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The
SPORTLIGHT
Concentration Called
Toughest Part of Golf
By GRAXTLAXD RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, July 25 (N.A.N.A.).
—“What is the hardest part of
golf?-’ asks one of the scrambling
divotees. "Is it wooden club play
or iron play or putting? Is it get
ting good foot action or getting
good body action? Does it come
from getting the right use of hands
and wrists? There are so many
tough sections to a golf swing that
I thought there might be some start
ing point."
The hardest thing in golf is the ,
ability to keep on concentrating j
along right lines. This is where
most of the stars crack up on cer
tain days Also, it is where the
average golfer finds a big part of
his trouble.
For example, we might start with j
putting. No great intelligence is
required to know that putting car
ries three main angles:
1. To judge the speed of the green.
2. To pick out the right line to
the cup.
3. To stroke the ball smoothly.
What happens? On entirely too
many occasions the golfer still is
guessing about the speed of the
green and the right line to the
middle of his stroke. So here comes
a jab or a stab or a lifted head.
His concentration is scrambled com
pletely. All he has to do. in set
order! is to decide on green speed,
line and then smooth stroking. I
mean to make a definite decision in
each case. Few do.
Best Attitude Is to Feel
Oneself a Little Lazy
You also can take the start from j
the first tee. The average golfer !
must understand there are just a ;
few details to be considered in ad- ]
vance:
1. To get a comfortable stance j
where the feet are not planted and ;
the body isn't locked in advance. j
2. To be sure he starts his back- i
swing smoothly with a natural body
turn.
3. That he must finish his back
swing and not hurry his downswing.
4. That he keeps his head in place.
Watch the planted feet, the stif
fened legs, the hurried backswing
and the uplifted dome of thought,
sometimes known as the head.
The best mental attitude in golf
Is to feel you are a bit lazy—that j
you are in no hurry to finish your j
backswing nor to start your down
swing. The best mental attitude is j
to keep your mind on the swing and
on the ball—without thinking ahead. ;
It is better to try to keep your
mind on the ball than your eye on
the ball. The action of the eye fol
lows the direction of the mind. You
can't, keep your eye on the ball while
thinking on beyond of traps, bunk
ers, rough, ponds and out of bounds.
Even Best Have Trouble
With Feet, Says Picard
The hardest physical action In
golf involves correct foot action.
"I should say more golfers have j
trouble here than anywhere else."
Henry Picard. P. G. A. champion
tells me. “Even few of the better
known golfers are any too able in
this detail.
“Good foot action means your |
starting balance. It means trans
ferring body weight from left to
right and then from right to left, j
If you have good foot action, it!
means you are balanced at the top ,
of the swing to complete your down
swing. If your weight distribution is
out of order the result will be noth- j
Ing to cheer about.
“What will help better foot ac
tion?" Picard continued. "To stand
up to the ball much straighter than
most golfers do. To stand a little
rloser to the ball. To keep your feet
rinser together than most golfers do.
What chance has the golfer to get,
his feet working when he is stooping
over, when he is reaching for the
bail with his feet planted feet wide
apart?
“Not a chance in the world. He
wouldn't try to throw a baseball
from any such position. He is un
comfortable. to start with. He
doesn't give himself a chance. Make
r point of standing up straighter
and not spreading your feet. This
makes it. much easier to turn—to get
your weight transference working
the right way.
Feet Should Be Kept Close
On Chips and Pitches
This applies especially to chip
Shots and short pitches. On these
stand closer to the ball and keep
your feet much closer together. This
also will give your hands and wrists
a chance to work.
“If your feet and body are locked.
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Angott Socked by Castiglione,
But Is 10-Round Victor
CHICAGO. July 25—Only the
fact that one of them was cut kept
Sammy Angott, the National Boxing
Association's lightweight champion,
from lifting his eyebrows a bit more
today at the surprise ring showing
of Chicago's young Nick Castiglione.
Angott won a clean-cut decision
in the 10-round overweight bout
last night, but the hardest blows
of the match were landed by Cas
tiglione.
The Chicago youngster drove a
the hands and wrists never will
nave a chance to swing the club
head. For example, locking the left
ankle also locks the left wrist. You
just can't finish your backswing.
"Anotehr tough factor in golf,”
the Hershey Hurricane continued, "is
keeping the body working with the
hands. The body is the more pow
erful. It wants to get in there and
help get more distance. But what
it usually does is throttle hands and
wrists.
"How can you keep too much body
out? By getting more comfort, by
standing straighter and closer, by
keeping in mind a mental picture
of what your hands are doing with
the clubhead. This all calls for
more concentration.
"You can't take any of these
things for granted. They won't take
care of themselves. Not even on be-'
half of the best professionals.
“The average golfer has wrecked
any chance of good swinging even
before he starts his backswing. In
fact, he hasn't given himself a
chance. He wonders why at the top
of his backswing he is in no posi
tion to hit the ball, that his bal
ance is all wrong.
“I'll ask him to try a few of the
suggestions I have offered. I'll also
ask him to make a determined and
continued effort to concentrate
along these lines: Straighter, closer
feet—closer than he has been play
ing.”
right to the chin in the third round
that made Sammy's knees buckle.
In the ninth he opened a cut over
the Louisville fighter's left eye and
followed that with another stinging
right to the jaw.
He even outfought the champion
in the last round, but Angott's su
perior speed and ring generalship
throughout brought him his margin
of victory.
Deadline Falls Tonight
For Airport Swim List
A star-studded field will seek Dis
trict A. A. U. diving and 440-yard
free style titles Monday night at j
Airport Pool, but those who have let j
their entries lag have only until i
midnight tonight to get them in.
Jimmy Russell of Baltimore, victor
in men's swimming the last two
years; Bill Tarbert, District diving
champion, and a team from the St.
George's Dragon Club, New- York,
are included among the entries.
'Sweet Tooth' Held
Aid to Golfer
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 25.—If you're
having trouble with your golf
score keep your head down, your
eye on the ball and chaw on a
candy bar along about the sev
enth or ninth hole.
The candy addition to this
time-worn advice was inserted by
Dr. Paul Michael of Oakland,
Calif., who reported in the Jour
nal of the American Medical
Association on blood sugar stud
ies on 30 male golfers. 30 to 45
years old. with handicaps of
from 10 to 27.
Sugar in the blood provides
immediately available food for
muscle energy.
Dr. Michael said the group
studied for the effect of exercise
on blood sugar was selected be
cause it consisted of apparently
healthy men with no evidence
of diabetes and represented a
cross-section of the 2.000,000
golfers in the United States.
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Annex Interurban
Semi Laurels
Greenbelt holds the first-half
championship of the Interurban
Tennis League today by virtue of a
tie with Whitintide. finishing with
a record of 18 victories against 6
defeats.
Interior S squad, which finished
with a rush, defeated Westover,
4-2. to gain a tie for second place
with its opponent. Each team won
half of its 24 matches.
Whitintide was fourth with 7 vic
tories and 11 defeats, and Interior
F last with 5 wins and 13 losses.
The second-half schedule will
begin next week, and the winner
will qualify for a playoff series
for the championship.
Grays and Stars Book
Night Tilt August 1
Homestead Grays and Philadel
phia Stars will be opponents in the
first night game in Washington in
four years August 1, at Griffith
Stadium.
The contest features the first an
nual colored Elks athletic night I.
B. P. O. E. of the World.
Two bands will help enliven the
program, which is to be staged un
der the auspices of the Grand Lodge.
Lansburgh's in Action
Lansburgh’s softball representa
tives will tackle Glen Echo Fire De
partment 10 in the first game of a
twin-bill at Ballston Stadium to
morrow night at 7:45. Perth Amboy,
N. J., meets I. B. M. in the nightcap.
Win of Maryland Open Stamps
Spencer as Sector's Top Pro;
30 in P. G. A. Test Tomorrow
By WALTER McCALLUM.
Tall, gaunt Cliff Spencer, the for
mer Baltimore lad with the fine golf
swing, today stands out as top pro
fessional linksman in this territory.
It isn't surprising considering the
equipment Cliff has for golf.
There were those who watched the
black-haired Spencer emerge victo
rious in a bitter last-ditch fight to
the final putt against Wiffy Cox to
win the Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
championship at Columbia last Oc
tober who said Cliff was lucky as
well as good. That only a red-hot j
putter won him the title, and that!
without a lot of putting luck he
wouldn't have won.
Cliff's putter was something less'
than red-hot in the playoff at Co- I
lumbia yesterday for the Maryland |
open golf championship. Indeed, it
was just an ordinary blade with little
magic in it. Yet he won the title.;
annexing the playoff of the longest
Maryland open championship on
record, with a 1-over-par 71, against
73 for Rut Coffey, and a 75 for A1
Houghton, who had tied with him |
over the regulation 36-hole distance.!
It took a long time to finish that
Maryland championship. First a
torrential thunderstorm Tuesday
forced Maryland Slate Golf Asso
ciation officials to declare part of
the second round off. They decreed
that those caught on the course by
the storm should start over again
yesterday where they were stopped
by rain.
Three Tie at 142.
Then along came Spencer, play
ing the last nine holes in 35 for a
70 and 142, Earlier A1 Houghton, the
only competitor who finished the
round through the storm, had gone
back to the 13th hole and played the
last five holes in even par for a
second 71 and 142. And then along
came little Rut Coffey, the chunky
man from Winchester, Va., tossing
away his chance with a series of
over-par holes and finally canning
a tough 6-footer on the final green
for a 73 and a triple tie. So the
committee at once ordered the
three-way playoff.
Cliff Spencer happens to have one
of the finest swings in golf. In addi
tion he picked up a few tricks and
angles on the game on his swing
around the winter tour a few months
back. And in addition he is a very
long hitter. All these things should j
have made him a standout in that j
playoff. And he was—for nine holes.
But then that putter, which has
betrayed him many times in the
past, began to act up again. Cliff
missed short ones at the 9th. 10th
and 11th holes, and saw his hard
won lead almost vanish.
Houghton Holes Pitch Shot.
At the 15th, where Houghton holed
a 40-yard pitch shot, he led Coffey
and Houghton by a single stroke.
But Spencer put the clincher on the
title with a bird 3 at the 17th.
Coming to the last hole he led Coffey
by two shots and Houghton by three.
The tournament was in. And now
Cliff wishes all championships were
played over that same Columbia
course. Over the last eight months
he has won two big sectional titles
on that lengthy layout.
It isn't his first Maryland cham- 1
pionship. Back in 1937 Spencer
played through a downpour of rain
over the longest course in this sec- !
tftr—that of the Woodholme Country
Club—to win the crown with a 36
hole total of 151. So the champion
ship isn’t new to Spencer.
But it does set him up as the top
scoring pro of this sector. As far
back as I can remember no pro
has held the Middle Atlantic P. G. A.,
and the Maryland crown at the
same time. Spencer didn't do much
on the winter circuit, but he has
possibilities. With his advantages he
can go a long way.
Played Only for Title.
The playoff didn't mean anything
but the title. The three who tied
whacked up the $270 first, second
and third prize money into three
equal parts of $90 each. So Cliff
won only $90, which gave him no
more for winning than the others.
That also is an old professional golf
custom. Maybe the boys are afraid,
of each other and take that way
out to be assured of some dough.
Wiffy Cox was the fourth pro,
with 145' and took down last pro
money of $30. He tied with George
P. Miller, Columbia amateur, who
got $30 in merchandise. Other low
scores:
Lewis Worsham. Burning Tree, 70—7fi_
14i>. John Bass. Clifton Park. 77—74—
14H: Ralph Beach, Suburban. 77-74—
140; Gene Larkin. Woodmont. 75—77—
147; Sbficer Overton lamateur). Rolling
Road. T.'i—74—147: Otto Greiner fama
leuri. Terra Mariae, 74—74 — I4K. Leo
Walper lunattached' 70—77—14k Mel
Shorey. Indian Spring, 70—77—14ft. In
addition the following amateurs received
prizes: Eddie Bean. R aier Dam: Ed John
ston, Terra Mariae; Earl Skmker. Colum
bia: Pat Martino. Capital, Dick Melvin.
Indian Spring.
And now the pros face another
grueling medal test tomorrow at
Five Farms, where 4 of 30 entries
will qualify for the National P. G.
A. championship. Spencer should
win one of the four spots. He has
everything it takes, in a golf way. |
Thomson Scores Ace.
Over at Washington, Pro Dave
Thomson, the diminutive Scot,
whacked a 6-iron shot into the cup
on the 160-yard second hole for an
ace.
_
Allan Burton, Army Navy Country
Club pro, has put up a cup for the
women golfers of the service club.
They will play 36 holes next Monday
and Tuesday, with half the handicap
applying each day for the cup.
Dean, Brookman Face
In Supporting Bout
01 Monday Show
Johnny Dean, colorful Philadel
phia Irishman, and El Brookman of
Washington will meet in one of the
supporting bouts on the Bill Mc
Dowell-Holman Williams card Mon
day night at Griffith Stadium. It
will be a six-rounder.
Other supporting bouts include
Oscar W’right vs. Jackie Carter, six
rounds; Joe Price and Jimmy Green,
colored heavyweights, four rounds;
Maxie Long vs. Eddie Camps, light
heavyweights, four rounds.
Williams, who will have Heavy
weight Champion Joe Louis in his
corner, is a prohibitive favorite over
McDowell. You can name your own
figures and get it.
The colored boy is due at the
Arena tomorrow to wind up training
for the bout. McDowell is scheduled
to come in Saturday for two public
workouts.
Printers Down Treasury
Union Printers scored six runs in
the first and four in the second to
take an easy 11-3 victory over Treas
ury in the United States Govern
ment League. Buddy Webb and
Willie Boteler held the opposition to
seven hits.
Mail Clerks in Tie
Railway Mail Clerks battled
Library of Congress to a 2-all stale- j
mate in the Government League, j
Both teams scored all their runs in 1
the first inning. Prichard held the
Library sluggers to three hits while
Griffin gave up five.
Team Needs Players
Frank Small Motors, playing in
the National City League, can use
an infielder and outfielder. Call
Manager Ed Bendure at Atlantic j
6520 between 6 and 7 p.m.
Ed Henry Rated Most
Persistent Pitcher
In Star Tourney
1 OO-Shoe Qualification
Test to Open Monday
On Commerce Courts
By ROD THOMAS.
Ed Henry of Falls Church never
has won a major title in The Star
horseshoe tournament, but for per
sistency he probably has no equal
among those who for 11 years have
competed in the event, the 12th
issue of which will open next Mon
day night with a 100-shoe qualifica
tion round on the Commerce Build
ing courts.
Henry was a leading contender
for the Northern Virginia cham
pionship in the inaugural tonrna
ment in 1929. but that year Alex
ander Kirchner of Barcroft was hot
and Ed took secondary honors. In
the years that followed the Falls
Church flipper always was near the
top, but stymied by such as George
Thompson. Chic Darr. Clayton Hen
son and Ray Frye, others who hav*
won the Old Dominion crown.
Refuses to Stay Whipped.
But Ed will try again and, as usual,
with undiminished vim and con
fidence. Wishing him well will be
hundreds of horseshoe fans who
have noted the sportsmanship with
which Henry's determination to win
has been tempered. A good guy
and a credit to the sport, this ex
United States marine and son of a
clergyman.
A similar thought was expressed
by one of the favorites to win the
Northern Virginia title, Sanford
Stoddard. Colonial ^Village lawTer,
in this wise: "I intend to try like
all get-out to win the Virginia title
this year, but I d hate to have to
whip Ed Henry in doing it.’*
Virginia Title Left Open.
There will be no defending cham
pion in the Virginia section, the
title being left open by Clayton
Henson, who will defend only his
Metropolitan District honors. Top
choice in a well-balanced field prob
ably w’ill be Charley Howery of Mc
Lean, with Stoddard, Hal Ronmng,
Henry, Pete Heflin and lefthanded
Hoot Denzberger his leading rivals.
George Thompson and Chic Darr
may attempt comebacks.
Pitchers of Washington, Northern
Virginia and Southern Maryland
desiring to shoot the qualification
round should report to tournament
officials at the Commerce courts
after 7 pm. from July 29 to August
3. All are welcome whether they
rate chances for high honors or
merely desire to compare their skill
with players of recognized Star
tournament class.
Rosenfield Is a Poppa
Abe Rosenfield. crack softball
twirler, is passing out cigars today,
celebrating the arrival of a baby
daughter. It is the second girl for
the former Catholic U. athlete. Both
mother and baby are doing well at
Garfield Hospital.
Reliance Rally Wins
Reliance Life scored four runs In
the seventh and three in the ninth
to overcome O'Donnell's. 8-7, in
their Industrial League game. It
was Reliance's second victory of the
year. Howard and McHale helped
the winning cause with homers.
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