider. James Andrews PARK RIDING HORSES—Winner. Sun Di: owner and rider. Mrs. Gladys Haber- msn. "Second. Gay Cockade; owner. W, B. Bower!: rider, Gladys Marsh. Third. Rocky Seas: owner. L. R. Colb rider. Dicky Keller. ~ Pourth, owner and rider. Miss A_J. HACK AND ' HUNTERS—Winner. Gay Cockade: owner. W. B. Bogert. rider. Rob- ert Roby. ~Second_Satingle; owner, Turner Wiltshire; rider, Frost Anderson i Sun Di: owner. Mrs rider, Lanier Drake. na HORSE— Winner. Rowdy: own r. James Andrews. Second. Sun Di. owner and_rider. Mrs man. Third. Gay Cockade | Bogert: rider. Gladys | Ehantom "Lady: “owner ai | r ING HUNTERS—Winner. Sonny | Boy: owner and rider. Mrs J. E. Bahney. Second. Hunger Marcher; owner and rider Penton’ Fadeley Third. Kippema: owner and rider. James Andrews . Soli- taire: owner. J. P. H. Garsuch. rider. Ellen Merritt FANCY COSTUME CLASS — Winner. Mrs. O'Leary; second. Lillian Russell, Mrs Wil C Hansen: ihird ntry of Mrs. : . ent fpiry of Mr e ourth, entry of TOUC! UCH AND OUT — Winner. Sandy: Fort Myer: rider. Lieut. Luebber. Second. Rocksie; owner and_rider fargaret Cotter Third Brown Bust owner: Stephen Nelson: rider. H. B. Stouf- | fer. " Fourth. Sample Ballot; owner, Jack Allen: Hug! LADIES Fourth, nd rider. Anné u s Warrenton, ussell. Mrs. owner. man. ' ! 1 . Rocksie: waret Cotter, = S wner. Co yma | rider. Mrs. Lyman. Third. Solitaire; ow | ers. Mr_and Mrs. J. F. H. Gorsuch: r | Ellen Merritt. Four | owaer. P. L Oyster:" CORINTHIAN V! er and rider James Andrews. Second. Rocksle: owner and rider. Margaret Cott Third. Sample Ballot: owner Jack Alle rider.” Fred Hughes Fourth. Sating owner. Turner Wiltshire; rider, Frost An- derson | CHAMPIONSHIP—Satingle: owner, Tur- | ner Wiltshire: rider. Frost Anderson. Re- | serve—_Kippema: owner and rider. James | N Andrews. 'BOWLERS WELCOME STOCKING’S RETURN | Silver Spring Girls Outshoot Bal- timoreans to Top Off Silver Spring Card. JEARLE D. STOCKING. former presi- dent of the Washington City Duckpin Association, had a lot of help last night in celebrating his return to the Nation's Capital after five years of absence on bowling business. County Commissioner Paul Cough- | lin of Montgomery County made a | speech and officials of bowling or- | ganizations galore were in attendance as Stocking made his debut as man- | and the girls’ team which will repre- | sent his drives topped off the evening with a 78-pin victory over the Tivoli girls of Baltimore. Representing the National Duckpin | Bowling Congress were: John Y. Den- nis of Norfolk, president; George Ise- mann, secretary; Charles Young, as- | sistant secretary, and Dave Burrows | of the board of directors. Arville Ebersole, secretary, . represented the v{'uhlngton City Duckpin Associa- tion. Today Sunday bowling will be in- augurated at Silver Spring with the noted Happy Five of Baltimore meet- | The scores of the girls’ battle: ing the Georgetown Recreation Stars. BALTIMORE. - 88 14 497 518—1.475 SILVER SPRING. 86 98 Doubles Title for City’s Second Best to Be Decided Today. The doubles tennis championship of the Embassy tournament will be decided this morning at 10 o'clock on the courts at 2435 Massachusetts ave- nue, when John Hatch and Dewitt Bennett play against Jack Latimer and Don Bennett, ' It will be the final match in a tourney staged by F. Dan Suttenfield, from which the first 10 ranking play- ers of the District were barred. Botn finalist teams have showed excep- tional strength in romping through a field which included the city's “sec- ond best” racketers. RAMBLER GRIDDERS WIN. In the first sandlot foot ball game of the local season the Petworth Ramblers defeated the Mobile A. C., 19-7, as Johnny Salsa ran wild for the victors. * CALLS ST. JOHN'S SQUAD. “Horse” Holbrook, coach of the St. John's College fool ball team, has is- sued a call for candidates to report ‘Tuesday at 3 o'clock, 'B. | doesn’t know much about him, | ager of the Silver Spring maple plant | 5 | 34-team Navy Yard League starts| 8 | Jack O’Connell, chairman of the En. D. C., SEPTEMBER 8, 1935—PART ONE. SPORTS. Little Spreads Genuine Awe Among Golf Stars Lining Up For National Amateur Meet L3 LEVELAND COUNTRY CLUB, ( : September 7.—If any one is, from scaring his second suc- cessive grand slam of amateur golf | those young up-starts who “never heard of” the champion. spread as much genuine awe among| his field as the Presidio Pounder has| tuning up for the big drive over the | Cleveland Country Club course, pump= 275 yards, Little actually has most of the contenders in the field afraid of Today provided a fine example of the fear in which the California some important contenders among them, were practicing around the put- “Here comes Little!” All the practicing stopped. Even & Little passed by without blinking an eye, you could feel the tension. Jones when he was seeping through to| golfing glory, but he always was faced who “had to be shown.” There are a few of them around for the big field of 207 players, but even they are not so positive as the “old guard” used Starts Against Youngster. STRANGELY enough, Little meets {* one of in the very first 18-hole round Monday, old star from Wichita Falls, Tex. King, up to a few years ago, didn't go in for shooting, until he won the national Jjunior title. seriously and has been playing well, | upsetting some fine piayers in the | won the Colorado State amateur title Little has been a one-man show | ever since he came to Cleveland, | | quests to four in a row—two in Eng- {land and two th America. A Cleve- |had an eight-column spread which | demanded: |do to our twelfth hole?” Lawson did plenty to the “terror | for 558 yards around a semi-dog leg. | | He not only showed them, he awed By the Associated Press. going to stop Lawson Little | next week, he probably will be one of Not even Bob Jones, himself, ever | during the past few days, while| ing out drives that average close to| him. colossus is held. A group of players, ting green when some caddy shouted: foursome on the first tee halted. As “llways commancded profound respect with a score or more of competitors show that opens Monday with a record to be. those youngsters, who when he faces Rufus King, 18-year- golf so much. concentrating on trap- After that he took up golf more Denver district, where he qualified. He | | two weeks ago from a good field. intent on running his amateur con- land newspaper, seeking a feature, | “Let's see what Lawson Little will | hole” of the course, which stretches {"em’ by reaching the green in two | | shots and scoring a birdie four. Plenty of class will oppose the Cali- fornian next week, however, and he |is far from a dead cinch. Included | }in the fleld are’ nine former cham- | | plons—Chick Evans, Max Marston, | Francis Ouimet, George Dunlap, Jess | Guilford, Dave Herron, Bob Gardner, Chandler Egan and Ross Somerville. Ouimet, Evans and Johnny Good-‘ man of Omaha, one fellow who re- fuses to be awed, represent the con- tingent of former open champions. England had two representatives in Robert Sweeney and T. A. Torrance. | | Guilford was a doubtful starter, how- | ever, as he has been Il for the past | three weeks. Trees Threaten Trouble. BILL BURKE, former open champion and pro at the championship | course, today said that while the lay- ! out wasn't the longest, that it would | provide plenty of difficulty for the field. The course, from the middle back tees, is approximately 6810 | yards long and so plentiful with trees | that Burke said he didn't think any | golfer could play 18 holes without | hitting at least one of the countless elms. Par is 36-36—72. ‘v Thirty-one badges for Qqualifiers were uncalled for tonight, but U. S. G. A. officials said most of them | would be picked up by tomorrow noon. ! Scotty Campbell of Seattle turned in one of the lowest practice rounds today, scoring & 71. Since he started his drills Scotty, former Canadian amateur champion, has shot succes- | sive rounds of 74, 73, 68, 7Z and T1. W. LAWSON LITTLE, JR. JEAN BAUER 1-UP VTOR ONLINKS Scores Over Fritzi Stifel, Defending Champion, in Mason-Dixon Meet. By the Associated Press. HITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, ‘ N ’ e Jean Bauer, sturdy Provi- dence, R. I, girl in a daz- W. Va, Septemher zling comeback today defeated Fritzie Stifel of Wheeling, defending cham- | pion in the Mason and Dixon women’s golf tournament, 1 up. Miss Bauer was 2 down at the end | of the first 18 holes over the rain- soaked old white course. Her putting, sloppy in the morning, | smoothed out in the final 18 and she | one-putted four greens going out. Even for First Nine. RITZI played steady golf through- F nine in the afternoon, the match was all square. ‘The score for the 36 holes: Bauer, 86-78—164; Miss Stifel, 81—165. In the second flight, Mrs. Frank R. Keefer of Waeshington won from Miss | Mrs. J. W. Kinnear of Pittsburgh; Alliene Hoover of Thomasville, N. C., defeated Mrs. S. F. Wadsworth in the consolation of the first flight and Mrs. C. C. Dawley of Charleston took the defeated eight second flight from Mrs. G. V. Shorigi of Pittsburgh. ARMY-NAVY VICTOR IN WOMEN’S TENNIS| Mary Cootes Scores Nine Wins for Loop Leaders—Mark Tied by Charlotte Decker. LED by Mary Cootes, holder of two women's championships here this year, Army-Navy Country Club team came out on top of the District of Columbia Women's Tennis League during the 1935 season recently ended. Miss Cootes was victorious in all nine matches she played with the winners. Charlotte Decker did much to boost the Bureau of Standards into third place in the league standings, the bespectacled playground youngster also winning nine matches for her team. Final standings: Army-Navy Country Club Netoi: - o Burean of Standards George Washington - Rock C Chevy Chase Wardman Columbia Counti Mount Pleasant Racaueters | into the sports picture this| week when many leagues in- > augurate the 1935-36 season, ! which promises to be the biggest since | boom years. Increased activity among | the 140.0dd men and women losps ‘lwm jam every pin plant before the | month is out. | Many new Government leagues have been formed and in some in- stances old leagues have doubled in | si: ze. A high spot will be reached Friday night at the Lucky Strike when the action. Under the guiding hand of tertainment Committee of the Ma- chinists' Union No. 174, the league formed 16 new teams. Joe Fowler finds himself president of *the ccond | largest league in the city. Only the Holy Name League with 40 teams outstrips it in size. Stars Roll at Silver Spring. (QUT 8t Barl Stocking’s Stlver Spring | alleys today two crack teams will battle, inaugurate Sunday bowling at the suburban plant. Ray Von Dreele is bringing over his champicn Patterson Happy Five from Baltimore, and Ed Schlegel's Georgrtowners will from the opposition. Tomorrow night, for a warm-up, the A. & P. League has engaged the entire first floor of the Lucky Strike. The league will open the following Monday. Tuesday night the Times league will usher in its season at | the Bill Wood plant with 14 teams. With 14 teams in line, the George. town Commercial League will open tomorrow at the Georgetown Recrea- tion. Wednesday night the 12-club Diamond Cab loop, of which Harry Davis again is president, will start at the Lucky Strike. Judge De Lashmutt, president of the Bethesda Business Men's League, announces that s meeting of the 10-team circuit will be held Tuesday night at the Boulevard. Two fran- chises remain open. Wednesday night will meet st Bethesda for s final pRgigy. Watts | year. Boulers Start Banging Away In League Battles This Wee k OWLING will blast its way!Estabrook, president, would like to| hear from several new teams. A second meeting of the Montgom- ery County Ladies’ League will be held at the home of Mrs. John H. Hiser, 5506 Hampden lane, Edgemoor, Wed- nesday night. Any women interested are invited to attend. The Friendship Church loop will meet tomorrow night at Bethesda. Another team is needed to round out the league. Applications are being handled by Alden Hoage at Cleve-| land 6444 or National 9199. Has Franchises Open. ’I‘OMORROW night, at 8 o'clock, the Fraternity Duckpin League will hold its opening meeting at the home of Thomas S. Scrivener, 4421 Fif- teenth street northwest. Officers will be elected and plans made for the Teams desiring franchises are asked to call Martin L. Brown at Metropolitan 0819, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., or Carl B. Smith at Po- tomac 2243, after 6 pm. All fra- ternities entering teams have been asked to have a representative pres- ent. Ten teams will start rolling in the Temple Major League at the Temple tomorrow night at 8. Limiting mem- bership to teams with an average of 565 or less, the league offers a first prize of $125. The following make up the loop: Bazzuro's Engineering, Sunrise Bakery, Baumgartner, Five Aces, Pig 'n’ Whistle, Fountain Hams, No. 2; Rinaldi Tailors. Camden Tav- ern, Laundrymen and Brodt's, Inc. GOLF TOURNEY TU_ESDAY The Washington Times Golf Cup tournament, postponed from last Fri- day, will be played Tuesday at the Army and Navy Country Club. The Army and Navy course will be open tomorrow until noon for practice. Pairings will remain the same as pub- lished, but post entries will be taken. An entrance fee of 50 cents must be paid before players will be per- mitted to practice tomorrow. Entries sent to Mrs. W, R. Wood- ward, mo_'mmu avenue, or telephone out, and at the end of the first | 84- | Little Fagerto Retain Amateur Laurels PRIMES FOR FAST PLAY IN ANIATEUR | Champion Is Out to Excel Great Record for Wins Set by Jones. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. LEVELAND, Ohio, September 7.—On the eVe of the 1835 United States amateur golf championship, your corre- spondent will pick William Lawson Little to win again and let it go at that. Lawson Little may not win the championship, for under the present system of play no sports competition is more uncertain than this same United States amateur. Among the | other 184 starters there may be one player with enough golf and enough luck on some round to knock the Cali- fornian out of the running. But until that player is discovered, | Little will be the favorite. Little is grimly determined to re- | tain the championship he won at | Brookline last year. For the endeavor he has trained himself well. In his practice rounds over the Cleveland Country Club, the broad-shouldered champion has been hitting every shot | well. | There may be a bit of slackness in iron play but the m:an is driving so far there is less strain on his irons than on those of a player of lesser length. . The country club, with its gentle rolls and broad fairways, seems made for Little and the greens are sufficiently keen and true to respond to any deft putter. Eager to Get Title. ITTLE wants this chsmpions\!p every bit as much as Bob Jones wanted the final trick in his grand slam of 1930. Lawson has little | chance of ever equaling Jones’ record of 13 national championships but if he wins here he will be well on his way to collecting more amateur titles than ever fell to the Georgian's irons. Jones won six amateur champion- ships, five United States titles and one British, but if Little can win here he will have four amateur cham- pionships and those jn two Summers. Still in his early twenties and with a grand game that is improving, Little should double that number be- fore he retires, which according tc his own statement will be many years in the future. Who will give Little his hardest match? If Johnny Goodman were certain to reach the finals one coulo name the Omaha star. But Good- man may be knocked out in an early round as he was last year by Bobby Jacobson, the New Jersey juvenile It might be Willie Turnesa, Gus Moreland or any one of a dozen others. Little Strongest in Field. AST year Little did not meet a ranking opponent until the quar- ter - finals, where he defeated Willie Turnesa. On the other side of the draw, “Specs” Goldman had much the same experience with Eddie Driggs, his only nationally knowr rival until he tackled Little. All cf the other highly rated stars were cut down somewhere along the line. In this wild scramble a star may be eliminated in any round and fre- | quently luck of the draw may bring two favorites together in an early match. Little is the strongest player in the field and best adapts himself to the tempo of 18-hole rounds. For that reason he is favored to make it four championships in two years. This is Cleveland's first national championship since 1907 when Jerry Travers won his first of four ama- teur titles at the now-defunct Euclid Club. The city is a great golf center and from a financial viewpoint, if nothing more, this championship should be one of the best since 1930. WEAVER IN :I'ENNIS PLAY Heads Field That Will Contest in Bison A. C. Tourney. Warren Weaver, Baltimore and Washington colored singles champion, heads the field entered in the Bison Athletic Club's tennis tournament which starts at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon on the Banneker Center courts. Previous to the first match, C. Marshall Finnan, director of Pub- | lic Buildings and Parks, will dedicate | the new courts of the center. | Margaret and Romaine Peters, Mid- | dle Atlantic colored girl champions, top the women'’s list of entrants. Three prizes are offered, the Rich. | ard Tennyson Trophy to the men’s | champion, the John Young Trophy tc the women's winner and the Green Parrot and Harrison Cafes’ Cup tc the doubles champions. | NET FAVORITE SCORES Vi rginia Victor in Girls’ National Meet. PHILADELPHIA, September 7 (#). —Louise Raymond of New York upe set Patty Kilmartin of Miami, 6—3, 6—2, in a second-round match today {in the eighteenth annual girls’ na- | tional tennis championships at the | Philadelphia Cricket Club, Virginia Hollinger of Dayton, Ohio; | favored to succeed Helen Pederson as champion, defeated Patsy Rauters berg of Philadelphia in straight sets, | 6—1, 6—0. Jacque Virgil of Beverly Hills, Calif., | seeded second, defeated Betty Shell~ | enberger of Philadelphia by the same score. Hollinger 2> E l BUDGET PLAN ¢ &+ NO MONEY DOWN 1337 14STNW, POTOMAC 360Q.