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Golf Heads Urged to Restore City Title Tourney, Open It to Public Linksmen ■ " ■ ""■".. * Pay-as-You-Play Performers Declared Unjustly Ignored District Association, Meeting Next Week, May Increase Executive Committee By WALTER McCALLUM. Final golf association annual meeting of the winter season will be held Tuesday night at the University Club on 16th street, with the solons of the District Golf Association scheduled to settle the much discussed question of the District links championship. Due to come up at the meeting is another matter that may make the District association more completely representative of local golf. This is a proposal to enlarge the* Executive Committee by choosing one man from each of the 14 mem ber clubs. Dr. Thomas Utz of In dian Spring is to be elected presi dent of the District organization. He has served a year as vice presi dent. Not long ago the Executive Com mittee of the District association adopted a recommendation to the annual meeting that the local ama teur title tourney be cancelled this year. This action came despite the fact that neighboring links bodies— the Middle Atlantic and Maryland" associations—have o. k.’d normal golf schedules this year. Not Popular Action. The action of the District solons hardly can be said to be popular with the rank and file of men who compete in the tournaments. Many of them can see no reason for can cellation of the Dictrict champion ship at this time, suggesting that it should be scheduled, and that later if conditions warrant cancellation that step can be taken. The proposed cancellation does not sit well with many of the men who play in these tournaments. Many of them have told us that in asmuch as they have played in the District championship for years trfey feel they should have a voice in set tling the question of its fate in this war year. But by and large the tournament competitors do not at tend the annual meeting of the as sociation. They have no voice in the decisions that affect them. The decisions are made by men who in the main do not play tournament golf. In the middle of the winter a tournament the following Septem ber seems a long way off, and in consequential when viewed against the backdrop of bigger things that are happening. And the District tournament isn't a major affair. It Is only a city championship, and perhaps not even a true city cham p pionship at that. But it should be carried on just the same. Should Invite Publinx Boys. To make it a true District of Co lumbia championship the solons of the game would do a good job to invite the winner and runner-up in the public links championship of this year to compete in the District title tourney, if they change their minds and hold the event* It isn't likely a. public links lad would win the tournament. Dick Jennings, the reigning public links champ, has nfit yet proven that he can win touraaments against the best of the private club group. And Dick is (or was in 1941) the best of the boys playing public links golf. The point is that the public links lads should have a shot at the Dis trict title. They’ve been denied that shot a long time. There have been vague questions as to “what will happen to our championship cup if a public links player wins it?” and so on. The championship cup, if a public links golfer won it, wouldn't have to go to East Potomac Park or Rock Creek Park or anywhere else. It could be held by the secretary of the association. Public links golfers, by and large, play the pay-as-you-play courses because they cannot stand the ex pense of golf at a private club. But that does not mean they are any less golfers or good sportsmen. We know of many men who play public links golf who can well afford to belong to country clubs, and some who play the public layouts who do be long to private clubs. But generally the boys who use those courses do so because the “nut” of country club golf is a little high for slim purses. That, in our book, doesn’t make them pariahs, or men not worthy of playing in the District championship. They should get a boost up the ladder. And how they would appreciate the chance to play in the title tournament! AMBITIOUS—Confident that his arm is in good shape again, Southpaw Larry French of the Brooklyn Dodgers has set a goal of 200 victories in the major leagues before he quits the mound for good. Now 34, French, shown at his Los Angeles home with his 10-year-old son, Larry, jr., now has 182 victories. —Wide World Photo. His Golf Luster Gone, Guldahl Gets Poor Rating in Crosby Ex-Open Champion Plays In Lower Group Today; Stars Start Tomorrow By ROBERT MYERS, JUsotiated Press Sports Writer. RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif., Jan. 30.—Golf's cycle of luck has an odd way of turning. Thats why Ralph Guldahl leads an array of less re nowned players into the first round of the $5,000 Bing Crosby Golf Tour nament today. The overcrowded entry- list was! split, the first division playing its 18 holes today and the second half going out tomorrow in this sixth annual links battle. Saturday being a better day for ■ attendance, the name players, in cluding Defending Champion Sam Snead, Benny Hogan, Byron Nelson and company, swing into action to morrow. Still Out to Regain Stride. Guldahl goes today, but whirl that eyele of luck back to 1937 and 1938 and you'd find the National Open champion of those consecutive years a star-studded registrant in the spe cial attraction class. The tall, slope-shouldered fellow from Texas has shown but infre quent flashes of the Guldahl of Oakmont Country Club in Michigan In 1937, and it's been many months since he's looked the same perfec- \ tionist who plodded to a repeat Open triumph at Denver's Cherry Hills. Ha labored years in obscurity be fore reaching that peak, however, and there is no reason to believe he won’t regain his stride. He could do it in this tournament, | because he’s playing over a course he adopted two years ago when he bought a home in Rancho Santa Fe. Whether his cycle is ready to spin remains to be seen, however. Snead 3-Time Winner. Snead won the tournament for the third time last year with a 36 hole score of 67—69—136. and Craig Wood finished with 69—68—137. Ho gan. sensation of the California winter tour, had rounds of 69—70— 139, tying Nelson. Jimmy Demaret and two others in this bracket. Gul dahl had a pair of 73s. Snead plays with the tournament host. Crosby, and Hogan and Come dian Bob Hope round out the fea tured foursome of pros and amateur partners tomorrow. McCoy of A's Put in 1-A GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Jan. 30. (fP).—Benny McCoy, Philadelphia Athletics’ second baseman, has been reclassified 1-A by Kent County Se lective Service Board No. 2. Horse Show (Continued From Page C-l.) Norman Haymaker, had what it takes to win over the Springsbury Farm’s Highland Ace, with Shirley Payne up, and the Perrys' Ragna rock. piloted by Jimmy Harris. Summaries: Green Jumpers—Won by U. S. Govern ment's Rum Boogie; second. Anita Mam mele's Caddy's Trump; third. Frost An derson’s Miss Marie; fourth, Mickey Ma gill’s Gratchino. Road hacks—Won by Mrs. M. E. Whit ney's Cherry Bounce; second. Bprlngs bury Farm's Highland Ace; third. W. Hag sin Perry s Ragnarock; fourth. E. F. Hall'* Recruit. Jumper scurry—Won by Lt. Fred J. Hughes, jr.: second. Mrs. Fred J. Hughes. Jr.'s Hi Ho; third. Maj. C. B. McClelland* Bmacko: fourth. H. Gray’s Mr. Taylor. Pair of hunters—Won by Ruth O’Keefe'* Hyrlo »nd Springsbury Farms Ginnico; second. Mr. and Mrs. W. Haggln Perry * Hydrogyro and Ragnarock: third. George T Walker * Metope and Taylor Chewnin*’* picket; fourth, U. 8. Government * EUia bet.h and Fagan. _Open lumper*—Won by Capt David WagstaiT* Enterprise; second, F. C. Klee piar.n; third, Maf C. B McClelland; fourth, fir*. Biiabetb Oorrelf* Lew Dunbar. His Back Healed, Herman Signs Dodger Contract for $18,000 Veteran Thinks Training Trip to Havana This Year Would Prove Interesting By JUDSON BAILEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. BROOKLYN. Jan. 30.—Billy Herman, streamlined by 8 pounds during the winter, but still looking plump, has recovered from the back injury that took him out of the World Series and is ready to resume at second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers any time—and any place. The 32-year-old star infielder arrived yesterday from his home at New Albany, Ind., and in a short confab with President Larry Mac Phail signed a new contract. He was the first player to take advantage of the club's invitation ! to some of its higher salaried Dod gers to come to Brooklyn to discuss salary terms and he was believed to have signed for approximately $18, I - Ring Lingo Worries Nova as Neophyte In Stage Play By th* Associated Pres*. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 30.— Lou Nova is happy to get his first stage opportunity while he’s recu perating here from a boxing Injury, but he’s a lottle perturbed about one phase of his role. "Can you imagine it?” he asked, thumbing the manuscript of the play, "Is Zat So?” which once had a Broadway run. ”I’ve got to talk like a fighter.” "Listen to this,” and the heavy weight read from lines sprinkled with "dese.” "dose,” • "foist” and other similar expressions reputedly common around the arena. “I don’t know how to talk like that.” t 000, the same as he received last year. * MIS “I did about as well as I expected,” he commented. Herman said he had heard of the controversy over whether the Dodg ers should train again in Cuba, but added he was not worried by any thought of danger. “I like it in Havana. I don’t care whether we go by boat or by plane and in fact the boat trip might be more interesting right now,” he said. "I weigh 188 pounds with my clothes on and feel fine. My back is perfectly all right. It gave me a little trouble for a few weeks after the series, but up till the middle of December I did a lot of hunting and walking and worked the trouble out. Since then I've been doing a lot of ice skating and playing basket ball around home.” Herman twisted his back in the fourth game of the World Series and his absence from the lineup in the last game gave the Dodgers an added handicap in their final stand against the Yankees. His home is near Louisville and he reported that Shortstop Peewee Reese is just as “enthused” as he for the start of the baseball season. Reese is expected in Brooklyn in a couple of weeks to sign a contract. Pitchers Hugh Casey and Kirby Higbe and Outfielders Pete Reiser and Tom Tatum previously have come to terms. J OUTDOORS - BILL’ACKERMAN D. 0 Anglers Luckless in Miami Tournament; Largest Sail in Derby Weighs 83 Pounds During the opening weeks of the 1941 Miami fishing tourna ment, Washington anglers had nearly a dozen entries on the board. Three were in top place for as many different species, while the balance were runners-up or in the show position. This year we fail to note a single Capital entry. The same is true of entries in the Palm Beach Derby. Because Washington fishermen* aren’t in the running it doesn't mean they are not down there and trying. Alan M. Ferguson, fishing with Capt. Dee Sanderson out of Palm Beach, hooked and fought an even 30 sailflsh. The average size was just about normal, the largest ap proximately 60 pounds, but 13 were fought on six-thread line and 17 on nine-thread. We’ll bet our last good rod Alan had far more fun than if he had hooked a large fish on the regular 18-thread line used almost univer sally for sailflshing, and particularly in competitive fishing where they aren’t given the chance to break ofT. He ate his piscatorial cake and kept it, too, for every last one of the sails were released. Largest Weighs S3 Pounds. Largest sailflsh of the derby is an 83-pounder, just 19 ounces less than the leader in the Miami tourney, which also is the leader in the 1942 Ruppert contest, if it isn't called off. The Palm Beach fish will be in sec ond place. There is an exceptional rim of kingfish along the coast. It's best, from reports, from Kobe Sound to Palm Beanch, but Miami fishermen aren't doing so badly, either, from the boats or piers. Down in the Kays, Harry Luckett, -- another Capitalite, boated a 9 pound Spanish mackerel while fish ing off Snake Creek. And that is quite a mackerel. Fishing conditions haven’t been all that embryo anglers could ask for, so most of the fishing has been accomplished by the old-timers at the game. A wire from Capt. B. L. Raymond this morning tells of more promising weather and good pros pects. Blue Marlin at Palm Beach. It is doubtful if a wind change will better the average of a sailfish per boat per day, for northwest weather brings the big fish up, not only in great numbers, but in a strik ing mood. Four blue marlin have raised to sailfish baits trolled by the Palm Beach charter boats. Capt. Frank Souderberg had one on, also a large mako. The shark just about wrecked his cockpits when it was brought aboard too green. Another boat fought a blue for four hours on the light tackle before it broke off. Capt. Vic Lance had a chance at the third, but, like the last, which was hooked by a private boat, the initial run was too extended for the several hundred yards of line—both fish failed to feel the dreg—or stop. Eagles Hope to Rout Jinx as They Face Johnstown Club Bluebirds Have Beaten Capital Hockey Team In 5 of 7 Contests One day a bum and the next day a hero is the way Washington's hockey colony is rating Goalie Craig McClelland of the Eagles. On the receiving end of loud boos only last Tuesday when the Eagles went down before the New York Rovers, 11-3. McClelland the next night found all was forgiven when he turned in a really brilliant performance by stop ping the Baltimore Orioles, 4-1. He gets a chance tonight to con tinue as a hero when he takes his post in the nets against the Johns town Bluebirds, a club with a real Jinx for the Eagles, at Riverside Stadium. This is the only team in the whole Eastern League over which McClelland cant claim a victory. In fact, the Eagles have won over the Birds only once in seven games. One ended in a tie. Tonight's game easily could be a battle of goalies because the Blue birds carry with them one of the real Eastern League stars in Goalie Prank Ceryance, who has an especial knack of stopping Washington drives. Even with the Baltimore Orioles two seasons ago he was a special pain to the Eagles and is responsible more than anything else for the third-place rating currently enjoyed by Johnstown. Aside from Ceryance, Hank Dyck, Johnstown forward, also figures to be in the Eagles' way tonight and rates third among the league's scoring leaders. Gulls Get Goalie Jones AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 30 (>P).—John (Deacon) Jones, 22-year-old goalie for the Akron Clippers, has been traded to the Atlantic City Seagulls for Leith Dickie, 19, also a goalie. Hockey Standings EASTERN LEAGUE. —Goals— W. L. T. For. Agt. Pts. Boston _25 7 4 175 98 54 New York_ 24 12 4 188 1.3(1 52 Johnstown_ 22 13 4 152 137 48 Washington ._ 17 is 5 155 175 39 Baltimore ... 14 22 3 149 171 31 River Vale ... 11 23 4 115 149 26 Atlantic City _ 9 28 0 142 216 18 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Eastern Division. —Goals— W. L. T. For. Agt. Pts Springfield 21 13 4 144 107 46 Providence _. 15 18 6 145 142 35 New Hkven .. 15 17 2 98 118 32 Washington .. 12 20 4 90 114 28. Philadelphia.. 8 28 6 93 la8 21 Was tern Division. Hershey_ 23 8 6 134 84 51 Cleveland 23 11 2 115 100 48 Indianapolis.. 19 13 4 125 95 46 Buffalo _ 14 15 4 88 85 32 Plttaburfh_ 12 23 8 104 146 27 Hockey Results B7 the Aiaociated Press. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Detroit. 2; Chicago. 0. Brooklyn, 6; Boston. 4. Toronto, 7; Montreal, 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Providence, 4; Buffalo. 1. Pittsburgh. 7; Hershey, 1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Kansas City. 6: Minneapolis, It. St. Paul, 2: Tulsa. 1. TONIGHTS SCHEDULE. EASTERN AMATEUR LEAGUE. Boston at Atlantic City. Johnstown at Washington. GUIDE Headlight Service Early Gridiron Drill AIL. S.U. May Help Men for Service Draftees Would Be Set Physically, Declares Head Coach Moore B? the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 30 Coach Bemie Moore already has called his 1942 L. S. U. football team together for "spring” practice, and If some of the boys are drafted be fore fall—well, theyll be in condi tion to fight, anyhow. Serious work will start Monday and end March 18—three days be fore spring actually arrives. "We have a coaching staff capable of handling the present squad so we plan to go ahead as usual,” said Bemie. "If we lose some men after we get started it won’t be a waste of time because we’ll have con ditioned these men for Army and Navy life.” Already the Army has taken L. S. U.’s trainer, C. P. Striplln, and George Schwab, manager of the fleldhouse, who were first lieutenants in the Reserve. Even without the draft. Bemie will have to do some patching to make up a team. About seven of his 1941 regulars graduate. However, an outstanding fresh man crew wiU furnish some exceUent material. Successor Earns Phelan's Praise By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Jimmy Phelan, former head football coach at the University of Wash ington, today voiced his approval of selection of Ralph (Pest) Welch as his successor. “The guy is the salt of the earth,” Phelan said. “Sixteen years with Phelan should make him smart.” Phelan predicted the 35-year old former Purdue halfback, Phelan’s assistant for 12 years, would make good in a big way. He played four years under Phelan at Purdue. I 20 Years Ago In The Star Clark Griffith ended specula tion about the price of Shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, who recently came to Washington from the Red Sox, by reporting he cost $50,000 cash, in addition to three players, Prank O'Rourke, Jose Acosta and Bing Miller. Charles Paddock, known as the world’s fastest human, declared he is through with track compe tition and will not run for South ern California this spring. He holds numerous records, includ ing the 100-yard dash mark of 8 3-5 seconds. Promoter William Brady Is ready to guarantee Jack Dempsey a purse of $150,000 to fight Harry Wills. Eliot, New Illinois Grid Coach, Quickly on Job, Optimistic By the Associated Press. CHAMPAIGN, 111., Jan. 80.—In vast Memorial Stadium, built during the pre-Grange era of Bob Zuppke coached Illini football teams, a Zuppke pupil named Ray Eliot will direct the University of Illinois grldders next fall. With spring football drills sched uled to begin shortly, Eliot today plunged into his new duties with the declaration: “We will start right away to get things in shape for next fall. We have a great bunch of kids who love to play football, and it's going to be our job to mold them into a real team.” Just 6 years old when Zuppke began his 29-season reign here in 1913, Eliot held the position of lin? coach when his appointment was announced yesterday. There was elation on the campus at the sudden announcement, for presumably it meant the end of a four-year period of athletic wrang ling. The 72-day coach hunt came to a conclusion when members of the Athletic Board agreed on Eliot. In some comers both Illini and non-IUinl inquired: "Who's EUot?” Part of the explanation for his relative obscurity is the fact he went through school as Ray Nuss plckel, adopting the name EUot only a few years ago. Many Illinois graduates recalled the Ray Nusspickel, who, despite the handicap of glasses, played on the football teams of 1930 and 1931 and was a catcher on the baseball team. Eliot has been Intensely popular with members of the football team. On several occasions players had demanded that the Athletic Board elevate the line coach, who served at Illinois College for five years be fore he came here In Septem ber, 1937. Humbling of Hershey Dims Bruin Hopes For New Talent By the Associated Press. If Manager Art Ross of the Boston Bruins is planning on getting any help from the Hershey Bears of the i American League now that his fa mous “kraut line" is gone, maybe 1 he’d better not look at today's papers. Last night the league-leading Bears suffered one of their worst defeats of the season when they dropped a 7-1 decision to the Pitts ! burgh Hornets, last-place club In the Western Division. ! The setback ended HersheyS un defeated streak on home ice at 15 i games. In the only other game the Provi dence Reds continued their mastery over the Buffalo Bisons by pounding ; out a 4-1 decision. You bite a piece of SERENITY toast.... and find delicious bread beneath Mother, it's so delicious toasted; it will take a jaded, pokey appetite and make its eyes shine. The milk and the butter we use make it toast f-a-s-t, and the outside gets crisp and crumbly, a crusty, golden brown; and underneath there's delicious soft white _ bread. Put yellow butter on it while it’s still hot, let it melt me second, let your conscience be your guide. The Serenity BAKERS We’d ADVERTISE . , . APPETIZINGLY . . . FRA GRANTLY ** * STUBBORNLY »** CONSTANTLY* ; 1111111 (i and we’d tell tbe readers of THIS mw paper, m their HOMES, the things they’d want to know about tbe BREAD we bake. We know that they buy bread because kil l universal food certain to satisfy HUNGER; because it is ooe of the great foods that people can eat throe timet daily, for a lifetime, without tiring of it; because it is certain to give them vitality and strength; certain to build up a fighting resistance to the wear and tear of living; satisfying, delicious, to old and young, to working men, to those in sedentary occupations; and finally, because it is within the means of all. So, we’d make a better loaf of bread, a richer, bigger loaf; we’d make it weigh the limit; we’d make k tbe finest we Could make. Then, we'd tell our world around here what we bud done. Twould he of no use to do k unless they ktom it, believed it, liked it. We’d use ADVERTISING in THIS newspaper, we’d keep at it constantly, and in one year from now, or two at most, we'd be leaden. Is that *oo much to pa?* too long to wait? Isn’t k euacdy eppoeitet assn mailing short, in time? We’d set oar sails to make them think famraUy of ear brand whenever they thought of bread. We’d create stubborn, impregnable preferences for our breads, a belief in everything we’a sty or do. To do thatwe'd tell at intervals that we were immaculately clean . . . we’d make every person know that all the flour and salt and milk and sugar and butter, all the leavenings, all fruits and jellies, and nuts or all of anything that we use . .. were of highest quality and no need ro give a second thought. We’d stop at intervals to tell of our scientific, smarter, modern ways to mix and blend and stir and bake ... til all the things we made made hungry folks our friends, forever. We’d tell bow concerned we were about the health of those who ate our bakery goods..; how we added the energy, the vitamins . j . and the fragrant, appetizing tastes. i; so satisfy; 15 small racing children, growing romping sturdy teen-age youngsters, men in business, folks not wholly well, laboring men, folks on diet, everybody::; and we’d tell the ways we’d supply %fntt complement of vitamins, and foods and calorics i safer almost every need For it is wbat a man or woman thinks, ssf believes, that makes her call her grocer and name this brand of bread or that brand of bread; it is what she thinks that makes her reach in the market unerringly for the brand of bread she prefers; and it is what the thinks that makes one or two or three great brands the leaders among all the rest. i..and we'd tell because we’d make whole families everywhere know us, and like us, and believe in us; we’d make them PREFER the brand of breads WE sold ..; 11 s:; s i :: if WE were BREAD MAKERS in THIS man’s town. 11^ Fo«r O'Clock •. • • • and they can’t wait . • • (mother minute Give them a jam sandwich, Mother; pvt it into their right hands and tuck an apple into their chubby left bands; then, get rough and say: "Boat it, yam dartings:" and watch the smiles come which is whet jamsamtricbet are fam The Serenity BAKERS Mom • • • • Got cm EXTRA loaf today They’ll BUTTER more tomorrow On upod a time, Mom, brad wm imt a dull filler; its best nee was ae a pusher; they ate it because you told them to eat it. We've changed all that; They eat Serenity bread today like they go for hash or buttered butter beans or cheesenmacaroni because it’s WORTH the eating: tastes like something to ask for; has a crusty wheaty flavor; has a fragrance that tantalizes and satisfies. Mom ;.. you’d better take an EXTRA loaf today, for tomorrow is Sunday and they'U want TOAST. The Serenity BAKERS Mom • • • • sandwichm tonight mon’i sizo or • • • Wr also ... doponcUw* on. Got a Serenity sandwich loaf, Mom. and TWO thick slices and soase them golden brown aod/stf . s i add E>bs of batter while they’re bos ;: t y in a brown and jeicy stub of cold roast beef : i: and hand it to Dad ; : t he’ll be glassy-eyed. Then, take two tbin slices, and toast / s i-t-er . . . butter faster ... and lay in a thin dice of nippy cbeeu, and bum, aod lettuce, and a dash olpiccalilly and scold your daughter sis her aunt tbmU come ftr*. The Serenity BAKERS fjHje jBoenitm