HERMAN BARRON CAPTURES WESTERN ★★★ OPEN , * ^ ^ ^ 4- 4r 4- ★★★ ★★★ ★4 a. SHOOTS SUB-PAR Duke Basketeers Making Runaway Race In Southern OF 276 TO CLOSE -- —-- m Conference RAPED CHARLIE. By Jack Sords OUT FAR AHEAD Wayne Sabin Defeats BILLY CONN MEETS The Trail QUINT AVERAGES Van Horn At Miami RED Sports Newcomer To Major Links ZALE FRIDAY _ With _ 53.4 STANMORE CAWTHON. TONY POINTS Trav- By PEE Triumph Has Been MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8.— Embree -L WHITNEY MARTIN netman PffCMER Circuit 13 Years (jp,—Wayne Sabin, Reno, i ues- NIGHT AT GARDEN eling win in his last recently stylist who couldn’t wAo wiu NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—(Wide | tains. Hogan, incidentally, GAMEjro DAJ1 a and as an kept his World)—Thanks to a couple of passed screen test probably — starts amateur, Feb. 8.— UP) two WA^g. PHOENIX, Ariz., Wilson Will Meet we are able will sign to make pictures after stars record spotless today (.ARP Jackie timely communiques, Pushing golf’s more renouned professional tour. 6-0 over FORGZ-C today to overtake the pro golfers the winter ^ into the Herman Bar- with a 6-1, 7-5, victory w,inIn ,B*Vr1 background, Leo Rodak In An- trail. With the U.S.G.A. off Row o Van Horn of Los Angeles P Bog as they swing along the gold calling Become ron of White Plains, N. Y., cap- Welby the G. A. En the Roneyplaz Or maybe it should be called the its tournaments, P. tured the 42nd edition of the West- in the finals of $1,500 =EU.eR. other Headliner trenched defense bond trail this year, as championship will be the only At ern Open championship today with tournament. Top are at least of so-called major title at stake a card of 276 — eight blows who won the pros’ first they taking pari 72-hole Sabin, and that will be with- Or- NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—(iP)—Two their in bonds. this year, RICHMOND. v.v under par for the Phoenix Country Florida winter tournament at earnings Va champions and at least out a defending champion as Duke's club course. lando last week, gave his youthful national One of the communiques is from S7'?' In the armed service smooth-functionin, lesson 'four former champions will be Ghezzi is in ball squad, ^ This newcomer to major links ti- opponent a tennis today. Freddy Corcoran, the alert P. G. breezing along front this will he un- of “n« action on the boxing tournament The other and undoubtedly average 33,4 t,ointg n umph, a 32-year-old native New A. manager. week but no titles will be at stake. able to compete. making a ! has been traveling the is from the masters tournament runaway race Yorker, G. A. is the Southern for 13 with The top attraction of the nation’s committee at Ga. Both The P. tonmament, conference money circuit years Augusta, basket^tDA1I NO ACCORDYET will Tony only major title at stake in the paign. caij. never a first place. In winning to- program bring together communiques fairly drip patriot- Bend. the middle- accepted sense, that is, which Coach day. he turned back the challenge Zale of South Ind., ism, and you know it’s not just a Eddie Cameron's and Billy us to the compiunique from defend of the nation’s greatest shotmakers weight ruler, Pittsburgh’s shield to hide selfish motives as brings champions have Won WITH DIMAGGIO middle where the masters will with rounds of 69-69-71-6<. Conn, who rose out of the fo all sports groups the pro golf- Augusta, games in a row to 9-12. become-,!? ranks to be king of the light-heavies been be held April established as the Barron was four shots back of ers always have right up favorts 2* and ultimately a challenger for the There, my friends, is a tourna- annual pace setter Herman Keiser going Next front when it came to donating championship Yankee Says crown. will col- We had not realized what a be 36-hole fk.als. Then Slugger heavyweight They time and services ment. played 111 towna^ into today's to worthy Raleigh the first1 in a 12-round over-the-weight affair that is end m three behind the leaders at the 54- Move Is To Owner lide causes. super-championship March. Up bout at Madison Square Garden, until we started persuing the en- hole stage, he blasted out nine holes Corcoran reports the Los An-.. South Carolina, y^T New' York, next Friday night. list and taking note of the en- losing finali<t .score ot 32-35 for the par 36-35—71 Ed Barrow 1'o try Duke in the 1941 UA6U& geles, Oakland and Bing Cros- It is safe to tournamen- this afternoon to win going The other champion scheduled Is trance requirements. ranked in layout a tournaments were about 50 the runnerup Catch the by that who have sp , away. * Jackie Wilson of Pittsburgh, say anyone might with five ; Feb. 8. ColP per cent more successful this family successes i„ ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., who will a chance of meets one or former Masters' and P. G. NBA featherweight boss, winning games. The Picard, move in the an- year than in the past, and single loss was _(jp)—The next face Leo Rodak of Chicago in a more of the 13 qualifying require- istered l" A. kingpin, salvaged some of the rain curbed attend- early in the contract dickering between that the it season h N when he nual show at Pittsburgh tomorrow night ments, and that makes as open man but in star-contingent’s reputation ance at San Francisco. The the second the Yankees and Joe DiMaggio onetime welter- to real contenders as tourna- meetin.", shot rounds of 69-72 for 278, two when Fritzie Zivic, any the two rivals South is to Ed Barrow, club president, be co-featured Sunday crowds in particular CarolinaV.' strokes behind Barron. up weight champ, will ment, including the National open. by an his ar- have been astonishingly large, overwhelming margin. DiMaggio said today upon against Raquel Carrabantes of Chile. To give an ides of the class of With K. J. (Dutch) Harrison of “fish- he William and rival here for three weeks of Joey Archibald, also a former says. the field it includes champions of Mary's Indian* Chicago finishing third, such ex- last week by Virginia ing and loafing.” featherweight ruler, will box at The pros have voted that in all National tournament here Tech andp!' of this Western as every man after champions Open they had m said he had talked with New York tomorrow night and future P. G. A. sponsored tourna- and in the first 30 fin- rolled 1 Byron Nelson, Jimmy D'emaret and DiMaggio England, conference after receiv- Teddy Yarosz, onetime champion of ments 20 per cent of the prize ishers in the 1941 the first triumphs, are the ttw Kd Dudley trailed in behind, leaving Barrow by telephone masters, ranking teams. will appear would be in defense Keiser in control of his contract and had the middleweights, money bonds, 30 in the National open, the last dark-horse ing original In the fourth was against Heavyweight Joe Muscato and in all exhibition matches the in spot is fourth place and Lawson Little in informed him that he coming eight the National amateur and Wahi-— in and Lee, which faces here. “Now its to him,” said at Rochester, N. Y., Thursday. expenses would be paid bonds. the last eight in the P. G. A. if fifth. up and North The program: Corocoran thinks that the payment favorite isn’t in that Carolina once this** Little had to win the tourna- Joe. your player hoped defense The first Duke-W. & L. Monday—At Pittsburgh, Fritzie of entrance fees in stamps bunch he shouldn’t be your fa- game t ment as a sixth wedding anniver- Asked if he intended reporting be played at vs. Raquel Carra- also would be a good idea. vorite Lexington \ for his as for March 1 with Zivic, Pittsburgh, player. Tuesday. sary present wife, just spring training & L. then takes the road to 213 bantes, Chile, welterweights (10); He is much over the ar- Eighty-four are iai>ft he did a year ago in the Texas Open other Yankee fielders DiMaggio eM0Ree Miffep pleased players eligible Tar Heels and Wilson. NBA champion, Duke again on fyi,;, a IM 2.2.9 WMl*J6S Jackie for the match between this year, although the field will at San Antonio, hut after spark- said that future negotiations with BATTERS rangements and Saturday. vs. Leo Rodak, Chicago, be around ling (19 this morning the former Na- Barrow would decide that. WMlLE W/^MiMG- 2.1 &AM6S Pittsburgh, Ben Hogan, top money winner, and 50 due to the fact that non-title (10). At Other teams strongly entrenched tional Open and amateur ruler slip- LAST featherweights, Craig Wood, national open cham- some of the older champions no “I don’t know how soon we’ll get SEASc^_ Costan- in the first division are a New York, Charley (Lulu) It will be a three-out-of-five are and Furman, lied to 73 on the afternoon round pion. longer competing, some, Wake Forest together,” he replied. vs- and North for 181. tino. New York, Joey Archibald, affair, with the rivals competing such as Bud Ward, amateur cham- Carolina! The bomber said he ex- R. featherweights George Washington and X rth Cam- Nelson a and De- slugging Providence, I., for defense bonds and the pion and are in the serv- garnered 285, gallery Ghezzi, lina State are to “fish and take it Y ourist Battles Lever At San Earl Tur- locked in a virtual tie ip.xret and the fav- pected easy” (8).