Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1937, Page 43

SPORI>. U. S. Amateur Loses Many Stars : & REMOTE SITE PUTS - GRIMPINTOURNEY Load of Talent From East | Will Be Missing From Field at Portland. BY W. R. McCALLUM. TS going to be a perfectly reg- ular championship in the sense that it will turn out a champion, but that forthcoming amateur title joust at Portland, Oreg., starting August 23, will lack a flock of famil- dar faces—guys who've been pounding the ball around the titular mashie Mmeadows with considerable skill for a £00d many years. It’s the distance ang the cost of the Journey that are keeping many of the stars of last year away from the 1937 addition of the championship. Port- land is more than 3.000 miles away from Washington and New York and to do the trip right would cost ap- proximately $500 plus about 18 days of time. Many of the boys don't have 4t, meaning both. Didn’t Try to Qualify. THE Washington delegation of Levi Yoder, Martin F. McCarthy and Billy Shea is strong enough, but there could be more golfers of equal strength in the tournament, and there would be | if the championship were nearer than | the Pacific Coast. The same situation | holds true all over the land. Taken | right down the line the locker rooms | out there at the Alderwood Country | Club are going to miss a lot of faces familiar to championship golf from | historic old Brookiine in Boston to Beverly in Chicago. Here in the mid- Atlantic area men like Bobby Brown- ell, the District champ; Volney Bur- nett, champ: Dick | Payre, the Virginia title-holder; Spen- | cer Overton, Roger Peacock, Harry | Pitt and Morton McCarthy, the big | Norfolk star, n't even try to qualify A Long Distance Stymie. 'HE distance and the cost of travel stymied them. The same factors have kept many of the familiar faces eway. Up in the New York area, where &lim Willie Turnesa topped the qual- ifying list, guys like George Dunlap. 1923 cham Jesse Sweetse] title-hold. 0 man, Mark Stuart, Eddie Drig Homans, Dick Jones, and Charlie Whitehead won't be there. Walter Emery. 1935 runner-up. will be among the missing r Boston, Billv Howell of Dallas, late of Richmond, Va.: Jack Munger of ‘Texas, Rudy Knepper of New York, &nd Woody att of Philadelphia You could organize a representative national championship tournament | {from the men who didn't even try to | qualify. Even John Montague won't be around. It might be a smart move if the United States Golf Association never took the amateur championship west of Denver. They've never held an open championship west of St. Louis, and you don't hear the Pacific Coast pros yelling about it. LEW HAL IS CHOICE OF FIELD OF PACERS Heads Lot of Six Due to Start at 0ld Orchard—De Sota Straight Heat Victor. By the Associated Press OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me,, July 29.—Six “side-wheelers.” headed by Dr. Hugh Parshall's Lew Hal, lined Up at the “Kite" track today for the 2:12 pace, week's run- ning of the same event, faced compe- tition from Sep Palin's Lone Ace, with Palin criving; Lulu Strong, owned by ara, Indianapolis; D ven by Vic Fleming; Btoneridge Direct and Betty Signal. Dr. Parshall drove Chief Counsel to victory vesterday in a 2-year-old pace | and in the second heat put up a mark | of 2:03!, for the 2-year-olds of 1937 to shoot at. Paul Bowser’s De Sota clinched his rating as early Hambletonian favorite by a three-straight-heat victory in a 3-year-old trot. Tom Berry drove the | bay colt in 2:031; twice and 2:04!5. PRO GOLF TOUR IS OFF Early August Play Canceled, but | Other Affairs Are Listed. 8T. PAUL, July 29 (#).—Fred Cor- coran of Boston, tournament chair- man of the National Professional | Golfers’ Association, announced to- day the prospective Northwest tour of open tournaments early in August had been canceled. The pros, however, have a month's play starting with the $3,000 open at Lake Placid, N. Y., August 20-23 Other events billed are: August 27-29, $3,700 Glen Falls open; September 2-4, $5.000 Hershey open; September 9-11, $3.500 Canadian open; Septem- ber 17-19, $2,100 Western open at Cleveland; September 22-28, $12,000 Belmont, Mass., international match Pplay open. . FAIR GOLF STARS VIE Look to Mason and Dixon, Title Event at Greenzrier. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va, July 29 (#)—Leading women golfers are expected to compete here August 30 to September 4 for the an- nual Mason and Dixon champion- ship, won in 1936 by Patty Berg, young Minneapolis star. ‘The 18-hole qualifying round will be played Monday, August 30, with the top 32 going into the champion- ship fligh! TARTING TEERING TOPPING ARE THE VITAL OPERATIONS INSURING HAPPY MOTORING Let me care for all your automobile needs Dave Morris Auto Service 1829 M ST. NW. ME. 1230 | broadcast will come over WRC of the | Claus Leoffier will have to go down (, ED BANAGAN, the blushing bachelor who graces the golf shop at Columbia with 260- odd pounds of manhood, is convinced that the old idea of paying off on the tee shot is s0 much near- beer. “They can't convince me that the tee shot means anything. I'm through with these gents who rap 'em 100 yards down the middle (of the rough) and then coyly toss a birdie up in your whiskers,” says Red. The conversion of the burly Banagan comes about because he played a round of golf with Robert W. McChesney. Now McChesney is a run-of-the-mine golfer, or perhaps a little better than average; a guy who counts it a good day when he gets around Columbia in anything under 85. Red's thump in the pants came on the par 5 fifth hole, a tough three-shooter under all condi- tions. Banagan knocked out his usual 230-yard tee shot. whacked a brassie shot over “Hell's Half-Acre” and flung an iron shot on the green. All regula- tion stuff. That's the way the hole should be played. McChesney, meanwhile, half-hit a tee shot, and knocked his second into the big bunker that stretches clear across the fairway. “Hah,” grinned Red, to himself. “I've got him now.” But McChesney couldn't see it that way. E WADED down into that wilder- ness of sand and so deftly did he play the shot that it brought up within five feet of the hole. He rapped in the putt for a birdie 4. Red let out a yell. “Say. what's this game &1] about. Here I play a hole right, and this fellow | £0es in a bunker and gets a birdie.” I_IELEN DETTWEILER, the District | and Maryland champion. is tak- ing to the air. Not literally. of course, | for Helen has vet to sprout wings. but the girl friend is taking over a regular Spot on a radio program. Her initial N. B. C. network at 7:30 tomorrow ev ning and will continue each Thursdayv ! At 4:45 and each Saturday at 7:30 thereafter. Helen will talk on sports through a woman's eye. She has had | ome radio experience and should do well. If she does half as well as she hits those tee shots she’ll do all right. CLAUDE RIPPY and his boy friends on the Harding Cup team will leave Washington Sunday for San Francisco, landing in the West Coast city on August 5 in time for four days of practice before the tournament opens on August 9. They'll carry with them the good wishes of quite a flock of Washington folks who gathered at East Potomac Park last night to bid them farewell and wish them well in their attempt to lift the Harding Cup and the individual title. Rippy. Andy Oliveri, Bobby Burton and Jim Gipe all paraded before 2 microphone expertly handled by Gordon Hittenmark and told the home folks how proud they were to have been chosen to the from the rest of the land. Speakers included Representative Franck Havenner of San Francisco, who presented to Rippy a letter of greeting to the Mayor of 'Frisco; C. Marshall Finnan and Frank T. Gart- side of the National Capital Park staff; S. G. Leoffler, public links con- cessionnaire, and Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police. THEY also presented to the boys medals emblematic of their links victories, and Rippy was awarded the Leoffier trophy, which now is his per- manent possession. He is the first man to win it three times, and Santa in his jeans for another mug next year. There seems to be no limit to the guy's generosity. RIPPY, by the way, will be making his last visit as a delegate of the common peepul to the national cham- pionship. He doesn't talk about it much himself, but a well-founded ru- mor has it that the dapper Claude is going to ecast his lot, on his return from ‘Frisco, as a member of one of BOTTLES g | | Job of subduing the public links boys T the private clubs around Washington. And not as a pro, either. That stuff about Rippy getting the pro job at Beaver Dam is s0 much stuff, or so we are told. Frankly, the job hardly would pay for the tossing off of Rippy's amateur status, a little matter which he prizes highly. Claude is not cormected with golf in any business way nowadays, but he'd like to play a private course, and he will, if the rumor comes true. NOTHER edition of “Sammons’ Errors” or the curtain-raiser on “How Not to Play Golf” was to be un- veiled at Columbia this afternoon be- fore a small group of Stokes' friends, the same friends, in fact, who suffered with him through a match at Co- lumbia a week ago. But this time the purse was to be one buck instead of the $50 which was laid on the line for a handicap contest between Stokes and Mrs. Hugh MacKenzie a week ago. Stokes confesses to being Wash- ington’s most inept golfer, but as a matter of fact he isn't so bad. Any- one who has the accuracy to hit bridges off the tee, and call the shot, can’t be such a pushover. We know many a champion who'd like to have a bridge around at a crucial spot like the eighteenth hole. — e DORAIS SETS PACE INPOLL FOR TUTOR Detroit Coach Is Far Ahead in Nation-Wide Ballot for Star Grid Guide. By the Associated Press. HICAGO. July 29.—Charles E. (Gus) Dorais of the Univer- sity of Detroit was off to a big lead today in the Nation-wide vote to select a coaching staff for the college squad which meets the national professional foot ball champion Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field Septem- | ber 1. Dorais had a point total of 202.- 669—with each first-place vote count- ing 3, second places 2 and thirds 1 He had received 67.365 firsts, 218 seconds and 138 thirds. Pete Vaughn of Wabash College had 13416 points for second place, with Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern third at 10,443 Other leaders were Bernie Moore, Louisiana State, 2.979: Alvin McMillin, Indiana, 2,736 Elmer Lay- den, Notre Dame, 2728: Jimmy Phelan, Washington, 2,660; Biff Jones, Nebraska, 2,553; Jock Sutherland, Pittsburgh, 2,514, and H. O. (Fritz) Crisler, Princeton, 2 OWEVER good for your mus- H cles and morale, five sets of tennis, hard-fought in the summer sun, give your hair a pretty tough mauling, baking it and robbing it of oil. And then, drenching it in the shower or the pool, you complete the process yourself—and your hair at the end of tennis and a shower is limp and lifeless. But that’s where Vitalis and the “60-Second Workout” step in to aid and help you. Apply Vitalis to the scalp with a brisk massage. 50 sEcoNDS YO RUB-Circulation I the flow of necessary oil is ® increased—hair has a chance! ADAM SCHEIDT BREWING CO., Norristown, Pa. 1f your dealer can’t supply you, phone AND THE - Vallez For Phone e “ (Bo) | COOPER AT HOME ON KELLER LINKS 47 Under Par for St. Paul Open, Which He Has Won Three of Six Years. By the Associated Press. T PAUD, July 29.—“Hard Luck” Harry Cooper, Chicago—just a ‘‘would-be” as far as National Open tournament champion- ships are concerned—leads the par- bruising march on Keller golf course tomorrow with a record of 47 strokes under par for the six St. Paul Open tournaments in which he was quali- fied. Three-times winner out of six starts —not counting the National Profes- sional Association tournament held here in 1932 in which he did not qualify—Cooper likes the Ramsey County course. On his home course, the Medinah Country Club, he finished second in the Chicago Open for his only offi- cial competition loss in three starts there. Record Score Is 271. HE tournament record score of 271 made in 1935, is 17 strokes under par for the 72 holes, and last year ‘when he repeated he shot a 277, 11 un- der perfect figures. He was tied with Dick Metz but won out in the playoff He won his first title in 1930 with 280 and finished the 1931 meet with 281, compared to Horton Smith's 278 win- ning total. In 1933 Cooper had 289 and in 1934, 283. His total stroke count is 1,681 for the 24 rounds. Par is 1,728 Cooper and Smith are the big money winners. The former had added $8,- 267.25 to his bank account after St Paul open tournaments, or $2,360.59 pmore than his rival Chicago profes- sional, who has carried away $5,.- 906.66. Foulis, Revolta, Dutra Win. INNERS to titles in other years were Jim Foulis, Chicago, who shot 283 in 1933, and Johnny Reolta, Chicago, with 283 in 1934. Revolta tied with Cooper and Ky Laffoon, Chi- | cago, with that score, but won out in | the 36-hole plavofl. | Olin Dutra captured the P. G. A | tournament which replaced the St. | Paul event in 1932. | A total of around 275 or 280 for the | 72 holes of medal play will win the tournament, Cooper forecast. | UMPIRE MAKES ADVANCE. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. July 29 (#).—T. | pire, has joined the staff of the South- | ern Association. PHILCO Protect yours with Vitalis and the */60-Second Workout” Feel the fine tingle as circulation increases. Your sun-parched scalp “comes to life”—your hair takes on a rich, lustrous appearance with- out a trace of that very objection- able “patent-leather” look. 50 sec- onds to rub—10 seconds to comb and brush—that’s the “60-Second Workout.” So, go out and play your tennis in the broiling sun, get in your 36 holes of golf. Cool off in pool or swim in the ocean but protect the good looks of your hair with Vitalis and the “60-Second Workout.” 10 SECONDS TO COMB AND BRUSH 2 —Your hair has & lustre—but no ob- ® jectionable “patent-leather” look. Yse VITALIS “60-SECOND WORKOUT" A H. Backard, former Kitty League um- | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. l D. C., THURSDAY, AL ESCALANTE, 20-year-old linksman, who is a member of the paid clan at a club in Brownsville, Tez. He’s small as well as youth- Jul. —Wide World Photo. NEW WRINKLE IN GOLF Salesmen Shoot It Out on Links to Sell Car to Pro. LAGRANGE, Ga. July 29 () — Albert Jones, golf professional here, concocted & new method for deciding “what make car shall I buy?” He let a golf match make up his mind for him Jones arranged a match between four automobile salesmen, agreeing to buy a new car from the winner John Dodd made the sale with a 72 for 18 holes. JULY 29, 1937. < SEE BRITON AS WORLD CHAMP Must Beat Yankee Stars in America to Establish Right to Title. L] BY WALTER HAGEN. ONDON, England, July 29— Henry Cotton again has be- come what they call the “champion goMer” over here. And when the British claim this, they mean Cotton is head man not only in Great Britain, but of the entire universe. This is the second time they've handed him that rather far- reaching title. I can't see it I think America can challenge this handing over of the world title without giving us any consideration, I know you'll say Henry clearly defeated Denny Shute, our match-play cham- pion, at his own game. . All sport, golf especially, should be above bickering over titles, and I don't want any. Americans should concede Henry is a great golfer—I've been writing that all year—but level-neaded Britons should admit he is their champion, with the title of “the champion” yet to be proved. Glenna & True Champ. NO GOLFER can be given credit for being the “world’s best” until he has demonstrated it on both sides of the Atlantic. Before as great a shotmaker as Henry deserves rank with the post- war champions, he must do it in America. Bobby Jones earned his niche in the Hall of Fame by grand-slamming. Gene Barazen won in Sandwich and in Chicago and New York and took national titles. My favorite champion is Glenna Collett Vare. Bhe not only proved her right to a place in the women's Hall of Fame by winning the American title several times, but by coming over here to be IT COSTS NO MORE TO BUY THE ORIGINAL PAY PLA THE BEST YOUR CREDIT SPORTS. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR QAM RICE, getting four hits in as many tries, was the hero of the Griffs’ defeat of the Cleveland Indians yesterday. Mrs. Harry C. Sheridan defeat- ed Mrs. Thomas W. Brahany in the final match of the women's putte ing tournament at Columbia Coun- try Club. The Sherwood team, by virtue of its 4-1 defeat of Takoma Park in the City and Suburban Tennis League, drew away from its near- est rival, the Y. M. C. A. runner-up to Joyce Wethered at St. Andrews in the British. Glenna has proved her place as a grand golfer and champion by meet- ing all comers, any old place, any old time. She never “nursed” her cham- pionships. This lady is & golf player first and & champion second, and I can't think of any higher praise. With pros it's different. Can Stimulate Game. DON'T deny their right to “nurse” titles a bit to make more. At best, & champion doesn’t get big money. I never could manipulate my titles, be- cause I had to keep traveling and playing all the time to get by. At that, I enjoyed meeting any one who wanted a whack at me, even though I was risking prestige. Cotton is & good business man and has a bankroll. He can relax and wait. He has a road to travel before he can move in with the golf elite. Henry must come to America and outplay our men on their own soil. Henry's a great golfer, tops in Eng- land and Continental Europe. He may be “the champion.” but he can't prove it by staying in England. 1 admit he has taken European golf apart and put it together again, that he found our leading players mixed up in the works and put them in their places. But he has to do it to us in New York, Chicago, Philagelphia and else- where before he rates smong the greats. I hope he comes soon; he can stimulate interest. (Copyright. 1937.) "“MEISEL TO B MERC C-3 Hagen Disputes Cotton’s Rank Young Goli Pro | pANT ASLIGNGPAR INTITLE EFENSE Champ and Gerard Are Only Yanks Left in Canadian Golf, Down to 16. By the Associated Press. TTAWA, Ontario, July 20— The present champion, Fred Haas of New Orleans; a for- mer champion, Ross Sum- merville, and two youngsters on their way up, Alick Gerard of Southamp- ton, N. Y, and Bobby Reith of Win nipeg, dominated the field as 16 golfers, all but 2 from the Domine lon, entered the fourth round of the Canadian amateur golf champione ship today. All four turned in brilliant matches in the second and third rounds yes= terday. Haas on His Game. AAS stepped out of a plane after qualifying for the United States amateur at Detroit Tuesday, blazed around the course in 69 on his first tour and eliminated Russ Case of Vancouver, 4 and 3. He came back in the afternoon to win his third- round match from Guy Rolland of Montreal, 5 and 4. Haas should have little trouble in today’s match against J. Watson Ulle of Montreal. Six other American entries were eliminated yesterday. They were Bob Westfall, Buffalo, N Y.; Stan Nepe tune, Hingham, Mass.; Harry Cushe ing, Butler, Pa.: F. L. Forrester, But= ler, Pa, and James Lee and H. J. Shelley, Harrison, N. Y. o FRANKLIN IN RING DEBUT. CHICAGO, July 29 () —Lem Franklin, young Cleveland heavy- weight with a terrific punch, will make his professional debut tomorrow night. in a six-round bout with Paul Wile liams of Chicago at White Cit; WA Uy THIS HANDISE MONEY DOWN AND - CONVENIENT ® Unequalled performance at the price—that's what you get in this newest Philco auto radio. Fits any car with controls to match. ® GOODRICH BATTERIES ®Instant starting and smooth operation with plenty of power for all electrical accessories. Long, dependable service assured, 1S OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAY A M 1738 14th St. N.W 3059 M St. 1100 NoWo 611 Penn. Ave. S.E.