Worsham and Snead All Even After Shooting Nine Holes in 33
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CLASSIFIED ADS CLASSIFIED ADS * AMUSEMENTS petting j&faf 20, 1952 ppetfis FRIDAY, JUNE C ** Worsham and Snead All Even After Shooting Nine Holes in 33 Win, Lose, or Draw Lew Fights Hard Nats No Cream Puff Hitters By FRANCIS STANN In Cleveland ; Browns Next Star Staff Correspondent Upset For PGA By ish home run—the first of his POMPTON LAKES, N. J., JUNE might be the influ- Burton Hawkins 20.—1 t brief major league career—to start ence of an election year, but some of the best double-talk Star Staff Correspondent in years the second inning. Pete’s smash heard is coming out of Sugar Ray Robinson’s training ST. LOUIS, June 20.—The dain- popped glove camp. out of Fridley’s and Even the New York State Athletic Commission, bossed To Answer Sam tiness has vanished from the Nats’ over the fence when the Cleveland by Tom Dewey’s boy Bob Christenberry, is x: ' luff~ llmr ;«HBp§ attack. Suddenly they’ve shed rightfielder bumped his head going along • against with the act. ''¦¦ Ex-D.C. Pro Still Irked the stamp of cream puff hitters in the top of the fence. Yesterday, The Nats made it 3-0 in the for example, was a hot, muggy the course of a four-game winning afternoon and Robinson decided to At Champion's Gripes third on doubles by Rapp and Ver- skip his streak in which they’ve slammed non, but belted a boxing. Not that he very Mitchell home had been working flp About 1947 Open 46 hits, including a cluster of run in the third and Doby tied the strenuously of late, but this time he didn’t ML extra-base blows. score with another homer in the even put on a headgear. For a fighter about By Merrell Whittlesey seventh with Harry Simpson on ¦pi a general to give away 15 or 18 pounds to Joey Maxim, Bpll /jj® Star Staff Corraipondant There has been rush base. out of a protracted slump and as The Nats Garver, Sugar Ray’s weight is dangerously low, any- ysMST LOUISVILLE, Is., June 20. Nats the will face Ned the awaited opener of a the Browns’ best, or Southpaw way. ||aJ| Sam Snead Lew Worsham four-game series with the Browns, and Tommy Byrne in tonight’s opener So he held a press When they generate quite glow conference. both were out in three-under-par could a here. Lou Sleater, twice asked if from the battering they dealt thwarted somebody him he felt he was entitled 33 and all even at the end of nine in an attempt to post a fourth win, to hold two world titles—his middleweight Cleveland’s highly publicized will pitch for the Nats, who chased jH holes in their first-round match in pitchers in sweeping the crown and Maxim’s light-heavy champion- the three- Garver with a 7-run in PGA championship today. game set. outburst ship if he beats Joey next Monday—Rob- Fr,ncll sunn, Worsham, who didn’t care much two innings the only time they op- Washington’s new sluggers ac- posed him this inson replied: for Snead's recent magazine ex- cumulated 35 season. planation hits off Bob Feller, NOTES: The Nats and “Why not? It would be good for boxing. But there’s some of their 1947 National Mike Garcia, Lou Brissie and Early Browns Open playoff, went ahead on the will play a day game tomorrow kind of an upwritten rule that says I got to give up one title Wynn in leaving the Indians with and a double-header par 3 second hole, where Snead Sunday. if I win.” a six-game losing streak. They got Washington’s only in had a four. Worsham shot birdies 14 hits off Wynn, losses seven “Let’s say you beat Maxim,” a man put in. “Which title an ex-teammate, games with the Browns this sea- on the first and third holes, but in grabbing a 6-3 decision yester- would you give up?” Sam matched them. son were 2-1 in 10 innings and 3-2 day to account for their biggest in 17 innings, “Idon’t know,” Ray said. “But I’llhave time to decide. I The match was the highlight of with Satchel Paige batting output in six weeks. the could defend the middleweight the first round as 64 pros started winning pitcher in both con- championship and then, if I No .300 Hitter Yet. tests. fight Maxim again, I can decide.” the match-play phase of the tournament. The Nats can’t claim a .300 hit- Jim Hegan had no harsh words ter in their for who Mangrum hatting order, but Jensen, bowled him over THERE WAS A MURMUR among the interviewers, who had Wins Match. Jackie Jensen and Mel Hoderlein in a play at the plate Lloyd Mangrum, Na- Thursday former . on the fringe night. “He understood from Christenberry that Robinson couldn’t hold tional are at .296 and has as much right Open champion, posted the others are surging with to try to score as I to try two titles even for a little while. When this was expressed, first match-play victory them. have when he STILL HANGING ON—Four semifinalists in the Women’s Western Open golf tournament tug Hoderlein’s steady and to block the plate.” Hegan Ray smiled thinly. downed Frank Newell hitting said. of Tacoma, at a sideline rope to indicate they’re still hanging on after victories yesterday at the Skokie fine defensive play is particularly Jensen explained that he didn’t “That’s not my understanding,” he said. “I understand I Wash., 4 and 3. The dapper lit- Country Club in Glencoe, 111., a Chicago suburb. Left to right are Betsy Rawls, medalist from pleasing to Bucky slide for fear of injury. Hegan tle pro from Chicago Harris. The can wait until September. Shucks, there isn’t even a rule in took a four- Austin, Tex., and 1952 leading girl money winner; Barbara Romack, Sacramento, Calif., the only quiet, 29-year-old second base- came out of it with a king-sized the books. Looks like it’s one of those like hole lead by shooting a four-un- surviving amateur; Louise Suggs, three-time winner from Atlanta, Ga., and Jameson, San man has fashioned a regular job headache. unwritten things, der-par 32 Betty I said.” on the front nine, then Antonio, Tex., who won in 1942. (Story on Page C-3.) —AP Wirephoto. for himself after a week’s work. The Indians filled the bases closed out the match on the 15th. with By a coincidence, a long, black limousine nosed into Ray's Mel got three of the hits against two out in the first inning, Two Middle Atlantic pros had Wynn. but Fridley popped to Hoderlein. camp and out stepped Christenberry in person. Robinson’s in- margins. comfortable Chandler Jensen has made 10 ... Washington pitchers per- Harper of hits in hii have terview had broken up, anyway, and now the reporters circled Portsmouth, Va., was Redskins Lose Salem Lone Walk Keeps Carl Erskine last 18 attempts, while surprising mitted only 10 runs in four games.. up play against .. the boxing commissioner who, by another coincidence, hadn’t 5 and 6 to Charles Earl Rapp has hit safely in 11 out Jensen’s eight hits against the known that Ray was not boxing this day. Lepre of Doylestown, Pa., with six- of 23 tries since joining the Nats. Indians boosted his average 23 under par golf. “There is a Jack Isaacs of To Canadian League; From Pitching Perfect Game But Bucky is equally enthusiastic points. rule,” Christenberity insisted. “I forget the Langley Air Force Base was 4 up Sy the Associated Press wording, but the new rules are being published and they pro- about the recent work of his at the end of nine in his match The boys who know baseball pitchers. They showed him some hibit two Nats, 6; Indians, 3 one man from holding titles.” with Pat Abbott of Memphis. Hightower Won't Sign best have been saying for some high-class clutch pitching against “For long?” a Australian-born Jim t 0- f??, £'«*«'*»*• A H O.A. how reporter asked. Ferrier, time that when Carl Erskine the Indians, who jammed the Yost.JbYn^\V 4 12A2 B ps'n.lb.rf 6 14 1 1947 PGA champion, rallied By Lewis F. 3 0 Avila,2b “For no time,” Christenberry said. There a couple of after Atchison learned to control the ball con- bases six times in three games Busby,cfRapp.rf 6 2 4 13 2 were __ shaky carry 0 0 0 0 Doby.cf 6 3 1 0< boxing writers present who have not been favorably disposed a start to his match The Redskins lost two more sistently he would be a great without scoring. Jensen,cf.rf 62 2 0 Rosen,3b _4O 31 ’ Vernon.lb 6 2 fi 1 Mitchell,lf 3 2 2 ft with Leonard Dodson of Mission, Connie Marrero for e SSS toward Gov. Dewey’s appointee, Christenberry players today, Eddie Salem, de- pitcher. was clubbed ‘ ’Reiser - O o O O' and seemed to Kans., into holes. wnn5Wood.lfif 3H?10 6 0 Easter.lb 0 0 2 1 extra The 25-year-old Dodgers’ right- 11 hits yesterday, but wiggled out Hoderl n.2b 4 3 2 1 3 know he was on his mettle. fensive halfback with one year’s Grasso.C-, Fridley,rf,lf 4 2 1 Three-down through the 12th, hander from Anderson, Ind., ap- of a bases-loaded, none-out sit- 316 0 Combs,ss, _ 413 3 experience, and Dick Hightower, tCoan 0000 Heaan.c 3002 Ferrier won two in a row and parently has that lesson.