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Evening star., 1932-04-18
VINES CONSTITUTES
PROBLEM IN TENNIS
U. S. Davis Cup "Hope' Due
Test in Mason and Dixon
Tourney This Week.

By the Associated Press.
w YHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
M w. Va, April 18.-H. Els
v v worth Vines is affording
plenty of opportunity for
somber reflection by "viewers-with-
alarm" these days
Hailed as the tennis giant who would
regain the Davis Cup for this country
after he captured the national singles
title last Summer, Vines has been
beaten 50 frequently this Spring that
some observers fear the Davis Cup is
just as far away as ever.
Vines has been beaten four times in
the last month. He lost to Lester
Stoefen in the final round for the Los
Angeles city title, was eliminated in
the second round of the Houston invi-
tation by Martin Buxby and was beat
en- by Wilmer Allison in the final
rounds of both the Tulane invitation
and the North and South tournaments.
Whether the tall Pasadena youngster
simply is rounding into shape more
slowly than he did a year ago may be
demonstrated in the Mason and Dixon
tournament at the Greenbrier Country
Club here this week.
Vines and his Davis Cup teammates.
Frank Shields, Allison and John Van
Ryn, were entered in mems singles
along with Berkeley Bell of New York,
No 10 in the national rankings, and
Gregory Mangin of Newark. No. II.
Baroness Giacomo Levi of New York
will defend her women's singles title
against such stars as Mrs. John Van
Ryn, Virginia Hilleary and Ann Page
, Of Philadelphia, Virginia Rice of Bos-
ton and Florence Lebouttilier Of West
bury, N. Y.
Play was to start today.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
PORTNER RING CARD
PRESENTS VARIETY
Five Divisions Represented
Tomorrow Night-BoWen,
BraunStein Star.
lightweights, Welters,
- middleweights and light heavies
AIaya,7cria nav

TEATHERS, lightWeightS, Welters,
- middleweights and light heavies
appear on the Alexandria Day
Nursery's all-star card tomorrow
night at Portners Arena in one Of the
widest assortments of divisions Match
maker Frank Mann has ever gathered.
Marino Marini and Chuck Henderson,
lightweights, open the show in four
rounds and then comes Nick Antonelli
meeting Al Martin in featherWeight
duel
MiddleWeights rule the roost in the
next bout, when Billy Strickler swaps
punches with Sam FinazZo, Baltimore
boy, undefeated here in five starts.
Billy Schwartz and Billy FiemSter
hold the light heavyweight spotlight in
the fourth bout. while the finale swings
back to the welterweight division, bring
ing together Ray Bowen and Sammy
Braunstein for the 147-pound District
of Columbia title.
Although local fans are looking for
the Braunstein-Bowen tangle to send
them home talking, little Nick Anto-
nelli and Al Martin are the pair to be
watched
Martin, banging away from bell to
bell. coming all the time, and Nick
shooting it home as he comes in, should
be the thrill of the night and probably
will be-
Marino Marini, under the tutelage
of Harry Groves, is anxious to show the
fans some new stuff Harry claims
Marino has it now and will defeat Hen
derson.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
ENCOUNTER STARS
OF FOUR NATIONS
Australia, Spain, France and
Mexico Represented In
Bouts This Week.

BY the Associated Press
n 7 IEW YORK, April 18.-Amer-
N ican boxers stand by this
/ Y week to repel a major in
vasion by fisticuf1ng stars
from Australia, Spain, France and
Mexico.
Australia's middleweight hope, Jack
kAbourne, victor in four straight bouts
IN this country, must be at his best if
he hopes to take" Dave Shade, Cali
folnla veteran, in a 10-rounder at the
White City arena, Chicago, Thursday
night. Despite his many years in the
ring, Shade still is more than a match
for most present-day I60-pounders.
Kllbourne'S last victory was a one
round knockout of Haakon Hansen,
Chicago Norwegian, last week.
Pladner Meets Ostrow.
Frances representative on the weeks
program, Emile (Spider) Pladner. will
meet the Revere, Mass, bantamweight,
George OStrCw, at Boston tonight.
Pladner'S first American start resulted
in disputed drawn battle with the
clever Hungarian featherweight, Antol
Kocsis
Spain will be represented by Johnny
Pena, who tackles Milton Zuniga Of
Mexico in one of two 10-round matches
in the National Boxing Associations
featherweight elimination tournament
at Detroit Friday night. The other
bout pits Fidel La Barba of Los Angeles,
former fiyweight champion, against
Peter Sarron of Birmingham, Ala.
David VelaSco Mexican welterweight,
is matched against young Corbett of
Fresno, Calf, in a hereunder at Sac
ramento Thursday.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Keep Your Eye Off Golf Ball
Research Specialist at Illinois Finds That Blind
folding Improves Players Swing.

Practice continued for six weeks.
Those who learned to drive while
looking at the ball did better at
first, but soon the blindfolded pu-
pills began to catch up. When the
blindfolds were removed they sur
passed the others.
DR.. Griffith explained that result
by saying the blindfolded men de-
veloped the proper stance and a
feeling for the swing which those
who watched the ball did not have.
Playing golf, like other types of
athletic skis" he says. depends on
a fine sense of muscular balance,
coordination and timing. The in
struction to watch the ball makes
men attend to the ball rather than
to development Of that sense.
Looking at the ball is the only
convenient way of making sure the
head is held constant 1t contributes
little or nothing to gaining Of skill"
Evening star., 1932-04-18

arms hanging comfortably, the club
head will rest on the ground with
the center of its face directly behind
the ball. The club face should be
at right angles to the direction line,
as Archie Compston holds it in the
drawing.
Provided the swing is correct,
these arrangements will determine
what part Of the club face will hit
the ball. You no longer have to
bother with this detail.
It is true that some fine golfers
address the ball with the heel of
the club and others with the toe,
but the orthodox method is better
for most of us.
In succeeding articles We will deal
with other arm details.
II you are interested in improv-
ing your game, Joe Glass has a new
lsafiet on How to Practice" which
he will send to any reader request
ing it. Address Jos Glass, in care
Of this paper. inclosing Q stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
tCopyright, 1880
Evening star., 1932-04-18
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

remained with the club through all its
vicissitudes.
Brown is busy these days laying out
the new holes at Beaver Dam which
will round cut the new Beaver Dam
layout and bring the ninth and eight
eenth greens close to the new club
house.
WHO is the woman golfer at the
w Army-Navy Country Club who
tcld her husband a few days ago
that she had played for several months
On the Army-Navy course and never
had been in a trap? The husband
ccckc1 quizzical eye at her and OBJ
served:
"Ye3, dear. that is fine, but have YOU
ever seen a trap on cur c0urse?" The
Arn1v-Navy club cCurce is known as
the layout without a trap.
CHAIRMAN j. WILLIAM HARVEY,
jr, Of the Indian Spring Golf
Committee, is busy these days ar
ranging the schedule of events for the
club. Harvey says the Indian Spring
golfers will have busy season begin
ming early in May and winding up in
october with the playing Of the club
championship.
With more than $50 new members
taken into Indian Spring during the
Winter there is certain to be greater
interest in golf this year than ever be-
fore at that club.
Evening star., 1932-04-18

Is Bannockburn going to continue
| operating this year? Spokesman for
| the club maintain that as long as
Bannockburn can operate as pub
lie fee course with such success as
it has had since it went on a public fee
basis last July, it can continue to
operate Perhaps the tip-off is that
Tony Sylvester, the Shrewd Bannock-
burn pro, had laid in an entire new
stock of golf equipment this year. We
can't imagine Tony laying out any con-
siderable amount of money If he didn't
have faith in the future of Bannock-
burn, but he has spent upward of a
thousand simoleonS in gcn equipment
which he hopes to sell.
On a recent Sunday Bannockburn
had more than 200 players using the
course at 81 head, and play during
the week has been fairly uniform. The
income of the club from green fees
more than exceeds the pay roll, and the
prospects for 1882 at Bannockburn are
bright DR.. T. J. Brown, chairman of
the Greens Committee, predicts that
the course will be in better shape this
year than ever before. Look at our
putting green's" says Brown. They
are better than I've ever seen 'em, and
I think the whole course is in better
shape at this time Of year than in any
previous Spring" Bannockburn has
about 40 permanent members who have
Evening star., 1932-04-18

THE question of whether or not there
l. is any great difference between the
best method for an iron shot and
that for drive often recurs. 1t is said.
Would it not be simple to swing al
clubs alike? Is there any real reason
for a difference?"
The principal reason why there must
be a difference is that in the two cases
it is not the idea that the ball should
behave in the same way. Playing an
iron, an exact control of distance is
most desirable, while in driving and, at
least half the time, in playing wood
club from the fairway it is length, and
as much as possible Of it. which is
sought.
In the first instance, backspin is an
aid both in holding the flight of the ball
true and in limiting its run after it
strikes the ground; but of the tee. and
through the green where the ultimate
length is desired, the ball must be made
to roll as far as possible. A good golf
hole requires a tee shot to be we'll
placed. but the occasion rarely arises
when the longer shot, properly directed,
is not better than the shorter one.
THE backspin with which an iron
l. shot is played is accomplished by
into the turf in front of the spot where
striking downward blow with a
lofted club. The way in which the
club takes the ball first and then passes
the ball rested is familiar to every one.
In order to drive a ball without back
spin, this downward punch is omitted
and the club swing In sweeping arc
Evening star., 1932-04-18

TX YES, he's getting tougher and
" tougher all the time I can
take care Of him nowadays,
but it won't be long before
he'll be moving so fast that no one
around here will be able to step along
with him. And you ought to see him
putt when the pressure is down"
Walter w Cunningham, the Burning
Tree Club, who learned the game as
a caddie at the Washington Golf and
Country Club, was speaking of his
brother Frank, the same kid who
stepped out in front of a nationally
celebrated field at KenWood last Fall
and topped stellar group of par chas-
ers which included Tom Armour. Gene
Sarazen, John Farrell Willie MacFar-
lane and a few others, for the first
round of the National Capital open.
Watch frankie go this year. If he
keeps on improving" continued Walter,
I just don't know where he will stop.
or course, there is a limitation as to
how good fellow may be, but he has
improved SO much in such a short
time that I don't think he'll stop i'm
proving for five years more"
A ND just to show you how a golfer
IA can be developed in a'few years If
he gives time and thought to play
ing the game and mastering all the
shots, FRANKIE Cunningham, the 20
year-old kid who led a fast group of
the nations best shotmakers over the
first round of the KenWood tournament.
is playing this year in his fifth season
Of golf. Yes. he started playing golf
just five years ago, and in that short
time he has so mastered the game that
he is equipped right now to step out
with the best of EN- and move along
as fast as any golfer. The lad has
played that Burning Tree course, which
Is probably the toughest layout around
the Capital, in 81 strokes, five better
than par, and he threatens to do bet
ter than that almost every time he
starts. If ever a lad developed in the
professional game around Washington
had bright future, Frankie Cunning
ham Is that lad.
Now Walter, his older brother, has
quite golf game, too. Walter is lust
about the hottest piece of golfng ma
chinery over Burning Tree that could
be imagined. He gets around that tough
layout in figures close to the par of 70
every time he starts. And yet the kid.
who has been playing only five years, is
right on his heels and takes as many
matches as he loses. That shows the
value OF redhead and the will to stick
to the job. The redhead Is for perse-
verance, and the viii u to win. Watch
Evening star., 1932-04-18
.BOWSER MATMEN
OFFER FIVE BOUTS
George and WeStenberg
Meet in Feature Tonight
at Boiling Field.

M CHMAKER OLDIE
jN AHEARN and the Boiling Field
I Athletic Association today were
awaiting the launching OF
their most momentous wrestling show
at Boiling Field Armory. Tonight at
$50 o'clock a splendidly rounded card
of five events is to be offered.
Foremost among those showing to-
night will be Ed dom George, former
heavyweight king-pin of Bowserdom.
and Marvin Westenberg, 21-year-old
Pacific Coast sensation. These Beau
Brummels of the mat are to joust to a
finish
George, in hot pursuit of the laurels
he lost year ago likely will encounter
considerable difficulty in tossing West
enberg. Despite his extreme youth.
Westenberg is fast and smart and
should give a good account of himself.
In the other Wind-up crafty Karl
Pojello, though conceding plenty of
poundage, will be favored to wear down
and defeat August Benkert, Belgian
mammal.
Three Commute time limit prelim-
inaries of unusual caliber rival the top
liners in interest
Charley Strack and Dr. Fred Meyers
come together in an exceptionally
promising go, "Bool" Martin takes on
Clivio Massimo. and Danny Winters
opposes Joe Vargo.
The advance ticket sale continues at
Goldie Ahearn's until 5 o'clock this
afternoon. Women will be admitted
at half price.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
MANGIN MAY APPEAR
IN DAVIS CUP SHOW
Former G. U. Tennis Ace Looms as
Alternate for Matches at Chevy
Chase Next Week.
CREGoRY MANGIN, former George

4 NREGORY MANGlN, former George
~ town University tennis sensation
and recently crowned indoor ma
tional singles champion, may be among
those present next week when repre-
sentatives of the United States oppose
Canada's team in a Davis Cup tie tennis
stand on the Chevy Chase courts.
A sensation during the Winter season.
Mangin needs only to continue his SEN
sational play in the Mason-Dixon tour
nament starting at White Sulphur
Springs. w. Va, to be brought here for
the three-day competition on April %,
90 and 80
While the four original selections,
Frank Shields. Ellsworth Vines, John
Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, are fix
lures to oppose Canada, Mangin may be
selected for future play if any of the
aforementioned falters
Following the Mason-Dixon tourney
the United States Davis Cup representa-
tives are to report here over the week
end. Here they will polish off on the
Chevy Chase courts
The advance ticket sale will open
Wednesday. Application blanks for res
ervations NAV be had at Spalding's, the
Chevy Chase Club and Junior League
club room, Connecticut avenue and @
street.
Evening star., 1932-04-18

20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.
WASHINGTON and Philadelphia

WASHINGTON and Philadelphia
w will meet tomorrow in the
opening ball game Of the season
here. Walker or Johnson will pitch
for the Nationals and either Coombs
or Morgan for the Athletics.
Clark Griffith has about given up
hope of getting Gandil star Mont
real first baseman, for Washington.
Too many other clubs are after him.
Howard Shanks, who appears the
find of the season. may break into
the outfeld for Washington.
Edward Herbert has signed as UNI
pire in the Sunday School League
and Thomas B White has been
named secretary and official scorer.
Manager Love of Sherwood has
signed John Noone, J. A. Clements,
Roy Rhoades, Harry Noone. E. P.
DoTe, George Evans, John Patton, H.
Love, w. B. Young. Earl Porter, Sam
Hyiett and John Harrington. Man
ager Roberts of Ingram has signed
Clarence Johnson, L. F Gaines, John
Hoffman, Norman Ford, w. E. Gun
der, Millerd Smith, Frank Bury.
Charles Miller, Ray Crown, Edward
Painter. Samuel Taylor, A. D. Butts
and Raymond Herden.
Eastern and Western will clash
tomorrow in the opening game Of
the public high school base ball title
series in Union League Park. West
ern will depend on Stearns. Peck,
Howard, Myers, Adams, McArdle,
Bethel. Lehman. Pate, Loomis and
Roberts, and Eastern on Fisher, Co
hill, harris, Watkins, Dyer, Greer,
Brockwell, Barr, Johnson and
Leonard
Evening star., 1932-04-18
ELI NINE is GANGED
IN COLLEGE LEAGUE
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 18.-The atten-
~ ton of five teams in the Eastern
intercollegiate Base Ball League is
centered today upon the problem Of
trying to stop Yale. which heads the
standing as a result of a clean sweep
against Columbia, 10 to and to /,
in the first two championship games.
Victor over Cornell by 8 to 2 in the
league opener for both teams at Phila-
delphia Saturday, Pennsylvania draws
the only hand-to-hand assignment
against the flying Ellis this week.
Capt. Eddie Warren's Ellis are ia
vored. not so much because they have
won their first two games. but more
because in winning them they have all
but eliminated one Of their strongest
rivals-C Columbia.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Golf Analysed
BY JOE GLASS.

Consider the action of the arms
in the full swing for wood shots.
Their manipulation really is proc
ess within a process, the larger being
the coordination of all the body
movements that produce the stroke.
Putting the arms in motion in the
back swing initiates all the other
body movements If this inaugural
movement is made incorrectly the
way is paved for all sorts of errors.
OF course, these may come any way,
but the advantage is on our side if
we begin right. To do this habit
of properly addressing the ball
should be acquired Stand close
enough to the ball that, with your
Evening star., 1932-04-18
FRONT ROYAL VICTOR.

FRONT ROYAL, Va, April 1s-
Three home runs featured a ball game
in which the Front Royal All-Stars
defeated the Majestic Radio nine of
Washington, 2 to /, here yesterday.
McCracken of the winners cracked out
two of the circuit drives and Edwards
of Maje5tics got the other.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Muny Golf Tests
To Start June Ii
T oU1sv1LLE, April 10 t4).-The

T OUISVILLE, April 18 (P).-The
l. United States Golf Association
announced tonight qualifying
competition in the National Amateur
public links championship tourna-
ment must be held during the two
weeks starting June l3.
The tournament will be held on
the Shawnee public golf course in
Louisville July 19 to %.
Each city may enter not more than
six players to be determined in the
qualifying competition in the various
cities,
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Differences Between Drive
And Iron Swings Described
By Jones and Reasons Given

which is f1atter at the bottom, and
should strike the ball Squarely in the
back while the clubhead is moving in
horizontal plane In this way the
spinning effect is limited to the loft on
the face Of the club.
The tee shot which is knocked down
will invariably climb when bucking any
sort Of contrary breeze. The down
ward blow produces backspin and this
spin forces the ball up. When its force
is spent it descends almost vertically
and usually drops dead And the
player, having noted a sweet feel and
an attractive looking shot, is surprised
to find himself yards behind another
drive which did not look to be nearly
so good as his. I think it is a mis-
understanding of this principle which
makes the man who has only a little
knowledge so helpless in heavy wind.
Trying to keep his shots down makes
him hit them with backspin They
start out low enough, but rise quickly
and soon are floating at the mercy Of
the wind.
A LONG this same line, it is hard to
n make a beginner understand that
the best way to get a brassie shot
up from close or cuppv lie is to go
down after it, Given a lie Of this kind.
slightly downhill, the average golfer
wants to pick the ball cleanly and lift
it up. His reward is usually a full or
half-top. The experienced player makes
no such mistake He knows that he
cannot obtain his greatest length in
this way but he must get the ball up
to get any length at all So instead of
trying to take the ball cleanly, he
smashes it down and relies upon the
spin to cause it to rise.
Almost all beginners are slicers and
nearly all slicers strike downward. Very
few players who hook habitually hit
down. They are usually slightly more
advanced and need only to use their
left sides bit more to play very
creditable games.
(Copyright. 1922
Do you have trouble with your iron
shots, particularly in the wind? If
you do, then Bobby Jones' Ieaflet on
iron play no doubt will help your game.
Send for it, inclosing a stamped, self
addressed envelope care of The Star.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
GREINER LEADS RUNNERS
Sets Pace in knights of Columbus
Ten-Mile Practice Run.

Covering the 10 miles in l hour "a
seconds, Bill Greiner Knights of Co.
lumbus runner. won the weekly prac-
tlce jsunt conducted yesterday by the
K. of G. over the Mount Vernon
Boulevard.
H L. Mahgonbe, United States Navy.
was second, followed in order by Mike
Lynch, Jerry Looney and Jim Montague.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
By the Associated Press.

7 IRBANA, Ill. April 1s - DR..
Coleman r. Griffith, athlet-
~ ic research specialist at the
University OF Illinois, would
teach golf by blindfolding the pu-
pill
Psychologically, he says, a golf
player need not use his eyes at all
to swing a wooden club.
DR.. Griffith has experimental with
two groups of men in his labora-
tories to establish that all that's
needed in a golf drive is a steady
and still head
He took men who never had had
q club in their hands One group
was taught to drive by the ordinary
method. The others were given some
preliminary instruction about stance
and mechanical details of hitting
then were blindfolded.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
TENNIS SEATS ON SALE
Fans Taxed From rs Cents to $3
for Pro Show This Week.

Tickets for the professional tennis
matches featuring Big Bill Tilden to be
held Friday, Saturday and Sunday on
the Wardman Park Hotel courts, will
60 on sale tomorrow at Spalding's and
the hotel. Prices will be rs cents to So.
Plans have been made to accommo-
date 5000. and erection Of stands will
begin tomorrow.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
A BIG TENNIS PLAYER.

Roman Najuch, Polish professional
tennis star, is one of the biggest men
to ever succeed at the sport. He weighs
200 and Is over feet tall.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
BY BOBBY JONES

CThe only man who ever held the
American amateur and open champion
ship and British amateur and open
championships in one year,
Evening star., 1932-04-18
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

Minneapolis, 4; louisville. /.
Columbus, 9; Milwaukee. 8.
Indianapolis. 3; St. Paul, 2.
Toledo, Is; Kansas City, 5.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

Knoxville. 8; New Orleans. S.
Chattanooga, Il: Atlanta, 3.
Little Rock, S; Memphis, q
Birmlngham- Nashville, postponed. rain.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
DR.. FREELAND ENTERED

Preakness Victor Among Crack
Field in Aurora Feature.
CHICAGO, April 1s [P.-Dr. Free
land, winner of the 1929 Preakness, has
been named for the inaugural handicap
at Aurora May 2, the opening day of
the Chicago racing season.
Other hrst-f1ight thoroughbreds named
for the event are Lady Broadcast. Un-
common Gold, Burning Up and Tan
merry. promising the best field in the
history of the track.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
Minor Leagues
INTERNATIONAL LEAGuE.

Jersey City. 7; Toronto, 8.
Buffalo. g, Reading. 4.
Newark, 9: Rochester, 8.
Baltimore, II; Montreal, 5.
Evening star., 1932-04-18
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

Dallas, 4 ShreVep0rt, /
Fort Worth, 4; Wichita Falls, 8.
Houston, Is San Antonio. 6.
Galveston. 3; Beaumont. 2 l1 innings).
Evening star., 1932-04-18
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.

Seattle. IA: Oakland 20.
San Francisco, 10; Missions, 40.
Sacramento, 6-5, Portland, $40.
Hollywood, So, Los Angeles, AS.
Evening star., 1932-04-18

STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Evening star., 1932-04-18

~ YES, he's getting tougher and
v tougher all the time. I can
take care Of him nowadays,
but it wont be long before
Evening star., 1932-04-18

Frank Cunningham. He is no flash,
and he may go places nationally.