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Evening star., 1939-08-17
Gu|dahI Heads Small
Field in Canadian
Open Golf Test
II Pros and J Amateurs
From U. S. Among 80
In Tournament
BY the Associated Press.

ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, Aug.
17.-One of the smallest fields in
years-about 80 golfers, and quar-
ter of them invaders from the United
States-today began the quest of the
Canadian open golf championship,
title which hasn't been won by
Canadian since 1914.
There we're II pros and 7 amateurs
from the United States on the entry
list, including a number of doubtful
starters.
Dick Metz, Denny Shute, Gene
Sarazen and Jimmy Hines were the
most prominent entries who hadn't
turned up by last night.
Ralph Guldahl of Madison, N. j.,
two-time winner of the U. S. open
title and recent victor in the $4,000
Dapper Dan open at Pittsburgh,
was made the favorite. He fired an
approximate SO for his first practice
round.
Horton Smith of Oak Park, ILL.,,
and Bill Kerr of Toronto turned in
the best preliminary rounds, 67s.
Vic Ghezzi of Deal, N. j.. rated
behind only Gulahl, followed up
Tuesdays 81 with SO.
Other United States pros who fig
ured to have good chances for the
title which Sam Snead will not de-
fend are Harold (Jug) McSpaden
of winchester, Mass, and Jimmy
Thomson of Shawnee on Delaware,
Pa.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Buffalo on Toboggan
After Tribe Calls
InFarmhands
Once Near Top, Bisons
Are Pressed by Beers
For Fourth in |. l.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Advice to minor league baseball
magnates: When you pick a major
league parent" club for your team,
be sure you pick champion. And if
you want to know why, take look
at what's happening to Buffalo and
Newark of the International League.
The Bisons were going along at
great clip a few weeks ago and
threatening to bump the Jersey
City Giants out Of the league lead
while Newark was down in the
depths of the second division.
Yanks Aid Newark.
But Newark had the New York
Yankees, who weren't asking for
players and could toss an extra hand
to its minor league affiliates now
and then, while the Bisons' working
agreement was with Cleveland, which
found the going rocky and called in
Buffalo's brilliant infield combina-
ton of Ray Mack and Lou Boudreau
before the International Leaguers
expected it.
Since then Buffalo has had few
costly injuries and after 80 defeat
by Jersey City last night wound up
61a games off the pace in fourth
place
The Bears, meanwhile, called upon
Jimmy De Shong, recently sent down
by the Yanks, to pitch them to 90
triumph over the Montreal Royals
for their sixth straight victory.
They're still in fifth place, but only a
half game behind Buffalo.
End Series All Square.
Syracuse and Rochester, second
place rivals, wound up their sea-
sons series all square as Jack Using
outpitched 81 johnson to give the
Chiefs an 80 win.
Baltimore also finished on even
terms with Toronto by beating out
an 8-3 victory in their final clash.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Champ Conn Still
Is Barefoot Boy
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. Ito
every one else Billy Conn may
be the worlds light-heavyweight
boxing champion, but to his
mother he's still a big kid who
plays sandlot baseball in his
bare feet.
Take last Saturday night"
plump, jovial Mrs. William Conn,
sr., said today. Billy was due to
leave on the 7:15 pm. plane for
Philadelphia to fight that boy
Gus Dorazio. But where's Billy
down on a sandlot playing ball
with the boys he was raised
with.
"At the last minute he comes
tearing into the house barefoot,
undressing as he runs, and Jumps
into some clean clothes Just in
time to catch the plane.
Hes a home boy. He hurries
right home after every fight.
But he won't talk about the
fight. He'll just say to me:
Peg O. my heart, here I am.
What have you got that's good to
eat?'"
Evening star., 1939-08-17
BY the Associated Press.

WICHITA, Kans., Aug. IT,
Jesse Collyer, "Jesse James with
out a horse" to inmates at Sing
Sing, doesn't need a prison wall
background to make himself boss
of a situation.
So diminutive that a blow to
his jaw once sprained his ankle,
he rules the players in the Ma
tional Senipro Baseball Con-
gress with the same arbitrary
demeanor he practices on the
striped-suited athletes in the New
York prison, where he has taught
printing 20 years.
Seldom is it necessary for him
to eject a player. His very at
titude makes decisions final.
why, I have umpired prison
games eight years and only tossed
out one player. Even in prison,
sports make sportsmen," he
philosophical shortly after eject
ing Jack Mealy, Enid, Okla,
catcher. for protesting a called
strike. PLAY inside the big house
varies but little from that outside.
The convict spectators invariably
cheer the visiting team and only
a few of their remarks to the
prison nine are vicious"
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Links Record Is Set
By Marion Mi|ey
In Meet Win
BY the Associated Press.


HARRISON, N. Y. Aug. IL
Marion Miley of Lexington, KY, who
is tuning up her strokes for the ma
tional women's golf championship
next week, won the Green Meadow
Clubs invitation tournament with a
record-breaking score of 35-39-74.
She broke the woman's course rec
ord by two strokes and was only
three over mems par. She equaled
mems par on 13 holes and birdied
the ninth.
Tied for second place. five strokes
behind, came Elizabeth Hicks Of
Long Beach, Calf, and Mrs. Polly
Thorne of Green Meadow. Maureen
Orcutt of Haworth, N. j., and Doro-
thy Traung of San Francisco and
Mrs. Sylvia Annenberg Leichner of
Flushing, N. Y, tied for fourth with
80s.
Other low scores included: Mrs.
Helen Hicks Harb, Chicago; Mary
Fine, Scranton, Pa, and Helen Dett-
wiler, Washington, D. c., 81; Laddie
Irwin, Upper Montclair, N. j., and
Marion MacDougall. Portland, Greg,
50; Ella Mae Williams, Chicago, "a.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
D. {. Co|ored Track Team
Host 10 baItimoreans

The first annual colored track
meet between Baltimore and Wash
ington will be staged tomorrow at
4 pm. at Banneker Recreation Gen.
ter, with a return meet booked in
Baltimore next week.
Among outstanding performers
representing Washington will be
Wilson Savoy, Clavon Washington,
Norris Clifton, Herbert Tucker,
Benjamin Smythe, Furman Lee, j..
Blakemore and William Greene.
Sponsored by the Twelfth Street
Y. M. c. A., the meet is designed to
encourage colored athletes in this
sector who have displayed possibili-
ties Of winning 1910 Olympic berths.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Bulldog Year|ings
Average $4,658 in
Saratoga Ring
B. F. Lister Pays $l1,600
For Colt, Top Price
Of Big Selling Day
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y, Aug.
17.-Any one who follows racing
form" knows that the notation
"by Imp" Bull Dog or "by Imp. Sir
Gallahad Sd" after the name of
horse usually means that particular
racer can step right along with the
best.
Those two famous sires, full broth
ers, have produced some of the finest
American race horses of the past few
years and when their get are pa
raded in the Saratoga sales paddock
the bidding usually picks up. In
five seasons, the progeny of Bull Dog
have won 349 races and $645 546.
Dozen Sell for SIS, 1900.
That explains the furry of excite
ment in the paddock last night when
II colts and f1llies by the French
bred sire and one by Imp. Sickle,
leading winning sire of 1886
and 1888, were sold as the consign-
ment of c. B. Shaffer's Coldstream
Stud of Lexington. KY.
These II brought 5000, nearly
half the total of last nights sale of
SIS head, and averaged s4.658. One
brown colt by Bull Dog out of Rose
Eternal, half brother to several
winners, was sold to 3. F. Lister of
Providence, r. l., for $11.600 after
some spirited bidding against Mrs.
Charles Shipman Payson and Mrs.
Ethel v. Mars. Another son of Bull
Dog out of Wild Waters went to W.
E. Boeing of Seattle for $4,000. The
Sickle colt went for $4,000.
Twins Go on Block.
In addition to the Coldstream con-
signment, future racers consigned
by w. E. Caskey's Bramble Farm of
Lexington. w. H. Lipscomb, David
N, Rust's Rockridge Farm of Vir-
ginia, John H. Morris and others
went under the hammer. They
didn't bring as large prices, but the
total of S130,875 resulted in the
comfortable average of $3.50 per
head.
One oddity cropped up in the sale
when tWins-a chestnut colt and a
bay gelding by Scotch Broom Imp.
Sagacity-were brought into the
ring and sold as one "lot." They
were the first such offering since the
sales were inaugurated here in 1917
and Dion Kerr bought them in for
5000.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
BaIestri Holds Firm
Grip on Golf Title
Al Typo Meet
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch 10 Xne Star.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 17.-Joe Bal
estri of Washington, D. c., appeared
a gilt-edge cinch to annex the class
A Allied Trades flight here today,
holding a 22-stroke lead over his
nearest rival in that division of the
International Union Printcraft golf
tourney.
Eddie Rack of McKeesport, Pa,
paced the field of 125 in the scram-
BILE for the Union Printers title,
posting a 76 for a 226 total for 81
holes of the 72-hole medal play
event. Russ Allen of Kansas City
trailed by three strokes, while w. D.
Jacobs of Chicago was in third place
by eight strokes back.
Balestri, defending champion in
the Allied Trades division. took "a
for a total of 228, leading Lloyd
Hall of Cleveland by % strokes. Ed
Merkle and Fred Stringer, both Of
Washington, were in the running
for the runnerup berth with totals
of 237 and 246. respectively, in the
Union Printers fight.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
D. {. Women Oppose
As Semifina|ists in
Shawnee Golf
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SHAWNEE-ON-DELAWARE Pa,
Aug. ia brace of currently sizz-
ling performers, Mrs. Betty Meckley
and Mrs. Bishop Hill, both of Wash :
ington, were opposing here today ii,
the semifinal round of the Shawnee
women's golf championship.
Mrs. Meckley, the medalist who
experienced minimum of trouble in
advancing to the semifnal, easily
disposed of Mrs. r. c. Mitchell, also
OF Washington, 6 and 5, while Mrs.
Hill whipped Mary Gusmer of Rah-
way. N. j., 8 and 7.
Patricia Orling, 15-year-old for
mer Philadelphia junior champion,
who defeated Mrs. Arthur Brown
of Shawnee, 4 and 3, and Mrs.
Harvey Mack of Easton, Pa, who
trimmed Peggy Laros of Bethlehem,
Pa, 6 and S, were to meet in the
other semifinal match.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
By WALTER McCALLUM.

Bill Stone has a complaint. Bill
in case you don't know him, is one
of that small group of Washing
tonians who regard the game of golf
definitely as a form of health in
surance. He doesn't play golf every
day, but when he misses it's be-
cause of bad weather or business
has interferred. Bill is indefatigable
in his pursuit of the little white
ball. He took it up around 8 years
ago and I doubt If any man around
town has played more golf in that
short time than has Stone.
He also is the inventor Of Amer
lean golf," a game designed to put
the premium on accuracy from the
tee and on the second shot. He
hasn't gotten very far with his idea
Of bringing golf to America through
shorter courses, and to spectators
seated in the grandstands, but it
isn't because he hasn't tried, for
Bill happens to be the kind of fel-
low who follows through with his
ideas.
Bills complaint isn't exactly seri-
Gus. It's about his golf game, which
is fairly common, even though
Bills game isn't common, by any
means. Here I've been playing
pretty we'll lately, and I haven't
been able to score. Today I had
an "a with 8 on one hole. The
other day I had q 78 and played
IA holes in par" That figures out
that on four holes Bill went shots
over par, which isn't right.
Not Exactly Erratic.
what am I going to do about
it?" he asks. Bill has scored as low
as IS at Indian Spring, which ISM
country golf in any language, wher
you consider that Indian Spring
in addition to being one of the
best courses around town, also i!
one of the longest. But I wish
could do something about those few
bad holes I have every time play,
he says. Maybe I could score.
Nor is Bill any pushover at his age
I'd guess he's around so, and HI
plays an exceptional game of gol
for a man of that age. He won
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Sing Sing Ump Rules Sempros With Iron Hand, Too
Little Jesse coyefs Attitude Seldom Makes Necessary Eject Player

from the prison team to the
International League, is Collyer's S
choice as the institutions best
athlete. His record of % home
runs still is the prison record.
Right now we have a short
term Negro convict who can peg
that ball 400 feet with remarkable
accuracy, but his fielding and
hitting are commonplace"
Also in the 1899 tournament
are the Trenton IN. j. prison
guards, who last night defeated
Evening star., 1939-08-17

Slater, S. G., 7-3. behind the 16
strikeout pitching of Ernie
Cramer.
Two teams were eliminated yes
terday by second defeats, Bran
son, Mo-, losing to Wichita, To,
and Mount Pleasant, Mich,
bowling to Enid, Okla, 2 to l.
Struthers, Ohio. won from Phoe-
nix, AriZ., 5 to 3.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
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Evening star., 1939-08-17
Gambler Golfers
Protect Kids
By the Associated Press,

By the ABSocIAteu PresS.
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 17.-If it's
held at all, the widely advertised
golf tournament for Northeastern
Ohio gamblers will be a secret
affair.
1t was scheduled later this
month over Akron's good park
layout.
Course Manager Charles Burns
said the tourney had been can
celed" because one of the out
standing eligibles feared publicity
would reflect on his children, who
have gone three years without
tardy mark at Sunday school.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Keep Temper, Urges Golfer
Whose Swing Kills Caddie

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17-An
amateur golfer sent flowers and at
tended the funeral yesterday of a
caddie in whose death he is held for
involuntary manslaughter.
The caddy, John Klemming, 35,
was killed Sunday by a golf club
James B. Mcfarland, Sd, said he
swung in disgust after a poor shot.
Mcfarland said:
Il hope my experience will be
lesson to golfers not to lose their
tempers and throw their clubs"
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Pussuic Faces Detroit
In Legion Pioyoff
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. c.. Aug. IT,
Passaic, N. j., and Detroit, Mich,
were matched today in the North
eastern section playoff of the Amer
ican Legion's junior baseball tour
nament.
Medford, Mass, and Charlotte will
play tomorrow, and the winners on
Saturday. 5.sa
Evening star., 1939-08-17

Even behind the bars, the
problem of ringers" is trouble
some. The prison has varsity
aggregation, members of which
are barred from playing on the
16 shop teams. But unless line
ups are scrutinized carefully In
the crucial games one Of the
teams will try to play varsity
man." he explained.
Alabama Pitts, who skipped
with the warden's permission
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Tiphommer Style Answer
To Henry's Triple Crown

This explains why Armstrong
could win three titles at the same
time.
1t explains why Harry Greb could
give away 20 or 80 pounds and rip
the soul out of first-class fighter.
Just matter of overthrowing bal
ance through an overwhelming at
tack. Greb overpowered you with
the flow of his punches. He tossed
more leather than most opponents
ever could handle.
Armstrong goes on beyond Greb.
The Hammerer takes no vacation
after action begins. None at all.
This Is the main hurdle that Ambers
has to handle.
Il know that Ambers always looks
better in his second start against
opponents" Armstrong says. but I
think he'll find am in much better
shape for this fight than I was be-
fore. That time found me with pair
Of sore hands and badly cut lip,
which I'll admit he didn't help any
The hands are much better now and
the lip is healed.
I've had a good rest and feel
keener about fighting than I did the
last time we met. I don't think Lou
will be facing the same Henry. I
know lot of people think that
maybe I'm about over the top, on my
way down the other side. I don't
happen to feel that way about it. 1
think the crowd will see me working
and punching as fast as I ever did"
Armstrong hopes to handle Am
bers' most effective punch-a right
upper cut-better than he did be-
fore. Coming in as he does, always
crowding, this is hard blow to
handle. It would be much more
dangerous punch with a bit more
steam turned on.
AS the case stands now the Ham,
merer still seems to carry a little
too much leeway on the offensive
side.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Greb's Whirlwind Assault :
Conquered Ace Fighters

Harry Greb carried the same angle
to victories over such crack fighters
as Gene Tunney, Tom Gibbons,
Jack Dillon, Bill Brennan and
Mickey Walker.
Greb gave away from Is to 20
pounds In many of his fights. but his
whirlwind assault was more than
most of them could face-especially
when he had two good eyes. He
started down hill only after one eye
was gone completely and the other
was none too good.
Many of us still remember the
terrific beating he gave Tunney, Glib
bons, Dillon and Brennan by piling
In with two flying hands.
I recall the two nights Greb hit
both Gibbons and Tunney seven
consecutive punches without re-
turn.
1 was sitting with Freddie WEIGH,
one of the master boxers, when this
happened to Tunney. you have just
seen something one rarely ever looks
at" Freddie said, after the fusillade
was over. For Tunney can box. But
he never had a chance to get set for
. return punch"
Greb was more than keen to get a
shot at Jack Dempsey, but the crafty
Jack Kearns wanted no part of the
Windmill. He had seen what took
place in training camp. And Greb
then weighed 1852 pounds.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Foes Don't Have Time to Get
Set Aqoinst Armstrong

Armstrong is the one fighter I
have seen who could throw more
punches than Harry Greb. And
Greb could throw more than his
share. Hammering Henry was far
ahead of Ambers in their first meet
ing until the cut lip slowed him
down along the stretch.
Armstrong knows he is up against
q game, rugged fighter who can
take plenty and yank you around.
He knows that Ambers is no part
of killing puncher. And he hopes
to keep rolling away from those up
percuts that did him no good at all
before
If Armstrong; hands hold up he
should get by nicely, as he will
throw and land more punches again
than Ambers can hope to do.
II like to keep 'em off balance"
Armstrong tells you. When you
keep throwing the leather at 'em
they never have any time to get set.
You get them thinking in terms of
defense and not attack"
Evening star., 1939-08-17
The
SPORTLIGHT
Armstrong Is Busiest
Puncher in History
BY GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.


POMPTON LAKES, N. j., Aug,
II (NANA).-Henry Armstrong
can lay claim to the record that
he has pair of hands that have
hit heads and human bodies more
often than any pair Of hands ever
known 10 boxing.
His two hands have struck almost
as many times against the human
frame as Paderewski's hands have
hammered piano keys.
Armstrong throws something like
so punches minute, or 180 punches
q round.
He admits he can't keep any record
of the blows he delivers, as he keeps
both hands working at top speed
from start to finish. He is sure,
however, that he has piled up more
than 200 punches of one type or
another in several single rounds.
The answer to all this is in
evitable. Hammering Henry's hands
are not what they used to be. His
swollen knuckles, that I looked at
some weeks ago, have receded con-
siderably and now look about nor
NAL. But the punishment they have
taken through the last few years
has been heavy.
Armstrong hasn't any worry about
his legs carrying him at the same
pace through IS rounds. 'They
never felt better" he said. IT can
go any distance. The thing that
tired me in the last Ambers fight
was my cut lip and the flow of blood
that ran down my throat. 1t wasn't
my legs or my arms. 1t wasn't the
punches I threw"
Evening star., 1939-08-17

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Columbus, 3: Kansas City, 2.
Minneapolis, 4; Indianapolis. o.
Toledo, 81 Milwaukee. 4.
st. Paul, 8; Louisville. 3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
TAX COLLECTIONS
 MAKE NEW RECORD
S3,65O,OO0 Taken in for Month Ending June 1,
 Which Is Record

Tax collections in the month end- ing June amounted to $3,650, 900, which Tax Collector William A. En- his said today was the largest sum ever collected by the city during a single month. The period for pay ment of the first installment of 1899 taxes ended Thursday night, and those who did not make pay ment by that time are now subject to penalty of 7.2 per cent.
 The $3,650.000 compares with a total of $5,552 ,000 which is estimated in the 1889 as total tax collections for the year. The next installment of taxes becomes due and payable October 1.
 Last year. collections during May amounted to $2,671 .000. In 1887, col- lections up to June 1 amounted to $2,862. .000; in 1886, the figure was $2,9l0, ,000; and in 1895, the collec- tions in the period amounted to $2, ,792O00.
 Collections tabulated at the close of business Thursday reached a to- tai of $3.571 ,00. Mail payments. not tallied until yesterday and today. accounted for the remainder of the 8, ,650, 900. Scattered sums are still to be added to the total. and the figure may reach $3.700.000.
 The record total received during May leaves only about $1.902.000 to be collected in the second install- ment of current year taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03
SCHOOL CLINICS OPEN NEXT WEEK
Health Officer Dr. Godfrey Says They Will Fnnc-
 tion in June, July

pre-school clinics for Waterbury children will open next week, Health Officer Dr. Edward J. God frey announced today. The clinics will function during June and July. and staff of city doctors will be on hand at the four clinics to vaccin- ate children and give them immun- izations against diptheria.
 The clinics arc open to boys and girls from the age of six months up. Dr. Godfrey today urged especially that children who enter school for the first time this fall be brought to the clinics as soon as possible.
 Children must be vaccinated before entering school, and Dr. Godfrey, in urging early action by parents, points out that the clinics will be closed during August.
 The clinic schedule is as follows: Monday, 3 p. m. Christ Chapel, East Main St.; Mondays, 3: p. m. Duggan School. Bank St; Tuesdays, 3: p. m., Rose Hill Library. Baldwin St.; Wednesdays, 3: p. m. North End Y. M. c. A.
 The staff of the clinics includes the following: Drs. Vincent Shea, G. R. Sandulli, Samuel Fabricant, Abe s. Brown, Joseph Burke, Thomas Cottiero and Frank Hill.
 Dr. Godfrey urges that parents take their children of pre-school age to the clinic nearest them as soon as possible. Those who take their children early for treatment he said, will avoid the rush that will no doubt develop late in July.