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SPORTS SECTION he Sunday St WASHINGTON D. C, y SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1935. Two New Griffs Fall Into Disfavor : Wood “Storms” Ahead as Picard Slips Y LARY AND PONELL CALLED BY HARRS Lax Deportment May Cause Change in Pilot’s Plan for Regular Line-up. BY JOHN B. KELLER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, 1., April 6.—Bucky | Harris has the whip cracking | over his Nationals and the | first to feel the lash is Al Powell, sensational rookie who came up to the club from the Washington eandlots by way of Albany and other | minor points. That the manager will not tolerate the play-boy spirit in any of his charges was indicated today by his substitution of Fred Schulte, veteran, for Powell in center field as Nationals and Cubs began a two-game series. Harris, after the game, not only expressed disapproval of Powell's gen- eral attitude toward the club, but also said his line-up for the start of the championship campaign a little more than a week away has not been defl- nitely determined. Powell's play has declined to such an extent that Schulte likely is to retain the center | field post. There were intimations at club headquarters, too, that a change soon might be made at shortstop, where | Lyn Lary, brilliant infielder, obtained | from the Red Sox in the history- | making $250,000 deal last Fall, has| been holding forth. sl While Lary has been performing well in recent games, those in charge are commenting unfavorably on his indifferent regard of club training rules. One high in authority went so far as to say that “unless Lary quickly | takes a tumble to himself Ossie Bluege will be playing shortstop.” Roommates in Dutch. EFORE training camp was broken at Biloxi Manager Harris virtu- | ally had settled upon Powell as & fixture in center and a little later the pilot let it be understood that Lary nad won the shortstop berth. ‘These two newcomers to the Na- tionals have fallen into disfavor, how- ever, during the homeward barn- storming tour. Lary, the veteran, and Powell, the rookie, have been roommates on the swing home. Manager HarTis says the club’s rooming list will be revesed so that these two will not be bunkies when the Nationals take to the road again shortly after the flag season gets under way. Powell, like his roommate Lary, has ruffied the club’s authorities by his failure to observe the few train- ing rules Harris asks his charges to obey. They have been exceptionally patient with this product of the ‘Washington sandlots, who got his first start in the professional game with the Nationals five years ago. Every- | thing has been done to build him up | to major league proportions. ! Those in control, however, have been unable to make Powell realize the great opportunity at hand for him. They have not been successful | in getting Al down to business seri- ously, He still is the play-boy who made so much trouble for himself in the minors that he had to wait| five years to get a real shot at a major | league berth. I ousness, though, that has put him | back on the bench when it was thought he had wrested the center field position from Schulte, who had held the post with the Nationals through two campaigns. Harris to- day expressed doubt as to Powell’s ability as a hitter and flelder. “I liked the way Powell hit in the batting drills at Biloxi, I admit,” the manager said. “He looked then as if he would make the grade as a batter. And he did in our early ex- hibition games. Watching him lately, however, I began wondering whether he was the type of batter that would hit smart pitching. And I've begun to believe he would not trouble a pitcher who studied him through a | turn or two at bat. “Of course, that big average he made with Albany last year—up in the .370s—is something to be re- spected. But Powell would run up against a far better brand of pitching in the American League. I like his speed. He is a flash on the bases. Yet he has not run the bases so intelligently, despite those sprints from first base to home on errors, - and his fielding has lacked polish, Harris Unsure of Powell. T 18 not only Powell's lack of seri- Schulte Is Respected. HAVEN'T given up on Powell,” Harris emphasized, “but I'm put- ting Schulte out in center and probably will have him there during the remainder of the exhibition games. I know Fred can fleld. He is one of the best flyhawks in the league, and he can throw well enough to satisfy me. You know, Fred is better than any of a number of regular oc- cupants of outfielding berths in this league. “I am confident, too, that he will give us hitting right around .300. Schulte is a batter the pitchers re- spect. Don't be surprised if Fred is in center field when we open the season against the A's” Hartis ad- vised. Harris had heart - to - heart talks with both players and both assured |Brookl: him they would abide by the rules hereafter, the manager said. Bucky | did not mention how stern he had been with his indifferent charges, but undoubtedly he let them know who is bossing the club. Harris is easy to get along with, a player who conducts himself properly finds. Any player inclined to dis- pute his authority is in for trouble, however. Bucky is running the ball Sports Program In Local Realm TODAY. Soccer. America vs. Ttaly, final of inter- national series, 2.30, Rosedale Playground. MONDAY. Boxing. Prankie Wolfram, Canada. vs. Joe Doherty, Brooklyn, feather- weights, 10 rounds, Washington Auditorium. First bout, 8:30. Base Ball. George- Washington vs. Wash- ington College, Griffith Sta- dium, 3. Western High at Alexandria High, 3:30. Central High at Joseph's of Baltimore. Tennis. Central High at Catholic Uni- versity (freshmen), 3:30, TUESDAY. Base Ball. Washington vs. Boston 1 raves, Griffith Stadium, 3. Mount St. Joseph's at Eastern High, 3:30. Mount 8t. Tennis. Gonzaga at St. Albans, (Prep School League). Water Polo. Maryland Club Gardens vs. Washington Canoe Club at Am- bassador pool, 8:30. WEDNESDAY, Base Ball. ‘Washington vs. Brooklyn Dodg- ers, Griffith Stadium, 3. Western High at Episcopal High, §:30. 3:30. THURSDAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington vs. Brooklyn, Grif- fith Stadium, 3. University of Michigan at Mary- land, 4.' Washington College at George- town, 3:30. Wrestling. Danno O'Mahoney, Ireland, vs. Rudy Dusek, Omaha, one fall, Washington Auditorium, 8:30. Golf. U. of Florida vs. Georgetown, Congressional Country Club. Tennis, Pittsburgh at George Washing- ton, 3. FRIDAY. Base Ball. Washington vs. Philadelphia Natfonals, Grifith Stadium, 3. Michigan at Maryland, 4. Washington-Lee High at East- ern, 3:30, Track. American University at dolph-Macon. Eastern High at Episcopal. Tennis. Pittsburgh at George Wash- ington, 3. Ran- SATURDAY. Base Ball. Washington vs. Albany (Inter- national League), Griffith Sta- dium, 3. Maryland at Washington Col- lege. Randolph-Macon Academy Western. 3:30. Tech High at Episcopal, 3:30. Takoma-Silver Spring High at Charlotte Hall. Track. Richmond University at Mary- land, 2. Catholic University at Wake Forest. Tennis. Georgetown at Maryland, 3. Lacrosse. Maryland vs. Mount Washing- ton, Homewood Field, Baltimore, 3. Rifle, Maryland at George Washing- ton (girls). at Golf. Tech vs. Roosevelt, W: Golf and Country Club, (Public High series), GREENBER&; FINALLY HITS TO WIN GAME Clouts in 13th to Defeat Reds, 3 to 2—Other Contests in “Grapefruit League.” 3:30. By the Associated Press. HARLESTON, S. C, April 6— Aftering fanning three straight times, Hank Greenberg hit a hot line single in the thirteenth inning to- day to pull an exhibition game out of the fire for the Detroit Tigers. The score was 3 to 2, with the Cincinnati Reds on the short side. Four thousand fans, the largest crowd that either club has attracted this season, witnessed the contest. This was the third extra-inning game lost this Spring by the Reds. Score: At Charleston— RHE cincinnati (N.). 000 000 020 000 0—2" 7 Detroit (A.). 200 000 000 000 1—3 9 0 poiateries—MacPayden, (Brenan - and mbardi, _Campbell; Auker, . Sullivan and Hayworth, Gochranes o At Orlando, Fia. Montreal (I. L.). o (N. 430 103 '1—12 Batteries—Appieton. Smythe ‘Vance. Leonard and Lopez. seventh; rain.) At Fort Worth, Te Chicagn (A. Fort Worth Milstead and Broskie At Fort Worth, Tex.— 3 Piitsburgh (N. 000 110 0—: F3 000 000 0—0 3 0 es—H Padden: Jonnard oyt “and and Heving. (Called at end of seventh to vermit time for White Sox-Fort Worth e. 143 and (Calied end o R. 1121 0—7 1 000 060 1—1 5 3 Phelps and Ruel; R.HE 29 club and he who does not care for | &am the way Bucky runs it will be shown no mercy. That goes for the highest or the lowest in the ranks and all between. LAST BOAT FINISHES. HAVANA, April 6 (#).—The last of. the 21 starters in the St. Petersburg- Havana yacht race reached Havana Harbor today when the Wilma MulA steamed into port and was disquali- Qed for using her motors. pe At _Memphis— R H.E. New York (N). 1112 100 000—15720 1 Memphis (8. 4.5 000 000 000— 0 3 1 Batteries—Castlema and _Mancuso, Danning; Butzman, Swayze, Liebhart and Powell. Hofmann. At Birmingham— R H.E Boston (A) 00 213 130—10'14 0 Birm'gham (S.'A) 000 000 000— 0 4 1 Batteries—Rhodes, Walbers and Per- le; Hughes. Dunaway. Stewart Y. Tate: | Wash nd of 3 ree-! . | hits—Hartnett, GAR WOOD FAILS, | BUT IS SATISFIED Betters Salt-Water Mark Under Poor Conditions. “Will Carry On.” By the Associated Press. IAMI BEACH, Fla, April 6.— Gar Wood slashed a path down Indian Creek todsy in Miss America X, but failed | by 6.33 miles an hour of equaling his | own world motor boat speed record of 124.91 miles an hour. | Fighting variable winds, Wood's | fastest speed was 119.09 miles an | hour, made when he was clocked at 34.57 seconds northbound on the sec- ond of the two runs he made over the measured nautical mile. His first run, made southward, was clocked at 35.11 seconds for a speed of 118.979 for a two-way average of 118580 statute miles an hour. Sees Future as Bright. % E WILL carry on,” said the W veteran driver on returning to the dock, “and expect to raise that speed considerably before we are finished. We are well satisfled with Miss America’s performance “We are quite pleased to have broken our own salt-water record on the first official run here in Miss America X." Wood referred to the world record of 111.71 miles an hour he established over Indian Creek in 1932 with Miss Arherica IX. His present world mark, 13.20 miles an hour faster, was made a year later on the fresh waters of the St. Claire River at Algonac, Mich. Only one | mark, the fastest, is officially recog- nized, no distinction being drawn be- tween runs over fresh or salt water. | o i i | Phils Make Seventeen Bingles in 10-to-2 Win—Three Mack Pitchers Pounded. | By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, April 6.—Major | league base ball made its debut H in Philadelphia today with the Phillies crushing their townsmen, the | Athletics, 10 to 2, under a 17-hit barrage in the opening game of the | annual city series, With Curt Davis and Syl Johnson holding the A’s to 7 hits, the Phils | landed on Alton Benton, Roy Mahaf- | fey and Sugar Cain, nicking each for | runs. Homers by George Watkins and Johnny Moore led the Phils' attack, | with Dolph Camilli contributing & triple. The A's taliied both their runs in | the opening frame on 4 hits, among them doubles by Jimmy Foxx and the rookie first baseman, Alex Hooks. Score: Athletics Phillles . 200 000 000—2 . 010 242 Benton. fley. Cain and Foxx; Davis, | 8. Johnson and Wiison. | PAUL DEAN POUNDED, BUT CARDINALS WIN Need Only Five Bingles to Beat | Browns, 6-3—Medwick Gets Two Extra Basers. ) 01x—10 17 1 By the Associated Press. ST‘ LOUIS, April 6.—The world champion St. Louis Cardinals won | from Rogers Hornsby's Browns, 6 | to 3, today in the opening game of the | St. Louis city series. The Browns pounded Paul Dean for |8 dozen hits, but they did not get enough mileage out of the wallops to | outscore the Cardinals. The world | champions collected only five safeties in their nine innings, Two of the Cards’ hits were a dou- | ble and triple by Joe Medwick. R. H. 103 002 000—6 5 102 000 000—3 17 | P. Dean and Davis, Delancey: Thomas, Knott and Hemsley, 3 5 ROWE TO PITCH OPENER Picked Because He Is Fit and Nemesis of Chisox. CHARLESTON, S. C,, April 6 (#)— | Mickey Cochrane, catcher-manager of | the Detroit Tigers, named Schoolboy | Rowe today, as his starting pitcher | against the Chicago White Sox in the season’s opener at Detroit, April 16. | Mickey picked the Schoolboy, not only because he is in top condition, but because the Sox have been Rowe's | favorite opposition. . Louls (N.)... 51 . Louls (A)::! 1 Hard to Bear ABH. [ 40 0 Chicago. St'back. if Galan.1f Eng! b ABH. .3b Kuhel.1b Bolton.c. Lary.ss. . Burke.p. *Kress . Russell p Stewart.p Cav'tta.1b Har'nett.c Jurges.ss French.p iSteph'on 0 Hens'wp 2 Totals 37 513020 Totals 57 1233 1 *Kress batted for Burke in 6th. {None out when winning run scored. n 5th. PYTITRTPONe & b s corunannommuns0 [ iStephenson batted for Prench Klein batted for De; 6th. Galan batted for Stainback in 7th. Stewart replaced Russell in 11th, Score by innings: WashmEton e 002 000 00—2 Cubs .. 000 000 110 01—3 Runs—Stone, Travis, English, Lind- strom. Hartnett. ~ Error—Travis. Runs batted in—Kuhel (2). Lindstrom. Hart- nett. Th: hit—Kuhel. Two-base Baciifice hits— Myer. Klein, Cuyler Struck out—By French. 3: by Henshaw.'5. ~Bases on balls —Off Burke. 1: off Russell. 2; off 8; off Henshaw, 3, ‘ Bolton. ). SPORTS SUCCOTASH. IF_YOURE GOING TBELONG Tomy ROYAL FAMILY, = o= Ex-EMPEROR JONES GETS THE WORD, WHAT A WEEK IT HAS BEEN FOR HIM-= ALL THE BIG-BOYs OF THE COUNTRYHERE... A DAk AND SInISTER SHADOW HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE HEAVYWEIGHT ALL RIGHT= COME ON GALs !--- SEE IF You CAN KNOCK ME GULLI'S CHALLENGE L3 PICTURE...EVEN MAX MUST STOP To THINK ABouT 1T !... SPORTS cop 1935 Nationals May Not Be Champs, But They'll Have Color, Anyway. L BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ONS. CLARK GRIFFITH can promise to win no pennant with the 1935 Nationals, but when his hirelings trot onto the field Tuesday for their first local display the gable-browed gentleman on Seventh street, if he so desired, might well lay claim to the most col- orful Washington team in recent years. Color is something Mons. Griffith never seemed to cultivate or import on a large scale. Ye Olde Foxe al- ways looks for ability first in a ball player and, if he finds that, he lets the color go hang. Take last year’s club. De- fending the American League championship it was, paradoxi- cally, a shining example of effi- cient drabness. Fred Schulte and Johhny Stone, beautiful ball players that they are, rarely had the customers on the edges of their sets and never kept them that way. Neither did Cecil Travis, although for a 20-year-old kid his batting was little short of sensational. Luke Sewell was just a ball player's player. You always admire Joe Kuhel's shiftiness at first base, 2 but when he isn’t reminding you of Joe Judge in his palmy days, Kuhel is jut another ball player. A Scoot of His Own. HE biggest splotches of color on last year's club were supplied by a pair of rank substitutes—Dave (Il blarst it over the “civilian”) Harris and Peter Piper Susko, the absent-minded first baseman. Later, of course, there was Dippy Diggs. They filled the bill as colorful tossers, but | the drawback was that they lacked the ability. Sheriff Harris now is con- fined to Atlanta, Susko is in- flicting his absent-mindedness on Albany, and Dippy Diggs is mooning in Chattanooga. If Alvin (Pants) Powell, the ex- Takoma Tiger, can talk and work himself back into the good graces of Bucky Harris by Tuesday, Capital fans are slated to see a youngster with plenty of color against Boston Braves—a former local sand- lotter with a very good chance to steal Babe Ruth’s thunder in the | his scoot is not the run-o'-the-mine | sort. Alvin has a swagger on the lines | of Mr. Goose Goslin, but he sets that | swagger into motion about twice as | fast as the Goose ever flew. ! Mr. Pants Powell, if he re- forms to suit Harris, is our pre- season nomination to draw more screams on ladies’ day at the local ball yard than any hireling of Griffith’s in a long time. Able Assistants. | yF YOUR heart is in good-working order you will like Lynford Lary, the Beau Brummel, when he goes for a grounder. That is, provided he, too, regains the good graces of Bucky. Lyn hasn't the twitch of Josephus Cronin at the tee, nor the lantern Jjaw bleacherites could see wagging at the umpires now and then, but Lary has a style of his own afield. The best flelding shortstop in the | league last year, Lyn can get those grounders, of course, but it is how he gets ‘em. With legs of rubber and then of steel, he will go down on the ground with the ball and somehow rise with the pellet in time to throw out the runner. And Lynford is no poke on the sacks, either. Instead of the staid, mechanically perfect Luke Sewell behind the bat, Bucky Harris has his choice of three, Cliff Bolton, Jack Redmond and Sam Holbrook. Any one will do things that Seweil did not do. What they do may not always help win the ball game, but they often may prove novel. Bolton still sends your heart zoom- ing upward when he chases foul pops, but Redmond, if he works to any ap- preciable extent, will be the most col- orful of the trio, according to Mons. Griffith. “He 1s,” declares Clarke Calvin, “the most fiery, energetic catcher I've seen this year.” A Bat to Bat With. RED SINGTON, the big man from Alabama, may partially fill the boots of Davy Harris, except that the scribes will miss the sheriff’s quaint speech. But at bat this Sing- ton fella will rattle the fences or pop up in a manner bearing some resem- blance to Davey. The rest of the 1935 cast promises nothing startling, but if Sid Cohen sticks around, Washington fans may be treated to the sight of a National pitcher up at bat with every expecta- tion of using the stick in his hands. ball player, especially when Ben Chapman was on first base, and Heinle Manush rarely inspired yawns. Last but not least, GETS DUTRA’S PRO JOB. LOS ANGELES, April 6 (P).—Joe Robinson was named golf professional at the Brentwood Country Club today. succeeding Olin Dutra, whom he served as assistant for four years. 4 —By JIM BERRYMAN | { HAVE NO STATEMENT TO MAKE --- BUT HAS ANYONE A PAIR v, OF ROSE-COLORED (A3 GLASSES T COULD IT WON'T BE LONG AOw ANOW LEMME SEE == IF "KNOCK-KNEES ” COMES IN, AND “SOURHOOF ‘MAK TH'GRADE, 1 OUGHT TCOLLECT ABOUT sIXTY WASHINGTON 1S GETTING FIRST TASTE A or DAILY-DOUBLES IN RACING. ... THE FLAVOR SEEMS To PLEASE!. .. Burke Performs BY JOHN B. KELLER, 8taff Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, April 6.—Unable to‘ defend an advantage that had | been so difficult to gain, the| Nationals fell before the Cubs | in & 3-to-2 struggle today after forc- | ing play to the eleventh inning. In their first tilt wita a major league foe since the Indians were met at the Biloxi training camp on March 22, the | Harris hands went great guns for six innings. Then their pitching wilted | | and in the eleventh the Cubs put over | the decisive tally without having one put out. It was Walter Stewart, southpaw, making his season debut, who took the beating after pitching to only four batters in the eleventh. Fred Lind- strom, first up for the Cubs, singled. Kiki Cuyler bunted, nobody covered | first and Clff Bolton fired the ball to second. It got there too late to do any good for the Nationals. Phil Cav- arretta, a rookie, bunted and Cecil Travis never attempted a play. He| had no chance to make one. The bases were full. Gabby Hartnett picked this spot for | his third hit of the game. It was a slashing blow to right and the tussle was over. Burke Shows Something. HETHER Stewart has anything tucked up his left sleeve could not be learned from today's exhibition. He was not on the hill long enough. But Bob Burke, who left-handed his way through the first five frames, really looked good. He ylelded five hits and a pass, but he appeared to great advantage when there were Cubs on the runway. Bob finished his term as though he could have gone along several more innings, but Manager Harris wanted to give Jack Russell a workout. Jack went five rounds to give the Cubs four hits and two passes. The Cubs tied the score at his expense, although one of the runs off him was unearned. Jack looked as though he could stand & bit more conditioning. The Nationals were no marvels at bat as they faced a brace of port- siders. They got just two hits off Larry French, pitcher the Cubs picked up from the Pirates in a big Winter deal, in the first five innings. They got three more off Roy Hen- shaw, who last season was a star with Los Angeles of the Coast League. ‘Two of these hits backed a pass in the sixth for the only Washington scoring. One in this round was made by Joe Kuhel, the only National to get as many as two blows. The other hit was not made until the eleventh. Then Bolton, by grace of a collision between Cuyler and Chuck Klein in right-center, was credited with a double. The Cubs were the first to batter their way to the runway, but the Na- tionals were the first to get around. Five safeties were wasted by the home side in the rounds in which Lary s smash erasure resulted. The Nationals hopped on Hen- shaw, though, in his first inning for all their tallies. Manush opened the sixth insuspiciously by letting & Well on Slab, Stewart Beaten in Eleventh As Griffs Bow to Bruins, 3-2| third strike zip by, but Stone drew a pass and Travis singled. Kuhel then slashed to left-center for three bases. Joe was nailed at the plate as he at- tempted to score on Bolton's roller to the second-baseman and after Lary walked Kress picked up Burke's bat to strike out and wind up the rally. Thereafter the Nationals put only two men on base, Russell by a walk n the ninth and Bolton by a rather fiuky double after two were out in the eleventh. But the Cubs found the runway in each of the last six rounds excepting the tenth. % was an error by Travis that let in the first Chicago score. opened the seventh with a two-bagger, held second as Jurges was thrown out, then advanced on Henshaw's erasure. Travis let Pinch Hitter Gallan's grounder go through and Hartnett got home. Straight base ball was used by the Cubs in the eighth to get the tying run. English opened the inning with a walk, Klein sacrificed Lind- strom singled. The game was all even. Cold Keeps Fans Away. DOUBLE play checked the Cubs in the ninth, but they got home easily enough in the second extra | session. It was a Winter battle . . . with the temperature below 40, less than 2000 turned out for the first exhi- bition at Wrigley Field this year .. . the Nationals donned their natty uni- forms for the first time . . . they wore slate-gray suits, each sleeve adorned | with a red “W” . . . black hose with Ted and gray stripes . . . on each black cap was & white “W” . . . very smart looking . . . Burke was a fifth infielder in the third inning . . . the pitcher made fine one-hand stops of French's and Stainback’s drives and got his man each time . . . in the sixth the Cubs squawked long and loud as Bottle Cox called safe Stone, who apparently had been picked off second by Gabby Hartnett's throw . . . with Russell, & right-hander, working | for the Nationals after the fifth frame Chuck Klein and Augie Galan, left- hand swingers, got into the Cubs’ line-up . . . same clubs clash again tomorrow . . . with Henry Coppola, rookie right-hander, starting for the Nationals . . . Lon Warneke going for the home side . . . Monte Weaver may finish for the Griff: . Charlie Root is slated to wind up for the Cubs. TAKE SIX-DAY GRIND. BUFFALO, N. Y, April 6 ().— Coming from behind with a wither- ing two-hour burst of speed, Alfred Letourner of France and Franco Georgetti of Italy won the Buffalo six-day bike race with a three-lap lead, Baer’s Purse B Hartnett | HASGBTOTOTAL 209 FOR 94 HOLES | Dutra Is Next With 210 as Hershey Pro Takes 76 for a 211 Count. BY ALAN GOULD, Associsted Press Sports Bditor. UGUSTA, Ga., April 6.—The “Hershey Hurricane” turned out to be just & zephyr today compared to the blustery rain- storm that swept the classic Augusta national links, with the result that blond Craig Wood, the “belting beauty” from Deal, N. J, rode the crest of & great third round to overtake the faltering Henry G. Picard of Hershey, Pa., and assume the pace-setting role in the $5,000 invitation golf tourna- ment Wood played the most spectacular round of the tournament, as he over- came the hazards of weather and course for a 68, four under par. It gave him a 54-hole total of 209—seven under perfect figures for three rounds —and a one shot-lead over the na- tional open champion, Olin Dutra of California, who registered his third successive 70 for an aggregate of 210. Picard, who started out at the height of the storm with a two-day count of 135 and a four-shot lead over his nearest pursuer, quickly went into & slump, rallied and then went into reverse again on the home stretch. He wound up with a 76, a far cry from his previous rounds of 67 and 68, and finished the day in third place with 211, two shots behind the new leader and one stroke in front of Gene Sara- zen. whose 73 gave him an aggregate of 212, Quartet in Fight. EPARATED by only three strokes, these four—Wood, Dutra, Picard and Sarazen—figured to fight it out for the biggest slice of the prize money tomorrow. The only others with even a remote chance to figure in the struggle for first place were the veteran Walter Hagen and Denny Shute, each with 214, in a tie for fifth position. During a day that saw old man par floored only four times, as compared to 24 knockdowns in the previous two rounds, the eminent Robert Tyre Jones, jr. No. 1 host and drawing card, had to be satisfied with & respectable, but uninspired, 73. Under the conditions it was an excellent per- formance, better than most of the | 1ay's erratic exhibition of shot making, but it left the Georgian with a 54-hole total of 219, 10 strokes behind the leader, deadlocked for sixteenth place |1n the field of 65 players. Erratic putting, coupled with some poorly directed approaches, again proved costly to Jones, who tossed |away a chance to crack par by his mistakes on seemingly easy shots. He dropped a 30-footer for a deuce on the short sixth, and sank & 15- a 15-footer on the seventh for & foot putd on the ninth to save & par tee. On the other hand. the Georgian | missed & 3-footer on the third, rim=- med the cup three times on the home stretch and finally dubbed a putt of | scarcely 10 inches on the seventeenth. Makes Up Much Ground, 00D, providing himself a great “mud-horse,” started the day i 6 strokes behind Picard, but quickly began an uphill fight featured "by some of the tournament’s most | spectacular scoring fireworks. He | trimmed four shots of Picard's lead at the turn, caught his rival at the | fourteenth and was going away in the |drive down the stretch. The blond New Jersey star, runners up in last year's tournament to Horton Smith of Chicago, capitalized some | startling recoveries. putted with phe- nomenal skill and would have had |a 67, but for a penalty stroke when he hit his second shot into the water |on the fifteenth. He was the only player all day to get home against the wind on the 525 yard second hole with his second wood shot. He had 6 birdies and was over par on only two holes, the third and ninth, where he got into the woods. Wood was wild off at least half a | dozen tees, but consistently recovered with great iron shots or long putts. He dropped a 35 footer for his par 4 on the fifth and holed another long putt on the sixth for his 3. He sank & 15 footer on the seventh for a birdie, then barely missed an eagle |on the tough eighth, where he was home with a drive and & spoon. Some Telling Shets. T THE eleventh Wood's approach A stopped 2 feet from the cup for another birdie. He was in the ditch fronting the thirteenth, but played out beautifully and barely missed a birdie 4 from six feet. He ran down a 30-foot putt for a birdie on the fourteenth, got his par 5 de- spite & penalty stroke for landing in the water off the fifteenth green and sank a 7-foot putt for his sixth birdie on the sixteenth. He had putts of only 12 feet for birdies on the last two holes, but missed them both by bair-line margins. Olin Dutra, playing with Jones, did well on the rain-soaked greens. The open champion had only 30 putts for his entire round, but & 6 on the long second hole, where he put (Continued on Page B-8, Column 6. are, Jack Finds “See My Manager,” Champion Tells Dempsey After 60-Cent Meal and “No Sale” Is Rung Up. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, April 6.—Max Baer wiped away the may- onnaise from the chin that can take it, smiled at the assembled admirers and bade them adieu. He had nearly reached the exit of the restaurant when Jack Demp- sey, the proprietor, tapped him on the shoulder, “That will be 60 cents,” said the ex-Manassa Mauler, who now spe- cializes in special cuts instead of upper cuts. “See my manager,” Baer replied, with a wave of his kid gloves. “I haven't had 60 cents since I won the world heavyweight champion- ship. My lawyers get 663, my manager gets 33!3, and on top of m&t!‘umuwwmcdw- - " Dempsey sighed, and the cash- ler rang up “no sale.” A