Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1935, Page 12

WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935. e fiE§E7EEfi?fifififi@fiifififififififiifi@?fifi? FORENOON DRILLS CALLED BY HARRIS Will Be Held Throughout Home Stay—Hurlers Not to Be Pampered. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ORK and plenty of it is scheduled for Bucky Har- ris' weather-whipped ball club right down to its de- parture on April 23 for the big swing around the American League. Bent on having the Nationals fit for the Srueling 22-game grind on foreign fields after the brief opening cham- pionship season stand here, the man- ager has ordered daily forenoon drills for them during the home stay. ‘These workouts will be held regard- less of weather conditions, with the players getting their exercise under the stands when the field in Griffith Stadium is not fit for use. With these morning practices back- ed by the exhibition and title season tilts to be put on whenever possible, Harris is confident his club will be as well conditioned as any other in the circuit when the long tour gets under ‘Way. In fact, should the Nationals man- age to play at least four of the six training tussles they will be in good order for the season inaugural at Griffith Stadium a week from today, the manager believes. He sees no serious set-back to his club as a result of its enforced idleness since leaving training camp. No Alibis for Pitchers. N THIS respect, Clark Griffith, big boss of the club, concurs with the pilot. “The Washington pitch- ers have no alibis,” the prexy insisted today. “They were nicely conditioned at Biloxl. If they have their stuff they'll be all right. They certainly are strong enought to throw. is up to them to throw with some- thing on the ball. “I consider Whitehill, Russell, Burke and Coppola in good shape. They can pitch for me. The others are not so far behind them. I know of no real yeason to fear we will not be ready Jor the start of the season where the pitching is concerned.” Griffith intimated that Harris might | try using two pitchers to the game in the early going, but the manager would not admit he is considering such a plan. The prexy said the size- eble staff at hand would permit the free employment of hurlers and that the club might get along better in pursuing such a policy. Serious Grind for Hurlers. [JJARRIS opines that any one of | several in the curving corps| should be capable of going a route, however, despite none has been in more than 15 innings in the ex- hibition series. “I don’t believe in pampering pitch- ers,” the manager said, “Those that | know how to pitch—and I'd say most | of our pitchers do know—understand how to conserve their strength during & game. When I send a pitcher out to start a game, I expect him to go through with it. “I certainly shall expect that of the pitchers I pick for the early games. I want any' pitcher I select to enter the game with that understanding and not feeling that he has to go only five or six innings before turning over the job to another,” Harris empha- sized. “It may be that some of the pl(chers will weaken after a short term.' Any pitcher may feel great at | the outset and then suddently and| mysteriously blow up. It happens to the best of them. “But I don’t propose to spare the Washington pitchers once the season starts. It will be all business then, and they'll have to buckle down to the grind. Mine will be a pitching etaff with no namby-pambys,” Bucky declared. Batting Weakness Stirs Griff. LTHOUGH the Nationals have not had much batting practice since leaving the Biloxi camp and their hitting in the exhibitions has been nothing to boast of, Harris looks for them to swing into a good clouting stride at any time. “There is too much latent power in the Washington line-up to fear the club will not be strong in attack,” the manager point- ed out. ‘The club’s failure to hit well in the training tussles has Prexy Griffith a trifie nettled. “They should be ashamed of themselves,” he observed disgustedly. “Why they haven’t been hitting I can’t understand. Although they have been in few games recently, they have had more batting practice than any other club that went South. “Never before did we have at camp 83 many pitchers to use in batting drills and never before did a Wash- ington ball club get so much batting practice. I'm sure they'll hit in the season, but they ought to have been hitting all along.” Griffith’s wrath, though, is not likely to inspire the Nationals to greater and more productive effort at bat. What they need is something they have been unable to do the greater part of the last two weeks— to swing at pitches that are puzzlers. Only a fair break in weather will give them that opportunity. Work-Out Under Stands. SING the tunnel under the grand- U stand, the Nationals got an hour’s work-out yesterday short- ly after they reached home. The pitchers shook the mold off their arms and all hands engaged in a pepper drill. The entire squad was at the ball park early this morning. ‘Tomorrow the Brooklyn band will be here to open a two-game series. ‘The Phillies and the Albany Ints will follow the Dodgers then the Nationals will go to Newark Sunday to get their final coat of polish for the champion- ship chase. ST. JOHN OUT FOR YEAR. Because of torn ligaments and muscles in his legs, Bob St. John, former crack Central High runner, and expected to shine for the Uni- versity of Virginia this season, prob- ably is out of competition, at least for this campaign. This is the word Now it | Bob has sent to his chum, Buddy Hodgson, prominent diver and nlm-l mer of this city, Braves Game Off; Dodgers Awaited ITH pools of water standing inches deep in the outfleld the tilt scheduled by the Na- tionals with the Boston Braves for today had to be canceled, so Capital fans won’t get a chance to see Babe Ruth in his new regalia. Promise of better weather for to- morrow, however, leads Bucky Harris and his rain-rusty athletes to hope they will be able to meet the colorful Brooklyn Dodgers in the first of a set of two games. The Flatbush gang, led by Casey Stengel, nas been compiling a fine record in its exhibition games in the South. DAVIS 1 SHELVED BY BROKEN FINGER Card Catcher Is Out for| Some Time—Mize Gets Chance With Reds. By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS.—The Cardinals will be without the services of Vir- gil Davis, their alternate catcher, during the remainder of the city series with the Browns and the early games of the National League season. The backstop suffered a broken finger on his right hand from a foul tip Saturday. Dizzy Dean and Buck Newsom are scheduled to pitch today, but the weather man has predicted rain. FLORENCE, S. C.—Johnny Mize, would-be first sacker for the Cincin- nati Reds, will start the season if he “can stand the racket in the six re- maining games with the Detroit Tigers,” Manager Chuck Dressen an- nounced, as the Reds arrived to re- sume their series today. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.— Charlie Grimm's almost feverish search for a fifth Chicago Cub starting pitcher rapidly is narrowing down to Charlie Root. Yesterday against the Yankees he gave three hits in four innings and walked only one batsman. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—When Bill Terry finds & place for his first base understudy, Joe Malay, the New York Giants will be down to the 23-man player limit. Malay probably will wind up either with Toronto or Nashville. Terry released two other rookies, Joe Martin and Al Cuccinello, to Nashville yesterday. JACKSONVILLE, Tenn.—The Brook- Iyn Dodgers may have trouble getting together enough men for a ball game with Toronto today. Van Mungo, Babe Phelps, Danny Taylor, Ray Benge, Watson Clark, Tom Zachary, Frank Lamanske and Johnny Babich are on their way North. They will rejoin the rest of the team at Washington tomorrow. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—The backsliding Pirates looked upon Lefty Birkover today to pull them back into the lead in the long-winded training series with the Chicago White Sox. By whipping the Corsairs, 3-2, yester- day, the Sox made it 8-all for the series to date. Seats Plentiful For A. L. Opener LENTY of good seats are avail- able for the opening base ball game between the Washing- ton and Philadelphia teams here April 16, it has been announced by Clark Griffith. Ball games this year at Griffith Stadium will be at 3:15 o'clock ex- cept on Saturdays and Sundays, when the starting time will be 3. The same scale of prices will pre- vail, 55 cents, 80 cents, $1.10 and for box seats, $1.65. New loud speakers have been installed. Security of Nation Wrappe In Foot Ball, HE future welfare of the United States may be wrapped in the game of foot ball, according to Earl H. Blaik, Dartmouth coach, who returned to Hanover this morning after visiting Big Green alumni here yesterday. There is nothing to take its place in the development of leaders and particulerly for wartime, he said, in an informal talk with newspapermen at the Carlton, and sharing this view heartily was the young mentor’s ven- erated chief, Dr. Ernest Martin Hop- kins, president of Dartmouth. Many of the world’s present ills may be laid to the loss of athletes in the last grand ruckus, said Dr. Hopkins; athletes, he pointed out, who today would have been vigorous constructionists in every fleld. On a recent European tour, the educator was appalled by the lists of Oxford KNICKERBOCKER BACK THIS MONTH Tribe’s Ace Shortstopper to First Take Tuning-Up at New Orleans. By the Associated Press. EW ORLEANS, April 9—Bill Knickerbocker, crack short- stop of the Cleveland team, who was operated on for ap- pendicitis about three weeks ago, soon. will get back on the practice field and hopes to rejoin his team by the end of the month. Larry Gilbert, manager of the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern As- sociation, sald he expected Knicker- bocker would be working out with his team in three or four days. “He's just been walking around in the sun this week,” Gilbert said, “but I'm looking for him to get into prac- tice by the end of the week. He won't be able to rejoin the Cleveland club, however, until about the end of April.” CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—The New York Yankees evidently were a trifle premature in bemoaning Charley Ruf- fing’s alleged lack of condition. The big redhead, who arrived 10 days late in camp, shut out the Chicago Cubs yesterday without a hit in the six innings he worked. He walked four men, but none got as far as second. FLORENCE, 8. C., April 9 (#.— The Detroit Tigers and the Cincin- nati Reds were harmonizing on “Rain, Rain Go Away” today after two suc- cessive games had been washed out. Manager Mickey Cochrane and Scout Eddie Goosetree turned their eyes to Millard (Dixie) Howell, Ala- bama foot ball star whom Goosetree picked as the answer to Cochrane's player for a slugger. Howell's stiff- ness at the plate is a puzzle to Goose- tree. KINGSPORT, Tenn.—Earl Averill, center flelder for the Cleveland In- dians, is beginning to worry about the charley horse which has kept him out of the line-up recently. CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Lefty Grove will open the festivities today as the Red Sox meet Herb Pennock’s Char- lotte “farm.” Fritz Ostermueller will take care of the closing innings. Manager Joe Cronin has about made up his mind to rest that bad wrist for the remainder of the journey North, PHILADELPHIA —Forecasts of con- tinued rain threatened today to delay again the trip of the Athletics to Carlisle, Pa., to meet the Dickinson nine. The game was called off yes- terday because of rain. The Phillies rested for the third game of their city series with the A’s tomorrow. GPORTGCOP Thar 6 RounD Sock™ JOE DOMERTY SHOT A RIGHT To FRANKIE WOLFRAM'S HEAD THAT STAGGERED HM INTo THE CORNER ROPES... @ BOY=-- WHAT: 15 Yo' DOIN' ¢ DEY SHO' WAS RIGHT WHEN DEY TOLE ME 4 IN THE COLORFUL OPENER, RUFE REEDER SHOWED KID SALMONS A BRAND AEW CROUCHING STANCE: . r.v0 American League’s Boot Boosts Braves—Ruth Veritable Mint. e BY JOHN B, KELLER e AS the word passed down | here for the exhibition with the Na- ‘ ;s ; the line in the American g League to “lay off Babe Ruth” or was it because of utter indifference on the part of the circuit he once had saved that base ball's most glamorous character was permitted to pass on to the rival major loop? The facts of the affair never may be brought to light, but the general opinion is that the American League made one goshawful boot when it let the Babe shift his affections—and his big bat—to the National League. How the Braves of Boston got hold of the man who still is the biggest gate puller in the game when any one of three or four American League outfits could well have afforded to use the Babe to bring the bugs to the turnstiles is deep mystery, especially to the writers with the Hub club, d Declares Blaik and Cambridge athletes who died for England. Foot ball may be entering.upon a new era, declared Blaik in discussing the recently introduced rule permit- ting a lateral pass beyond the line of scrimmage. It's only a matter of developing plays around this trick to make a big change in the game, he said, but it will require time and the change next season may not be marked. As for the rule of the professional game which permits a pass from any point behind the line, in Blaik's opinion it makes for little difference from the varsity sport. Dartmouth will have a better team next Fall than last, the coach prom- ished, but with an unusually trying schedule it may not score a greater number of victories. The schedule includes games with Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Dr. Hopkins and Coach Blaik were toasted by Dartmouth alumni at a banquet last night at the Carlton. Elis Find Win Over Tigers Put on Spot by Upset Victory, Says Pond, Woeful Over 1936 Outlook. By the Associated Press. EW HAVEN, Conn., April 9. —Yale’s foot ball victory over Princeton last Fall, which ranked as the ma- jor upset of the 1934 gridiron campaign, had its boomerang to- day, with Head Coach Raymond W. (Ducky) Pond as the chief “boomer.” With the opening drill of a five- week program of Spring practice hardly out of the way, Pond painted a very dreary portrait of his “woes.” “You wouldn't think that score ing a victory over a hitherto une defeated Princeton foot ball team would have a bad effect on the r coach and members of the winning team, would you?” questioned Pond. “Well, it didn’t until I began to get around since that eventful day, and after thinking things over, I know that's the day our 1935 troubles started. “Here’s what I mean. Last year we were faced with a suicide sched ule and were not expected to win & game. You know what hap- “!utthhyarlt‘ different. We're going to be on the spot and it's going to be up £ tionals that was called off today. “Ruth is the one man to get the Boston National League club out of the red,” is the way one of the visiting scribes put it, “He can do more to benefit the Braves' treasury than any of the so-called finan- cial geniuses who have at- tempted it. In base ball the Babe is money personified.” With American League clubs like the Browns and the White Sox wailing for aid, how did Ruth get to the other circuit? You answer it. Your guess is as good as mine. Ruth Makes ’Em Wrong. ERHAPS the American League clique thought him “through” as a player. Maybe it figured him too expensive to carry along as a mere attraction. He had been in the big money so long that the frugal Ameri- can Leaguers might have felt he would not give his all in return for a salary they considered commensurate with his diminished ability as an all- around player. If the American Leaguers entertained these ideas, Ruth has confounded them this Spring. He has been no marvel afield for the Braves in the exhibition series, but he has managed to play a pretty fair first base for them since Baxter Jor- dan decided he did not care to handle the post at the initial station for the pay offered. And his batting has not declined. The Babe, with his won- drous wallop, has astounded the na- tives in all the tank towns and the big ones as well that have been vis- ited by the Braves. He has hit pro- digious homers, busts as remarkable as those he made in his heydey with the Yankees. He has drawn to the gate wild-eyed fans in such numbers that for the first time in years the Braves are going back to Boston with their books show- ing a profit—and a good, fat one—for their training period. He took a “cut” in golng with the Braves. They are paying him a good salary on paper, but much of it this year is being paid in promises. Yet none other than Bill McKechnie, who might be expected to resent having his managerial toes stepped on by the advising Babe, insists that Ruth is Is Bugaboo to us to come through on a sched- ule which calls for games with New Hampshire, Penn, Navy, Army, Dartmouth, Brown, Har- vard and Princeton. “In addition to this, we lost six regulars from the eleven and the material to replace these boys simply isn't around. “The problem, very briefly, is to round out the backfield, dig up a tackle, two guards and a center. The regulars who will be avail- able are Capt. Kim Whitehead and Jerry Roscoe, backs; Larry Kelley and Bob Train, ends; Henry ‘Wright, tackle. “Oh, well; maybe we'll score ane other victory over Princeton again. ‘That will be something.” > THE ONLY KNOCKDOWN WASN'T ON THE CARD. ” L3 | heart and soul with his new club. According to Bill, he is the life of the practice session and an inspira- tion to his teammates in battle. He is striving earnestly to fit himself for the 100-game grind he set as his goal when the Braves took him on. Questionable as Manager. UTH, of course, will succeed Mc- Kechnie as manager next year. He had that understanding with the club before he signed. This might seem rough on McKechnie, who was handed a sow’s ear and made a silk purse of it. He brought about that much change in the Braves. But Bill will be cared for. He will be promoted to the general management of the Boston club, a job similar to that held by Billy Evans with the In- dians and Eddie Collins of the Red Sox. They regard Bill highly in the Hub. But fandom there holds Ruth in greater esteem. He is king. When he went to Boston in the Winter to sign they turned out to parade the streets in his honor. With the tem- perature just 6 above, too. It takes a king to get the crowd out in that kind of cold. As a manager, though, Ruth would be a big question. He never has been able to discipline himself. Could he rule others? Perhaps the Babe is fortunate in not having the Boston club on his shoulders this year. McKechnie right now is wrestling with a sweet prob- lem. Six of his players still are un- signed. Jordan wants a heavy raise, McKechnie says his club must have him and Judge Fuchs, the president, insists Jordan must accept what was offered or get out. Flint Rhem and Leo Mangum, pitchers, declare they won't sign unless their salaries are boosted. Fuchs says there will be no boost. Rup Thompson, Hal Lee and Joe Mowry, half the outfleld squad, have spurned all salary offers. No This makes even the suave Mc- Kechnie worry. Wonder how the tem- pestuous Ruth would handle such a situation? THREE STAKE RACES DRAW LARGE FIELDS 145 Named for $7,500 Events at Havre de Grace, Where Meet Starts Monday. AVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 9.—One hundred and lm'ty-nve of America’s and Canada’s lead- ing 2, 3 year old and older horses have been nominated for the trio of $7,500 stakes to be run during the Harford Agricultural and Breeders' Assoclation’s 12-day Spring meeting which opens at 2:30 Monday. Thirty-seven 3-year-olds, including Walter M. Jeffords’ Commonwealth, second choice for the forthcoming Kentucky Derby, and Edward Riley Bradley’s Black Helen, winner of the recent Florida Derby, are eligible for the $7,500 Chesapeake, 1 1/16-mile g emx‘cludvely for 3-year-olds, on The $7,500 Aberdeen, 4%4-furlong sprint, exclusively for 2-year-olds, on April 24, has attracted 81 newcomers to racing. The $7,500 Philadelphia Handicap, 1 1-16 miles, for 3-year-olds and up- ward, carded for Saturday, April 27, the closing day of Spring racing here, has attracted 27 horses, including Al- fred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery, holder of the world 1 3/16-miles rec- ord of 1:85. more will be made according to Fuchs,, MIR'WS JITTERY FORGOT A.OUT Tlll STEPS.... /’(‘( DOHERTY NOT HOT BEATING WOLFRAM Gets Split Verdict—Ahearn Would Give Him Test Against Rivers. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HE name of Frankie Wolfram was scratched from the local featherweight fistic “elimina- tion tournament” today and the monicker of Joe Doherty of Brook- lyn was substituted—with a question mark. A lean youngster, rusty from four months of idleness, Doherty whipped the hard-hitting Canadian fair and square, but not in a fashion that com- pletely “sold” ring critics on his chances of getting very far, say, with Petey Sarron. It came as something of a mild upset, that 10-round beating Doherty handed ‘Wolfram last night at the Washington Auditorium, but if it failed readily to i convince boxing followers of his abil- ity to cope with a ringster of Sarron’s class, the performance virtually as- sured the rangy boy from Brooklyn's Shantytown of another opportunity to show his wares. Even as Doherty’s hand was raised in token of victory by two votes and a draw ballot, Match- maker Goldie Ahearn was pulling strings for a California Joe Rivers- Doherty scrap. “This kid (Doherty) rates a real chance,” declares Ahearn. “He didn't have a fight for four months until last night because of an injury. And when anybody licks Wolfram after laying off for that long, he must have some- thing.” Body Blows Weaken Wolfram. HERE was not much doubt in the minds of one of the smallest crowds in six months that Doherty had won the duke. On the type of Charlie Von Reedon, the new- est of the Ahearn-Joe Turner feather- weight “contenders” is neither a vi- clous puncher nor a smooth boxer, but he has the reach, heart and an annoy- ing knack of looping a right-hand sock to the body. It was body punching that beat Wolfram, slowing down the stocky Canadian as early as the second round and keeping him softened and cautious until the ninth heat, when Frankie rallied to all but stow away the Irishman. On this observer's score card the fight was very close, with Doherty gaining four rounds, Wolfram three and three stacking up as even. The point total was 3935 to 39. Referee Denny Hughes and Charlie Dunn, one of the judges, voted for Doherty. The other judge, Henri de Sibour, called it a draw. Wolfram, three pounds lighter at 125, seemed to have a shade in the fitth heat, but Doherty came back to win two of the next three. Crowd Smallest of Ahearn Regime. AY (KID) INGRAM'S six-round victory over Wesley Martin, stablemate of Wolfram, featured & preliminary card that matched the uneventful. Somehow the program failed to arouse much enthusiasm from the rain-soaked 700, who paid only $866.50. It was the smallest crowd yet at an Ahearn-arranged Les Guesno of Baltimore, who was one of the two pro ringsters to defeat young Joe Green, N feather- weight, failed to show how he turned the trick as he lost a unanimous deci- sion to Green in another six-rounder. Except in spots, it was a dull affair. Harry Jeffra, another Baltimore feather, was far more impressive than Guesno as he outslugged young Lloyd Pine of Philadelphia in a third six- round battle. A pair of colored wel- which went to Salmons by a unani- mous verdict. AN THE DEPUTIES PUT TWE EviL Eva"ON HAQRY RASKIN BECAUSE HE (OULD/ RESIST THE URGE To COACH His BoY NO BLOOD NOR BRUISES (N THE INGRAHAM -MAQTIN SET-To ---BUT THE KiDS THREW PLENTy OF LEATHER.... Sports Program In Local Realm | TODAY. Base Ball Mount St. Joseph's vs. Eastern High, at Baltimore Stadium. Tennis. Gonzaga at St. Albans, 3:30. (Prep School League.) Water Polo. Maryland Club Gardens vs. Washington Canoe Club at Am- bassador pool, 8:30. TOMORROW. Base Ball. ‘Washington vs. Brooklyn Dodg- ers, Griffith Stadium, 3. . Western High at Episcopal High, 130, 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 Nationals, Griffith Stadium, 3. Michigan at Maryland, 4. Washington-Lee High at East- ern, 3:30. Track. American University at Ran- dolph-Macon. Eastern High at Episcopal. Tenuls. Pittsburgh at George Wash- ington, 3. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Washington vs. Albany (Inter- national League), Griffith Sta- dium, 3. : Maryland at Washington Col- lege. Randolph-Macon Academy at Western, 3:30. ‘Tech High at Episcopal, 3:30. Takoma-Silver Spring High at Charlotte Hall. Track. Richmond University at Mary- nd, 2. Catholic University at Wake Forest. Tennis. Georgetown at Maryland, 3. American U. at Catholic U. Lacrosse. Maryland vs. Mount Washing- ton, Homewood Field, Baltimore, 3, Rifle. Maryland at George Washing- ton (girls). ‘Tech vs. Roosevelt, Washington Golf and Country Club, 3:30. (Public High series). Gives Simple Life Credit After Conquering Wood Easily in Play-0ff, BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor, UGUSTA, Ga. April 8.—Gene Sarazen has found s new secret for golfing success, and for proof he can point today to his sensational triumph in the Augusta National Golf Club's second annual invitation tournament. Gene attributes the recovery of winning form after a lapse of nearly two years to the fact he has exchanged the social demands of city life and world traveling for the tranquillity of a farm in East Brookfield, Conn. He has substituted the habit of rising early for the temptations of metropolitan night life. He says he never felt in better con- dition, and he's confident his victory means the launching of another big season. “Never Pllyed Betur & from now on, breakfast to ed to the finish of usta to see Sarazen Wood of Deal, N. o their 36-hole 149, are convinced In six rounds of tournament play he was 6 under par. In practice beforehand he was 17 under par for fo His shot- making was mac! play-oft, | curacy and consistenc, Deuce Shot That Tells. 1S million-to-one shot, the deuce on the par five 485-yard fif- teenth hole Sunday, made it possible to tle Wood at 282 over the regulation distance. His decisive play-off victory was the climax of an extraordinary scoring jamboree. The shotmaking ran the scale from Sarazen’s double eagle and Willie Goggin's ace to Prank Walsh's buzzard 12 on the eighth hole. The two-day scoring sensation, Hen« ry Picard of Hershey, Pa., who led by four shots with 135 at the half-way mark, faded in the final drive, where Olin Dutra blew out in 42 and then came back with a 32, the best nine holes of the tournament, to take third money with 284. Picard was fourth with 286 and Denny Shute was fifth, Too Fast for Jones. HE professional fireworks over- T shadowed the fact that the re- nowned Robert T. Jones, jr., not only failed to make a comeback in his second competitive attempt, but fin- ished lower than he did in the first battle of Augusta. Jones was in a tie for twenty-fifth place with a 72-hole total of 297. Yet he added to the drama by ficing a 33 for the outgoing nine Sat~ urday, and he demonstrated that all he needs is more confidence on the putting greens to make it interesting again for his professional rivals. He will play again next Spring. “Naturally I would like to turn in some better scores than I've done here so far,” said Jones, “but I haven’y the time or the urge for a real come- back. I'm through with big-time come petition. It would take me a year, playing steadily in fast company, ta regain anything like tournament con« fidence. When I get down in two putts now from 10 feet I'm tickled to death.” Course Is Golf Mecca. ONES has made the Augusta J tournament, and the course he helped design seems likely to be- come an American golfing Mecca. It is unquestionably a great as well ss a beautifully constructed layout, attractive alike to the duffer or the expert. It may, in time, set a new style in golf course building. In any event, the annual invitation affair within two years has gained as much general interest as a national open championship. Besides giving Sarazen the spring- board for a comeback, the tournament emphasized the stature of Willlam Lawson Little, jr,, as the Nation's out- standing amateur, Little equaled par for his four rounds with 288 and finished sixth in a great field of pro- fessionals only six strokes behind the leaders, LONE CHAMP LISTED FOR A. A. U. BOXING By the Assoclated Press. T. LOUIS, April 9.—A wild scramble for National A. A. U. boxing titles seemed likely today as entries for the annual tournament beginning to- morrow showed only one defending champion, Stanley Evans, Detroit heavyweight. The outstanding figure missing from the tournament will be Joe Louis, Detroit Negro, who won the light-heavyweight title last year and since, as a professional heavyweight, has been a rising star in fistiana. So far a total of 151 amateurs have been entered, only three below last year’s list. vraras#?? | ROYAL U H PILSEN (lflaxjfiugfom( FINEST Hottlod, Beer! 100% UNION _