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Ten Amateur Golfers Make Grade for U. S. Open
VOIGT AND PERKINS
APPEAR AS THREATS
f Tests Add 97 Professionals
to List of 53 Exempted
From Qualifying.
•By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 9.—Ten
amateurs will be in the
field seeking the national
„ open golf championship,
starting at the Inverness Club,
Toledo, Ohio, July 2.
The principal hopes among the
6imon pures will be George Voigt and
T. Philip Perkins of New York, the lat
ter a former British amateur cham
pion. The other amateurs who have
gained a place in the field arc George
Dawson and Johnny Lehman of Chi
cago, Lester Bolstad of St. Paul, Tom
Cooley of Tucson, Ariz.; Joe Fazzullo
of Wanumetonomy, R. I.; Chester
O'Brien and Bryan Winter of St. Louis
and Sam Parks, jr„ of Pittsburgh.
Originally 53 professionals, given ex
• emptions from qualifying play, auto
matically moved into the Inverness
starting field without swinging a club.
Yesterday the ether 97 places were
filled with Nation-wide 30-licle quali
fying rounds in 20 districts.
The exempt list included all those |
who finished in the first 30 and ties at
Interlachen last year and a host of j
foreign players, including th? 10 mem- |
bers of the British Ryder Cup team. I
Two veterans. A1 Espinosa of Chi- !
cago and Wiffy Cox of Brooklyn, ear
• ried off individual honors in yester
day’s qualifying round. Espinosa com
piled the lowest 36-hole total in the
country. 135, to lead the Chicago dis
trict. Cox broke the South course rec
. ord at the Westchester Club, at Rye,
N. Y., with a 64 in his first round and
then added a 74 in the second round to
lead the New York district by a wide
margin. Espinosa’s 135 was made up
of one round of 70 and another of 65.
Two former open champions, Willie
MacFarlane and Cyril Walker, failed to
qualify at Westchester and so did the
veteran Mik Brady, runner-up for the !
title in 1911 and 1919.
The leader and his score in each of j
r-* the 20 districts in yesterday's qualify- ;
Ing round follows:
. District. Player. Score.
Chicago, A1 Espinosa...' 70-65 —135
New York. Willy Cox 64-74—138 j
San Francisco. H. Sampson. .CB-71—139 ;
Denver, Jimmy Thompson.. .63-73 —141 |
St. L:uis, Clarke Morse 70-74 —144
Cincinnati, H. C. Jordan... .73-72 —145
I Dallas, Francisc Scheider.. .74-71 —145
Kansas City, Paul Jackson . .70-76 —146
Johnny Madden ...70-76 —146
Boston, Joe Pazzullo 70-76 —146
Detroit, Jimmy Zeller 75-72—147
Pittsburgh, Emil Loefiler... .73-75 —148
Richmond, A! Houghton 73-77 —150
Los Angeles, Fred Mcrrison. .75-76 —151
Chet Beer 79-72—151
St. Paul. Lester Bolstad 76-75—151
Philadelphia. R. Campbell.. .72-80 —152
Atlanta, E. W. Gann 73-74—152
Cleveland. A1 • Alcroft 74-78—152
Omaha, Billy Bathie 78-77 —155 !
Buffalo, George Christ 76-80 —156 j
Seattle, Harold Niemyer (.only entrant)
MANGIN TO PAY OWN WAY
Strive to Help U. S.
Gregory Mangin, ranking No. 6 ten
nis player nationally, will pay his cwn
way to Europe in hopes of helping Uncle
Sam win the Davis Cup.
Mangin was not named by the U. S.,
L. T. A. on the Davis Cup team for
European play, but he held a position
on the United States team for the
matches played with Canada and Ar
gentina, though he did nor, play against
cither team. He did. however, perform
in .several exhibitions.
Mangin's plans were disclosed yes
terday by a close friend at Georgetown
University, from which Mangin grad
uated yesterday with a bachelor of
. science degree. He left for his home
* In Newark, N. J., following the gradu
ation exercises. Several classmates, one
of them Coyne Maloney, will accom- j
pany Mangin abroad.
JAMESTOWN*IS FAVORITE
Picked Over Twenty Grand in Bel
mont After East Trial.
NEW YORK, June 9.—Jamestown
galloped a miie and a furlong through
the mud at Belmont Park Monday, and
now he is favorite over Twenty Grand
for the Belmont stakes Saturday.
There have been several herses which
worked or raced last and far this sea
son. but none turned in as impressive a .
performance as did George D„ Widener's !
renowned colt.
The great son of St. James didn't
break any records for the simple reason j
that he didn't run. He galloped. From ;
beginning to end of the journey he was I
under st:ut restraint, yet he-stepped 1
the nine furlongs on a track fetlock !
« deeo in mud in the remarkable time !
" of 1:52.
D. C. RACKETERS SCORE
Yeomans, Seidel, Sendel and Welsh !
i
Win in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. June 9.—Ed Yeomans,
Bill Seidel, Frederico Sendel and
Barnard Welsh were Washington play
ers to win yesterday in opening day's
matches of the Maryland State tennis
championships on the Baltimore Coun
try Club turl courts.
Yeomans downed W. C. Crawford in
straight sets, 6 —2, 6 —2, in the second
round; Seidel defeated L. K. Harper,
i 7—5, 6—3; Sendel was a 6—3, 6—3
victor over Lieut. D. C. Redgrave cf the I
Naval Academy and Welsh took Ralph
Robinson, 7—5, 6—3.
M. G. Martinez, another Washing
tonian, lost to F. B. Harvey. The scores i
were 6—3. 6 —o.
1 The tourney will continue through
the week. Berkely Bell, seeded No. 1,
was expected to begin play teday.
* SEEK LEONARD, UZCUDUN j
SAN DIEGO Calif., June 9 (TP).—Of- j
fers to Pa.ol.no Uzcudtm, Barque heavy- j
• weight, and Beany Leonard, one-time :
l:irg of lightweights, for bourts in Tia !
Juana have been anounced from the
offices cf James N. Croiton, president of
th' Agua Caliente Jockey Club.
The announcement disclosed both are
sought for a boxing show to be held in
f the morning of Labor day in the Tia
Juana arena.
The offer to Uzcudun is conditioned
upon his show ng in the 29-round
.match with Max Baer, Livermore
heavyweight, in Reno, July 4.
Mat Matches
fiy the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, Quebec. —Nick Lutze, i
20S. California, defeated Stanley Sta- |
fi k, 29<i, Poland, tv.o fails out cf Hire? !
(Stacie.’: first, 23:00: Lutze, second, |
t 14:00, and third, 10:00). *
CINCINNATI.—Jack Reynolds. 145 Vi,
defeated Johnny Carlin, 147, Sweden,
straight Tails, 23:10 and 2:20,
SPORTS.
I STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE I
By WALTER R. McCALLUM
BILLY HOWELL Is all hot and
bothered about qualifying in
the Columbia tournament. The
| Richmond lad who was good
'.enough to win the Middle Atlan
tic Golf Association championship
last week at Virginia Beach from the
cream of the golfers of this sector of
the land, is concerned lest he be one
of those unfortunates who do not make
the grade for the match play in the
first flight, and also concerned about
the possibility of going anywhere in the
tournament if he dees qualify.
It seems strange that a boy who is
good enough to win the Middle Atlantic
twice in a row and also win the Colum
bia tournament has a complex about
Qualifying and going anywhere in the
of a tournament which he
won last year. But that’s the kind of
ad Billy is. No swank about him.; No
big head, which some youngsters might
1 have. Notning but a fine boy and a
> golfer who is 20 per cent better than
ne was a year ago, when he won the
two biggest tournaments in this section
in impressive fashion. Billy is sched
uled to qualify at C:lumbia today, and
he •really is awed by the size of the en-
U hardly seems possible,” he said,
“that I can qualify in a list of players
i of such standing, and more than 500
of them. Gosh, I've never heard of
such a tournament. Seems ( as if golf
has become too big for me.”
Those who saw the youngster p?r
<’o:m at Virginia Beach know how
much he has improved. We firmly be
lieve Billy Howell is just about the
j finest and most consistent piece of golf
machinery tiisrc is in tile Midatlantic
' area. The field at Virginia Beach was
truly representative of the best in golf
I in this part of the country and Billy
i waded through it without a bad mo
j ment. He didn’t have a really hard
match and his performance in the final
was enough to satisfy the most cap
tious critic of his right to win. At one
point in the final he slipped a little,
but he came back with a string of five
par holes in a row to put the match on
ice.
Billv may not win the Columbia
tournament this year, but the man who
beats him will know he has been in a
golf match. He is probably the best
golfer in the field, but Billy still needs
a little more seasoning and a few beat
ings before he reaches the peak of his
game. But he is the best prospect we
have for national ranking in the Mid
| atlantie sector just now and those folks
: who see him at Columbia today will see
! a potential Bobby Jones in the making.
! Billy has everything—the shots, the will
| to win and the putting stroke.
George diffenbaugh never will
forget that last nine at the James
River course of the Country Club
of Virginia. Little George, the assist-
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upon the game to follow is often in
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In spi e of this fact practically
every golfer who practices does so
; following a round. With 18 holes
back of him he begins the job of
ironing out a fault. That is contrary
to the customs of the stars. Note
them at any championship, and they
do their practicing and warming up
before the round.
Jones, Hagen, Armour, Sarazen,
Mac Smith and all the other stars
are continually perfecting their
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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931.
ant pro at Indian Spring, stood a good
chance to qualify In the National Open
championship as he sto:d yesterday
afternoon on the tenth tee at Rich
mond. But the strokes began to slip
away from him around the putting
greens and before he knew it instead
of the 71 he seemed certain to make,
he had piled up a 74. Even at that
George still had a chance to qualify
until George Slingerland, tall, blonde
boy from Greensboro, N. C„ came in
with a 73 to total 152 and shut George
out of the tournament by two strokes.
That was just one of the tragedies at
Richmond yesterday when seven Wash
ington golfers attempted to qualify for
the National Open championship, and
one made the grade. All of the boys
had trouble on those keen putting sur
faces at Richmond yesterday, but of
them all George tossed away the best
chance, next to A1 Houghton’s win
wing 150.
Tqe upshot of the qualifying rounds
held at Richmond, Pittsburgh and Phil
adelphia, where 11 Washington players
made tht? attempt to qualify, was that
Houghton qualified at Richmond with
150; and Fred McLeod of Columbia and
J. Munro Hunter of Indian Spring
qualified at Pittsburgh with cards of
155 and 156. Those who failed at Rich
mond were Diffenbaugh, Mel Shorey of
East Potomac Park, A1 Treder of
Manor, J. William Harvey, amateur, of
Indian Spring; A. B. Thom of Wood
mont and Walter W. Cunningham of
Burning Tree. Th-se wno failed at
Pittsburgh were Bob Barnett of Chevy
Chate and Sandy Armour of Congres
sional.
So Washington will be represented In
the National Open at Toledo by three
fine golfers. The three are apt to be
near the top in any competition and
they are about the best in this part of
the land.
McLeod shot a score of 81 in the
morning at Oakmont and was on the
lagged edge. But he followed with a
fine 74 in the afternoon to get safely
in. Hunter scored 80 and 76. Down at
Richmond Houghton literally burned up
the first nine holes with a subpar 33,
picking up three birdies on the nine,
only to finish with a ragged 5 on the
seventeenth, where he took four putts
and a bad 6 on the eighteenth. He
stood on the seventeenth tee netding
35 for a 70, but his putter went haywire
on the seventeenth and he missed his
third shot at the eighteenth. Never
theless, with the impetus of his 73 In
the morning he went out in the after
noon and coasted in with a 77 to lead
the Richmond qualifiers. Only one
stroke behind him was Pat Petranck of
Reidsville, N. C., a veteran of golf
around Richmond and a former Virginia
State champion. Petranck shot a 74 in
the morning round and 77 in the after
noon. Diffenbaugh was fourth, two
strokes behind Slingerland, with cards
of 80 and 74, and Mel Shorey had put
ter trouble in the afternoon to score a
77 for a 155 total. A1 Treder of Manor
had 79 and 81 for 160, Harvey was 83
and 82 for 165 and Thorn and Cunning
ham, after turning in cards of 82 and
86 in the first round, picked up in the
afternoon.
Up at Whitemarsh Valley Gene Lar
kin of Chevy Chase failed to qualify,
although Ralph Beach and Cliff Spen
cer, Baltimore pros, made the grade.
With something like 200 players
scheduled to start today, those who
hope to make the first flight In the Co
lumbia tourney will have to better 78,
according to predictions of the club
house dopesters. F*ive players in the
abbreviated field which started yester
day, broke 80, and were led by 76s post
ed by Volney G. Burnett of Beaver Dam
and C. M. Merrill, unattached. Accord
ing to the early scores the dopesters
have it that cards of 78 or better will be
necessary to make the first flight in the
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largest tournament ever played about
this section of the land. Roger Peacock
of Argyle had 78, Ted Burrows, unat
tached, had 77, and Thorpe Dr*in of
Washingtcn had 79.- One of the trage
dies of the tournament was the 82 reg
istered by Miller B. Stevlnson, Colum
bia veteran who has twice won the tro
phy. That score probably will not
qualify.
TITLE GOLF PLAY STARTS
Women’s Dixie Tourney Under
Way at Princess Anne.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 9 (JP).
—After yesterday’s postponement be
cause of rain, the 18-hole qualifying
round of the twentieth annual Southern
women's golf championship starts over
the Princess Anne Country Club course
here today.
Margaret Maddox. Atlanta, and Mrs.
Marion Turpie Lake, New Orleans, the
co-medalists last year and beth former
champions, together with Mrs. Ruth
Reymond, New Orleans, and Mrs. Helen
Lownes Lumpkin, Atlanta, also previous
winners, arc included in the field of
more than 100 golfers seeking eligibility
to enter championship match play
Wednesday.
The defending champion, Mrs. David
Gaut of Memphis will be among the
spectators today, having accepted her
right to enter match play wlthcut qaul
ifying.
The 31 low scorers will try for the
championship group, and tomorrow’s
selective round of match play will di
vide these Interchampionships and the
first flight of 16 each for further com
petition. Last year both Miss Maddox
and Mrs. Lake tied with 795, Mrs. Lake
winning the qualifying trephy after a
play-off. Par on this course for women
Is 76, and Mrs. Lake’s 73 In practice set
a course record.
STAR IN WOMAN’S TENNIS
Reba Kirson Expected to Make
Strong Bid in Tourney.
Reba Kirson, former Baltimore player,
Is among those expected to make a
strong showing in the annual Women’s
District Tennis League tourney, which
opens tomorrow on the Rock Creek
courts. She now is living in Warren
ton, Va., but has been playing in some
District League matches this season.
Josephine Dunham, now married and
living in New York, will not defend
her title. Florence Krucoff, No. 1 Dis
trict player, who it was thought might
enter, also is out ot the picture. She
has let it be known she will take part
in no tournaments this season.
Entries will close this evening at 6
o'clock, with Mrs. H. Clay Thompson,
16408 Peechwood drive, Chevy Chase,
Md„ telephone Wisconsin 3579. Only
members ol the league may compete.
TREASURY NETMEN WIN.
Treasury racketers squeezed out a
3-2 win over Patent Office in a De
partmental Tennis League match on
the M.*nument courts. Clarence Charest,
popular veteran and former District
champion, paired with another old
timer, Jack Purinton, to win one of
the doubles for Treasury.
Summaries:
Charest and Purinton (T 9 defeated Wal
lenstein and Goldsmith. 6—l, 10—8: Tanner
and Dawson defaulted to Moncure and
Gardes <P O). u— 4, 7—9. Clark and Polk
(T. < defeated Tomelden ard Voegler. 6—3,
6—3. 6—2; Remsen and Carney <P. O.) de
feated Coe and Gardner. 6—l, 6—2. Arm
strong and Slmpherd tT.) defeated Resnick I
and Barr, 6—4, 6—4.
COLLETT TO WED JUNE 24.
GREENWICH, Cor,-.., June 9 </P).
Glenna Collett, women’s golf champion,
has announced that her marriage to
Edwin H. Vare, jr„ of Pniladelphia,
will take place June 24. The engage
ment recently was announced.
HUNT AND ALLNUn
IN NET SEMI-FINAL
Victor to Meet Ritzenberg
for Boys’ Title—Perkins
Wins Hot Battle.
GILBERT HUNT, seeded No. 1,
and Pete Allnutt were to face
this afternoon in the last semi
final singles match in the boys’
division of the junior and boys’ Dis
trict tennis championships on the Rock
Creek courts. Play was to start at 3
o’clock.
Competition In the junior doubles
also was to get under way this after
noon There will be no boys’ doubles,
but all within the junior limit were
eligible. Twelve teams were entered,
with the first matches slated for 3
o’clock. It was the first junior doubles
competition here since 1925. Ricky
Willis and Charles Daly comprised the
top seeded duo.
Ricky Willis and A1 Perkins, a dark
horse, came through with dramatic wins
yesterday In the Junior group. Willis
conquered Happy Jacob, who trimmed
Joe Dial, surprise winner over Clyde
Smith, seeded No. 1, in the opening
day’s play. Willis downed Jacobs, 6
6 —2, In the fourth round, and Perkins
bested Nicholson, prep school champ,
6—l, 6 —4, in the third round, In a
real upset.
Nathan Ritzenberg gained the final In
the boys’ singles when he vanquished
little Bob Doyle of the famed Doyle
tennis family, 6 —4, 9 —7.
Willis was generally superior to Jacobs
yesterday, while Nicholson was unable
to get going in falling before Perkins.
Doyle, son of .Lou Doyle, showed
plenty of promise, but needs more stat
ure and strength.
Today’s schedule and yesterday’s sum
maries :
SCHEDULE.
Junior.
Quarter-finals—Bob Smith vs. Dick Drown
at 3 o'clock.
Boy*.
Semi-finals—Gilbert Hunt vs Pete Allnutt
at 3 o'clock.
Double..
First round—3 p m., Perklns-De Land vs.
Kemper-Davts; Dawson-Jacob vs. Danlels-
Ruckman; Glassie-Dial vs Garnett-Pretenko
First round—4 p.m., Drown-Nlcholson vs.
Dungan-Finnegan.
Second round—* pm.. Daly-Willis vs.
Austin-Boyle: Hunt-Ritzenber* vs. Harrad-
Inoss.
SUMMARIES.
Juniors.
Second round—Dick Drown defeated John
Pales. 7—5. o—6.0 —6. B—68 —6
Third round —Alvin Perkins defeated Leon
ard Nicholson. 6—l. 6—4: Dick Drown de
feated Harry Fine. 4—6. B—6. 7—5.
Quarter-finals—Charles Daly defeated
Henry Glassie. 6—4. 6—2: Ricky Willis de
feated Happy Jacobs. 6—4. 6—2: Alvin Per
kins defeated Jerry Drown. 6—3. 6—4.
Boys.
Semi-finals—Nathan Ritzenberg defeated
Bobby Doyle, 6—4. 9—7.
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