Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1937, Page 19

S British Open Golf to Yank, Says H For Bout With Brown Bomber U. S. Titles—Sees Little Making Comeback. BY WALTER HAGEN. American professional will win back the British open championship title and that professional golfers will defeat the British on their own soil for the history of these international matches. None so-called, will win the United States open or profes- ships, as both titles will fall to young men, not years of age. During the year il expect Ameri- than $250,000 in prize money in open competitions in all sections of the country, and that during the Sum- golfing classic which will carry the largest prize money ever posted and an additional first prize of $12,000, Picks Young Pros to Win URING 1937 I expect. that an the American Ryder Cup team of first time in the of the old-timers, sional champion- more than 32 can professionals will play for more mer months there will be one new making it the tops for golf. Foresees Golf Gain. mec. in the mood for predicting, I will add that I expect to see & revival of golfing interest this year. I will also make one guess about the amateurs and pick a Pacific Coast player to win this title next Septem- ber. My British friends will howl when they read my forecasts on the British | open and the Ryder Cup. Since Henry Cotton, Alfred Perry and Alf Padgham have won back the British Cup for | three consecutive years, all British | critics think they have regained this title and are going to hold it in- definitely. I recall that it was in 1833 when we were last able to put our eight leading players into the British open at St. Andrews, that Craig Wood and Denny Shute tied for this title and Shute won the play-off. During the last three years our attack on the British open has been casual, with only a handful of men starting. As this is & year when 1t is our turn to send a professional team to Great Britain, I am confident that one of this team will win the British title, and furthermore, that this team will be composed of so many experts that it cannot possibly lose the Ryder Cup match in England late in June. Young Man’s Game. OLF is & game for all ages, but real top-notch championship golf among the professionals is for the young men. My guess at the quarter-million- dollar figure as the total prize money which will be distributed in 1837 is based on information I have from the Tournament Bureau of the P. G. A. regarding sponsors in all sections of the country and the purses listed. Coming to the national amateur championship of 1937. It will be played at Alderwood Country Club 1n‘ Portland Oreg., and this will mean by“ far the strongest entry of Pacific Coast amateurs ever to compete, and like- wise, a small delegation from other | sections of the United States. I know how those Pacific Coast amateurs can | handle themselves, especially on the | home grounds, and with the numerical advantage they will have in the 1937 national I will make a small wager— 8t proper odds—that one of them:‘ comes through. Other Predictions. HERE are a few other 1937 prog- nostications: That Lawson Little will qualify for the national open and come close to winnin g. That Sam Parks, jr, 1935 open champion, will play the best golf of his career. That an American girl will win back the U. S. A. woman's title. That Torchy Toda will become the best player ever developed in Japan and will figure in competition in this country and Europe. | That Old Man Hagen will take | things comparatively easy this year as far as competitive golf goes, but that he will take a keen interest in giving the readers of this column | something on the noble game of golf. | (Copyright, 1937. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited without permission.) COLORED BOXERS CLASH| Benezet Club of Philadelphia to Invade 12th Street “¥.” An inter-city colored boxing match will be held at the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. Saturday when the Bene- wet Boys' Club of Philadelphia sends its team here to meet the local Y. The Philadelphians figure to be the | & first top-notch opponents of the local squad which includes Willie McBride, | Louis Ingram, Jimmie Briscoe and | Washington Alexander. Mat Matches BY the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn—Stanley Pinto, 212, New Hampshire, de- feated Irish Jack Donovan, 220, Boston (2 of 3 falls). ALBANY —Steve Casey, 230, Ireland, defeated Len Macaluso, 218, New York (straight falls). ‘WORCESTER, Mass. — Danno O'Mahoney, 220, Ireland, defeated Oy Williams, 230, Texas (by dis- qualification). NEWARK, N. J—Gino Garfbaldi, 219, St. Louis, defeated Matros Kirilenko (2 of 3 falls). BANGOR, Me.—Fred Bruno, 182, New York, defeated Bulldog Brown, 203, Cleveland; Mike Tel- Jegen, 181, Ukrania, and Lloyd Stewart, 205, Lynn, Mass., in free- for-all match. MINNEAPOLIS.—Dick Raines, 245, Texas, pinned Dick Lever, 240, Nashville. LINCOLN, Nebr.—Jack Kennedy, 210, Dallas, defeated Chief Little Beaver, 235, North Carolina, (two | all. PORTS. preparation for his fight with Garden January 29. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937. BOB PASTOR, New York heavyweight, is working out in a hotel gymnasium in Joe Louis in Madison Square —Wide World Photo. ITH a record entry expected, s ; the Times' Dixie sweep- V stakes for women, prob- ably the most grueling test for fair rollers on the local calendar each year, will be held Saturday at three alleys. Beginning at noon, the pick of woman bowlers from Connecti- cut to Georgia will roll at the Col- umbia, Lucky Strike and Rosslyn alleys in that order, with the second and third blocks commencing at 3:30 and 7:30 o'clock. Three games will be rolledl at each plant, making nine games in Lorraine Gulli will defend the title she won last year with a sensational finish which saw her topple 105 sticks in the last five boxes of her final game to nose out a fellow townswoman, Lucile Young, by six sticks. A guaranteed prize of $100 is at stake for the winners, to receive also a championship trophy. The entry fee | is $6.50. ONE of the greatest duckpinners this town ever has produced turned back the clock six years last night when he shot in the highest | game reported on any drive here. Glenn Wolstenholme, at his peak in 1931, rolled a great 173 at the Lucky Strike with a streak of seven succes- sive single-pin breaks. Two of them, which came in the first seven boxes, he missed. But he spared in the last three frames for a total of eight marks in the 10 boxes. It was a season's record game for the Income Tax Unit League, in which Wolstenholme’s Record No. 1 team | took two from D-2. Wolstenholme fin- | ished the evening with an even 400 set. Joe Harrison's average in the Ross- lyn Independent League is at a new high of 125-12 today, following a 387 set last night with Dickey Bros., whom he led to a 2-1 victory over E. Davis & Sons. Walter Olson of R. E. A. Cleaners had the league's best game, 156. Three others—Billy Stalcup, Bill MEN'S SECTION. Team Standing. Team Billh'mer-P'mer Chillum __ _ Carr Br-B'well Frey's Stand__ Md. Dairy Pro. Smith's Tavern R-E-A Cleaners S Q & S Laundry Terish & Sons Rector's-Ice-Fel Tvin's Biscuits. Natl. Nov. Co. Hoffman's Dept. Individual Averages. (Ten games or more.) BILLHIMER-PALMER. ve, 9-32 J. Deputy 5~ Hutchison 3 G. A Billheimer 45 11 W. Wolfe 5 3-31 McClay- e 33 11 Sheehy __ 39 11. 17 Miller ___ '8 Heilman _ o %m0 fotoy oty 1 14-4 39 113-29 FREY'S Lanhardt 35 108-10 C.Talif'rro 45 105-16 C. Fre E.Talif'rro 46 104-22 Asa: MARYLAND DAIRY PRODUCTS. Temple . 48 118-29 L. Smith_ ott B 113-42 Beeley__. H.MBmith 45 113-11 SMITH'S TAVERN. C. Lilley. 42 116-19 J. Miller Eoflmln, 44115-35 Maddern._ 5-4 4 an Ritchie. Hilliard Snowden_ Hershey. Browning 7-16 C.Talif'rro 47 1 (4)-?0 Cairncross 48 1 Beaumont 4-9 Parsons. g-l 9 Joyce... Anderson _18111-13 Wyndham 4! yka 43 109-37 J.LM'yka 41 107-22 McGrath_ 4 Waldrop_ 33 McCall -~ Keeler __ P. Wolfe_ 45124-8 Bowie 011 Bobb. 36 110-17 Duncal 44 110-6 Wood____ 45 107-28 42109-33 C.Sta'cliff 39 99-12 falls). Man Mountain Dean, 317, Geor- gia, defeated Brother Jonathan, | Rectol W.Sta’clift 45 108-37 IVIN'S BISCUITS. Wood and Ed Brooks—came within one of tying Harison's set, all shoot- ing 386. ¥wo more season records go into the file of the Ladies’ Cath- elic League, made by Betty Clifford, who shet a high game of 134 to lead her St. Peter's B team to & team-game record of 527, St. Francis Xavier clung to the lead despite & 2-1 setback by Holy Com- forter D. The three leaders of the Columbia Heights League scored 2-1 victories at Arcadia last night, Cool's Fountain, Vincent Barbers and Hessick Coal keeping step in the hot race. Two of them, the Barbers and Cool’s, had high 1,772. George (Pinky) Bradt of Arcade Sunshine turned in the high individ- ual game, 155, while the 380 set of Weinger of Eagle Bedding was tops. HILE their pace-setting rivals | were idle, the Columbians gained ground in the Washington Ladies’ League by taking two from the No- mads. Marjorie Smith led the way with high game of 137 and high set of 362. The Vee Bees and Cardinals fell before the rush of the Beeques and Colonials, who scored three straight. Losing the 14-pin advantage they amassed in the first block, the George- town Recreation girls were defeated in the inter-city match with the Na- was completed at the local drives. The visitors picked up 25 pins to win by 11, the final count being National Beer, 3,004; Georgetown, 2,993. High set for the return match was rolled by Georgia Haye of Recreation, more was only one stick behind her. Violat Bechtold and Mrs. Hays tied for high individual game honors, shooting 121. Preliminaries to the Dixie Sweep- stakes, with entry fees in the women's classic as the prizes, will be held at the Arcadia tomorrow and Friday nights after the Ladies’ Federal and Ladies’ Independent Leagues have rolled. Entry fees for the prelims will be $1.45. Prince Georges County Loop NATIONAL NOVELTY CO. 16 98-10 28 97-1 39 94-27 - 22 11118 - 45 107-28 Keefer. 46 106-40 Middletn. 28 ~98-18 HOFFMAN'S HOME APPLIANCES. Worley__ 42 108-20 Thomps'n 48 106-46 Spicknall 26 107-18 Hoffman 37 104-24 Davis__ 43 107-17 Tenley__ 38 104-11 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Skinner_ 47 109-37 Ward 6 103-20 Armst.. J. 35 108-31 Abel 45 103-36 Armst. Season Record High team game—Smith's Tavern. £63. High team set—Smith’s Tavern, 1.915. High individual game—P_Wolfe. High individual set—8, Miller. 4 High number strikes—P. Wolfe. High number spares—P. Wolfe. 160, High average—P. Wolfe—124-6. WOMEN'S SECTION. Team Standins. wild., 8 Wwild: C. O'Neiil " G Burton's Flowers 48 Hilltoppers ____ 48 Cherie’s Bty. Sp. 48 Eishmp's. " Yeast 43 Individual Averages. (Ten games or more.) BURTON'S FLOWERS. G 0 Elmo... 45 1 Webb 21 HILLTOPPERS. 03-14 Mehaffie 48 CHERIE'S BEAUTY SHOP. Anderson 48 01-34 Sanders. 45 Dula... 45 90-29 Piozet_. 48 iseman 45 90-35 3-34 8-19 Cla: 87-44 Meushaw 24 DIXIE PIG. 8t giee 42 92-1 TnerE. 48 90-35 04-29 Motyka. 21 93-31 Billh'mer 0 Hanso! 87-20 SG-B 5-35 I H P w BER 84-18 BAGeET, 77-19 u_ hoemkr. Shomberg - %% 8R-33 McKallor 45 10 Dodge.. 48 48 Ten- 3 e vans- - 7037 5 Evans__ 42 82-23 B Knred 88 768 Ruttum. 30 COACH KNOWS STUFF. PITTSBURG, Kans. (#)—Sinoe Lovelace. 17 108-11 McCrmac Cashell. ii ifi:-z’ ‘enezky . 32100.18 07881 Deavers. 1922 the basket ball teams coached by John Lance at the Pittsburg Teach- ers’ College won 314 games, lost 78. [ Rated Conference’s Best. Terps Meet Loop Team By the Assoclated Press. R ICHMOND, Va., January 13.— wrestling will compete with basket ball for the indoor this week end. Eight dual meets in the personal combat sports are on Duke scrappers, favored to take over the ring title relinquished by Vir- should be one of the best campus fistic shows of the season. power in first appearances last week. A feature bout at the Nation's Duke’s N. C. A. A. light-heavyweight champion, pitted against Catholic Wolfpack battlers enter the ring at Columbia against South Carolina’s FOR C. U. RINGMEN in Richmond U. College - style boxing and spotlight in the Southern Conference Saturday’s schedule. ginia, will engage Catholic U. in what Both teams demonstrated smashing Capital will find Ray Matulewicz, U.’s Dunne. North Carolina State’s Gamecocks. Two Other Big Matches, TWO other family ring duels are listed, with North Carolina’s strong team journeying to Virginia Tech and Richmond making its debut game and set, respectively, 617 and | tional Beer lassies of Baltimore over | the week end when the competition | 320, although Anna Lennert of Balti- | at Maryland. The Tarheels and Old Liners are regarded as Duke's hardest-belting rivals for the conference crown. Virginia’s Cavaliers, who left the conference after holding the boxing throne for six years, will embark on their first independent campaign against V. M. I. at Lexington. The wrestlers will turn to inter- collegiate competition after warm-up meets. V. M. I, runner-up to Wash- | ington and Lee for conference hon- | ors last year, will meet N. C. State| at Raleigh in one of the outstanding matches. Virginia Tech's grapplers will take the mat against North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Davidson's Wildcats | will entertain Duke, PINE, TEMES BILLED IN BOXING FEATURE iPromising Akron Featherweight| Will Meet D. C. Veteran Here Monday Night. LOYD PINE, promising young Akron, Ohio, featherweight who stayed 10 rounds with Petey Sarron, world champion, several months ago, will meet Joe Temes, veteran local | 126-pounder, in a 10-round co-feature | bout at Turner's Arena Monday night. Pine. in his only local appearance, held Harry Jeffra, rated as Sixto Es- cobar's leading challenger for the bantamweight title, to a draw, while Temes gave the highly regarded Lou Gevinson a stiff test, although losing, here several weeks ago. Jack Burke, who faces Lew Ray- mond, Baltimore welterweight, in the other 10-rounder, is an Ogden, Utah, | lad, who has trimmed Ceferino Gar- | cia, Barney Ross’ prime contender, while Raymond has trounced Phil Furr. In 72 fights, Burke has knocked out 32 swingers. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. SEATTLE.—Al Hostak, 15533, Seattle, knocked out Tony Fisher, 1593;, Newark, N. J. (2) WEST PALM BEACH.—Melio Bettina, 17 stopped Carl Knowles, 175, Rome. Ga. (tech- nical knockout, 3); Eddie Coderre, 180, Providence, R. I, outpointed Eric Erickson, 178'2, Gardner, Mass. (8). JERSEY CITY.—Casper Abruzzi, 150, New York, outpointed Natha Boddick, 148, Scotland (8); Eddie Dunne, 135, New York, outpointed Red Panico, 135, Bayonne, N. J. (8). a Reduction of Implements to | Affect Pockets, Not Play of Stars. BY W. R. McCALLUM. HIEF losers from the restric- tion to 14 clubs in the golf bags of the Nation's links warriors next year will be the manufacturers and the pros who keep America’s divot lifters supplied | with gadgets for topping tee shots, ac- cording to a poll of the pros who played in the Los Angeles open cham- pionship. The big-name pros themselves won’t be badly handcuffed by reducing the number of clubs in their volumi- nous golf kits to 14, even though today they carry an average of 19 clubs. The men who sell clubs and the men who make 'em will absorb most of the rap from the l4-club edict, the play- ing pros believe. For example, Henry Picard, who has three golf shops at Hershey, Pa., says he has a big sale of odd clubs, chippers, putters, spoons and other | miscellaneous clubs which are added | to the matched sets usually in use. Picard figures that with the new limi- | tation on equipment players who are right around the limit will not want to buy new clubs. De Luxe Sets Feared Loss. LES MADISON, one of the better pros around Los Angeles, says he has in his golf shop a number of de | luxe 20-club sets which have sold well among the movie nabobs. “I'm afraid | the demand for this merchandise will be eliminated under the new rule,” says Madison. The big name pros themselves can | cut down easily enough. They can play golf shots, and a club for every shot only makes the game easier for them. But it is interesting to find that 68 of the better known *“name” players in the recent P. G. A. tourna- ment at Pinehurst used en average of 19 clubs to accomplish their links | magic. They used an average of 4.58 wooden | clubs, and 14.41 irons for an average | to each bag of five over the new limit per man. And it's also interesting to note that Gene Sarazen uses only 15 clubs, with 5 woods and 10 irons, while Harry | Cooper puts 24 clubs on the back oXi his caddy. The L. A. open showed no reduction in the number of clubs used by the leading piayers, but they have 8 year to decitie what clubs they need and they’ll take full advantage of it. | AS A matter of fact there isn't any | ! need for 50 many clubs, comments | {O. B. Keeler. “The new 3 and 4 | spoons,” he eays, “are just spoons and after all one spoon will do. The Many Clubs Superfiuous. No. 1 iron is practically of no use except in really expert hands. Most of the stuff carried in an oversize bag | outside of the mashie; No. 3, mashie- | niblick and niblick is confined to extra chippers, wind-jammers, put- ters and so on, and any player could et along without 'em.” Bob Jones, according to Keeler, carried 16 clubs through the 1830 campaign when he won all four major championships. I can't imagine that Bob couldn't have gotten along with two less. FRIENDS JUNIORS WIN A field goal by L. Newmyer in the last few seconds of play clinched a 26-23 victory for Friends School's junior basket ball team over the St. | John’s Church junior team yesterday | on the winner's court. | Newmyer and Trower of St. John's tied for individual scoring honors with 8 points apiece. FriendsJr. G.FPts. St.JJr, L Newmyerf 4 0 » Trower.{ Lumpin.f Payne.f Brode. ANewm'er.§ Pinck.g SPORT 8. Al A'—l9" — ngen : Bag Limit Hits Club Market By W.R McCalLun slow fairways. When four gents in a golf contest get themselves seven birdies in the short space of five holes it's really burning up, and when two of the four get around such a lengthy golf course as that Congressional layout is with & best ball of 68 asbestos sand wedges are in order. Billy Dettweiler, Congressional’s budding champ, and Giaggett Stevens, assistant pro, caught a pair of tough guys the other day. But Larry Ber- nard and Gene Pittman, supposed to be hot, turned out to be the payers. Ordinarily you'd think that Dett- weiler and Stevens would- be about 10 to 1 to lick Bernard and Pittman, but Dettweiler hasn't been playing at all well, while Pittman and Ber- nard have been playing very well, which was supposed to make the match even. But Billy and Claggett got their shots clicking and poked out a best ball scere of 68 to win going away. Claggett led in the scoring with a 72. Bernard was 75, while Dettweiler was 77 and Pittman was 79. Four weeks after his return from Florida the lads were taking Claggett to the cleaners, but lately the Rock- ville golfer has been in the groove and now he's taking on all comers. His four latest scores have been 72, 73, 74, 72, which figure out at an average around 73. Par for the Cangressional course is 72 and the fairways are soft, and the ball gets hardly any roll. You can figure out for yourself whether Clag- gett is & soft touch these days. First Ace of 1937, L 5. POUND of Arlington, Va, is ® the first man around Washing- ton to make a hole in one during 1837. | Pound scored his ace on the seventh hole of G course at East Potomac Park, playing in a three-ball match | with his brother, Bll Pound, and Ron- | ald Bergdoff. The hole is 162 yards in length and | Pound played the shot with a mashie. Twentx-eight aces were made on courses in the metropolitan area of | Washington in 1936, which put the| National Capital at the top in the mat- | ter of holes in one. Wonder if that record will be broken this year? It's remarkable how play keeps going at the public courses these days. | Five hundred persons turned out on Saturday—a fine day— at East Potomac Park, while 300 | braved the rain on Sunday for | their round of golf. | About the same number played at Rock Creek Park each day. his brother Gay two or three holes a nine and lick him. Rudy plays in the high 80s, while Gay normally is & high 80s or low 90s shooter. They passed on the course at Washington, Gay playing the ninth and Rudy the fourth hole. *“Hey, Rudy, will you give me 3 up a nine for a Nassau bet?” yelled Gay. “Sure, anything you want,” said Rudy. But Gay went out in 38, which is a good many strokes below his usual score, and came back in 41 for a 79, and brother Rudy still wonders where the cyclone hit. Bag Limit Not Annoying Pros. ROFESSIONAL golfers, talking over the 14-club edict of the United States Golf Association, have figured out & way to beat the rule and | still keep within the specified num- ber of bats, In 1938, they say, they'll play a number of practice rounds over courses where tournaments are scheduled with all their clubs and figure out the clubs they’ll need to score. Then on the day the tourna- ment starts will have only the orthodox number—and the right clubs—in their golf bags. All of 'em can cut down to the 14- club limit without trouble, although many carry 10 more than the limit in the tournaments nowadays. . KRIEGER OR YAROSZ MAY GAIN TITLE GO Winner Tonight Likely to Meet of the District championship Steele, Middle Champ, Who Will See Contest. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 13.—Two of the better-known 155-pounders, | slugging Solly Krieger of New York and former Champion Teddy Yarosz from Pittsburgh, tangle tonight to eliminate one from the crowd of m dleweights invading Broadway's fight circles these days. Looking on at their 10-round mill in the Hippodrome will be the cur- rent, title holder, Preddy Stecle of T: coma. He may take on the winner defense of his title, although Babe Risko, another former champion, and Jimmy McLarnin also have been men- tioned. Krieger and Yarosz for the moment are at the top of the heap of 155- pounders around town. Also on hand | is Fred Apostoli of San Francisco, who meets Ken Overlin of Norfolk on January 27. Krieger, 6-to-5 favorite tonight, fig- ures an impressive showing against the Pittsburgher may earn him a crack at Steele. He stopped Harry Balsamo a few weeks ago, to end & threat a lot of experts thought would rise to a title shot. Yarosz, insisting he's no longer bothered by a trick knee, also is hop- ing for another chance to take the Rudy Harrell ordinarily can give| crown. Your left foot should get to work sooner than your right toe or fingers. Shove down the clutch pedal be- fore you touch the starter, ignition, or choke. In that way your engine turns independently of your trans- mission, taking a needless cold weather load off your starter and battery. Keep the clutch down till your engine is running steadily. That’s always next to no time, CONOCO SPECIAL WINTER. using special nal of power HE local fathers of golf are all ment season tentatively mapped out await the annual meeting slated for \Dates Picked for Tourneys Will Not Be Announced Un- til February 1. set for a banner year on the several golf layouts around the Capital. With their tourna- and dates set for the more important fixtures around Washington, the offi- cers of the District Golf Association Pebruary 1 at the University Club to | make public the dates and places of the major affairs. HE Executive Committee of the District of Columbia Golf Asso= | ciation gathered last night at the { Columbia Country Club, discussed the | coming season and adopted tentative dates, and listened to the reports of President Martin R. West, Vice Presi= dent James A. Cosgrove and Secretary William C. Barr, who attended the annual meeting of the ted States Golf Association in N York last j week. Dates Not Announced. EELING that some readjustments | may have to be made and that in the final analysis the approval of | tournament dates rests with the clubs, | the Executive Committee did not an nounce the dates tentatively ap- | proved for the tournaments, nor did | the committee make public the venue this year. This tourney probably will be {held after the national samateur, which this year comes ear | on August 23 at Portland, Oreg. | while the committee made no com- mitment as to dates, Ralph S. F golf chairman at the Golf and Cou May 4, 5, 6 and 7 the Washington cl is expected, and will be fo i sumed by the tournaments of the Chevy Chase Club and the Manor Club | The latter club holds an invi- 1 tation event every two years, affair, 1t and 1937 is one of the tourna- | ment years, under the regular schedule, | "THE three delezates to the U. 8. 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