BIX HERALD AND NEWS
Nelson Defeats Mike
In Great Three-
Can't Anything Stop Him?
I x - IV. 4 V-1. ,4 1
Byron Nolson, like the U. S. mail, always cornea through.
Lord Byron blaxed to triumph yesterday in the PGA tournament
at Dayton, Ohio, by defeating Mike. Turnesa in the second round
of; the match play tourney by shooting the greatest three-hole fin
ish in the last 20 years of PGA firing. Nelson clashes today with
Denny Shute, 1936 and 1937 .champion.
Something Missing From PGA
There is very definitely something missing from this
-year's PGA championship at Dayton, Ohio. The play-for-pay
"boys who follow the tournament trails with the always
beckoning pot o' gold at the end of the 72nd hole are all
there except one.
' Lord Byron Nelson Is in there as this is being written,
playing that mechanically perfect game that has made the
experts call him the greatest golfer of all time not except
ing the grand-slam winner Robert Tyre Jones, the Georgia
.wizard.
Harold "Jug" McSpaden, although eliminated from the
-tournament in the first round, was also among the entries
at the outset of this fairway classic.
; : Gene Sarazen, the country squire, was a participant long
enough to be edged out by the amazing Nelson, and Defend
ing Champion Bob Hamilton gave it all he had in the first
round to preserve his title.
Jack Grout, the long-hitting pro from Hinsdale, 111., who
we once saw play in St. Augustine, Fla., was the giant-killer
-who upset Hamilton, and Sgt. E. J. "Dutch" Harrison with
-the air corps at nearby Wright field lost a heart-breaker to
'an unknown from Norristown, Pa.
But one name is conspicuous by its absence from the
star-studded field. Yes, you guessed it, it's Samuel Jackson
.Snead, the Slammin' Sammy of the sports pages, and the
most colorful and for our money the greatest golf player
..alive today.
The gallery now more or less follows Nelson, the odds-on
favorite, but if Sammy were there booming out those long
drives and grinning that cock-sure grin even though behind,
you know, and so do we, where that gallery would be.
a-. The fans would be crowding the greens to the very edge
.and taxing the ingenuity of the guards at the tees just to
get a glimpse of Slammin' Sammy in action.
Yes sir, the golf bugs like Sam. They like the way he
takes -the tough breaks along with the good, the way he chats
with the gallery, and, above all, the way he hits a golf ball.
Snead is out of this one, as you probably know, due to
a broken bone in his hand. And yet he was good enough to
shoot a par 72 with a broken hand a feat that was un
dreamed of in the Philadelphia- Inquirer tournament a few
weeks ago. .
For sheer courage that feat is unparalleled in the annals
of golf. If Slammin' Sammy was in this one and right
we think he would win going awayl
World Series Next
Worry Of Baseball
By GUS HAM
WASHINGTON, July 13 0P)H
Now that A. B. "Happy" Chan
dler is boss beyond all question,
th? next major question con
fronting baseball is whether the
world series will be played.
Major league clubowners did
not discuss the 1945 series yes-
terday as they approved unani
mously Chandler's seven year
$50,000 a year contract and al
most everything else he re
quested. . .
But unofficially there was
strong sentiment at the joint
meeting jn favor of holding the
October classic if at all possible
under transportation conditions
at that time.
iSomebody ought to come out
and say that the series is going
to --be played, so long as it
doesn't Interfere with the war
effort," said a baseball leader
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who preferred to not be identi
fied. "It is almost inconceivable
that the series will . not be
played," he added.
Wait Developments
By not bringing the series
question up formally,' the club
owners indicated they thought it
wiser to hold the matter in abey
ance until later in the season,
hoping that war developments
might provide a favorable an
swer. ' Chandler came out of his first
session with the 16 men who
hired him in a much stronger
position than when he walked
into the meeting room one hour
and 45 minutes earlier.
Baseball men later readily ex
pressed admiration of the man
ner in which the new commis
sioner took hold of the situation
and won his points without a
single dissenting voice.
Frldar. July 13. IMS
Turnesa
Hole Finish
By FRITZ HOWELL
DAYTON. O.. July 13 OP)
Three years ago. at Atlantic
City, Toledo's Byron Nelson
stood on the 30th green, needing
a 20-inch mitt to defeat Jim
Turnesa of Mamaroncck, N. Y.
He missed it, and Jim whip'
ued him on the 37th.
Yesterday, at Moraine Coun-
try club, Nelson stood on the
36th green, needing a su-mcn
putt to defeat Jims orotnor
Mike.
He made It although the ball
went in the back door and
havine whipped a case of coinci-
dence-causcd jitters, Nelson was
a more-than-ever favorite today
to snatch the 27th PGA chanv
pionship.
Makes Great Finish
Up to the 3tth hole, where he
got his par to close out the
match, Nelson had made what
Proxy Ed Dudley said was the
greatest three-hole finish in the
last 20 years of PGA firing.
With four holes to go. Nelson
was two down. Facing elimina
tion, he called on that extra
something that makes chanv
pions and whizzed in with a
birdie, birdie and then a rous
ing eagle to go into the last hole
one up.
"As I stood there facing that
putt," Nelson said, "I relived
that Atlantic City hole all over
again, when the ball finally
went in, I just wited.
Ten Under Par
Nelson was just 10 strokes
under par for the 36 holes and
it wal a heart-breaking day for
Turnesa.
Facing the Toledo umbrella
man today is Denny Shute of
Akron, O., 1936 and 1937 win
ner, who yesterday hung a 5
and 4 defeat on Bob Kepler of
Columbus, coach of Ohio State's
intercollegiate champs.
Deschutes
AreaOffers
Best Angling
PORTLAND. July 13 'fTPl
The Deschutes area offers the
best prospects for fishermen
this weekend, the state game
commission reported today.
j-iimu caicnes are oeing laKen
from Blue and Suttle lakes.
from parts of the Deschutes
river, from Marks, Mill, Ochoco
creeks in the Prineville region.
and from Allen, Deep, and the
norm lorK of the Crooked river
in the Big Summit Prairie area.
Trout are biting freely in
Wallowa county lakes and
streams, the commission said
but in most of the rest of Ore
gon the angling outlook is poor.
The only other favorable site
is in Curry county, where Sixes
and Elk rivers are yielding good
trout catches. A few Chinook
salmon have been caught on the
Rogue river.
New Angling
Record Set;
Chinas Flown
By HAROLD CLAASSEN
NLW YORK, July 13 P)
Hans Hinrichs of New York, es
tablished a U. S. Atlantic ocean
fishing record when he landed a
515-pound broadbill swordfish
July 3 after a three hour and
40 minute battle, it became
known today.
Hinrichs got his strike 22
miles out in the Atlantic ocean
from Shinnecock inlet, near
Hampton Bays on Long Island.
The fish, first of its kind
known to be taken on a rod and
reel off Long Island this season,
measured 10 feet 8 J inches in
length and had a girth of four
feet, nine inches.
Hinrichs had his reel packed
with 800 yards of 24-thread line
at the time of the strike and
scored another first when his
prize was brought to Hampton
Bays through the inlet, an ocean
gateway created by the 1938 hur
ricane. The old record for broad bills
was a 505-pounder, caught by
Rex Flynn of Pittsburgh in 1935.
One hundred 12-week-old Chi
nese pheasants have been flown
to Guam from California at the
request of Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz, an enthusiastic hunter
in peace time as well as in war.
Admiral Nimitz reported to
friends In California that condi
tions on Guam are such that he
believes the exotic game bird
will survive there. He said that
there were no other upland
game birds to compete with the
pheasants and that there are no
predators on the island to dis
turb their propagation and wel
fare. Incidentally, the birds were
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Cubs Split
Double Bill
With Braves
Nats Move To Within 3Va
Garnet Of Front-Running
Tigers; Holmes Stopped
By JACK HAND
(Associated Press Snorts Writer)
Bobo Newsom still wears the
pitchers' dunce cap and Tommy
Holmes is teacher's pet In the
hitting class but the epidemic
of "streakitis" that threatened
to ovcrshow the major league
pennant races is over.
It took Newsom from April 21
to July 12 to pick up a mound
decision but he finally broke
his 12-game losing dirge yester
day with a brilliant lour-iut
shutout of last year's champion
St. Louis Browns. 4-0.
Holmes Fails to Hit
' Holmes had hit safely in 37
consecutive games, breaking
Rogers Hornsby's modern Na
tional league record, until his
old Wriglcy field jinx stopped
him in the first game o( a
Braves-Cubs doublchendor that
attracted a banner weekday
turnout of 29,513 paid.
Chicaso triumphed behind
Wyse, 6-1, stretching its victory
string to 11, but that streak was
doomed as Boston swung back
to even the scries, 3-1, on Car
den Gillcnwater's two-run homer
in the ninth. Holmes hit safely
in the nightcap, a single preced
ing Gillenwaters clout.
Brooklyn broke out or a
slump that cost them 5 of their
last 7 games by swamping Cin
cinnati, 11-5, in the lato half of
a twi-night doubleheader after
blowing the first one, 4-3. To
the veteran Joe Bowman. The
split left the Brooks only a
game back of the first-place
Cubs.
Cards Lose, 9-7
St. Louis was in and out of
second place during the evening.
moving up when Brooklyn lost
and dropping back when Danny
Uardella doubled nome two runs
in the 10th inning for ,Ncw
York s 9-7 margin over the Car
dinals.
Mel Ott's pinch homer with
two hired hands on base, his
first since June 10. kept the
Giants in the ball game in whicn
seven hurlers saw action. Ace
Adams was the eventual victor
and Rookie George Dockins the
loser.
Pittsburgh opened a long
home stand which Frankie Frisch
hopes will get the Pirates back
into the race by shutting the
door in the Phillies face. 4-u
Nick- Strincevich did the slam
ming and helped his own cause
by belting home a pair ot tames,
Nats Move UD
Washington moved to within
31 lengths of front-running De
troit on a night 4-2 edge over
Chicago. It was Dutch Leon
ard's 10th decision but the
knuckleball expert was not
around at the finish as he in
jured his right hand fielding a
hard hit ball in the eigmn m-n'l?-
.....
Jim Wilson outpitcnea nai
Newhouser, the Tigers' ace, to
give Boston a slim 2-1 shade
and spoil the launching of De
troit s second eastern visit. Wil
son rubbed it in by figurine in
both Red Sox scores.
With Newsom s revival acting
as a spur, the Athletics went
into a complete form reversal
and shut out the Browns twice,
4-0 and 11-0. Flores did the sec
ond job, a three-hitter, with Sig
Jakucki and Tex Shirley taking
the setbacks.
The home run that built the
Yankee stadium backfired on
the New York Yanks as Cleve
land poled three into the stands
in grabbing a 7-4 decision. Mick
ey Rocco, Jeff Heath and Frank
ie Hayes did the nonors lor tne
Tribe.
TENNIS
nuipirn dim., rrnluAMf
Wilmington, Del., won National
Men's Clay Courts tennis cham
pionship, defeating Francisco
(Pancho) Segura, of Ecuador
and University of Miami, 6-4,
4-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. Mrs. Sarah
Palfrey Cooke, Los Angeles, won
women's title, upsetting Pauline
Betz, Los Angeles, 6-3, 7-5.
KELLY A POINT-GETTER
NOTRE DAME Joe Kelly.
Notre Dame's leading point-getter
during the spring track sea
son, finished his competition
for the year by scoring 14 points
in the NCAA meet in Milwau
kee. placed aboard a transport in
California on Sunday and were
expected to be in their new
home some time the next day.
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Paavo Kitonen applies the old leather to Antone Leone In
their tussle at the armory lest week. Tonight Leone will tangle
with Jack "Buck" Lipscomb In the headline tiff and Katonen
will clash with Buck Davidson In the seml-wlndup. Jack Klser
will meet Kenny Ackles In the opener which is due to get
underway at 8:30 p. m.
Joyce Made Favorite
In Bout With Ruffin
Bv TED MEIER
NEW YORK. July 13 (iP)
Willie Joyce and Bobby Ruffin
clash in a 12-round bout at Madi
son Square Garden tonight and
some of the boys along Jacobs
beach arc hoping Ruffin gets
knocked out.
Ruffin, who halls from the
Long Island city sector of New
York, is pretty handy with his
dukes, but he likes to be known
as the "Bad Boy" of boxing.
Lately his antics have annoyed
a part of the fight "mob."
They're pulling for Joyce to ad
minister a sound thrashing to
Rowdy Robert.
Joyce, a Gary, Ind., lad who
Holmes' Consecutive Game
Hit Streak Snapped At 37
By JOE REICHLER
NEW YORK. July 13 , (JP)
Tommy Holmes' consecutive
game hitting streak for the Bos
ton Braves was snapped at 37
yesterday to reverse a compar
able situation 22 years ago.
The end of Holmes record-
breaking string, which came at
wrigley field against cnicago.
must have warmed the cockles
of Cubs' Manager Charlie
Grimm's heart. Back In 1923,
IWhf THEY
5 1 AND
AMERICAN LEAGl'K
w. r Pet
Detroit 4.1 2 .507
Washington 30 .12 ,M0
New York I.JO .H .1"!
noiton aa as .521
Chicago no .17 .513
St. Ixmll .14 37 . .470
Cleveland 34 37 .470
Philadelphia 24 40 .320
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Boston 2. Detroit 1.
Cleveland 7, New York 4.
Philadelphia 4-11, St. LouU 0-0.
Waahlngton 4, Chicago 2.
NATIONAL, LEAGUE
W. . I..
Chicago 43 29
Brooklyn .. 44 32
St. LouU .. 42 32
Pet.
.307
..170
.368
.3.-16
.514
.300
.472
.230
New York .42
Plttiburgri 30
3d
Boiton .. .....-.....-......;i7
Cincinnati ....34
.38
Philadelphia 20
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
New York . St. LouU 7.
Cincinnati 4-3. Brooklyn 3-11,.
Chicago 0-1, Boaton 1-3.
PltUburgh 4, Philadelphia 0.
PAClriC COAST LEAGUE
, W. L.
Portland .'.62 41
Pet.
.602
.364
.313
.510
.476
.467
.431
.417
Seattle 00
Sacramento 53
San Franclico .......-.......S3
Oakland 40
42
31
34
San Diego .
Loa Anaelel
3D
Hollywood .,43 60
LAST NIOHT'S RESULTS
San Franclico 3-3, Portland 4-10.
Seattle 17, Hollywood 0.
Oakland 8. Sacramento 7.
San Diego 10, Loa Angeler 8.
NATIONAL DISTILLERS
jumped Into lightweight promi
nence with three decisions over
Ike Williams, the NBA 135
pound champion, is a 1 to 2 fa
vorite, but lie is by no means
underestimating Ruffin.
Ruffin usually is at his best
as the underdog. Ho got licked
by Freddy Arclicr over in New
Jersey only recently. On the
other hand ho licked Beau Jack
decisively two years ago In the
Garden when tic entered the
ring a 7 to 1 underdog. It will
be his first scrap in tho Garden
since February 2 when hp de
feated Johnny Oreco, flooring
the Canadian welterweight 111
the ninth round.
Grimm, then with Pittsburgh,
saw his modest 25-gamo hitting
streak, which hud begun with
the opening day of the season,
go up in smoke against the
Braves in Boston.
Wrigley Field Jinx
Holmes has found Wrigley
field a jinx this season for prior
to yesterday's twin bill, he had
made only one hit in nine at
bats in that park for a puny .111
average.
By fulling to hit safely in the
opener, Boston's hiird-hittiiig
outfielder fell seven games short
of tying the all-time National
league record of 44 successive
hitting games made by Willie
Kecler of the 18D7 Baltimore
Orioles. Holmes last week broko
Rogers Hornsby's modern Na
tional league record of 33.
ONE COUNTED A LOT
CINCINNATI Al Unscr,
catcher bought from Detroit by
the Rods, reported to Bill Me
Kcchnle with only one homo run
to his major league credit. But
it was a grand slnm effort
against the N. Y. Yankees May
31. 1944, which broke a 2-2 tic
with two out in the last inning.
POLYNESIAN TO GO
CAMDEN, N. J. Polynesian,
winner of the Withers and
Prcakncss, is one of three lead
ing colts nominated for the $25,
000 Jersey, one of the major
numbers slated for decision at
Garden Slate Park during the
50-day meeting which opens on
Friday, July 13.
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Straight Win; Lag 2 Gamoi
By PAUL WELLS
Associated Press Sports Writer
Thosu supercharged Seattle
fliilnlcrs, two scant games out of
first place In the 1'nciriu Coiist
leugtiv. hud their eighth consecu
tive victory in the butt today
and will bo pointing lor Nos.
iiiuo mid 10 in a doublchciider
with the Hollywood Stars to
night. T heir winning string, in
which they huvo taken 10 of
tneir last 11 tuts, wiih kept In
tact lust night with it walloping
17-0 triumph over the Slurs.
Bevos' Lead Cut
Portland's top-spot Heavers
hud their lead pared half u guinu
as they split it (win bill with Sun
Francisco. Bob Joyce, the Seals'
big righthander, became the
loop's first 20g(iint winner us
he shaded thu Beavers 5-4 in tho
opener. Ad Llskit, Hose City
veteran, evened tho count 10-3
in tho nightcap for ills 1 3 tit de
cision of tho year.
San Diego's Valllo Eaves, dis
placed last week us king of tho
circuit's hinlci-s, coasted to his
Itlth victory in beatlni! Los An
geles 10-6. Oakland's Acorns
edged the Sacrumcnto Solons 8-7
in rounding out tho nlcht j
schedule.
Carl Fischer, craftv 40-vcar-
old mouiiclsman, rang up his
12th will of the season us Seattle
crushed tho Stars under .a bur
rngo of 20 buse-hlts good for 17
runs. Fischer allowed only
three puny blnglcs two beaten
out bunts and an Infield single
and never let a man get past
first base. Bob Gorbould, Rai
nier second sucker, hit flvo for
live, scored four runs, batted In
three more, stole two bases, was
key man In a double play and
made eight putotits in atuuinu a
one-man show. Joe Mishnsok.
Hollywood's leading pitcher,
was charged with the dufcat.
Seal! Rilly to Win
At Portland, tne Seals saved
Joyce in the seven-Inning cur
tain raiser with a two-run last
frame rally to win 8-4. Joyce
aided his own cause with a
homo run Into tho left field
stands In tho second inning. A
wild pitch by Jack Tlslng, Bea
ver hurlcr, let In tho winning
run. It was Portland all the
way after the first two cantos
In the 10-3 nightcap. Llska
tightened down after granting
three tallies, and blanked the
Seals for tho remainder of the
game, giving up only six hits.
Acorns Nip Sacs
Oakland snapped a five-game
losing streak with Its 8-7 win
over Sacramento. The Solons
knotted tho count with three tal
lies in the first of the ninth, but
the Acorns came back in their
half to load the sacks and take
tho tilt, as Chet Rnscnhmd
scored on Frankie Hawkins'
long fly to the outfield. Garth
(Red) Mann, who went In as a
relief tosser In tho ninth, got
credit for tho victory although
he pitched to only two men. .
Don Budge Wallops
Sobin In Net Play
GUAM, July 13 (IP) LI. Don
Budge, of tho V. S. army air
forces, easily defeated Navy
Specialist Wayne Sobln today.
6-2, 6-0, in tho first matches of
the Mnrianas "Open" tup piny
that will lake four top Ameri
can tennis slurs on a tour of
Ulithl, Pclcliu, Tlninn and Sal.
pan.
In the second match. Sgt.
Frank Parker, air forces, de
feated Navy Specialist Bobby
Riggs, 6-2, 6-3.
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American Legion junior
baseball will get underway
Bnturday nlnht at 8i30 o'clock
t Conger field with Bill Al.
bee eating as coach. This
field Is located on Siskiyou
two blocks east of Conger
school.
All Interested boys between
the ages of 12-17 who live on
California avenue, near Flr.
viow school, In Pelican City,
or on Lekeshore drive should
report to the Held promptly
at 6i30 p. in.
Practice will be held at
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Bi30 o'clock with John Argot
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Vornon Bronke has been
selected to mentor the Mills
addition teams.
Pro Grid
Squabble
On Coast
By BILL BECKER
LOS ANUKLHS. July 13 (!)
Here It Is only July and tho but
tlellues urn already forming for
another professional football
squabble on the Pacific coast.
J. Hufus Klawutis, president
of the old-line I'aelflc Coast Pro
fessional Football league, an
nounces his circuit hits expand
ed to eight teams and Intimates
the upstart American league,
which began operation last
year, Is definitely defunct.
But up Jumps Julian Smith,
owner of the 1044 west pro
champs, thu Hollywood Hangars,
to deny that tho American
league is folding or merging
with tho PCL.
Rangers Sign Contracts
"T h o Hungers have signed
contracts with most of last yonr's
siiuiid," said Smith, "and we
lined up ubotit 200 players for
Iryonts witli tho Rangers and
t h o Los Angeles Mustangs.
Wo'vo got tho players, and I
don't sea how the other league
can opcrato without players."
Tims fur, PCL magnates have
not been voluble on the subject
of talent they expect to have,
but merely stated they expect
to open play about September
30 with members Including the
Los Angeles Bulldogs, San Diego
Bombers, tho Hollywood Bears,
Oakland Giants, San Jose Mus
tangs, tho San Francisco Pack
crs-Cllppers, Seattle Bomber
unci Portland Rockets.
Tho Clippers, Seattle and
Portland wero members of the
American loop lust full.
While, frankly, neither aide
expects Shuttle and Portland to
compete because of travel con
ditions, that leaves the Ameri
can group will! two members
Smith's Hangers and the Mus
tangs. The Oakland and San Di
ogo onirics In tho league folded
lust season.
HIGH BATTING AVERAGES
ROCHESTER. N. 'Y. Don
Diehl, third baseman, and Jim
Williams, second sucker, both V
12 students, achieved batting
averages of .500 tills season.
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