Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1935, Page 16

A—16 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1935. SPORTS. Golf Professionals Start Their Annual Winter Drive for Money and Glory MIDSOUTH EVENT | Armour-Cruickshank Title Defenders—Grass Greens Supplant Sand. By the Associated Press. INEHURST, N. C., November P 12.—The quest for the Winter's golfing gold opened here today as the professional sho!makers; competed in 18 holes of best ball | play—the initial event of the Mid- south open tournament. It was the first time the profes- eionals tried out the new No. 2 course in tournament play. Greens have supplanted the traditional sand putting surfaces of the course, site of next Fall's P. G. A. championship. Another 18 holes of best ball play | will be held tomorrow, the winning | pair of the 36-hole competition to | draw $400, the runner up $300. Prizes also await third, fourth and fifth | place winners. On Thursday and | Friday 18 holes of individual play | for 10 cash prizes will conclude the | tournament. \ Cruickshank in Form. | 'I‘HE defending titleholders are | Tommy Armour of Chicago and Bobby Cruickshank of Richmond, Va Cruickshank in a practice round yesterday set an unofficial record of 69 for the course, and with Armour turned in a best ball of 65. It is generally conceded that the renovated course is two or three strokes harder | than it was last year. Par is 72. | Three former holders of the na- | tional open title—Armour, Willie | MacFarlane and Billy Burke—were in the field of more than 100. | P EISELE TO REEEREE BIKE EVENTS HERE| Olympic Talent Will Be Sought by Amateur Bicycle League Leader Sunday. TTO W. EISELE, president of the | " Amateur Bicycle League of Amer- ica, will referee the National Capital | Eweepstakes to be held Sunday. Eisele's organization, which con- ducts all official tryouts for America's | Olympic team. is especially interested | in the event expected to uncover material for the 1936 games in Berlin. | Entries for the sweepstakes may be | filed until 4 pm. Friday at the National Capital Parks Office or until | 9 pm. the same day at the Ritz Hotel. | Two of the best woman cyclists in Canada are expected to compete Sun- | day as Marjorie and Joan Ward have | expressed their desire to enter. They | will meet a bevy of local girls headed by Dorothy Bellars, Blanche Hall, Evelyn James, Jean Karp and Berta Muncie. AR V. P. 1. CLASH FINAL Game Is Fortieth Anniversary of | Series—Many Cavaliers in Closing Season. | Caledonia. JNIVERSITY, Va., November 12— +~ vVirginia and Virginia Polytechnic Enstitute will meet in Scott Stadium | pere next Saturday in a gridiron thing new about broadcasting and {;;key tournaments, the semi-final at | the fortieth | Warren Wheaton is due to get some g; -ther and still another was in its Cavalier-Tech | new angles on the political situation, | first-round phase today. mark the game that will enniversary of LEROY C. < To Cavort Against Cards AMPBELL, Versatile halfback of the Western Maryland eleven, which clashes with Catholic University at Griffith Stadium Saturday afternoon. only a sophomore, Campbell is one of the reasons followers of the Green Terrors are looking forward to a national rating next season. e 7S ‘A by W. ND anyhow I've got more Scotch in me than you.” That remark a few days ago started a golf duel be- quences in so far as the tranquility of this golfing village is concerned. Not that Fred. McLeod or Dave Thomson can lay claim to move Scotch than the other. For Fred hails from the little town of North Berwick, while Davie comes from Montrose, both among the better known golf towns of Some skeptical fellow may rise with the idea that the Scotch comes from a bottle, but that isn't true. The bottle had been taken away With a bird 3 on the seventeenth, | for another customer. The remark started a home and home series of golf duels from which George Holmes is going to learn some- > STRAIGHT OFF THI TEE R.MECALLUM (tamed Roland MacKenzie at Chevy | Chase. That is, Bob and Frank Ree- | side entertained them up to the final hole, where they decided fun was | tween Scotsmen and two newspaper| fun and being a host was all right | | men which may have serious conse-| for 17 holes, when they clamped down on Roland and Parker Nolan and | whipped them on the eighteenth. Bob shot himself a form-fitting 72, which | is something that isn't being done | every day. For red-headed Robert is no sissy. The Chevy Chase course was long and slow, and still Robert insisted on playing the extrfeme back tees of a golf course that measures around 6.700 yards. Nolan squared the match | but both Barnett and Reeside bagged winning 4s on the eighteenth. % MILITARY TROPHY Thrill Tonight. the thrilling test for the in- will be a real battle tonight, when cide team supremacy over the jumps With each nation entering three least one perfect performance, while "France Saves Aces. the Bowman Challenge Cup, failed, In the end it was ¢he United States | Raymond W. Curtis sent the lightly | The Canadian combination of Capt. States victory retired the trophy | tives. Conn., already wearing the five-| ington, Ky, standing at the head of | were up for decision today. Dodge's King of the Plain of | pony titles, respectively, but the other competition with a lead of one over Retire Award—Internation- al Individual Test Due to By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, November 12.—If N ternational individual cham- pionship was a criterion, there officers from six nations take over Madison Square Garden’s arena to de- in the grand finale of the National Horse Show. horses in the individual trophy race last night, five of them turned in at Chile and the Irish Free State had three faultless exhibitions each. NLY France, winner of the team title last year and victorious in but the tricolor officers withheld their equine aces for tonight. Army team, with only two perfect rides, which won the trophy. Lieut. | regarded bay gelding, Don, to the| top after two jumpoffs. C. C. Mann and Peggy McNeil offered stubborn opposition. The United | which had also been won in 1931 and 1932 by Uncle Sam’'s representa- With Gold Digger, from Louis Kaiser's Terre Haute farm of Bethel, gaited saddle horse crown, and Charles T. Fisher's George Gwinn of Lex- | the junior five-gaited division, the | remainder of the class champions | | Picked to Keep Titles. | JFISHER'S Miss America and Frances Rochester, Mich.,, were favorites to | retain their three-gaited and harness divisions were considered wide open. Fisher also entered the final day Miss Dodge in the battle of blue rib- | bons. The master of Dixiana had | accounted for 13 victories. A. B. Dick, jr., owner of the Dicks- | field Farm of Gurnee. Ill., was in third | place with nine, while Judy King of Atlanta, Ga., led in six events. FightsLast Night By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA —Frankie Battag- | lia, 160. Winnipeg. Manitoba, stopped | Paul Pierrone, 161, Cleveland (6); | Leroy Haines, 194, Los Angeles, and | Willie Reddish, 187, Philadelphia, | drew (8). NEW YORK.—Eric Seelig, 162, | Germany, knocked out Charley Bel- anger, 174, Canada (4). LONDON, England.—Obie Walker, | Boston, outpointed Don McCorkin- | aale, South Africa (10). TRENTON, N. J—Eddie Kinsley, { 125, Camden, N. J., stopped Jimmy | Russell, 123, Beverly, N. J. (2). MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Tommy Free- | man, 154';, Hot Springs, Ark. out- pointed Paddy Creedon, 156, Jersey THE final round has been reached in one of the three public links At Anacostia foot ball series that began in 1895. | for McLeod and Holmes, challenged t0, park C. Loving reached the final It will be the last home game of & duel by Wheaton and Thomson, to0k | round oi the turkey affair, licking the season for the University eleven. them on yesterday at Columbia and | Medalist B. R. Campbell and Earl | Playing their last home game for handed them a Scottish trouncing.| Bean, Virginia will be such ends; Bill Banks, tackle; Hoge, guards; George Coen, center, | and several reserves. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del.—Dean Detton, 205, Salt Lake City, defeated Charley Strack, 232, Stillwater, Okla., decision. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Leo Numa, 218, Beattle, defeated Ralph Garibaldi, 215, | §L Louis, one fall. CHICAGO.—Chief Little Wolf, 206, *rrinidad, Colo,, defeated Gus Sonnen- berg, 210, Boston, one fall. + MINNEAPOLIS. — Danno O'Mah- | ony, 219, Ireland, defeated Paul Jones, 820, Houston, Tex., one fall. Golfing Display Speed, veterans as The Scotch, you know are frugal. | Capt. John Leys and Cullen Wilkin, | They hate to waste holes and Freddie :-trock George and George didnt’ waste any as they | Gibraski Seibels, Alfred Seccombe and Peyton = whipped Davie and Warren by 4 and 3./ round with victories over L. D. Byers | “These putts of mine are all Scotch,” said Warren. “They try to save an inch and that inch keeps them out of the hole.” Meanwhile Freddie and George turned on the heat and won series will be played at Washington. And last night, around the Scotch, the Scotch insults flew thick and fast ington. And now Monro Hunter and Chesley | ‘W. Jurney, the portly sergeant at arms of the Senate, want to get into the family row. Next thing the Haig brothers will be trying to muscle in | on this Scottish brawl. JFEW of Washington's pros moved over to Baltimore to play in the pro tourney, for Bob Barnett enter- “Old Men” at Columbia Skill Matched By Few Youthful Linksmen HEY make a pair of golfers| I whose equal for good golf shots and speed in playing a golf - course you won’t often find #round Washington or anywhere else. They call each other “old man” and. mmeasured by passage of years, both of them are old men. But out at Colum- bia they play golf about as well as any pair of divot lifters you could find— #0ld Man” Hinshaw, as Fred McLeod iealls him, and “Old Man” McLeod, as his friends affectionately call the 53- year-old Columbia pro. Every morning they play golf to- gether, covering 18 holes in around two hours flat and around 150 strokes or less for the pair of them. Hinshaw §s a former Metropolitan Opera exec- utive and singer, who has retired from business and has given over most of his time to playing golf. McLeod is the old master of the game, the man who knows as much about hitting a ball as any living man and a national open champion of nearly three decades back. Hinshaw is well past the three-score- Bnd-ten mark, McLeod is well along in his 50s, but to see these two spry old gents climbing over the hills and heeling and toeing it down the val- leys at Columbia you would think they were a couple of college kids playing a sky-larking game of golf. It isn't at all unusual for them to shade the two-hour mark for a round any morning when the course is clear end they can hit their shots fast. The record s an hour and 40 minutes and both of them' were well down pelow the 80 mark for the round. , Any man who takes the towering Hinshaw, well above 6 feet tall, for an easy mark on the golf course is going to get the shock of his life, for the “old man” has scored as low as 73. The other day he came home in 34 strokes and he played the same nine not long ago in 36, starting back 6, 5, 5, which is 3 over par. Of course, Freddie is the McLeod, the same master of the chipping and putting game who used to knock them under the wind and who knows the game backward and forward. They don’t play for money, but Mc- Leod gives Hinshaw six strokes to the round, and Hinshaw considers it quite a feather in his cap when he licks the Scot. Sandwiched into their round of golf they always find time for a practice session of an hour or so in what McLeod calls the “cowshed,” a shelter house built near the eighth tee, where golf shots can be hit no matter what the weather. Hinshaw put the house up out of his own pocket last Fall when the weather got bad. It's quite a lesson for the less ath- letic men who tire in an 18-hole round to see these two men of ad- vanced age getting around 18 holes in two hours and better than 80 strokes each, and it's a good lesson in per- severance, too, for only a few years back Hinshaw didn’t know a mashie when he saw one, PIMLICO RACES October 31 to November 14 (Inc.) Up at Rock Creek Park Uncle Nick and Professional Telford reached the penultimate and W. H. Miller. Levi Yoder, In- dian Spring star, is to play Ben Kong tomorrow. In the women’s flight at | Rock Creek the semi-final round finds | Mrs. Mae Hill opposing Mrs. F. J. | going away. The next match in the | Godfrey, while Mrs. Hope Wilkinson | meets Betty Garber. | Charlie Ficco, a linotype operator |on The Star, shot a 72 yesterday to {as Wheaton and Thomson insisted |grab the medal in the turkey tourney they can whip the other pair at Wash- | at East Potomac Park, playing the | | nines in 36 and 36, Claude Rippy, |a 74 for second place. Match play | was to begin today in three flights. Danny Burton, the free - swinging Army - Navy Country Club pro, whacked a tee shot within 8 feet of the cup on the 274-yard first hole of his home course and sank the putt for an eagle deuce, He played with Lunn V. Steele. Mrs. George B. McGinty, runner- up for the Columbia Club woman's title, has been declared the winner in the second section of the ringer tour- ney. She had a selected hole score of 64 for the season. CUE LESSONS GIVEN. Billiard lessons are being given nightly from 6 to 7 p.m. at Bill Bar- rick’s billiard parlors, Fifteenth and H streets northeast, by Leon Yonder, re- cently named manager of the estab- lishment. MOSTOW’S GOAL DECIDES. Mostow's late goal gave Hyattsville’s soccer team a 4-2 triumph over the Laurel booters yesterday for the upper section championship. The county title, however, already had been won by Mount Rainier. " THE first-ranking municipal golfer, scored | City, (10); Tommy Speigal, 127z, | Pittsburgh, outpointed Snag Trow- | bridge, 1312, West Palm Beach, Fla., BALTIMORE —Jack Portney, 140, Baltimore, outpointed Benny Bass, | 135, Philadelphia (10). | NEWARK, N. J—Al Singer, 133}, | New York, stopped Johnny Toomey, 136, Newark, (5). | HOLYOKE, Mass.—Joey Ferrando, | 13715, Jersey City, outpointed Steve Halaiko, 139%, Auburn, N. Y. (10). CHICAGO.—Winfred (Moon) Mul- lings, 1262, Vincennes, Ind, out- pointed Claude Varner, 128!':, Los Angeles (10); Al Nettlow, 133, De- troit, outpointed Davey White, 134%, Chicago (5); Jimmy Legrone, 135, Des Moines, Iowa, outpointed Sailor Born, 135'%, Atlanta, Ga. (4); Bobby O'Dowd, 119, Sioux City, Iowa, out- pointed Bobby Ritchie, 120, Boston (4); George Bittner, 187, Chicago, {and Frank Vogel, 196!z, Janesville, Wis., drew, (4). LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Johnny Burso, | 14212, Louisville, outpointed Jess Cal- houn, 13912, Cincinati (10}; Mickey Breen, 15612, Louisville, and Bill Mc- Dowell, Louisville, 155, drew (10); Pete Thomas, 154';, Louisville. out- pointed Cowboy Guerry, 153, Cincin- nati (6). BELLE FOURCHE, S. Dak.—Joe Duran, Nebraska, outpointed Harold Jepson, Fargo, N. Dak. (8): Jimmy Kirwin, Miles City, Mont., outpointed Everett Roe, Altamont, S. Dak. (6): Ten Garcia, Belle Fourche, knocked out Howard Smith, Ismay, Mont. (6); Howard McCrorey, Deadwood, S. Dak., stopped Jim Patterson, Caliente, Mont. (3). PITTSBURGH.—Al Quaill, 159, Pittsburgh, knocked out Jackie Al- dare, 158, Brooklyn, N. Y. (6); Red Bruce, 173, Pittsburgh, outpointed Joe Kaminski, 172, Buffalo, N. Y. (8); Al Triano, 140, Rochester, N. Y., out- pointed Elmer Wilson, 144, East Lib- erty, Pa. (6). —_— HESSICKS SEEK ACTION. Games with 150-pound outfits are sought by the Hessick Coal team, which recently added the Young Dem- ocrats to its list of victims by a 6-0 score. Call Potomac 3337. A Thanks- giving day game especially is sought. ORE HEAT!” COMES SIGNAL - an amazing new heat-control device automatically regu- lates Gillette furnaces fo meet every vari- ation in the steel. Here's why every Gillette “Blue Blade” is correctly uniform in temper —hard enough to cut glass. Try it today. Reputoble merchants give yos what you ask for. In stores where substitution is proctised —insist oa Gillette ‘‘Blve Blodes.” Mustangs Make Good on Invasion of Coast Southern Methodist University's brightest star at Los Angeles yesterday was Left Halfback Wilson, shown here tearing free from several would-be tacklers, only to be grounded finally by Murphy (48). Tex., boys conquered U. C. L. A, 21-0. The Dallas, —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. BUFFALO IS WARNED TO BATTLE CLEANLY Must Drop Tactics Used in Other Bout Against Eley, He's Told by Commission. WIDE open warfare was assured in the return meeting of Gene Buf- falo and Billy Eley at the Lincoln Colonnade Monday night as the Dis- trict of Columbia Boxing Commission today forwarded an ultimatum to Buf- falo whereby the flashy Philadelphian was warned to abandon the hitting and holding tactics employed in the last two rounds of his recent draw with the Washington resident. Though both boys set a terrific pace most of the way, Buffalo’s tendency to hold after hitting slowed down the | action at the finish, the Commission maintained. Whereas many were of the opinion that Buffalo earned the verdict by virtue of outsmarting and outboxing his youthful opponent, the Commis- sion holds that Eley’s superior aggres- siveness and willingness very nearly gained him the verdict. In a semi-final number of eight rounds Tommy Mollis, Baltimore's king-pin welterweight, opposes Baby Kid Chocolate of Atlantic City. Tickets will be priced at $1.10 and $1.30 and reservations are being ac- cepted at the Whitelaw Hotel. — GRIFF ‘GUEST PREACHEPR’ Nats' Chief Will Pay Tribute to Late Billy Sunday at Hamline. Speaking as a former teammate of the late Billy Sunday, Clark Griffith, president of the Washington base ball club, will take the pulpit of the Ham- | line M. E. Church next Sunday night | in a special memorial service for the evangelist. Griffith and Sunday played together on the old Chicago White Stockings of the National League in the middle '80's, and the Nats' executive will give | a personal touch to a description of | incidents in Sunday’s life. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR HARRY T. KNIGHT of the Washington Canoe Club has been presented with a beautiful plaque, emblematic of the alle around canoe championship of the District. During the season just ended, Knight won four individual championships and shared as a member of four title teams. Business and Western meet to- day in what may prove the last important game of the inter-high series. If the Stenogs lose to the Red and White eleven, Tech will get the margin in the race for the championship. TABLE TENNIS TOURNEY. ‘The season's first table tennis tournament of the Fort Stevens Post, No. 32, American Legion, will be held Friday and Saturday nights in the post’s hall, 306 Kennedy street. So popular has the sport become that Champion George Arthur Brodie is expected to meet with exceptionally strong opposition. From the 50 con- testants entered Fort Stevens will select a team to represent it in inter- post matches this year. MARQUETTE DRILLS HERE. Marquette University's undefeated foot ball eleven will be on display before Capital grid fans Priday in a workouf at Griffith Stadium. The Midwesterners will continue to Phil- adelphia Saturday to play Temple. RAMBLER FIVE BOOKING. Former collegiate basket ball stars, teaming together as the Ramblers, are booking games for Thursday and Fri- day rights with teams having gyms. Call Manager Dalrymple at North 2733-J. OLYMPIAN TOSSERS WIN. Holding the Amicus Club five to one fleld goal, the Olympian Club romped to a 43-3 victory in the opening game of the Jewish Interclub Counsel Basket Ball League last night. Brown Jug Goes to Ann Arbor Wolverines to See Trophy, but Gopher Vet Protests “We’ll Hav. By the Associated Press. INNEAPOLIS, November 12.—Oscar Munson, vet- eran custodian of athletic equipment at the Uni- versity of Minnesota, today polished up the little brown jug, famous “trophy” that goes to the winner of Minnesota-Michigan foot ball games, Munson finally gave in to the arguments of Dr. L. J. Cooke, an- other veteran of the days when Oscar seized a Michigan water crock after a Wolverine-Gopher gridiron battle in 1903, and said he'd take the jug to Ann Arbor Saturday for this year’s game. e to Lug It Back.” “Why take the jug down there on that long trip?” asked Oscar, “when we’ll only have to bring it back again? It might get broke, or somebody might ‘borrow it,’ or something (like I did in 1903) and then what would happen to the tradition?” “Michigan brought it up here, and lugged it back again—plenty of times,” replied Dr. Cooke. ‘“And it's only fair that we do the same.” So Oscar dodged into the jug’s secret hiding place in the stadium and gave it a couple extra swipes with his dusting rag. “It's the original jug. all right.” he said. “And I'm the only one who knows.” GOING HUNTING? EQUIP YOURSELF WITH THE BEST Washington’s Oldest Sport Store Y ESTABLISHED 1890 VA. NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSES ISSUED. MD. AND VA. GAME LAWS ISSUED FREE. at Great Reductions Parker — Fox — Smith — Ithaca — Lefever Browning — Remington — Winchester Western Shotguns Long-range én- le - barrel shotguns. nieca. Made by $ 1 8.95 Jthaes SPECIAL ... Duxbak—Coats, Pants, Vests, Hose, Caps, Leggings Peters Long Range Shells Duck loads; smokeless: 3% drs., 1%-es. ehill ;I:il 12-gusge special. 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Valuable trophies will go to the win- ners in each class, while an additional award is to be presented to the cham- pion horse. The championship will be based on points scored in all of the classes excepting those for ponies. BEAGLE CLUB NAMES FIELD TRIAL VICTORS Events Will Continue This Week on National Club's Grounds at Aldie, Va. By the Associated Press, ‘ALDIE. Va., November 12.—Richard | V. N. Gambrill, Peapack, N. J,, | secretary, has announced winners to date 1n the annual field trials of the ) National Beagle Club, being run on the club grounds near here. Trials will continue this week. Packs were run Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with the winners posted Sunday as club members from the Eastern States gathered on the club grounds for the bench show. The results: Pack class. 15-inch beagles. two couple: nine packs competing—Vernon Somerset J.. first; the Wolver O. Iselin. Middleburs, the ~Pemberton Bea, ownied 'by Dean’ Bedford. Fallston. . ird. Pack class. 13-inch. t®o couples: seven packs competing—Wallingfield Pack, owned by James W. Appleton, Ipswich. Mass.. president of ' the club, first: Bohemina River Pack. John Scott. Elkton. Md.. sec- ond: the Pemberton Beagles, third Pack class. Jour couples: 10 packs com- peting—Pemberton Beagles. first. the Treweryn Beagles. owned by David Sharpe. Berwyn. Pa. second; Vernon Somerset Pack. third \ Pack class. cight_couples; five packs competing—Vernon Somerset’ Pack. frst: Treweryn Beagles. second, Walver Beagles, third. Bench Show. Best field hound—Saintly. Mrs. William du Pont, Poxcatcher Beagles, Wilmington, Del Mrs. Best hound du Pont. Best 15-inch hound—Cynthia, Vernon Somerset Pack National Challenge Cup, for s of two couples. 50 per cent on field work, 50 per cent conformation—V<rnon Soms Pack %o 13-inch -8kippy, n. four - couple pack — Foxcatcher Beagies ¢ Best sight-couple pack—Vernon Somere set Pack, COUCCI TOPS JOCKEYS Has Piloted 12 Horses Home in Front at Pimlico. | By the Associated Press | silvio Coucci, the Bronx Whirle | wind, is the leading rider at Pimlico. | Having 12 winners to his credit and | with only four days to go, the Green- | tre~ stable pilot seems like a sure | bet to carry off jockey honors. Wayne | Wright, America’s leading rider, is | second with seven victories and A. } Robertson, Meade and Merritt are tied | fc= third place at this meeting with five winners each. | Attendance for the first nine days at the track was 15 per cent higher than the corresponding period last year. The play at the mutuels has averaged $293,000 against $273,000 | last year. 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