Evening star., 1941-10-01

gratulatory backslaps for anneXlng
the crown in Glass B.
The Government Printing Office
boys, winners of The Star-sponsored
tourney in 1889, came back with a
vengeance this year. annexing their
section title earlier in the year and
finally winning the round robin final
round yesterday. licking Treasury
Defense at Burning Tree by the
surprising margin of 5l2 to =. Their
point total for the three match
round robin series was 9. against q
for Reconstruction Finance, the
runnerup; and 3 for Treasury De-
fense.
Patent Office Wins Close One.
Patent Office, in other years a
football of better teams, came with
a last minute rush TO win the Glass
r title at Kenwood winding up the
round robin series with 81 TO 2l2
loss to Agriculture. but winning the
title with a point total Of 8i2. Agri-
culture was second with 8, while
Treasury was third with ~.
Here was the picture as the teams
entered the final matches yeSter-
day, In Glass A Government Print
ing Office had won 81 points
against R. F. C. Then R. +. c. took
3l7 points from Treasury Defense,
leaving R. F. C. with a completed
point total of 6. Treasury Defense
with 2ls points won in its opening
encounter. needed to win at least 4
points to win against G. P. o.
In Glass B Patent Office won its
opening match to 0 from Treas
lry. Then Agriculture whipped
Treasury Az to IL. leaving Patent
Office faced with the necessity of
winning at least 2l2 points to win
the round robin and the Glass B
title.
1t all sounds very mathematical,
but that's the way it worked out,
and the human angles then became
important.
Government Printing Office has a
strong links team and everyone IN
the Federal service knows it. Joe
SHlPSlTl mas DtCll lllC IlOb IVY e1oAy
backed by husky Bill Lawrence,
equally husky Al Schneider, who
used to do a good halfback job for
the old Mohawk football team In
the days of Josh Licarione, and
Clarence E. Purdy. the man they
call Putting Purdy."
It's Putting Purdy" Now.
And Putting Purdy" it was yes
terday as Clarence, with brace OF
sizzling puts, put the kibosh on any
chance the Treasury Defense boys
had of winning the match. In the
top contest Lawrence and Schneider.
teaming perfectly for best ball OF
70. had won points. That IN It
self won the match, but Balestrl
and Purdy didn't know it.
They had won the first nine and
we're up, when Treasury Defense
Bernie Hallock and z. M. Shafer
turned on the heat.
They won three holes in a row to
SQUARE the match and were l up
on the nine. They went that way
to the long 18th. where Purdy rolled
in 2O-footer for birdie 4. only
to have Shafer knock his in on top
Of it. Then Purdy came through
with the crusher. He canned a 15
footer to win the 18th, which put his
side up on the match and even for
the nine. They halved the last hole.
Those boys we're just too good
for us" said Capt. Paul Carey of
the Treasury Defense team. I'VE
only lost 3i2 points in six matches
throughout the regular season and
here we dropped 512 points in one
match. That Government Printing
Office team is a poWerhouse." Ba-
lestri and Purdy had best ball of
II. but Hallock grabbed individual
honors with 73. followed by Bales
tri with "a and Schneider with Is.
Just as Purdy was the hero in the
G. P. o. victory in class A so was
Larry M. Goodridge the hero for
the victorious Patent Office boys in
their conquest of the class B cham
pionship. For Fred Hallagan and
w. F. Watkins of the Aggies, fight
ing with their backs to the wall,
had won points from c. c. Heath
and A. O. Andersen. That left it
strictly up to Goodridge, captain of
the Patent Office team, and D. A.
Arnold.
GoOdridge Is P. o. Hero.
They had won the first nine, were
| down on the second nine, and the
match was even when they came
to the nth. There GoOdridge rolled
in a 30-footer for a winning 5.
Needing a half on the final hole
for the vital 2i2 points which would
win the match for Patent Office
Goodridge tipped a third shot out
of a trap near the green, and
knocked in a 10-footer to halve the
hole with Lyall Peterson of Agri-
culture, who had sure 4. 1t was
closer than a gnat's eyewhisker, and
the Patent Office boys and their
scrapping opponents deserve equal
credit.
Here is summary Of the final
match in the tourney sponsored by
The Star for the fourth straight
year;
Government Printing Office,
511: Treasury Defense, z.
Bill Lawrence and Al Schneider
G. o. P, points; Paul Carey and
Jack White, Treasury Defense, 0.
Joe BaleStri and Clarence Purdy,
G. O. P. 21a points; Bernie Hallock
and E. M. Shafer, Treasury Defense,
"a point.
Patent Office, 212 points; Agri-
culture. 3i2 points
Fred Hallagan and w. F. Watkins,
Agriculture, 3 points; c. C. Heath
and A. c. Andersen, Patent Office, O.
L. M. Goodridge and D. A. Arnold.
Patent Office, 2la points; Lyal Pc
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