Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1937, Page 14

| | | | | I BUNKER SHOTS McLeod, Master of Niblick in Sand, Would Rule Out Wider Implement. BY W. R. McCALLUM. | €¢ ND now if they'd only bar the automatic bunker shot they’d be getting some- Fred McLeod, premier bunker player of the Nation with the old-fashioned niblick, curled his lip and spoke acathingly of modern bunker play with the sand wedge. He'd just been told of the edict of the United States Golf Association limiting the number of clubs to 14. “That’s a darned good move,” said Freddie. “But they should go further. why they allow more than 12 clubs, and any good golfer could get along with 10. But that sand wedge” (and Fred shook his head), “that darned thing has made us a nation of sissies.” ‘Words hardly can express the scorn he put into his voice when he com- mented on the sand wedge. Wedge Eliminates Skill. Y there isn't any penalty any more for getting into a bunker. And skill doesn’t count in getting out. These players who use the sand wedge Just take out the automatic bunker club, let it fall on the ball and there it is—up against the hole. These isn't any skill to bunker play any more. The club does the work. Wish they'd bar the darned thing and bring back some skill to bunker play.” No man is equipped to talk about bunker shots like Fred McLeod. For 20-odd years before the invention of the sand wedge, Freddie's bunker shots were the envy of his brother pros. With a little thin-edged mashie-nib- lick Preddie waded down into the sandy wastes, planted his No. 9 bro- gans firmly in the yielding sand, took a full swing and—plop—out came the ball with terrific backspin to sit down against the flag. It was and is a shot of skill, for the €lub itself doesn't play the shot, and any man can buy a mashie-niblick. But few can play it as Freddie plays it. And does Freddie, as a concession to modernity, carry a sand wedge in his bag? He does not, nor would he were it made into an automatic holer-out. To show you how he can handle this old-fashioned club we saw him one day in an 11-hole stretch, get into eight bunkers around the greens. Eight straight times he knocked the ball out close enough to hole the putt for a par, and he was level par for 11 straight holes. Sarazen Admits It's Easy. IVE Sarazen back the old sand clubs, put him in eight bunkers and he'd be lucky to get two one-putt greens. But Gene admits that with * the sand wedge of today he would just 8s soon play frem a bunker close up to the green as to play a short pitch from the fairway. Down at Pinehurst during the P. G. A. tourney we sat near the seventeenth green with Bill Tryon, co-inventor of the newest thing in putters. It's a tough sole surrounded by traps, and | most of the boys were finding the sand. Three times in a row Bill bet me that leading pros would get déwn in one putt from the sand, playing the wedge. Bill took an unfair advantage, for they did it three times in a row and I paid off—sadder and wiser. Given a fair lie in the sand any first-class golfer can lay a ball close to the cup with the wedge, all of which pains Fred Mc- Leod immensely. 2 “Wonder what they'd do if they had to play those shots with the nib- lick?” he comments. the tournaments for the com- ing season are laid out and preparations made for what probably HE month of golf’s annual I meetings is upon us, wherein will be the biggest links season since | 1929. Within the next fortnight three meetings of major interest to golfers in this sector will be held, and hence the entire tournament schedule for Washington will be made known at the annual gathering of the Dis- trict of Columbia Golf Association. FIEET of the annual meetings is the annual gab-fest of the United Personally I don't see | BY GEORGE HUBER. BOUT the only persons pleased with the now defunct 1936 | ducking season are officials of the Bureau of Biological Sur- vey. The shooting, what there was of it, ended Christmas day at 4 p.m. Hardly a sigh of regret was heard from the few hunters who thought it ‘worth while to go out under the heavy burden of restrictions and regulations placed over them. They were just as glad to see it end. Now they will not be confronted with the difficult problem of to go or not to go. Naturally enough, no tabula- tion of results can be made until the birds return to the breeding grounds in the Spring, but no such tabulation really is necessary. Every one knows that less ducks were shot this season than ever before. All those restrictions were placed over, around and under water-fowlers, with the sole purpose of keeping the kil down. No one doubts that they accom- plished that purpose. We only hope now that some of them will be lifted or at least modified. Any attempts next season to impose further restric- tions will be met by the greatest howl ! ever raised by any group of peace ‘luvlns and law abiding citizens. It | and powder manufacturers this season sound like a mere grunt. | Ducking Restrictions Drastic. [BRIEFLY, the restrictions imposed baited areas, use of live decoys banned, sink boxes banned, no shooting before 7 am. and after 4 pm., and redheads and canvasbacks added to the closed choose 12 members of its Gov- erning Board. The board later ‘will elect officers of the club. DICK DAVIDSON, Chevy Chase golfer, known as one of the longest of the big hitters when he played in the tournaments around Washington,; where once he was runner-up to Miller Stevinson in one of the Chevy Chase affairs. Now Dick has just won the Midwinter tournament at Pine- hurst, where he is & member of the swanky cottage colony and a regular golf pal of George T. Dunlap, 1933 States Golf Association, to be held in New York Saturday. This will be followed next week by two more meetings—that of the Maryland State Golf Association on the night of Jan- uary 15 and the Middle Atlantic Golf Assoclation on the night of January 16. John G. Jackson of New York is slated again to head the U. 8. G. A, while Basil Wagner of the Green Spring Valley Club will become presi- dent of the Maryland State Associa- tion. 3 3 Harvey L. Cobb is to take over the presidency of the Mid- dle Atlantic organization. Becretary William C. Barr of the District Golf Association is getting out notices of the annual meeting of the local fathers of the game. The meet- ing will be held February 1 at the Racquet Club, and James A. Cosgrove ‘of Manor is scheduled to become presi- dent. Cosgrove is the gent who started all the agitation against the stymie around Washington, and who suc- ceeded in having it barred from Dis- trict Association tournaments. The annual meeting of the District Association sets the dates for the club invitation tourneys around Washing- ton and is the big gathering of the year locally. ‘Three invitation tournaments and ‘Wahhington this year. Washington, Chevy Chase and Manor Clubs already have made plans to hold invitation affairs, while the Middle Atlantic As- sociation championship is scheduled to go to Congressional. Congressional Country Club will hold its annual meeting on the night of January 15 o X | national amateur champion. Dick beat Halbert J. Blue in the final of the Midwinter tourney, coming from behind after being 1 down with 5 to play. He must have learned the tricks of the No. 2 course from the pros, for Dick was a gallery marshal and scorer during the recent P. G. A. tourney at Pine- hurst. Tlmsz days of slow fairways and heavy going are making it tough on the boys who can’t get the ball up satisfactorily. “It's the old story,” says Clagett Stevens, Congressional assistant pro. “They try to hit top hard with a short club and they don’t hit the ball right.” ” If most golfers would take a longer club and hit the ball a little easier | will make the squawk emitted by gun | | | are unprotected. Why should we be | | denied the best ducks so that Canada | | this season were: No shooting over | is cutting quite a swath in | the Pinehurst tournaments. Dick was | . .. And the one in question is Ray Mangrum of Dayton, Ohio (left), who yesterday defeated Tony Manero, national open titleholder, in the play-off for the $2,500 Miami open golf cham= pionship, with a par 70 against his opponent’s 73. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. @ &, h N .\'" list. Brant also were put on the closed list in the Atlantic Coast States. ‘These, of course, were in addition to the restrictions already in effect. The important ones were that a duck stamp, costing a dollar, mus: be pasted on the hunting license, no shotgun larger than 10-gauge or shooting more than three shells without reloading was to be used and a closed list which included wood, ruddy and buffiehead. Last season’s restriction fixing 100 feet from the shoreline for the loca- tion of blinds was discontinued, thus restoring open-water shooting. All that's a pretty tough as- signment to buck when you go duck shooting, and resulted in less hunters going out than ever before. ‘The Biological Survey admitted | that their restrictions were drastic, but claimed they were necessary if | open shooting ever is to be restored. | Water-fowl resources have been used with lavish extravagance, the bureau | said, but it also said that hunters were not entirely to blame for the serious decrease in the supply. Nature con- tributed to the havoc wrought by man | by the visitation of unprecedented droughts and duststorms, with a con- sequent destruction of natural food and cover throughout the favorite haunts of wild fowl and the loss of large numbers of birds through the drying up of ponds, streams and pot- holes. But Canada Shoots "Em. WASHINGTON, D. C, A—14 wxx " BPORTS. . THE EVENING STAR, Al wes sroRTs, - THE VA e e e e e — ‘CarrtaL’s Rapio PRoGRaMS THIS AFTERNOON'S PROGRAMS WMAL 630k Sand Wedge “Sissy” Club of Golf W FLIMINATES SKILL | Both Smile—One Means I < TRADE ON BOWL GANES INHEEDED All - Planning to Continue Despite N. C. A. A. Frown on Such Affairs. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 5.—The official frown of the National Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion upon post-season foot ball games has had little effect upon the officials who conduct the numer- ous New Year day “bowl” contests. The association adopted at its meeting last week a report by Z. G. Clevenger of Indiana University, which maintained that post-season games have no part in athletic pro- grams “because they serve no sound educational ends, and such promo- tions merely trade upon intercol- legiate foot ball for commercial purposes.” Commenting on this report today, officials of the sponsoring commit- tees and the colleges which shared in the gate receipts paid in by some 200,000 spectators for last Priday's six contests, agreed it would not change their plans. Miami Is Going Ahead. KEITH PHILLIPS, chairman of * the Orange Bowl Committee in | Miami, said: “The growing popularity of various bowl games shows what the people think of them, and, after all, the people should decide. The N. C. A. A’s action will have no effect what- soever on next year's games.” Warren V. Miller, member of the committee sponsoring the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans, commented, “The offifficials talk one way, but the conferences are run by the athletic departments of the colleges.” ‘The Southeastern Conference, inci- dentally, has begun to take steps to have its champion appear annually in the Sugar Bowl under an arrange- ment like that between the Rose Bowl and the Pacific Coast Conference. Dallas Makes Big Plans. CO’!TON BOWL officials already are planning a game at Dallas next year to “match anything in the coun- try,” according to J. Curtin Sanford, president of the Cotton Bowl Asso- ciation. Dr. C. M. Hendricks, who helped arrange the Sun Bowl game at El Paso, Tex., pointed out that the weather there is ideal for foot ball on January 1, while September is too hot: hence the season should start and end later. While Rose Bowl officials said noth- ing, W. D. (Don) Harrison, athletic director of Pittsburgh, who saw his Panthers score a 21-0 decision over ‘Washington in the Pasadena carnival, was all in favor of continuing the post-season affair, and Carl Kilgore, ‘Washington'’s manager of athletics, said it was a matter to be decided by the Pacific Coast Conference, which is committed to the Rose Bowl. “The N. C. A. A. merely is author- ized to give opinions,” said Harrison. ANOTBER thing. While we were not shooting redheads and can- | vasbacks Canada was advertising in | our outdoor magazines urging us to | come to Canada where those species | can have more? All we were getting | were pintails and baldpates, which are fair, but which fall below the others when it comes to both sport and | eating. Practically every water-fowl hunter co-operated with the bu- reau by eobserving all the rules | even & low one. Take for: 4-iron shot and see what haj pens. At any rate you'll be up.” S S Huffman Book Worm. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. ()—For an sathlete, Vernon Huffman, Indians all- around star, has set some sort of & record for carrying text books. They 80_wherever he goes. ANY sure AUTO PROMPT DRIVE-IN SERVICE Tarento & Wasman, Inec. 1321 L St. N.W, NA. 2966 ANY $IZE and regulations. A few redheads and canvasbacks were shot by mistake—its a difficult matter to distinguish them sometimes, especially against the sky—and a few more were shot by intent, but it is safe to say that they enjoyed a charmed life while in the United States. ‘The net results of the 1936 water- fow] season are these: Fewer hunt- ers went out. Fewer ducks were shot. More ducks will return to the breed- irg grounds which we suppert with our dollar duck stamp. Therefore: By 1938 at least, if not next season, we should be allowed a little more leeway in our shooting. The bureau realizes that hunters are willing to help if they aren’t hemmed in too much, and wlil take that into con- sideration when the new regulations are considered. Early Birds Get Perch. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (#).—The early bird, etc. One of the season’s “Its rulings are not binding on an body, and as far as Pittsburgh is con- | cerned we always have been favorable | to the Rose Bowl game as a post- season attraction conducted on a high plane.” Reds Reprint U. S. Books. ‘The state publishing house of Soviet | Russia announces that it will print a | number of the works of the American | authors, Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser, some of the editions reaching into hundreds of thousands of copies. THIS AFTERNOON 4:30...'WRC Radio’s grectest dramalic teom comes back fo the air EVERY AFTERNOON except Saturday and Sundey first ice anglers, with his brother and wife, picked up 350 perch in four hours of ice fishing on Lake St. Clair. 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Eberly’s Sons In Our 38th Year Di. 6557 TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937. 4:00 | Chasin’ the Blues “ 9 4:15 e Watch the Fun Go By” to| $:35| .o the Moon 45 |Consumer’s Program Feature Al ;ea't“oe and %0 | Whie the Gy Bleehs i 5:15 | Tom Mix Gang With Orchestra., | 518 /TomMix 13 ATCH the Fun Go By,” | _5:45 |Little Orphan Annie & new variety series fea- turing Al Pearce and his PM. gang and Larry Marsh's | ~6:00 \Dinner Dance Orchestra, will make its debut on| g:15 “ - ‘WJSV and other Columbia stations| g:30 - tonight at 9 o'clock. e 6:45 B The new programs wi patterned ~7:00 |Amos 'n’ Andy after the style which first made Pearce o Experie & success on the Pacific Coast and | oo |voice of e later all over the country with Nation- wide broadcasts from New York City. In addition to Pearce, other fea- tured artists include Arlene Harris, Andy Andrews, Morey Amsterdam, Mabel Todd, Tony Romano, Harry Foster, Bill Wright and the Three Cheers, Sidewalk Interviews “ - Pred Astaire BOB JONES, a former jockey, 80| el Dog Heroes [Evening” Star Flashes Your Health The Singing Lady 'Tea Time THIS EVENING'S PROGRAMS Science in the News Husbands and Wives JANUARY 5, 1935. WISV 1,460k Billy Mills & Co. | WOL 1310k Pop Concert Tito Guizar Science Service The World Dances Terry and Ted Jess Kirkpatrick Organ Reveries Del Casino Arch McDonald [News—Three Aces Renfrew of the Mounted Poetic Melodies Rubinoft Doris Kerr Boake Carter Music Hall Al Jolson ‘Tony Wakeman Salon Music [Editorial and News Julie Wintz's Orch. [Hal Kemp’s Orch. Arthur Rellly Dinner Concert “ . [2R-37 © 0|08 0o 0 w 2| s od Five Star Final Christian Witness Ballad Time Detective Mysteries Waitz Time Count Basey’s Orch. Concert Favorites Congress After Hours S3enS o Watch the Fun Go By Jack Oakie's College years old, who has the reputation of being the only man to “bring in” three 100-to-1 shot horses, will be the guest of Leo Reisman and his or- chestra on WRC at 8. An incident in his career will be dramatized during the program. )| Fred Astaire Hollywood Gossip ‘Campbell’s Royalists News—Night Owl Arthur Reilly Midnite Prolics “ . News - - Frank Simons' Band Sinfonietta Dance Hour Slumber Hour Jack Oakie’s College Bulletins Cab Calloway’s Orch. News Bulletins Art Brown Mark Warnow’s Orch. Buck O'Neill Jay Freeman's Orch. News Bulletins George: Olsen’s Orch. . Preddy Martin’s Orch. < BERT WHEELER and Ella Logan will contribute to the program of | Ben Bernie and his orchestra on WMAL at 9. They will sing a mixture of comedy songs. )" |Jerry Blaine’s Orch. Night (Mario Braggiotti’s Orch. Sign ot | Night GEORGE JESSEL, Judy Garland and John Boles, three Hollywood stars, will take part in “Jack Oakie's College” program on WJSV at 9:30. Orchestras directed by Georgia Stoll ‘lnd Benny Goodman will provide the Gordon Hittenmark | musical setting. “ “ - Tod: Gordon Hittenmark VERSATILI Fred Astaire will make his debut as a jazz band maestro during his musical comedy hour on WRC at 9:30. He will direct Johnny Wake ‘Watchman (1 hr.) EARLY PROGRAMS TOMORROW Today's Prelude Watchman Horace Heidt’s Orch. Eddie Elkins’ Orch. Jack Little’s Orch. Sleepy Time elin’s Orch, {Sign off =~ Sign Off JANUARY 6, 1937. ! Musical Clock Art Brown Up Club ST Green's Orchestra in a special vere °°"?.""‘ H,{tmm.rk sion of “The Five-Piece Band.” By popular request Astaire also will revive one fo his greatest hits, “Night and Day.” from Cole Porter's “Gay Divorcee.” Gordon Hittenmark News Garden Suggestions Morning Glories Mrzs. Wiges John’s Other Wife Just Plain Bill 'Today’s Children | A MEDLEY of old-time songs will be featured by Al Jolson during his program on WJSV at 8:30. By way of contrast, Martha Raye, on the same program, will sing “Mr. Paga- Morning Devotions 'William Meeder, organist Cheerio Breakfast Club PO Art Brown - o Art Brown Morning Concert Police Flashes—Music News—Music - Songs.by Crosby Piano Selections Prances T. Northcross Choir Loft Sun Dial Melody Graphic Richard Maxwell Betty Hudson Betty and Bob. Modern Cinderella Hymns of All Churches John K. Watkins Bulletins nini,” the hit song from her first pic- David Harum | ture, “Rhythm on the Range.” Backstage Wife How to Be Charmin, ARE Cold Feet a National Men- Vglceoof !‘XPEMMG' ace?” is the question to be de- | bated during the “Husbands and Wives” program on WMAL at 9:30. | Sedley Brown and Allie Lowe Miles | | will continue to do the 1nterviewin¢1 of the husbands and wives in the| studio who care to discuss the subject. | To Withdraw Subsidies. Great Britain is planning to with- draw subsidies from tramp ships at the end of 1937, Air Headliners Domestic. 4:00 p.m.—WJSV, Billy Mills & Ce 0. 4:45 p.m.—WMAL, Evening Star Flashes. Midday Merry Go Round | Story ot Mary Marlin Freddie Rich's Orch. Joe White, tenor Dick' Fiddler's Orch. The High Hatters Dan Harding's Wife Congress Session ) | President’s Message w . Jean Vic and Sade The O'Neills Henry Busse’s Orch. Follow the Moon Alice Sundown Revue [Personal Column Vic and Sade Edward MacHugh TOMORROW AFTERNOON PROGRAMS Congress Session Congress Session President’s Message ‘Howard Price mt}nenlg.l Varieties Von Unschuld Piano Club| Parents and Teachers Afternoon Melodies Ed Pitzgerald & Co. Magazine of the Air The Big Sister |Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe Viennese Melodies “Angelus” Violin Vignettes News—Music g |Dance Music The Gumps Between Bookends Helen Trent Romance Rich Man'’s Darling Five Star Revue Tonic Tunes Congress Session |Music from Texas Studio Orchestra Concertairs Harmony Hall President’s Message " | President's Message Dickenson, songs . - Melody Matinee Sports Page w e Myrt and Marge Benny Goodman’s Orch. w w Melodic Moments Institute of Music - Gogo_de Lys Hutchins Drake B 4:45 Sundown Revue ‘Tom Mix Jack Armstrong Evening Programs. 8:00 p.m.—WRC, Leo Reisman's Orchestra; WJSV, Ham- Airbreaks . Evening Star Flashes 'The Singing Lady 5:00 5:15 5:30 Junior Programs |The World Dances Through a Woman's Eyes Len Salvo, organist |Johnson Family 'Cocktail Capers merstein Music Ha WOL, “PFive-Star Final.” 8:30 pn.—WRC. Wayne King's Orchestra; WJSV, Al Jolson. 9:00 pm.—WMAL, Ben Ber- nie’s Orchestra. 9:30 pm.—WRC, Fred Astaire. 10:00 p.m.—Congress After Hours. 11:00 pm.—WMAL, Slumber Musie. 3 {$10,000,000 IS ASKED FOR AIR RESEARCH Bureau of Air Commerce Seeks Additional Funds for Laboratories. By the Associated Press. Bureau of Air Commerce officials reported today they are considering expanding present facilities to give the Government one of the most mod- ern, completely equipped civil aero- nautical laboratories in the world. 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GARNER GETS GAVEL A gavel of the cedar of Lebanon | In ‘the wake of four major air|was presented to Vice President Gar- crashes in December, the department | ner today by Senator Pepper of !called a conference of Government |Florida. experts and airline operators to formu- | A letter from the Franklin County, late a broad co-operative safety pro- | pla, Democratic Executive Commit= gram. It probably will be held early | tee, donor of the gavel, said the wood in February. “is known to grow in only two spots Senator Copeland, Democrat, of |in the world, the Holy Land and in New York said officials of navigation | Franklin County, Fla., near Apalachi- companies which have figured in the |cola. The Vice President promised crashes would be called before the | Pepper he would use the Florida gavel Senate’s Air Safety Committee soon. | today. 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