Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1937, Page 15

/ SPORTS. —_ HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1937. SPORTS Golf Parade Passes Jones, Bul Pros Are Reluctant to Admit It GANE FAR FASTER THAN IN HIS RULE Wouldn’t Win as Often Now | Even if Up to His Old Form, Critics Feel. BY W. R. McCALLUM. OLF'S parade of top-liners has passed Bobby Jones and his cronies and competitors of 10 years ago with the highest standard of scoring the ancient and haonorable game of divot flinging ever | has known. You can't get the lads| gathered in the South to talk about it encept in guarded asides. They don’t want to hurt the feel- ings of the Jones man or his friends, nor do they want to exalt unduly| their own prowess, but they feel none the less that the game of the top- notch professional stars of today is far better than it was during the days when Bob Jones ruled the roost. They definitely feel that Bob rep- resented an era, and a good one, in golf, but they also feel that that day is past and that the scoring of today 1s s0 much faster, the shot-making so much keener that Bob and his pals of a decade ago are back in an almost | forgotten day of golf. Nor do they feel that Bob, now at the age of 35,| will ever win the Augusta national | tourney, in which he is the darling of | the galleries. Game Has Sped Up. | “J] DUNNO about Bob,” said Wiffy | Cox, the Kenwood wise-cracker. “I haven't seen him play much re- cently. But I have a hunch that even if Bob went on the Winter tour and got a few tournaments under his belt he still wouldn't win as he used to win. The boys whe are winning tourna- ments today are the finest golfers the world ever has seen. I don't need tol tell you about that; the scores tell the story. They take any tough course apart and knock par to shreds so often and so consistently that there isn't any question about it.” “But how about Bob Jones with a few tournaments under his belt?” we asked Wiff. “Bob probably would play as well as ever once he got into the scoring stride,” Wiffy said. “But I doubt if he'd win more than any one else. Of course, that's hard to say. Bob is a great player-—none bet- ter—but you can’'t win a big one without being tournament tough. And Bob never has been that way in the| Augusta tournament.” All the other | pros feel the same way. New Ball Appears Longer. 'A FEW chip shots from Augusta . .. They brought out & new golf ball here for the first time. It's a Spald- ing product, and the boys have named it the “ugly duckling” . Its chief virtue is that it gets up quicker from | all clubs and flies higher than the old ball or the ball of last year . . . They don't claim increased length for it on account of the ban of the U. 6. G. A. against lengthening the sphere reached at a conference with | manufacturers last June at Baltus- Tol ., . . But my guess is the new ball will be 5 yards longer just the same . . . The makers claim nothing, but the driving machines tell the tale <+ +» Some of the women folks who run the Southern tournaments are sall excited about a yarn appearing in a Kansas City paper alleging that Helen Dettweiler's expenses on the Southern tour were paid by the company which employs Babe Didrikson . . . They're hoping it doesn’t reach the eyes of John G. Jackson and the United Btates Golf Association crowd, for it | would result in a nasty mess were Helen to be put on the spot on grounds of professionalism. Of course, there isn't a dot of truth in it. £ | open champion; Horton Smith, the toiling in Spring practice. GOLFERS BATILE | 7.—The |Six Picked for Ryder Team, Averages in Big Events to Decide Others. BY the Associated Press. EW YORK, April scramble is on. As President George Jacobus of the Professional Golfers’ Association today named six members of the United States Ryder Cup team which will meet the British at South- | port, England, June 29 and 30, the | other eligible and hopeful candidates | began tuning their strokes for the remaining links tests which will de- cide the winners of the four vacant places. Definitely allotted posts on the American squad, in addition to non- playing Capt. Walter Hagen, are Gene Sarazen, veteran of all five previous cup clashes; Denny Shute, P. G. A. champion; Tony Manero, United States FORFOURBERTHS putting paragon; Henry Picard and Johnny Revolta. Chosen by Committee. JACOBUS announced their names after a conference with Ed Dudley, chairman of the P. G. A. Tournament Committee. The committee, which also includes Leo Diegel, Clarence Clark, Olin Dutra and Frank Walsh, met during the recent Augusta tour- nament. . A new method will be employed in picking the four remaining team members. A group of at least 12 can- didates will be named after the sec- tional qualifying rounds for the Writer Is Chided. Helen paid her own way in those Bouthern tournaments and is an amateur golfer in every sense of the | word . . . The guy who wrote the yarn should have better sense . . . ‘Those things don’t help and can hurt | like the devil . . . Augusta had the | finest set-up from the publicity stand- point of any tournament . . . Behind the eighteenth green a big grand- stand was set up in which the broad- casters and the photographers were enscounced to snap the boys as they left the final green . . . and the “no- camera” ban was enforced on the course . . . The club house area was | dotted with little signs reading: “No | cameras allowed beyond this point,” which was a good idea after all . . . The players should be allowed to swing without the click of a camera, and the amateur lens operators don’t show much judgment in their picture- taking . . The professional black- and-white boys know their stuff when | 1t comes to action shots. TEAM SEEKS PLAYERS. ‘Base ball players between the ages of 16 and 20 who would like to play with the Bradbury Heights nine are requested to report for practice to- morrow at No. 1 diamond, Fairlawn fleld, at 4:30 o’clock. R e —— MAT TOURNEY DELAYED. Due to the dinner scheduled for Jeremiah Mahoney on April 13, the District A. A. U. wrestling champion- ship dates now have been named as April 12 and 14. The matches will | P.G. A. championship. The four players of this group who compile the lowest averages during the 36-hole qualifying round for the P. G. A. at Pittsburgh May 24 to 30 and the 72 holes of the national open at Oakland Hills, Birmingham, Mich., June 10 to 12, then will fill the vacan- cies. Of the six named today, only Smith and Picard have won neither an Amer- ican nor a British national title. Both, however, have been consistent money winners. Picard has won $4,236.25, TIES FOR CUE LEAD WITH SHUTOUT WIN Veteran Lauri Gets Even With Greenleaf With Spectacular Tourney Triumph. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April T7.—Onofrio Lauri, a Brooklyn veteran, who has been knocking on fame’s door for many a year, was tied with Ralph Greenleaf of New York for the lead in the world pocket billiard champion- ship today. Lauri turned in the tournament's most spectacular game last night when he shut out Benny Allen of Kansas City, like Greenleaf a former champion, 125 to 0 in five innings and tied Greenleaf for first place. Greenleaf's own brilliant effort against Joe Diehl earlier in the day was more than matched by Lauris be held at Jewish Community Center. game. Greenleaf set Diehl, 125 to 1, either the enthusiasm of Red Megaw nor his skill, as witness the George Recreation sorrel-top to- day in possession of the Columbia Heights League championship with an average of better than 122. He won it last night at the Arcadia with a 416 set shot with the Hertz Driv-ur Self team. Fred Watson, going into the final night, led Megaw by two sticks. ‘The pennant went to the Vincent Barbers by a three-game margin over the runner-up Cool’s Fountain quint. WENTY years or more of duck- I pin competition hasn't dulled Same Old Robert. TH Big Bob Wilson’s steady hand at the helm, the Ad Alley team won the Times League pennant in & last-ditch struggle with the Stereo- typers. Both teams won and lost the same number of games, but Wilson's A ] gang gathered 1,000 more sticks, & lot of "em by Bob, who averaged 105. In recent rolling in the National Duckpin Bowling Congress tourna- ment at Norfolk, the Government Printing Office team took third place with 1,790 and Boulevard Alleys eighth place with 1,753. ‘Washington entries in the national boys' championship failed, L. Edlovich with 332 and R. O'Brien with 246. P. | Hershey of Maryland is leading the 'event with 341. Henry Hiser Generous. BVIOUSLY Henry Hiser, the Be- thesda bowling and movie pro- prietor, isn't his old self as a pin wal- loper. The former District League champion shot only 316 at Norfolk. Henry, by the way, made a late $28 donation to the bowlers’ flood fund which Wwasn’t announced. This fol- lowed one of $25, and the two gifts put Hiser among the big donors. Still Enmeshed in Foot Ball “ POP WARNER. 4 Veteran coach is so enthusiastic over game after his many years as mentor that he helps carry the paraphernalia on the field as he calls out his Temple University gridders. He has 48 —Wide World Photo. Revolta $2,772.55 since January 1. The biggest money winner, Harry Cooper, is ineligible for the team, since he is not & native American. Manero Is a Freshman. ANERO, surprise winner of the be a Ryder Cup freshman. Picard and Revolta made their bows at Ridgewood | two years ago, winning in foursomes and singles. Shute played in 1931 and 1933, Smith in 1929, 1933 hnd 1935. Most prominent among the Winter's | top-flight campaigners in the race for the four openings are Sam Snead, long-hitting youngster, who, in his first major campaign, is fourth in the cash- winning list; Ralph Guldahl, winner of the Radix Cup for low average score of 71.63 during 1936; Ed Dudley, Paul Runyan, Bryoh Nelson, recent winner of the Augusta national, and Jimmy Hines. The Americans will be shooting for their first victory on British soil. They lead in the series, 3-2, but precedent favors the home si open at Baltusrol last June, will | MRS. MARS DERBY OUTLOOOK BRIGHT Reaping Reward, Rated With Best, Case Ace Top Her Five-Ply Entry. (This is the third of a series dealing with the outstanding Ken=- tucky Derby eligibles.) BY ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Turf{ Writer. EW YORK, April 7—Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, America’s first lady of the turf, is bidding for the sixty-third running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs May 8 with a five-ply entry that boasts quality as well as numerical strength. Heading the delegation from the Chicago sportswoman's Milky Way Farm at Pulaski, Tenn., are Reaping Reward and Case Ace—two of 1936's outstanding juveniles. The others in- clude Murph, a sprinter of no mean ability; Jawbreaker, of which little is known, and Military, which ran second to William Dupont, jr.s Fairy Hill in the $50,000 Santa Anita Derby last Winter. Reaping Reward Real Threat. P EAPING REWARD is considered the stable’s real threat, however, ranking only a notch below Pompoon and Brooklyn in the future books &t 10 to 1. This son of Sickle won only 5 of his 15 starts as a 2-year-old, but wound up the year with two victories that stamped him as a route- running horse. He whipped Pompoon by a nose in the mile and 70 yards of the New England Futurity and then came back a week later to take the mile of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at the Downs. These two victories, together with a triumph in the United States Hotel Stakes at Saratoga, figured largely in his total earnings of $56,965. after training since January 8,” writes Trainer Bob McGarvey from Arling- ton Downs, where the five eligibles are | receiving their final preparation before moving on to the Downs. “He did a mile in 1:42 for me recently and went on to cover the mile and a sixteenth | in 1:47. He has had lots of slow work, has grown and is perfectly sound. His only drawback is that he isn't such a good mudder. Case Ace Likely Contender. “AS FOR Case Ace, there’s a horse that will be dangerous if he will go the mile and a quarter. He can run on wet or dry ground, pavement or anywhere else.” Case Ace did not get a chance to | 1ast year. 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Louis Browns are Lou Koupal, 37, and Sheriff Fred Blake, 38 . . . Gabby (Old Sarge) Street owns a dozen fine homes at Joplin, Mo., and isn't worrying which way the base ball wind blows. Nebraska doesn’t like the way Creighton USiversity is dipping into the Omaha high school foot ball talent Hank Leiber, beaned by Bob Feller SBunday, still has a headache . . . Incidentally, the only man to get & hit off Fel- ler this Spring is Douglas Dean, New Orleans inflelder . . . Dean is called “Donkey” by his teammates because of his big ears . . . They said if he'd run a hundred yards he’d take off. The heat must be terrible down at Clearwater . . . Here's John Gor- man, Brooklyn business manager, predicting & pennant in 1940 . . . Burleigh Grimes may find it will take more than fancy uniforms to disguise those Dodgers. Larry (Moon) Mullins, former Notre Damer, now coaching at Loyola (New Orleans), is the first coach to introduce the Rockne system into a major school in Louisiana . . . While in Germany for the Olympics, Archie 8an Ro- mani, the runner, got a group letter from a hundred co-eds at Kansas Teachers’ College . . . Archie took time out to answer each gal individually. Dave Tyler, Hartford High School star, who holds the inter- scholastic 220-yard free-style swim record, is ticketed for Yale via Mercersburg Academy . The Indians already are picking the Giants to repeat in the National League. ‘What happened to bust up the friendship among Tony Lazzeri, Frank Crosetti and Joe Di Maggio Waner Weakens as His Understudy Gets Five Hits Events, Though, Merely Coincidental—Leading Brown Rookies Carry Lots of Age. of the Yankees? ,.. One corre- spondent wires they scarcely speak off the field . .. Tony and Frank stuck toigether . . . Joe goes it alone . . . Last season they were inseparable . . . Lester Pat- rick, manager of the New York hockey (Rangers, isn't superstie tious, but he refuses to change suits while his team is in & win- ning streak . . . He's been wearing the same duds since the Rangers beat Toronto in the opening play= off game. Leonard Ott (no relation to Mel), golf pro at the Green Gables Club at Denver, shows signs of being one of the guys to watch in next season’s money events . . . Mis- souri high schools have ruled off the javelin event as too dangerous. being by Teddy, a grandsire of the great Gallant Fox line. His dam, Sweetheart, was one of the swiftest mares ever seen in the West and is the daughter of the speed sire, Ulti- mus. A $10,000 yearling, Case Ace won his first three starts, including the Arlington Futurity, and $37,790. A blind splint, said to have been caused by a stall injury, is believed to have led to his defeat in the Hopeful at Saratoga. Mrs. Mars’ pet then was retired for the season and his knees fired. In his first and only appearance to date as a 3-year-old at Santa Anita he won buckjumping from a fair field of sprinters. McGarvey is not so sure but that Military also will develop into a dan- gerous contender. He ran a good race in the Santa Anita Derby and since then has been training soundly. BOXING STARS INVADE | Pennsylvania Colored Champs to | Come Here Saturday. | Probably the best colored amateur | | boxing card of the year will be staged | at the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. Fri- | {day night when three recent winners of State championships in Pennsyl- | vania come to test the caliber of the | “Y"” ringmen. All are members of Capt. Fred Slade’s fighting C. C. C. enrollees at Gettysburg, with Whitted, 202-pound heavyweight, the most outstanding. The visitors are expected to offer a | direct slant on what hopes the local "fighwrs may have about the nationals at Boston. | Tickets for the matches, which will |be supplemented by several junior | bouts, are available at the Capital show whether he could go the route | City Pleasure Club, Reid's Department | logical choice. 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C, April 7— More than 50 leading Golf professionals, & bit travel- worn but seeking to add a last bit of cash to the old bank roll, trained their sights today on the $1,250 prize in the tournament of gar- dens. It was the end of the Winter trail| on the circuit, where pocketbooks were | inflated by the salaried players, and Saturday night they will hand out checks totaling close to $7,000 to the | low scores in the 72-hole scramble. Three Stars Missing. 'HE field of close to 55, augmented by several fine amateur shotmak- ers, included most of the leading pro- | fessionals who came here from the an- {nual Augusta national tournament that featured the annual return to competition of one-time world cham- pion, Bobby Jones. Missing, however, were Byron Nel- son of Reading, Pa., who won at Au- gusta in a Garrison finish; Tony | Manero of Salem, Mass., the national | open champion, and Denny Shute of Boston, national P. G. A. title holder. Although a third choice in club house betting odds, Gene Sarazen of Brookfield Center, Conn., looked like a | | from the ranks of the veterans, who won the American open twice and the British title once, breezed over the bunkers and greens, surrounded by gaping traps, in a great 67, 4 under par, to pair with Joseph Cannon of Charleston and win the pro-amateur prize yesterday with a best ball of 64. Guldahl Held at 8-1. ANKY Ralph Guldahl of St. Louis, the golfer who came back, was listed as the favorite in an 8-to-1 quo- tation. The round-shouldered Norwe- | gian was nosed out of the $1,500 prize at Augusta when Nelson raced home | two strokes better, picking up six of them on two holes. The starting twosome was sched- | uled to move away today from the| first tee at 12:30 p.m. for the opening | 18-hole round, with weather forecast | of ler and light wind. Picard of Hershey, Pa., who started his professional career here nt{ the Country Club of Charleston, won | the last two years hand running over | the ‘rugged course. —e INJURIES HIT DODGERS Six Still Ailing—Malinoskey May | | Not Be in Opener. ‘ CLEARWATER, Fla.—As the Dodg- ers broke camp today five members of the team were still on the hospital list, with Shortstop Tony Malinosky almost definitely out for opening day This means Jack Hudson will be the Dodger shortstop when the season opens. | | AUTO | RADIO S SERVICE L.S. JULLIEN.I~c 1443 P St.NW. NO.8076 BANKS WHIPS RANDALL Willie Banks, 118-pound boxer of the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. 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