Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1940, Page 16

VASHINGTON, D. C, S ATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940. Finest Open Golf Field in Years Stages Bitter Stretch Battle for Crown i Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN, Star Staff Correspondent, Sammy Snead . . . At Spring Mill and Canterbury CLEVELAND, June 8—As these lines were written, the calendar for Samuel Jackson Snead was flipped back a year. Here today the ex-caddy from Hot Springs, Va., found himself in another dogfight for the National Open Golf championship. As the final 36 holes started he found him- self in a three-way tie for the lead with two other fine shot makers and | with more first-class contenders literally breathing on his neck. But because Samuel Jackson Snead almost generally is accepted as the smoothest-swinging and longest-hitting accurate golfer in the busi- ness, he was being regarded as the favorite among Canterbury’s hills and dales this morning and this takes us back a year to the Spring Mill course on the other side of Philadelphia. Brother Snead then, as now, was running at the head of the pack. He warded off the usual late charges and needed only two pars on the last two holes to win. But he buried the seventy-first hole and, as you may recall, he wound up with an incredible 8 on the seventy-second. It was interesting the way the experts speculated on Sambo's future. Some guessed that Snead was finished as a competitor. This seemed to be the most popular conviction. And, remembering the crushed, dazed look on Snead’s face and his numbed shuffle to the club- house, it sounded highly reasonable. He Came Back to Win the—.MTmi Open Another angle was that Brother Sam didn't have the imagination to permit that ghastly 8 to haunt him and after the first 36 holes in this | Open it would seem this angle was closer to the truth. For Sammy, after hiding away for some months, gradually returned to the wars and looked like the Snead of old last December when he won the Miami $10,000 Open. But, of course, Snead hasn't finished the last 36 holes in this Open. Not as this is written anyway. So far he has shot a remarkable 67 and a 74 and he was tied with Lawson Little and Horton Smith, both of whom he figured to beat, for the lead. In other words, Snead was right where he was a year ago in Philadelphia—out in front, rated over the rest of the field and with the final two nerve-racking rounds to go. As it ®oked today, while the 66 survivors of the original field of nearly 170 were poised for the stretch run, Snead faced no easy test in his bid for redemption. The two golfers with whom he is tied and the fourth man, Frank Walsh, may not be the best in the business now, but they are sound shot makers and only two strokes back of Sambo. In the slot, where many prefer to be on the final day, was Ben Hogan, co- favorite with Snead when the tourney began. Only Demaret, of Big Favorites, Fell by Wayside Again the National Open, like any other sustained fair test, has proved that form counts. Of the six golfers who were regarded as standouts before play began—Snead, Hogan, Craig Wood, Byron Nelson, | Ralph Guldah! and Jimmy Demaret—only the latter is out of the run- | ning. Demaret withdrew vesterday—although he undoubtedly could have qualified for the final 36 holes had he kept plugging. But the Texan knew he couldn’t spot fellows like Snead, Guldahl and Hogan any- where from nine to a dozen strokes and win, so he quit. Nearly all of the leaders who today had chances to win belonged near the top. It follows that none is precisely a duffer. Walsh never has won anything important, but he is a fair sort of a golfer. Sam Parks, tied with Hogan, won the Open in 1935 but, withal, he was a dark horse. Hutchinson, jr.; Llovd Mangrum, Andy Gibson, Jim Ferrier, etc.—but by and large the contenders were the big leaguers. Smith and Little belong, so do Henry Picard, Jug McSpaden, Dick Metz, Tommy Armour and the rest. In short, Snead shook off very few of the top-notch golfers he knew he had to lick when the battle of Canterbury started. There are some others who were long shots—fellows like Jock ! Bunched Scores Give 20 Stars Title Chance Gibson of Baltimore In Running; Three D. C. Pros Out By WALTER McCALLUM. 8tar Staff Correspondent. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 8—A bitter, bruising battle down to the final putt stretched ahead of at least two score of competitors in the National Open golf championship today, with a pot of gold that might run as high as $30.000 assured the winner, on top of the $1,000 check that is his immediate payoff. Not in many vears of Open cham- pionship history have the scores | been so bunched as they were at | Canterbury today as at least 20 men, all within five or six shots of the trio of leaders at the halfway mark, sought to drive and putt their way clear of the pace and move out in front over the final lap this after- noon. Gone from the tournament scene were such modern luminaries as Jimmy Demaret, the 30-year-old Texan with a million-dollar grin, one of the pre-tournament favorites, and blond Clayton Heafner. Both withdrew yesterday after discour- aging performances. Up at the forefront of the proces- sion, with 36 holes to go, were three of golf's finest shotmakers. Sam Snead, long ago installed as the people’s betting choice in this cham- pionship; 32-year-old Horton Smith, a veteran of these title jousts, and broad-shouldered Lawson Little were tied for the lead with 141 for | | two rounds over the par 72 Canter- |bury course. The championship might lie among these three. Or it might fall to phlegmatic Frank Walsh, a son of the Ould Sod, at| 142, or to Sam Parks or Benny Hogan, at 143, or to any one of the | flock of other men whose halfway | scores stretched back to 149. Cham- | pionship precedent and tradition | virtually tosses out any competitor | more than eight strokes back at the | halfway point. Gibson in at 146. Still in there pitching, in a spot where a couple of great rounds might win him the title, was Andy Gibson of Baltimore, the Scotchman from a public course, who won the Maryland Open championship of 1938. Andy put together rounds of | 4 BOTH HAVE TROUBLES—“Smiling Jimmy"” Demaret (left), big winter money golf winner, blew up with an atrocious 81 in the " second round of the Open golf championship yesterday, but was still smilin, g as he tore up his card and tossed the pieces into the air. At right Walter Hagen wandered into the dandelions on the fifth hole, but got out (arrow shows ball) and contrived to qualify for the final grind today with a 152, just one shot under the line. Longshots Grab Roles in Drama 0f Pressure ‘Name’ Linksmen Fall As Little and Smith Challenge Snead By EARL HILLIGAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. CLEVELAND, June 8. — They “mobbed” the payoff window today in the drama of pressure, failure and victory that is golf's biggest gamble—the National Open cham- pionship. Promising what may be the great- est finish in the history of a tourna- ment well marked by heartbreak and disappointment to favorites and the sudden rush of longshots to fame, 21 of the game’s finest stars were within a six-stroke leadership bracket as the final 36-hole stretch drive started at Canterbury course. Deadlocked for the 36-hole lead at 141 strokes were two top power players, “Slamming Sam” Snead and Lawson Little; and one of golf's style artists, suave Horton Smith, one-time “Joplin Ghost” and boy wonder of the sport. Their battle toward the game's biggest crown— with almost a score of others ready to take advantage of any slip—car- ried the prospect of as colorful a free-for-all as the event ever has known. Wind, Rain Bother Snead. Snead, who lost his grasp on the |title a year ago with a disastrous | eighth, turned in a 2-over-par card of 39-35—74 yesterday to add to his Thursday round of 67, five under ‘regulation figures. Canterbury's tricky winds, dor- mant two days, roared over the fair- | ways during a rain squall which | sent Sam reeling at the sixth hole. | He took 1 over par there and 3 over for the out nine. Coming home, he picked up three strokes on | six holes, then ran into trouble at —A. P. Wirephoto. Baseball Crown Win !Wai-sh, 37; Is Bucking Age Jinx;Big Slump in Averages In National Open Golf Quest; |Drops Batting Aces Record Scorer ‘Unlucky’ Gets Centralites Free Nat Game B the Associated Press ‘In Both Leagues | the short 17th going 2 over par. | The broad-shouldered Little, work- | ing on an opening 72, came in with a 3-under-par card of 36—33—69, | playing the kind of golf which won | him the British and American ama- | teur titles in 1934 and 1935. | Smith, tall Chicago professional, had nines of 36—36 to match par | as against his first-round 69. On | the eighteenth Smith missed by an | hi K. So that's the way it looked as the early firing on the final day began. Chick Harbert of Battle Creel It again was Snead against the field, as it was a year ago, and whether | it was to develop later into another Snead-against himself adventure ington entrants all are out. Gen | remained to be seen. It's hard to imagine a fellow with so little imagina- 1 Larkin of Woodmont, with 78—78— tion that those eight horrific strokes at Spring Mill would be completely | 156, missed qualifying for the last\ Letters Awarded forgotten. | day by three strokes. Lew Worsham |of Burning Tree, with 78—81—159,| Central High School students missed by six strokes, and George | down to the last boy and girl will | inch a 9-foot putt which would have | CLEVELAND, June 8 —Canterbury | Mich., who believes in doing the | Huyes Is 59 Points Off | given him the lead and a slight | edge toward capturing a title neither tales: proper thing at the proper time,| 5 Bucking precedent and the law of | went wading yesterday in the middle, And Danning Drops 30 | he, snead or Little ever has won. As Figures Fade | Walsh Stroke Off Pace. averages at the National Open golf | of his round. Driving his 10th tee | tournament is Frank Walsh, Rum- | shot into a creek, he promptly took | son, N. J., veteran, whose 69 yes-|off a shoe, waded in with one foot ! Frank Walsh, veteran Rumson (N.J.) professional, was just a stroke off the pace at 142, going around a chance, if not to win, to get well | Students to Be Guests up in the money. The three Wash- | Of Griffith Monday; 71 and 75 for 146, and definitely has | ‘ terday gave him a 142 total—only | and smacked his ball back to dry a stroke off the pace. Walsh is 37./ land. | BY the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 8—It takes Travis Sparkles on Ailing | Prop to Help Leonard | Notch Seventh Win By BURTON HAWKINS. Somewhat akin to your next meal, Cecil Travis isn't likely to be ap- preciated until he's absent. The Washington shortstop, lacking the color or spark necessary to attract more than passing attention, never- theless has stampedehimself as a valuable chattel to the Nats. There have been occasions when Washington fans have yearned to view the spectacle of an aroused Travis, a seething Cecil, who by, bellowing indignities into an um- pire’s mask would give some indi- cation he really owned interest in developments. By now, though, fans have learned they can't expect that any more than they would fathom Hitler swimming over here to request Roosevelt's advice on his next move. | Mr. Travis simply refuses to be- come irked outwardly, but in his silent style the guy’s a fighter. | Travis returned to Washington's | line-up yesterday after an absence | of 11 days due to a severely gashed leg. Protecting a deep wound, the result of being spiked by the Ath- letics’ Wally Moses, is a strip of fiber supported by a generous ap- plication of tape. | Wound Still Hasn't Healed. Perhaps he still shouldn’t be play- ing. The wound hasn't healed, and he worked out only two days. lightly on each occasion, before resuming his status as a regular. Although | he contributed an error on the first ball smashed in his direction, he also produced one of the finest plays of his career in addition to smash- ing a single and triple. It was in the fourth inning when | Travis streaked far back of second | base for Mike Tresh's grounder,| spearing the ball and flipping it backhand fashion in the same mo- | tion to Second Baseman Jimmy Bloodworth. ~ Travis' toss forced | Eric McNair at second, and Blood- | worth's throw to Zeke Bonura com- pleted the double play. Itll be| snowing in August when that ladies’ | day crowd of 9,000 wil be privileged | to view a more beautiful play. In the seventh inning, with the score locked at 1-1, Travis lashedl a tremendous triple to the center | fleld corner. Ordiarily he would have scored standing on that smash, but his damaged leg slowed him considerably. It didn’t matter, how- ever, for Bloodworth followed with a sharp single to center to score hi m. What did matter was the fact that Travis again demonstrated he'll give his best, ailing or other- wise, and appear apologetic in the process. He won't whoop and holler or rant and rave, but in his quiet fashion he’ll give Manager Bucky Harris everything he's capable of giving. Cecil Recuperates Rapidly. Travis has a happy habit of bouncing back miraculously after being hospitalized. Last year after being stricken with sieges of in- fluenza and grippe he regained his and became a brilliant the last month of the strength shortstop season On a previous occasion Thornton Lee sent him to the hospital with an erratic fast ball which collided with Travis' head. Ten days later Travis returned to the line-up against the same pitcher and col-| lected five hits in as many trips to the plate. His return works a hardship on| Rookie Jimmy Pofahl, who now must fidget on the bench, but with | Travis hitting at a .346 clip and Pofahl swinging at a .228 pace, it | seemingly won't cause the club to| suffer. | In the meantime Dutch Leonard | possesses his seventh victory of the season, achieved through the ju- dicious spacing of nine White Sox hits yesterday as the Nats bumped | Chicago, 3-2, in the opener of a| three-game series. Ken Chase Today's Pitcher. Dutch. who walked only one and fanned four, was presented sturdy opposition by Jack Knott, who lim- ited the Nats to eight hits. Washington, which had taken the lead when Travis and Bloodworth collaborated, produced what proved to be the winning run in the eighth, when George Case walked, moved to second on Buddy Lewis’ sacrifice, to third on Johnny Welaj's infield out and across on Gerald Walker's looping double to right. Leonard survived a ninth-inning rally by Chicago which manufac- tured one run. Ken Chase, who whipped Cleve- Jand in his last start, was to toil for the Nats today as they sought to inherit fifth place, with Bill Diffenbaugh of Kenwood, disgusted | turn out Monday morning for the with his game, picked up early in the second round. Sam Snead, the belting hillbilly from Hot Springs, Va., playing in his fifth Open championship, was | the favorite, but Little, making his first big bid for the title, and Horton Smith, one, of the few remaining leaders of the Jones era, were no easy men to shake off. Smith, his flawless putting touch keeping him in front, harked back to exattly 10 yvears ago today at Minneapolis, where he led the pack at the. half- | way mark with 140, one stroke less than his total today. At 32, tall Horton is a veteran and one who | can win. Only once in two days has | that silky putting touch deserted him. That happened on the seven- teenth hole yesterday, where he missed a tricky 3-footer. They all miss those, however. Little would have a clear title to the lead enter- ing the last round had he held a 2-footer on the eighteenth yesterday. | And Snead blew a 3-footer at the seventeenth for a buzzard 5, his only | double bogey so far. Hogan Two Shots Back. Form is running true in this open as it seldom has done before. Grouped in there all within six shots of the lead are Byron Nelson, the defending champion; four for- mer champions and a flock of the men who have proved their links mettle in man-to-man combat from coast to coast. Little Benny Hogan, still jittery from an attack of flu, is onlv two shots back, with 143. The whole thing is as wide open as an Oklahoma barn door. One thing is sure, as it always is at these championships: By the middle of the afternoon at least a dozen gents will have the championship all tucked away and will toss it blithely away. The fellow who can keep his head cool and his putter hot while the others are blowing it away will be the new champion. It always happens that way. Or it might be that another Tony Manero can come steaming down the stretch, holing putts from any and all of the tournament Dietrich nominated to pitch for Chicago. " (See McCALLUM, Page A-17.) | big assembly and rally to celebrate | the Vikings’ second successive base- | ball championship and the fourth | since Coach Jack Ray took over nine | years ago. There will be a double incentive for all students to show up at school Monday morning, for not only will they attend the victory celebration but they also will receive tickets to Monday's baseball game at Griffith Stadium between the Nationals and | St. Louis Browns. 2.500 strong—will be guests of Clark Griffith and the Washington club for the afternoon’s game and will be dismissed half an hour early so they may attend the contest. It's a big day for Central. Griffith himself will be on hand Monday morning to issue the invi- tations. He also will present to the Meanwhile, Central’s schoolboy athletes are sporting new letters ri ceived at yesterday's athletic assem- bly. ris, member of the Graduate “C” Club and president of the Central Alumni Association, making presentations. Members of championship baseball given gold baseballs and those on the championship track team re- ceived gold track shoes. This rewarded were: Baseball—Zello Lagos, William _ Fisher. John Whalen. Patrick Fenlon. Blasi. Benjamin Steiner, Harold Evans, Kenneth Mandes Charles Kligman, the and Bredbenner. Arthur Brasse, Mike Denikos, | Mike Dunn. Bill Edgerton.’ Albert Havden, | Emil Jettmar. James Kurz_Russell Lamar. George Lavinder, Dan Magnuson. Murphy. Clayton Norris. Jim Porter. For- st ~Roberts, Jack Samperton. Hubert Tucker. Rob White. and Jim Zuppa. Swimming—Julian Rocha, Henry Craw- ford. Bill McKelway, Louis La Fever, Har- old_Esten and Phil Thompson Golf—Don Murphy. William _Stures. James Anderson. Bernard Park and Robert Kenneay. Tennis—James McCarthy. Beniamin PIEDMONT LEAG Richmord. 7: Portsmonth. Durham. 4: Winston-Sale Rocky Mount, 9: Norfolk, Charlotte. 5: Asheville, 4 school a plaque emblematic of the| high school baseball championship. | Forty-seven were awarded for | five spring sports with George Nor- | the | team were | The only man older than 34 ever to | win the championship was Ted Ray, | an Englishman, who turned the trick | at 43. Mortie Dutra, the Royal Oak, | Mich., pro, believes in keeping the | gallery “on its toes.” Pitching beau- { tifully to within 2 feet of the pin on The students— | | strangely is complaining about that | Sam Di | Richard Mosser. | pg Track—Bruce Aaron. Steve Adams. John | | Don | Chicago Rubin, Joseph Woodson and Jack Crowell. | Gowan. Quinn and Pipgras. the 13th green yesterday, he turned after a moment and asked: “Where, please, is the applause?” He got it. Bruce Coltart of Haddonfield, N. J, who entered today's list of final qualifiers by the skin of his | teeth after collecting the lowest | nine-hole score of the tourney, | 4-under-par 32. Had he not missed | two comparatively easy putts, he would have broken all existing nine- hole records for the Open. The National Open is vying with | the war for front-page attention n Cleveland newspapers these day With stories repertorial and ana- | lytical, being written by dozens of widely known golf writers, the col- umn of Bill Marton, caddie No. 73., is easily one of the most enlight- ening. Enrique Bertolino of Buenos Aires. competing in the tournament with his fellow townsman, Martin Pose, is having trouble with the North American way. He purchased a $2 book of tickets for use at the re- freshment tents, found himself seized by inspiration upon passing | a slot machine in the locker room | and complained bitterly in his na- tive tongue wupon learning the| tickets could not be changed back | to nickels. Official Scor AB. R. coo-M Rosenthal McNair, %b Tresh, ‘¢.__| Knott. p *Silvestri 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 IO PeT) Totals > S| owmmsimsm> ‘WASHINGTON. Case. rf Lewis, 3b _ Welaj. “cf Walker, If Bonura, 1b Travis. ss Bloodworth, errell. ¢ Leonard, p colt o czcmmzzome FONU Y] PO Siemnn0 orszss0® k|ozeses b PERTRROEE moomD ' Major Statistics SATURDAY, June 8, 1910. AMERICAN rday. STANDING OF THE CLUBS | (5] Iy 221 YI0X MIN 3omea o393100 o, 28 = ImoT = puvEasd - wiudppsiiud IR 2| orms » Bl e I3 ~l o Totals 3 *Batted for Knott in ninth. 000 001 001—2 Z 001 000 11x—3 Washington Runs batted in-—Welaj, Appling. Blood- | g worth. Walker, Tresh. ~ Two-base hits. ! just one glance at the averages o v yesterday in 69. Sam Parks, jr., Pittsburgh, and Ben Hogan, Dublir, the major league batting leaders Tex. were bracketed at 143. Parks, | this week to see that they found op- ‘ 1935 winner, had a second-round 74. N i i Hogan a 73. Ralph Guldahl, two- postnglntctiers f1n dood Horm nnd‘ time Open champion, was at 144 bad humor. and in position to turn loose the Lou Finnye, the Boston Red Sox’s | finishes which saw him win in 1937 outfielder who has been skyrocket- | and 1938. Also in the 144 division ing all spring, fizzled from a 396 Were Len Dodson, E. J. (Dutch) mark to a more commonplace .368 and wound up just two points ahead of the St. Louis Browns' Rip Rad- cliff, who last Saturday had a stratospheric .393. But their drop was nothing as compared to the 59-point collapse of Frank Hayes of the Philadelphia € | Athletics from .392 to .333. The National Leaguers had the same trouble, except that they didn't have as far to fall. of the New York Giants continued to face the senior circuit sluggers, but his average subsided 30 points from .382 to .352. Dixie Walker of the Dodgers, who was second last week at .354, slipped to a modest .333. The 10 leading league: hitters in each American Player. Club League. Natlonal League. Danning, New York__ 37 145 . Pittsburgh__ New York n bi 24 Leiber, s, Pittsb'gh leago. - Harry Danning | Harrison and Vic Ghezzi. Former Champion Gene Sarazen had 145, along with Jock Hutchisor, {jr.. Lloyd Mangrum and Craig Wood. Defending Champion Byron + Nelson. whose 37—37—74 yesterday | gave him a 146 total, had the com- | pany of Jim Foulis, Henry Picard, P. G. A. titlist; Harold McSpaden, Leland Gibson, Ed Oliver and An- drew Gibson. | Jim Demaret of Houston, Tex., | big gun of the winter tour, ballooned to a 41 going out after a first-round 74 and then withdrew without turning in his card. Jim Ferrier, | Australian champion, was low- | scoring amateur, getting a 74 yes- | terday for a 147 aggregate. Sixty- six scorers of 153 and ties qualified ! for the final round. ;i Western Boys' Club Loop Seeking More Teams Applications from teams desiring to enter the second half, which | starts during the next two weeks, are being accepted by the western division of the Boys’ Club of Wash- ington Baseball League. Paul Casassa is taking entries for the two classes, from 14 years of age and under and 16 and under, |at the Boys' Club, Twenty-eighth 'and M streets, Michigan 2122. 20 20 1] 11 5] 3| 2/—[16]2" Walker. Three-base hits—Appling. Travis. Sacrifices—Knott, Lewis. Double play- L._|1511818/20125]26124/37 (—i—_ Travis to Bloodworth to Bonura. bases—Chicago, 7: Washi base_on balls—Off Knott. Struck out—By Knott. Passed ball—Ferrell : by Leonard, Umpires—Mec- Time—1:54. Attendance, 9.000. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Staunton. 8: Salem. 2 Lynchburg, 8: Harrisonburg. 6. Ott Out of Giants' Cleanup Spot First Time in 15 Years Dean Given Classic Farewell; Cocoa Kid Can Talk to Himself in Six Lungudges By EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, June 8—Man- aging the Cardinals is getting to be tougher and more uncertain than coaching football at Florida U. Joe Louis and Mrs. Joe are wondering if it will be a little champ or champerine in the fall. Hottest baseball spot in the re- public this week end is Cincy. Dodgers and Redios play seven games in the next nine days and when they're over you'll have a pretty fair working idea where that bunting’s going to fly. Pay- check's “comeback” proved one thing, anyway—Johnny actually can raise his hands, which cus- tomers at the Louis fight doubted. What's this! For the first time in 15 years, Mel Ott is missing from the Giants’ clean-up posi- tion. Alr lanes humor—During his very good broadcast of the Conn- Lesnevich fight, Mr. Sam Taub unloaded this one: “Conn is standing his ground in the center of the ring while circling to his right.” (Let’s see you do it, Sam). Not to be outdone, the co-com- mentator (a Mr. Stern) con- tributed this gem: “... It is very warm in Detroit tonight . . . but that’s not unusual, for summer is approaching.” Gentlemen, gentlemen! Headline headliners — When Dizzy Dean departed for Tulsa and points West, the Chicago Daily News sped him on his way with this headline quotation from Mr. Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII”: “Farewell, a long farwell to all my greatness.” A bit more to the pernt, the Chicago Times passed it up with “Dizzy spell ended.” Selected shorts—Golfer Charles G. Eberhardt of Tamps knows A ia how the old chick felt. The National Open’s official roster fails to list him either as a pro or an amateur. Thus he becomes the only unclassified golfer in the fleld. Exclusive, hey? High Breeze and Blensign are getting the raves in 2-year-old racing circles, but don’t overlook a colt named Clarksville. He's won four consecutive races with the great- est of ease and may make it five in the big race at Lincoln Fields today. Joe Louis flew to Wash- ington to see his sister graduate from Howard University. Alf Letourner, the French six-day bike star, has been ordered to Join his regiment. He sails in a week, leaving his wife and 3-year- old child here. Today’s guest star—Lynn C. Doyle, Philadelphia Evening Bul- letin: “Cocoa Kid, the fighter, speaks six languages. . . . Won't A 's he have fun when he reaches the time of life when fighters start talking to themselves?” Oh, No? So there’s nothing new under the sun? Well, ho wabout Demaret's 81? Ragtime News Review. The Cards gave poor Ray Blades the air; Campolo was half killed by Baer; The Giants demoted Melvin Ott As keeper of the clean-up spot; Demaret shot an 81 (Which any duffer could have done) And Sammy Snead burned up the course While birdies sang their fool selves hoarse. That's all the news that's fit to print, And 50 we end this little stint. ) 1.3 GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. Gh. at Wash, 3:00. Chi at Wash.. 3:00. Cleve. at N. ¥. Cleve. ‘at New York. Detroit at Bosion. t" at Boston. Bt Louts alPata. B¢ Lovis'st Phiiar NATIONAL Results Yesterd Brooklyn, 8t. Louis. Chicago. Boston, Pittsburgh, 10; Philadelphia, 4. STANDING OF THE CLUBS T ] g 5 5 e I o7 uojsod == purgeq omvo ~ wiadepsiiud. uApooIg TeUURUD = X10X AN == uingsnia ---a3wuadrag BEll—[ 3] 3| 6] 6] 71 1| Cinl 2—1[ 41 41 61 21 6] NYI 3| 21—/ 1| 21 2/ bl Chil 31 21 21— 41 6l 4| StL 20 11 2( Bi— 31 1] {110 1( 2[ 41— 3| 2(141231.378112% PR 0/ 11 2 b| 2| 1i—| 2/13(231.361113 Bos| 01 3/ 1/ 0l 1| 3 4—I12/241.333(14 L. 111/13116/22/24(23(231241—I—|__| GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW. Brooklyn at_Cinel. Cinel. (2). N. Y. at 8t. L. (2). 8t. L. (2 Phila. at Pitts. Boston at Chigago. i 3271117111 5/29/131.6901 7I22/161.505] 4% 412312216111 7% 1115/24].385112% EASTERN LEAGUE. Wilkes-Barre. 6: Elmira. 3. Rf"“'fl'm‘ Biggham! bany. 6: Hartford. 4. Only games. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. 1: Columbus. § (11 innings). sfil'rllflhllflv 0. 7 wille, 6—8. EASTERN SHORE LEAGUE. Cambridge, 5; Pederaisburs, 1. ston, 7, Ssiisbury, 1. ver, 3. Track Marks A re Threatened At Princeton Despite Ace Milers’ Absence B» the Associated Press. PRINCETON, N. J,, June 8.—The kings of the mile were missing but the seventh annual Princeton Uni- versity invitation track festival still carried in its seven well-balanced races today threats to several world marks. For the first time since he inaug- urated the carnival with a world record 4:06.7 mile in 1934, Glenn Cunningham won’t compete. Ab- sent also was Cunningham'’s succes- sor as the greatest of milers, the ail- ing Chuck Fenske. Thus the mile, usually the fea. tured race on this star-studded pro- gram, became just another event while attention focused on Fred Wolcott's assault on sboth the 120 high and the 220 low hurdle marks and Greg Rice’s attempt to smash Don Lash's 8:583 2-mile outdoor record set on the Palmer Stadium track in the rain in 1936. Lash, an Indiana State policeman, TODAY Washington vs. Chicago AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomorrow—Chicago—3:00 P.M. faces Rice in the 2-mile while W, - cott should meet substantial op- position from Boyce Gatewood o\ Texas and Marsh Farmer of Texas Tech. The 440 brings together the out- standing quarter-milers of the land. Charley Belcher from Georgia Tech, who has the year’s best time of 46.7, races Lee Orr of Washington State, Johnny Quigley, Manhattan fresh- man who won the event last year as a schoolboy, among others, Blaine Rideout is favorite in the mile. Last year Blaine caused an international “incident” when he “bumped” England's Wooderson on the homestretch. His twin brother ‘Wayne is entered in the 2-mile. The other events were the 480- shuttle hurdles relay between quar- tets from Texas and Yale and the half mile with an evenly matched field. i 4 Air-Conditioned ALLEYS Bowl in Comfort CHEVY CHAS|