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Medalist Wins Match
SAUNA, Kan.. June 13—(ZP)—Jack
Wylie, the sharpshooting medalist of
the Kansas state golf tournament,
nearly met his match Thursday in the
first round of match play. Playing
against Kirk Scott. Newton, the To-
pekan won 2 and 1.
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How the Indians
Enjoy the climax of the U. S.
Open Golf Tournament via radio
tomorrow afternoon on Gillette’s
Cavalcade of Sports. Hear Harry
Wismer and Harry Nash report
the excitement stroke by stroke,
direct from the St. Louis Country
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Beverlys to Ploy
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Yesterday’s Stars
By th. Associated Press
Baltins. Don J.hnun, Cuba—Led Chlcaco’s
attack aaalnat the Piratee with three hits, in-
cluding a triple with the baaea loaded In the
eighth Inning of 7-3 win.
Pllehlag. Kent Petenon , Bode—Shut out
world champion St. Louis Cardinala with flee
bits. 1-0, for first full-game major league
victory.
rpHE DAILY MAIL observed. "Not
J. only did Mrs. Zaharias break
the record which had stood for
more than 50 years—she equalled
another which had stood to the
credit of the late Pam Barton
as the only woman to win the Brit-
ish and American titles within the
period of a year.”
Sporting Life called the Babe a
gallant winner. "Mrs. Zaharias,'* It
reported, "is the first American
woman to win the British title, and
as grand a winner as she is a
golfer.”
The London Star writer said
her phenomenal hiting has set
people asking if a new era in
women’s golf has dawned.
The Star asked Babe for an ex-
planation and quoted her as say-
ing. **I get my length by hitting and
distance from swinging. That is
how all leading women golfers play
in the states nowadays. You have
some very good players in Britain
but in general I think the standard
is higher in America. American
women on the average hit the ball
farther.”
Is the Gals’
Bobby Jones!
Z**»ULLANE, Scotland. June 13—(A”)
Vl—Babe Didrikson Zanarias. first
American to win the British wom-
en’s amateur golf tournament, rec-
ognized herself Friday as the fem-
inine counterpart of Bobby Jones
lor her "grand slam” victory.
The grand slam idea crept into
her head the night before the
championship battle began. "If I
win,” she said, “that will be the
women’s grand slam,” explaining to
British sportswriters that she also
had won the American women’s
amateur championships last year.
After her 5 and 4 triumph
Thursday over London’s Jacque-
line Gordon, she made her plans
for an easy day. “Boy, I am go-
ing to sleep late in the morning,”
she said, “and I am going to have
breakfast in bed.”
After that she planned to go to
St. Andrew’s to play the famed
“old” course where Jones won one
. leg of his grand slam in 1930. two
years before the Babe hit the head-
lines as an Olympic athlete.
Through the rest of the week she
Intended to “look around Scotland
a little and play still more golf.”
One course she wants to try is
Muirfleld, scene of a half dozen
British Open championships and an
equal number of British Amateur
championships. It lies east of Gul-
lane, a little more than a mile from
the layout where the Babe cap-
tured her latest championship. She
also hopes to visit Norway to see
her ancestral home.
U.S. Open Is Aired
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Hajduk. Shreveport
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Byrnes, Beaumont ... .....
Runs—Epps, Houston, 4<;
City. 43.
Hits—Rooen. Oklahomi
Antonio. Zpp*. Houston.
Twobase Hit*—Rosen. Oklahoma City,
Hlrshon, Dallas. 17.
Threebase Hits—Epps, Houston, 11; Costa.
Houston. 7.
Homeruns—Oratory, Shreveport. 14; Wiec-
zorak. San Antonio, Burns, Beaumont, 8 each,
each.
Stolen Bases—Cassini. Tulsa. 30; Upon.
Dallas. 18.
Runs Batted In—Roeen, Oklahoma City, 57;
Oratory. Shreveport. 44.
Complete Games—Papal. Houston, 11; Pulllg.
Dallas; Beers. Houston. 10 each.
Strikeouts—Sloat. Fort Worth, 65; Hotue.
Dallas. 64.
'Mrs. Slam’
Teams
Moslere
Britton
Fred Jonea
Beverly’s
Friday—Fred Jones vs.
Fred Jones Motors, tied with Bev-
erly’s Chicks for third place, duel Mid-
west City at 8 p. m. Friday on the
Capitol Hill diamond. SW 37 and Shar-
tel, in an American Legion county
league baseball tilt.
Steve Glasgow, 16-year-old Capitol
Hill and Mosier Tire hurler, gave the
loop’s moundsmen a mark at which to
shoot by hanging up the first 1947 no-
hit game Thursday as Mosiers turned
back Beverly’s. 9-2, to gain undisputed
leadership of first place.
In the week’s final game Saturday
at 8 p. m., Beverly's play Simpson
Motors, a renewal of the Classen-Cen-
tral highschool feud.
The standings:
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ST. LOUIS, June 13—(£>)—Dick Metz of Arkansas City, Kan.,
shot a one-under-par 70 Friday in the second round of the U. S.
Open golf tournament, for a 36-hole total of 139, tying a tourna-
ment record set by Chick Evans Jr., in 1916,
Bobby Locke, the South African fairways smoothie, found his strongest
weapon, the putter, unsteady Friday anU was one stroke over par for the
first nine holes. His outgoing score was 36.
Locke parred each of the first nine holes Friday except the 233-yard,
par-three second, where he spent three putts and wound up with a four.
He putted for birdies on three greens but was either short or off the beam.
------------------------------------♦ The South African star's score for
27 holes, 104, was two strokes under
par for that distance. He had a 68
for his first 18 holes Thursday.
The 18-hole leaders, each with the
four-under-par 67, were Harry Todd,
Henry Ransom and Chick Harbert.
None of them tee off Friday until
late afternoon and they weren’t ex-
pected to complete their rounds until
nearly dusk.
Thus it was up to Locke, his play-
ing partner Otto Greiner from Balti-
more, Metz, and a few other early
starters to hold up the field for most
of the day. Greiner, who scored a 69
Thursday, slipped on his morning
round with a three over 38 for a 107
total.
Paul Runyan, a par 71 shooter
Thursday, netted 35 on his out trip
Friday to take 106.
Scores Higher Today
The first three scores posted for
nine holes Friday ran higher than
those by the same players for the
first round.
Rod Munday, the Sprirgfield, Mo.,
boy who is pro at a Sylvania, Ohio,
club, had 40 going out, three over his
first nine yesterday.
Max Evans of Utica, Mich., who
had 38 for his initial nine, went out
In 40. while the third member of the
threesome, amateur John Frey of
Canton. Ohio, shot a 40, five strokes
over his beginning job.
The early morning sun gave way to
clouds before noon and there was a
threat of rain.
The Caddies Arrive
Despite a St. Lotiis transit strike,
tournament officials said all caddies
reported on time.
The galleries were smaller than
Thursday, but the fans were coming
strong at mid-dRy.
It appeared from early nine hole
scores that jiar, broken 13 times
Thursday, would suffer as much Fp-
day. Pat Abbot, Memphis, who shot a
75 on his first round, and Harold
West, Tualatin. Oregon, with 77
Thursday, netted one under par 34s
on the out nine.
Several others equalled the par 35,
including Ed Oliver, Wilmington. Del.,
Billy Burke, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and
amateur Thomas Sheehan, Birming-
ham, Mich.
At least 13 of the field, Thursday's
par busters, were rated as threats
to smash every scoring record in the
Open’s history.
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BATTING AVERAGES
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Texas League Leaders
n/TE AN WHILE. London newspapers
1V1 marveled at the golfing prow-
ess of the Babe. A few of the
stories betrayed a feeling of humil-
iation that the last of Britain's
major golf championships was on its
way to America.
Bernard McElwaine, writing gal-
lantly in the News Chronicle, said.
"At least our women’s golfing crown
has not gone overseas with just an
ordinary player. We haven’t seen
a fairway phantom like her—not in
47 years that the championship has
been held. What a Babe!”
John Grime, in the Daily Express,
suggested that there was more than
a touch of jealousy among the
home girls at Oullane. Grime re-
corded that when the Babe asked
for a cigaret after winning the
championship a “voice behind" said
“I’ve got some arsenic.”
The incident was passed off with
a laugh but Grime said, "The fact
is the Babe is not entirely popular
here. The Babe denies she had
anything but the best treatment,
but the fact is she has been the
loneliest woman in Gullane this
week.”
The Daily Graphic quoted her as
saying to Miss Gordon. "You’re a
grand kid and you sure play well."
The Daily Telegraph said "Her
extraordinary speed of hand en-
ables her to play a high pitch-shot
with the same ease as first-class
men and her playing of bunker
shots around the green recalls Gene
Sarazen at his best.”
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LaMarr Is Victor
Over Marvin Liddell
TOPEKA. Kan., June 13—'Special!
—Eddie LaMarr of Oklahoma City
made his bid for recognition as Soon-
er lands leading light-heavyweight
boxer when he won a silt-round news-
paper decision over fellow townsman
Marvin Liddell here Thursday night.
The bout was close all the way and
neither was ever in trouble despite
the bruising type of fight they turned
in before a crowd of 4.000.
Pat McCafferty. Topeka light-heavy-
weight who showed two months ago
at Oklahoma City, scored a second
round knockout against Larry Watson.
Omaha, in the main event.
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Sooner Queens Play
In Drumright Tonight
The Sooner Queens, Oklahoma
City's stylish girl’s softball team, go
to Drumright Firday for an 8 p. m.
game with the Oklahoma champions
from Tulsa.
Idaho Golfer Wins
SALT LAKE CITY, June 13—(>P>—
Hugo Jorgenson of Rigy, Idaho, won
the annual motion picture handicap
golf tournament Thursday with a net
score of 66 for the 18 holes, three
less than Charles W. Walker of Salt
Lake City.
Draper Stuns
Tennis Rival
McGuirk Stakes
His Championship
In Tonight's Bout
A "championship” bout and three
preliminary scuffles make up the pro-
fessional mat menu Friday night at
Stockyards Coliseum where promoter
Red Andrews has booked Leroy Mc-
Guirk, Tulsa’s junior heavyweight
"title” owner, for a bout with Red
Lyons, Beaumont, with the Tulsan's
fancy belt at stake.
Jet Harel, the former Ole Miss foot-
ball star, prys the lid off the program
in a
like certain defeat, William Ragland,
The game is the first meeting of the tanooga. Tenn., j’on the ^Eastern In-
two teams this season, but last year * ~
the Queens won 10 of 13 tilts played
against the Tulsans.
Ships Have it Easy
Starter Vic Johnson was knocked
out in the first heat and Glenn Black-
„ wood absorbed the remainder of the
punishment while big Jack McKinney
coasted to his ninth mound win of
Columbia Coach
Sings Sad Song
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y., June
—(£*)—First on the regatta scene, Co-
lumbia’s sweepswingers may well be
lact. in fha rara nn .Timo 91 if vmi /'on
War Battle Is First
NEW YORK. June 13—OP)—Kent
Miller’s highly-fancied pair of War
Battle and Copper Beech finished one,
two Thursday in the 110,000 added
Hitchcock steeplechase handicap at
Aqueduct after Mrs. Dodge Sloan’s
Fleettown, the second choice, fell at
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received a broken arm here a year
ago in a match with Wayne Martin,
former University of Oklahoma mat
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Cardinals Are NOT for Sale!
OT. LOUIS, June 13—(jP)—The St, Louis Cardinals are not for sale.
O Sam Breadon. president of the world champions nt baseball, issued
a brief statement to that effect ■Thursday night in answer to persistent
reports that he would sell his vast holdings in baseball and retire.
For two weeks Breadon had been besieged with requests to clarify his
Intentions, inasmuch as newspapers from coast to coast have carried
stories that the club, in which he holds a 77 percent interest, was for sale.
Latest of these reports was that a group headed by Postmaster Gen-
eral Robert E. Hannegan and Edwin W. Pauley, west coast oil magnate,
were trying to purchase tho Cardinals for S3 millions.
terscholastic Golf association’s cham-
pionship here Friday and a year’s pos-
session at the Presbrey cup.
Ragland was 5 down and only five
holes to go In his final match with
Charles Nicholson of St. Benedict’s
at the Greenwich Country club, but
he managed to win every remaining
hole, squaring the match on the
eighteenth, and went on to take the
first extra hole for a 1-up victory.
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last in the race on June 21, if you can
believe Lion coach Hube Glendon.
After nearly a week on the Hud-
son—the Columbia crews were the
first to arrive—Glendon is not at all
optimistic. "We haven’t got a very
good crew and don’t expect to be a
serious contender,” he reports lacon-
ically.
Now, understatement in the ranks
of the coaching fraternity is not un-
usual, but the performances of the
Lion shells during the spring season
furnish some basis for <
pessimiscm. He picks California
The Judge Will Give
Verdict in This Fight
LOS ANGELES, June 13—(ZP>—Box-
er Orville Willis Parsons’ comback Exporters sw«
campaign has been temporarily post- a 10-1 romp,
poned.
Parsons was In jail Friday, in lieu
of >1,000 bond, on charges of beating
his wife. Marie; 31.
"He used me as a punching bag,"
she complained to Superior Judge Ed- „ „
™ «xhlbltinS a blaclt the“yearTn *a“ neat“^ven7hittL-."
While Dallas was scoring the lofty
position of Houston in an 11-4 rout,
within 2^ games
a 5-3 decision over
Tulsa. Fort Worth defeated San An-
tonio twice. 5-4 and 2-1.
Only two games are scheduled Fri-
day night. Fort Worth playing at San
Antonio and Dallas at Houston.
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eye and bandaged nose.
Parsons, 24-year-old former Roches-
ter, N. Y., fighter, will make his first Shreveport crept
appearance in court, not the ring, the
judge ordered.
While the last-place Indians were
enroute home from Beaumont to open
a long stand at home, starting with
an 8:15 p. m. engagement Saturday
against Shreveport, the addition of
an infielder was announced here Fri-
day morning by Harold O. Pope, presi-
dent of the club.
Obtained on option from the New
York Giants following a series of
; - ... . .... i long distance talks with Carl Hub-
match with Red Mobley, Borger, bell chief of the National leaguers’
Texas, in the curtain ra^er at 8.15 yarm SyStem jg Stanley Sargey, young
p. m.. and Jesse James, Houston, faces who has been a utilityman
■ with Jersey City in the International
league this year.
They Lose No. 9
Sargey is 24 years old, 5-10 tall and
a Choate school student from Chat-
TULSA, June 13—(ZP)—Stanley
Draper. Oklahoma City, sprang a
major upset Friday when he defeated
eighth-seeded Dave Freeborn, St. Jo-
seph, Mo., to enter the quarterfinal
round of the men's singles in the
Oklahoma state tennis tournament.
Draper, member of the University
of Oklahoma net squad, topped his
"■Missouri rival, who Thursday played
through a three-hour second-round
encounter, by scores of 6-4, 6-4.
The quarterfinal bracket, to be
played later Friday, was completed
when Bob David, Notre Dame player,
1 eliminated Grover Isbell. Sherman,
Texas, frith comparative ease. 60, 6-1.
Isbell had ousted George Counts, 1937
state champion from Oklahoma City,
to enter the third round.
Second round matches in the wom-
en's singles were scheduled Friday
afternoon.
Second round results in the junior
singles were as follows:
Jack W»m»l«jr, Tulsa, defeated Merlin atick-
elber, Kansas City, 6-1. 6-4.
Jim Arnold. Muskoyee, defeated Bob Clark.
Mu.'kogee. 13-10. 6-3.
Paul Hurley. Tulsa, defeated Lionel Oordon,
Tulsa. 6-1. 6-0.
R. O. Deberry. San Antelo, Texas, defeated
Tom Allen. Tula*. 6-3, 7-5.
Ardmore Sets Two
Sooner State Marks
LAWTON, June 13—0P>—The Ard-
more Indians Friday boasted of two
new marks in the Sooner State league
baseball record book after walloping
fifth-place Seminole, 28-2 Thursday
night.
The 28 runs tops by four the pre-
vious record made by Lawton—also
against lowly Seminole. Ardmore's 25
hits in the contest was one better than
the 24 made by Lawton in the same
game against Seminole.
Buck Tinsley received credit for the
Ardmore victory as he scattered eight
J Seminole bingles. Included In the In-
j dians' 28 hits were six triples and five
doubles.
Wilkinson to Act
As Sooner Director
NORMAN, June 13—OP)—University
of Oklahoma President George Cross
announced Thursday that no athletic
director would be hired for a year to
replace Lawrence “Jap” Haskell, who
was dismissed effective June 30.
Cross said head football coach
Charles “Bud” Wilkinson will handle
the director’s duties, thus saving the
16,000 annual salary paid Haskell.
Haskell was given notice of dismissal
last March after the board of regents
alleged mismanagement of the ath-
letic department.
“I will not make a recommendation
to the regents before next spring,"
Cross said. “We kre heavily staffed in
the athletic department and don’t
know what type of director we want.”
Angelow Savoldi, Chicago, in a special
event immediately afterward. Both
are one-fall bouts.
In the semiwindup, a two-out-of-
three fall bout with a 45-minute time
limit, Billy Varga, Hollywood, meets weighs 170 pounds. Last year he
Bob Kenaston, Klamath Falls Played 20 games for Wenatchee in the
Western International league, where
he hit .234 and fielded .931 while
figuring in a dozen doubleplays.
He was purchased by the Giants last
year from Sacramento of the Pacific
Coast league.
“Hubbell Is sure the youngster can
help us,” elaborated Pope, “and Sargey
will be given a good chance to do so.”
Help of some kind seemed to be
what the Injuns needed in great gobs
again Thursday night as they dropped
their ninth straight game when the
Exporters swep* a two-game series in
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Beaumont 340 001 02x—10
RBI—Capps 2. Mole. Burns. Shone 3. Byrnes.
Ftozler. Parks 3 KR - Beaumont 7. Oklahoma
City 1 2BH—Nielsen, Murray. 3BH—Parks.
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Murray. LP—V. Johnson. Umpires—Williamson
and Andrews. Time—2:10. Attendance—2.620.
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Boone tiled for D. Collins In 9th.
Ward forced Murray for Blackwood In Oth.
Byrnes walked for Shone In 6th.
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Chalk up an aquatic touchdown for the visiting team! After
acclaiming sleek Betty June Clayton as “Miss Springlake.”
the swimming pool gang discovered to its horror that she hails
from Tulsa and had just dropped in to cool off. But they de-
cided the title should stick. A teeter-totter on the playgrounds
adjoining the pool provided a nifty perch.
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munique to supreme head-
quarters, like all the other
second guessers” . . .
“Me!” ... Anastasia drew hlm-
Mlf lip to his full five-feet, six inches.
!fed out what passes for a
xe thumped himself hard twice
en quickly quit in the inter-
irlf preservation. . . .
I t* a barber, see. it says so
□n that certificate," he bel-
aren’t getting the job done,
then why not some replace-
ments?” . . .
‘•The word is out that the Indians
want, no mine-run newcomers, only
the very best, men they know can
win in this league" . . .
“Just a minute!” Anastastia de-
manded . . . “Don’t they have some
Dow who can’t win in this league?”
’ 'We-1-1-1, there might be one or
two” ...
"Okay!" he exploded, “then noth-
ing they’d get would be much worse
. . . So why not take on a couple,
iraybe some slinger’d hit a ten-game
streak, who knows?" . . .
“Who. indeed?" I murmured . . .
"Or why not bring in a coupla
kids from down on the farms, maybe
they know where the plate is, and
can get somebody out” . . .
StqpHEY'KE green." I pointed out.
1. "they need more seasoning.
Texas league hitters are tough cook-
ies to pitch to.” ...
“How can you tell.” he muttered,
“when our guys keep on throwing
ball four, or a fence ball. . . . And
let me tell ya this, young feller,
there's more than one way to skin a
cat.” ...
I acquiesced, gingerly feeling of my
•carred countenance. . . .
Anastoua took up the cudgel again.
. . . “We g<»t a extra infielder, why
not use him in a pitcher's deal. . . .
Or why not the extra outfielder? ...
Or why not knock off two pitchers
tor one good one?” ...
"Those are little items that
only
A NASTASIA the barber
xx was in his usual queru-
lous mood as his to Wei
snapped a stray hair off the
mirror at 10 paces. . . .
“What,” he inquired, “is
all this here ruckus about
pitchers? . . .
“There seems to be a
great dearth around Indian
headquarters,” I explained
while stretching my sylph-
like form along his marble
slab. ...
“Well now, I have a neat
number here, holds about
two quarts of water, and—”
•NO!” I protested as he
dunked both eyes full of lather.
. . . “You don't seem to catch
on. not that kind of a pitcher.”
"Don’t bust your girdle,
girlie,” he advised. . . . “And
get the ■’ marbles out of your
mouth. . . . Pictures, you mean,
why didn’t you say so. , . . Now,
take tiiat pretty little nude
over there on the calendar—’’
“Let's start all over,” I im-
plored . . . “Pitchers, you know,
fellows whey throw things’’ . . .
“Say, I got just what you
want, dozens a guys come in
here all day who can really
throw that bull” . . .
"Anastasia,” I pleaded, “look,
ever hear of Grove or Dean or
Ruffing or Feller?” . . .
A faint spark of intelligence
gleamed in his good eye. . . .
• Why. baseball, you mean! ...
Them ol' chunkers, those guys
out there on that hill, the gents
who dish ’em up, the ol’ log-
gers’’ . . .
“Yes,” I agreed, "although
now and then we just call them
pitchers” . . .
■Why didn'cha say so in the
first place?” he grumbled, "al-
ways a-comin’ in here with a
mouthful of mush." ... Then he
brightened. . . . "But what’s so
all-fired tough about flndin’
em? ...
"I hear they are as rare and
costly as the Hope diamond.” ...
44 ONT gimme no ringera.” he
U warned . . . "Who the hell ever
played on the Hope diamond? . . .
But these here vanishing Americans,
pitchers, Where they all gone? . . .
They still overseas? . . .
“I understand the market is sty-
mied.” I pointed out. "and they’re
harder to find than hen’s teeth” . . .
"Leave my mother-in-law outta
this.” snapped Anastasia . . . "But
tell me thia, what do the 900 other
leagues in the country use or throw-
ers?” ...
•They seem to be pretty weU
stocked—"I. . .
"Yeah? How about the seven other
elubs in the Texas league? . . .
What re they getUn’ ’em out with,
bean shooters’" ...
•They've been fairly well set all
the time.” I explained . . , "It ap-
peared that the Indians were. too. at
first.. . Then several of them turned
into base-on-balls, hlt-'em-ln-the-
pant* pitchers . . . Either that, or
they started throwing where the
other guys were swinging" . . .
•‘Oh, fine!” he agreed ...
"So i/ some of these guys
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