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Evening star., 1941-08-01
Stranahan, Gonzales
Among New Stars
In Field Of $50
Every Section Presents
Challenge; Chapman
ToiIing for Army
BY BILL BONI.
Associated Press Sports Writer

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NEW YORK, Aug. 1-Entries
close late today for the United
States Golf Associations annual
amateur championship, and, this
far in advance, it already is shap-
ing into a free-for all fight for the
title won last year by Dick Chap
man, now an athletic instructor at
an Army air field in Alabama.
Little has been heard from Chap
man for the last two months, but
some of his more prominent rivals
have been hitting the ball well
enough to get it noised about gen.
orally. In addition, there are a
few up-and-coming youngsters who
may be in the thick of the battle
August $3.50 at the Omaha Field
Club.
Chief among these are 18-year old
Frank Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio,
and 19-year-old Mario Gonzales, the
slender Brazilian. Stranahan this
year has won the Ohio and Trans
Mississippi championships, and has
the solid support of Byron Nelson,
former Open and P. G. A. title
holder who is pro at Toledo.
Gonzales Takes Rest.
Gonzales played handsomely In
the recent Chicago and st. Paul
opens and might have done even
better but for a lame left wrist.
He's gone to California now to rest
up, and hopes to have everything
in working order for the champion
ship.
Breaking up the contenders
ranks by sections, it appears some
thing like this:
East-Chapman, a wizard on his
home course in winning a year
ago: Duff Mccullough. the amiable
Philadelphian who went to the
final with him; Ray BilloWs, the
Poughkeepsie IN. " printing sales
man who twice has been a finalist
and recently won his fourth New
York State title.
Midwest-Johnny Goodman, for
mer champion who'll be playing on
his home grounds; Wilford Wehrle
of Chicago; Willie Turnesa, another
former titleholder who now is set
tied in Detroit, and Stranahan.
Prelim Waived for Yates.
South-Charley Yates, now an
Army private, who is being excused
from sectional qualifying: Sam
Perry, the perennial contender from
Birmingham; Freddie Haas, jr.. the
animated New Orleans stringbean.
Southwest-Harry Todd of Dallas,
who was low amateur in the Open
this year and went to the final of
the Western amateur, where he
was beaten by Marvin (BudD Ward
in close match; Billy Bob Coffey
of Fort Worth and Reynolds Smith
of Dallas, former Walker Cup ace
who is going to quit writing golf a
while and 60 back to playing it.
Pacific CoaSt-Bud Ward. 1893
champ from Spokane, Wash. who is
likely to be the favorite at Omaha
Pat Abbott, who will give the Hol-
lywood movie colony representation
and Ellsworth Vines, the former
tennis star.
At the U. S. G. A. Offices Execu-
tive Secretary Joseph c. Dey, jr.
said the entry list probably would
close with field of $50. Sectional
eliminations. involving all but the
former titleholders and Yates, will
be held at Denver August II and
elsewhere August IA.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
ZoIo, Groves BottIing
In Garfield Tennis

Ben Zola and Benton Groves were
to meet in thirdsround match at
4 o'clock this afternoon in Garfield
Fairgrounds annual tennis tourna-
ment.
S. G. Chu and Defending Cham
pion Mahlon Tarleton reached the
quarter-flnals yesterday with COM
paratively easy victories. Chu
polished off Pete Fineran, 60. Ga
while Tarleton vanquished Reggie
Murphy, 6-1, 6-1.
Evening star., 1941-08-01

He carefully edged back and
leaned hard against the ropes
in order to shoot himself toward
his opponent. But the ropes were
loose and instead of bouncing
back he somersaulted out of the
ring and banged up hip and back
on ringside benches.
Writes Football Coach Billy
Laval to Scoop Latimer of the
Greenville Is. c. News: you
can say for me that my Newberry
team positively won't wear silk
football stuff if made in Japan,
since, as you wrote Sunday morn
ing, silkworms are now in the
Axis"
Sam Butz of the Jacksonville
FlaD Times Union points to
Shortstop Ray Hamrick of the
Americus. Ga, team as classi-
cal example of the fact that you
can't tell by baseball beginnings.
Hamrick started his Georgia
Florida League career by making
Evening star., 1941-08-01

year-old prospect and thinks he will
land guard or tackle assignment
if he can conquer the shoe problem.
"He was recommended to us by
former Pitt player and if he is half
as good as his record indicates he
will be one of the regulars when the
National Pro League season gets
under way" says Bell. former owner
of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Jarrett's father was appointed
warden of the penal colony on the
island of Oahu, largest of the
Hawaiian group. reports Bert The
boy went to live at the colony and
when old enough was appointed
guard.
AS a sort of promotion, Jarrett
was made assistant hangman. The
grinning athlete admits he never
actually served in an execution,
largely because the regular hangman
always was on the Job.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
lach Of Duke Rated
In Same Glass as
Parker, Upton
Reminds of Both Great
Backs, but Is Bigger,
Scaling 1913 Pounds
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DURHAM, N. C., July 31.-Every
few years Coach Wallace Wade oil
Duke places on display a football
player who has everything.
Such player was Ace Parker
who was an All-AmeriCa at Duke in
1896 and has been burning up the
pro football circuit in recent years
Such a player was Eric Cthe Red)
Upton, who single footedly punted
Duke into the Rose Bowl by coffin
corner kicks which defeated Pitts
burgh in fantastic game played in
the snow here in 1888.
And now comes Stephen John
Lach, a raW-boned individual with a
square jaw and toothy grin. who
will remind you both of Parker and
Upton.
Lach is a senior, 6-2 in height
and weighs 1913, which is 20 pounds
heavier than Parker and IS heavier
than Upton. Steve is of Polish de-
scent and halls from Altoona, Pa.
He can run, pass, punt, tackle,
block and catch aerials.
Lach can pass with deadly ac-
curacy. He was so good at receiving
last year that he didn't throw the
ball much-but his competition
record as a tosser was so per cent.
He punts like Upton and Parker
to the coffin corners. His two
year average now stands at Just
under 40 yards-not sensational, but
good, steady kicking.
What is possibly more important,
he is one of the finest defensive
backs in the country. Last season
only one first down was made
around Lach's halfback srot And
he blocks on offense Just as we'll
as he tackles on defense.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
By LARRY LAWRENCE

The Columbus horse snow, winch
opens tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock for 2-day run at the Mea-
dowbrook show grounds on the
East-West Highway, has a star
packed entry of open jumpers and
a hunter division filled with quality
fox chaserS.
The battle for championship hon.
ors in the jumper division should
be the keenest seen by a Capital
gallery since the Washington horse
shows record entry last spring.
Rarely do such outstanding open
jumpers come together in the same
ring as the management lists in the
entries of this show. Records are
in peril when such notable record
holders as Margaret Cotter's Rock
sie-6 it., in; Lieut.. Fred j.
Hughes. jr's stallion Black Caddy-
it., 434 in; Mrs. M E. Whitney's
famed 6-foot leapers, First Night
end Blue Eagle, and Can't. David
Wagstaff's 6-foot fencer Enterprise
meet in the arena.
Baby Snooks a Threat
Then just to make the going
tough for these favorites comes
Betty and Peggy Mills from Newton
Square, Pa, with Baby Snooks, one
of the greatest timber toppers of
the North. A little bay mare only
1873 hands high, Baby Snooks, with
her tiny rider, Peggy Mills, in the
saddle, is a decided threat in any
illustrious company of open jumpers.
Thirteen-year-old Peggy, about as
big as a minute, is a celebrity in her
own right, one of the star open
riders of the, country. Last year at
the Washington horse show this tiny
miss electrified fans by taking three
blues and competing on equal terms
with adult riders in the skyscraper
class.
Right on the heels of these top
Fighters, battling for tri-color hon
ors, is that competent quartet from
the Fort Myer horse show team,
Capt. C. B. McClelland's Smacko of
Madison Square Garden fame, the
reliable laurel winner Clipped
Wings, Capt. Bayle's Reno, and a
Evening star., 1941-08-01
s. Amateur Golf Journey With List Closing Today Seen Free All
Auto Racer Joins
Wife in Hospital
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HERSHEY, Pa, Aug. Tom
Balmer's failure to heed the
warning of his i'll wife put him
in hospital along with her.
The Lancaster, Pa, midget
automobile racer suffered serious
injuries last night when a wheel
came off his speedster and it
crashed on the last lap of a con-
ISOLATION race.
Balmer told attending physi-
clans his wife, rushed to the hos
pital few hours earlier, had in
sisted he not race and he PROM
ised he wouldn't.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Loss Of Greenbere Hit
Detroit Clubs Morale

Brooklyn finished fifth in 1918,
first in 1920. and fifth in 1921; from
the second division TO the pennant
in one season. and back from the
pennant to the second division the
next.
Detroit was fifth in 1889 and won
the flag last year. What will 1t Go
in 1941?
At the moment they are sixth,
and it will take a lot of grim deter
mination to pass the Browns and
Washington on the way down, but
the Tigers might possibly make 1t.
The most obvious reason for De-
troit's nosediYe is the absence of
First Glass Private Henry Green
berg. Henry was the kind of slug
ger wh0 caught the eye and ear and
when he went from baseball to the
Army he went with such fanfare
that all the world took notice and
said, well, that1l cook the Tigers" "
1t didn't do the Tigers any good,
certainly, but l doubt if they would
have won, or finished one-tWo- three
in the American League this year
even with their full ration of Green
berg.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Jones, Richmond Back,
Named on AII-Sturs
By the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Aug. AR
thur Jones, the University of Rich
mond's all-star football back, will
play with the college All-Stars
against the Chicago Bears at Chi
cago August %.
Jones was outstanding in Rich
monds surprising triumphs over
v. M. I. and North Carolina last
year and was termed by Coach Ray
Wolf of the Tar Heels the best one
man backfield he ever had seen.
He was the offensive star of the
Blue-Gray game at Montgomery in
December and was signed to play
with the Pittsburgh pros this fall.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Sorozen Only One to Win
Open, P. 6. A. Same Year

BY the Associated Press.
Gene Sarazen is the only player
ever to win the United States open
and the professional golfers cham
pionship in the same year.
Gene turned the trick in 1922,
when he was 20.
He won the P. G. A. again in 1923
and 1888 and won the United States
open in 1882.
Sarazen tied for the 1910 open,
but lost to Lawson Little in a playoff.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
California Boys Score

KALAMAZOO, Mich, Aug. / Lp.
Bobby Falkenburg of Hollywood
and Don Harris of Los Angeles out
stroked Allen Watson of Elizabeth,
N. j., and Jack Hersh of Cleveland
60, 60, to win the boys doubles
title in the Western Junior Tennis
Tourney.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Cards Are Drawing Fans

ST. LOUIS, Aug. l (P>..-The
Cardinals have drawn more paying
customers to the gate in Al home
games this year than for all home
tilts last season. The total is 342, Sal,
with 80 more games to be played
here. Last seasons total was
1872 ,433.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Lands Three Bass
On Single Plug
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla, Aug. 1.-Fish-
ernan's luck: Mrs. Will Whitner
of Williston (Fla), casting in
Lake Easy, pulled in three bass
on one plug. All over the 12-
inch game limit.
Rudy Mahaffey of Plant City
hooked a bass in Lake Istagpoga.
1t leaped several times, showing
itself to be about 112 pounds.
Suddenly there was a commotion.
When Mahaffey reeled In he had
a 5-pounder. He didn't ask
what happened to the original.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Womun Greet Skeet Shot

AURORA, Ohio (P).-Mrs. M. L..
Smythe of Aurora holds all long-run
women's skeet records. This means
that with each gauge gun used she
has broken more successive targets
than any other woman shooter.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
A. A. u. Run at Amsterdam

NEW YORK, Aug. / R..-The
National A. A. U. 30-kilometer cham
pionship run has been awarded to
Amsterdam, N. Y, for August %,
Secretary-Treasurer Dan Ferris of
the A A. U. has announced.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Walker, Knox Matched

BALTIMORE, Aug. l (P.-
Heavyweights Buddy Walker of CO.
lumbus, Ohio, and Johnny Skhor Of
Baltimore will tangle in a 10-round
feature bout of a f1ve-match card
at the Baltimore Coliseum on
August 4.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Alex Leaves Hospital

NEW YORK, Aug. / CP.-Grover
Cleveland Alexander, 54-year-old
former National League pitching
star, has been released from Belle
vue Hospital, where he was taken
last Friday suffering from a head
injury.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Dude Park Meet Draws

HENDERSON, KY, Aug, l. R).-
Dade Park opens a 26-day race
meet tomorrow and more than 400
thoroughbreds are stabbed here, with
additional horses expected from De-
troit.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
KistIer Goes to L. S. u.

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. P.
President Campbell B. Hodges has
announced appointment of j. w.
Kistler. former 3-letter man at
Iowa, to be head of the Louisiana
State physical education.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Packers Sign Poskvun

GREEN BAY, Wis. Aug. l (P.-
George Paskvan, Wisconsin's ALL
Western Conference fuilback last
fall, has signed contract with the
Green Bay Packers.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Army Gets Hockey Stur

NEW YORK, Aug. l P).-Murray
Patrick, defenseman of the New
York Rangers, has received notice
to report on August IA for induction
into the Army.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Brewers Change Pitchers

MILWAUKEE,, Aug. l (P).-Mil-
waukee has optioned Pitcher Jess
Dobernic to Los Angeles and OBJ
tanned Pitcher Bob Weiland on con-
ditional sale from that club.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Falls Church BOOKING

Post 100, Falls Church American
Legion juniors, want Sunday games.
Call Falls Church 1715-J between
6 and pm.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Still in There Punching,
But GETTING Nowhere

"Of course, We still are IN there
punching" says Mr.. Delmar David
Baker, a survivor of those golden
days who will guide you through
the ruins free of charge. But l
guess we won't do so we'll this year" )"
Exactly how we'll will the Tigers
do? For the baseball calculator
and figure filbert, there are points
of interest about this question.
In 1916 the Brooklyn Dodgers won
the pennant. In 1917 they finished
seventh. That's a good drop. but
the real parachutists of baseball his
tory are the Athletics, who won IN
1914 and finished last the following
year. The Tigers hardly can do bet
ter than tie that record.
It's what you might call a two
dimensional record. Taking them
over a three-year span, the DetroitS
have chance to do something that
no club but Brooklyn ever has done,
and to do it better than Brooklyn
did. The Dodgers still are the down.
up-doWn champions. The Tigers are
pushing them hard for the title.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
From the
Press Box
Tigers Have Atmosphere
Of Ghost Ball Team
BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent Of The Star.

NEW YORK, Aug. / (N.AN.A).-
The Detroit Tigers, the ghost team
of baseball, open against Boston's
Red Sox tomorrow in a series which
Is more an exhibition of famous
ruins than anything else.
If you have toured the ancient
hills Of Rome, or the Acropolis of
Athens, and seen the crumbled ma
sonry and the shattered glories of
the Parthenon and the Colosseum,
you know what the Tigers look like
today.
The ghost towns of the West have
the same atmosphere as Tiger
ball game. Once, not, so long ago,
when the lode was rich, those ham,
lets echoed with the bolsterous
laughter and eXuberant gunfire of
prospectors and marshalS and bad
men who we're said to shoot at the
drop of a spare king of diamonds
from somebody's sleeve.
The Tigers used to shoot at the
break of a pitchers fast ball. The
ball park and the walls ratified with
their cannonading. They sounded
like so small boys in a cellar on
the Fourth of July. That was last
year, when they won the pennant.
Today there is no more left of them
than there is of Ozymandias, king
of kings, who said: Look on my
works, ye mighty, and despair"
Evening star., 1941-08-01

..ROLOER OF THE WOhENS
AMERICAN AMATEUR
HIGH JUMP RECORD.
WILL BE THE STANDCuT
IN THE SEVENTH
ANNUAL COLUMBUS
HORSE. SHOW TO BE
HELD At The
k1EADOWBROOk SADDLE
GLIB TOMORROW dnd
~ SUN ~ ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
DAY OF PRAYER
 LECTURES SET
Second Church Scene of Observance Tomorrow;
 COIOred Choir to Sing

Mrs. David P. Gaines. wife of the pastor of the First Baptist Church, will address the gathering at the World Day of Prayer service tomor- row afternoon ct 3 o'clock at the Second Congregational Church. An: other speaker will be Mss Ethel zlglatslIi.
 epirituals will be sung by the Mount Olive 4. N. '. Zion Church choir. Ofiicers of the World Day of Prayer committee are:
 President, Mrs. Alan M. Eairkank; vice. e.presldent. Mrs. Adrian |. Mil- loy, and secretary, Mrs. Carl Q. oul- liver. They succeed: Mrs. Clarence M. Merriam. Mrs. John A. Cce and MEn. David ?. Gaines, respectively.
 The planning committee voted on tho report submitted et the meeting hy th0 nominating committee cone slsllng of Mrs. Allen v. BoeFdmaa, chairman: Mrs. Perry q. Borden and kGF1. Evan N. Jones.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
RESERVE OFFICERS
 TO HEAR MCGUIRE

Members of the Waterbury chap ter, Reserve Of1cerS' association, will hear James J. Mcclure, FBI agent in charge of the New Haven office, tonight at 8 o'clock in the alder manic chambers. In the absence of the president, Capt. Edwin C.. Gluntz, the first vice-president, Lieut.. Frank P. McCue, will preside.
 A great-great nephew and two great-great-great nephews of the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone, are active in Clubbing in Shreve- port, Louisiana-Boys' Life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
BURKE RESIGNS
 WPA POSITION
Andrew R. PastOrius Is Named Director of Oper.
 atiOns; ]; We'll Qualified

New Haven, Feb. 27.-The resig- nation of Thomas J. Burke, of Meriden, as director of operations for the Connecticut wPA, and the appointment of Andrew R. Pas torius, of Orange, on an acting basis. to that post were simultan- eously announced today by Frank Upman, Jr., acting administrator. MT. Burke gave as his reason for re- signing the fact that he is contem- plating position in connection with a new federal program now being formulated-a fact which makes necessary his absence from Con- necticut for an extended period of time.
 Mfr. Pastorius has been associated with the WPA since 1885, when he was appointed to an engineering post by the then administrator, Mathew A. Daly. He has pro- gressed from field engineer to area engineer and to the position of aS- sistant director of operations dur ing his employment with this fed- eral agency. Mir. Pastorius has an excellent background of education and experience, in private employ ment as well as with WPA, thor oughly eQuipping him for his new duties.
 His formal education was received at West Haven High School, Booth Preparatory School and Sheffleld Scientific School at Yale, where he studied civil engineering. Among other qualifications, MT. Pastorius Is a licensed land surveyor, licensed professional engineer and is a men- Der of the Connecticut Society of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27

Aidona BukauSkas ;treasurer, Vtn- cent Urbonas.
 The committee which will have charge of the program includes Peter Jakubauskas, Mrs. Anna Barkauskas, Alexander Markus, Anna Landzius, Joseph Bernota, Mrs. Marcella Digimas, Mrs. Isabel. la Jankauskas.
 Refreshments were served Sol- lowing the business meeting by members of the Women's Asso- citation, of which Mrs. Marcella Digimas is the president.
 Passion Play
 Plans for a Passion Play to be presented on Good Friday in the Community Hall of the Lady of Mount Carmel church for the bene- fit of the parish were discussed last night by the Mount Carmel Drama tic Club at a special meeting held last night at the parish hall. The cast and committees for the play will be selected at the next regu- lar meeting of the group on Wed. nesday. March 5. Mary Ranaudo presided at last nights meeting. Rev. Austin Saunders, spiritual advisor of the club, was present.
 The officers of the club are: President, Anna Raimo; manager, Vincent Mature; vice-president, Josephine DAngelo; recording sec retary, Mary Ranaudo; financial secretary, Laura Sparano; treas urer, Pat Bredice. Marciano Lauri- no. who has directed many of the clubs plays, will direct the Passion Play.
 The minstrel troupe of the Lady of Mount Carmel church will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the parish hall to continue rehearsal for the annual show which will be present. ed for the benefit of the parish on April IS at St. Joseph's hall. John Jannetty will direct the group.
 The c. Y. o. of the Lady of Mount Carmel church will meet tomorrow night at 7:30 at the par- ish hall to make plans for a dance to take place in April. The regular meetings of the club will take place each week on Friday night. instead of Thursday as in the past, due to the scheduling of minstrel rehear- sals for Thursday.
 Members of the Junior Newman Club will meet tonight at 6:45 at the parish hall of the Lady of Mount Carmel church to go to a roller skating party at Hamilton Park.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27

OIvil Engineers.
 His employment has included po- sitions with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, for whom he worked first as a rodEnan and then as a transItnan on base line work and topography for rail- road re-evaluation purposes; with the Aluminium Co. of America in North Carolina, where he was chief of party on preliminary surveys for hydro-electric development; with the United Fruit CO, in duate- mala as field engineer, engaged in exploration, location and construc- ton of narrow guage railroads and tramlineS; in Cuba as field engineer in charge of the location and con- struction of a railroad for sugar plantation purposes; with the Con- necticut Company as concrete con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27

structi0n inspector in Greenwich and White Plains, N. F. Bith the Aberthaw Construction co. ag cpn~ stTuction engineer on 1ciulc1eed concrete factory buildings; with tllo Winchester Repeating Arms co. as engineer on construction, planning and plant maintenance: as prod4c- ton planning supervisor on the de- velopuaent of new products, and for this company he investigated, de- veloped and installed a bonus plan for Indirect production employees.
 Following this he was chief oe party for the Connecticut GeOdetiC Survey and later was responsible for reviewing plans, estimating and pre- pairing proposals for the City of New Haven, which were eubge- quently prosecuted under the-EEEsA and WPA work programs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
Plan Mass Meeting
 ToAid War Refugees
Lithuanian Alliance of America Sponsors of Gathering
 Here; Lodges Select Date of Annual Picnic
BROOKLYN NEWS

Attorney F. J. Bagocius, of Bos- ton, president of the Lithuanian Alliance of America, and Joseph Tysliava, of Brooklyn, N. r., editor of the Lithuanian weekly news paper "vienybe" and a well known Lithuanian poet, will be speakers at a mass meeting which will be held at Buckingham Hall on Sun- day, March g, for the purpose of raising funds to aid Lithuanian refugees. A committee composed of members of the Lithuanian Inde- pendent Political Club, the Lithu- anian Chamber of Commerce, and the local lodge of the Lithuanian Alliance of America is making ar- arrangements for the meeting.
 The program will include a per- formance by the Lithuanian Cham
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
Washington
 Merry-Go-Round

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