Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1940, Page 20

Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN. After the Smoke Had Cleared at Manor It was almost dark when the last shot was fired in the District, Maryland and Virginia qualifying round for the National Open at Manor. It had been a long day, marked by generally good shooting in view of the heaviness in the air and on the fairways and greens. Twice within an hour the course record had been shattered, once by a 22-year- old dark horse named Lewis Worsham and again by a little-known pro from Langley Field named Jack Isaacs. From a sentimental Side it wasn't a very successful day. The crowd started by rooting for the old guard . . . for 58-year-old Freddy McLeod, National Open champion in 1908 . . . for Wiffy Cox, the one-time gob from Brooklyn . .. for Al Houghton, the gray-haired pro of Beaver Dam. Early in the 36-hole foray McLeod fell by the wayside. Houghton fouled himself out by starting out of turn, but continued, anyway, and shot himself out with 148. Cox came close. He tied for fifth and then lost & playoff. McLeod and Cox and Houghton. It seemed strange not to find one, two or all of their names near the top of the list. Instead, there were the names of Worsham, Isaacs and Larkin leading all the rest. Houghton’s Legs Gave Way on Him McLeod was sitting near the bar, taking elimination lightly, when Houghton, grayer and heavier, walked into the room and sank grate- fully in a chair. “Legs,” grunted Houghton, slapping a calf. “When they begin to go back on you it's the beginning of the end of tough competitive golf. When the old pins start getting rubbery you can’t get oomph in your shots.” McLeod nodded in dour agreement and somebody asked him if that held true for the National Open. “What happens,” was the question, *when 10 or a dozen golfers, all in the running, go into the final nine holes for the Open championship?” McLeod thought for a moment and then said: “They begin tossing the title around like it was a hot potato. Then it becomes a test not only of physical stamina but of nerves. Mon, it's hell, that's what it is.” Freddy picked up his glass. He hadn't expected to be a figure in another National Open. He had been through it 37 times, counting qualifying tests, and when a golfer is pushing 60 he realizes it's not for him again. ~ Sambo Snead Is Hitting the Road - Cox was cooling his heels by sprawling on a bench in the locker room. Wiffy almost qualified by not caring whether he did or didn’t. Automatically first alternate, as a result of finishing sixth, he re- quested that Leo Walper, the next man, be given his place in the event a slot was opened. “I'd be a sucker,” Wiffy sighed, “to go to the Open. It takes a golfer in great shape to stand up under that test and I'm not in that kind of shape.” A newspaperman said, jokingly, “There's nothing wrong with you that a week of road work won't cure, Wiffy, or is there?” and Cox looked up. p “Don't think you're kidding,” he said. “Road work? Do you know what Sammy Snead’s doing right now? Road work. And so are the other fellows who really will be in the running during the Open. You're not kidding. It takes two months to get really ready for the Open. You have to get out and run like a fighter in training. Paul Runyan goes to Bill Brown's camp and trains. Runyan doesn’t smoke, drink or chew. It’s early-to-bed and that stuff.” Working Pro, Says Cox, Has No Chance “What about those stories of fellows who stayed up all night, drank cups of black coffee, and went out to win championships?” asked another newspaperman. “Hagen, for instance, and some of the others?” “They were true enough, I guess, less a certain amount of exag- geration,” Wiffy admitted, “but that doesn’t hold now. When Hagen was winning without training it was different. He was winning with higher scores than win today. Nowadays a kid in shape will go out and take a course apart. Look at Worsham and Isaacs. One shot a 66 and the other a 65. “Years ago, when golfers showed up still wearing their tuxedo trousers from the night before, we didn't have all of these big tourna- ments. There were only a few. The Open was the biggest, as it is now, but it wasn't necessary to go into hard training for a long stretch. Now & pro has a decision to make. He has two choices.” “And the choices?” prompted one of the gallery. “Either work or play,” Cox answered. “A pro who gives lessons and runs a shop and is a real part of a club can't win the Open or any other big tournament. Do you think Sarazen or Hagen ever bothered to give lessons? Or Tommy Armour? Or do you think Snead and Nelson and those fellows do it? They do not. “Those fellows,” concluded Wiffy, “are in training for tournament play. We who work and give lessons are outclassed nowadays. Per- sonally, I'm willing to forget about the National Open. I've been in a position half a dozen times to win it and I know what it is. It's three days of hell, not counting any playoffs.” Tea and Toast All Jones Could Take So this year finds Washington’s three veterans, McLeod, Cox and Houghton, on the sidelines of the Open. They couldn’t qualify and none shed a tear. The Open isn’t going to be won by a veteran with casual training. The winner will be somebody like Ben Hogah or Snead or Byron Nelson or some unknown young pro who may be hungry enough and loose enough and lucky enough. The National Open is no picnic. There have been, and still are, top-notch golfers who resort to sedatives to keep the tops of their heads from blowing off. Even Bobby Jones, one of the great competitors, wasn't Immune to the tension. Jones couldn't eat for three days before an Open and it follows he wasn't a gourmet during it. Strong tea and toast was the best he could stomach. No formidable five are those who qualified from this section at Manor. Isaacs took the course apart for 18 holes, but he doesn't figure, nor does Larkin nor George Diffenbaugh nor Andy Gibson, the Balti- more pro who beat Cox in the playoff. A possible contender, at least for a while, is young Worsham. He has most of the shots and he’s young, hungry and ambitious to use the Open as a giant springboard to sudden fame. But Worsham of Burning Tree belongs to that group which Cox calls the working class. The best bet, still, looks to be a pro who has been working for weeks to get in shape for that jagged test of physical stamina and nerves. Major League Statistics TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940, AMERICAN NATIONAL Results Yesterday. Results Yesterdsy. 5: Wlihmllnn 0. 6:; Philadelphia, 0. 1. New Yo ork, 1. - Clevelan innati, 2—7; P)lllblll’lhv 1—3. Ghicaso. 7: 8. 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NI 20 11 1] 3( 3/— 1| 2/13[17(.433] 3 )00 |a | | cal | | GA-ES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. s. at Phila. N Delrm at Cleye. it at Cleve. Datrof Cinct. at Piitsburgh. Biireko st St Lo (2). Chicavo'at 8%, L. St. L. at Chicago. Big League Stars Yesterday Ted Lyons, White lox——xebl nfilu hits scattered and made thi own behalf in beating lrown-. 2 2 Whitey Moore. Joe and Jim ly the Auudlud Press. ey Keller and Spud Chandler Yeoheer L rormer Bit_ home and Datiad: tn Tour of team's five tallies as latter shut out Senators on four hits, Bill Posedel coinello, and Tony Beon L ot pitahed Toutohit ball and later had perfect day at bat with txo doubles and two singies for 7-1 triumph ¥ “"U'“w!!“- '3 mnn—an fourth victory and shutout R, el A s Toute to un nkhu:u jued In- with nine spaced hits Buck Newsom, Tig: WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940. National League Topsy-Turvy With Leading Dodgers Half Game Behind Red:s FERRELL IN FORM French Drivers May Go Out of Auto Grind- Slowest to Qualify, Tests Today Likely To Eliminate Them By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, May 28.—Driv- ers not vet qualified for the 500- mile Indianapolis motor speedway race Thursdey have seven hours today to earn positions in the start- ing field of 33 cars—and it takes a 10-mile sprint at better than 117.218 miles per hour to qualify. The field was filled yesterday with the qualification of 14 cars, but the slower racers may be eliminated in favor of speedsters qualifying today at greater speeds. French Soldiers Trail. Most likely to be eliminated were two French soldiers -who obtained leaves of absence for the race—Rene Dreyfus and Rene Lebegue—and Louis Durant of Herrington, Kans. Lebegue qualified yesterday at 118981 miles an hour, Dreyfus at 118.831 and Durant at 117.218. Those three times were the slowest of the 33 qualifiers. Fastest of the‘cars scheduled to attempt qualification today are driven by Lloyd Davis of Springfield, I11.; Billy Devore of St. Johns, Kans., and Tony “Willman of Milwaukee. All three are capable of 120 miles an hour for the four qualification laps around the two and one-half mile track. Bob Swanson of Los Angeles qual- ified his 16-cylinder mount yester- day at 124.619, best time of the day. Finishing Tests Today. ‘Today’s final qualification period ran from 10 am. to 5 pm. The track will be closed Wednesday for a final cleaning. Qualifiers yesterday and their speeds: Swanson, *124.619; Ralph Hepburn of Los Angeles, 123.860; Emil Andres of Chicago, 122.963; George Robe- son of Los Angeles, 122562, Raul Ri- ganti of Argentina, 121.827; Duke | Nalon of Chicago, 121.790; Joe Chit- wood of Topeka, Kans., 121.757; Chet RICK'S DAILY JOB CALLS FOR MANY AN AGILE SCRAMBLE TO KEEP HIS MATES FROM THROWING MORE RUNS AWAY ! —By JIM BERRYMAN HEY! 1S HE Yoo FERRELL It 3 ONTHEM THAN BALLS COMING Tu: OTHER WAY ! OUT AGIN'! CASE 1S A LUCKY BUM T'BE ON TH' SAME TEAM His TNROWING ARM STILL MAKES 1T TOUGH TO SNEAK AN EXTRA BASE.... HE'S HITTING JUST UNDER .300, AND GETS MOST OF HIS HITS WHEN THEY REALLY COUNT! A FERRELL.... VETERAN RECEIVER OF THE WAS HINGTONCLUB, APPEARS Jo BE HAVING ONE OF His Miller of Detroit, 121.322; Al Put- nam of Los Angeles, 120.818; Paul Russo of Kenosha, Wis., 120.809; Al Miller of Detroit, 120.228; Lebegue, 118.981;- Dreyfus, 118.831, and Du- rant, 117218, Nats Forced to “Bieeyin), Rely on Weak Hurlers for Double-Headers; Chase Good, Despite Loss By BURTON HAWKINS, Star Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, May 28—Not too gay over the whole idea, Manager Bucky Harris of the Nats today was being forced to explore the potential- ities of his second-string pitchers in starting assignments. With five games in three days facing his club, he is flattering, in frantic despera- tion, the lesser lights of his slab staff. The double-header with the Yankees here today necessitated employing Joe Haynes and Rene Monteagudo in starting roles, although their ap- pearances in relief situations hardly warrant the compliment. Bucky’s supply of starters simply became exhausted when he worked Dutch Leonard on Saturday, Willis Hudlin on Sunday and Ken Chase yesterday. So Yankee Stadium, hardly a spot for experimental maneuvers at the moment, became some sort of a proving grounds for the younger members of the Nats’ pitching bri- gade. It will retain that status tomorrow, when Sid Hudson is slated to start for Washington in the finale of the four-game series here. Harris plans to work Leonard and bespectacled Walter Masterson - in the twin bill at Philadelphia on Thursday, leaving the veteran Hud- lin to open against Detroit Saturday at Griffith Stadium. What happens if Washington pitchers fail to survive tests is a e ticklish topic, for available for relief will be only the inept Joe Krakaus- Poren kas and Bucky Jacobs, who toiled one inning here yesterday. home run to Charley Keller which produced three runs in the Yankees’ 5-0 triumph. Krakauskas has failed to recover his fast ball, regarded as his lone | ngw asset, since a recent armache. 1If, Crosetti in some miraculous manner, the zip | Reller. ot returns to his left arm overnight, Harris may use him in the last game | 2! with the Yankees, against whom Joe has enjoyed sporadic success. Bucky, though, is inclined to allow Haynes, Monteagudo, Hudson and Masterson to linger on the mound even_ if hit hard, for the bull pen dwellers will be scarce With such a situation staring the Nats in tht optics, anything pleasant materializ- In that | Gel brief period Jacobs issued a terrific | ch fanned. Both Rick Ferrell and | Pinch-hitter Jack Early flied to Left | | Fielder George Selkirk, however, to end the mild scoring gesture. It was the fourth successive game in which Chase has, hurled credit- ably. He dropped a 4-2 decision to Philadelphia on nine hits and whipped Cleveland and St. Louis with seven hits each in previous starts. He has allowed only nine earned runs in the last 32 innings he has pitched. ‘Washington still was very much in the game until Jacobs relieved Chase for the chucking chores starting the eighth. He disposed of Babe Dahigren and Chandler, but walked Prankie Crosetti and issued a single to Knickerbocker to set the stage for Keller's second homer in two days, a tremendous drive deep into the Washington bull pen in right field. The Nats, in being blanked the third time this season, also suffered at the turnstiles, only 2,269 paying patrons witnessed the game. Secre- tary Edward B. Eynon, jr., of the Nats labeled it probably the smallest crowd he has seen in Yankee Sta- dium in 20 years. Offlcnal Score "E £ oo0o000000900; - P e Sooa0oHNEHONHO SoRSHORLOODNSH csoocoo00000M Jacons, o Totals > 25 2 55 = SAmpRBBOSQ F coooorruon & A 8 ing on the mound in the next few |ty Bonura, Le days will be on the surprising side. Despite Chase’s loss in the series opener, the loose-jointed southpaw | Ch only momentarily deviated from the steady course he has maintained in recent weeks. Ken allowed only two | Bitoher—Chs hits in the seven innings he labored, suffered a spell of widness in the third inning to walk four successive Yankees and force across & run. Joe Di Maggio’s home run, leading off in the second inning, and Bill Knickerbocker’s double, launching the sixth, were the only hits regis- tered against Ken, but in the mean- time the Nats were bumping into difficulty with Spurgeon Chandler. Chandler checked the Nats with four hits, all singles, and was threat« ened only once. In the eighth Zeke Bonura led off with a single to left 'm‘um-mw Sammy West after Jimmy Bloodworth } -49th annual Middle States Regatta | BEST PLAYING SEASONS... -- AND TO SPARKLE WHILE THE AVERAGE AAT PITCHER IS WORKING, A CATCHER 49th Middle States Regatfa Assigned To Philadelphia By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, May 28.— The | | will return to the Schuylkill waters | here September 1, after an absence of five years, the Middle States Association voted last night. Charles V. Doyle was unanimously re-elected association president. Also re-elected were W. Robertson Richardson, Richmond, Va., vice president, and Latrobe Cogswell, Baltimore, secretary-treasurer. The 19-race regatta will be held over a one-mile course. Entries will close August 22. Two races of the 1939 program — the 145-pound senior singles and the 145-pound senior quadruple sculls—were elim- inated. Senior eights were added. Heurich, Cameo Teams Clash for Top Spot First place in the Industrial Base- ball League and temporary recogni- tion of supremacy will go to the winner of today’s Heurich Brewer- Cameo Furniture game on the West Ellipse at 5 o'clock. Each team has won five and lost one and split even in two games with each other. Thursday Game Sought A game for Thursday is wanted by the Briggs A. C. Insects, who may be booked at Geoggia 2140. Plenty of It With an Oucburd Mnmr! HAS TO BEGoap ! Ump Saves Bonura $5 for Talking NEW YORK, May 28.—“I hunch down here,” said the Nats’ Zeke Bonura to a friend as he kneeled behind a strip of steel bordering the Washington dugout at Yankee Stadium before yester- day's game. “Ya see, if an um- pire catches me talking to a spec- tator itll cost me five bucks.” “You better scrim then,” cau- tioned a soft voice not 3 feet from Zeke. Seated next to the person with whom Bonura was attempt- ing to snatch a bit of conversa- tion was Umpire Bill McGowan, detailed to guard against such in- discretions. Zeke hushed, blushed and rushed. "II It Belongs on o Bost, We Have 11" THE MURIEL SENATOR SEZ: If you think a seal is good for balance, jest look at a Muriel cigar ...mild, satisfying flavor topped with a nickel price. Now ain’t that sumpin'? A CAPITAL CIGAR'FOR MURIEL SENATORS CIGARS THIS IS ABOUT THONLY CHANCE 1 GET T'LOOK AT ANY REAL WHEN I HAVE T'RETIRE T MIGHT GET UP A JUGGLIN' ACT-- I'VE SURE MUCH OF DUTCH LEONARD'S SUCCESS (S DUE To RICK'S EXCELLENT HANDLING OF THOSE DIFFICULT KNUCKLERS ‘mrmmm Vet Tauscher Flashy As Millers Defeat Leading Blues B the Associated Press. Cagey Tom Sheehan found out last night that old Walter Tauscher still is a handy man to have around when the chips are down. Sheehan, Minneapolis manager, planned to use Harry Smythe against the Kansas City Blues, but changed his mind and the 36-year-old Tauscher agal the American Association leaders. The veteran hurled a five-hitter and wound up with a 4-to-3 victory in 10 innings. The triumph moved the Millers up within three games of the cham- pions, with two games to go in the current series. Champions Trail Despite Their Double Win Brooks Grab Fourth In Row; Idle Bosox Gain on Tribe By JUDSON BAILEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. National League fans, who have endured enough hair-raising races iy recent years that they can feel blase about the child’s play now going on in the American League, never have had anything closer than the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers are today. They are tighter than a tle, if such a situation is possible. The Dodgers are on top in per- centage 714 to .710, but they are half a game behind in won-lost calculations. Cincinnati has won two games more (22) than the Dodgers, who have lost one less (8) than the Reds. The Reds did all that was in their power to capture the lead in stopping the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1 and 7-3, yesterday. In the first game Whitey Moore and Joe Beggs combined to hold Pittsburgh to four hits and won the game on two runs donated them in the first inning.. Helped by two 3-run frames, Jim Turner went the route in the nightcap, scattering nine hits. Dodgers in Streak, But Cincinnati’s best just wasn't good enough to erase that percentage margin as long as the Dodgers con- tinued to win—and they chalked up their fourth straight victory with a 6-0 shutout of the Philadelphia Phillies. . Whitlow Wyatt kept four hits nicely spaced while his mates ganged up on Clyde Smoll and PFrank Hoerst for an even dozen. Five of the blows came in succession in the fifth inning for three runs. Pitching keynoted most of the day’s games. Bill Posedel held the New York Giants to four safeties while the Boston Bees pounded out a 7-1 triumph with 13 hits off three pitchers. It was Posedel’s third win—exactly one-third of all Bos- ton’s nine triumphs. Tony Cuccinello joined in the party with two doubles and two singles for a perfect day. The Chicago Cubs kept the Na- tional League design four-cornered by belting the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-1, and closing the gap betweeii them and second place to a game and a half. Claude Passeau limited the St. Louis sluggers to seven hits and held them scoreless after the first inning. Newsom Stops Indians, The Cleveland Indians slipped half a notch in their efforts to overtake the Boston Red Sox in the American League by losing a night game to the Detroit Tigers, 6-1. Buck Newsom | simply took charge, holding Cleve- {land to six hits, striking out nine and retiring the last 11 batters in order for his fifth victory against one defeat. The Red Sox were rained out at Philadelphia. DEGORATION DAY 5000 of Our Factory Reconditioned BLUE RIBBON TIRES UNCONDITIONAL 6-MONTH ALL POPULAR SIZES “5.50x17T 6.00x16 6.25x16 6.50x16 7.00x16 | SPECIAL!? i, o it 20 R CHoiCt Your Choice All Other Sizes in Stock at Similar Low Prices 3446 14th STREET N.W. 701 SOUTH PATR Corner Prembiin, Al V.