Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1937, Page 13

SPORTS. Record Purse Posted Jor Mid-Atlantic Pros’ Title Golf Tourney THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937. SPORTS. A—13 §1.00PRIZF CHEST Witt, Other Grass Itls on Links Worrying Greenkeepers Here LURESEDLFSTARS Victor in Chamberlin Meet Gets $300—Paid Clan of | Capital to Compete. BY W. R. McCALLUM. HE biggest purse the Middle Atlantic golf pros ever have had tossed into their laps for their little sectional champion- ship will be hung up at Old Point Comfort, Va., July 31 and August 1 when the pald players from Mary- Jand and Virginia will gather at the Chamberlin golf course to compete for & pot worth a thousand bucks. ‘Top money to the winner will be $300. Even in the years when the Mid- Atlantic brought to Washington such gents as Gene Sarazen, Willie Mac- Parlane, Joe Turnesa, John Farrell and other topnotchers, and when Tommy Armour was & contestant, the boys never had a purse of that size to shoot for. It assures the coming Middle At- lantic P. G. A. championship of being the finest pro tourney in this sector of the land this year and it will draw every pro who things he has a chance to get in on the dough. But it will| be open only to members of the sec- tional pro body. Pro-Amateur Warm-Up Listed. As AN added attraction, Chamber- lin club officials announced today they will stage a pro-amateur match on July 30 to be more or less & warm- up for the big show. This will be at 18 holes medal play. The course of | the Chamberlin club at Old Point | Comfort stretches out to & maximum length of 6,600 yards. | Such stellar club swingers as Wiffy Cox, making his initial start in a Middle Atlantic P. G. A. champion- | ship; Bobby Cruickshank, twice runner-up for the national open champlonship; George Diffenbaugh, District open king and president of the M. A. P. G. A ; Roland MacKenzie, | Errie Ball of Farmington, Va.; Al Houghton, the home club pro at the Chamberlin course, and Chandler | Harper and Jack lsaacs, topnotchers | from Tidewater Virginla, will be among the starters. A field or more than 60 is expected | to compete, with fully half that num- ber drawn from the clubs near Wash- | ington. The money will be split among the first 10 scorers over the | 72-hole test. | Betschler to Defend Title. “YHARLEY BETSCHLER, the rotund pro at the Hillendale Country | Club of Baltimore, will be around to defend the title he won last year, but Charley, good as he is at match play, isn’t figured to repeat. He never has shown himself to be a medal play star, particularly against gents like | Cox, Cruickshank and MacKenzie. It will be MacKenzie's first chance to play in the sectional championship. He has been a member of the P. G. A. lees than a year. And it will be the first appearance for Wiffy Cox. TRAIGHT = & WRMcCaLtum 'AL HOUGHTON, former Washing- ton pro, was on his way back to Old Point Comfort today, a few doliars richer as a result of a victory in the pro-amateur affair staged yesterday at Rolling Road. Al paired with Roy Sterner, Baltimore public links player, | to win with a best ball of 64. Andyi Gibson of Baltimore won the pro sweepstakes tourney with 70, with George Diffenbaugh next gt 71. Diffenbaugh and Eddie Bean, Wash- | ington pair, were third in the pro- amateur affair, with 66s. Bob Bar. been getting a little thin in spots, Mr. Golfer? Perhaps you also have noticed big brown patches scattered over the surface of what, up to & couple weeks ago, was an immaculately green and smooth AVE you noticed how your favorite putting greens have plot of bent grass. Don't kick about it, for just now | we here in Washington are going through one of the toughest seasons for brown patch and allied grass troubles we've had in a decade, And it isn’t going to get any better until 000l nights come along. 80 says O. B. Fitis, who has been course supervisor at Columbia for nearly 10 years. Before that, Fitts was one of Dr. John Monteith's boys attached to the greens section of the Department of Agriculture and the United States Golf Association. Dr. Monteith and his associates know more about put- ting green grasses and the ills these grasses fall heir to than any others in the world, Fitts was one of Monteith's best men Wilt Has Greenkeeper Worried. E LOOKED at a couple of fopt- prints in the smooth surface of the eighteenth green at Columbia and directed a helper to spread water over the green—in the heat of the day. Watering of putting greens in the heat of a Summer day generally is not regarded as good stuff. But there were those footprints. “If I didn't water this green right now, every man who walked on it would leave those footprints,” he said. “Tomorrow that grass would be dead. It's something new in my experience, but immediate watering seems to stop it.” “"How come?” Fitts was asked. “How can a green almost within an hour fall into this condition?” “I don't yet know.” said Fitts. *But there it is. two golfers walked on it. trying to do any damage. but you can see what happened. If I didn't get at it right away, every time a plaver stepped on that grass it would curl and die, and tomorrow we'd have a green covered with footprints. “T call it ‘wilt’ for lack of a better name, but it's new to me. It must happen by a coincidence of circum- stances and sunshine after a warm night without anv air stirring. But it does happen? Why? That's what I'd like to know. “We've had more trouble this Sum- | mer than in any other Summer I can remember. Just when it looked, too, as if we were in for & good season. And. of course, it's general. It isn't confined to Columbia or any other particular course. It's all over this section. “he only thing we can do is to watch the greens like & mother watches & child and pounce on trouble when it starts. Much Trouble in Hot Weather. “§/0U know, a fellow in charge of a golf course has quite & bunch of trouble on his hands when weather like this comes along what this property is worth, but with- out putting greens no golf course is very good. The golf courses around Washington must be worth many mil- lions of dollars. And a little scum like this can come along and ruin ‘em overnight.” So give a thought to the hard- working greenkeeper. He's up at the crack of dawn these mornings and out over vour golf course trying to keep down brown patch and wilt and pyvthium and the hundred and one things that torture bent grass. One moment of relaxation and a putting| green is gone. | And just now he's right in the| middle of his toughest time. When | You see a smooth, green putting sur- face remember that it's only that way because the greenkeeper is constantly vigilant. Any farmer can grow grass, in the Spring and Fall, when the This morning this green | was OK., and vet half an hour ago | They weren't | I don't know | nights are cool and the days are warm, but the trick is to keep it growing under bad conditions. And right now we're experiencing the toughest conditions in 10 years. WO FILLIES HELD B TROT THREATS Little-Mentioned Sheppard Pair May Jolt Choices in Hambletonian. (This is the second of two sto- ries on the outstanding eligibles for the Hambletonian.) By the Associated Press EW YORK, July 20.—Saying little, but with a confident smile on his face, Henry Thomas is perfectly willing to let the boys think that the August 11 renewal of the Hambletonian at | Goshen, N. Y., will be strictly a two- horse race between W. N. Reynolds’ | Schnapps and Bill Strang's Twilight | Song. But while followers of the trotters are arguing over which is the better | of the two Thomas is going quietly | about preparing & pair of fillies from Lawrence B. Sheppard's Hanover, Pa., horse farms. Ace of the pair is Shir- ley Hanover, The other is Delphia Hanover. Get Test Tomorrow. INEITHER has started this year, but both are slated to make their 3-year-old debuts in the National Stakes at Old Orchard Beach, Me., | tomorrow. ~ While Schnapps was winning the matron and champion- ship stallion stakes and Twilight Song | was trailing in the latter, Thomas had | the Hanover pair at Maine's “kite” | track going through their paces. Shirley earned her reputation as & | 2-year-old, finishing second to Twi- | light Song in the Lexington Junior | Futurity. Previously, over the same | track, she made her mark of 2:05'. | She 1s by Mr. McElwyn, Schnapps’ | sire, out of Hanover's Bertha, winner of the 1930 Hambletonian. Delphia's best time as a juvenile was 2:05!;. Like her stablemate, however, she has indicated in trials that it'll take several seconds faster to beat her when the ranking 3-vear- | old trotters start racing for the big | money at Goshen. | e | Farr Good, But Erratic. | E. Roland Harriman, head of the Grand Circuit, has one of the speed- iest eligibles in his Farr, but he's i never quite sure what the daughter | of Truax will do. She beat Schnapps the Matron at To- trotting the mile in 2:05, but usually she is a bad post horse and just as liable as not to get away poorly. Then, too, she has the habit of breaking. Other ouistanding eligibles for the $40.000 race include Dunbar Bost- wick's Hollyrood Audrey, which the wealthy young sportsman expects to drive himself; Harvere, owned by Henry Em Warwick of New Ham- | burg, N. Y.; Earl's Spencerian, from Earl F. Shropshire's stables of St.| | Petersburg, Fla.. and sired by Spencer, | | the 1928 winner, and C. W. Phellis’ | Southland of New York City. in one heat in | ledo, HARNESS HORSEMAN DIES. ST. LOUIS, July 20 (#).—Thomas BARBER, SLEDGE ON MAT | Bronko Nagurski-Cliff Olson “title” | facing Wally Dusek and George Har- grappling match at Griffith Stadium | ben tangling with George Kondylis in Thursday night, it has been announced | matches restricted to 30 minutes. Hank Barber, tackle, and Bill Sledge, Texas twister, | former Dartmouth | by Promoter Joe Turner. 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(R): Lou Lima. 1 . “defeated Prankis Campbell, 142, Boston (8).