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Striplings Reach Tennis Final: "Dumb" Golfers Best, Holds Wiffy
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IOHNSEN, HEFFNER
DELIGHT SPONSORS
Junior Davis Cup Proteges
Play Breese and Lynch
for M. A. Honors.
BY BILL DISMER. Jr.
TWO youngsters barely out of
high school will play two ex
collegians with degrees from
Prinreton and Harvard In a
tennis match at the Army-Navy Coun
try Çlub this afternoon with the Mid
dle Atlantic doubles championship
going to the winner.
The kids. Harry HefTner and David
Johnsen, earned the right to meet the
Crimson and Tiger alumni, Bill
Breese and Hugh Lynch, when they
defeated Harry March and Allie Rit
Eenberg yesterday after Breese and
Lynch had entered the final round
by trimming Alan Blade and Stan
McCaskey.
Today's encounter—the winner of
vhich will be recognized as the No. 1
doubles team of the territory em
bracing the District, Maryland, Vir
ginia and West Virginia—will start
et 3 o'clock.
Both teams won their semi-final
matches by almost identical scores,
Breese and Lynch stopping Blade and
McCaskey, 6—4, 8—6, 6—3 before
Heflner and Johnsen won from March
end Ritzenberg. β—3, 6—4, 9—7. But
It was the latter match that at
tracted most attention, bringing to
gether as it did the city's two lore
most Junior Davis Cup doubles
teams.
t up Committee Vindicated.
TIAIRED by the local Junior Davis '
Cup Committee for this particu
le tournament, March and Ritzen
berg amply rewarded their sponsor
by reaching the semi-final round.
That their conquerors were fellow
Junior Davis Cuppers only added to
the delight of the committee which
thus saw its proteges advance into
the final round of a sectional and
senior tournament.
ιι.ιμιυιιιικ wim every
f'art, Hefïner and Johnsen never
theless found themselves with a real
battle on their hands, with hot hand
to-hand volleying- at rackets' reach
across the net marking the 90-minute
scrap. Double-faulting by Ritzenberg
at crucial moments hurt his side's
cause m the first and third sets, but
he more than atoned for these when
he led a counter attack which staved
off three match points in the four
teenth game of the third set and one
in the sixteenth, and last game, before
succumbing.
March and Ritzenberg did not get
a lead until 3—2 in the second set,
the closest they came to sticking with
their rivals in the first ending when
Johnsen's service broke a tie and
gave his team a 4—3 lead. Ritzenberg
had a chance to tie the set on his
own serve, but with the score 40—30
In his favor, pulled the first of his
double faults and Hefïner and John
sen won at deuce for a 5—3 ad
vantage.
Last Set a Real Scrap.
Ζ""* AMES went against service for the
first four games of the second set,
but with the score at 2-all, March won
on his to give himself and Ritzenberg
an advantage in games for the first
time. Refiner quickly tied it up at 3—3
and went ahead when he and Johnsen
broke Ritzenberg's service in the next
game. Behind, 15—14, in the eighth
game, Johnsen pulled it out of the
fire for a 5—3 lead, and after March
had won on his own service, Hefïner
held his for set.
The real battle came in the last
w?t. which found March and Ritzen
berg unable to hold leads of 3—1 and
6—3. After the ultimate winners
tied at 5--5 by breaking Ritzenberg's
servire and winning on Heffner's, they
muffed their first chance to end the
match at 7—6 and 40—15. Here,
Heffner double-faulted and Johnsen's
volley dropped outside, wiping out
the second successive match point.
Another match point came up when
Hefïner socked a placement, but
Ritzenberg retaliated with a place
ment of his own which clipped the
baseline to deuce the score again.
Another burning placement by Ritzen
berg gave the advantage to his team
and Heffner's out tied the score at
7—7.
Game Deuced Six Times.
'A~ SIX-TIME deuced game, on
March's service, finally went to
the Heffner-Johnsen duo for 8—7,
and Johnsen then served a love game
for the set and match, the final point
being a service ace,
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and Breese over Blade and McCaskey
completed the advance of the seeded
No. 2 team to the finals without the
loss of a set. Johnsen and Heflner,
seeded 4. dropped one set en route to
the title round.
Blade and McCaskey offered stiff
opposition in all three sets before
losing, being tied at 4—4 in the first
before Lynch's service produced a
5—4 advantage and he and Breese
cracked Blade's for the set. Although
the winners got of! to a 3—1 start
In the second. McCaskey and Blade
soon deadlocked the score, canning
the fight to 14 games before losing.
Following today's title doubles
match, Charley Channing will play
Ralph (Buddy) Adair in a special
singles match, the winner to get the
fifth place on Washington's Junior
Davis Cup squad which will play
Philadelphia's on July 28. At present,
Channing is rated No. 5, but Adair,
currently ranked sixth, can force an
exchange of places by winning.
Hare
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ard), when Budge and Gene Mako
tackle C. R. D. Tuckey and F. H. D.
Wilde in the doubles.
The Americans are favored to win
this and thus go into the final day
with a 2-1 lead. Just what will happen
then nobody's even trying to guess
after today. Hare's service probably
will give Parker trouble, but the Mil
waukee youth should be able to take
advantage of Budge's belated dis
' covery that well-placed lobs would
break up the Briton's rushes to the
Bet.
If Parker beak's Hare, then the final
match between Budge and Austin will
assume the statue of a friendly ex
hibition.
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Battle for Mid-Atlantic Doubles Title
Bill Breese (left) and Hugh
Lyiich in action agavist Alan
Blade and Stan McCaskey,
whom they beat in the semi
finals at Army-Navy Club yes
terday.
David Johnsen deft/ and Harry Heffner. who disposed of
Allie Ritzenberg and Harry March. —Star Staff Photos.
FULL FIELD READY
FOR PARKS TENNIS
Precedent Set Here as No
Default Mars Opening
Play of Meet.
A PRECEDENT for local tennis
tournaments was set yesterday
when, for what is believed to
be the first time in the city's
history, a major tournament pot under
way without one default. The unique
situation marked the start of Wash
ington's 1937 public parks tournament
which found all 72 of its entrants
appearing on time and playing· first
and second round matches at the
Sixteenth Street Reservoir courts.
The reason for the appearance of
every entrant was traced primarily
to the stipulation that all entry fees
must, have been paid before a name
was included in the draw. Heretofore,
some prospective entrants who had not
paid fees often defaulted when finding
themselves paired with a player whom
they considered their superior.
Led by Ray Stocklinski, seeded No.
1 player who won two matches, six
of the eight seeded favorites advanced
into the third round. Billy Contreras.
Art Simmons, Erwin Niemeyer. Hugh
Trigg and Maurice Goubeau all drew
first-round .byes, but defeated their
serond-round opponents with ease
Trigg's 6—1, β—4 victory over rangy
Paul Falconer and Simmons' 6—2,
8—6 conquest of Wiley Gltusmire
featured.
Two Have Play Delayed.
Λ LLIE RITZENBERG. the second
seeded player, and Harry March,
seeded eighth, were engaged in a
semi-final match of the Middle At
lantic doubles tournament and were
not called upon to play. A few sur
prises developed in less-important
matches, however, which found Ber
nard Blankin defeating Morgan Jacob
in three sets. Bob Loney upsetting Ben
Jaffe and Ted Pierce ousting Stan
Haney.
Entries for doubles and women's
singles, originally scheduled to start
today, were held open another day.
Play in those divisions will not start
until tomorrow. Winners of third
round matches, however, will be ex
pected to play fourth-round encoun
ters this afternoon. Action will resume
at 10 o'clock this morning.
Summaries:
FIRST ROUND—Del Blue defeated Bee
Brown, β—<1. fi—1 ; Elmer Kimmell de
feated Phil Maher. 4—fi. Η—'2. 7—5:
John Doyle defeated Sam Barnes, β—
fi—2: Charles Heacock defeated John
O'Hanlon. 0—I. fi—1: Ray Strcklin.-ki
defeated Elwood Hoffecker. β—.'I. fi—
Bill Smith defeated James Eakin. fi—4.
fi—1: Carl Meinineer defeated Arthur
Markwood. β—ο. β—Ί: Max Kay defeated
Frank Muenier. β—ο. β—·>.
SECOND ROI XD—Victor Prennan de
feated Chas. GrofT. fi—1—fi. fi—4: Bob
Lonev defeated Ben Jaffe. fi—2. β—2: Ted
Pierce defeated Stan Hanev. fi—4. fi—4:
Bernard Blankin defeated Morgan /Jacob,
fi—1—fi. β—1: Sidney Poretsky de
feated Judee Landers. fi—4. fi—'Λ: Bob
Bradley defeated Bob Smith, β—M. 3—fi.
fi—2: Arthur Simmons defeated Wiley
Clasmire. β—*2. X—fi: John Fales de
feated Dave Brooks. S—H, Π—*»; Myer
Gelfand defeated Joe Murdock. Η—1.
fi—4: Joe Baker defeated Harry Hyman.
,ir.. fi—<). fi—θ; Erwin Niemeyer defeated
John Kilian. fi—1. fi—fi: Felix M Silva
defeated John Andary. fi—1. fi—.'I: Blue
defeated Kimmell. fi—0. β—0: Heacock
defeated Doyle, fi—1. fi—2: Stocklinski
defeated Smith, fi—0. β—'V. Kay defeated
Meinineer. fi—2. fi—'Λ. Hubert Treuthart
defeated Joseph Cindrich. fi—2. β—0;
Georee Botts defeated Arnold Kin*, β—ο.
fi—Hugh Tries defeated Paul Fal
coner. fi—1. fi—4: Sam Lev» ine defeated
Bill Hancock, fi—'J. fi—2: S F Stanley
defeated Sylvan Mazo. fi—1. fi—1: Georee
Herbert, jr.. defeated Risque Gibbes. β—2.
fi—1 : Billy Contreras defeated Abe Brooks,
fi—4. fi—1 : Georee Bixby defeated Sam
Minkoff. fi—1. fi—;t: Sam Melov defeated
James Seaman, fi—4. fi—4: Mel Tarpley
defeated Raul Gibbons, fi—1. fi—4: Mau
rice Goubeau defeated Don Dunlap. fi—fi.
fi—'2: Jack McLauehlin defeated Emilio
Nunez, fi—Ο. 0—7; A1 Siepert defeated
Dick Brown, fi—fi. fi—fi: Harry Gold
smith defeated Maurice Finnegan, β—0.
fi—u.
Pairings for Today.
Second round. 10 o'clock—Allie Ritzen
bere vs. Georee Muth: Harry March vs.
Harold McCollum.
Third round. 10 o'clock—Loney vs.
Pierce; Poretsky vs. Bradley: Simmons vs.
Fa les; Gelfand vs. Baker: Niemeyer vs.
Silva; Triee vs. Levering: Stanley vs.
Herbert: Siepert vs. Goldsmith 11 o'clock.
Blue vs. Heacock: Stocklinski vs. Kay;
Treuthart vs. Botts: Contreras vs. Bixby:
Meloy vs. Tarpley; Goubeau vs. McLaueh
lin
Winners of third-round match play
starts at o'clock.
MILEY SLAUGHTERS PAR
Shoots Five Under to Capture
Linville Invitation.
LINVILLE. N. C„ July 24 (Λ*).—
Bronzed Marion Miley of Lexington,
Ky., shot a 69 on the par 74 Linville
course today to win the annual
woman's invitational golf tournament.
She defeated Mrs. Jane Cothran
Jameson of Greenville, S. C., 4 and 3.
The Blue Grass shotmaker took the
lead on the first hole when she birdied,
and never again was she threatened
by the Palmetto ace.
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SNEAD ONCE A CADDY. '
Sam Snead, the West Virginia hill
billy who sprang into prominence in
the Miami Biltmore Country Club $10,
000 Open in Florida last Winter, rad
dled for Helen Hicks when she won
the women's national folf champion
ship in 1028.
WINS PLAYGROUND
NET TITLE EASILY
Lucille McDowell Conquers
Hazel Bishopp, 6—1,6—3,
in City Final.
Lucille Mcdowell. pretty
brunette represent ins? the Bur
roughs Playground, yesterday
won the girls' playground
single tennis championship when she
defeated promising Hazel (Jimmy)
Bishopp of Takoma Park, 6—1, 6—3,
on the Chevy Chase courts.
Outsteadying her taller opponent,
who apparently does not have the
confidence in herself which her game
warrants. Miss McDowell won the first
five games of the opening set before
Miss Bishopp could break the ice. In
fact, the loser was able to score only
16 points in the seven games.
Errors Hurt Miss Bishopp.
Λ LTHOUGH her style was superb, as
usual. Jimmy's soundly-hit drives
were dropping outside by inches and
she fell an easy prey to Lucille's con
trol and court courage. Miss McDowell
relied on the success maxim of keeping
the ball in play, with the result that
her opponent, attempting the shots
to put the ball away, made the errors.
Miss Bishopp had two leads in th°
second set, at 2—1 and 3—2, but In
the sixth game Miss McDowell b.\<an
shooting for the corners—a plan of
attack which put and kept her adver
sary1 on the defensive for the balance
of the match.
The victory· marked the culmination
of a two-year quest for the title by
the Burroughs girl, who was run
ner-up for the championship last year.
FINE P. GA FIELD
FOR 1D-AFLANTIC
D. C. Pros to Be Among Main '
Contenders for Title at
Chamberlin Links.
By thp Associated
OLD POINT COMFORT. Vs.,
July 24.—The "home guard"
will be pitted against a strong
array of invaders when a
field of some 60 professionals tee off
at the Chamberlin Country Club next
j Saturday for 72 holes of medal play ι
: for the Middle Atlantic P. G. A. cham
| pionship.
j A strong contingent of Virginia pro
fessionals. headed by Chandler Harper.
Jack Isaacs. A1 Houghton and Erric
Ball, will oppose the out-of-State j
entrants.
Chief contenders from outside the ;
Old Dominion will include Whiffy Cox, 1
Washington veteran and acclaimed by
many a-s the man to beat; Cliff Spen
cer, Ralph Beach. Mel Shorev, Roland
MacKenzie and other aces.
Harper Amont Favorites.
ITARPER will be among the favor
ites to cop first money of $300 by
reason of this victory in the P. G. A.
sweepstakes with a 36-hole total of
138 earlier in the season at the Cham
berlin Club.
• Isaacs, runner-up to Harper in the
sweepstakes: Houghton, the home club
pro. and Ball. Farmington Country
Club professional, are others highly
favored.
Charley Betchsler of Baltimore is
defending titlist.
The tourney has been changed this
year from match play to medal play
and with additional prizes is expected
to attract a larger field. Prizes will be
distributed among the first 10 low
scores.
Shifts From Feet to Fingers
ι . . ^ . mtmmm
HELEN STEPHENS,
Champion woman sprinter and member of the United States
Olympic team in 1936, who has started work jor a St. Louis
concern as a stenographer. She will continue her athletic
career, however, and. expects to represent the United States in
1940 at Tokyo. —Wide World Photo.
COL HOWARD TOP
IN NEWMAN GOLF
Bests Thompson by Stroke
for Trophy—Tie Follows
Kenwood Play.
Lieut, col. sam l. Howard
yesterday won the Newman
Trophy, one of the season's
major golf events at Army
Navy Country Club. Col. Howard,
playing with a handicap of 11 strokes
per round, finished the 36rhole tour
ney with 77—75—152 for a net of 130.
One shot behind him in second place
was G. M. Thompson, who scored 74—
77—161, with a handicap of 15 strokes
per round for a net of 131.
Col. H. P. Newton had one of the
most unusual scores recorded on a
local course this year. His round of
71 included 17 fours and one 3, which
came on the per 3 ninth hole. Par
for the course of the Army-Navy
Club is 70.
At Kenwood, T. R. Taylor and J. W.
Nesbitt. who were tied at the conclusion
of the first two rounds last Sunday in
the Japanese Ambassador's Cup tour
ney, scored identical net rounds of
68 and still were tied, with one round
to be played today in the 72-hole
affair. Both have net cards of 200
for 50 holes.
Warner Gets Hying Start.
B. WAGNER, golf chairman et
■" Indian Spring, holed a 3 iron
shot for an eagle 2 on the par 4 second
hole to get away to a flying start in
his Tribal Bowl match with J. F.
Phelan. Wagner won by 2 and 1.
Three men tied at net 75s for top
place in the blind bogey tourney at
Congressional, but V. W. Macklin won
in the draw. He scored 100—25—75
to tie with Peyton Evans and J. L.
McElfresh. Evans was second and
McElfresh third in the draw.
Robert M. Eves was fourth, with
92—22—70, also winning in the draw
after a tie with I. I. Chorpening and
Ε Ε. Naylor, both of whom had
net 70s.
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TENNIS FIELDS STRONG
Wadden of D. C. Is Contender in
Maryland Tournament.
BALTIMORE. July 24 Cham
pions will defend their titles against
strong contenders here, in the Mary
land State boys' and junior tennis
tourney beginning Monday.
The junior lust is headed by Phil
Burkom and M^vin Rodman, finalists
in the city championships contest
which finally was won by Burkom. In
the boys' division. Bosley Baugher,
city champ and Middle Atlantic win
ner. probably will be the favorite.
Baugher s chief opponents are Larry
Thaler, a Middle Atlantic Center final
ist; Leonard Rodman, beaten by
Baugher in the city semi-finals, and
Thomas A Wadden. jr., of Washington,
who won the District boys' singles
title.
TRAIGHT OF
'r THE TEE
By Walter McCallum
Su îuu don t tmnic a goir Dan
can be hit with a 400-yard
carry? Or that 20-foot putts
can be holed one after the other,
or that iron shots ran be dropped in
clusters around a hole 160 yards away?
It's all true. Thev ran. but
not by any human agency.
A golf machine that will hit a ball
400 yards and more in the air; that
will hole a dozen 20-footers in a row,
and that will pitch a ball time after
time within puting distance of the
cup from away back there, will ap
pear at five local courses today, at two
more golf spots tomorrow and at a
local course on Tuesday. It's the
amazing Acushnet caravan, which
wowed the Winter tourists on the
Florida courses last Winter and
which has been traveling around
the country this Summer proving
what every one knew all along—
that a machine can do this golf
thing better than a man.
A driver, whirling through the air
at dizzy speed, meets a golf ball and
knocks it almost out of sight, high
in the air. An iron club, whirling at
slower speed, pitches ball after ball
with uncanny accuracy right up
against the pin, and a putter, geared
to the right swing, holes putt after
putt.
It'* all part of the show to
appear today at Indian Spring
at 9:30; at Manor at 1 p.m.; at
Woodmont at 4. at Columbia at
6 and at Rock Creek at 7:15.
Jimmy Thomson can maul a golf
ball farther than any man in the
world, but even husky Jimmy can't
do the thing# the machine can do,
Spalding has its links caravan, made
up of Horton Smith, Harry Cooper,
Lawson Little and Jimmy Thomson.
Wilson has its human robots in Sara
zen, Guldahl and Shute; MacGregor
has Didrikson and Armour, and Dun
lop has Snead and Wood. But none
of 'em has the accuracy and power
of the machine. It's quite a show.
CEVEN local lads will start Tuesday
at the Five Farms course of the
Baltimore Country Club in a 36-hole
test that will qualify six entrants from
a field of 21 for the national amateur
championship at Portland, Oreg., next
month.
Their undisputed rla.se should
enable three or more of the
seven Washington boys to qual
ify for the title tourney 3,000
miles away.
And then what, if they do qualify?
It's doubtful if more than one of
the boys will make the trip, which
again raises the question: "Is it
wort,h. while to play the national
championship so far from the popu
lation center of the country?"
Of eoune It la quit· u feme* to
qualirv lor the national. Quantita
tion immediately sets a guy up among
the first 170-odd amateurs in the
land, but when it costs around $500
to make the trip, and it takes three
weeks to do it right, what's the good
of it? Gene Pittman of Congres
sional sounded the answer to the
question the local lads are asking
themselves when he said:
"That's an awful long way to
Ko to take a licking, when you
can get licked right here in
your own back yard."
What will qualify at Five Farms?
We think a pair of 80s will make
the grade, or a total of 160. Five
Farms is a tough golf course, with
plenty of trouble along the path to
the cup. There are 21 gents in the
tourney, but probably five of them
will not finish. And of the 16 prob
able finishers, not more than three
or four will crack 160 for the dou
ble circuit. Levi Yoder and Billy
Shea should qualify and Ralph Quin
ter and Martin McCarthy are possi
bilities. But will they go to Port
land if they do qualify?
\ LL the shooting about John Mon
I ague or La Verne Moore, or what
ever the guy's name is, leaves WifTy
Cox cold. "He's a darned good guy,"
says Wiff and let's it go at that.
"And he can play a good game of
golf, too."
"How good?" we asked Wil
fred. "Oh. good enough to hold
his own in almost any com
pany.
"But don't let any one kid you
that Montague is a world-beater or
that he'd win the amateur champion
ship with one hand tied behind his
back: or that he'd lick the better
pros at their own racket. John Mon
tague is a powerful man who hits the
ball a very long way. He plays a
good all-around game of golf, but
he wouldn't win the open champion
ship or any other big tournament."
So that's that, from a guy
who knows him and has played
with him. And also a spade
caller.
you can talk about great golf
matches, where par is busted, and
where the only uncertainty Is the
length of the putt for a birdie. But
when it comes t»o thrills give us a
match between high-handicap golfers;
duffers, if you will.
Such a match was that one at
Columbia last week, in which Mrs.
Hugh MacKenzie gave Stokes Sam
mons a stroke a hole and finished all
even, canning a four-foot putt on
the eighteenth green for a half. Those
two players committed every golfing
sin known to the game, and they also
made some shots that would have
done credit to a national champion.
They jumped bunkers, they blithely
leaped ditches; they missed chip shots
and they topped iron shots. But for
sheer intensity of purpose and will
to win, no match ever has been more
interesting to watch.
They'll repeat It in a fort
alght, and' it will be worth
watchlnf.
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Table Tennis Aces Perform
VIKTOR BARNA, RUTH HUGES AARONS.
Noted experts at game who are giving exhibitions this week
at the Earle Theater.
Barna. a Hungarian, was the world champion for five
years. Although no longer holding the title, he still is considered
the greatest exhibitionist in the game. His repertoire abounds
ivith trick shots.
Miss Aarons is the world woman champion, having iron
that title in 1936. She is a native of New York City. Although
the final match, in which she was to be a participant, was not
played in the 1937 tournament due to a dispute at the interna
tional competition, she retains the crown won the year before.
Only Grateful Cheers Likely
Should U.S. Regain Davis Cuρ
After Dreary 10-Year Quest
in i'i\rn miiMibr.
Associated Près* Spoils Wrrer.
NEW YORK. July 24 .—Whfn thp
Davis Cup disappeared from
the.se shores in 1927. not even
the mast hardened pessimists
believed it would remain in the hands
of the French team, capable though
It was, for more than a year.
Any one who had prophesied that
first the French and then the British
were going to hold onto the cup for
10 years would have been shot by
indignant members of the U. S. L. T. A.
But there won't be any shooting if
the United States beats England in
the challenge round—just grateful
cheers.
In that annus mirabilus of sports,
1927, America had. or seemed to have,
everything. It was n big year. Tun
ney œat uempsey at cnicago lor the
second time and people argupd about '
the "long count." The Yankees won
110 gamps. the pennant and the world
series. Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, i
Bobby Jones won the amateur and
Tommy Armour the open. And the
American Davis Cup team «till had
BUI Tilden.
The team breewd through t-o the '
challenge round the npxt year, but the j
French made their intentions about
the cup's retention pretty dpftnite by
licking Tilrien. John F. Hennessev
and Frank Hunter. The scorp was 4-1
and the only American victory was
Tilden's. He beat Rene Lacoste in the
singles.
Young Blond From V. S. Fails.
JT WAS closer the next year. 3-2, but
the Frcnch won again. Henri Co- ι
rhet played singles at Stadium Roland !
Garros and he beat Tilden and George
Lott. Tilden beat Jean Borotra and
the crack American doubles team of
Wilrmer Allison and Johnny Van Rvn
downed Borotra and Lacoete. The
French were better in 1930 and won
again in the challenge round. 4-1.
with Cochet, Borotra and Jacques
Brugnon playing superb tennis.
That year there were grumblings
in America about he age of the Amer
ican team and the need for young
blood. The young blood arrived in
1931 in the persons of Sidney Wood
and Francis X. Shields, but it didn't
account for any riotous cheering. For
the first time since 1927 America
failed to make the challenge round.
Great Britain beat America in the
inter-zone finals, 3-2. The British
team with Fred Perry and Bunny
Austin just beginning to ripen into
tennis greatness lost to France in
the challenge round.
American hopes were high a year
later. Ellsworth Vines had come out
of the West with a service, "fast as
Tilden's'' and he had able assistance.
America entered the challenge round
again, but the team of fading French
veterans was too smart for the chal
lengers and retained the cup. 3-2.
The Americans went home and talked
about next year.
Then Britons Get Busy.
COMEHOW that, didn't come oft
either. The British were getting
better and better and when they
caught the Americans in the inter
zone finals they gave them a thorough
going over. Austin beat Vines and
Allison. Perry trimmed Allison and
then Vines retired in the fifth set
of their hectic match. Perry and
George Patrick Hughes lost to Alli
son and Van Rvn In the doubles and
the United States got one point in
five.
In 1934 and 1935 the United States
was in the challenge round, but the
new crop of American players didn't
do much. Great Britain won. 4—1.
in 1934, and a year later the United
States was handed a 5—0 defeat,
made possible by the victory of
Hughes and Charles Tuckey in the
doubles. It was England's first dou
bles victory in a challenge round
since 1907.
For the second time since America
lost the cup the team failed to g^t to
the challenge round last year. The
Australians beat America tn the
North American lone finals, 3—2.
Budge and Allison played in the
singles, and great was the outcry
when Allison dropped both his matches.
Bitsy Grant had played against Mex
ico in North American aone matches
and the South thought he should
have been in there against the Aus
sies.
Since the Davis Cup was first put.
into play in 1900 by Dwight P. Davis,
later Secretary of War under Presi
dent Coolidge, the United States has
won the cup 11 times. England has
nine cup victories, Australia seven
and France six. The cup is a closed
corporation for these four nations.
No other country has ever produced
a Davis Cup winner.
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GAME ALL MENIAL
One Plays It on Six-Inch
Course North of Ears,
Argues Tommy.
talking. "Why you gotta be so dumb
that all you see is the green and the
pin. You never see the bunkers or
the rough. No imagination, no brains,
and a dumb mental condition spell
good golf, if you have any mechanical
ability at all."
"Golf is played on a six-inch course,
all north of the ears," says Tommv
Armour. "You've got to be thinking
all the time about your shots and how
to play 'em If you stop thinking
you're licked "
There you have two entirely differ
ent theories on the mental side of golf,
as expounded by two of the great
modern masters of the game. Those
theories are as far apart, as night and
day, and yet somewhere in between
them lies the true answer to the
thinking half of the game of golf.
Calls Blank Brain Ideal.
"J JERB GRAFFIS was right when
he cracked that the dumber you
are the better you can play this game."
grinned Wiffy. "It doesn't make some
of us look so good, but it's true. The
guy with imagination and » fact.
BY YV. R. MrCALLCM.
to play this game of tfolf ··
Wiffy Cox, the ta)]-brow»d
guy from Kenwood, was
acting brain is behind the 8-ball.
The right mental condition is a blank
bfain, with nothing in it but the next
shot and not too much of that. Th·
perfect mental condition is no bram
at aJl. or no consciously directing brain
that tells you of anything other than
the immediate shot at hand. I firmly
believe that the gent with the ueii
grooved swing and the blank brain Is
far more apt to play consistently good
golf than the men with the active
brain, and. what's far worse, an active
Imagination.
"The first guy simply swings the flub.
His muscles think for him. in terms
of low ball, high ball, a controlled ,
hook or a controlled fade. It'» a
matter of muscle feel with him and
not of brain control. The second
guy thinks of the fade or the drav·,
but he also thinks: 'What if I fade
it too much, or put teo much draw
on the ball? I'll get in that big
bunker at the left or 111 miss the
green on the right.' The first guv
ws nothing but the pin and th°
green and he blazes away with no
thought of danger. The second is
always figuring on what mav happen
if he misses the shot a little bit."
How Armour Se·* It.
'J'OMMY ARMOUR, one the brain
lest men who ever hit a golf
ball and one of the clearest thinkers
on the game, holds that the brain
directs the muscles and that from
the cortex (the thinking organ) Is
derived all the merit that any man
may have on the golf course "Your
brain tells your muscles what to do,"
he says ,
"If you can't play that 6-lnch
golf course above the ears you can't
play that 6,700-yard course you walk
on."
"Gosh. I wish I wa.« as dumb a»
some of these guys," cracked Wiffy.
"If I didn't have the memory of
some of those bad shots of mine be
hind me. of a brain that is workin?
all the time I'd play better golf."
"Well, when you are plavinc well."*
we asked WifT. "how do you explain
it? Brains or no brains?"
"It's all a matter of muscular feel."
he said. "If I have the feel of th*
club and the swing I can hit the
ball well. If I don't have the feel
there's nothing I can do about It.
Douglas Edgar had it right 15 years
ago. He said he played his best when
his hands 'felt thin.' He simply was
trying to explain muscular feel. And
brains or lack of 'em. don't have
much to do with muscular co-ordina
tion. A thinking game? Sure, so s
tennis and polo and base bell, in
spots. But if your mechanical equip
ment is Ο. K. you don't need anything
else."
HARVARD-YALE TRAIL
Oxford-Cambridge Lead by 7 to δ
in Tennis Series.
NEWPORT. R. I , July 24 i/TV—Th"
combined British net forces of Oxford
and Cambridge Universities today went
into a 7-5 lead over the Harvard-Yak
tennis stars representing the United
States in the seventh Internationa
university lawn tennis tournament.
Nine matches tomorrow will con
clude the series which started yestei ■
day.
Led by their captain. J. D Anderson
the British team gained decisionô 11
four of today's six matches.
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are thinkine more about boundary
than base ball bets, the latter too'-·
time out to enter the Internation?
Base Ball Congress the other day
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