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National League Topsy-Turvy With Leading Dodgers Half Game Behind Reds
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Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
After the Smoke Had Cleared at Manor
It was almost dark when the last shot was fired In the District,
Maryland and Virginia qualifying round for the National Open at
Manor. It had been a long day, marked by generally good shooting in
view of the heaviness in the air and on the fairways and greens. Twice
within an hour the course record had been shattered, once by a 22-year
old dark horse named Lewis Worsham and again by a little-known pro
from Langley Field named Jack Isaacs. i
From a sentimental iide it wasn’t a very successful day. The crowd
started by rooting for the old guard ... for 58-year-old Freddy McLeod,
National Open champion in 1908 . . for Wiffy Cox, the one-time gob
from Brooklyn ... for A1 Houghton, the gray-haired pro of Beaver Dam.
Early in the 36-hole foray McLeod fell by the wayside. Houghton fouled
himself out by starting out of turn, but continued, anyway, and shot
himself out with 148. Cox came close. He tied for fifth and then lost
a playoff.
McLeod and Cox and Houghton. It seemed strange not to find one,
two or all of their names near the top of the list. Instead, there were
the names of Worsham, Isaacs and Larkin leading all the rest.
Houghton's Legs Gave Way on Him
McLeod was sitting near the bar, taking elimination lightly, when
Houghton, grayer and heavier, walked into the room and sank grate
fully in a chair. “Legs,” grunted Houghton, slapping a calf. “When
they begin to go back on you it’s the beginning of the end of tough
competitive golf. When the old pins start getting rubbery you can’t get
oomph in your shots.”
McLeod nodded in dour agreement and somebody asked him if that
held true for the National Open. “What happens,” was the question,
•when 10 or a dozen golfers, all in the running, go into the final nine
holes for the Open championship?”
McLeod thought for a moment and then said: “They begin tossing
the title around like it was a hot potato. Then it becomes a test not
only of physical stamina but of nerves. Mon, it’s hell, that’s what it is.”
Freddy picked up his glass. He hadn’t expected to be a figure in
another National Open He had been through it 37 times, counting
qualifying tests, and when a golfer is pushing 60 he realizes it’s not for
him again.
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Sambo Snead Is Hitting the Road
Cox was cooling his heels by sprawling on a bench in the locker
room. Wiffy almost qualified by not caring whether he did or didn’t.
Automatically first alternate, as a result of finishing sixth, he re
quested that Leo Walper, the next man, be given his place in the event
a slot was opened.
"I'd be a sucker,” Wiffy sighed, "to go to the Open. It takes a
golfer in great shape to stand up under that test and I'm not in that
kind of shape.”
A newspaperman said, jokingly, “There’s nothing wrong with you
that a week of road work won't cure, Wiffy, or is there?” and Cox
looked up.
“Don't think you're kidding,” he said. “Road work? Do you know
what Sammy Snead's doing right now? Road work. And so are the
other fellows who really will be in the running during the Open. You're
not kidding. It takes two months, to get really ready for the Open.
You have to get out and run like a fighter in training. Paul Runyan
goes to Bill Brown’s camp and trains. Runyan doesn’t smoke, drink
or chew. It’s early-to-bed and that stuff.”
Working Pro, Says Cox, Has No Chance
“What about those stories of fellows who stayed up all night, drank
cups of black coffee, and went out to win championships?” asked another
newspaperman. “Hagen, for instance, and some of the others?”
“They were true enough, I guess, less a certain amount of exag
geration,” Wiffy admitted, “but that doesn’t hold now. When Hagen
was winning without training it was different. He was winning with
higher scores than win today. Nowadays a kid in shape will go out and
take a course apart. Look at Worsham and Isaacs. One shot a 66 and
the other a 65.
“Years ago, when golfers showed up still wearing their tuxedo
trousers from the night before, we didn't have all of these big tourna
ments. There were only a few. The Open was the biggest, as it is now,
but it wasn’t necessary to go into hard training for a long stretch. Now
a pro has a decision to make. He has two choices.”
“And the choices?” prompted one of the gallery.
"Either work or play,” Cox answered. "A pro who gives lessons and
runs a shop and is a real part of a club can’t win the Open or any other
big tournament. Do you think Sarazen or Hagen evei bothered to give
lessons? Or Tommy Armour? Or do you think Snead and Nelson and
those fellows do it? They do not.
“Those fellows,” concluded Wiffy, “are in training for tournament
play. We who work and give lessons are outclassed nowadays. Per
sonally, I’m willing to forget about the National Open. I’ve been in a
position half a dozen times to win it and I know what It Is. It’s three
days of hell, not counting any playoffs.”
Tea and Toast All Jones Could Take
So this year finds Washington s three veterans, McLeod, Cox and
Houghton, on the sidelines of the Open They couldn’t qualify and none
shed a tear. The Open isn’t going to be won by a veteran with casual
training. The winner will be somebody like Ben Hogah or Snead or
Byron Nelson or some unknown young pro who may be hungry enough
and loose enough and lucky enough.
The National Open is no picnic. There have been, and still are,
top-notch golfers who resort to sedatives to keep the tops of their heads
from blowing off Even Bobby Jones, one of the great competitors, wasn’t
Immune to the tension. Jones couldn't eat for three days before an
Open and it follows he wasn’t a gourmet during it. Strong tea and
toast was the best he could stomach.
No formidable five are those who qualified from this section at
Manor. Isaacs took the course apart for 18 holes, but he doesn’t figure,
nor does Larkin nor George Diffenbaugh nor Andy Gibson, the Balti
more pro who beat Cox in the playoff. A possible contender, at least for
a while, is young Worsham. He has most of the shots and he’s young,
hungry and ambitious to use the Open as a giant springboard to sudden
fame.
But Worsham of Burning Tree belongs to that group which Cox
calls the working class. The best bet, still, looks to be a pro who has
been working for weeks to get in shape for that jagged test of physical
stamina and nerves.
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Major League Statistics
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1040.
AMERICAN
Results Yesterday.
New York. 5: Washington, 0.
Detroit, 8: Cleveland. 1.
Chicago. T: St Louis. 5.
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GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW
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Bos. at Phila. (night) Boston at Phila.
Detroit at Cleve. Detroit at Cleve.
Chicago at St. L. (2). Chicago at 8t. L.
NATIONAL
Remits Yesterday.
Brooklyn. 6: Philadelphia, 0.
Boston. 7: New York. 1.
Cincinnati. 2—7: Plttsbursh. 1—3.
Chicago. 7: St. Louis. 1.
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GAMES TODAT GAMES TOMOBBOW.
Phil. atBkln. (night).Phlla. at Boston.
New York at Boston, cincl. at Pittsburgh.
Clncl. at Pittsburgh. 8t. L. at Chicago.
St. L. at Chicago. Only games scheduled.
Big League Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press.
Charley Keller and Spud Chandler.
Yankees—Former hit home run and
batted in four of team's live tallies as
Utter shut out Senators on four hits.
Bill Posedel and Tony Cucclnello.
Bees—Former pitched four-hit ball and
later had perfect day at bat with two
doublet and two alneles for 7-1 triumph
•ver Olants. _ .. .
Whitlow Wyatt. Dodsers—Chalked up
fourth victory and second shutout of
thnusa.hurlint aaalnst
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Ted Lyons. White Box—Kept nine
hits scattered and made three on his
own behalf in beating Browns, 7-6.
Whiter Moore. Joe Beggs and Jim
Turner. Reds—Moore and Beggs com
bined in four-hit pitching lob that
stopped Pirates. 3-1, in first game of
double-header, while Turner went route
with nine spaced hits to take nightcap.
Buck Newsom. Tigers—Subdued In
dians on six hits, striking out nine.
Claude Passeau, Cube—bed Chicago
to 7-x victory over Cardinals oa sevso
hit pitching,
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French Drivers
May Go Out of
Auto Grind
Slowest to Qualify,
Tests Today Likely
To Eliminate Them
By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. May 28—Driv
ers not yet qualified for the 500
mile Indianapolis motor speedway
race Thursday have seven .hours
today to earn positions in the start
ing field of 33 cars—and it takes a
10-mile sprint at better than 117218
miles per hour to qualify.
The field was filled yesterday with
the qualification of 14 cars, but the
slower racers may be eliminated in
favor of speedsters qualifying today
at greater speeds.
irencn soldiers Trail.
Most likely to be eliminated were
two French soldiers who obtained
leaves of absence for the race—Rene
Dreyfus and Rene Lebegue—and
Louis Durant of Herrington, Kans.
Lebegue qualified yesterday at
118.981 miles an hour, Dreyfus at
118.831 and Durant at 117.218. Those
three times were the slowest of the
33 qualifiers.
Fastest of the cars scheduled to
attempt qualification today are
driven by Lloyd Davis of Springfield,
111.: Billy Devore of St. Johns, Kans.,
and Tony 'Willman of Milwaukee.
All three are capable of 120 miles
an hour for the four qualification
laps around the two and one-half
mile track.
Bob Swanson of Los Angeles qual
ified his 16-cylinder mount yester
day at 124.619, best time of the day.
Finishing Tests Today.
Today’s final qualification period
ran from 10 am. to 5 p.m. The
track will be closed Wednesday for
a final cleaning.
Qualifiers yesterday and their
speeds:
Swanson, *124.619; Ralph Hepburn
of Los Angeles, 123.860; Emil Andres
of Chicago. 122.963: George Robe
son of Los Angeles, 122.562, Raul Ri
ganti of Argentina, 121.827; Duke
Nalon of Chicago, 121.790; Joe Chit
wood of Topeka, Kans., 121.757; Chet
Miller of Detroit, 121.322; A1 Put
nam of Los Angeles, 120.818; Paul
Russo of Kenosha, Wis., 120.809; A1
Miller of Detroit, 120228; Lebegue,
118.981;- Dreyfus, 118.831, and Du
rant, 117218.
Nats Forced to Rely on Weak
Hurlers for Double-Headers;
Chase Good, Despite Loss
By BURTON HAWKINS,
Star Staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK, May 28.—Not too
gay over the whole idea, Manager
Bucky Harris of the Nats today was
being forced to explore the potential
ities of his second-string pitchers in
starting assignments. With five
games in three days facing his club,
he is flattering, in frantic despera
tion, the lesser lights of his slab staff.
The double-header with the Yankees
here today necessitated employing
Joe Haynes and Rene Monteagudo
in starting roles, although their ap
pearances in relief situations hardly
warrant the compliment. Bucky’s
supply of starters simply became
exhausted when he worked Dutch
Leonard on Saturday, Willis Hudlin
on Sunday and Ken Chase yesterday.
So Yankee Stadium, hardly a spot
for experimental maneuvers at the
moment, became some sort of a
proving grounds for the younger
members of the Nats’ pitching bri
gade. It will retain that status
tomorrow, when Sid Hudson is slated
to start for Washington in the finale
of the four-game series here.
Harris plans to work Leonard and
bespectacled Walter Masterson in
the twin bill at Philadelphia on
Thursday, leaving the veteran Hud
lin to open against Detroit Saturday
at Griffith Stadium.
What happens if Washington
pitchers fail to survive tests is a
ticklish topic, for available for relief
will be only the inept Joe Krakaus
kas and Bucky Jacobs, who toiled
one inning here yesterday. In that
brief period Jacobs issued a terrific
home run to Charley Keller which
produced three runs in the Yankees’
5-0 triumph.
Krakauskas has failed to recover
his fast ball, regarded as his lone
asset, since a recent armache. If,
in some miraculous manner, the zip
returns to his left arm overnight,
Harris may use him in the last game
with the Yankees, against whom Joe
has enjoyed sporadic success.
Bucky, though, is inclined to allow
Haynes, Monteagudo, Hudson and
Masterson to linger on the mound
even, if hit hard, for the bull pen
dwellers will be scarce With such a
situation staring the Nats In the
optics, anything pleasant materializ
ing on the mound in the next few
days will be on the surprising side.
Despite Chase’s loss in the series
opener, the loose-jointed southpaw
only momentarily deviated from the
steady course he has maintained in
recent weeks. Ken allowed only two
hits in the seven innings he labored,
suffered a spell of wildness in the
third inning to walk four successive
Yankees and force across a run.
Joe Di Maggio's home run, leading
off in the second inning, and Bill
Knickerbocker's double, launching
the sixth, were the only hits regis
tered against Ken, but in the mean
time the Nats were bumping into
difficulty with Spurgeon Chandler.
Chandler checked the Nats with
four hits, all singles, and was threat
ened only once. In the eighth Zeke
Bonura led off with a single to left
and pinch-hitter Sammy West
walked after Jimmy Blood worth
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fanned. Both Rick Ferrell and
Pinch-hitter Jack Early flied to Left
Fielder George Selkirk, however, to
end the mild scoring gesture.
It was the fourth successive game
in which Chase has, hurled credit
ably. He dropped a 4-2 decision to
Philadelphia on nine hits and
whipped Cleveland and St. Louis
with seven hits each in previous
starts. He has allowed only nine
earned runs in the last 32 innings
he has pitched.
Washington still was very much
in the game until Jacobs relieved
Chase for the chucking chores
starting the eighth. He disposed of
Babe Dahlgren and Chandler, but
walked Frankie Crosetti and Issued
a single to Knickerbocker to set the
stage for Keller's second homer in
two days, a tremendous drive deep
into the Washington bull pen in
right field.
The Nats, in being blanked the
third time this season, also suffered
at the turnstiles, only 2,269 paying
patrons witnessed the game. Secre
tary Edward B. Eynon, jr„ of the
Nats labeled it probably the smallest
crowd he has seen in Yankee Sta
dium in 20 years.
Official Score
WASHINGTON. * AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Case, rf_4 0 110 0
LCWis, 3b_4 0 112 0
WelaJ, cf_ 4 0 1 0 0 0
Walker, If_ 3 0 0 1 0 0
Bonura. lb _ 3 0 1 12 0 0
Bloodworth. 2b _ 3 0 0 2 3 0
Pofahl, sa_ 2 0 0 1 4 0
•West _ 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oelbert, sa_ 0 0 0 0 1 0
Ferrell, c _ 3 0 0 6 0 0
Chase, p_ 2 0 0 0 4 0
t Early _ 1 0 0 0 0 0
Jacobs, p_ 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals _ 20 0 *4 24 14 0
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t Batted for Chase in the eighth.
NEW YORK. AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Crosetti. ss 2 1 0 0 3 0
Knickerbocker, 3b — 3 1 2 0 4 0
Keller, rf _2 112 0 0
Di Maggio. cf_4 112 0 0
Dickey, c_ 3 0 0 1 0 0
Selkirk, If_ 2 0 0 4 1 0
Gordon, 2b _ 3 0 0 1 6 0
Dahlgren. lb —^_ 3 0 0 17 0 0
Chandler, p_ 2 1 0 0 5 0
Totals _ 24 5 ~4 27 19 0
WASHINGTON_ 000 000 000—0
NEW YORK_011 000 03x—6
Runs—Crosetti, Knickerbocker, Keller,
Dl Maggio. Chandler. Runs batted In—Di
Magglo. Keller (4). Two-base hit—Knick
erbocker. Home runs—Dl Magglo, Keller.
Bacriflce—Keller. Double plays—Selkirk to
Gordon to Dahlgren. Pofahl to Bloodworth
to Bonura, Lewis to Bloodworth to Bonura.
Pofahl to Lewis, Chandler to Gordon to
Dahlgren. Left on bases—New York 2:
Washington. 3. First 'base on balls—Oft
Chase, 5; off Chandler, 1; off Jacobs, 1.
Struck out—By Chase, 3: by Chandler, 1;
by Jacobs, 2. Hits—Off Chase, 2 in 7
Innings: off Jacobs, 2 in 1 inning. Losing
pitcher—Chase. Umpires—Messrs. Kolls,
Ormsby and McGowan. Time—1:40. At
tendance—4.268.
49th Middle States
Regatta Assigned
To Philadelphia
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 28—The
49th annual Middle States Regatta
will return to the Schuylkill waters
here September 1, after an absence
of five years, the Middle States
Association voted last night.
Charles V. Doyle was unanimously
re-elected association president.
Also re-elected were W. Robertson
Richardson, Richmond, Va., vice
president, and Latrobe Cogswell,
Baltimore, secretary-treasurer.
The 19-race regatta will be held
over a one-mile course. Entries
will close August 22. Two races of
the 1939 program —the 145-pound
senior singles and the 145-pound
senior quadruple sculls—were elim
inated. Senior eights were added.
Heurich, Cameo Teams
Clash for Top Spot
First place in the Industrial Base
ball League and temporary recogni
tion of supremacy will go to the
winner of today’s Heurich Brewer
Cameo Furniture game on the West
Ellipse at 5 o’clock.
Each team has won live and lost
one and split even in two games
with each other.
Thursday Game Sought
A game for Thursday is wanted
by the Briggs A. C. Insects, who
may be booked at Oeopia 3140.
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NEW YORK, May 28.—‘‘Ill
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kneeled behind a strip of steel
bordering the Washington dugout
at Yankee Stadium before yester
day’s game. “Ya see, if an um
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Leading Blues
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last night that old Walter Tauscher
still is a handy man to have around
when the chips are down.
Sheehan. Minneapolis manager,
planned to use Harry Smythe
against the Kansas City Blues, but
changed his mind and tossed the
36-year-old Tauscher agamst the
American Association leaders. The
veteran hurled a five-hitter and
wound up with a 4-to-3 victory in
10 innings.
The triumph moved the Millers
up within three games of the cham
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Champions Trail
Despite Their
Double Win
Brooks Grab Fourth
In Row; Idle Bosox
Gain on Tribe
By JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
National League fans, who have
endured enough hair-raising races
lS recent years that they can feel
blase about the child’s play now
going on In the American League,
never have had anything closer than
the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn
Dodgers are today.
They are tighter than a tie, If
such a situation is possible.
The Dodgers are on top in per
centage .714 to .710, but they are
half a game behind in won-lost
calculations. Cincinnati has won two
games more <22> than the Dodgers,
who have lost one less (8) than the
Reds.
The Reds did all that was in their
power to capture the lead in stopping
the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1 and 7-3,
yesterday. In the first game Whitey
Moore and Joe Beggs combined to
hold Pittsburgh to four hits and won
the game on two runs donated them
in the first inning.. Helped by two
3-run frames, Jim Turner went the
route in the nightcap, scattering
nine hits.
Dodgers in Streak.
But Cincinnati’s best just wasn’t
good enough to erase that percentage
margin as long as the Dodgers con
tinued to win—and they chalked up
their fourth straight victory with a
6- 0 shutout of the Philadelphia
Phillies.
Whitlow Wyatt kept four hits
nicely spaced while his mates ganged
up on Clyde Smoll and Prank
Hoerst for an even dozen. Five of
the blows came in succession in the
fifth inning for three runs.
Pitching keynoted most of the
day’s games. Bill Posedel held the
New York Giants to four safeties
while the Boston Bees pounded out a
7- 1 triumph with 13 hits off three
pitchers. It was Posedel's third
win—exactly one-third of all Bos
ton’s nine triumphs. Tony Cuccinello
joined in the party with two
doubles and two singles for a perfect
day.
The Chicago Cubs kept the Na
tional League design four-cornered
by belting the St. Louis Cardinals,
7-1, and closing the gap between
them and second place to a game
and a half. Claude Passeau limited
the St. Louis sluggers to seven hits
and held them scoreless after the
first inning.
Newsom Stops Indians.
The Cleveland Indians slipped half
a notch in their efforts to overtake
the Boston Red Sox in the American
League by losing a night game to
the Detroit Tigers, 6-1. Buck Newsom
simply took charge, holding Cleve
land to six hits, striking out nine
and retiring the last 11 batters in
order for his fifth victory against
one defeat. The Red Sox were rained
out at Philadelphia.