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Dodgers Take National League Lead as Cardinals Start Chase Under New Pilot
From the
Press Box
Rematch With Louis
Hot Spot for Godoy
By JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
NEW YORK, June S (N.A.N.AJ
Joe Louis has some unfinished busi
ness to rub off his books. The only
man who ever played squat tag with
him still is alive to tell the tale.
What’s more, the fellow tells the
tale at every opportunity.
"Then I kiss him.” relates Senor
Arturo Godov "and then I squat
down and invite him to hit me, but
he can’t do nothing.”
How would you like to be haunted
by a guy like that’ To make mat
ters worse. Godoy is a tango dancer
and a powder-puff puncher. When
Louis meets him again two weeks
from now, Joseph’s friends expect
Joe to knock the witness’ memory
right out from among his brains in
the shortest possible time. Why
leave a fellow to go around at large
telling jokes on you?
Godov, you remember, went 15
rounds with Louis last winter and
laughed at the great man with im
punity. He took a few stiff blows
to the head. but. to do him justice.
Godoy can soak up punishment, and
he soaked up the best of Joe's grade
C stuff and practically stood on his
head to show how good he felt.
Mocking Won't Win Title,
Godoy Must Understand
He mocked the champion from
Ftart to finish. Now. you can't win
the title by mocking the champion.
The rules require something a little
more constructive, such as a good
punch on the whiskers. Godoy lost
the fight decisively, running away
nine-tenths of the evening and land
ing one clean blow to Louis’ three.
His object was to go the distance,
which he did, thanks to the artful
coaching of Armand Weill, the
Weskit.
But Godoy also put a question
equarely up to Louis: Can a great
champion afford to let a rival make
fun of him? And can he be a great
fighter if the other guy gets away
With it?
Joe was lame and lethargic in
defense of his prestige against
Godoy. Of course, he didn’t know
ahead of time what was coming, and
Joe is a little slow or the uptake.
The fight was over before he could
adapt himself to circumstances.
Being in a lazy mood, and realizing
that the waltz was his on points, he
Just let it go at that.
All right, then, you'll excuse him
once. But he can't afford another
burlesque. If the champion and old
John Blackburn, his trainer, cannot
cook up some antidote between
them, as well as a way to mash the
kidder from Chile like a potato on
the night of June 20. then Louis will
be made to look very bad indeed.
Probably Will Attempt
To Bewilder Joe
I doubt whether Godoy will try
the same stunts again. After all,
he must have some sort of hanker
ing for the title, and he won't win
the title by stunting. But. broadly
speaking, he probably will fight the
same kind of fight—lunge in quickly
under Louis' long guns, clinch,
wrestle and shoot inside punches for
Joe’s head and body Those punches
never will hurt Joe badly, the Godoy
armament being what it is. but there
always is a chance that they’ll be
wilder him, and anything can hap
pen to a bewildered fighter.
That’s the Godoy policy, outlined
by Weskit Weill: Go inside and mix
it and you've got a chance. Stand
off and trade, and you're done for.
That being the case, however, it
Strikes me that the task of Louis
and Blackburn, preparing for the
fight, is simplified. They know what
to plan for. There only is a lim
ited number of schemes you can try
against a hitter of Louis' speed and
power, and I think Godoy and Weill
have tipped their hand permanently.
Pastor Not So Clever
In Second Fight
The team of Bob Pastor and James
J. Johnston slipped one over on Louis
once, just as Godoy and Weill did.
Pastor made a straight backward
fight, running like a deer in reverse.
Like Godoy’s first fight, it was a
sacrifice fight—hardly a chance of
•Winning.
Well, Pastor got his second lick at
Louis, and this time tried a slight
crossup. He stood his ground in the
first round. Louis promptly bounced
him to the canvas a couple of times,
and Pastor, as soon as his head
cleared, reverted to the old running
tactics. This time he didn't run far
enough.
Joe has a good record for return
matches with good fighters—Schmel
ing and Pastor. You can call Godoy
a good fighter, too: at least a man
who knows his business. If Joseph
keeps the record clean, he will part
Godoy in the middle and close his
book with another account balanced.
It saddens me to report that these
auspices, so formidable, so clear, so
Impressive, do not affect Senor
Godov in the least. When last seen
he was thumbing his nose at a like
ness of Louis, and a very good like
ness at that. Do you suppose he
knows something we don't know?
Close for Printers
Scoring the winning run with two
out, in the last inning just after
their opponents had tied the score
with a three-run rally. Union
Printers nosed out Federal Bureau
of Investigation, 5-4, in a United
States Government League game
yesterday. A long fly by Bound
ford allowed Gardiner to score the
deciding run from third.
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Brooklyn Now in Role
Originally Seen for
Fading St. Louis
Southworth Is Elevated
To Manager as Blades
Gets the Heave-Ho
By JUDSON BAILEY.
Associated Press Sports Writer.
Ray Blades is out and the Brook
| lyn Dodget*S are in.
The responsibility for the major
leagues’ first managerial crackup of
! 1940 should be spread in a lot of
directions, but the Dodgers will have
to shoulder their share of the blame,
because they are doing everything
! the St. Louis Cardinals were sup
posed to do this season.
It was more than a coincidence
that yesterday as the Cards fired
Blades and hired Billy Southworth,
the indomitable Dodgers drove back
: into first place in the National
League with a 4-2 llth-inning con
quest of the Cincinnati Reds.
This was the sixth straight in a
new winning streak for Brooklyn
and the two immediately preceding
triumphs had come at the expense
of the Cardinals. One of them, 10-1,
Tuesday night, probably caused Sam
Breadon to decide to swap managers
. in St. Louis, because he left the next
day for New York to meet South
worth. pilot of the Cards’ Rochester
farm in the International League.
uiamour Team of 1939.
The Cards were the “glamour
team” of last season, soaring from
sixth to second place under Blades’
guidance, and were labeled as the
team that could rout the Reds this
year. Instead, the Dodgers have be
come baseball's bright boys.
They gave a stirring show at
Cincinnati yesterday, winning on a
two-run homer by Dolph Camilli
in the eleventh and stopping Bucky
Walters' undefeated streak at nine
games.
Hugh Casey, the hurler the Reds
whipped May 1 to end the Dodgers’
sensational string of nine victories
dating from the start of the season,
pitched five scoreless innings in re
; lief and got credit for the victory
and a taste of sweet revenge.
The Cardinals, under the tem
porary handling of Coach Mike
Gonzales, squeezed past the New
York Giants, 3-2, with the help of
! double plays and advanced into
; fifth place. Southworth will take
charge of the club Monday. He
ought to know the magnitude of
the task ahead because he replaced
| another “miracle manager" of the
Cards, Bill McKechnie, in 1929. the
year after McKechnie won the pen
| nant. Southworth lasted till July
and then the Cards brought back
McKechnie, who had been at Roch
ester.
Pirates Get Out of Cellar.
Another swap in positions in yes
terday's general upheaval in the
National League saw the Pittsburgh
Pirates finally get out of the cellar
and the Boston Bees drop in. The
Pirates pounded out 18 hits to crush
the Phillies, 10-4. The Chicago
Cubs beat the Bees, 5-3, with Bill
Nicholson hitting his third homer in
two days and Claude Passeau
pitching eight-hit ball.
The New York Yankees handed
Cleveland and Bob Feller a 5-4
beating, bunching four singles for
two runs in the ninth. The Tribe
was held to five hits, one of them
Hal Trosky’s 14th home run.
Cleveland's setback preserved the
Boston Red Sox's half-game lead
in the American League, although
Hal Newhouser baffled the Bostons
with seven-hit pitching that en
abled the Detroit Tigers to win, 7-1.
Rookie A1 Brancato took care of
the Philadelphia Athletics, beating
the St. Louis Browns. 3-2, by driv
ing in all the As runs on a triple,
a double and a single. Nelson Pot
ter kept six hits scattered.
Sharer Swims to Prize
Ahead of Schedule
When the final tests for some 200
kids who have taken advantage of
American Red Cross instruction in
the “Learn to Swim Week” drive at
the Southeast Branch of the Boys’
Club were held this morning John
Sharer was not swimming.
John was the first to win a pro
ficiency badge by passing various
tests yesterday.
Charley Reynolds, publicity di
rector. expected the majority of the
boys to pass the tests today.
Play in President's Cup
Tourney Starts Today
Competition for the President's
Cup was to get under way this aft
ernoon at Congressional Country
Club, with the field divided into four
flights. The first foursome was to
tee off at 1 p.m., with George Bro
beck meeting Noah Pomeroy and
Myron Davy opposing T. B. Conlyn.
Each of the first three flights com
prised 16 players, but the fourth
was limited to 6.
Gun Club Host to Skeet
Team, Dinner at Stake
National Capital Skeet Club
marksmen will invade the Washing
ton Gun Club's Benning grounds
this afternoon for a match with
the host team at 2:30. It will be the
first test of a home-and-home series.
Next week the Washington squad,
which specializes in trap-shooting,
will try its hand at skeets on the
National Capital range.
It will be a 10-man team race with
dinner at the losers’ expense.
Airtight Baseball Coining Back
To Popular Favor, Cobb Feels
By the Associated Press.
SUN VALLEY, Idaho. June 8 —
Baseball, thinks Ty Cobb, is on its
way back—back to the type of game
he played as the ‘ Georgia Peach" of
the Detroit Tigers.
Cobb told interviewers he found
evidence that closely-fought games
were returning to popular favor.
He cited the feat of Jimmy Foxx
In winning “at least seven’’ victories
for the Boston Red Sox during the
past month by home runs with men
on bane, noting at the same time
that this cumulative aceompliah
i
n»ent had stirred no undue furor.
"People are getting used to all
these home runs. Today it’s the
tight 1-0 games that get the atten
tion. Maybe we'll be back where
we were.”
Cobb expects the Cincinnati Reds
to outlast the Brooklyn Dodgers for
the National League pennant. The
Dodgers are inspired, he said, but
j "it's a long way to September.”
In the American League he favors
I the New York Yankees over the Red
: Sox, with Cleveland an outalde
I chance.
SETTING DISCUS MARK—Here’s Archie Harris, Indiana U.
Negro, establishing a Central Collegiate track meet mark of 163
feet, 834 inches in the games at Milwaukee yesterday. Harris,
the Big Ten champ, surpassed a mark of 162 feet, 9‘/2 inches
made last year by William Faymonville of Notre Dame.
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CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER—Billy Southworth (second from right), new manager of
the St. Louis Cardinals and retiring boss of the Rochester Red Wings, received felicitations at
Newark, N. J„ yesterday from Estel Crabtree (left), who takes over for the Red Wings. Others
in the picture are (left to right), Bob Scheffing, Red Wing catcher; Mike Ryba, pitcher-coach and
Harry Davis, first baseman (extreme right). _A. P. Wirephotos
Blozis to Get 'G' Fete Honors
Tonight After He Flies Back
From New York A. C. Meet
A1 Blozis. crack Georgetown ath- i
lete who broke a record almost
every time he put the shot this year,
wasn't in town this afternoon de
spite that he'll be one of the out
standing attractions at tonight's
annual varsity "G” dinner at the
Mayflower Hotel. Big A1 was in
New York, competing for the host
club in the annual New York Ath
I letic Club games at Travers Island.
But the blond skyscraper was to
be on hand when scores of Hova
greats and non-competitive alumni
opened their assault on the filet I
mignon line. He was scheduled to
take a plane out of La Guardia Field
at 5:15, arriving here in plenty of,
time for dinner. And he'll be the :
dinner's five-star attraction for
everybody, it seems, wants to shake
the hand that shook so many rec
ords loose from their moorings.
But other Georgetown feats will
come in for their share of recogni
tion from the old grads. Jack
Hagerty’s second undefeated foot
ball team, the Eastern intercollegiate
golf champions, and Joe Judge's
stellar diamond squad also rank
high in the eyes of Georgetown
men. Nor were basket ball players
or other members of the track squad,
in addition to Blozis, to be over
looked.
Dr. William Cusack will present
the varsity awards to the various
winners. Approximately 30 presi
dents of Georgetown alumni clubs
scattered throughout the country
are expected to attend. Rufus S.
Lusk. ’17. will act as toastmaster.
Highlights of the dinner will be
addresses by Brig. Gen. George V.
Strong, U. S. A., and the Very Rev.
Arthur A. O'Leary. S. J.. first Wash
ingtonian to hold the office of presi
dent of Georgetown.
Aces Forecast Rout
01 Oxon Hill Nine
In County Feud
Plan to Hurl Clements
Against Great Rivals
In Tilt Tomorrow
A headon collision between the
undefeated Oxon Hill and Maryland
Aces clubs is the magnet that is
expected to lure at least 5.000 fans to
Oxon Hill tomorrow. Feature of:
the Prince Georges League schedule, |
the battle probably will decide the
first-half winner.
Bitter rivals of long standing, the
teams broke even in their regular
league series last year, splitting two
games, but in the three-game play
off for the flag Oxon Hill took the
rubber, 4-3. All omens point to an
other bristling skirmish this season,
with the Aces conceded a slightly
better chance of copping the bunt
ing.
Clements Aces’ Choice.
Johnny Clements, a 5-foot 4-inch
stick of dynamite, has drawn the
pitching assignment for the Aces
and will be gunning for his fifth
consecutive victory. Clements is
blessed with exceptional control for
a portsider, has plenty of “oomph”
on his fast one and has the courage
of a bulldog. It’ll take a lot of
damage to get him out of the box
and his supporters don’t think Oxon
Hill has enough power to do it.
Pete Phelps, who plays first and
does the brain-trusting for the
champs, hasn’t announced his pitch
ing choice, but it probably will be
Walter Clubb. who took his first two
starts handily. Clubb is the gent
who turned in a no-hitter against
Hyattsville Police Boys’ Club last
year and has been a ball o’fire this
season.
Two marked men will be Jack
Shugrue. Oxon Hill, who is sporting
a .410 stick average, and Ray Arno
sen, Aces' left fielder, who is banging
the ball at a .450 clip. Arnosen is
regarded as one o fthe circuit's finest
outfielders and has received several
minor league offers, but prefers year
around employment in this city to
the vagaries of pro ball.
Fire All at Oxon Hill.
George Miles, manager, and Willie
Krebs, his aide-de-camp, will have
their full force available to throw
against Oxon Hill and confidently
are predicting a crushing victory for
the Aces.
Team standings and games for to
morrow :
STANDING OP THE CLUBS.
W. L Pet.
Oxon H1U _6' O' 1,000
Maryland Aces_ 6 0 1,000
Landover -4 I .R00
Sunnybrook __3 2 .000
Hyattsville F B. C_ 2 3 .400
Capitol Heights_ 2 3 .400
Cottage City_ 2 3 .400
Shady Oak_1 4 .200
Bennings _1 4 .200
Of Fireside- 0 5 .000
Games Tomorrow (3 p.m.).
Hil?X°n H111 v!' Maryland Aces, at Oxon
Bennings vs. Sunnybrook, at Maryland
Park
Capitol Heights vs. or Fireside, at Shady
Oak.
Cottage City vs. Democrats, at Capital
Airport.
Landover. Hyattsville P. B. C. draw byes.
Want Week-end Games
Games on the Charlotte Hall dia
mond on Saturdays and games on
local fields on Sundays are wanted
by the Charlotte Hall Hornets. Write
or telephone E. J. Williams at the
Charlotte Hall Military Academy,
Mechanlerrille U.
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Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.
Today a year ago—Sam Snead's
68. only subpar round of the day.
led National Open golf tourna
ment at Philadelphia.
Three years ago—Boston Red
Sox rallied for eight runs in ninth
inning to whip Cleveland, 10-8.
Five years ago—Omaha, Wil
liam Woodward's heavy favorite,
won the classic Belmont Stakes,
completing 3-year-old “triple
crown” of Derby, Preakness and
Belmont, and boosting earnings
for year over $106,000.
Lilly Martin Defends
Virginia Golf Title
For Fifth Time
Special Dispatch to The Star. *
OLD POINT COMFORT, Va..
June 8—Mrs. Lilly Harper Martin,
perennial Virginia State women's
golf champion, teed off against Mrs.
H. N. Allen of Newport News in the
18-hole final of the annual State
tournament here this afternoon.
Mrs. Martin, defending the crown
she has held five times in the last
six years, was a slight favorite after
eliminating Mrs. Grayson Dashiell
of Richmond, 4 and 3, in yesterday’s
semifinals.
Mrs. Allen gained the champion
ship round by virtue of her 2-up
triumph . over Mrs. Helen P. Wise
of Langley Field, in a bitterly con
tested match.
Justice Netmen's Slate
Still Unblemished
Justice Department’s crack ten
nis team still was unbeaten by any
other team in the Departmental
League today and boasted a record
of 14 individual victories in 15
matches after blanking H. O. L. C.,
5- 0, yesterday at the Mall courts.
The Loan Corp. was the third vic
tim of the Justice team.
Summaries:
Dunlap-Comings defeated Shelton-Pick
ens, '—5. T—5; Dawson-Marcus defeated
Sargeant-Tweedy. fi—O. fi—1; Trippe
Glbbs defeated Melningerm-Chase. fi—1,
fi—4. Newby-Slater defeated Goldsworthy
Mullen. 8—H. 1—fi. 6—0: Glasser-Maurer
defeated Thompson-Etseman. 4—fi. 6—2,
6— 2.
Pawnees' Injured Leader
May See Action Tonight
Bernice Abar. popular captain of
the Washington girls, may return
to action in the Roller Derby series
at Riverside Stadium tonight as her
Pawnee team attempts to cut down
the two-game advantage now held
by the Chicago Aztecs. Her ribs
have been strapped since being in
jured Thursday.
Sorely missing Miss Abar last
night, the Pawnees were whipped
by the Aztecs, 14-9, as another large
crowd of 4,000 watched. It was Chi
cago's tenth victory against Wash
ington's eight. Steve Irwin, hard
driving Chicago skater, twice was
involved in fights and was fined $20.
Bolling Takes Another
Bolling Field continued its winning
ways in the Militia League, chalk
ing up a 13-5 victory over St. Eliza
beth's. Marek, Pavick and Privara
tod the attack, getting three hits
each.
i
NofreDame,Marquette
Still Rule Central
College Track
Hilltoppers, Taking Fourth
Championship, Now Trail
Irish by Only One Point
Bv the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE. June 8.—The Cen
tral Collegiate Track Carnival is
getting bigger every year, but none
of the ambitious title seekers is
having much luck breaking the vir
tual title monopoly now held by
Notre Dame and by Marquette, the
host school.
The Hilltoppers took their fourth
Central championship last night
since the competition was started
in J926. leaving Marquette only one
behind the Irish in total titles won.
Notre Dame, which finished fourth,
won the first meet, three in a row
starting in 1929, and again cap
tured top honors in 1938.
Marquette had no individuals to
match Indiana University's Archie
Harris or Oklahoma's George Koet
tel, but team strength and balance
gave the Hilltoppers the crown with
a total of 41V* points. The victors
counted a point or more in 11 of
the 16 events, but won only two first
places and tied for another.
A heavy rain fell through most
of the night competition, dispelling
new record possibilities. The Hoosier
star who won the shot put and dis
cus in the Big Ten meet, duplicated
that feat here, setting a new record
in the discus in the afternoon trials
with a heave of 163 feet 8Vi inches.
His feat broke the 1939 mark of 162
feet 912 inches set by William Fay
monville of Notre Dame.
Oklahoma's Koettel finished sec
ond in the 100-yard dash to little
Leo Tarrant of Alabama (Mont
gomery) Teachers and defeated hirp
in the 220-yard dash. His first and
second gave the four-man Sooner
team 9 of its 16 points.
Indiana was runnerup to Mar
quette. with 28 ;tr. points. Wisconsin
scored 27 1-10 and Notre Dame was
fourth at 24 i-10.
McCollum
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angles over the final round, to win
going away. That isn’t likely in a
field so closely bunched, reeking with
talent and class.
Demaret withdrew because he said
he wasn’t getting any fun out of
playing. "I play for the fun of it,
and when I quit having fun I quit
playing,” he said. He will be criti
cized for it, because Jimmy had been
one of the public choices. But he
didn’t choose to run when it ceasefl
to be fun.
What score will win? Bryon Nel
son seems to have hit it pretty
close. The defending champ, very
much in the chase as the field locked
horns in the final dash to the wire,
predicted several days ago the win
ning score will be 284. That seems
about right, although top score for
the first two rounds is 141. But they
always take a couple of strokes more
with the pressure down.
Back in 1936 at Baltusrol. tanned
Victor Ghezzi led at the three
quarter mark. He blew higher than
a bombed town in the final round
and finished away back. He should
be leading the pack today with a
break or two in luck. Instead he is
three shots back at 144. "That fel
low played unbelievably fine golf,”
said Tommy Armour, his playing
partner. "He shouldn’t be worse
than 134.”
The United States Golf Associa
tion, seeking to ascertain if high
powered golf balls are being used,
took over the balls used by some
competitors in the second round.
They’ll be shipped to Chicago to be
tested for compression and bounce
by the Implements and Ball Com
mittee. That golf ball you play, in
case you don’t know, is supposed to
be of certain compression ratio.
Anything higher isn’t supposed to
be used. The way some of the boys
blithely belt these tee shots out there
300 yards and more makes you think
they’ve gone in for dynamite centers.
SpoTts Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington vs. Chicago, Grif
fith Stadium, 3.
Tennis.
The Evening Star’s tourna
ment for men, Edgemoor, 13.
2
Clashes of Ranking Net Stars
Tomorrow Promise to Make
City Title Tourney Sizzle
By BILL DISMER, Jr.
Opened with 28 first - round
matches today, The Star's annual
City of Washington’s men’s tennis
tournament will begin to match fa
vorite against favorite tomorrow
when local net enthusiasts will be
treated to the season's first all-day
competition at Edgemoor Club,
With the doubles draw' closing at
fi o’clock tonight, the Sunday sched
ule calls for the completion of sec
ond-round singles and the first,
round of doubles, with play start- !
ing early in the morning and con- i
tinuing until nightfall.
No Early Upsets Likely.
Unthreatened seriously by first
round opposition, the ranks of the
eight seeded and eight other out
standing players were expected to
advance undiminished into the sec
ond round, where matters will begin
to get tough for all.
Barring upsets today, second
round pairings will send third
seeded and defending champion i
David Johnsen against the veteran
Tom Mangan. seventh-seeded Buddy
Adair against De Witt Smith, Jr„
the lost-and-found University of
Maryland student who ran away to 1
join the Canadian Army; eighth-1
seeded Frank Shore against the j
ever-dangerous Billy Contreras and ;
Doyle Royal against Mr. Consistency
himself, Austin Rice.
As for the rest of the seeded list—
ex-Champs Barney Welsh and Hugh
Lynch and Alphonso Smith, Jimmy
Farrin, Ray Stocklinski and Frank
Shore—and the unseeded threats—
Yelverton Garnett. Bill Breese, Dick
Murphy, Charley Sturtevant and Ed
Mather—none seems likely to be
pressed before Monday at the
earliest.
Welsh Favored By Draw.
Welsh, undoubtedly the man to
beat, apparently has the easiest road
of any to the semifinals. Until that
time his opposition could come only
from a group composed of such
promising, but hardly threatening,
players as Bobby Bensinger, Harrv
Brinkerhoff. Alan Staubly. Frank
Shore. Ed Mather and Deane Judd.
Shore's favorite drop-shot, provided
it turns back Contreras and Judd or
Mather, may make the Rockville
Rambler run a bit. but there isn't
much likelihood of an upset.
Defending Champion Johnsen. on
the other hand, probably has as
stormy a path to the final round as
besets any entrant in the tourney.
“All” King David will be called upon
to do is turn back Mangan in the
second round, Murphy in the third
and either Adair, Breese or De Witt
Smith in the round of 16.
Teams in Division B
Of Fed Golf Putting
Up Keen Scraps
R. F, C. and R. E. A. Pace
Sections; Late Battles
Will Decide Titles
Division B in The Star’s Federal
Golf Tournament packs almost as
much class as Division A and cer
tainly as lively competition. Ac
cording to the latest figures pre
sented by Tournament Chairman
Chuck Redick, it is likely the section
championships won't be decided
until the final matches are played.
R. F. C. tops Section 1, with In
terstate Commerce and Post Office
as its main rivals, and R. E. A.,
Public Buildings and Patent Office
are bunched at the top of Section 2.
R. F. C. and Interstate will shoot
it out June 18 at Capital, and a
decisive victory for either probably
would mean the title. If they whack
each other, Post Office might slip
in with the honors.
R. E. A. and Public Buildings like
wise will come to a showdown, meet
ing June 27 at Beaver Dam in the
final Section 2 match. R. E. A. will
have it out with Patent on June 19
at Capital. The standings:
section i.
R. F. C- 1« War College,., s
L C. -13 Soil _ _ 6',
Post Office_10 E. F. H. A...I Va
SECTION 2.
R E A- - 14 Archives _ 7
Pub Buildings l.'l'i Mirltime _ «
Patent .. im F. N. M. A 2
New York Avenue Ahead
New York Avenue blanked the
Cardinals, 12-0, in a Peewee game
as Pontonto held the losers to three
scattered hits.
Aggie Softies Win
Agriculture Department's softball
team defeated I, C. C., 7-1, in a
United States Government League
game yesterday. Sampson hit a
home run for the winners.
Woodruff Lowers
World '800' Time
Py the Associated Press.
COMPTON. Calif.. June 8 —
John Woodruff ran 800 meters in
1 minute 486 seconds at the
Compton Invitational Track and
Field Carnival last night to bet
ter the world record by 1 second.
Woodruff. Pittsburgh national
collegiate champion last year,
held the lead throughout and
finished 10 yards ahead of Paul
Moore of Stanford. Moore was
timed at 1 minute 49 seconds
flat.
Clay Courts Tourney
To Draw Nation's
Top Racketers
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 8.—Alice Marble,
queen of American tennis, and a
strong supporting cast of feminine
talent will attempt to take the play
away from King Bobby Riggs and
other males next week in the na
tional clay courts championships,
open to women this year for the
first time.
Chairman Ralph Westcott said
most of the Nation's tennis great
were entered for the event opening
June 15 at the River Forest Tennis
Club. Drawings will be made Tues
day.
Frankie Parker is the defending
title holder, although Riggs, the No.
1 ranking American player and
Wimbledon champion, probably will
head the seeded players.
Hillcrest to Travel
Hillcrest A. C. players are re
quested to report at 12:45 o'clock
tomorrow to leave for their game at
Vienna, Va., at 3.
Another for Garvin's Ten
Garvin’s Grill turned in a 9-0 vic
tory over the Palisades A. C.
Washington Linkswomen Star
At Maryland Field Day
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md., June 8.—Two
Washingtonians led the huge field
in the Maryland State Golf Associa
tion’s annual field day for women
as Mrs. Betty Meckley turned in a
brilliant 78 to equal the course
record and Mrs. Edith V. Miller cap
tured first low net.
Mrs. Meckley, who was out and
home in Identical 39s, equaled the
mark hung up last year by Mrs.
T. E. Schluderberg of Baltimore,
who did not compete yesterday.
The pair also jointly held the
previous course record for Rolling
Road Club, 80, made two yean ago.
Mrs. Miller, oddly enough, won
/
low net honors In a draw after
failing to notice a wrong score
posted against her name which
placed her in a tie with two com
petitors. She was given a 7 on the
13th hole when she really took a 6.
The mistake cost her an outright,
undisputed claim to the trophy. Mrs.
Miller’s card was 95—19—76. In the
draw Mrs. George W. Rice was sec
ond with 96—20—76 and Mrs. Alex
ander Gordon, 3d, 86—16—76.
Mrs. George Goetzman of Wash
ington had the fewest putts, 28,
but received no prize because she
also won a low net award. Mrs.
Meckley was next best on the greens,
taking only 29 putts.
▲
The
Sportlight
Sporting Drama Fills
Open Golf Windup
Bv GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
CLEVELAND, June 8 (N.A.N.A.).—
For more than a thousand who filed
entries with the United States Golf
Association, 60-odd remained today
to battle it out for the open golf
championship over the hills and
dales of the Canterbury Golf Club
at Cleveland.
Of that remnant roughly a dozen
could have been conceded chances
to win. For the rest the last two
rounds were mostly a matter of
playing out the string and looking
ahead to another year. For the
handful who still carried a chance
to win these last two rounds were a
stirring adventure.
A glance back over championships
of other years recalls more than a
few occasions that carried their full
share of sporting drama, the flush of
triumph or the dregs of defeat.
Sarazan Called Turn
At Skokie in 1922
There comes back the recollection
of the brilliant finish wdth which
Gene Sarazen made good his own
prophecy to win as a youngster
shortly past 20 at Skokie in 1922.
The night before the champion
ship. talking with Bob Jones, Johnny
Farrell and other youngsters, Gene
said, “I have a hunch I am going to
win this one. I'll be pretty well up
at the end of 36 holes. I'll probably
skid a bit in the third round, but I’il
come back and burn up the course la
that last round.”
He called the turn to the last
detail. Starting the final round four
strokes back of the leader, his closin?
68 was too hot for the rest to
handle and he won by a stroke.
Moving back even a couple of
years earlier, the tragedy of Harry
Vardon still stands as one of the
harshest turns of the closing stages
of these championships.
Six Holes Near Finish
Sink British Vet
Twenty years before Vardon had
come over and won this champion
ship. He even then was in the hey
dey of his career. Now at 50 he was
back for the third time to make an
other challenge. His game through
the first three rounds was the sam°
flawless performance that marked
him as one of the greatest players
the game has ever produced.
Through the first 11 holes on his
last round, he still was the master
artist. But as he drove from the
tee of the long twelfth into the
teeth of a brisk wind, he suddenly
began to falter. The Old Boy with
the Scythe was catching up with
j him at last.
j From the second hole in the third
round, through the eleventh hole of
| the fourth, he played 28 consecutive
| holes in 108 strokes, four better than
; an average of 4s. With seven holes
to go, he had a clear margin of
three strokes. But calamity was rid
ing that wind.
On the next six holes he required
no less than 31 strokes, and he lost
by a single stroke. It was his last
serious bid for an important cham
pionship either here or abroad.
Luck Was With Manero
In 1936 Tourney
But not all of the drama of these
open championships takes the form
of tragedy. There was the sturdy
march of squat, swarthy, smiling
Tony Manero to the heights in 1936.
Tony had squeezed into the fight by
i holing a chip shot on the last hole
t of his qualifying round. He took
to the tee in his last round four
strokes back of Harry Cooper, the
leader, with at least six others no
less favorably placed than himself.
Cooper, an early starter, played
fine golf in protecting his lead, and
looked all over the winner when
j he came in with a four-round total
of 284, two strokes better than the
previous record. Vic Ghezzi. Denny
Shute and Henry Picard, closest in
pursuit, each came to grief.
Paired with Gene Sarazen, an
ideal playing partner, Tony sud
denly can# onto the top of his game
at the right time. His drives split
the middle, his irons were bull's eyes
and his putting blade held pure
magic. He finished with a brilliant
67 to win by two strokes.
Cameo Busy on Road
| Cameo Furniture’s nine is on the
road this week end, meeting War
1 saw this afternoon and Frederick
Hustlers tomorrow in a twin bill.
1 “Giggle" Adair and Otis Printz will
i pitch.
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