The Washington times., 1935-06-06

Country
Kirk Miller Club, tied
Lighthouse Harry Cooper
with 301 and then beat him
in the play-off for the most
valuable prize, from a monet
airy standpoint, this country
offers its professionals and
the highest honor it offers its
amateurs.
Any golfer who has played
Oakmont will tell you that to
win the open over that course is
a test indeed. It is practically a
nanimouS opinion among
golfers that there isn't tougher
stretch in the land. An imagi-
native. writer sometime back
dubbed Oakmont the "Hades OF
Hutton" the course being To-
Gated at little milk stop Is
miles outside the smoky city,
named Hutton"
Requires Everything
So the Cooper-Armour strife
will be remembered long as one
between two stout-hearted
golfers who had to have every
thing in order to be finalistS, to
say nothing of going into that
play-off, which stands out
among the final skirmiShes OF
all National Opens as incompsr-
able in the stuff it demanded
c. IT'S wayfarers.
Some have termed it a freak
course, but the facts are that
Oakmont is a difficult and test
ing layout with worthy terrain
over which the deft with their
clubs can match iron nerves and
accuracy in driving, approach
ing, and putting.
Stretching forth over a lovely
bluff, with commanding view
of the Allegheny River 80 min
utes out of the city, Oakmont
is the mecca of good golfers who
have conquered their native
courses and are attracted by the
fame which this one has
achieved as being a mans set-up.
Its Second Open
It's tremendous bunkers, mar
row fairways and furroWed
traps present problem to the
best of 'em. Only once before,
in the year Armour beat back
Cooper, has Oakmont been the
scene of national title play, but
many important sectional and
local contests have been fought
over its sporty and perpleXing
terrain.
Oakmont is the nominal r.
par course for 10 holes, and an
even 300 is usually considered a
safe four-round total by which
to win any event played there.
Bobby Jones was utterly unable
to get his customary feel OF
things when he went out before
the final stretch in 1927. The
battling No. 6, a 187-yard, para
role, threw not only Jones, but
many of his contemporaries that
year.
One Over Par
Just to impress you with that
narticular hole, it may be re-
cited that the four times Bobby
played it he used Is strokes.
Only once was he able to plant
his ball on the green at No. 6.
the nemesis Of so many who
play 1.-The Hades of Hutton"
Such is the layout over which
more thar" $50 of Americas fin
est start today in search of the
country's most lucrative golf
tile, for those who happen to
be professionals, and most hon
ored for the simon pures.
Ruth's Records
Since Babe Ruth's retirement
from baseball. no few have in
quired as to the records he set,
and have cleaned the follow
ing for their edification:
Most home runs, 708.
Most home runs in a sea-
son, go.
Most runs in a season, 1T.
Most runs batted in, 2,197.
Most bases on balls, 2,036.
Most Strike-outS, 1906.
Most world series played, 10.
Highest world series batting
average, .625.
Most runs batted in, total
series, 33.
Most home runs, total series, Is.
Most home runs in series
game, 3 (tWice).
Most total bases, total series, SO.
Most bases on balls, total Sc
ries, 38.
Most strike-outS, total series, 80.
Pitched most con5e cutive
Scoreless innings, total series, %.
William Bier, 1907 E st.
N. W.: Jimmy McLarnin was
born in ireland, December II,
1905, apd was a baby when he