Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1937, Page 16

A—16 x* s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY ‘7, 1937. SPORTS. British Open Conceded to Yank : Stymie Appears Doomed in U. S. Surprised if First Five | Were Americans. | Associated Press Sports Writer. ARNOUSTIE, Scotland, July ( tain of England’s losing Ryder Cup team, is ready to after watching Horton Smith, Sam 8nead, Byron Nelson and the other out of Carnoustie in the qualifying rounds. the veteran said sadly. “One of these American kids is bound to win the prised to see them take the first five | or six places. You've got too many | “The only man we have with any chance of stopping you is Henry Cot- right now. Our other Ryder Cup players still are suffering from the English Vet Would Not Be| BY GAYLE TALBOT, 7.—Charles Whitcombe, cap- toss in the sponge in the British open Americans make a shooting gallery Looking as limp as a deflated sail, championship and I wouldn't be sur- great golfers. ton, and he isn't playing well enough shock they got at Southport.” Outnumbered He Says. WHINOMBE, too, thinks he knows why America has outdistanced the mother country in golf. In the first place, he points out, there are four or five times as many profession- als in American as England; secondly, they’re afforded far more *high-class tournament competition. “These American boys are shooting for money almost 12 months of the year, while we have only a couple of | money events worth entering,” he said. Perhaps most important of all. he says, is that Americans do a great; deal of their playing to greens only about half the size of those on British | championship courses, which average | close to 80 feet across. “That ac-| counts for their greater accuracy with ! frons,” Whitcombe thinks. | J. W. Gaudin is the oldest qunlifler‘ with a brace of 76s. He's 61, whereas Bobby Locke of South Africa, leading the amateurs. needed only 19 years| to post & total of 144. Great for 17 Holes. MARCEL DELLAMAGNE, whose | eight on one hole ruined his} opening round, had seven on another | hole yesterdav. “For 17 holes he's the | greatest golfer in the world,” said one impressed observer. “But on the! other—" | Johnny Revolta has decided to go back to his old method of putting off his right instep. It looks awkward, | but in practice last night he sank | eight straight from distances ranging | to 20 feet. “That's the way I putted when I won the P. G. A. champion- ship and now I wouldn't be surprised if I won this one,” he exulted. Scores figured to run higher today with the yardage pushed up to 7,032 against 6,863 of the last two days. Thursday it goes to 7,135. That’s the day when the local sharps are betting there won't be any 71s turned in. Ralph Guldahl doesn't care what distance they stretch the course, | “I'm tickled with my game,” he said. “I'm hitting drives down the middle and that's all I wanted.” PLAY FOR GOLF CUP Twenty-Five Women Entered in Muncaster Trophy Event. i ‘Twenty-five woman members of the Washington Golf and Country Club | will tee off from 9 until 10:05 o'clock | tomorrow .morning in the first of two- days’ play of the annual Muncaster Cup tournament. ‘Two flights will be open for qualifi- eation. The 36-hole medal play event ‘was won last year by Mrs. Douglas ‘Tschiffely, who is paired with Mrs. R. M. Fenton at 9:40 o'clock. The pairings: 9:00—Mrs. 8. W. Du Bois and Mrs. W. P. Draper. 9:10—Mrs. G. F. Freer and Mrs. Welles ay. . T. N. De Lashmutt and Mrs. C. H. Merillat and Mrs. Otto . R. T. Brandt and Mrs. H. '9:30—Mrs, W. C. James E. McCabe. .!l.edsfl—_rlfdr;ml} M. PFenton and MH.I uglas Tschiffely. | Debfs Mo K. Bailey and Mrs. G. C. Robert L. Hutchison and Edwin Montague. 5—Mrs. J. E. Blask and Mrs, J. W. lflingngs. Horst H. Herr and Mrs. E. . Kochersperger. B JSSRD. c. Gruver and Mrs. . 4. McLéndon. SWIMMERS IN RALLY A rally which will be held in the Bhoreham Hotel Pool tomorrow night is expected to go a long way toward reorganizing the Federal Swimming League. All members of Government department welfare and athl:tic or- ganizations and of last year’s league are to be admitted for 25 cents. Following the rally, a reorganization meeting will be held at 10 o'clock, to which all key men for swimming in the various departments are invited. It is planned to use the Wardman Park Pool for swimming instruction classes and a series of water carnivals. ‘Winfree Johnson of the Welfare and Recreational Association is answering all questions at District 1820, Branch 2546, Murphy and Mrs, g ELI GOLFERS GO ABROAD. NEW HAVEN, Conn,, July 7 (#).— The Yale golf team, which captured the Eastern Intercollegiate League championship, will sail from New York on the Queen Mary today for foreign competition. The Eli's golfers, led by Capt. Sherry Munson, plan to remain abroad five weeks and will play a series of matches with English and Scottish teams. LEWIS IS TAKING REST. PHOENIX, Ariz, July 7 (#).—John Henry Lewis, light-heavyweight cham- pion, has returned home, with the announcement he would rest a month “to build myseif up for a title bout with Joe Louis.” Lewis said his man- ager, Gus Greenlee, remained in Pittsburgh to negotiate with Promoter Mike Jacobs and the heavyweight champion’s managers. CASTING CLUB MEETS. The Capital Casting Club is meet- ing this evening at 8 o'clock in the office of former Senator Harry B. F | holme, near Baltimore, and left for OR the first time in its 15-year history the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers’ Associa- tion championship probably will travel this year to Tidewater, Va. Pro golfers of this sector will gather at the Kenwood Golf and Country Club tomorrow to discuss an offer carrying a sizeable amount of prize money to bring the championship affair to the Chamberlin Country Club around August 23. The offer has been made by the management of the Chemberlain at Old Point Comfort, Va., where Al Houghton, former Wash- ington pro, now is stationed. F THE tourney is held on the original dates scheduled (August 23, 24 and 25), the hotel management | will put up 300 bucks, while if the affair is held over the previous week end the hotel will raise the ante to 400 bucks. Add to this the entry fees of 30 or 35 entrants at $5 and yoyll have a tournament with around $500 in the kitty, something the Middle Atlantic pros haven't had in years, since Gene Sarazen grabbed the lion's share of the 1928 purse at Wood- New York without even tossing a| kiss over his shoulder for the boys who'd entertained him so well and helped to buy those pure-strain cattle | for the old Connecticut farmstead, F LATE years the boys have been | playing for peanuts, without even | a little lagniappe thrown in, as they say in deah old N'Owleans. Lagniappe, in case you didn't know, is a little something on the side, like a chaser, only in this case it's a little extra dough. There hasn't been any lagniappe in many, many years, and the boys have simply been playing for their own entry money. With this extra dough tossed in the pot they may .drag Wiffly Cox out of his lethargy as far as the local tourna- ments are concerned and get Wilfred down to Old Point for a joust with Bobby Cruickshank, Al Houghton, Chandler Harper and some of the local boys. Wiffy never has played in a P. G. A. championship, but the promise of the added money might lure him away. UT that's just one of the matters | the pros are going to talk over | at Kenwood tomorrow. While most | of ’em are at the all-star ball game today (pro golfers like base ball as well as pro ball players like golf) they'll be mulling over a proposal to set up an exhibition loop around Washington with 8 or 10 of the lead- ing paid lads all set to join in the festivities. Briefly it's the idea of Cox that more and better exhibition golf matches are the thing. He staged a pair of 'em last Sunday at Kenweod, pulling out several hundred golf fans to see the boys whack 'em, and with that behind him he thinks he'd like to see a regular exhibition schedule ar- ranged, with that old home-club ballyhoo put on and the lads vying among themselves for a few ducats. Net that they expect to get wealthy from these little Sun- day afternoon affairs, but Wil- tred has the thought they should be held more often at all the clubs. It's a good idea, too. There should be more first-class pro golf played around Washington. The financing of them would be simple. A purse of no great size could be put up at each club with the winners to get the major part of it, and the losers coming in for a small slice. There are plenty of fine shotmakers around the Capital who aren’t well known outside of their own clubs, and who can put on a good links show any time, any- where. Wiff is on the track of a good idea. WILLIAM R. STONE, originator M; the “chippy golf” idea, and sponsor of a scheme for 12-hole courses, is getting to be quite a golfer | himself. Only five ‘years ago he took | the game up, and he has played quite a lot with Roger Peacock, the former | District champ. A couple of days ago | Stone got the ball rolling and did 50 | well that he scored a 76 at Indian | Spring, losing by a single shot to Roger. who had a 75. Stone led the former champ coming to the sixteenth hole, where he took a 7, to finish the last nine with a 40 after getting out in 36. THEY'RE getting ready for one of those screwy tournaments at In- dian Spring next Sunday, where gooty doings will be in progress all day as a field of linksmen play in an affair where high scoring is sure to be_enjoyed. It will be a four-club tournament, in which the players may choose only four clubs. Bui they must all be used in rotation. Can you imagine a 8uy trying to drive with a sand wedge and putting with a driver? That’s what will happen at Indian Spring | Sunday. HE%®S e ———————————————————————————————————— BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. is booming, as evidenced from the | spirit of co-cperation that character- ized the conclave of delegates from all chess groups in the District at the Parkside Hotel last night, when the | Metropolitan Chess Association an- nounced its activity program for the Fall and Winter season. On the calendar are any number of tournaments, the salient ones be- | ing: Champion of champions tourna- | ment, amateur championship of the District, quintet championship, Inter- high Chess Association team tourney, individual interscholastic champion- ship, ladies’ championship of the Dis- trict and records for simultaneous ex- hibition play and skittles. The Metropolitan Chess Association was organized in 1936 and is the strongest chess aggregation of clubs and private chess groups that has been developed in the Nation’s Capitol. All the official titles of the District are those only recognized and ap- proved by the M. C. A. To have a bona fide District tournament of any kind it is all important to have the endorsement of the association which speaks officially for organized co- operative chess throughout the Dis- trict. It is of no consequence to pub- licize fly-by-the-night tourna- ments that some over-zealous fan may choose to dub an official tournament. The public likes the real thing and the M. C. A. seeks to lend weight and an- thority to any formal chess ac- tivity in the District. Only by means of a policy of or- ganized co-operative chess may the royal game be advanced. Schisms and personal differences are millstones around Caissa’s neck and no player is at his best in any tournament when he feels there is some doubt as to the value of the crown at issue. s The officers of the M. C. A. have hitched their little red wagon to a star of the first magnitude and are whizzing along the rocky road to suc- cess—“rocky” because there are ever —_— e ~ RN Direct to Grandstand! DELAWARE ITEA PARK | (37.207'l Weekdays e Pubmeas to JULY 24 incl. seet) et Pertor Cors, Dio- g Cor, Couchos v Weshmgren cer dM0AM . Roce Trock BT Returning immediately oMer lont rece Fiest Rose . . . 300 .M. PENNSYLVANIR RRILRO Hawes in the Transportation Building. ), a few rugged individualists who loath ‘ORGANIZED chess in the District | team work, principally because they still live in a world of one-horse buggies. SIMON NAIDEL, chairman of the Washington Social Chess Divan Tournament Committee, says an open tourney will be initiated tonight at 8 o'clock at the Social Chess Lounge, 1336 I street northwest. Members of the divan and July ad- ditions may compete on an equal basis in the match. Norval Wigginton, secretary, will be present to extend July membership cards to any interested fans. The fee is $1.25 for July, or $3 for July, Au- gust and September. GRILL PLAYERS SHINE O'Donnell’s Grill copped just about all the honors of the first half of the Industrial League. ' Not only did it win the first-half championship, but four of its players are among the six leading hitters. The winners won 9 of their 11 games for an .818 per- centage—their nearest competitor. Old Milwaukee, only breaking even in 10 games. Booker led the champions at bat with & 572 average. Collier of Heu- rich’s had an even .400 mark, snd Brown of Old Milwaukee batted .37¢, but the next three players all wore O'Donnell's colors. They are Freschi, .362; Nau, .360, and Clark, .350. e R - PITCHER COLLAPSES. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 7 (#).—Clyde Hatter, pitcher for the Toledo club, was taken to the Lucas County Hos- pital last night after he had col- lapsed unconscious in a taxicab. Ate tendants said he had taken an over- dose of a sleeping potion. His con- dition was given as “fair.” 3 MINORS BEAT PHILLIES. TRENTON, N. J, July 7 (#)— Trenton’s NY-P League Senators handed the Philadelphia Phillies an 8-1 setback in an exhibition game at Dunn Field here last night." INDIVIDUAL AND SCIENTIFIC DRY CLEANING SERVICE Our modern and effi- clent service leaves your clothes free of odor. WHILE YOU WAIT or - ONE-DAY SERVICE PANAMAS /71 Cleaned. shaped and [ il reblocked with our - n e w machinery. \V4 makes your old hat look like new. Grand Gentral V 1405 H STREET N.W. “1 Deer Frem 14ih on H® Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. . Base Ball. All-star game, Griffith Stadium, 1:30. Tennis. Women’ District tournament, . Columbia Country Club, 2, TOMORROW. Tennis. Women's District tournament, Columbia Country Club, 2. FRIDAY. Base Ball, ‘Washington at New York, 2. Tennis., ‘Women's District tournament, Columbia Country Club, 2. SATURDAY. Base Ball, ‘Washington at New York, 2. Tennis. Army-Navy Leech cup matches, Army Navy Country Club, 2. Women's District tournament, Columbia Country Club, 2. STREET QUITS AS PILOT ST. PAUL, July 7 (#).—Charles (Gabby) Street, who piloted the St. Louis Cardinals to two pennants and one world series title, has resigned as manager of the St. Paul American Assoclation club he led to second place las! season. He gave ill-health, caused by worry over his club—now in last place after eight consecutive losses—as the reason for his resignation and retirement from base ball for the remainder of the season. Phil Todt, brilliant first baseman, who filled in at the pilot post for a month at the end of the 1933 cam- paign, was named to carry on in Street’s place. REDS FARM VANDER MEER. CINCINNATI, July 7 (#)—John- ny Vander Meer, the 22-year-old strikeout king of the minor leagues last year, has been sent by the Reds to Syracuse of the International League today under a 24-hour re- call. T 4 MIGARS Putting Nearer Ball First in Medal Play Urged by Game’s Solons. the stymie in golf since the United States Golf Associa- tion last Winter asked all dis- to find the true facts over a year of competitive golf. That effort now is in full swing and on just what the stymie is doing in match play golf and what golfers think of it. There isn’t much doubt G. A. has made no tabulation of the results of its inquiry. John J. Golfer and his locker room pals will have BY W. R. McCALLUM. OT much has been heard about triet golf associations to go along with the parent body this year in an effort reports on the stymie are pouring in daily from all sections of the land of the general opinion regarding the pesky thing, even though the U, S. none of the stymie ¢n match play if they can toss it out. Nearer Ball Putted First. BUT there is a considerable faction in the U. S. G. A. which regards the playing of the stymie as a stroke of skill and the laying of one as an- other of those golf incidents which happen to every player, somewhat similar to a bad kick off a perfect shot down the fairway or a bad hop on a pitch shot. Not only that, but many folks adhere strictly to the old idea of golf; that the ball shall not be touched with the hands from the time it is struck off the tee until it has been holed out. This year, in medal play, the U. S. G. A. has recommended that the near i ball, if it involves a possible line-up [for the ball that is away, be putted first. It was done in the intercolle- | giate championship, and in the sec- tional trials' for the open title at Chevy Chask, and it is being done all | over the land, to avoid the possibility EK * of wiping the ball when it is lifted out of the line of another ball. The U. 8. G. A. is doing everything possi- ble to find the true answer to the stymie, Universally Disliked. ND yet, if you go right down the line among the amateurs, you'll find the stymie universally disliked. Billy Dettweiler, one of the more prominent competitors, was a victim of the stymie in all its dramatic phases in the recent Middle Atlantic cham- plonship. Don McPhail of Baltimore laid Billy a dead stymie on the first extra hole of their first-round match. Billy's putt was 14 inches from the cup, and there was no way to get around the other ball on a slippery green. It was just another of the nu- merous examples of- luck in the game, and your attitude depends on whether you think the stymie should be re- tained or whether it should be tossed out. At Manor where District Golf Asso- ciation President Jim Cosgrove keeps pounding away at the stymie, there isn't any doubt about how the golf- ing members feel. Their 7-to-1 vote against it, recorded a year ago, today reflects even more strongly a stand against retention of the stymie. Just what the U. 8. G. A. will do no one knows, not even the members of the Executive Committee. But they will do something next Winter and prob- ably it will be to require the near ball to be putted out, just as they've done in medal play events this year, FAR-TRAVELING NETMAN DENVER, July 7 (#).—Charles Har- ris of West Palm Beach, Fla., thinks nothing of packing up his rackets and traveling more than 5000 miles | to defend his championship in a State | tennis tournament. Harris, who captured the Colorado title last year, has been playing in | England recently. Harris wrote Norval Craig. tennis | profesional at the Denver Country Club, he was heading for the moun- | tain country as fast as boat and train | could take him to defend his laurels | in the 1937 tourney, which opens Sun- | day. | ounce tip and is a sweetheart when By Gtorce £. HuBer- T I8 getting close to the time when anglers in this section should be- gin preparations for bluefish. In other words, get out your big reel and heavy line. Day in and day out this department will preach the gospel of light tackle, but that can be carried a bit too far when it comes to blues. For one thing, blues are not as common as most other bay fish, and when We hang into one it is heart- breaking to lose it because a six- thread line won't hold. Ordinarily for trolling after rock we use six- thread, but when big blues are in the . neighborhood we break out & line we use for that purpose and nothing else. It is a nine-thread Ashaway sport line, & beautiful thing with a different color every 20 yards, so we can tell how much line is out and how much more goes out when & big blue strikes. Most anglers use something & bit heavier, but a nine-thread will stand the gaff if it is 2 good quality made by a manufacturer who knows his business. As for & reel, a drag is mandatory unless you have a delicate touch with & tough thumb, a rare combination. A drag will save a lot of work and a lot of fish, Long and Short Rods. TROLLING rod should be fairly short and stiff, otherwiseit will have a permanent curve at ‘the end of the day. You can allow yourself a bit more length and lightness while chumming or still fishing. We know we are going to start an argument, but our favorite chumming or still fishing rod has a 6-foot, 6- anything at all gets on it, much less a blue. It bends all over the bay, but with a light drag this is an advan- tage because the fish {s fighting the spring of the rod, not the strength | of your arm or line. This rod, however, cannot be used still fishing with a drift line for rock Something it stiffer is needed hrose b0 wK|SSES - to sink the hook through the hard, bony mouth of the large striped Bay Best for Blues. CHHSAPEAKE BAY without doubt is the finest bluefish ground in the world. They come bigger here and they come more frequently. The winners last year in all the national big-fish contests were taken right out there near the Gooses. Most of them are eaught either chumming or trolling; few are taken still fishing. Chumming had its origin in Chesa- peake Bay. There is no use going into its history, but for the uninitiated & brief line of explanation may be needed. A bushel or s0 of alewives, menhaden or other oily trash fish is used. The boat is anchored in a tide, and the meat ground up and thrown overboard a handful at a time. It forms a long, oily “slick” about 20 feet wide reaching down the tide. g Your hook is baited with a piece of the fish, thrown over without a sinker and allowed to drift down the tide about 20 or 30 feet. Mr. Blue- flish thinks something is going on up the line, travels up to take a peek, and, seeing your bait, latches onto it. You take it from there. Troll Through Edges. ’I‘ROLLXNG is done with anything the particular angler prefers. Spoons, squids, feathers, drones all have their followers. 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