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Griffs Face Inspired Cleveland Club : Goodman Has Big Job as,U. 5. Golf Hope
M STRUGGLING
TO BOLSTER PECK
Anxious to Prove Worth of
Manager—Crowder Shines
in Win Over Tigers.
■pecial Dispatch to The Star.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, September
17.—The Middle West is
having its last look at the
Washington base ball team
for the season of 1932. The
Nationals close their Western en
gagements for the year in a series
here, where they will have plenty
of tough opposition.
There has been some talk here of
replacing Roger Peckinpaugh as man
ager of the Indians. The anti-Peckin
paugh movement was given a boom by
the Wesley Ferrell incident. Ferreli,
one of the so-called prima donnas ot
the major leagues, did not like his as
signments, did not like this and that,
made some publia statement reflecting
upon Feckinpaugh's ability to handle
pitchers and the arguments finally
came to a suspension for Ferrell.
As a result of the suspension, it was
rumored around town that all the ball
players were up in arms against Peck
inpaugh. But the boys went out to
prove that Peck is really a good guy
and a fine manager and that he stands
ace high with them. You can wager
anything you care to that when another
season opens Peckinpaugh will be man
ager of the Cleveland team.
Washington will get the benefit of the
"do-it-for-Peck" attitude. The going
H ill be rather rough here in three games
and Alvin Crowder cannot pitch every
day.
Crowder pitched the final game in
Detroit yesterday and he has rarely
been better. He held the Tigers to three
hits. He walked only three men and
he won by an 8-to-3 score, enabling
the Nationals to continue their fight
lor second place.
The team came up well behind
Crowder. Cronin made an error, and
so did Bluege, but both misplays were
excusable, and Cronin did some brilliant j
fielding as well. He made two dazzling
catches of foul flies in left field terri- ι
tory. West, Rice and Kuhel also con
tributed spectacular plays. Myer made
one that was far out of the ordinary.
The Nationals hit well together yes- j
terday, something that they did not do
in the previous two games. Only three
of their ten hits did not figure in the j
run scoring.
Alvin Crowder won his twenty-third
victory of the season yesterday. He is
charged with 13 defeats. He had plenty
of stuff against Detroit. He walked the
first two batters who laced him in the
(seventh and both scored. He gave only
one other base on balls. ·
By winning yesterday Washington got
nn even break for the year with Detroit.
Each team won 11 games and lost the
same number. It is the first time since
Stanley Harris took charge of Detroit
that the Tigers have been able to get
as much as an even break with the
Nationals.
They are having ladies' days in De
troit for the first time this season.
About 5.000 were out yesterday, and they
screamed lustily for nine innings.
Sam West was back in center field.
He killed a threVbagger for Davis with
a brilliant running catch in left center.
He gotlonly one hit, but that drove in a
run.
By beating Detroit the Nationals sent
the Tigers below a .500 percentage. It
was Detroit's seventy-first defeat of the
year.
Buddy Myer walked three times.
Twice he scored and the third time he
■was thrown out at the plate.
Charley Gehringer made two swell
plays in the first inning, but neither
helped Detroit. He cued behind first
base and stabbed Rice's drive with his
gloved hand, but could not recover in
time to make a throw. He made a
catch of Kuhel's fly while running at
top speed in center field, but was going
so fast that h? could not throw home
and stop a run.
Two of the three hits that Detroit
made were credited to Heinie Schuble,
the smallest man in the line-up and the
seventh man in the Detroit batting or
der. He got a single and double and
drove in two of Detroit's runs. The
ether scored on Cronin's fumble.
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CROWDER IN COMMAND
WASHINGTON. AB. R. Η Ο. Α.
Rice, rf 4 2 1 3 0
Myer. 2b 1 2 η 2 3
M'anush. li 4 2 2 0 0
Cronin, ss 3 2 2 6 3
Kuhel. lb 5 0 1 10 2
West, cf 5 ο 1 2 2
Bluese, 3b 3 0 1 2 2
Fpcncer. c 4 0 1 1 0
Crowder, ρ 4 0 1 1 1
Totals 33 8 10 27 il
DETROIT. AB. R. H. O. A.
Davis, lb 4 0 0 9 0
Gehrinfrr. lb 4 0 0 2 1
S' one. If 4 Ο 0 3 0
White, rf 3 Χ ο 5 1
Walker, cf 2 1 1 1 0
Rogell. SS 4 1 0 2 5
Schuble. 3b 4 0 2 1 1
DcFautels. c 3 η Ο 3 0
Marrow, r» 1 ο ο 1 2 ^
Hogsett, Ρ 1 0 Ο 0 1 0
•Webb 1 0 0 0 0 "
Total* 31 3 ~3 27 11 0
'Batted for Marrow in fifth.
Washington iîSSïSSn it?
Detroit ...0 1 0 0 0 0 2 ο ο—ο
Runs batted in-Kuhel <3>. Manush <2>,
S<-hul)]e ·?'■ Cronin. West. Two-base hits—
Manush. Cronin. Kuhel. Schuble. Stolen
base—Myer. Sacrifice - Myer. Double plajs
—Hogsett to Rogell to Davis. Kuhel to
Cronin to Kuhel. Left on bases—Washing
ton. e. Detroit. 4. First base on balls—Off
Marrow. 4. off Hogsett. 3; c$.Crow(ier· 2.
Struck out—By Marrow. 2 Hits—Off Mar
iov β in 5 innines: off Hccsctt. 4 in 4 :r
nines. Hit by pitched ball—By Hogsett iMa
nush Cronin ι. Wild pitch—Marrow. 1-1 s -
fnspi™her*-Marrow. Umpires — Messrs.
Hildcbrand. Monarty and Dineen.
Minor Leagues
International League.
Baltimore, 3; Albany, 1.
Montreal. 7: Buffalo. 5.
Rochester, 3—1 : Toronto, 1—3.
Others not scheduled.
STANDING OP THE CLUBS.
\V. Tj. Pet. \V. L. Pet.
Nmrli... 107 58.648 Roclieiter. 86 79.521
Baltimore . 92 "2 .561 Jersey City 72 92 .439
Buffalo.... 91 73 .555 Albany. .. 69 96.413
Montreal... 88 77 .533 Toronto... 53 111 .323
American Association.
Minneapolis, 9: St. Paul, 1.
Milwaukee. 10: Kansas City, 3.
Indianapolis, 2; Toledo, 1.
Others not scheduled.
STANDING OF ΊΓΗΕ CLXJBS.
W. L. Pet. W.L. Pet.
Mln'apolis. 06 61 .611 Toledo 81 78 .509
Columbus.. 85 71 .545 Kans. City 76 80 .487
Milwaukee. 80 74 .519 St. Paul... 65 92 .414
Ind'gpolis. 81 75 .519 Louisville.. 62 95 .395
Pacific Coast League.
Mission». 4; Oakland. 3.
San Francisco. 9: Portland, 7.
Seattle. 4; Los Angeles, 3.
Hollywood, 3; Sacramento, 2.
STANDING OP THE CLUBS.
W. L. Pet.
Portland 97 75 564
Hollywood 96 76 .558
8an Francisco 90 80 .529
Sacramento 89 83 517
Los Angeles 89 83 .517
Seattle 34 85 .497
Oakland 74 96 .435
Missions 65 136 ,380
Flag Drive May
Fag the Bruins
NEW YORK, September 17
(C.P.A.).—The Cubs needed
five more victories to insure
their presence in the world series.
They still have nine games to play,
while the Pirates have 11, of which
four will be played at Wrigley Field.
There is little doubt that the Cubs
will finish where they are. But they
may be a trifle fagged out when the
time arrives to shape up against the
Yankees in the stadium one week
from next Wednesday.
The Pirates are booked for double
headers with the Giants today and
tomorrow at the Polo Ground. After
a double-header with the Phils to
day the Cubs visit «Cincinnati tomor
row and on Tuesday begin their im
portant series with the Pirates at
Chicago.
HARÎNETT HOMERS
DANGER TO YANKS
Bruin Star's Fifth in Eight
Games Defeats Phillies.
Close One to A's.
BY GAYLE TALBOT.
Associated Press Sports Writer.
WITH all the talk of the
Yankees' wrecking crew and
what they are likely to do
to the Chicago Cubs' pitch
ing in the approaching world series, it
might be timely to point out that the
Cubs boast a prettv fair game breaker
Upper of their own In big Gabby Hart
nett.
If the Chlcagoans win in the National
League, which they will, barring a
major catastrophe, the Yank curvers
will do well to work on Hartnett very
carefully. He is hitting like a ton of
bricks for Manager Charley Grimm,
specializing in home runs where they
will do the most good.
Hartnett's smash over the right-field
wall in the third inning, his fifth in
eight games, started the Cubs on the
way to their 3-to-2 victory over the
Phillies yesterday.
AS all the other National League
teams were idle, the victory plant
ed the Cubs a full six games ahead
of the second-place Pittsburgh Pirates,
with only nine Mo go. They now need
to win only five more, even if the Pir
ates capture all of the remaining, 11.
to pick up the marbles.
Bud Tinning. who took. Burleigh
Grimes* place as one of the Cubs* start
ing pitchers, went the route yesterday,
keeping nine Philly hits well spaced.
Ed Holley also pitched well for the
Phils, jielding se\en hits, but an error
by Chuck Klein cost him a run.
Appearing in Chicago for the last
time before they go back to tackle the
Cubs in the big series, the Yankees
scored a 4-to-l win over the White
Sox. Wiley Moore and Dan MacFayden
allowed the Sox only five hits, while
the American League champions jumped
on Sam Jones for five hits and three
runs to sew it up in the third inning.
AL SIMMONS' thirty-third home run
of the year, with Cochrane on base,
helped Lefty Grove of the Athletics
take a close decision from Irving
(Bump) Hadley of St. Louis. 3 to 2.
The A's made only six hits off Hadley.
Oscar Melillo knocked in both Brown
runs.
Ivy Paul Andrews, who missed being
in the world series money when the
Yankees traded him to Boston in the
MacFayden deal, pitched the Red Sox
to a closing 6-to-2 triumph over Cleve
land.
Washington took its season final from
Detroit, 8 to 3, Alvin Crowder setting
the Tigers down with three hits, two
of them by Heine Schuble.
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Major Leaders
By the Associated Press.
(Including yesterday's games.)
American League.
Batting—Foxx, Athletics, and Alex
ander. Red Sox, .358.
Runs—Foxx, Athletics, 140; Combs,
Yankees. 138.
Hits—Manush, Senators, 204; Gehrig,
Yankees, 200.
Rims batted In—Foxx, Athletics, 149;
Gehrig. Yankees, 145.
Doubles—McNair, Athletics, 44;
Gehringer, Tigers, 41.
Triples—Cronin, Senators, 18; Myer,
Senators, 16.
Home runs—Foxx, Athletics, 52;
Ruth. Yankees, 40.
Stolen bases—Chapmen, Yankees, 37;
Walker, Tigors, 25.
Pitching—Allen. Yankees, 16-3; Go
mez, Yankees, 24-7.
National League.
Batting—O'Doul, Dodgers, .370 ; Klein,
Phillies, .350.
Runs—Klein, Phillies, 147; O'Doul.
Dodgers, 117.
Hits—Klein, Phillies, 216; O'Doul.
Dodgers. 210.
Runs batted in—Hurst, Phillies, 136;
Klein. Phillies, 129.
Doubles—P. Waner, Pirates, 57; Klein,
Phillies, and Stephenson, Cubs. 49.
Triples—Herman, Reds, 18; Suhr,
Pirates, 16.
Home runs—Klein, Phillies, 37; Ott,
Giants, 36.
Stolen bases—Klein, Phillies, 20;
Frisch, Cardinals, 18.
Pitching—Warneke, Cubs, 22-6;
Brown, Braves, 14-6.
Major Clouters
By the Associated Press.
G. AB. R. H. Pet.
O'Doul. Dodgers.. 140 567 117 210 .370
Foxx, Athletics... 145 545 140 195 .358
Alexander, Red Sox 114 355 53 127 .358
Klein, Phillies 145 618 147 216 .350
Manush. Senators. 140 585 119 204 .349
Hurst, Phillies 141 546 104 188 .344
Home run leaders—Foxx, Athletics,
52; Ruth, Yankees, 40; Klein, Phillies,
37; Ott. Giants. 36; Simmons, Athletics,
33; Gehrig, Yankees, 32.
FLAG TO MINNEAPOLIS
Plays Newark in Bush League
Classic Opening September 27.
ST. PAUL, Minn., September 17 f/P).
—The American Association base ball
1 championship, carrying ttie right to
meet Newark, international League .win
ners in a little world series of seven
games, came to the Minneapolis Mil
lers yesterday with a 9-to-l triumph
over St. Paul.
The series with the International
League champions will start at the East
ern city September 27, where three
games will be played. Then the scene
shifts to Minneapolis for as many tilts
as needed to declare a four-out-of
seven winner. Ttie first game in the
Association Park Is booked for Octo,
ber 2.
In and out of first place several times
this season, the Millers, managed by
Donnie Bush, brought, back the title
last won by a Minneapolis team in 1915.
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O'BOUL AND KLEIN
BEST WITH FLAILS
Two National Leaguers Top
American Loop Leaders.
Foxx in Slump.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 17.—With
the end of the major league
season only eight days away,
two National League batters,
Frank O'Doul of Brooklyn and Chuck
Klein of the Phillies, appear to have the
year's major league batting honors well
in hand.
O'Doul maintained his .370 average
I that tops both leagues through this
j week, while Klein improved his slugging
' records a bit. And at the same time
Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Ath
! letics, who set the pace for the big
I league hitters through most of the sea
; son, slumped to .358, where he was tied
for the American League lead with Dale
: Alexander of the Boston Red Sox.
BUT Jimmie still held an edge in the
struggle for recognition on the
grounds that Alexander was a late
comer into the ranks of the "regulars"
and had only 355 times at bat against
545 for Foxx.
Klein and Foxx still shared honors
in the all-round slugging race, each
topping the majors in two departments
aside from the batting averages.
The high slugging marks for the two
leagues were:
Runs—Klein, 147; Fcxx. 140.
Hits—Klein, 216; Mattush. Senators,
204.
Runs batted in—«Foxx, 149; Hurst.
Phillies, 136
Doubles—Ρ Wr.ner, Pirates, 57; Me
Nair. Athletics. 44
Triples—Cronin, Senators, ar.d Her
man, Reds, 18
Home runs—Foxx, 52; Klein. 37.
Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees, 87;
Klein, 20.
KLEIN also climbed to stcond place
in the National League batting
averages yesterday, hoisting his
mark to .350. Trailing him were Hurst.
.344; Terry. Giants. .343: V. Davis.
Phillies. .341: P. Waner. Pirates, .335;
L. Waner, Pirates. .333; Stephenson.
Cubs. .330; Travnor, Pirates. .329. and
Ott. Giants, .328.
Back of Foxx and Alexander were
Manush, Senators, .349; Ruth. Yankees
.348: Gehrig. Yankees, .347: C.mb^.
Yankees. .325: Ferrell. Browns. .325:
Jolley. Red Sox, .320: Cronin, Senators.
.320, and Simmons, Athletics. .319.
Young Bob Brown of Boston moved
into second place among Maticnal
League pitchers with 14 victories and 6
defeats. The leader was Lonnie War
neke of the Cubs with 22 and 6. In
the American League the leaders, Johnny j
Allen and Vernon Gomez, both of the j
Yankees, suffered one defeat during the :
week. Allen's record now is 16 and 3:
Gcmez's, 24 and 7.
Shadows of the Past
BY I. C. BRENNER.
IN the last two years cf the old
Garden, down in the Madison
Square section of New York City,
many thrilling fights in the classes
below the welterweight division were
staged ty Tex Rickard, because, as
he often remarked: "Them there lit
tle fellers are like fighting game
cocks. They give ye a run fer your
money."
Manv stories have been written
about the hectic affairs between little
Jack Sharkey and Joe Lynch, John
ny Buff and Lynch. Dundee and
Jackson, Midget Smith and Jack
Sharkey and others of their caliber.
Every time Lynch Sharkey and
Smith were the headliners "Old
Tedge" was certain of sell-out. or
near sell-out. Popular boys with \
the New York fans, they were.
Midgut Smith, the subject of this
story, now a salesman who travels
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MIDGET SMITH.
South considerably and spends his
idle moments around the new Gar
den, in his heydey was a fighter of
the Billy Petrolle type. There was
no let-up in the Midget's work, once
he got started, and so pleasing were
j his performances that he always had
a horde of supporters.
The Midget, the smallest man ever
in the United States Regular Army,
in which he served at Panama for
two years and in which he won the
bantam title, hasn't changed much
since lie retired except that though
he still Is a midget in size, he is a
heavyweight in build. The Midget
[ has taken on many pounds of avoir
dupois and instead of the trim,
well-built lad who made a fighting
ι name for himself in the old Gar
The Midget engaged in arwuK
den, he now looks more like the old
Style alderman than an athlete.
The Midget engaged in many
I thrilling encounters in his short ca
! reer, but he says that the hardest
one in which he participated was
j that with Joe Lynch in Chicago on
April 4, 1923. In that, he avers, he
tcok his worst shellacking, one he
will remember to his dying day. It
was a 10-rounder in the Chicago
Coliseum, and the Midget came
within an eyelash of winning the
bantam title when, in the second
round, he floored Joe for a count of
nine and had the crown wearer
, groggy throughout the round after
he got off the floor. Prom that
round to the finish Lynch evened
i the score by lacing his rival all over
the ring.
(Copyright, 1932.)
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How Tliev Fared
In Past Tourneys
Baltimore. September 17 <;p).—
Records of Johnnv Goodman
and Ross Somerville, finalists
for the American amateur golf
championship, are closely similar in
this classic. Each has qualified only
four times and, prior to this battle,
each found the 18-hole early round
matches too tough to survive.
Here are their comparative per- j
formances in this and previous na
tional tournaments since 1927:
1927—Goodman failed to qualify.
1928 — Somerville beat Frank j
Dolph. 2 and 1, in first round; lost i
to John Beck. 1 up, in second round.
Goodman did not compete.
1929—Goodman beat Bobby Jones,
1 up, in first round; lost to Law son I
Little. 2 and 1. in second round.
Somerville failed to qualify.
1930—Goodman lost to Johnny
McHugh, 1 up, in first round. Som
erville lost to Bobby Jones, 5 and
4, in first round.
1931—Goodman lost to Billy How
ell, 2 and 1, in first round: Somer
ville defeated Gene Homans, 2 and
1. in first round; lost to Fay Cole
man, 4 and 3, in second round.
1932—Goodman qualified with 144, :
second lowest score: defeated H.
Chadler Egan, 3 and 2, in first
round: defeated Charles Seaver, 2
and 1, in second round; defeated
Maurice McCarthy, jr., 1 up, 36
holes, in quarter-finals: defeated
Francis Ouimet, 4 and 2, In semi
finals.
Somerville qualified with 150;
defeated John F. Brawner. jr., 5
and 3, in first round; defeated Jack
Westland. 3 and 2, in second round;
defeated Billy Blaney. 6 and 5. in
quarter-finals: defeated Jesse Guil
ford. 7 and 6, in semi-finals.
STILL SEEKING GAME.
ANNAPOLIS. Md„ September 17.—
St. John's College is negotiating with
King's College, Tenn., for a game on
October 1. St. John's lost its game on
that date by the cancellation by Long
Island University. 1
Semi-Final Cards
Of Golf Battles
BALTIMORE, September 17.—Cards
of the semi-final matches in the
U. S. amateur golf tourney yester
day at the Five Farms course were as
follows :
SOMERVILLE VS. GI ILFORD.
MORNING ROUND.
Out—
Somer ville 44534554 S—37
Guiliotti 54445634 3—38
Somerville, 2 up.
In—
Somerville 44445543 3—36—Τβ
Guilford 55435554 4—40—7?
Uppervllle, 6 up.
AFTERNOON ROUND.
Out—
Somerville 54424554 4—37
Guilford 6x424544 4—
Somerville, 7 up.
In—
Somerville 4 5 4
Guilford 4 54
Somerville wins. 7 and 6.
GOODMAN VS. Ot'IMET.
MORNING ROUND.
Out—
Goodman 55433653 3—37
Ouimet 54434544 4—37
Match all even.
In
Goodman 34444543 4—35—72
Ouimet 34544443 4—35—72
Match all even
AFTERNOON.
Out
Goodman 43434434 4 33
Ouimet 44444544 4—37
Goodman, 4 up.
In—
Goodman χ 4 4 3 β 5 4
Ouimet 4 β S 3 4 6 5
Goodman win;. 4 and 2.
Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press.
A1 Simmons, Athletics—His thirty
third homer with one on beat Browns.
Alvin Crowder, Senators — Stopped
Tigers with three hits.
Hazen Cuyler, Cubs—Singled in eighth
to drive in run that beat Phillies.
Paul Andrews, Red Sox—Scattered
Indians' nine hits and won easily.
Wiley Moore and Danny MacPayden,
Yankees—Limited White Sox to five
hits.
Standings in Major Leagues
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 193*.
American League.
TESTERDAY'S RESULTS.
Washington, 8; Detroit 3.
New York. 4; Chicago, 1.
Philadelphia. 3; St. Louis. 2.
Boston. 6; Cleveland. 2.
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GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW
Wash, at Cleve. Wash, at Cleve.
Ν. Y. at St. Louis. Ν. Y. at St. Louis.
ghila. at Chicago. Phila. at Chicago,
oston at Detroit. Boston at Detroit.
National League.
YESTERDAY S RESULTS.
Chicago. 3: Philadelphia. 3.
Pittsburgh-New York, rain.
Cincinnati-Brooklyn, rain.
Other clubs not scheduled.
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GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW
Pittsburgh at Ν. Y. Pittsburgh at Ν. Y.
Clncin. at Blkyn (31. Chicago at Clncin.
Chicago at Phlla. (2). Phlla. at Brooklyn.
St. Louis at Boston. St. Louis at Boston.
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Gridiron Pep at American U.
Coach Young Is Confident F.agle* Will Make Better Showing
in Foot Ball.
BY TOM DOEBEB—1
YOUNG MR. YOUNG out there
in the fastness of the
wilderness which encom
passes American University
is sprinkling the tobasco.
Yep, young Mr. Young, citizens,
is preparing to offer to the trade
this Fall something a little snap
pier, a little faster, and not so
green.
And it isn't a line of Autumn
hats, either. It's young Mr. Young's
ι foot ball team. You knew that, of
course.
A flock of young men, some 30,
dashed out on the Eagles' playing field
the other afternoon to dazzle, bewilder
and confu5e Mr Young. Heretofore,
the coach merely yelled for Oscar. Sam
and Pete, and there was his foot ball
squad for the training season, ready to
go through its stuff.
But times have changed for Mr.
I Young, if not for you. It could be a
' change of heart on the part of this
Republican administration, a change
in the weather, or a lot of other things
which have caused Mr. Young to be in
the midst of plenty. But it isn't. It is
merely the fact that there are more
boys at American U. this year who
want to play foot ball.
And most of them got the urge
last year. Which, u hen it is under
stood that the Eagles never won a
game last season, is strange. But
the lettuce -patch which took a beat
ing last semester is foot ball vise
Golf Analyzed
-BY JOE C.LASS
WATCHING Tommy Armour play
a brasiie from a side-hill lie
in which the ball is higher
than the feet elicits information of
value to the beginner at golf.
First, Armour apparently believes
that he should do nothing that will
take the hands and arms out cf
their usual plane in the swing. As
the ball is nearer to his shoulders
than in an ordinary lie. he must
either stand farther from It than
usual or else employ a shorter grip.
To stand farther away would alter
With ball
ABove feet,
ardour.
Stamps as
close as if
OH FIAT TURF
— "THIS KEEPS
arwsin usual.
PlANE IN SWING
I
the plane of the swing, so lie short
ens his grip. This has the added
advantage of giving him better eon
trol of the club.
However, he guards against two
things. A shorter grip means the
clubhead will move in a smaller arc
and also feel lighter, so Tommy
takes extra care to see that a quick
er swing, with no follow through,
shall not result.
Here again he braces himself in
the stance firmly, so that, in swing
ing, he will not fall away from the
ball.
The correct grip for holding a
club means distance to your drive.
Write Joe Glass, in care of The Star,
and ask for his leaflet, "Correct Grip
for Driving." Be sure to inclose a
stamped, addressed envelope.
(Copyright. 1932.)
\
this season, and out to collect on
last Fall's trimmings.
For instance, in that group cavorting
on the prepping plot yesterday after
noon were 13 lettermen and 5 reserves
from last Autumn. Last season those
same boys were just 18 young men, who
had to use blueprints to know which
end of the foot ball was the other end.
Add to this collection of 18 experi
enced players, almost as many more
young men who either sat along the
sidelines to watch how the game ought
to have been played by American U.,
and others who come to the local schools
this year with high school gridiron
tutelage.
When Mr. Young watches Lionel Dick
ι or George Bosari gazelle down the grid
dle like an antelope in a hurry, he
grins. Last year Walter did not have
a back he could trust out in the open
with the leather pineapple.
He was never sure whether his star
back would take the ball into the
stands and hand it to a member of
the faculty, or throw it to the head
linesman.
"But I've pot some running backs
this year," he says. "Those boys
who were gTeen last year have made
progress. Those lickings we took
helped us rather than hurt. We
lost ball games, but we gained a lot
of knowledge in so doing.
"We have some boys coming In
this year—you know we can use
freshmen—who have splendid high
school foot ball reputations. They
may be just what the doctor ordered
for us. The stimulus to our vets
who had to take such wallops last
year." <
Oh. yes, Mr. Young is in his best
mood these afternoons. He also is
abetted by the arrangement which
places the one big game on the Eagle !
schedule right at the bottom of the
list. This game with Randolph-Macon,
the final one of the season for the !
Youngmen. is the one which the team |
desires most to take.
"Our big game being at the bot
tom," says Walter, "gives us a chance
to study and improve as we go along.
We are going to take that battle this
year—or. at least, show the enemy that ;
they have something to vanquish." ^
All of this optimism being displayed
by the Maryland and District coaches,
other than Curly Byrd out at Mary
land TJ„ is giving me the jitters. It |
is so different from other years that
I'm crossing my fingers and hoping
for the best while fearing the worst. ]
It is passible that the mentors believe
that this is that one year which comes i
just so often. Then they may only
be whistling through the graveyard.
However, from what I've seen of I
the teams so far they back up the !
coaches' optimism. But I'll keep
eool until the conclusion of the first
few games hereabcut, and 1 just
know that the word "hereabout* was
going to creep up and snare me
some day. I've been ducking it
for a year, too.
Well, this puts young Mr. Young In
line with the rest of the country's opti
mists. I hope he, and the rest of the
boys are sincere in their beliefs, and
not trying to aid the Hoover adminis
tration by taking a bull stand in a
bear's market.
125 GOLFERS BATTLING
Eight Flights in Action in Indian
Spring Title Play.
One hundred and twenty-two golfers
today were to start match play rounds
in the annual Indian Spring champion
ship tournament.
Eight flights of 16 will compete. Tom
Belshe and J. B. Brownell tied for the
qualifying medal with cards of 75.
Following are the first flight pairings: J.
V. Brownell vs. George J. Richardson, P. T.
Cook vs. Arthur Urban, J. W. Harvey vs. H.
O. Kreusberg. J. A. Pratt vs. J. P. Hauser.
Tom Belshe vs. W. H. Dickhut. Leo Pass
ι vs. Craig McKee, Dr. L. S. O'Tell vs. O. W.
I Bonnett and H. L· Lacej and Alexander
Baumgartner.
'
li
SOMERVILLE PICK
OF MOST EXPERTS
Both American and Canadian
In Final Round to Title
Chase First Time.
BY WALTER R. McCALLUM.
Five farms course, Balti
more, September 17. — Two
young men who never have gone
anywhere In the national ama
teur golf championship before were
saying It with high Iron shots and
putts today over this golf course In
the final round of one of the most
unusual of the 38 titular tourneys staged
for the national's slmon pure title by
the United States Golf Association.
With an international flavor for the
first time In 21 years, since Harold
Hilton bounced an approach shot off
a rock at Apawamis to win In 1911, the
final round today found Ross Somervllle
of London, Ontario, 29-year-old In
surance man, and 22-year-old Johnny
Goodman of Omaha, Nebr., matching
shots for the title that skidded from
Francis Ouimet's Head yesterday as the
Bostonlan missed a 10-foot putt on the
thirty-fourth green.
Goodman uncrowned Oulmet with
one of the gamest exhibitions of shot
making witnessed in the championship
since Jones first started crushing his
opponents with par. The stocky little
Omaha lad, who stung the United
States Golf Association by whipping
the reigning title holder after being
refused a place on the Walker Cup
team, beat Oulmet by ♦ and 2. Somer
ville gave phlegmatic Jess Guilford one
of the »*>rst beatings the farmer boy
from Vermont ever has taken, «Inning
from the old seige gun by 7 and 6.
THE professionals and close students
of the game favor Somervllle be
cause of the crlspness of his Iron
shots and his putting ability, but you
can't laugh off the stocky little Good
man, who clings like a leech as the
going gets tougher and rolls 'em In
from any and all angles. Johnny also
Is an Insurance man.
£or both Somerville and Goodman
is the first final. Somerville has
beeh known for many years as one of
the finest hitters of all shots of any
amateur In the country. He never be
fore has gone past the second round
in the championship. He grabs the
Canadian amateur crown whenever he
wants it, but never before has he been
able to go anywhere in this tourna
ment
Johnny Goodman used to be known
as the lad who beat Bobbv Jones at
Pebble Beach in 1929. Whether he
wins or loses today, he has gone far
past that stage of notoriety, and he
may be the champion. He has cer
tainly made the Walker Cup team se
lectors look bad, for at no time was he
given a place on that American outfit.
He ts 5 feet 8 inches of fighting, rug
ged American manhood, a stocky,
sturdy blond lad who packs plenty of
heart and a ton of that quality vul
garly and expressively called guts. One
hundred and fifty pounds of scrapping
kid. this Johnny Goodman. Everv
match he has played has be-^n a tough
one, even that one yesterday where he
whipped the fading veteran Ouimet on
the thirty-fourth hole Or Thursday
he went to the home grc η to beat
Maurice McCarthy, anfl he won from
Charlie Seaver in the second round only
cn the seventeenth.
S Ο MER VILLE is a quiet Canuck. Hp
seldom speaks more than a few
words in a golf match. His fare,
like that of Johnny Fischer, is a mask.
Never the ghost of a smile or the
shadow of exultation crosses that poker
mask. For sheer tenacious concentra
tion and ability to bear down in the
pinches Somerville and Goodman are
the best of the tournament starters.
But Somerville. unlike Goodman, hasn't
yet had a hard match. So far as sheer
scrapping ability in the tight spots is
concerned, he is an unknown quantity.
For sheer shot-making ability he is
better than Goodman.
But championship golf, and particu
larly a final round, is unlike any other
spot in sport. No other game holds the
same tense moments, nor the same
spots where a nerve quiver may cost λ
championship. So Somerville. who has
had such easy going, may lack that
power in the pinch that Goodman has
demonstrated in this tournament. And
then again, perhaps, Johnny is burned
out by the strain of those scrapping
battles with McCarthy and Ouimet.
The final is wide open, and It may go
to the last hole.
JOHN GOODMAN has qualified four
times for the championship. Bo
has Somerville. Never before has
either gone past the first day. Good
man is the sole support of a family of
12. most of them younger than this 22
year-old lad. He didn't start playin?
golf until 1925, after he had caddied
around Omaha for two years, and in
his first year he won the city title. He
has done plenty since. Today he can
win a national title. As a fighting
fool he has no superior.
Somerville would rat^r play
cricket than hit a golf ball. He said
yesterday that cricket is his first love.
But he plays golf fairly well. too. He
is a fine amateur hockey player and a
good all-around athlete. He hits an
iron with that close crispness of
Tommy Armour. Until yesterday he
had displayed great putting ability, but
somewhere along the route he found
the touch to output Guilford, himself
one of the putting masters.
THERE wasn't much to that Somer
ville-Guilford match. The Ca
nadian was too good for the Bos
ton boy. Although Jesse was booming
the ball a mile from the tee. he couldn't
get his putts down. Somerville him
self was not playing any too well, but
whenever he needed a putt he poled it.
Six up at the turn, he quickly laid
Guilford away, winning on the twelfth
green by 7 and 6.
The story of the downfall of Ouimet
as he strode across the green to shake
the hand of the gritty little Nebraskan
Johnny was just that. All even with
Ouimet over the morning round after
a soul-stirring exchange of shots in
which both shot 72. Goodman played
the nrst nine in the afternoon in 33 to
turn 3 up. Such a margin with nine
holes to go is all a Goodman needs.
Francis whipped out two birdies over
the next six holes, but he couldn't stem
the charge of the sturdy Goodman
Francis left his crown over in the woods
on the Five Farms hillside, where the
gallery had cheered on the previous
dav when he bunkered his ball against
Johnny Fischer.
RACING
Havre de Grace
Sept. 19 to Oct. 1, Inc.
SEVEN RACES DAILY
Social Pennsylvania Train Leaves Union
S'ktion—12:05 P.M.-Dimt to Trick
(Eastern Standard Tine)
ADMISSION: Grandstand and
Paddock. I1.6S, Includinc Tax
FIRST RACE AT S:15 P.M.
MR. YOUNG IS HOPEFUL.
-By TOM DOERER
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