Oliver Rejoices as St Paul Win Proves Showing in U. S. Open Was No Fluke
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. Is Hit With Fans
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Leaves Metz and Goggin
In Keen Stretch Drive
* To Collect $1,600
By EARL HILL1GAN,
Assi>d»ted Press Sports Writer.
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 29.—The
kid with the candy-striped shirts
was having the last laugh today—
and it was a big enough one to shake
every one of his 230 pounds.
r For Ed (Porky) Oliver, now of
* Hornell, N. Y.—out of Wilmington,
Del.—was feeling very good about
this game of golf—a game which in
, the last seven months has seen him
skyrocket to national attention. He
had a check for $1,600 as his reward
for winning the St. Paul Open and
the satisfaction of knowing since
January 1 he has won three cham
pionships on golf's money circuit.
But more than that, he thinks he
at last has convinced most every
one his 287 in this year's National
Open was no fluke.
Oliver Is Convincing.
“Boy. it felt great to win yester
day.” he said. "Sixteen hundred
dollars is a lot of money. I'll admit
I felt bad about being disqualified
. in the Open, though I'm blaming no
one for that. But I feel that if I
can keep playing well people will
believe that 287 wasn't all luck.”
The “people" who saw the likeable
23-year-old youth score a 276 for
72 holes at Keller course are con
vinced he has a real golf game.
Wearing a variety of wildly striped
shirts—which may become as
famous as Gene Sarazen's knickers—
he had rounds of 66—71—70—69.
In a furious stretch drive, he
caught and passed Dick Metz of Oak
Park. 111., who with Willie Goggin
of Chicago finished with a total of
277. And in fourth place at 278
was Lawson Little, who won the
National Open last month in a play
off with Sarazen after Oliver's tying
score of 287 had been thrown out
because he started his final round
too early.
Foulis Finished Fifth.
Jim Foulis of the Chicago district
finished fifth with a 279 aggregate,
just a shot under the totals turned
in by Sam Snead and Jimmy Hines.
Ben Hogan, the Nation's leading
money winner, and Tony Penna of
Dayton. Ohio, had aggregates of
281. Low scoring amateur was Jim
Ferner of Australia, with 287.
Oliver, who began playing golf as
a caddy 12 years ago, won his first
two big tr-iey championships this
year in the Pheonix and Bing
Crosby opens. He is scheduled to
play next at the Milwaukee Open
next Thursday.
EASTERN SHORE LEAGUE.
Salisbury. 13t Doyrr. 3.
Milford- 5: Ontrevillc. 2,
Fcderalsburg. 5: Easton. 2.
Pocomokr. 11: Cambridas. 5
FINISHES STRONG—Here’s Ed Oliver, driving oft the 18th tee
yesterday at St. Paul in which he staged a sizzling final nine
holes for a 69 that gave him a 72-hole total of 276 to beat out
Dick Metz by one stroke for the $7,500 St. Paul Open golf cham
pionship. Metz is shown in background, at right.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
Spinal Injury Forces
Buddy Baer to Idle
Several Months
B>' the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO. Calif., July 29 —
A spinal injury received while
training for his fight with Nathan
Mann in New York last spring may
; keep Buddy Baer out of the ring
for several months, at least.
Baer, 25, is in a hospital here.
His older brother. Max. former
heavyweight champion, said doctors
had told him Buddy's condition was
not serious, but that his injury, if
not properly attended, could cause
paralysis of the legs. Exact nature
of the injury was not disclosed.
Buddy, who weighsaaftHWundf,
said he had had a bacfc&Cft^’TW' sey
I eral months, but had disregarded it.
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Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Boxing.
Bill McDowell vs. Holman Wil
liams,- 10 rounds, Griffith Sta
dium, 8:30.
Tennis.
Womens League tournament,
Rock Creek courts, 4.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Washington at St. Louis, 9
(night game).
Tennis.
Women's League tournament,
Rock Creek courts. 4.
WEDNESDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at St. Louis, 4.
Tennis. , , 11 m ■ ■ i ki
Women's League • tournament, ‘
Rock Creek courts. 4.
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Kayak II Not Yet to Be Deemed
Inferior to Challedon, Despite
Record Favoring Brann Colt
By ROBERT HENRY.
When Challedon defeated Kayak
2d in the Hollywood Gold Cup last
Saturday it marked the third time
in as many meetings that the Mary
land colt has licked the imported
Westerner. Tftere still remains
some question, however, as to which
is the better race horse.
Not always does the won and lost
column conclusively prove which of
two racers is the more capable. A
few years ago Mate licked Twenty
Grand in two of three races, but
no one seriously believed that Mate
was superior and subsequent events
proved he was not. Challedon, in
fact, was beaten by Johnstown in
two of their first three meetings,
but Challedon later evened the
score and went on to further glory
while John went back to the farm
for life.
Botn can Beat Z:OZ.
Such cases are not particularly
rare and, even though Challedon
has come through each time against
Kayak, he may find himself on the
short end some fine day. Both
are capable of running a l>4-mile
race in better than 2:02 and when
runners of this caliber hook up it
is likely to be a question of which
gets the breaks.
Kayak has had none the better
of things in his duels with Challe
don. The first time they met was
in the Narragansett Special and
Kayak had not started for six or
seven weeks. Nearly every horse
needs a conditioner before an im
portant test. He also was giving
Challedon 10 pounds actual weight
and 5 or 6 on the scale, although
the Argentine really is only a few
months older than the Old Liner.
When Kayak is in best form he is
a powerful stretch runner, but in
the Narragansett race he tired after
taking a short lead at the top of the
final bend. That was enough to
show he was not fit.
Last fall Kayak again hooked up
with Challedon. The race was the
Pimlico Special and once again
Kayak started without benefit of a
prep race. He had not been post
ward for six weeks and while he
was on the head end at the three
sixteenths pole he gave way slowly
and lost by half a length. Again it
seemed a matter of condition—or
lack of same—that beat him. By
way of proving as much. Kayak
came back a few days later and
smashed the Pimlico track record in
winning easily the Bowie Handicap
at Is* miles.
He's Tough When Rigrit.
Kayak, bothered off and on with
tendon trouble, has been an in-anri
outer, but when he's right he's al
most unbeatable. When he won
the Santa Anita Handicap two
years ago in record-breaking time
and when he finished a strong sec
ond to his stablemate, Seabtecuit,
in the Santa Anita last winter, it
is doubtful that. Cha^le^on , woulfi,
have headed him.
In the race Saturday, Kayak not
only lost to Challedon, but finished
behind horses he had repeatedly
beaten, which shows that he was
far from right. The race marked
his first start since last winter and
in all probability he suffered from
lack of condition. When the 5-year
old is clicking he doesn’t finish with
the also rans.
Both Kayak Ind Challedon are
eligible for several leading fixtures
at Saratoga and they should meet
again at least once. Chances are
that the public, now convinced that
Challedon holds a decided edge, will
make Challedon an odds-on favor
ite over his rival while ignoring
Kayak to the foolish point just as
the public did last year with Challe
don when he met Johnstown in the
Arlington classic.
That day Johnstown was about
1 to 2 while Challedon was 13 to 1.
Just as Challie beat Johnstown,
however, so might Kayak whip
Challedon because the won-and-lost
column doesn't always tell the
whole truth.
Headaches in Store
For Schalk and Ens,
New A. A. Pilots
By the Associated Press.
The immediate future holds little
but headaches for Ray Schalk and
Jewel Ens, the American Associa
tion's two newest managers—head
aches of the kind produced by losing
ball clubs.
Schalk, erstwhile Indianapolis
manager, took the reins of the Mil
waukee Club a* week ago and was
doing all right until yesterday's
double-header with Louisville. The
Colonels won both games, 5 to 4
and 7 to 6, giving the club a record
of 6 wins and 5 losses since the new
skipper succeeded Mickey Heath.
Ens supplanted Wes Griffin as
the Indians’ pilot several weeks ago,
but the club still is in the depths.
Kansas City was no help at all yes
terday, whipping the Indians twice,
9 to 8 and 6 to 5.
The double loss dropped Indian
apolis 2‘2 games behind the seventh
place Toledo Mudhens. The Blues,
at the other end of the standing,
increased their first place margin
to seven full games.
Beers Hurl Rosenfield
Against Aggie Ten
Abe Rosenfield of Senate Beer
will oppose his former teammates
when he faces U. S. Aggies in a
softball game at Ballston Stadium
tonight, Abe hurled the Aggies to
the title two years ago.
In the night's opener Cameo Fur
h4ifttiiV'. will m^e^Kirftf Yfahsfer
at 7:45.
Maryland Golf Links
Menaced by Dread
Japanese Beetle
Greenskeepers Fear Pest
Will* Be Here in Full
Force Before Long
Get ready to duck, you golf greens
keepers. The Japanese beetles are
coming. They’re already here, or
at least the advance guard of the
beetle hosts are here. Those green
bugs you see down at East Potomac
Park, hitting you on the nose as
you stoop over to putt, are Japanese
beetles and they are the outposts
of an all-destroying army which a
few years hence will invade Wash
ington as no army has done in the
memory of man. At least that's
what Bob Scott, keeper of the green
pastures of Baltimore Country Club,
says.
Scott is genuinely concerned, as
who wouldn’t be with the responsi
bility of keeping green some 400 or
500 acres of golf property, worth
millions of dollars. Only 40 miles
away to the north the Japanese
beetle army, spreading a wide path
of devastation, slowly moves down
toward his golf course and toward
the golf courses and green trees in
the Washington area.
went norm me omer aay
to investigate the Japanese beetle
damage around Elkton, Md. What
he found he described as appalling.
“No leaves were left on the trees,
no fruit and vegetables remained,
the grass was eaten. Everything
green was gone. All that remained
was the kernel inside the peaches,
the cores and seeds of the apples.”
We asked Scott how fast the
beetle army moves. “About 14 miles
a year,” he said. “And they’re
coming this way. We ll soon have
them in Baltimore, in millions, and
you’ll have them in Washington,
not the few you now have, but an
army that is so big it will take over
everything.”
The Japanese beetle invasion
dates back to 1916, when a ship
ment of shrubbery from Japan con
tained some of the bugs. From
that meager beginning they have
spread over much of the East. But
they haven’t yet come South in
great quantities. “They will," says
Scott, “and then the headaches we
greenskeepers now have really will
be headaches."
What is being done about it?
Well, the University of Maryland
has gone about combating the men
ace by advocating use of beetle
traps. These instruments of death
to the bugs are effective. Mary
land destroyed 104 tons of trap
caught beetles last year and ad
mits the traps are good. But nearby
Maryland hasn’t been hit as has
been the upper part of the State.
| So when the beetles come don’t
say you haven't been warned. Un
less they can be destroyed in the
ground, before they hatch, they will
I come. But it wflj take several years
j for the big Wmy %d 'feicH Wkkri
I ington.
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Claims Record After 292-Mile,
90-Hour Swim in Mississippi
By the Associated Press.
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo., July 29.
—John V. Sigmund, 30-year-old St.
Louis butcher and athlete, today
claimed a new long-distance record
with successful completion of a 292
mile swim down the Mississippi
River.
Sigmund traveled from St. Louis
to Caruthersville in 89 hours and
48 minutes—averaging more than
three miles an hour—according to
a check by Marvin Plake, Amateur
Athletic Union representative.
The previously accepted marathon
swimming record was 288 miles, set
by Clarence Giles of Billings, Mont.,
last year in the Yellowstone River.
Sigmund was pulled from the
water, too exhausted to walk or
talk, at 1:10 pm. (Central standard
time) yesterday and carried to a
hotel on a stretcher. He was ex
amined by Dr. Phillip Aquino, who
ordered him to bed for a "long
night’s sleep.” The physician pre
dicted recovery in 24 hours.
. The swimmer's wife, Catherine,
fed him from a cabin cruiser on the
trip, his nourishment consisting
principally of bouillon and chocolate
bars.
A canoe complete with spotlight, '
radio, ice box and outboard motor,
carrying two men, also accompanied
the swimmer.
Sigmund, father of two children,
has swum the 23 miles between
Alton, 111., and St. Louis several
times, once with arms lashed to his
sides.
Ann Ross, Wright Head Array
Of Stars in A. A. U. Swims
Many of the East's best swimmers
and divers will compete in the Dis
trict A. A. U. championships at the
Airport Pool tonight starting at
8 p.ra.. including Ann Ross of New
York City and Bill Wright of Wash
ington Golf and Country Club.
Until Ann made a late decision to
enter the diving contests, Patsy
; Palmer of the Shoreham team was
i looked upon as the one to beat in
! the women's division. Ann long fias
j been considered one of the best
i divers in the East.
Wright has been made favorite to
| win the men's free style division.
! Wright is 50-yard, 100-yard and
220-yard title holder. Wright also
will compete in a special 440-yard
free-style event for the District
championship. There also will be a
similar event for women.
In the men's diving a duel between
Bill Tarbet and Jimmy Russell of
Baltimore is expected. Each holds
many victories over the other and
both are reported in top form for
tonight's clash. Russell is defending
champion while Wright was tops in
1937-8.
Other prominent swimmers ready
to compete are Carlos Fernandez, •
Teddy Christakos and Sol Shrebniclt.
Hogan, $9,030 Ahead,
Still Tops Winners
In 1940 Pro Golf
Ey the Associated Presa.
j ST, PAUL, Minn.. July 20,-Ben
Hogan of White Plains, N. Y., con
: tihued to lead the Nation's profes
sional golf money winners today,:
j said Fred Corcoran, P. G. A. Tour
nament Bureau manager. The
leaders:
Ben Hogan, White Plains, N. Y.,
$9,030.
Jimmy Demaret, Houston, Tex., i
$8,477.
Byran Nelson, Toledo, Ohio, $5,
313.
Craig Wood. Marmaroneck, N. Y„
$5,258.
Lawson Little, Bretton Wood, N.:
H.. $5,192.
Sam Snead. Shawnee, Pa.. $4,856.
Dick Metz, Oak Park. 111., $4,725.
Horton Smith. Oak Park, HI., $4,
670.
Ed Oliver. Hornell. N. Y„ $*.175. ,1
Ralph Guldahl, Chicago, 111., $3.
675. I
First Bay Swimming -
Championships Set
For Next Sunday
Many of Washington's top swim
mers are expected to vie for honors
in the first annual Chesapeake Bay
swimming championships which wiil
be held off Uncle Billie's Pier at
North Beach, Md„ Sunday at 2:30
p.m.
The meet, announced today by
George S. Ames, local swimming
coach, calls for 18 events, winners
of which will receive medals. A
feature will be a straightaway
“track" over which the contestants
will compete.
The meet includes events for men
and women as well as junior girls
and boys under 15 years of age. Free
style events from 50 yards through
440 yards as well as back stroke
and breast stroke events are listed.
Entries for the meet close at 2
p.m. Sunday at the pier.
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Dallas, 11—4: Oklahoma City, fl—1.
Shreveport. 3—C. Houston. -—S.
San Antonio. S; Beaumont, g.
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