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Upsets Many in Olympic 400,800: Sand Wedge Is Easing Pros’Golf
* _ . «
World Records Come From
Great Duels by Runners
v of Two Nations.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.
NEW YORK—It never Is safe
to count Olympic chickens
before they are hatched. Big
Ben Eastman was a “sure
shot” In the Olympic *100 in 1932, but
they paid off on Little Bill Carr, the
Arkansas traveler by way of Pennsyl
vania.
Away back in the tellicose days of
1908, the Yankees "sewed up” the
same race, but British officials ruled
there was fouling, ordered the race
re-run, and awarded the gold medal
to Lieut. Wyndham Halswell of his
majesty’s army on a walk-over after
the Americans refused to play a re
turn engagement.
Typical of the Olympic 400. as well
as the 800, have been the thrills or
surprises of such events. Typical also
of them Is a long-stinding British
American rivalry, punctuated by rec
ord-smashing feats as well as stirring
finishes and arguments. World records
have been broken three times in the
Olympic 800, twice in the 400. The
marks made by the 1932 winners at
Los Angeles have withstood attack
since then, although Eastman, now
concentrating on the longer race, has
equaled the record made by Britain’s
Tom Hampson.
This year the United States has an
excellent chance to sweep both races,
for the first time slice 1912, when
Syracuse's Charley Reidpath and
James E. (Ted) Meredith, then a
schoolboy, whipped the world's best in
record-smashing time
Ben Blazes Away.
♦
OINCE the last Olympic Eastman
^ has proved himself the class of
this country's half-mllers. He set a
world record of l:4f.8 at Princeton
two years ago and lately was clocked
in 1:50.5 to prove he again is on
edge. Chiefly among his possible
running mates at Berlin are Chuck
Hornbostel. the former Indiana star;
Ross Bush of Southern California.
Charley Beetham of Ohio State and
Lou Burns of Marhattan, Eastern
champion.
Hampson has left England in the
lurch by retiring lrom competition
In an event which his majesty’s
foot racers have monopolized since
the war. Since times are always de
ceptive, so far as tht British are con
cerned, it is not safe to discount their
chances of coming through again.
The best of the new crop appears
to be J. C. Stothard, formerly of
Cambridge. The schoolboy, R. Scott,
is touted as another Meredith by
London experts.
LuValle Looms Up.
"A MERICA’S Carr likewise is out of
this year’s picture, but there is
no lack of class among the replace
ments. Expectatlcms. until lately,
were centered aiound the black
thatch of the latest quarter-mile ace
developed by Ton. Keane, veteran
Syracuse coach.
His pride and joy, Eddie O’Brien,
was unbeaten until June 13, when
Jimmy LuValle, dusky U. C. L. A.
star, returned to the Eastern tracks
to give Eddie a trouncing at Princeton
in a 47.1 quarter-mile.
On the tame day, at Palo Alto,
equally dusky Archie Williams, Uni
versity of California sophomore, flew
the 400 meters in 46.3 seconds, only
a shade off Carr's world record.
It remains to be seen, too, whether
the British Empire doesn’t unfurl
another surprise to Jolt Yankee hopes.
AMSECS CREATE TIE
FOR BANK LOOP LEAD
Beat City Nine to Get on Even
Terms With Hibbs, Natsas.
Gas Team Victor.
VLflTH Orlando Birch fanning 13
batters, American Security &
Trust diamonders forged Into a three
way tie for first place in the Bankers’
League yesterday, swamping City
Bank, 14-2. Hibbs, National Savings
and American Security now are knot
ted for top honors.
In another Bankers’ League fray
Chick Hollidge. Eastern High School
basket ball star, set Hamilton batters
down with six hits as Riggs scored
a 6-4 victory.
Mount Vernon M. E. Church, paced
by the batting of Pizza and Plumb,
annexed its seventh victory in eight
starts in the Washington Church
League, burying Gun ton Temple Pres
byterian, 9-4, in a six-inning tilt.
With P. Bauman cracking out a
Single, double, triple and home run
In six trips to the plate, the Wash
ington Gas Light nine experienced
little difficulty in smothering Thomp
son's Dairy, 16-1, In the National
Capital League. E. Bauman also col
lected four hits, Including a double.
NIGHT TILT AT BALLSTON.
One of the outstanding sandlot base
ball games of the season will be
played tonight, when the Ballston
A C entertains the Shady Grove
Barbecue nine under the arc lights
a* Ballston, Va., at 8 30 o’clock. Shady
Grove is tied for the lead In section
A of the National City League.
For Two Records
ISCOVERY goes for two more
records in the historic Brook
lyn Handicap at Aqueduct this aft
arooon.
The big son of Display and
Ariadne is the lone double winner
of the Brooklyn In 1934 he won
with 113 pounds up; in 1935 he
carried 126 pounds; today he
packs U6.
Ho horse ui.the 47-year history
nfr the race ever has carried 136
founds to victory.
- Can he pack that weight and win
from Roman Soldier, the best
handicap horse of the year, to
witom he is giving 10 pounds?
Read Sunday's Star for a full
description of this thrilling race,
Which will not be broadcast.
/
AWESOME
Improved Club in Ten Years
Cuts Round by Stroke,
Sarazen Claims.
BY W R. McCALLI'M.
NO LONGER do bunkers and
sand wastes carry terror for
the topnotch golf pros of the
Nation. The sand wedge and
the various toots that have come
along in the wake of the wedge have
made bunkers preferable in many
cases to deep, heavy rough around
the edges of putting greens, and the
advance in scoring over the last three
or four years may be directly traced
to the comparative ease with which
our leading golfers extricate them
selves from trouble that a few years
ago would have meant loss of a stroke.
“Gene pitches out of bunker .lead
to the pin."
“Picard came out of a trap and
holed a 4-footer for his par.”
“Tony banged the ball out of the
sand within a foot of the pin and
holed the putt for the birdie."
“Cooper took his wedge and played
such a fine shot that the ball spun
around the lip of the cup."
So read the golf stories nowadays,
telling the tale of bunkers that arc
almost useless as hazards, their terror
gone before the newest golf tool—the
sand wedge.
Has Own Language.
COME okl-timers won’t use the
wedge, but there isn’t any ques
tion about it; in the hands of the
modern masters of the game, the
Sarazens, Coopers. Picards and Run
yans, the sand wedge speaks a lan
guage all its own.
It’s a par-busting language that has
set the Amercan golf professional on
a scorning pinnacle all his own, for
there isn't any question that he h
the smoothest icoring machine golf
ever has seen.
Indeed, it’s gotten so now that on a
good many par 5 holes the pros delib
erately play for the bunkers if the
green is closely trapped, knowing that
their chances of flinging a ball out of
the sand within holing distance is bet
ter from close up. even in the sand,
than from 30 or 40 yards away from
the green.
The old custom on these holes w as to
play short and trust for a deadly pitch
to bag the birdie, but the boys dp it
differently now. so sure are they with
the new-fangled sand tools. It is a
literal fact that bunkers, unless they
are of the saw-toothed type that in
fest Oakmont, no longer have an? ter
rors for the low-scoring pros of 1936.
Bankers Well Groomed.
DUT if greenskeepers weren't so as
siduous in keeping the bunkers
raked and smooth, It wouldn't be so
good. Under those conditions much of
the technique of bunker play with the
wedge would be lost and the boys
; would steer the ball away from the
sand. But that isn't being done.
So well groomed are the bunkers at
many courses that the ball sits up bet
ter than in the rough. There isn’t any
question that the scoring advance in
modern golf has come about through
the sand wedge and its mastery by the
| pros.
"Golf scoring among the top notch
ers of today is a stroke a round better
than it was 10 years ago," says Sara
zen.
It may all be traced to the sand
wedge and the fact, that bunkers don’t
mean trouble any more.
BRITISH DOMINATE
OPEN GOLF BATTLE
; Cox, Adams Deadlocked for Lead
Entering Third’Round—Yanks
Advance in Tennis.
AS THE British open golf tourna
ment entered the third round to
day, the following players were setting
the pace:
Bill Cox, England—144.
Jim Adams, Scotland—144.
Henry Cotton, England—145.
Alf Padgham, England—145.
Francis Francis. England—145.
Richard Burton, England—145.
Marcel Dallemagne. Prance—145.
Outstanding developments in the
all-England tennis championships at
Wimbledon yesterday were as follows:
Men’s Singles—Third Round.
Donald Budge, United States, de
feated Josef Caska, Czechoslavakia,
6—3, 6—0, 6" 4.
Wilmer Allison, United States, de
feated Clarence Jones, England, If)—
8, 6—4, 1—6, 7—5.
Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Ger
many, defeated Enrique Maier, Spain,
10—8, 6—2, 2—6, 6—2.
Bunny Austin, England, defeated
Andre Martin-Legeay, France, 6—4,
6—1, 6—2.
Women’s Doubles—Opening Round.
Betty Nuthall and Mrs. Allister, Eng
land, defeated Carolin Babcock and
Mrs. Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn,
United States, 6—4, 3—6, 6—3.
Men's Doubles—Second Round.
Bryan Grant and Gerald Stratford,
United States, defeated T. Hugham
and H. Van Swol, Holland, 4—6, 6—4,
6—3, 5—7, 6—7.
Jack Crawford and Adrian Qulst,
Australia, defeated Kho Sin Kie and
G. Lum. China, 6—1, 6—2, 6—4.
COLORED TEAMS CLASH.
The Washington Elite Giants, lead
ing the National Negro Base Ball
League, were to strive to strengthen
their position today when they clashed
with the Homestead Gyays at Griffith
Stadium in a double-header. The first
game was slated to get under way at
2 o'clock. Another game will be played
tomorrow at 3 o’clock.
Horseshoe Aces
Clash Tomorrow
RAYMOND L. FRYE of Orkney
Springs. Va., Metropolitan
Washington horseshoe champion,
and Boo Henson, who recently es
tablished a national record with
33 consecutive ringers in league
play, will meet In the feature match
of an informal tournament to be
held tomorrow afternoon, starting
at & o’clock, on Henson's new pitch
ing layout at Arlington. Va.
Half a dozen of the leading
pitchers of this section are expected
to take r^rt.
Welter All Set for Blair
HARRY DUBLINSKY,
Crowd-pleasing Chicago fighter, who will square off with Frankie
Blair, twice conqueror of Phil Furr, in the feature 10-round
boxing scrap at Griffith Stadium Monday night.
Olympic Middle
Distance Champs
400 METERS.
1896 Burke, United States_0:54.2
1900 Long, United States_0:49.4
1904 Hillman. United States-- 0:49.3
1906 Pilgrim, United States- 0:53.2
1908 Halswell. England_0:50*
1912 Reidpath. United States- 0:48.2
1920 Rudd. South Africa_u 0:49.6
1924 Liddell. England _0:47.6
1928 Barbutl. United States-- 0:47 8
1932 Carr. United States_0:46.2*
800 METERS.
1896 Flack. England_2:11
1900 Tysoe. England_2:01.3
1904 Lightbody. United States 1:56
1906 Pilgrim. United States— 2:01.2
1908 Sheppard. United States 1:52.8
1912 Meredith. United State 1:51.9
1920 Hill. England_1:53.4
1924 Lowe. England _1:52 4
1928 Lowe. England_1:51.8
1932 Hampson. England_1:49.8*
•Olympic and world records: mark
for 8oo now shared by Ben Eastman.
United States.
♦Halswell had walk-over: Americans
refused to run race over again after
Carpenter. United States winner, was
disqualified In connection with alleged
fouling of Englishman.
-•
Oklahoma Baptist Athlete
Equals Olympic Record
in Tryout Heat.
By the Associated Press.
Milwaukee, June 27—Sam
Allen of Oklahoma Baptist
University eyed Percy Beard’s
world record for the 110
meter hurdles in the Central Olympic
semi-finals at Marquette University
Stadium today.
The flashy Western timber-topper
clicked off the distance in 14.4 seconds
in qualifying last night, equaling the
Olympic record of George Saling. set
in 1932, but two-tenths of a second
short of the mark Beard established
two years ago.
Phil Cope of the University of South- j
ern California, who won another heat
in 14.5, ranked as Allen’s toughest
competitor.
Metcalfe Won Two Heats.
BID for his second appearance in
an Olympic uniform was laid
i down by Ralph Metcalfe. Negro
sprinter of the Marquette Club of Mil
waukee. who won his heats in the 200
and 100 meters, coming within a tenth
of a second of the world record in cop
ping the latter.
Metcalfe's time of 10.3 seconds in
the century was equaled by Sam Stol
ler of the University of Michigan in
another heat, however, and his mark
of 21.9 seconds in the 200 meters was
four-tenths of a second lower than
that of Alfred Fitch, University of
Southern California, who won another
trial heat.
Glenn Cunningham of Lawrence,
Kans., turned in the fastest heat in
the 800 meters, 1:54.2.
Lash Laps Field.
JJON LASH of Indiana, running the
event against competition for the
first time, lapped all his several rivals
in the 10.000-meter final and came
down the stretch in a spurt to be
clocked at 33 minutes 45.4 seconds.
Earle Meadows of the University of
Southern California won the pole vault
with 13 feet 11% inches and Hershel!
Neil of the Marysville, Mo„ Teachers
took the hop, step and jump with 48
feet 3% inches.
W 0. W. NINE HAS DATE
Woodmen of the World, Fraser
Camp, diamonders will stack up
against the Lyon Village nine tomor
row at 3 o’clock at Lyon Village, Va.
AS OLYMPIC HOPE
Other Veteran Stars Have
Close Calls in East’s
Semi-Final Trials.
Bt the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass , June 27.—
The path to American Olym
pic track and field honora
was beset with pitfalls today
for some of the best-known athletes
competing in the Eastern semi-final
tryouts at the Harvard Stadium.
The warning for the veterans was
sounded yesterday when Eulace Pea
cock, Negro star who achieved record
shatterir.g triumphs last year in the
national broad jump an^ 100-meter
championships, passed out of the pic
ture. Peacock, still handicapped by
a damaged leg tendon, withdrew from
the sprint to concentrate on the broad
Jump, only to fall far short of qualify
ing. He barely cleared 22 feet.
1932 Olympic Champ Is Fourth.
OTILL in the competition but facing
pressure were such favorites as
Jack Torrance, world record-holding
shot putter, who trailed “Dimmy”
Zaitz. Boston; Eddie Gordon, the 1932
Olympic broad jump champion, who
was a poor fourth in the broad jump
trials, and Bill Bonthron, who barely
qualified for the 800-meter final as
a prelude to tackling his old rival,
Gene Venzke, in the 1,500-meter final
this afternoon.
Only the first two finishers In each
of the 17 events can be sure of enter
ing the final American tryouts at Ran
dall’s Island, July 11-12.
Outstanding among today's favorites
was Glenn Hardin. Louisiana State
ace. who glided through two 400-meter
hurdle trials impressively.
Woodruff Is Sensation.
'T'HE East's crack 400-meter foot
racers, Eddie O’Brien of Syracuse
and Jack Hoffstetter of Dartmouth,
also came through handily with 48.4
performances. Indiana's Chuck Horn
bostel gained the 800-meter Anal with
o»t trouble, but the sensation in this
event was John Woodruff, Pittsburgh
Negro, who was timed in 1:53.8
Other qualifying leaders: John An
derson, 1932 Olympic Discus cham
pion, with a mark of 161 feet 8'i
inches; Henry (Monk) Little of William
and Mary, in the broad jump, with a
leap of 24 feet 10 inches; Hop O’Dell
of the New York A. C, with a Javelin
throw of 213 feet 9 inches; Henry
Dreyer of the New York A. C., in the
hammer throw, with a mighty toss of
175 feet 4 inches, and Dudley Wilkins
of the Southwestern Louisiana A. C.,
in the hop, step and jump, at 49 feet
H inch.
Sports Program
TODAY.
Base Ball.
Washington at Chicago, 2 games,
1:30.
Tennis.
District men’s singles and dou
bles championships, Columbia
Country Club, 2.
HORSE SHOWS.
Bradley Farms, 10.
Riding and Hunt Club, Hurley
estate, Leesburg pike, Va., 10.
Canoeing.
Washington Canoe Club in final
Olympic trials, Philadelphia.
Coast Trials Prove Dismal
As Stars Fail to Turn Out
&5 the Associated Press.
OS ANGELES, June 27.—Officials
of the Far Western tryouts
for the American Olympic
track and field team hoped to- j
day the meet would finish better than
it started.
The opening program last night was
curtailed sharply to the displeasure of
5,000 fans when many expected con
tenders failed to appear. There were
more officials than athletes on the
field.
Norman Bright of San Francisco’s
Olympic Club, clinching a place in the
final trials in New York, July 11-12,
contributed the oaly sparkle. to the
evening's entertainment in winning
the 6.000-meter run. His time was
14 minutes 52.6 seconds.
Wykoff Wins Dash.
Q LICKING OFF the last lap of the
distance In 61 seconds, he turned
back young Louis Zamperini of Tor
rance, Calif., and Fabian Elomago
of the Mexican Athletic Club.
Entry lists in the 400-meter run
and hurdle events failed to material
ize by starting time, and scheduled
heats were postponed until today.
Apparently hoping to appease the
stands, officials ordered runners In
the 100 and 200 meter races to go
through with their “heats,” although
only seven men were present for the
100, and six for the 200.
Frank WykofT, given a big hand in
his “come-back" campaign, won the
dash in the good time of 10.6 seconds—
good in view of the fact that he eased
up 25 feet from the finish when he saw
he was not pressed. Bob Graham,
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.,
was second, and Ben Reams, Sacra
mento Junior College, third.
Robinson in Front.
JN THE other 100-meter “heat” Mack
Robinson and Tommy Nelson of
Pasadena and Bryant Allen, Los
Angeles High School Negro, coasted
down the track together, Robinson
edging out in front to win in 11.2
seconds.
Robinson also won his "heat” in the
200 meters in 21.5 seconds, and
Graham was timed the same in taking
his test.
Ben Eastman was expected to run—
and win at will—the 800-meter event.
Jimmy Luvalle was figured to have no
trouble in the 400 meters, and Bill
Sefton, University of Southern Call
fonia, was enteed in the pole vault.
He already has qualified to go into
the national finals.
0.
BAND LESLIE
PLAY LINKS FINAL
L. S. U. Pulls Big Surprise
by Eliminating Haas in
College Tourney.
B> the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 27.—Michigan’s
Chuck Kocsis, hero of two
rousing comeback triumphs,
and Pau Leslie of Louisiana
State University, hero of one of the
biggest upsets, set out over the North
Shore Club's wide acreage today to
battle it out for the national inter
collegiate golf crown.
Kocsis, a pre-tournament favorite,
reached the final as scheduled, but
at least three times during the as
sociation’s thirty-eighth annual cham
pionship round-up, it looked as though
he wouldn’t make It. Each time he
turned on the heat in time to remain
in the battle.
Yesterday, 3 down to young 'Willie
Turnesa of Holy Cross, with four
holes to go, Kocsis poured in a birdie
and three pars to square the match
on the thirty-sixth green, then went
on to win with a par 4 on the extra
hole.
Always on Ragged Edge.
QN THURSDAY he defeated John O.
Levinson of Yale on the second
extra hole. As far back as the quali
fying round it looked as though he
might fail to break into the select 32.
He put on one of his patented rallies
and blazed over the final nine in 35
strokes. 1 under par, to qualify at 156.
Leslie reached the title round by
scoring an almost totally unexpected
5-and-4 triumph over Fred Haas, jr.,
his teammate, who was favored with
Koocsis to play in the final. Doing
mo6t of his damage with his irons
and on the greens. Leslie turned on
the pressure in the afternoon to end
the match at the thirty-second hole.
Leslie had only one close call during
the first four rounds, being held to a
1-up decision by Art Doering of Colo
rado College Wednesday. He elimi
nated Pat Malloy of Notre Dame, 2 and
1, and overcame Verne (Spec) 8tewart
of Stanford, 4 and 3, before taking
care of Haas.
BUNDY AND COOPER
BOLSTER RING CARD
Sign for Eight-Rounder in Show
Featuring Haynes, Williams.
Good Faith Check Posted.
yV NDY BUNDY, colored lightweight
champion of the Pacific Coast, will
stack up against Eddy Cooper of
Baltimore in eight-round semi-final
support of the Leroy Haynes-Torn
Williams 10-round encounter at Grif
fith Stadium Wednesday night, it was
announced today.
Six-round arguments in the all
colored show promoted by the allied
Democratic Club pit Leroy Williams,
local middleweight, against Roosevelt
Rowe of South Carolina. In an open
ing four-round engagement. Young
Harry Wills, Baltimore lightweight. 1
will trade blows with Kid Howie of
Charlotte, N. C.
The District Boxing Commission,
which has warned all concerned with
the fight that if there is the slightest
suspicion that the bout is fixed, purses
of the principals will be held up, has
received a certified check for *1,000
as an evidence of good faith. Haynes
will receive *1,000, while Williams will
be paid *300.
HILLCRESTS WOULD PLAY.
The Hillcrest Pharmacy base ball
team wants a game for tomorrow i
with a team having the use of a
diamond. Call Atlantic 1411.
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Overcomes Injuries in Track Comeback
BETTY ROBINSON,
1928 Olympic champion, seriously hurt in an airplane crash,
again is bidding for a place on the American woman’s team for
the international games. She won the 200-meter dash in the
recent Central A. A. U. meet in 26.4 seconds. She shows here
how she gets off the mark. —Wide World Photo.
—_
LLIAM WADE HINSHAW,
former opera star, who at
the age of 70 can give any
kid around Washington an
argument on the golf course, helped
the women of Columbia to a little
private golf tournament and got as
much kick out of watching them play
as the day he slapped a brassie shot
smack into the cup for an eagle on the
eighteenth hole. He put up a flock of
golf balls, a couple of clubs and some
golf umbrellas, and so well did the
tourney go that he promises to make
it bigger and better next year.
Mrs. Norman B. Frost won the gross
award with a card of 89. with Mrs. H.
M. Brumdage next at 91. The first
net prize went to Mrs. S. C. Watkins
with 79 Other winners were Mrs. E.
M. Amick, Mrs. J. R. De Farges, Mrs.
William E. Hall, Mrs. W. B. Jarvis,
Mrs. George B. McGinty, Mrs. J. F.
Gross, Mrs. R. A. Lacey, Mrs. J. P.
Harper and Mrs. George F. Miller.
While the women were engaged in
this little affair quite a group of father
and-son combinations were batting
golf balls over ditches and through
bunkers in an annual affair at Co
lumbia. Martin R. West, golf chair
man and the guy who started the
tourney, took his son—Marty, jr., out
for the air, and between 'em the two
played so well that they tied for first
place with Dr. L. M. Christie and Jack
Christie.
The Wests had a card of 80—14—65,
while the Christies scored 83—17—66.
amid lots of parental admonitions and
advice.
In fact, it was the one occasion of the
golf year when daddy could tell his son
just what to do on the golf course, for
--—.
they played the match in Scotch four
some fashion, using selective drives,
Herbert Shannon and Billy Shannon
had 75—8—67. The gross award went
to John L. and Jack Barr with a card
of 73. They had a handicap of five
strokes for a net of 68.
tTARRY P. SOMERVILLE, well
known Washington hotel man,
broke 100 for the second ttme in his life
at Chevy Chase to win the V. Calvert
Dickey trophy in the Rotary Club tour
ney. Somerville had a score of 95—
30—65 to lead E. M. Graham by one
shot. Graham had 96—30—66. Dickey,
the donor of the trophy, was unable to
play.
Roger J. Whiteford, the eminent
southpaw who left-hands the ball
around Burning Tree in low scores, won
the gross prize with a card of 80. Creed
Pulton won third net with 91—24—67
and Charles T. Claggett and L. J.
Goode were tied for fourth net with
cards of 68.
The Indian Spring Country Club
course will be open Monday to com
petitors in the Herald Cup tourney, to
be played at Indian Spring Thursday,
July 2.
DUSS HOLLEBAUGH. the portly
golf salesman who won the Ken
wood Country Club championship two
years ago, stood on the threshold of his
greatest golf achievement today, with
an even cnance mat oy mgnuau ne
may be crowned king of all the golfers
in the State of Maryland. Russ met
bespectacled, solemn-faced Spencer
Overton in the final round of the Mary
land State championship at Hlllendale,
and If his legs last over the 36-hole
route and the golf shots which carried
him to several surprise victories on his
way to the final, keep on biting in near
the pin Russ may grab his first big
title.
The rotund Hollebaugh upset Ernie
Caldwell, the 1935 champion, in the
third round yesterday, licking the
blond from Hillendale 1 up. Then
he went on to whip John MacKenzie
to win his way to the final.
Overton, winner of the medal round
and generally ranked as one of the
better players of this section, beat
Hickman Greene 2 and 1 in the third
round and then whipped young Na
than Kaufr.’an to get to the final.
But the big surprise of that third
round was the nineteenth hole licking
Roger Peacock took at the hands of
Kaufman. The lad from Baltimore
Suburban Club reeled off four birdies
on the last nine to square the match
after Peacock went to the twelfth hole
4 up, Kaufman wound up the streak
with a bird 3 on the eighteenth. At
the nineteenth, both were trapped
with their second shots, but Kaufman
knocked his bell out close to the
hole and canned the putt for a win
ning 4. Roger hasn't done so well in
tournaments this year. His previous
tourney start found him failing to
make the first flight in the Chevy
Chase event.
piFTEEN Argyle Country Club golf
r ers will move over to Beaver
Dam tomorrow to play a group from
the Landover Club. Ray Lawrenson
heads the Argyle golfers with the
following composing the team: Harry
Grimm, Percy W. Le Due, John Gard
ner. Lincoln Johnston, Capt. Boh
lander, John Gamer, Phil Brousaeau,
Wilbur Taylor, Cromwell Warner, W.
J. Allen, H. L. Lake, R. J. Possun,
John Boyd, Paul Gunnell and J. D.
Draper.
Fights Last Night
By tnc Associated Brest.
WORCESTER, Mass.—Lou Brouil
lard, 160, Worcester, knocked out
Irish Johnny Ennis, 160, Newark,
N J. (8).
DANVILLE, HI—Pat Murphy,
144. Danville, knocked out Mickey
O’Shea, 148, Chicago (5).
SAN DIEOO, Calif.—Pablo Dana.
122, Los Angeles, outpointed A1
Romero, 123 Vz, San Diego 110).
HOLLYWOOD. Calif —King Le
vinsky, 185, Chicago, outpointed
Joe Bauer, 185, Cleveland (10).
ROD AND STREAM
-BY GEOKGE HL'BER.___
O BE really successful fishing in
the Potomac River right now
one should have live bait. Take
a small net along and you will
have no trouble catching your own
minnows as you need them. This de
partment was up there yesterday after
noon locking the ground over and
noted that only those anglers using
these small river inhabitants were
having any luck.
For our part we tried to lure in a
bass or two via the artificial bait route,
but met with a notable lack of success.
Taking one of Capt. Joe Fletcher’s
little red rowboats we went on up to
Chain Bridge. Then, letting the boat
drift downstream with the current, we
tried casting toward likely looking
spots along both shores. The bass
wouldn't be lured with anything.
Underwater plugs, spinners, swimmers,
poppers and injured minnows all were
spurned.
CEVERAL fly rod addicts casting
^ from the Virginia shore likewise
were unsuccessful. The fellows using
minnows contrived to catch several
sizable bass. Glen Place landed a 12
inch small-mouth and half a dozen
large cats from a spot near Chain
Bridge.
We also tried still flishing with j
bloodworms near the Virginia shore
opposite Capt. Joe's place, but those.
small perch down near the bottom
just took them from the hook as fast
as we put them over, and in an hour
had robbed us of about 25 pieces of bait
without even one being hooked. If you
want those 6-inch perch, they can
be taken by using a very small hook
baited with just a fraction of a blood
worm, but they aren’t much good for
table purposes, and minnows make
much better bait.
Capt. Joe was telling us that later
on, around September and October, is
the best time for bass, and that rocks
will be back then also. Right now
most of the good-sized rocks have
gone on up to Great Falls. In late
Summer they will head for salt water.
There will be a few more on their way
up here, but the larger ones have just
about finished their trek to headwater.
If you want bass now, one of the best
spots around Washington is above
Chain Bridge at the foot of Little
Falls near the flume from the Dale
carlia Reservoir. You will have to
wait until after 4 p.m. when they
quit work at the reservoir and shut
down the flume, as the muddy water
coining from it during the day abso
lutely precludes catching anything.
'J'HERE is no reason why the Po
tomac should not be one of the
best bass streams in the country. It
has plenty of weedy spots, overhanging
rocks and log drifts, and a stranger in
these parts Immediately would size it
up as a bass paradise. There is plenty
of bass food. Late yesterday the min
nows were all around us going after
the small water bugs on the surface.
Perhaps one reason for minnows being
so plentiful is that there are too few 1
bass in the Potomac to menace them. !
^^LLIE ATLAS has just returned
from his weekly trip to Solomons,
where he says the hardhead are “big
as horses.” More than 200 were caught;
by his party, which included Harry
Cohen. Fred Mae and Sam Hamlein.
They fished far out in the ship chan
nel. The best time, Atlas says, is from
* to 8 in the afternoon and evening.
John Alcorn, fishing from one of Capt.
George Horsman’s rowboats up In the
Patuxent at Benedict, caught, 41 hard
head weighing up to 4 pounds. He
says that anglers using power boats
were doing even better.
Down in the Southwest Middles every
one is catching blues. Capt. Willoughby
brought back 24, weighing between 8
and 9 pounds each, along with a large
number of croaker and trout. One
of Capt. Raub Drury’s parties ran out
of chum early, but still they caught 14,
all around 7 pounds apiece. After the
chum gave out they tried trolling, but
had no luck.
Weather doesn’t seem to bother
channel bass much, we glean from the
following telegram from Chincoteague, 1
on the ocean side of Virginia’s Eastern
Shore: “Harry Kltt, David Reuben
and Archie Cohen, fishing at Cape
Charles, despaired because of a north
east storm. En route home stopped at
Old Dominion Club, being persuaded
by Capt. Bunting to go fishing. These
disciples of Isaac Walton braved the
turbulent waters to reach the fishing
grounds, but once there were compen
sated by a catch of 10 channel bass
weighing from 20 to 30 pounds each.”
RIP-ROARING REDS
CROSTEXPERTS”
Threaten to Crash First
Division—Vosmik Homers
Tribe to Victory.
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sporte Writer.
THE Cincinnati Reds, whose as
sociation with the National
League cellar was so constant
it had become more or less of
a habit until Manager Charlie Dressen
took them over, are threatening to do
a Max Schmeling on the experts this
season.
While the Pirates and the Giants
have been lighting it out at the tail
end of the first division, the red-hot
Reds, previously rated no better than
the sixth place they held last year,
have been creeping up until now they
are only two games out of that select
set.
A general pitching Improvement,
particularly in A1 Hollingsworth, is
largely responsible, but along with this
are such factors as the grand come
back of Klkl Cuyler, the snappy first
base work of Les Scarsella. recent im
portation from Toronto, and the im
proved hitting of Shortstop Billy
Myers and Second-sacker Alex Kam
j pourls.
Win firth in Bow.
'J'HE Reds stretched a current win
ning streak to five games yester
day, with Cuyler and Lew Riggs ham
mering homers as A1 Hollingsworth
chalked up his eighth victory at the
expense of the Phillies, 11-6.
The Giants were dropped back into
fourth place, after a third-place run of
only a day, when the Cubs clawed
them, 3-1, as Curt Davis pitched six
hit ball. The Pirates reclaimed third
place by nosing out the Boston Bees.
2-1, with Red Lucas the victor over
Danny MacFayden in a tight hurling
duel on the strength of Gus Suhr's
homer in the ninth.
At the same time the Cardinals
were hanging onto their tiny lead over
the Cubs by coming from behind to
belt the hapless Dodgers, 6-1.
Vosmik’s Homer Tells.
'J'HE only American League game
resulted in an 8-7 victory for the
Cleveland Indians over the Red Sox
when Joe Vosmik broke up the pro
ceedings with a home run in the
tenth, shoving the Sox to 6^ games
behind the pace-setting Yanks.
Bad weather forced postponement
of the Washington-Chicago and Phila
delphia-Detroit engagements, while
the Yanks' battle at St. Louis had
been put back previously to allow for
a double-header Sunday.
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SCORE NET VICTORIES
G. A. 0., Security & Exchange on
Top in League Matches.
Tennis teams of the General Ac
counting Office and Security and
Exchange Commission scored victories
in Departmental League matches yes
terday when they whipped the I. C. C.
and G. P. O. racketers, respectively.
Security and Exchange recorded a
"5-0 victory while the Accountants
won four out of five.
Summaries:
G. A. O . 4: I. C. C.. 1.
S. E. C.. 5; G. P. O.. 0,
RIVIRO, RAYMOND BOX
Matched for Semi-Final Clash of
Dublinsky-Blair Show.
Jumbo Riviro, New Orleans welter
weight, will square off with Lew Ray
mond. popular Baltimore battler, in
a scheduled six-round semi-flnal to
the feature scrap involving Harry
Dublinsky and Frankie Blair, Monday
night at Griffith Stadium, it was an
nounced today by Matchmaker Goldie
Aheam.
In other six-rounders. Jackie Car
ter will be pitted against Bill Temes
and Harry Jeffra will swap swats
with Johnny Marlin. An opening
four-round bout lists Battling Mimms
trading blows with Jim Lamar, local
colored heavyweight.
ECKINGTONS HUNT FOE.
A base ball game for tomorrow is
sought by the Eckington A. C. Call
North 4415-W.
MERCHANTS WANT ACTION.
The Brooklyn Merchant Juniors,
who have a diamond, are seeking
opposition for tomorrow. Call Po
tomac 2321.
STANSBURY IN HELD.
Fast unlimited nines are challenged
by the Stansbury A. C. Call At
lantic 3678-W.
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EAGLES SEEK HANAGER.
-A manager Is sought by the Ana
costia Eagles, who compete in the |
Columbian League. Call Lincoln I
4234-W. t