Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1937, Page 13

SB8PORTS. COX FORMIDABLE Absence of Cruickshank Is Break for Wiffy—Coin Prizes Attractive. BY W. R. McCALLUM. MAJOR obstacle to a Washing- ton victory in the Middle At- lantic P. G. A. championship at Old Point Comfort, Va., next week may be removed if Bobby Cruickshank, the diminutive Scottish pro at the Country Club of Virginia doesn’t get back from Scotland in time to play in the tourney. Bobby, twice & runner-up for the national open championship and one of the outstanding golfers of the land, went to Scotland to play in the British open, and advices from Richmond have it that he won't be back in time to com- pete in the P. G. A. tourney. He would » be a favorite to win, along with Wiffy Cox, if he entered the 72-hole tour- nament to be played July 31 and Au- gust 1 over the Chamberlin Country Club eourse. Thousand Dollars Up. TS been several years since a local | pro won the sectional crown. For the last three vears Baltimore profes- xionals have held the title. Charlie L ERELSST By Walter McCallum S HERE are more queer angles to | this golf game than there are to horse racing. Take the case of Bob Barnett, the red- | headed pro at the Chevy Chase Club, who is one of the smoothest strokers | of a golf ball you'll find anywhere | along the bunkered path. Bob shoots a 66 over his home course, which has A par of 69 (and a rugged par it is) and he loses the golf match by some- | thing like 6 and 5. | You'd never think such a thing could happen, but it did happen, and | the yarn is one of those funny things that come along every once in a | while on the mashie meadows around Washington. Bob was playing Charles | D. Hayes, one of the Chevy Chase | amateurs, who never had broken 80 m his golf career. Bob gave him a stroke a hole and figured to win even with that heavy handicap. But Hayes shot 37 for the first nine, ruined his score with a couple of 6s and a T on the last nine and still had enough In reserve to lick the pro. George E. Hamilton, jr, also went along. 'UTTING like an inspired man and making miraculous recoveries | from troudle, the Barnett man never | Betschler, the rotund mentor at the Hillendale Country Club, has won for | the last two vears and before that | Johnny Bass, a tall youngster from | Baltimore's public courses, grabbed the | title. But in those days the cham- plonship was worth nothing more than the entry fees. This year it will pay off in substantial cash rewards for the 10 guys who land in the money positions. Total prize money will be in the neighborhood of a thousand bucks, with the winner to get $300, not so much when you look over the 10,000 bucks to be distributed at Chicago, but far more than the local pro brigade | er has had for their little links | Jousts. Only about 45 pros will be eligible for the championship. and probably about 35 will pla The tourney will be open only to Middle Atlantic P. G. A. members, which definitely limits the field. Next Friday, the day + before the tournament opens, an ama- teur-pro tournament will be staged. Wiffy's First Attempt. IN MANY ways the affair will shape up as a scrap between the strong | professional delegation from Wash- ington against the best men from Virginia and Maryland. Ralph Beach appears to be the top man from Bal- timore, while Errie Ball, Chandler | out, went over par on a single hole. He | had 15 pars and 3 birdies in that 66. But it was played from the white tees, which are the front tees at Chevy Chase. None the less it was a 66 and from any set of tees that Chevy Chase layout is tough enough, It wasn't Bob's best score. He's had half a dozen 64s at Chevy Chase back in the old days before they wa- L e tered the fairways, and he's had 66 and even a 65 since they started Spraying water on those immaculate- ly groomed fairways. But 66 is quite a score, In any league and any com- pany, Bob played the nine in 34 and 32 ‘The course: par Barnett .. In, par . Barnett card, against par for the - 444 344 453—35 444 344 353—34 - 344 344 444—34—69 - 344 343 434—32—66 'T'HEY really ought to set aside a special crying room for men who've Harper, Al Houghton and Jack Isaacs will be the men to lick from Virginia But even with that bunch of talent it's an even-money bet a Washington pro will grab the major slice of the dough. Wiffy Cox will be making his | first start in a Middle Atlantic P, G. A. championship, Washington 15 going to have six competitors in a coming national championship, to be staged at Cleve- land next month. It's the colored championship of the United States and one of the local entrants may » ETab the title. Harry Jackson, & burly colored lad who has caddied 8t Chevy Chase and Columbia, won the title several years ago and will enter the tournament again. Others who will play include Bobby King and Billy Adams of Columbia’s caddie- pen; Clyde Martin of Beaver Dam, and probably Pace Rayburg, Con- gressional bag-toters, Major Leaders By the Associated Press. American League. g Jehria. Yankeei 180: Dj ankees, and Travic, Benators, Battin k"ufilm. Runs—Di_ Mazeio Greenberg_ Tigers Runs buatied in—_Greenberz, Tigers, 94, Di Magsio Yankees. A6, Hits-—Bell. Browns. 120 [ i Doubles—Bonu Yankees, < W Gehrig. Yankees and Be Tripies—Kreevich. ¥ Kuhel 10 Yankees, £0; DI Mag- iite Sox Browns 21 runs—Di . Red 80: es—Chapman Tigers, and Appling x Pit Rufing. Yankees National Leazue wick rdin, Cardinale, 3. Hub- . Cubs. 15 never had aces on the golf course. For men like Bob Jones and other ¢xss Who stick countless shots up sund countless pins and never have the ball drop for the ace. And for Walter G. Peter of Chevy Chase, who confesses to having played for about 40 years and never has had the su- preme thrill of the game—the hole-in- one. Peter hit a tee shot on the 176- vard thirteenth hole which came to rest with half the ball hanging over the cup. Two blades of grass—Iliterally —were all that kept that ball from dropping in. That's tough luck for any golfer after he's played so long and been deprived mo long of the thrill that comes with the hole-in-one. Bob Jones finally had an ace after playing for 20 years. Other famous stars have gone through their golfing lifetime without getting a hole-in- one, while countless duffers have topped ‘em and sliced 'em into the cup from all angles and over all kinds of terrain, | | | VWITH Cliff Spencer and Leo Wal- per out of town, the pros will | have to dig up two more lads to play | in the exhibition match tomorrow at | Columbia. Walper is playing in the | Chicago open and Spencer is in New York, which means that Mel Shorey | and probably Al Jamison of Kenwood | will fill in, with Jamison and Al Tre- | der playing Shorey and Bob Barnett. | The other match finds Wiffy Cox and Roland MacKenzie paired against Fred McLeod and George Diffenbaugh. | The matches are open to club mem- | | bers without charge, and will be con- | | tinued through August and part of September. The Kiwanis Club tourney. post- poned from last Tuesday at Washing- ton, will be played next Tuesday over the same course. | \ RS. J. O. RHYNE, one of Congres- sional’s steadiest woman players, holds the Noah Pomeroy Tro- today BY PAUL J. MILLER. JR URT DREYER with J. Wolpert for plonship of three out of fo eorrespondence title snd 1§ closely akin tional tourney of the C Chess League of America The overseas traveier will be ested in this item The Im Chess Club of London, England, headquarters at 60 Brook stree is offering free ac foreign visitors during the months, that is, for chess off am- a won The stake d na- spondence now inter- Summer Mew York State Tournament. PROBABLY 100 players will com- pete in the annual tournament of the New York State Chess Associa- tion, which holds its congress this yesr in Beminary Building at Caze- novia, N. Y, from August 1-7 Isaac Kashdan, Empire State ebhampion, has departed for Stockhelm to represent Uncle Ram in the international team battle for world supremacy. Prior to his departure, Kashdan re- turned the Binghamton Trophy to the tournament commitiee for dis- play in connection with the forth- coming congress, the winner to re- ceive custody of the award until the date of the next annual tournament. Milton Hanauer and Edward San- taslere, former State champions, will enter the lisis to complete for thc trophy. Rapid-Transit Chess at Divan. IMON NAIDEL, tournament direc- for of the Washington Sorial Chest Dtvan, well plessed with the simul- taneous exhibition recently given by of the local “mas- chessboard, at the So- under the aus- announces that Hes Carl ; ters the Chess Lounge. pices of the Divan, next Wednesday evening a 10-second | elimination tourney will be featured | The Hesse exhibition attracted 19 tables of over-the-board players. The | score was predominantly in Messe's favor: Fourteen wins, four draws and one loss cial C Conrad Willnich received the gratis | L ey =S wiih : | prize of one month’s membership in { the Divan for scoring the first ana only victory apainst Hesse The 10-second tourney will be arranged according to sections, the winners in each section to compose a final bracket. Norval Wigginton, assistant chess director of the Divan, says that a | membership award will be made to the | | rapid-transit champion. The public is invited to participate. Answer a query: Daniel W.| Fiske is the author of the book titled The First American Chess Congress’” 1859). It is an account of the tri- umph of Paul Morphy in the New York tournament for the United State crown in 1857. The probable market price today is $2.75 Before investing in “rare and an- tique” chess items, consult a apecial- ist. Otherwize, like young Benjamin Franklin. you may pay too much for your whistle. 10 ’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, phy, won yesterday in the initial tour- ney for the prizes put up by Dr. Pome- roy. Mrs. Rhyne had a net 81. Mrs Roland MacKenzie was second with an 83. The putting prize went to Mrs. V. A. Welte, who used only 29 putts in her round. F COURSE it's & big country and | since the Western boys come East about 9 years out of every 10 for the amateur championship their sector should get the big tournaments once in & while, but you can't convince many of the top-notch amateurs of | the East that it's going to be worth- while to make the lengthy trek to Portland, Oreg. for this year's ama- teur classic. Right here in the Mid- dle Atlantic sector, only 21 have en- tered for six qualifying places in the sectional tourney to be played over the Five Farms course of the Balti- more Country Club next Tuesday. That ratio of qualifiers to entrants is significant. It means that the U S. G. A. faces a lack of Eastern en- tries, and has boosted the qualifying places all along the line. Up in the New York sector they have 57 entries, but the surprising part of it is that the veteran stars (many of them) are passing up the tourney and the expensive 3.000-mile journey. George Dunlap, 1933 champ, and Jess Sweetser, 1922 champion, have not entered. Such stars as George Voigt, Mark Stuart, Gene Homans, Dick Chapman, Rudy Knep- per and Charles Whitehead have overlooked the little matter of en- tering for the tournament. You couldn’t keep 'em out if the cham- pionship was east of Minneapolis Nor could you keep out local men like Bobby Brownell, Harry Pitt, Volney Burnett and Billy Dettweiler. That twice-repeated 3,000- mile jaunt looms as quite an obstacle to the boys. Just to give you an idea how the winds are blowing there have been onlv 621 entries this year against 1.118 last vear, & net loss of about 500 plavers at five bucks an entry. From the fiscal side alone the U. S. G. A. might do well to keep the tour- nament in the East or Midwest. The championship starts at the Aldershot Country Club at Portland, August 23. RAY FRYE HEADED FOR RINGER TITLE Entrant in Star’s Tourney Declared on Par With World Champion. ASHINGTON horseshoe fans will see a potential world | champion when the ninth | annual Evening Star cham- pionships open next week on the new | Municipal Plavground courts at Me- Millan Park. The young man in ques- tion, Deadpan Ray Frye of Orkney Springs, Va., is no stranger to these parts, but since he appeared last in the Capital, a year ago, Frye's prestige in the horseshoe world has zoomed No less an authority than Clayton Henson, Virginia champion, who has | seen the best in national competition, holds that Frye is the equal of Ted Allen, world title holder. Has Beaten World Champ. DEADPAN. in fact, has beaten Allen. He gave the renowned Californian A trimming last year in an exhibition match at Orkney Springs, and Allen is looking forward to another meeting with the Orkney wizard Frye. who is coming to the front, too, as a trick shot performer, will be asked to show his stuff duri The Star tournament and at the McLean, Va., carnival invitation event August 4, in| which he will be the defending cham- | pion Frye will be a lopsided favorite to | win the Metropolitan District title, | highest crown at stake in The Star | tournament, of which he was shorn | last year by Bill Moore, who since has | left Washington All pitchers of Washington, Mary- | land and Virginia are invited to shoot the qualifying round in The Star's big ringer party, which will open Mon- day night. Contestants may take the 100-shoe test any time of an evening from Monday through Friday. Minor Leagues INTERNATIONAL Jersey City Toronto AMFRICAN ASSOCTATION Toledn & Indianapolis b Louisville 0 Minneapolis Paul. 14 Standing of the Clubs Pct w1 3 Milw'ukee 4547 WX Ka 4 4% st an 54 nolis Louisville 34 56 SOUTHERN ASSOCTATION, Nasoville. 15 Atlanta 4 ittle Rock 15 Memphis 2 Birmingham 5 New Orleans, s. Krnoxville anooga, 3 Cha Standin of the Clubs. kiand 5. & Sacramento nings Standing of the Clubs. W L Pct San Diego 60 46 8ac mento 66 $h 8an Pran. 64 30 Portland 58 52 5 Fort Worth ahoma EASTERN SHORE. Pocomoke. & oury. 11 Pederalsburs, 3 field ‘5. Dover ambridge, 3. Centreviile Standing of the Clubs. WL Pc 3358 571 Cabridge 22030 Pocomoke | ing Bitsy after each defeat | flelder, jumped 2 points to .347 to PARKER'SNET PLAY LAUDED BY BRITISH Lad in First Davis Battle Today Hailed as One to - Regain Cup for U. S. BY SCOTTY RESTON. Associated Press 8ports Wri IMBLEDON, England, July 24 —Frankie Parker, who has been making tennis headlines almost since he could read them, had a chance to make the ancient predictions of the United States tennis critics come true today as the youthful American ten- nis forces from across the Atlantic sought to break England's four-year hold on the Davis Cup. Ever since he shared in the United States boys' doubles titles in 1930 Parker has been hailed as the lad to ret back the coveted tennis trophy and at last it looked as if he would at least have & chance to help do just that Now at the superior age of 21 Parker's name was posted on Wimble- don’s famed center court hoard along side that of ‘Britain's H. W. (Bunny) Austin in the first of the two singles matches scheduled for today as the United States team set out hopeful of bringing back the cup to New York, from where it left in 1927 when the French beat Bill Tilden and com- pany. Of oourse, with red-thatched Don Budge around, Frankie could practi- cally fall dead and the United States still would be the outstanding choice to whip and English team shorn of much of its strength when Fred Perry turned professional. Budge plays Charley Hare in the second singles match. But British tennis fans have taken the handsome Parker to their heart with the result several London critics give him a good chance of beating Austin. r. British Crictics Back Parker. ARKER first inspired critical at- tention here at the recent all- England championships when he de- feated Heinrich Henkel, the German who beat America's Bryan Grant in the inter-zone finals. Until then Parker was just “the American boy wonder” on this side. When, however, he proceeded to win a set from Budge in the semi-finals of the same tournament—the only set the American ace lost in the entire championship—London critics unani- mously named him, “America’s No. 2 and a good one at that.” The bench- ing of him in favor of Grant in the inter-zone competition only increased Parker's prestige. Critics loudly condemned Walter Pate. American captain, flatly stating he'd be to blame if the United States was beaten in the interzone finals by Germany. Parker handled this awkward sit- | uation well. He went to Grant and | told him: “Don't pay any attention to those guys. Go out thare and show them they're wrong.” Frankie also helped Grant practise for the inter- zone matches and was around consol- Grant repaid him for his sports- manship. Before the challenge round draw, he went to Pate and told him he was off his game and asked that he be left off the team in favor of Parker. England Has Lttile Hope. "HE other singles match of the day was given little thought. It was taken for granted that Budge would beat Hare in straight sets, with little more than a good workout for Tues- day’s clash with Austin. In fact, England has almost given up hope of beating the United States in the series, with the team of Budge and Gene Mako strongly favored over Britain’s new doubles combination of C. R. D. Tuckey and F. H. D. Wilde Monday. The final singles matches will bring together Budge and Austin and Parker and Hare. The English critics point out that Budge, Parker and Mako, all born in | 1916, are just coming into their prime, whereas Austin and Von Cramm, their only serious rivals, are both going downhill The feeling is that the United | States will keep the ecup un Budge | goes the way of Perry, Ellsworth Vines and Bill Tilden in joining the pro- fessional ranks. KELLER'S BATTING AVERAGE GROWING Former Terrapin, With Slugging Newark Bruins, Ups His Figure to .352, By the Associnted Press. INEW YORK, July 24—Newark's 4N stranglehold on the International League's batting race became stronger than ever during the last week as the Bears grabbed the first four places and threatened to take the fifth as well Buddy Rosar and Bill Hershberger, the Bruins' sensational eatching pair, continued to run one-two with aver- ages of 362 and 358, respectively, although each dropped 9 points At the same time teammates Charlie Keller, former University of Maryland star, and Babe Dahlgren showed impressive gains to move right behind them. Keller picked up 5 points to bookt his average to 3 while Dahlgren posted the highest | gain of the Newark contingent, 10 points, for .351 Gus Dugas, Montreal's slugging out- take fifth place and prevent George McQuinn from making it an all-New- ark big five. McQuinn gained 7 points for a .34 percentage. Behind McQuinn came Arnie Moser, Syracuse, .344; Dick Porter, Syracuse, 335; Irv Jeffries, Montreal, .333, and | Ted Petoskey, Toronto, a newcomer |to the ranking batters, with 329 | "Ab wWright, Baitimore firstsacker, was tops in homers with 24, Keller in run scoring with 79 and Dugas in two-base hits with 26 Atley Donald, the Bears' rookie hurling sensation, added another vic- beaten with 14 triumphs. CLOSE ONE TO AIRMEN. It was touch and go all the way when Bolling Field defeated Bureau of Engraving in a Federal League game, 7 to 6. Catcher Griffiths led the Airmen with three hits for a perfect day. Bolling Peld got the winning » 3;' 22 ] Centrelle 2027 518 Balisbury | prize run in the last inning with two down. t D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937. One Needs Stilts, T’other Sets Pace SPORTS Donald Dunkleberger. 11, of Greensbhoro, N. C., youngest and smallest entrant in the $10.000 open golf tournament that got under way at Chicago yesterday, needed the help of Bob MacDonald, veteran golfer, to see the qreen as he started first round of play. Alongside is Moe Springer, 15, of Chicago, an- other youngster in tourney. MEHLHORN ALONE AS PAR SMASHER Leads Chicago Open Field With 70—Six Have 72’s. Walper Shoots 80. By the Associated Press. HICAGO. July 24-—The rest of the field in Chicago's $10,- 000 open golf tournament has its collective eye trained on Bill Mehlhorn of Louisville, Ky., to- day in the second round of the big money battle. Wild Bill made himself a marked man yesterday by achieving the only sub-par score of the opening salvo, a 35—35—70 over the Medinah Coun- try Club’s No. 3 course. Four birdies three on the first nine holes, helped him to accomplish something none of the rest of the field of more than 425 could do. Guldahl Is Off Stride. RALPH GULDAHL of Chicago, who set a world record of 281 to win this year's national open at Birming- ham, Mich, took 76 to negotiate the No. 1 layout. Following Mehlhorn and his famous eight-gallon hat were Gene Sarazen, winner of numerous titles. but now holder of none; George Smith of Chicago, Leonard Dodson of Spring- fleld, Mo.; Ky Laffoon of Chicago, Henry Ransom of Bryan, Tex, and Charlie Penna of Chicago, all pro- feasionals, who were tied for second | with 72s. Another stroke farther back was tournament favorite, wiry Cooper, seeking to add the $3.000 top to the more than $10.000 already has won this year. He had for company at 73 such stars as Horton Smith, Sam Snead, Jim Poulis and one not so well known. Bud William- son of Fort Wayne, Ind. Will Reduce Field. 74 shooter group included Gus Moreland of Peoria, Ill., the top amateur after the opening round, and seven professional swingers, Paul Run- van of White Plains, N. Y: Jimmy Hines of Garden City, Long Island; Orville White of Greensboro, N. C. Harry Adams of Nashville, Tenn: Henry Kaiser, St. Louis: Sam Ber- nardi of Chicago, and Clarence Yockey, Kansas City After today's milling over the two courses the huge field will be reduced to the 50 low-scoring professionals, | 25 low amateurs, and ties in both di- visions, Teo Walper Washington's lone en- trant, shot 39—41—80 to place far down the list. M’DIARMID BATTLING IN CLAY TENNIS SEMI Ranking Star of Eastern Meet Faces Cooke—Bowden, McNeill in Opposite Bracket. Br the Associated Press. JEW YORK, July 24 —The Eastern clay court tennis singles cham- pionships came down final round today with the top seeded star and the sixth, seventh and eighth ranked players still in the running for the title. John McDiarmid, seeded No. 1 Princeton University's professor of political science from Fort Worth, Tex., squared off against seventh ranking Elwood Cooke of Portland Ore., in one match The brought, together Frank Bowden, New York veteran, and Don McNeill | tory during the week. to remain un- | Kenyon College star from Oklahoma | City, sixth and eighth seeded, respec- tively. McDiarmid entered four yesterday with a 7—5, 62 vic- tory over Don Hawley of Orange, N. J, Cooke turned back Joseph Pish bach, New York's junior star, 6 6—4, while Bowden eliminated Wil- liam Lurie of Brooklvn, 2—6. 6—0. 6—4. MeNeil]l previously had won his way into the bracket. the round of Harry | he | | Dovle, 6—4, 6—2, 6—2. to the semi- | other | Wild Bill Mehlhorn of Louis- ville who set the pace in the opening round with a par 70 to lead 440 amateurs and pros in quest of $10,000 in prizes. Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. T WAS a big day for Washington | tennis that started at 10 o'clock | this morning on the Chevy Chase Playground courts. At that hour, the only title encounter of the day | was to take place, sending Lucille | McDowel]l against Hazel (Jimmy) Bishopp for the girls’ playground championship. But later, scores of other local players were to be found on the courts at the Army Navy Club and the Sixteenth street reservior, in the late and early rounds of two im- portant tournaments. Army Navy was the site of the semi-final round of the Middie Atlantic doubles tour- ney, in which four local teams are battling for the right to play for the sectional title to- morrow afternoon. The Reservoir courts furnished the | setting for the opening of the public parks tournament, in which 72 men were playing first-round matches to- day. The women and men's doubles will start tomorro One Unseeded Duo Sticks. ’I‘HREE of the four teams left in the running for the Middle Atlantic doubles championship were among the four seeded. Only the seeded No. 2 team of Tom Mangan and Ralph McElvenny was missing, following their elimination yesterday by Harry March and Allie Ritzen- , the only unseeded pair to reach the semis. Although the result was more or of that match less expected, it took | Harry and Allie five sets to do it, victory coming only after scores of 3—6, 6—2, 6—4, 4—6, 6—4. Were it not for Ritzenberg, who is one year above the age limit his and March's match with David Johnsen and Harry Heffner well might be for a local Junior doubles title. Heffner and Johnsen are Washington’s Junior doubles champs. March was one-half of the runner-up team, while Ritzenberg was the Junior champion last year. Heffner and Johnsen, like their op- ponents of the day, did not win with- out a struggle yesterday, Ed Mather and Murray Gould putting up a real battle before bowing 6—4, 5—7, 9—7, 6--3 On the other hand. today's oppo- nents in the lower half of the draw, Hugh Lynch and Bill Breese against Alan Blade and 8tan McCaskey, won in straight sets yesterday. Lynch and Breese, the ranking team of the tournament, conquered Ralph (Buddy) Acair and Prank (Buddy' Goeltz, winners of some rather important sectional championships this year, by the convincing scores of 7—5, 6—2, 6--2. Blade and McCaskey, seeded | third, whipped Joe Baker and Fred Today's winners play for the championship tomorrow afternoon. 72 in Public Parks Play. EVENTY-TWO players, a large entry in view of the fact that most of Washington's better netmen now are club members, were signed to play for the local public parks title ‘What's more—and it's unique in local net history—every one of them has paid his $2 entry fee, something which always has been a bugaboo, particularly in this tournament. With neither the winner nor runner- up of last year's tournament entered, Ray Stocklinski and Allie Ritzenberg— both semi-finalists last year—were seeded Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. Billy Contreras, the boye’ playground cham- pion, was seeded 3; Art Simmons, 4; Erwin Niemeyer, 5, Hugh Trige. 6 Maurice Goubeau, 7, and Harry Mareh, | stated at the start of the tournament | | slumped four points. 8. Trigs is the only entrant who s 8 former champion, winning the first local public parks tournament in 1925. Several good unseeded players were doomed to be eliminated in the first round, however, as today's schedule called for Ted Pierce to meet Stan Haney, Bob Loney to face Ben Jaffe and Morgan Jacob to meet Bernard Blankin. All are above the average parks player. Calls Turn on Hunt. NOT in years has a local netman held the attention of the national spotlight as Gilbert Hunt is doing today up at Brookline, Mass. Playing Wilmer Aliison, former national cham- pion, for the Longwood Bowl, Hunt is directly on the spot. Adging to the interest is the fact that Allison needs only to win today to retire the famed plece of silver, bearing the names of so many other | former champions. And yet Allison that Hunt was the man to beat. If Hunt does win, it may put an end to any comeback plans lurking in the mind of the country's former No. 1 star. Agriculture, W. P. A. and F. C. A won matches in the Departmental League yesterday, only one being ex- tended. While W. P. A. and Agricul- tare were blanking Interstate Com- merce and General Accounting, re- spectively, F. C. A. was forced to fight before nosing out War Department, 3-2. One of F. C. A's losses, more- over, was a three-set affair. HITTERS IN A. A. LED. BY RIZZ0, SLAUGHTER Reynolds, Third, and Kress, Eighth. Setting Pace in Sev- eral Phases of Attack. B the Associated Press. YHICAGO, July 24 —A couple young outfielders with Columbus, John | Rizzo and Enos Slaughter, continued this week to set the batting pace, but a couple ‘“old-timers” with Minne- apolis held most of the other Ameri- can Association hitting and scoring honors. According to statistics, which in- cluded games of July 21, Carl Revn- olds and Ralph (Red) Kress, out-| fielder and shortstop, respectively, for the fast-traveling Millers, held the lead in six different statistical de- partments. ‘With a .370 batting average which placed him third in batting, Reynolds, who like Kress once starred in the majors, had scored the most runs, 85; had hit for the most total bases, 252: was tied at 32 for the doubles lead with a teammate, Allan Cooke, &nd led in triples, with 15. Kress, whose 331 plate mark put him eighth among the first 10, had 20 homers to his credit and had driven in the most runs, 94. Rizzo gained three points during the week to boost his top hitting aver- age to .386, an even 10 points better than the second place Slaughter, who Gil English of Kansas City gained nine points and was fourth with a mark of .348. Other leaders: Cooke, Minneapolis, .345; Steinbacher, St. Paul, .342; Eckhardt, Indianapolis, .336; Kress, .331; Sher- lock, Indianapolis, .327, and Peacock, Minneapolis, .324. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. NEW YORK-—Steve Casey, 215, Ireland, defeated Jim Austeri, 200, Italy, 30:22 NORTH BERGEN, N. J—Ernie Dusek, 228, Omaha, defeated Stan- ley Pino, 214, Ravenna, Neb., 27:49, COLUMBUS, Ohio—Billy Thom, 76, Indiana University coach, pin- ned Jimmy Heffner, 174, Sherman, Tex, 42:32. lord Patrick Lans- down, 176, England, tossed Jose Rodriguez, 178, Mexico, 12:27. Bobby Bums, 227, Chicagn, de- cisioned Dutch Heffner, S8herman, *» A—D D. C. Strong in M. A. Open Golf : Illinois Finally Gets Grid Heft > | SEVERAL BIG BOYS BOOST PROSPECTS |Zuppke Is Likely to Be Set for Notre Dame Clash on October 9. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS, HICAGO. July 24—For the thirty-third consecutive saae &on Mr. Mike Tobin, the voice ©of Tllinots, has beaten all his fellow publicitors to the post offic with glad tidings of the approaching foot ball season. Year after year Mr, Tobin's competitors, the likes of Mr, Woodworth of Purdue, Mr. Alfred Wesson of Southern California and Mr. Joseph Petritz of Notre Dame, plot dark and subtle ways of beating the old voice of old Tllinois to the firss foot ball release, but always are oute footed in the stretch i Mr. Tobin has the fine knack of, timing his first foot ball effusion sal that it will land on the hottest day of the year and cause great indignae tion among sports writers. I suspect that Mr. Tobin works from An air-conditioned den and watches the thermometer with diabolical glee, as he makes his opening pronounce= ment on the mopes and chances of Mr, Robert: Zuppke's Illini. He catches Messrs. Woodworth, Wesson and Petrits when their resistance to labor is at & high point and can be accused of taking unfair advantage. Will Have Some Weight. } 'HIS time Mr. Tobin pried Rober§ Zuppke away from his palletta | long enough to learn that “The Tllinois squad will be sturdier than' last year, but much greener.” For the past several seasons Here Zuppke has been oblized to meet heavyweight competition with bane tams, but it appeara those days have passed and the Illinois eoach no longer Jas a fetish for “light but fast men.” The presence of numerous 200-pound linemen on the Illinois squad indicates that Zuppke will meet force with force and that prospects are looking up. Zup does not anticipate a champion- ship contender this year, but with the influx of much promising talent this Fall is contemplating the 1938 season with considerable satisfaction. Among the big boys from whom Zuppke anticipates great deeds ars Cyril Urbas, 210, and Al Lundberg and Willard Cramer, 205, tackles; Melvin Brewer, 205, guard: Bill Lenich and Pete Kovachic, centers, and George Rettinger and Bill Unsinger, half- backs. Urbas also doubles at fullback and may be found at that position, since Zuppke appears to have tackles to spare. Some Clever Veterans. 'HERE is & fine complement of vete erans. mostly juniors, and Zup ex- pects Bob Castello to be one of the season’s outstanding ends. The iini Will rely almost entirely upon home- grown talent, for all but 8 of a squad of 84 are products of State high schools. | _Illinois meets Notre Dame for the first time on October 9, and Zuppke Will be pointing for that game. When the little fleld marshal makes an ob- Jective of any certain game he usually comes close to winning, so Flmer Lay- den will need a smooth-running ma- chine when the Irish invade Cham- paign. HUNT BIG OBSTACLE TO ALLISON AT NET Ailing Vet Must Beat D. €. Star Today to Obtain Coveted Longwood Bowl. By the Astociated Press. ROOKLINE, Mass., July 24 —Wile mer Allison of Austin, Tex, 32« vear-old former national tennis chame pion, reached the climax of his come- back drive today in the finals of the Longwood Bowl tournament, The Texas veteran, none too surs of his ability since a fall injured his right forearm a month ago, encoun- tered 23-year-old Gilbert Hunt of Washington, D. C., the husky former Massachusetts Institute of Technology star. Hunt was the only obstacie left in the way of Allison's permanent pos- session of the silver bowl. The Texan won previous legs in 1928 and 1934. Allison exceeded his own expecta< tions yesterday by winning through to the final with & 6—2, 9—7, 6—2 vie- tory over young Gardner Mulloy of Miaml, Fla. Hunt went two and one- half hours before eliminating Boh Harman of Berkeley, Calif., 4—6, 7—5, 5—7, 6—1, 6—0. In the women's singles Mrs. Midge Gladman Van Ryn of Austin, Tex., wife of Allison’s business partner, en- countered blond Helen Pederson of Stamford, Conn,, in the finals. after scoring a major upset yesterday by tha ¥ 1 | defeat of Mrs. S8arah Palfrey Fabyan, Wightman Cup star, 4—8, 6—3, 7—3 Men's doubles finals brought Georgs Toley, Los Angeles, and Vernon Mar- cum, St. Petersburg, Fla., against Hunt and Harman. The women's doubles pitted Mrx Fabyan and Katherine Winthrop of Boston sgainst Mrs. Johnson and Norma Taubele of New York. NEW MARLIN RECORD Blundon Gets 130-Pounder Off Ocean City—D. C. Men Luoky. Sieofal Dispatch to The Star. OCEAN CTTY, Md., July 24.—A new record for white mariin here was made yesterday when J. Paul Blundon of Keyser, W. Va, landed a 130- pounder in 1 hour and 15 minutes. He was fishing with Capt. Crawford Savage on the Hilda and sighted four more. Three anglers from Washington also landed marlin here. They were Gar- land 8. Furgeson and Simon Nichelet, fishing with Capt. H. C. Mattison on the Mousie, and L. A. Tull, fishing with Capt. Jim Whaley on the Em- press ITL. WINS WITH LATE RALLY. Four runs in the seventh and last inning gave Division of Disbursement & 6-5 victory over Interior. Sands not only pitched winning ball but made three hits and scored two runs. S4VOY THEATER ON TOP. Stagting with a rally of five runs and winding up with one of six, Sevoy. Theate? putscored Arcade Market, 14 i to b Men's Loagus game.