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Evening star., 1939-07-24
The
SPORTLIGH7
Baltimore Tournament
Genuine Golf Classic
By GRANTLAND RICE,

cpeCldl Correspondent Ol 1Hc olai.
NEW YORK, July "a CN.ANA).-
In the opinion of Bobby Jones, the
grand slam master of the ancient
green, the public links champion
ship at Baltimore this week cuts
straight into the heart and soul of
golf
The Hon. r. T. Jones is entirely
correct.
In the first place, these 200 Balti-
more entries are the survivors from
2,400 starters. There were 176 from
Denver alone. There were nearly
$50 from Buffalo, another strong
golfng community.
They also are the pick of a million
public links players who play the
game for the fun of playing, beyond
any money reward. Golf is their
game and in many instances they
face every known barrier to swing
club or to tap in a putt.
1--WE sent Horton Smith, Jimmy
Thomson, Harry Cooper and Lawson
Little on tour of public links
courses" Bobby told me. I'm the
course of year they played before
more than 100000 spectators and, of
course, they never had the chance to
cover the full map by good many
square miles. Most of these golfers
learn their own game and you'd be
surprised to know how many of
them play exceptionally fine golf.
BY that mean Tor better.
This country is full of star golf
ers few ever hear about because
they lack the time or the money to
enter tournaments
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Golf Round Determine True World Champion ga Managers Idea
Trip to Capital on Program
AS Baltimore Entertoins
Linksmen in Biz WAY

at Annapolis and to Washington, and
on Friday the Maryland Yacht Club
will put several of its boats and
their shippers at the disposal of the
Tournament Committee, winding
up with typical soft-shell crab feast
and dance that night.
All in all, it's a program likely to
make this memorable tournament
for the players who have come from
~ States, Hawaii and the District of
Columbia. That's Baltimores in
tention.
AS play got under way today, there
was no such thing as well estab-
lished favorite. Those mentioned
most often included Defending
Champion AL Leach of Cleveland,
who didn't shoot a round better than
78, or 6 over par. in practice; Charles
Ferrera of San Francisco, winner in
1881 and 1888; Don Erickson of Los
Angeles, Charles Anandoles of New
York, Art Armstrong of Honolulu
and Jim Molinari of San Francisco,
It's a Wide-Open Scrap.
But it shapes up strictly as a wide
open fight. The 6,885-yard Mount
Pleasant Park course Is a good one
for the long hitters, but they're likely
to drop back to even terms with the
shorter lads when they get on the
greens, each one as big as a city
block and as slick as a city pave
ment.
There are 70 traps on the course,
At Of them on the front nine. Either
they loom as large as a miniature
Sahara, or they have overhanging
banks like the lips of Ubangi war
rior, or they're as deep and inescap-
able as the Black Hole of Calcutta.
The man who wins this tourna-
nent will have to live up to past pub
lie links tradition and be the type Of
competitor who can hold his own in
any sort of company.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
New Trans-Miss. Golf
Champ Hailed as
Coming Great
Dog and Comero Hound
Take Part as Hurbert
Triumphs in Final
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July
24.-Keep 24-year-old Chick Har-
bert in mind when you're wondering
who will be the Nations amateur
golf stars of the near future.
Not only because he won the seth
rans-Mississippi championship at
Broadmoor yesterday, not only be-
cause the Battle Creek, Mich, bat
tier is grand, courageous golfer,
but also because Chick is a surefire
crowd pleaser he'll leave his i'm
print across the fairways of the
country.
Camera Bug Annoys Kingsley.
He crushed the challenge of Ed
Kingsley of Salt Lake City, and /,
in a titular match that had just
about everything-birdies, badinage,
three-putt green's and temperament.
The all-day battle spotlighted, in
addition, an overeager camera fan
and fun-loving little black-and-
white dog.
A camera bug" appeared on the
31st green, when the match was
deadlocked.
Just before Kingsley touched club
to ball, the camera began buzzing
like a hornet, the ball stayed out,
Kingsley snapped there's your pic
ture" to the movie maker, and Har-
bert went into the lead.
Dog Moves Harbert's Ball.
The dog incident was even more
bizarre.
On the 5S9-yard 35th hole, Har-
bert pushed his wood second into
snarly rough then flashed out. the
ball stopping 3 feet from the pin.
Then little black-and- white set
ter scurried out on the green and
knocked Harbert's ball 20 feet away.
Chick and officials looked thunder
struck, but decided the ball could
be replaced.
Harbert holed out for a birdie 4
and Kingsley accepted defeat in the
final of this tournament for the
second straight year.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Nelson Eyes ST. Paul
Open After Win in
Western Golf
Now Presses Picard for
Years Lead as Money
Eurner, Point Scorer
BY the Associated Press.

1'E tile n bSsOSIatcu FIcSS.
CHICAGO, July 24.-Byron Nelson
packed up his newly acquired West
ern Open golf crown today and
looked confidently toward the st.
Paul Open next week end, with its
$500 first prize.
Most of the other top flight stars
will be with him at St. Paul, includ-
ing one Ralph Guldahl, who a year
ago was talked about as "the super
golfer" but today is back in the pack
of the pros.
Last July Guldahl was riding the
crest of a great scoring streak that
had carried him to two National
Open titles and three straight West
ern Open championships. Now he
has neither crown.
Nelson Nears Money Lead.
AS the Madison, N. j., pro slumped
this summer his place at the head
of the class was taken by Nelson of
Reading, Pa, who assumed charge
with National Open victory. Yes
terday he entrenched himself fur
ther as the seasons ''hot golfer" by
winning the Western Open with a
72-hole total of 281, on rounds of
68, 70, 70, II. two under par for the
difficult Medinah Club layout.
Lloyd Mangrum of Los Angeles was
runner-up with 282, two strokes
ahead of third-place Henry Picard
of Hershey, Pa, the new p G. A.
champion. Dick Metz of Chicago,
the early leader, was fourth, at 285.
Guldahl, who has won only two
tournaments this year and none the
past four months, posted 291 for
eighth place.
Nelson's victory yesterday put him
close behind Picard in the Vardon
Trophy standings, on which is based
the personnel of the United States
Ryder Cup team, and gave him a
total of $7,423 in purses for the year.
Only Picard with $8,477 has earned
more.
Picard's Point Total Tops.
Picard's point rating for the Var
don Trophy is 423. Nelson has 413
points, Sam Snead of White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, 289; Metz, 259;
Guldahl, 2l7; Ben Hogan, White
Plains, N. Y, 1876, and Ernie Harri-
son, Chicago, 1853.
Running behind Picard and Mel
son in the money race are Snead,
$6,867; Metz, $6,623; Guldahl, $5532:
Harrison, $4,934: Hogan, $4.141, and
Horton Smith, Chicago, $4,07O.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Hawkins
Continued From Page A-10.)

knee. 1t may mean the end of his
baseball career, for the 33-year- old
Kelley is ancient enough in the mat
ter OF diamond days to regard that
injury seriously. Trainer Mike Mar
tin estimates Kelley will be idle at
least week.
Leonard to Face Tigers.
Dutch Leonard, still seeking an
elusive 10th victory, will launch
the Mats tWo-Week home stand to-
morrow against Detroit in the
opener OF three-game series.
Washington's mountain of misery
hardly was decreased during the
Western swing, in which the Mats
captured only four of a dozen games,
f1ttingly finishing the journey by
dropping twin bill to the Indians,
1l-2, and 43.
The Mats were doing very we'll in
the first inning of the first game
against Bob Feller, but from that
point the youthful speed ball ace
controlled the situation. Buddy
Myer rammed single to left, scor-
ing Taft Wright and Travis, both
OF whom walked, but that consti-
tuted Washingtons scoring for that
game.
Meanwhile the Indians pecked
away at Pete Appleton for four runs
and then blasted him from the
mound with seven run barrage in
the eighth. 1t was then that Kelley
entered the engagement and rein
jured his knee when his spikes
caught in the dirt.
Washington also was getting along
famously in that second game. It
constructed 80 lead and protected
it nicely for eight innings behind
the four-hit pitching of Ken Chase.
Then came the ninth and Mr.. Chase
absorbed his 18th loss of the cam
paign as Hal Trosky slammed him
for double and Ken Keltner and
Bruce Campbell singled in success
sion.
Walter Masterson was rushed to
the rescue, but after purposely pass
ing Pinch-Hitter jeff Heath, Pinch
Hitter frankie Pytlak smashed a
single off Myers glove to register
keltner with the winning run.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Clash Of u. s., British
Links Point Leaders
For Title Urged
Best Of German, French,
Argentine Stors Could
Enter Free-for-AII
BY DILLON GRAHAM,
Associated Press Sporta Writer.

NEW YORK.-If golfers weren't
modest, comparatively, the royal
and ancient game might have more
world champions" than wrestling.
There apparently is a wrestling
champion for every letter of the
alphabet. The "rasslers" waste no
time in publicly acclaiming them
selves.
Golfers are a more retiring sort.
They don't claim the world cham
pionship, but half dozen Of them
feel that they have as good a right
to it as any one else.
The chap who wins the National
Open thinks he's the world cham
pion.
And the fellow who wins the
P. G. A. believes he won an even
tougher tournament.
The guy who won more assorted
tournaments than any others dur
ing the year merely sneers and
says: ANY one can be hot for a
week" He figures that he's been
top man more often than any of
the others and that the title should
be his.
British Are Skeptical.
That noise from across the water
is our British cousins looking
haughtily down their cold noses
and inquiring just where we get
off. Have we forgotten that the
British Open is the oldest and most
important of all tournaments? Why
shouldn't the British Open cham
pion be ruler of all he surveys?
Then, of course, pretty fair golf
is played in France and in Ger
many and in Argentina.
So you can see that lot of guys
think they have as good claim to
the world championship as any other
fellow. And, under present condi-
tions, nothing can be done about it.
There really can't be any accepted
world championship.
In the first place, it virtually is
impossible to arrange tournament
dates SO that any one golfer can
play in all the major American and
European championships. Further
more, you could get huge odds that
no man would win them all, anyway
Title Round Suggested.
Fred Corcoran, tournament bu-
reau manager of the P. G. A., be-
lieves that the winner of the Vardon
Trophy should be ranked as Amer
ica's No. l golfer.
The Vardon Trophy competition
started in 1887. Points are awarded
to the victors in every tournament
sanctioned by the P. G. A. on a basis
of the Importance of the tourna-
ment. The P. G.. A. and the National
Open are worth 100 points. Other
sectional and winter tour Journeys
are marked down in comparison to
from Is to go points. Harry Cooper
won the Vardon Trophy in 1887 and
Sam Snead last year.
The British have a point system
similar to ours.
1t is Corcoran's idea that the
British point leader and the win
ner of the American Vardon Trophy
should get together, say, in a To-
hole medal play match for the world
championship. The match could be
held here one year and in Britain
the next, perhaps alternating with
Ryder Cup contests. Arrangements
probably could be made for the top
men in Germany, France and the
Argentine also to get in a free-for-
all.
That way, Corcoran says, golf
really would have world champion
that no one could dispute.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Knoxville Fans Riot ,
Costs Club Come
BY the Associated Press.


KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July "a
Tossing cushions and pop bottles,
hundreds of fans overf1owed onto the
playing field yesterday and forced
umpires to forfeit Knoxville's second
game of double header to Atlanta
80.
Umpires and police were helpless
in attempting to clear the field OF
fans who took up the issue after
Knoxville players frequently protest.
ed Umpire Halls decisions on balls
and strikes. Atlanta was leading,
80, when the kissing spectators in
the overflow crowd of 7,190 swarmed
onto the field in the seventh inning.
No injuries were reported. Knox
vile won the opener, 8-5.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Sorozen Twice Is Beoten
BY Public Links PIoyers

That reminds me-" Gene Sara
zen said, "of the time 1 stopped off
at Oklahoma City. A pal of mine
had been trimmed by certain pub
lie links player and he wanted to
get even. We made our bets and
much to my surprise the other fell
low didn't want any handicap.
"On the first tee I hit one $50
yards up the middle. My opponent
had just come from garage. He
scraped away little working grease
and then passed me 25 yards. He
shot 81 and murdered me, and g.
Il still think that fellow could
win the amateur championship if
he didn't have to work too hard at
something else for a living!
Another time" Gene said, Tom
my Armour and I played against
guy named O'Brien and some other
unknown in Ohio-both public links
golfers. All O'Brien did was to
shoot a 66 and beat our best ball,
2 and l. But he had a job to look
after and he couldn't get away for
anv Tournament "
Evening star., 1939-07-24
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

MOUNT PLEASANT GOLF
COURSE, BALTIMORE, July a.
This city, home of whisky distilleries
and the country's first monument to
George Washington, Is going all out
to make the 18th national public
links golf championship, which starts
today, the most sociable tournament
in U. s. G. A. history.
The national amateur and the
national open always are surrounded
by an atmosphere that's strictly
business" even during the practice
rounds. But Baltimore's public links
officials, headed by Tournament
Committee Chairman Columbus K.
(JacD Oakley and U. S. G. A. Pub
lie Links Representative Preston
Pairo, have sought to tighten the
tension with a well-rounded enter
tainment program.
Wins With 313-Yard Drive.
Saturday night they threw a dance
for the l85-odd golfers who are the
best Of the country's working-man
niblic-nudgers. Yesterday afternoon
there was driving contest that at
tracted gallery of several thousand
and wound up with Bill Russell of
Indianapolis hitting a screaming tee
shot over 3l3 yards, to take down
a handsome trophy. Last night there
was banquet.
Therell be no distractions tonight
or tomorrow night while the h,1trh
ers and bakers (there may even be
candlestick-maker in the field, the
doctors and dentists, and the lawyers
and laymen are trying to win the 64
places for match play in two 18-hole
qualifying rounds.
But on Wednesday, at a nearby
course therell be an 18-hole conso-
lation tournament for the players
who don't make the grade, with 10
prizes awarded by one of the local
newspapers. Thursday there will
be bus ride to the Naval Academy
Evening star., 1939-07-24
150- Pound Coost Firemon
Outdrives Noted Pros

There was slender young Pat Alb
bott from Los Angeles, a public
links player. who went to the final
against Willie Turnesa in the ma
tional amateur at Oakmont last year
And Willie needed hot niblick to
win.
I recall watching Bruce McCor-
mick, Los Angeles fireman, out
drive Lawson Little, Henry Picard
and most of the pros on the West
Coast. Mccormick, weighing only
$50 pounds, was one of the big hit
terS of the field, up with Thomson
and Snead. He had a fine body
pivot, and handling that fire hose
must have added something to his
hand and wrist power
There are more than two dozen
public link players who could raise
what technically is known as havoc
in any amateur championships
they only had the opportunity to
show their stuff.
I've seen a lot of them" Bobby
Jones told me yesterday, who have
built up their own game and who
would be hard for any one to beat at
match play. They have the love of
the game that is sure to get some
where"
Golf no longer is an old mans
game nor a rich mans game. It
belongs today to the masses, who
make heavy sacrifices for even a
round. Their names may not grace
the headlines. But this country is
full of unknowns who can play their
full share of championsip golf,
given the chance to enter tourna-
ments and show what they have.
Golf, after all, is a players game
not so much for the spectator. 1t
is the one game in which the spec
tator takes a harder beating than
the player. But there are more
golfers now than players in football,
baseball, boxing and tennis COM
bined-their ages running from
8 to 80.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Federal Golf Slowed
As Offices Scatter
Their Personals
Labor to Leove League,
But Big Teams Remain
In Stor's Tourney

Decentralization of some of the
Government Offices in Washington
and scattering of personnel at other
places in the country has tossed a
monkey-wrench into the teams
playing in the match play golf tour
ney sponsored by The Star.
Three forfeits of matches-or
virtual forfeits-have come in the
last week, because the various
agencies were not able to gather
sufficient playing strength, due to
personnel transfers and vacations.
Labor Department forfeited six
points to Federal Housing last week
and according to Don O'Brien, golf
chairman of the Federal Golf Asso-
citation, will drop out of the league.
Internal Revenue Hit.
Federal National Mortgage Asso-
citation last week was able to mar
shall only three men for match
with Commerce, and Internal Rev.
enue, an agency which is being
decentralized in the general Gov
ernment reorganization scheme,
forfeited six points to Bureau of
Agriculture Economics.
Notwithstanding these factors,
however, the tournament will go
on, for only few of the major
teams are affected and few of the
leaders will be involved in the
transfers.
This is an of week in the schedule,
but the teams will resume compete
ton next week with a flock of
matches scheduled in all three Sec
tions.
Meanwhile, Rural Electrification,
which has been a football for the
strong outfits in Section 2, is cele-
brating its first victory in two years.
1t licked Veterans Bureau at Wood
mont by a score of 312 to 212.
Matches Next Week.
Matches scheduled next week are:
Section July 81. immigration VS.. Jus
tlce at kenwood: Railroad Retirement VS..
Navy at Army. Navy; August l.. War vs..
C. vs., S. S. B. at Woodmont.
Section 2.August 1. Treasury vs. Post
once "a match that may 60 far toward
Accounts and Deposits and @. P. o. at
Army Navy tanother tough scrap); August
4, r. E. A. vs. Commerce at Indian Spring;
veteran Veterans VS.: Federal National Mortgage at
.s5tsai;T.. Section $E,yuly 81. Patent once vs.:
Elect, Electric Farm and Home Authority vs., In
Procurement vs.. National Archives: 7. B. /.
ana Interior at Indian spring.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
St. Andrews and Hoyloke
Links Open to Public

I'm my opinion this is one of our
great tournaments" Archie Reid,
president of the U. S. G. A, said.
For the public links championship
represents the vast army of golfers,
not the select few. How many know
that st. Andrews, Scotland, the
shrine of golf, is public links
course? So is Hoylake, one of the
picked championship courses of
Great Britain.
Golf in England and Scotland
has been largely game for the
masses-not the classes. Golf over
here also is becoming game largely
for the masses-for the millions in
place of the few.
Il only wish that more people
knew how hard our public links COM
mittees, starting with the late Gan
son Depew of Buffalo, have worked
for the interests of public links golf.
You know it took many years to get
the country, States or cities to real
lie what public courses meant to
more than million people, mean
the husband, wife and kids. Scot
land, especially, has known this for
generations.
"It is different over here today.
There are now public links or COM
munity courses all over the United
States. These courses no longer are
COW pastures Many of them reach
championship caliber. Those who
follow the championship at Balti-
more this week will see not only
fine golf, but also keen, sporting
interest in every match. They will
see almost every State in the coun-
try represented by high-class play
ers, the survivors of 2,400 starters. "
Evening star., 1939-07-24
TIGERS Nab 19-Yeur-OId

BUTTE, Mont, July "a (P).-Nine-
teen-year-old Doug Edwards, Butte
High School football and basketball
player, has signed a contract to re-
port to the Detroit Tigers camp for
a spring baseball tryout.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Interior Upsets BerryviIIe

Interiors potent nine, pacemaker
in the Departmental League, upset
Berryville by 4-3 margin in well
played game yesterday at Berryville.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Twelfth for Churchmen

Sacred Heart scored its 18th
consecutive victory, banging out
To decision over the Gibson Grays
Beach's stickwork was outstanding.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Two for Shunkmun's Team

Shankman's Market won a twin
bill from Fogelman's, taking the
first game, So, and the second, To.
Hanlein and Lyon were the winning
pitchers.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Ironsit Ten Defeated

Capitol Transfer dropped a slug
ging bee to No. Presinct's repre-.
sentatives, losing by 21-17 count.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Beaver Dam Licks Argyle.

Beaver Dam golfers apparently are
unbeatable in their interclub match
with Argyle. They won the second
of series yesterday at the Landover
course, licking their guests by a
score of II to 13, even though John
r. Miller and Everett johnson, top
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Minor Leagues
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE.

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Asheville 3; Winston Salem. 0.
THREE-EYE LEAGUE.
Moline. 2-3: Springfield. IS.
Cedar Rapids. 8: Decatur 4.
Waterloo, 60: Evansville. SIS (sec-
Clinton. 4 Bloomington, 8.
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San Francisco. 53s; San Diego, 81.
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TEXAS LEAGUE.
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Evening star., 1939-07-24

Porismsg6h, PoctT M6nnt "a; DgTham Man9aI. IL.
Asheville, 3; Winston Salem. 0.
Evening star., 1939-07-24

THREE-EYE LEAGUE.
Moline. 2--3: Springfield. IS.
Cedar Rapids. g; Decatur 4.
Waterloo, 6-5: Evansville. SIS (sec-
md game Ue).
Clinton 4: Bloominrton e.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.

Minneapolis. 14-15; Columbus, Al.
St. Paul SIS; Toledo. O-3.
Louisville. a-10; Milwaukee. 6-4
Indianapolis. 6-l. Kansas CITY f.