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MDW Netmen Set Pace
In I'd Army Tourney

ABERDEEN, Md, Aug. 2 (Spe-
ciaD Steve Potts, Doug Craig,
Jack RanSohoff and Dick White
all moved into the third round
of the I'd Army tennis champion
ships today at Aberdeen Proving
Grounds as the Military District
of Washington held a narrow
lead in the team standings.
MDW came out Of yesterdays
matches with 8 points, one ahead
of Fort Belvoir. Fort Holabird,
Fort Lee and Fort Eustis were
tied for third with S points; Army
Chemical Center and Fort Knox
had 3 each; Fort Monroe, Walter
Reed Hospital and Aberdeen, 2
each. and Fort Meade. l..
Col. Kermit j. Sherwood
helped MDW to its total by NOV
ing into the quarter-finalS of the
senior singles.
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EngeI to Address
Touchdown Club

Joe Engel will head the guest
list at the Touchdown Club
luncheon next Wednesday,
which will precede the unwilling
of the Clark Griffith Memorial
The memorial will be dedi-
Gated before the night game
Wednesday between the Seniors
and Yankees. 1t is being erect
led on the circular grassy plot
inside the main gate at Griffith
Stadium.
Engel. president Of the Chatta-
nooga Lookouts and famed as a
baseball scout and Snowman for
years, also will be main
speaker at the luncheon. Others
invited include Farm Director
OsSie Bluege and Coach Nick
Altrock of the Senators, and
ex-Senators Joe Judge, Sam Rice
and Bobo NewSom.
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The stadium originally was
announced as capable of seating
100000 persons, but seating was
Expanded when the HungarianS
started building one of that size
AS a matter of fact, Hungarian
experts had much to do with the
construction of the Moscow Sta
dium and much of the material
used came from East European
countries.
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into yesterdays finale % per
cent behind last years record
breaking market that averaged
$11,167. But the buyers cut
loose nearly $1ls million for IS
Iyearlings in the, windup that
averaged $15,415. That brought
the sales total to $3,462 900 for
$50 colts and fillies, averaging
1891 but still trailing last year
by IL per cent.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lunn of
Llangollen Farm. Upperville, Va,
paid $4,000 for a daughter of
NaSrullah-Gala Belle. The year.
ling sister of 1nsouciant was
from DR.. Eslie Asbury's Forest
Retreat Farm and brought a
record price.
The old mark was 100000,
which c. S. Jones, California
horseman. gave for Perfection.
daughter of Bull Lea-Lady Lark,
five years ago. The Lewis colt
equaled the $4,000 which For
rest Lindsay gave last year for
TulSan, a Nasrullah-In Bloom
colt. The record is $4,000.
which F. j. Adams Syndicate
gave two years ago for Nalur,
a MISUNDERSTANDING B. colt.
Leading Sire
Nashrullah. the leading sire in
England in 1851 and in America
in 1855. is the sire of Moor and
Nashua. the worlds leading
money winner. Gala Belle is the
dam of Revoked, as well as In
souciant.
Combs, who heads the syndi-
cate owning Nashua, and his son
Leslie B. Combs II, together sold
26 horses for $352,200. 1t was a
new record for the elder Combs.
customarily one of the TOP ic9
getters. Nine sold in his name
averaged $40,222.
Combs had as his sales guest
Rex Ellsworth, owner of Swaps.
Nov you see why he was
here" said Combs. "He was help
ing me with my sale"
Quite a Sale
Ellsworth termed it quite a
sale" And, before returning to
the Coast, he said he'd keep on
racing Swaps next year if his
record breaking speedster STAYED
all right.
The LewiseS made one other
lush bid in the session They
gave Stoner Greek $60.0O0 fol- a
Nasrullah colt out of Shy Katie.
The second high price was
$65,000 which Murcain- Byars
Stable of Dallas bid for a Roysl
ICharger-Seguence colt cCn-igned
by Combs. The colt is a half
brother to Noorsaga.
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Area Players
Top Net Action
In Maryland

MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK,
Nd, Aug. 2 [P.-Players from
the Washington area were
dominant as third-round action
started today in the Western
Maryland tennis championships.
Phil Neff of Washington. de-
Tending champion, moved up a
couple of notches yesterday by
defeating Baine Fertig of Char
lesion, w. Va, 60, 81. and
Elton Suter of Baltimore,
60, 6-1.
Neff is seeded No. 2 behind
Fred McNair, a fellow townsman,
who is No. Q in the Middle At
iantic rankings. McNair did not
play yesterday.
Three other seeded players
Joined Neff in the third round.
Fifth-seeded John Harris of
Washington defeated Donald
Ryn Of Wheeling. w. Va, 6-l,
3-6. 60; fourth-seeded Doyle
Royal. Bethesda, Md, defeated
Bob Burgess of Hyattsville, Md.
"a, 60, and Alex Kettles of
Washington, ranked seventh.
downed Charles Holland of
Charleston. 8-6. 4-6, Ga.
In the women's division. sec
ond-seeded Nancy Corse of
Bethesda reached the semif1nals
by beating Betty Weber of
Charleston, 60, 6-l, and Pat
Thomas Of Washington. 60,
60.
Virginia Betz of Long Beach,
Calf, sister of noted Pauline
IBetz Addie, moved into the
quarter : finals by trouncing
Sydney Burt of Wheeling, 6-3,
'6-3.
Other summaries:
MEMS SINGLES
First ROund)
John Dorsey. Keyser, W. Va, de-
ID. 6-4: Ralph Whitaker, Richmond
defeated Ted Thomas, washington, 6@3,
- John Phillips, -tr., Wheeling, w.
d. 2-6. ID; William HanninT,
Wneeiing. defeated John Fox, Keyser,
SO, 7-5, 6-3.
Second Round)
Mike Hartz, Richmond, defeated .Iohn
Dorsey, e., Cd; Fred Wright III,
Hagerstown, Md, defeated Eddie Aicorn,
Charleston, "a, Cd, Cd (Aicorn
detaulted in third set because Of in
tured leg); Jack Sloat. Washington, de-
teated Ted Gibbs, Wheeling, 81, 90:
Henry Foss Washington, defeated Dave
Miller, Hagerstown, 60. 6-3; Earle
Brown, Bethesda. Md, defeated Joseph
kroch, Uniontown, Pa, 6--3, 60.
WOMEN'S SINGLES
First Round)
Pat ,Reedes; Wheeling, defeated Dor
othy Kott Washington, 6-3, 81:
Mary Ewing, Wheeling, defeated Ann
Evans, Baltimore, 6---3, g..
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Italian Olympic Entries

ROME. Aug. 2 (P).-Italy will
be fully represented" in only
three sports, fencing, sailing and
cycling-at the Melbourne Olym-
pic Games. Italy also will be
represented by some entries in
trap shooting. boxing, wrestling,
weight lifting. rowing, swim
ming, women's gymnastics and
track and field.
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The Keeneland sale staggered
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ENNIS TALK

than week, with the varsity
again being coached by Clark
Taylor, the Woodmont pro.
QUICK SERVES - There's
good news on one front. Bill
Shreve. who runs the Tennis
Shop at 1926 Nineteenth street
N W., reports that prices on
equipment have remained gen.
orally the same as last year.
All interested Government agen-
cieS are invited to send repre-
sentatives to the organizational
meeting of the Departmental
League at 8 pm. tonight at the
Tennis Shop. Army won over
IL other teams last year in the
competition started in 1915.
Left Beck of Silver Spring, an
Edgemoor player, is holding
the No. 2 spot at Duke. where
he is a senior. Left just returned
from Florida. where the Duke
team prepared for the season
:. +. Pauline Betz Addie, the
Edgemoor pro, is in Cleveland
this week as the co-headlinel
with Doris Hart in the women's
section of an invitation pre-
tournament. She's due to return
to her home in Bethesda over
the week end. We hear that
Pauline switched to golf in Flor
ida recently and won one
day tournament with a 70.
Don't forget those exhibitions
and clinics at a number of area
schools and military installa-
tons this week featuring Eddie
Moylan, ranked No. 5 nation
ally.
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Luncheon Opens
Olympic Compoiqn

Washington's $4,000 quota
for the Olympic fund was the
main target of discussion and
ceremonies today at the big
luncheon sponsored by the Dis
trict AAU Olympic Finance
Committee at the Willard Hotel.
That quota was to be partially
filled by a contribution of $1,000
from The Hecht Co.. accepted
for the District organization by
Dan Ferris. secretary-treasurer
OF the National AAU.
Sir Percy Spender, Ambassa-
dor from Australia, was the
main speaker and official host to
diplomats from 10 other coun-
tries. Other honored guests on
the program are Col. Eddie
Eagan, chairman of the National
Olympic Committee: Parry
O'Brien. world-record shot put :
ter; Norvel Lee and James Brad
ford, Washington competitors in
the 1852 Olympics. and possibly
DR.. Sammy Lee, Olympic diving
champion.
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Jones. scored AZ points. Russell.
6-foot-10 center who powered
the West Coast club to a string
OF So victories. didn't play the
entire game and afterward said
ne wasn't satisfied with his play
But he had IL goals and a pair
Of free throws.
Hal Lear wasn't in the start
ing lineup but carried the ALL
Star scoring load in the second
half. The former Temple player
counted IS points.
Dick Boushka, former st.
Louis University player, led the
Bakers with 20 points.
Completion of the Olympic
team is expected late tomorrow
or early Thursday. After from
five to seven players are selected
from the play-off winner, the
coach Of the winning club will
huddle with Olympic officials
and help select the remainder OF
the l2-man squad from other
teams in the playoffs.
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Record Entry, Crowds
Probable for Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. April 3 (P.-
The goth Masters golf tourna-
ment. an event the players say is
approaching, if not equal to, the
National Open in Importance,
will get under way Thursday
with a record entry list and
probably a record attendance.
BY shutdown yesterday. rs
players from the carefully Sc
lected invitation list had checked
in at the Augusta National Golf
Club and nine others had sent
acceptances. The number of
starters is almost certain to
break the record of 70.
AS for the galleries. there's no
telling how many will pay the
$3.50 for the final day, especially
If couple of celebrated golfers
like Sam Snead and Ben Hogan
are battling for the title as they
did two years ago. The crowds
at the Masters are huge-eSti-
mated sometimes as high as
$4,000. And this year Augusta
Is going all out to stir interest
in the goth running of the tour
nament Bobby Jones started for
q few Of his friends in 1884.
They're well-behaved, golf
wise fans too. That's one of the
features that makes the Masters
unique. Another is that it's
played every year on the same
course-a superb but never un-
fair 6.800-yard test of golf.
Augusta National. the playground
OF a president and a headache
for the pros who are accustomed
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to shattering par every week
never has to be toughened ur
for the tournament.
For this reason a couple Of
seasoned pros, Gene Sarazen anc
Johnny Palmer, today tabled the
Masters as a better tournament
than the Open.
You never have a fluke win
ner here, any more than in the
British championships that are
played on few real good
courses" Sarazen said. For the
Open they take any kind of a
course and then send trent Jones
out to build some new tees and
traps"
I've always said this is a
better tournament than the
Open" Palmer added.
Most of the other players said
they'd rather win the Open be-
cause Of its greater prestige and
financial return but agreed that
the National tournament has
been losing ground in recent
years while the Masters has been
gaining.
The Masters invitation list IN
cludeS about 100 players Who
nave earned their bids by past
triumphs or by top performances
during the previous year. In
cluded are a handful who no
longer play competitive golf. Hut
some like Horton Smith. who has
played in every Masters tourna-
ment since 1884. the semi-re-
tired Hogan and Snead wouldn't
miss it for anything. They're ex-
pected to be in the running for
the $4,000 top money, too
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Robinson Feels
He'sBeaten Out
Jackson

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, April
g OFF the season were to
open tomorrow Jackie Robinson
thinks he would be the regular
third baseman of the Brooklyn
Dodgers.
The aging but still agile in
fielder, minus any trace of con-
ceit, frankly stated today that
as far as he's concerned he has
beaten out Randy Jackson for
the job and expects the official
announcement to come within
the next few days.
Il don't know how Walter
Aston feels about it," the 81
year-old Robby said. THE skip
per hasn't said anything either
way. But the way l feel, I've
won the job. I'm not taking
anything from Randy. I've got
a lot Of respect for his ability
but I've got more respect for my
own.
Nobody can beat me out the
way I've been playing this spring
I'm in good shape. My legs feel
strong and I'm free around the
chest. I'm swinging real good
and meeting the ball well. I
think I'm approaching the kind
of baseball l played three, four
years ago. If I can continue to
do that, no matter how well
jackson plays. he can't beat me
out. Barring injury, I don't see
how they can keep me out of the
lineup.
Its all up to Walt, of course ,"
he said. III do anything, play
anywhere he wants me to. He's
the boss"
Jackie said he was satisfied
with the way things have pro-
crossed this spring and was
"tickled to death" about the way
Aston has been handling his
friendly rivalry with jackson for
the third-base job.
Walt has given us both an
equal shot at it." Robinson said.
Hes been alternating us at
third and letting us battle it out.
l couldn't have asked for fairer
treatment. He said the best man
will open the season at third
base, and I know he means it,"
How did Aston feel about
all this?
I'm still undecided. the
manager said with a smile. Both
started of slowly but both are
coming along fast now. jackson
is beginning to hit the way /
know he can. As for Robinson.
he's looked as good in the last
four or five days as I've ever
seen him"
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Herb Score
Stops Frettine,
Gains Control

LUBBOCK, Tex, April 3 (P.-
Herb Score, the major league
strikeout leader, said today his
control is better now than it was
during his rookie-of -the-year
season.
Last year I was very appre-
hensive about my wildness." the
young Cleveland pitcher said. Il
worried about walking the hit
tiers. Now have more conf
dence. I realize I'm still a little
wild, but feel I can get the ball
over much more often"
The 22-year-old lefthander
struck out 245 batterS to lead the
majors last season. He won is
and lost 10.
Score said he still needed a lot
of work on his curve and i
haven't tried my change of pace
in game yet, but I've practiced
it a little on the sidelines."
AL Lopez, Cleveland manager.
said, "in a couple of years, he'll
be the best pitcher in baseball
1t was his confidence which
helped spark Score.
Remember last June when I
couldn't get past the first three
innings for a period of two or
three weekS?" Score asked. "Lo-
PEI never complained or acted
disguised. He just said, Stay with
III. Herb, you'll be all right!' And
he kept right on pitching me.
II decided if he believes in me,
Id better start believing in my
self"
Mel Harder, Cleveland pitch
ing coach, observed:
He always wants to learn,
trying to improve. He asks ques-
tons. listens carefully. and he
tries to do what YOU tell him.
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Rottermon Signs
Browns Contract

CLEVELAND. April 3 (P.-
Quarterback George Ratterman
today signed his fifth contract
with the Cleveland Browns.
Ratterman, who has been un-
derStudy to Otto Graham, now
retired. in his four previous sea-
sons with Cleveland, will COM
pete with Vinto (Babe) Parilli,
former Kentucky star, for the
Browns quarterbacking assign
ment.
Last season was Ratterman's
best since he came to the
Browns in 1852. He completed
80 of Al passes for 504 yards and
six touchdowns.
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AAUT eomsMeet 7 onioht
After Losing First Games

KANSAS CITY, April 3 (P).-
Phillips IS Oilers and the Seattle
Buchan Bakers get a chance to-
night to replay the champion
ship game of the National AAU
basketball tournament, but both
have failed to live up to expec-
tationS they would supply the
nucleus of the United States
Olympic team.
The Armed Forces and the Col
lege Al-Stars clash in tonight's
second game after knocking of
the AAU teams in the first night
OF a three-night round robin.
The Armed Forces club.
coached by Bruce Drake, bowled
over the Oilers, 1917, in over
time last night. and the College
All-Stars ran away from the
Bakers, 1919.
The playoffs end tomorrow
night with the winning club fur
nishing from five to seven Of the
players for the United States
team going to the Olympics in
Australia in November.
Drake Outshines Pupil
When the playoffs started to-
nights meeting between the OIL
ers and the Bakers promised to
be the key game. Bartlesville had
lost, 59-57. to Seattle in the finals
Of the AAU tournament, but had
trounced the champions three
times earlier in the season.
The College All-Stars sup
posedly hadn't practiced together
enough to click against a team
that had played as a unit all
year.
And the Armed Forces club,
drawn mostly from the Air Force
and beefed up with one Navy, two
Marine and three Army addi-
tons, didn't have height.
But Drake. veteran Oklahoma
mentor on leave this year to
coach the Air Force team, didn't
come to the playoffs to lose to a
Phillips club coached by Gerald
Tucker, one Of brakes brightest
stars in his days at Oklahoma.
Glib Ford. Larry Dugan and
Ron Tomsic spanked the Armed
Forces. Dugan, a one time Pep
perdine (Calif1 player added to
brakes team after the Armed
Forces playoffs, bolstered the
clubs rebounding with his 6 feet,
8 inches. He tipped in a basket
midway through the five-minute
overtime to send the winners into
a 74-70 lead and scored dozen
points for the night.
Hard-driving TomSic, who
played at Stanford, led the scor-
Ing with % points. Ford, one
time Texas star. scored IA.
Russell, Jones Star
The oilers left the floor on
the short end OF 1898 half
time score. but midway through
the second half raced into a
6l-5l lead. Then Dugan, Ford
and Tomsic went to work, with
the Armed Forces finally taking
a 1888 lead on pair Of Tomsic
layups. Phillips rallied TO knot
the game 68-68 at the end OF
regulation playing time.
For the College All-Stars two
University Of San Francisco stall
warts. Bill Russell and K. c.
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Three Teams Advance
In Baseball Journey

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, April 8
.R.-Notre Dame, West Virginia
and Wisconsin won fourth-round
games yesterday in the Florida
State University invitational
baseball tournament.
Notre Dame edged Illinois, SIS,
in a night game after Wisconsin
Idowned Brown, 1873, and West
Virginia outslugged Florida
State, 1912.
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has improved tremendously. He
might be the No. 4 starter.
Marion also is high on HOWE
Pollet, National League castoff
He'll be spot pitcher for
starts" Marion said. "Well also
use him in relief. HOWE will get
a good chance"
TAMPA, Fla, April 3 OFF
veterans Ellis Kinder, Red
Schoendienst and Hank Sauel
keep this up, St. Louis Cardinal
rockies will have to wait a little
longer to take over.
The 4l-year-old Kinder re-
tired the last eight Chicago
White Sox batters in succession
yesterday in a GA Redbird VIC
tory. He's allowed just one run
in 1924 innings.
SchoendienSt, rumored over
the hill at "a, won the game
with a three-run, ninth-inning
nome run which raised his spring
batting average to 1854. Sauer
81. acquired last week from the
Chicago Cubs, delivered a pinch
single in the ninth.
The Cards triumph was tenn
pered somewhat by an ineffective
pitching effort by Vinegar Bend
Mizel. who left the game in the
seventh inning complaining of a
tired" pitching arm.
NEW ORLEANS. April 3 (P.-
The Kansas City Athletics see
action here tonight against the
Pittsburgh Pirates in their first
game under the lights in 1856.
Art Ceccarelli, who has turned
in a couple of impressive per-
formances. is scheduled to start
for the AS.
Jim Finigan provided the AS
with a 4-3 victory over the
Pirates at Mobile. Ala, yester-
day. The 27-year-old third base
man hit his first home run of the
spring with two mates aboard in
the ninth inning.
Lou Kretlow gave up seven hits
IN seven innings but allowed only
one extra-base blow. He struck
out three and walked three. Bill
Harrington got credit for the de-
clsion, giving up one hit in hurl-
ing the ninth inning.
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By JACK HARING

Tennis players came out of
Information all around town over
the week end, especially on Sum-
day. when the sun finally warmed
up the area enough to help work
winter kinks out of muscles.
One of the busiest spots was
the Chevy Chase Club, where a
number of hardy types braved
Saturdays chill and then were
Joined by many others who over
flowed the 10 courts that were in
shape Sunday. Dan Watson,
who is in his 22d year as Chevy
Chase pro, said work started yes
terday in getting two more courts
ready and that all IA should be
in action by April Is.
| At the moment the club is
completing the job of converting
two more of its courts-those
directly in front of the tennis
Shop-from red fast-drying to
green fast -drying surfaces. Wat
son says when the tranSforma-
ton is completed the clubs ia
cilities will include eight green
fast-drying. three clay and three
hard-surface courts. with two OF
the latter lighted for night play
x 4
Edgemoor and Columbia also
had banner week ends, while at
Kenwood, Claude Kilday, the
new associate pro. described the
turnout as tremendous" Ken
wood also has been busy trans
forming its courts by putting
green "Hartrue" surfaces over
the clay. Besides two cement
courts. Kenwood has five clay
courts ready and six more in
various stages of preparation.
Watson and Kilday also
opened another phase of their
tennis seasons yesterday, with
Dan again coaching the st. AL
bans team and Claude starting
his first year as coach at Landon.
Landon. perennial champion
of the Interstate Academic Con-
ference. looks like it will have
another powerhouse. Heading
the team again is Don Dell, who
should get strong backing from
Wilt Straley, Nick Temple. Frank
Williams, George Raynor and
Peyton Howard. But Kilday is
expecting plenty of trouble for
the opener at 2 pm. Saturday
when Landon is host to Wood
berry Forest, especially since
Fraley is likely tor miss the
match due to pulled muscle.
st. Adams, runnerup to Lam
don several years in the lac,
also has its share of strength.
Watson figures the squad will
be led by two District boys, Rom
ME Rosden, team captain who
plays out Of Congressional, and
Johnny Bennett, a Chevy Chase
club player.
While on the subject of school,
boy tennis. Sidwell Friends is
still uncertain about the num-
Der of courts that will be avail
able for play there this summer
The school has sold the 10 acres
on the west side of Wisconsin
avenue that included ii courts
and its fields for other sports
Building for a commercial ven
ture is due to start there this
summer, according to H. o. lie
Grande. who is in charge of
maintenance for Friends out
door play areas. LeGrande said
the west side courts are being
prepared, with six already in
shape. and will be used as long
as possible during the spring and
summer.
Meanwhile. the school has
purchased nine acres of the Ad-
miral Grayson property on the
east side of Wisconsin avenue
and work started there yesterday
in moving dirt for the conStruc-
ton of tennis courts and other
playing fields. The school al
ready has seven courts on the
east side. where the tennis team
has hanf1 yu0rkjp0 o,,t for ,,11ro