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Jones ’ Golf Course Will Be Masterpiece: Relays Presage Thrills in C. U. Games
LINKS AT AUGUSTA
CONSIDERED IDEAL
Bobby Aids in Supervising
Building of Layout With
Novel Features.
BY W. R. McCALLUM.
BOBBY JONES is in earnest
about his project of build
ing at Augusta, Ga., a won
der inland golf course.
The former world champion
and one-time “emperor” of golf
believes he has the making on a
piece of land known as “Fruit
lands," just northwest of Augusta,
of a golf layout that will take its
place as one of the finest courses
in America.
And Bobby is sparing no time or ef
fort to give to the golfing world the
benefit of his many years of experience
and the priceless observations he has
made in the nearly two decades he
romped over the links seeking cham
pionships.
Once every three weeks or so Bobby
goes from Atlanta to Augusta, a Jaunt
of some 200-odd miles, to view the work
which is being done on the Augusta
National Golf Course, which is coming
to be more famUiarly known as the
Bobby Jones Golf Course.
Bobby is president of the club and
although the course itself is being con
structed by Dr. Alister MacKenzie. one
of the designers of the present Chevy
Chase Club course, Bobby looks It over
periodically to see that things go as he
wants them to go. The old time ama
teur and open king takes this business
of building a golf course seriously.
He has incorporated in the layout
many of the features of the famous
holes he has played, and in building the
duplicates of the famous old w’orld
holes he has seen, he wants them to be
as letter perfect as terrain and contour
will permit.
WE visited the new course a few
days ago. during a short stay in
the South, and saw what Bobby
Is trying to do down there in Augusta,
where a good many Washington golfers
go each Winter to play the three
courses which are in use at present.
Out there on a pleasant hillside, over
rolling country of terrain similar to
that of the Columbia Country Club
course, Jones and MacKenzie have laid
cut a gclf course which will range from
6.300 yards to 6,700 yards, with a par
of 72. The course at present is incom
plete, but the work of master architects i
can plainly be geen in the contours of j
the greens and the placing of traps, and j
the manner In which fairways are ar- j
ranged to penalize a tee shot not placed I
In the correct groove.
The course also will have a real nine
teenth hole, not the conventional one
qf beloved memory, but a real golf hole
of about 100 yards, stretching right In
front of the club house, where consola
tion bets may be placed and played off.
Believing that the acid, test of a golf
course is its abiding popularity and not
Intending to build for the expert alone,
Jones and MacKenzie have striven to
make the course a tough one for the
expert and duffer alike. It Is planned
to open the layout about December 1
that it may be ready for play next
Winter.
BOBBY had been in Augusta for
several days prior to our visit, but
there were lots of good Augusta
folk there to explain what is happen
ing at Fruit lands. The place Itself is
impressive. You go In from the main
road between rows of magnolia trees,
hanging almost to the grourvd and
ready at this season of the year to
shoot forth their wax-like blooms.
At the end of the avenue of mag
nolias, said to have been planted in
1858, is the old “Fruitland” house, the
plantation mansion built by Dennis
Redmond in 1854. Just what will be
done with it has not yet been decided,
but It probably will be retained as a
link with the past when a more im
pressive club house Is built. At present j
the major part of the construction work j
Is centered on the golf course.
Out on the hillside, looking toward
the Forest Hills course, is all the para
phernalia with which a golf course is
built, and stretching away Into the dis
tance are the fairways and putting
greens being molded under the hands
of the master. Bobby goes in far dog
leg holes, for no fewer than 11 of the
holes on this new golf course are dog
leg affairs, some of them sharp benders
to right or left and some with a gentle
curve In the fairwav.
Bobby always has believed in the
old Vardon axiom of playing the tee
shot to open up the hole for the
second shot, and also in the general1
theory that a bad tee shot should be
penalized, and he has laid the fairways
out, so that a tee shot not in the proper
spot will leave a very hard second. A
creek winds through the property and
heavy pine woods make for plenty of
diversion for those who stray from
the line. It is planned to make most
of the greens gently rolling, while a
few, mostly at the one-shot holes, will !
be decidedly rolling.
HERE is the unusual thing about the
course. Jones and MacKenzie be
lieve that sand traps alone do not
make a fine golf course. They hold
that natural hazards not only have
more charm, from an architectural
standpoint, but impose more real diffi
culty than sand traps, and the result
has been that there are but 30 sand
traps on the whole layout, an average
of less than two to the hole.
Consider that a course like Indian
Spring has more than 90 and most!
of the other courses around Washing- j
ton have 50 or more, and you will see '
•what Jones is driving at in the con
struction of the Augusta National lay
out. Several of the greens are con- j
structed of unusual design without a j
single guarding trap, but they are ;
built so that a shot which misses the
green will leave plenty of trouble with- !
out sand to add to the golfer’s woes.
In its at present incomplete state, the j
course looks great. A walk over a few I
of the fairways will convince any one !
of that. And one is impressed by he !
fact that Bobby, just as he did in
tournament golf, is throwing his whole i
soul into the job of buUding at Augusta 1
a course that will be a monument to
MacKenzie and himself.
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HYATTSVILLE HIGH PLAYS
Battllea St. John’s Tomorrow in
Basket Bail Game.
HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 24.—
Hyattsville High School's basket ball
team will engage St. John's of Wash
ington on the National Guard Armory
court here tomorrow afternoon at 3:30
o'clock. It will be the next to the last
game on the regular Hyattsville sched
ule.
St. John’s trimmed Hyattsville earlier
In the season In Washington and will
rule favorites again tomorrow.
Sligo and Sanitary District Survey,
who have been engaged In an exciting
battle for first place In Section 2 of the
Prince Georges County Duckpln Asso
ciation for some time, will clash tonight
on the Arcade alleys here at 8 o’clock.
Sligo is heading the race, holding a
one-game margin over Survey, which
^ If second. ^
Walter Talks Things Over With Rookie Pitchers at Biloxi
Manager of Nationals snapped during confab on first day of training at Mississippi camp. From left to right are Lynn Griffith, John Boyle, Bob Frlederichs,
Prank Ragland, Pilot Johnson and Luther Thomas.
YANKS ADD FOURTH
CLUB 10 HOLDINGS
Springfield Made Unit in
Farm Chain Designed to
Rival Cardinals’.
#
By the Associated Press.
EW YORK. February 24. — In
their campaign for a “farm
system" to rival that main
tained by the world cham
pion St. Louis Cardinals, the New
York Yankees have taken over the
Springfield club of the Eastern League.
The Yankees now own outright or
have an interest in four minor league
outfits of varying classification. With
their farm system grown to this ex- |
tent, they may elect to hold oft on
any further dealings with the minors
until they see how their scheme is go
ing to operate.
Heading the Yankees' minor league
holdings is the class double A Newark
club . of the International League.
Springfield, purchase of which was an
nounced last night, is a class A team. 1
These are the only clubs the Yankees
own outright, but they have interests
In the class B Scranton team of the
New York-Pennsylvanla League, as well
as Cumberland of the Middle AtlanUc
circuit, a class C organization.
The Springfield deal was negotiated
by Arthur J. Shean of Springfield and !
George M. Weiss, recently appointed
•'farm manager" by the Yankees.
H. Eugene McCann, former manager
of the Springfield club and a later
scout with the Yankees, has been
named president of the company which
will operate the club, with Weiss serv
ing as vice president. A manager is
to be named within a few days.
Shean had operated the team for
the last 13 years.
BROWN ADDS WEINER
TO BOXING VICTIMS
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Baltimore Heavy, With 22-Pound
Advantage, Is Stopped in
Seventh Session.
Natie Brown stood forth an almost
undisputed ruler of heavyweight ring
men of this sector today following a
knockout victory over Herman Weiner
of Baltimore In the featured bout of
the Alexandria day nursery card last
night.
Referee Charley Short stopped the
fight in the seventh round to save
Weiner unnecessary punishment. He
had taken a terrlfflc lacing despite his
margin of 22 pounds in the weights
Brown scaling 182.
In the first round Weiner went down
under a blow to the body. Staggering
to his feet at the count of nine, he
again crumpled, only lightly hit. The
bell saved him.
Weiner got in some telling licks in the
fourth and fifth rounds but generally
he took a painful pasting. He was
floored for a short count in the sixth
A big lump over the Baltimorean’s eye
influenced Short to halt the business in
the seventh.
In the semi-windup. Walter Kirkwood
was outpointed by Joey Raymond but
displayed lots of courage. A broken
bone made his right hand useless after
the third. He had a margin up to this
time.
Young Perry stopped Benny Tilman
in the third round, the latter goirg
down twice.
Jack Quigley outpointed Jessie Belt
in a four-rounder and Young Van. a
lad with a real sock, finished Battling
Casey In two stanzas.
Fistic Battles
By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Jack Dempsey
outpointed Frankie Wine. Butte, Mont.
(4). newspaper decision; Frankh Palmo,
Cincinnati, stopped Bill Grigsby, Sebree,
Ky. GO).
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Dave Shade. Los
Angeles, outpointed Angel Clivelle,
Porto Rico (10).
INDIANAPOLIS.—Chuck Wiggins, In
di*napolis. outpointed Benny Touch
stone. Detroit CIO).
los angeles—Lee Ram age, San
Diego, outpointed Ace Hudldns, Ne
braska (10).
NEW YORK.—Johnny McMillan, Scot
land, stopped Sergio Rodan, Phllip
plnes (2),
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Cliisox Head for Training Camp
Optimistic Under New Directors
CHICAGO, February 24 (A*).—
Headed by a new president
and a new manager, the Chi
cago White Sox left today for
Mineral Wells, Tex., the first
stop on the training schedule.
The new president of the club is
J. Louis Comiskey, who succeeded to
the position after the death of his
father, Charles A. Comiskey, the "Old
Roman,” last October. The younger
Comiskey has obtained new talent by
trade and purchase and is just as de
termined as was his father to bring
another American League champion
ship to Chicago.
The new manager is Lew Fonseca
Who came to the Sox in 1930, in a
trade which sent Willie Kamm to
Clev x id. He played in the infield
and outfield last season and, after
Donie Bush gave up the job of trying
to win with, the club, was appointed
manager. _
SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, Calif.,
February 24 OP).—'With representa
tives of the Los Angeles club of the
Pacific Coast League hanging around
to remind them what happens if they
don't make good, the young Cubs are
breaking their necks to impress Rogers
Hornsby.
BRADENTON, Fla., February 24 UP).—
"Dizzy" Dean says he's not going to
try so hard this year to live up to his
nickname.
Although he Is as talkative as ever
since joining the Cardinals’ battery
forces for Spring training, Dean says
he’s going to take the game more
seriously this season.
With the arrival of Dean, Big Jess
Haines, “Tex” Carleton and Leo Dixon
and the signing up of Flint Rhem,
Manager Gabby Street had on hand
most of the 1932 standbys for Spring
training.
CLEARWATER, Fla,, February 24
UP).—Dazzy Vance, right handed pitch
ing ace of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is
willing to take a 25 per cent cut In
salary but not more.
“As far as I can see,” Dazzy says,
“the club officials are trying to put me
in a false position. They wish to cre
ate the Impression that I will not sign
except for an exorbitant salary and then
they will be free to trade me without any
resentment on the part of the public.
I simply will not take a 50 per cent
cut. I still am willing to meet them
halfway and accept a 25 per cent re
duction,”
LOS ANGELES, February 24 (ip.—
John McGraw was In town only a few
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1 minutes before be started talking
about the 1932 New York Giants.
“The Cardinals are the team to
beat,” he said, "but the Cubs will be
tough. I think we should have a good
team. If Critz's arm is all right he’ll
be the second baseman. If not. I’ll
work Lindstrom at second. If this
Koenecke we got from Indianapolis is
as good as I think he is he’ll play left
field."
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, February
24 (IP).—Loss of Henry Johnson via an
operation for appendicitis, has revived
reports that the New York Yankees
will trade Tony Lazzeri, veteran second
baseman.
Johnson probably will do no pitching
until late May or early June and that
means Manager Joe McCarthy will
have to find another starting right
hander. The chances arc he will have
to go into the trading marts to land
a first string pitcher, perhaps using
Lazzeri as the chief bait.
PETERSON MAKES GAIN
Cuts Ribas’ Lead to 29 in Fancy
Billiard Shot Series.
NEW YORK, February 24 UP).— j
Charles C. Peterson of St. Louis won
the eleventh block of his world cham
pionship fancy shots billiard contest
with Isidro Ribas of Spain at the New
York Elks Club last night, 123 to 129,
but the Spaniard -lill leads in total
points.
In total points Ribas leads by 29,
the score standing: Ribas, 1,327; Peter
son, 1,356.
Balking Twirlers
May INet Hoyt Job
FORT MYERS, Fla., February 24
(IP).-—The pitching staff was
the big "X” of Connie Mack's
base ball algebra today.
Speculation over Waite Hoyt's
chances of rejoining the Athletics
mingled with conjectures as to the
outcome of the demands for more
mqney made by Lefty Grove and
Rube Walberg.
Hoyt drove down from St. Peters
burg. the Yankees’ training base.
clouted a couple of base balls into
the palmettos back of Terry Park,
held a conference with Connie and
then drove off again.
Grove and Walberg continued to
play golf.
GROBMEIER MEETS
FRENCH MAI STAR
Hook-Scissors Expert Subs
for Stein in Bout With
Favre Tomorrow.
RED GROBMEIER, elongated
hcok-scissors expert and Wash
ington's latest fair-haired boy,
yesterday was signed to substitute
for Sammy Stein against Paul Favre,
French champion, in one of the 30-min
ute matches on tomorrow’s wrestling
card at the Strand Theater, which, as
a result of the shift, looms more attrac
tive. Grobmeier, one of the most color
ful matmen to hit this town, is unde
feated here.
The Favre-Grobmeier match is ex
pected to rival the feature go between
Tiny Roebuck and Sandor Szabo, who
for the second time will meet here in*
finish match. Szabo won the first
clash.
In the other matches. Dr. Ralph Wil
son, the University of Indiana graduate,
and Leon Smith, clever Chicago mat
men, will oppose for not longer than 45
minutes while Fritz Kley, wrestler
contortionist. and Wankah Zelesnlak,
Russian, will tangle In a 30-minute
preliminary.
Another packed house is expected to
witness tomorrowT’s show, which is free
to women armed with escorts Tickets
are available at the Annapolis Hotel.
The first bout will start at 8:30 o’clock.
BREAKS BILLIARD MARK.
MONTREAL, Quebec, February 24
(/Pi.—Walter Lindrum, Australian bil
liard star, broke the Canadian record
for the largest break at English style
billiards when he scored 922 points on
one visit to the table In his exhibition
match with Tom Newman, British
champion.
TROUSERS
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EISEMAN’S, 7th & F
EIGHT ARE LISTED
FOR INDOOR AFFAIR
Mile Race Saturday Night
Will Be Divided Into
Three Sections.
EIGHT relays scattered
through the program of
Catholic University’s third
annual indoor meet Satur
day night probably will pack as
many thrills as the featured open
events. Colleges, high and prep
schools and clubs will engage in
them.
Outstanding among these races will
be the Intercollegiate mile, an event
which has been divided into three sec
tions because of the large field. Sec
tion A will bring together Catholic
University, Lafayette and Lehigh and
the competition should be particularly
keen between C. U. and Lafayette,
both of which won their mile relays
in the New York A. C. games, the
Cards, however, turning in the faster
time. Lehigh was defeated by Lafa
yette in the Meadowbrook meet.
C. U. has one of the swiftest quar
tets in the East, it having beaten
Princeton, Vlilanova, Rutgers, St.
Johns and Seton Hall.
Princeton, Navy and William and
Mary will race in section B. In sec
tion C, Maryland will run against
Richmond, Temple and Washington
and Lee.
The two-mile intercollegiate has
been divided into two sections, with
Lafayette, Maryland and C. TL com
peting In the first and Navy and Vir
ginia in the second. Among the Cards'
four will be Parris and Connor, who
ran one-two in the 1,000-yard invita
tion of the Meadowbrook games.
The two-thirds of a mile club relay
will bring together the Meadowbrook
Club of Philadelphia, the 5th Regiment
National Guard of Baltimore, the Cum
berland Comets and the A. A. A. Track
Club of Washington, the last named
recently organized. Knocky Thomas,
formerly of Maryland: J. Gibson, ex
Army runner; D. McChesney of Duke
and J. K. Smith. North Carolina, will
gallop for the Triple A.
Episcopal. Eastern, Tech, La Salle of
Cumberland. Hyattsville and West
Catholic of Philadelphia will be rivals
in the high and prep relay.
A check today revealed a total en
try of 513 individuals, 16 colleges and
12 clubs, by far surpassing any prev
ious field for the C. U. games.
Tickets are on sale at Spalding's and
at the C. U. athletic office, priced at
$1 for general admission and $1.50 for
reserved seats. The show will get un
der way promptly at 7:30 o’clock.
STRIBLING EASES UP
TRAINING FOR FIGHT
School, However, Continues Hard
Work Propping for Chicago
Bout Friday Night.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 24. —W. L.
(Young) Stribling of Georgia eased off
on his training for his bout with Ernie
Schaff of Boston at the Chicago Sta
dium Friday night, boxing only four
rounds.
The Georgian, who is working under
the eye of his father. ‘‘Pop” Stribling.
says he is in excellent shape and needs
only to keep his edge.
Schaff continued to work hard. He
did six rounds of floor work and fin
ished up with two rounds each against
Benny Stanley and Ed Wills.
Both trained at the same gymnasium
again today, after Stribling was given
his pick of time, and neither will be
forced to move to another place.
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CAMP MEADE FIVE WINS.
CAMP MEADE, Md., February 24.—
Camp Meade basketers turned back
Quantico Marines, 32 to 29, here last
night. The Leathernecks played with
out Sergt. Locke, stellar center.
LISTS 39 DAYS OF HACING.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 24 UP).
—A 39-day racing meet, beginning
March 31 and ending May 14. has been
scheduled for Tanforan Track by the
Pacific Coast Breeders’ Association.
NOTABLES 10 SEE
BIG BOXING SHOW
Congressmen, Other Leaders,
Make Reservations for
Bouts at Coliseum.
SOMETHING new in the line of a
boxing turnout likely will flock
to Ritchie Coliseum at College
Park next Monday night when a
four-star card of eight-round bouts Is
presented.
Attracted by the promise of the im
pending spectacle, which features top
ranking bantamweights in Anf"l Kocsis
and Dick Welsh. Representatives. Sen
ators and other nationally known figures
have applied for reservations.
Primarily the handsome edifice itself
furnishes a big league background for
a splendidly rounded card. Built to
accommodate 5,000 and more, the new
plant likely will house a capacity crowd.
Ample parking space Is assured motor
ists and ushers in formal dress are to
lend color to occasions.
A check-up today revealed that one
of the largest advance ticket sales ever
recorded here is in the process of the
making.
An abundance of good seats still are
available at $1.50. $2 and S2 50. They
are on sale at Goldie Ahearn's, the New
Willard, Spaldings and Vic's Sport
Shop.
BALL PLAYERS SOUGHT.
Manager Louis Evry is lining up boys
of 18 and under for the Notre Dame
j Prep base ball team. His telephone
number is Lincoln 1329.
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