Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-12
OPPOSITE METHODS
GET SAME RESULTS
Colorfm Show Assured When
Famous Duo Meet Hunter
and Diffenbaugh.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

as the two poles.
That is what the golf fans o.
the Capital will see at the Indiar
Spring Golf Club early next month
when Billy Burke, the Polish
American lad, who was born Bur-
kowSki, up In Naugatuck, Conn.
comes here with George Won Elm
to play an exhibition match
against that Mutt and JEFF pair
of local professional golf. MonrC
Hunter and George Diffenbaugn.
1t would be hard to find a pair OF
men as widely different In swing and
Temperament as Burke and Won Elm
You might search the country over
and not find two top-notch golfers
who have so much 1ne golf in them
and bring 1t out in such different ways
as these two who fought IA holes In
the torrid heat at Toledo for the ma
tional open golf championship, with
Burke finally winning by what race
track parlance would be called "a lip
One stroke separated them at the end
of the I44th hole after they had tied
at the end of the regulation 72-hole
distance, tied again at the end of the
first scheduled 36-hole play-off, and
finally come down to the Hath hole
with only q whisker between them.
OILY BURKE is a throw-baek to
- the stolidity OF the Scottish pro-
fessionals who nurtured the game
of golf in this country. George Won
Elm is highly strung product of the
modern game, who fights jumping
nerves and q highly specialized muScu-
lar system with the same grim deter
ninAtlon that he holes puts to tie for
the open championship Billy Burke
apparently has not q nerve In his body.
Won Elm is bundle Of leaping, Jump
ing nerves but nerves under ample
control Won Elm is OF the type Of
competitor capable Of keying himself
up to the ultimate in high-gear work.
Burke is Of the type who plows along,
taking the breaks as they come, appar-
emily plugger. But what p1tigger
he is. II plugging makes for golf bril-
lance, Burke has brought a new style
of temperament to the game. More Of
the Hagen type than Won Elrn--this
/ Burke-and Won Elm is more Of the
type of player that was Bobby Jones
before Bobby got smart and decided
!. to play golf and let his temperament
90 hang itself
A slashiag hitter who bangs away al
q golf ball as If he would drive IL into
the next county, and q tailor made
Swtnger who guides the club IN a groove
from which 1t never can deviate because
Of certain mechanical traits In the swing
he has found to be useful IN the ulti-
mae result The first is Won Elm. The
second Is Burke. And don't forget
either, that George Won Elm is not a
professional. He insists that he is q
business man golfer" and not q profess
sional. But whatever he is, he is MAKING
g. small fortune this year out OF the
game Of goW
THOSE andents of golf form who
a watch Tor the peculiarities of style
viii md In the swing Of the ma
G1nal open golf champion a revelation
That wiz blest wide open all the theories
Heretofore regarded as gospei--tl1at
the bali must be struck with a fiat
wrist Billy Burke strikes the ball with
the nat Of his left wrist toward the line
OF night-not toward the ground, as we
nave been told these many years Billy
Burke literally pushes the ball around
the green. But how he pushes it.
One look at him hitting a full iron
shot snd the marvel Is that he does not
get more brides than he does. It is AL
most impossible to imagine Burke
hooking ball far eff to the left Of the
Inc. He plays al his long shots with a
slight fade. straight as q string on the
line slightly to the left Of the hole. and
when the ball hits the green it jumps to
the right. In the final round of that
elongated play-oh at Toledo we saw
Burke hit four consecutive iron shots
from distances between $50 and 22D
yards away to within two yards or less
OF the hole. One Of them almost holed
out, he missed two Of the puts and got
two Of them down for two brides in four
holes. Burke Is not tremendous hitter
from the tee. Monro Hunter probably
viii outrange him by so yards from the
tee. Probably even little George Diffen-
baugh, when he gets hold Of the ball,
viii outhit the national champion ven
Elm will be 30 to 40 yards past him
when they both hit them we'll But
when Billy hits an iron shot there Is
nothing much left to 90 He knocks
them 50 close to the pin that his pars
come easy. Even when Billy tries TO
sock one, he doesn't get tremendous
distance.
MON ELM. on the other hand, about
v the size Of q light welterweight
The was once the amateur light
weight boxing champion OF Utah can
BIT the ball with the best Of them. he
Is almost as long from the tee as Mcnro
Hunter when he really decided to &c
out after distance And with those
wide open faiTwsys ct Indian Sprine
We can be sure Of a pretty hitting due
between the big Hunter and the small
looking Won Elm George looks small
but he Is not He holds hiz chin down
between his shoulders, which gives him
the appearance of q small man
Stripped he looks the perfect picture Of
y boxer in good condition--as he al.
wsys is. For big time golf todsy is far
different from that Of the old cays
Today the leaders must keep them.
selves in good physical shape To retain
their place at the top of the heap
Won Ems strongest shots are those
played from the pitching elubA He
hits his iron shots with q crispness
that Is uneaualed by any golfer in the
lano today. Crispness is the watchworo
OF this scrapping gent who vent *
far ct Toledo TO lose by q shot.
The uncertainty shout the date o.
the match. which has prevailed fol
nearly a fortnight since Harry Nash
manager Of the pair. announced thai
Won Elm has radio engagement or
August 90, was relieved today with an.
notincement from Indian Spring thai
the match will be played on SUNDAY
September 6. The men are TO be rait
$500 for their lsshole exhibition match
The original date Of the affair We,
August So Thus the Indian sprini
Club gets the two biggest stars IN pro.
fessionai golf on the same day on which
two months ago they settled the littl.
argument at Inverness Burke finaIi;
won the title on July 8. after two s6,
hole play.offs.
NToMAN golfers Of the Manor clul
w defeated the washington Coli ant
Country Club w5snans team b
Manor yesterday, winning by So point
TO over q rain-soaked course. In tn
Es.t saaf