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Fort Dupont Solves Conflict With Bigger Pro-Amateur Purse Port Dupont’s 3-year-old goll eourse is the next stop on the pro amateur circuit and Kenny Gra ham, pro at the District pubL* layout, is making every effort to nake next Monday’s event some thing extra. Three hundred dollars instead if the usual $100 will be added to he pro sweepstakes. This extra ooney probable will boost the purse near the $1,000 mark. In addition Graham will be host at a buffet luncheon. He is anxious to schedule starting times and can be reached at Victor 9846. Port Dupont has not yet been tested by pro golfers, or even good amateurs, in competition and the regulars are interested in seeing what will be established as an offi cial course record. Cnmnetinr With PRA Event. While Graham’s added prize money is the best of the season, lie is competing with the National PGA qualifying rounds the fol owing day at Congressional. Whether the pros will pass up a practice round at Congressional (a course most of them know) to take a crack at the added money at Port Dupont, is what is worry ing Graham. Some may play early at Fort Dupont and then go to Congressional. The Fort Dupont pro, also wishes to correct two errors on the Mid-Atlantic PGA tournament card. Fort Dupont will supply two partners, not one. which means that visiting pros should bring only one partner. The ad dress also was wrong. The club can be reached over the Pennsyl vania Avenue Bridge. Southeast. For the second straight week an amateur showed the way in the fifth weekly pro-amateur yes terday at the Country Club of Maryland. Ed Finnessy, the for mer Annapolis Roads Open cham pion, matched his home course par of 70, and was the only player j among 35 pros and more than; 100 amateurs to do so. Last week Charley Price of Kenwood was (low scorer at Frederick by two strokes with a 68. District' area pros still arc blanked in the pro sweepstakes Andy Gibson, winner of two previ ous events, and Johnny Musser, the All View pro who had won at Hillpndale, tied yesterday with 71s. Masser bogeyed three of the last four holes to fall into a tie. McLeUan’s 73 Next Best. The next best pro score was a 73 by Hugh McLellan of the Army Chemical Center. George Dif fenbaugh, Kenwood pro, had a 74 with Charley Bassler, still without a victory this season, and Walter Romans of Baltimore C. C. Musser and Mike Bloom, 6 iuxuici uno&ctuau player, won the pro-amateur with a best ball 65. Bloom helped Mus ser six shots. For the round Bloom shot an 84 and had five handicap strokes. McLellan and Spencer Reid had a best ball 66. The prize winners at best ball 67 included Clagett Stevens and Gran Gabrielson of Manor; Dif fenbaugh and Maury Fitzgerald of Kenwood; Diffenbaugh and Rob ert Judd, Kenwood: Gibson and Dr. Ted Graziano. C. C. of Md.; Bill Crabbe and Tommy Emmons, Rock Creek, and BUI Strausbaugh and Finnessy of the host club. Bobby Jones used only 28 putts in posting the next best amateur score of 72 and he won low net with 72-3—69. Floyd Watts had a 75. PRO SWEEPSTAKES. Johnny Musser 33 ->r 7, Andy Gibson -- 3,1 Zl Hush McLellan 3 3473 Charley Bassler SjJ [{gZIXa Walter Romans _ 37 37—74 George Diffenbaugh__ 3« 42 Frank Tenney . _ZZZ 35 40 75 Ai Jamison __ tg 3ft—«7it Boots Widener .IZ;”:-37 4 —77 Jimmy Flattery_ 38 to77 Harry Griesmer ___ “ 37 40—77 Bill Crabbe .ZZ.ZZZZZZZ* 39 39—76 Al Houghton _38 40_78 Jimmy Duke _ 40 38_78 Claggett Stevens _39 39 78 I*"™ W,hlte 39 39—78 Bill Bassler _ 38 41—470 S,a.rrJ?nDT M»cMaster IZ.ZZZ 40 39—79 Bar?fss -- 36 41—79 Emory Sullivan . _ 41 38_79 Lrank ,£r,?nln -119—79 Steve Tobash _ 41 479_80 Charles Bet'chler _ 42 Laurencr Wisner ___ 40 Tommy Sullivan __ 41 Artie Jones _ 41 ' BUI Clarke __ 43, BUI Strausbaugh 43 41—34 Jimmy Roche. Pred Bolton. Dewey Rick etts. Roger Peacock. Smltty Padgett. Prank invernlzzi anri Arnnlrf nn no Preakness Situation Complicated More As Alerted Wins By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, May 15.—The Preakness situation is more un certain than ever today, compli cated by a colt that Calumet Farm •old last fall for $10,000. Alerted, a son of Calumet’s great Bull Lea, kicked things into the air for Saturday’s Diamond Jubilee running of the 3-year-old classic by winning yesterday’s Preakness Prep. He won by a neck from Brookmeade Stable’s Bold, who had been threatening to establish himself as a Preakness favorite. It was a contest strictly between them as King Ranch’s Sonic, the only other Preakness eligible to come out for the warmup, started poorly and never got up close. Bought by Frank Stout’s Hamp ton Stable from Calumet. Alerted; twice this season was nosed out by Mrs. Nora Mikell's Repetoire. Jockey Sam Boulmetis asked Alerted a couple of times to go ahead of Bold, but it wasn’t until they had sped past a mile that he made it. Joe Culmone was Bold’s jockey in the Prep, but Ed die Arcaro will be aboard Sat urday. The $7,500 Prep, a non-betting race, was Alerted’s fifth victory this year. He ran the mile and one-sixteenth in 1:43%. The: colt’s trainer is Jim Penrod, a for mer steeplechase rider. Besides Alerted, Bold and Sonic, the probable Preakness field now Includes Repetoire, Mrs. Wallace Gilroy’s Timely Reward. Green tree Stable’s Big Stretch and Hall: of Fame, and C. V. Whitneys' Counterpoint. Jackie Nies' Wildness Costs Him Golf Title Special Dispatch to The Star NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 15.— Georgetown University’s Jackie Nies kept his powerful tee shots under control for three rounds, but became wild in the final in losing the Eastern Intercollegiate golf title yesterday to Lincoln Roden of Yale, 6 and 5. Nies, former Massachusetts jun ior champion, advanced to the final with a 1-up victory over Bill Ragland of Princeton, medalist and tournament favorite. Roden was four up at-the turn with a two-over par 36 to Nies’ 42. Roden matched par figures on the back nine as he closed the match on the 13th hole. The win nei barely qualified for the tour nament in a semi-dark playoff last Friday. Pitches No-Hit Game Bobby Turillo pitched a no-hit game for St. James yesterday as it beat St. Jerome’s, 19-1, in the CYO 16 - and - under baseball league. In other games, St. Alo ysius defeated Nativity, 16-10, and St. Ann’s topped > Our Lady of Lourdes, 11-9. I Bob Hope Given Early Start in British Golf To Assure Big Gate By th« Auociatcd Prtu ST. ANDREWS. Scotland. May 15.—Comedian Bob Hope today was assigned the opening day starting role in the British Ama teur golf championship which opens Monday at Royal Porthcawl. Wales. The staid Royal and Ancient | Golf Club, which controls the Amateur championship, cast one eye at the huge crowd that showed up last year to watch Hope’s buddy, Bing Crosby, and decided! to put Hope on early Monday morning, which means a big gal lery regardless of the weather. ' Hope will meet Charles C. Pox, 41-year-old paint manufacturer from Brough, Yorkshire, England. Fox. co-holder of the Yorkshire foursome title, said he was “de lighted at my luck. I wanted to play a member of the American Walker Cup team or somebody like Hope. I understand he is a good golfer.’’ Crosby drew a first-day crowd a year ago that paid £3,000 <$8,400) to see him play in pour-, ing rain. Without Crosby, R. and A. officials admitted privately the first-day gate would have been about one-tenth of that. Deadline (Continued From Page A-17.) Midlinger, left-handed pitcher, to Toronto on option. Detroit (25)—Down to limit but probably will lop off pitcher when Bob Swift, ailing catcher, returns May 27. _ /oa \ /n_x- _ • • uututigvvil -v/lic UU (1U W on. NATIONAL LEAGUE. St. Louis (29)—Pitcher Erv Du sak and Infielders Dick Cole, Ed die Kazak and Glenn Nelson pros pects for other climes. Pittsburgh (28)—Optioned Paul Pettit, bonus pitcher, to Indian apolis, and sent Whitey Thomson, shortstop, to Rochester, but three are still to go. On the borderline: fielders Hank Schenz and Monty Basgall, Outfielder Tom Saffell, Pitcher Joe Muir. Philadelphia (27)—Pitcher and infielder to go. Pitcher Jack Brit tin, Milo Candini or Ken Johnson. Infielder Ralph Caballero or Jim my Blood worth. New York (26)—Pitcher Jack Kramer, Infielders Jack Lohrke and Bill Rigney face chopoff. One likely to go. Brooklyn (26)—Pitcher Earl Mossor or Chris Van Cuyk may get knife unless Dodgers can make desired package deal for, say, Ken RafTensber^er of Cincinnati. Cincinnati (25)—Reached limit oy^optioning Outfielder Jim Bolger to Charleston (W. Va.) of the Central League. • Boston (25—Already down to size. Chicago (25)—Got under the wire by optioning Doyle Lade, right-handed pitcher, to Los An geles of Pacific Coast League. Eight One-Mile Races Slated at Rosecroft's Opening Friday Night Racing Secretary Jimmy Lynch hopes to get Rosecroft’s 20-night meeting off to a rousing start Friday night with a program of eight 1-mile races. Post time for Jhe meeting will be 8:15 p.m. Lynch has arranged four races for 2-year-olds and up and will feature a 12-class pace and 12 class trot for older horses. The minimum purse will be $700. The arrival yesterday of Wendell Wathen of Fort Fairfield, Me., with a string of 15 horses brought the stables another notch nearer capacity. Wathen’s charges in clude Chuck Volo, a 3-year-old pacer with a mile mark of 2:07% who is being pointed for the $65,000 Little Brown Jug at Dela ware, Ohio, in September. Vic Song, 4-year-old trotter with a record of 2:06% for the mile and Headway, a 4-year-old pacer who has done 2:06%, also were in the giuup. A check of more than 500 horses at the track has turned up that only one, MJllbrook, has run a mire under two minutes. The brown gelding from the Ridgeway Stable of Plnehuret, N. C., trained by Clyde K. Gigee, has been clocked 1:59%. He has a trot ting mark of 2:04Vi. Millbrook has earned over $40,000. Ken Scott, Ella Bounty, Breezy Mite. Meda Hanover—all trotters —also will carry the Ridgeway Stable colors during the Rosecroft meeting Roy Schudt, who calls the famed Hambletonian at Goshen, N. Y.. will do the announcing at Rosecroft. Shudt will appear on television on Station WMAL-TV four nights this week at 7 p.m., beginning tomorrow night. Trimble Named line Coach To Complete .Cagles' Staff By On Atyociand Pr*s« PHILADELPHIA, May 15-—The Philadelphia Eagles haVe com pleted their coaching staff with the addition of James William Trimble as line coach. Trimble, 29, comes to club from the University of Wichita, where he has been athletic director and head football coach the last three years. The appointment of Trimble yesterday brings the former In diana University star back with his old teacher and coach. Bo Mc Millin. Trimble joins Wayne Mill ner. former Notre Dame and Washington Redskins star, on Mc MiHiS’s staff. Cardinals Sign Groom, 1950 Irish Captain By th« Associated Press CHICAGO. May 15.—Center Jerry Groom, Notre Dame cap tain in 1950, has been signed by the Chicago Cardinals in the first step of a rebuilding program for the 1951 pro football campaign. Coach Curly Lambeau, displeased with the Cards’ showing last sea son, said he was going to weed out players who fail to hustle. Groom, a native of Des Moines, was the Cardinals’ No. 1 pick in the player draft. Lambeau also hopes to sign three other Notre Dame players—Fred Wallner, 230 pound guard. Fullback Jack Lan dry and Halfback Billy Gay. Schoendienst Now III Of Virus Pneumonia By the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, May 15. —Red Schoendienst, Cardinals second j baseman, still is having his troubles. First it was an eye in jury, then an ankle injury and now virus pneumonia. His condition was reported im proved today, but Manager Marty Marion said he probably wouldn’t be ready to go again for at least another week. Schoendienst has played only one game since April 27. Annadale Team Seeks Game Annadale & Co., men’s unlimit ed softball team, wants a game for Friday against a team having a field. Phone Atlantic ,5757. Yankees, 11; Indians, 4 Cleve. AB. H. O. A. N.York AB. H. O. A. Mitchell.If 4 2 10 Rizzuto.ss 3 2 6 2 8tir'ss.2b 3 13 5 Mantle.rf 6 110 Doby.cf 4 0 3 1 M'D’ld.3b 5 3 13 Chap’n.rf 4 0 0 0 DIM lo.cf 4 2 3 0 Rosen.3b 4 0 0 2 Berra.c 2 0 4 1 8'pson.lb 3 19 0 Bauer If 4 2 3 0 Boon* ss 2 0 0 3 Hopp.lb 3 1 10 0 Combs.ss 1 0 0 0 Cole’n.2b 3 10 3 Heganc. 4 2 8 1 Lopat p 4 0 0 1 Brlssie.p 2 0 0 0 •Avila 10 0 0 Garcia.p. 0 0 0 0 Rozek.p 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 ~6 24 7*2 Totals 33 12 27 To •Flied out for Brlssie In seventh. Cleveland . 002 010 100— 4 New York _ 200 203 40x—11 Runs—Mitchell. Stirnwelss. Hegan <2>. Rizzuto Mantle (2). McDougald (2). DI Maggio (2). Berra (2). Bauer. Hopp.. Errors—Hegan Doby Runs batted In— Mitchell. Doby. Stirnwelss. Hegan. Cole man (3) McDougald (4). Bauer (2). DI Maggio Two-base hits—Coleman. Mantle McDougald Home runs—McDougald. Bauer. Stirnwelss. Hegan. Stolen base— Rizzuto Sacrifice--Boone. Double plays —Boone to Stirnwelss to Simpson: Doby to Stirnwelss; Rosen to Hegan to Simpson. Left on bases—Cleveland. 4; New York. 4. Bases on balls—Off Brlssie. 4: ofT Garcia. 2; off Lopat. 2. Struck ouW-By Brlssie. 2; by Garcia 1: by Rozek. 1: by Lopat. 4. Hits - Off Brlssie. 8 in 8 Innings: off Gar cia 4 in 1 Innings: off Rosek. none in 1 Inning. Wild pitch—Garcia. Winning pitcher—Lopat (6-0). Losing pitcher— Brlssie (0-4). Time—2:28. s s Hoy as Near Title, Play Terps; Richmond Ends GW Playoff Bid Maryland and West Virginia will be the Northern Division en tries in the Southern Conference baseball championship playofl Friday and Saturday at Greens boro, N. C., after George Wash ington had its tournament chances squelched, 3-1, at Richmond yes terday. But the Terps still had an im portant engagement at George town Medical School field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Maryland must win over Georgetown to claim a three-way tie for the unofficial Washington area col lege title. Should the Hoyas tri umph they would be the champs. The Terps have beaten George town once this season, 6-3, while the Hoyas hold two triumphs over GW. The Colonials have beaten Maryland twice. The Terps can’t pin their winning hopes on Nick Panella today—he stopped the Hoyas, 6-3, the last time they met —for he tossed his club to a 5-4 victory over Navy yesterday. Maryland got away to a fast start at Annapolis with three runs in the first inning on Johnny Idsik’s two-bagger, a walk and singles by Jack Graham and Dave Zatz. The Terps got two more in the third with Graham knocking in one run and later scoring. The winners were outhit, 9-7. but Pantella scattered his safeties to get Maryland its 17th win in 22 games. George Washington, needing wins in both its remaining games to tie for a spot in the Southern Conference, playoff, were knocked out of contention by the Uni versity of Richmond on Billy Mitchell’s two-hit pitching. Mitchell struck out 13 and gave up only one walk in winning his fourth game without a loss this season. George Sengstack of the Colonials and Tim Shank, who re lieved in the first inning, gave up nine hits. GW plays at Wil liam and Mary this afternoon. Loyola, Mason Dixon Confer ence’s Northern Section champion, finished its regular season by beat ing Catholic University, 6-2, at CU. CU ended its campaign with a 6-6 conference mark. Georgetown’s freshmen had lit tle trouble with Bullis as Joe Car roll led to a 10-3 win with two hits and two runs batted in by a third-inning double. Loyola Retains Crown In Mason-Dixon Golf; Course Boosts Scores Loyola of Baltimore successfully defended its team title in the Mason-Dixon Conference golf championship at Quantico Golf Club yesterday. It also produced another individual champion in Jim Pellisek. but the Greyhound golfers and all the others were vic tims of the highest scoring in tour nament history. The service club proved too much for the collegians and only Jack Morgan, a 90-shooter the first round, succeeded in breaking 80 as 22 contestants played two rounds each. Morgan had a 79 in the afternoon. Pellisek posted a pair of 81s for 162 to win the individual crown by _ j__t_ _i_ __ n:ii ct ihu’ow vac luaigui urv* uiu Gross, a teammate, who had 83 81—164. Maury Bailey, unbeaten captain of the U. of Baltimore, and the Hillendale Club champion in Baltimore, finished a disap pointing third with 86-81—167. American University finished second in the team play with 704 to 691 for Loyola, after the Eagles led at the halfway mark. Johns Hopkins was third with 709 and Western Maryland fourth with 726. Charles Peder, number three player on the AU team, led the Eagles with 88-81—169. Don De drick, the Eagles’ captain, trailed with 86-90—176. Sherwood Web ster of AU had 178 and Jack Sloan, 181. Evans, Ex-Wilson Hurler, Is Winner for Virginia Special Dispatch to The Star LEXINGTON, Va.. May 15.— Tom Evans, former pitcher at Wilson High School in Washing ton, D. C., still is maintaining his winning hurling for the University of Virginia. Last night Evans helped the Cavaiiers notch a 10-6 win over their arch-rival, Washington and Lee, by striking out 10 and giving up nine hits. Virginia came up with four runs in the ninth to break a fi-fi tie Locke Definitely Listed For U. S. Open Golf Play By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 15.—Bobbv Locke of South Africa has made up his mind definitely — he’ll play in the United States Oper Golf tournament at Birmingham Mich., June 14-16. Previously he had announced he would and wouldn’t. His entrv was received yesterday by the United States Golf Association. Blair and Wilson Clash To Provide Line on Schoolboy Golf METROPOLITAN SECTION. , W. L. W. L. St. John’s- 7 ii St. Albans . 3 4 Blair -7 0 Fairfax .7 7 •Geo, Prep— fi 1 Gonzgga 2 7 Bethesda -7 2 Falls Church 1 8 Wash -Lee 5 3 DeMatha __ 0 f) Bullis 5 5 INTERHIGH SECTION. W. L. W. L. Wilson _ 8 (I Tech __ 2 7 Roosevelt _ 6 2 Anacostla ... 0 5 Coolldge 5 2 Eastern _0 5 Western 4 4 • Georgetown Prep leads. 4-0. In in complete match. The comparative strength of the schoolboy golf leagues will be tested today when Blair, co leader with St. John’s of the Metropolitan section, plays Wil son, Interhigh leader, at Argyle. The match will not count in the standings, but will help de termine whether the prep and suburban school section is stronger than the District public high schools or vice versa. St. John’s defeated DeMatha, 7-2, at Manor yesterday to tie Blair for the Met lead. The Johnnie and Blair play May 25 at Washington Golf and Country Club. Wilson still hqs three matches remaining before clinch ing the Dawes Cup. The schoolboy golfers have al most two weeks to sharpen their games before the qualifying for the metropolitan schoolboy cham-| pionship May 28 at Manor. McKenley Sets British 300 Record, Then Wins 100 By the Associated Press LONDON, May 15.—Herb Mc Kenley and Arthur Wint, the one-two punch 0/ the Jamaican Olympic team, dominated the in ternational events of the British athletic games yesterday before a chilled Whitsun holiday crowd of 30,000. McKenley sped 300 yards around two turns in 30.3 seconds, fastest time for the distance ever recorded in Great Britain. And an hour later, when the other runners were already poised on their starting blocks, he decided to have a fling at the 100-yard dash. He won it in 10 seconds flat. Wint, the king-sized medical student who won the Olympic 400' meters from McKenley and Mai Whitfield of the United States, repeated the performance over 440 yards in 0:47.9, seven-tenths of a second over his own British record. Wint’s giant strides left Whit field 6 yards behind at the finish after the American had led for the first furlong. McKenley, ob viously tired from his other races, was third and Reggie Pearman of New York was fourth. i TACKLE FISHING by “Salty” mit For those of you who are Trout Fishermen, it may interest you to know, within 75 miles of D. C., in Sperryville, Va., one can get native Trout up to 12", and a limit catch is possible for the Fly Fish erman. I saw a catch the other day’ taken by an “old-timer,” of 5 natives, from 7%" to 12", all taken on a Light Hend rickson fly. Also taken "salty" mills 'were 3 Rainbows, largest 14&",-; induced with “garden hackle, ’ (worms to you). We carry a com plete line of fly tackle and can , help you build the rod of your I choice from the newest and best Live Fibre Glass rod blanks. Our j stock of fly tieing hooks and ma- j terials is the most complete in town. Buy your tackle from FISHERMEN, not salesmen, at Mills Co., 9th & E Sts. N.W. ^ All-High, All-PrepCagers Are Awarded Jackets Members of the all-high and all-prep basketball players can be snappily dressed today after re ceiving jackets from the Big: Brothers’ Club of Washington at a banquet at the Touchdown Club last night. The players who participated in j the annual all-star game at Fort Myer this year were given jackets,! squad pictures and' certificates. Bill Breen, Tech, was awarded a trophy by Bill Beck as the all high’s most valuable player and E. K. Morris presented St. Johns’ Bob Reese with the all-prep award. Carl Ercoli, president of the Big Brothers Club and Joe Branzelle, athletic director of the Washington Boys’ Club, officiated. Baylor Loses Grid Aide WACO, May 15 (#).—H. V. (Vic) j Bradford, football backfield and varsity baseball coach at Baylor University, has resigned from the Baylor athletic staff effective June 1. Bradford said he planned to enter business in Lexington, Ken tucky. 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