Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1936, Page 17

PORTS. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936. SPORTS. A—17_ Pronounced Power in Hand and Wrist Vital to Success in Golf CANT STARMINUS I, SAYS MTKENZI Refutes Axiom Minimizing Importance of Strength in Links Sport. BY W. R. McCALLUM. T'S always been an axiom that golf is the one game in which strength plays little part; that l ball as great a distance as the big man with well-developed muscles. been one of the basic theories of the game that the little man has as good & chance in golf as the big man. And now that pleasant fiction must be tossed aside, if Roland MacKenzie 48 correct in his theories about the merits of strength in golf. “Proper timing is alright; correct body action 15 alright; but if the golfer hasn’t suf- ficient strength of hand and wrist to get punch into the ball he never is going to hit it either far or straight,” says Roland. It all came up the other day when the boys were discussing the case of Jimmy Maloney, one of the better golfers of Congressional, who claims to be the worst putter in the world, but a lad who certainly can pole the tee shots and iron shots long and in the groove. Jimmy is a small man, weighing around 135 pounds, and standing about 5 feet 7 inches in height. But he holds his own from the tee with any of the big hitters among the amateurs. Has Powerful Grip. MADONEY gets his unusual dis- tance, MacKenzie says, because he has strong wrists and hands, and because nature has endowed him with strong hitting muscies. “One day, Jim told me,” says Roland, “that he was at a Summer resort where they had one of those grip machines that test the grip of the hands. He tried the machine with a lot of bigger and apparently stronger men, but he was the only one to ring the bell which signifies unusual strength of hands and wrists. I think that is the reason why he hits the ball so far. He has unusual strength where it will do him the most good in golf.” “Take the case of Babe Didrickson. The Babe is strong as the average man, but her wrists are not unusually large. She has the long, stringy mus- cles of the athlete and she has re- markable timing and body action. But, in my opinion, she hits the ball 80 far because by base ball, basket balland other sports she has developed the muscles of her hands and wrists far beyond the ordinary woman. She would be strong in any sport involv- ing hitting a ball. Strength Where It Counts. "NOW, to get a little further along, take the case of Wilfred Reid. Wilfred is a little fellow, but he hits the ball about as far as any big man I know, barring Jimmy Thompson and and a few others. remarkable pair of hands, and a brace of wrists that would do for a man weighing 50 pounds more than he weighs. And did you ever notive Fred McLeod’s wrists and hands, or the well-developed hands of Bob Barnett? They are big men, in the hands. “It was & good old theory that golfers don't need to be strong men or women. But strength helps if it is g-— in the right place—the hands and wrists, And don’t let any one tell you it doesn’t.” S TRIBE CALLS YOUNGSTER Feller, 17, Gets Quick Chance After Fanning 8 Cards. CLEVELAND, July 14 () —The Cleveland base ball club has ordered Bob Feller, 17-year-old high school pitching star, to join the Indians to- day at Philadelphia for the rest of the season. Feller fanned eight of the St. Louis Cardinals in three innings of an ex- hibition game here last week. ‘The youth is a junior at Adel, Iowa, High School. He has been pitching in a Class A league. He was signed by the Indians last season. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Batting—Gehrig, Yankees, Radcliff, White Sox, .378. Runs — Gehrig, Yankees, Gehringer, Tigers, 89. Runs batted in—Goslin, Tigers, 78; Trosky, Indians, 76. Hits—Gehrig, Yankees, Gehringer, Tigers, 118. Doubles—R o1fe, Yankees, Gehringer, Tigers, 29. Triples—Gehringer, Tigers, and Clift, Browns, 9. Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 24; Foxx, Red Sox, 23 Stolen bases—Powell, and Werber, Red Sox, 14. Pitching—Hadley, Yankees, 7-1; Malone, Yankees, 8-2. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting — Medwick, Cardinals, 358; P. Waner, Pirates, .353. Runs—J. Martin, Cardinals, 69; Vaughan, Pirates, 61. Hits—Medwick, Cardinals, Jordan, Bees, 115. Doubles—Herman, Cubs, Medwick, Cardinals, 31. Phillies, .384; 119; 30; Yankees, 116; 32; Giants, NATIONAL & D. C. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSEIPS f FINAL . EVENTS AFTERNOON & EVENING Crstal POOL Grandstand, aft. 25c; nite, 50e the small man or the man of | medium size can go as far and hit the | It's | Wilfred has a | The Berlin games. for their first trip to Europe and t g Left to right: Kathlyn Kelley, 16, South Carolina high jumper; Gestring, 13-year-old Los Angeles diver, and Elizabeth Ryan, These three youngsters were as happy as_could be preparin, T for competition against the world’s best feminine athletes at N P i g to sail tomorrow for Berlin Marijorie ew York free style swimmer. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. 1935 NET LEADERS SEE ACTION TODAY Playground Finalists Last Year, in First Tilts. | T EADERS in last years girls’ play- | ground tennis circles were to get | their first tests of the 1936 season to- day as play continued in the District ! playground championships on three | fronts. | Willie O'Steen, defending cham- pion who drew a bye in the first round, was expected to meet the winger of one of this morning’s matches, while Helen Orme, who lost to Willie in the final last year, also day. Miss O'Steen represents Vir- ginia Avenue and Miss Orme, Bur- roughs. Irma Willard, a quarter-finalist last year who advanced by defeating Doris McCarty, 6—3, 6—3, yesterday, was scheduled to face Margaret Gray. Miss Willard comes from Takoma | Park, while Miss Gray is one of two | tennis-playing sisters from Twin ;Oaks, Her sister, Mary, was to play Eleanor Voith of Phillips in a first- round encounter. Summaries of yesterday's matches: YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. At Takoma Park—Margaret Gray (Twin Oaks) defeated Ida Madeoy (Park View). 6—0, 6—0; Orma Williard (Takoma Park) defeated Doris McCarty (Twin Oaks). f—3. S Tl ke Tafane o) &y se _Fles| ; 3 6257 Bleanior Yoder (Raymond). defeated 7—5. 6—2; Kenemore Mary Gray (Twi Dourherty (McMillan). 6—0, 6—; At Chevy Chase—Charlotte Decker (Jen- ney) defeated Harriet Gordon_(Montrose). 2. 6—1: Valerie Loomis (Chevy Chase) defeated Virginia Bradfield (Georgetown), —2. 6—0: Eileen Lennon (Montrose) de- feated Doris Eitchen (Georgetown), 6—2, At Rosedale—Edith Lognado (Poto Avenue)’ defeated Helen. Cooksey (Roses dale), 6—0. 6—0: Betty Lewis (Sherwood) defeated Margaret Krause (Hoover), 6-—1, 6—0: Charlotte Mataja (Burroughs) de- feated Josephine Samperton (Sherwood), 6—1, 6—f CRAYNE TURNS GRID PRO Former Iowa Captain Will Play With Brooklyn Dodgers. IOWA CITY, Iowa, July 14 () — Dick Crayne, 1935 University of Iowa foot ball captain and star halfback for three seasons, has signea a con- tract to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers professional team this Fall. Crayne is the third Hawkeye player of last season to enter professional foot ball. Dwight Hoover, Trent, 8. Dak, has signed with the Dodgers, and Bill Secl, Cedar Rapids, guard, with the Chicago Cardinals. NEUW - Willie 0'Steen and Helen Orme, | was carded for action later in the| 9 eettcin/y go fot hele RUSSELL’S SLABBING LIFTS BREWER NINE Hurler Wins as He Limits Foes to Three Hits—Big Scores Mark Loop Games. | ]V RUSSELL'S three-hit shut-out | | * of the Miller Furniture Co. for | | the Heurich Brewers featured yester- day's sandlot games as the Brewers | advanced another notch toward the | Industrial League pennant with a | 7-0 victory. Each of the losers’ hits were singles and only two others reached base, both on walks, Meanwhile, another three-hit per- formance, by Nocera of Wizard Lock- smiths, was being wasted, as his mates failed to capitalize on half a dozen blows and succumbed to Tivoli, 2-1, in a Business Men's League game. All of the scoring came in the last two innings, Wizard not denting the | | plate until their last time at bat. | Other games were marked by rather | | prolific scoring, Procurement Divi- sion’s nine accounting for four of the | | five home runs in the game in which they trounced Federal Communica- | | tions, 12-2, in the Federal AA League. Dabney, Ed and R. Miller, Jones and Collifiower were the round-trip wal- lopers. | Bureau of Labor Statistics nosed out i A A A, 8-7, in the Government Loop, | while the two winners in the Depart- mental League were not pressed, Green Belts topping G. A. O. (P. O. D.), 9-4, and G. P. O. stopping W. T. U, 6-3. In a colored departmental | loop fracas, P. W. A. swamped Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing, 9-1. Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Cardinals Homer Standings By the Assoctated Press. Home runs yesterday—Gehrig, Yan- kees, 1; Dykes, White Sox, 1. The leade:s—Gehrig, Yankees, 24; | Foxx, Red Sox, 23; Trosky, Indians, 22; Dickey, Yankees, 17; Ott, Giants, 15; Averill, Indians, 14; Klein, Phil- lies, 14. League totals—American, 406; Na- tional, 330. Total—736. GATORS 0. XK. COACH BEARD. GAINSVILLE, Fla, July 14 (#.— The State Board of Control has ap- proved the appointment of Percy M. Beard, former world champion hurd- ler, as track coach at the University of Florida. Beard, who holds the recognized world's record of 14.2 sec- onds in the 120-yard hurdles, now is track coach at Alabama Poly (Aw- burn). He is an Auburn alumnus. CHAMPION IDLES AS RIVALS SWEAT| Ace Field Is Taking Test on Hot Course in Omaha in Western Amateur. By the Associated Press. MAHA, Nebr., July 14—While the defending champion, Charlie Yates of Atlanta, Ga., took it easy in the club house, the rest of a high-powered fieid came out to battle the Happy Hollow Club course and typical Nebraska July weather today in the qualifying round of the thirty-seventh annual Western amateur golf title tournament. The blond Atlantan, who won the 1935 crown by conquering Rodney Bliss of Omaha in the final round at Colo- rado Springs, was exempt from quali- fying. He had, however, two days of practice swinging under his belt and was ready for the battle with the 31 survivors of the 36-hole qualifying test. He had a 73, one over par, Sunday, and trimmed it down to regulation 72 yes- terday in spite of trouble with the tricky greens. Goodman Is Favorite. YATES' presence failed to keep the | home folks from making Omaha’s Johnny Goodman, the last amateur to win the national open champion- ship, the favorite. Playing over fa- millar territory, Goodman, winner of the 1933 open, turned in a pair of €8s for the choicest practice rounds. Along with Yates, Goodman and Bliss, the field of 160 players included most of the country’s standout ama- teurs. Walter Emery, who with Yates and Goodman will help make Uncle Sam’s bid in the Walker Cup tussle against British stars in September, ranks among the foremost threats. Rated in the same bracket were Jack Munger of Dallas, Tex.; Gus More- land of Peoria, Ill, the 1932 winner; | Jack Westland of Chicago, who won | the 1933 crown: Johnny Lehman ofi Chicago and the college stars, Fred Haas, jr., and Paul Leslie of Louisiana State; Verne (Spec) Stewart of Stan- | ford and Wilbur Kokes of Illinois, Evans in Final Tourney. HARLES (CHICK) EVANS, Jr, dean of the active amateurs, win- | ner of eight Western titles, planned | to make this tournament his last in major competition. Half of the qualifying assignment was slated for today, with the second 118 holes tomorrow. With the field! ED” BANAGAN, Columbia assistant pro and chief matchmaker, thinks he has in young Jack Barr the lad who may carry Columbia back into the winning picture it used to enjoy in the days when Miller Ste- vinson, Roland MacKenzie and Chris Dunphy were taking almost every lo- cal tournament. Between Jack Barr and Harvey Johnson the Banagan man thinks he has a couple of young- sters who may start a winning streak any time. Barr is a freshman at Harvard and is 19 years old. A good golfer for two or three years, he has given evi- dence this season of real scoring capa- bilitiez. A couple of days ago he played the Columbia course in 72 whacks. which doesn't sound like so much in the face of the rain of 70s and 71s which are coming along now- adays. But when you consider that the young man took 6 on the par 4 ninth, 4 on the par 4 fourth and finished with a brace of 55 you can see that he played some golf in be- tween. He had four birdies. “That boy can hit the ball a long way,” says Banagan. “He isn't big physically, but how he can smack ‘em! I think he may be going some- where.” Barr is the son of John L. Barr, runner-up for the club championship a couple of years ago. CES are fairly common to two- handed golfers, who don't get as many of them as they should, but when a one-armed guy gets a hole in one it'’s something to get excited about. ‘There are only three or four one- armed players around Washington, but of them all Albert W. Howard of the Washington Golf and Country Club comes fairly near being tops. And now Al has made a hole in one. It came on the par 3 fourteenth hole at the Washington club, where the genial Howard stood on the tee with a driver in hand and smacked the ball into the cup for the ace. The hole measures around 225 yards from the tee in use and is one of the better one- shot holes about the Capital. Howard, by the way, used to be the | District tennis champion and has | been a good athlete for many years. reduced to 31, match play will start Thursday. The first two rounds of hand-to-hand warfare, both Thursday, will be at 18 holes. The last three rounds, with the final on Sunday, will be 36-hole affairs. Final Days—Unparalleled Values These sensational trade-in allowances and concessions must end soon—only a few more days at these savings. 5%.10 33/ ON ALL SIZES—ALL TYPES GENERALS won ninth and tenth straight vic- tories at Phillies’ expense; Ger- many eliminated Czechoslovakia, 4-1, in European Davis Cup tennis finals. Three years ago—Dorothy Camp- bell Hurd won Griswold Cup golf tournament for third time. Five years ago—Walter Hagen won Canadian golf play-off from Percy Alliss, 141 to 142. I’s Tennis Season Now! See our selection of New Racquets. You lect your own gut and have i strung by our prof: 1 stri Racquets restrung for Harry Howlett's TENNIS RACQUET SHOP 1411 G St. N.W. (2nd floor). Natl. 2858 Formerly 15¢ o 1Q0c 'ILERS “PILSENE 1073 31st ‘Washington, D. C. "KEGLINED “What a Beer, and oh, what Ale” Distributor REINER DISTRIBUTING COMPANY CREAM ® CALE INCLUDING THE SENSATIONAL He has played the present Washing- ton course in 78 with that good one arm, and is no set-up for the fellows with two arms. STEWART BARR of Columbia * is always thinking up some new contraption to improve his golf game. He has put mercury in the hollow shafts of wooden clubs to add to the weight of the head and his latest wrinkle is a mirror on top of his putter. “You want to get your eye over the ball, don't you?” he says. “Sc why not have a mirror on top of the putter to tell you when you are over the ball. That way you can get a better line on the hole.” Maybe the silly season really has arrived. LIPF SPENCER, long-hitting Beaver Dam pro, is back in ‘Washington today with a slice of prize money won in the Bedford Springs open tourney, which ended yesterday at the picturesque course up in the hills near Pittsburgh. CIliff put to- gether rounds of 69—75 for a 144, to | finish five strokes behind Vincent El- dred, the winner, and one shot in front of Sam Parks, the 1935 national open champion. Al Treder of Manor and Leo Walper of Bethesda, both scored 148. The amateur prize went to Maury Fitz- gerald, with cards of 76—80—156. "RUN‘I‘S" and “giants” of the In- dian Spring Club have postponed their hostilities until next Sunday, which will let George Diffenbaugh, the diminutive District open champ, play for the little men. George, suf- | fering from a carbuncle, was not able | to play last Sunday, but now is ready | for the fray. | More than 50 players will be on each side, unless heat again causes a post- | ponement., GHEEN'S HOMER TELLS. Topping their opponents by one run after each team had been held score- less for eight innings, the Orioles de- feated the Unknowns, 2-1, yesterday to take the lead in the St. Anthony’s Soft ‘Ball League. Gheen's home run was the decisive blow. M’NAMARA REFEREE OF MEAN MAT BOUT Official Is Instructed to Keep Managoff, Ernie Dusek Under Control Thursday. IM McNAMARA, Jewish Community Center's 230-pound athletic di- rector and a former professional boxer and wrestler, has been chosen as referee of the Ivan Managofl-Ernie Dusek feature match of Thursday night's wrestling show at Griffith & dium, with instructions to employ whatever tactics are necessary to keep the featured performers urder com- trol Because Dusek has run roughshod over several local referees in the t, Promoter Joe Turner named N Namara to handle his next match knowing that the husky Irishman would not be adverse to taking a hant in the proceedings himself if the going gets unduly rough. McNamara was advised to pe roughness up to a certain point which he is to step in and control ti situation. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR JOE JUDGE'S base ball career has been threatened by hernia which will keep him cut of the line-up indefinitely. Though but a youngster, Judge was rapidly at- taining prominence in the league because of his great fielding, time! hitting and base-stealing ability the 15 thefts credited to him plac-_ ing him on a level with Clyde Milan, the club leader. Alva Williams took Judge’s place yesterday as the Nats lost the final game of the series to” Detroit, 3-1. Washington has two flourishin! tennis leagues—the Washingto: Tennis Association and the Subur-, ban Tennis League. The former holds its contests every two weeks while the other is composed of eight clubs scattered around the city Dumbarton is the current leader of the W. T. A, while the Petworth Club tops the Suburban group. 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