Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1935, Page 16

IR—16 =x s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1935. Little No “Jones,” D. C. Golf Pros Opine : Queens % BOB RATED HIGHER AS MEDAL PLAYER Match Game, Where Lawson Excels, Not True Test, Paid Clan Feels. BY W. R. McCALLUM. AWSON LITTLE is king of the L amateur golfers of the world, but he has considerable distance to go, and more championships to win before he can be considered as great a club-wielder as Bob Jones, the one-time emperor of the game. That is, if the slant most of the Wash- ington pros have on the Little man is the right angle. For Lawson. in thelr opinion, and | despite the fact that he has won ama- | teur championships of the United | Btates and Great Britain for two years | in a row—something Bob Jones never was able to do—still has to prove him- self as a medal player and win a flock of national open golf championships. | Obviously the pros regard medal | play as the supreme test of golf. It is | their own method of determining the best man. It works with them, and only occasionally does it bring forth a trick champion. so they see eye to eve on the matter of match versus medal play in championship competition. with the emphasis on medal play in their view. Francis Ouimet. who knows golf from drive to putt and from every angle, has declared Lawson Little to be the finest match player since Jerry ‘Travers, including Jones, but even this | leaves the pros cold when people begin | talking about that “greater than| Jones” angle you will hear so fre- | quently as applied to the Palo Alto | slugger. “When Lawson begins to win | the open championship and dominate | in medal play tournaments, and only | until then can he be compared with | Jones,” says Fred McLeod of Co- | lumbia. Views of Capital Pros. ¢/ LAWSON is a great player, one of the finest champions we ever have had. But I do not see how he can be rated as great as Bob Jones when he hasn't yet won an open champion- #hip.” said Roland MacKenzie. “He hits 'em as far as Bob used to do, and he mows 'em down in match play, but I can’t concede he is as good as the Jones of 1930 until he steps out and wins a major medal play tour- nament,” said Al Houghton. “There was only one Jones, and I don’t think we will see his like for many years to come, perhaps never,” said Wiffy Cox. “Lawson has vet to prove himself in medal play, although he has done well in all the open championships in which he has| played.” | The pros feel that where Jones was 8 medal player first, and a match | player second, Lawson has developed his game the other way. Jones didn't care particularly for match play. He always was scared of the 18-hole matches in the amateur championship, and unlike Lawson he never cared or worried about what his opponent did. Bob's slant on the game Was that he was playing the golf course, against par, and that if he could tie or beat par he would lick his human op- | ponent at the same time, He never considered the man-to- | man angle, that is from the time he | started winning back in 1924, and he | devastated his opponents with a game | that was machine-like in its accuracy &nd deadly in its monotony. Little Plays Man, Jones, Course. LAWSON has a different slant on golf. He plays the golf course, to | be sure, but he also plays his man | far more than Bob Jones ever did. Bob always strove to make each shot the perfect shot. Lawson does the | same thing and he does it enough, but he does not have the | machine-like accuracy that was the main feature of Jones’ golf. | The Lawson Little of today, at the { #ge of 24, is at the crest of his game, with about six to eight years of first- class golf ahead of him. He won his first amateur championship at the age of 23. Jones won his first na- tional—the open—in 1923 at the age of 21, so there isn’t much difference between their ages. Bob won his first amateur in 1924, when the young man was 22 years of age, and subsequently he won four more. But the real comparison goes deeper Ehan that. Lawson started playing in | the amateur championship in 1929, | at the age of 17. He won his first title in 1934, when he was 23 years old. Jones started in his first major championship in 1916 when he was 14 years old and the Georgia “boy wonder.” He didn't win until 1923, but thereafter, as Sherman Ford would say, he burned up the track. Thirteen major championships fell before the drumfire of the Jones war elubs in the eight-year stretch starting with 1923 and ending with Bob's re- tirement in 1930. No matter how good he may be Lawson will have to move fast to equal a record like that, or even to come close to Bob's record of 1930, when he won all four major golf champilonships and became the first player in history to accomplish the feat which can be done only by an amateur, Advantage Seen Jones', WHAT would they do 1n a head- . to-head battle over 36 holes, the Lawson Little of today and the Jones of 1930? That question, like the one about a scrap between the Dempsey of 1919 and the Joe Louis of today, never will be answered, for Bob is ot today the golfer he was in 1930. The old urge to win is gone, and Bob, 8 wealthy man, no longer cares for the roar of the crowd. But our personal opinion is that Bob would win the golf match, could he revive his golf of 1930. It might be close, but Bob would outsteady ' Larruping Lawson in the pinches and if he had to do it he would be as long as Lawson from the tee. For Jones always drove well within his powers, and had that extra 15 yards when he needed it. But so does Lawson. Bob would outchip and out- putt Lawson, even though Little is.one of the finest putters in the game today. In his winning years Bob was deadly from 10 feet down and you could count the 6-footers he missed in 72 holes on the fingers of one hand. That was where he used to mow ’em down. Like any other golfer, he missed the greens occasionally, but he never failed with that deadly chip and putt. So from the pros’ angle you could hardly get an argument as to the comparative merits of the Jones of the golden era and the Little of Ll often ! § STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE by W.R.MSCALLUM S OGER S. PEACOCK, Wash- ington’s leading amateur golfer and the boy who de- veloped his game over the Indian Spring course, is going to leave Indian Spring and join the Congressional Country Club. The ap- plication of the District amateur champion for membership at Con- gressional is before the Membership Committee today and Roger hence- forth will be registered from Congres- sional, passing up the Indian Spring affiliation which he has known for many years and which has brought fame to his home club. Ten years ago two Peacock boys— Dick, the elder of the two, and Roger—were caddies at Indian Spring and Argyle. They lived just across the road at Indian Spring, and for spare change they toted golf bags around that Four Corners course. Many of Washington's golfers ean remember the days when Roger, today the ranking local amateur, carried their golf tools. . About six years ago Roger began to go places in golf, with a game de- veloped on the golf course where he first felt the Kick of a well-hit tee shot. For a time he was executive secretary and manager of the club. He carried the name of Indian Spring | through two winning campaigns in the Maryland State championship and into national fields, but now he is leaving Henceforth it will be “Roger Pea- cock. Congressional Country Club,’ and you can look for the long-hitting Peacock boy to set some new am- ateur marks at Congressional. He played Indian Spring in 62 whacks last Summer. He may not do as well at Congressional, but he will have many a score down in the 60s. I\/IEMBERS of the Brightwood Ex- Caddies Association, balked yes- terday by bad weather, will stage their annual tourney at Beaver Dam next Sunday. George Voigt, one of the | | the game on the old Columbia Country Club course 25 years ago, may come from New York to play next Sunday. He couldn’t make the trip yesterday. John R. Miller is the boss of the boys this year, Levi Yoder and Volney Burnett, two golfing sons of Indian Spring, were to meet at Rock Creek Park today in the semi-final round of the turkey tourney, the winner to clash with Telford Gibraski in the final round, probably about Wednesday. Paul Smith won the Anacostia turkey affair Saturday and the East Potomac Park turkey joust is in its semi-final phase. PROP’ESSIONAL golfers played for a total of $134,700 during the Winter season of 1934-1935 and the Summer of 1935, according to a report by Bob Harlow, tournament manager of the P. G. A, submitted today to President George Jacobus. . “There is no question,” Harlow said, “that American professional golf dominates the golf world today and |, high standard. On the other hand, the passing at- | tack has not yet begun to reach the high standard of last season and the biggest job of Tom Hamilton and his | aides during the next two weeks is to build an aerial offense which will situation is partly due to the active competitive campaigus, both national and international, which the P. G. A. has been building up for a number of years. has set the highest standard of play | ever obtained, and that this happy | NAVY NOW POINTS FOR ARMY CLASH Robertshaw, King, Injuries Healed, Will Be Ready for Big Battle. Special D'spatch to The Star. NNAPOLIS, November 18— With all other games out of the way, the Navy team set. tled down today to the final course of preparation for the Army game in Philadelphia Saturday after next. The team’s running attack reached | the highest point of the season against | Columbia Saturday, with the fine | running of Sneed Schmidt, Bobby | Edwards and Charley Reimann and the exceptional blocking of Frank | Case and Bob Antrim, with that of | other members of the team reaching “During the past 12 months only one tournament golfer (not a member of the P. G. A.) conducted himself in a manner to cause adverse criticism, and this man has been barred from all competitions over which the P. G. A. has any jurisdiction. * * * The players have given the tournament bureau and tournament spcasors very fine support during the past 12 months. It is not easy for many of away from their home clubs to help along the tournament program, but they have dcae their best. “A fine Winter tour for the 1935-36 season has already been arranged, and, according to applications for dates for Summer tournaments in 1936. the Summer campaign will ex- stars of that group of lads who learned ceed any ever held.” COCHRAN IS NEAR FOUSHION CROWN Has Clean Slate With Two Games to Play—Layton Would Meet Champ. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, November 18.—Wel- ker Cochran, smiling young < San Francisco cueist, reign- *ing 182 balk iine billiard champion, today had the world's three-cushion championship within | his grasp. Winner of seven straight games, Cochran plays Arthur Thurnblad of Chicago tonight, and, if victorious. meets Willie Hoppe, master of the 18.1 game, for the championship to- morrow. Hoppe firmly entrenched himself in second place last night with seven vic- tories and one defeat. He outplayed Johnny Layton of Sedalia, Mo., de- fending champion, 50 to 41 in 50 in- nings. LAY'DON is tied with Allen Hall of St. Louis, Jan N. Bozeman of | | California and Kinrey Matsuyama of Tokio, Japan, for fourth place, each with four victories and five defeats. Layton wants to meet the winner of the present tournament and bet his last dollar on himself. The standings: ] A w. Welker Cochran_ 7 Willie Hoppe. 2 <Zonrnas3 [ 4 4 4 4 3 PEEPRPIEE Kieckhefer 3 nton._ .. 1 » = QUINT AFTER GAMES. The Armstrong Niters, sturdy col- ored basketers, are seeking games. Write James O. Williams, Armstrong High School, care of Cato W. Adams, principal. BUILDS TURF PLANT. A new track is to be built at Port- land, Oreg. Iarry L. Lewis, California racing promoter, has announced the formation for the Rose City Jockey Club and purchase of 130 acres for a $250,000 plant. today. Lawson is a great player, tiey admit, but he has yet to prove he is as great a golfer as Jones. Perhaps when he wins a couple of open cham- plonships they will begin to regard him that way. But usually there is only one great golfer to the genera- tion. Jones has had his day ana it 1sn't likely another Jones will come along so soon. They talk about Lawson’s distance and the way he murders the par- 5 holes. He does just that, without any question. But how about the days Bob Jones reached the ninth at Minikhada, back in 1927, with a drive and a spoon, uphill and 540 yards, and holed the putt for a 3; or the way he killed those par-5 holes on many another golf course on which he won his championships. Bob had the kick in those wooden club shots when he needed it. | Far West in the Rose Bowl New Year's Minnesota (Continued From Fourteenth Page.) | 4na 2nd Weshingtoa and Lee meet in the only other conference game | Last wesk's schedule was marked by | 1wo scoreless ties between Maryiand, | 7hich meets Gecrgetown Saturday, | end Washingtor and Lee and Virginia end Virginia Tech. ‘Teling Southwest Batile. SoU’I‘HWEST—Texus Christian and Southern Methodist maintained their unbeaten status as the Horned Frogs crushed Texas, 28-0, and South- | ern Methodist first turned back U. C.| L. A, 21-0, on Monday and Arkansas, | 17-6, on Saturday. If Christian de- | feats Rice and Southerr. Methodist wins from Baylor this week, the title will hinge upon the battle of the two main rivals at Fort Worth on Novem- | ber 30. A Priday clash between Texas | and Arkansas completes this week's program. Far West, Pacific Coast Conference —California’s Golden Bears, unbeaten and untied, play Stanford’s Cardinals, 1934 champions, in the crucial engage- ment of the week. If the Bears win they will capture the title outright and with it the right to represent the day. If Stanford wirs the race prob- ably will end in a triple tie among California, Stanford and U. C. L. A. Both Stanford and California end their schedules this week, while U. C. | L. A, after meeting -Loyola of Los Angeles in a non-conference test on Saturday, will play Idaho in its final conference game November 30. Wash- ington and Oregon, Montana and | | Oregon State are the other conference pairings for this week. Southern Cali- | fornia’s Trojans, who upset Washing- ton State, 20-10, with a fourth-period passing barrage last Saturday, will |travel East to meet Notre Dame at South Bend. Colorado Setting Pace. ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONFER- ENCE—The leader, Colorado Uni- versity, after dropping a 12-6 decision to Kansas in an intersectional duel last week, resumes conference warfare this week against Wyoming and then meets Denver on Thanksgiving day in the game that should settle the championship. Colorado is the only team unbeaten within the conference, but Denver, Utah State and Utah each has been tripped up only once and therefore must be counted in the running. Utah and Utah State will settle their differ- ences on Thanksgiving day. PRINCETON - DARTMOUTH Football at s 7 s Princeton Sat.,Nov.23 T Special Train to Princeton Parlor Cars — Dining Car — Coaches Lv. Washington . . 9:00 A. M. Parlor Car Seat One Way, $1.50 n Sale at City flice Football Tick Ticket B SEE THIS CLASSIC! NNSYLVANIA RAILROAD BUMPERS *1 WELDED :1 Taken OF and Put On, 50c Radiators Repaired WELDIT, Inc. 516—1st St. N.W., Bet. E & F ME. 2416 the leading tournament players to get | parallel the running attack. | Capt. Lou Robertshaw. center, kept out of the Columbia game by numer- ous boils, has been discharged from the hospital and expects to take the | field about Wednesday. Tommy King, halfback, another absentee from the | Columbia game, will be ready this afternoon. The injuries of Rivers Morrell, ag- | gressive right guard, are more seri- | ous, and there is no assurance when | he will be back in the game. OLYMPIANS HIT BASKET. With Forward Jacobson scoring enough points to defeat the Brandeis five single-handed, the Olympmnsl swamped that basket ball foe, 41-21 | last night. Jacobson accounted for | 23 of the winners’ total. ‘ L4 Stars Saturday By the Assoctated Press. Monk Meyer,” Army—Starred in Army’s 6-6 tie with Notre Dame. Threw pass that resulted in his team’s score. John Schmidt, Navy—Scored three times against Columbia, twice after runs of 25 and 90 yards. Joe Meglan, Georgetown—Scored all of his team’s points in 13-0 win over Manhattan. Parker and Alexander, Duke— Played brilliantly in Duke's startling 25-0 upset of North Carolina. Geny, Vanderbilt—Caught passes to score twice for Vanderbilt in 13-7 conquest of Tennessee. Blocked punt to set stage for one. Ollie Adelman, Northwestern— Scored three of his team’s five touch= downs in 32-13 win over Wisconsin. Andy Uram, Minnesota—Ran 59 and 72 yards for touchdowns as his team routed Michigan 40-0. McGannon, Purdue — Intercepted Oze Simmons' pass and ran 63 yards for touchdown to give Purdue upset victory over Iowa, 12-6. George Cornell, California — Re- turned to action after being out with a broken hand, and scored four of his team’s five touchdowns in 39-0 vic- tory over College of the Pacific. Davie Davis, Southern California— Engineered passing drives that gave his team three last period touch- | downs and a 20-10 win over Washing- | ton state | Bill Tipton, Southern Methodist— Scored twice after catching passes to give 8. M. U. 17-6 victory over the | | University of Arkansas. Sammy Baugh, Texas Christian— Seven of his 15 passes were good and three ended in touchdowns as Texas Christian beat the University of Texas 28-0. Andy Mihalalick, Colorado College —=Scored both touchdowns and gained 196 yards net from scrimmage as his team beat Montana State 14-0. B — GET CENTER LOOP START. Ushers of the Loew Theacers and the Old Dominion Boat Club court- | men will play their first game of the Community Center Basket Ball League | at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night in the Central High gym. INSTANT STARTING SIMMONS, GULL MATCH ARRANGED Twenty-Game Contest Split Between Lucky Strike and Silver Spring. BATTLE between Lorraine Gulli of Washington and Ida Sim- mons of Norfolk, the two fire a duckpin ball, has been arranged after months of wrangling. It will be exclusively a Washington match, with 10 games being rolled at Lucky Strike on Saturday, November following day. Blocks of five games each will be rolled in the afternoon | and night at both plants. A winner-take-all purse of $100 has been presented by Bill Wood, the Lucky Strike- proprietor, and Earl Stocking, manager of the Maryland | alley. Last Spring an effort to bring the Washington and Norfolk stars to- gether in a four-cornered match in- volving Richmond and Baltimore bowlers fell flat when first one objece | tion and then another was raised. Now Norfolk has been left out of ithe picture, the home drives of Miss | Simmons, where her phenomenal | league rolling of last season won for her the No. 1 national ranking which for seven years had been held by Miss Gulli, Both in Fine Form. | SINCE neither girl has participated in a tournament this season to | give either an edge, the forthcoming match will start this season’s scrap | for the No. 1 spot in the National Bowling Congress rankings. Both Miss Simmons and Miss Gulli clip at present. Lorraine is far in front of her last season marks in two leagues. District League over a circuit of al- leys her average is 117 and a fraction, which is a point better than her one- greatest girl bowlers ever to | 30, and 10 games at Silver Spring the | are pounding the maples at a merry | For 21 games in the Ladies’ | alley mark in the Washington Ladies’ \ SPORTS. League. Ida has a little better than 120 in two Norfolk leagues, but both | are one-alley loops. Recently they met in a South At- | lantic Intercity League match at Rosslya and both rolled 345. ! It still is questionable had the match gone through last Spring and Miss Gulll won decisively that she would be the queen of the maplepaths. It appears now that Miss Simmons’ advisers dodged the issue as gracefully as possible and made certain that the Norfolk blond beauty would be named | the No. 1 ranking shooter. Certainly | it relieved the Ranking Committee of a tough assignment. | Here and There. UP-TO-THE—MINUTE statistics re- veal S. Kann's Sons and Raleigh | Haberdasher tied for the Department | Stores League . . . but the lowly Hecht Company, in ninth place. holds | the record team game and set, 605 and | 1,738 . . . It's the Big Four in the Procurement League—the Orientals, Romans, Victorians and Saxons rest- | ing at the top with identical records, | 17 won, 10 lost . . . After the first three matches, the Leopards top the Chief | Post Office Inspectors’ loop by one | game, over the Tigers and Lions . . .| and the Comptrollers in the Agricul- ture Ladies’ League are three games in front of the Harvesters. The Busy Bee Restaurant is busy dodging the Wilner Tailors and Uni- versity Shop in the Recreation League .+ .. both came up to tie the B. B.'s | for first place this week, but neither yet has matched the former sole pace- setters’ game of 677 or set of 1,827 ... Hiram is boasting a substantial mar- gin in the Masonic League, leading | the Pctomacs by seven full games. . . . Only two games separate the fourth- place Pohanka Service team from the leading Stanley Horners in the Gen eral Motors loop . . . with Emerson & | | Orme and the Wolfe Motor Co. tied | for secord. . . . The Daily News is | 'eading the Daylight League, four | | games ahead of the Washington Post « .. and the United Slims hold the same margin over the Victory Blues |in the National Union League. Heurich’s Brewers still top the fDlslricL League although Arcadia is | | just one game behind. | P. Schlosser, with an average of | | 116 in 18 games, is one of the rea- |sons why the Gamma Beta team is | | tied for the leadership of the Fra- | ternity League. of Mapleways to Battle Here <« ONLY 12 TEAMS LEFT UNDEFEATED, UNTIED Soutkern Methodist, Texas C. U., California Share Lead With Nine Wins Each. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 18.—A dou- ble dose of grief was handed out to the Nation's undefeated foot ball teams last week as Armistice day wiped three names off the list and Saturday removed a few more. As a result there are only 12 left today neisher beaten nor tied. The Southwest Conference rivals, Southern Methodist and Texas Chris- tian, share the lead with California's Golden Bears. Each has won 9 games. California is the defensive leader of the group, having allowed its opponents only 9 points, while Dartmouth sets the scoring pace with 289 points in 8 triumphs. The records of the undefeated and untied teams follow: Won. et 9 2 artmouth ® Arkansas 8 Alma ___ 5 S 5 P M le Tenn. Teachers MOUNT FIVE CALLED. Mount Rainier Gray basket ball team will start practice at 7 o'clock tonight in the Mount Rainier High School gym. Both veterans and new andidates are asked to report. 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