1939-07-07 [P A-12]

A—12 ___WASHINGTON, 1). C., FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1939. -1 Held at BEAUTY BATTLES FOR BRITAIN _By JIM BERRYMAN Lose or Draw 2-1 Over Golf Win, {WOT TH--?!?-.;“TWE.4\ j/^PRAPS A BIT UNLtDyUKEV Argentine C MOST BEAUTIFUL LEGS IN \ i BUT AWFTER. AWL—A PDIMT \ \ By FRANCIS E. STAN. ( SPORT FLASHED ACROSS LfER H'ENGLAfiP IS A Kay Stammers \ WIMBLEDON'S- FAMED / POIMT^y CENTER. COURT, AMD \ Of A Few Sidelights on the All-Star Fracas Jed'T^I LOW<} LASHES CARESSED \ High Order, A That was a nice gesture by baseball when Lou Gehrig was appointed SOFT ENGLISH CHEEK \ -AH'- 40-LOVE to an honorary place on the American League All-Star team. The dis- In Final Tilt --NERT5—40,000 \ abled Iron Horse can't play, of course, but it preserves his record of never Pose Shows —LOVE having missed any of the spectacles and the fellow is bound to appreciate 'p6 It and so are the fans. And. speaking of~getting a bang out of the All- Lenglen-Moody Class Star game, how about Ted Lyons? Pro Declares Links Is Reached U. S. It has been more than 17 years since the old Baylor Bear came of! by Game His the Texas campus and pulled on a White Sox uniform. From the start Nation's Girl, Critics OH^SERVE^ ME he was a All of the essentials Lyons possessed. He was Say good pitcher. RIGHT FOP FORGETTING \ Pastime smart, and had But he never ranked as one of the great ( Leading game ability. Bv SCOTTY RESTON, > AW/BODV ELBE'S BACK- \ 196 for a ball club that almost Press stars, although he won 207 games and lost Associated Sports Writer. k^UANp IS HER FOPEHAMP'. THERE SHOULD PC SOME By DREW MIDDLETON, every year finished in the second division. WIMBLEDON, England, July 7.— WARM WORDS WINGING OVER, Associated Press Sports Writer. or of 1939 or Britain's Stammers THE With a team like the Yankees of 1927 tlie Yankees Kay will have a ATLANTIC WHEN SCRIBES ST. ANDREWS, July 7.—Just ban- famous Athletics of 1932. would have been a fabulous figure game of tennis with Alice Marble COVER THIS MATCH BETWEEN the Lyons ish from your mind that Idea of of San Francisco for the Wimble- THE GLAMOUR the and the All-Star game, to him. would have been an old story by now. GALS.^ don's championship tomorrow after- Argentine filled with gauchos, tango But it so happens that not until next Tuesday in Yankee Stadium will noon—and if Kay wins it will be KAY'S COURT dancers and polo players. answer the roll call of the All-Stars for the first time. Ted the biggest British since TECHNIQUE IS Calvin surprise Take it from Martin Pose, "Eet is Seventeen years! That was a long time ago. Vice President Waterloo, TULL OT *WIM, after the death of Warren all golf” now. Coolidge had just moved into the presidency British hearts -naturally are set WIGOe AND Clark who Harding. There were Maxwells and Stutzes on the streets. on Katy winning, but their shillings WITALITy". j Pose, has made the biggest second baseman are on Alice. Griffith was having a difficult time in keeping a young Mathematical maniacs noise in the British open of any have estimated that Miss named Bucky Harris from playing pro basket ball during the winter. Marble is South American golfer since Jurado a 2-1 favorite, and even at that missed the title a stroke Marble's a by In 1931, Marbles bargain. A Boy Named Case Was Shooting At the moment, Miss Stammers is the kind of a pro to make the as is game go anywhere. This, then, was when Ted Lyons was breaking into the majors to Miss Marble what the Phila- He is 28. has shoulders like a dock- Since that time he has reached what were called peaks and. delphia Athletics are to the New a pitcher. and York Yankees. They're in the same hand. his fellow Argentines will his arm throbbing by his side, he has been called washed up. with right tell you he ”Ees kind of fella would it league and that's about all. He made a remarkable comeback and this all-star nomination tops rather It's true that a year ago in the golf than eat.” S4CAM FABYAH off It is almost fantastic. Wightman Cup matches Stammers LOST A He is the pro at Ituzaingo, which was in with the White Sox there was a kid in tough aaatch to the isn't some exotic When Ted breaking beat Marble, but. Alice got even in dish, but a snooty a 10-cent store and a ENGLISH LASSIE club in rompers playing around Trenton with glove the United States championships at | WITH Argentina where the mem- THE bers think their rubber ball and maybe shooting marbles oil the side for variety. His Forest Hills last fall, and even that SOUTHPAW pro, who used to wasn't the Marble we re •SWING. be their caddie, is the man name was George Washington Case. Next week, less than two years seeing over greatest here now. / VEDDV SODDY in the world. uniform, he will find himself on the All-Star team. in a big league f OL' THIWQ--A5 No are asked New Marble Looks Invincible. ( Plugged to Reach Peak. That's the way baseball goes. questions except: 7 MEV iAVOVER ^ \ When you can divert Martin's at- •'Can ball?" Lyons always could but there were pitchers who This new' Marble looks invincible. HERE \ you play BUT I'VE tention from his evangelical work the half dozen All-Star games. She undoubtedly has the greatest A DATE 6eemed better qualified during past VS TO SIP 1 about golf in South America he will be his He made a service in women's tennis—a whis- OF This year Ted is off to what may greatest year. place A SPOT tell you: first one and a second one / 40 made no difference. He tling _ OCANfi-E \ for himself and the fact that he is nearly He was a caddie for eight years that kicks high to the backhand. rEKOE belongs. and "all the time I i She has greater speed of foot and p»\v> 'J play, get wasn't even a outfielder last year. He started the good, you know, but is Case regular stroke than any one in the tour- something as a substitute but forced his into the He missing. So I get job as assistant season gradually way line-up. nament and her volley is a positive pro. Eet is not too hard and I did well, too, and opened this season as Washington's centerfielder menace to human life. job ! ALICE WAD'LM in practice. I practice planty. I get This was a tough break for George, in a way, because time is apt to But beyond these she has de- my swing so she is like veloped a sound defense and she WONDERLAND WHEN now—long prove that he isn't a centerfielder. And yet, all out of position, he made and smooth. can control her nerves. SHE FLATTENED THE the All-Star team. "Eet is hard. too. for I do not I had a talk with Eleanor Ten- HUSKY SPERLING have mooch But nant, her coach, and she stressed 6-0,6-0, IN money. pretty soon I get confidence and I enter When Whitlow Wyatt Was a Failure these things. RECORD TIME Curve Ball Diet my first open. I qualify and do over to the National League .side there is Whitlow Wyatt When Helen Jacobs beat Alice To GAIN THE Apt Looking So I here last I took pretty good. say to myself of the He used to be in the American this year her home and FINALS. Kay Brooklyn Dodgers. League, 'Martin, it is time to serious.' worked for six months on her de- get chap, and nobody paid any attention to him. Tire opposing clubs liked Here I am.” fense alone. Now she's got it, and To Make Estalella to see Wyatt pitching and his own clubs, like the Tigers and Indians, STAMMERS... Last night after he came in he as a result she's a more complete j finally decided he wasn't much of a hurler so they asked waivers on player. was showing an old Scotsman how he his irons. him and shipped Whitlow' to the minors. All-Star team caliber? Never 1 “Another thing is that Alice Is BRITAIN'S BEAUTIFUL Star With Bat played The Scotsman hit a couple of beauties after it was But here is Wyatt on the National League club. He went to the only getting over an illness that put BID FOR INTERNATIONAL over and Martin said. I can minors and he found himself. He won 23 and lost 7 her out of tennis from 1934 to 1937. "See, ostensibly only TENNIS teach “In 1937 she had recovered HONORS. Now pretty good, too." games for Milwaukee and that earned him a chance with Brooklyn. And phys- Nat, Speed Hitter, ically, but it has taken these extra Extra MUST BATTLE OUR OWN Argentina Takes to Gamp. this year he not only has been the ace of the Dodger staff but one of Bluecoats Out Forced to two years to get her nerves padded MARVELOUS MARBLE Being Cure “We are doing good work at the most effective pitchers in the entire league. So Wyatt is an All- well enough to withstand any cham- IN home.

Load more