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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. SfEDFORD. OREGON', WEDICESDAT, 'AUGUST 24, 1932, PAGE FIYE Moe's Golf Crown Knocked Off in First Round by Chick Evans WESTERN CHIP LOSES, ONE UP, IN HOT COMPETITION Young Portland Ace Battles Veteran to Last in Effort to Stay in Running Evans Is One Over Par ROCKPOHD, 111,, Aug. 24. (AP) Back on the scene of some of his greatest conquests, Charles "Chick" Evans, Jr., of Chicago today dethroned the youthful Don Moe, defending titleholder from Portland, Ore., one up In a sizzling first round match of the western amateur golf champion ship, , Evans, eight .times winner of the western crown, shot 72, one over par, to eliminate Moe, twice titleholder. He jumped Into the lead on'the first hole with a birdie four, surrendered the lead on the second, fell behind on the llth and then went ahead to stay at the 14th. ' Johnny Lehman, of Chicago, tour nament medalist, came In with a rush to win the last five holes of the back nine to eliminate Joel Shepherd, of Kalamazoo, Mich., 6 and 4, ROCKFORO COUNTRY CLUB, ROCKPORD, 111., . Aug. 24. AP) Thirty-two survivors of a dazzling qualifying round opened their drives for the western amateur golf cham pionship today over the match play route. The defending titleholder, Don Moe of Portland, Ore., clashed with the' veteran "Chick' Evans, Jr., Chi i cago In the feature match of the Initial round. Aided by perfect golfing weather, Moe and Evans, who captured his first western crown before his rival was born, drew a large gallery. They started shortly after 9 a.m central standard time. ' Evans Wins First, Evans canned a 20 -foot putt to win the first hole, a 525-yard stretch, with a birdie four, Moe taking the regulation five, Moe squared the tussle on the sec ond with a par four as "Chick" over shot the green with his second. Moe missed a 20-footer on the third for a Birdie and Evans missed one from 10 feet to halve it In par four and stay even. They halved the fourth and fifth f ',,',, 1 - ..I. - siCsRi caomew j HH-sHLLMniss-Hali ' vc '-A rVaY. , s7smQ'tD U vuv with para four and three to keep even. Moe was hitting prodigious drives and Evans was putting well, "Chick" bounded one up by spear ing a par four on aix, Moe missing a shot as his second blow bit the rough and hU third was short. Evans Up at Turn. They halved the seventh in par three and the eighth In fours, but "Chick" had to arch his third to with in one foot of the flag to break even in the eighth. The ninth was another half in par fives and the veteran Evans round ed the turn In even par 36, and one up. Par, out 544 434 34536 Evans, out 454 434 34538 Moe, out .... 544 435 34537 Moe started back by taking the first two holes with perfect golf to go one up as "Chick' hit his tee shot on the tenth into & trap and was short on the eleventh. Evans squared the match again on the treacherous twelfth, where Moe'a drive hit a bank and gave him an almost unplayable lie, costing him six strokes. Chick got a par five. Evans Regains Lead. The thirteenth was another half In par four, but Evans speared a birdie four on the long 14th. with two per fect wood shots and two putte to go one up again. . Evans hit his tee shot on the 15th Into a trap, but recovered nicely and then sank an eight-foot putt for a half in par four, keeping one up and three to go. Both missed the green on the 130 yard 16thf but got halves in par three by sinking eight-foot putts. Evans chipped in & 20-footer from the edge of the green to score a birdie on 17. but Moe equalled him by sinking an eight-footer. Evans was one up and one to go. ; . Both played the final hole in five, one over par, Evans winning the match, one up. Par 344 454 8443571 Evans, in , 44 444 3353672 Moe, In 345 454 3353873 SANDE WILL HANDLE NEWRACING STABLE SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.f Aug. 24. (JP) Col. Maxwell Howard, Dayton O., paper manufacturer, plans forma tion of a new racing stable, with Earl flande In complete charge. Sande revealed yesterday that he would become trainer and manager for Col Howard at the close of the present Saratoga meeting. Buying and selling of horses will be entirely In the famous jockey's hands,; Phone 542. Weu haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. CUBS' NEW CHIEF VISIONS PENNANT N ViTAL SERIES Three Victories Over Dodgers Would Place Grimm's Out fit in Safety Zone, Is Belief of Baseball Observers By GAYLE TALBOT. Associated Press Sports Writer) Having been given a vote of confi dence in the form of a contract to pilot the Chicago Cubs next season, Charley Grimm is afforded an oppor tunity the next three afternoons to thank his employers in the big, ex pansive manner., All Grimm needs do to repay all past favors from the front office is to drive his Cubs to victory over the second -place Brooklyn Dodgers in their three-game ."key series" start ing today. Three straight from the Dodgers and they can just about start measuring Wrigley field for1 a world series that should break ail attend ance figures. To Start Flag Drive. Three and & half games in front today, a clean sweep would place the Cubs virtually out of reach of the Dodgem, and in fine position to with, stand any closing drive Pittsburg might summon, Brooklyn goes into the series fortified by two-day rest, determined to crack the Cubs and start a drive that will carry them to the pennant. The Cubs beat the Phillies for the fourth straight time , yesterday, 5 to 1, as Pat Malone gave a warm, but weird demonstration of pitching skill. So successful was the veteran at mak ing the Phils pop up that his side made only one assist, tying the major league record. He struck out eight and would have scored a shutout but for Hal Lee's home run, Pittsburg Climbs, Pittsburg beat the Giants, 4 to 3, to climb within a game of the idle Dodgers. ' Larry French pitched his second victory of the series, while Gus Suhr ettpplied the winning runs with a double that came with the bases filled. The Boston Braves climbed Into fourth place by defeating St. Louis, 6 to 3. Wally Berger banged a home run and two singles. Washington and Cleveland gave the feature per- SHE SETS WORLD yraAMV-'i h t ' J'i'f v - v. m- riil ! "ft -S&& miL asKjj-tfeawajte HE; la the post-Olymplc game In CMeass, Jadwlja Wajsowna (above) of Poland hurled the discus 13? feet 3A inches to et a new woman'i world record for the event jus a few minutes after "Babe" Oldrikaon had shattered the previous record with a heava of 133 fee 10 Irishes. (Associated Press Photo formatter in the American league, the Senators winning a 13 -inning strug gle, 6 to 4, when Sam Rice singled to drive in Manush with the deciding run. Yanks Trim Browns. Tony Itzserl's triple, a towering drive that Garms lost in the sun in the last of the ninth inning, drove across two runs and gave the Yankees an 8 to 1 decision over the St, Louis Browns. Mickey Cochrane smote two home runs and two singles and drove in five runs, as the Philadelphia Ath letics buffeted the White Box, 15 to 7. Simmons, McNair ana Miller also hit for thB circuit for the winners. Although TJhle and Bridges held Boston to five hits, the Detroit Tigers had to stage a two-run tally in the eighth to nose out the Red Sox, 6 to , ; August special. Three losrin i-ln slabs for 86.76. Med, Fuel Co. Tel. -31. DISCUS RECORD CONNIE NEARING 2500 IlilS CHICAGO, Aug. 24. (jV-Twenty-five hundred triumphs on the field, of basebaii. That wlil be the achieve ment of Connie SJack, 69 -year-old manager of the Philadelphia Ath letics, if hU players conquer St. Louis today and tomorrow. Tomorrow's game will be needed to round out the 2t5Q0 mark. Mac' players are determined to reward him with glorious victories. Mack, oldest manager in the game, started piloting the As 81 years ago. He say he won quit until he feeU he has become- handicap to the cmc OAKSWHITEWASH PORTLAND DUCKS IN SERIES OPENER lly the Associated Pfess The lowly Oaks whitewashed the first -place Portland club, 4 to 0, Lndolph he3d the Ducks to four hiia. The league leader contributed to their own downfall with three errors which were responsible for as masiy Oakland tallies. Butch Demaggio, San Francisco cen ter ,Jleldert batted the Seals into a third place tie with hoe Angeles Tues day night. Coming up in the ninth with the score tied and the bases full, he knocked a home run, which precipitated a six-run rally, and San Ft on cjsco won the ball game, 11 to 8, Charley Moncrle? was the victim cf most of the Seal slugging, allowing U of the northerners 13 hit before the ninth inning storm swept bins from the mound, Sacramento got away to a good start on another aeries by beating Seattle, 7 to a. Before Rudy Kallio, tribe pitcher, settled down in the first in ning, the Senators had three runs. Then Kallio held them scoreless until the ninth, when they broke away for four more. Despite four errors, the Missions nearly won a bali game, but Holly wood dbM thern'ouis S to S, when Outfielder McNeeley tripled In the ninth. OLD STAGE HUEEN TO DW PAGER WATBRTOWT, Y.t Aug. 24. May Irwin, famous in an older gen eration as the stage's queen of laugh ter, will drive her three-ve&r-oid filly, & pacer, an exhibition mMe during the Jefferson county fair here next week, according to announcement from the office f a. Alton Wood, superintendent of the racing pro gram. May Mrs. Kurt Eiafeldi operates a farm near Clayton where eh spends her summers. The climax of her career came when she gave what amounted to a com mand performance before President Wilson la the World war daya. In )eat the President offered to make her "secretary of laughter In my of iicifei catsinet;." HOW THEY 51 Aim la By tfte Associated Press.) Coast. W. L. Prt. Portland M 81 Hollywood .. -I 4 Los Angeles 73 5 San Francisco .... 7S M Sacramento 72 Seattle - 85 7S Daltland m. M m Missions . 55 83 J7 .543 .5 ,503 .431 ASS .363 Sattonai, Chicago 67 51 .566 Brooklyn . 66 57 .SOT Pittsburgh . . B hi JS3S . sa m AM . fl! 3 .432 . 53 63 M , 58 63 .179 . 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