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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. It was no fault of his
that the Graziano-Zale batch was
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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 /
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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.
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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
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year-old title,
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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.
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