Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 44

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1942. SPORTS. Golf Heads Urged to Restore City Title Tourney, Open It to Public Linksmen Eliot, New lllinois Grid Coach, Pay-as-You-Play Performers Declared Unjustly Ignored District Association, Meeting Next Week, May Increase Executive Committee By WALTER Final golf association-annual McCALLUM. meeting of the winter season will be held Tuesday night at the University Club on 16th street, with the solons of the District Golf Association scheduled to settle the much discussed question of the District links championship. Due to come up at the meeting is another matter that may make the District association more completely representative of local golf. This is a proposal to enlarge thed- Executive Committee by choosing| one man from each of the 14 mem- | ber clubs. Dr. Thomas Utz of In- dian Spring is to be elected presi- dent of the District organization. He has served a year as vice presi- dent. Not long ago the Executive Com- mittee of the District association adopted a recommendation to the annual meeting that the local ama- teur title tourney be cancelled this year. This action came despite the fact that neighboring links bodies— the Middle Atlantic and }Maryland associations—have o. k.’d normal| golf schedules this year. Not Popular Action. ‘The action of the District solons | hardly can be said to be popular | with the rank and file of men who | compete in the tournaments. Many | of them can see no reason for can- cellation of the Dictrict champion- ship at this time, suggesting that it should be scheduled, and that later if conditions warrant cancellation that step can be taken. The proposed cancellation does not sit well with many of the men who play in these tournaments.| Many of them have told us that in- asmuch as they have played in the District championship for years tHey | feel they should have a voice in set- tling the question of its fate in this war year. But by and large the tournament competitors do not at- tend the annual meeting of the as- sociation. They have no voice in the decisions that affect them. The decisions are made by men who in the main do not play tournament golf. | In the middle of the winter a tournament the following Septem- | ber seems a long way off, and in-| consequential when viewed against the backdrop of bigger things that are happening. And the District| tournament isn't a major affair. It| is only a city championship, and | perhaps not even a true city cham- | | likely a. public links lad would win Fhappen to our championship cup if | It could be held by the secretary of pionship at that. But it should be carried on just the same. Should Invite Publinx Boys. To make it a true District of Co- lumbia championship the solons of the game would do a good job to invite the winner and runner-up in the public links championship of this year to compete in the District title tourney, if they change their minds and hold the evente It isn't the tournament. Dick Jennings, the reigning public links champ, has ndt yet proven that he can win toursaments against the best of the private club group. And Dick is (or was in 1941) the best of the boys playing public links golf. The poipt is that the public links lads should have a shot at the Dis- trict title. They’ve been denied that shot a long time, There have been vague questions as to “what will a public links player wins it?” and so on. The championship cup, if a public links golfer won it, wouldn't have to go to East Potomac Park or Rock Creek Park or anywhere else. the association. Public links golfers, by and large, play the pay-as-you-play courses because they cannot stand the ex- pense of golf at a private club. But that does not mean they are any less golfers or good sportsmen. We know of many men who play public links golf who can well afford to belong to country clubs, and some who play the public layouts who do be- long to private clubs. But generally the boys who use those courses do so because the “nut” of country club golf is a little high for slim purses. That, in our book, doesn't make them pariahs, or men not worthy of playing in the | District championship. They should | get a boost up the ladder. And how | they would appreciate the chance to play in the title tournament! AMBITIOUS—Confident that his arm is in good shape again, Southpaw Larry French of the Brooklyn Dodgers has set a goal of 200 victories in the major leagues before he quits the mound for good. Now 34, French, shown at his Los Angeles home with his 10-year-old son, Larry, jr., now has 182 victories. —Wide World Photo. His Golf Luster Gone, Guldahl Gets Poor Rafing in Crosby Ex-Open Champion Plays In Lower Group Today; Stars Start Tomorrow By ROBERT MYERS, Associated Press Sports Writer, RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif., Jan. | 30—Golf’s cycle of luck has an odd | His Back Healed, Herman Signs Eagles Hope fo Rout Dodger Contract for $18,000 |Jinx as They Face Veteran Thinks Training Trip to Havana Johnstown Club This Year Would Prove Interesting By JUDSON BAILEY, Bluebirds Have Beaten Associated Press Sports Writer. BROOKLYN, Jan. 30.—Billy Herman, streamlined by 8 pounds during the winter, but still looking plump, has recovered from the back injury that took him out of the World Series and is ready to resume at second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers any time—and any place. | The 32-year-old star infielder arrived yesterday from his home at New Albany, Ind., and in a short % Capital Hockey Team In 5 of 7 Contests One day & bum and the next day a hero is the way Washington's hockey colony is rating Goalie Craig McClelland of the Eagles. On the way of turning. Thats why Ralph e s Guldahl leads an array of less re-|¢onfab with President Larry Mac- nowned players into the first round | Phail signed a new contract. | of the $5,000 Bing Crosby Golf Tour- | He was the first player to take namemvwday, ot | advantage of the club’s invitation | . The overcrowded entry list was| to some of its higher salaried Dod- plit, the first division playing its 86T to come to Brooklyn to discuss | 18 holes today and the second half | S21ar¥ terms and he was believed to going out tomorrow in this sixth |Dave signed for approximately $18,- annual links battle. SFSCiGE Lo e P Saturday being a better day for | n, N e attendance, the name players, m-\R l w N cluding Defending Champion Sam | lng Ingo or"es Snead, Benny Hogan, Byron Nelson | and company, swing into action to- | he commented. | receiving end of loud boos only last 000, the same as he received last Tuesday when the Eagles went down year. E before the New York Rovers, 11-3. “I did about as well as I expected,” | McClelland the next night found all | was forgiven when he turned in a Herman said he had heard of the | really brilliant performante by stop- controversy over whether the Dodg- | Ping the Baltimore Orioles, 4-1. ers should train again in Cuba, but| He gets a chance tonight to con- added he was not worried by any |tinue as a hero when he takes his thought of danger. | post in the nets against the Johns- “I like it in Havana. I don't care | town Bluebirds, a club with a real whether we go by boat or by pune! jinx for the Eagles, at Riverside and in fact the boat trip might be Stadium. This is the only team in the more interesting right now,” he said. ‘ whole Eastern League over which “I weigh 188 pounds with my | McClelland can’t claim a victory. morTow. Still Out to Regain Stride. Guldahl goes today, but whirl that eyele of luck back to 1937 and 1938 and you'd find the National Open champion of those consecutive years a star-studded registrant in the spe- cial attraction class. The tall, slope-shouldered fellow from Texas has shown but infre- quent flashes of the Guldahl of Oakmont Country Club in Michigan in 1937, and it’s been many months since he's looked the same perfec- | ‘|Nova as Neophyte In Stage Play | By the Associated Press. | "'MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 30— Lou Nova is happy to get his first stage opportunity while he’s recu-g perating here from a boxing injury, | but he’s a lottle perturbed apout one phase of his role. B “Can you imagine it?” he asked, tionist who plodded to a repeat thumbing the manuscript of the Open triumph at Denver's Cherry | play, “Is Zat So?” which once had a | clothes on and feel fine. My back is perfectly all right. It gave me a little trouble for a few weeks after the series, but up till the middle of | December I did a lot of hunting and | walking and worked the trouble out. | Since then I've been: doing a lot of ice skating and playing basket ball around home.” Herman twisted his back in the fourth game of the World Series and his absence from the lineup in the last game gave the Dodgers an added handicap in their final stand against the Yankees. His home is near Louisville and he Hills. | He labored years in obscurity be- | fore reaching that peak, however, and there is no reason to believe he | ‘won't regain his stride. He could do it in this tournament, | because he’s playing over a course he adopted two years ago when he | ‘bought a home in Rancho Santa Fe. | ‘Whether his cycle is ready to spin remains to be seen, however. Snead 3-Time Winner. Snead won the tolrnament for the third time last year with a 36- hole score of 67—69—136, and Craig Wood finished with 69—68—137. Ho- gan, sensation of the California| winter tour, had rounds of 69—70— | 139, tving Nelson, Jimmy Demaret | and two others in this bracket. Gul- dahl had a pair of 73s. | Snead plays with the tournament host, Crosby. and Hogan and Come- | dian Bob Hope round out the fea- Broadway run. "I've got to talk like | reported that Shortstop Peewee a fighter.” | Reese is just as “enthused” as he “Listen to this,” and the heavy- | for the start of the baseball season. | weight read from lines sprinkled Reese is expected in Brooklyn in a | with “dese,” “dose,” -“foist” and | couple of weeks to sign a contract. | other similar expressions reputedly | Pitchers Hugh Casey and Kirby common around the arena. | Higbe and Outfielders Pete Reiser “I don't know how to talk like\and Tom Tatum previously have that.” come to terms. O U T D O O R S With BILL"ACKERMAN D. C. Anglers Luckless in Miami Tournament; Largest Sail in Derby Weighs 83 Pounds In fact, the Eagles have won over the Birds only once in seven games. One ended in a tie. Tonight's game easily could be a battle of goalies because the Blue- birds carry with them one of the real Eastern League stars in Goalie Frank Ceryance, who has an especial knack ' of stopping Washington drives. Even with the Baltimore Orioles two seasons ago he was a special pain to the Eagles and is responsible more than anything else for the third-place rating currently | enjoyed by Johnstown. Aside from Ceryance, Hank Dyck, Johnstown forward, also figures to be in the Eagles’ way tonight and rates third among the league's scoring leaders. | Gulls Get Goalie Jones AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 30 (#).—John (Deacon) Jones, 22-year-old goalie for the Akron Clippers, has been traded to the Atlantic City Seagulls for Leith Dickie, 19, also a goalie, Hockey Standings EASTERN LEAGUE. During the opening weeks of the 1941 Miami fishing tourna-| Revey ment, Washington anglers had nearly a dozen entries on the board. | Three were in top place for as many different species, while the balance were runners-up or in the show position. This year we fail to note a single Capital entry. The same is true of entries in the Washington Baltimore ___ River Vale ~_ Atlantic City _ AMERICAN LEAGUE. Early Gridiron Drill AtL. 5. U. May Help Men for Service Draftees Would Be Set Physically, Declares Head Coach Moore BY the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 30— Coach Bernie Moore already has called his 1942 L. S. U. football team together for “spring” practice, and if some of the boys are drafted be- fore fall—well, they’ll be in condi- tion to fight, anyhow. Serious work will start Monday and end March 18—three days be- fore spring actually arrives. “We have a coaching staff capable of handling the present squad so we plan to go ahead as usual” said Bernie. “If we lose some men after we get started it won't be a waste of time because we'll have con- ditioned these men for Army and Navy life.” Already the Army has taken L. 8. U.’s trainer, C. F. Striplin, and George Schwab, manager of the fieldhouse, who were first lieutenants in the Reserve. Even without the draft, Bernie will have to do some patching to make up a team. About seven of his 1941 regulars graduate. However, an outstanding fresh- man crew will furnish some excellent material. You bite a piece of SERENITY toast . . . » and find delicious beneath Successor Earns Phelan’s Praise By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Jimmy Phelan, former head football coach at the University of Wash- ington, today voiced his approval of selection of Ralph (Pest) Welch as his successor. “The guy is the salt of the earth,” Phelan said. “Sixteen years with Phelan should make him smart.” Phelan predictec. the 35-year- old former Purdue halfback, Phelan’s assistant for 12 years, would make good in a big way. He played four years under Phelan at Purdue. 20 Years Ago In The Star Clark Griffith ended specula- tion about the price of Shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, who recently came to Washington from the Red Sox, by reporting he cost $50,000 cash, in addition to three players, Frank O'Rourke, Jose Acosta and Bing Miller. Charles Paddock, known as the world’s fastest human, declared he is through with track compe- tition and will not run for South- ern California this spring. He holds numerous records, includ- ing the 100-yard dash mark of 9 3-5 seconds. Promoter William Brady is ready to guarantee Jack Dempsey ;V plllxsm of $150,000 to fight Harry ills. Quickly on Job, BY the Associated Press. CHAMPAIGN, IIl, Jan. 30—In vast Memorial Stadium, built during the pre-Grange era of Bob Zuppke- Optimistic was & catcher on the baseball team. Eliot has been intensely popular with members of the football team. On several occasions players had coached Illini football teams, a |demanded that the Athletic Boat@ Zuppke pupil named Ray Eliot will direct the University of Illinois gridders next fall. ‘With spring football drills sched- uled to begin shortly, Eliot teday plunged into his new duties with the declaration: “We will start right away to get things in shape for next fall. We have a great bunch of kids who love to play football, and it's going to be our job to mold them into a real team.” Just 6 years old when Zuppke began his 29-season reign here in 1913, Eliot held the position of lin2 coach when his appointment was announced yesterday. There was elation on the campus | at the sudden announcement, for | presumably it meant the end of a| four-year period of athletic wrang- ling. The 72-day coach hunt came | to a conclusion when members of the Athletic Board agreed on Eliot. In some corners both Illini and non-Illini inquired: “Who's Eliot?” Part of the explanation for his| relative obscurity is the fact he went_through school as Ray Nuss- | elevate the line coach, who served at Illinois College for five years b= fore he came here in Septem« ber, 1937. Humbmheyz Dims Bruin Hopes For New Talent By the Associated Press. If Manager Art Ross of the Boston Bruins is planning on getting any help from the Hershey Bears of the American League now that his fa- mous “kraut line” is gone, maybe he’d better not look at today’s papers. Last night the Jeague-leading Bears suffered one of their worst defeats of the season when they dropped a 7-1 decision to the Pitts- burgh Hornets, last-place club in the Western Division. 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Because Washington fishermen$¢—— oo b Springfield __ aren’t in the running it doesn't mean Providence McCoy of A’s Put in 1-A GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, Jan. 30. (®—Benny McCoy, Philadelphia Athletics’ second baseman, has been reclassified 1-A by Kent County Se- | lective Service Board No. 2. Horse Show (Continued From Page C-1) Norman Haymaker, had what it takes to win over the Springsbury Farm'’s Highland. Ace, with Shirley Payne up, and the Perrys’ Ragna- | rock, piloted by Jimmy Harris. Summaries: Green jumpers—Won by U. S. Govern- ment's Rum Boogie: second. Anita Ma mele's Caddy's Trump: third, Frost derson’'s Miss Marie; fourth, Mickey Ma- ®ill's Gratchino. Road_hacks—Won by Mrs. M. E. Whit- ney's _Cherry Bounce: second. Springs- bury Parm'’s Highland Ace; third, W. Hag- in Perry’s Ragnarock; fourth, B! F. Hall's cruit. Jumper scurry—Won by Lt. Pred J. Hughes, jr.: second, Mrs, ;nd J. Hughes, r.’s Hi Ho: third. Maj. C. B. McClelland's acko: fourth, H. Gray's Mr. Taylor. 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Largest sailfish of the derby is an 83-pounder, just 19 ounces less than the leader in the Miami tourney, which also is the leader in the 1942 Ruppert contest, if it isn’t called off. ‘The Palm Beach fish will be in sec- ond place. ‘There is an exceptional run of kingfish along the coast. It's best, Palm Beanch, but Miami fishermen aren’t doing so badly, either, ‘from L} the boats or piers. Down in the Keys, Harry Luckett, é (o) another Capitalite, boated a 9- pound Spanish mackerel while fish- ing off Snake Creek. And that is quite a mackerel. Fishing conditions haven't been all that embryo anglers could ask | Fifipe>e" for, so most of the fishing has been | Pittsburgh :}c’oompluhed by the old-timers at H k R I e game. A wire from Capt. B. L. Raymond this morning oel!apof more oc ey esu ts promising weather and good pros-| By the Associated Press. pects. NATIONAL LEAGUE, Blue Marlin at Palm Beach, | Detroit. 2; Chicago, 0. 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