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Evening star., 1937-02-25

Congressional several times, a mere
distance Of 3s5 yards, and once in
while he parked his tee shot on the
sixth green, the same distance from
the tee.
One day we played the old four
teenth hole (now the thirteenth and
the same hole as it now is played with
Tommy and Sandy. The distance then
was, and still is, around $40 yards
and we saw both of 'em home putting
for eagles with a drive and spade
mashie shot. which would be the No. 7
of the present set of irons.
MONRO HUNTER was the biggest
N hitter among the pros we've had
around Washington. Monroe is work.
ing at the Capitol today and in the
Summer he works at a local driving
range. Well into middle age. he retains
the sock that gained him Nation wide
fame decade ago
Not once. but many times
we've seen M0nro play his sec
ond shot with No. 3 iron to the
middle of the green at the six
teenth hole at Indian Spring.
The hole measures 525 yards in
length and the green sits on hill IS
feet above the fairway. But that also
was in the days of the old ball. These
things aren't being done these days.
The ball won't go that far.
But it can be hit plenty far enough
by guy who gets the old snap into
the hitting zone. Jimmy Thomson
and Lawson Little are proving that
and they don't play with specially
made balls either. They pick 'em right
off the shelf just like John j. Duffer
That stuff about specially wound
balls for tournament play is hokum
They're all made the same way and
Jimmy and Lawson get the same ball
any duffer pays six bits for in the pro
Evening star., 1937-02-25

Tournament play has become spe-
cialized department of pro golf and
any young player who seeks to win
honors must join the circuits and be
prepared to go through hard school
of experience. Records indicate that
1t is getting more difficult all the time
for unknowns to break in. One player
, year is about all that can be ex-
pected to join the top ranks and stay
there,
Evening star., 1937-02-25

A N ALL-STAR lineup of mixed
n doubles, containing some Of
~ the brightest bowling names
a in the country, will hold the
calcium tonight at Rosslyn in the
Virginia State championships.
Notable pairs to shoot will be Astor
Clarke and Lorraine GULL. Ed Blake
ney and Gladys Lynn. Johnny Roper
and Lucy Rose. Joe Harrison and
Rena Levy and Gait Davis and
Blonche Wootton.
The 10-team Agriculture Interbu-
reau League will roll in body, along
with Jacks Bowling Alley team of
Leesburg, Va. and the Health Center
team of Richmond, featuring Gordon
Evening star., 1937-02-25
JOHNNIES AMBITIOUS
Hope to Beat Mount st. Mary's
and Terrors on Court,

ANNAPOLIS Md. February as
Inspired by its victory over Maryland
Tuesday and with the full strength
of its team available, since Johnny
Lambros and Bill Ross. star forwards
returned to the game, St. Johns hopes
to trip Mount St. Mary's and Western
Maryland, first and second in the
Maryland Intercollegiate Association
race, and raise its own standing.
St. Johns now is tied for third
place. having raised its position from
last in two weeks It will be unable
to reach Mount st. Mary's but hopes
to win enough games this week and
next to pass Western Maryland.
Johnny Lambros is high scorer Of
the team. with a total Of 126 points
in II games
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Strikes Double Blow.

AN OWNER with a candidate that
doesn't like to run in the slop
hates to gamble on anything as un-
certain as the weather.
In the probable handicap field are
several horses that like the mud. The
Foxcatcher's Rosemont will remain
favorite, fast track or not.
A. A. Baroni has been promising all
Winter that his Star Shadow would
succeed his Top Row as the Santa
Anita Handicap king provided the
track was heavy.
Mai. Austin c. Taylor has a great
mudder in Indian Broom, and won't
mind If it's rainy or clear. He's got
Special Agent to depend on II the
track is fast and Indian Broom isn't.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
SOCCER BIDS AWAITED
Juniors Teams Given Chance at
National Tourney.

Junior soccer teams of the District
who desire to enter the national junior
soccer cup-ties matches must notify
officials at the District of Columbia
Playground Office in the District Build
The winning team in the local COM
petition will be sent to meet the win
ners of other sections.
Entries of teams whose members
will not be 19 years old before March
can be made by calling National
5000, branch 1872.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Club in Golf Title Play Game Needs Real ae Per
A>&Stn0i2h@M e. M M3 3
W. By WRMeC4llu~ ~

was one of the longest hitters the
amateur ranks ever knew.
Back In 1912 they staged an invita-.
ton tourney at the old Westward Ho
course near Chicago. in which Bob
and Chick Evans and Mason Phelps
and Albert Seckel, Paul and Bob
Hunter and all that great crowd Of
golfers were entered.
1t was in July and the clay soil
had split under the hot sun, opening
wide cracks that sometimes would
engulf golf ball. They had local
rule that ball down a crack in
the fairway could be dropped without
penalty.
Bob Gardner got hold Of one
on the old fifth hole that
Travelled 470 yards before 1t
stopped. The hole was $40
yards In length, and Bob was
over the green with drive and
. mashie.
Nor was Tommy Armour any slouch
at hitting around 1927 and 1928,
when he was at his best. Tommy
drove the seventeenth green at
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Striking Example Cited.

I Asst year the amateur champion
ship at Garden City. just to give
you an example. crossed s12.703. which
included the entry fees of more than
$500 1t was held at Garden City.
20 miles from New York. which should
have given just about the right COM
bination of a metropolitan center with
plenty people TO draw from.
Yet it crossed less than one-fourth
of the Merton show.
The open championship at Baltusrol,
not far from New York. crossed $40
281 for a three-day show. the sum
also including the entry fees of $685.
Admissions for the open we're pretty
good-rea ching the tidy sum OF s13-
076, which is by way Of come
back
But if Bob Jones had been in either
championship with chance to win he
alone would have pushed the fees up
TO double those taken in. Yep, the
U. S. G. A. needs another Jones-badly.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
NEW JOB FOR BOILER.

UNIVERSITY, Miss, February IS
R.-George Doc" Boiler, assistant
basket ball coach and trainer at Mis-
sissippi University, will replace Bill
Lone Star" Dietz, former Haskell
Indian mentor, as assistant foot ball
coach at Ole Miss.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
LEGION PINMEN DELAY.

Tonight's scheduled bowling match
between the American Legion teams
Of Baltimore and Washington has been
postponed. No date for the meeting
has been arranged.
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ball.
Yes, We saw a ball hit 400
yards around Washington. II
happened at the Washington
Golf and Country Club, back in
1927, on a day when . near
gale blew from the west and
the fairways were hard.
With the wind at his back Rolanc
Mackenzie, then an amateur anc
now Congressional Country Club pro
stepped into tee shot on the sew
enth hole which carried to the sec.
ond hill and rolled up the hill lead.
ing to the green to where he coulc
with his shoe.
Actually that pill ended only 2(
yards short of the putting surface
and the hole is 434 yards long anc
the tee markers were we'll back
Roland tried to play a cozy little
pitch-and-run shot, half-topped the
ball and wound up with q six.
4
= ridge, a Greenwich, Conn, star
amateur, used to come to Washington
to play in the Chevy Chase invitation
tournaments. Dwight was quite a
hitter and a good golfer, although he
never managed to get very far in the
Chevy Chase affairs.
He was particularly long with the
iron clubs. One day he stood on the
back tee at the ninth hole. 26o yards
from the middle of the green, play
ing with Bob Barnett. and pondered
as to whether he :hould take a No. /
iron or a brassie.
Take your spoon" said Bob.
Il don't have one" said Dwight.
We'll, you can't get there with an
iron" said Bob.
The heck I can't" replied Dwight
Tell you what I'll do" Bob cracked.
IF you hit that ball on the green
with that iron I'll give you your choice
of the best spoon in my golf shop"
Dwight wound up and let
fly and the pill not only
made the green 260 yards
away. but also ended IL feet
from the cup. He got the
spoon.
They don't do those things now
adays. The present ball just won't
go that far. But the old jack-ra bbit
pill could be hit unbelievable distances.
BOB GARDNER, twice amateur
champ, was quite hitter Bob
was the first pole vaulter to clear l3
feet, and the muscles he developed i'll
lifting his six feet of litheness over
the bar at that height helped him 10
pole out tremendous tee shots. Bob
Evening star., 1937-02-25
TR0UPERS ALONE
f } FAST PACE
Only One Newcomer a Year
Now Makes Grade Into
Big-Time Group.
BY WALTER HAGEN.

TN ORDER to win important Sum-
mer titles it has become prac-
tically compulsory for pro golfer
i to play enough on Winter and
Spring circuits to keep his game on
: edge. Especially this year with the
P. G. A. championship coming in
May in Pittsburgh.
For a number of years now it has
Evening star., 1937-02-25
YALE COACH TO SPEAK
Pond to Address Alumni Dinner
Gathering Tomorrow.

Raymond (Ducky) Pond. Yale's
head foot ball coach, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the dinner meeting
of the Yale alumni of the District to-
morrow night at the Cosmos Club.
Pictures of last years Yale-Prlnce-
ton game will be shown in conjunc-
ton with the dinner. which starts
at Z o'clock
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Crowd at Peak in 1880.

THE 1886 championships did show
an appreciate jump in receipts.
but they we're far from the take of
the old days when Rob Jones tossed
in his chin in every major champion
ship and usually stuck it out in front
at the finish.
There was something about the
Jones man that brought the gallery
out in droyeS and mobs, even though
they weren't ardent golf fans. And
there may never be the equal Of the
bowling throng in American golf that
followed Bob down the eleventh hole
the afternoon in September. 1880. that
he put away Gene Homans at Merton
to win his fifth amateur title. The
squad of Marines that policed the
gallery that day had real job and
so did Tack Ramsay. then the wheel
horse Of the U. S. G. A.
That championship crossed more
than S50,000. There never had been
one like it before and there may
never be one like it again. Prob
ably there won't be until some kid
with great golf game and gallery
appeal like Jones comes along and
begins knocking over the pros and
the amateurs like duckpins
Evening star., 1937-02-25

More than hundred entries are
expected for the second annual Pop
Crawley Sweepstakes to be rolled next
Saturday at Mount Rainier. Perce
Wolfe won last year from scratch
In the roll-of1 of a tie with George
Hoffman, who shot 67s with handi-
cap of 26 sticks
Entrants are given half the differ
ence between their league averages
and 120. The fee is So. Competition
Saturday will start at pm. and con-
testants may shoot their five games
at any time from 2 to midnight.
Hot Matches Promised.
TWO Of the hardest-fought duck
pin matches of the season are
promised in the District League to-
night when the leading Rose Liquor
Store invades Convention Hall to
tangle with Occidental Restaurant
and Washington Brewery rollers travel
to Georgetown to tackle Heurich
Brewers, defending champions.
Still smarting from the three-game
lacing handed them by the Chris
Heurich entry last week, the Occi-
dentals are in fighting mood.
A loss to the Ben Rose sharp
shooters would shove them far
down in the pannant race.
One game back of the pace settlers,
the champion Heurichs, making
grand stand in defense of their title
may be a tough nut for Washington
Brewery to crack, but the Northeast
ers from Temple are no set-ups and
an exciting match is forecast.
The four second-division clubs will
be opposing one another, when Lucky
Strike engages Georgetown at Lucky
Strike and Convention Hall visits
Arcadia.
Stage Intercity Battle.
THE start Of q home-and-homs
l. series between the Tivoli Alley
All-Stars of Baltimore and picked
Lucky Strike team will get under way
Saturday night at Lucky Strike.
Harry Aiken, Howard Parsons
Johnny Anderson, Clifton Hollis, Joe
Freschi and Joe Harrison will form
the Luckies' lineup.
The final five games will be
rolled in Baltimore Sunday.
With Hand Set practically clinch-
ing the pennant by drubbing Govern
ment three times, the battle for the
runner-up position in the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co. League
heightened when Dial dropped three
games to Accounting while North won
the rubber game from Cleveland. Bill
Widmayer's 145 and 1896, which paved
the way for North's two wins, were
tops for the night. Joe Gooch's AL
377 led the winning Hand Set quint.
Harry Hilliard, who won lasting
fame as a Howard Campbell Sweep
stakes champion, shot 130-370 in one
Evening star., 1937-02-25
CHE; + s #

Round 3 is scheduled for Saturday
night at 8 o'clock at Hotel Gordon.
Visitors may find championship chess
outwardly a bit slow. but those boys
mental machinery is running wide
open and the number of variations
that they evaluate before making their
completed move is sometimes appalling.
Quick, Watson, the needlel
Social Divan Meets.
NORvAL WIGGINTON. treasurer
~ of the Downtown Washington
Social Chess Divan, is very optimistic
these days. He reports favorable in
crease In pledges for the support Of
Washington's eclat chess club.
President Curran declares the
membership drive Is at fever
pitch and that the grapevine
build-up Of contacts IL making
the Nation's Capital cognizant
Of the fact that chess is a most
entertaining pastime and we'll
worth the support Of the public.
The ladies are sold on the idea and
Mrs. Mabel Mcpherson says that when
the women get interested in q club
then what follows Is crazier than
Marx Brothers duck Soup" Chess
is easy and the amazons in Russia
10000 900 strong-have one of the
most extensive chess units in the world.
Tonight. promptly at $50, members
and pledges Of the Downtown Wash
ington Social Chess Divan will have
o friendly congress at Sloss' Cafeteria,
s18 Fourteenth street northwest.
Visitors are invited to attend
the chess play Of the evening.
Each should fetch his own
chessmen.
An exhibit of chess books will be
featured by the chess editor of The
Star. The customary fee for the eve
ning's entertainment will be as cents
for every one, excluding none.
School lads contesting for the "Y''
bronze trophy are sdvsed to b presen
for omciAl pairinss.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
DECLINE
AT CROWN MEETS
Only Magnet Like Jones on
Big Streak Apt to Get
Dollars for u. S. G. A.
RY w r. NcCAIIIJM


TINE United States Golf Associa.
ton badly needs another Bobby
Jones to pack EN- in at the
u gate. Either that. or it needs
a return of the old days when dollars
weren't so important as nowadays.
Now that Lawson Little has vanished
from the amateur ranks there isn't
any spectacular links figure popping
up over the bunkered horizon to carry
the gallery appeal that was Jones and
that would have been Little's had the
burly San Franciscan continued as
Simon-pure.
John Fischer. the reigning amateur
champ, is about as colorful as an old
overshoe and John Goodman. prob
ably the best amateur in the land,
doesn't begin TO carry the gallery ap-
peal of Jones or even of Little. And
Lawson never had half the gallery kick
that Jones carried, even with his
mighty sock from the tee and his
killer" tactics.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
BY PAUL ]. MILLER, Jr.

n ARTIN STARK. champion Of
M Capital City Chess Club, won
V his match with Kessler in
L i round No. of the tourna-
ment for the championship Of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Knapp won his game from
Sournin, Eaton and Dubois
played to a draw and Ponce
wrested victory from Carl Hesse.
One Of the better type of kibitzers
opines: "Sournin had o clean win
against Knapp and threw it away
through mere carelessness; Kessler had
q decided draw game with Stark and
Evening star., 1937-02-25
HAND BALL STARS PLAY

Baltimoreans Visit Saturday for
Matches at Y. M. c. A.
An intercity hand ball doubles
match will be played between Wash
ington and Baltimore Saturday night
at the Y. M. c. A.. when Joe Cowley
and Charming Walker of Washington
meet L. Blum and Stanley Hits of
the Monumental City. After the
doubles match. which will start at 8
O'Clock, Jack Schwartz, local singles
champion, will meet Hits.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
ARGYLE CLUB ELECTS
Norcross Again President, lie Duo
Made Vice President.

Made Vice President.
DR.. Alfred c. Norcross has been
reelected president Of Argyle Coun-
try Club by the club board OF
governors.
Other officers chosen by the board
are: Vice president, p. w. Le Due;
secretary-treasurer, Charles L. Gable;
assistant secretary-treasurer, Ray
mond z. Gable.
Evening star., 1937-02-25
Tournament Stars Rare.

THERE is no younger school in
American pro golf today. There is
a small class composed of Jimmy DEM
eret of Houston, Tex; Sam Snead OF
White Sulphur Springs, and Lawson
Little not yet one year old as pro.
OF these three youngsters it is diff
cult to say if any one vi make the
grade and permanently be entitled to
rating as tournament star They
have not had enough testing. They
'all look good, but will require another
two years of testing.
Tournament stars" are rare. We
have today only handful of players
entitled to such rating and at the mo-
ment We do not have a single one who
stands out above his fellows as Harry
Vardon did in days gone by in Eng
land as Bobby Jones did in America
and Joyce Wethered Hea thcoat-A -Amory
did among British women or Glenna
Collett Ware did among American
women.
No Big Three" Now.
WE DO not have big three" as
wv we had in America a few years
ago when Jock Hutchison. Jim Barnes
and myself were tops, or later when
Gene Sarazen, Tommy Armour and
myself rated.
We have now top group which
includes John Revolta, Henry Picard,
Horton Smith, Harry Cooper. Paul
Runyan, Denny Shute. Harold Nc
Epaden, Jimmy Hines, Gene Sarazen,
Byron Nelson, Jimmy Thomson, Ralph
Guldahl and Tony Manero. Cooper
stands out on record sheets as a low
scorer and big money-winner, but his
failure to win major title holds him
back.
Macdonald Smith played well enough
last Summer to rate in this group, and
Willie Macfarlane, when he starts,
usually stays up with the leaders. but
neither plays enough big-time golf to
be included in this group.
Illness Retards LaffOOn.
THE last school o youngsters to show
promise has failed to come through.
This school was composed of such
players as KY Laffoon. Ben Hogan,
AL Zimmerman, Dick Metz, Willie Cog
gin. Clarence Doser and one or two
others. Of this number KY Laffoon
did come through and reach the top.
III health broke into his career but
he hopes to come back and stay there.
Zimmerman, Metz and Doser have
been unable to fight their way into
'"stardom.
Billy Burke more than likely would
be up there if he played enough tour
nament golf. There are a few other
players with the possibilities but they,
like Burke, Smith and Macfarlane do
not compete enough. Among these is
Olin Dutra.
There are number of what might
be termed flea ture" players. In this
section we have Bill Mehlhern, Vic
Ghezzi. Ray Bangrum, Frank Walsh,
Witty Cox, Al Watrous and perhaps a
few others.
One thing is certain. Any pro who
expects to rate among the stars" has
a long hard journey and must be pre-
pared to take to the road and stay
there for quite a period of time No
matter how brilliant he may be, he
likewise must add the experience of the
University of Golf, which is the ma
tional tournament circuit.
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Evening star., 1937-02-25
PETHATESOFM MAT
| FANS EMbATTLED
Baxter and Hader Tang|e
Tonight-Katan, Olson
in Co.Feature.

TINE pet hates of Washingtons
mat populace will display their
varied forms of villainy to-
4 night at Turner's Arena when
Laverne Baxter and Jack Hader
tangle in the most promising of two
finish matches. The other bit Of
feature squirming involves Cliff Olson
and John Katan.
Baxter now holds the dubious honor
Of being ranked as the favorite villain
Of local cauliflower addicts, although
Hader, at least in the estimation of
one frenzied fan who cracked him over
the head with a chair here recently,
is q worthy contender.
Needs Police Protection.
RAXTER usually needs police pro-
lection more than he needs hair
cut. The pugnacious pachyderm re-
Gently was involved in a post-bout
melee with Able Coleman which was
terminated only by the Intervention
of police, referees and seconds.
In his last match here Baxter con-
fined most Of his unorthodox tactics
to Referee Benny Bortnick. ripping
two shirts from the back of the
rotund arbiter.
Katan formerly was a villain, but
now has turned sissy and is employed
as a hero. Olson, shorn Of his claim
to the championship by Crusher
Casey. now is just one Of the boys and
probably will be relegated to the pre-
liminary ranks ere long.
Three Commute preliminaries
round out the card, with Matros Kiri-
lenko facing Floyd Marshall, Hank
Barber meeting Les Ryan and Harry
Finkelstein toiling with Mike Mazurki.
The first preliminary will get under
way at $50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1937-02-25

Caldwell, one Of Dixie's leading per-
formers.
Evening star., 1937-02-25

The leading Rosslyn quint of
the Ladies' District League suf-
fered one of its rare defeats
when Lucky Strike swept three
close games at the Arcadia.
Evening star., 1937-02-25

~AN a golf ball be driven 400
4 yards. carry and roll? Are
\ the feats of the Paul Bunyan
~ of California. the almost leg
endary Montague. the fantastic things
they seem when they talk about him
walloping a golf ball 400 yards?
Yes, golf ball can be driven 400
yards and more. given favorable con-
ditions, but it's doubtful If the pres
ent sphere can be knocked that far
unless adamant fairways and big
wind help the roll of the ball. Nor
does tremendous hitting mean tremen-
dous scoring, for fast fairways usu-
ally mean tricky iron play and fast
greens. and queer bounces Of the
ball.
La gaceta., 1937-03-02
DESPACHOS TELEGRAFICCS DE ESTADOS
UNIDOS Y DEL EXTRANJERO
.Negoeiaciones con Lewis. = Gancedo confeso Ell
crimen. = Huelga sentada bajo terra. = Firma
'da la ley de Retro a los Magistrates. Sc sui
cido un teniente coronel. - Ciegos
en- huelga sentada

PittsbYfgh mario 2.-La po-
derosa industrial del acero abri6
aver negociaciones con John L.
Lewis por medic de la United
States Steel Corporation. Al
mism0 tempo cinco grandes
companies anunciaron I'm sala-
rio minimo de SIS al dia Y una
jornada semanal de 40 horas. E
sas cinco corporaciones en-
plean a 1851 600 hombres. Err
nest T. Weir, p~residente de la
National Steel, anunci6 ell au-
mento de salaries, pero aboga,
por ell taller alberto para sus
10000 hombres. Gran importan
cha sc concede a la actitud de la
United Steel acercandose a los
obreros organizados, 10 que has
ia ell presente habia declinado
hacer. John l.. Lewis es ell jefe
del m~ovimiento iniciado para or
ganizar a todos los trabajado-
res del acero, una industrial con
un capital de 5000 millones de
d6lares.
La gaceta., 1937-03-02

No pasa un Ola sin que los co
rresponsales extranjeros ataca-
dos de imbecilidad digan en- sus
despachos que la poblaci6n de
Madrid esta aterrorizada.
va en- Madrid, la capital acos
tumbrada a la barbarie v afro
cidades fascistas, no Sc aterori-
"a nadie.
Las bombas derriban e incen-
dian edificios las bombas Y los
p~royectiles destrozan los cuer :
pos de ninos, mujeres y HON :
bres; los cadaveres de las vfcti-
mas son llevados en- grupo a los
differences cementerios.-.. pero
Madrid no Sc aterroriza.
Saben los madrilenos que de
los fascistas no pueden esperar
otra cosa que aetos criminaaes y
salvajadas; saben que contra
los verdugos y los exhombres de
Franco la muralla de los pechos
debe mantenerse como Sc man
tienen las trincheras Y las barri
cadas.
Ell terror no existe va para
los madrilenos, acostumbrados
a sufrir y a luchar.