Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1936, Page 16

A—16 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936. SPORTS. Jack McLean Likely to Prove Thorn in Sides of U. S. Linksmen | Young Scot Could Use Some | Jones Philosophy—Here for Long Visit. BY W. R. McCALLUM. OU can look for more trouble in golf from 25-year-old Jock McLean, the Scottish whisky salesman who came within an inch of winning the American ama- teur championship at Garden City, Long Island, last Saturday. Jock of the immaculate swing and the clean clipped iron shots is going to remain in this country for quite a while, and there is a chance he may stick around for a long time. He has no intention of turning golf profes- sional, but he will be a thorn in the side of any amateurs who run up against him. The Scottish lad is plenty good, and if the wind blows he can win any tournament. But McLean isn’t going to win an American national until he tightens up his game and adds the Kkilling punch, along the old theory of Bob Jones, which ran something like this: “When you get 'em 1 down, get 'em 2 down. When you get 'em 2 down, get 'em 3 down. And don't ever re- lax in a golf match until they are licked.” Needs Jones’ Philosophy. JHAD young Mr. McLean a little of the Jones philosophy regarding golf matches, today he would be sport- ing the amateur championship of the United States, the first competitor from the British Isles to win since Harold Hilton scored at Apawamis in 1911. But he couldn't get down the | ehort putts over the last 18 holes. The Caledonian had no fewer than five three-putt greens during that final march, but notwithstanding that he had John Fischer licked, until John, sensing the break that came when McLean three-putted three out of four straight greens. took heart and began to fighh For Fischer looked to be a beaten man as he ahanked an iron shot at the twenty- fifth hole, and three-putted the twenty-fourth green—a man waiting for the ax to fall, with one of those “what is this all about?” expressions on his unemotional face. McLean let that match slip away from him by three-putting the sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth greens. You can't win championships by doing that, even though the other fellow can’t hit a lick. Any man will scrap and fight when he sees that his op- ponent lacks the finishing punch, as MecLean lacked it up on Long Island last Saturday afternoon. = Tossed Away Title. 0 thirty-fourth green had some- thing to do with it. It may have been the one spark that Fischer needed for his final charge, for there isn't any question that McLean had the hole won when Fischer blew a 5-foot putt for & par 4, with McLean's ball lying less than a foot away. The ugly thing had to pop up at that moment, and again next Winter you are going to hear plenty about the stymie, based on that match. For had McLean not been stymied he would have gone | dormie 2 up, and probably would have won on the thirty-fifth. But as the match came out he tossed it away with missed putts of | less than 4 feet on an eight-hole stretch starting at the sixth and end- ing at the thirteenth. Scotsmen aren't noted for giving things away, but if ever & man tossed a championship out the window McLean tossed that one. All of which doesn't take anything away from the courage of Johnny FPischer. Outplayed through 18 holes of the match, suffering tortures from a twisted ankle, Fischer fought back when the going seemed hopeless, gained renewed courage when Mc- Lean couldn't slip across the final punch and at the end holed a couple of picture putts to win. They don't do that without trying. COURSE, that stymie on the | < As a group of strike-and-spare men look on, G. C, Miley, head of the produce department, here is seen throwing the Sanico Pinspillers See Bowling Season Opened With a Bang proverbial “first ball” down the alley at the Convention Hall drives last night, as another alley campaign got under way. OBTAINS “TWIN” HURLER Ambidextrous Mitchell Is Signed by Columbus Red Birds. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 22 (. —Ambidextrous Moundsman Gar- land T. Mitchell became a member of the Columbus Red Birds of the American Association today on an outright purchase from the Asheville club of the Piedmont League. Mitchell, who does most of his pitching with his right arm, is 19 years old, married, weighs 175, and is | 6 feet 2!7 inches tall. He is able to turn in a creditable performance as a | southpaw pitcher, too, President Don | Beach of the Columbus club said in | announcing the deal. U. S. SENIORS FIGHT T0 HOLD GOLF LEAD Go Into Final Matches Against Britons and Canadians With Two-Point Margin. B the Associated Press. GOUTHAMPTON, N. ¥, September |3 "22.—The United States team, boast- | ing a two-point lead as the result of | the sixsome matches, seeks to fight off the British and Canadian squads | in signles todav and win the annual seniors’ international triangular golf tournament. The Americans piled up 8'2 points in the sixsomes at the national golf links of America yesterday to 62 for Great Britain and 3 for the Cana- | dians. The singles today will be fol- lowed Wednesday by the incernational individual championship for the Duke of Devonshire Trophy. Two former national senior cham- ipion.!. Christopher Deibel of Youngs- town, Ohio, and Raleigh Lee of Co- lumbus, paired yesterday to defeat the | top British and Canadian teams in | the feature engagements. Findlay Douglas of Southampton and W. R. Tuckerman of Washington also cap- tured two points for the United States side with a pair of victories. HESSICK GRIDMEN TOIL. Hessick Coal's 150-pound grid team will practice Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at | Eighteenth and Otis streets northeast. BY GEORGE HUBER. OW about a few bass for din- ner? You can’t buy them, so you'll have to go out and H catch them—and catching them, to most anglers, means a long trip into Maryland or Virginia, start- ing early in the morning and getting back late at night. The good old Potomac River, flowing right by Wash= ington, has been sadly neglected, yet you can reach fairly good fishing spots in less than an hour’s drive fronf your office. No one claims that they are better than those found along the Shenan- doah, the Susquehanna or the Upper Potomac. It is even stretching & point to compare them with the Pis- cataway or Gunston Cove, but fish are there, fish have been caught and fish will continue to be caught there. Black bass have begun to strike along the Potomac, as they have everywhere else, and the good part about it is that they are all small-mouths. (Between Chain Bridge and Key “‘Bridge on the east side of the river is Capt. Joe Fletcher’s place. Capt. Joe is as much a part of the river and as well known to anglers as are the Three Sisters Islands. It just wouldn’t be the Potomac without his little red rowboats tied up at the dock or nosing around by the rocks. They’re s sort of a trade mark; they prove that it is the real article, not some other river suddenly set down there ‘beneath the Virginia Palisades. Capt. Joe Knows River. F ANY ONE knows anything about river fishing it's Capt. Joe. In the Spring, when big rock are running, he can direct you to the exact spot where they are found. He can take one look at the river and tell whether or not the fish are biting, and if he says they are not biting you might as well stay in. You won't get any- thing. Along about last Thursday he figured bass should be striking on artificial, so he went out and eaught six small-mouths to prove he was right. 8ix fighting small-mouths is & nice eatch for any one to bring back, espe- cially when taken from a cloudy river. It wasn't one of those sales-promotion catches either. He didn't do it so that anglers would rush down and hire his boats when they heard about it, as he caught them in a spot where > (// his boats cannot reach. It was above Little Falls, between Sycamore Island and Seven Locks. However, if you want to take one of his boats for bass fishing. it's O. K. with him; he'll tell you where to go and what to use, although he frankly admits that the river should be a little clearer than it is now. “When the water geis clear, take a river runt or a pork rind spinner and run up by Little Falls. The best time is about an hour before sunset.” No license is needed to fish that locality, but & Maryland permit is nec- essary above the falls. Maryland claims jurisdiction in the river to high-water mark, but Virginia resi- dents and license holders fishing from the Virginia shore have never been questioned. No license is needed in tidewater Maryland. Bass in Reservoir. BASS fishing is much better along the forks of the Shenandoah, the Upper Potomac and the South Branch in West Virginia. An all-day trip to these streams is sometimes hard to fit in, and it's helpful to know a few sports where you can go after work and still get back in time to get in the regular eight hours of shuteye. Another nearby spot for bass fishing is the Dalecarlia reser- voir. Licenses to fish there can be obtained without cost from the Engineer’s Office in. the Navy Building. The reservoir is a mighty big mke; it takes several hours to go around it and fish all the likely spots, and you never can tell where the bass will Right at the head of the reser- voir, where the water rushes out the conduit, has proven to be & popular Jocality and is heavily fished. Under- stand that this place is not with bass and there you will not get so But enough bass ai make anglers go bacl STYMIE PROBLEM 1U. S. G. A., Whose President Favors It, Is Studying Mass of Opinions By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, September 22.— stymied. In the secret sanctum of the United States Golf Association officials and experts are trying to decide whether the pestiferous putting block- ade should be abolished. tieth amateur championship, who | were asked to give detailed reports on stymies, plus their opinions. sociation’s annual meeting next Jan- uary. Even then it is unlikely asso- ciation members will be given a chance to bring it up on the floor be- cause, if custom is followed, the prob- Jem will be thrashed out in a star- | chamber session. Pressure Being Applied. OWEVER, the golf biggies are feeling the pressure more and more every day for the elimination of the stymie. It was retained by & close margin of votes at January's conclave. Western Golf Association, California and Massachusetts State associations and the Northern California district have abolished it. “Because of the agitation against the stymie we felt it was only right to make an actual factual study of the situation and see how it affected a tournament,” said John G. Jackson, U. S. G. A. president. “We have so much information on hand that it will be months before it can be boiled down to a consensus. The reports, turned in by every player, started with approach shots to the greens to the holing of the last putt,” Players Are Against It. week revealed the majority is in | favor of abolishing the stymie. But be strong for its retention. “Personally, I'm in favor of retain- ing the stymie in match play golf,” said Jackson. Yet, the despised stymie was partly resonsible for preventing the cham- pionship trophy from crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Had it not been for a stymie, Jack McLean of Scotland might have won the crown last Sat- urday. After making a poor first putt, which dribbled several feet past the cup, Fischer, 1 down and 3 to go, laid Mc- Lean a dead stymie on the thirty- fourth green, costing the Scot an ap- parent win to become dormie 2. In- stead McLean got & half in bogey 5's. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Boston vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3. Tennis. g Playground Department’s open Fall tournament, Potomac Park courts, 4. TOMORROW. Base Ball. Boston vs. Washington, Grifith Stadium, 3. Tennis. Playground Department’s open Fall tournament, Potomac Park courts, 4. THURSDAY. Base Ball Boston vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3. ‘Wrestling. Ernie Dusek vs. Ivan Managoff, :e:mn match, Turner’s Arens, :30, Swimming. President’s Cup Regatta, off Shoreham Hotel, 8. Tennis, - Playground Department’s open Fall tournament, Potomac Park Cup ‘Hajns Point, ’:”-{:10. STILL 1§ STYMIED The stymie situation still is | Before them they have the views | of 208 contestants in the recent for- | The result of the study probably | will not be announced until the as- | Since then the powerful | NQUIRIES among the players last | official quarters still are reported to | and not Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati | Sportlight (Continued From Fourteenth Page.) Ltk | Stone pound champion had simply stood pat Eh;nln and made Dempsey do the leading, | Travis anything might have happened. Wil-| Hill lard had planned his method of fight- | Hogan ~ ing, and Dempsey, at the advice of | KEW!s | Benny Leonard, made him chang his plans. Joe Must Have Balance. ver ON!: of the strongest features of Joe News'm Louis' repertoire is balance. The | wrnen Levinskys, Carneras, Baers and Shar- '”“’: keys let him keep this balance intact. | Conen | They did nothing to upset it. Schmel- | Fhebus | ing did. The one chance Ettore has is to 1 erowd Louis off this hitting balance | J¢She with & rushing attack, somewhat after | Weaver the Harry Greb manner. | N Louis, facing Greb at his best, as C"nlfe" Tunney and Gibbons did, would have | Phebus_ thought he was in the middle of a Sghen | hurricane minus a windbreak. This is the general idea that Jack Dempsey picked up after meeting Greb as a Sparring partner, many years ago. | “How hard can Dempsey punish?” 1 asked Greb later. “I never found out” Greb said. “And I don’t think I ever would. A punch has got to land before it hurts.” It Ettore will only wade in and keep both hands moving, as he gener- ally does, you can get a much better line on just how good Louis is after the | Schmeling explosion, where the fellow ' tabbed as the world's greatest proved | to be a sucker for the sucker punch— the old right-hand wind-up. Louis had no more idea of ducking or blocking this right hand than a fat June-bug has of ducking a duck in | pursuit of food. ‘The one difference is that Schmeling | can hit when you leave him planted, while Ettore's artillery so far never | has been on the heavy side. But he | can make up in the way of speed and aggressiveness what he lacks in power. | | If he can't crowd Louis off balance, he | hasn't a chance. Any fighter who ever lets a hard-hitting opponent. using either hand, get set is liable to have |his conk decapitated—or at least | badly dented. Louis Faster, Better Boxer, LOUls is faster than Ettore—a bet- ter boxer—a much harder hitter | with either hand. But he needs a stable balance to work from—=as most hard punchers do. This is the reason Jack Demp- sey had so much trouble with such boxers as Gibbons, Tunney, Loughran and Greb—including training camp exhibitions. Ettore is younger, stronger and | tougher than most of the men Louis | has faced in the last two years. The chances are Ettore will be knocked | out—but he can give the Bomber | more than a cupful of trouble by rush- ing the act and by refusing to let Louls get set. Louis without any question still is the best combination boxer and pun- isher the fight game has around to- day. And you can toss in & number of yesterdays and a few tomorrows. But he has yet to show how able he is against an opponent who refuses to Jet him set up the manner and method of the evening's show. If Al Ettore has his share to say about this, the Philadelphia party may be an interesting brawl—for a few rounds at least. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Foot Ball Scores Temple, 18; St. Joseph's, 0. Richmond, Apprentice School, 0. LOOK! Only $18 a month at Steuart Motors. Your 1930 or 1931 ‘Ford V-8 will be ac- cepted as full down payment. Prices low as $419. See us at once. SRR IS ) 6th& N.Y.Ave.N.W. Griffs’ Records BATTING. 2b.3b. 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Holding an approximate two- Pueblo, Colo., stretched far out in play in their inaugural national tour- amateur tourney, became medalist below par for 36 holes to qualify at was paired today against Jesse Drew, M ARNOLD of Kirksville, Mis- in nine strokes behind Creel as second cer Brainard of New Haven, Conn, W. J. Winburn of Winchester, Ky., State southpaw champion, who just last week defeated the right-handed champion, was fourth in line with 155. This tournament is unique in that | play is distributed over two courses | and divided into two divisions—cham- pionship and vacationist. The rivalry was keener in the latter class, where players gualified on 18 holes. Jack Hollcroft of Omaha, Nebr., led the vacationists with an 80; J. H. Atkinson, Fulton, Mo, was just one stroke back, and Stanley Garrity of | Kansas City followed with an 82, | Go as High as 159. (UALIFYING scores in this division ranged from 82 up to 159. The | Jatter tally was turned in by C. 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She shot plenty of golf in between the start and the finish. grabbed the net award 177, with Mrs. G. B. Ashe of Army-Navy next at 98—18—80. Seven-eights of the difference in handicaps was to apply in the matches, which will wind up Saturday. Louise Claytor, the long-hitting played on October 15. But some one blundered aiong tne line somewhere, official and maybe the last wora that one week from tomorrow—ton sep- tember 30—the boys will gatner for | their divot finging jamboree at the | Country Club of aown Richmond way. It they keep on postponing it and setiing new dates the pros all will have whiskers waiting for the men who set the dates to make up their minds. Virginia, It seems that the parent P. G. 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