Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-11
Another Sporting Record.


/o6U1 might so think ct tnat Eunplns an
simple Try it once and change
L your mind. A pair of umpires
run ball game and four off,
Gals can look after the hardest sort
of foot ball war. But at this moment
Comdr. Nibs Mobiles with John G..
Anderson and other staff officers, have
something like 500 shock troops in
training for the big show at Winged
Foot later on this month.
Something over 200 of these will be
course marshals, to look after the big
galleries that will make the usual at
tempt to get close enough to star play
ers to hear the bubbles popping in their
necks.
There will be more than a hundred
scorers to record the vital statistics.
There will be reserves and platoons for
other work and these now are in the
process of being drilled and rehearsed
to handle players, crowds and whatever
else may need handling.
There will be an extra supply of
rope to keep the numbering herd in
check and to give every player
chance. But while this is taking
place, full accommodations will be
made for the crowd, and those who
come as non-combatants will have
every chance to see every shot played
by any favorite.
Not even old Doc Argus himself, with
the legs of a centipede, could see them
ALL But there will be enough attrac-
tons to split up the galleries with Bobby
Jones, Walter Hagen, Horton Smith, Leo
Diegel, Johnny Farrell and other ia
vorites.
Never Mind About the Clover.
IF you want to see Comdr. Nibs Mobiles
i and his staff reach for machine
gun just mention clover.
They expect to have the fairways In
perfect condition and they have worked
hard enough to put 20 courses in shape
There will be no clover to bother any
player who keeps his tee shots on the
fairway," says Johnny Anderson. There
is clover all over the United States and
there will, Of course. be a certain
amount of clover at Winged Foot. but
it won't be where any good drive ought
to go. Every player will have fair
shot to the green for his second from
| flrst-clasS turf, so any alibiS offered
about the clover for poor shots will be
merely alibis."
Winged Foot officials say that If
necessary any clover that may be
I around will be removed If safety
! razor is needed for the operation.
But the talk of clover fairways won't
be borne out by the facts.
All of those officially connected witt
| the next United States open are con-
| f1dent that both fairways and putting
! green's will be up to any past standards
and when you consider the turf OF
, Westminster and the enormous amount
of work that has been done on the
course, there is no reason why both
| fairwayS and green's should not be ready
| for championship test.
All Set for Big Show
EOR several weeks Winged Foot has
had an army of workmen getting
the 6,300-yard battlefield ready fol-
| the finest field that ever fought for q
championship. Members of the Amer
| lean Rider Cup team ran Q in the
| British open, but they will face much
| stronger competition here.
More than a hundred workmen have
been hard at 1t. working on fairways
and greens, digging bigger and better
| bunkers, extending and deepening 9TH
ers, pruning the uplands and the low
i lands, tossing in new sand and PLAN
ming In general to have every detail
ready for the biggest show in golf and
one of the biggest in all sport.
There will be backstops behind
each tee so the players will not be
harassed by moving spectators, es-
pecially the variety that decide sud-