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Evening star., 1934-09-09
Runyan, Laffoon Tie for First
In Glens Falls Open Tourney

| was the little known Jerry Gian-
feranti Of Lexington, Mass, with 252
Bracketed at 285 were Billy Burke
Of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; Willie Mac
farlane, the scholarly stylist Of
Tuckahoe; Jack Patroni Of New
Rochelle, and Bill Mehlhorn of
Louisville, KY.
Tony Manero of Greensboro. N. c..
was alone with 286, while two blows
behind him came Craig Wood of
Deal, N. j., New Jersey open cham
pion who mixed an 80 with q So
today; Charles Lacey of Great Neck.
Long Island, and H. G. Picard of
Charleston, S. C. Willie Klein of East
Winston, Long Island, and Clarence
Clark of Bloomfield. N. j., were in
twelfth place with 1895.
The only others who got a slice of
the $4,000 prize money we're in the
290 bracket, comprising Bobby Aston
of Ottawa, Canada; Joe Turnesa of
Elmford, N. Y, and Gene Kunes of
NorriStown, Pa.
Denny Shute of Menoa, Pa, former
British open title holder, was out of
the money with a 295, as was Tom
Creavy of Albany, former National
p. G. A. king; Whiffy Cox of Brook
lyn and Johnny Golden of Noroton,
Conn, each with 295.
Evening star., 1934-09-09

champion, and Johnny Goodman, ex-
open champion.
These three have youth, skill, fine
tournament temperaments and about
everything needed to get along.
Yet all three may be turned back
by Tuesday night, with the cham
pionship just warming up.
In addition to their other qualifi-
cations, all three of these can putt
and that is vital matter in fast,
short match, where one or two missed
puts can upset the apple cart.
Dunlap's fine steadineSs Lawson
Little's power and control - Good
mans play up to and all around the
greens-plus their youth and stamina
these make them three OF the lead
ing favorites.
Then there will be Francis Ouimet,
for whom Brookline carries a men,
ory he never will forget.
Ouimet is a great match play golf
er, one of the best of all competitors,
with as much skill left as he ever
had. He may easily be a wounding
thorn in the side of more than one
star youngster, dreaming of the hour.
There will be at least 10 ex-cham-
pions starting the parade, dating
back 80 years to Chandler Egan, who
won in 1904 and then repeated in
19o5-and, just year ago, at the
Evening star., 1934-09-09
MITCHELL AHEAD
4 IN TENNIS EVENT.
First to Reach Army-Navy
{ arter-FinaIS-WeIsh
4 Beats Old Mate.

n DOLLY MITCHELL seeded No
2, and defending champion,
yesterday became the first
player to reach the quarter
finals in the singles in the Army Navy
Country Club invitation tennis tour
ney, when he polished off Herb Shen-
kin, 3-6, 60, 60.
Barney Welsh, national public parks
champ, and seeded No. /, won a Sec
ond-round match over Maurice Gous
beau, 6-4, 81. Not so many years
ago Goubeau was rated No. on the
Western High team and Welsh was
No. 2.
There were no upsets yesterday in
the matches played on the fast-drying
Army-Navy layout. Ralph McElvenny
and Welsh, seeded first in the doubles,
defeated Tony Latona and Alan
Staubly in a second-round match,
6-3. 6-3. 1t was much closer en-
counter than the score would in
dicate.
Action in both doubles and singles
Is carded today, starting at 10 am,
and most Of the matches are figured
20 provide interesting battling.
Summaries:
Singles.
Second round-welsf defeated Goubeau
6-4. 81; third round. Mitchell defeated
Shenkin, 3-6. e.. 6-2.
Doubles.
First round-Mitchell and Shore de-
feated s. Pierce and Tracy. 6-3. 6-4;
RitZenberg and Ritzenberg defeated Bur-
well and Erana. 7-5. Go: McElvenny
and Welsh defeated Thompson and Walsh
60. 60; O'Neill and Sendel defeated
Hatch and Hatch. 81. 6-4; Freshman
and T: Pierce defeated Ballard and Col
Inns. "a. 90.
Second round-McElvenny and Welsh
defeated Latona and Staubly. 6-3, 6-3
TOday's Schedule.
Doubles.
10 am. first. round-Blade-M Dorst
vs. Boyle-partner; ] pm second round
ONeill-Sendel VS.. Freshman-T. Pierce: 4
p.m., second round. RitZenberg-RitZenberg
VS.. winners OF the Dorst-Blade and Boyle
partner match.
Singles.
IL a m, third round-Willis vs. Fresh
man; . pm. third round. Mai Dorst VS.
Sendel; 2:30 Pm. second round Welsh
vs.. Staubly: pm, third round Shore VS..
H. Ritzenberg.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
- LENS FALLS, N. Y, septem-
ber 8.-Paul Runyan oi
~ White Plains, slim ruler Of
the national P. G.. A., and
25-year-old KY Laffoon of Denver
today tied for first place in the sixth
annual Glens Falls Open with
72-hole totals of 280.
Runyan made gallant comeback
to post a pair of 68s, three under
par, in today's final rounds after
being six strokes back Of the leader
at the halfway mark, while the
golf1ng typhoon of the West coupled
a SO and 72 with his 68 and II of
the previous days for the 72-hole
aggregate, four under par for the
distance.
Runyan on the first two days shot
a 73 and par II, placing him
fifteenth from the top at the end of
the first SO holes.
They will play 18 holes tomorrow
for the title and $3.50.
Storming home in a heavy rain,
Laffoon had an opportunity to clinch
the title by par golf on the final
two holes.
He Clipped short to the seventeenth,
however, to take a 5, and barely
missed holing a 20-foot putt on the
home green which would have given
him a birdie and victory.
Two strokes back of the leaders
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Out to Equal Jones.

HAIRED Lawson Little wih
have the greatest chance he
probably ever will have in the
tournament which opens tomorrow.
If he wins-and he is a co-favorite
with Champion George Dunlap-his
name will go down in history along
with that of Bob Jones as the only
American amateur who has held the
American and British titles in the
same year. Lawson won the British
amateur championship in May. At
Brookline the boys in the know look
upon him as a potential champion.
And he probably will stop off in
Washington on his way home from
Brookline, whether he wins or not, for
he has many friends here, and spent
a week in the Capital prior to his de-
parture for England last Spring. Last
year he went to the semi-flnal, where
Dunlap bumped him off.
But Little is a Sounder golfer this
year than last. Those iron shots which
were missing the green's last year are
finding the pin now and Lawson, al
ways dangerous putter, is better
than ever around the green. He will
be the one man to stop at Brookline
the most-feared competitor of them
all. But fate has a way of tossing
sand into the gear box of the favorites
in golf tournaments. 1t is the one
sport in which form Is evanaScent and
in which the champion doesn't usually
win,
Evening star., 1934-09-09

THEY are setting up the guillo-
tine at Brookline now. They
are sharpening the big steel
blade that, within q short
time, will begin to descend upon the
barred necks of more than 180 of the
best amateur golfers in the world.
For, in the new system Of 18-hole
match play which is to begin tomor-
row, star entries will be falling faster
than dead leaves blown from an
Autumn oak by an Autumn gale.
You can get some idea of the action
that will take place from the fact
that there will be 172 18-hole Scram-
bleS before the four survivors get their
shot at the longer 36-hole march.
AS almost anything can happen in
an 18-hole match where quality meets
quality, here Is one championship
where all guessing runs up against a
great rock in a fog.
On the opening day there will be So
matches among 104 competitors, with
76 drawing byes.
This will leave 1913 survivors by
tomorrow night. On Tuesday there
will be "a hand-to-hand conflicts all
day long. This gives you some idea
of the match play action that will
take place, and there will be no let
up on Wednesday, when two sets of
18-hole rounds will be fought to a
finish in the process of looping down
the field.
Any golfer who can wade through
this wild tangle, ducking the guillo-
tine, will need few weeks rest for
the purpose of restoring set of shat
tered nerves, frayed to the cracking
point.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Vines Beats Ban Of Tennis Mognls
by Utilizing Neutral Radio Booth.
by JOHN LARDNER-

cials are said to be mulling over a
list of proposed fines and punish
ments, to be enforced in addition to
the immediate expulsion of the sin
lister Vines from the premises. Mean
while, caretakers are engaged in re-
moving all vines, including ivy and
grape, from the buildings, walls and
messuages, as a symbol of anti-Vines
feeling.
Don't miss single bet" is the
slogan of the vigilantes, and fail to
see how Mr.. Vines can escape them
He is suffering the penalty of high
spirits.
(Copyright. 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Two Great Shots.

KESS blocked any attack Jones
might have made on the afternoon
round, on the second hole Of the
march. Both drove well on that hole,
with Bob having a neat margin in
length. Then Sweetser pulled out his
rusty spade mashie, and after sighting
the flag, $50 yards away, hit shot
that cut the pin all the way, bounced
a few times on the green and rolled
into the cup. That shot would have
unnerved most golfers, but not Jones.
Bob's face was tight as he played his
second and great shot it was, stop
ping only a hands breadth from the
hole. But 3 was no good against
and Jess went on to win, and 7.
the worst beating Jones ever received
in any championship.
In the final Sweetser easily met the
challenge of the veteran Chick Evans.
His mashie and niblic proving true
to the end of the match, which finished
and 2. With the exception of Bob
Jones, no one ever dominated an anna
teur championship more completely
than Sweetser did at Brookline.
am wondering what this cham
pionship at Brookline will be like. Any
championship at Brookline must be
spectacular. Ouimet made golf his
tory there in 1918 and Sweetser was
the Incompatible player II years ago.
Surely some one will be given Mer-
Inns touch on Brookline's fairways and
greens. OF the 180 starters, who will
if heo
Evening star., 1934-09-09

the officials are very tough. Mr.. Tilden
seldom got to first base with them.
He would score few minor victories
and then, just as he seemed to be
gaining control of the situation, the
officials would rise in body and bat
him down.
There was one time when William
didn't want to play a match at the
scheduled hour. He explained that his
buddy, Frank Hunter, who was en-
gagged in an important match on one
of the stadium courts, might be dis
tracted and annoyed by the presence
of Mr. Tilden and opponent in the ad-
joining alley.
Il will wait till Frank gets through" "
said Mr.. Tilden calmly, drawing up
a comfortable chair in the marquee.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
PLAY FINAL AT TENNIS
Mitchell and Latona Meet fol
Washington Grove Title.

Dooly Mitchell and Tony Latona
are to clash in the final round of the
singles in the third annual Wash
ington Grove Tennis Club tourney
this afternoon at Washington Grove
at o'clock. Barney Welsh, who won
last year, but was unable to defend in
the current tourney because he took
part in the national championships
staged at the same time, holds one
leg on the trophy that will be at stake
and Pat Deck has one. Three wins
are necessary to gain permanent pos
session.
Following the singles match, the
doubles final will be staged, with
Mitchell and Ralph McElvenny bat
Ting Frank Shore and Latona.
A permanent cup will be awarded
the singles runner-up and cups will
60 to the doubles champs. There will
be an admission charge of rs cents.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
COLE GOLF MEDALIST

Charlie Cole, with IA. yesterday
won the medal in the qualifying round
of the Kenwood Club championship
golf tournament. Top Denell and
Russ Hollebaugh, each with rs, tied
for the runner-up honors.
Match play in the championship
flight opens this morning at 10
o'clock.
10 a.m.-Charlie Cole VS.. Tom Good;
1905. Bruce Warden VS.. Henderson Dunn
Karak VS.. Top DenelI; 1920. Russ Holle-
baugh VS.. DR.. Schultze; 1925, Ellis Riley
vs. Reid w. Diggs; 1890. Noah Pomeroy
VS. Ray Farrell 10:35. Walter Furlow VS..
Maurys FitZperald
Evening star., 1934-09-09
WINS VET GOLF TITLE

MONTREAL, September CP.-
r. w. Smith of Pennsylvania today
posted an 19-hole card of 80 to win
the senior golf championship of the
United States and Canada. r. w.
Lee of Columbus, Ohio, the defending
champion. finished far down the list
with an SO.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
WOMEN IN TWO
BIC GOLF EVENTS
"FieId Day" at Washington,
Congressional Handicap
Carded This Week. n

"WO major women's Journeys
will be played over Washing
ton courses this week. Even
though neither of them in
volve one of the larger trophies, both
are expected to draw entry lists of 100
or more.
Tomorrow at the Washington Golf
and Country Club the annual field
day" of the Virginia organization will
be held, with the women of the Wash
ington club acting as hosts to the
feminine golfers from all the nearby
clubs. The tourney Els an 18-hole
handicap medal play affair, limited to
contestants whose handicaps do not
exceed 81, and entries will be received
up to tomorrow morning by Mrs.
Douglas Tschiffely.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
GAME AT RIVERDALE.

Mount Rainier A. c. and the DORA,
nine will meet in the second game of
a series this afternoon at / o'clock
on the Riverdale diamond. The
Mounts are to meet at Thirty-fourth
and Bunker Hill road at 1130 am
Evening star., 1934-09-09
7 EW YORK, September 8.-Ten-
| mis- players and tennis officials
i are high spirited people, and
v it's moi. SlIrnriSinR that they

wrist slapping and other genteel forms
of temper. When they do fall out
they fall out along party lines, the
officials banding together on one side
and the players forming as close
unit as possible on the other.
Once in a while, though, a diva
steps forward and sets the officials at
definance all alone. William Tilden
used to do this at Forest Hills, where
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Neutral GrOund-On the Air.

Neutral GrOund-On the Air.
"HIS game of hide and seek be-
tween Mr.. Vines and the Ty-
coons of Forest Hills is gov
erned by strict code of rules. If
Mr.. Vines can reach the radio broad
casters booth beside the courts With
out being tagged out, he is safe from
official interference. The booth is
neutral territory, under the terms of
an unfortunate treaty between the
officials and the radio people. The
officials didn't know, when they signed
it, that the sinister Vines would use
the treaty as loophole to gain ad-
mittance and to Seduce amateurs right
and left by his mere presense in the
stadium.
There has been some trouble be-
tween the officials and the sinister
Vines. It seems that this agitator, in
his capacity as a professional tennis
player, put the officials on the pan in
various articles in newspapers and
magazines. He made several cracks
which the officials consider uncalled
for. In short, he showed himself to
be an evil and subversive influence
on American sport.
There is no telling what will hap
pen to him II he Is caught In hostile
territory this week ex next. The ON
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Where Customers Are Right.

nncTc SuStOmCTS hTc night,
TINE officials noted this sign Of
INSTRUMENTATION with naughty
displeasure.
"No you won't" they told William.
I'VE will give you five minutes to get
out there on the court. If you don't
get out there we will default you. The
customers are waiting for you, and
the customers are always right"
Mr. Tilden scanned the faces OF his
antagonists. He saw that no quarter
would be given or received, SO he
ambled out on the turf with slightly
Sulky expression on his mobile coun-
tenance and proceeded to go through
the routine 1t was a signal victory
for the forces of law and order and
it strengthened the authority of the
Forest Hills Tycoons no little.
Right now the Tycoons are engaged
in combat with an equally fractions
soloist, H. Ellsworth Vines. Mr.. Vines
has been forbidden to show his face
within the sacred confines of the West
Side Tennis Club, where the national
singles tournament is being played off.
He is the victim of a one-man boy
colt, The officials will not be re-
sponsible for their actions if they
catch him poaching on their preserve.
Pickets are said to be posted at
every entrance to the club grounds.
Scouts are combing the asphalt for
evidence of the whereabouts of the
sinister Vines. No one is safe with
this person at large. and if the police
af &c n
to do so. What are we paying taxes
for, if we can't take the law in our
own hands once in a while?
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Many Events Today.

MdHy EVCHtS 1Oudys
NEEANWHILE today a flock of
VI club championship tournaments
are slated to get under way. At
Argyle the first round in the club title
tilt is to be played, with Hickman
Greene, the young Baton Rouge, La,
product, the favorite to win the title
held last year by cigar-Smoking Bill
Di Este.
At Indian Spring and Kenwood
qualifying rounds for the club title
were being run off. Craig Mckee,
Indian Spring champion, who was in
jured in an automobile accideE last
week in New Jersey, has been auto
matically given place in the cham
pionship and will not have to qualify
Manor also is staging its champion
ship qualification rounds today, with
Gene Vinson leading the parade at
IL. Vinson was permitted to qualify
before he left for Brookline and
scored II, which is more than likely
to win the medal round.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Stars Of the Field.

TN LOOKING over the long list of
qualifiers the chance for any
prophecy becomes worse and
worse.
Certainly. around the top, one must
think of George Dunlap, jr., defend
ing champion; Lawson Little, British
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Clincher Is Easy.

THE deciding game was Smiths
IL all the way He tossed 46 per
cent ringers to clinch the crown
with a 50-24 score. Smith, who re-
sides at Halls Hill, will be a strong
favorite in the metropolitan finals
This is his fourth year in the big event.
Along with the new champion, STAN
ley Robinson, Alfred Marshall, Sol
dier" Smith and Leonard Beckwith
will make up the Virginia contingent
IN the grand finale.
The metropolitan finals will be
played Tuesday night on the electric
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Players Battle Storm.


THE championship ran from Sat-
i urday to Saturday in those days
and the second qualifying round
was played in as heavy a rain as ever
fell on New England. The fairways
and green's were so deluged that
around noontime the U. S. G.. A. was
considering poStponing the play, until
courier reported that Jesse Guilford
had come home with a par-breaking
70, one of the greatest rounds ever
played anywhere. That news broke
up the committee meeting and the
players were told to go out and fight
the storm.
Sweetser qualified easily, but was
paired in the upper and more difficult
half Of the field, Willie Hunter, the
former British amateur champion, Jess
Guilford and Bob Jones were three of
the stars in the same bracket. I re-
member Sweetser looking over the
pairings and walking away without a
word. Tough going there, for any
star.
Jess opened his attack by beat
ing Bill Kenworthy, 10 and 9. The
next day he whaled Hunter, 7 and s.
and then took Guilford, 4 and 3. BY
that time the galleries were watching
the blond boy from Yale. Jones still
was the top-heavy favorite when he
met Sweetser in the semi finals, but
not for long. Although Bob played
well. he was far down to Sweetser
at the end of the first nine and when
on the back side he hit a magician's
pace to come home in "a strokes, he
could pick up only one hole on the
inspired New Yorker.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Vinson Carries WashingtonS Main Hope nateW Golf 7oun
THE SPORTZIGHT'
Brookline Cuillotine Set Up to Chop
Heads OFF Select of Colts Amateurs.
BY GRANTLAND RICE

age of so, eliminated Johnny Good
man, then wearing the open crown.
A large part of the history OF
American golf will march by at
Brookline-Egan. Chick Evans, Fran
els Ouimet, Bob Gardner, Max
Marston. Jesse Guilford, Jess Sweet
ser, Heron, Johnston and Somerville
all playing good golf today.
One of these may furnish the shock
of the week, but the physical grind
will work against most of them.
Then the Kids.
"HERE are fine young golfers
scattered all over the bunkered
map who will come charging
along with high hopes and golden
dreams.
There will be Zell Eaton from Okla
homa, Western champion and one oi
the best of the lot; Scotty Campbell
from Seattle, Canadian champion
Hamman and Goldman from Texas;
Charlie Yates. intercollegiate cham
pion from Atlanta; Charley KocsiS
from Detroit, another able stylish who
can go the route; Rodney Bliss from
Omaha to help Johnny Goodman
carry on the traditions Of this golfing
stronghold
1t will be interesting to compare the
styles-the form-of the older stars
with that of the younger generation
Many of these younger entries are
now seasoned veterans. They have
been under the strain and grind Of
hard tournament play for severa
years-so they are not fiuttering nov
ices all ready to be broken up.
They are all set to tear into thu
man they meet, having no particular
thought about his reputation. Fol
these yesterday is dead today"-anc
to-day will die tomorrow"
6
Touch and Timing for Day.
OLF is game beyond all reck-
II oning. 1t is largely matter o
mental attitude-of touch anC
timing for the day-or the week
One day you have it-and the mex
day it is gone-and there is no rea'
son to show why.
The element of luck is also terrific
One entry may shoot 70 and lose
as another turns in a 79 and wins
One golfer may shoot a SO in tht
morning and then an 83 in the after.
noon.
These are among the elements tina
add to the uncertainty of sport. Egar
shot his head off against Goodman
and had little left for his next start
The physical side isn't so killing
but the nerve and mental strain o.
match play in short dashes is another
matter.
1t will be a Furnishing hike from
tomorrow morning to late Saturday
afternoon, when the final winning
putt slips into the tin and there /,
just one survivor left from the 75C
who started out in August.
Certainly no other championship
ever offered as much dizzy action a.
the Battle of Brookline offers in ad.
vance.
(Copyright 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc,)
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Smith, in Ringer Comeback,
~ Wins Virginia Colored Title

lighted courts near the Banneker
swimming pool. Along with the i'm
provement Of the playing facilities
some high-class shoe tossing is ex-
pected.
The rained-out District champion
ship will be concluded tomorrow. The
semi-flnals will be played on the
Twelfth Street Y. M. c. A. courts
and the finals on the Banneker courts
at night. "Speck" Gather advanced
to the semi-final round yesterday with
an unexpected victory over Oliver
(Huckster) Thompson. Gather dropped
the first game, 47-53, but came back
to win the next two, 50-42 and
$50.
White Is Favorite.
A MI WHITE defeated ]. E. Will
n liams in the first round match,
500, 50-13. tossing 48 and
50 per cent ringers, respectively. White
is favorite to win the title.
The following matches will be play
ed tomorrow:
| L. Roots VS.. "Chick" Hammond. L.
Murphy VS.. H. Tyler, A. West meets
the winner of the Murphy Tyler
match. J. Postell VS.. p. Blackwell.
Virginia summaries:
Semi-finals-L. Beckwith, defeated
A. Marshall, 50-43, 50-34. S. Robin
son, defeated H. Chinn, 52-22. 500,
w. Smith. defeated L. Beckwith, 54-
%, 53-l8.
Final-W. Smith, defeated s. Robin.
son. 52-23, 52-37, 5o-24.
Evening star., 1934-09-09
Play in Three Glasses.

CONGRESSIONAL will stage the
I other big event, which is a
handicap tournament for
woman members of the Maryland
State Golf Association. This also will
be an 18-hole handicap medal play
event. with no entry fee. Only play
erS with 1884 State handicap cards
will be eligible.
Play will be in three classes. with
class A players those with handicaps
from l to 10; class B players with
handicaps from 10 to 27, and class c
players with handicaps from % to 35.
Mrs. Harry A. Knox Of Congressional
is the club representative on the
Maryland State Association Women's
Committee and will be in charge of
the tournament. Entries will be ac-
cepted at the tee.
With the main events Of the week
given over to women, the mere men
will stage a little links jamboree of
their own at Woodmont next Wednes-
day, when they are billed to play in
a handicap tournament of the Mary
land State Association. This tourna-
ment also will be played in three han
dicap classes.