Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1940, Page 13

SPORTS. ¢Ce Promising The SPORTLIGHT Grove Rated All-Time Ace of Southpaws By GRANTLAND RICE, Bpecial Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, April 23 (NANA). —The non-cambatants from this gporting turmoil can supply you more trouble than all the athletes | combined. Here, for example, is one who wants to know why we haven't given him and others more facts about one Robert Moses Grove, and Just how should Grove be rated with the great left-handers of all time. Our rating of the top left-handers of all time would be in this order— 1. Lefty Grove. 2. Rube Waddell. 3. Carl Hubbell. 4. Herb Pennock. 5. Eddie Plank. ‘While Hubbell, Pennock and Plank had more team value, through the years, than Waddell had, the gangling Rube was one of the great pitchers of all time when it came to the needed stuff that makes for greatness. Bill Hanna, one of the best of all baseball student, rated Pennock on top of the =I-side peggers. Hubbell, Pennock Plank were three headline pitchers, the answer to a manager's prayer. But for a combination of team value and brilliancy combined, Lefty Grove must get the nomination and he should get it by acclamation, Babe Ruth, a left-hander, led all gets on the winning side, but only for a matter of five years, while Grove now is in his 16th major league campaign. The Big Babe NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940. SPORTS. A-13 Clever Relay Quarfet Also Will Be Sent To Penn Carnival Nearby Virginiu Squads Starting Action With Bright Prospects By ROBERT HENRY. Taking advantage of yesterday's clear weather, Hardy Pearce, whose Central High track teams have won two interhigh championships and | placed second twice in the last four years, looked pleased as he watched his big squad of 35 go through its first outdoor paces in over a week. Preparing for its meet today with University of Maryland freshmen at College Park, the squad revealed considerable promise, especially five boys who also will compete in the | Penn Relays Friday and Saturday. | Although bad weather had forced indoor practice, the tracksters ap- | peared to be in good form. While | Pearce had hopes of revenging the | one-point defeat the Maryland | freshman inflicted on his team last | year. in the meet this afternoon the former George Washington gridman was looking toward the Penn Relays. | He has Al Hayden, John Bredbenner, Bill Edgerton, Clayton Norris and | Jbhnny Thomas from which to select | & quartet. They seek the scholastic | mile relay championship of America. Hayden Ace of Team. i “Hayden, of course, is certain to | run,” Pearce said. “He's been our | mainstay since 1937. But the other four are about equal and I don't ntral High Track Team Béing Tested by Maryland Freshmen Today drew enough accolades from his bat. | know just which three to choose. He might have broken all records | They've been running together for through a full pitching career. But | three years now and all except AMBITIOUS TRACKMEN—Four of the five athletes pictured here will represent Central High School in the Penn relays this he wasn't around long enough on the mound to be rated with the five we named on top. Waddell, Thought Washed Up, 1ll, Fans 16 Athletics I happened to have the melan- choly duty of batting against Wad- dell in 1898, being smart enough to keep both feet in the water bucket. In one of his final games, when he was supposed to be all through, he pitched for the St. Leuis Browns and struck out 16 Athletics. ‘That's how good he was, hampered then with tubercuiosis. Bob Grove opened his 21st year as & professional pitcher a few days 8g0 with a two-hit shutout. He let fly his first professional pitch as a member of the Martinsburg team, Blue Ridge League, back in 1920. Working with Baltimore for five years he won 108 games, losing only 36, in a fast league. Winning average—.750. So Grove was 25 years old, four Years older than Bob Feller is today, when he reported to Connie Mack's Athletics in 1925. Bob Feller got the big league jump on Grove by a matter of eight years. Feller is nearly 19 years younger than Grove—yet together they al-! lowed only two hits in thewr 1940 debuts. That's something you may think about when you add up Then and Now. The remarkable feature of Grove’s career belongs to the big league. In the spread of 15 years the tall and willowy left-hander has won 286 games with only 128 defeats tor a grand average of .695. This in- cludes his first sore-arm season with Boston when he only won eight games. He has worked in 573 games in his big league charge and. including all games, the two-hit shutout he fired last week was his 664th pro- fessional start. We try to oblige. Our correspond- ent wanted to know more about Bob Grove and these are important facts. #ny ballplayer who can pitch a 2-hit shutout on a cold day in the big league in his 664th start has to | be something exceptional. In my book he has to be the greatest left- hander that ever lived. Grove was supposed to be all through six years ago, when he went, to Boston. T recall a conversation with Lefty in Atlanta in April that year. He could barely lift his left arm. “I don't know whether it's my arm or my teeth,” he told me. “Maybe t’s both.” This was the longest speech I'd ever heard Grove make. { He pitched in pain most of that| Yyear, and he won and lost eight | games. The general idea was that | Coach Thompkins says h ‘coach. has two of the best athletes Thomas are letter men. Johnny, week end, with the national scholastic mile relay championship their goal. From Jeft to right they are John Bredbenner, Albert Hayden, Bill Edgerton, Clayton Norris and Jack Thomas. —=Star Staff Phota. | however, is improving rapidly.” | In various combinations these | boys have enjoyed continued suc- |cess. In 1938 and 1939 they won | eight races and suffered their first loss this winter when Catholic High of Philadelphia beat them at Catho- lic University. This was made up |at the Maryland 5th Regiment games at Baltimore, the Southern Conference meet at Chapel Hill, N. | C., and the Duke races at Durham, N. C. Central won two relays at Durham, taking the sprint medley and the mile. Hayden was anchor man both times. Captain of the present team, Hayden has quite a record. He's| outstanding at the 440, but some- | times runs the half mile. Open Tennis Starts 'With Amateurs \Holding Aloof Simon-pures Still Fear U.S. L. T. A; Budge Is Ruler of Field By the Associated Press. | WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, 106 Fair Golf Stars Open Fire Tomorrow in Keefer Meet One hundred and six of the lead- ing feminine golfers of Washington will start play tomorrow over the course of the Chevy Chase Club in the initial 18-hole round of the 36- hole tournament for the Mrs. Frank R. Keefer trophy, donated by a for- mer president of the Women's Dis- trict Golf Association. round will be played Thursday, with | W the low 32 scores and ties in to- morrow's round competing for the| The final | (4 Program to Improve Caddie Standards BegunbyP. 6. A. Charts That llustrate Niceties of Job to Be Posted at D. C. Clubs Mrs W. J. Gruben (C. CJ: 8:3 | (Ken.). J.'H. Bull | C. Dale (Ken): o | Con.). K Flather (C .C.). Baroness de 35. Mrs. H W, Sharpe lock (Ken.), Mrs. J. T, 3 Harvey Cooper . Miss Jerry Weible (Ken), Miss | Barbara 8imons (Man.): 9:50. Mrs. L. T. | Haugen (A N). Mrs. W. H. Warren (Al | N Mrs, K. B N.)i 9:53 Mrs. 8. Phillips (A C. 8| Thompson (A. N.). Ml Moses | J. 10:00. Mrs. R ) AR50 N Mrs! . W. M. A_ Lacey (Col). B Jarvis_(Col), Mrs. B. Giles (Col V. E. Mrs._P. D. Mrs. 10:05, Mrs. W 3 caddie standards throughout the Breaks Interhigh Mark. | 8 A ament, atorag | oo, |G Fulk | sociation: ook & Torward.atep today - 5 4 pen Tennis Tourn: S y | i ay, are as | S.. Mrs LTy soctation 8 Loruiiady Last year Al broke the interhigh | petrel” of net ranks, opens its fourth mgggg‘“ CEEEIEE (el Sl 10 T.| with release to golf shops of an 440 record in helping Central Win|annual stand today with its best G N. Beavers (Man.): 1 illustrated series of caddie instruc- the meet and also won at this dis- | field, but simon-pures still cant be | Fial jEne: HIRNA(COnD MR OB ) tions. tance at the “C" Club games as| persuaded to disregard opposition of | pAil0: Mrs. W 8. Masien (Wash), Mrs I B ATon All P. G. A. members in the well as The Star A. A. U. scholastic- | 7 - | Pausias Lechiffely JWash ) W Miss (S2llY | 845 Mrs. Raiph Gibson (Man). Mrs. | fASE Lo i events at College Park. Last weeklzgce;:g‘;r‘fd SiatesTan Tennts As f“,w&’"g: 5. ‘v George Lynchh (A. N.), Mr. Hen 050, Mo e 3 Windneent (Cono | jiyash fgtan aresjuave Steen i he helped Central beat Episcopal by However, red-haired Don Budge, | iR Gy g L (Oguli WA G R 4 > s = 3 7 ‘ 8:55, Mrs. H. M. Shafler (A_N).| trating the man ints on caddie taking his specialty. | who replaced William T. Tilden, 2d, | Simoe'™ fars “Sir* &% it dy | M & "F ke (' N0 M c C ou Last yvear Norris, whose father as the tourney’s star DerIormer | a0 ‘o, {/x‘rg V.M. Falls (Wash). Miss | association. These charts explain once starred on the cinderpath for | hails the event as the greatest thing Miiler Ken.) Mre D, Rane (Ron): 5:55; A R RL Hutchison” (Washo. Mé. | in word and diagram every duty a ‘C::‘;:;L ran the half, but has im- | that has happened to tennis in B lo T e ey Chamie (C c",f;boéri.ir{.wrr‘gey (Wash.), Mrs. James Mc- | caddie is expected to perform from gesides ?::;Ccek gg;%;n for t?e 440. many years. e e BT Tan | M H, M | the time he 1s assigned to a golfer 8 s enner also has Amateurs Still Shy. (Man): 9:05_ Mrs. Bishop Hill ( Myers (Man.): S 2 | until he is paid off at the end of made his mark in football. Thomas'| “Sooner or later,” he declares, | Mrs. Landra B ‘l(’:ll\t)(_cnci‘\. &{Hs Eiiza- sxf{’;lyhle'c‘u:?hn }ever (Con. : | the round. father, incidentally, was a former | “the idea of open meetings between | 2°th Houghton (C. C): 9:10, Mr; TWood). Mrs G 1 The P. G. A. asks that one chart Central grid coach. |pros and amateurs must take hold | Mies Marion Brows, (Mar): :15 Mfx.| Theodore Peycer [Wopd i § a week be posted in caddie shelters, The draw for positions in the|and be an everyday occurrence for | {""\A fxmfx‘cx‘-’xfizfics HAKen y: Taes0, Mrs. | Mlub\Ber:’}M ‘Isuehtwmz_d.):mgr::‘rh ur('e'n‘?' 50 the boys may study them. At the Penn games has Pearce & bit wor- | that is the only way we really can | Mrron Dayy (Con.). Mrs Fiorence Godirey | Gamble (Man ). ICon) 0:58. Mrs. E_T. | end of five weeks the boys—if they ried. Some 22 teams will compete | develop a lot of tennis material in 25, Mrs. Ellen K. Harris (B. D). Mrs. | King (A_N). Mrs. W. L. Weible (A. N0 | oo ihan sondi ill have and it d v > | L lper (Cap ). Mrs_ M. A. Dent (B. Mrs. E Widmayer (Arg.): 9:40, Mrs. H. J.| Work a studies—w e a Arited “;I;Ptl;‘ds }gin thmw H;;y are th};hwgnl‘jl;y- o eta 1 al 30, Mrs. Oscar Cooliean (C. C.), Beech (Man.). Mrs. H. Kiossner (Con.) | complete picture of the many little 4 V] er his team'’s posi- e California ace insi it’s “old | tion is bad or good. “If they sep- |fashioned” for the U. S. L. T. A. to | arate the teams, as they sometimes | keep the two separated. That's the | do, it might mean my team will | way Tilden talked when he helped | start from third place in the third| Organize the tournament despite | heat,” Pearce said. “But if they U.S.L.T.A.disapproval. Sttill, the | don’t work it that way it will be bad | mighty association holds to its ban, indeed.” | warning amateurs who play in the Nearby Virginians Active. open will be barreq from U. 8. L. Those three halls of knowledge | mrate opn crehe: et B€ | That's why only four simon-pures e river, Washington-Lee,| are among the 39 entries this year. George Washington High and Epis- | copal, are busy these d ith Eudge) Sul & g se days with | i | track as well as baseball, Tilden 1s busy with a tennis school i . in Los Angeles, but Vincent Rich- oday Episcopal was to invade |ards, who had a hand in creating Tech High for a dual meet, and while the tourney; Frank Hunter and Al e has the | Chapin, former Davis Cup players, g}x;eene._st squad he’s had in 20 years, | wmpbe out for the crgwg Zven :h"e is liqopg for a first here and though Budge appears to have the lefe. Friday his team will engage | field pretty much in his own hands. Washington-Lee and Eastern at Today’s initial match in the $2,000 ht’;’nrt’.bsfibfllrlmg at 3:15. competition finds the top-seeded Probably the best runner on the | Budge paired with Amateur Byrne Episcopal team is Bill Wi is, whoinauer of White Sulphur Springs, Yon both the 100 and 220 against | while Deferding Champion Richard | Central last week. Two other ‘win- | Skeen of Burbank, Calif., ranged | ners against Central were Dave | second, engages Carl Bowyer, White March, who took the half mile, and Sulphur Springs, to lead off the Motley Lee, pole vaulter, who cleared | lower bracket. 10 feet, but has done 31 ———— Ponies in Title Event Johnny Baker, Washington-Lee Rod and Stream By GEORGE HUBER. April 2 Indications are that this is going to be a banner year for channel bass at Oregon Inlet, and mayhap the last few seasons—also will be t years past when anglers talked of The sea was covered with big So many were there that the usual blue or green of the water was turned into a reddish copper. These tales: you may have discounted but they are true. And already this year on at least one occasion that scene has been duplicated. Capt. Wayland W. Baum of Wanchese writes that on last Thursday he made one of the biggest early-season catches ever recorded at the inlet. With five anglers from Newport News he caught 42 channel bass| averaging 35 pounds or a total of 1,470 pounds. That was in six hours of fishing time and they quit at 3:30 p.m. while the fishing still was going strong. They almost had to quit. They were worn out and most of the tackle was shot. Three rods were jobs a caddie is supposed to perform. at the clubs around Washington are a well-trained lot of boys. They would do at any club in any sec- tion. They are trained to stand facing the line of flight of the ball, in tront of the player so they do not interfere with his vision; to hold the pin so they do not muti- late the green, or so their shadows do not fall across the line to the hole; they’re “ball hawks'—most of them. But they do need some brushing up on the finer points of the work. How often will you see a boy put down his bag, bottom end on the ground, when the player is to select a club for the next shot? How often will you find a boy or two out in front when the tee shot is blind, ready to spot a ball off line? These | little points are important. The P. G. A. instructions point them out. There are many others. Points 3, 1940. the big blues—sorely missed during here. You may have heard tales of real channel bass fishing at Oregon. red drum swimming on the surface. < | Mexico where drought conditions | prevailed. The ducks face an acute problem in Canada, though, because winter snowfall, chief source of water in the breed- ing areas, has been the small- est in years in some of the prairie provinces. & Canadian authorities have adopted a cute system to save these ducks as much as possible. Until last| year, the head of each Indian fam- ily received a government handout of 25 pounds of powder and 25 pounds of shot on July 1, and a lot of that was used to shoot ducks before the season opened. But starting last year the Indians didn't Moving toward improvement of ! Right down the line the caddies | Tom Yawkey, who'll give you his | in this sector in Wally Legg and Bill right or left arm for any arm that CAIT. Legg, dash and hurdle artist, can win him 20 games, had pur- | Won the 100 and high hurdle at the In Columbus Show chased an ex-cyclone that had | turned into a waning zephyr. | Grove's Earned Run Average Heads All-Time List But in his last five years with | Boston Grove has worked at a .670 clip—he has shoved through 83 win- ning games. In the last two years he has won 29 games and dropped only 8. And this doesn't include his opening 2-hit salute for 1940. His top year was 1931, when he | won 31 games and dropped only 4.| Average .886. | His earned-run average over the | years heads the all-time list, in- cluding the era of the lively ball. | All in all, quite a pitcher—this Robert Moses Lefty Grove—the Lonaconing Lancer from Maryland.‘ Colder under fire than the heart | of an iceberg, smart and cunning | with plenty left on the ball, Grovel should make 1940 one of his best Years. For he has a real ball club to | back him up, a ball club that can| give him the needed runs to work| on, plus first-class defense in both | infleld and outfleld. | In his 4Ist year—born March 6, | 1900—in his 21st campaign, you might keep an eye on Lefty Grove. | and tossing the discus. He took sec- recent Central District meet at Richmond and also against Central High. Carr, who last year tied the half-mile record in the “C” Club meet, won the 440 and the half at Richmond Three other promising boys on this team are Merrill Hoover, the football star who last fall kicked 30 out of 32 extra point tries and who now is trying his luck at putting the shot ond in the latter event at Richmond. Deon Tee, a better than average half-miler, and Buddy Clark, 440 Richmond. George Washington, coached by Willis Brenner, has several capable youngsters in Harvey Bourn, Al Block, Leo Grauman and Eddie Wil- liams. All are readying for a home meet Wednesday with Montgomery Blair and Woodrow Wilson. Bourn is a miler, Block a discus man and Williams and Gauman are good half- milers. Softy Team Wants Games Evening and Sunday morning games are wanted by the Wolf's Market softball team. Call Man- ager Wolfe at Lincoln 9201. English Rackete In Tourney at Asheville By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C. April,23— With the anticipated arrival of the big shots of amateur tennis from the Houston, Tex., tournament, the tempo of the second annual Land of the Sky net meet here will be stepped up today. Play in the tournament got off to & routine start yesterday, with local players dominating the first rounds of the men's competition. rs Top Seeded and Charles Hare, the English Davis Cup player, headed the men’s division. Tom Kelly of Portland, Oreg., Western indoor champion, drew the second seeded position in the men’s division, with Charles Harris of West Palm Beach, Fla., seeded third, and John Shostrom of Chicago, fourth, Second seeded spot in the women's bracket went to Gracyn Wheeler, Mary Hardwick, the British Wight- | the Californian; third to Virginia man Cup star, drew the top-seeding | Wolfenden, another Californian, and in the fleld of 15 woman players, | fourth to Valerie Scott, English star, . Slated May 12 Ponies will be afforded a chance to shine at the new Columbus Horse and Pony Show to be held at Marrian Curran’s Indian Spring Valley Farm, near Four Corners, Md., May 12, according to Vincent Lester, secretary. He has announced a pony championship. Junior riders also will be taken care of, a junior championship being among the many awards listed. This will be for riders who are too old for the usual youngster events and too young for the senior classes. A novel feature is the curtailment of conformation classes, the hunter division being judged almost solely on performances, so as to allow them to compete on a more even basis. A grand championship will be awarded to the horse making the highest number of points in the major classes. Altogether, 19 events have been carded. Chinese Star to Fence At Boys’ Club Show Joseph Chiang of China, a fenc- ing artist, has been added to the program of the Washington Boys’ Club first annual spring carnival to be hled at the Southeast Branch Friday night. Chiang’s act, known as the Chinese mystery fencing act, is one of the oldest known to man, originating in the days before t. Other sports events will include several advanced gymnastic and tumbling acts, with the Eight Flying Wiegand Sisters providing one of the highlights. ' The girls range in age from 3 to 15. > Proceeds from the carnival will be used for improvements in the club’s summer camp, 4 broken, two reels were sprung, sev- eral lines were lost and practically all the feathers and spoons were straightened out. But a catch like that is worth any amount of smashed tackle. Hardhead Due Soon. Reports from net fishermen say that increasing catches of hardhead are being made especially in the lower bay. have been made by hook and line men in the Virginia section of the bay, all of which indicates that bee fore long they will be biting up this way. You can't tell what this late winter and bad April weather has done; it probably will set the start of fishing back several days. But by the second week in May they should be biting in such spots as Benedict on the Patuxent and over in the Honga River. Already by this time last year the first catches had been made, 8o before long you can expect the rowboat fleets at Benedict and & little later at Breezy Point to be operating. And speaking of row- boats, it's a tough pull to some of the fishing grounds. But rowboats cost only $1 a day, while power boats run into a little more money than some anglers can afford. On some Florida rivers there are skiffs for hire with air-cooled in- board motors. They rent for from $250 to $4 a day and hold several anglers. Operators of these craft report an excellent profit, and we wonder if they wouldn't do well around here. The fishermen who rent these boats need no licenses, and all the owner has to do is comply with certain safety regula- tions such as life preservers and fire extinguishers. Duck Flight Reports. ‘You won’t be going duck hunting until fall. but you might be inter- ested in reports of the flight north. A survey by Ducks Unlimited has estimates of increased duck flights from 10 to 50 per cent greater than last year. There were some de- creases, mainly in the central fiy- way between Montana and New A receive their ammunition until the day hefore the season opened. They Scattered catches also | squawked, but there wasn't much they could do about it. Terp Freshmen Would 'Make 6. W. Rookies Second Victims Maryland’s freshman baseball team today was to gnaw into a tougher chunk of its schedule, slated to tangle with George Wash- ington yearlings at College Park at 4 o'clock after disposing of Richard Montgomery High of Rockville, 5-0, yesterday on the Terps diamond. Dick Cleveland, a product of Richard Montgomery, unleashed a 1-hit pitching performance in the 8-inning game and abetted his spectacular slab toil by blasting a seventh-inning home run. Cleveland struck out 13 Rockville batters and was nicked for Richard Montgomery’s only hit in the sev- enth, when Davis doubled. Cleveland turned over the pitch- ing chores to Crist in the eigth in- ning. URE, there is a diffe —a difference in fine Packards Want Games Packard Washington's unlimited nine wants some tough opposition in games for both Thursday and Saturday afternoons. Phone Man- ager Colie, Republic 0123. you smoke. z often you smoke. Printers Meet Cameo Union Printers will meet Cameo Furniture tomorrow at 5 o'clock on the North Ellipse. Friday the Print- ers engage Heurich Brewers on the same field at the same time. filler and its wrapper today. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Rochester, 5: Baltimors, 2. Other games postponed, rain. ence in blending. Result—a different taste that grows on you with each La Azora Yes, and there’s a difference in the mild- ness—La Azora is gloriously mild at the start—and it stays mild, no matter how You'll delight in La Azora, with its all long tobaccos grown in America. Try La Azora Walper Heads Capital Golfers In Advance on M. A. Tourney; Beaver Dam Baffles Pros By WALTER McCALLUM. The big trek is on for Old Point Comfort and the split of a purse of a thousand bucks among the pro- fessional golfers in the Middle At~ lantic sector. At least three of ‘Washington’s leading links mentors were to leave town today heading for the Chamberlin course, where the Middle Atlantic P. G. A. cham- pionship will be played over the 72- hole route Friday and Saturday. Among those leaving today was Leo Walper, a co-favorite with Defend- ing Champjon Cliff Spencer to win the crown. Spencer himself, who won last year in a driving finish at Columbia with the altogether miraculous score of 283 over a slow course, will not leave until Thursday. His duties at East Potomac Park will keep him busy, and he will have time only for a few practice holes just before dark Thursday. Dark Horse Lewis Worsham of Burning Tree, the 22-year-old lad billed as a likely winner of the title, will leave | tomorrow, although Worsham knows | the course forward and across. He used to play it in schoolboy matches, Harper Not to Play. But dour-faced Chandler Harper, the pride of Portsmouth, Va., and the lad about whom a lot of fuss Is beng made in Tidewater Virginia, won't be in there pitching. His application for membership in the P. G. A, even though it was acted upon favorably by the Middle At- lantic section yesterday, comes too late to permit the lanky Portsmouth lad to play. The Executive Com- mittee of the sectional association wasted no time in O. K.-ing Harper's application at Beaver Dam yester- day, where they held a hasty meet- ing prior to a pro-amateur tour- ney. But it won't do Harper any good insofar as the tournament later | this week is concerned. “Harper’s application was filed on April 17. The regulations of the national association provide that an applicant must have had his ap- plication in at least 30 days prior to the national or to the sectional tournament,” said Prexy Ralph Beach of the mid-Atlantic section. “We would like to have Harper in the tournament, but we can't break the rules of the national body for an individual. Harper cannot play. That is the ruling and that is what | we have to stand on. But I repeat, it was his own fault. He became eligible for membership on January 1 and we did not receive his appli- cation until April 17.” Beaver Dam Turns Back Pros. But if yesterday’s tournament at | Beaver Dam was a preview of the nished full-sized wall charts illus-}coming sectional affair the boys | | aren't such hot golfers, nor will they practice brought out by the pm,hust par wide open later in the |ing today. week. Over a course swept by a | high wind, and soggy from a week |of rain, only four professionals sweepstakes with a 3-over-par 75, hit two full driver shots into the teeth of the wind at the 375-yard home hole, and didn't reach the green. “I nearly wore my driver out playing brassie shots with it,” laughed Ralph Bogart, the District amateur champ, who helped himself to a form-fitting 77. Bean Has Eagle Deuce. “I never have seen the course play 50 tough,” said Houghton. “From the front tees, t00.” In all the ex- citement of trying to beat the ball around that lengthy layout Amateur Eddie Bean flung a high 7-iron shot smack into the cup for an eagle deuce on the 357-yard second hole. But Houghton, helped 6 strokes by steady Forrest Thompson, the be- loved “Old Bones” of Beaver Dam, won the amateur-pro tourney with a better ball of 72. Bean's eagle helped himself and Houghton to tie with seven other pairs at 74 for second place. These were, with the pros first, Cliff Spencer and Joe Balestri, Spencer and Jim Gipe, Ralph /Beach and Everett Johnson, Wiffy Cox and George De Witt, Cox and Maury Fitzgerald, Mel Shorey and Roger Peacock, Lew Worsham and Ralph Bogart. Houghton and Spencer tied for the second pro prize with 78s. It was that kind of day. Normally it would take a 74 or so to get in the money. But 75 won first dough. Thirty-five amateurs and 12 pros took part in the festivities. Most of them were contributors. Hershey Meet Favored. Award of the Nstional P. G. A. championship to Hershey, Pa., Au- gust 26 to September 1, was hailed with pleasure by mcst of the local pros. “It's a slugger’s course, but a very fair one, and one in beautiful condition.” That summed up the view of most of the boys. The an= nouncement came from Hershey, where Henry G. Picard, the reign- ing champion, will defend the title he won last year. Women golfers are in a dither again. Their fifth postponement of a team match in 10 days came yes- terday when first-teamm matches scheduled at Argyle end Chevy Chase were canceled because of & wet course at Chevy Chase. Under a Women's Disfrict Association ruling if one match is cancelled on a given day, all must be cancelled. So they've set the first and second matches of the team series for some time in an indefinite future. They've been postponed so often they're nothing more now than a headache. | The next match is scheduled Aprii |30 at Army Navy and Congressional. Eight schoolboy teams were play- Westprn and Roosevel! met at Manor, and Central and Wil- son clashed at Army Navy in twin | broke 80. Twelve paid boys entered the tournament, and eight of them | either didn’t return their cards or | failed to shatter 80. It was that kind of day, even though Al Houghton said the boys | played from the front tees. “If that |is so I'd hate to play this course 1under the same conditions from the back tees,” said Wiffy Cox. Wiffy, who added to his bankroll by grabbing first money in the pro —_— such as raking traps after the players have left them; policing the course by picking up rubbish, re- | placing divots left by the players and not swinging clubs belonging to a member. All these little items are part of the job of a good caddie. The pay isn't high. It averages probably a buck a round; maybe more in the case of generous play- ers, or if the caddie has been par- ticularly attentive. But the caddies would get more and bigger tips if they showed s little more attention to the small cetails which are part nf the job. On the whole, however, the cad- dies around Washington are hard- working boys who know the essen- tials of their jobs. The finer points? Well, the P. G. A. charts will ex- plain them. Dawes Cup matches. Other matches | found Gonzaga and Bethesda play- ing at Capital. while Blair and | Devitt met at Columbia. Reinhardt Bird Firsf 'In Field of 137 in 100-Mile Flight Martin Reinhardt today had the | distinction of being the years first iwinner in the East Potomac Racing | Pigeon Club, his blue check hen | Trophy having beaten 137 competi= | tors from 45 other lofts in the 100« ' mile flight from Charlottes | King & Howlin's first pressed the victor, which aieraged |982.67 yards per minute to th: rini- | nerup’s 981.89. | Following is the average sp~: } yards per minute of the first - | to each loft: 1 Martin _ Reinhardt | Howlin. 98189, | Roma Lo Buono | 3. E. "Cook. | 925.4 982 67 .44 ~Jenkins efett Wright &7 Henry Reckeweg ideru 382 Happy Landing Loft William’ Gavior, 738 05; L. Bureh Edward Cox. 718.5¢ Steady Smoking Tells the Tale-- A New and Different rence in La Azora tobaccos, a differ- of the costliest Cigar Story ELPRODUCTO CIGARS