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Left-Handed Golf Title, No Longer A Freak, Defended By Antonio By JOE DONOVAN NEA Special Correspondent T CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—More often than not, left-handed golfers are called spoilers of the tee. But _ don’t believe all the sly, unkind - conversation you hear about them. ' Some are stylists, could force l many an orthodox shotmaker to * flee to the showerroom in embar * rassment. I One of the s w e e t_ swingers * among southpaws is 125 - pound * Mex Antonio, who will defend the National Lefthanded Champion . ship, Aug. 19-22, at Chicago’s Cog Hill Golf and Country Club. \ The show has attracted some * 300 from all parts of the country. Antonio will have formidable op ; position for the $1500 Richard \ Waltke trophy from Alvin Everitt * of Rome, Ga., who has won the ' title twice; W. W. Share) of Char * lotte, N. C.; Roy Ribelin of Dal * las, Herman Wyman of St. Louis ' and others. Since the inception of golf, leH - handers have sort of apologized ' for themselves as though guilty ol .something sinister. There has been a shortage of left - handed • oiubs. Soufhpaws turned the other ; cheek so often their faces were practically slapped askew. Richter (started It It took a left-hander to take the ] thing out in the open, so to speak. • Long before he started writing of • go'.f= in Los Angeles in the early ! 1920s. David Scott Chisholm ar ! ranged local and campaigned for • a national left-handed tournament. ' But it remained for professional i Ben Richter of St. Louis to put • left-handers on an even keel. Canvassing 1500 clubs to obtain ! entries, Richter and Clarence Sul . Lvan organized the national left ■ handed tournament in 1936. ' The result was amazing. Some ; 300 responded, 170 participated. Antonio, slim gas station opera ' tor of Linden, N. J., didn’t get around to win the national left . handed tournament until 1938 atj ■ the swanky Westchester-Biltmore Country Club of Rye, N. T. He . bagged it again in Toledo in 41, ■ repeated the victory last year in Greensboro, N. C., where he whipped Everitt, 4 and 2, in the 36-hole final. Further proof that Antonio can hit the ball and pitch it up to the can came in the New Jersey State t Pro-Amateur Championship, dur ing which he repeatedly was 250 yards off the tee and pitched out •f the rough 50 and 60 yards to within inches of the pin. Antonio and professional Alex; Terneyi had a nine-under-par 63 beating the largest field ever to compete, 98 teams. There are now a half-dozen; left-handed professionals. Ben Richter, as a matter of fact,! has a lot of clients among pro fessionals. Right-handers seem to be watching themselves in a mirror , v hen Richter teaches them. He ' swings from his left side, the ’ right-handers from their side, and the result is that they swing in Unison. So, the left-handed golfers at , last have a standing. They no longer are freaks of the fairways. There are about 12 different species of walnuts, eight or nine of which are cultivated. Alex Antonio defends the na tional left-handed championship. RECORD SMASHED BY LOUISE SUGGS EVANSTON, 111., Aug. IS—(U.R)— Louise Suggs, a golfing gal from Lithia Springs, Ga., won her fourth consecutive major Western Wom en’s golf championship today with an overwhelming 9 and 8 victory over Carol Diringer, Tiffin, O., for the 47th annual amateur title. It was a history - making tri umph, too. for never before had one girl taken both the western open and amateur in successive years. The 23-year-old Georgian was supreme in her effort to rewrite the golfing book. She played sub par golf all the way around and never was behind. Miss Diringer, in fact, won only two holes, and neither of those made much dif ference in the final score. Miss Suggs started her triumph ant march early in the day. Her medal score for the morning 18 was 72, three under women’s par and two over men’s par. It was the best round posted in the tourna ment and one of the best she ever shot. as tne auernoon tour Degan, me only question was how long the match would last. Miss Suggs reached the green of the 412-yard 19th in two and rammed home a six-foot putt for an eagle, going seven up despite Miss Diringer’s birdie four. McCarthy Intimates Say Satisfactory Offer Would Make Him Manager Again - J By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK, Aug. 15. (NEAL— Those closest to Joseph Vine e n t McCarthy say a satisfactory offer would bring him back as a major league manager quicker than he left Larry McPhail last season. And 10 or more clubs could make fine use of this most skillful handler of ballplayers—young and old By World Series time last fall, Joe McCarthy, whose clubs ac counted for nine pennants in 17 years, was the healthiest-looki n g manager ever to retire because ol ill health. Marse Joe is 60. but Connie Mack at 84 has kept a surprise collection of Athletics in the first division all the way along the route. And Erurt Shotton at 62 hardly has been a dud with the Dodgers. McCarthy rejected the Brooklyn bid last spring because he didn’t want to be a finner-inner for Leo Durocher. To be acceptable, any proposi tion made McCarthy would have to provide for a future and a free hand. One> of the most unusual stories in baseball is its seeming inability to develop managers for jobs call ing for $40,000 and more. Stranger yet is a manager like Joe McCarthy, still in fine physi cal shape, hiding away in a sylvan retreat during a baseball season. Don't look now, but Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder will defend the Davis Cup they won from the Australians last winter —as though you didn’t know. The diea that the high command awaited further tournament re sults before making a decision re garding Labor Day weekend at Forest Hills is cause to laugh right out loud. The retired nonplaying captain Walter L. Pate says Kramer, with a game comparable to that, once unfolded by Don Budge, would blast professional champion Bobby Riggs from the court. In full stride, which he is at present, the name of Schroeder can be mentioned in the same breath with those of all the cham pions of the past with no apolo gies. Ted bcnroeder passing up me national singles to return to his frozen foods business in Los An geles is refreshing. The Stanford alumnus is the | first player in a long while to furnish the slightest evidence that tennis still has a 100 per cent amateur or two. It is unlikely that Mike Jacobs will ever return as an active promoter, but the Madison Square Garden Corporation appears quite willing to go along with his lawyer - stand in, Sol Strauss, as head of its break-busting subsidi ary, the 20th Century Sporting Club. Strauss has done extremely well financially indoors this summer with nothing much in the way of attractions. 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I The Regular Army’s high pay (20% higher overseas), the excellent opportunities to further your education in Army technical schools or through the Armed Forces Institute, the chance that your previous Army experience may speed your promotion to positions of high skill and responsibility make this an over-all oppor tunity that’s too good to pass up! Call at your nearest Army Recruiting Station now. *Plus a year for every year of prior Federal eerviee. U. S. Army Recruiting Station Room 203, P. 0. Bldg. Wilmington, N. C. Dial 2-8368 Or—Recruiting Representatives In Post Offices, 10 A.M. To 2 P.M. Whiteville—Mondays; Wallace—Wednesdays; Jacksonville— Thursdays L - ' IT" FlkEMAN (FIRST CLASS) joe page WHO's CONTINUED .THE TRADITION OF GREAT N.Y. YANKEE RELIEF PITCHING WHERE JOHNNY MURPHY LEFT OFF— HE SAW ACTION IN 31 OF THEIR FIRST 99 GAMES AND WAS CREDITED WITH THE VICTORY' IN Q OF 'EM / • THE FIREMAN IS ALWAYS READY lb RUSH IN AND PUT. OUT A RALLY” HE SAVED *BoBO" NEWSOM'S 4th VICTORY FOR HIM BY Retiring il batters IN A ROW— FOR A WHILE HE M AVERAGING A STRIKEOUT A! INNING/ Joe SAVED THE Yanks' winning ' . STREAK AT THE 9'GAME MARK BY NOT ONLY' STOPPING A ST.LOUIS BROWNSY RALLY BUT'ALSO HITTING A HOMEFL TO SCORE THE WINNING RUN/ ROOKIE’S BAT NIPS RED SOX NEW YORK, Aug., 16 — (IP)—A1 Clark, new outfielder recently bought up from Newark, made four hits in four times at bat to day and scored the only run of the game in the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 1-0 triumph over the Boston Red Sox. The victory, their second straight over the runner-up Red Sox, in creased the American League leaders margin to 13 1-2 games Clark, who now has batted .400 for the Yankees in seven games, helped another recent acquisition, Bobo Newsom, gain his fifth vic tory in seven appearances since the veteran got on the Yankees payroll. Bobo gave up six hits to register his second shutout. Newsom was given a hard tus sle by Earl Johnson, the young Red Sox southpaw, who up to the ninth had given up only six hits himself. BOSTON AB It H O A Mele, rf _ 4 0 0 2 0 Pesky, ss _ 4 0 12? D. DiMaggio, cf_. 4 0 12 0 Williams, If _ 2 0 110 Doerr, 2b _— 3 0 0 5 2 Jones, lb_3 0 16 0 Tebbetts, c _ 4 0 0 5 0 Dente, 3b _ 3 0 113 E. Johnson, p_ 3 0 10 2 TOTALS _ 30 0 6 24 1C NEW YORK AB R H O A Stimweiss, 2b-3 0 16 2 Rizzuto, ss _ 4 0 0 3 4 Berra, If _ 4 0 0 1 0 Clark, rf _ 4 14 10 McQuinn. lb--- 3 0 1 10 2 j W. Johnson, 3b —- 3 0 1 0 4 i Lindell, cf _L- 3 0 14 0 Houk, c _:- 2 0 111 zJ. DiMaggio, - 1 0 0 0 0 Robinson, c _ 0 0 0 0 0 Newsom, p _ 3 0 0 1 2 TOTALS _- 30 1 9 27 15 z—Popped out for Houk in 7th. BOSTON__ 000 000 000—0 NEW YORK_I_ 000 000 001—1 Errors: none. Run batted in: Lindell. Sacrifices: McQunn, Doerr. Double zutto, Strnweiss and McQuinn; Stim plays: Dente, Doerr and Jones 2; Rz weiss, Rizzuto and McQuinn. Left on bases: Boston 7, New York 9. Bases on balls: off E. Johnson 3; Newsom 2. Strike outs: by E. Johnson 4, Newsom 1. Hit by pitcher: by Newsom (Jones). Umpires: Weafer, Hubbard and Berry. Time: 1:54. Attendanace: 34.765 paid. Rickey Switches Balance Of Power From St. Louis To Brooklyn In Three Years By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK, Aug. 16—(NEA)— The rise of Branch Rickey from a major league catcher of doubt ful talents to the dominating, fig ure in baseball rivals fiction’s most fantastic developments. But it was no more astonishing that B. R. transplanting the bal lance of power in the National League from St. Louis to Brook lyn in three years. Baseball men long since came to know that where Rickey walks victory flourishes. Where the courrent Mahatma of Montague Street rests is the abode of power. If you doubt that statement you only have to look at the Dodgers and Cardinals. Rickey the Master has quickly built on the Go wanus the same sort of empire he constructed on the bank of the Big Muddy. Rickey succeeded under dis tressing circumstances in St. Louis—small attendance, little money, etc. Switching from Sportsman s Park to the gold mine that is Ebbets Field, his job in Flatbush was a comparative breeze. So he lashes with velvet thongs a young team to a championship observ ing with no sorrow the impending fall of the Red Birds, whom he alone made the mightiest force in the National League. An appraiser of men once called Rickey ministerial in speech and manner. Another, dipping his pen in vitriol, called him a minister with sheers. Yes, sheers for clip ping rules and cutting corners. Judge Landis warred with Pro fessor Rickey in St. Louis, de clared some 125 young farm hands, Pete Reiser and Nelson Potter among them, free agents. The mass emancipation caused no breakdown in the victory march of the blokes in the red blazers, and, ironically, in Brook lyn the professor wound up with Reiser, anyway— a Pistol Pete in full bloom. Commissioner Chandler warred with Rickey in Brooklyn, set down his manager, Leo Durocher, for the season. Rickey merely reached down to his Pensacola camp and yanked in his old sidekick, Burt Shotton. “Anybody can win with this outfit,’’ he easily could have told him. Rickey inaugurated the chain store system, born of necessity. As keen a baseball man as the late Col. Jacob Ruppert once call ed the farm system “Rickey’s Fol ly,” but the brewer soon learned the power of the machine, called on George Weiss to build a mighty one for the Yankees. Rickey had a clause in his con tracts releasing him from playing or managing on Sunday, but the Sunday double-header was his brain child. He has no reluctance to grabbing the shekels on a Sun day afternoon. B.R. was the leading protagon ist of night baseball—he and the man he tutored, Larry MacPhail. Rickey turns out baseball ex ecutives as well as players. Presi dent George M. Trautman of the National Association of Profes sional Baseball Leagues — the minors — is a Rickey protege. So are general managers Warren no satisfactory opponent for Joe Louis. There are attractive matches in the middleweight division, but ap parently they can’t be made. Otherwise there is a paucity of talent. There will be no major change in New York boxing promotion until a new promoter comes along with a bankroll, ideas, an imagi nation—and several good fighters under hi* gontroL Giles of the Reds and Bill De Witt of the Browns. Rickey restored the two - game holiday sequence—morning and afternoon games, for one admis sion to each contest. What Rickey will devise next, none can forsee. Not even Rickey, but he won’t sit still. He’ll keep his light shining far in front of the rest. It isn’t even a contest. Owner Sam Breadon of the Cardinals over the years paid Rickey in excess of $1,000,000 in salary. He was worth every nickel of it. . Inertia kept the Cardinals go ing last year, but the Rickey touch is no longer there, and tire Red Birds are slipping as rapidly as the Dodgers are moving ahead. Will Lippy Leo Durocher come back? It doesn’t matter. The big thing for Brooklyn is that Rickey is firmly intrenched there, for where Rickey walks victory flourishes. Where Rickey rests is the abode of power. There is no finer appraiser of ivory than the indefatigable Rickey, and the principal reason for his sustained success is that he never lost sight of the import ance of the ballplayer. Branch Rickey’s motto always has been: “Get the ballplayers and the rest will take care of it self.” And there is considerable in the statement that Branch Rickey shakes good ballplayers out of trees. WASHED OUT NEWPORT R. I., Aug. 16—i/P)— After being held up for seven hours by a series of heavy show ers, Jack Kramer of Los Angeles, and Ted Schroeder of Glendale, Calif., the Davis Cup stars, at tempted to play their Newport Casino doubles tennis semi-finals match against Bill Talbert of Wilmington, Del., and Bill Sidwell of Australia, late today, only to be washed off the courts during the second set. INDIANS DEFEAT BROWNS BY 8-2 ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16—(,/P)—The St. Louis Browns crushed the run column for the first time in three games tonight, but dropped an 8 to 2 decision to Con Black and the Cleveland Indians. Black limited the Browns to seven hits and blanked them until the ninth. The Indians’ pounded three Brown pitchers for 12 hits, including four by Joe Gordon and a homer by Bill Robinson. CLEVELAND AB K H O A Mitchell, cl _ 5 3 2 3 1 Edwards, If -.- 5 112 0 Peck, rf_5 0 110 Boudreau, as --— 3 0 12 1 Robinson, lb - 5 1 2 11 0 Keltner, 3b - 4 1110 Hegan, c- 5 0 0 6 0 Gordon, 2b_ 4 2 4 1 6 Hegan, c_ 5 0 0 6 0 Black, p_ 3 0 0 0 1 TOTALS _ 39 8 12 27 9 ST. LOUIS ABE H O A Dillinger, 3b - 4 0 112 Thomson, 2b - 4 0 0 3 3 Lehner, cf- 3 10 10 Coleman, rf - 4 112 0 Judnich, lb - 4 0 2 10 1 Stephens, ss- 4 0 10 5 Zarilla, If- 4 0 2 3 0 Early, c _ 0 0 0 5 0 Moss, c _ 3 0 0 2 0 Kinder, p _ 1 0 0 0 0 z Schultz __ - 1 0 0 0 0 Muncrief, p - 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS _ 33 2 7 27 11 CLEVELAND _ 130 120 001—8 ST. LOUIS _ 000 000 002—2 Errors: Early, Thompson 2. Runs bat ted in: Boudreau, Gordon, Mitchell, Ed wards 2, Black, Robinson, Coleman, Step hens. Two base hits: Boudreau, Keltner, Judnich, Coleman. Three base hits: Mitchell, Gordon. Home run: Robinson. Keltner, Black. Double plays: Stephens. Stolen bases: Gordon, Beck. Sacrifices: Thompson and Jell and Boudreau. Loft on bases: Cleveland 9; St. Louis 5. Bases on balls: Kinder 3, Black 1. Strikeouts: Kinder 7, Black 6, W. Brown 1. Hits: off Kinder 7 in 4 innings; off W. Brown 3 in 4; off Muncrief 2 inl.Passedball: Hegan. Losing pitcher: Kinder. Umpires: Rommel, Passarella and Boyer. Time: 2:05. Attendanace: 2,858. STYMIE-HE GALLOPS DOWN GOLDEN Ro*h ... ^ HE MIGHT HAVE 0F5N EXCUSED FOR. HANGING HIS HEAD A LITTLE WHEN PICKED UP FOR A MEASLY #1,500— • nc GREATEST MONEV WINNING HORSE OF ALL Time AND INTENDS TO Sr2 THAT WAV. THE SIX- V£Am OLD VETERAN j, BROUGHT A RECORD OF # 7/9,660 WON TO & &/+HAIVOA AND MAY ADD MORE THAN 0100,000 TO IT UP THERE DURING AUGUST. THERE'S A CHANCE STYMIE MAY MEET HIS CLOSEST MONEY- WINNING RIVAL AGAIN IN THE SARATOGA CUP/ PHALANX UPSET BY YOUNG PETER SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 16—(A5)—The championship climb of C. V. Whitney’s Phalanx was rudely interrupted today when the lengthy bay colt lost a photo decision to Mrs. Robert L. Gerry’s Young Peter in the 78th Travers Stakes before 19,921 umbrella-car rying fans. Third and last in the mile and a quarter classic, oldest stakes race in the country, was Claud C. Tanner’s outsider, Colonel O’f, beaten three lengths. In becom ing a new pretender to the three year-old title, Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service Bromwich, Pails Smash Czech Ne(ffri| MONTREAL, Aug. 16.— if Australia swept the last two sing,, matches against Czechoslovaz today with Jack Bromwich :: Dinny Pails scoring the victor:' to win the series against tj Czechs, 4-1, and move into challenge round against the Ur.:-: States. Bromwich came through withi surprisingly easy straight set v. tory over Jaroslav Drobny. Czechs’ No. 1 man, 6-2, 7-5, 6 while Pails triumphed in a bfe five-set match over Vladimir Ce nik, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Drobny accounted for Czec' Slovakia’s only victory, taking measure of Pails in the first (;■ singles. Just Received! .. . Split Bamboo Surf Rods .. . 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