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Open Golf Tournament With $35,000 Purse Is Planned for 1937
WOULD MINIMIZE
U. S. OPEN EVENT
Two Commercial Sponsors
in Back of Move for
World Classic.
BY W. R. MoCALLUM.
AREAL open golf tournament
which will make the national
open championship, with Its
$5,000 prize money, and even
the Biltmore affair, with 10 grand,
look to be piker shows, Is In the build
up stage and may be announced with
in a few weeks, for the Summer of
1937.
It will be. If the thing goes through,
a 72-hole links Joust for a total purse
around $35,000, which will make It the
biggest financial affair ever offered in
golf. Two commercial sponsors, one
of them a cigarette outfit, are consid
ering financing the proposition.
To date the $25,000 Agua Caliente
tournament of the frenzied days of
prohibition, when the "hot water" spot
In Upper Mexico, hard by Los Angeles,
was working day and night, holds the
record for financial return to golfers.
Gene Made Good on Boast.
/'^JENE SABAZEN gazed on a wheel
^ harrow full of silver dollars, 10,
000 of them, announced he was going
to win the wheel-barrow and its con
tents, and did just that. It helped a
long way to buy that farm in Con
necticut. But there aren’t any such
tournaments around any more. The
BUtmore, with $10,000, Is tops nowa
days. If the P. G. A. can put across
the $35,000 affair which is in the
making, you can look for every golf
pro In the world to have a crack at the
heavy dough, even if, as is now pro
posed, a $50 entry fee be piled on top
©f the $30,000 purse.
What a tournament that would be,
with something around $18,000 first
money. And can you imagine a guy
coming up to a finishing hole like the
eighteenth at Baltusrol, with a 4 to
win by a shot? Or a guy with a 3-foot
putt to win that amount of money?
It would take some steel-ribbed gent
like Sarazen or Horton Smith of the
Iron nerves, to look over a situation of
that kind and knock the back out of
the cup with the winning putt.
Sise of Field a Problem.
TF THE P. G. A. can put It across, it
J probably will lead to a flock of big
money open tournaments throughout
the land, which Is just what the pro
body wants. The pros already think
they are underpaid for their links
labors, but they won’t be if that affair
for 35 grand goes over, and if it is fol
lowed by a flock of *10.000 tourna
ments, as it probably will be.
Tournament Committee members of
the F. G. A. would like to see it made
into a real stake race, a sort of unoffi
cial world championship, by obtaining
the entries of Alf Padgham. British
open champ; Henry Cotton, and out
standing players from Japan and
South America. There isn’t much
doubt that such an affair would pack
’em In. The toughest job would be
to limit the entry to a field that could
he well handled, even at the *50 entry
fee.
WASHINGTON golfers are do
ing a lot of traveling around
the country this week.
With four of the public
links stars in the thick of the going at
Farmingdale, Long Island, where
Claude Rippy may do some business
In the national municipal champion
ship, three Washington pros were at
Philadelphia today playing in the
Quaker City open tourney. They were
Bob Barnett, Leo Walper and ClifT
Spencer, and all of ’em have good
chances to finish in the money in the
tourney which Barnett won several
years ago.
latter in the week a few Washing
tonians will play in the Bald Peak
tourney at Bald Peak, N. H., one of the
•wanky resorts of the East.
y CALVERT DICKEY is at it again.
1 * The big hook and slice man got
one of those miracle Dickey birdies
yesterday at Washington. Playing the
fifteenth hole he hooked his tee shot
into the ditch at the bend in the
hasard. Lifting out with the loss of
a stroke Dickey whacked his third shot
on the green, and sank the putt for a
bird 4 on the par 5 hole. He gets so
many unorthodox pars and birdies that
his boy friends are used to it, or ought
to be by now.
Army-Navy Country Club golfers
scored a 20-to-19 victory over Wash
ington Golf and Country Club in a
team match yesterday over the
l Cherrydale course. The winning
point came from a 10-foot putt holed
on the eighteenth green by Col. J. P.
Buchanan, who beat John Thacker
with the putt. A return match will
be played In the Pall.
If any one knows who won that
“Giants” versus “Runts” match at
Indian Spring yesterday, he must be
able to twist around the statements
of the two opposing captains. At the
end of the contest both Capt. Tommy
Utz of the “Runts” and Capt. E. B.
Wagner of the “Giants” claimed a vic
tory, but the crabs took a licking at
the feast which followed the match.
That was, the only real casualty.
Roland MacKenzie got warm yes
terday and scored a 4-under-par 68
over his home course at Congres
sional, playing in a match with J. O.
Rhyne. Roger Peacock and Willie
Low, his assistant in the golf shop.
AT MANOR four players tied for first
place in the blind bogey tourney
billed as the week-end feature. They
were J. W. Harvey, Jr.; C. Leakin, J. B.
Crosby and C. W. Hardy, all tied with
net cards of 71.
Winifred Paunce, former District
women’s golf champ, set a new unoffi
cial record for the Manor layout with
a card of 78, one shot below the mark
set by Mr/. Dorothy Campbell Hurd
two years ago.
Up at q/rmlngdale, Long Island,
Claude Rippy shot a subpar 70 in a
practice round which should augur
well for the young man in the medal
round today. Rippy is sure to qualify
for the match play rounds which start
Wednesday.
PLUGS D. C.'gRID STARS
McDonald Devotes Radio Program
to Leemsns and Tangora.
With no base ball games scheduled
today, Arch McDonald will devote his
quarter-hour sports broadcast at 6:15
o'clock tonight over Station WJSV to
an appeal to procure votes for the
Capital’s two outstanding collegiate
gridmen having chances to play in
the College All Star-Detroit Lions foot
ball game on September 1.
Tuffy Leemana, George Washing
ton’s great back, and Paul Tangora,
local boy who became an all-America
guard at Northwestern, are the pair
for whom support Is being asked.
Charles S. Baker, president of the
O. W. Alumni Association, will be the
principal guest speaker on McDon
ald’s program.
THURSDAY.
Track.
Northern Conference Playground
meet, Central Stadium, 1.
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Major Leaders
By the Associated Press.
American.
Batting—Gehrig, Yankee.*, .379;
Radclifl and Appling, White 8ox,
J77.
Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 109;
Gehringer, Tigers, 91.
Runs batted in—Goslin. Tigers;
Foxx, Red Sox, and Trosky, In
dians, 88.
Hits—GehringeT, Tigers, 127;
Gehrig, Yankees, 126.
Doubles—Di Maggio, Yankees,
S3; Gehringer, Tigers, 31.
Triples — Clift, Browns, 10;
Gehringer, Tigers, 9.
Home runs—Gehrig, Yankees,
88; Foxx, Red Sox, 36.
Stolen bases—Powell, Yankees,
16; Werber, Red Sox, and Lary,
Browns, 15.
Hitching—Hadley, Yankees, 8-1;
Malone, Yankees, 9-2.
National.
Batting — Medwick, Cardinals,
.368; P. Waner, Pirates. .326.
Runs—J. Martin, Cardinals, 81;
Ott, Giants, 65.
Runs batted in—Medwick, Car
dinals, 87; Ott, Slants, 80.
Hits—Medwick, Cardinals, 130;
Jensen, Pirates, 120.
Doubles — Medwick, Cardinals,
13; Herman, Cubs, 32.
Triples—Camilli, Phillies, 11;
Goodman and Riggs, Reds, and J.
Martin, Cardinals, 9.
Home Runs—Ott, Giants, 18;
Klein, Phillies, 15.
Stolen base*—8. Martin, Car
dinals, 16; J. Martin, Cardinals, 14.
Pitching — French, Cubs, 9-1;
Cumbert. Giants, 8-2.
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Champ’s Grind Nears End
BARNEY ROSS,
Boss of the world welterweights, includes some wind developing
rope skipping as he tapers off training in a local gym for his bat
tle with Phil Furr, District title holder, at Griffith Stadium Wed
nesday night. —Star Staff Photo.
I ' *
Records for Week
In Major Leagues
Standings for the week in the major
leagues showing games won and lost,
runs, hits, errors, opponents’ runs
and home runs for each club:
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Club. W. L. R. H. E OR HR
Chicago . 8 O 84 ] IS 7 44 4
Cleveland . 7 1 60 104 11 23 5
New York 5 4 S« 82 « 40 11
Boston 5 4 51 93 9 40 4
Washington 3 5 53 95 17 83 2
Detroit 3. 5 31 70 12 B1 «
St. Louts 3 8 40 97 21 83 1
Philadelphia 1 8 43 87 15 72 6
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Club. W. L. R. H. E OR.HR.
Chicago _ 6 2 22 61 9 17 0
Brooklyn 3 2 3B 55 8 26 0
St. Louis 4 3 42 89 4 31 5
New York . 5 4 48 10(1 12 30 4
Philadelphia 4 4 39 87 14 36 2
Cincinnati 3 4 30 57 10 37 1
Boston 3 5 39 63 4 27 3
Pittsburgh 2 6 25 66 14 46 2
Winner of Western Tourney
Guns Next for Throne
of U. S. Amateurs.
Bv (he Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr.. July 20— Paul
Leslie, a long-hitting youth
from Jefferson City. Mo., has
nominated himself for a
place among the candidates to succeed
W. Lawson Little as ruler of the coun
try’s amateur golfers.
The 20-year-old pre-medical stu
dent of Louisiana State University for
mally placed his name on file yesterday
by winning the Western amateur
| crown in a stirring battle with Bob
Fraser of Omaha.
Fraser a Strong Finisher.
I ESLIE, who had eliminated such
stars as Eddie Held of South
Bridge. Mass.; W. Don Edwards of San
Jose, Celif.; Jack Munger of Dallas,
Tex., and Chicago’s Johnny Lehman,
started the final round as though he
would score the easiest sort of triumph.
He had to settle, however, for a 2 and
1 decision. At nine holes, he was 3
up; at 18, for which he shot a fine
34—35—69, his margin was four holes.
By the twenty-fourth, he was 7 up
and apparently had an overwhelming
victory cinched. Fraser started his
drive at the twenty-fifth, however, and
shot 3 under par golf for 11 holes,
winning five of them to all but catch
the Missourian.
Will Try for National.
T ESLIE, who will attempt to qualify
for the national amateur cham
pionship battle, had won only one title
before connecting with the Western.
He won the Southern intercollegiate
crown in 1935, and last month reached
the final of the national intercollegiate
tournament, losing to Chuck Kocsis of
Michigan. He had made two previous
bids for Western honors, In 1934 and
1935, but both times was eliminated by
Charlie Yates of Atlanta.
Fraser, who never had reached the
final round of anything bigger than a
club tournament, made a huge success
of his first appearance in the Western,
in spite of his defeat. He eliminated
the medalist, Matt Zadalis of Omaha,
in his first match, and went the rest
of the way to the final with victories
over Ted Adams of Kansas City, Fred
Haas, jr„ of New Orleans, and Grable
Duvall of Kansas City.
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COLUMBIA TANKERS
CONQUER KENWOOD
VV/TTH Ann Bono and Oonroy
Dougherty starring for the win
ners, Columbia Country Club swim
mers defeated the Kenwood Country
Club, 73-51, yesterday at the Co
lumbia pool.
_ BOYS’ EVENTS. ^ _
Bon. 1ft years and under. 60-toot dash
—Won by Jimmy Crowler (Columbia):
second. Kemp Devereaux (Columbia): third
Jimmy Burns (Kenwood). Time. 0:13.4.
Boys. 12 years and under. 25-rard dash
—Won by Gene Gott (Columbia): second.
Bob Bond? (Kenwood): third Buddy Daw
son (Columbia). Time. 0:14%
Boys. 14 years and under. 50-yard free
style—Won by Oonroy Dougherty (Co
lumbia): second. Bill Howard (Columbia):
thjrd Barney Becker (Kenwood). Time.
. Boys. IB years and under. BO-yard fret
style—Won by Conroy Dougherty (Co
lumbia): second. George Flather (Colum
0*30%hlr^' Bud Bearc® (Kenwood). Time.
..Boys. 25-yard back stroke—Won by Ed
Mumhy (Kenwood): second. Bob Bondy
WiT%n£‘#lfiG<0m n*th" <0°’
25-yard breast stroke—Won by Xd Mur
nhy (Kenwood): second. Oeonre Williams
(Columbia): third. BUI Howard (Colum
bia) Time. 0:18.
_ 100-yard relay—Won by Columbia (Oene
Oott. David Walsh. Oonroy Dougherty and
BUI Howard).
dials' EVENTS
BO-foot free atrle—Won by Mary Wil
liams (Columbia): second. Sally Baldwin
(Kenwood): third Ruth Loftus (&>lum
bla). Time. 13 seconds.
— 25-yard free style—Won by Prances
(?ten^ood,R,tmrd?>ksryOIl»'neetQott (Co
lumbia). Time, 0:17%.
50-yard free style—Won by Ruth Wil
liams (Columbia): second.' Betty Plather
(Columbia); third. Kathleen Mumhy (Ken
wood). Time. 0:30,
60-yard free style—Won by Ann Bono
(Columbia): second. Marianna Trow
»mb<t?fnW°^. o)so%.RUth Wnil““
100-yard relay—Won by Columbia
(Betty Plather. Edith Davis. Ruth Wil
liams and Ana BomaSi Time; 107%.
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Satisfied Champ Is Minus
Any Weakness—Barney
Again Lands Kayo.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
FAILING to detect any weakness
in the fighting form of Barney
Ross, world welterweight cham
pion, the privileged few who
are admitted to his workouts focused
their optics on the tattooed frame of
Phil Furr today as the local 147-pound
champion ended his training grind.
Originally scheduled to rest today,
Furr, somewhat irked by tha publicity
that has dwelled upon the deadly
punching power of the sleek Rocs, de
cided to demonstrate the effectiveness
of his right paw before newspaper
men and radio commentators in a
workout at Griffith Stadium. Meyer
Rowan and Bobby Dechter were slated
to absorb the punishment.
For the second time In aa many
days Boat knocked out hia first spar
ring partner in the first round. Chill
ing Stanford Carrier Saturday, Ross
added another victim to his list yes
terday, planting a solid right mitten
on the jaw of Buster Wages, a rangy
middleweight, after a few seconds of
heated swinging.
Preliminary Boys Ambitious.
jD KFUSING to import hi* own *par
mates, aa is usual with champions,
Barney has faced a group of clever
preliminary boys, all of whom are
anxious to impress against probably
the smoothest fighter ever to set foot
in this city.
Ross la an agreeable fellow providing
his gparmates do not try to land a
Sunday punch. When aroused, how
ever, the Jewish socker rips both fists
into his opponent with a deadliness
that would floor an ox. Ritchie Mack
and Mickey Page, although giving the
champion stiff sessions, behaved them
selves and remained upright.
Helnie Miller, secretary of the Dit
trict Boxing Commission, who has
viewed both fighters in action, believes
the bout, slated for Wednesday night
at Griffith Stadium, will go the full
10-round distance, but expects Purr to
be the victor if there is a knockout.
Choice Seats Available.
pHII, who boasts an advantage in
* weight, height and reach, is con
fident of disposing of the welterweight
king. Should he do so, Purr will be
in line for a title bout with Ross in
New York.
Following his training session. Ross
attended the second game of the
double-header between Washington
and Cleveland and then was Intro
duced from the stage of the Loews
Pox Theater. At both places he was
cheered and besieged by autograph
seekers.
Today Barney, following his work
out, was to journey to Baltimore to
meet newspaper men of that city,
while tomorrow night at 7:15 o’clock
Ross will Instruct a group of locol
Golden Gloves boxers at the Knights
of Columbus Hall.
Despite a brisk sale, plenty of choice
seats are available for the scrap.
Tickets may be obtained at Joe Tur
ner's Hotel Annapalis office, Goldie
Ahearn's Men's Shop, Ninth and E
streets, or at the cashier's window on
the lobby floor of the Washington Post
Building. Reservations may be secured
by calling Metropolitan 3526 or Na
tional 9220.
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DORADE SCORES DOUBLE
Declared Class B as Well a* A
Winner in Yacht Race.
HONOLULU, July 20 </»»>.—The
speedy yawl Dorade, winner of the
California-Honolulu yacht race, added
another victory today to her imposing
string of transoceanic honors.
Under handicap ratings for the craft
that sailed from Santa Monica July 4.
officials declared the 51-foot San Fran
cisco yacht victor in Class B in addi
tion to Class A.
Twelve of the contenders were due
at Diamond Head, but none had a
chance of beating the Dorade’s time of
11 days 3 hours 29 minutes and
44 seconds for the 2,240-mile race.
TTie Dorade won the trans-Atlantic
yacht race of 1931 and the Fastnet
races in England in 1931 and 1932.
Mira FOOLS
POLO DOPESTERS
Sixteenth Field Hangs 9-7
Shiner on Highly Touted
Fauquier Team.
BY ROBERTS B. PHILLIPS, JR.
HR first major upset of the
Southeastern polo tournament
occurred yesterday when a
stubborn team from the 16th
Field Artillery of Fort Myer refused
to yield an inch to the attacks of the
highly touted Fauquler-Loudcun Polo
Club and sent the Virginia visitors
home smarting under a 9-7 defeat.
Four thousand tense spectators wit
nessed the swift battle cm Potomac
Park field. They had come expect
ing to see the Virginians, second fa
vorites to win the tournament, quickly
overcome the 5-goal handicap accord
ed the artillerymen, and from there
on pile up an impressive score. In
stead, the Army gunners opened up a
slashing barrage in the tint half, and
during that period put over just as
many bull's-eye blasts as the In
vaders.
Visitors Stage Rally.
YLTITH the score at 8—3 when the
” second half began, the visitors
began a frantic rally in the fourth
chukker and ran the count up to
8-6 when Dick Kirkpatrick scored
twice »nd Denny Sklnker once In that
frame. Near the start of the fifth,
Howard Fair slipped over another tally,
and with the board reading 8-7, every
one believed the artillery’s happy days
were over.
The prophets were wrong. Lieut.
Joe Oanahl and Capt. Dave Erskln,
who had carried the burden of play
for their side, stiffened their defense,
turned aside the Virginia drives and
finally worked the ball down the field
to a point where Lieut. Harry King
smashed it between the pylons with a
difficult angle shot. After that the
home team had only to hold their own
to assure victory, and they did it with
relative ease.
Cavalry Yellows Now Favored.
IITITH two of the high goal teams
’ relegated to the consolation
class, only one big shot aggregation
remains in the race for the privilege
of going to Cleveland for the national
12-goal finals. That outfit is the 3d
Cavalry Yellow team, scheduled to
play a second-round match today at
4 pm. at Potomac Park against r
Freebooter quartet enlisted to replace
i
the defaulting 110th Field Artillery
team of Baltimore. The Freebooters
consist of Lieut. ‘ Snuffy" Lynn. Capt.
W. S. Ritchie, Maj. Robert McLure
and Maj. Harry Buckley. Their total
handicap is 3 gosls, as against the 11
goals carried by Capt. Don Galloway,
Capt. Harry Stadler, Capt. H. W.
Johnson and Lieut George Gruntrt of
the Cavalry. Consequently the Free
booters also will start the day with the
maximum 5-goal advantage permitted
by tournament rules.
The summaries of yesterday's game:
Ifith Field Artillery. 1 2 3 4 5 H Tot.
No 1. Lieut. Harry Kini 0 0 O n 0 ]—1
N. 2. Lieut. Joe Ganahl. 1 0 0 0 0. O—1
No. 3. Lieut. R. E. Weber n O ] no o—1
No. 4. Capt. Dav. Erskln 0 0 1 0 0 0—1
By handicap_ 5
Final score.. _ 9
Fa uau ier-Loudoun
Polo Club t 2 .3 4 B « Tot.
No. t. Hubert Phinps _ O o o n o n—o
No. 2. Denny Skinker 1 0 0 1 0 0—2
No. 3. Dick Kirkpatrick 0 0 1 2 0 0—3
No. 4. Howard Fair_0 10 0 1 0—2
Final score_ 7
SUNDAY BALL RETURNS
Authorities Wink at Law When
Charlotte Teams Perform.
CHARLOTTE. N. C., July 20 <4>V—
Sunday base ball, center of a long civic
controversy here, has returned with a
bang.
The Charlotte Hornets, semi-pro
team, yesterday played the Twilight
All-Stars in an advertised game before
2.000 spectators who had paid 25 cents
each for admission.
City law enforcement authorities
made no attempt to interfere and the
game went the full nine innings.
Mayor Ben E. Douglas last night said
he knew nothing about the game
having been played.
Chief E. D. Pittman of the city police
force, when asked about the game, said
that he had not been informed that
such a game was to have been played.
44All-Weather” Jack McCarron
D. C. \s Most Rugged Linksman
BY THIS time the old boy’s dogs
must be barking from wearing
’em out on flint-like fairways,
but you’d never know It to
look at Jack McCarron, Congressional
Country Club’s iron man golfer. Nor
has the smoothness of the funnlest
looking and one of the deadliest put
ting strokes been dimmed by the pas
sage of the years.
"All Weather” Jack, he came to be
known some years back, when he
played 42 consecutive days through
the *now and sleet of a dreary Win
ter, back in the days when Sandy
Armour, rugged Scot that he was,
used to challenge McCarron with the
bias.: "Are you game for a round
of golf today, Jackie?”
Always Ready to Flay.
JACKIE never turned him down,
" even If the snow lay drifted over
the hollows of the golf course, and
between ’em they set a record for
ruggedness that probably will stand
for many a year. Today it’s Just the
same. With the mercury lifting toward
new altitude records. Jack McCarron
must get in his dally round of golf,
attired in shorts and a "bring ’em
back alive” helmet.
The same McCarron probably plays
more golf than any club swinger
around Washington and there isn’t
much question that he is the most
consistent player around Washington.
No sissy is Jack, for no matter what
the weather, hot or cold, he must get
in his dally round.
Friends of V. Calvert Dickey, the
big hook and slice man of tha Wash
ington Oolf and Country Club, may
challenge the statement, but there
Isn’t much question that Jack Mc
Carron plays more golf than any man
around the Capital. Jack himself fig
ures that he plays around 300 games
a year, sometimes more, and sever
less. And he doesn't play so badly,
either. Scofes of 76 and 77 roll reg
ularly from the flailing clubs of the
McCarron, and he is one of the sweet
est putters you could find in many a
jaunt around a bunkered golf course.
Dickey plays a lot of golf, but Mc
Carron shades him for ruggedness.
We’ve seen Jack step out on the first
tee, smiling his bland smile, on days
when Calvert was satisned to play
the putting game In Dave Thomson’s
golf shop. Undoubtedly, McCarron
plays more golf than any man around
Washington. He holds the local rec
ord for days of play, without any
question.
Finally Goes to Florida,
T AST Winter was a bad one. For
weeks snow covered the Congres
sional course, and finally Jack had to
give up. Twasn’t any fun ploughing
through the drifts, so he gathered
Andy Walker Into his camp and drove
down to Jacksonville, where he played
for 10 days at Ponte Vedra, where
Roland MacKentle holds forth during
the Winter.
And next Winter, If It is at all pos
sible, you’ll find Jackie out there, fac
ing the biting blasts with Bill Ullman
and Bill Hughes, his favorite com
panions In the "animal" game. Nor
does McCarron do so badly In this
tricky form of golf scoring, either.
He can putt as well as Ullman, and
he Is a better golfer. You’ve got to
hand It to Jack McCarron for his golf
consistency.
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Golf With a Kick in It
MILDRED TREADWAY,
A St. Louis lassie, practices “code ball,” a game In which the only
legitimate stroke is a kick, in preparation for a tournament to
be held there shortly. —Wide World Photo.
Four-Time Star of St. Paul
Open in Play-off With
Metz for Title.
By the Associated Pres*.
T. PAUL, July 20 —The veteran
Lighthorse Harry Cooper of
Chicago looked today for more
links wizardry—like that which
brought him from iix strokes back to
a first-place tie—to help him in his
play-off battle with a young neigh
bor, Dick Metz of Lake Forest. Ill, in
the *5 000 St. Paul open golf tour
nament.
Cooper and Metz, 26-year-old pro
fessional, formerly of Deal. N. J, set
out today for 36 holes of play to de
cide the winner of *1.200 first-place
money. They finished In a dead heat
with 277 strokes—11 under par—for
72 holes yesterday.
Smashes Course Record.
'T'HE outlook was not bright as
Cooper started the last 36 holes
of the regular play six strokes behind
Bill Mehlhom of Louisville, the half
way leader. But a record-smashing
63 on the morning round brought
Cooper within a stroke of Metz, who
meanwhile had taken over the lead
ership.
Metz had blazed over the course in
sensational fashion until the final
round, when he slipped to 73, one
over par. Cooper also relaxed in the
afternoon, but a birdie on the final
hole, where he putted for an eagle
and missed by 4 feet, gave him a par
72 and the tie.
At Top for Fourth Time.
TT WAS the fourth time Cooper fin
ished at the top in the seven years
j of the tournament. Twice he won
i outright, and once he entered the
1 only other play-off. a three-way tie
won by Johnny Revolta of Evanston,
Hi.
Jimmv Thomson, Shawnee-on-Del
aware, Pa, set the old course record
of 64 earlier in the tournament, Hor
ton Smith, Chicago, tied it yesterday.
Metz, who had 69s on his first two
rounds, banged out a 66 in the third
round yesterday before slumping.
Abe Espinosa. Chicago, was two
strokes back of the leaders with 279
for second money. Ky Laffoon, Chi
cago, held third with 280 and Revolta,
Byron Nelson, Ridgewood, N. J., and
Horton Smith, Chicago, were next
with 281s.
TAKOMA OUT FRONT
IN PENNANT CHASE
Nails Gaithersburg, 8-1, to Gain
One-Game Lead—Rockville
Deserts Cellar.
TAKOMA TIGERS today were out
1 in front in- the Montgomery
County Unlimited Base Ball League
by a one-game margin following an
8-to-l triumph scored over the Gaith
ersburg A. C. at Silver Spring.
Rockville A A. which eent the
Gaithersburg club into second place
with a surprising victory last week
that left the former league leaders a
few points back of the Tigers, con
tinued its streak and climbed out of
the cellar with a 5-to-3 win over the
Colesville Cardinals.
Antony held Gaithersburg to seven
scattered hits and contributed a triple
to the Tigers’ attack. Raber. with
four hits in as many times up, led the
winners.
The RockviUe-Colesvllle game went
10 innings, with Ed Case smashing a
home run with Pitcher Stevens on
base to give the former its 5-to-3 ver
dict. Stevens fanned 10 Cardinal bat
tars, while Gardner struck out nine
Rockville players.
Tram SUniins. _ _
w. l. w. n.
Takoma_4 2 Rockville-4 t
Galthersbura_5 3 ColeiviUe-3 fl
Fourteen hits, ten walks and two wild
pitches by Hudson, Silver Spring
Giants’ twirier, gave the Annapolis A
C. a 22-to-7 decision over the Mont
gomery County nine. Townshend col
lected four of the winners’ hits, in
cluding a home run and three singles.
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Western.
Omaha, 8; Waterloo, J.
Davenport, 8; Sioux City, 4.
Des Moines, 13; Cedar Rapids, 7.
Piedmont.
Asheville. 4-3; Rocky Mount, 3-11.
Richmond, 7; Portsmouth, I.
HUNT SHOW HEADS
AVOID PEI PEEVES
Boulevard Meet Will Have
Popular Jumps, Unbiased
Judges, Varied Card.
OFFICIALS of the Boulevard
Farms horse and hunt show
apparently have succeeded
skillfully In avoiding the
[ three pet peeves of local exhibitors in
preparing for their meet, to be held
next Saturday on the estate of Ed
mund P. Montgomery, American Con
| sul to Mexico.
The hue and cry for a layout where
i hunters may be seen in action over
j jumps typical of those encountered in
! the field has been answered by the
construction of a splendid outside
course on the grounds of Boulevard
Farms, located on the Mount Verr.on
; boulevard about 4 miles south of Al
j exandria.
Prejudice Is Avoided.
JN ADDITION, the committee has
taken a firm stand against the
presence of dealers In equine flesh
! occupying the judges' circle, and two
expert horsemen who have no inter
est in the commercial end of the sport
villi be brought from distant points
| to ‘ pin the ribbons.”
Also, the pleas of exhibitors for
well-talanced programs have been an
1 swered by a card that affords both
hunters and Jumpers, children or
adult riders, an equal opportunity to
annex the championship trophy.
Program Well Balanced.
'T'HE program is one of the best
1 balanced presented hereabouts
this year, with the show, scheduled to
start at 10:30 am. and continue
! throughout the day, being made up of
the following classes:
Junior jumpers, junior hunters,
hunter hacks, bridle path hacks,
; green hunters, ladies’ hunters, work
ing hunters, hunter pairs, qualified
hunters, corinthlan, hunt teams, nov
j ice jumpers, open jumpers, touch -
and-out and handy jumpers. In ad
dition a consolation class, a rarity In
one-day meets, has been included for
non-blue ribbon winners of the show.
The horse scoring the greatest
number of points in the champion
ship classes will receive the Boulevard
Farms Challenge Trophy, offered by
Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery. It will
| remain in competition until won three
i times by an exhibitor. ,
| WEST SHORE FOUR WINS
—
; Fauquier-Loudoun 7-to-3 Victim
of Pennsylvania Malleters.
MARSHALL, Va.. July 20 OP).—The
j West Shore polo team of Harrisburg,
Pa., scored a 7-to-3 victory over a
Fauquier-Loudoun quartet here yester
day.
Henry Frost, who had been out of
polo for sometime, returned to the
game and was a key man in the
Fauquier-Loudoun attack.
The strong Harrisburg team will
meet the 16th Field Artillery at Fort
Myer, Va„ tomorrow.
HAS A KILLING LOOK
CINCINNATI UP).—If looks could
kill, Paul Derringer would be fatal to
a lot of batters. Whenever an oppos
ing batter makes a hit off the delivery
of the Cincinnati Reds' big right
hander, Derringer turns his head and
glares at the runner with a look that
says: "You got a lotta nerve."
FRIDAY.
Track.
Southern Conference Playground
meet, Eastern Stadium. 2,
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PRAISESC01ITI0N
OF U. S. ATHLETES
But No American Is Cinch
to Win at Berlin, Says
Coach Hamilton.
BY ALAN GOULD.
AuoctstaA Prti. Sport, editor.
Aboard s. 8 Manhattan.
EN ROUT* TO BERLIN.
July SO.—American track end
field stars, while “no cinch" to
capture even a single Olympic event,
nevertheless are the best conditioned
and best fortified team Uncle Sam
ever dispatched abroad, In the opinion
of Brutus Hamilton.
Hie California coach today dis
counted the Impression that many of
the Olympic performers had suffered
letdowns or were feeling the effects
of too strenuous competitive cam
paigns, and asserted he had never
(hared In the handling of a more de
termined group.
“Hie aftermath of an ocean trip Is
always questionable,” said Hamilton.
“The majority of our athletes are ex
perienced enough to have a knowledge
of relaxing without getting out of con
dition. The coaches also are aware of
their responsibility and expect to have
their biggest Job In the final week get
ting the athletes back Into rhape. But
they anticipate finding the best con
ditioning facilities at Berlin they have
had on any trip.
Harriers Need Most Work.
'I'he short-distance men. sprinters
and Jumpers, recover their form
quickly, whereas the distance runners
need a maximum of work to keep at
top form.”
Hamilton stressed the fact that the
Americans must avoid over-confidence,
especially because relatively .little Is
known about the best of their' foreign
rivals. The Olympics always develop
surprises. He recalled the Canadians,
Percy Williams In 1928 and Duncan
McNaughton in 1932, as prime exam
ples to emphasize his conviction that
neither the speedy Jesse Owens nor
the record-smashing high Jumpers,
Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton,
are unbeatable.
Hamilton, who oelebrated his 36th
birthday anniversary yesterday, named
Glenn Morris, the Fort Collins, Colo.,
automobile salesman and decathlon
record breaker, as the likeliest Amer
ican winner In the Olympics.
Decathlon coach and former all
around Olympic performer, Hamilton
rates Morris as the superb decathlon
star of all time.
“Morris broke the world record, but
he has not yet reached his peak,”
Hamilton said.
Pollard a Groat Competitor.
pRITZ POLLARD, JR., son of the
1 famous Brown University Negro
foot ball star and an entry In the high
hurdles, Is rated one of the finest com
petitors on the team, although he lacks
Forrest Towns' speed and technique,
according to the California coach, who
also expects his own pupil, Archie
Williams, to win the 400 meters.
Glenn Cunningham, the veteran Kan
san, is the “man to beat" in the 1.500
meters, while Don Lash of Indiana
has “a great chance to win one of the
distance races.”
That the Washington crew, with the
possible exception of the 1928 Cali
fornia eight, is the finest boatload
which has yet represented America is
the view of Henry Penn Burke of
Philadelphia, chairman of the Olympic
Rowing Committee.
“The Huskies, stroked by Piano
Player Don Hume, have rhythm." ex
plains Burke. “They combine the
maximum of power with the minimum
of effort and have proved they have
the stuff to win under pressure. I
expect the Swiss or Italian chal
lengers will have to turn in an Olympio
record performance to beat A1 Ul
brickson's boys.”
223 MUNY GOLFERS
GO FOR U. S. CROWN
Rippy of Washington Is Listai
Among Favorites in Test
on Classic Course.
By the Associated Press.
pARMINQDALE, N. Y., July 20 —
1 The pay-as-ycru-go golfer* of the
United States—223 strong—tee off to
day to play their annual tournament
over what probably is the nearest
thing to a perfect public golf layout.
The four courses at Bethpage State
Park, two of which will be used for
the qualifying rounds of the public
links today and tomorrow, would do
credit to the swankiest private club.
Although par has withstood the prac
tice round assaults so far, a number of
fine scores have been marked down.
Among the favorites are the defend
ing champion, 20-year-old Frankie
Strafacl of Brooklyn, and three ex
champions, Carl Kauffmann of Pitts
burgh, who won the title three times;
Charlie Ferrara of San Francisco,
twice winner; Robert Wingate of Jack
sonville, Fla., 1930 champion. Other
leading contenders for the title held
by the 148-pound Strafaci are his two
brothers, Tommy and Ralph; Bruce
McCormick, a Los Angeles fireman;
Don Erickson of Los Angeles, and
Claude Rippy of Washington.
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