Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1936, Page 13

MecLean YANKEE SURVIVOR KEEN FOR BRITON Conquers Goodman in Hard Tussle While Invader Swamps Voigt. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM, taff Correspondent of The Star. ARDEN CITY, Long Island, September 19.—A Cincinnati law student from Fort Thomas, Ky., against a Scot- tish whisky salesman from Glasgow. That’s the set-up for the final round of the national amateur golf cham- - pionship today at the swanky old Garden City Golf Club. The final round is being played over the 36-hole route, starting at 10 am. and 2 p.m.. with Johnny Fischer, a law student from the Blue Grass country, against the startling Jock McLean, Scottish champion and whisky salesman, who was licked handily in the Walker Cup matches and has gone to the nnal i the American championship for the first time for any Britisher since Phil Perkins took it on the chin from Bob Jones in 1928 at Boston. It was at first decreed to postpone the title match until tomorrow because of the heavy wind and rain that com- pletely inundated the course yester- day. However, conditions became so “ much better overnight that it was decided to go on with the interna- tional battle. Even-Money Match. A FLOCK of Scotsmen, their palates whetted for the first time in two decades by the possibility of a fellow countryman winning the United States championship, smacked their lips in anticipation of drinks of vic- tory, for McLean is an even- money {favorite to whip the lanky Fischer. The whisky salesman from | Glasgow has shown enougn around here to warrant equal rating with any | *man, and even with Fischer, who happens to be playing in his first ama- teur championship final. It may even be that the Scots, kicking aside thelr traditional close- ness, will open Lp tomorrow and set up a free bar at the eighteenth at | Garden City, but no matter what | happens, there will be a real celebra- tion among the gents of Caledonian descent. Not in 25 years has the American champicnship been won by a Britisher, if you count out Ross Somerville, the Canadian who won in 1932. Harold Hilton, born in England, was the last one, but you cannot count out Mc- Lean. golf shots and he plays this course too well. He can lick Fischer on this course and tote the big gold mug back to Glasgow. But he won't do it if Fischer shows the same stuff he showed yesterday to whip John Goodman, the hard luck kid from Omaha, who seems to be as The guy has too many fine PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936. SPORTS. s A—-13 and Fischer Rated Even in U. S. Amateur Golf Final Today % BY SCOTTY RESTON. Associated Press Sports Writer. ARDEN CITY, N. Y, Sep- | tember 19.—The carefully | planned golfing career of Cincignati’s Johnny Fischer was near its goal today, but the man who planned it was not around for the triumph. Fischer, the tall, shy son of & Cin- cinnati mailman, lives a mashie shot from the Western Hills Course in Cin- cinnati. There he caddied and learned the game under the guidance of jovial Ed Brophy, the club pro. When the youngster showed promise Mike Silverglade, & Cincinnati restau- rant keeper and sportman, began to watch young Johnny play. They soon became friends, and Silverglade mapped out a program for Fischer. Early Play Restricted. THE youngster was not to play in amateur match-play chamnion- ships as other amateurs do. He was not to play around the Western Hills Course, either. He was to go out in the evening with Brophy, or alone, and hit balis—and if he kept up the prac- he would get to play a tournament now and then, an open tournament, against the pros, where every shot counts. Fischer did as he was told. He prac- ticed conscientiously, played agqinst the pros in the Western open and | developed fast. When he went to the University of Michigan he won tice routine and developed sufficiently, | the Big Ten title in his sophomore year. That same year—1932—he won the intercollegiate crown and qualifying medal in the national amateur. Johnny went out of the amateur that year in the quarter-finals, but came back the next year to win the medal again with a record total of 141. That year he was beaten by Sidney Noyes of Ardsley, N. Y, in the second round. In 1934 he was beaten again in the second round and last year he went out in the third. Finally Comes Through. AND at that point the boys be- gan to point out that Mike Silverglade's theory about this boy Pischer had broken down. Johnny couldn't play match play golf, they said. This week Fischer has played through what all the critics admit- ted was the toughest quarter in the national amateur draw and beaten the favorite, Johnny Goodman, who is one of the most determined match players in the game. Meanwhile Mike Silverglade has had his troubles. Financial worries have cost him his business, and as things went bad, his interest in golf waned. But Johnny Fischer sat in the little cottage club house of the Garden City course and said some- what sadly: “I wish Mike had been around.” BRTISHSPEL.S, WONEN TOURNE Pam Barton, Champion, One of Six—Mrs. Vare Not to Defend Title. By tne Associated Press. EW YORK, September 19.—A fleld of 188 golfers, including most of the leading woman players of the United States | and & foreign delegation a half dozen | of Philadelphia, is scheduled to start | play September 28 in the fortieth | women’s national golf champlonship | of the Canoe Brook Club, Summit, IN. J. | Rumors that Mrs. Vare would not | defend the title she has won six times | in all were confirmed when the entry | list was announced last night. In her decision not to enter she followed the | example of Virginia Van Wie, who | retired after winning the title for the | third straight year in 1935. far away from the championship as he was back in 1929 when he whipped Bob Jones in the first round. Play- ing under the most atrocious condi- tions any championship match ever has been played in this country, Fischer outlasted Goodman to win on the seventeenth, when Gocdman hit three bad tee shots in a row to drop as many holes when he seemed to have the match won. McLean was out under the same eonditions against George Voigt, but he was 6 up and a guy can coast in with such a lead. Skill Hardly Counted. THE real match of the semi-final was the Goodman-Fischer im- broglio. Goodman was the favorite, naturally, and no man can say today that Goodman isn't as good an amateur as there is in the land. But the conditions were so abominable that skill hardly counted. The U. §. G. A. did a wise thing when they " postponed the final until tomorrow. | The only mistakes they made was in .o i g flock of players who may ! not postponing the whole thing until today and tomorrow. It wasn't so bad in the morning. A big wind swept the course, but it didn't stért to rain until around noon. George Voigt, playing against McLean, who has gotten better with each round in this joust, was outclassed. Mc- Lean was in weather to his liking. Scotland has lots of weather like that. Voigt, good as he is, couldn't cope with the winds. McLean, finishing the first round with 77 and some darned good putting, was 6 up at the turn on Voigt's 83. That match was in. No man could spot McLean six holes and beat him. Go- ing out ir. the afternoon to face a 50- mile breeze whipping squall across the narrow farways, George lost by 8 and 7. It was far from a test of skill. Goodman Square at 30th. BUT no less a test of skill was the epic scrap between Goodman and Fischer, the tall boy who has smoothed down his swing until today he is one of the smoothest strokers of a golf ball in the world. He isn't the same man who played at Congressional last year and was whipped. John Fischer today is a very fine golfer, perhaps the finest amateur in the world. That will be determined tomorrow. Fighting & dogged scrap through- out the first 30 holes, Goodman and Pischer were all square facing the thirty-first. The wind was whipping across the course, the rain was splash- ing and the conditions were atrocious. Holes were being won with one over par, and worse. Goodman won the thirty-first with a buzzard five to go, one up. "But Fischer came right back to win the thirty-second with a five on the par four fifteenth. That's the kind of weather it was, for it wasn't altogether Goodman’s fault that the wind carried his tee shot into & bunker. But the break came at the thirty- third. There Fischer hit a great tee shot, 180 yards into the wind and rain, a great shot under the condi- tions. Goodman topped his ball. It didn’t go 40 yards. He lost the hole to.a five on a par four hole. One up, Fischer pounded out a good shot on the.thirty-fifth and Goodman, facing defeat, hit a low hook which smacked inta the face of & bunker and buried. He found the ball and lost & shot dis- lodging it. Lawson Little, 1935 cham- stood by, soaked to the skin by o rain. o #Why didn’t he identify the ball?” habd Lawson. ¥He wouldn't take advantage of the rn,‘ Lawson said. “That’s the way J Great Fight Is Seen. | ITH a wide-open struggle ex- | pected, such American stars as Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews of Coral | Gables, Fla., Marion Miley of Lex- | ington, Ky.; Dorothy Traung of San | Francisco, Mrs. Opal 8. Hill of Kan- | sas City, Charlotte Glutting of West | Orange, N. J., and Patty Berg of Min- neapolis are slated to defend the title against the foreign contingent, headed | by Pam Barton, the British champion. { Other invaders include Nancy Pear- man of Bermuda, Marjorie Millear of | Victoria, Australia; the veteran Ca- | nadian, Ada MacKensie of Toronto, and Mrs. F. J. Mulqueen, Toronto; | Kathleen Farrell and Katherine Duff Stuart, Vancouver, British Columbia, | and Marcla Moss, New Westminster, British Columbia. Some Who May Surprise. IN ADDITION to the top-flight stars, there is a “second division” which ; be contenders. Among them are Mrs. | Willlam Hockenjos, jr. of West Mrs. Crews for the New Jersey title; Mrs. Gregg Lifur, Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Kathryn Hemphill, Columbia, 8. C.; Mrs. Frank Goldthwaite, Fort Worth, Tex.; Jean Bauer, Providence, R. I; Betty Jameson, Austin, Te: Deborah Verry, Worcester, Mass. Bernice Wall, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; Ka ryn Bragaw, West Orange, and Mar- jorie Harrison, Ausable Forks, N. Y., who, like Miss Miley, was eliminated in the semi-finals of the Canadiam championship yesterday. An 18-hole qualifying round the opening,day will reduce the fleld to 64 for the beginning of match play. — - DEFENDS NET HONORS Willis, Columbia Champ, Koefin: White in Second Round. Ricky Willis began the defense of his tennis championship of Columbia Country Club today as he tackled A. O. White in the second round of the club’s annual tournament, which started this afternoon. Willls was named the first seeded player, with Clarence Charest seeded second. Thir- ty-seven players were entered in the tournament. Semi-finals of the mixed doubles also was to be played this afternoon, with Mrs. G. P. Graham and Harrison Hathaway opposing Mr. and Mrs. A. O. White, and Ruth and Maynard Wil- liams playing Harriet Stryker and Ricky Willis. "The Stryker-Willis com- bination reached the semis by defeat- ing Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Underwood yesterday, 6—4, 6—32. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Tommy ‘Tigers—Limited Indians to four hits, fanning 10. Lon Warneke, Cubs—Stopped Cardinals with three hits. Jim Bottomeley, Browns—Hit homer and single, driving in two runs against White Sox. —————————————— around he can’t be seen with the naked eye. But with the pressure on, he hit three bad tee shots in & row and lost & semi-final match to Fischer. 80 there you have the final. Fischer CORELLLODKNG T0 SOPHONORE Alumni Patient With New Coach—Tentative First Team Is Picked. By the Associated Press. | THACA, N. Y., September 19.— | Cornell looks to Carl navely | and formidable sophomore ma- | terial to lead the big ed out |of the foot ball wilderness. Not | strong, but lacking the defending even the most rabid of Cornell alumni, | | champion, Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare | however, can expect Snavely, back in | | the East again after a short but suc- cessful tenure at North Carolina, to restore the Ithacans to their former position of gridiron eminence in one season. Snavely frankly will be experiment- ing in this his first season at Cornell. For the time being, at least, the | new coach is pinning most of his hopes on the sophomores. He has put together a tentative first eleven consisting of nine second-year men plus two juniors, Ted Hughes of Pitts- burgh at center and Elliott Hooper of Aurora, Ill, both holdovers from Gil Dobie’s last Cornell team. The second eleven is made up of six veterans, including Capt. Jack Batten and five sophomores. Juggles His Talent. SNAV!:LY has made frequent changes in assignments in an effort to get the most out of the material at hand. Hopper, for instance, started | out as a back and has played both guard and tackle this Fall. Snavely has been dishing out plenty of dummy scrimmage with frequent practice games. The first stringers have averaged about two touchdowns better than the seconds. Cornell opens its season September 26 against Alfred, after which the Ithacans meet Yale at New Haven October 3; Syracuse, October 17; Penn State, October 24; Columbia at New York, October 31; Princeton at Princeton, November 7; Dartmouth, November 14 and Penn at Philadel- phia on Thanksgiving day. e Orange, N. J.,, who yesterday dz(engdi CONFER 0“ FIGHT DATE Erwin, Ahearn Would Fix Time of Everett-Gallagher Go. Jimmy Erwin, manager of District Heavyweight Champion Buck Everett, was to confer with Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn today in an effort to set & date for Everett’s 15-round scrap with Marty Gallagher for the local title. Gallagher, recently returned from his honeymoon, has refused to meet Everett until October 5, while Erwin insists the bout be held not later than October 2, since he already has sched- uled a fight for Everett in Kansas City with Johnny Erjvak on Octo- ber 10. Should Erwin, who has been chas- ing Gallagher for two years in an effort to match the Foggy Bottom belter with Everett, refuse to come to some agreement today, Ahearn will cast about for another opponent for Marty. GIRL ROLLS 130 GAME - Vivian Nolan Star at Opening of Revenue League. Vivian Nolan’s 130 was the high game on the first night of bowling in the Ladies’ Internal Revenue League at the Columbia alleys, where four new teams joined last year's repre- sentatives in the start of the 1936-7 campaign. Agnes Ames had the high set of 338, while the Miscellaneous group captured the high team set of 1,542. Hollis Dunlap is president of the league, with Eva Weinert as vice president, Menifee Cullen as secretary- treasurer and Louise Bishop as score- College Foot Ball North Dakota, 21; St. Thomas, 0. Emory and Henry, 0; Randolph- Macon, 0. / Union College, 19; Holbrook, 0. Marshall, 58; Morris Harvey, 0. Carson-Newman, 14; Hiwassee, 0. Mercer, 40; Btatesboro Teachers, 0. Augustans, 35; Jamestown College, 12. Kearney Teachers, 19; Bethanay, 7. Missouri “B” Squad, 20; Chilli- cothe, 0. Paris Junior College, 13; Southeast- Fischer Pines for Preceptor, |NITRE DAMHEAM W hose Theories He Vindicates HAS' POSSIBILITIES Success Depends Upon New Men in Key Positions, Three Look Good. By the Associated Press. OUTH BEND, Ind, September 19.—A battle front lacking ex- perience in key positions, but with big possibilities, will march for Notre Dame in the 1936 foot ball wars. Although he has 16 lettermen from the team that won seven games, tied one and lost one last year, Elmer Lay- den, starting his third season as head of the fighting Irish, is searching & hgst of comparative unknowns for the answers to three problems. If he can locate a center as good as Fred Solari or Henry Pojman, last year's regulars; a quarterback to replace ‘Wally From- hart and & left halfback measuring up to Notre Dame standards the Irish will be as tough as they were last year. After a week of practice, three youngsters, Andy Puplis at quarter- back, Johnny Fogel at center and Bob Wilke at left halfback, have an edge in the battle for the three important positions. Puplis, however, has had no experience with the varsity under fire. Fogel is new to the front line trenches. Wilke, & letterman, can carry the foot ball, but has not proved his ability to pass and Kkick, talents that a Notre Dame left half must \ have. Looks for Beating or Two. «7'M NOT figuring on getting through the season without a beating or two,” Layden said, “but I do believe we will show improvement all the way. It's up to new men in key spots to carry & big share of the load.” Most of the boys who made the 1935 Irish eleven what it was, Bill Shake- speare, Promhart, Solari, Pojman, Wayne Miliner, Marty Peters, Mike Layden and Fred Carideo, were grad- uated. For ends Layden has Joe Zwers and Joe O'Neill, both lettermen, as adequate replacements. Art Cronin, letterman, and Dennis Emanuel, up from the reserves, form a capable tackle combination, while John Lauter |and Jim Martin have the edge over | four other seasoned guards. Steve Miller at fullback, and Vic Wijchthov- ski at right half, both veterans, with Fogel, Puplis and Wilke, round out the prospective starting line-up. Have Tough Schedule. ;SOPHOMOR.“ who rank high in | Layden's calculations are the Shellog brothers, Alec and Fred, and Joe Beinor, tackles; Jimmy McGold- rick, guard; Earl Brown and Ed Sa- dowski, ends, and Emmet Crowe, Ben Dinkowski, Herman Burnell, Mario Tonelli and Paul Morrison, backs. The Irish will open a typically tough | Notre Dame schedule against Carnegie Tech at South Bend, October 3. Then, in order come: October 10, Washing- ton University (St. Louls), at Notre Dame; October 17, Wisconsin at South Bend; October 24, Notre Dame at Pittsburgh; October 31, Ohio State at Notre Di ; November 7, Notre Dame vs. Navy at Baltimore; November 14, Notre Dame vs. Army at New York; November 21, Northwestern at Notre Dame; December 5, Notre Dame at Southern California. APPLING AND WANER Each Improves Average During ‘Week, but Phelps Climbs in National League. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Luke Appling of the White Sox and Paul Waner of the Pirates retained their leads in the major league bat- ting races during the past week and led the way into the final week of the season. Each improved his average during the week, but while Appling was pick- ing up eight points on his nearest rival in the American League race, Waner lost ground to the still slug- ging Babe Phelps, Brooklyn Dodger catcher. Appling advanced five points to 382, While Earl Averill of the In- dians lost three and slipped to .375. ‘Waner picked up six points, going to .379, but Phelps, traveling at a near 500 clip for the week, boosted his mark to .372 with a 10-point rise, largest advance among the first 10 hitters in each league. Standings of the first 10 in each league: 4 American League. Player G AB R H Pct. Appling, Chicago 131 503 106 192 382 Averill, Cleve'd 143 578 172 217 .375 Dickey, N. Y. 105 406 96 146 .360 ‘Walker. Detr't 127 527 99 189 359 Gehrig, N. Y. 146 548 161 196 .358 Gehringer, D't't 147 613 137 217 354 Sullivan, CI'v'd 88 300 36 105 .350 Bell, 8t. Louis 146 576 95 201 .349 Trosky, Cl'vind 144 603 119 208 .345 Radcliff, Chi'go 131 582 115 201 .345 National Player G AB R H Pct. P. Waner, P'ts’h 140 554 103 210 379 Phelps, B'klyn 106 282 33 105 372 Medwick, St. L's 146 600 108 209 .348 Herman, Chi'go 145 601 92 206 .343 Demaree, Chi'go 146 577 85 198 343 Lombardi, Cin'ti 114 363 40 124 342 Cuyler, Cincin’ti 137 549 92 1832 332 Vaughan, P't'h 148 539 116 179 332 J. Moore, Phil'ia 120 467 84 154 .330 Ott, New York 142 508 116 167 .329 "20 Years Ago RETAIN BAT MARGINS | Fair Aquatic Carnival Ruler and Her Court Seated alongside Commissioner Melvin C. H azen is Miss Leila Peoples, queen of the President’s Cup regatta, and her attendants, left to right, are Miss Margaret Davis, Hazen’s niece; Miss Nancy Brereton, Miss Barbara Hunter, Miss Kathleen Whaley and Miss Barbara Conard. SEEDED NET ACES INFEDERAL FINAL Latona, Playing McElvenny, Is Striving to Capture Title Third Time. ONY LATONA and Ralph Mc- Elvenny, the first two seeded players, were to meet for the 1936 tennis championship of Federal and District employes at 3 o'clock today on the Potomac Park courts, justifying the seedings which ranked them at the top of the annual tournament. At the same time Jimmy Heiskell and Hubert Treuthart were to meet for the consolation prize. Neither the women’'s championship, to be decided between Sara Moore and Mary Ryan, nor the men’s doubles championship, at stake between the |/teams of Latona-Ed Mather and Art ‘Simmons-George Botts, will be played taday, both being scheduled for tomor- row. Miss Moore and Miss Ryan, also the top-seeded players, will meet at 2 o'clock, with the men’s doubles start- ing au hour later.- Beat Dangerous Foe. ’rODAY‘S title round will mark the third straight year that Latons has found himself in the final and should he duplicate his success of 193¢ and 1935 will be a repeating champion by nightfall. He eliminated his second most dangerous threat on Thursday when he turned back his doubles partner, Mather, the third- seeded player. McElvenny completed his prelim- inary play to the title round yester- day when he suppressed the previous upsetter of favorites, Spencer Howell, in straight sets, 6—4, 6—0. Howell grabbed a 4—3 lead in the first set for his only advantage of the day, but Mac then ran away with the next eight games for the match. Latona and Mather reached the doubles final round by taking two out of three sets from Stan Haney and Morgan (Happy) Jacob, 6—3, 4—S8, 6—1. Hubert Treuthart was forced to de- feat two opponents, Dave Kisliuk and Duncan McDuffle, to reach the finals of the consolations, trimming Wisliuk 6—1, 6—3, and McDufftie, 6—1, 6—1. Jimmy Heiskell, his opponent, upset Theodore Klumpp, 6—3, 6—1. —_— SLEUTHS TIE FOR LEAD Even With Two Others by Win Over Miller Nine. Federal Bureau of Investigation's base ball team was sharing a three- way tie for the lead of the week-day playoff series of the city’s sandlot champions today, having handed the Miller Furniture Co. its first serles loss yesterday by a 7-2 score. It was the Sleuths’ second victory in as many starts and gave them a 2-0 standing in the series in dompany with Potomac Electric Power and Pub- lic Works Administration. P. W. A. and Pepco play each other Monday. Dick Nichols held Miller Furniture to one earned rum yesterday, both of the losers’ tallies coming in the seventh inning. Investigation, mean- while, had piled up & 5-0 lead, with four runs scoring in the second. Three errors, two hits and a walk accounted for Investigation's big inning. Barry, Collifiower and Xander each got two hits for the winners, while Nolan and Wahler got as many fo rthe Fur- niture lads. 12TH STREET “Y” AHEAD Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. scored twice over the 335th C. C. C. squad at Brandywine yesterday, winning three games in volley ball and & pocket billiards match. Theron Hamilton led the volleyers to 15-2, 15-3, 18-11 victories, while the billiardists won by an 83-75 ag- gregate score. Q. Hamilton defeated H. Robinson, 25-9, and A. A. Greene defeated R. Jones, 35-16. Two Y bile BY GEORGE HUBER. AITS, lures and methods of fishing always have been a source of discussion among anglers. We have an out- standing example of it down here on Chesapeake Bay when bluefish are running. The chumming method is hotly defended by some, while others lean just as strongly toward trolling. This subject has been discussed pro and con all Summer with no deci- sion reached, and it is not our pur- pose to go into it here. We merely are pointing it out as a phase of angling which will crop up when fishing conditions are such that we have to stay home and talk over past trips and plan future ones. That is really one of the points in favor of fishing or hunting as pas- times, you can have as much fun talking about it as you can doing it. The majority of trout fishermen claim that their flies must resemble as much as possible the natural food of the fish. Extreme care is taken in the selection and purchase of lures. They must resemble the May fly, or they must resemble & par- ticular waterbug found in the stream to be fished. Sometimes they must even resemble a certain bug in a certain stage of development. All this is carried to such extremes that occasionally anglers carry their fiy-tying vise, box of feathers and hooks, with them. If they don’t have what they think will take trout, they will stop in the middle of the stream and tie up a new lure. A SURVEY conducted by & well- known sportsman this Summer would seem to tear this resemblance theory wide open. He would cut open such trout as he caught and in them found items ranging from matches, cigarette stubs and stones to small twigs and pieces of string. No fly ever has been tied, and probably never will be, which comes even close to resembling these things, yet ade- quate proof has been furnished that trout eat them. Needless to say, they would not be very satisfactory as a steady diet, but it would be an interesting experiment to hide a hook in s cigarette stub and cast it before & trout. Something might happen. Now that black bass are coming FOX HANDLES JOB FOR WOODWORTH Serves at Roosevelt While Athletic Head Is Kept Away by lliness. HIL FOX, former Wilson Teach- ers’ College basket ball and foot ball star, has been named as s substitute for Lynn Wood- worth, athletic director, foot ball and track coach at Roosevelt High School, who will be confined to Mount Alto Hospital for at least three weeks due to an erysipelas and streptococcic in- fection. Fox will take over his new duties Monday as assistant to Herman Litt- man, basket ball and base ball mentor, who has been whipping the Rough Riders into condition for the past week. 8id Kolker, former Tech High and George Washington guard, also is alding Littman in the preseason drills. ‘Woodworth contracted the infection as the result of & slight cut on the Tnl popular Roosevelt coach, who attended the Olympics at Berlin, first felt the effects of the infection during the entire voyage, Woodworth battled a temperature of 104.5 for six | Estoni; dsys and was placed in quarantine upon arrival in New York. He ob- | Kol tained permission to continue to Washington, however, and was rushed to Hospital Brasil and then trans- | 7 —Star Staff Photo. ~=s, into their own, discussions are cen- tering about the lures which will take | them. Is shape, color or action best? There are plugs manufactured which resemble very closely minnows and small water animals and there are others which resemble nothing a bass | ever has seen or ever will see. For| example, we have the Heddon River | runts with which every angler is ac- quainted. They are transparent plugs, | made in a variety of colorings which | resemble types of shore minnows. No | OF TENNIS EVENT Playground Open. most popular tennis players second annual Fall open tournament opened today on the Potomac Park tice prevented Mitchell from entering current event as the first one this quarter-finals. trict, .the semi-finals of the City of naments this year and was considered Welsh, Hunt and Other D. C. Leaders Taking Part in BY BILL DISMER, JR. OOLY MITCHELL, one of the in the District, was conspic- uous by his absence as the of the Department of Playgrounds, the last event of the local tennis season, courts. Business reasons and lack of prac- the tournament in which he was a semi-finalist last year, and marks the year in which the perennial favorite will not be found in at least the Mitchell, the city's third rankiny player, reached the finals of the Dis- Washington and the quarter-finals of the Middle Atlantic in previous tour- one of the favorites in the year's last affair. Too Busy to Play. 'HE Edgemoor star recently re- turned from a vacation, however. during which he found little time fo playing, and the fact that Georgetow * and Columbus Universities, in both ¢ which he is an instructor, open ne: week made Mitchell realize his hanc would be extremely full during tr early days of the tournament. As expected, Barney Welsh, the d- fending champion, and Gilbert Hu top the seedings, which found Hu- Lynch ranked No. 3, Tony Lator No. 4; Tom Markey, No. 5: Ra McElvenny, No. 6; Tom Mangan, ! 7, and Frank Shore, No. 8. Although all of the above represc the best of the city's net talent, Wel and Hunt are expected to swe through to the finals to give the C» ital its most outstanding net mat in years. Others who are capable fighting their way to the late rour are Ed Mather, Stan McCaskey, A’ Staubly, David Johnsen, Strand Jol sen and Bill Buchanan. Two Capable Invaders. 'l‘WO out-of-town stars, one of wh- has become a favorite here t! season, will lend spice to the ever Harold McGuffin of Philadelphia w 4 | play here for the first time, but Frar one denies their usefulness as fish | getters. On the extreme opposite side are the Al Foss baits—shimmy wiggler, Dixie wiggler and shiek, to mention | only a few—which depend on color, | flash and action for their catches. They resemble no minnows or water bugs, yet they are way up on the list of effective bass lures. Many a local angler will swear by them. S'l'n.b another type of bait depends on action for effectiveness. The Heddon super-surface with a collar | around the neck, the flap-tail and the Creek Chub flip-flap churn the water to attract fish. Then there is the Creek Chub plunker and injured minnow which are used in pop fish- ing, being retrieved with slow, well spaced motions. Other baits, too nu- merous to mention, have erratic movements below and above the sur- | face, given them by strangely shaped | pleces of metal and spinners. All are effective at times. The question of color sometimes is important. Manufacturers produce nearly every shade under the sun for their baits. Some follow closely the | colorings of natural fish foods; some do not. This department has a sneaking suspicion that upon occa- sion some of these colors are made to attract the eye of the angler and not the fish. BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. N THE recent international chess team tournament at Munich, Hun- gary swamped players, representative of 20 d_iflerent ‘countries, gaining 20 straight victories to win the tourna- ment, which was more of an European party than an open social, as only Brazil and Iceland had a look-in on the international chess parley, Ameri- can players being conspicuous by their absence. The Magyars have been one-time champions of the International Chess Federation, although United States’ teams have bested the cream of Euro- pean teams in the last three official team tournaments of the centralized body. Sweden, runner-up to the United States in the all-nation team tourney of 1935, placed eighth in the recent Munich fray. Poland, with 108 points, ranked second, with Germany, Yugo- avia, Czechoslovakia and Latvia in successive order. Unlike the team tournaments con- ducted under the auspices of the Fed- eration Internationale des Echecs, which are composed of four men each, the Munich tourney permitted each country to have eight players. Complete summary of the Munich tournament: Countries. Polnts Matche ‘Won. 110 es. ‘Won. Lost. Drawn. 20 0 1 s B 9909091980 - O 03N DN D IO 1= 5 PR B O INICANR D D D W B DR 13090 WO 10 it bt st = 38% The countries affiliated with the P. I D. E. will hold their biennial tournament at Stockholm in 1937, | (Buddy) Goeltz, sixteenth rankir player of the Middle States Associ tion, has played in two previous tou naments. Goeltz reached the sem finals of the Middle Atlantic tournt ment last month, being defeated or | by the fighting Navy lieutenant, Jc! : McCue. ‘Today's pairings follow: TODAY'S MATCHES. First Ro 2 p.m.—Gilbert Hunt vs. Michael Za: Max Kay vs. Emil Krambrink. Rob Hacken vs Leonard Sokol. Prank Shc vs. Bill Hancock. Moscos Garnett 1 | Strand Johnson, Morgan Jacob va. Geor Petticord. h Lynch vs. George Bot dwa lasmith ve, re vs. Bill Buchans Gorin_vs. Dean Jud ¥ shman. Erana. Ni 4 pm Barney vs. Ben Jaffee, Hen! Bweeney vs. Burwell. Herb Sheni vs._De Witt Smith 5 p.m_—Maurice Goubeau ¥s. Claren Herreshoff. _Ralph McElvenny = Vs, .Owens. Dave Johnsen vs_Spencer Howe Ray Stocklingki ve Bill Contreres. Robe Bradley vs Donald Shurine. Tony Lato: vs. Duncan McDuffee. Elwood Hoffecker Eugene Owens. Rickey Willis vs. F: coner. Allie Ritzenbere vs. Willie Glasmir Tom Mangan vs. Stan Haney, A. J. Kii vs. Austin Rice. 'HUNT CARD TOPPED BY CLASSIC 'CHASL Foxcatcher Cup Event Provides $3,250 Purse—100 Horses in Fair Hill Meet. frecia! Dispatch to The Star. FAIR HILL, Md, September 19.— More than a hundred of the top horses on the hunt race circuit were | entered in the four events of the Fox- | catcher Hounds' third annual meet- ing here today, and a record crowd was expected to turn out to watch them in action. Heading the card of two flat and two brush races is the Foxcatcher Na- tional Cup Steeplechase of three miles over Grand National type fences, in which a purse of $2,250 has been of- fered, making it-the richest race of its kind in the amateur sport. Should more than 20 horses go post- ward in the feature, William DuPont, ir., sponsor of the meeting, has prom- ised to double the purse, which would place it in the front rank of cross- country stakes offered at any track in America. Numerous riders, trainers and own- ers well known in Virginia and Mary- 1and are represented on the entry list, among them Noel Laing, Henry Frost, jr., Mrs. Carroll Bassett, Willlam B. Streett, Mrs, Verner Reed, jr, and others. The first race is set for 2:45 pm. THREE IN PIN SWEEPS Acqueduct, Estimates, Construc- tion Lead in Loop Start. Washington Agqueduct, Estimates and Construction were the only teams to take all three games as the War Department Bowling League opened on the Arcadia alleys, 16 teams rolling in the inaugural. Team honors were divided between Construction, which had a 596-game, and the Auditors, who rolled a 1,678 set. McClung of Washington Aque- duct took high individual honors for the night. v e SPorts Program For Local Fans TODAY. Tennis. Federal employes' tournament, teams to consist of four players from member nations, as customary. MINOR LEAGUES. American Association. Milwaukee, 7; Indianapolis, 6 (play- off). Southern Association. New Orlesus, 8; Atiants, 1 (play- off). Pactlie Coast. Portiand, 13; Seattle, 3 (play-off). Cup _Steeplechase, three others, Fair Hill, Md, 3:45, Horse Show. Spring V' show, 10 sm, Massach avenue extended,