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Evening star., 1947-06-12
Maureen 0rcutt Tops
Field in Eastern Golf
BY the Associated Press

NEWTON, Mass, June 12-With
six threatening rivals no more than
four strokes behind her, Maureen
Orcutt Of Haworth, N. j., faced the
stiffest sort of pressure In her quest
for her fifth women's Eastern golf
championship triumph since 1929
today at the Brae Burn Country
Club.
That nationally known campaign
er put IS atop of her opening 70
to enter the last round of this 54-
hole medal sectional competition
yesterday with 157 total and a
one-stroke lead on Mrs Phillip Gu
done of Boonton, N. j.
Two newcomers, Mae Murray, 81
year-old daughter of a Rutland (Vt.J
professional, and Grace Lenczyk of
Hartford. Connecticut's new 19-
year-old State titlist, were two and
three strokes behind the major
tournament-te tested leader.
Miss Lenczyk shared a fourth
place tie with Mrs. Harry McNaugh-
ton of Hewlett, N. Y. the Eastern's
l941 victor, with her 36-hole score
of 16O,
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Mystery U. S. Open Storts
On Deceptive St. Louis Links

is no star gazer. He didn't even scold
his wife the other day when some
body asked Ralph in her presence
how he would do. Hell win It,"
Mrs Guldahl said, "if everybody else
drops out"
Bobby Locke Favorite.
Guldahl agreed with a number of
the other 19th-hole quarterbacks
that this is the ideal golf course on
which to crown an unexpected
champion. Il don't mean an un-
known said Guldahl, the man who
won two Open Championships and
finished second in another. Some
body who has been playing lot of
golf, maybe one of these youngsters. y
If there is favorite, It's Bobby
Locke. The South African had the
gallery all to himself in the practice
rounds. He's Mr.. Big of the tour
nament. The course calls for straight
shooting-that's Locke's forte. The
green's call for expert putting-Locke
is the admitted master of that de-
partment.
But not to be overlooked is the
defending champion-Lloyd Man
grum, who regained the winning
touch last week in Washington. Nor
Jimmy Demaret, the leading money
winner and a straight hitter. Hogan
has his hackers, but the greatest
SHOEMAKER of them all, Samuel Jack
son Snead, has little support. They're
lSee WHITTLESEY. Page C-2l
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Babe Refused
To Tell About
| Sore Thumb
By the Assoeiatad Press

GULLANE, Scotland, June 12.-
Sturdy Babe Didrikson zaharias
won the British Women's Amateur
golf championship today with a
painfully sore left thumb, but she
refused to tell about it lest it sound
like an alibi.
THE very first day I hit an iron
out of the rough on the seventh and
I dug so deep I nearly tore my left
thumb off," she said.
Its still sore and 1t hurts like
the dickens when hit some of those
long ones. I wouldn't tell anybody
about it because I didn't want these
people to think I was trying to set
up an alibi."
So the Babe, tough competitor
that she is, mentioned her injury
only to two or three persons and
bound them to keep silence unless
she won the championship.
The Babes long drives brought
constant murmurs of "phenomenal'
from the huge crowd that followed
the championship match.
According to the yardage figures
on the course, really hit the ball
mile she said, but the great length
of her perfect drives had their dis
advantages.
THE distance. hit the ball"
she explained, made the slightest
mistake bigger. Where the others
hooked or sliced little they would
still be on the fairWay. If I did it,
the longer distance sent the ball
into the rough"
The hard fairways helped with
the roll, too
"On these sandy courses it can
rain hard and the ground will be
solid within an hour" she said,
Evening star., 1947-06-12

Mrs. Clara Sherman of Pasadena,
Calf, II and Q, at Tulsa, Okla.
No shrinking violet, the Babe
wants to be remembered as the
stand-out woman athlete OF all
time
This is the only major women's
golf title I have left to win," she
remarked as she debarked from
the Queen Elizabeth for the British
championship.
British golf fans were bug-eyed
at her driving feats and beaten
flrst-round foe retired unnoticed
to the clubhouse while the Babe
gave a trick shot exhibition in fin
ishing her round Monday.
1T seems cruel to send our girls
out against game like that" one
observer said.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
BY the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, June 12.-De-
spite his 80 years, Cy Young
still thinks he can throw one
over the pan"
Cy almost got chance to
prove it as he was honored' at
yesterdays Cleveland Indians
Boston Red Sox game, but Um-
pire Charley Berry called play
ball" to quickly after the cere-
monies, so he'll have to try again
some time.
However, the first pitcher to
be honored in baseball's Hall of
Fame replayed many game yes
terday in a gabfest with a group
of old-timers, most of whom
played with or against him dur
ing the 22-year period in which
he notched Sill victories-a rec
ord still unequalled.
Young and the other old
timers we're guests of Indians
President Bill Veeck at lunch
con at Municipal Stadium. Elmer
Flick, who played both with and
against Young. recalled that Cy
had a few bad days along with
the good ones.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
By MerreII WhittIesey
Stor Stoff CORRESPONDENT

ST. LOUIS, June 12-This is the
mystery tournament Of all the At
National Open championships, the
one starting today over the decep-
tive st. Louis Country Club course,
While few agree on the probable
victor or winning score, all agree
there will be blowups by big shots
and some subpar shotmaking by
outsiders.
The championship Is being played
over a strange type of course for
the Open, a comparatively short
layout of 6,532 yards, but one dotted
with blind shots, dogleg holes. tight
fairways and greens that are dam
gerously deceptive.
It's the type of golf course where
Sam Snead, or even Ben Hogan,
could shoot mighty close to 80, yet
some Johnny lately could slip
around in 68 or SO. A perfect ex-
ample is that the so-called old
timers such as Billy Burke, Henry
Picard, Ralph Guldahl, etc, have
been playing practice rounds in. par
or better while the star players of
1947 have been finding trouble.
All-Time Record Is 2S1.
The all-time record score for the
Open championship Is 281 for the
72-hole route, established by Gull
dahl in 1887. and we put it straight
to Guldahl yesterday in the locker
room-will anybody here break your
record?
The big, handsome, stoop-should-
cred golfing great of decade ago,
the master of golflng concentration,
said it looked less like it all the
time. Guldahl admitted 1t was an
easy course for a straight shooter,
but he said that under the tremen-
dous pressure of the Open cham
pionship nobody can keep EN-
straight for 72 holes.
The. greens here will get them
before it's over" Guldahl said. THE
boys are missing more of those
5-footers all the time and before a
new champion is crowned Saturday
night, you'll probably see more
missed puts of feet and less than
you've seen in any previous Open
Championship. The greens are
grainy. You see a roll one way and
the ball goes the other"
AS for his own chances, Guldahl
Evening star., 1947-06-12

She is the kind of a woman
to buy a set of golf clubs. In fact
her golfing career dates from just
such an incident in 1881.
Walking down the main street In
Dallas, looking for new party
dress, the Babes attention was ar
rested by trimmed golf bag
and a shiny set of steel-shafteo
clubs. The result was inevitable.
Babes first round of golf was ar
encouraging 95, which faded to 81
within month and has been drop
ping lower with every round. Her
drives are up with the men pros
and usually 100 to $50 yards ahead
of her woman opponents. When
her foe usually is swinging with a
spoon or braSsie, the Babe is using
a 5-iron.
Got Start in Basket Ball.
Big time golf was Johnny
Come-I.ately to the career of the
fabulous Babe, who now makes her
home in Denver, where her husband
ex-wrestler George Zaharias, is a
promoter. But back in her native
Texas they remember her most as a
basket ball player and track and
field star.
Basket ball actually got her
started into the national spotlight
as a star member of the Beaumont
High School team. She was given
a position with a Dallas insurance
company, which sponsored strong
amateur FIVE. That Dallas club won
the National AAU title and the
Babe was voted the standout player
in the Nation.
Up to that time she had confined
herself to a little bowling, SWIM
ming, football, base ball and box
ing. but she now turned to track.
She once hit three homers in ball
game. :.
1--WE decided to give up boxing
she told a reporter in 1881, who had
inquired about a reported exhioltlon
bout with young Stribling's brother,
I'm going TO be lady now. I'm ls
years old. you know"
One-Girl Track Team.
She was a one-girl track team,
running and jumping, putting the
shot, tossing the iavelin and throw
ing the baseball. AS member OF
a Dallas team in 1880 she once
threw a baseball 296 feet in ma
tional championships at Jersey City.
Some managers would settle for an
outfelder who could do as well.
In the 1882 Olympics she set a
iavelin record with toss of l43 feet
4 inches, later surpassed in 1896 by
German fraulein. She also
copped the high hurdles and actu-
ally tied for first in the high jump,
but was disqualified for diving over
the bar head first. The committee
had ruled she could compete in
only three events, although she was
a good sprinter and broad jumper.
Ruled a pro because of a mixup
over an advertising deal, the Babe
was reinstated by the AAU in De-
cember of 1882, but finally turned
pro in 1885 In 1884 she had en-
tered her first golf tournament at
Fort Worth, winning medalist hon.
ors with II.
Reinstated as an amateur golfer
in 1914, Mrs. Zaharias defeated
Betty Jameson of San Antonio, 10
and 8, in a special 72-hole match
for charity. She copped her third
Western Open title in 1945 and
tuned up for her British invasion
by sweeping Is consecutive tourna-
mentS during the winter season of
1867.
Won National Amateur.
Although her 1916 record In
cludes losses to Grace Lenczyk of
Conn, in the first Ma
tional Women's Open and to Mary
McMillin of Green Bay, Wise, in
the Western Amateur, she did win
the National Amateur, downing
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Ennis Hot Streak
Costs Him Injury
BY the As.oeieted Press

PHILADELPHIA, June Ia
Del Ennis, star sophomore out
fielder for the Phillies, ran his
consecutive hitting streak to IA
games yesterday-but 1t cost him
a knee injury.
Del raped a single off Murry
Dickson of the st. Louis Car
dinals, but a moment later was
caught mapping off first. Dick
son tipped to Stan Musial, who
tagged Del on the knee so hard
that Ennis was forced to leave
the game.
He was expected to be in &C
ton against the Chicago Cubs
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Rain Creates New
Sport on Diamond
BY the Associated Press

CLARA CITY, Mimi, June IL.
"A cloudburst created brand
new sport on Clara City's baseball
diamond.
Two Clara City boatmen
launched a craft, hitched on an
outboard motor and gave the kids
in the negihborhood their first
boat ride on a baseball diamond.
The diamond lake" boatmen
sailed merrily around the bases
and toured the outfeld. The
skipper cut the motor at third
base and glided to home plate
for what fans claimed was the
longest slide" home in local
baseball history.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Mats Face Tigers
Here Tomorrow

Off today, while returning from
an Improbable Western tour,
the Nationals will resume busi-
ness at Griffith Stadium tomor-
row night when they open a
three-game series with the
league-leading Detroit Tigers.
Walter Masterson, who blanked
the White Sox for Is innings in
his last appearance. is sched-
uled to. hurl for the Mats.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Harris Winning Form
In First al Start
PIeases Red Sox
BY the Assoeiesed Press

Things were looking up for
genial Joe Cronin and his Boston
Red Sox today.
Back in undisputed possession Of
third place and In the midst Of
their longest winning streak in a.
month, the American League cham
pions are beginning to resemble
the club that swept through the
circuit like prairie fire last season.
The old slugging bunch Of Ted
Williams, Bobby Doerr, Rudy York,
Dom Di Maggie and John Pesky
still is in the throes of a puzzling
batting slump, but the pitching de-
partment appears to have taken 4.
new lease on life.
Harris Returns to Action.
The biggest lift, however, has been
the return of Lefthander Mickey
Harris, and not because he is the.
court jester of the club either. The
29-year-old southpaw, one of last
years Big Four. hadn't seen an
inning of service on the mound
until yesterday.
Making his first appearance Of
the AT season, the native New York
southpaw pitched seven scoreless
innings as the Red Sox won their
third straight over the Cleveland
Indians, 80. Not since May IA
have the Red Sox won that many
In row.
The victory put the Sox only
two and one-half games In back Of
the league-leading Detroit Tigers,
who divided a double header with
the Philadelphia Athletics. Ths
Bengak easily won the first game,
I'll, behind the seven-hit pitching
of big AL Benton. but were shut
out. 40, in the nightcap by Carl
Scheib, a 20-year-old unheralded
rookie who was making his first
major league start.
The split. however, dropped the
AS into fourth place.
Shea's Streak Broken.
Another rookie hurler, Frank Shea
Of the New York Yankees, had his ,,
seven-game winning streak broken
when Don Holloway tripled and
George Dickey singled in the 18th
inning to give Joe Haynes and the
Chicago White Sox a 80 win in
Chicago. The victory moved the
White Sox into fifth place, 6 per-
centage points ahead of the Indians.
The second-place Yankees, in losing
dropped to full game behind the
Tigers.
The Chicago Cubs further tight
ened the blistering National League
pennant race, turning back the Bos-
ton Braves twice in Boston, 40 and
So, to replace the Braves in third
place and move within game and
a half of the front-running New
York Giants. The Giants dropped
an 81 Suggest to the Pittsburgh.
Pirates in New York. - :
Pinch Hit Wins for Reds. -
Ray Muellers pinch-hit double
with the bases loaded in the sixth
inning drove in three mates and
gave the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4
victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers
at Ebbets' Field. Jackie Robinson of
the Brooks enjoyed a perfect day
with triple, double and two singles.
The Philadelphia Phillies showed
the st. Louis Cardinals back into
a last-place tie with Pittsburgh by
nosing out the Redbirds, 5-4, in
Philadelphia. The Phils jumped on
Howie Pollet for all their runs in
the first inning after Joe Medwick
had given the Cards a three-run
lead with home run in the top
half off Ken Raffensberger.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Cy Young, Honored at Game
Still Wants to Toss q Strike

II remember once when we
scored 10 runs off him in the
first inning" Elmer said, but Cy
came back the very next day and
shut us out. The fellow had
stout heart"
Practically all of the 5000 resi-
dents of Newcomerstown, near
where Cy lives on farm. at,
tended the game as Weeks
guests.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
St. Anthony Wins Title

Jack Jankowski and John Byrns
combined to help st. Anthony win
the CYO championship in yester-
days final playof game against st.
Gsbriel's. Jack pitched three-hit ball
and John got three doubles, driving
in six runs as the TONES won, 1916.
Evening star., 1947-06-12

Our authority for this statement is Mr..
Leonard j. Roach, member of the Board OF Super
visors of Los Angeles who with his congressman
Representative Cecil King, Democrat, OF California
elected to launch the campaign from the office OF
Mr. Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington club
He also wangled out of Mr.. Griffith personal In
vitation to plead his case at the joint meeting OF
the major league club owners on July in Chicago.
Los Angeles is united in drive to bring big
league ball where it rightfully belongs, began Mr.
Roach. I'VE will outdraw every city in the country
except New York: Our community is sports mind
ed. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum seats
1913 900 persons and our two professional football
Evening star., 1947-06-12
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results YESTERDAY.

Wash, 4: ST. L., 2 tnl.
Chicago, 3; n. Y, 2 1l
Detroit. 20; Phila,, IA.
Boston, 3; Cleveland, 0.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Results Yesterday.
Cincinnati, 5: Br'klyn,
Pitts. s; New York, Z.
Chi, As; Boston, %
Phila.. 5; st. Louis, 4.
Games Today.
Chicago at Pitts. tn).
St. Louis at Cine. (n).
Only games.
Games Tomorrow.
Boston at Pittsburgh.
Phila. at Chicago.
BROOKLYN at st. Louis IN
Only games.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
British Victory Climax to Zaharias Amazing Career
Texon, Former Olympic Star,
Got Her Sturt in Golf in 1881
(Story OF Tournament Page ALI
(Story OF Tournament on Page ALL
By jack Hand
Assoeiotsd Press Stoff Writer

NEW YORK, June l2-Somebody should have warned the
British Ddrkson Zahara the Texas tomboy whose
deng amazing Americans for
years and today brought her the British Womens
Amateur golf title
She is the kind of woman pass up dress
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Win, Lose, or Draw
Another County Heard From
By FRANCIS E. sTAkN

County all 4000000 OF them
beginning and OF they Will
franchise and they won't stop until
thew fully appeased Furthermore be pretty
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Majors May Name the Lucky Team

and King were speaking at as
otherwise consisting OF TWO raoo 'o
and sportswrter Griffith who consented TO summon
he usually calls Win ease
out of the city-or just out
did not sit at his long codnonatoh
filtered about his once s o
cigars IN all trick Representative King and hereaer re-
of It, He'd heard the STORY anyway.
"The reason came Grhh, explained Mr. Roach was
tnt Mr. Gfh is the dean cubownersMr Grnh and Connie
Getting back to Angeles he resumed why
fans do they draw? you Angeles will make no effort to
name the team franchise We have irons In the nre
on that score major league baseball Let the cuo-
ouners wins to be transferred"
lis Like l. AS Seeding From the Coast
you gather confident gentleman you gather
correctly. also is determined ..
Wst about asked the newpapman AFTER
the Pacific Coast League Ii L. a
pulls out what happens to that league?"
you'd have to pay damages Pacific Coast League re-
minded Griffith, appearing from nowhere ,.,
wei that's problem" confessed Roach but think we
work it out
In other Words you want to take
Los Angeles of the Coast Lacquer"
Let us say" replied Roach to take the Coast
Beach pretty big We're not exactly heartess
Angeles big league town and some OF
other Coast League cities aren't"
As meeting broke Mr.. Griffith asked If he was
campaign. We'll murmured Grill Il m
a-sayng big league ball. And that was
admiration genemans polite in Representative
Kings eyes it was not surprising.
Evening star., 1947-06-12

Games Tomorrow.
Detroit at Wash. $50.
Cleveland at Phila. In).
ST. L. at New Yor.E. (n(.
Chicago at Boston IN.
Evening star., 1947-06-12

Don consistently draw croWos Oh
10000. Midget auto racing draws $4,000 spectators
Renrentafjye King interrupted forget" he said he
Coliseum three weekly auto shows IN our area
That's right" agreed Roach 1--WE also had track meet
nighbigge track
crowd in this conys for the Ompc We have
lighting system $4,000. Best in the land too
Evening star., 1947-06-12

Games Today.
None Scheduled.
Evening star., 1947-06-12

(See WHITTLESEY, Page CO.
Evening star., 1947-06-12
Major League Standings and Schedules
THURSDAY H. 1s47.

thursday, JUNE IL, 1947.
The frontiersman., 1947-06-18

$ .s tI
 TRAP-MeN AGREE
 a full season's oper etion for all 1o- cal ccnneries was as- sured this week when represen totives of the Cook Inlet Packs ing co. !, announc ed that an agreement was reached last Sunday morning between Nin- ilchik hand-trap op. orators and the can- nery.
 Harry Leman. flew to Mini lchik early Sunday morning wi tn the cannery's final offer, and returned here later that aft. ernoon to br ing word of the fl shermen's acceptance.
 Prices agreed upon in the contr act were those of the Alaska Salmon Indus try's fi- nal offer in their negotiations wi tn the
The frontiersman., 1947-06-18
GOOD KING CATCH

One of the best king salmon seasons in Q number. of years was reported here this week by local fl shermen returning from up-Inlet opera tions Buck Douglas, fishermanfs agent, said ten tative esti- ma te 8 place the catch as the best since
The frontiersman., 1947-06-18
A NDfRSON KfNAi .:---.
 TO Be READY BY JUNE 25

Prepara tory work is sing rapid 1y on the Ander 8 on Kenai Oper ati on, it was repor ted this week :. by c. E. nnder- son, who said he ex- pee ted the Kenai con- nery to begin work in another week.
The frontiersman., 1947-06-18
CLAsstfIfD AOs
FOR S4.LE

OIt D1kI1
 GENER ..TW SET, 35 XIV, c omple te, S1 800; refr igerator 5-door reach-in, $500. See R. J. McNealy repre- sent a tive, Terr itor- ia1 Veterans Affairs
The frontiersman., 1947-06-18

fishermen, acc cording to W. n. Els tes. These prices. were: Reds and silvers, 29 cents kings, .sl. .3l4; pinks and chums, 10 cents.
 Mr. Els tes said that Cook Inlet Pack ing Co.,, is now pre- pairing for the sea- son's work. 4A wire received here yester- day :. fr om the firm's Seattle office annou- need that IA cannery workers would leave for nlG. ska at the June 20 sailing of the Baranof
 nctual production lat the local pl aht is texpec ted to. begin du- ing the first week lof July.
 | THE IRON l Published each week
 Sub scription rates Clas sif jed. adyer is i, Display aduer tising
The Nome nugget., 1947-11-26
Carson Dissatisfied With Maritime
 Alaska Hearings
tBY Charles D. Watkins)

04o) Special Washington Service)
 WASHINGTON, (P)-Joseph K Carson, member of the maritime commission, said today he thought too much time has been devoted to inquiring into the operations of steamship companies serving Alas ka and not enough to the interests of the people of the Territory.
 The commission and an exam iner have just concluded hearings at Seattle and here into the Alas kan transportation problem.
 II feel that too much time has been devoted to considering the contentious of the operators of the Alaska steamship lines and not enough to considering the inter eStS of Alaska for a long range program to meet the needs of the area" Carson told a reporter. 'We have got to meet the situation re- alistically if the people of Alaska get an even break in maritime service with those of the United States"
 The commissioner said that any service to Alaska will have to be inaugurated with government aid, with the first problem to be solved being that of terminal facilities in Alaska and the second the right kind of equipment.
 Carson said the commission hoped to have ready for Congress in January recommendations for permanent plan for steamship service to the Territory.
 Steamship companies have con- tended that present government vessels in use in the Alaska service are not the right kind and that the service will require especially constructed ships.
The Nome nugget., 1947-11-26
French Premier May Conscript End Strikes
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
 Schuman was expected to see a committee from the communicated general confederation of labor CCGT) today in the hope of reach ing some settlement before taking his cabinet before the national as- sembly for approval, perhaps on Thursday.
 Well-informed sources said he might make a last offer to meet labor demands for tipping the blanket minimum wage. from 1000 to 10000 francs ($58 to $90) per month if the strikes were called off, but would refuse other increases. requested.
 If this should fail, these inform ants said, Schuman might call strikers in key industries into the army Every Frenchman who has gone through his compulsory mili- tary training remains member of the reserve for the rest of his life and can be called to the colors in case of emergency. Resistance is mutiny.
 There also were reports that Schuman would demand secret ballot of workers before any fu- ture strike.