Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1937, Page 14

'A—14 =» Lou SPORTHY. IS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE “Easy-Going 29 \ 7, 1837, SPORTS. in Training : Pros in Command of Open Golf CHAMPION'S BLASSQ Champ’s Toil Apparently Has Put Him in Fettle for Title Defense 1S IGNORED BY 10E Bomber Apparently Doesn’t Realize What He Will Run Into June 22. BY SPARROW McGAN OE LOUIS nods & knowing head when advised that he must step up on his training and get in some hard licks for his fight with Champion Jimmy Braddock. The Detroit Bomber cannot bring his sim- | ple mind around to the fact that he has a hard battle on his hands. The manner in which he tosses punches at his sparring mates and | takes a few in return gives the im- pression he is stacking up against one of the varied assortment of washed-out second-raters he met up | with on his recent tour. Figuring Louis on what he has shown in training for the Braddock | fight reminds you of the shade seek- ing, easy-going Negro who whiled | away his time at sun-scorched Lake- wood, N. J, for his fight with Max Schmeling last year. Joe went through the motions of road work and slap- | ping an assorted crew of laugh-pro- | voking minstrels, who took one on | the jaw and went into a swan dive while hundreds cheered his punching power. | Louis Boxes Set-Ups. | \VHEN Louis entered the ring | d against Schmeling, he faced a | determined veteran willing to swap blows and gamble on his experience to turn the tide against an amateurish boxer when tagged with a healthy | right. Schmeling had the right dope. The lesson was a painful and costly one. But for the tenacity of Joe | Mich. Braddock skips rope as part of his daily training at Grand Beach, close-up shows Jim has the clear= cut eye and keen expression of a fit athlete. He has not neglected his boring either, as he is depicted here as he was finishing a strenuous 10-round session without fatigue. —Wide World and Associated Press Photos. Gould and the undisclosed plans of | Braddock, the champion would have | fought Schmeling instead of the De- troit Negro. | The sparring partners of Louis hardly merit attention. Joe has| slapped that sort over with 16-ounce gloves so often that the intent of a swing is sufficient to cause them to | swoon. Seal Harris continues to put his rubbery body in the way of Joe's | blows and duck out of the ring at the first glint in Joe's eye. | No one is hurting the rubbery tar | TWO SETS OF GOLF PARSBEING URGED Topnotchers Make Joke baby. Seal Harris has had his flight around real stuff and was found want- ing. He does not mean to be punched | of Figures Far Beyond | Dreams of Dubs. sround by Joe Louis for $10 a day.| Other than to furnish the spectators a laugh, Harris is just as much use around the training camp as last week's funnies. Won't Heed Braddock Stories. BOXING four or five rounds every other day against a motley crew of punch dodgers, with the actual fight only two working weeks away, is OLF courses must come in G for a considerable revision of ; their par figures if the pros 1 keep on banging the ball | around well below par, in the opinion lof Bob Barnett, the red-thatched mentor at the Chevy Chase Club. Bob firmly believes that any hole H | tee shot out of bounds at the sixteenth | sufficient proof that Louis does not { which stretches out around 470 yards | tully realize what he is up against.|in jength no longer is a par 5 affair No doubt Louis thinks the stories being sent out from Grand Beach, Mich, are colored and part of a press agent's idea of steaming things up for the “old man” who holds the world heavyweight title. Nothing is further from the truth. It Braddock is being publicized as a finely conditioned athlete, going about his chores as though his very life de- pended on it, Joe Louis can believe it is so. Barney Ross is not saying nice things about Braddock just to get his name in the papers. Barney ability to pick a good fighter, *“Braddock gave me a surprise. He is in fine shape, and I cannot beheve; he has been out of the game two | years. This big fellow is going to surprise quite a few who think Louis has an easy fight on his hands.” Must Train Seriously. JF LOUIS trained as hard and as faithfully as Braddock and showed that he learned something since the Schmeling setback, his chance of win- ning the world title would be much better than it is. At the present writing one cannot but feel that Louis thinks the fight is | #s good as won, and does not have to work overly hard. Unless he changes his viewpoint and gets down to serious work in short order, Braddock's task of de- fending his title will be much simpler than it was when he started training. Louis’ simple mind is his greatest drawback in the only opportunity one of his race has had to contest for the heavyweight crown since 1908, when Jack Johnson won from Tommy Burns. MICKEY RESTS “AT HOME” Condition of Injured Tiger Pilot Reported as “Very Good."” DETROIT, June 7 (#).—Mickey Cochrane, warrior bold, who was borne home to a strangely quiet re- eeption, began a “long siege” today in the hope that some day he might go back to his Detroit Tigers as an active | fighter again. The crowd that might have wel- comed the Tigers' injured manager on his arrival yesterday stayed away— at the behest of physicians—and newspapers sent neither interviewers nor camera men. Later a physician at Henry Ford Hospital said Cochrane, who is fight- ing to recover from a triple skull fracture suffered when “beaned” in a game at New York, was in ‘“very good” condition and “delighted to be home.” | thinks very highly of his | and | he had no compunction in stating that | | and that some revision should be made, ; either lengthening the par 4 distance, | or have two sets of par, one for the | pro and the top notch amateur, and 1lhe other for the run-of-the-mine | higher handicap piayer. Bob's own course—that of Chevy Chase—has a par 69, which generally |is conceded to be the toughest and | most rugged par to approximate around Washington. Chevy Chase also has watered fairways, which doesn't make the job of getting down around par any easier. And it aiso has the longest par 4 hole around Wash- | ington in the sixth, a hole which measures less than 450 yards by the card and actually plays nearer 475. “I'm not eriticizing any one who sets the par of a golf course,” says Bob. “But I think we should recog- nize the distances golf balls can be driven nowadays and what the pros and the first-ranking amateurs can do. You hear of men playing courses in so many shots under par. Actually the way the boys play nowadays par doesn’t mean a thing—if it ever did. Factors Affecting Scoring. able bearing on scoring; wind and rain, the latter of which means a slow course. But when you consider that the pros pump tee shots out 250 yards and more and convert a 420- yard hole into one that can be played with a drive and pitch you can see what par means.” “How about that tough Burning Tree course, where the par by card is 72?” we asked Robe:’ “The actual par of Burning Tree, as it would be played by the pros, is 68,” he said. “The second, ninth, tenth and sixteenth, all par 5s from the regular tees, would be par 4s for any national championship field. Of course, if they watered those fairways it would be different. But it used to be a pair 68. ‘T just can’t see how they can lay down a hard-and-fast rul. about par. They say they don't take weather conditions and ground contours into account, and that if a hole measures 450 yards air-line, it's a par 4, and if {it measures 451 yards air-line it's a par 5. But when a course is baked out by the sun and wind the boys don’t think anything of walloping a tee shot 300 yards—carry and roll. How about your par under those condi- | tions?"” Too true, Robert. Par is an inflexible figure, and it’s tough enough to get | close to, under any conditions. But for the pro game, when you hear of Sammy Wallop getting around in 8 under par, find out what the weather | conditions were before you begin rhapsodizing about it. Two Strikes on Track Girls Become Too Mannish to Make Good Wives, Says Wykoff, Champion Sprinter. _ By the Associated Press. ANTA BARBARA, Calif,, June 7.—Girl athletes who expect to marry happlly and have children should avoid track and fleld athletics, says Prank Wykof!, champion sprinter. He explained: “No girl wants to marry a sissy who will sit around and crochet with her and help with the dishes. No more does a real man want a mannish wife who has knobs of muscles sticking out like overgrown warts where dimples should be.” The speedster recommended swimming, golf and tennis for girls. Heavier sports make girls too muscular and mannish, he contended. ~ “Young women who want de- sirable husbands and fine children will be wise to keep away from track and ‘field . competition,” Wykoff told the Women's Athletic Association .of Santa Barbara College. He cited “horrible exampies” among the women’s athletes he saw at the Olympic games in Berlin last Summer. famed as co-holder of the Amer- ican 100-yard dash record, Wykoft was anchor lock in the United Siates 400-meter team which achieved & new world’s record at Berlin. “He now is principal of the Carpinteria Grammar School Dear here, Rd 1 TWO factors do have & consider- | TRAIGHT O OW can a golfer knock a ball out of bounds and still bag a birdie on a par 4 hole? Jim Tracy of Washington | Golf and Country Club knows the answer to that one. Jim knocked his | hole, wracked a second tee shot far | and straight down the alley and then hit so fine a third shot that the ball | went into the cup for a birdie, But a little later, when he really needed a putt, he couldn't get it down. Tracy's failure to hole a five footer lost him a chance to tie John H. Davidson for the club putting championship and the | Sam Mosby Memorial putter. Davidson won it with a score of 36 | for 18 holes, in the playoff of a tie on Memorial day. Thurston Furr and | Reese R. Hair also tied. | C. W. Simonson won the medal han- dicap tourney at Washington with | 84—18—16. The gross award went to Ralph S. Fowler with 77. NTRIES are to close today at Bal- timore for the Maryland State | amateur championship which will | open Wednesday over the course of Manor Country Club. The women's championship tourney will start at Five Farms tomorrow, with only a| handful of locai entrants. | At the same time, Washington | women are preparing for their city championship tourney. to be played at | Chevy Chase next week. Entries will close Friday, with Mrs. Karl S. Giles, BEST-BALL MONEY SHARED BY 16PROS Smith, Cooper Get Biggest Australia Labels Hagen Real Star "MOST of us,” says an Australian golf writer, commenting upon Walter Hagen's appearance on a Sydney links in company with Joe Kirkwood and two local pros, “figured Walter was a back num- ber; that he could not be as good as when he was here seven years BLUSHING MAIDEN CROWNED IN GOLF Half of Curtis Cup Team‘ at Jameson’s Feet—Berg Is Final Victim. By the Associated Press. AN ANTONIO, Tex., June 7.— | Half of Uncle Sam's Curtis Cup | golf team lay scattered today at | the feet of a blushing youngster who steps up Wednesday night to get her high school graduation diploma. Bronzed Betty Jameson, just turned 18, tucked away the women's trans- Mississippi golf title yesterday with a 4-and-3 triumph over Miss Patty Berg, the Minneapolis redhead, to become feminine golfdom'’s top-ranking “giant Kkiller.” Betty Calls It Luck. Bm‘Y colored an muttered some- thing about “luck” in talking about a trans-Mississippi conquest | that listed such victims as Mrs. Opal | S. Hill, Kansas City's veteran Curtis | Cup star and four times winner of the | “trans” title; Miss Marion Miley, | another cup player and dc!endmg‘ champion, and Miss Berg. | Six weeks ago she chopped down | another cup star in Mrs. Frank Gold- | thwaite of Fort Worth, Tex., in the | final of the women’s championship. A half dozen years ago Betty started | golf. At 16, in 1935, she flashed her | first warning by capturing the wom- en’s Southern amateur over a fine fleld. ’ Medico Treaty Patty. AST year, after three previous un- | successful bids, she won the Texas | title from Mrs. Dan Chandler, Dallas | veteran. She repeated this year | against Mrs. Goldthwaite and defi- | nitely “arrived” yesterday with her AMATEURS' PLIGHT 15 SAD INTOURNEY Goodman to Lead Forlorn Hope Against Imposing Lot of Paid Stars. By the Assoclated Press EW YORK, June 7.--Tourney- hardened professionals, al- most completely in command of American golf, are ready to grab the headlines again in the national golf championship this week. There are 170 golfers in the fleld that starts the three-day grind at the Oakland Hills Club, Birmingham, Mich., Thursday, and of the number 143 are professionals, a group that includes almost every first-flight pro in the Nation. Johnny Goodman, open winner in 1933, heads the 27 amateurs. A glance | at the rest of the list shows the boys who compete for the love of the game have fallen on evil days. There is no Bobby Jones to bid for the crown, nor Lawson Little, listed. Not even Goodman is given much of a chance to pass the pros in golf's greatest test. Field Packed With Stars. ENRY PICARD, Jimmy Thomson, Horton Smith and Harry Cooper, winners of the Inverness invitation at Toledo; Byron Nelson, Johnny Re- | volta, Ky Laffoon, Denny Shute, Paul Runyan, Tony Manero, the defending champion; Ed Dudley, Olin Dutra, Ralph Guldahl and Jimmy Hines are among the favorites priced at less than 20 to 1 to win. In addition, veterans like Macdon- ald Smith, Gene Sarazen and Willie MacFarlane will be in the race for the big money. Newest addition to the list of big name golfers and the brightest bit of golfing color to cross the fairways since Walter Hagen arrived in the big time is Sam Snead. smashing triumph over Miss Berg. | On his record, Snead tops the new High winds bothered Miss Jameson | ¢f0P of pros. Almost unknown a but little in her match with Miss|Year ago, he has come to the fore Berg. Wobbly at the start, she went | With two big victories in Southern to luncheon with a two-hole lead.|tournaments and admirable showings Exhausted from two duels played in|in the masters’ tournament at At- the blistering heat Saturday, Miss Berg | 12nta, the tournament of the gardens received treatment from a physician | At Charleston and th: P. G. A. Add between rounds and came back ready | 10 that the most impressive sectional to close the gap, but Betty ended the | qualifying score and you have a worthy tournament chalirman, Slice, Barely Defeating Armour-Thomson. By the Zssoclated Press. OLEDO, Ohio, June 7.—An as- I sortment of 16 top-notch pro- OVER At Woodmont, Andy Schloss is the favored gent in the club handicap championship tourney. Schloss won the medal yesterday with a net 68. The first round will be run off this week. | Mrs. Milton Harris and Mrs. Gilbert Hahn have reached the final in the women's tourney and were to play today. ‘The sweepstakes tourney ve.strrdl_v: was won by Howard Nordlinger with fessional golfers left here to- day for the Oakland Hills | course at Birmingham, Mich., to prac- tice a bit for the national open, which | starts Thursday, their chore com- | pleted in the third annual Inverness best-ball match play tourney. ago. Having seen Gene Sarazen |match by sinking a birdie on the and Helen Hicks, we figured Sir | thirty-third green. Walter would not be much of a o show. We did him a grave injus- tice. “The golf he turned on at the Commonwealth links was as fine as any one ever saw. After watch- ing Sarazen win the Australian open last year we labeled him as the greatest golfer who had ever graced Australian fairways. “Now we are not so sure BEER RIVALS BATTLE Heurich and Milwaukee Tossers Scrap for Second Place. Second place in the Industrial League was at stake this afternoon as the . | Heurich Brewers met the Old Mil- The | waukee Brewers on the Ellipse. 77-4-73. Fulton Brylaski and Dr.| Melville Fischer also won in Class A, Ned Bord in Class B and George Ja- | The group faced the week at Bir- mingham without a financial worry. They carried a total of $4.825 among Haig showed power, control, un- deviating brilliance and he left us gasping as he made the first turn Heurichs now occupy the runner-up post by half a game over Old Mil- waukee, | them—all won at the Inverness wars, Copen e Armour Is Double Loser. LAUDE DUDLEY won ¢he Sunday ORTON SMITH, the Joplin ghost, breakfast tourney at Congres- and Lighthorse Harry Cooper, sional. The husband and wife tour- | second-placer in last year's open at ney at Manor went to Mr. and Mrs. | Baltusrel, had the lion's share of the R. M. Trezise with 183—37—146. Mr. | Inverness gold—$1,175. They won the and Mrs. H. G. Wood and Mr. and | four-day 126-hole classic, nosing out Mrs. J. W. La Bille tied for second. | veteran Tommy Armour and long- The blind bogey affair at Capitol | hitting Jimmy Thomson by a sinm} Golf and Country Club went to Ed | Point under the unique scoring system Fox with 92—20—72. Frank White, | Which featured the event. playing from scratch, was second. | The system gives each twosome ‘a | Three players tied in the blind bogey | PIus or minus rating equal to the | in one under even 4s and was low The league-leading O'Donnell’s drlll man for the 18 holes, 72.” nine, with a full game lead, play the cellar occupants, Coffey Screen, to- morrow, while National Savings meets Heurich's on Wednesday. The week's last game finds Old Milwaukee and Coffey clashing on Thursday. INTERNATIONAL, Jersey City. 9-5: Baltimore. affair at Kenwood. Walter Brown, A. | H. Evenson and C. D. Johanson all | | turned in net cards of 75 Bernard (Top) Dennell holed his second shot for an eagle 2 on the fifteenth hole at Beaver Dam, playing with Perry Nut- well. The hole measures 383 yards in length. | MRSA B. C. HARTIG entered the & round of the tourney for the| Hinshaw trophies at Columbia today with a two-stroke lead. The tourney is a 72-hole medal play affair. Louis Fuchs bagged three birdies in a match at Argyle in which he and Claude Rippy, public links star, | whipped Lou Harrison and Jack Olm- stead, home club stars, by 4 and 3. COOPER STANDOUT INOPEN GOLF TILT Dope Makes Him Cinch to Win, but Harry Has Yet to Cop a Major Title. BY W. R. McCALLUM. VERYTHING points to Harry Cooper to win the national open golf championship this week. The tiny Chicagoan, twice second in the national title tour- nament, has everything to win, and even the figures support him. Fig- ures, in case you didn't realize it, are the main factors around a major golf tournament. By any system of handicapping pro- fessional golfers on their tournament record of any year Cooper figures to be the winner of the national open. He's won three tournaments already this year, and his average finishing position in eleven events has been be- tween fourth and fifth. To get the significance of Cooper's position you must realize that the nearest men to him—Ed Dudley—has finished between sixth and seventh in seven tournaments and that Paul Run- yan and Horton 8mith, who've played in 1t tournaments, have averaged around eighth place. Tony Manero, the national open king, has averaged eleventh place for seven events, and Sam Snead, who's being talked about as the new champion, has averaged tenth for 11 tourneys. Big Crowns Elude Him. AND yet, with these figures in sup- port, it's hard for any golf ob- server to hand the mug to Cooper without an argument. Cooper’s record is phenomenal. He's led the fleld in scoring 50 long and over so many tour- naments that you wouldn’t think he could be denied a major victory. Yet Harry, good as he is, has not yet grabbed a major crown. The U. 8. open, the P. G. A, and the British| open championships all have eluded his red-hot clubs. ‘The figure way of determining the best golfer is the result of an investi- ation now in progress by the P. G. A. to find some equitahle method of de- Y | | | termining the best golfer of the year. Off hand you'd call the national open champ the best golfer. But when you take consistency and average scoring into account you don't always get they best man. Take Manero for example. Tony packed a mighty punch last year in the final round at Baltusrol, but he didn't win many more. And Cooper did win some more. Lacks Finishing Punch. BUT Cooper, good as he is, seems to us to lack that finishing punch that wins championships: that lethal wallop in the last round that won titles for Sarazen, Hagen, Manero and Jones. You couldn’t pué your finger gn the why and wherefore of it, but it is a fact, nonetheless that Cooper has had the title in his hands several times and has tossed it out the window. Last year’s brawl at Baltusrol was a case in point. Had Harry finished with a brace of 4s° which wasn't so tough, he’d have been in with 282. He i took two 5s and left the door open for Manero to slide in. General opinion is that if Harry had bagged those two 4s Tony mightn’t have done it to tie. But Cooper didn’t and Tony won. It's been that way so many years that you begin to wonder if Coeper, the very hall-mark of consistency and accuracy in golf, is a good champion- ship finisher. And they pay off on finishes. s ROAMS FOR ATHLETES Colorado School Gets Stars From Chicago, Boston, St. Louis. s COLORADO SPRINGS (#).—The Fountain Valley High School has reached far across the country for its athletic stars. Ben Bryant of Chicago is the first- string pitcher, Robert Windsor of Boston ‘the catcher on the base ball team. Henry B. Parsons, tennis coach, rates William White of Min- neapolis and Hugh Scott of St. Louis as his best players. Ho Hunter of Chicago pole vaults. Rackets Restrung $2.00 X ® AND UP o ¥ = & )/ number of holes it is up or down in | each match, and the total at the finish | decides the winners. Smith-Cooper had plus 7 and Ar- | mour-Thomson plus 6. Armour missed | & 20-footer on the 126th hole which | would have tossed him into a tie for | the lead and a chance to win $2,000 | more on a 20-to-1 bet on which he had wagered $100 of his own money that he and Thomson would win. Other Winning Pairs. THE other pairs and the amount they won, with their final stand- ing: Ralph Guldahl-Sam Snead, plus 3, $750; Paul Runyan-Ky ' Laffoon, plus 1, $600; Henry Picard-Johnny Revolta, even, $500; Denny Shute- Lawson Little, minus 4, $400; Ray Mangrum-Johnny Hines, minus 6, $300; Olin Dutra-Gene Sarazen, minus 7, $300. The professionals scored 298 birdies and 6 eagles in their four-day best- ball assault on par. preasnfled by the makers of TYDOL GAS%?INE VEEDOL MOTOR OIL [] addition to a field of master shot- | makers. | Ryder Contest Adds Zest. 'HIS is not the first open for the | Michigan course. Back in 1924 Cyril Walker won with a 297 total for 72 holes. Every open winner since Walker, with the exception of Jones, | will be back for another crack at the course, which is 7,037 yards long and has a par 72 listing The quest for berths on the Ryder Cup team has given the open an added filip. 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