Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1935, Page 29

WASHINGTON, D. C, SPORTS SECTION he Sunday Star SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1935. Parks’ Coolness Tells in Golf Upset : Nats’ Late Strategy Fails, A s Win, 4-3 WINS OPEN CROWN BY STEADY FINISH Knowing Course Well, Young Pro Never Falters in First Major Win. (Continued From Page A-1.) it and that when the test came over the final nine holes he could have played the shots by memory and done almost as well. Parks is a chunky, pleasant-faced, very serious fellow, who goes at the game of golf to win. He has been a professional only three years and be- fore that was & so-so amateur, who never got to first base in the Simon- pure game, even in the intercollegiate championships in which he played for three years. Previous to his win today his best thowing had been in the Pennsylvania State champlonship of 1934, where he finished second to Willie MacParlane ‘with a score of 298. Even around Pittsburgh, where the folks know and like him, he isn't reckoned among the best golfers of the Keystone State. But he is a like- able chap none the less and he may make & good champion, How Parks Won Title. Hm is how he won the champion- ship. Two years ago S8am Parks was & lad with a wild golf swing, a fel. Jow who hit the ball out into the great open spaces with a wide hook. One day he saw Paul Runyan play. He figured that accuracy was the thing he needed more than anything else and he set out to copy Runyan's meticulous and painstaking style. He forgot to hit hard, but began to hit accurately and right there the new open champion of the United States ‘was born. Today, at the start of the third round, he was in third place at 150, & shot back of Sarazen and three behind ‘Thomaon. He put together a fine 73 on the third round to jump into a tie at 54 holes with Thomson, whose third round score was 77 for 223. Back of them came Ray Mangrum, the tall Los Angeles lad, with 274, and Walter Hagen, the old duke, slid into the | third spot with 276. ! Parks got out in 38 this afternoon, | while Thomson was getting out in. a | mediocre 39 after a bad start. But Jimmy slipped a shot each at the four- teenth and ffteenth, finishing 5. 4. 4. 5, while Parks three-putted the six- teenth greéen after a great tee shntl and finished by missing & short one | for a 3 at the seventeenth and winding up with & 5 at the eighteenth for his | 78 and 290. Short Approach Putt Hurts, (}Mmfl to the eighteenth, the ruddy-faced Thomson, who used to be the assistant to his dad at the | Burning Tree Club and laid the foun- | dation of his great golf game there. | needed a 3 to tie. He hit an iron shot to the fmntedxei of the green, but was short with his | approach putt and wound up by three- | putting for a 5 and 301. ‘That Jeft only Hagen out there with chance tle. » g @ i ] ; i : id g 3 i 5 Ei'g & old campaigner he is, last six holes in one over 00 ' i 57 late. Those lost shots holes of the last nine 't be régained, He had made & though, a closing charge 1914 and 1919 and all 8 E 19128, 28558 Egérsigés E;é 5E3!§5§;5§ g 5 : . | court with Sports Program For D. C. Teams TODAY, Base Ball. ¢ Philadelphis vs. Washington, ‘Griffith Stadium, 3. Aquatics. Shrine regatta, Georgetcwn Channel, 1:30. Va., 3, y " Goif. Exhibition match, Joyce Weth- ered vs. Glenna Collett Vare, Co- lumbia Country Club, 3. Pole, 3d Cavalry vs. Marshall-Middle burg, Va., Fort Myer, Va., 3. Afrchery. Shrine tournament, West Po- tomac Park polo field, 10 am. TOMORROW. Bexing. ‘Tony OCansoneri, world light- weight champion, vs. Prankie Klick, world junior lightweight champion, Griffith Stadium, 8:30 (non-title bout). TUESDAY. Base Ball. Washington at Chicago, 3. Polo. 3d Cavalry vs. War Depastment, West Potomac Park, 4. WEDNESDAY. Base Bail. Washington at Chicago, 3. THURSDAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington at Chicago, 3. Tennis, Exhibition, Bill Tilden, Fred Chapin, Martin Plea and Bob Ham- ilton, Kenwood Country Club, 4. Horse Show. Fort Myer, Va., 2:30. FRIDAY. Base Ball. Washington at Chicago, 3. SATURDAY. Bas¢ Ball Washington at St. Louis, 4. DAVIS CUP TEANS SPLT IN SNGLES Crawford Wins for Aussies, Boussus for French as 10,000 Watch Play. By the Associated Presé. ARIS, June 8.—Reversing last year’s results, France and Aus- tralia battled to a stalemate in the opening singles matches of their Davis Cup tennis elimination series today. Christian Boussus, French south- back | paw, defeated Vivian McGrath, 6—4, 3—6, 8—6, 6—4, after Jack Crawford . | had won the first match from Andre Merlin, 6—4, ¢—6, 6—3, 6—3. Last year Merlin upset Crawford and Mc- | Grath conquered Boussus. In the last two singles matches Mon- day, today's pairings will be reversed. Probably tomorrow’s doubles, in which Crawford will team with Adrian Quist against Jean Borotra and Mar- cel Bernard, will prove decisive. A crowd of m&u n: Crawford win shots by Boussus, heavily loaded top-spin, proved too much for MoGrath's two-fisted backhand. ing yesterday's doubles for its third | successive triumph. PLANNING GRID SERIES. 1937, subject to approval of the Mis- Committee, Coach Don . wl casormoscerp el 03s0000mrroop of sormunarumo £l s0ce smsmormnst 2l cosmauumssep $l cssormmerSwmg ol orwaroowesy Bl coower ~lossssrsecssul soscoccnssconi MRS. MOODY EASY WINNER IN FINAL Beats Mrs. Pittman in Two Sets—Now Is Rated 2-1 at Wimbledon. BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Sports Writer. EYBRIDGE, England, June 8.—Betting -commissioners, who & week ago were offering 4 to 1 against Mrs. Helen Wills Moody's chance at ‘Wimbledon, cut their odds to 2 to 1 today after watching her defest Mrs. Elsie Goldsack Pittman in the final round of the St. George's Hill tour- nament, 6—0, 6—4. Dorothy Round, top ranking British star, remained the Wimbledon favo- rite at 11 to 8, with Helen Jacobs, American champion, held at 2 to 1 along with Mrs. Moody. Returning to competition in the St. George's tournament for the first time since & back injury forced her to de- fault to Miss Jacobs in the American championships two years ago, Mrs. Moody reached the peak of her form in the first set of her match with Mrs. Pittman. Her forehand drives into the back corners had the English star on the defensive from the outset. Takes Things Easy. ONc: in command, the Californian seldom bothered even to run after her rival's best returns. Per- haps half of the points Mrs. Pittman won were on placements which Mrs. Moody made no real effort to reach. Smiling in the club house after her victory, Mrs. Moody said: “My game seems to be coming back to me. My back? I think we can forget about that.” Mrs. Moody seems to have lost the “killer” instinct which, in former bade her win every match, As in other matches week, she let up in the second sel. When she really wanted a decisive point, she :‘nnply belted the ball down the side- nes. Mrs. Moody's only other “‘warm- up” competition before Wimbledon will come in the Kent championships next week. WILL RULE ON PITTS Ezecutive Committee Likely to Back Up Bramham's Ban. ALBANY, N. Y., June 8 (#).—The legality of the contract of Alabama | Pitts, erstwhile Sing Sing Prison ath- | lete, with the Albany International | club will be decided by the minor | league association tomorrow or Mon- | day. General Manager Johnny Evers | of the Albeny club made this an- | nouncement. Sports observers saw the likelthood that the Executive Committee of three men would uphold the decision of President William C Bramham, who ruled that Pitts' playing in profes- sional base ball would be “detrimental | to the game.” ————— e YALE BEATS TIGER FOUR Rallies to Take Opening Game of Polo Tourney, 3-8. NEW YORK, June 8 (#).—Yale's polo team came from behind to defeat Princeton, 3 to 2, in the open- ing game of the in cham. pionship at Governors Island today. Peter Grace broke the 2-to-2 tie in the last minute of play, scoring on & 10-yard free hit after Princeton had committed a foul in front of their Griffs’ Records L S e A " ©ec2020000e00 SHIRmEINE isi 2 _.. o g Boruonirodonuon L oE feret=t 235 SEERAT pusgaesy 10 Qs 06 D g 0 TP W 528 e SETRBESSEES, (S o LRI »owmstorm L mas ek SEE RSy = 2= ooy 201 Bka eccccoccatossecrmbucHHol . E‘g WEF b OrIppral 2 PR eafolRy S ] SR3gnpseze * OOk e - ¥ o the Associated Press. divisions of $5,000 in the United States open golf Throng Looks on as Home-Town Boy Clinches U. S. Open Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. N Close-up of new champion. Steadiness of Parks Breaks Down Rivals, Jones Declares BY BOBBY JONES. AKMONT COUNTRY CLUB, Oskmont, Ps., June 8—Af- ter keeping discreetly in the | middle background and barely out of the headlines for two days, One after another those who had a chiance to overtake him faded from | the picture. More conclusively than | ever before, perhaps, was the value seen of having “yours’ posted for the other fellows to shoot at. Parks was out early today, among the first starters, and soon began to play himself to the front with the same steady golf that he has shown throughout the tournament. the darkest of dark horses at the be- ginning and had attracted only a meager following by sticking in fourth place after two rounds with 150. But his 73 this morning attracted " at- tention. He had overhauled Jimmy Thomson and whirled ahead of Gene Sarazen, who had been in an advan- TTTSBURGH, June 8.—The order of finish, final scores and prize money today among the 20 leaders championshi; v pSeore. aoARS1 34344 Sam Parks finally out-lasted | and out-figured the last of the big| 9 Oakmont field. He was | tageous spot. From then on the ques- tion was if he and Thomson could last, and if so, which would last the longest. ‘Thomson twice seemed to have the thing won. I had just watched Parks go by the sixth 2 over par when Jimmy came along, having completed the first four in 2 under perfect fig- ures. It seemed then thai the long- hitting boy might be breaking up the tournament. But at the fifth he caught & bunker that jutted into the fairway so far out that nome of the oOthers were reaching it. A spoon off the tee would have been a swell idea. A bad tee shot at the sixth cost an- | ™ | % | other stroke, and three putts on the seventh another. A bad 5 on the par 3 eighth seemed to indicate that Thomson was going to pieces utterly. He did pull himself together gamely. His driving on the last nine was su- perb. But he lost his chance when & recalcitrant putter forced him to match Parks’ wavering stride over the last four holes, Most of the others who finished “in the money” threatened only briefly. Saragen, after playing golf that made him rightly to be considered the most likely winner, found him- self unable to strike anything like a consistent gait. ‘Walter Hagen, except for Thomson, was the only one to make menacing gestures. (Copyrig! OARSMEN ‘BRAVE RAIN California Crew Sets 'Pace by Rowing Five Miles. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, June 8 .—Rain and a choppy river did not keep the California, Syracuse and . 1935.) £ Sam Parks is sinking putt on final green at Oakmont that gave him his total of 299 and the coveted golf crown. ! By the Associated Press. EW YORK, June 8.—Over a| treacherous racing strip, made | like glass by a driving rain, | William Woodward's Omaha, | winner of the Kentucky Derby.and the | Preakness, once -agaln asserted his right to rule the S-year-olds as he ! completed the coveted “triple crown” | with & victory in the sixty-seventh | running of the $50,000 Belmont | I'Bhkes at Belmont Park today. | In enrolling his name along side | that of his famous daddy, Gallant| | Fox, and Sir Barton as the only horses | | ever to win the Derby, Preakness and Belmont, Omaha, covered with mud from trailing the early pace, staged |one of his famous stretch drives to win by one and one-half lengths. | Firethorn Runs Second. w.u.m M. JEFFORDS' Firethorn, | | second to the Woodward colt in | the Preakness, again was the runner- | | up, while William Dupont, jrs Rose- | | mont, conqueror of Omaha in the | | Withers Mile, tralled by another eight | | lengths. Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Cold | | Shoulder, meeting the champion for | | the first’ time, was three-quarters of | a length more to the rear, beating | | only Sir Beverly, stablemate of Omaha. Although running over a track on ! { which he was not considered to be | i“ his best, Omaha, 7-to-10 choice of | the crowd of more than 20,000, stepped off the 1l miles in the fine time of 2:30%. The time was only 145 sec- | onds slower than the track mark hung | up by the superhorse, Man o’ War. Firethorn, third choice in the betting, paid 7 to 5 to place, while Rosemont, held at 13 to 5 to win, was out to show. | In chalking up his fourth victory of the year, the first being in an over- night event, Omaha ran his total earn- SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1935, American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Philadelphia, 4; Washington, 3, (Second | Same. rain. 3 b /] [¥] EEEH £ gl 8 F 18 gl H (8l C 4[24(17/.685 175 Cle| 2| 31—| 4| 2| 3| 2| 8|24118/.671| 2 Det 3| 31 41 3 41_3| Sias0 58 : R ET= 2lfiluuu 4 Wnl 1] 1] 2| 2 51— B|_ 4120124455 7 Phi|_3| 3| 2 1| 1 6—| 411712414161 8 StLl L #) 1| 1] 31 O 3| 131281.300113 L..18{17118|30]22(24 (24|28 1 GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. il at Wsh. (3:00). B %t Boston. °** No sames scheduled. 86, Louls at Gleve. troit at Chicage. National RESULTS YESTERDAY. nebltisbureh, 14; Omelnnatl 8. (Second e, rain. St; Louss, 5; Chieaso. 4. (Second game, EEHEEEEE i [ 1 ‘Omaha Takes Rich Belmont To Become Third in History To Gain “Triple-Crown” List ings to $106930, of which $103,080 was won this year. Cold Shoulder broke from the bar- rier on his toes and went winging around the first turn leading by three lengths with Omaha settling in his stride back in third position. A half mile from the finish, they were in the same order, but turning into the home stretch Omaha dropped back to fourth place and a mighty groan went up from the thousands. Groans Change to Cheers. 'HE groans changed into cheers a moment later, however, as Willie Saunders let Omaha out a notch. ‘Then the son of Gallant Fox really began to run. Within another eighth of a mile and that distance from the judges, the chestnut fiyer nad caught | Cold Shoulder and with Saunders bending low in his saddle fairly flew. Firethorn and Rosemont also passed the tired Cold Shoulder, but they were no match for Omaha. ‘The National Stallion "Stakes, worth $11,720, went to Delphinium from Mrs. Dodge Sloane’s Brookmeade Stable, in a driving finish. Held at 6 to 1 in the betting, the stablemate of Cavalcade scored by a nose over Ogden Phipps’ White Cockade from Omaha's barns, with Mrs. Silas B. Mason’s Valevictorian a like distance o the rear in the field of eight. HELEN STEPHENS SETSSPRINT MK Runs 100 Meters in 11.6. Cunningham Is Easily Best in “800.” By the Associated Press. ANSAS CITY, Mo, June 8— Helen Stephens, 17-year-old Fulton, Mo., farm girl, bettered by two-tenths of a second to- day the world's 100-meter dash record for women held by Stella Walsh. She ran the distance in 11.6 seconds, as compared with the 11.8 seconds of the old record. Last Saturday at St. Louis Miss Stephens tied the record. Miss Stephens made her run in a special race at the Missouri Valley A. A. U. track and field meet after Glenn Cunningham, world’s record miler, had loped to an easy 800-meter victory over three opponents in another added event, Will Apply for Mark. Fm watches agreed on Miss Stephens’ time and Valley A. A. U, officials announced they would seek recognition of a new world mark. Marjorie Rhodelander of Pleasant Hill, Mo., winner of two dash events on the regular program, was a far the regular women’s dash events as she lives outside the A. A. U. district. Cunningham, running his last race before the “mile of the century” competition against Jack Lovelock, Bill Bonthron and others at Princeton next Saturday, was clocked in 1:522, slightly slower than his own record of 1:51 made over the same track at TORONTO, Jume 8 ().—Displaying » brand of foot that had their JTALLY IN NINTH AFTER GIFT PASS |Warstler’s Double Follows Walk—Cramer Cuts Down Home Side Rally. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. 8 SUDDENLY as it was born, ‘Washington's baby winning streak expired in some flu- laden weather at Griffith Sta- dium yesterday, but when the autopsy was performed after a 4-to-3 vietory for the Athletics, it merely was a case of 'the Nationals mistaking s D'arcat for a rabbit. Aiding in the error of identity was weather unfit for man or beast or even a double-header between second= division teams, but s bigger contrib= uting factor was that little Hal Warste ler of the Philadelphias really is called “Rabbit.” So when Eric McNair strode o the plate in the ninth in- ning with two Athletics on base and Washington leading, 2 to 1, it was deemed wise to pass Eric purposely and take & shot at Rabbit Warstler. It was then that the Griffs djs- covered their error. The hammered: down second baseman, who weighs about 150 pounds soaking wet, and owns a batting average of about the same figure, belted the water-soaked ball into left fleld for a double, and blooey went the Nationals’ fond hopes of making it four in & row and picking up half a game on the fifth-place Red Sox. Hadiey Pulls “Houdini’s.” AT THAT the Rabbit didn't knock over the winning run, although his two-baser seemed to have pro- vided it at the time. Lefty Leon Pettit., who was pitching for the Washingtons then, walked in the third and final Philadeiphia run be- fore the A's finally were retired in the hectic ninth. ‘The Nationals should have won that game yesterday (the second half of the scheduled double-header was | rained out). Even Lady Luck seemed to be on the locals’ side throughout the fray, for Bump Hadley, who was | given a 2-to-0 lead in the second in- ning, kept escaping from the dog- | gondest _ situations imaginable. The | Philadelphia total of 15 men left on | bases offers testimony to that. | Bump was handed his lead by | Johnny Stone, Clif Bolton and Ossie | Bluege, each of whom singled off Le- Toy Mahaffey, and by Joe Kuhel, whose fly tallied Boiton with the sec- ond run of the inning. In the Phila- delphia third little Warstler saw to it that the lead was cut down to 2 to 1 when he followed the suit of Roy Johnson and McNair by singling, | driving across Johnson, but that was all the Philadelphia fireworks until the ninth. | Pettit Presents Winning Run. ’I‘O START that frame, Hadley, who | would give you the shirt off his | back or a base on balls at almost any time, walked Johnson. Then he | pitched a single to James Emory Foxx, sending Johnson to third. Manager | Bucky Harris, peering through the | rain, thought he detected a weaken- ing in Hadley and waved Pettit into the box. Leon opened auspiciously. He tossed out Pinky Higgins after holding John- son on third, Foxx, in the meantime, scurrying to second and removing the chances of a double play. That was part of the reason. why McNair was walked, filling the bases. Rabbit Warstler and his batting average was the other part of the reason. But Rabbit crossed 'em up with his dou- ble into the inch of rainwater in left fleid, scoring Johnson and Foxx and sending McNair to third. Undaunted by the failure of this particular bit of strategy, Harris ordered Pettit to intentionally pass Paul Richards in hopes of finally achieving that double play. Leon did just that and it looked as though Bucky's second strategical move might be crowned with success when Alton Benton, who took up the A's pitch- ing in the eighth, obligingly fanned for the second out. But Pettut up and threw his boss down by walking Wally Moses, forcing in McNair with what then seemed an unnecessary run. Cramer’s Catch Ends Rally, /S IT developed, Leon’s generosity was costly, for the Nationals came bouncing off the canvas in their balf of the ninth, only to miss tying and possibly winning by s foot or so— the distance that would have been necessary for Al-Powell's liner to cen- ter to slip by the clutches of Doc Cramer. After Prederic William Schulte, bat- ting for Pettit, had fanned to open the ninth, Benton walked Kuhel and Manush, reviving the hopes of Mr. Griffith’s 2,000 odd customers. Buddy Myer hit a soggy fly to Johnson for the second out but OCecil Travis banged out & base hit to center field 1o score Kuhel and send Manush to third. Then Powell stepped up and smack- ed a whistling drive to left center. Doc Cramer legged it and grabbed the pellet just before it would have sunk to the bottom of the outfleld lake. VIRGINIA BESTS GRADS. UNIVERTISY, Va., June 8 (#).— Virginia Alumni gave the varsity team a battle before rain ended the game after seven innings today, but the varsity came from behind to eke out & 3-t0-2 victory. Homer Standing