The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-02
Run1ors And Reality Gathered From This Sporting World
 By JOHN A. CLUNEY
Peeking Through The Sportoscope
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Whether not golf is youngsters game was to be settled locally today Charley Clare New Haven resident Hartford and Waterbury golfer in hls capacity nonresident member of the Country Club here teed off against Charles B. Round Rhode Island Junior champion, and slick player for his you would to follow along the fairWayS Before you msed let tell that Clare is quite young too having felt the heat of 26 and played golf during ten or twelve of them but Round Is years of and coming like the proverbia house afre in the competitive golf world Clares tournament experience plus his knowledge and ab y to play the Waterbury where he set the record for IS holes of competitive play August 24th of last of this week with scntiatng subpar 67 which he on the repeat yesterday having eleven pars and two brdies in IS holes against L. K Ives of Hartford whom he defeated and 5, the match being unfinished Despite all this great gof Round will not rghten for he has done thing two himself having taken Bobby Grant of Wheth ersied and Dow Ahearn of Wiimantc two of Connecti cuts "bg three to the last ROUNDUP by identical of and to play successive days and anyone who do that play the Scotch game just about perfectly Clare is heavy favorite where the cnmusc is loud and long but these who want to back him with that stuff to shot upon his record in the tournament It's Rounds youth and skill that has the boys guessing.
 An interesting piece of plucked from
 Rouley " Phillips president of the Waterbury Coun-
 try Club, yesterday oho stated that Waterbury aou
 ha0e representative in the National Amateur Golt Championship play scheduled for Brookline Sep
 tember 10th and he uiU be Bobby Grant of Wethers-
 fed former stote champion aoho 0as recently elected
 to nonresident membersip n tue ocal organsation,
 the status that Charley Care has occupied since
 last Grant aoiu represent Woterbuy rather
 than his club for the that Wehersfeld is
 not e member of the United States Gof Association
 Uhich bars nonmembers from competing the national
 eVent. Cure OW also compete at BrooHtne c
 Der of his home cub RacebrooOk of NeU Hauen.
 Is Lou Gehrg shooting for the home run leader ship of the major leagues this to combine with iron man. record of consecutive games played? Pm begn ming to think and Jimmy FoXx of the Athletics whom everyone seems to think has chance Ruth record of 60 in 1927 better look to his laure Right now Foxx IS just two home Gehrg who has 3 hitting them out steadily and when you think of those 29 home games at the Yankee Stadium from until Labor Day. it's not too much of task for Gehrig hop into home run lead that leave Foxx in the lurch Pictures of Gehrg arguing with Umpire Dineen last Tuesday about home run, which ruled foul ball. after he reached second base show how much Gehrg trying He got two that day and had three but the foul ball ruling as the ball went into the right field stands close to the line
 By this time, Tommy Loughran Of Philadelphia c
 great guy must knoW that he has reached the end Of
 the traa Everyone knea H up to last night qvhen fat
 Johnny Risko, Whom Loughran has beaten tacce out
 roughed the Phy Phantom in ten rounds at Freeport
 Long Island. And aUth the decision Louohran's
 chances im the heavyVeght picture Uhich acere teao
 dnyaCay.
 Though he failed to shine he should amid that galaxy of hits banged out in the Giants wome over Boston yesterday admirers of Phil Wentraub, who came from Nashville the Polo Grounds Tuesday and failed to hit in four times up him redeem himself in no uncerta yesterday All he got four hits out of seven attempts which not too bad for rookie who was farmed out because of few fielding faults But hits mean runs and runs ball and ball games mean champion ships and then comes the payoff.