Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1935, Page 12

KIBITZERS AWARD MATCH T0 CHANP. Lawson Not Up to Jonm,‘ Says Youth, Irked by Cold Shoulder. ! | BY PAUL MICKELSON, | Associated Press Sports Writer. LEVELAND, September 14.—| William Lawson Little, jr., the | man with a stacked deck, | made his last bid for his| seccnd straight Little slam of amateur | golf competition today. Across from him was 23-year-old | Walter Emery of Oklahoma City wnh: an assoriment of cards that haven't been beaten all weck, but there wasn't | a golfing kibitzer about who figured he had a chance of “setting” the poker- | faced wizard from San Francisco, who hasn't lost a game in 30 straight matches over his record-smashing sweep from Prestwick to Brookline to | £t. Annes to Cleveland It is true that James J. Braddock arose to smite down Max Baer and| Wilmer Allison finally stopped the | great Fred Perry, yet Emery's task of beating Little looked even more | gigantic. The greatest “giant killer” in the game, John Goodman of Omaha, brcke par by one blow over 33 holes in a courageous attempt yesterday, but he, too, was crushed by a merciless | attack that left him a beaten man by the convincing margin of 4 and 3. | Little's Card Better. E.\TERY. equipped with a magic put- ter that has seared the hopes of | seven successive foes, was a fine player and a grand fighter, as he has demon- strated over the last five days, during which he has smashed par by five | shots over 125 holes, completing his job yesterday by lynching Joe Lynch, | portly Bostonian, 4 and 3, to join Little in the final. Had they been playing each other | yesterday, however, Little would have | beaten Emery by six holes through the thirty-third green, where each ended his semi-final match. Such compari- sons don’'t mean much ordinarily, but they do with Little. He has been | shooting the same golf all week, crush- | ing his opponents with spectacular golf over the final nine holes. Yester- day, for instance, Emery finished 5—3 ~—5—4—5—>5; Little wound up 4—2— | 4—4—3—3 on the last six holes. [ Little's stacked deck—drives that | ‘boom 300 yards or more straight down | the fairways, irons that split the pins | from every position or distance and | putts that drop into cups like tea leaves—stacked Goodman against the ropes and held him there. Two down at lunch time with a medal card of 73 to Little’s 71, one under par, Good- man equaled the tournament record | on the front nine of the afternoon | by shooting a 32, four under perfect | figures, but all he could get with that | spectacular comeback was two holes that squared the match. On the final | backward drive, Little shot three | birdies and three pars at him to win | four out of six holes and the match. | On the thirty-third green, he putted from 50 feet around a partial stymie— ® putt that had to be exactly perfect— | to end it. Goodman Called Turn. "I TOLD Lawson he would have to | shoot sub-par golf to beat me and he did it,” said Johnny. *“No one can | beat him.” Emery, “burned up” because Little | refused to pose with him before yes- terday's matches, asked for only one | “break” today. That was that his | putter would stay hot. “If my putter is hot, I'll give Little | the doggondest match he’s had. I don’t think Little is as good a golfer 88 Bob Jones, but I do believe he's the best amateur in the world. I'm Jjust one of the boys, but I'll give him & fight and try to make him sorry he | cold-shouldered me yesterday when that photographer asked us to pose | together. I'll be so mad at him, I'll forget to get scared.” Emery, 1933 national champion, had an easy time wnth‘r Lynch. He was four over par, playing Jjust good enough golf to win easily | against his slow, methodical opponent. | The tall, sandy-haired junior of the | Oklahoma University Law School— never befofe a qualifier in the United States amateur—won the third hole %ith a birdie, was 4 up at noon and never threatened. ‘Today's 36-hole match was sched- uled at 9:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m., East- emn standard time. collegiate | Minor Leagues L | 8chauman. Baltimore 'C. International, (Play-off.) Byracuse, 3; Newark, 1. Montreal, 6; Buffalo, 4. American Association. St. Paul, 11-5; Milwaukee, 6-4. Columbus, 8; Toledo, 2. Kansas City, 10-10; Minneapolis, 2-9. Indianapolis, 11-4; Louisville, Southern Association. Memphis, 5; Birmingham, 4. Atlanta, 8; Chattanooga, Nashville, 4; Knoxville, 3. Little Rock, 6: New Orleans, 4. Texas. (Play-off.) 1-1. Oklahoma City, 11; Tulsa, 3. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Cleveland at Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3. Track. Government interdepartmental meet, Central High School Stadium, 10. Tennis. Playground Department opens Fall tournament, Potomac Park. Horse Show. Redland Hunt, Old Fair Grounds, Rockville, Md. Best of D. C. Group’s Cards in Maryland Open Hung Up by Manor Pro. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALTIMORE, Md, September 14.—Al Treder, president of B the Middle Atlantic P. G. A. and Manor Club pro, is the most likely of Washington, D. C., golfers, based on their first day's scores, to catch Al Straub of Manes- quan Country Club, Briel, N. J.,, who is leading the $2,500 Maryland open championship, which begins its sec- ond round over the Rolling Road Club's course today. The final 36 holes are scheduled for tomorrow. Treder posted a 74 yesterday, 5 be- hind the card of Straub, who had | slept all night in the back seat of his car before going out to pace the field with a brilliant 69, one under par. Straub scored two better than his three nearest competitors, Victor Ghezzi, Gene Kunes and William H. Goldbeck. Sam Parks, national open champion from Pittsburgh, was forced to be content with a 75, which placed him far down the line. Washington’s contingent is not a!- together out of the running, though the defending champion, Indian Spring’s Al Houghton, is far behind his fellow townsmen with a 79. Scores for the opening 18 holes follow: Straub. Briel, N. J. Ghezzi, Deal, N. J. Kunes, Norristown, N. J. Goldbeck, Mt. Kisco. N. Overton, Roliing Road. Harper, Portsmouth. Vi Platte, 'Pittsburgh Diegel, Phiiadelphia _ Thomson. Ridgewood. Serafin, Clarks Summit. P Dudley, Poiladelpbia _ . MachMasters. Hillendale Milne, jr., Baltimore C. C. Herdson, New York Treder, Manor _- Ezar. Louisville. Ky. Mackie. jr. 5 Spencer, Beaver Dam - Walper.” Washington Parks, Jr.. Pittsburgh Manero, Sedgefield. N. Caldwell, Hillendaie Mangrum. Pittsburgh _ Nelson, Ridgewood, N. Eldred. Pittsburgh __ Shorey, East Potomac Park_ Taylor, Rolling Road Schreiber. Clifton P: Brooks. Barton. Fla Beach. Suburban Barneit. Chevy Chase Roche, Baltimore C. C. Loving. University, Va Cunningham, Burring Tre Brand. Clarksbure, W. Vi Spencer, Maryland C_ C. .~ Kaufman, Ir.. Suburban C. C. Crichton,’ Burlington. N. C Grimes, Rolling Road Baltimore Invernizzi. . Kei McLellan, Gibson Island Houghton, Indlan Spring Slingerland. Greensboro. N. Picard. Hershey. Pi Larkin, Woodmo: Ensor, Clifton Park_ O'Brien.” Fox Hills, N. Flattery. Rodgers Johnson. Decatur. Tl Maples, Rocky Mount, Fitzgerald. Kenwood- unningham. Bass. Clifton Park Semmler. Hillendale_ O'Donneil. Edgewood ~Arsenal QBrien. long Island Betschler. Hillendale_ _ Kenneth " Allen, Baltimo Sylvester. Bannockburn Gravatt, Lewistown. Pa. Howard, Lowell. Mass Beimschla. Wisotzkey. York. Gantz. Suburban Collifiower, =Frederic Gibson. Baltimore _ Gaskill. Eatontown. N. 3 | Demaree, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1935, Emery chky Meeting Little in Final : Bolton’s Hitting, Catching Boost Nals CREENBERG GOES T0 TOPINHITIG {Bengal Also Holds Margin in Home Runs—Vosmik Drops Five Points. By the Associated Press. EW YORK. September 14.—A N League batting honors, Hank Greenberg of the Detroit new claimant of American | Tigers, moved to the top during the @ Walter Emery of Oklahoma City (above), snapped yesterday driving in the process of his 4-and-3 win over Joe Lynch, former Georgetown U. ace., by which he reached the final. At right: of his 4-and-3 victory over Johnny BY W. K. McCALLUM, Staft Correspugiaent of e Star. | LEVELAND, September 14— ‘They are holding a national machine and tool exhibition here in Cleveland, where they Lawson Little of San Francisco, who defends his title against Emery today, shown sinking a long putt before a huge gallery in the course Goodman yesterday. —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. Cold Figures Foretell Big Margin for Little in Last Svsiehamna Aiso on Card Battle in Defense of Title, row. Perhaps a modern golf colossus has arrived, to stand astride the | amateur world even as Jones never | did. John Goodman got level with him again at the twenty-seventh hole | yesterday, but from there on Lawson last week to lend some interest to Nave concentrated & lot of robots| drew from him as smoothly as & Du- the battle that began to droop a | Which make big ones out of little ones | zenberg pulls away from a 1920 flivver. bit when Detroit forged far ahead | 8nd convert raw steel into automobiles | Lawson simply birdied the twelfth and in the pennant race. Greenberg, who ran into difficulties | and all those marvels that machines do. But the machinists would do | fifteenth and played the rest of that | last nine in par, while Johnny was in his quest for the season's home- | better today to check their private | flour.Zering around in the rough and | run crown when Jimmie Foxx began | to belt them, shot up from fourth | place to take the lead after Friday's games with a seven-point gain. Joe | Vosmik of Cleveland, league leader ; | for several weeks, lost five points and | went into second place. Holds Homer Lead, Too. | THE Tiger ace also managed to hold | the home-run lead by a margin | of two over Foxx when he smacked 6—77 | 0—77 his thirty-fifth of the season. Arky Vaughan of Pittsburgh, Na- | tional League leader, clung to his .397 | average with 9 hits in 23 attempts. Joe Medwick of St. Louis dropped | back 6 points to .363. . | The first 10 regulars in each rhajor | league follow: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Greenberg. Detroit | Vosmik. Cleveland Wash'gton_ New York *hil i | Cramer. Phila'p] | Gehringer, Detroit | Cochrane. Detroit oses. Phila’lphia Campbell, Clevel'd Ott. New York___ Moore. Phila’lphia Jensen. Pittsburgh | Herman. Chicago. Chicago 325 324 DRBEESE * REBERZ Winton, Baltimore C. McLeod. Columbia _ Reid. Sparrows Poli Pomeroy. Annapolis. Md Baker. Mansfleld Hall. Va Woodward. Rocky Mount. Jones, Pennsauken. N. Leary. Annapolis, Md. C- Pacific Coast. Hollywood, 6; Sacramento, 2. San Francisco, 3; Oakland, 1. Missions, 7; Seattle, 5. Portland, 5; Los Angeles, 3. Major League Statistics SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933, American. RESULTS YESTERDAY, National. RESULTS YESTERDAY. New York. 13: 8t. Louls, 10. Chicago. 4: Brookiyn. 1. Philadeiphia, 5 Pittsburgh, 1, Cincinnati, 1; Boston, 0. -~ puvraaay -----uoysog --usinasig [ g g ~=-smog '1§ areIuR0ng — —“a10% mon P -=-usro0ig »rudeper, i i HLk - |3tLI—I12[ 8110/12/12/15/18/871 50 0/13115/14/13/191891 ¢ [ 8l—I[14/11/14/10/13/821 62 Piti10/ 7| I BKl| 5| 5/ 6/11/—I11| 91141611 7 StLI 41 Phi 5 810 6] Ctil 71 81 8 7|11/—|10/10/61] 791.43 Ph1 71 91101 6| 8| 7/—I11(671 7014101203 Bn 41 31 21 2| 6/ 9] 71—I33/1011.246523 L 1471568 /88/70] L_150/52152162174/79(79101|—I—]| ] GAMES TODAY. E‘et (2 GAMES TOMORROW. Clev. at Wn.(2). 1:30, . Detroit at New York. Chicago at Phila. Chi. at Ph! )e St. L. at Boston. 8t. Louis at Boston. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. New York at 8t. L. New York at 8t. L. Brooklyn at Chicago. Brooklyn at Chicage. Phila. at Pittsburgh. Phila. at Pittsburgh. Boston at Cincinnati. Boston at Cincinnat Daf Dean’s Faint Nearly Flops Frisch Revives When Told Hurler, Who Collapsed at Fight, Would Be 0.K. Today. By the Associated Prass. T. LOUIS, September 14— Paul Dean, Cardinal pitcher, + was expected to work against the Giants today despite giving several thousand fans a scare by fainting at a boxing show last night. Dean fainted twice at the arena, where he and his brother, Dizzy Dean, attended the Tony Can- zoneri-Joe Ghnouly bout. The first time was after he had visited the dressing rooms to see K. O. Brown, Cardinal bat boy, who had just been beaten in a preliminary bout. “Brown was wriggling in pain,” Dr. O. Richard Bullard, physician to the State Athletic Commission, said, “and I think Dean's attack was mostly psychic. He said he had fainted once before, when he broke his ankle.” Dean apparently recovered, but Aater fainted again at the ringside and was taken to his hotel in a attributed the attack partly to in- digestion, quoting Dean &s saying he had “just eaten a ‘hot dog’ and drunk a bottle of soda.” Manager Frank Frisch of the Cardinals, when informed of the incident, almost had a fainting spell himself. “What a helluva ‘h:PB that puts us in,” he blurted out When told of Dr. Kouri’s state- drinking and public speech-making | for the day and take the big hike out to the Cleveland Country Club, where they will see a greater machine than | any they can devise demolish an inno- | cent lad from the highlands of Okla- homa in the final round of the national amateur golf championship. Young Walter Emery is naive and likeable, with a lot of spirit and some darned good golf shots. But he is up against a guy named Lawson Little today, the finest piece of golfing machinery in | the world among the men who have the amateur cognomen ‘attached to | their names. Downtown, 17 miles from this club, they have fine and | intricate machines capable of doing everything from burning out a news- paper to making a toothpick. But nowhere in all that mass of machinery have they anything as deadly, as in- 5 | tensely lethal, as this guy Lawson | Little. Stronger Than Last Year. | ON THE threshold of what the boys laughingly call the “Little slam,” or the grabbing of four major ama- teur championships in a row, Lawson Little is more a favorite than he was last year, when he demolished Davie | Goldman of Texas by 8 and 7 at | Brookline. This year his final round 0 | opponent is a little more of a threat, | for Walter Emery, the same kid who played in the intercollegiate at Con- gressional, can produce some hot golf. But they don't seem to do it against Lawson Little. John Goodman, good as he is, couldn't produce it yester- day, even though he did manage to get level with Lawson at the twentieth hole. But he took the other at the thirty-third hole, which is consider- ably further than Emery figures to go today. On that same hole Emery snuffed out the title aspirations of Joe Lynch, the grinning, cherubic-faced ex-Hoya star. Cold, raw figures of what happened in the semi-final yesterday tell of what probably will happen today. Just as the big bad wolf from California did last year, he is doing again this year. Starting slowly, he worked his game up to a crescendo of par-wrecking last year to shoot a 68 in the morning round of the final. He started slowly again this year, barely getting by his first match. And he has been getting better ever since. He played 33 holes yesterday in six strokes under par, five under in the afternoon, where he needed three pars for a 67. At the same time Emery cooled off from the Joe Lynch with a 33-hole score, 4 over par. Ten strokes difference over 33 holes between Emery and Little over the same distance. Looks Bad for Emery. T LOOKS as though another one of those 8 and 7 things today, with Mr. Little completing his “Little slam.” The man is absolutely devastating in his power and will to win. There may be better machines downtown, but they won’t be shown. If they had more long holes on this golf course he would win any championship over any fleld, for he converts 520-yarders into drive and half-iron seconds, and things like that. And his silky smooth putting stroke, and his delicacy with the short pitches are good enough to win alone, without his tremendous advantage in distance. Time after time yesterday John Goodman played a long iron to a green, while Lawson pitched with a And even your worst miracle can keep him from it, have done something no man, did in his | bunkers to drop four out of seven | holes. If any folding was done John | Goodman did it, which you wouldn't | expect. But it was typical of the way Little puts the pressure on and | keeps it on. Lynch’s Putter Fails Him. OE LYNCH, who is almost certain to get a spot on the 1936 Walker Cup team by his performance here, couldn’t get his putter going against | Emery. His face beaming beneath the | collegiate hat with the big “G” on it | which the Hoya golf team sported last | June, Joe had a new shaft put in his | | putter and still it wouldn't knock fhe ! ball in the cup. Joe broke the old | shaft a couple of days back and the | new one didn’t work. Had Emery played hot golf Joe would have been laid away around the thirtieth hole but as it was the fresh-faced 23-year- old from Oklahoma missed enough shots to let Joe hang on until the | thirty-third. Emery won the inter- collegiate championship in 1933 but he is up against a college boy today who is far from the rah-rah stage. Lawson also is & college boy. He needs about six months more at Stan- ford to graduate, at the age of 25. He may make it but he is due for the biggest diploma in golf again today. TEA LOOP TITLE TILT.. With the championship of the At- lantic & Pacific Tea Co. League at stake, Bokar and Rajah nines will battle it out tomorrow on the East Ellipse diamond at 11 o'clock. Aubrey Orrell will pitch for Bokar, while Lefty McIntosh is expected to take the slab for Rajah. HE Indians’ jinx apparently I routed, Bucky Harris' fast- charging Nationals today looked beyond the remainder of the Cleveland series—which em- braces one game today and two to- morrow—and regarded the White Sox's invasion with eagerness. The Chicagos happen to be present possessors of fifth place in the Amer- ican League standing and, while their lead is nothing slight, they could be overhauled. They'll be in town for four games, starting Monday. In whipping the Indians yesterday for their fourth straight victory, the Nationals picked up a full game on the losing White Sox. The Chicagos now lead by only six games. Batting Race Promises Much. WHIL! Buddy Myer and Joe Vosmik have been battling each other for the American League batting lead during the Cleveland-Washington se- ries, big Hank Greenberg of the Tigers stepped in to assume.the leadership with a pace of .345. Greenberg made three hits in four trips yesterday. So did Myer, though, while Vosmik dropped back to .344 by going hitless for the second straight day. Myer’s average now is 342 and one of the closest races in years may be looked for as the trio enters the final 15 days of play. Buddy made two of his safeties yesterday off Thornton Lee, a south- paw who is pretty tough on left-handed batters. One was a topper toward third and the other a clean smash to center. In his only trial against Oral Hildebrand, s another ». & | his shoes. %m@m& INSHO HANDICAP = TROUNCED CARDS FEELCUBS CLAWS Dropped to Near-Tie With Chicago by Giants—Yank Flag Chance Fades. | BY HUGH S. FULLERTON. JR,, Associated Press Sports Writer HE Giants and the Cardinals that there's such a thing as trying too hard and as a result have learned to their sorrow of their efforts both were in a bit of right-hander, Buddy single, l »” . of “Graw” Meet Opening Maryland Season. AVRE DE GRACE, Md., Sep- H tember 14.—There will to talk over every day from now until Thanksgiving. meeting of the Harford Agricultural a hole today, while the Chicago Cubs and Breeding Association here today, were only a short hop away from the mile tracks of the State begins and| As a matter of record, the Giants continues until the last Thursday in | won the second game of their critical Heading the opening-day card was innings and returned to the place the $10,000 added Eastern Shore Han- | Where they started, three and one- long route. With a field of approxi- More to the point, however, were mately 16 horses scheduled to start, a the facts that the two clubs played Ned Reigh, owned by Willis Sharpe | nine errors between them and sent Kilmer, with Sonny Workman the Pine pitchers to the mound in vain The Eastern Shore is the fourth race of the day, with the secondary hanna Handicap for 3-year-olds and | up, with a purse of $1,000. the opening hour daily for at least the first week. The track will operate time. Following the meeting here, Bowie, By the Associated Press plenty for Maryland race fans For, with the opening of the 13-day the Fall racing season of the four National League lead. November. series with St. Louis, 13 to 10, in 10 dicap for 2-year-olds over the 6-fur- half games behind the lead. wide-open affair was expected, though | anything but championship ball. made jockey choice, loomed as the favorite feature the mile-and-7 rd Susque- The first race was set for 2:15 p.m., the daily double this year for the first Laurel and Pimlico open. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterdoy—Gehrig, Yan- kees, 2; Greenberg, Tigers, 1; Walker, Tigers, 1; Selkirk, Yankees, 1; John- | son, Athletics, 1; Berry, Athletics, 1; Washington, White Sox, 1; P. Waner, Pirates, 1. The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 35; Foxx, Athletics, 33; Berger, Braves, 31; Ott, Giants, 30; Gehrig, Yan- | kees, 30. League totals—American, 615; Na- tional, 610, total, 1,225. — Piedmont. (Play-off.) Asheville, 4; Richmond, 3. Myer Regains His Batting Eye In Dueling With Joe Vosmik 'HERE can't be much doubt that the Griffs “have something” these days . . . in addition to yesterday being Friday, the 13th, they also overcame the double jinx of winning | their fourth straight game and beat- ing the Indians to do it . . . prior to the current series, the Tribe had whipped the Griffs in 13 of 17 games ...and the Griffs had compiled five winning streaks of three in a row, but failed to add the fourth tilt. | Buck Newsom was to hurl the third game of the Indian series today . . . | probably opposing Lloyd Brown, an ex-Grifman . . . Tomorrow two rookie southpaws, Dick Lanahan and Orvil Rogers, will do the Washington pitching . . . each making their debut in the big show. He’s Human, Anyway. ROBERTO ESTALLELLA pulled his first “boner” with the Nationals yesterday . . . in the big sixth inning, with two runners on base, nobody out, and a count of three balls and no strikes on him, Roberto hit the next pitched ball for an easy fly . . . later said “strike” and that the count was one-and-two . . . but that didn't ex- cuse Roberto for missing Harris’ “take it” sign from the bench. Estallella is learning, though . . . in one of his half dozen games with the Griffs he came back to the bench and said to Harris , . . “What name of empire?” .., Bucky with some difficulty, taught Roberto the name and, this learned, Esty wound up with: “Anyway, he ees wan, what you say, lousay empire” . . . Roberto does right well with this part of the English language. F.E 8. ) Bucky Harris found out that he| chinists’ Union Bowling League opened thought Umpire Charlie Donnelly had | jts season last night at the Lucky | efforts to check the carnage. | Diz Beaten in Tenth. | ‘T HE eldej Dean, a brilliant victor in the opening encounter, was the victim of New York's three-run tenth- | inning rally that settled the game. He gave up three hits, the last a ring- ing double by Frank Gabler, New York's fifth flinger, and saw one costly error made behind him The outburst came after the Cards had lost an early 5-2 lead as the Giants belted out a total of 20 hits, rallied to tie the score and survived an amazing ninth-inning exchange in ‘ which each team scored four runs to | prolong the affair. Cubs Win; Near Top Tie. THE Cubs, meanwhile, continued their serene course through their tenth straight victory by walloping | the Dodgers, 4 to 1. That put them into a virtual tie with the defeated Cards, but they remained in second place by a few percentage points, having played ‘more games than St.! Louis. | The speeding Chicagoans lashed out against George Earnshaw for four hits and three runs in the fourth after spotting Brooklyn the first tally added another run in the fifth, then coasted through behind Larry French's steady hurling. The American League's deciding series became less and less “crucial” as the Tigers belted out their second straight victory over the Yankees, 13 to 5, and increased their lead to 93 games. Tigers Need Eight to Clinch. ‘THAT put Detroit in a position to capture the pennant by winning half of its remaining 16 games. | Lou Gehrig did his best to avert| | defeat with his twenty-ninth and thirtieth homers. The . Athletics hit the day’s high! spots when they hammered out 19 ihlt.s, scored eight runs in the fire! | inning and tripped the White Sox, 119 to 1. The Red Sox also did some heavy | | hitting as they beat St. Louis, 13 to | 4, for Wes Ferrell in the first game | of a double-header, but the Browns | won the second, 4-2. shoved the Indians farther down in the standing. Curt Davis of the Phillies held Pittsburgh to five hits for a 5-to-1 victory. Walter Hilcher, just back | from Toronto, shut out the Braves with eight hits in a duel with Ed Brandt and won his first major league start, 1 to 0. s MACHINISTS UNDER WAY. With 34 teams entered, the Ma- Six men will represent | Strike alleys. [ the loop in the National Duckpin Bowling Congress tournament at Hart- ford, Conn., it has been announced by | J. Weathersby, president. MRS. STEINER WINS. Mrs. Frank Steiner annexed the Hudson Trophy yesterday at Kenwood Country Club, defeating Mrs. Ray C. Miller 1 up in a 27-hole match. The match was a play-off of a tie between Mrs. Steiner, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Washington | ¥ National Amateur Golf Championship at Stake Today in Cleveland °R[—:BEWER BLASTS CRTIS OPONS Clif, Poorly Rated, Quits Injured List to Become Star Backstop. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. F, AFTER all these months, you're in a posy-pitching mood as far as the Nationals are concerned, how about making sure the man in the mask gets a bouquet all for himself? It's vo crime not to have noticed the gent doing Washington's catching as the Griffs gleefully gallop toward fifth place in a last-ditch fight. Ciif Bolton's that way. You never notice him, particularly, but quietly and efficiently the stocky Tarheel has been doing his part. He is the same fellow who would never make a big-league catcher, ac- cording to the critics. For several years Boltonn has been a pretty handy fellow to use as a pinch-hitter, but when Luke Sewell was sold down the river last Winter critics publicly wept and Capital base ball fans shook their heads. A few even looked toward Clark Griffith’s office and rendered a Brook- lyn burp or two, Rates Bene! Any Doubts. BOLTON still is not the catcher that Luke Sewell is, or was, at any rate, but until a better backstop comes along the slugging southpaw will fill Those who underrated the stocky North Carolinian as a receiver might well dwell a moment on the Griff's four-game winning streak and their six victories in the last nine games. Bolton caught eight of these games and every one of the winning tilt, s the import:nce of a good r suddenly has dropped, then Clif must be given the benefit of any doubt as to the part he played. S ilar proof of the young man's recei ing ability may be added when it is recalled that much of the dolorous play of the Griffs during the previous portion of the season occured when Bolton was not in the game. rom tim . to time Boiton has been on the shelf from es ranging from fingers broken, split or mangled, to a smashed toe, and these absences hurt. Far better than words, the fact that he has been behind the plate during the last 10 d: bears this out. Bats .345 During Streak. SAM HOLBROOK, whoe did most of the catching during Bolion's vari- ous periods of idleness, lacked the experience and the punch of Bolton. Jack Redmond received very littie chance, but in those games he did catch, Jack’s lack of a batting punch didn't make him a Bolton. Not until Bill Starr joined the club from Harris- burg did the Washington catching really pick up, but Starr, while a capable receiver, is not much of a hitter. In spite of his enforced vacations, Bolton never has appeared to suffer much from lack of work. He hits his stride in a couple of days and never was this more emphasized than by his latest return on September 6 after a fractured finger had healed. Held hitless the first day he re- turned to action, Bolton since has pounded out the ball hard, with the | result that during the Griffs’ current winning streak—which, incidentally, |is at a new high for the season at four in a row today—he has batted 'at & .345 clip. Griffs Win Fourth Straight. HILE there never were any serious doubts as to his hitting ability— lunless it was over a sustained stretch—Bolton even has surprised in this respect. In his first full season as No. 1 catcher of the Nationals Bolton today boasts a .320 pace for 97 games to lead all regular receivers in the American League. He is the third leading batsman on the offensively strong Griffs, trailing only Capt. Buddy Myer and Jake Powell. In the Nationals' fourth straight victory yesterday, a 5-to-3 decision over the Indians, Bolton shared bat- tling laurels with Myer as Bucky Harris' tossers again came from be- | hind to win. It was Bolton who finally put the Griffs ahead in the sixth inning with a stinging single | after they had wiped out Thornton Lee's 3-to-0 lead with an attack | which brought Oral Hildebrand into the game as a relief pitcher. | Another encouraging note Wwas struck when Lefty Leon Pettit did some relieving for the Griffs. Bump Hadley gave up the Tribe's three runs and might have been nicked for more when Pettit was waved in the box with one down in the sixth and two Indians on base. Pettit turned back the next two batsmen in order and then easily set down the remaining nine Tribesmen without giving up a hit or a base on balls. Official Score > Lee. D Hildebrand. "p_ *Winegarner _ 205mmocmooosd P cscoomsessesi OHHIIBUIOICTHD Totals __. *Batted for Hildebrand WASHINGTON. AR, S =34 21963 2901909 Hadle: = ety o Totals - Cleveland _. Washington Runs batted in—Hughes, Lee (2, Kress (7). Bolton. Estalieli hits—Hale, well. ~ Thr ul Stolen bases—Hale, Brenrel. Po- Sacrifices—Brenzel. Travis, Dou- ble piays—Hughes to Trosky; Lee to Hughes to Trosky. Left on bases—Cleve- land. “6: Washington, 0.‘1 B} H}lfizbf‘ ndl e and 1: Beitie &, Hits—Of Lee, ol L 2 ol soosmonnses® 5 w 000 300 000—3 000 103 10x—5 Powell. T4 Lee Pearley, who defaulted. ~