Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1937, Page 16

A—16 s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, . WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1937. SPORT S. Pressure of Public’s Expectations Eased, Jones Again Dangerous BREAKIN WEATHER They Gave the Ringworms an Eyefu] of Action WOULDBE BIE AID Emperor Victim of Singular | Run of Tough Luck in Masters Tourney. BY GRANTLAND RBICE. OW will Bobby Jones make out at his fourth show over the Augusta national course, starting Thursday? A number of correspondents have passed this query along for our in- spection. Bob, as you may recall, gave up competitive golf after his grand slam in 1930 and finally was lured back, largely against his will, &s host and competitor over the course he and Dr. Allister MacKenzie carved out through Georgia pines and maples, to say nothing of dogwood | flaming in pink and white. In three previous starts Bob dis- covered that the combination of a four-year lay-off, the job of acting | as host and one appearance a year | gave him little chance against 60 of the world's greatest professionals, sea- soned under the suns that range from California to Florida, all *“tourna- ment tough,” as Bill Tilden once called it It was too much to ask of a human being, no matter the greatness of his tournament days. Bobby Jones never offered an alibi in his life. He never invited one. He never has needed one. But in an- swer to the above query, “How will Jones make out this week?” I am going to offer at least one angle that perhaps may border on the alibi zone. Bob Victim of Weather. IN EACH of his three appearances This eighth-round shot of the Williams (left) versus Mader bout at Turner’s Arena last night came at a period when the Hobo was perilously close to being stopped. At it was Eddie earned a unanimous nine-round decision. Their previous eight-round encounter was voted a draw. —Star Staff Photo. since 1930—three in six years any chance Jones might have had was wrecked completely by an out- burst of wretched weather that hap- | rened to hit Aurusta on these par- | ticular dates—a swirl of driving rains and chilling winds that made good golf extremely difficult even for those who had been cracking par week after week from one ocean to another. It takes a lot of tournament seasoning to get any golfer ready for high-class play in rain and wind, especially when he hasn't faced such conditions | for several years. In 1934 and 1935 Bob played little golf before the Augusta tournament started. In 1936 he went out to get ready early. Playing under the warm suns of the South, he toured the Augusta | battlefield between 65 and 70, day after day. Playing with leading pros, | e more than held his own. But the tournament opened to a | ewirl of rain and Winter winds. Jones had & 78 on the first round. So did Gene Sarazen. Craig Wood jumped to an 87 or an 88. But Bob never! found his touch or caught his stride | egain. He lost the confidence Lhat‘ had returned around the greens. Has Same Old Swing. | T ALWAYS have felt that, with good | weather, Jones still would have | been among the first 5 or 10, despite | the handicaps he faced. Nothing has happened to the famous Jones swing—as smooth as the Spring winds that drift across the red clay hills. But, as Bob always has said, “Tournament golf and friendly golf are two entirely different games. Golf iz about 70 per cent on the mental and psychological side. Tournament golf is the hardest kind of work, de- manding continued concentration on every stroke played.” It is easy enough to see that the ability to concentrate isn't going to last long after one quits serious golf. | Concentration, under pressure, must | be developed into a habit. It is no | natural gift. Few ever get it, anyway. Naturally, the effort to concentrate | isn't going to improve under driving | rains and winds from the barren lands. This applies especially to the short game, where confidence and delicacy | of touch are two controlling factors. i No Answer. ‘A LL this still isn't answering the | question as to how Bob Jones will eome along at Augusta this week. | Look at the recent North and South open at Pinehurst. Fifteen broke par the first day over one of the world's | finest courses. Denny Shute and Horton Smith had 67s. Sam Snead | and Byron Nelson had 68s, and they are two of the kids. Augusta presents the top layer of professional golf—Cooper, Smith, Picard, Shute, Snead, Nelson, Revolta, Laffoon, Manero, Sarazen, Runyan, Macfarlane, Guldahl, Dudley, Thom- son, Wood, Little, Armour—on and on. For 10 years Bob Jones ran one-two | against the pick of the game. But he | has been out of action and the pace | has picked up. And after the last three vears the old shadow of Bobby Jones has been lifted from the pack. They are playing the course now- not Bobby Jones, as they once dil They are thinking largely in terms of teating par—not merely getting it. This is still no answer. I don't| think there is an answer. But I be- leve at least part of the strain has | been lifted. Bob no longer feels that the public expects him to win. He, himself, never expected to come from Elba to Mount Olympus. He knew what the barriers were. But an old-timer is entitled to a dream. I still feel that, with pleasant weather, now due to break after three bad years, the same R. T. Jones, jr., may be found stepping along with the front rank. The breaks against him have been too incredible to last for- ever. You can't pick any man to win in this fleld, where the odds should be at least 10 to 1 against any starter— 10 to 1 or even higher. There may be even a surprise—if fate removes that horseshoe from its glove. Probably not. But stranger things have hap- pened. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Amerizaa Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) TEXANS MOVE UP. DALLAS, Tex. (#)—Five former University of Texas base ball players | are listed on the major leagues’ rookie roster. They are Outfielder Ernie Koy of the New York Yankees, Outfielder Morris Sands, Pittsburgh; Catcher Henry Helf, Cleveland; Infielder Au- brey Graham, Boston Red Sox, and Pitcher Dick Midkiff, Red Sox. PACKARD Pry Motor Car Co. M President 5019 Conn. Ave. N.W. Clev. 6200 Convincing—Battle With Mann Should Tell. UDGED upward a notch, at N least locally, by his victory over | Turner's Arena, Eddie Mader, New York heavyweight, today concen- toward national recognition and | Eddie’s comeback campaign, which | is somewhat ironical when you con- old. will assume importance in fistic circles, or, like so many other attempted 98-cent sweater in the immediate fu- ture. It all hinges on the outcome of New Haven, Conn., on Monday. Mann, a murderous puncher, defi- have been bothering local ringworms. | They would like to know, for instance, , upon in recent months by fistic fate or whether he actually is washed up The 21-year-old Mann, who already | has garnered much respect in heavy- Mader's boxing compass. Either Eddie has been unfortunate very consistently oblivion. Mann is an excellent ba- rometer of what to expect of Mader in Decision Over Williams Not BY BURTON HAWKINS. Hobo Williams last night at trated on his first difficult step back | swanky hotels. | sider the Irish lad is only 23 years ring resuscitations, may fade like a his argument with Nathan Mann at nitely will settle a few questions which | if Mader merely has been frowned and doesn’t know it. weight ranks, will swing the needle on of late or he's sliding toward ring the future. Mader Still Ring Puzzle. NOBODY ever has accused Williams | of being a polished fighter, despite his marked improvement in recent months, so Eddie’s decision triumph in the nine-rounder last night hardly is | % a stepping stone to fistiana's easy | street. Rather, Eddie still is rated as | just another light-heavyweight to the majority of local fight followers. | | Reminiscing a bit, it is difficult for | them to regard Mader's win as im- pressive in the light of set-ups which | have been thrown at Williams here. Naturally you ask how Mader has managed to tumble so rapidly in the past year. Sickness and a sprained | ankle have played their part, but cer- | tainly Mader must have lost some of | the persuasiveness in his paws. It's| difficult to believe the dynamite which trounced Tony Galento, now ranked seventh among the heavyweights by the National Boxing Association, still | Is there. Mader still has youth on his side, however, and Gene Adams, his new trainer, apparently is an expert body mechanic. Eddie’s worth watching when he’s in shape and his improved condition was evident against Wil- | liams. Ninth Round Decisive. HILE the scrap was close, the unanimous decision in Mader’s | favor clearly was anticipated by the near-capacity crowd of 1,600. If any doubt lurked in the collective mind of the crowd, Mader neatly erased it in the ninth round when he staggered Hobo with three authoritative rights to the head. Hobo had given a highly creditable performance up to that conclusive ninth round, which, incidentally, was tacked on when Mader requested 10 rounds and Hobo sought an eight- rounder. The tattooed Alexandrian employed a straight left to the head and a chopping right to the noggin as his most effective weapons, but Mader’s | THE National Capital League, eight | in the tournament. POLISH concentrated body attack finally re- turned dividends as Hobo wilted. Max Roesch, youthful Texas heavy- weight, climbed from the floor to score | a technical knockout over Jimmy Wil- son of Worcester, Mass., after 2 min- | utes and 15 seconds of the second round in a scheduled six-rounder. Max was dropped in the first with a left to the midsection, but retaliated to smash Jimmy to the canvas three times be- | fore Referee Muggsy Morris called a halt to the hostilities. In other preliminaries, Frankie De Angelo, local featherweight, whipped Jimmy Letto of Baltimore in a fast four-rounder; Murray Kanner, local heavyweight, earned a decision over | Tom Ponte, former intercollegiate heavyweight champion, in a dull six- rounder, and Mike O'Leary, Baltimore lightweight, chilled Joe (Palooka) | Mathews of Richmond with a right | to the chin after 2 minutes and 50 | seconds of the first round. ENTRIES FLOWING Flocks for W. C. D. A. Championships. RVILLE EBERSOLE, secretary A pin Association, is gathering entries for the annual city | championships by the bundle. League will meet at the Arcadia and, with Dave Burrows giving the boys a strong selling argument, likely will Ebersole Gathers Them in of the Washington City Duck- | Tonight the Columbia Heights enter its 10 teams. National Capital in Solid. teams, is in solid and already has | been given a tournament date, April 2. Kenny Beck, director of the George Commercial League of 14 teams, hopes to swing the league’s entire member- | ship for the big pin party to open | at the Lucky Strike April 20. | Tomorrow night Ebersole will ad- | dress the Takoma Bowling Association | in the hope of persuading it to use league prize money to put its 16 teams Wants Official Averages. N THE meantime, the W. C. D. A. secretary urges official scorers to sending their averages as soon as possible. These must be used to| classify the bowlers and the job this | year, due to a heavy entry, is expected to be tougher than usual. There are six classifications which give bowlers of all degrees of prowess a fair opportunity to collect. Entry blanks are available at all bowling establishments and applications must be in the hands of Ebersole by mid- night April 2. FRANCHISES AVAILABLE. Several franchises are available in the Sport Center-Government Base Ball League, which will hold a meet- ing at 8 o'clock tonight at 5113 Sec- ond street northwest. Why Pay THOUSANDS OF TIRES—TUBES Standard Makes—Nationally Advertised GOODRICH AND FEDERAL BATTERIES Guaranteed Up to 3 Yrs. $995 EXCH. 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He gets up early, jogs around the park in this little cliff | town overlooking the Hudson, goes to New York and works out at a gym- | nasium, visits his manager, Joe Gould. | Braddock Accepts Papers. | 'HIS is all he does, and yet he is credited with all sorts of fabulous | things. “Braddock Dodges Schmeling” | reads one headline . . “Braddock Threatens to Quit Chicago Bout,” | screams another . . . “Braddock Going to Berlin,” announces a third. Yet Braddock himself does none of these things. Gould does them all. Yesterday, however, the champion found one job his manager could not do. Madison Square Garden was call- ing Jimmy into Federal Court to show why he should not be forced to meet Schmeling in New York June 3, before meeting Joe Louis in Chicago on June 22. The champion went to Newark and calmly accepted the papers. Garden Has Whip-Hand. AT THE moment it appears that Madison Square Garden has the whip-hand. If the New Jersey Fed- eral Court does restrain Braddock from meeting Louis until he has fought Schmeling, the champion’s chances are not good. And even if the Louis fight, the champion’s prob- | lems still are unsolved. Recent developments in Chicago in- dicate that somebody out that way is not too anxious to have the Louis- Braddock fight and yet there always is the possibility of a suit it Gould does not go through with the Chicago bout. ‘The only thing everybody agrees on is that Braddock deserves a better break than he's getting. NEEDS PRACTICE GAME. A practice game is wanted by the Railway Mail Service base ball team with some nine having a diamond. Call Manager Ralph Egan at Cleve- land 5507. EASTON SEEKING KING. Judson (Lefty) King, a local sand- lotter, is being sought by Frank (Home Run) Baker, who is managing the Easton, Md, base ball team. More? All Firsts. Two complete floors of the most diversi- fied stocks ever assembled. 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UT at that the veteran Philadel- phia campaigner was only a stroke better than Kathryn Hemphill of Co- lumbia, 8. C.,, who had a par 72. The Palmetto star has matched Patty Berg, the Minneapolis schoolgirl, for tournament honors this Winter. Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill, N. C, who recently set the rec- ord for the 6,119-yard. No. 3 course at 72; Deborah Verry of Worcester, Mass., the defending champion, and Jane Cothran of Greenville, S. C, had 74s. Jean Bauer of Providence, R. I, runner-up to Miss Verry last year, was the only other player in the fleld of 82 to break 80. DUE FOR NINTH LETTER CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 30 (#)— Wilbur Henry, a blond young husky, appeared destined today to become the first winner of nine major letters at Illinois since 1920. Henry is on the Illini base ball squad and virtually certain of winning another major “I.” The last Illinois athlete to win nine major monograms was Burt Ingwersen, now assistant foot ball coach at Northwestern Uni- versity. A 10-letter man in high school af Benton, Ill, Henry has three mon grams from Illinois foot ball and bas- ket ball and two for base ball. Fights Last Night alph (Indian) Hur- drew with Axie ewark, N. J. (K). ICAGO.—Harold ~ Brown. ~ 144, Chicago. outpointed Al Manfredo, 149, Fresno, Calil. £ 1ll.-—Scotty McLean, 1 outpointed Sonny Akers, 14 Kansas City (10 IT.—Maxie Rosenbloom. 187, outpointed Roscoe Toles, fe Hughes . outpointed Erie Pa. (10) Mass. — Bobby Allen. Scotia. outpointed Joe Of Stars From BY JOHN B. KELLER. HEN Laverne Baxter, the mad man of the mat, and | George Koverly, another | tough hombre, meet in Joe Turner's wrestling arena Thursday night, maybe they'll be paving the way for some lad of the Washington sand {lots to the major league base ball leagues a few years hence. For Uncle Joe, one of the finest sportsmen the Capital has produced, is cutting a bit off the top of the Thursday night house for the Dis- trict's league of Junior Legion base ball and graduates of the base ball school sponsored by the American Legion as part of its Americanism program have come up to the big show right regularly the past few | years. Seven stars of the Junior: Le- gion program have mad: news at major league training camps this year and one was a truly big shot before the clubs opened their conditioning grinds. | The outstanding Junior Ilegion lad is none other than Robert William Feller, who last year in his first season | with the Indians established an Amer- | | ican League record when he struck | out 17 Athletics in a game. Feller, | retained by the Indians after a wran- | gle that needed a decision by Judge Landis, pitched for the Van Meter, Iowa, American Legion junior team only two years ago. Now in his nine- | teenth year, he is one of the best- paid pitchers in the majors. Doerr Red Sox Whirlwind. | ROBERT PERSHING DOERR, just | 19, looks a sure shot as the second | baseman of the Red Sox. He has been going great guns down in Florida. Five years ago Bob started playing as a member of the Los Angeles Legion team that won the State and regional | championships. When only 16, Hol- | lywood of the Coast League picked | him up and he became a regular | . without delay. Now it seems he is up in the big show to stay. | The Red Sox have another Junior Legion graduate in Fabian Sebastian | | Gaffke, a hard-hitting outfielder lifted from the Minneapolis club. Gaffke was & star catcher on a crack Junior Legion team in Milwaukee a few years ago. He batted .342 for the Millers last year and among his 213 hits were 25 homers. That hitting was good enough to drive over 132 runs. Two Junior Legion graduates are trying out with the Cubs. Kirby Higbe, | | a pitcher, was the slab ace of the| Columbia, S. C., Junior Legion team | that won the State championship in 1931, but lost in the Legion world | series at Houston. In that series| Higbe lost in a 1-to-0 mound duel in | which he fanned 14 Chicago batters. | Moon Meyer, looking for an outfield | berth with the Cubs, was a member of | the Chicago team that won the Junior | Legion championship in 1933. An old | Junior Legion teammate, Phil Cavar- | retta, beat him to a Cub uniform by two years. Chisox Get Third Base Star. \VITH the other Chicago club, the White Sox, is Stephen Carl Mes- ner of Los Angeles. A corking third Big Leagues Reap Rich Crop Legion Nines; Turner’s Rassle Card Will Aid baseman, this lad , says Manager Jimmy Dykes. He's only 19 now, but he’s been playing ball since he was 9 years old. He led his Junior Legion team in hitting and when he was but | 14 he was voted the all-Western Junior Legion third baseman. Mike Tresh is another Junior Legion graduate after a job in the American League. He is trying out as a catcher. Mike used to work behind the bat for | the young Detroit Legionnaires and | now is getting a trial with the Tigers. They play fast base ball in the Junior Legion. If you don’t believe it, take a slant at Buddy Lewis some time. The Nationals’ star third sacker came up almost directly from the Gas- tonia, N. C., Junior Legion team. So Joe Turner in giving the eight- club Junior Legion League here a bit off the top of the rassle house Thurs- day night may be developing some star for the big show in base ball Joe’s making the contribution toward the purchase of equipment for the youngsters. The American Legion posts here that are sponsoring the clubs are footing the greater part of the bill, of course. But Turner will be just as proud as the sponsoring posts should' one of the boys he is helping go up to one of the major circuits. HAVE 14-MEET CARD Evening Star Tournament, Third on List, at Indian Spring on May 26-27. 14-TOURNAMENT schedule, run- ning from April 22 through Oc- tober 26, has been announced by the District Women's Golf Association Each of the 14 was held here last year, no new ones being added to the 1937 calendar Once again Washington was award- ed the annual Middle Atlantic cham- pionship, which this year will be staged at Indian Spring for the four days October 12-16. The District | championship tournament is_sched- uled for Chevy Chase from June 14 to 18. The Evening Star Cup Tournament, third on the season schedule, will be played at Indian Spring on the two | days May 26 and 27. te schedule: Phylls Keele: nd & noles Mrs. Frank Royer Keefer se. Evening Star Cup, Indian June 8 to 12—Maryland State cham- pionships. course in Baltimore to be named e 14 to 18—District of Columbia championships at Chevy Chase June Duffers tournament at Manor July 3 hington Herald Cup, Wood- mont September 9—Corby Cup. Columbia Septembe: Washington Post match plav trophy tournament, Columbia Country Club. September 30—President’s Plate, Con- Atlantic cham- GRANT AND RIEES RULING NET PLAY {Appear Headed for Final at Atlanta—Lone Favorite Sent Three Sets. BS the Assocfated Press. TLANTA, March 30.—Bryan Grant and Bobby Riggs headed today into second-round op- position that seemed unlikely to check their drive to the finals of the Atlanta invitational tennis tourna- ment—and & possible hint on Davis Cup line-ups. Grant, diminutive Atlantan who is 8 veteran at 26, said yesterday he | figured the teen-age national clay courts champion from California would fight it out with him and Prank Parker for the Davis Cup singles berth not pre-empted by Don Budge. Grant set the tone for the eight seeded entries yesterday by blasting Burtz Boulware of Georgia Tech, 6—0, 6—2. Today he faced seasoned Ver- non Marcum of Lakeland, Fla. Riggs breezed through Dr. Glenn Dudley of Atlanta, 6—0, 6—3, and played Malon Courts, Atlanta veteran, today. | Sabin Is Extended. | NLY seeded entry forced to three ‘ sets was Wayne Sabin of Holly- ‘wnod, Calif,, who had a tussle with ‘Presmn Chambers of Atlanta before winning, 7—5, 0—6, 6—4. Red Enloe of Atlanta next. | Joe Hunt, Los Angeles entry, seeded third behind Grant and Riggs, trounced Reg Fleet of Atlanta, 6—0, |6—2, and faced Robert Becker of Atlanta today. 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