Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1937, Page 18

A—1I8 SPORTS. THE EVENING Vets Strong in U. S. Amateur : * Mike F orgives “Bump’s” Bump OBSCURE PLAYERS LAND FEW PLACES Zd Kingsley of Utah Ties Johnny Goodman for Low Score of Prelim. | By the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 28 —Veterans of the amateur golfing wars returned to the firing line yes- terday and with smoothly- swinging clubs just about took over the 28 qualifying rounds of the national amateur championship. Here and there an unknown battled his way into the 153 places remaining open in the first round of the cham- pionship at the Alderwood Country Club, Portland, Oreg., August 23. One was Ed Kingsley of Magna, Utah, who fired rounds of 69 and 68 to tie Johnny Goodman of Omaha for the day's medal honors, with a total of 137.| Goodman. who is better than a raw| 1and with his clubs—he won the open in 1933—reversed Kingsley's figures| with 68-69. Each was seven under par for 36 holes. Walker Cuppers Make Grade. LO\V SCORING was scattered indis- criminately over the golf map, promising sharp competition in the | tournament proper. Paul Leslie of Jefferson City, Mo., drilled out a 139 to pace a strong field at Chicago and Bobby Servis, medalist at Cincinnati, was only a stroke behind. ‘Walker Cup players had a good day. Two, Scotty Campbell and Harry Givan, already had qualified at Ta- coma, Wash.. last Friday. They were ioined by Charlie Yates, Reynolds Smith and Walter Emery. Manager Mickey Cochrane holder. Here he is shown (rig. Jor weeks with a triple skull fr TEST FOR KING SAXON Heads List of 12 Nominations fcr Del Mar Handicap. Twelve thoroughbreds, headed by King Saxon, have been named for the $5,000 Smith, Texas champion, paced the|added Del Mar Handicap, mile and fleld at Dallas with a 142, and Emery, | | one-sixteenth closing feature at the one of the three golfers to qualify at | Oklahoma City, carded a 146, four| Dt: Mar track Saturday. strokes behind the leader, Dee Re- plogle. an 18-vear-old with a hand- some local reputation. Yates gave am- ple indication of fitness for the main show with a 141 at Atlanta, three un- der par. Johnny Fischer, defending cham- pion, was not required to qualify, and the same rule held good for five former champions. Twenty others qualified at Boston and Tacoma previously. College Champ a Leader. THREE of the amateur game's “watch him" boys came through in the Detroit district Freddy Haas, jr., of New Orleans, the national intercollegiate titlist, led the fleld with a 145, and Melvin Harbert of Battle Creek, Mich., who astonished the golfing world with a 20-under-par score in the Michigan open, squeezed in with 156. Sandwiched in between was Chuck Kocsis, the able workman Wwho won the college title for Michigan in 1936. He posted a 148. Form held true in the metropolitan district, where many of the East's best were on display. Willie Turnesa was low man with a 143. In the group of qualifiers were Ray Billows and Tommy Goodwin, perennial contenders for the New York State title; Frank Strafaci, low amateur in the national open; Bobby Jacobson and T. Suffern Tailer. The sextet, with Turnesa, Billows, Goodwin and Strafact all at the top of their games, assays richly in golf tal- ent. E. J. Rogers of Oklahoma City was another virtual unknown who checked in with a low score. He paced the field at Denver with a 142. Eddie Held made the tourney proper in the same fleld with a respectable 150. — RIPPY WILL MAKE MUNY EVENT TRIP Decides to Go to San Francisco When Leoffler Threatens to King Saxon, owned by A. B. Spreckles, San Francisco, will meet such runners as Grey Count. winner of the Louisiana Derby last Winter at New Orleans; the Fighter, Texas Derby winner of 1936. and Papenie, a stake winner at Santa Anita last Winter. DEL MAR, Calif, July 28 () —|Head of the Tigers is not a grudge- ht) with Irving Hadley, Yankee hurler, whose bean-ball put the Detroit manager in the hospital acture. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. LOEBS MADE GRID AIDE. 8T. LOUIS, July 28 (#).—Frank Loebs, former Purdue end, has been named to the Washington University coaching staff as second assistant to Coach Jimmy Conzelman | Frank Kopczak, former Notre Dame | tackle, recently was named first as- sistant. TEMPLE MAY GO WEST. PALO ALTO, Calif., July 28 (#).— | Glenn 8. “Pop” Warner discussed to- | day the possibility his Temple Uni- versity foot ball team might play San Francisco September 17, 1938, if | the Pacific Coast Conference would consent. either Santa Clara or St. Mary's, in | STAR, WASHINGTON SEILEN e apple saved a crack golfer from what might have been stark tragedy, and gained for him the top spot in the sectional qualification rounds for the national amateur championship. Not that Levi Yoder wouldn't have qualified even if the apple hadn’t knocked his ball onto the thirty-sixth green at Five Farms, but it helped him to lead the field of 18, and top the group of 6 from this area who'll go to Portland, Oreg, next month to play in the national ama- teur golf joust. lT‘S all 8 queer yarn, of how an LEVI shot 76 and 74, which adds up to 150 whacks for a tough golf course. It also adds up to the fact that the restaurant employe and for- mer Mid-Atlantic champ (he won last year over the same Five Farms course) proved his right at the top of the heap, and he didn't need any break from an immature apple to do it either. He won that right with his clubs and his skill. (‘OMING to the thirty-sixth hole of | “ the sectional test at Five Farms yesterday, Levi hit a drive 200 yards up the right side of the fairway. He took out a No. 4 iron to cut The shot around an apple tree. Hit hard, that ball clipped an apple off the tree, hopped high in the air and stopped 20 feet from the pin. Had it not been deflected and par- tially retarded by the fruit there isn't much doubt that pill would have gone over the green into a road beyond And then what? Levi might have taken anything, a 6. or a 7, and he might not have led the field. AS IT was he is the top man of | three Washingtonians who will | shove off around August 15 for the simonepure championship which | | starts August 23. The other local | qualifiers are Martin F. McCarthy, | Beaver Dam's “iron man,” who scored | D. C, THE TEE By Walter McCallum 78—175—153 to place second in the 36-hole test, and Billy Shea, the lanky Middle Atlantic champ from Con- gressional, who scored 79—78—157 and got in via the play-off route, bagging a par 4 on the first extra hole to win the fifth place. Harry A. Parr, well-known Baltimore golfer, also tied with Shea and Bill Tomlinson of Richmond and licked Tomlinson for the last place with a par 4 on the second extra hole. Don McPhail of Baltimore, recent runner-up to Shea for the Mid-Atlantic crown, and Jack Fulton of Baltimore also won places, both scoring 155. Thus Washington and Baltimore will have equal repre- sentation in the championship with three places each. N/IARTIN McCARTHY is the only qualifier who is doubtful about making the lengthy trip to Portland “I'll go if business conditions and time permit,” Martin said today. “If I feel I should stay home I won't go at all.” Tomlinson, the unsuccessful play-off man, will be the alternate in case one of the six does not go. Ralph Quinter of Chevy Chase, who missed the play-off by a single shot with 78—80—158, will be the next alternate. Page Hufty, also of Chevy Chase, scored 79—83—162 and Forest Thompson of Beaver Dam, a qualifier last year, scored 81—86—167. Yoder is the only qualifier in 1936 who re- peats this year. Jock McLean, runner-up to John Fischer in the Garden City championship, licked Yoder on the final green in the third round of the 1936 tourney. YODER had his rough spots along the journey. There was, for ex- ample, the fifteenth hole, where his third shot missed the green and put him deep in the woods. He got out with a 6 when he might have gone into double figures. And there was also the apple. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, But Ralph Quinter had the toughest luck of all. Ralph had 78 over the ! 1937, . d first round and even though he took | & 5 on the par 8 ninth in the after- | noon he was out in 37, and apparently | safe. But the tenth hole—an in- nocent par 4 affair—cooked his goose. He sliced to the rough,. knocked the | ball out into the fairway, hit his third onto the bank in front of the | green and saw the ball slide back into | a shallow water hazard. He waded down into the goo and tried to play the ball. ‘Three whacks at it he took and the fourth whack and his seventh | stroke finally got it on the putting | surface. He holed out in 9, and when | you have to carry a 9 arounc in a | medal round you've got quite & load. ! He subsequently took & 6 on the fifteenth and finished with 158. Leave out those three holes, the ninth, tenth and fifteenth and Ralph did quite & plece of shotmaking. Then there was Billy Shea, three-putting the eighteenth green (his Afth three-putt green of the round) to get into the play-off. But Billy made up for it with a great chip shot on the first extra hole, JJARRY PARR, former Maryland champ, pitched over a trap and holed a nervy putt on the thirty-sixth green to get into the play-off, while Tomlinson canned s 20-footer to get in. But Harry was too good on the extra holes. The championship will be played over the Alderwood Club course on the banks of the Columbia River starting August 23. ACCEPTS NET ENTRIES ‘The Tennis 8hop, 1019 Fifteenth street, today became an additional place for the receipt of entries for the Middle Atlantic singles tourna- ment which starts Saturday at the Edgemoor Club. They may be taken there or telephoned to National 5165. Edgemoor officlals are taking entries over the telephone at Wisconsin 1619, Entries close at 6 o'clock Friday night, the draw to be made immedi- ately afterward. SPORT s Sarazen, Smith Big-Coin Golfers - 4 BOTH HAVE SAVED | BUNCH OF MONEY Neither Will Need Benefit Affairs—Gene Is Getting Ready to Retire. BY W. R. McCALLUM. AY the heavy dough on the line, and you'll find Gene Sarazen and Horton Smith up there getting their share. Over the last 10 years these two 80ing to win that” 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR WASHXNGTON snd Cleveland split their bargain bill yester- day, the Indians taking the first, 3-2, and dropping the second, 5-2. President Ban Johnson of the American League has issued the edict, “Ball players must fight for their country and, if need be, the championship season will be cure tailed.” The five Washington pros, How- ard Beckett, David Burgess, Jim Spencer, Fred McLeod and Jack Burgess, will stage an exhibition match over the Washington Golf and Country Club course, -_— He did. He also professional golfers—lanky Horton, the | has won the Augusta masters’ tourna- Missouri kid, and stocky, sturdy Gene | ment, one of the major money events —have demonstrated they are Amer- ica’s foremost big-money golfers. They of the pro season. Horton Smith twice has grabbed first aren’t 20 hot nowadays in the smaller | money in the Augusta tournament, and tournaments, but when the big cash twice also he has won the Biltmore afe purses come along, you can bank on | fair at Miami, which had been Amer- it that Gene and Horton will be UD | ica's richest event for years until the there grabbing their cut. Others come along and win—occa- sionally—but over any stretch of years these two have proved themselves the most consistent when the heavy sugar is at stake, Gene's latest win—of the Chicago Chicago open came along. Sarazen and Smith have that com- petitive spirit that flames to white heat, under extreme pressure, and don't let any one tell you that a 3-foot putt for | & thousand bucks or so is any easy shot. Between them Gene and Smith open with its $3,000 first money— | come fairly close to being the biggest proved again what the pros always have contended—that Gene is at his best when the dice roll for high figures. Gene hasn't won much in recent years. He grabbed the West Coast open at| Belleair last February, but most of the time he's been down in the agate type, where the newspapers carry the also-rans. from competitive golf, for Gene has made a competency out of the game, and he has put most of it away. So has Horton. pro golf for 10 years and more, these two lads won't need any benefit per- formances when their winning days are ended. Grabbed Biggest Purse. ARAZEN has had a flair for the big purses for many years. Gene grabbed the greatest money prize of all time 10 years back at Agua Caliente when he ran his fingers through a pile of 10.000 dollar bills piled in a wheelbarrow and announced: “I'm YOU NEED IT Now / IES KNOCKPROOF GAS SINCE THE WARM IT TAKES WEATHER I'VE HAMMERED STARTED He's getting ready to retire Up in the big money of | money-makers in the pro game. NO-HITTERS COMMON Ash, Buffalo, Gets Second in Week in I. L., Beating Chiefs. ] Br the Associated Press A little more of this no-hit pitching in the International League and the batters can spend their time in the dugouts reading the funnies and playe ing cards. Ken Ash, veteran Buffalo righte hander, pitched the second no-hit, no-run performance in three days, and the third of the league season | last night when he beat the Syracuse Chiefs, 2-0, in the 7-inning opening game of a double bill. | Lloyd (Whitey) Moore of Syracuse | tossed a no-hitter Sunday and Crip | Polli of Montreal pitched another | earlier in the season. SURE, KNOCKING'S ALWAYS WORSE IN LIKE A BLACKSMITH Keep Whole Team Home. CLAUDE RIPPY won't be a holdout on that forthcoming San Fran- eisco trip of four local public links lads. Following a heart-to-heart talk with Dave Herman, local public links representative, and assurance by 8. G. Leoffier that he will not take a financial licking while he is away, Rippy today congented to go. Twenty- four hours ago he had about made up his mind not to go. Leoffler threatened to call off the entire trip. not only for Rippy but for Andy Oliveri, Bobby Burton and Jim Gipe, on the premise that with- out Rippy the spear-head of the Wash- ington team would be lost and he might as well save the $600 to $800 the trip would cost. But Herman did a lot of Dutch-uncle conversing (he learned it from Goldie Ahearn) with Rippy and Leoffler, and finally con- vinced the Ripper he won't be so badly hurt in the pocketbook as he thought. Part of RiPpy's troubles hing- ed around the $6 a day which public links golfers can legiti- mately take for their expenses during the tournament, in ad- dition to their traveling ex- Pense. Rippy didn't think he'd get it during the practice days and Leoffler didn't think he could legitimately allow it without hurting Rippy’s amateur standing. But Herman straightened it all out and now Rip will go. That party at East Potomac Park tonight will be held, and all is sweet and se- rene in the public links camp. But for a while the lid threatened to pop off the whole shebang. If Rippy had pulled out of the Frisco trip it would have popped. Congressman Franck Havenner of Ban Francisco and Maj Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, will appear tonight at the festivities, in addition to the celebrities previously listed. — AUTO TROUBLE? Ca DIST-2775 L 1 USE GULF NO-NOX =IT'S KNOCKPROOF, EVEN IN THE HIGHEST COMPRESSION CARS ME TO HUSH THOSE SUMMER KNOCKsS! 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