Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-31


THOSE who have been struggling
to crack 100 this Spring on va
rious golf courses between two
i of our best known oceans, have
had quite enough to make them
bitter, morose sour, discontinued, mel
ancholy and perhaps trif1e upset.
Here are a few almost incredible per-
formances that have caught their start
led visions
Leo Diegel and AL Espinoza-66-at
Moortown.
Leo Diegel-65-at Moortown
Walter Hagen-67-at Muirfield, in
the British open.
Glenna Collett-out in Sat st. An
drews, against Joyce Wethered.
Horton Smith-two successive 66s-at
st. Cloud, in the French open.
Aubrey Boomer-61-at st. Cloud
length, $500 yards.
When thousands of golfers straining
and cracking every aching nerve in
their bodies are turning in 108s, lbs
and possibly 1925 or more-you can see
how they must feel about the situation
at large when they inspect these in
credible figures in the low or early or
middle COS.
No wonder they look around for
prussic acid, a gun or sharp knife.
It is an event in the lives of more
golfers than you might imagine to
break hundred. When these fellow
the figures that indicate 80 out
and % home on a fairly long
course, the gross total being 81, you
may think you can imagine their
feelings, but unless you are golfer.
hoping some day to break 100, you
can't.
THE d,,H,r ,,or, ,,,1l +la,, o,x, ,,,4 l,I-
8 or possibly his 2. But when this hap
pens there is always the brooding shad-
ow Of an or 9 hanging over his be-
leaguered head, in the knowledge that
any given moment he will find himself
in bunker or in ditch and the sup
ply of balm left in Gilead will be in
visible to the naked eye from that spot
on.
A Year Ago in Pennantville.
a T this date a year ago the Yankees
IA were in the act of opening still
larger gap between their ranking and
the rest of the field They were gall
Looping on their way to a 13-game lead,
and even around June l the pursuing
Athletics could barely see their dust
The situation has been quite different
this Spring. Connie Mack's young men
have at least gotten all the seasoning
they needed under the heavy fire, with
a much better all around pitching staff
than the Yankees can show.
The Athletics last Summer had an al
most hopeless lead to tackle, but when
Pennock, Lazzeri and others were
wounded or rendered unfit, they closed
the open space in hurry. This sea-
son they have given themselves no such
obstacles to overcome. A runner can be
so far behind that he can wear him
self out catching the leader and have
little left for the stretch The Athletics
won't be in that condition when an
other September finish comes in sight.
They may have their dips or
slumps, but they have put away
more early insurance than they
could do last year. At this time last
year Pittsburgh's Pirates had about
blown the job with Cardinals, Cubs
and Giants setting the pace in
bunch.
If you turn back as far as 1927 you
will find the Cardinals have always
been somewhere in the top group. They
are a better ball club than many be-
lieve them TO be.
The early slump of the Giants has
given the Cubs a better chance, but
even the Cubs have to watch this Car
dinal cluster again.
Opening an Old Argument.
ONE of the best known of the fight
~ followers brought up the old Tun-
ney-Dempsey argument from new an
gle a night or two ago.
Il haven't any prejudice on either
side" he said, for 1 happen to like
them both. But there is one point in
the fight game that many overlook. This
point is that while A might whip B, and
B might beat C, c in turn might whip
A. Styles play big part in the flnal
result. Gene Tunney as he was against
Dempsey at Philadelphia, or against
Heeney, would have had hard tins
against Willard. willard might have
beaten him with his greater reach
and strength and size, for Willard hac
a good left hand. The chances are q
Willard Tunney fight would have beer
terrible to look at. Dempsey really
stopped Willard in a round. Yet
don't believe the Dempsey of Toledo
could have beaten the Tunney who me-
Hseney. Dempsey was at his bes
against big. slower target.
But he was never a good enough
boxer tn get to Tllnney the way the