Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1936, Page 37

SPORTS. Didrikson’s Scores Shrink : British Lose Fear of U. S. Golfers BABE DETERMINED T0 NASTER GOLF Gallery Amazed Over Long Drives as She Cards 79 at Congressional. BY W. R. McCALLUM. INETEEN months of golf, and the girl breaks 80 almost every time she steps on a golf course. That's the way Babe Didrik- son, the husky gal from Texas, has progressed in the links game since she took it up in earnest less than two years ago During that time she has shot many & good golf course in the middle 70s, gome of them in the low 70s, and she has played a Texas course in 68 whacks. Not so bad for a 22-year-old girl, who didn't know four years ago what a golf club resembled. The Babe. who confesses that she loves the game and is determined to become one of the better woman golfers in the world, stepped out today at Congressional for her second round of that lensthy | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (. WEDNESDAY, JULY -1. 1936. 'VVengeful “Runts” Are Burning For Links Fight With “Giants” On Indian Spring Battlefield NOTHER one of those hilarious laugh-riots, known as the an- nual “runt vs. giants” match, to be perpetrated at Indian Spring within a few weeks, as Dr. Tom Utz, leader of the “little men,” and Ed Wagner, captain of the “giants,” | look over the list of new members for | possible candidates for the premier fun-party of the golf year at the club | near Silver Spring Tommy Utz sterted it all last year when he broke out during a frenzied | pitch game in the locker room and said he was getting tired of licking big men on the golf course. Tommy |stands about 5 feet 5'; inches in | height and plays a good game of golf. | (For references, look up John Wine- man and Louis Speiss). Wagner hap- | pened to be around and said that a | | flock of Utzes couldn't beat him, and | that furthermore he could get a team be revived and by way of starting the ball rolling “Doc” Utz has posted the following notice at the club: “We, the Little Men, do now chal- lenge the Big Men for a return match at an early date, same stakes, Tules, etc., to apply to match. However, wishing to keep the match on a dig- nified plane, we insist that there be an honest score-keeper appointed, in or- der that we may not (again) be robbed. Also, that there be no Bill- ingsgate or vulgar personalities in- dulged in by this gang of uncouth, obese, muscle-bound fat men, led by that throw-back cave man—Wagner.” | Signed: “Doc Utz., representing the skill, science and brains of the club.” With that gentle introduction and those soft, kind words, any one can see what is brewing at Indian Spring. | The ambulance squad will report at | the tenth tee on the day of the bat- of big men who could whip any team |tle and any contestant who packs U.5. STARS BATILE FOROLYMPIC NINE Amateurs in Baltimore for Tests—Practice Game to Be Staged in D. C. | ALTIMORE. July 1 (#.— Amateur base ball aces are as- | sembling here from the far corners of the Nation in a movement to make the great American | sport a part of the Olympics games. A 12-day program of tryouts and training, beginning Thursday, has been mapped out for them by the Amateur | Base Ball Congress, sponsor of the effort to make base ball an Olympic sport. At the end of this period two teams | will be named to sail with the Ameri- can Olympic party on July 15, Les| Mann of Miami, executive vice presi- | | of little fellows that Utz could pick | brass knuckles ‘is likely to run into a You can imagine what happened. | niblick, according to Utz, who points | Immediately defiances were flung forth | out that the Little Men are crying for | and the locker room at Indian Spring | revenge. | course sure that she would better the blossomed with sturdy challenges and “Why, they stole that match last dent of the congress, announced. Will Give Demonstrations. | HE congress plans for these teams | score of 79 she made vesterday. She played the nines in 42 and 37 and had a small gallery gasping with the length of her tee shots and her all- around accuracy on the putting green. She played today with Parker Nolan, the club champion, who licked her only 2 up yesterday; Dr. Howard L. Smith and C. H. Severance, and if she keeps on knocking the ball as far as she did yesterday, she is going to play that course in something around 74 ar 75 whacks by Sunday, when she is sched- uled to appear in an exhibition match. Uses Heavy Club. F COURSE, the Didrikson gal is a phenomenal hitter from the tce. Wielding a 13!z-ounce driver as if it were a wand, she parked her first tee shot 280 yards out in the middle of the first fairway. She didn't hit ‘em all that way, but when she got hold of the ball it went almost as far as the tee shots of Nolan, who has a reputation as a slugger himself. On a wet fairway. soggy from an hour of rain, she almost reached the thir- teenth green. 520 yards away, in two shots. But the main improvement in the Didrikson game has come in her play with the short irons. Last year she was wobbly with the pitching clubs, but this year she is firm and accurate—a girl who is likely to park a mashie shot alongside the pin any time. Just to give you an idea how long she is, she whacked a tee shot and a No. 7 iron clean over the green &t the sixteenth hole at Congressional and then chidingly grinned at Ro- land MacKenzie for advising her to take a 7 when an 8 iron would have put her on the green No slow. meticulous golfer is the Didrikson girl. Taking a cue from Sarazen. with whom she played a series of matches last year, she looks the shot over before she reaches the ball and steps up and whacks it. It's all as simple as that. No fussing around. no lengthy preliminaries. She has cut down her backswing a little, but she still parks that ball away out there beyond the 250-yard mark- er. She picked up three birdies at Congressional and complained a lit- tle because she hadn't been able to get more. Not many women, playing the men’s tees, can reach the tenth green in two shots. But she did it and followed it by holing a 20-footer for a birdie, ending the game with another bird on the eighteenth. Babe disdains women's par. “Don't fool me with women’'s par,” she says. b want to play against men's par from the back tees. That's the only way T'll ever learn to play this game.” Stolen Money Returned. BABE thinks she is lucky. She is, too, for today she was advised over the phone frontArcola, N. J., that a purse which was stolen from her car Monday had been found by police and will be returned to her. “It had $100 in it.” she grined. “Some one broke into my car and took the purse. But the police took fingerprints and lo- cated it. I can use that $100, too.” She isn't doing so badly, either, in the golf business, where she is one of the two woman pros touring the coun- try. The other is Helen Hicks. Her manager, Capt. Henry Lawson of Bos- ton, says the Babe will make much more than $6,000 or $7,000 a year play- g exhibition matches, making per- &onal appearances and so on. But the Babe's real love is golf. “I'm going to lick this game or it’s going to lick me,” &he smiles. One look at her determined jaw and the general air of workman- ship with which she goes about licking ®olf courses and you get the idea that she will do the licking. She will play Sunday at Congres- sional with Roland MacKenzie as a partner against Fred McLeod and Wiffy Cox. But meanwhile some of Congressional’s better amateurs are going to learn that Didrikson is a tough gal to whip on the golf course. Billy Shea Wins Title. ILLY SHEA, tall Congressional youngster, doesn't want to be without a junior championship. Di- vested of his District junior crown ribald statements' regarding the prow- ess of the two teams. They finally played the match. after some bickering about overweight contestants, and even today no one knows or cares who who won, although the big men did manage to scramble through. The main idea was to eat a lot of soft- shelled crabs and have a good time They succeeded better at that than to give demonstrations at the | vear,” Tommy says. “Wasner had | Olympic games in August in Germany. | bribed the score-keeper with a cate In that way it expects to put the game of beer: he had bribed George in the Olympics. as was don> last year fenbaught to give all the good ca with ktasket ball. dies to the Big Men, and we didnt| Mann said he expected to have on i}fi\P a chance. If our tee shots wan- | hand after registration today some 30 | dered into the rough they found a | or 40 crack emateurs chosen from 700 hole. I don't level any implications | or 800 aspirants in district elimina- (far be it from me to insinuate) but | tions Early arrivals inciuded Tom I suspect all was not as it should have | Downey of Chula Vista, Calif.. Univer- on the golf course. So this year the match is going to Nearly 100 Women to Strive For Trophy in Golf Tourney N Trophy at Indian Sprinz. Fairings and startimg times follow: | been at that match last year. | “But we’ll get 'em this year." | R Beaver aver Dam EARLY 100 woman gol‘ers will Mrs, E play tomorrow in the 18-hole P. M. Brown. Beaver Dam; Mrs. Beaver Dam. = William Bailey Washim ton. D5, Mr 1 Mr< Albert Haas, Beaver k Kramer. Beaver Dam Indirn Sprine Sp! Mi First Tee, v Kreler. Ind! . Army and Manor. S0 Congressional: Mrs £ Alma Von J.E N George_Luce. Tndian ‘Soring rles Buck, Braver Praver Dam, Dam. " TESTING RACING CAMERA Perry Columbia |Mrs R Mrs. Herm A. Lacey. Columbia S Stern. Army _and N | Hoover. Indian Spi fenbaugh. Indian Spring 03 Harper. Columbia: Mrs, W E. Hall. bia: Mrs. J. C. Dale. Kenwood K:55. Mrs. L. G. Pray. Manor | Hartic. Columbin: Mrs E E M o Mrs N33 M s J P, J ion Orders an Colum- Maryland Commiss Investigation of Device. BALTIMORE, July 1.—New and ex- tremely exacting tests will be made to- day at Pimlico on the photo finish device uced there and at Havre de Grace last Spring and more recently st Suffolk Downs. At the latter o ceurse. officials recently were ordered i e cional F | by the Massachusetts State Racing Commission to discontinue use of the machine. In New York racing writers and others have voiced dissatisfaction with the camera. The charge there. 2s in Beston, was that it favored the out- side horse. Mrs B C. | Entee. Ken- Mrs. G i Mrs. R Indian_Sprix 00d: Mrs. Gero: i nal. 9:45 M Dam: Afre Frank Stemer Dixie T. Wright. Kenwnod C. Mitchell. Beaver Dam Hutchicon. Manor: Mrs | Beaver Dam GUILFORD GETS COACH. GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C.. July 1 (#)—Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president e e d of Guilford College. has announced | - S < that Harry Hodges, co-coach of Oak | Brker. Indian ‘Sprin Ridge Military Academy basket ball | Peyser. Woodmont: - and foot ball teams, had been ap- | :‘r’ggg‘m‘r,h _M.rJ pointed head of athietics here for the | gressional: M coming year. Hodges will replace John P. Anderson, who has been granted a year's leave of absence. W. Tucker. Tenth Tee. sicnal: Miss Fredna Trewitt Mrs, James Hill, jr Mihills, Manor: Mrs nz, R:50. Mrs. Mrs. Gale Puh. : . man._ Mavor. Y. M. C. A. IS VICTOR. Cracking out 12 hits, the Y. M. C. A nine trounced Georgetown Boys' Ciub tossers, 6-3. in an insect base ball game yesterday. L. Simcoc Coneressional d: Mrs. J YOUR HALF-WORN TIRES WITH DUNL Computing the average life of t | 000 ‘miles of noi ces even for ti traded In at 1 | generous allow: 20,000 miles. lops after deductions have been vou 50% of the original retall price of any stan The following prices are net prices on first-line Dun- sity of Southern California; Ralph | Hanna, San Francisco, Stanford: | Clarence Keegan. University of Maine: | Henry Goldberg, Brooklyn College, and | Edwin Mumma, Sharpsburg, Md. Mann, a former major league player and now Miami commissioner of ath- letics, has been on the grounds several days making preparations. Other members of the Final Selection and Training Committee, he announced, are: Harry Wolter, director of base ball | at Stanford, a former major leaguer: | Jackson Hyames, director of athletics at Western State Teachers' College, ! Kalamazoo, Mich.: Linn Wells, base ball coach at Bowdoin College. Bruns- wick. Me.. and George Laing of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, Philadel- phia, Pa, | Come Hcre for Game. 1A SERIES of practice games is be- ing arranged for the Olympic | team candidates. These include one | with a United States Marine nine at | Griffith Stadium, Washington, on | vJuly 7. and contests here Saturday with the Pimlico club and July 8 with the Baltimore police team The workouts and trials will be held at Gibbons Field, Mount St. Joseph's College. | GRAYS WANT OPPONENT. The Mount Rainier Grays want to book a crack unl'mited nine to round out a double-header at Mount Rainier, Md.. on Sunday, the Chevy Chase Grays being scheduled to play the | nightcap. Call Manager Bob Newell at | Greenwood 2 | | Ed Harrigan is booking games for the Rock Creek Ginger Ale A. C., which | wants tilts for Sundays with strong | unlimited nines. Call Sterling 8061 between 8 am. and 6 p.m. Carter Carburetors Sales and Service CREEL BROTHERS 1811 4. ST.NW..+-DEcarva 4220 ; ! 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Henry Cotton started the rebellion] against United States’ domination of the British event, and Alf Perry and Alf Padgham have successfully fol- lowed him over the ramparts. It would seem the British have lost considerable of the fear they once had of American stars. Only a few years ago some American usually was the British favorite for the British open. Bob Jones, Walter Hagen and Gene | Sarazen were players the British ad- mitted their stars could not hope to defeat. Now it is different. British players have regained confidence in their own skill and ability to match shots with American invaders. American professionals no g0 over to Great Britain longer L 4 | droves each Spring, as they did in the | SPORTS. boom years. And in numbers there 'was definite strength. Now only a few have the time or means to make the ‘,u-ns-Athnnc expedition and they are not always our topnotch players. First Shutout Since 1924, 'HIS is the first season since 1924 that United States has not held | either the British open or amateur tchsmmonshtp. From 1024 to 1934 the British open cup was a commuter to | United States, with Walter Hagan winning four times and Bob Jones three. When Cotton broke the Ameri- can grip in 1934 Lawson Little stepped in to capture the amateur champion- ship in successive years. Now that we are bereft of all Brit- ish titles, perhaps our interest will be- come keener again. United Btates will have a fine chance to regain the British open in 1937, when the pro- fessional team goes over for the Ryder Cup matches. Then we will have 10 of the Nation's best to bid for the open championship, and perhaps with success. In the meantime, Britain's successes in its own open has done much to stimulate renewed interest in tourna- ment golf abroad and has done the game no harm on this side. tories in British golf had become so | frequent that the return of an Ameri- can winner was of little more impor- It's really a pity that we have only room enough to show Mr. John R. Anton’s back., But after all, it's a very smart back. We cali it the new “blouse back” and we're showing it in Sport Coats and in single and double-breasted SUMMER SUITS. Mr. Anton (who is employed at the Post Office Department) is wearing a Lorraine-Haspel Gabardine Suit (12.75). Have fun in the sun on the glorious Fourth. You'll find 3 D. J. Kaufman Stores packed with smart togs for the beaches for week-end trips, for playing and business wear. And we cordially invite you to open a Kaufman Budget-Charge Account—either MAIL this coupon tonite or drop in at any D. J. 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