. EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Augut 18, 1944
BY NELSON AND
L1KERNALISTS
Pair Win Easy Matches In
PGA Meet; 5 Other Top
Flighters Are Upset.
SURFBOARD GIVES
BELGASTRO NOD
Ii
By William Eberhart
United Press Staff Correspondent
Spokane. Wash.. Aug. 18 U.R)
Byron Nelson and Harold Mc
Spaden, bent on meeting each
other in the finals of tne nation
al Professional Golfers' associa
tion, emerged with easy vic
tories today from a welter of up
sets which left five other top
flight stars by the wayside.
Nelson, the tournament medal
ist from Toledo, O., was matched
against Willie Gnggin, chubby
White Plains, N. Y., veteran, In
today's quarter-finals, while Mc
Spaden opposes Bob Hamilton,
promising young pro from Evans
ville. Ind.
Other pairings In the round of
eight found Chuck Congdon of
Tacoma, Wash., playing the
P.G.A. president, Ed Dudley of
Northficld, N. J., while Arthur
Bell of San Francisco meets
George Schnelter of Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Fry Beaten
Nelson, gallery favorite by
virtue of his all-around consis
tency, advanced yesterday with
a 7 and 8 victory over Mark Fry
of Oakland, Calif., while Mc
Spaden. the Philadelphia veteran
trimmed Freddie Annon of
Mamaroneck, N. Y., 8 and 7.
Most of the other favorites,
however, tumbled out of the run
ning. The name golfers who dropped
out were Tony Manero of Green
wich, Conn., Sammy Byrd of
Redford. Mich., Jimmy Hlnes of
Amsterdam, N. Y. Craig Wood
of Mamaroneck, N Y., and Tony
Pcnna of Dayton, O., all given
better than an outside chance of
copping the title and forest
prize of $3,300.
Goggln, setting steady pace,
eliminated Manero 4 and 3.
Byrd lost to a rank outsider,
Congdon, who played consistent
ly on the greens while the for
mer baseball player had putter
trouble, to win 2 and 1.
Pete Belcastro, substituting for
Jack Lipscomb, employed his
famous bouncing surfboard in
the armory Inst night to trounce
a Tony Morelli who, thoroughly
searchbd before the match, was
unable to enlist the support of
any sort of gadget.
No hard object was found on
Morclli's person and, although
he gave Pete quite a beating
with punches, chokes and
smothers, he couldn't take it
when the Weed Italian clamped
on his favorite hold.
Meeting In the top half of a
double main event, Morelli grab
bed the first fall in eight min
utcs with a body press after liter
ally taking Belcastro's breath
away with illegal smother holds.
Feigning grogginess nine min
utes later, Belcastro suddenly
cut loose with a series of solid
blows to Morelli's chin, belted
him to the canvas and flipped
him over for the surfboard. He
bounced and bounced, and when
it was all over Morelli was a sick
character.
The third fall took less than a
minute. Pete came out of his
corner, clouted Morelli once on
his aching back and Referee Earl
Yoakley stopped the match and
gave Pete the nod. Morelli was
in no condition to continue.
In the lower half of the double
main event, Paavo Katoncn took
two straight fulls from Elton
Owen, who was substituting for
Harold Davidson,
Kalonen's first fall was ob
tained In 21 minutes with a re
verse back-breaker, after Owen
missed a dropkick and knocked
himself half goofy when his head
struck the mat. Two minutes
later Katoncn had his second
tumble, aided by rabbit punches
to Owen's neck.
Pat O'Dowdy and Iven Olson,
substituting for Jack Kaiser,
each took a fall in the three
round opener. O'Dowdy, though
receipting for a neat wrestling
lesson, used hair pulls and a Bos
ton crab to take the first fall in
the second round. Olsen em
ployed flying mnres, punches,
dropkicks and a body slam to.
even the mutch in the next
canto.
In a special attraction, Roy
Deulschmnn, BO pounds, defeat
ed his 02-pound opponent, Roger
Ilobbs, with a hmmncrlock. The
youngsters, after their pleasing
exhibition, gathered up a nice
shower of coins.
True Team-Spirit Marks End
On Saipan Of Ex-Grid Star
By Jack Cuddy
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Aug. 18. (U.R) Carve the name of Alex Santilll
high on the plaque of all-American fighting heroes that sports
have contributed to the war. He died while displaying the
ultimate in team-spirit.
BUGS ON FUTILE
Lieutenant Santilll of the ma
rines, former Fordham football
tackle, was killed by a Japanese
sniper while leading a charge in
the bloody fighting at Saipan on
July 8. He wasn't scheduled for
action that day. He had been
"benched" by shell-shock.
But big Alex, star of Ford
ham's 1942 Sugar Bowl victory
over Missouri, couldn't sit on
the bench while his mates were
battling down the Saipan field
in rough going. The spirit im
pelled him to join the fray, and
the rugged body he had devel
oped on the gridiron permitted
him to carry on heroically, de
spite his shell-shock.
A letter from Saipan explains
this. It was written by Ensign
Gerald J. O'Brien, who was
graduated from Fordham in
1943. It was received by the
Rev. Ignatius W. Cox, S. J., pro
fessor of philosophy and religion
at Fordham. An excerpt follows:
"A few days before the rough
going was over, Al, who had
charge of a machine gun outfit,
was shell-shocked and one of his
fellow officers carried him back
behind the dines, a distance of
about two miles. Well, they
treated Al back there and the
next day they had planned to
evacuate him (the medics).
The next morning Al got up,
dressed and sneaked back to his
outfit. He told them that he
wouldn't let them go through all
that fighting while he was tak
ing it easy behind the lines. The
officer who had carried Al back
was injured that day, so Al took
charge of his own outfit and
also the Injured officer's rifle
platoon.
Well, he led those men so
gallantly that they found them
selves treading where fools
normally fear to go. He account-
el for many Japs and it was
while leading his men in a
charge that Al was shot. He was
shut by a Jap who was hiding in
a cavity in a coral sector of
ground over which Al was
charging. Al had blocked his
last kick.
'The men told me afterward
that they saw many friends
killed, but they somehow could
tako it in stride; but when Al
got his they were brought to
tears. It seems that Al was
known by all, even by men who
were not In his platoon,
called him 'The Saint'."
They
SEATTLE
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By United Press
The champion Los Angeles
Angels and their closest com
petitors, the Hollywood Stars,
continued to draw away from
the rest of the . Pacific Coast
league last night, the Angels
trimming Oakland 3-2 and the
Stars topping the fading San
Francisco Seals, 5-4.
Seattle and Portland split a
doubleheader, the Beavers win
ning the first 5-3 and the
Rainiers the nightcap 9-6. Sac
ramento shoved San Diego fur
ther into, the cellar, winning
4-3.
Marino Pierettl chalked up
his 19th win of the year when
he twirled Portland to a win
over Seattle in their opener.
The Rainiers came back with
a seven-run splurge off Ad
Liska in the fourth inning of
the finale to overcome a four-
run Beaver assault in the first
when Ted Gullic homered with
the bases loaded. Frank Tincup
received credit for the win.
The linescores:
First Game
Seattle 3 9 1
Portland 5 9 2
Turpin and Spindel; Picretti
and Adams.
Second Game
Seattle 9 13 1
Portland 6 9 3
Elliott, Tincup and Sueme;
Liska, Federmeyer and Adams,
Norager, Cook.
"In Our Time" Coming Sunday
TAKE 11 IN
JOCKEY DIES
Evansville, Ind., Aug. 18 (U.R)
Jorge Alfonso, 24-year-old
Jockey of Louisville, Ky., died
yesterday of injuries sustained
in a racing accident Wednesday
at Dado Park. Alfonso, up on
Bychance, suffered a skull frac
ture when he was thrown from
his horse which slipped and
broke a foreleg while turning
into the stretch in the third
race.
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New York. Aug. 18 U.R-
Maybe It's like trying to bring
down a Flying Fortress with a
bean bag, but for whatever it's
worth, the Pittsburgh Pirates
are moving at even a faster clip
these days than the St. Louis
Cardinals.
The experts are calling it the
seasons most futile winning
streak, but the Pirates have run
up 11 victories in a row and
even though they are still 17V4
games behind the pace setting
cards, they are playing as thougn
every game was the pennant
clincher.
Yesterday was a good exam
ple. They defeated the Phila
delphia Phillies in oouoie
header, 7 to 6 and 6 to 5, putting
on late "squeeze" rallies to win
both games.
The plight of the Pirates In
trying to accomplish the "im
possible" at this late juncture,
simply emphasizes the status of
the Cards, who are bidding for
the best won and lost record of
any team In National league his
tory. The Cards won their second
straight shutout from the New
York Giants. 7 to 0, last night,
for their 40th victory in their
last 49. By winning, they main
tained a pace ahead of the Chi
cago Cubs of 1906, who hold the
Major league record for games
won in a season 116 out of
154.
The Boston Braves over
whelmed the Cubs at Chicago
with a five-run rally in the fifth
anH went on to win 7 to 5.
The Brooklyn at Cincinnati
game in the National was rained
out.
The St. Louis Browns increas
ed their first place margin to
seven full games in the Ameri
can, the greatest they have en
ioved thus far, by beating the
Athletics at Philadelohia. 10 to
5. The Browns made 15 hits,
with Vern Stephens getting his
15th homer to tie Bobby Doerr
of the Red Sox for the league
lead.
Johnny Lindelf tied an Ameri
can league record with four
doubles In pacing the Yankees
to a 10 to 3 victory over Cleve
land at New York.
Detroit and Boston reached a
three-all stalemate in their im
portant series for second place
In the Red Sox park, rairl end
ing the game after five innings.
Washington lost its second 1
to 0 game in three days, the Chi
cago White Sox winning in the
ninth on a long fly by Hal Tros
ky which sent Guy Curtright
home from third.
ROW v;A;j
7 - J s-,l
W
Starting Sunday for a three
day performance at the Crater
ian with Ida Lupino and Paul
Henreid playing the leading
roles is "In Our Time ' with
Nancy Coleman and Mary
Boland.
ALL-STAR ELEVEN
Chicago, Aug. 18 (U.R) With
the arrival of the tardy Indlanan
contingent, the 1944 All-Stnr
varsity began to take shape to
day as Head Coach Lynn
Woldorf of Northwestern stres
sed defensive workouts in pre
paration for the T-minded Chi
caeo Bears.
Three-ouarters of the 1941-42
Indiana backfield arrived yes
terday. Quarterback Lou Saban
and Halfbacks Billy Hillenbrand
and Chuck Jacoby. Reporting
along with thi three hoosier
lieutenants was Lt. Billy Rein
hard of the University of Cali
fornia, who can play either
tarkle or halfback.
The 67-man squad was practic
ally completed with yesterday's
arrivals, and Waldorf has start
ed to build a varsity which will
be delegated to carry the brunt
of tho collegians' offensive
against the Bears.
PAULINE BETZ IS
E
Chestnut Hill, Mass., Aug. 18
(U.R) Pauline Betz, the Na
tional Women's Tennis cham
pion, was a strong favorite to
win the Longwood Cricket Club
Invitation tournament today
after advancing to the semi
finals with a 60, 60 victory
over Helen Pedersen Rihbany
of New York.
Miss Betz of Los Angeles
played masterfully In all de
partments, defeating the upset
victor over Mrs. Virginia Ko
vacs with ease.
Other quarter-finals matches
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HOWTHEK?
T erS av m
mM r rm
American
W.
St. Louis . 68
Boston 60
New York 59
Detroit 59
Chicago 50
Cleveland 54
Philadelphia 52
Washington 47
National
W.
St. Louis 81
Pittsburgh 63
Cincinnati 61
Chicago 49
New York 50
Boston 44
Philadelphia 42
Brooklyn 44
Pet.
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.570
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.446
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.396
.396
Pacific Coast
W.
Los Angeles 76
Hollywood 70
Portland 67
San Francisco 66
Oakland 65
Seattle 64
Sacramento 63
San Diego 61
The First Continental Con
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112,673 CASUALTIES
IN WESTERN FRANCE
Washington, Aug. 18. (U.R)
American army casualties dur
ing the first two months of ac
tion in western France totaled
112,673 persons, Including
16,434 killed, 76,535 wounded,
and 19,704 missing, Acting Sec
retary of War John J. McCloy
announced today.
McCloy also told a news con
ference that even though the
Normandy pocket is not com
pletely closed, the Germans in
northern France have suffered a
defeat and they "may be moving
into further difficulties ahead."
NICHOLSON IRKED
BY WHITE SHIRTS
Chicago, Aug. 18 (U.R) White
shirts and Sunday doublehead
ers today appeared to be the
only obstacles in Bill NichoU
son's drive toward the 1944 ma
jor league home run and runs-batted-in
title.
The Chicago Cubs' burly right
fielder is far ahead of the field
at present with 27 home runs
and 90 runs-batted-in, but ho
openly fears Sunday bleacher
fans in clean white shirts moro
than National league pitchers. (
"Wrigley field is tough on
Sunday," Nicholson explained,
"because all those white shirts
get into the center field bleach
ers and you can't see the ball.
You see it about the time it gets
next to your head, but then
there isn't much time left to
swing."
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