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Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-02
BRAZIL BASSLER MEET
IN GOLF PLAYOFF

DEL MONTE, Calf, Aug. 2. U.P
Larry Brazil of San Francisco and
and Harry Bassler of Long Beach,
will swing clubs against each other
today in a playoff for the title in
the annual northern California open
golf championship
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-02

ment at Wichita late this month.
Joe Andrade, who paced the Ell
Centre batters, and Tex Reichart
were named on the all tournament
team.
Ell Centro defeated Phoenix. Og-
den and Clarkdale in reaching the
finals where they lit on the offer
ings of one of the finest hurlers in
the southwest, Bill Guthrie, to
score an easy triumph.
The Coca Cola team started
scoring in the second inning when
it tailed once on two hits. The
Coca Colans added four more in
the third and iced the game with
a five run outburst in the fifth.
Every player ON the team hit at
least once and every one except
Lawson Willingham scored at least
one run.
The score:
Ell Centre 80. Old Sol 010-12 Is 3
Flagstaff -. Oil 00l 000- 3 5 3
Reichart and Laabs; Guthrie,
Mace and Bolton.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-02
Long Beach Team to
Represent California

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2 UP)-The
Samuel Thomas American Legion
Junior Baseball team of Long
Beach is southern CALIFORNIA; entry
in state playoffS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-02
WHEN is HOBBY
A NUISANCE

PITTSBURGH, Aug. CUP)-
When is a hobby a nuisance? The
city zoning board will decide that
question when it completes an in
vestigation of neighbors' charges
that the one half horsepower
handSaW and a nuisance. Cuppy
business ana a nuisance Cuppy
says its a hobby.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-02
San Diego Padres Hold
Three and One-Ha|f Tilt
Lead in Coast Loop Race
By UNITED PRESS

Pacific league of three
today which the first dv
generally clubs the lower
Sunday with
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-02
Coca Cola BasebaIIers
Con Six-States Title;
To Represent Far West

FLAGSTAFF Aug specia1-sold base hits excellent
pitching Ell Cenos baseball team 1913
victory the
States semi-pro baseball tournament
Rechart triumph
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-02

eleven batters. The victory en-
titled Ell Centre to represent the
Far West in the national tourna-
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Lanahan Wild Again.

DESPITE the one-sidedness Of the
affair there were some high spots
from a Washington viewpoint. First
and foremost there was the pitching
of Sgd Cohen, who took opportunity
yesterday, in front of Carl Hubbell to
unveil his new-found screw ball With
the aid of it he blanked the Giants in
his three-inning term on the mound
BY the time sgd entered the game,
however, the score stood 60 and was
all over except for the pouting In
the second inning young Dick Lana
han, who started for the Washingtons,
experienced another of his frequent
attacks of wildness and walked Johnny
Mccarthy and Burgess Whitehead. He
got Catcher Danning, but one of
Richards curve balls hung in the air
and Castleman banged it for three
base hit, scoring two runs. Dick Bar
tell slapped a single moment later
and Washington was down.
Richard was relieved in the fourth
inning and by that time Lanahan had
40 frightened that Pee Appleton, his
successor, really was a relief to the
Giants. Pete made the same mistake
that Lanahan had made. In his first
inning Pete walked Danning and
Castleman with one out and successive
singles by Bartell Chiozza and Joe
Moore sent three more runs across the
dish.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Open With Distinction, Anyway.


THAT, of course, meant the ball
- game The WashingtonS were not
ready for such stuff as Castleman and
Schumacher were throwing, but in
the second frame Castleman walked
Sington and Hill to start and when
Travis poked a soft liner to left center
it looked as if the Griffs were going
to get back into the game.
Sington and Hill started to run and
% did Moore. The latter was the most
successful. He caught the ball, whip
ped it to Whitehead and the latter
pegged to Mccarthy at first base for
= triple play-probably the first of the
major league season"
Schumacher was not as effective as
Castleman, but he was just as hard to
score upon. In the eighth inning
Buddy Lewis whanged the longest ball
of the year at Tinker Field and tried
to make a home run out of it. He
stumbled between third and the plate
and was tagged. That was the near
est the Mats came to scoring
Cohen did first-class job, all things
considered. sgd is little ahead OF
the rest of the Washington pitchers
but that should not detract from his
performance. He gave up three hits
one per inning, and never was in dam
ger of being scored upon. Thrice he
threw his screw ball end by virtue
Of it he got two men out. He was
okay.
The Griffs, withal, took the beating
with good grace and emerged with
confidence undeflated If it's true
what they say about the Giants, it's
too bad they aren't playing in the
, National League.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Getting Too Involved.

OCbtln& 1OO lNVOiNeO.
GEORGE McQUINN was drawn into
the net, too. He was owned by
the Yanks at one time and polished
in the International League. Mean
while Mr.. Gehrig was doing very we'll
at keeping his consecutive game streak
going and the Yanks sold him to
Cincinnati for fair price. It isn't
known, but he was $500 player,
at least.
Last but not least is Powers,
the kid from Baltimore. He be-
longed to the Yanks. BY one of
base balls fully unexplained
deals he was sold to the Giants,
along with Pitcher Cliff Melton,
for $4,000.
Now figure it out. Roughly, $4,000
for Hassett and Mccarthy. McQuinn
probably was worth $500. What
Powers represented monetarily in the
Baltimore deal is not known offhand,
but he must have been valued, con-
servatively, at $4,000
Mr.. Gehrig probably has thought OF
all this already and used it as a
weapon in his battle with Rupert
In turn, Col. Jake has purchased Babe
Dahlgren, still another first baseman
1t doesn't look like it now, but even
tually Gehrig will come around, as
they all do, and then Dahlgren will
be assigned to Newark-or even sold
Such = thing would bring the
profit from selling first base
man to, let's see, approximately
oh, nuts, it's too involved
already.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Sixth pot for Dodgers Would Tickle Grimes


ceiving end of a new long-term
contract.
Paul Dean is a sucker" for slot
machines . Lefty Gomez's curve
Is breaking better than ever, but he
is having trouble getting it over
:. Joe Di Maggie wanted to fly to
St. Pete, but Col. Rupert and Ed
Barrow wired mo" Pictures of
the colonel arriving in Florida show
him with his hands in his pockets
:. The colonel says he means to
keep 'em there, too :. Some Of the
National League managers think II
Frisch had kept Mike Ryba last
year the Cardinals might have won
the pennant >. Anyway, the "one-
man ball club" looks a sure bet to
stick this time Billy Myers Of
the Reds claims he hit the homer
that sent Mike to ColuNbus.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
cox COLTS WELL
AT ST. AUGUSTINE
Teams With Strafaci, Gets
Second Best Score in
Pro-Amateur Play.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
= T. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March 10.
Witty Cox, pro at Kenwood,
Md, Country Club, and Frank
- Strafaci of Brooklyn, N. Y, 1885
national public links champion, teed
off this morning in the first round of
the third annual national amateur
professional best-ball championship on
st. Augustine links They opposed
Tony Manero, national open title
holder, and Morton Mccarthy of Nor
folk, Va.
Cox and Strafaci turned in a card
Of 65-66-l31 to finish in second
place in the qualifying round yester-
day, in which 38 teams battled for 20
positions in match play.
Equaling the course record Of Gene
Sarazen and Mally Reynolds, last
years tournament winners, on their
second round yesterday, the team Of
KY Laffoon, Chicago, and Carl Damn
of Orlando, Fla, topped a large field
with two 18-hole rounds of 64-63-
1877 The score was nine strokes under
par for the 6,345-yard layout.
Leo Walper, Washington, D. c., pro,
and G. Dudley Ward of Rochester,
N. Y, failed to make the grade with
their double-round effort of 49,
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Hildebrand Nav Help.

WE NEED pitching more than
anything else-need it badly.
Perhaps that trade with Cleveland
that brought Oral Hildebrand to us
will help. We hope to have an i'm
proved staff"
Ten days Of training have passed
and Bell, the clubs leading hitter, is
no nearer signing a contract. The
former Texas A. & M. College young
ster, who played in every inning and
even Clipped in with little first
basing when Jim Bottomley was all
ing, muttered he lust wouldn't play
for that kind of salary"
Unreasonable retorted President
Don Barnes. Why the boy is COM
pairing himself to Bob Feller and Joe
Di Maggie. He's a fine player, a great
hitter, but not entitled to a 300 per
cent salary increase.
Hornsby listed on his mound staff
Jack Knott Al Thomas, Elon Hogsett.
Les Tietje, Oral Hildebrand, Russ Van
Alta, Earl Caldwell, Lou Koupal and
three youngsters, Elton Walkup, Sign
Jackucki and Howard Mills. Only
Thomas did better than 500 with St
Louis last year No rookie at 80
years, Koupal, up for another big
league trial, had a fat year with
Seattle in SO, hurting % triumphs
against IL defeats.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
.Hafey's Return
Buoys Redlegs

By the Associated Press.
TAMPA, Fla, March 18-First
division hopes of the Gin
cinnati Reds rose somewhat to-
day with word from the veteran
Chick Hafey that he was "rarin' to
get back into harness" and in
structions telegraphed by General
Manager Warren c. Giles to re-
port May /.
Hafey, on the voluntary retired
list since May, 1885. previously
had expressed a desire to re-enter
the game, but froUned on terms
offered by Giles.
In a letter received yesterday,
however, he said he was in the
pink of condition" and requested
the management's best offer.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

Mccarthy was one Of the boys sold
by the Yanks. Johnny was one of
those unfortunate Yankee farmhands
before whom rose the specter of
Gehrig lasting forever He was play
ing for Newark, which is the chief
farm of the Rupert rifles
He got quite a break when
Newark, acting upon orders
from Jake, sold him to the
Giants for 100000
Hassett, the Brooklyn first baseman,
was another. He. too, belonged to the
Yanks, who used him at Newark.
When the Dodgers offered real dough
for Buddy the New Yorks sold him
for reported price of $4,000. This,
then, would bring the total so far to
approximately $4,000, if you can be-
lieve reported prices.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Confidence Is Heartening.

FURTHER questioning revealed, not
only from Harris but the rest of
the club, that Bill Terry's athletes are
far ahead of the Nationals in condi-
tioning, When the Giants checked
into Orlando yesterday some of them
dropped into the Mats headquarters
and began to chin. They had played
something like 10 or IL games, going
into yesterdays affair, and nearly all
Of them said they were ready to open
the season tomorrow. In short, with
out attempting an alibi, it must be
stated that Washington went into the
game conceding a big edge in condi-
tioning.
Whether the Griffmen really are as
good as the Giants may remain moot
question. Ben Chapman, jokingly said,
after the game. That We'll find out
in October" This, of course, is to be
doubted but the fact remains that
while Washington has no further
games with the Giants this Spring the
boys still think they are as good, if
not better, and that may mean some-
thing.
Actually it did our club 8 lot of
good" was the way Harris and Presi-
dent Clark Griffith put it. Maybe
we'll take beating the next. time out
but thereafter, or as soon as our boys
see a little more good pitching, we'll
be ready for any of them.
II don't like defeat any more than
any one else" added Bucky, but I'd
rather be whipped by pair of pretty
good pitchers like Castleman and
Schumacher than to sock some punk
all over the lot"
Evening star., 1937-03-18

Frisch and Coaches Buzz Ware and
Mike Gonzalez.
Poll of New York writer's with the
Dodgers picks them to finish sixth
:. that would satisfy Grimes, all
right Joe Gordon, rookie in
fielder, is the talk of the Yankee
camp . He is expected to burn
up the International League with
Newark this season and eventually
step into the shoes Of Tony Lazzeri
with the Yankees All of which
has Don Heffner a bit low
Frenchy Bordagary is learning to
play the fiddle so he can take
more active part than passing the
hat for the Pepper Martin minstrel.
If Josh Cody's Florida foot ballers
continue to do all right, Josh is
going to find himself on tho re-
Evening star., 1937-03-18

The Cardinals have seven men
they'll pit against anybody in the
National League for speed =. :. . They
are Pepper and Stuart Martin,
Arnold Owen, Terry Moore, Don
Gutteridge, Frenchy Bordagaray
and Don Padgett . . In referring
to Hank Greenberg the other day
Col. Rupert missed signal and
called him Hank Goldberg"
Frank Frisch calls this the best
training camp he's ever been in, and
the odds are the Cardinals will vote
to come back next year -. They
drew 5000 for their first exhibi-
ton game and on a rotten day, too
=. If Dominic Dallesandro makes
the grade with the Red Sox, he'll
be the shortest outf1elder in the
majors He is only 5 feet 4
inches high. 4
Evening star., 1937-03-18
SYD'S SCREWBALL
PUZZLE TO GIANTS
Lanahan, Appleton Pounded
Earlier in Fray-LeWis
Misses Homer.
BY FRANCIS Z. STAN,
Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

~ RLANDO, Fla, March 18. -
With as good grace as pos
sible the Nationals gulped the
dregs of defeat today and
prepared to go about the business of
winning their second Grapefruit
League" start on Saturday against the
Cardinals at Daytona Beach.
The Griffs, recalling last years Sc
ries of heartening exhibition victories,
walked confidently into their opener
with the Giants yesterday at Tinker
Field and staggered out of the battle
pit on the short end of 6-to-0 count.
1t develops they only thought they
had been looking at swift pitching in
batting practice. 1t seems they hadn't
seen anything until Messrs. Clyde
Castleman and Hal Schumacher be-
gan firing for the National League
champions.
When Manager Bucky Harris was
located to perform an autopsy, how
ever, the verdict was a cheerful one,
considering the circumstances. Bucky
was by no means discouraged. He
said, What the help" couple times
and then bodaciously stated:
I'D just like to play the Giants l54
games a season this year and pass up
the rest of the clubs. I'd guarantee
that we'd win more games than we
lost. Sure, I mean it when I say the
Washington club is just as good as the
Giants, if not better.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

three to six times as much as people
more intelligent than himself. But it
is interesting to note that while Gehrig
cannot get the salary he demands from
Jake Rupert the Yanks have gone
ahead and sold various understudies
to Gehrig for roughly 100000
As the years went by it be-
came obvious that, with Gehrig
on hand, first basemen were
not needed
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Cohen Work Sotens Mats Loss Pilot Soft Pedals Brownies
Sports Program
For Local Fans

OD"As
Wrestling.
Rudy Dusek VS.. Hank Barber
and Joe Dusek VS.. Ed Meske, main
bouts, Turner's Arena, $50.
Table Tennis.
District championship tourna-
ment, Earle Table Tennis Club,
403 Eleventh street, 7:30.
TOMORROW.
Table Tennis.
District championship tourna-
ment, Earle Table Tennis Club,
403 Eleventh street, 7:30.
SATURDAY.
Base Ball.
Washington VS.. st. Louis Cardi-
mails, Daytona Beach, Fla
Basket Ball.
Evening Star !nterscholastic
tournament, Tech High, pm,
girls metropolitan final George
Washington VS.. Bethesda, Chevy
Chase, boys suburban final,
Mount Rainier VS.. Bethesda, Chevy
Chase; boys metropolitan final,
Western VS.. St Johns.
Track.
Georgetown in knights of Co.
lumbus games, New York City.
Boxing.
District A. A. U. championships,
Turner's Arena.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
A. A. u. TILT SHIFTED
Sleuths, W. P. A. Meet for Title
at Tech Monday.

Tonight's scheduled basket ball game
for the District A. A. U. championship
between Bureau Of Investigation and
w. P. A. has been postponed until
Monday night, when it will be played
at Tech Highs gym.
The Heurich gym, site of the tourna-
ment this year. was thought to be too
small to accommodate the crowd wish
ing to see these old rivals clash.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
BY EDDIE BRIETZ.

~ AYTONA BEACH, Fla,
March Is (P.-Those
- who've seen them say the
Giants look okay
Owner Sam Breadon estimates
Dizzy Dean has 100000 salted
away OF Diz plans to 60 on
the retired list, Breadon and
Frankie Frisch haven't heard Of it,
.. Col. Jake Rupert swears he'll
play first himself before he'll cough
up 10000 iron men for Lou Gehrig.
Percy Beard, Florida track coach
who is trying to teach the Brooklyn
outf1eiders how to pick up their
dogs, is called professor" by the
Dodgers Fate of the Cardinal
rockies is being decided at nightly
oonfabe among Branch RicksX
Evening star., 1937-03-18
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK, March 1s.-De-
M pending, OF course, on
N whether the dizzy sS' one"
makes it stick, the abdica-
ton OF the great Jerome Herman
Dean from the st. Louis Cardinals will
just about spell flowers and soft music
for the 1887 pennant hopes of the
gas house gang.
With Dizzy Jogging 'em in, the
Cards stand out as a potential one
Two shot in the coming National
League race. II he continues his
holdout and goes on with his threat
TO retire this year, the STRENGTHENED
Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates
and New York's defending pennant-
holders all may pass the Dean-less
outfit.
Although you still can get odds that
Dizzy will be in there opening day, the
situation, If it developed, would be
without parallel. Players of other
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Cards, Minus Dizzy One, Sunk,
But Dean Is Likely to Repent
after Long Publicity SquaUk

eras, such as the Giants Edd Roush
and the Cubs Johnny King, extended
holdouts through entire seasons, but
never has any one recalcitrant meant
a pennant.
AS potential 25-game winner,
Dean would bolster any club. With
the Cards, who have none too many
flrst-rate hurlers, his absence would
leave Lon Warneke, obtained from the
Cubs over the Winter, as the only sea-
soned hurler.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
Scrap for First BaSe Joh

FIRST base will be we'll protected
with Bottomley, lusty hitter, and
Harry Davis, fair hitter up from
Toledo, scrapping for the post.
A swatting rookie from Atlanta,
Gerald Lipscomb may give Tommy
Carey fight for second base.
Bill Knickerbocker is a cinch at
shortstop and Harlan Cliff will handle
third, Hornsby admits he may clip
into a few games and pronounce him
self in tip-top condition.
The veteran Rollie Hemsley will be
understudied behind the plate by
Chubby Tommy Heath from Toronto
The outfleld, if Bell signs, will have
Joe Vosmik in left, Sam West in
center and Bell in right, with Ethan
Allen, Mel Mazzera and Ed Coleman
in reserve. Allen, veteran major
Lacquer, would slip into Bells slot if
contract trouble keeps him out of
action.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
TWO CHOICES LEFT
IN AIKEN GOLF PLAY
Jane Cothran, Winner Over Helen
Dettweiler-Patty Berg in
Semi Finals Today.
BY the Associated Press.

DI lHt ASoOIIdLcu EItSS.
A 1KEN, S. c., March l8.-Only two
favorites remained in the women,
invitation golf tournament here to-
day, Patty Berg of Minneapolis ano
Jane Cothran Of Greenville, S. c.
Miss Berg faces Barbara Bourne OF
New York, who eliminated Medahst
Mildred Babe Didrickson yesterday,
and Miss Cothran faces Grace Amory.
also of New York, who turned back
Marion Miley of Lexington, Ky.
Helen DettWeiler of Washington,
D. c., was a victim of Miss Cothran
after the latter had eleminated Audrey
Phipps of New York. Miss DettWeiler
lost to the semi-finalist by and 2.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
PLAY OFF GOLF TIE.

P1NEHURST, N. c., March 18 LP)-
George T. Dunlap, jr., former national
amateur champion, and James T.
Hunter of North Adams. Mass, tied
at l48 for first honors in the annual
tin whistle golf tournament. They
play off today.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

have to get back into harness"
Your rabbit -eared stooge, who hears
everything except what he should, be-
gan to think lheh, heh) little. Nc
Carthy and Powers. eh? There's
something familiar about those names.
Weren't those fellows once connected
with the Yanks? And Buddy Hassett
and that McQuinn kid from Ballston,
too? And isn't Gehrig still holding out
on the Yankees? There seemed, in all,
an angle worth considering.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
"POPPIN!G a. a.
Off, ~Jtf5n::: 5IzZlRl -
Special Dispatch to The Star.
Nobody's Getting to First Base.


Field
rapher who didn't Mrs Mussolni
Buddy will tell who is? a
Mr. a
plan play
this Bil?"
I've got three other first basemen club
There's Sambo Leslie Johnny Mccarthy
Evening star., 1937-03-18
ExhibitiOnCanes
New York (NO &. WASHINGTON

New York (ND, s; Washington
tAD, 0.
Todays schedule:
At Winter Haven, T1a-Boston
(N) VS.. Philadelphia tND.
At Daytona Beach, F1a.-St.
Louis (N.) VS.. New York (N).
At St Petersburg, Fla.-Cincin-
natl (N) vs. New York (A).
At New Orleans-Cleveland (A.)
VS.. New Orleans IS, AZ.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
REACH TENNIS FINAL
Parker and Murray Battling for
Bermuda Championship.


Bermuda Championship.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, March 18
P.-Frankie Parker, top-seeded IA
vorite, and Robert Murray, dark horse
entry from Montreal, have reached
the final of the Bermuda champion
ships.
Parker disposed of Walter Senior
OF San Francisco, 6-3, 60, 6-3
Murray outlasted Charles Harris Of
West Palm Beach, Fla, 6-3, 6-8,
6-4, 6-1.
Mrs. Dorothy Andrus of New York
and Nine. Sylvia Henrotin of France
won the women's doubles title, de-
feating Helen Petersen, Hartford,
Conn, and Helen Fulton, Chicago,
81, IS, 6-4.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
No Chance for Cards.

OUCH a development would hardly
- leave the feared gas house gang
minus It's ace, holding the same hand
with the Cubs, Pirates and Giants in
the seasons pennant poker game. The
Cubs, obtaining hitting first base
man, Ripper Collins, in the Winter
trading, as we'll as possible pitching
star in comebacking Roy Parmelee,
are stronger outfit than that which
tied for second place in 1886
The Pirates, with Dutch Brandt as
their first top-ranking handler IN
years, have more on the ball. The
Giants, although their remade infield
still is question mark, nevertheless
won the 1886 pennant with most Of
the same men who will be back this
Summer.
Looking at it from another angle:
Dean, by winning "a games last sea-
son, just about sing<f fhandedly
brought the Cards into a second place
tie in the final standings, only FIVE
games back of the Giants. Without
these games-and it's about as sure
as death and taxes that the Cards
can't pull another 25-game winner out
Of the hat noW-St Louis may wind
up 10 games farther back. This con-
celvably could leave the Cards at the
tail end OF the first division, or even
in the second section.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
BAD WEATHER IRKs CUBs.

AVALON, Catalina Island.-Mud
and rain had Charlie Grimm and the
Chicago Cubs in bad humor today.
The club has had only four work.
outs.
Evening star., 1937-03-18
HORNSBY HARD UP
FOR SLAB TALENT
Merely Willing to Predict
That Club Will Finish in
American League.
Mote: This is the fifth OF a series
on American League club pros
meets
BY FELIX r. MCKNIGHT,


Associated Press Sports Writer.
= AN ANTONIO, Tex, March 1s.-
Manager Rogers Hornsbys
complaint for his st. Louis
- Browns is:
He needs winning pitchers
That, coupled with the defiance of
his holdout outfield star, Roy Beau
Bell, voted the American Leagues
most valuable 1886 freshman after
.344 season at the plate, has the
aging "Rajah" in deeply conserva-
tive mood He declined to predict
anything except that the Browns
would finish in the American League.
AT that" he mused, "our club
should show improvement over last
year. 1t looks to be the Yankees and
Detroit at the top with the rest of us
about equal and me trying to finish
the Browns, seventh last year, as high
as possible.