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Evening star., 1939-06-06
Fast Field Threatens
To Dethrone Queen
In Western Golf
Beatrice Barrett Must
Battle Star Pros; Mrs.
Myron Dovy in Meet
BY the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, June eff supersti-
ton has any place in golf-ask the
boys who play for keeps-odds will
favor Beatrice Barrett when she
opens defense of her women's West
ern open title here next week.
The Minneapolis star will be COM
peting over the same tough West
wood Country Club course that
Ralph Guldahl scorched last sum-
mer to win his third straight West
ern open
But the field of nearly 100 entries
indicates competition will be plenty
keen.
Pros Threaten Champion.
Miss Barrett probably will be
pressed hardest by two famous
business women" golfers, Helen
Hicks, the 1887 champion, and Mrs.
Opal Hill of Kansas City. The feud
between Miss Barrett and Miss
Hicks dates back to 1887. when they
fought it out in the final.
Helen Hoffman of Salt Lake City
Utah, last years runner-up: Shirley
Ann johnson. Chicago: Mrs. Bert
We'll, Cincinnati, who reached the
semi finals last year; Dorothy
Foster, Springfield. ILL.,. a semi
finalist in 1887, and Phyllis Bu-
chanan, Denver, are other strong
title prospects.
Other outstanding players entered
are Ella Mae Williams. Chicago; Mrs
Ada Rev. Evanston, Ill: Jean Det-
weller, Chicago: Mrs. Myron Davy
Washington, D. c.: Mrs. Chester
Keating and Mrs. True Davis, both
of Joplin. Mo.
Mexico's Star in List.
One of the leading woman golfers
OF Mexico, Mrs. John Lange OF
Monterey also is entered.
Perhaps the only outstanding
woman golfer who won't compete
will be Patty Berg, Minneapolis, who
is pointing toward the women's
trans Mississippi tournament 9
week after the event here.
The Western open, unique in
women's golf, is open to all feminine
players, professional or amateur.
Eighteen-hole qualifying round.
will be played Monday, with match
play starting the following day.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Tough Title Tourney
Looms for Virginia
Linkswomen
By the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, June 6-Old Do
minion's top-ranking woman golfers
wheel out their shotmaking artillery
on the tricky Princess Anne Country
Club course today for the 18th wom-
ems championship tournament of
the Virginia State Golf Association.
Firing on the Virginia Beach
course is scheduled to get under way
this morning when Glady ingalls, of
Richmond and Mrs. Brent Wells of
Virginia Beach tee off. The other
contestants were to start in two
somes at five-minute intervals.
Mrs. Lily Harper Martin, who first
won the title in 1884 and then went
on to win it the next three years in
succession. is an entrant. She was
eliminated in the quarter-flnals last
year at Richmond.
Lillian Wood of Richmond, who
defends her title. recently won the
Ponte Vedra tournament at Florida,
and cannot be overlooked in this
years play.
The best Is scores will qualify for
the championship fight.
First-round match play for all
sixteens is scheduled for tomorrow
while second-round match play. all
sixteens and flrst-round defeated
eights, are booked for Thursday.
The semi-fnals will be played
Friday morning and the final Satur-
day morning.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
The
SPORTLIGHT
Terry Hardest Beset
Big League Pilot
BY GRANTLAND RICE.


NEW YORK, June 6 (N.AN.AO.-
The most shattering experience any
major league manager has known
this spring has come to Bill Terry
with the Giants reeling about in
the second division. Other managers
Traynor and Del Baker-have had a
hard time of it, This is especially
true of Baker. with the Tigers fall
ing so deep in the league they can't
possibly climb to within striking dis
tance of the Yankees.
None of these other managers,
however, had hopes as bright as
Terry's. Durocher moved off to his
first year as manager with a second
division ball club. Traynor started
with the team that folded in the
strecth last year-a team no better,
If no worse, than it was in 1888. Witt
and Baker had the Yankees to con-
tend with and it isn't likely that
either of them seriously figured on
winning the pennant.
Terry did, however. Many of the
critics, looking at the Giants as
they wound up their spring training,
picked them to finish second or third,
but agreed that they could win the
pennant or finish as low as sixth.
There were too many uncertainties:
Bonura, Whitehead. Myatt, Hubbell,
Schumacher and others.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, June 6.-For the
benefit of any hunch players with
a flve-spot to invest on the National
Open Golf Championship, Mrs
Ralph Guldahl is convinced her
husband is going to win his third
straight title at Philadelphia Sat-
urday.
"Woman's intuition" of course, is
nothing new in the forecasting line.
But Laverne Guldahls lunches are
something extra special.
Back in 1886, when Ralph was
just beginning to fight his way into
prominence, she told the big fellow
he was going to win the Western
open at Davenport, Iowa. Guldahl
did, with brilliant 274. Since then.
she has predicted his victories in
the national open at Detroit in
1887 and Denver in 1898, his second
and third straight triumphs in the
Western, and a number of minor
successes.
Has Missed Only Once.
She's been wrong only once-or
rather, Ralph has failed to win
only one tournament she had told
him would be his. That was the
1886 Canadian open, in which he
placed ninth, and even then there
were extenuating circumstances.
Guldahl caught bad cold that
knocked him off his stride.
Big Ralph and Laverne are taking
no chances of having the champion S
concentration disturbed during the
two remaining practice days and
the three days of the open cham
pionship, which starts at the Phila-
delphia Country Club Thursday
Evening star., 1939-06-06
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

The Old Golf Sage looked visit
fully of in the direction of Phila-
delphia.
Il see where they've finally found
out that par desn't make any differ
ence to these long hitting dudes, and
they've decided to play the cham
pionship on course with a real
par" Thirty-one years ago, give
or take month, the Old Sage him.
self won the national open cham
pionship, whose 43d renewal starts
over the Spring Mill course of the
Philadelphia Country Club day af-
ter tomorrow. He didn't qualify
this year.
Par doesn't mean anything any
more" said Fred Mcleod. The
way these fellows hit the ball AIS
yard holes are nothing else but par
As. Why, take that Congressional
course. They call it long. 1t has
four par5 holes on it. But for
these dudes Freddie calls the top
notchers by that name) they are all
par As. All except the first. They
call Pinehurst tough, with a lot of
length. But these dudes get home
on all those big holes in two. except
the tenth. And if they play the for
ward tee they get home on that one,
too. It's high time they made
courses fit the distance these boys
get off the tee. And as for par,
they can forget it."
What will win up there at
Philly?" I asked Fred.
We'll, I don't think any one will
get that par of 276 They'll find that
if the real par of the course is SO,
they won't make it. That's the
trouble in the other tournaments.
They play against an artificial par
and when they crack it by 10 shots,
every one thinks they have done
something. They haven't at all. But
they'll find that playing against a
par of SO on course where the par
holes run up to 480 yards, with
/ Watered fairways, will be something
else again. No, l don't think therell
be any record this year. And I'd
like to have 284 and let the other
boys try to beat it,
Burnett Looms as Winner.
Today's final round in the Federal
Golf Association tournament at In
dian Spring, from where we sit
appears an anti-climax, insofar as
the winning of the J. Edgar Hoover
trophy and the individual cham
pionship are concerned.
Volney Burnett, the smooth
stroking fireman from No. 3 Engine
who won in 1887, looks to be the
champion again, even against such
a good field as those who played
their two rounds today. Jerry Hart
defending titleholder from General
Accounting Office, needed every bit
of golf he had to overhaul Burnett's
| 36-hole card of IA, made up of two
form fitting 72s on a day that saw
the scoring generally run higher
| than usual.
Volney shot a 70 In the morning
and then, playing the last nine first
took 80 whacks. 1t was pretty slow
going, with the crowded course, and
he took more than two hours fol-
nine holes. But he realized that
he'd have to turn on the heat to win
again. How he did it now is history
All the Burnett man did was play
that first nine in 33 strokes, which
happens to be 2 better than par
Those twin TBS probably have wor
the championship for him again
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Major Golf Program
To Keep BrowneII
Busy in Summer
College Meet, National
Amateur, Two Other Big
Events Lure D. c. Boy

Life this summer is going to be
just series of major golf tourna-
ments for Bobby Brownell, the
f1axen thatched youngster from
Manor and Indian Spring. In case
you haven't heard, Bobby is the
youngster the boys are picking as
the hot lad of the year around WASH
ington. So far Bobby has played
only in one tournament. He quail
fled safely for the open champion
ship and is at Philadelphia today
working out in preparation for his
first crack at the big crown of
golf
Up to this year, most of Bobby's
links efforts have been in local tour
neys. with the exception of crack
at the amateur championship last
year at Pittsburgh. where he quail
fled eighth, licked Walker Cupper
Reynolds Smith in the first round
and fell before Chick Harbert in
the second round.
Heavy Campaign Planned.
But this year the Manor toWhead
plans wider field of campaigning
The kid, who only recently won the
Carolina college crown, will play in
the Middle Atlantic championship
at Chevy Chase next week, and after
that one will jump to Des Moines,
Iowa, where he'll be one of a good
field seeking to topple the national
intercollegiate crown from the sor-
rel head of Johnny Burke of George
| town.
And don't think Bobby isn't good
enough to do it. The boy is red
hot golfer, and one good enough to
win any tournament
From the rah-rah affair at Des
Moines he'll 60 to Oklahoma to play
in the Western amateur champion
ship and he may take in the trans
Mississippi at Colorado Springs
From that one he'll come East for
a tournament in New Hampshire
and then he'll swing back to Wash
ington likely to qualify for the ma
tional amateur championship. to be
played at Chicago in September.
! OO, ny Vic tllu VI lIlc CuIIelll
campaign Bobby will have put lol
of milesk 1der his feet and will have
abosrbed lot of experience If he
doesn't come up with title or two
something will be amiss.
Could Use More Weight.
Bigger and stronger than he was
last year, Bobby Brownell is a 2C
per cent better golfer than the boy
| whom Otto Greiner licked in the
final of the 1888 Mid-Atlantic. Bob
by has grown fast. He's a tall
boy. who doesn't carry any surplus
poundage. A few extra pounds OF
suet would help him, for any COM
petitor wears himself down in the
course of long golf tournament.
And Bobby could use the extra
yards few more pounds would give
him. But he's long enough now to
60 a long way in any tournament
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Navy Elects Captains
In Five Pustimes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 6.-Cap-
tains in five branches of sport today
stepped into positions vacated by
graduating Midshipmen. The list
as announced by Comdr. Ward
Davis, graduate manager of ath-
letics, is as follows:
Track, V. P. Healey, captain; R
j. Murray, manager; Golf, A. S
Goodfellow, jr., captain; P. E. Nc
Arthur, manager; tennis, D. A.
Marks, captain; r. N. Miller, man
ager; outdoor rifle, R. P. Desmond
jr.. captain; w. H. Game, manager;
Dinghy Sailing, D. S. Scheu, cap
tain. Midshipman l.. F.. Bassett
was named manager of crew, but
the 1910 squad will not be elected
until after the Poughkeepsie regatta
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Straight Off the lee

even against such dangerous sharp
shooters as Hart, Jock Olmsted, Col.
Kenneth Buchanan, Tom Belshe
and few of the others who played
today.
Jones Net Leader.
Nor will the boys have an easy
time nosing out Victor Jones of Gen.
eral Accounting Office for the top
net award. Jones put together 79
and "A for total of 1853, with 20
handicap, for net total of 1873.
That score usually wins, and this
time, If 1t stands up through today,
Jones will be the first man to get his
name on the impressive new trophy
donated by Secretary of War Wood
ring. Sam Harvey of General Ac-
counting Office scored 78 and IA for
l52 and had net of 1873, tying at
that net figure with w. M. Law
renee of Government Printing Office
and Pat MARITIME of Federal Hous-
ing.
For quite a while it looked as if
Jones had been given only 10
handicap, but the eagle eye of Frank
G. Butler of General Accounting
spotted a mistake. Don O'Bryan,
chief Handicapped. said Jones had
10 strokes for each round, giving
him the net of 1873. And with Jones
at 153 and Harvey at 152 and with
Hart and Olmsted still to play that
General Accounting Office team
again look to be the winners in the
chase for the Mellon trophy.
Over at Army Navy petite Mrs.
j. S. Phillips was being congratu-
lated on her victory in the tourney
for the Hume Peabody trophy. She
won the big mug yesterday with a
card of 9l-19-72. Low gross went
to Mrs. j. w. Ludewig, who scored
"a.
Dan Mason, brother of former
Champion Beverly Mason. tops the
field in the Chevy Chase Club cham
plonship for the F. Oden Horstmann
trophy. Mason has turned in cards
Of II and rs for a total of 153 in
the first two rounds of the 72-hole
tourney. At that he had quite a
score, for the II included a 9 on
the para l4th hole.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Four Cards May PIoy
In AII-Stor Game

Four Catholic University football
players who will graduate this
month may be on the all-star East
ern team which will meet the Phil
adelphia Eagles of the National
League in an exhibition game at
Philadelphia on August 81.
John Kasunich, a retiring cap
tain and end: Wayne (WhitevD AM
brose, Frank Cairo and Burke Vid-
movie have been notified that they
will be among those for whom fans
can vote to play on the Eastern
team. Only players in colleges
within a radius of $50 miles from
Philadelphia are eligible.
G. U. had a representative on the
team last year, Leo Katalinas.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Fouquier-Loudoun Polo
Team Has Two TiIts
Sp. cIal Dispatch to The Star.

Sp. cIal Dispatch TO The Star.
WARRENTON, Va. June g.
will play two games over the week
end with the North Shore Club of
Harrisburg. Pa.
The first game will be played
Saturday at 800 o'clock on Marshall
Field. The Sunday game will be
played on Phipps Goose Creek Field
near Upperville, starting at $3.50
o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Stond Bazes Trail Stars City Net Quarternak With Upset Win
Mrs. Gu|doh, Nearly Perfect
AS Predicter, Sure Ralph
Will Keep Open Title

Rather than stay at a hotel with
most of the other contenders, the
Guldahls rented an apartment few
minutes from the course.
Guldahl is far too consistent and
much too cool under fire for any one
to replace him as favorite. Even
the fact that only one other golfer
Willie Anderson, one of the games
immortals-has won three consecu-
tive championships hardly is likely
10 dlslodge Ralph from his position
as the betting choice at 6 to /.
The champion is fourth among
the years money winners and sixth
in the Vardon Trophy standings,
according to figures by Fred Cor
coran, P. G. A. tournament man
ager. Ahead of his winnings OF
S4,ol2 come Dick Metz, s5.748:
Henry Picard, s5247, and Sam
Snead, S5,027. Ahead of his point
score OF 135 come Picard, 2Oo:
Snead, 1877; Bryon Nelson, 1872; Ben
Hogan, 165, and Metz, 153.
Metz Not Among Choices.
Despite his high ranking in both
lists and the fact he was second
to Guldahl in 1888, Metz isn't up
there with the favorites for the
open. Dick played poorly through
the four days of the Goodall round
robin.
Guldahl, Harry Cooper, the Good
all winner, at 81; Picard, Nelson
and Snead, 10-1, are the leaders.
Two OF the best-liked dark horses"
are Dutch Harrison, the Chicago
newcomer who stands sixth in
money-Winning with $4,l59. and
Sam Byrd, Ed Dudley's assistant at
the Philadelphia C. C. Harrison is
a 30-1 shot and Byrd SOL
Evening star., 1939-06-06
War Netmen Near TOP
After Beotinq Vets

War Departments tennis team
was little nearer first place and
more firmly entrenched in the run
nerup spot of the Departmental
League today following a Al VIC
tory over Veterans Administration
yesterday.
Mariana Erana and Felix Silva
saved the vets from a shutout by
winning the No. match from BIZ
tonti and Foster, 81, 60.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Victor Over Murphy
Rated Menace 10
Lynch, Champion
Brisk Battles Expected
In Doubles Semi-FinuIs
Due Tomorrow
BY BILL DISMER, Jr,

Minus the most favored new tennis
player the District has had for a
long time. but with greater respect
for a more familiar one who always
gives the best of them run for their
money, the Stars City of Wash
ington mems tournament was to
move into its quarter-fi final singles
bracket at Edgemoor Club today
with three semi-final doubles teams
destined to be determined tomor-
row.
Dick Murphy. good enough to be
ranked twelfth nationally three
years ago, but not good enough to
beat doughty little Ray Stocklinski
yesterday, was the missing new
conner. Stock" steady as a rock
pulled the upset by the convincing
figures of 60, 60. allowing the
Longwood Bowl champion of 1888
only five points in that second set
AS result, the Districts public
parks champion now is something
better than long shot against de-
Tending champion Hugh Lynch to
be met Thursday, for it was no
secret that Lynch rated Murphy as
his most dangerous rival.
Smith Pressed by Rice.
In the wake of Murphy's elimina-
ton, the spotlight shifted to the
Capitals second newest player of
distinction, Alphonso Smith, ma
tional boy champion IS years ago
who, unlike Murphy. conquered an
other of Washington's old standbys,
Austin Rice. to become a quarter
f1nalist along with Stocklinski. Rice
gave Smith his first hard battle
Yesterday when he extended him to
three sets, 6-l. 10. Ga.
There's possibility that Billy
Contreras. Smiths next foe, NAV
spring another upset when they
meet on Thursday, but barring that,
"Smltty' will be in the neXt-to-la
round of his first local tournament,
Because half dozen doubles
matches were run off Yesterday
seven teams found themselves in the
quarter-flnal round today with Doolv
Mitchell and Ralph McElvenny. de-
lending champions and seeded No. /
due to make that bracket this after
noon. That is, of course, unless the
American University team of Hudson
and Lee proves more formidable
than expected.
Doubles TiIfS SI,tod
Barring that possibility, Mitchell
and McElvenny will meet Ed Mather
and Murphy at $50 o'clock tomor-
row with other opponents already
known and paired. At 4:3O. Lynch
and David johnson, seeded fourth
Will meet Frank Shore and De Witt
Smith, while at $50 battle royal
should be waged between third
seeded Buddy Adair and Bill Breese
and Allie Ritzenberg and Nathan
Askln, newly-croWned Southern Con-
terence doubles champions. Its
Jimmy Farrin and Bill Howard
temporarily out of town, will not
play their quarter-flnal match
against Tommy Moorhead and
Charley Sturtevant until Friday.
Breese and Adair were the only
two to be given much competition
yesterday, ST. Adams School in
structor, Dick Pratt, and Maurice
Cowan extending them to 8-6 in
the first set before losing, GO
johnson and Lynch took a 81. &C
decision from 1t. Tom Sherburne
and Jim Wilson, while Shore and
Smith whipped Dick Willis ano
Clarence Herreshoff by the same
scores. Moorhead and Sturtevant
won over Ricky Willis and Billy
Turner, and Ritzenberg and Askir
defeated Harry Brinkerhof and St
Jean, both matches ending in 60
Ga figures.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
League Leud at Stake

Tru-Blue and Arlington Demo-
Gratis meet tonight at o'clock at
Ballston for the Metro Night Soft
ball League lead. A girls game will
precede the feature. At Seat Pleas
ant, Nd, DR.. Pepper meets Standard
Linen, and an hour later Sunshine
Arcade opposes Golub's Market.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Commissioners Score

D. c. Commissioners walloped Bu-
reau of Engraving, 1878, in a De-
partmental League game as Lacy set
down the losers with four hits. Lund
hit homer for the victors, while
Joe Mills connected for three hits
in four times at bat.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Petworth Needs PIoyers

Petworth A. c. needs a good
right-hander, and an equally good
southpaw pitcher. Call Randolph
6026 after 6 pm. The only require
ment is that candidates must be
over 20 years Of age.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Roosevelt Bows Win

Roosevelt Boys Club nosed out
Bureau Of Standards, 81, in a we'll
played Community Center League
softball game. Greenland and Gray
held the losers to three hits.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
York Seeking Come

York Haberdashers want games
with junior teams. Call Paul Akers
at Atlantic 6948.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Sherwood League

Kovakos Grill has another victory
to its credit in the Sherwood Soft
ball League. defeating Varity. 8-3,
behind Rowells' three-hit pitching
Evening star., 1939-06-06
More Changes Necessary
If Club Is to Climb

Last years team was shot through
with injuries, some of the players
were wearing out and others plainly
were discontented. Bill had to
scramble the squad every once in
a while and put infielders in the
outfield and outfielders in the in
field to get nine men in action at
the same time. There were days
and not just few days, either
when they looked to be an Inter-
national League team-and I don t
mean the Newark Bears. But some
how they managed to hold on, and,
IN a last, desperate try in September
almost regained the lead just before
they we're overtaken by a great
WEAKNESS.
Obviously, Terry had to make
some changes with the coming of
another year. The trade with the
Cubs was one of them, the purchase
of Bonura was another. These
moves, plus the apparent improve
ment in such pitchers as Melton
Gumbert, Lohrman and Castleman
seemed to satisfy him-to convince
him that the Giants were them
selves again. He believed they were
as good as they had been at any
time since he took charge of them
The blow fell quickly. He knew
very early that he didn't have the
team he thought he had-early
enough for him to make more
changes. And more changes are
what the Giants need if they are
going to get up there again.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Carr Bros. BOOKING

Carr Bros. and Boswell softball
nine want games for Saturday night
or Sunday. Call Temple FARRELL at
Berwyn 357-J.
Evening star., 1939-06-06

Bnai Birth, Sunday Fraternal
League pacemaker, meets Cabin
John softballers at Rock Greek to-
morrow at 6 pm.
Evening star., 1939-06-06
Terry Held Pennont Hope
When Critics Doubted

Bill shared none of their doubts
He hoped Hubbell and Schumacher
would come back, but he felt that
even if they didn't the other pitchers
would carry the Giants through
He was very much encouraged by the
relief pitching the team had had in
It's spring games. He thought it
would be considerably better than
it was last year. With Bonura added
to the batting order and Danning
on full-tlme duty-and with OFT and
Moore swinging along as usual-Bill
thought the team had real punch
at last.
Almost everything has happened
to upset his calculations. The
pitching staff has staggered woe
fully. Whitehead has come through
magniflcently-at times he seems to
be holding the team together all by
himself-but Myatt failed and was
sent back to Jersey City. Bill has
shaken up the team several times
even to the extent of benching
Danning and Bonura-in an effort
to develop a punch Most distress
ing and unexpected at all, Moore
has been in a slump since the open
ing of the season
The National League race being
as it is, the Giants, for all their ills
and setbacks, still are close enough
to the top to make it in a few strides
if they can work up real stride
and the leading teams falter. But
Bill has been shaken-as who
wouldn't be?-by his experience
He firmly believed that by this time
the Giants either would be in front
or running along smoothly no worse
than Secon6 pr third