Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1937, Page 24

B—8 S FIELD IS STRONG INP. 6. A AFFAR Houghton, Home Pro, Alsor Is Among Choices at 0ld Point Comfort. BY W. R. McCALLUM. LD POINT COMFORT, Va. July 30.—Quite an impres sive group of our better par- busters from Washington are gathered here to open today the best Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers’ Association championship held in a decade. ‘The 72-hole championship, starting tomorrow, will have the biggest and best entry list of the lengthy series of tournaments for the mid-Atlantic crown held in 10 years. An amateur- pro tourney today was to open the effair. Much of the pre-tournament gossip centers around Wiffy Cox, the tall- browed pro from the Kenwood Golf and Country Club, and around Roland MacKenzie, the long-hitting mentor from the Congressional Country Club. These two stars from the Capital sec- tor will be making their initial start in a Middle Atlantic P. G. A. cham- Ppionship affair Cox, even though he has been in ‘Washington for two years, never be- fore has played in the championship, and MacKenzie became a member of the P. G. A. only last year. But this year, lured by the $1,000 purse, these men, ranked among the leading shot- makers of the Fast, have tossed their hats in the ring, and will be among the men to lick for the championship. TIsaacs Is Highly Rated. 'HEY regard Jack Isaacs of nearby Newport News, as some shakes of 8 golfer in this area, and Virginians who've watched the tall blond go predict he'll make life tough for the visitors. They also hold that Al Houghton, former Washington pro, playing on his home layout, will have a word or two to say about the win- ning of the title and the $300 first | money. Bobby Cruickshank, if he comes to the tourney, won't be any soft snap, for he has a habit of winning the Virginia State championship when- ever he starts. For years he's taken the Virginia opposition over the jumps. Chandler Harper, the reformed amateur from Portsmouth, just across Hampton Roads, is no pushover, but Chan, good as he is, hasn't been able to get by in the Middle Atlantic P, G. A. tourneys. So the main hurdles to a Virginia victory are the Washington lads and Ralph Beach, generally acknowledged to be the top man in the Baltimore sector. They're not giving Ch; 3 Betschler, the champion, much chance to repeat in the tournev. Thir holes tomorrow and the same menu | on Sunday, will be the tournament schedule. . Opening Day's Pairings. Pairings for the opening day of play | tomorrow: | both of Washingto n 5-1:45—Bill _Schreiber, Baltimore, and Al Houshton, Old Point ] Quantico, 9:30-1:30—Eddie Betschler, Balti- n Long. Winchester ob Barnett and Leo Wal- ¢ Washingion —Jack Isaacs. Newport News. each. Baltimore. ank Invernezzi of Bal- PORTS. @ BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, July 30—A James J. Braddock-Max Baer match is in the mak- ing here . . . Mike Jacobs and Joe Gould spent more than two hours with Ancil Hoffman, Baer's pilot . . . Terms were agreed to and the date set for some time in September . . . Everything was settled except the site . . . It will be Los Angeles, Chicago or San Francisco . . . If the Cubs have a weakness, why don't they begin to show it? P Don Budge says he will not turn pro . . . Every one else says he will . . . We'll string along with the “pippul” . . . Dick Bartell's THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ] - * [J ° [ [ Cox and MacKenzie Are Among Favorites in Mid-Atlantic Tou Budge Will Go for Coin, Critic Agrees With Public Hornsby to Manage Indians, Say Base Ball Men—Galento’s Bar a Treat When Tony Wins. groin injury is so painful, the scrappy Giant shortstopper has to sleep in & chair. Out in St. Louis they say they are having the coolest Summer in 50 years because the Cards aren't hot any more . . . Lou Ambers, the lightweight champ, saw plenty when he went down to Philadelphia the other night to see Henry Arm- strong (a possible future opponent) belt out Beny Bass. A lot of smart base ball men will bet you Rogers Hornsby will be managing the Indians next year. It cost the White Sox $2,000 to insure last Sunday's double bill with the Yankees against rain. Why all the commotion in the local sheets because Owner Sam Riddle has announced War Ad- miral will not run at Saratoga? ... Shucks! . . . Old Orlo (Hardboots) Robertson, the Associated Press racing expert, told you as much the day after the horse was hurt at Belmont weeks ago . . . Hardboots said if War Admiral starts again this year it will not be before the Belmont meeting tn September. All the publicity he's getting over here seems to have gone to Tommy Farr's head . . . He thinks he's so hot he wants to ditch his manager after March 1 and collect 100 per cent of his purses for himself . . . There are some nice looking kids on , the South American boxing team en route to the Pan-American games at Dallas. CANADIANS ERASE YANKEE GOLFERS Haas, Gerard Fail to Reach Semi-Finals of Amateur Title Tourney. By the Associated Press. TTAWA, Ontario, July 30— Four Canadian golfers, Gor- don B. Taylor, Ross Somer- ville, Phil Farley and Jimmy Todd, were in charge of the Canadian amateur championship as the semi- final round of the tournament started today. Fred Haas, jr., of New Orleans, the 1936 champion, was eliminated by Taylor of Montreal yesterday, 3 apd 2. He was the last American in the tourney, for Alick Gerard, Jjr, of Southamptom, N. Y., had been elimi- nated in the morning round by Somer- ville, five times Canadian champion and once—1932—American amateur | title holder. Todd Plays Flashy Round. SOMERVILLE then beat Dennis Morse to move into the penulti- mate bracket. Somerville plays Todd, the Westerner in the semi-finals, in to- day’s round. Todd, who is from Vic- toria, B. C., turned in a phenomenal round to whip Pete Kelly of Detroit's Red Wings and Charlottetown, P. E. I., in the quarter finals, 3 and 2. Farley and Taylor meet in the other match, an all-Montreal affair. Farley made his way into the semi-finals by trim- ming Jack Nash, London, Ontario, in four extra holes. STAR SPURNS WEDLOCK Helen Stephens Satisfled With Job, Seeks More Records. ST. LOUIS, July 30 (#).—Helen Stephens is looking for more track and fleld records—not a husband. The tall, blue-eved, Fulton, Mo., girl star of the 1936 Olympics is sat- isfled with her job of pounding & typewriter in an office here. And she hopes to keep in condition by playing on the eompany's soft ball team. ent."” J r._Newport News Johny Bass, Baltimore, and | Norfolk Johnson. Yorktown, | dria Washington, | But her track dates include the Canadian National Exposition meet at Toronto, September 4-6, and the National A. A. U. meet in New York. lusty lads who hit ’em a mile crack par with monotonous regularity. It comes along every season anywhere from mid-July on, and it lasts until hot weather vanishes, around the middle of September. Con- tributing factors to the busting of par are fast fairways, fairly slow putting greens and that something which warm weather does to golf balls which makes ’em longer than in cool weather. In HE scoring season is upon us | on the local golf courses as the case you didn't know, your golf ball, of | any make, is from 10 to 30 yards longer in 90-degree temperature than it is when the thermometer reaches down toward the freezing point. But, be that as it may, the boys really are rolling 'em far and wide over the local courses nowadays and it won't be long now before some course records are cracked. They always are, when Midsummer comes along. FOR example, there have been a brace of 69s scored over two tough Washington courses over the last few days. Miller B. Stevinson, the Columbia Country Club champion, and former District _titleholder, made one of ‘em. Bobby Brownell, the tow-headed Dis- trict champ, made the other. For Stevinson his 89 was only one of many. He's had as low as 66 over his home eourse. But for Bobby Brownell the 69 was a cherished dream. Never before this season had Bobby broken 170, not even last year when he won the District amateur and District Junior championships. But Bob has busted par twice this year, both times with 69 and both times over the Manor Country Club course. TH!:N there were Martin R. West, ' golf chairman at Columbia, and stalwart Tommy Webb, former Federal League champ, both scoring 70s over the Columbia layout. And don't think that's any soft spot. Those watered fairways, where the ball gets little roll, don't help the scoring on that golf course. Nor have the pros been idle in the business of scoring. There was Bob Barnett's 66 at Chevy Chase a week ago, and there was Roland MacKen- vie's deuce on the 300-yard, par 4 eighteenth hole at Congressional yes- terday. Roland, in fact, wasn't so far from an ace—a mere matter of a yard. spot where Washington's most spec- tacular match play finish was put on. It happened in the club championship two years ago. Billy Dettweiler and Maj. John McClure were all even play- ing the eighteenth. Dettweiler drove the green and felt pretty comfortable about it. Until McClure stepped up and duplicated that colossal shot, but with much better direction that he left hilnself only a 10-inch putt for an eagle. And that was the golf match. MOST of the Capital clubs will lack the mainsprings of their golf shops over the week end on account of the Middle Atlantic P. G. A. cham- pionship, to open today at Old Point Comfort with an amateur-pro affair. At least eight of the top pros ar--nd the Capital are at the Virginia resort today, ready for the opening of the 72- hole tourney tomorrow. First prize will be $300. ND(T month there’ll be two out-of- town affairs for the pros and amateurs around Washington. Top- ping the amateur schedule will be the invitation tourney of the Baltimore Suburban Clyb scheduled for August 19, 20 and {21, an affair that will bring to theymid-Atlantic sector some imon-pures of the East. e tourney will be limited each club in the Wash- DALLAS BUYS PLAYER. His perfectiy hit tee shot left him a putt of only 3 feet for the eagle 3. ’I‘HA’! eighteenth hole at Congres- sional, by the way, Al DALLAS, Tex., July 30 (#).—Dallas, in the Texas League, has announced the acquisition of Willlam McWilliams, third from Los Angeles, Pa- remains the ‘cific Coalt loop, today. L] ( lone | As for marriage—"No, not at pres- | | Sports Program For Local Fans ‘TODAY. Base Ball. Cleveland vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3:15. Tennis. Public parks tourney, Reservoir courts, 4. TOMORROW. Base Ball. Cleveland vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3. Tennis. Middle Atlantic singles tourney, Edgemoor Club, 2. Public parks tourney, Reservoir courts, 2. TWOFINE STAKES CLOSE ARLINGTON Futurity, Carrying $50,000; Handicap, at $25,000, to Attract Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, July 30—Horsemen will find two big pots of gold at the end of Arlington Park's “Golden Rainbow"” tomorrow. ‘The $50,000 Arlington Futurity and the $25,000 Arlington Handicap will feature the closing day of the huge racing plant's 30-day meeting, and the two stakes are expected to draw up- wards of 40,000 spectators. An even dozen 2-year-olds—the best from the East and the West—are ex- pected to fight it out in the Futurity | over 6 furlongs. A week ago the race seemed at the mercy of three colts representing Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Milky Way Farm Stable—Sky Larking, Tiger and C. Note. But in final drills, sev- eral horses served notice they will try to make the event & wide-open affafr. Perpetuate to Bid for East. WAR.R.EN WRIGHT'S Bull Lea has been particularly impressive. For the East, Perpetuate is expected to make a strong bid. In addition, Hal Price Headley's two representatives, Menow and Bourbon King, have shown lightning speed, while Mrs. John Marsch uncovered a spectacular colt in Kings Blue during the week. ‘The rest of the field may be made up of Mrs. W. H. Furst's Paper Son, Teddy's Comet and Lassitor, owned by Emerson Woodward, and H. M. Woolf's | Joe Schenck. M. L. Emerick's Infantry probably will go to the post favorite in the handicap, to be run immediately after the Futurity. Others in the field prob- ably will be T. D. Buhl's Gyral, E. W. Duffy’s Sir Jim James, Mrs. Fred M. Grabner's Spanish Babe, Hal Price Headley’s Sparta and Whopper, R. C. Thatcher’s Our Reigh, James W. Par- rish’s Dellor and Raoul Walsh's Grand Manitou. L TAKOMA PARK, EATON TRACK TEAMS SHINE Seen City Playground Tourney Threats After Victories in Divisional Meets. 'AKOMA PARK and Eaton Play- grounds today were stamped as threats to capture the annull city- wide track meet to be held late next month, following impressive victories in sectional tests yesterday. Takoma Park compiled 90 points to triumph in the divisional meet at Ta- koma Playground, nearly doubling the combined score of its rivals. Bright- wood, coached by Harry Gretz, former Maryland foot ball player, took second place with 23 points, while Petworth grabbed the show spot with 21 points. Shepherd finished last with 7 points. Competition was keener in the sec- tional meet at Deal Junior High, Eaton winning first place with 88 points after throttling the challenges of Chevy Chase and Palisades, which finished, respectively, second and third with 67 and 56 points. Janney annexed fourth place with 26 points, while Lafayette was fifth with 13 points and Hearst was sixth with 6 points. Mann and Murch tied for 1ast place with 3 points each. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. -Danno O'Mahoney, Bennie ~ (Crusher) Bliser: 224, Omaha, Baltimore, Nebr.. Ty, 225 Boston, in 33:| SAN ~ FRANCISCO.—Joe Italy, defeated Buck O'Neill 3 Mont._(2 of 3). = e last word THE NEW MATYFLOWER it barbering services BARBER SHOP Hotel Mayflower ERNIE DUSEK STILL KING MAT VILLAIN Uses Feet on Hader’s Pan to Win Bout—Sledge Is Lenihan’s Master. HE dubions distinction of being regarded as this sector's out- standing villain still was Ernie Dusek’s chief claim to fame today following a well directed boot to Jack Hader's head last night at Griffith Stadium in the feature of the weekly caulifiower card. Hader gained an early lead in the struggle for snarling honors by pump- ing his right fist to Ernie’s jaw when Dusek, in true grapple fashion, offered his paw to Jack before the squirming | started. There was a faint rumor this | was rehearsed in the dressing room. THE climax probably was the product of five minutes earnest concentra- | tion, however, for at least it was not | stereotyped. After draping Emie in | the ropes with a flying tackle, Hader romped in for the finisher, but was in- terrupted rudely when Dusek pushed his tootsies squarely in Jack's face. This erased the 19XFBI classifica- tion expression on Hader’'s pan and he crumpled to the canvas. Ernie duti- | fully hopped on and applied what s known to the trade as a body press to | win in 32 minutes. Sledge Beats Lenihan. EORGE LENIHAN inflicted the usual quota of punishment on the frame of Bill Sledge before Sledge rose in righteous indigation or something and flipped the veteran meanie in {1912 minutes of the semi-final with a | series of kangaroo kicks and body | presses. Other matches saw Reb Russell dis- pose of Jack Kennedy in the same time, Abe Coleman pin Ralph Cara- baldi in 14 minutes and Ed Meske and George Kondyles work their full 30 minutes to a draw. . FOX PICKED TO FACE CAMPO IN TILT HERE | Will Substitute for Lopez, Hurt in Training—Other Prelims for Monday Settled. JL\‘[MY FOX, Lynchburg feather- weight, today was installed as a substitute for Tony Lopez in meeting Johnny Campo of New Haven in an eight-round preliminary to the Joey Archibald-Lou Gevinson 10-round fea- ture bout at Griffith Stadium Monday night. Lopez, rugged Italian puncher, suf- fered a split lip which necessitated four stitches yesterday while sparring with Irish Johnny Dean, favorite here two years ago. Dean will meet Al Dunbar, Brooklyn lightweight, in an eight-round semi-final. In four-rounders, George Abrams, local middleweight, will clash with Charley Rondo of Baltimore; Carroll Bell of Auburn, N. Y., will collide with Sam Bracala, Leonardtown welter- weight, and Willie McBride will face | Johnny Cooper in a local colored featherweight argument. Killer Lamar and King Kong, local colored heavy- weights, will be employed in a four- round emergency bout if necessary. The Women’s District Tennis League tournament, originally scheduled to start tomorrow, has been postponed, it was announced today by Sally Miller, secretary. Take BEER IN CANS (Get Openers) STRADE-MARK AM. CAN €O D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1937. Promoters of the Farr-Louls heavyweight bout would be glad it Max Schmeling changes his mind about coming over to see it . . . ‘They fear he would steal the show. Why not? . . . He's the guy who knocked out Louis and whom Farr ran out on, ain't he? . .. Burleigh Grimes personally has plunged into the bushes to get the Dodgers some help . . . Johnny Rizzo and Enos Slaughter of Columbus and Good- win Rosen and Mel Simmons of Lousville are the birds he has his eye on . . . Dutch Meyer, former Texas Christian grid star, broke into pro base ball in the Sduth- ern Association in a big way—a homer, triple, double and single in four trips up . . . Three rahs and a. tiger for good old Dutch. They say it is a real treat to visit Tony Galento's Orange, N. J., bar the night Tony wins a fight . . . Prof. Billy McCarney, the fight manager, again is holding up cor- ners on West Forty-ninth street after three weeks in the sticks get= ting a sunburn. Mike Jacobs, who has a weak- ness for silk shirts, left an im- portant conference to put in an order for three dozen of same—at $10 per throw (cut rates) . .. Rip Collins of the Cubs, as smart as they come, says the Boston Bees have the best pitching staff in base ball in Lou Fette, Jim Turner, Danny Macfayden, Young Lan- ning and Guy Bush. Tony Galento's knockout of Al Ettore may earn the old nightstick & shot with John Henry Lewis in Pittsburgh . . . That's good—Man- ager Joe Jacobs needs the kopecks. HORSESHOE STARS GET PAST PRELIM Henson, Fleshman, Saun- ders and Jarrell Qualify for Title Play. OUR horseshoe pitchers who have played leading parts in the wide development of the sport in this section today were safely past the qualifying round of the ninth annual Evening Star championships as the result of a carnival of ringer throwing last night on the Municipal Playground courts at McMillan Park. ‘Tonight falls the deadline for quali- fying for the eliminations which will get under way Monday evening on the same courts, Clayton C. Henson of Arlington, Vir- ginia champion, made a brilliant bid to beat the qualifying score of his chief rival, Ray Frye of Orkney Springs, by amassing 221 points with his 100 pitches. Frye tops the fleld, including the best flippers of Virginia, Wash- ington and Maryland, with 237, a| figure not likely to be beaten. Henson tossed on 67 ringers. Jarrell Leads in Maryland. }IARRY SAUNDERS, with the Washington title his goal in a comeback try, was not up to the stand- ard that won him every honor at stake in competition hereabout several years back, but his 188 points, including 50 ringers, was good enough to assure him of a place in the play-offs, Lee Fleshman, the Maryland title- holder, was below his championship form, but with 192 points, including 50 ringers, landed near the top in the Old Line list SPORTS. 20 Years Ago IN THE STAR. R SON e Indians’ 10 hits scattered well enough yesterday for the Nats to win, 9-5. Ty Cobb, batting .381, and Tris Speaker, with .350, still lead the Junior circuit clouters. Fitzgerald, Roche, Offutt and Phelps are in large part responsi- ble for the success of the Maroon base ball team, leader in the Rose- dale League. , He was topped only by Temp Jar- rell, former State champion, who, aiming at 200, beat this figure by one point. He shot 57 ringers. Mel Johnson Surprises. OTHERS who pitched last night and thelr scores and ringers were: Washington—P. Pope, 142-32; W. Haley, 129-27; Bill Lewis, 124-18; W. Newcombe, 164-40, and Mel Johnson, 189-48 (a surprise). Maryland—J. Donaghue, 154-41. Virginia—Frank Felton, 175-50. To land in the select list tonight a pitcher must beat 124 in Washington, 125 in Maryland, and 127 in Virginia. Any flippers desiring to try their skill in the tournament should report to Harry Woodfield, secretary of the District Horseshoe Pitchers’ Associ- ation at the McMillan courts, beside | the McMillan Reservoir, at 7 o'clock tonight. The play-offs will start with the Maryland event Monday at 7:30 p.m. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Billy Beauhuld, 1353}, Jersey City, N. J., outpointed Paul Junior, 1351, Lewiston, Me. (10). BOSTON.—Al McCoy, 183!;, ton, stopped Jack McCarthy, Boston (3). Bos- 1871, | rney FOCUS ON COOPER IN ST PAUL OPEN Defending Champ Has Won $8,000 in Seven Years in $5,000 Event. BY the Associated Press, T. PAUL, July 30.—The Nation's kingpins of golf swung out over the money trail again today, their path the rugged 72-par terrain of Keller course and their goal shares of the eighth annual St. Paul open's $5,000 prize money. Eighteen of the 72 holes of play were on today's program, with ane other 18-hole journey scheduled for Saturday. The final test Sunday will be over the 36-hole route. Cooper Most Feared. 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