Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1937, Page 57

S PORTS. THE EVENING STAR \\'ASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 1 1937. SPORTS. D—3 Jones Is Merely a Sideshow in Classic Tournament at Augusta GREMWARRAY'}LOW Girl Team in Pin Loop Triumphs as Handicap Race OIS LD HASTER Former King of Links Not Expected to Finish Among First 15 of Meet. BY PAUL MICKELSO! 27 the Assoctated Press. ! UGUSTA, Ga., Aprii 1.—On this April fool's day the great Bobby Jones had a chance to play the slickest prank in golf. Now a Sunday golfer, a bit rusty and 35 years old, the erstwhile wizard from Atlanta went postward in the fourth annual Augusta national cham- pionship. Sentimentalists backed him, but cold judgment ranked him as one of the longest long shots of a field| studded with 46 of the world’s greatest sharpshooters. “He hasn't a chance to land even among the le: 15" was the con- sensus of keen golf observers. “If he should win, it would be the greatest upset of years.” Nearly Ends HAT the theory of handicaps in league bowling matches, if utilized to the ultimate, will result in practically an even race, has been proved by the Central Presbyterian Intra-Church League, which has just ended its season. Experimenting with full handicaps for mere competition's sake, officials felt more than justified when the final standings of the four-team loop showed only two games' difference be- tween the first and last place teams, with three of the four having a chance for the championship to the last box of the last game. The three teams which did not win finished with iden- tical records, tied for second or last- place honors! Girl Team Triumphs. ORE enlightening ‘is the fact that the championship was won by the only girls’ team in the competition, probably the first time in such an in- stance in which members of the weaker sex have been given a chance to compete on even terms with their Bob Goes From Bad to Worse. ]O ES agreed with them. In the| v three Augustas played thus far | Jones has been going from bad to worse in standings. In 1934 he | finished in he was| twenty-sever hile last year the “grand slam King” of 1930 came in rty-third ¥ ole rounds was the the hottest favorite of on Sr r of two o tas (the other was copped by Gene Janky blond was on top ed to the 6,700- . which is strictly man who w the fie v Smith Choice Over Cooper. JARRY COOPER, leading money winner of the Winter circuit, | rated even with Horton in the odds, | male colleagues. Through handicaps, which reduced the traditional stronger sex to their own level, however, the girls—or “Les Femmes,” as they were called—found themselves on equal footing with the opposite sex as a match started. It was up to them, then, to beat the boys from then on, which they did. | Margaret Warrington, Jane Kennedy | The results of the full handicap in General Tie are shown clearly in the final stand- ing, to wit: ‘Won. Lost. 33 30 31 32 Pct. 524 492 Les Femmes. C. E. League. Pitzer Class. 31 32 492 Sunday School 31 32 492 Further indication of the near-equal- ity is seen by the percentages of each team, so near to the 50-50 mark. Interest Sustained to Last, HAT interest can be sustained | right down to the last game of | the season also was demonstrated | when three teams entered the final match with chances fo win. Les Femmes and Pitzer Class were tied at the start of the final match with 31 won and 29 lost; C. E. League was right on their heels with a 30-30 break | in 60 games. And, because the latter beat the girls in the first game while the Sun- day School was turning back the Pit- zerites, Les Femmes Leaguers and Pit- zerites were found tied for the lead, | with only two games of the season | to go! The gals, however, had what it took, coming back to take the last two from the Leaguers, while the Pitzerites never could get started. Ruby Frazier was captain of the winning team, receiving ample support | on that last night and throughout the season from Maye Irvine Walker, | Gladys Braden, Mary Agnes Gray, | and Margaret Nutter. UBURBAN LEAGUES will supply nearly one-third the total en- try for the twenty-seventh an- nual Washington City Duckpin Association tournament which opens at the Lucky Strike Tuesday, April 20. irnament’s smallest field in | This was revealed today when Earl s—38 professionals, 7 ama- | that man named Jones— east 20 who could win the rize money without caus- | ing a flutter. | Foremost among them, on the basis of recent form, we - young Sam Snead, Jimmy Thomson, Ralph Guldahl, Ky Laffoon, Jimmy Hines, John Revolta, Gene Sarazen, Tony Manero, Paul Runyan, Denny Shute, Lawson Little, Henry Picard and big Ed Dudley, | home club pro. | ARGYLE CLUB GOLF PLAY OPENS TODAY Ringer Tourney Ushers in Card of Dozen Events Lasting Until November. ARGYLE COUNTRY CLUB'S golf season was to start today as com- | petition got under way in the first- half ringer tournament, which rims to June 30. Altogether, 12 tournamnts are list- ed between now and mid-November, with an intra-club match scheduled for June and the club championship J Stocking of Silver Spring and Galt Davis of Rosslyn pledged more than 60 teams between them. When the final check-up.of entries is made, loops from the Capital's out- lying pin establishments, which in- clude Mount Rainier, Hyattsville, Be- | thesda and Takoma, will hit away | over the 100 mark, Arville Ebersole, W. C. D. A. secretary, is confident. Stocking, a former president of the W. C. D. A, is out to land more than 30 teams from his leagues. Last year, his first season at Silver Spring, he pro- duced 24 entries. Frank Spates, scorer for the Silver nue Leagues, is bending every effort | in aiding Stocking to sign both loops | 100 per cent. Women’s League in Line. up the entire 12-team Silver Spring Ladies’ League for the Wash- ington Women’s Duckpin Association tournament, which also will hold its annual event at the Lucky Strike, | starting about a week after the men’s opening. The enterprising Davis, who has 2 <= enjoyved more than fair success in run- ning off the 20-club Rosslyn Inde- pendent League in two shifts, assured %" | Ebersole the loop would enter in & h han, three times for per- official club handicap opening of two-man-team 1 handicap allowance, elim- cap Possession ) 1 to October 15 second-half ringer nament. official club 11, mixed Scotch ha p.m.; tour d 18 holes aqualifi- holes { maich 1 of match play; pionship. club championship. | t, of- | second inal finals SKATING MEET A'E'IEI{ACTS. NEW YORK, April 1 (). —A capac- ity crowd of 16,000 saw the fare- well performance of the charity figure skating carnival in Madison Square Garden last night. The attendance et the fourth and final performance | set & mark of 64,000 total for the spectacle. HOCKEY GAME IS TIGHT. B the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 1— Pittsburgh nosed out Syracuse, 2-1, here last night in a play-off game of the International-American Hockey League. BRAKES RELINED body. He expects to dig a flock of en- tries from the Arlington County, Methodist Protestant and Building Supply Leagues to bring his total up to 50. The solid entry of the Agri- culture Interbureau League from Jack Ferrall yesterday started the ball rolling at Rosslyn. Bowlers who are contemplating roll- ing in the tournament are urged to send in their entries before midnight, April 3. Continue Tight Race. EADLOCKED in'first place, Occi- dental Restaurant, Rose Liquor Store and Heurich Brewers can ex- pect strong opposition tonight when they stack up against second-division clubs in their exciting stretch drive for the championship of the District League. All season the teams in the lower bracket have proved stumbling blocks in their path. The schedule calls for Occidental to battle Arcadia at Con- tackle Lucky Strike at Lucky Strike, Heurich Brewers to tangle with Georgetown at Georgetown and Wash- ington Brewery to mix it with Con- vention Hall at Northeast Temple. All matches are carded for 8 o'clock, | Spring American and Georgia Ave- | INCIDENTALLY, Stocking has lined, vention Hall, Rose Liquor Store to 1 except the Washington Brewery-Con- GET THE PIPE THAT -won’t"BITE OFF" — 980 vention Hall clash at Temple, which will get under way at 10. Krauss, Harrison in Calcium. N[O LITTLE interest centers around | Bill Krauss, the Occidental star, as he strives to hold his record av erage of 125-24 at Convention H Joe Harrison, the Rose cap- tain, holding the runner-up position 40 pins behind Krauss, will have a big gallery at Lucky Strike watching him attempt to forge to the front. In sweeping Accounting with team counts of 638 and 1,694, Hand Set quint about clinched top the Ed Brooks was vidual star of the win with a spark 157 string and a 393 set. Clevela with Kline rolling 139 and 370, took Dial over the jumps for two games. The runner-up Central team lost ground by dropping two games to Northern, which chalked up 604 and 1,667. Lucky Strike Girls Score. ORRAINE GULLI and her Lucky Strike team were holding the hotly contested second-place berth in | 8 the Ladies’ District League today as | a result of a clean sweep last night over Highway Engineers, former oc- cupant of the runner-up spot. The deuce position now is the highest goal of three teams, Rasslyn long since having clinched its third successive championship. Lucky won the first game by 1 pin, the second by 20 and the last by 3 National Beer, the third team with a chance for second-place honors, advanced its cause with a whitewash of R. E. A. Cleaners. The victory | enabled it to exchange places with Highway Engineers, the Beer gals now holding third place. KERWIN AN ACE SHOT Eastern High Rifleman Gets on Distinguished List. Walter Kerwin, a member of Eastern High School's rifle club, has qualified as a distinguished rifleman in the junior division of the National Rifle Association, it was announced at local headquarters today. Kerwin is one of only 7 out of 1,421 junior shooters throughout the coun- try who have qualified as distinguished rifiemen. Augusta Layout AUGUSTA, Ga., April 1 (#)—Par " and yardage of the Augusta Na- tional Golf Club, scene of the fourth annual Augusta national golf cham- pionship: oot | o zconsn Totals out o ES | and a “dinner pail.” OMEN SHARPEST BOWLING ROOTERS Display Keen Knowledge of Game at A. B. C. Tourney. Fans Classified. BY the Associated Press. EW YORK, April 1—Add feminine achievements: Women are this Nation's most vocif- erous bowling fans. If any one doubts, let him visit the tournament of the American Bowling Congress and hear some of the women whoop for their favorite bowler amid the rumble of 16-pound balls and the clatter of pins. “Attaboy! Get in there and pick up that spare! Try a looper!” seemed their favorite battle cry today at the tourney, in which the gentler sex 1s not allowed to compete. Women Fond of Game. UT they know the sport just the same. They know the difference between a “spare” and a “splash,” a “lily” and a “lopor,” a “dodo split” The technical vocabulary of bowling, an official said, is becoming as familiar | to women as the “lingo” of foot ball, | base ball and the prize ring. “It isn't just the wives of bowlers who come to these tournaments,” he said, “but also women who are keen | on the sport. “Some men think the game is too | husky for women, and don't give a hoot and hurrah to see women play, but the women like it.” i Hold Own Tournament. UNDAUNTED by their exclusion from the A. B. C. tourney, whers 20,000 men are listed to compete. women hold their own national r This year's is at Rochester, N, Y Three types of feminine bowling fans are: 1. The scholar] She watches inten play. 2. The “hollering” d. Her demean- or is that of an excitable feminine base ball fan. | 3. The still more emotional fan who tears hair and gnashes teeth. Men fans sit quietly with their hats on the backs of their heads, They applaud, but seldom yell. kind, non-vocal applauds & good tandings | mer. | of things along the river, and you can S Tor. Bd Burns (Bd. Mt. 1), 410, B’ M., 640; w. 48 415 4 Amity, 1____ Eastern Columbia Season Record P JpHieh individual 5 H! h\ individual set—George Glossbren- ner. 409 High flat_game High team High team Set: W. L Gold Str'mers 1 41 Nectar 0 45 Cond 1411i8h indiviaual game-—Darnes (Nectar). Hish indlvidual set—Schultze (Condor), 56 High team game—Condor. 587, 12 OZ. BOTTLES Fans Look for More Unusual Thrills at Augusta Extraordinary Feats, Such as Sarazen’s 2, Always Have Marked Masters’ Tourney. BY GRANTLAND RICE. AUGUSTA, Ga., April 1.—What rash of excitement, what unusual incidents, will break out this time in the fourth running of the mas- ters’ tournament at Augusta? For some unknown reason some- thing bizarre always seems to hap- pen at the masters’ party, just as something bizarre always seemed to happen to Bobby Jones from the time he was 14 at Merion in 1916 up through 1930, Whether he won, lost or tied, there was always a human inter- est story in Bob Jones’ play after the chunky kid went to the last eight in the amateur champion- ship held 19 years ago. There was the penalty he called against himself at Worcester, cost- ing another title—the second shot that skipped the lake and the pond lilies of Interlachen—the two 7's he had in the last round at Winged Foot—the 14-foot putt he had to drop to tie Al Espinosa—all these and a dozen others that led to headlines. ‘The first three masters have been full of the same brand of exciting episodes. As the crack field of pros and amateurs moves into action, each seems to be wondering just where the lightning will strike. The appearance of Bob Jones in his one-a-year stand adds amaz- ing color when you figure his com- petitive run ended seven years ago. He doesn’t want to be shoved up near the front of the picture, but you still can't keep him out—no matter where he finishes. He still is a big part of the story. This time he has a long way to come from his post at No. 33 just a year ago. He is dead sure to be a lot better than that, even against the pick of the game. a 67 on his next—a difference of 20 strokes in 18 holes. That was a record. How can one of the best of the pros vary more than a stroke a hole from one round to another? There were Horton Smith's two miracle finishes with the putter— in 1934 and again in 1936, when he needed two birdies and got them in a row near the finish, holing two 15-footers over greens of run- ning water. The top spot, of course, was Gene Sarazen's 2 at the par 5 480-yard fifteenth hole in the 1935 masters’ open, when he needed three birdies to tie Craig Wood— and got them all on one shot from a close, rain-soaked lie. ‘There was Craig Wood's shot at the tenth, where his drive left him stymied by a thick pine forest, 200 feet deep. He had no chance to play for safety—he took a 500-to-1 gamble on getting through—the ball slipped through, or by, a hun- dred pines, hit the last one and dropped 2 feet from the cup for a birdie 3 There was also Craig Wood's re- markable upheaval last April when he had an 87 on his first round and In 1935 Olin Dutra started 70— 70—70. Then he went out in 42, making only one bad shot. He t frittered strokes away. After s he came back in a 32 that uld have been a 30. There was Bobby Cruickshank’s 20—seven un- der par—in a practice round be- the deluge arrived th American ne.) HE trout season opens today, which means a lot to fly rod, anglers, but April 1 also has a | special significance to another | group of fishermen. Today Capt. Joe | Fletcher ties the stone anchors on his | rowboats and is all set for the Sum- Capt. Joe's place, as every one knows, is at New Cut and Car 1 road, about two miles or so above Georgetown on the canal. He is right in the center easily spot his place b; the score or | more red rowboats he has swinging there from his wharf. It's just a coincidence, of course, coming as it does on trout opening day, but today perch should start biting in the river around Washington. Ha Shoe, who does a lot of the | early fishing in these parts, caught 10 off Gravelly Point Monday. Tuesday the water temperature at Fletcher's was 44 degrees. Yesterday it had risen to 47, and today it should be up around 49 or 50, which is the point at which perch start doing their stuff A few already have been taken Joe Fletcher caught six on Tues and one yesterd but after real catches of 15 and 20 should be no trouble at all. Boats Cost §1 Now. men know this section of the He JEW river as does Joe Fletcher. can take one k across the wa tell you whether or not biting, and if so, where 25 years now tha' k have been taking fishe . and in that time a man gets to know his section of water. arting Monday his boats are going to cost $1 a day instead of the 50 cents they have been for the past four years. For 17 years previous to that the price was $1, and now Joe is going| back on the old standard. “I just have | to do it,” he said. OUR CLAIM DEPARTMENT Cuba’s leading tobacco expert writes—'‘The Ha- vana tobacco in La Pa- lina 5¢ Excellente is the finest that money can buy—top grades, previ- ously used only in cigars selling for 10¢ and up- oarlocks, taxes and a couple of dozen other things have all gone up, and I| have to do the same if I'm going to make ends meet.” Yesterday the crappie season ended for a month or 50 to give them time to spawn, but a few notes are avail- | able for future reference. Plenty have been caught this Spring, mostly in Tidal Basin, but a goodly number also have been taken in certain spots on the river. They have been sur- prisingly plentiful considering water conditions and the fact that the basin is fished heavily. Crappie in Little River. FTHUS far practically every crappie cau was taken on a live m now, but that's o the season. After they spawn Then they wi i1l and a crappie on more i w Crappie frequent the smaller bodies of water, and seldom are found out in the middle of the good spot is a hundred so above Chain Bridge in the backwash from Little Falls, but v a still better place has been It's Little River, on the other side of Theodore Roosevelt Island, the best hole there being right above the bridge. Joe Pacyna has done a bit more | crappie fishing than this department, | bringing death to both | ing the informal Spring p ways need a fly or spinner to take them. A piece of tinfoil wrapped around a hook will turn the trick at times. While tramping along the Shenan- FAVORED CORISTS caught in the other's mouth. Am::m ently one fish had tried to swallow Caras, Defending Champion, Among Stars Defeated in World Play. the other, with the result t it lodged about a third of the way down, The larger of | the two fish was estimated to weigh a little over 2 pounds and the smaller | one over 1 pound. ‘ S ted Press EW YORK, Ap NEW MAROON GRID AIDE Nyquist Gets Post Lopez Leaves for U. S. Job Here. CHICAGO, April 1 Lopez, chief assistant to Head Ball Coach Clark Shaughnessy at cago for the last four yea signed to accept a Govern tion in Washington. Shaughnessy will be aided by Nyquist, former Maroon fullpack Ctice duc- All but Ponazi, Seaback of victims of sure CHANGE AUTO COURSE |16 Turns on Roosevelt Raceway to Be Cut to Seven. YORK, April 1 (# —Roos on Lon: NEW veit Raceway, BOWIE RACES April Tst to 10th, Inc. First Race, 2:30 P.M Daily Double Closes 2:15 P.M. Seven Races Daily P. R. R. 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