Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1935, Page 13

@he Foening Stap Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935, Lanahan Looms as Aid to Nats in ‘36 : Giants Hop From Frying Pan fo Fire ° | | SLAB WORTH SEEN IN ROOKIE'S DEBUT Impresses Manager Harris, Though Beaten by Tribe, Twin Bill Victor. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. N THE wake of a twin-blast which definitely removed hopes of ad- vancing in the American League parade, Manager Bucky Harris today peered through his rose-colored specs and spled a winning pitcher in 1836. Bucky's bead was drawn on slim Dick Lanahan, who a year ago was hurling for the N. R. A. nine and complacently drawing pay as # clerk. He was whipped in his debut, to be sure, when Cleveland dynamited the Griffs’ only decent winning streak of the season with a four-hour barrage of base hits, but by the same token, Lanahan went down in Harris' Win- ter book as a hot favorite to win a regular slab job next year. “S’help me,” enthused Bucky with & rare display of positivenes, “he can't miss. It's almost amazing.” Bucky Amased at Improvement. BUCK\"S last three little words had reference to the difference be- tween the Lanahan of Biloxi and the Lanahan who pitched the second game of yesterday’s double-header and was beaten by a selling plater named Mel Harder. A few months ago Lanahan didn't thave a chance to make the grade in the big show. It was only after much deliberation, anyway, that he decided to go south with the Nationals |- and give up his Government job. en he was among the first to be cut loose at training camp it looked as thought Dick had made a bad choice. ‘Then yesterday he came back to the Nationals, polished by a season of play on the baked mounds of the Southern Association, and for Harris, at least, he took all the sting out of a double defeat which broke & flve-game winning streak, ridiculed 3he Griffs in the eyes of one of 3he biggest crowds of the year and blasted what chance they held of finishing in fifth place. ‘Will Win Next Year. “JJARRIS' extravagant praise of the | young southpaw and his poten- tislities might well be accepted ahead of Lanahan's performance in his debut because Dick was nicked for 13 hits Zand 3 passes in 7% innings, and when he left the game, after checking a “Mn¢ drive with his bare hand, Wash- ;Angton was losing, 5 to 2. " But Bucky was looking beyond yes- terday with an astute eye not boasted by the grandstand or by many other major league managers, for that mat- | ter. And he sees Lanahan taking a regular turn for the Nationals next T “I go for him,” said Bucky as he elambered onto & limb in a style at | once characteristic and inimitable. “I'd be willing to bet that Lanahan | next year wins more games than he | loses. He'll be a better than .500 pitcher, which is a lot more than I'd say for some other pitchers. “1'd say he's got what it takes. Dick showed me plenty of ‘stuff’ out there. He's much faster now than he was | last Spring and he's got a real curve ball. Yesterday Dick lost his ‘stuff’ s few times and made the mistake of pitching high to batters but that was due to lack of experience. Must Brush Up Follow-Through. 'LANAH.AN‘B chief trouble is in his follow-through. Buck Newson has, or rather, had the same dif- €ulty when he first joined the club. Dick can't afford to let the ball go foc soon. If he brings his arm down in front of him and pitches low he gets a pretty good ‘shoot’ on his fast ball. Lanahan is & low-ball pitcher. He must always keep his pitches be- tween the belt and the knee of the Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball, Chicago at Washington, Grifith Stadium, 3:18. Boxing. Joe Lipps vs. Tony Cancela, eight rounds, feature bout, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Tennis, Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomac aPrk courts. TOMORROW, Base Ball. Chicago at Washington, Stadium, 3:15. Tennis. Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomac Park courts. WEDNESDAY. Base Ball. Chicago at Washington, Stadium, 3:15. Tennis. Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomae Park courts. THURSDAY. Base Ball. Chicago at Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. ‘Wrestling. Jack Donovan vs. Dick Daviscourt, feature match, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Tennis. Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomac Park courts. FRIDAY. Foot Ball National Training School for Boys at Alexandria High School, 3:30. Tennls, Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomac Park courts. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Philadelphia at Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3:00. ‘Tennis. Department of Playgrounds open tournament, Potomac Park courts. TILDEN TAKES OVER PRO TENNIS THRONE Crifith Griffith Beats Kozeluh in Tough Matoh | for National Crown—Lott and Stoefen Victors. By the Associated Press. INEW YORK, September 16—Bil Tilden, veteran tennis campaign- er, today had supplanted the Czech, Karel Kozeluh, as national profes- sional singles champion. Playing on the courts of the Ter- race Club in Brooklyn yesterday, Til- den downed his old rival in a five-set struggle, 0—8, 6—1, 6—4, 0—6, 6—4. In the doubles final the defenders, George Lott and Lester Stoefen, de- feated Alfred H. Chapin and Morton Bernstein in straight sets, 6—2, 6—3, 6—3. Chapin and Bemnstein had gained the finals by downing Tilden and Frank Hunter. League Statistics MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935. American. RESULTS YESTERDAY. Cleveland, 16—8: Washington, 4—3. New York. 8: Detroit, 7. Boston. 8: 8t. Lot . Louis. 5. Chicago. 8—5: Philadelphis, 3—7. “xi0x AN L == purppron 11716/12110/12/15/14189] NY\11/—14] 8/11/12/10/14180] Clel 5/ 8—I/13/10/18112/ 8I711 400646 571.684] 8} 601.50719 batter.” | . The former Eastern High School | pitcher, who bears a striking re- | semblance, at a distance, to Carl Hub- | bell, was batted hard, but he caught | Bl 6] 8 91—I13112/10/13171! Chi 8 91 9] 0I—I10/11112(68] W 10I_7] 7110 8—I11] 8161 BL| 4/ 8/ 51121 8/10/—I11/58 80/.420131 Ph| 6/ 6/101 6110/ 7/11/—I55/ 8014071323 L_140157168/70170/78/80180|—I | 7015041193 701493121 7814391283 the Indians in a hitting mood. In the opener the Tribe socked 20 hits for 35 bases off Orlin Rogers, another rookie making his maiden start, Ed | Linke and Leon Pettit, to rout the Griffs, 16 to 4. Standing out, how- ever, was Lanahan’s feat of fanning six of the Indians, including Hal Trosky and Sammy Hale. en more playing days are left to the campaign and Harris plans to start Lanahan at least twice. He'll be & welcome addition, too, because €6 of the Griffs’ remaining 14 games are double-headers. Girfls Double-Cross Rogers. ROGIRS. the diminutive University of Virginia captain last Spring, didn’t last long in the opener, but Orlin didn't get much help from the big league infleld he had behind him for the first time. The Tribe nicked him for two runs in the first inning, _which could have been avoided if gfl Starr had not thrown into center Bleld on Hughes' steal. In the third and last frame for Rogers, when Cleveland scored four more runs, not a single tally was earned. The Griffs made five errors in the opener. © Regers, who may have to pay the penalty for lack of size, at least bad the satisfaction of knowing he did as well, if not better, than the Awo vertenas who succeeded him. The “Tribe pinned back the ears of Linke «and Pettit in no uncertain manner. With Harder in form, even a sea- ‘soned major league hurler would have ancountered his troubles winning the nightcap. Mel gave up only eight ‘hits and won pretty much as he Pleased. The final score was 6 to 3. Homer Standing “By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Foxx, Ath- Jetics; Higgins, Athletics; Trosky, In- dians; Averill, Indians; Rolfe, Yan- kees; Rogell, Tigers; Medwick, Cardi- nals; Leiber, Glants; Hartnett, Cubs. “ The leaders—Greenberg, Tigers, 35; r%x. Athletics, 34; Berger, Braves, :‘!'.; Ott, Giants, 30; Gehrig, Yankees, GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. i at Wash. 3:15. Chi. at Wash., ":15. t. L. at New York. St. L. at New York. Detroit at Boston. Detroit at Boston. Oleveland at Phila. Cleveland at Phila. National. RESULTS YESTERDAY, New York, 7: . 3. Slearos: mgtohly‘h‘flfi‘ Pittsburgh. 5; Phi Cincinnati, 1—7; Bost 8 4-x10x MIN “neunuy udpead. --usinamg ---uiprooig — i T H yLy Ohl—| 5/10/18/17/14/131191911_621.63i SL12I—! 8/10/12112/15118/871_821.626] 2 NY| 814/ —/14/11(14/10/13184 521.618 33 Pit| 7110] 8/—11/12116/16/801_631.559/11 Bkl 5| Bl 6i11i—/11] 0114i611 76.445127 Cnl 8] 71 8 71111—I10112/63]_80/.441128 Phi 01 7110/ 61 81 7I—I11/58 801.4201303 Bn| 37 41 21 21 6/10/ 7/—|3411031.248184 L_/52162162/63176/801801108 —1—| | GAMES TOPAY. GAMES TOMORROW. New York at icago. New Ve . Biin "ot st Taus TRrit Fhicare ston at Pittsburgh %‘swn at Pittsburgh. ila. at Cincinnati. ila. at Cincinnati. < OF FIFTH MONTH Stars” by A. P. Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, the Car- proves it, was the outstanding lu- Diezy earned the designation of man, on the basis of the daily Asso- formances in the month which ended six times while Jimmie Foxx of the Card Pitcher Named Seven By the Associated Press. dinals’ leading twirler, who minary among the major league stars “star of the month” by one vote over ciated Press listing of “yelurdly's[ today that earned him the right to be Athletics came in third with five DIZZY DEAN ACE Times in “Yesterday’s EW YORK, September 16— N admits he's good and then of the fifth month of the 1935 season. Buster Lou Gehrig, the Yankee iron stars.” Dizzy turned in seven per- listed as a star. Gehrig was named starring performances. Two Tigers in List. Two of the Detroit Tigers, Hank Greenberg and Schoolboy Rowe, were picked four times, along with Hal Trosky of the Indians and Paul An- drews of the Browns. With the end of the season only two weeks away, Gehrig and Green- berg seem to have earned the palm for consistency in this line. Gehrig led during the third month, while Greenberg, though never on top of the list, figured among the leaders during three different months. Mel Ott of the Giants, who “starred” only once last month, also was among the high ones three times. Ott was “tops” for the first month. Wes Ferrell of the Red Sox, Tommy Bridges of Detroit, Bill Dickey of the Yankees and Hal Schumacher of the Giants shared first place in the sec- ond, while Joe Medwick of the Cards topped the list in the fourth month. After Spell of More Rooks ENOR ROBERTO ESTALLEL- LA, pint-sized rookie third baseman of the Nationals, to- day found himself scratched off the list as premier favorite of ‘Washington base ball fans, but Man- ager Bucky Harris was inclined to overlook to some extent the “blow-up” of the colorful Cuban yesterday. “It may have been the crowd that scared him,” advanced Bucky, who benched Roberto in the second game of & double-header viewed by approxi- mately 15,000 fans, or one of the three largest throngs of the year. - Estallella, who had been s sensa- | tion in half a dozen “private” show- ings last week, gave all the earmarks of stage-fright. Twice he ‘“broke” the wrong way on balls hit down to third base for hits that might have been converted imto outs, and on an- other occasion he uncorked a wild throw that nearly “beaned” a cus- tomer in the right-fleld boxes. Toward the end of the game Es- tallella appeared to adjust himself to the fans, half of whom he must have attracted himself. He handled three chances in perfect fashion and socked his only hit in the seventh inning. Not Lost on Him. Roberto doesn't know much Eng- lish or much base ball, but he knew enough to realize he wasn't so hot. In the club house after the game Estallella dressed and approached Harris. “Meester Harry,” he began, address- ing Bucky in his own inimitable style, “I am what you call flop.” What ees trouble? No catch, no bat—just out, out, out.” Bucky, who is becoming a pretty good interpreter, consoled the Cuban, who left muttering a newly-learned phrase, “Tomorrow, another day.” Estallella may not have been the only National to get stage fright. The five errors in the opener would indi- cate that Red Kress, Clif Bolton and Bill Star were suffering from the same thing. Trosky Turns Switch Hitter. Blu Hal Trosky of the Indians, a .333 batting sensation as a rookie in 1934, and probably the biggest flop of this year in the American League, finally seems to have devised a way to make himself dangerous again. . For the first time since coming to the big leagues, Trosky tried batting right handed yesterday, although he had been a switch hitter in the Amer- ican Association. Because Southpaws Dick Lanahan, Orlin Rogers and Leon Pettit did most of Washington's pitching, Trosky batted right handed on nine of his 10 official trips to the plate and made five hits while swinging in orthodox fashion. One of them was his twenty- third home run into the left fleld bleachers. ST. LOUIS, September 16.—All in this city were shattered yesterday records for a non-world serles crowd when 41,284 fans turned out for the final tilt of the series between the Giants and Cardinals, which the New Esty Looks to “Another Day” Stage Fright; Report to Nats| On his only time at bat as a left- hander Trosky went out. He's bat- ting only .252 this year. | Add Nuisances—Eddie Phillips. BUDDY MYER, fighting for the bat- day . .. Buddy managed to get three hits in nine trips, but two of ‘em were infield safeties . . . not only that, but he was passed by Joe Vosmik, who made four hits in eight trips. Eddie Phillips, the ex-National, threw his hat into the ring as a can- didate for the presidency of the Amer- ican League's I'll-Make-Griff-Sorry Club when he socked three doubles | and a single in four tries and batted in six of Cleveland’s runs in the opener. Earl Averill was charged with an odd and unjust error in the first game . . . Jake Powell was on second base when CUff Bolton hit & long fly to Earl, who caught it and returned | it to second base with a nice throw which almost hit the bag . .. Powell tagged up and went to third after the catch, but when neither Knickerbocker nor Hughes went after Averill's throw, Jake continued to home plate . . . an ting championship, had & tough | JOHNSON TO BRAVE DONKEY BALL GAME 01d Master Selected to Pitch for Business Men Against Fire- men at Bethesda. WALm JOHNSON goes to the pitcher’s box tonight for his first trial—in a donkey base ball game. ‘The Big Train will hurl for the Business Men against the Firemen of Bethesda, where he formerly made his home, in & game which will be played at Miller's field, Bethesda avenue and Arlngton road. Proceeds of the fray, which starts at 8 o'clock, will go to charity. The presence of the former Wash- ington pitching idol on the mound gives the Business Men quite an ad- vantage over the Firefighters. Ac- cording to the rules, 8ir Walter will not be handicapped by a donkey while the pitcher nor catcher is required to be mounted. When Walter hits, how- | ever, he must mount a mule in order | to qualify as a base runner. ‘The line-up of the Business Men reveals & bank cashier, lawyer, laun- dry proprietor and automobile mer- men will present their regular aggre- gation which has represented them on the- diamond before—not on error had to be given somewhere, so Earl was the victim. White Sox Invade Today. DICK LANAHAN, the ex-local sand- lotter, took quite a blow on his pitching hand in the nightcap's sev- enth frame when he attempted to knock down Roy Hughes' blistering liner through the box . .. Lanahan managed to carom it straight to Buddy Myer, who muffed the ball for an error . . . the blow, however, numbed Dick’s hand to such an ex- tent that he couldn't grip the bell, 80 Jack Russell replaced him . . . the injury was not serious, fortunately. The N. R. A. may have been dis- solved, but Lanahan's old fellow em- ployes showed up in full force and | po made a nice gesture by presenting him with a huge floral trophy in the shape of & horseshoe with “Success” | L written in roses . . . Dick will make it | Mi come true, too, if Bucky Harris is any kind of a pitching critic. The White Sox, virtually safe from the threat of the Griffs now, invade | Hol for a four-game series, staring today «+ . and during the set a couple more rookies, Red Marion and Johnny Mi- | Hadley__ halic, may see service . . . along with Buddy Lewis the rest of the Chatta- nooga contingent arrived this morn- ing and promptly enrolled in Harris' morning school . . . Mihalic, s second beseman, will play at short, if at all. F.E 8 ROSENFIELD IN FORM. Fifteen Diamond Cab batters struck out and only one made a hit as Abe Rosenfleld hurled the soft ball cham- pion Aggies to a 4-0 victory yesterday. donkeys. 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BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer, EW YORK, September 16. —Pop Wamer, who has seen ’'em come and go, says Dave Smukler of Temple is the best back he ever coached . . . Pop rates Smukler even better than Jim Thorpe and Ernie Nevers . . . “He was my best sophomore, my best junior and will be my best senior,” asserts Glenn Scobey , . . take a bow, Dave. The P. G. A. wants to make the 1935 Ryder cup team the best dressed group of athletes ever to represent the U. 8. ... Al Free, called the most properly dressed Aman st the last Kentucky Derby, has been signed as sartorial coach « « + he is planning an ensemble of brown gabardine sports jacket, light tan slacks, silk golfing shirt, brown-and-white shoes and a team tie . . . Art and Al Guepe, twin brothers, who can hardly tell themselves apart, are out for quarterback at Marquette. At Speculator last week a news- Ppaper writer paid a midnight visit to Max Baer's camp to try to catch Max cheating . . . after a lonely three-hour vigil he came back to report no dice . . . there was nothing stirring except the gentle lifesaver, is an amateur ventriloe quist . . . Earle Sande half s million as & jockey, ‘With the black mensace already in his pocket, Mike Jacobs is on the lookout for a white hope, just in case ... He's paying the board bill for nine young heavies who will be on the Baer-Louis supporting card . . . Mike isn't interested in their management. He just wants to have first call on them if one should catch the public eye. How’s this for a golf shot: In New Jersey Mrs. Edward Stutz's drive cleared a 30-foot apple tree, landed 8 feet from the cup and rolled in for an ace . . . Billy South- worth, Piedmont League manager, was fined $10 for throwing sand down an umpire’s back . . . James J. Braddock collects $1,000 apiece for those exhibitions. Charles Young of the \beny News calls Merrill May, Newark third sacker, the stand-out rookie of the International League this year . . . Ford Frick says the Sum- mer weight uniform for umpires will be continued in the National League next season . . . But the color may be changed from gray to light tan. Robert Tredinnick, English sportsman, has offered Natie Brown $7,500 to go across and fight Jack Peterson . . . Also, he wants to take the Baers over for an exhibition tour , . . Casey Stengel has asked for waivers on nine of his disap- . Helen Jacobs and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only players to win the national ‘women’s singles title foug years in ‘8 row, < Yorkers captured, 7 to 3. Here is part of the overflow bleacher crowd pictured behind ropes in center field. Hagen Gives Little (14 HERE, “in my opinion,” re- marked Walter Hagen, as he pointed to Lawsgon Little, champion, but one who belongs among | the all-time tope.” | record that in many respects is the | finest any one man ever made. Through pionships against the finest profes- chant assigned to positions. The Fire- | |in golf,” Hagen went on. - “goes one of the great all-| great shotmaker with every club, He|l68d With & 6-10-3 victory over tne time champions of golf. Not just & has all the physical equipment for Dodgers. | distance and durability. He is cooler | than Arctic ice. Nothing upsets him Hagen should know. Just about 10| He can keep on thinking all day| durance record of 618 games, estab- years ago he completed s match-play| along the right lines. His record |lished by Eddle Brown of Boston, —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, THE SPORTLIGHT T(.)p Golf Rating. “Champ’s Putting Killed Me”—Emery. BY GRANTLAND RI I'D SAY that Lawson Little has everything it takes to be great “He is a | shows that. But it’s the way he went | about every angle of the job that six consecutive years in P. G. A. cham- | gave me & thrill—and I don't mind | | telling you those last two matches | sionals in golf, Hagen won something | against two of the best amateurs in | |New Yorkers’ New Foe Wins 12 in Row—Tigers Little Hurt by Defeat. BY HUGH 8. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. HE Cleveland hop from the frying pan into the fire couldn't be much worse than the one the Giants have to take from St. Louis to Chicago. Triumphant in a great struggle which began with St. Louis in the lead and New York three and one-half games behind, the New Yorkers now face exactly the same sort of series against the Cubs. While the Giants were routing the Cardinals on their own fleld for the third time in a row, Chicago continued its brilllant winning streak to 12 straight victories by sweeping a four- game series with Brooklyn and now heads the parade by two games over St. Louis and thrce and one-half games over New York. Bill Terry's wrecking crew appar- ently proved that its pennant aspira- tions still were sound when, after losing the first game to the Cards and Dizzy Dean, they came back to win three in a row, including two extra inning encounters. Repeat July Come-Back. IT WAS the second time they had conquered the Cards at a critical | stage. In July they were dropped | momentarily from the lead by losing j two games to St. Louis only to regain | 1t with four straight victories. | They showed their strength again yesterday, when, after two extra-in- | Ding victories, they routed Diszy Lean, | who won the first game handily, and | hammered out & 7-to-3 triumph with & 16-hit sttack that rocked three pitchers. Three singles in the first inning put them a run ahead and they added pairs of tallies in the third, when Hank Leiber hit s homer with Terry aboard, and in the fifth. Carl Hubbell pitched two-hit ball up to the sixth, when Joe Medwick hit for the circuit, then essed up and gave two runs in the eighth, after New York had scored its last two. | The Cards had scant consolation ‘m the fact that the attendance of | 41,284 set a St. Louis record for a single regular season game. t Cubs Win Easily. FOUR BROOKLYN errors, plus Bill i Lee’s six-hit flinging, made it | easy for the Cubs to increase their Gus Suhr, Pittsburgh first baseman, equaled the National League en- | when he played one inning in s | 5-to-3 victory over the Phillies. He | stil trailed the American League | “iron man,” Lou Gehrig of the Yan- | kees, who took part in game 1,640 of | like 35 matches in & row.as he picked | the world, both playing brilliantly, | 18 continuous stretch and helped beat up 29 victories in 30 starts. For two days Hagen had been fol- course, trailing his two all-day battles | against Johnny Goodman and Walter Emery, who fought the California | gave me one of the biggest thrills I | ever picked up. I knew what the dealing out his speed ball, for neither | lowing Little around the Cleveland | strain was—for I've been there my- | self—knowing that even one mistake | might easily mean defeat when you were worn down and almost too tired champion to a standstill until thetto lift your feet.” two knockout punches came whistling | | through detonations that jarred both ichnllenxm off the main trail. “Just what is your slant on Little?” | after the final round. “He comes about as close to having everything as any star 1 ever saw,” ball & long way and keep it straight along & narrow, well-guarded course where one mistake might lead to a 6 or a 7. Little is not only terrifically long, but his control is something to marvel about.” Little’s All-Around Game. “IN THE second place” the old T asked Hagen in the locker room | Lawson Little now speaking: “The match I had against Johnny Good- | man was tough enough—but Emery's | at times was even tougher. I thought at least three times he was slipping. But each time he came charging back to pull up in close range. I wasn’t so much worried when Emery won the first three holes. They had that—getting the jump before I knew what hit me. “But the shock came when I : 3 ‘:. at the twenty-eighth en Emery wom two straight holes.” This was a shock that might have shattered any one else. But against this last, desperate counter charge, all been handing me a start ltke1 the league-leading Tigers, 8 to 7. l ‘The Yankee triumph only served to | reduce Detroit’s lead to eight and a | half games two weeks before the close | of the season. Johnny Murphy played the big role, pitching expertly after | Vito Tamulis had been belted out, driving in the tying run in the seventh and scoring the winning counter. Red Sox Fall Back. CLIVELAND broke it's third-place deadlock with the Red Sox by pounding out two victories over Wash- | ington while Boston won only one ‘ game, trimming the Browns, 8 to 5, with a six-run sixth inning rally after St. Louis had nicked Lefty Grove for five tallies in the first. The White Sox and Athletics split & bargain bill, Chicago winning the opener, 8 to 3, Official Scores master continued, “his iron play| coming from s fine golfer and one | is deadly. More important still, he is one of the best putters that ever step- ped on a green. He has a touch as smooth as velvet.” “You don’t have to tell me that,” ‘Walter Emery, his Oklahoma oppon- ent, cut in. “I didn’t mind being out- driven 25 or 30 yards. I was long enough to get there on my own. It was Lawson's putting that just about killed me. I kept saying to myself, ‘This thing can’t hold up. He can't keep getting ’em all’ But that's what he did. “And I can tell you now that Hagen picked up again: “Now I'll give you the real slant on Little’s greatness as a cham- pion golfer. He can concentrate on every shot played all day long. I know a lot of feliows who can make long, straight drives—who are mas- ters of the iron—who also can putt. But they can’t keep on linking them together on hole after hole through round after round. Sooner or later they crack and break up. Few can take the mental beating that such concentration demands.” “That's the big point, w-'xm,; & birdie and an eagle and he with oné of the best looked at—that No. 3 3 520-yard hole through a keen cross wind for his eagle 3. “I must admit that I would have played that one safe with a long iron,” Hagen said. “But Little's con- .fidence, his ability to concentrate, his control over his nerves are above I ever saw in golf. 4- Imt-!-s, a total of 3 under par for e last four holes. And when Johnny Goodman tossed his famous 32 into the champion's system, squaring the match, Little's answer was five under par for the last seven holes. Along the roughest sector of the twd matches, heading to the wire, exceptionally able golf, Little played the last 11 holes of the two last| Some | pow, matches in eight under par. one, in the history of golf, may have done that before through a cham- plonship, but no record book car- ries the story. Eight under par for the last 11 test holes in two matches. Against Goodman he fin- ished ¢ 242433 Agninst Emery he finished 4333 And three of the these holes were difficult par S5s against the wind. And ‘when Walter Emery finally gave up par and went to & birdle, | X Little's closing reply was an eagle— the emblem of the peak—the guardian of the heights. It was Lawson Little's all-week re- sponse under pressure on his way to 31 consecutive victories that proved | qu, . his place among the star golfers of a game that goes back five centuries to an old day-dream of Scottish shep- Avert oy Amerion | herds. 3 . by the N g Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. in first victory over Senators. Hank Leiber, Gianis—Batted in three runs and scored three in victory over Cardinals, hitting homer and single. Johnny Murphy, Yankees—Checked ‘Tigers as relief pitcher, drove in tying run with double and scored winning tally. Bill Lee, Cubs—Limited Dodgers to six hits and fanned six. crowded to the limit by | from the short pitch to the long ranges | who 45 dead game, Little's answer was | > ] P~ - o Vosmik. If. Hale. 3b Trosky. 1B Wright Phillips Hudlin. omr Dm0 S iscmon? roosussas so0000~00M o1 EY CETORE e et 204 025 120—18 101 160 100— & Runs batted in—Vosmik (3). Trosky (2), Myer (3). Hale. Wright (2). Phillips Two-base hits—Phiilips (3), ), ree-base hits. Cleveland __ ‘Washington ve. rst base ol Linke, 1: Struck ‘out—By Losing pitcher—Roge: . Donnelly and Enicxerbocker, IS L P Kre | BI | Lay R *Miles Linke, p sosunuswsnssy 5| ssccouscews =0%| ™ 2920w 3| omnwSonwen! b nc 5 3 *Batted for Russell in eighth. Cleveland __ 201 001 101 | Washington - 505 200 d90—4 | o Runs batted Trosky, Averill ['rnm. one, Wright. ‘Two-| | Trosky.