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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-06
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. Chilly
Graham, the welterweight con-
tender. is a 2-to-1 favorite to
beat Middleweight Joey Giar-
dello at Madison Square Garden
tonight and the veteran New
Yorker VOWS there will be no
doubt about it,"
This time I'll be so far in
front there won't be any room
for argument" said Graham,
loser of two split decisions to
the 22-year -old Philadelphia.
I'll win it big" Giardello said.
He'll have nothing to cry about
this time"
Tough Job for Officials.
The three officials who will
work the fight certainly hope
they're right. It's going to be a
tough assignment. Both boxers
are counterf1ghters who prefer
to have their opponents do the
leading. And their fighting
styles always are difficult to
evaluate.
Although the 12-rounder will be
broadcast by ABC and telecast by
NBC starting at 10 pm, the IBC
expects the biggest crowd (about
$4,000 and gross gate (about
$28,00O of the Garden winter
season. With radio-TV money
thrown in. each fighter will col
lect around $4,000.
(The fight will be telecast in
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did not discuss the rumored Mil
waukee switch in his recent talks
with william Harridge, president
Of the American League.
Two more players signed their
1858 contracts yesterday. Out
fielder Gus Zernial of the Ath-
letics came to terms for an
estimated $22, 900 and First Base
man Eddie Watkins of the
Phillies agreed to a reported
$4,000 pact.
NOTES Catcher Joe Rossi
smashed a 4O0-foot homer IN
Pittsburgh's intra squad game
=. Manager Rogers Hornsby
nominated Eddie ,Erautt and Bud
Podbielan to divide the pitching
in Cincinnati's first exhibition
game against the Boston Red
Sox tomorrow. Gus Niarhos,
who made only six hits all last
season, hit three singles as the
Red Sox veterans routed the
rockies.
Rookie Catcher Charley
Thompson had two stitches
taken over his right ear after
being hit with bat during a
Brooklyn batting drill. Rookie
Shortstop Daryl Spencer was
named to bat fifth in the New
York Giants fist exhibition
against Cleveland. Manager
Marty Marion Of the Browns or
dered more base-running prac-
tice for his club.
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r. Mackenzie of Green Spring
Valley; Leopold v. Freudberg of
Woodmont;; Alex M. Knapp of
Elkridge;; Thomas G. Carney of
Manor and George A. Tormey of
the c. c. Of Maryland as vice
presidents, in that order.
Albert E.. Steinem was re-
elected general counsel, a post
he held for many years.
Inasmuch as the Maryland
State schedule previously has
been announced, one of the main
topics will be a change in the
style of play of the Maryland
Open championship.
The open, amateur and wo-
mems championships Of the
State all will be played on Wash
ington-area courses this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-06
Souer's Aim Is Good Wood
Says Homer Race Hurt Batting
~ tho A,see;o,ed Pres.

Hank Sauer, who won the Ma
tional Leagues most-valuable-
player award in 1852, may not
do as much fence-busting this
season. He just wants to sget
good wood on every pitch. !"
The husky Chicago Cubs out
fielder. who tied with Ralph
Kiner for home-run honors last
year with 81. comedies his race
with Kiner caused a decline in
his hitting. Actually. he slumped
from a $50 mid-June batting
average to a final figure of .27O.
Without realizing it until it
was too late" he said yesterday
at Mesa. Ariz.. II allowed my.
self to become a pressure victim
last season. In my desire to
win the home run title, I was
swinging for the seats almost
every time I stepped to the
plate"
Westlake Aims for Fences.
Meanwhile, Wally Westlake,
another veteran outflelder, had
other ideas. Westlake, on the
comeback trail with the Cleve-
land Indians after a poor year.
is aiming for the fences on the
advice Of Manager AL Lopez and
getting results. He hit several
over the left field fence at
Tucson, Ariz.. yesterday.
II his comeback succeeds,
Westlake is sure of regular
job in right field, Lopez says, for
hes an excellent outfielder, can
run well and his arm is strong"
Mantle in Cleanup Spot.
Elsewhere, Mickey Mantle, who
turned 81 last October 20, has
come of age in more than one
way. The fleet centerf1elder will
bat in the cleanup position for
the champion New York Yankees
in the early exhibition games
and may start the season in that
spot if he comes through.
Mantle was the American
Leagues third-leading batter
last season at 81, but he struck
out Ill times Yankee record.
He also hit % homers during his
second major league campaign.
In st. Petersburg, Fla, Bill
Veeck, st. Louis Browns owner,
said it looked like his club will
stay in st. Louis. He said he
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I'll hit about 155la-my best
weight. I'll be stronger at the
finish than he will"
Graham Weighing Less.
Graham scaled 1899 and 149
the other times. Tonight he ex-
poets to weigh 148.
This should be the final chap
ter in a controversial rivalry UNI
less another rhubarb breaks out.
The last one brought on the fa-
nous reversal of the judges de-
cision by Bob ChriStenberry,
chairman of the New York Box
ing Commission, and then the
reversal of the reversal by JUS
tice Bernard Botein of the State
Supreme Court.
After Giardello had been
awarded his Split-decision vic.
tory, Christenberry changed two
rounds on Judge Joe Agnello's
Scorecard and declared Graham
the winner. Giardello took it to
the courts and Judge Botein gave
joey back the triumph.
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Claude WiIds IS Record at Washington Club,
A Historic Course That Looks Easy but Isn't

The rounds were not in COM
petition but Brick Wood, starter,
matchmaker and a member of
the pro staff at Washington for
SO years, recalls the 66s by Dave
Thomson. Turner T. Smith and
Maurice Mccarthy made under
summer rules as outstanding.
Witty Cox also had a 66. and
Wild a likewise non-competitive
IS on an occasion other than
when he set the record.
Thomson. pro at Washington
for 81 years before he was re-
tired last year. quit the club with
an all-time ringer score of Al,
20 under par. and believed UNI
matched. Incidentally, Wood
held the course record at par 70
for the first six months after it
was made an 18-hole layout, and
Brick was the man who COM
pleted the record of every hole
having been eagled. He made a
deuce on the 18th several sea-
sons ago.
Record Difficult to Find.
The pro record at Washington
was difficult to uncover because
about the only pro competition
has been in sweepstakes accom-
panying pro-arns, and in a Dc
VS.. Virginia pros match which
was at match play. The lowest
official pro rounds appear to be
68s by Cliff Spencer last year,
Harry GrieSmer of Bethesda in
1850 and Witty Cox in 194l
Spencer has played the course
IL times in tournaments and
never has been over par and
never better than So. Earl Fling,
Thomson's successor. had a for.
NAL SO in a pro sweep in 1852.
The women's competitive rec
ord goes to Mrs. Betty Meckley
of Kenwood. holder of a num-
Der of others, who shot a 76 in
the Phyllis Keller Miller Memo
rial tournament more than
decade ago. The event now has
been discontinued. Mrs. A. B.
Bower, now of Richmond, needed
A for rs to win the Virginia
women's medal last fall, but fin
ished GA for a II.
The unofficial scores of note
include a six-under-par "a by
a pretty fair player, Samuel
Jackson Snead. Slammin' Sam is
only one of many famous golfers
to play the course, others includ-
ing Bobby Jones, Johnny Far
rell and Archie Compston. but
none of the other scores were
memorable. Washington was
played many times by Presidents
Harding and Wilson. 1t is rich
in history both as a golf course
and a country club.
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ton in his days as an
amateur, Albert Mackenzie and
his son Roland, the latter a two
time winner; Frank Roesch. Mil
Ter B. STEVENSON and Harry Pitt.
Houghton's name recalls the
most famous round of it's time
In the Districts golf history. In
April, 1882. AL played in six
some with Tommy Webb, Dcrie
Gruver, Pete Pardoe. Walter r..
McCallum and Dave Thomson.
Despite an out-of-bounds shot
on the eighth hole where he tried
to play around tree, Houghton
shot 30-31-61. nine under par
with nine pars and nine brides.
At the time the round was
recognized by the American
Golfer as the lowest score ever
made over a course as long as
Washington's.
Recalls Score Of 81.
On a drizzly afternoon a few
years ago Claude Rippy and
c. M. DeLashmutt had the course
to themselves and under the con-
ditions of medal bet, Rippy. &C
knowledged to be the greatest
amateur golfer in the clubs his
tory, shot what he remembered
to be a 81. DeLaShmutt is not
positive whether it was 81 or
81. The older members all rec
ognize Rippy's % on the back
nine that day. but they recall
his total as 81 or So.
Rippy is right back of Wild
in the official records. Claude
shot IS in qualifying for the club
championship in 1947 and a 81
as the club medalist in 1913.
both under competitive condi-
tons.
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Chevy Chase Is Host
To MARYLAND Golfers

Donald E. DeVeau will be in
stalled as president of the Mary
land State Golf Association at
the annual election-m meeting to-
night at Chevy Chase Club, sue
ceeding Emmett Gary. The latter
will resume the secretary's post.
a job he filled many years be-
fore his term as president.
Other incoming officers will be
David H. Halle of the Suburban
Club in Baltimore, first vice pres
ident and treasurer; Karl w.
Corby ,jr., of Columbia; Roland
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-ueSplCe an almost complete
loss of records in the clubhouse
fire of 1934-shows that group
Of members of the old Metro
politan Club organized a country
club in 1894. The original site
was the present Wilson shopping
center and Colonia. Village.
The old-timers say only the
Chevy Chase Hunt Club ante
dates the Washington Club. and
at that time Chevy Chase did not
have a golf course.
The Washington Club was
moved to it's present location, a
hilly site on Glebe road with a
beautiful view of Northwest
Washington, in 1906. First it
had nine holes, then tight Is.
In 1924 the present fourth
through eighth holes were added,
making up the layout as it is
today with the exception of nil
nor changes of a tee or green.
Strange Course.
In many ways Washington is a
strange golf course. It looks
easy. but isn't. The 6,272-yard
par 70 layout has been the site
of some phenomenal scores in
friendly matches, but in compe-
tition it usually is a different
story.
The club has a number of
birdie holes, but there are out
of bounds. bitches and trick rolls.
It's a great course for "homers."
Last year when the Virginia
mems championship was
played there for the first time,
the girls from unquestionably
tougher courses said, after a
first look, that Washington was
the toughest course they'd ever
played.
For all of Washington's his
tory as a club, the competitive
record is less than two years old.
When the Washington Invitation
tournament was resumed in 1851
after a 17-year lapse the field
was so large the committee made
a quick decision to abandon any
plans to make the course tough.
Their object was to permit every
body to finish before dark.
1t took one-over-par golf to
quality for the championship
flight and the medalist with a
five-under-par IS was the trans
planted Texan, Claude Wild, now
president of the Texas State So
ciety, who breezed around in Is
pars and five brides. Ralph Bo-
CART duplicated the IS in the title
round Of the tournament, includ-
ing back nine of flve-under-par
80, but his score was in match
play.
Medalist Last Year With II.
Over the same golf course last
year. but with conditions not as
easy. Wild was the medalist over
virtually the same field with a II.
When Bobby Brownell won the
District Amateur medal there in
1851 en- route to his seventh title.
he was medalist with a 70. Like
the golfers who play it, WASH
ington in inconsistent.
The Invitation that was re-
in 1851 was one of the
Districts favorite tournaments
in it's heyday, and had some fine
golfers as winners. AS
q contrast in the scoring, E. B.
Eynon, jr.. secretary of the WASH
lngton Baseball Club, was med
alist in the first Invitation in
1914 with a rs.
The Invitation winners in
cluded Allan Lard, inventor
If the stel shaft; AL Hough-
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CIV High
For Title in Battle
OF Spoilers Tonight
tcontinued From Page CHS


halted an eight-game st. Johns
winning streak. ST.. Anthony'S,
winner over Wilson. the inter-
high champion. Monday night,
broke wills skein at Is straight.
The st. Anthony's upset of
highly-to WI is one of the
biggest surprises Of the tourna-
ment's 2l-year history. Never
has a team seeded last ever
fought its way to the finals.
st. Anthony's. with an enroll
r1ent Of 250-106 boys-has re-
fused to believe its underdog roll.
The TONES in polishing off Will
son were beating the District of
Columbia's largest school and
WI has an enrolment of 2,673.
Had not the two Maryland
schools which usually compete in
the event declined, st. Anthony's.
the third-place Catholic League
team. would not have been IN
vited
Just Refuse to Quit.
"They Just refuse to give up,"
Jack Bohne, st. Anthony's coach,
said after the game. "They won
that one here (pointing to his
hearth. -
AS for CIV, Coach Rasty Do
ran is finding a new star each
night. Tuesday it was Doug
Fleming who played his best
game of the year to lead the
Presidents to victory over Roose-
welt. Last night, Butch barley
couldn't miss to pace CIV with
20 points.
"All these boys can shoot"
Doran pointed out. I'm our gym
they seldom miss on those long
ones and I've been hoping they
would all start to hit at one
time. Before this tournament
/ didn't think we could shoot in
this gym-we hadn't made over
40 points in three games-but
I've changed my mind now"
THE teams we've played in
the tournament have been con-
centrating on Morton Chill Nor
ton. usually GW's high scorer)
but the rest Of the boys have
come through. We're certainly
no one-man team"
Score Bears Out Coach.
The box score bears out
Doran. barley scored 20. Les
McMenamin IS, Morton 10, Doug
Yates II and Doug Fleming 9.
st. Johns had only three scor-
ers-Ralph Hawkins with 20,
Frank (Horse) Harding with 10,
and Bob Rusevlyan with II. The
other Johnnies had a combined
total of four points.
st. Anthony's brightest star
was Jack Sullivan, who dropped
in % points and was a one-man
rebound team for the TONES. al
though all five TONES starters
Sullivan. Harvey Dant, George
Shugars. Bill Cassidy and Bob
Dawson-played alert ball.
There will be no preliminary
tonight. st. Johns declined to
play and Washington-Lee did not
have desire to take the court
either.
If CIV wins tonight, it will not
only be the tournament cham
pion but the Northern Virginia
titlist and grab a seeded spot in
the State tournament next week.
CIV and WI, tied for the league
lead. agreed before the event that
if either won the metropolitan
crown it would be declared
Northern Virginia titlist, too. If
CIV loses. playoff for the
seeded spot may be held between
CIV and WI next week.
al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-06
By MerrelI Whittlesey
Last IN q Series

In the 21st and concluding
article in this series on course
records we come alphabetically
to the dean of District area golf
clubs - Washington Golf and
Country Club-which was put
in play SO years ago overlook
ing the Potomac River in Ross
lyn.
The club history written by
Dick Westwood seven years ago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-06
Hoyas Leave Tonight
Eor Garden Tourney;
leannette Confident

Sis "
Georgetown University's has-
ketball squad leaves Union Sta
ton at 9 pm. today for New York
and the National Invitation tour
nament opening in Madison
Square Garden tomorrow night.
And II it's backing the Hoyas
need for their first tournament
appearances sinceg 1913 when
they lost to Wyoming in the
finals Of the National NCAA play
offs-they'll have it from their
most staunch superintendent
Buddy Jeannette-and from sew
eral hundred Georgetown fans.
But it doesn't stack up as an
easy task for the HoyaS, who
must take on Louisville in the
second game OF a tripleheader at
7:45 pm. tomorrow. Duquesne
and Tulsa open the tourna-
ment at 6 o'clock, while st. Louis
will meet st. Johns in the night
cap.
Louisville. coached by Peck
Hickman, has been one Of the
big surprises Of the season. The
Cardinals weren't expected to
win half their games. There is
only one senior on the 12-player
souad-Bill Sullivan. a reserve
guard. Az
Got Stumbling Start.
The Cards lost to Manhattan
and Seton Hall on an early trip
East. but after that they began
to pick up. winning II of their
last 20 games. Their other losses
were to Notre Dame by II points,
Eastern Kentucky by 6 and KAY
Ter by, s.
Chuck Noble of Akron, Ohio.
is the teams big gun. A 6-foot-4
specialist in long. one-handed
shots, Noble will carry an aver
age OF TIA points a game against
the Hoyas. Vlad Gastevich. g.
toot-5 rebound star from Gary.
Ind. has an 11.2 average, while
Corky Cox. a 5-foot-11 driving
type OF player. has a 1919 average.
Phil Rollins, 6-foot-2 fresh
man and brother of Kenny Rol-
Inns, who has a 81 average, is
the key figure in Louisville's fast
break.
Beam wasn't expected to be
able to play at the start of the
season because of a heart con-
dition. while Gastevich also was
in the doubtful class because of
q Clipped elbow. Both over
came their handicaps, while
John Prudhoe, Gil, had to sit
out the season after breaking his
collarbone in a swimming pool
accident.
Manhattan in Offinx.
II the Hoyas get by Louisville
they'll meet Manhattan Monday.
Manhattan. Seton Hall. LaSalle
and Western Kentucky drew
flrSt-round byes. And if George
town also beats Manhattan. it
Will move into the semif1nals
Thursday night. Its opponent
there would be the winner of
Tuesday nights game between
Seton Hall and either Niagara
or Brigham Young who play
Monday.
Opposition in the final game a
week from tomorrow night will
come from the other bracket:
LaSalle, st. Louis, st. Johns.
Western Kentucky, Duquesne or
Tulsa.
jeanette is confident. He
doesn't bother to hide his pleas
ure at the way the Hoyas have
been playing lately.
You can't take it away from
any Of these boys" he says. If
they play the way they've been
playing, they could beat any of
them"
About 1000 Georgetown stu
dents and fans will make the
trip. Seven members of the squad
are from New York and four from
New Jersey.
Louisville'S record:
LAuisvilla n-..
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Washington G&cc
Par 10.

Official record Claude Wild,
SIS.
Unofficial record--A Hough-
ton. 81.
Pro official record - Cliff
Spencer, Harry Griesmer. Witty
Cox, 68S.
Women's record-Mrs. Betty
Meckley, 76.
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Mats
Continued From Page C-1)

Bunky Stewart and Walter Mas
terson. the latter recovered from
a bothersome leg, against the
AS tomorrow. Bucky will en-
ploy Bob Porterfield, Chuck
Stobbs and Don Johnson Sunday.
while Philadelphia will counter
with Bobby Shantz. Harry Byrd
and Bobo Newsom. The left
handed Shantz was a 24-game
winner last season, while the
right-handed Byrd won Is games
and is regarded by many base
ball men as certain to be one
of the leagues standouts this
year.
Stewart, used mostly in relief
at Chattanooga last season when
he compiled 60 mark. is one
of Harris pet projects. The slim
left-hander broke into organized
baseball in 1851 with New Bern,
N. c.. and won Is games and
lost two while producing an
astonishing 1.16 earned-run aver
age. Stewart returned to WASH
ington with the Mats last spring.
but saw action in only one game
before he was farmed out.
The exhibition performances
of the sturdy Dietzel also are
awaited early by Mats fans. Vic
tim of broken legs in the last
two seasons. Roy is being counted
on to take over the second-bass
job and supply more punch for
a club hampered by weak hitting
last year.
The two exhibition games to.
morrow and Sunday against the
Athletics at West Palm Beach
will be broadcast in Washington
over WWDC. Arch Mcdonald
and Bailey Goss will handle the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-06

Ten years ago-Beau Jack
outpointed Fritzie Zivic in
a close 12-rounder before
1888 in Madison Square
Garden.
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Totals 13 20 46 Totals 10 90 SO
Score at half-23-23.
Evening star., 1953-05-06

he declared. He said it is abso-
lutely politically impossible to
legislate out the union shop.
Collective bargaining is a very
vital struggle and it is not in the
cards to wipe it out right now.
Joseph E. Moody. president of
the Southern Coal Producers
Association, declared. He said
the stakes are too high and the
issue too important. He said
Government sponsorship Of
unions has created powerful
force. which the congressional
hearings on revision of the Taft
Hartley Act are now attempting
to confine. D.
Representative Rhodes, Re
publican, of Arizona, said he is
about convinced the National
Labor Relations Board should be
abolished. He said he wants
businessmen to have a quick and
easy tribunal for labor matters
and have the Taft-Hartley Act
administered by friends of busi-
ness.
Representative Metcalf, Demo-
crat, of Montana, denied board
maladministration and said he
wants a labor law fair to labor,
management and the public.
Evening star., 1953-05-06
u. ). Must Continue
Some Dam Projects,
Mckay Declares

Secretary of the Interior Nc
Kay last night told the National
Small Business Mems Association
at the Mayflower Hotel the Gov
ernment amust continue to build
multi-purpose dams that do not
lend themselves to private con-
struction.
He said he supports private in
dustry's role in the development
Of hydro-electric power. But he
pointed out that flood control
and navigation are problems that
would take some of these pro-
jects out of private industry's
orbit.
The Cabinet officer denied that
the Government is entirely out of
the dam reconstruction business.
Mr.. Mckay declared that the
capital OF private INDUSTRY must
be tapped for the public good.
1--WE just cannot raise that
much money through public
taxation" he asserted.
Housing and coal, unable to
organize for mass production,
are being priced out of the mar
ket by labor's demands, WASH
ington lawyer Thurman Arnold
declared. Unions. he contended,
must come under the restraint
of the trade section of the anti
trust law.
The National Labor Relations
Board is necessary. particularly
for Nationwide big disputes,
but perhaps has too much power,