Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1936, Page 13

SPORTS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO. D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1936. ~ SPORTS Putting Stress Stifles Golfer After Struggle to Reach Green 20 YEARS AGO SKILL IS NULLIFIED BY TOUGH BREAKS Stymie Adds to Undesirable Element of Luck—Tommy Armour Critical. BY GRANTLAND RICE. OME time back, Tommy Armour, the silver fox of golf, one of the best and one of the smart- est of all golfers, made this extremely sane observation: “Golf would be the finest competi- tion in the world except for one thing. That happens to be putting. To place a long drive accurately—to fade or hook in a 3 iron—to stop a pitch— to pick up a brassie from a close lie—these all require skill. But putt- ing is something entirely different. It is a touch that cOmes and goes. It is too often a matter of nerves on a particular day. It is chockfull of luck. Putting plays a part much too important in a game that demands 80 much to reach the green.” This is all true. And this is one | of the main reasons why I think the stymie is doomed. Stymie Ruined McLean. 'HE stymie is an ancient institu- tion. It came along with golf. It was part of the Scottish idea. It has many good points, calling for skill under certain conditions. But also it has its weaker side on the part of raw luck. This weaker side was brought to light more than once in the recent amateur championship. It reached its climax when Jack McLean came to the sixteenth hole in the afternoon, 1 up. At this critical hole McLean hit a fine drive, planted a high-class iron shot 14 feet from the pin, and, after barely missing his birdie 3, had an 18-inch putt for the hole. But the way was blocked when Johnny Fischer pushed his putt out of line, the ball remaining on the | edge of the cup. McLean, on this important hole, had made no mis- takes and yet he was locked out—and finally lost. I counted any number of ilar incidents relating to stymies that were almost unplayable unless one cared to | ride in on the back of a miracle. | When the ball is hanging on the lip of the cup, it is suicide to try for the hole if there is a chance left for a half. I saw many incidents of this| nature at Garden City—where I also | saw the ball knocked into the cup. Luck Element Too Strong. THBRE is too much luck in golf as it is. I can prove this by giving you the list of the last 16 survivors for three years. Only a few standard names remain on this roster. They change every year to a marked de- gree. The same thing happens in the big professional open tournaments, where there is & wide switch from week to week. One golfer gets a good lie on the fairway—another has a cuppy stroke to make. One golfer is well placed in a bunker—another is in a deep heel-print against the bank. There are countless incidents one might mention. But these all belong to the game. They can't be changed. Life is not supposed to be ordered along one set line. Fate and luck are a part of the show. But the factor of luck around the green is too great as it is. It is too big & part of the game in an open cham- pionship, where there are no stymies. ‘The putting green is too much of a roulette wheel. A fine putting stroke and sound putting nerves are a big help. But when it comes to the mat- ter of an inch or so on a 15, 20 or 30 foot putt—that drops or doesn't drop— the factor of luck is entirely too im- portant. And when you add the| stymie, you merely increase this ele- | ment of raw chance on too many occasions. 0Old Guard Favors Stymie. TOW there are four things you |} can do about the stymie— 1. Leave it in as it is now. 2. Change the rule to abolish sty- mies where either ball is within 6 inches of the cup. There is no stymie now if the two balls are less than 6 inches apart. This would be merely an extension of the present rule. 3. Permit stymies only when the golfer lays his own stymie on the green. 4. Abolish the stymie entirely. Most of the old guard of golf are in favor of the stymie. As one grows older he turns more and more to tra- dition—to the past. The stymie un- doubtedly carries an element of the sporting gesture. But the younger generation is against it. It sees only an added element of luck in a game that already has more than its share. In a recent tennis championship you could name Perry and Budge as the two finalists weeks ahead. In golf you couldn’t name the finalists from the last 16. There was no Bob- by Jones—no Lawson Little in the field. It was just a scramble. There 18 no kick about this feature. It lacks public appeal—but it also carries an interesting guessing side. But if there is any chance to reduce the element of luck, it should be done. The stymie is rarely played in any rounds outside ,of important cham- pilonships. Naturally, it is never played in the open—in any medal rounds. It is my opinion that the amateur and the open should be played in the same way—to give the golfer his chance to make the putt that his play up to that point has earned. It will take just a trifle away from the spectacular side. But it will at least reduce to a certain extent the control that Dame Fortune too often has around the green. (Cepyright, 1036, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, 1nc.) Cochrane’s Fish Taken to Court PONTIAC, Mich., October 20 (#). —Landowner Gordon S, (Mickey) Cochrane is confronted with more trouble than keeping the Detroit Tigers in base ball's upper bracket. Cochrane recently purchased & farm and a lake, Today five Com- merce Township residents filed a petition in Circuit Court seeking to restrain him from fencing off the bass water, contending they are members of families which have fished the lake for 42 years and that their extended usage en- titles them to continue, regardless 'Hoyas Make Marked Advance In Williamson System Ratings versity’s eleven made greater advance in rating than any other college gridiron combination of the Capital area, according to the current Williamson rating system table. Five full rating points were picked up by the Hoyas and in jumping their rating from 70 of the previous week to 75 they moved from eighty-first chromovs over a sturdy Bucknell team last week, Georgetown Uni- place to sixty-fifth in the table. Maryland, by virtue of its triumph over Virginia, rose from seventy-fifth to sixty-first in the standings with a 3.6 increase to give it a rating of 76. Catholic University, although beating De Paul, remained in seventy-sixth place and its rating fell from 72 to 717, Taking the measure of Arkansas, the George Washington team went from 80.5 to 81.7 in rating, but dropped from thirty-ninth to forty-sixth in standing. But the tip comes from the Willlamson system headquarters in New Orleans to keep your eyes on the Colonials. Minnesota scored enough against Michigan, an opponent considered two classes lower, to maintain its previous rating of 96 and retain the lead among the 582 college teams in the current list. Under the Williamson system a team does not go up, down or stand still as it wins, loses or draws each week. The system rates teams in eight classes and the rating for a game depends on a team's own class, the class of its opponent and within certain carefully ence in the game. established limits on the score differ- The season’s rating to date is the sum of the ratings per game divided by the number of games. j These ratings represent respectively each team’s efficiency of consistent. performance. They do not always indicate & direct gauge of the possible strength of each team. Each rating in the table below is the current average of the game ratings for each respective team. The figures in the right-hand column are the more important. The listing figures in the left-hand column are merely for convenience in giving the fractional differences in order. The Williamson system had a prediction efficiency of 84.8 last week despite 38 upsets against pre-game ratings and shows one of 87.7 per cent for the season to date. Predictions for this week will be published Friday on the sport pages of The Star. ‘The ratings: Perfect team __100 1 Minnesota 96.0 2L. 8. U. 4 T 2 Albright 58 Wm. Mar: 154 W.Va Wsly. 160 Buffalo So. Calif. S: Sh'pnburg Sust. Adol il Col 5 St. Jos. Linfield 90 St. Jn 1 Ohio We ipon 198 St %5 | 199 St. Norbert 4.5 3| 200 50d.. Mass 494 entre - 492 61 Marsland 62 Orezon 0R Tei 200 Drexel ___ K6 N.C. State 87 Ciemson 92 Bald-Wal. 97 Miami, Fia. 94 Creighton 95 Utah State 96 Richm'd_U. 97 Orezon 8i 9 100 Boston U 101 Virginia 107 Wash -Lee_ 103 Cincinnati 104 Butler 105 Cedar Fls 4 45 Davis-EIK's 349 Stevens Pt. 250 Murr'y. Ky. Case " __ = : 110 Ark. Tech., 6 111 Canisius 2 Drake e e SRIRRRRNSS SSLREEZEES S 300 Tahles Kala'zoo. T. ¢ : 5 B 3 aa EE > Spearfish 163 Climeron 4064 s Lo e VTSR VIlX St | 494 Defiance 348 Mublenb' e e i 349 Silver Cit | 350 Lon-Morris 351 Wis. Mines 82 Baker 499 Tusculum. | 500 Erskine § Bemed) 367 Chadron 368 W'ne. Mich. 9 Midland Bates _ 5 Western 8. 376 Kent, Ohio 377 Con'dW.Va. 2 Arnold 543 Mars _Hill §44 Mor, Har 45 Mont. M. 546 Pan. A&M 7 Sioux Falls : J 549 Bluefie) 403 Millersville 4 404 Chaleston 550 Macaleste: 5 jor. - 402 W. Li 55 M'telair T. 556 Brkiyn C. 557 Madison T. 558 Eureka 559 Newberry_ 60 Findlay 61 Potomac T. 2 Dana 429 Elmhurst 430 El Paso. 431 J. Carroll 432 La Grande 31 433 Wash. Md. 3 (Copyright. 1036.) TOUCHDOWN DINNER WILL AID BOYS’ CLUB Proceeds of All-Sports Banquet on December 5 to Be Given Police Sponsors. ALL profits of the first annual all- sports banquet which will be held at the Willard on December 5 will be turned over to the advancement of the Police Boys' Club, it has been announced by the Touchdown Club, sponsor of the affair. Told by Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superimtendent of police, that juvenile delinquency had decreased 70 per cent sirice installation of the clubs, the Touchdowners unanimously voted the profits of the December banquet at their weekly luncheon meeting yes- terday. For one of the few times on record all five coaches of the District’s major colleges—Jim Pixlee of George Wash- ington, Jack Hagerty of Georgetown, Frank Dobson of Maryland, Arthur (Dutch) Bergman of Catholic Uni- versity and Walter Young of American University—were in one group. ———e TEMPLE LISTS V. M. 1. PHILADELPHIA, October 20 (#).— Temple University will play Virginia ‘Military Institute of Lexington, Va., in a night foot ball game at Philadel- phia September 24, 1937, UNLIMITED TILTS SOUGHT. Games with unlimited amateur or semi-pro teams are wanted by the of ownership, Cochrane now is on a fishing and hunting trip in the Northwest. A- gridmen of the Receiving Station of the Navy Yard. Call Waldron at Lin- coln 1360, Bxtension 333. n “Irish” Steam Up For Grid Drive BY GUS DORAIS, Coach, Untversity of Detroit. ETROIT, Mich, October 30.— Notre Dame looked really im- pressive for the first time in down- ing & hard-fighting Wisconsin team last Saturday. This victory assured those who were getting ready to sell Notre Dame short that this year's model is going to give quite an account of itself before all the returns are in. Purdue kept right on turning out touchdowns in job lots as it whipped Chicago, and Minnesota kept pace in beating Michigan, to Tun its total of consecutive victories to 20, The most noteworthy performance in the Middle West was turned in by Northwestern as it nosed out Ohio State. ‘This whole section has been sur- prisingly free of startling upsets 80 far this season. ‘NEW COACH AT TECH temporarily, formerly was athletic director and basket ball coach at Wenonah Military Academy, Wenonsh, N. J. Tech fin- ished Iast in the interhigh series last w.wlnnlumtnouto(uh‘ games, A NAVY, PRINCETON SNARL FOR FIGHT Game Will Be Contest of “Wounded Animals,” Says Coach Hamilton. Special Dispatch to The Star. NNAPOLIS, October 20.—Navy and Princeton engage in their twenty-third contest at Prince- ton next Saturday under cir- cumstances which make both teams gnash their teeth at each other. As Head Coach Tom Hamilton of Navy aptly described it, “It will be a fight between two wounded animals.” ‘The wounds on the Princeton tiger and the Navy goat were inflicted last Saturday by Yale and Pennsylvania, respectively, and from the local standpoint, the wounds smart all the more smartly because a Navy team has not been able to defeat a Prince- ton team coached by Fritz Crisler, or even score against it. The record between Princeton ard Navy stands 12 wins for the former, 8 for the latter, and 4 tie games. As far back as 1885 Princeton sent its second team to the Naval Academy, and games between the varsity bega: in 1892, with a Princeton victory, 28 to 0. Navy scored its first victory, 10 to 9, in 1904. Badly Beaten Last Year. AGAINST Princeton teams coached by Bill Roper, Navy was more | successful, and the record shows that between 1920 and 1932, games being omitted some years, the Navy won 5 | to 2, with 2 draws. In 1932 Navy managed a scoreless tie in Crisler’s first year, but in 1933 it was beaten, 13 to 0, and in 1935, 26 to 0. Navy, therefore, has plenty of rea- sons to wish to win from Princeton next Saturday, still another being that the game marks the exact middle point of its schedule, four having been played and four remaining after the brush with the Tigers. Hamilton said today that his only program was for work all along the line of offensive and defensive foot ball. At present he does not expect to have secret practice, as he did last week, EVERY TERP PLAYER IN TRIM FOR ACTION Regulars Begin Tuning Today for Syracuse After Watching Frosh Beat Reserves. ARYLAND'S first string gridders, who limbered up and then stood on the sidelines yesterday as the Terp yearlings beat the Varsity Reserves, 19 to 18, in a hot one-hour battle, ‘were to start tuning up today for the Syracuse tilt in the Salt City Sat- urday. The Terps came out of the Virginia game without & single injury and were buoyed over the fact that Bill Guckeyson, star back, playing his first battle, proved 100 per cent O. K., and that the blocking was by far the best of the year. ‘While the whole team block well, John Garmley, fullback, came in for unusually high praise for exceptional blocking and defensive play, and by those who know their foot ball. Maryland will be running up against a big tough line at Syracuse and will have to stop Vinnie Abanese, one of the East's best backs. BIRD—DOGS AIN TRIALS Rappahannock All-Age Event To- day at Fredericksburg. FRI RICKSBURG, Va, October 20 (P —Hart's Mr. King, entry of Mac D. Hart, Ashland, captured first honors in the Derby Stake feature opening day event of the fourteenth annual Fall trials of the Rappahan- nock Amateur Field Trial Association at Leedstown. ‘The Ashland entry, stylish, speedy black, white and ticked setter, recently won similar recognition at the Page Valley trials at Luray. Second place in the Rappahannock Derby went to Don Frank, owned by Graham D. Richardson, Weedonville, | and Florendale Spider, from the Ham- | ilton, Va., kennels of Contee Adams | took third. The Rappahannock All-age was to be run off today, with 23 of the East'a outstanding pointers and setters com- peting. CAVALCADE RETIRED Famous Racer on Way Back to Upperville, Va., Farm. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 20.—After failing to show his old-time dash last month at Narragansett Park, Caval- cade, Mrs. Dodge Sloane’s 3-year-old champion of the turf two years ago, ‘was headed back to his owner’s Brook- meade breeding farm near Upperville, Va., today. Two other of Mrs. Sloane’s horses also have been retired, Good Goods and Psychic Bid. Good Goods has been leased to Thomas Piatt, well- known Kentucky breeder, for three years, ROYALS SIGN MARANVILLE. MONTREAL, October 20 (#).—Wal- ter (Rabbit) Maranville, a major league base ball player for a quarter of a century, has signed a one-year contract to manage the Montreal Royals of the International League. OYSTERS ARE COOKED. Showing no respect for advance re- ports which pronounced the Oyster A. C. & superior team, the 115+pound 8t. Thomas Cardinals ran wild in a 68-0 romp on the Shoreham Field yes- terday. KIRILENKO FACES BARBER. Matros Kirilenko, Russian grappler, t | will tangle with Hank Barber, popular Jewish matman, in & 45-minute semi- final in support of the Ernie Dusek- ClLff Olson feature wrestling match at Turner’s Arena Thursday night. — TABLE TENNISERS MEET. ‘Washington Table Tennis Associa- tion's League will make plans for the coming season tonight when A, B and © League officials meet at 403 Elev- enth street northwest at 7:30 o'clock. A HAT annual golf jamboree of the boys who used to lug heavy golf bags over the hills of the old Columbia Country Club course on Georgia avenue—otherwise the Brightwood ex-caddies tourney— is slated for next Sunday at Beaver Dam, and again the lads are hoping that the brightest star of their groups will be around to play golf with them. George Voigt, semj-finalist in the 1936 national amateur championship, hasn’t come to Washington in late years to play with his pals of the old days, but George may come down this year to sock a tee shot at Beaver Dam next Sunday. But whether he comes or not, all the boys who used to pick ‘em up and lay 'em down at old Co- lumbia are slated to play next Sun- day. It's an annual affair and a good one. IVE men's club championships re- main to be decided around Wash- ington, but two of them won't be fin- ished until next month. The only one to be concluded next Sunday will be the Indian Spring tourney, where Volney G. Burnett, de- fending champ, will play Earl Mc- Aleer, the tough southpaw, 36 holes or less with the title at stake. At Kenwood Levi Yoder, his broken ribs mending, will meet Ted Rutley for the club title on Octeber 31. The Beaver Dam championship | won't be decided until November 1, because Paul Carey, one of the final- ists, has gone out West to be married and won't be back until the last of the month. Out at Manor, where District cham- pion Bobby Brownell and Harry Pitt have won their way to the final, they are talking about holding the title match on November 7, which is the day tentatively set for the club’s an- nual field day. Brownell and Pitt also are scheduled to play 36 holes or less. Qualifying will end Thursday for the club title at Army-Navy Country Club, where Maj. R. K. Sutherland is in the lead with a 73. Joe Greenwood is next with 74. Sutherland’s bird 3 on the seventeenth enabled him to top Greenwood. Dettweiler, Congressional girl, was playing in the first flight of an open tourney. Helen shot a 92 yester- day to comfortably make the top flight, ‘with Babe Didrikson leading the fleld with 41—37—78. OB BARNETT, Chevy Chase pro, is going around jingling lots of cash in his jeans today, won by topping & good fleld of pros in the pro-senior tourney over Bob's home course. Bob stepped around the heavy course in 72 |Dowfl at Part Worth, Tex., Helen ‘whacks, which is 3 over par, but was plenty good in the soft going. Roland MacKenzie, despite a 5 on the par-3 thirteenth, tied for second money in the pros’ sweepstakes with George Dif- fenbaugh, Indian Spring pro, both with 73s. Leo Walper had 74. Cliff Spencer (75) and Gen. Prank R. Keefer won the pro-senior award with & net total of 148. Gen. Keefer shot 95 with a 22 handicap for a net of 73, giving the pair the top prize by 3 shots. In second place were George Elliott, who has a few years to go to be a senior, and Diffen- baugh. Elliott scored 89 and 11 handicap, giving him a net of 78 and a net total for the pair of 151. Three pairs—Dallas McGrew (se-, nior), and Glenn Spencer, P. 8. Rids- dale (senior), and Leo Walper and Ad- miral C. B. McVay and Bob Barnett tied for third money with totals of 152. R. Thompson (senior) and Mel Shorey tied at 153 with R. P. Dunn (senior) and Frank Cunningham. MA’ICH play in the Siamese Cup tourney at Chevy Chase was to get under way today with the following pairings in the handicap tourney: J. W. Childress vs. Page Hufty; R. P. | Dunn vs. Reeve Lewis, jr.; W. H. Jen- | kins vs. T. H. Foley; R. P. Whiteley | drew a bye: D. D. L. McGrew vs. P. 8. Ridsdale; Leroy Eakin vs. E. A. Hick- | man; Oscar Coolican vs. G. E. Elliott; J. K. McCammon vs. Robert Stead, jr. 'HE District Golf Association is on record against the stymie. It was barred in the Columbia Club cham- pionship last week and probably the | ban of the District association will go | When you see half-smoked cigars—1lying *dead” on ash trays or thrown away on the strect —you don’t ‘need a great detective to tell you the reason. Bitter, bitey, raspy tasteis causing millions ofci It is robbing men to be smoked only balf-way down. of .the pleasure they want, and should get, from their cigars. What causes this bitter, bitey, raspy taste in cigars? Simply this. 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American League teams have proven their supremacy to Na- tional League teams in three :in- stances lately, counting the world series. While the Boston Red Sox were turning back the Brook- lyn Dodgers in the Fall classic, the 8t. Louis Browns were scoring over the Cards and the Chicago White Box taking the measure of the Cubs. With Chaconas and Pattison Jeading the way, the Gandils made & clean sweep of their match with the Benedicts in the Arcade Duck- pin League, The team scores were 509, 542 and 545, with the Bene- dicts not having one game oYer 500. Chaconas had a 359 set and Pattison 339. on and on, no matter whether or not the U. 8. G. A. takes any action at its annual meeting next January. Jim Cosgrove, vice president of the District association, and chief mover against the stymie, was approacied by | John G. Jackson, president of the U. 5. G. A. & few months ago, and was asked to soft-pedal his attacks on the stymie and to defer, if possible, any action by the local association and by his club. Jackson didn't say the U. S. G. A. would oust the stymie, but he did ask Cosgrove if it was wise to legislate the stymie out of District golf. Jim replied, with his customary candor: “Mr. Jackson, how can you | defend the only stroke in golf which | makes & gentleman feel embarrassed? I haven't found a man who lays a stymie in match play who either didn't spologize or didn't feel like | spologizing for his act. It's the only | stroke in the game which has any| direct effect on the other fellow's play.” And that's a new argument| against the stymie. We thought there | were no new ones, but Jim has found | one, and a pretty logical one at that. | It is a fact that when a stymie is laid an apology generally goes with it, even in major championships. C. U.ISTO TACKLE SMARTING REBELS Ole Miss, Still “Burning Up” Over Losses, Eager for Win Saturday. T WILL be a band of wrathful Rebels that awaits Catholic Uni- versity’s foot ball team at Oxford, Miss., on Saturday when Dutch Bergman takes his 1936 Cardinals back to the Southland, where they gained national fame last New Year day. ‘Whether that 20-19 defeat by C. U. started the “year” off on the wrong foot or not is questionable, but the fact re- mains that Mississippi has won but one game since—its curtain raiser of the 1936 campaign against little Union. Since then Mississippi has lost three straight—to Tulane, Temple* and Louisiana State—and a 0-0 tie with our own George Washington hasn't improved its disposition. Such a record is in marked contrast to that of last season, when the Rebels finished with 8 victories in 11 starts. In none of the defeats, however, have the Southerners been disgraced, the largest margin being last Satur- day’s 13-0 conquest by L. S. U. Such a showing against one of the strongest teams in the South forestalls any sing- ing of the swan-song of a fading eleven, C. U, on the crest of a three-game winning wawve, will leave here tomorrow night, giving the Cardinals a little more than 24 hours to become accli- mated te the warmer temperature of their foe's territory. RAYMOND BEATS FURR D. C. Welter Loses on Points in Baltimore Bout. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE. Md., October 20— Phil Furr, Washington's welterweight champion, was outpointed by Lew Ray- mond in a 10-round bout here last night after fighting on even terms with his conqueror most of the way. Although Raymond had set the pace in the first eight rounds, it was not until the ninth and tenth that he showed enough to earn a unanimous decision. Raymond conceded 4!; pounds to Furr, who weighed in at 146, AFTER SUNDAY GAMES. Opposition in the 100-pound class| for Sunday is sought by the George- town Boys' Club. Call West 2122 be- tween 6:30 and 10 o'clock. 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