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Evening star., 1939-07-08
Bobby Riggs Casual
Tactics Boring 10
British Net Fans
New Wimbledon Champ
Doesn't Core; Looks
To Seobrieht Event
BY SCOTTY RESTON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

WIMBLEDON, England, July g.
Bob Riggs, your new Wimbledon
champion, plays tennis like guy
who is being paid by the hour, and
the British don't like it.
His motto seems to be, Never
finish a match in three hours if
you can make it last five"
The British don't like that for
two reasons: First, it's boring, and
second, it cuts into the tea hour.
Consequently Cousin Riggs is
about as popular over here as a
good. long, serious discussion Of the
war debt
When Bob takes it into his slick
young head to stand at the baseline
and keep the ball in play for 10
minutes without the slightest at
tempt to win a point, he does it..
And when he decides to give points
and games away, he just grins and
watches the ball whiz by.
Plays as He Likes.
And that infuriates the British.
He did both things yesterday sew
eral times in his 5-set conquest OF
his doubles partner, Elwood Cooke,
and before long a lot Of people got
up and started looking for the tea
tent.
One old gentleman in the press
box actually stormed out.
Its outrageous" he roared. why
doesn't the boy get on with it? I
tell you, sir, he's positively casual. y
All this bothers Riggs about as
much as the Einstein theory.
"All right. I'm a careless guy" he
says, "but that's the way I like to
play"
He dismissed it all just like that
and already he's practically for
gotten about Wimbledon.
Worries Over Seabright Event.
What I'm worrying about now Is
how I'm going to win that Sea-
bright Cup when I get back home
and how America is going to keep
that Davis Cup"
Riggs already has two legs on the
Seabright Cup. The Seabright
tournament will be the first serious
test in selecting the United States
Davis Cup team. Riggs, Cooke and
Don McNeill all are planning to re-
turn to the United States on the
Manhattan, sailing July IA.
Riggs figures Cooke has improved
enough over here to beat Wayne
Sabin, Gene Mako or Sidney Wood
for the second singles place on the
American team.
They're all going to get sur
prise when they see how well Cooke
Is playing" Riggs confided today.
IT think he Is going to be hard TO
keep OF the American team"
Evening star., 1939-07-08
FauIt|ess Golf Gains
British Open Title
For Burton
Cautious Cheshire Pro
Hits 290 to Top BuIIo,
Other Crack Shots
BY DREW MIDDLETON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland. July 8.
The championship no one seemed
to want-the 1899 British open golf
Interested today with the man
who wanted 1t most-Dick Burton.
The Cheshire professional brought
faultless golf to a faultless course
when the heat was on and won with
a 72-hole total of 300 strokes to 292
for John Bulla of Chicago.
For four days the pick of Great
Britains players, a strong Argentine
squad and Bulla and Lawson Little
from America struggled for the title
Every one from Jib Bruen. the young
Corkonian, to the Argentine, Martin
Pose, had a chance TO win it at one
time or another.
Burton Beats Fine Field.
In the end 1t was Burton, Ryder
Cup player and ordinarily just run
f-the-mine pro- who cashed in on
the title worth only f100 in cash,
but thousands more in prestige and
Endorsements.
He won it decisively, and there is
no doubt he was the best man in
the field. 1t was good field to be
best man in, too, for down the list
were Reg Whitcombe and ALI Perry
champions in their own right, at
294: Pose, who fumbled his chance
yesterday with two 76s and had
295: Bobby Locke, the brilliant South
African, stroke behind, and far
down at 298 Bruen and the great
Henry Cotton.
Burton is about what you'd expect
the winner at ST. Andrews to be. He
hits healthy drive, but not over
long. His approaches are sound, but
not spectacular. His putting it bet
ter than it looks He puts care
lessly, but he controls the ball on
the lightning-fast rolling green's.
Winner Cool, Cautious.
He takes advantage of every good
line, every following wind, every
freak of Scottish weather. He is COOL
steady and cautious.
When he knew he had Bulla after
shooting the 18th in par yesterday,
he didn't 60 hell-for- Leather.
Whats the use?" he asked. Golf
is a game Of control as well as skill.
Any time you disobey its basic rules
you get hurt. I didn't want to get
hurt. OF course I'm glad won. 1t
means lot to any one-and beat a
grand golfer in Bulla."
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Grid Fans Begin Vote
For An-Star Team
To Oppose Giants
Annual Pro-CoIIeeiote
Game Is Scheduled
For August 30
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July s.-Football fans
began voting today to select per-
sonnel Of the all-star squad Of COL
lege seniors which will play the New
York Giants, professional cham
pions, in Soldier Field, August 30.
The poll to select the squad will
run for two weeks under supervision
of the Chicago Tribune, sponsor of
the game, and more than $50 affll-
lated newspapers.
At the conclusion of the player
poll, balloting will start to select a
coaching staff composed of two Mid
die West mentors and one each from
the East, South and Far West.
The two ends, two tackles, two
guards, center, quarterback, two
halfbacks and fullback receiving the
largest number of votes will make
up the starting lineup against the
pros.
In the five previous games the col
lege boys won two, the pros one and
two ended in ties.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Hunt, Sobin Among National
Stars in Baltimore Tennis
Play; D. &. Enters Seven

The first show of temperament by
johnson that tennis fans can re-
member had much to do with
Davey's downfall. Disguised with
himself, johnson time and again
slammed his racket to the ground
and after match point knocked the
ball mile into the air. Perhaps.
some observers say, it's just the kind
Of beating johnson needed to snap
him out of trend toward apathy.
Undoubtedly it was Johnsen's worst
of" day for the kid never looked as
bad before.
Can Win in Doubles.
johnson, however, still has the
chance to share one of the Dis
trict championships as he and Lynch
will play Welsh and Dooley Mitch
ell tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
o'clock for the doubles title. John
sen and Lynch trounced Alphonse
Smith and Dick Murphy, 60, 60,
IN a semi-flnal match yesterday,
while Welsh and Mitchell entered
the finals when 1t. G. c. Russell, a
member Of Armys Leech Cup team,
was prohibited from playing on the
eve OF today's important match with
Navy. Consequently he and his
partner. Frank Shore, had to de-
fault to Mitchell and Welsh.
Mixed doubles also will wind up
tomorrow. Before todays matches
the teams of Welsh and Helen Tyler,
Elinor Finckel and Buddy Adair,
Willie O'Steen and George Herbert,
Margo Lee and Phil Mahoney, Mar
ian Cunningham and Allie Ritzen-
berg. Johanna Zetlemeier and Al
phonse Smith, Dorette Miller and
Austin Rice. Frances Carter and
Charley Sturtevant and Mr.. and
Mrs. Buddy Dawson were still in the
running.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Major Leaders
tie Associated Press.


AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Batting-Di Maggio. New York. .42O:
FoXx. Boston. .352.
NeR Ru3sMcFamer' 9srk E, Boston, "a; Rolfe.
Runs batted in-Williams. Boston.
81: Greenbers, Detroit. so.
NeT o,,s,d YORK. 81; cremsr. Boston, 90. o
Rolfe. New York, "a.
Triples-Lewis Wright and Travis.
Washingtoni McCosky. Detroit: Kelt-
ner,. Cleveland. and McQuinn. St.
Home runs-Greenberg. Detroit. is;
Selkirk. New York. IA.
Stolen baSes-Case, Washington. 27;
CHAPMAN Cleveland, 13.
Pitching-Donald. New York. 100;
Sundra. New York so.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Batting - Arnovich. Philadelphia,
.316: Bonura. New York. 359.
Runs-Frey and Werber. Cincin-
Runs batted in-Mccormick, cincin-
natl 80; Bonura; New York. ss.
vich Philadelphia. %.
Triples--Herman. Chicago, II: Good
man. Cincinnati. and CAIRNS, Boston, 8.
Home runs--Mize. Ct. Louis. is;
stolen bases-Hsndley. Pittsburgh.
10; Hack. CHICAGO. II.
o,irSar. rssSehansNMwyYsst;. N,w YsI. scSooklsn' SO;
Evening star., 1939-07-08
The
SPORTLIGHT
P. 6. A. Crown Defense
Colts Toughest Test
BY GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.

NEW YORK, July 8 CNANA)-
Few defending champions ever reach
as tough corner as the one Paul
Runyan faces next week. For Little
Poison Paul is the present P. G. A.
crown wearer and he moves into &C
ton at the Pomonok Country Club
against the pick of the game at
match play.
Runyan has proved to be a giant
killer in the past with two P. G. A.
titles packed away, but he has a ter
rifle field to whip this time, including
such stars as Sammy Snead, Byron
Nelson, Ralph Guldahl and a flock
OF others who have a deep yearning
to wear this same crown-one of
the coveted trophies of golf.
Pomonok suits Runyan. but when
the Arkansas Kid is hot this goes
Tor any course. He carries too much
poison around the green's. which is
where most championships are de-
cided.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Colts Tub Humping LoureIs
Won by Helen DettweiIer
In Debut as Pro Here

as lark. only knew was playing
in a golf tournament she said. Il
didn't realize how important it was.
Maybe it's good thing 1 didn't"
She had been playing golf then only
about eight months, which gives you
an idea
Still Power Hitter.
But If Helen was a power hitter
then. she is just that now With
so much more finesse and certainty
I can see now the awkward Helen
of those days, knocking one $50
yards and then topping three in a
row. How changed the picture is
now. I saw her before an admiring
audience smack out shot after shot
from wood and iron with that ball
flying as if ruled on string. No
diva ever drew more "ohs" and
"ahs" as the athletic blond lined 'em
smack into the waiting paws of a
dusky caddie 200 yards away Then
she stepped over to the eighteenth
green, where she played a few chip
shots, a few pitch shots over a
bunker. and wound up by burying
two balls in the sand and walloping
them out within a few feet Of the
cup.
Yes. Helen has improved. She is
probably Is per cent better as pro
than she was as an amateur, and
she was plenty good as a simon pure.
But if Helen doesn't sell a single
golf club herself she still will do all
right for the outfit for which she
works. And one of the best parts
of her show is that at no time does
she mention the name of that out
fit. That's refreshing in itself, these
days of high-poWer salesmanship.
She'll appear in a similar show at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club next Friday.
Helen and Mrs. Clarke were licked
on the last hole by the Peabody
Burton combination. Mrs Clarke
played the first nine in SO and fell
away to As on the last nine.
Manor Country Club women are
AooAIllS 1oi VAIN w L1lC 1ll St
tournament next Monday and Tues
day for a cup presented to the club
by Milton Schlosser They'll play
10 holes each Of the two days.
Suntanned Mary Jane Light
bown, back in golf again after
trip abroad, won the top prize in
blind bogey tourney for Congress
sional women. She scored 111-22-
80. Mrs. A. C. Paul and Mrs H. H.
Moffitt tied for second with cards
of 107-23-84, and 100-16-84. Mrs.
C. J. Wilkinson won the putting
award with % puts. Mrs. Myron
Davy shot herself out of the blind
bogey tourney with a gross card of
80.
Winners in the selected hole
tournament at Washington were
Mrs. Warren F. Draper. Mrs r. E.
Hotze, and Mrs. Louise Merrillat.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Maybe the gal isn't cut out to be
spell-binding orator, with silver
tongue setting on fire the emotions
OF men and women, but Helen Dett-
weller, the new pro golfer who came
up to paid golf the hard way, is do
ing all right for herself as a tub
thumper for better golf and finer
skill in manipulating recalcitrant
sphere into cup that seems to
move-With or without provocation.
We dropped in on Helen's initial
appearance as a golf instructor at
the Army Navy Country Club, where
quite group Of wives of members
of the service club and a smattering
of guests had gathered to hear the
former winner of all the amateur
Women's events in this sector put on
her show. First Helen played an ex-
hibition match with Mrs. David H.
Clarke, former Mid-Atlantic champ
against Mrs. Hume Peabody and
Allan Burton, the club pro. She did
Q. K. in that one, too. although she
didn't score too we'll. The 50 Helen
made is more testimonial to the
rusgedness of the Army Navy Club
course than anything else. That
layout takes a lot of knowing. and
she has done better. She played it
in 78 last fall.
Stresses Constant Practice.
They had Helen as their luncheon
guest after the match. where Helen
made nice little talk about the
fundamentals of the game. stressing
the need for constant practice. And
II Helen overlooked the fact that
many Of the women to whom she
was talking are wives and mothers,
and do not have time to practice an
hour day, it still doesn't modify
the obvious fact that the only way
to become good golfer is to work
at it.
I've seen Patty Berg play 36
holes in a day and then go out and
practice an hour" said Helen. Il
don't mean you should do it, for most
OF you haven't that much time. But
what want to get across is that
oees' 40 SOOo do SIlC l6dllLeS
that only by unrelenting practice
and hard work can she stay at the
top. And if she needs that hard
work, as good as she is, how much
the rest Of us who aren't as good,
need it."
You wouldn't have recognized the
shy little girl Of 1888 or thereabouts,
when Helen made her first big tour
nament appearance and went to the
final Of the District championship,
where the accomplished Elsie
Haynes beat her. In those days
Helen was strictly a power hitter,
with big tee shot and that's about
all.
She didn't know where the ball
was going, and she thought putting
was sissy stuff. But She has learned
about golf since that time. You
know regarded that tournament
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Navy Yard Team Upsets
Departmental Tennis

Navy Yards dark-horSe tennis
team scrambled the standings of
the Departmental League when it
knocked the season. long pace-set-
ting Agriculture team into third
place, Treasury into the lead and it.
self into second by trouncing the
Aggies, Al.
Its. Jimmy Farrin and Bill How
ard led the winner to a 6-l, 60
victory in the No. l match over
Alphonse Smith and Bob Loney,
and Navy Yards remaining points
were chalked up by Eugenio and
Herbert, Robbins and johnson and
Day and Posner.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Sports Program
For Local Fans

TODAY,
Baseball,
Washington at Philadelphia,
double header, 1880.
Tennis.
District mems tournament, Co.
lumbia Country Club, 3:O0-6:00.
Army-Navy Leech Cup matches,
Army Navy Club. 2:30.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Star Golf Pros opposition Shute Ban Threatens Success Meet
From the
Press Box
World Finally Learns
Lyons Is Pitcher
BY JOHN LARDNER.

special CORRESPONDENT OF The Star.
NEW YORK, July (N.A.N.A).-
Grab any passing stranger on the
street. ask him to name the five
greatest pitchers now active in the
game of baseball, and the chances
are that before punching your nose
and calling cop he will reply:
"Hubbell, Grove. Dean, Ruffing
and Feller.
Or:
"Hubbell, Grove, Dean, Gomez
and Lee"
Or:
"Hubbell, Grove, Dean, Bridges
and Warneke."
The chances are very strong,
indeed. that he will not mention
tall, quiet, pleasant-faced chap. a
shade under 40, with a quick smile
and a gentle bayou brogue. whose
greatness has been justly, but
tardily, recognized this year by ap-
pointment to the American Leagues
All-Star team.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Brothers Set Golf Precedent
Szwedkos of Pittsburgh First Trio From One
Family to Qualify for u S. Muny PIoy

second with 77-72-149, and
Frank won the last of the coveted
starting tickets with 80-76-156.
Also winning berths from a
field of 101 were Ben Stefanik,
$50; Sam Musico, former Pitt golf
er, 152; Dave Wilder, former city
champion, 1853: Joe Urso and
Sam Dope with 155s. All live in
Pittsburgh or nearby.
Carl Kaufman, a 3-time win
ner Of the national title now
held by AL Leach of Cleveland,
was exempt from qualifying but
played anyway and finished with
$50.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Government Leuoue

Scoring a run in its half of the
sixth. after its opponent had tied
the count with a three-run rally,
F. A. A. nosed out Internal Revenue
In Government League game.
Vital held the winners to two hits,
while his mates got only five of
Backus.
Evening star., 1939-07-08

PITTSBURGH, July 8.-Three
brothers for the first time in
history will compete in the Ma
tilonal Public Links champion
ship at Baltimore, July 24-29.
Andy, Mike and Frank Swedko,
Etna steel workers, grabbed three
of eight places allotted this dis
trict in yesterdays sectional quail
flying round over the tough North
Park links.
Andy, oldest of the brothers,
came home with q 71-77-148
to claim medal honors for the
third straight year. Mike finished
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Boss Fishing Outlook
Now Appears Good

MART1NSBURG, w. Va, July 8.
Favorable news for anglers, par
ticularly those seeking bass in
streams Of this section, is at hand.
Streams, which have been too
cloudy for bass fishing ever since
the season opened July /, definitely
are clearing and should be good
over the week end.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Parks Tennis DeodIine
Set on Thursday

Entries for the mems singles of the
Public Parks tennis tournament,
starting a week from today, will
close at o'clock next Thursday eve
ming instead of Friday, as pre-
viously announced.
The Tennis Shop, 1919 Fifteenth
street NV. and Felix M. Silva are
receiving entries.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Leaders Aim 10 Quit
Tourney if Denny
Is Kept Out
Claim Two-Time Winner
Gets Doubtful Deal
In Matter of Dues
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, July 8.-Beset by
strife and threats of rebellion, the
biggest match-play tournament of
all for the golfers who think there's
nothing like medal play gets under
way at the Pomonok Club. Flushing,
Long Island. tomorrow.
It's the annual tournament of the
Professional Golfers Association
the biggest par-busting crew of them
all and they probably will give Po-
monoks 72 figure a real workout.
providing they don't get SO tangled
up in the current argument about
whether Denny Shute should play
that they carry out their threat to
strike"
Shute. two-time winner of the P.
G. A. title, who would have qualified
for this years event automatically,
wasn't permitted to enter because he
was two days late with his annual
dues. There have been various YER
sions of his difficulties. but the star
playing pros are almost unanimous
in believing Denny received a doubt
full deal.
Raw Deal for Shute Seen.
AS a result they obtained plenty
OF signatures to petition circulated
around the club yesterday demand
ing of the P G.. A. Executive Com
mittee that Shute be allowed to
play. They turned it over to Presi-
dent George Jacobus, who forwarded
it to headquarters in Chicago.
Meanwhile number of leaders
are threatening to quit the tourna-
ment if Shute is barred. Their rea-
sons are Cd the title wouldn't
amount to much if the guy who won
twice in the last three years didn't
get a shot at it; ca the decision to
bar Shute was a result of friction
between two factions of P. G. A.
officials; 90 he wouldn't have been
made an example of if he hadn't
been so prominent Ohere even have
been hints that some lesser lights
were admitted though they hadn't
paid up on time>, and "a since
Shute didn't have to play in the
sectional qualifying rounds, his Dis
trlct Association didn't warn him
about the deadline for dues, which
also are considered as the tourna-
ment entry fee
Runyan After Extra Award.
The pros claim they don't like
match-play tournament, anyway,
since medal is their real game, but
there's still lot of prestige at
tached to it as we'll as a place on
the Ryder Cup Team for the winner,
if he is American-born. Only one
of the 120 players in the field is
sure of a place in the international
matches at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla,
in November. Byron Nelson earned
that by his victory in the open
championship.
Other inducements include the
Alex Smith Memorial Trophy for
the leader in the 36-hole qualifying
round. Even defending champion
Paul Runyan, who isn't required
to qualify, plans to shoot for that.
At any rate, the scoring should
be something to tell the grand
children about. Pomonok is a rather
fiat, short and simple course and the
boys started to give it a drubbing
in practice, Earl Martin of Ingle-
wood, Calf, turned in a 81 and
Picard and jug McSpaden 68s and
nobody was really trying to score
them.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Fights Lost Night
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD mmy Garrison
l3sk. Kansas City: outpoipted Tony
SIOUX CITY Iowa.-Pete Lello.
1876. CHICAGO. outpointed Ray Baker.
135. Grand Forks. N. Oak: (s),.
Escobar. -122. Puerto Rico. outpointed
LONo BRANCH. N. J.-Eddie. Pierce.
1853. Great Britain. and Ken Overlin,
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Blues Face FIoodmen

Lu Blues baseball school nine will
encounter the strong J. c. Flood
nine, which shares the Depart
mental League lead with Interior,
tonight at Ballston. Jack Redinger
and Gus Horan will be mound op-
ponents.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
D. 6. S. Nine Bows

D. G. s. finished on the short end
OF a 5-4 score in its Departmental
League game with Interior. The
losers pounded Lefty Jewett for II
hits. but couldn't bunch them effec-
lively.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Seven Washington racketers will
be among the high-class field of
96 players in the best tennis tour
nament this section has to offer
when the annual Maryland State
Open starts Monday on the grass
courts of the Baltimore Country
Club.
With the Capitals own ninth
nationally-ranked Gil Hunt, the de-
Tending champion, topping the
seedlings, five of the countrys first
20 players and three other nationally
Glass "a netmen will compete. In
addition Wayne Sabin, unranked
but productor of a brilliant record
in the recent winter circuit, will be
among Hunts challengers. Sabin
was seeded second.
Indicative of the superiority of
the class of players to those seen in
Washington is the fact that Barney
Welsh. who today was to seek his
seventh straight District champion
ship, is seeded no better than 18th
among IL. Preceding Welsh are Hal
Surface of Kansas City, Ernie SUIT
ter of New Orleans, Bob Kamrath
of Austin, Tex; Jack Kramer of
Los Angeles, Welby Van Horn, Ro-
land Lubin and George Toley of
Los Angeles and Henry Prusoff of
Seattle. Bill Talbert of Cincinnati
rounds out the seedlings
Ranked Nationally.
Nationally, Kamrath is ranked
18th. Kramer. 18th; Surface, 18th,
and Sutter, 10th. Van Horn, Lubin
and Toley are the players in the
U. S. L. T. AS Glass A" category
Rounding out the District con-
tingent will be Ralph Buddy Adair,
David johnson, Joel Baker, John
Andary and Hugh Lynch.
Once again, we expect, local mo-
guls will make light of Baltimore's S
show up" Of Washington in staging
a good tournament with the excuse,
I'VE couldn't do it If we wanted to.
We don't have grass courts over
here"
Has any one ever thought of Pc
tioning for grass courts at any of
the half-dozen local clubs actively
sponsoring tennis?
If fighting heart would do it,
Hugh Lynch might be considered a
pretty good bet to keep Welsh from
winning his seventh straight District
championship today by winning it
himself. In this afternoons final at
Columbia by virtue of one of the
grandest comebacks ever seen To-
cally, Lynch again was a short
ender against the champ, but his
supporters knew better than to con-
cede the match to Welsh.
When a guys down 0-5 in the
second set after losing the first and
then comes back to beat an op-
ponent like Davey johnson as Lynch
dlo yesterday, you can't sell him
short. BY following the old adage
OF you can't lose if you keep the
ball in play" Hugh gradually over
came Davey's apparently insur-
mountable advantage to win seven
straight games to square the match
and then enter the finals by taking
the third set, 6-4.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Aces on Outino

Staunton Aces will make an ex-
cursion to Sylvan Shores Sunday,
leaving from Ninth and D streets
NE, at o'clock. A ball game,
naturally, is included on the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Printers Lose Aquin

Union Printers took it on the chin
again when Naval Air Station
raped Kisner for eight hits and a
9-3 victory. O'Brien and Banholzer
led the attack.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Shunkmun's Divides

Shankman's Market broke even
In a Petworth League twin bill, de-
feating Chevy Chase. 81. before
bowing to Cissel Saxon Post, 6-3.