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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-06

n EW YORK, August els Cyril
IN |. Tolley a joker or Is he seri-
VI Gus? The question is brought
h Y up right now so that when
p. Cyril Tolley sits down between
shots in the National Amateur at Del
Monte next month golf enthusiasts
will have made up their minds about
the British amateur champions strange
behavior on the basis Of facts here
with submitted.
Know, then. that in the British anna
teur Tolley, in addition to loading his
caddy with golf clubs. made him carry
also shooting stick. one Of those con-
traptions so popular in England and
becoming so here. which open at the
top, forming a seat not large but SUM-
GENTLY capaciouS for all practical sit
ting purposes. With pointed ferule,
which is stuck into the ground, the seat
Is secure and is used by British gunners
while waiting at the coverts.
: But sitting down in golf! Does Mr..
FOLEY realize the impression he may
give of game reputed to be virile?
! Some apologists for the unconventional
Cycil say that he took along a field
stick in order to register as impressive
and colorful a protest as possible against
slow play. which has always irritated
him extremely and so affected his play.
: There is a story that last year in
one Oh LIE CHAMPIONSHIPS WHICH,, dltCl
an hour or so of standing on one foot
and then the other while his partner
made ready to shoot, he at length, In a
dramatic manner, which the late Henry
Irving could not have rendered more
effective, Sagged against the dilatory
player, threw his arms around him.
then sank slowly to the ground muir
muring. Shoot! For the love of heaven,
shoot"
So it may we'll be, as some say that
the pulling Of the shooting stick stuff
was merely tour de force and will not
be applied on the pebble beach course.
But II 1t was merely intended as a
silent protest, how about other golfers
in the British amateur, some of whom
not only carried field sticks but actually
went so far as to laden their caddies
with camp chairs. Surely this would
imply not protest but the onset Of a
new fashion. ArmchairS may come
next. or as an indignant English COM
mentator says, elephants fitted with
howdahs may be the next step.
While he men may lament over what
has been termed this creeping paraly-
sis" which seems to be settling down
upon British championships. there may
be no question that the idea, If car
ried into this country. will prove boon
to elderly golfers who find some miles
of walking over hill and dale quite tire
some and would find an opportunity to
sit down between strokes not only pleas
ant but actually conducive to health
and so to the frightening OF years in
which they may pursue the game.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

pounds Of sturdy young American man
hood behind a tremendous poke that
ended more than 800 yards up the
fairway, leaving him only mashie nib
lick shot to a green that even the good
players are glad to reach with me-
dunn iron after the tee shot.
Danny Burton, another of Bob Bar
nett's red-headed proteges, who is Harry
G. Pitts personal caddy, is coming
along in golf. Danny went over to
Congressional to play today, hoping to
better the mark of n he made just the
other day at Chevy Chase. The little
red head had a brace of As left on the
last two holes fer rs. but finished
with a on that difficult seventeenth
and par 4 on the eighteenth.
A. L. Houghton, Harper Country
Club professional, scored So over the
course of the Washington Golf and
Country Club yesterday, in a four-ball
match with Senator Pat Harrison and
Walter and Gilbert Cunningham. pro-
fessionals at Burning Tree. Walter
Cunningham, who learned the game as
a, caddie at Washington, scored rs.
Houghton picked up three brides over
the last nine holes to breeze back in
80 strokes, after getting out in 81.
1t is rapidly being demonstrated to
the professionals about the Capital that
Sidney C. Moore. the English assistant
pro at Congressional, Is one Of the very
best golfers who ever donned a spike
shoe to play on courses about WASH
ington. Moore shot a 10 to win the
amateur-pro event last week at
Annapolis Roads, and aided yesterday
by young, John j. Tierney of Congress
sional, FINISHED in second place in the
'junior-professional best ball event at
Md. Moore was aided on three holes
by Tierney. The tourney was won by
a combination from the Maryland
Country Club of Baltimore, made up of
Donald McPhail, amateur, and Glenn
Spencer, professional. who registered
81 for the layout. In third place were
Roger Peacock, amateur, and George
Diffenbaugh, professional, from Indian
Spring, who had II. and had
they began putting the green's
on the second mine holes. Naturally
the out nine Of 81 registered by Me-
Phal and Spencer was too good for
any of the others, but Peacock and
Diffenbaueh were out in "a and were
close on the heeels of the leaders.
The high spot Of the tournament,
from the standpoint of Bob Barnett Of
Chevy Chase, came when the little
red-headed mentor hoped his tee shot
for an ace at the 167-yard fifteenth
hole. He played the shot with a mon
grel masl1le, club made famous by
Tommy Armour when the latter was
performing around washington. Tommy
Bones, the star Columbia southpaw,
drove the first green, 308 yards from
the tee. A score Of golfers-both anna
teur and professional-were entered
from the Capital in the tourney.
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149MUNY GOLFERS
SEEKING i. S. TITLE
Players From Fl States Are
Contesting in Event
at st. Louis.
BY PAUL r. NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Spots Writer.

FOREST PARK, st. Louis. August 6.
The Dick Whittingtons of American
golf, 149 of them from 81 scattered
States, today opened battle against each
other for their exclusive golf1ng title,
the national public links championship,
over the difficult and treacherous Forest
Park municipal course.
It was easily the largest, most repre-
sentative and most picturesque field in
the history of the 8-year-old tourna-
ment, one which is open only to those
who do not play The royal and ancient
game on private courses, largely because
Of lack of funds. Some came on trains.
many of them hitch-hiked and some of
them walked many a mile to get a
whack at the title. They ranged in age
from IS years and up.
The first objective of the large field
was to qualify. Two 18-hole matches,
one scheduled for today and the second
for tomorrow, were on the program,
and the 80 low-medal scorers will fight
1t out. Two match-play rounds of Is
holes each will be decided Thursday
and Friday, with a 36-hole final on Sat-
urday.
Carl F. Kaufman, Pittsburgh clerk,
was the defending title holder for the
third straight year and big favorite to
repeat. Except for few who land high
year after year his opposition was yir-
tually unknown, as 10l of the entrants
were competing for the crown for the
first time. That fact and the treach-
erous condition of the championship
course, lent an upset complexion to the
tournament from the start. Not in
three weeks has the course received suf-
ficient rainfall, and as a result the fair
ways and greens were lightning fast.
and q golfer had to rely on rolling,
game is conferred on pitching were forced
to abandon their style, they said, as the
pellet refused to stick on the carpet. At
its best, the course Is a tough life any,
way There are water holes on eight
fairways, and all but one fairway Is
lined by trees. Par is "a and the dis
lance Is $3.50 yards.
One interesting phase Of the tourna-
ment was the possibility Of an all
Japanese final. Two japanese golfers of
great ability are entered-Togo Hama
moto of st. Louis, champion of the For
est Park course, and A. G. Sato Of San
Francisco, who has beaten Old Man Par
many times this year. Hamamoto, a
butler by trade. shot the course in "a
yesterday in his final practice round,
and the only other entrant to duplicate
it was Frank Brokl Of st. Paul, ANA
teur champion.
Frank Aylward, Kansas City medal
champion: BODY Held of st. Louis,
brother of Eddie Held; Gus Fetz, Chi
oago; Gordon Denney, Kentucky State
amateur champion, and Charles Ferrera
of San Francisco were other outstanding
favorites.
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has been SO used to unusual
happenings on its golf course
Il that it takes an occurrence very
much out Of the ordinary to
cause polite eyebrows to lift in surprise.
just the other day the golfitng devotees
OF the club were agreeably surprised
when their orrel-thatched professional
Bob Barnett-knocked precedent gall
ley west by getting around the golf
course In "a strokes-flve better than
par. Incidentally, that score was made
in the perfect manner. That Is, Bar
nett reached every green In the Gus
ception Of the ninth, where his tee shot
overran the putting surface and he
Clipped back to secure his par.
But old Chevy Chase has just been
the scene Of another unusual happening
which resulted fortunately for the hit
ter Of the golf bali and bit less fortu-
nately for caddie.
It happened at the fourth hole, a one
shot affair of about $50 yards. which
the good golfers play with a mashie or
medium iron, and the less skilled gentry
are glad to reach with a full wooden
club shot. Down at the left side of the
fairway, just short Of a ditch which runs
in front OF the green and makes a very
unpleasant hazard. were grouped the
caddies of the match in which DR..
Mitchell, DR.. r. c. Ransdell and another
unnamed golfer were playing.
DR.. Mitchell hit shot that wasn't
so good. It was rather poor in fact.
and the good medico looked for it to
come to an abrupt and untimely end
in the ditch. He yelled Pore" in loud
and stentorian tones as the ball veered
sharply toward the group Of caddies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-06
BRITISH VS.. YANKEES
IN TENNIS TOURNEY

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTHAMPTON. N. Y. August 6.
With the pick Of England's tennis
players concentrated In this country,
the Meadow Club invitation tournament.
now in its second round. promises a
steady succession Of Anglo-American
battles.
If results run true to form. an Eng
lishman and an American will night
1t out for singles honors. John DoeR.
the stalwart Californian. opposing W..
H. Bunny Austin, Cambridge gradu-
ate and British Davis Cup ace. But
such a elimination, II 1t Is to occur.
Is still several days away and these
favorites have a good many hurdles
to clear before then.
Both came through the first round
yesterday in straight sets, but they
were forced to play good tennis to &C.
compliSh 1t. Doeg. caught mapping by
Percy Kynaston of Rockville Center,
N. Y, finally pulled out the match at
8-6, IS.
Austin's victory over Dr. Carl Fischer.
won. The Englishman arrived in this
country only Saturday and appeared
in need of practice.
Besides Doeg. the Americans seeded
in the draw are Berkeley Bell, Austin,
Tex: Fritz Mercur. Bethlehem, Pa
and Gregory Mangin, Newark. N. j.
In the national ranking Doeg is eighth,
Bell eleventh. Mercur seventh and Nam
gin thirteenth.
Completing the seeded list Of eight
are the British big four" Austin.
J. S. Olliff, the promising young player
whom the English have sent over with
him to compete in our national cham
pionships. and N. G.. Farquharson and
e. r. Avory. considered the best Of
the Oxford Cambridge players now in
this country.
All Of these who played the open
ing day won their matches.
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MAIDSTONE TENNIS
TITLES ARE DIVIDED
British Woman Wins Singles,
Misses Wills and Cross
Capture Doubles.

BY the Associated Press.
" ASTHAMPTON, N. Y, August
l. 6.-The annual wonen's tennis
tournament at the Maidstone
IL Club here has gone far toward
determining just how the
American and English forces will line
up for the Wightman Cup team
matches at Foresthills on Friday and
Saturday.
tournament honors were evenly
divided. While Mrs. Dorothy G..
Shepherd Barron, British veteran,
won the singles cup by defeating
Marjorie Gladman of Santa Monica,
Calf, No. 2 In the national ranking.
60, rs, the United States received
even more satisfaction from the smash
ing victory Of Helen Wills and Miss
Edith Cross Of San Francisco, in the
doubles final.
In trouncing their English OPP
ponents, Betty Nuthall and Mrs.
scores Of 6-3, 60 in a match which
lasted only 30 minutes, Miss Wills and
Miss Cross appeared to have found
themselves after playing comparatively
mediocre tennis as q doubles combina-
ton abroad this Summer.
Never did Miss Wills look more i'm
preSsive, in singles or in doubles.
Although sharing the courts with three
Of the finest players Of her sex in the
entire world, she dominated the play
and q good share Of the rallies were
terminated by placements from her
whirling racquet. In service she was
irresistible. scoring six aces In the five
games she served. Many times 1t
seemed as though a male star were on
the court with three girl companions.
so nightly did Queen Helen hammer
the ball.
The Wills-Cross combination func-
toned SO smoothly that It Is believed
virtually certain to be chosen as the
No. l doubles team for two-day series
at Foresthills.
On the other hand. the English are
expected to team Mrs. Watson with
Mrs Peggy Saunders Michel. with
whom she holds the British doubles
championship. and RELOCATING Miss
Nuthall of the second doubles team
or combining her activities to singles
alone.
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KRUCOFF, DUNHAM
WIN D. c. DOUBLES
Defeat Moorhead-WaIke in
Straight Sets-Speed and
Steadiness Tell.
KRUCoFF and Joseph
- Inc Durham are the 1929 dou-
bles net champions Of the Dis
4 trict Of Columbia. They vrested

TRANCES KRUcoFF and Joseph
- Inc Durham are the 1929 dou-
bles net champions Of the Dis
Il trict OF Columbia. They wrested
the crown from Phoebe, Moor
head and Frances Walker yesterday,
downing them So, 8-6 in the title
match on the Columbia Country Club
courts.
1t is the first District title ever won
by Miss Durham, one of the young
corners in local net ranks, and Miss
Krucoff's first doubles title in several
years.
Speed and steadiness were the two
factors contributing most to the chaI-
lengers' victory. Misses Moorhead and
Walker, usually as dependable as old
Gibraltar itself, we're uncertain guam
her usual brilliance at the net, nor
did their shots from the base line have
their usual sting. The Krucoff Dun
nam pair. on the other hand, were
sending them across with considerable
pace. The first set was a walk-away
for the winners, who gained four games
before Misses Moorhead and Walker
broke through to score.
Things we're more ever in the second
brace, and at one stage Misses Moor
head and Walker held set point, This
was when they were leading at 5-4. A
Melted ball from Miss Moorhead's
racket, followed by two placements
from across the net, sent their hopes
gllmmering, however. They battled
desperately to gain the edge once more
and STAYED of defeat In the twelfth
game, when the winners gained match
point several times. The defenders re-
sistance eventually netted them this
twelfth, evening the count, but Misses
Durham and Krucoff chopped their
way through the next two to win the
match. The ex-champions had been on
top all the way through this set until
the tenth game
For Miss Moorhead it was as heart
breaking as the match in which MR..
Martinez had downed her several DAYS
ago in the singles, after the Columbia
Club star had stood within one point of
match. This seems to be her wear for
narrow margins.
Prizes were presented both the win
ners and the runners-up by Mrs. H.
Clay Thompson, chairman of the net
committee. whose members labored
faithfully and long to bring the event to
a successful conclusion. -.
Mrs. Thompson expressed her apnre-
citation. not only to the players for their
cooperation in making of this event
the most successful in the history of
womens tennis here in Washington, but
also 70 the management of the Coluln-
oia Country Club for its generous
hospitality IN granting the players the
privileges OF the club during the week
OF the tournament.
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ALEXANDRIA POLICE
TO VISIT RICHMOND

ALEXANDRIA, Va. August 6.-Law-
renee Padgett's Alexandria Police De-
partment tossers will go to Richmond,
Va. Friday to encounter the Richmond
Police Department nine in the first
Of a thrdee me series.
The Locals VIII make the trip by bus.
Padgett. has booked the District of
Columbia Police Department for two
games here in Baggett's Park, the first
of which will take place Saturday at
o'clock and the second on August 81.
Baltimore Police are listed for local
appearance on August IT.
ORGANIZATION OF a Sunday league for
Junior class teams Is contemplated and
a meeting is expected to be held later
in the week.
Yankees. junior champions of the
Alexandria Municipal League; Clovers
and Colonials will battle for the Sunday
title if plans carry.
Harvey Luncsford's Columbia En-
CINE Company nine will meet the GUAM
, tico Marines here Saturday at o'clock
on Hayden Field in the first game OF
a home -and-home series.
The Columbia nine is without a game
for Sunday. Phone Manager Padgett
or Coach Lunceford at Alexandria 1T.
Yankee A.. c.. junior playground
champions. has signed John Abrahans,
former Alexandria High School star,
and Lester Scott, who. until recently
was captain of the Clover A. c.
Bob Lyons. who, has been pitching
for Clarksburg in the Middle Atlantic
League. will twirl for the Kennedy A.
C. of Washington, when the Capital
City nine plays the st. Mary's Celtics
here Sunday at o'clock in Baggett's
Park.
Three more regattas will finish out
the Old Dominion Boat Clubs aquatic
schedule for the campaign. They are
the Middle States Canoe Racing Asso-
citation regatta at the Potomac Boat
Club, Washington, Saturday and Sun
day, the Middle States Regatta Associa-
ton shell races at Baltimore Labor day
and the annual intra club regatta to
be held by Old Dominion members late
this month or in early September.
Virginia A. c. trimmed the Diamond
Taxicab Co. of Washington, to 5, on
Shipyard Field.
Raymond Heberling. Old Dominion
Boat Club basket ball star. Is umpiring
for: local amateur base ball teams.
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V0iGT HAS BIG TASK
TO KEEP GOLF TITLE

BY the Associated Press.
SALISBURY PLAINS, N. Y, August
George Voigt. the sturdy star Of
the North Hills Club, has a tough job
ahead Of him in holding onto the unique
honor he had a year ago. Voigt starts
today in defense of his crown in the
Long Island open championship, q
crown more valuable to him because
he is the only amateur ever to wear it.
Against him Voigt has a huge field.
Over $50 amateurs and professionals OF
Long Island have entered, but only
about dozen are to be feared. Among
the amateurs of high rank are Eddie
briggs and Eddie Held, both stellar
representatives of the Lakeville Club,
Great Neck: Neal Fulkerson, jr.; Mark
Flanagan, Georgetown University star;
Jarvis Hicks, jr., and Jack Mackie, jr.,
famous son of the Inwood pro.
Gene Sarazen and Mcdonald Smith
are the leading lights Of the large pro-
fessiona1 contingent. Such stars as
Willie Klein, Gil Nichols. Witty Cox.
Charlie Mayo and Tom Hughes are In
the first rank of professionals who will
compete in the 72-hole test over the
wind-swept course.
Today's program calls for SO holes
over the No. 3 and No. courses OF the
Salisbury Country Club. Tomorrow the
field will be reduced to the players with
in IS strokes Of the leader, and another
36-hole round will decide the title.
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Cattle Gets Golfers NerUes

feature story. So I asked Johnny
about 1t.
He grinned.
TITS partly true" said Johnny.
"I didn't have any too much jack,
and I thought it would be q good
idea to save what had until I got
to the Big City because there !
would probably see something I'd
want to buy very much. So I stuck
IL out with the cattle train as far
as Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And by that
time I'd had plenty"
Goodman, indeed, had concluded
that there was unlikely to be any
thing In Greater New York for which
he would rather spend money than
on getting away from the caboose
Of that cattle train.
well, 1t was getting on my
nerves, sort Of" said Goodman. 80
dropped OF at Cedar Rapids and
got on Q passenger train-and Q
q a.
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Keep Right Hand
Close to Left i'm Grip
BY SOL METZGER.

It was Abe Mitchell who best de-
scribed to me the way one should
place his right hand over the left in
gripping the leather for q long iron
or any other full shot.
Pull 1t up tight over the left
hand" he said, like a new glove
hts"
The main reason for the introduce
ton Of the overlapping and inter-
locking grips to golf was to insure
tying the hands together on the club
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-06

Circuit. famous girl golfer Of New
jersey, once beheaded feathered
friend with a hard-driven golf ball
from the second tee at the Blue
Hills course, Orangeville, N. Y, in
July, 1927. The ball kept on its
flight and Miss circuit was able to
score a par 4 for the hole, in spite
of getting a birdie, too.
At Lurgan. England, in 1927.
Joseph Ryan played out Of bunker
and dislodged second ball which
was hidden under his. yet landed
both balls onto the green. L. w.
Donaldson did the same thing at
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ZBYSZK0 GOES OUT
IN WRESTLING BOUT
By the Associated Press.


MONTREAL, Quebec, August g.
Stanley Stasiak, the giant Pole who
broke an opponents leg In Toronto last
week, disabled Wladeck zbyszko,
former worlds wrestling champion, at
the Mount Royal arena here last night.
After an hour and Is minutes of wild
wrestling, Zbyszko succeeded In pinning
his opponents shoulders to. the mat.
Stasiak was far from finished, how
ever, and when the wrestlers returned
after the interval, he tore into the
lighter Zbyszko with a rush that almost
had the ex-champion Keeling through
the ropes.
Then Stasiak lifted Zbyszko high In
the air and hurled him to the mat with
such violence that it took 10 minutes
TO revive the former titleholder.
The victory was Stasiak's third in
local ring and all were gained In
the same spectacular manner. 3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-06
FATHER AND SON PLAYING
IN PUBLIC LINKS EVENT

ST. LOUIS, August P).-Father
and son competed against each other In
the eighth annual national public links
golf championship, which opened today
at Forest Park.
They were william Reed, IT., and
William Reed, ST., of Indianapolis.
The younger Reed is Is years old.