Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1937, Page 52

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TH Europe Fears U. S. Tennis Team : Diffen Erasing England. P cles, just as it is today back in | here makes me a lot more optimistic. Budge rates highly here. Tilden Figures Dopesters BY BILL TILDEN. ARIS, France, May 27.—The | Davis Cup is the all-absorbing the States, where we are meeting Aus- tralia in a zone final, which, as I pointed out before, hinges entirely Over here the impression is the United States will not only defeat the Australians but reach the chal- Why, they think so much of him | they say Budge may single-handed win the cup for us! Are Bit Premature in topic in European sports cir- upon Don Budge. But what I hear | lenge round against England! It's interesting to get the opinions | < 1 Golf Struggle Goes 43 Extra Holes Due to Handicap Error of Europeans, whose perspective is | different, but when they go so far as! to discount England, I get wary. | Nearly everybody virtually counting them as beaten before the challenge round begins—except the ‘English. Funeral a Bit Premature. SUSPECT there’s a tendency to bury the English a bit too soon. ‘They're not dead yet, as was proved ! in their recent hard-courts champion- ships | Bunny Austin won the singles in what I'm told was one of the finest displays of his entire career. | Any one who beats Harold Lee and sllows him only four games in three sets, as Austin did in the final, must be plaving great tennis. Austin apparently feels his heavy responsibility, now Fred Perry has turned professional, and has respond- ed with an improved game—showing intense application. From men who know I hear he’s hit- 1 ting hard, attacking more and coming | up to the net at all times. Even his serve has more power. | Austin needed very little improve- | ment over his form of the last three | years, so it's possible he may be strong | enough to win two points for Great | Britain, They're “Davis Cup Crazy.” CHARL[E HARE and F. H. D.] Wilde, who lost such a close dou- bles match in the 1936 Wimbledon | final to the Davis Cup pair, Pat| Hughes and Charles Tuckey, reversed | the decision in this year's hard-court | final. ‘What does that mean? ‘What can it mean except that England has two doubles teams of al- most equal strength? So I suspect, and many here hold ' is | RICHARD M. WALSH. Star Staff Photos. the view, that England is training Tuckey for the second singles cup in its revised doubles cup defense. If so, Hare and Wilde will be a great boon, permitting Tuckey to concen- trate his stamina and game on the singles. For if the hard-court final is a re- liable index—and most continental observers feel it is—England will lose little, if anything, in doubles by using Hare and Wilde. Correct or not, the Europeans, and especially the French, are “Davis Cup crazy.” I hope they're correct. I've watched the French players drill and will discuss them later, along with the Germans, and, of course, the general outlook here . (Copyright. 1937.) £ e a8 = — AN ES, it's going to be a great >~ SN golf course, any way you ! figure it. And if some of “‘ 7 the boys have ideas about busting 70 over it I'd like to see 'em do it.” Danny Burton, the red- thatched young benedict who holds down the pro job at the Army-Navy Country Club, looked out over the rolling fairways of the new sector of the service club course. “Looks as if Herbert Strong did a great job when he laid this course out.” said Danny. “He used every- thing that nature gave him and added | a few wrinkles of his own. The boys who bust par won't find this course | eny soft spot.” Course Ready Soon. THA’I‘ new layout at the Army- " Navy Club, or part of it, at least, will be in use by July 15, bringing to realization a dream of Maj. Kendall J. Flelder and other officers who saw in the old course a more or less make- shift affair and bent all their efforts | toward building a better course. They | have it now—watered fairways and all | ~—and it will be in use this year. Most of the old holes down in the flat land east of the club house will be aban- doned and the new course lies on high ground, north, south and west of the house. Today one of the latest of those tourneys which find the two grent‘ service rivals arrayed against each other, just as they are on the grid- iron in November, pits the Army against the Navy, this time on the golf course. Twenty-four men will be on each side as the Army and the Navy square off at the first tee at the Army- Navy Club, the Army warriors to be drawn from the officer personnel of the Quartermaster Corps ,and the finance department, and the Navy linksmen from the Supply Corps. The prize at stake is the Gen. Coleman trophy and if Army wins today Q. M. C. will have the cup permanently. They've wen before. Star Tourney Close. ‘HEY'RE likely to install photo finishes in golf tournaments if The Evening Star Cup women's tour- ney winds up today with the compe- tition as closely bunched over the final round as were six of the leaders over the opening round yesterday at Indian Spring. For a half dozen of the contestants were grouped in net figures between 75 and 79, with Mrs, Hope Wilkinson of the host club top- ping the parade at net 75. It gets down to the point in such close compe- tition that one bad hole can toss a front-runner right out of the picture, while a couple of good putts in the right spot can win the tournament. Mrs. Wilkinson, a newcomer to the tournaments of the Women’s District Golf Association, sporting a handicap of 18 strokes, shot a gross 93 and a net of 75. They didn't know that for . Years she has been one of the leading figures in women’s golf on the public courses. She joined Indian Spring only & short time ago. Mrs. Stokes Second. ONE shot behind her, and playing the most consistent golf of any of the contestants, came Mrs. Walter R. Stokes, the current sensation of feminine golf around Washington, with 83-7—76., Mrs. Stokes had a three-stroke lead over her nearest rivals in the chase for the gross award and a good round today might win | but under the rules of the women's | « By Walter McCallum both. The Star Cup and the gross prize. She won both of 'em in the Keefer Cup tourney at Chevy Chase, association she could take only one. And if you think the girl can't play good golf, peek at the stretch she | played from the third hole through the ninth. She scored this six-hole stretch in level 4s, which is just men's par. Mrs., Stokes is going places in golf, but medal play seems to be her forte. thS WILKINSON played the nines in 45 and 48 for her score of 93. Another such round today might win the trophy, now in its twenty-first year of competition. And only one shot behind Mrs. Stokes was Mrs. C. P. Medley of Manor, with 89- 12—77, with Ellen Kincaid, Congres- sional girl, another shot away at 86- 79. Two more were deadlocked at net 79. These were Mrs. L. G. Pray, Manor, 86-7—79, and Mrs. C. T. Penn, Congressional, 99-20—79. That's how close they played on the opening day of the 36-hole affair. They'll soon be using the photo finish in golf. Other leaders were Mrs. J. E. Nell, Manor, 95-14—81; Mrs. Florence J. Godfrey, Beaver Dam, 95-14—81; Mrs, J. C. Dale, Kenwood, 98-16—82; Mrs, J. P. Harper, Columbia, 98-16—82; Mrs. Frank R. Keefer, Chevy Chase, 96-14—82; Mrs. Walter Rice, Con- gressional, 100-18—82; Miss Florence Crerar, Scott, Manor, 99-16—83; Mrs. H. J. Simons, Manor, 92-9—83; Mrs. S. W. Towle, Congressional, 103-20—83; Mrs. ‘W. R. Bush, Congressional, 93-10—83; Mrs. H. A. Mihills, Congressional, 103- 20—83; Mrs. A. W..Tucker, Beaver Dam, 97-14—83; Mrs. B. D. Gamble, Manor, 100-17—83. Far down the list, apparently out of a chance to repeat her victory of last year, came Mrs. T. J. Johnson of Army-Navy, with 92-8—84. Mrs. Betty P. Meckley, the District cham- pion, putting badly, shot herself out of a chance to win with a 91. THE boys in Virginia are not going after a sectional qualifying round for the amateur championship this year. Fred Mackay, secretary of the State golf association, declared today that so little interest has been shown in the national amateur, scheduled for Portland, Oreg., in August, that the State organization won't ask the U. S. G. A. for a qualifying spot for the amateur tourney. In which case those Virginians who do play will come to Washington or Baltimore for the sectional tournament. The place hasn’t been decided yet. % —_ V. M. |. RESUMES BOXING LEXINGTON, Va., May 27 (®).— V. M. L's athletic council has an- nounced that boxing would be resumed next year, but as an intramural rather than an intercollegiate sport. Authority, however, was granted Maj. Blandy Clarkson, athletic di- rector, to enter any outstanding boxers in the Southern Conference tourna- ment, # HE dizziest, queerest golf match ever played around Washington 1 has just been concluded at the Soldiers’ Home course in the lArmy Finance Golf Association tour- | ney, which wound up yesterday. | Two men, scheduled for an 18-hole | match, with one giving the other a 22-stroke handicap, were all-square | at the finish of the regulation distance. They played 67 holes, 5 holes short of 4 complete rounds, before Fred | Grosart, a veteran Scottish golfer, won | from Richard M. Walsh by 5 and 4 | in the consolation flight of the tourney, Committee Makes Error. URING the course of the match they made two holes-in-one, and at the conclusion of their record- shattering jaunt they found that the committee in charge had made a mis- take in the handicapping, and that under the proper handicap Grosart should have won on the twenty-fourth hole. Unaware of the mistake, they went on and played 43 extra holes to a de- cision. | Grosart and Walsh both were beaten in the first round of the tourney and dropped into the consolation flight. Matched, they started out at 7 am. and were all-even at the end of 18 | holes and went out to play another round. Still all-square after two rounds had been played, and square again at the fifty-seventh hole, they called the | committee in charge to ask it what | should be done, for the Army Finance | Golf Association had obtained the use of the course only for the morning. The committee told them to go ahead and finish, Ace Hole Is Halved. THEY gobbled a hasty lunch and went out again, and Grosart finally won on the sixty-seventh, in the longest overtime match ever played around the Capital. Two legitimate holes-in-one were made, one by each player. But on the eleventh hole of the first round, where Crosart bagged his ace, Walsh made a deuce. Conceded a stroke handicap on the hole, he halved. The committee made a formal apol- ogy to both contestants for its mis- take in handicapping, but who will pay for the shoe leather they wore out in those 43 extra holes, after Grosart won the match (officially) on the twenty-fourth? Maj. E. W. McLarren, shooting an even par 66, defeated J. F. Donnelly | in the final, 7 and 5, both finalists hailing from the transportation branch of the United States Army Finance Office. N o ports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Helen Wills Moody abandoned plans to defend ‘Wimbledon singles title. Bill Dickey, Yankee catcher, hurt in collision at plate with Eric McNair of Bos- ton. Three years 2go—W. Lawson Little won British amateur golf title, defeating James Wallace, 14 and 13. Stanford captured I. C. A. A. A A track and fleld title. Singing Wood won Withers mile at Belmont Park. Five years ago—Yale reduced 1933 foot ball schedule to five games. V'VE.STOPPED AT PRETTY NEARLY EVERY SERVICE STATION AND TRIED THEM ALL.... BY W. R. McCALLUM. OTS of folks have marveled at the P. G. A. championship, gets the | distance he obtains with a flailing last year or two he still doesn't come anywhere near the poundage of the The distance the Indian Spring midget gets with the big clubs comes action. George always has been a long hitter, even in the days when he < Tiny Pro Bows to Few in Getting Distance With Links Pellet. how little George Diffenbaugh, Indian Spring pro and lone qualifier from Washington for ‘driver. George stands something less | than 5 feet 6 inches and even though | he has put on a few pounds over the acknowledged big hitters of golf. Yet they don’t outrange him from the tee. How does he hit the ball so far? from a big body pivot, and a fine pair of wrists, and that old prescription for lengthy hitting—excellent wrist was an assistant pro, and long before he won the District open champion- ship, which he now holds. Drives 350-Yard Hole. EN years ago he had the galleries dropping their chins at the dis- tance he obtained from the tee. We recall one day at Congressional how George parked his tee shot on the green at the sixth hole, which then played around 350 yards, the lasf 100 yards downhill. Even though he had | it, for a short man like myself. That's JRSDAY, MAY 27, 1937. ; SPORTS. baugh Is Wizard a following wind behind that tee shot, it was quite a poke. And he's hit many like it since. Bob Barnett, companion of Diffen- baugh on many a links trip, says George's wrist action s just about as good as any he ever has seen. “And he also has one of the better pivots you'll find anywhere,” says Bob. The pint-sized Indian Spring pro winds up on that golf ball like Al Simmons. He gets all his poundage behind the blow and he combines it with & wrist flick that means distance. It all adds up to one of the longest wallops youll find anywhere in this golfing sector, for George Diffen- baugh may be short on height and poundage, but he’s long on distance, Must Use Full Pivot. "I HAVE to pivot to get the ball out | there,” says George. “I don't have the leverage of men with longer arms 50 T have to get all my weight behind the ball. There's only one way to do to get a full pivot.” In a way George is much like Paul | Runyan, who winds up like a base ball batter when he's ready to wallop a golf ball. Paul gets away up on his left toe, which isn't exactly orthodox. George does the same thing, but with- Off Tee out getting his left heel quite so high off the ground. “You've got to hit the ball out there to keep up in this game,” laughs George. “If you don't you can't reach those long par 4 holes, and to keep up with the procession you can't hit foul balls all the time. I worked at it until I found the swing that gave me con- sistency and those extra few yards. Any man can do the same.” BURTON LEADS PIN DUEL. NEW YORK, May 27 (#).—Nelsth Burton of Dallas, Tex., came from behind to chalk up his third successive 10-game win of an eight-block tenpin | match with Andy Varipapa, New York, defeating the trick-shot artist, 2,139 to 2,128. Burton now leads by 129 pins with a total of 6,377 to his opponent’s 6,248. CLIF BOLTON RETURNS, Clif Bolton, catcher who quit the | Washington base ball club at Spring training camp and returned to his home at High Point, N, C., was due to report back to the club today, accord- ing to word received from Joe Engel, Griff scout. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR xLTdOUGH Walter Johnson was knocked out of the box witn Washington on the short end of the score in the fifth inning, the Nats rallied to win their fifth straight game and second in two days from St. Louis, 9-6. Led by Milan and Ainsmith, each of whom got three hits, they won by scoring seven runs in the last four innings. Central High's track team won the trophy for scholastic teams in the Tome meet at Port Deposit, Md. Outscored by the host school, 43-31, Central brought home the cup, as Tome did not count its point in competition. Tech was fourth with 14 points. Sheehan of Tech set a meet record with & time of 2 minutes 235 seconds in the 880. M. R. Lyons and A. C. Lewis won the junior doubles, the feature event in the firct half of the closed regatta of the Washington Canoe | Club. F. C. Bamman won the | senior singles, beating C. H. Wag- ! ner by half a length. Tides at Nearby Fishing Grounds Tides at Washington for the week: Priday. Hi Low. | High. Saturday Monday. | Bunday Low. Low. | High Low. gh Fuesday. Wednesday. High Thursday. Low. | High Low. 45 o 4:19 | 10:24 10:13 4:58 | 10:55 620 0 6:51 | 12 454 11:06 535 1154 5:34) 1141 611 Low 13 9:20 2:31 2:51 9:28 33 148 1:30 1:47 \ k air| 7:37 8:30 To find the tides at the following points, subtract hours and minutes noted beside each location: H. 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