Golfers Are Forced to Go High Hat in Lesley
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w For Classified Ad Result* BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1937 Telephone MAin 4-6000 19 =B= >> Grant Sounds Forest Hills Sentiment Picking Btidge to Rule Net Final 9 j- Bitsy Counts on Don s Sign Contracts for Carnival of Champions Golfers Are Forced Blasting von Cran%m To Go High Hat in For National Crown Lesley Cup Matches By HAROLD PARROTT "I don't think anybody-can beat that Budge!" By RALPH TROST Bitsy Grant was wagging his head dolefully, as if he'd Reporters in striped trousers and morning coats! 'just been aced at set point, when he said that; and, coming No, not yet. But this touch of the formal without which a from a man who had tasted the Von Cramm fire the day be ;ellow can't get to first base—or the front-line trenches—in fore, it was something, too. the Informally formal little war around Shanghai, threatens But it put the feeling around Forest Hills Into words, at to work its way into golf. Or, at least, that's the idea a re that, Grant's statement did; the general sentiment that Budge porter gets when he looks over the arrangements for the in will completely do'minate the singles final this national ternational Lesley Cup hostilities. tournament Is heading for tomorrow. Formal, engraved invitations to the players from the Met Cramm, the quiet, gracious, stylish baron, sat silently ap ropolitan, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts districts have been preciative in the marquee yesterday* issued. Yes, formal when, in the old days, a phone call suf- a.* Budge really unveiled "the big —*'ficed. Formal invitations to. th« game" "The big game" Is tennis dinner the eve of the competition parlance for the mighty slamming at Laval-sur-du-Lac. A special Rusty Is Likely Pullman for the players from the style peculiar to real champions, Brescia, Blunt which can really blow an opponent metropolitan district with a special off the court. club car attached! Budge was hitting everything with To Be Crowned No, this isn't 1929 back again. Nof ' 'vmom yesterday, volleying crisply, Start Season is it 1959. Not a dream, either. —serving with real, severity. The A short time ago the committee fame Joe Hunt, who had outclassed in charge of the Lesley Cup affair ueen announced a "change hTpIans for the • YamagLshl 48 hours before, and Yachtin AtRfdsewood playing very well, too. could get but conduct of the quadrangular com seven games in three sets. petition. Instead of preparing a Miss Sylvia S h e t h a r Fteam of siege-gun drivers and ra —o— The eight boxers who will appear in the Carnival of Champions at the Polo Grounds Sept. 23 are shown at the of Heavies in DON BLOWS BITSY in Fair Way to Win il n C ; pier-like putters, the new plan called RIGHT OFF GRASS fices of the. New York State Athletic Commission, where they signed formal contracts for their fights. Seated, left to Bout as Club Opens for a "representative team" with a ,prvor*ion of players from the class It took the evidence offered by U. S. Women's Title right, are: Champions Sixto Escobar, Lou Ambers, Barney Ross and Marcel Thil, who will meet, respectively, Harry Jeffra, Pedro Montanez, Ceferino Garoi^and Fred Apostoli, standing, left to right. (Wide World photo.) 16th Year of Boxing |of champions, another from among little Grant, the indomitable re By JACK RAMSAY j those players handicapped from four triever, to clinch the argument. Rye, N~Y., Sep:. lO-A 18-year- By HAROLD CONRAD J to six, and still another group .from Grant had run Cramm to five sets One of the most colorful little ,the six-to-eight class ,— , the day before—the same Grant old lassie who answers to the name who used to extend Budge, beat him o' Rusty, will go out in the final two fight clubs in the history of boxing | races today for the Mes. Charles Shields' Rebel ] National Pro Grid Schedule Lucy Caruso NO CHAMPIONS ARE —but who has been blown right off will open its doors for the 16th con Francis Adams Trophy with a lead LISTED FOR EVENT the grass by the fury of Don's game secutive season tomorrow night | A glance oyer {he ig37 ljneup ^ of one and a quarter points to pro when Johnny Attell raises the cur^M^.^ champions. Not a one. when it was at its peak of yester Philadelphia at New York. no day. tect against the defending tltlehold- Sept. 10 tain at the Rldgewood Grove. Six- |However, they're all good fellows ?r, who has held the cup and with Hopes to Finish I Brooklyn at Philadelphia (night). Pilsbursh at Washington. Easy Victor "Don played in the Wimbledon Detroit al Cleveland inisht'. teen years at the same old stand and from clubs one needn't be snob- it the Women's National Cham Oct. 24 final as he played against Hunt is quite a record in the fight busi-|bish to call "good." As far as this pionship, for the pas', two years. Sept. 12 Brooklyn at New York. .."sterday." said Bitsy, the Atlanta Cardinals at Green Bay, Detroit at Chicago Bears. ness, but the Grove has managed j reporter knows, the lineup will be: Cleveland at Green Bay atom, who was there, and should The little redhead is Miss Sylvia Cup Race Today In Handball to weather the depression §nd many {Eddie Driggs and Grant Peacock, Sept. 16 Washington at Philadelphia. Shethar, one of the youngest female Chicago Cardinals at Pittsbursh. .know. Of course, that match was a New York at Washineton inisht). other obstacles in its long span, and, Garden City Golf Club; Neal Ful- .straight-set win for Budge, al •kippers to hold the title on L6ng Defeats Rose Marks what is more important, is able tojkerson, Cherry Valley; Alston Flagg, Sept. 17 Oct. 31 though Don was to be pressed right I~land Sound. She stands an ex Defeat of Norwegian Washington al Brooklyn Cleveland at Philadelphia Inisht). show a handsome profit over this Piping Rock; Car! Timpson, Rock- .-onto the ropes and into five sets a cellent chance of being crowned Chicago Bears at New York. in Eagle-Piel Clash j Boat Will Keep Sea- Cleveland at Chicago Cardinals. length of time. |away Hunting; Ellis Knowles, Apa- queen of the United States as she Sept. 19 ; Jew weeks later by Cramm, in the Green Bay at Detroit. It was back in 1921 when boxing wamis; Perry Hall, Bedford—with, is in rare sailing form these days. Chicaso Bears at Green Bay. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. at Manhattan Beach inter-zone Davis Cup final. wan haka Prize Here Pittsbursh at Brooklyn. was just coming out of the doldrums. Gerald Stattuck, J. Walcott Brown. The last singles match Budge Since the series began Wednes Chicaso Cardinals at Detroit Nov. 7 Sensational rallies and brilliant I Oyster Bay, Sept. 10—Paul Shields thanks to the Walker Law, that the j Arthur Vreeland, I. B. Grainger and lost in real competition—his only day. Sylvia has taken three first Sept. 24 Philadelphia at Brooklyn all-around play of championship j with his brother. Corny, will take Green Bay at Chicago Bears. Grove opened and the greatest j Max Kaesche rounding out the lists, defeat this year—was in the final places a second, third and a fifth Chicaso Cardinals at Washington. ciliber marked the heaviest day of their six-meter sloop Rebel out to Cleveland at Detroit names in the business have fought I You didn't know that Perry Hall, at the Miami Biltmore tournament for a total of 41 \ points, while her Pittsbursh at New York. competition in the William Piel ! the starting line this afternoon de Sept. 26 there since its inaugural year. Many .Morgan partner, was in this district? in January. Grant beat him that nearest rival, the defending cham Handball Tournament, as the carnl- j termined to make this the final race Cleveland at Brooklyn Nov. 14 of these battlers made their debuts j Well, neither did I. day, as Budge stepped off the train; pion. Miss Frances McElwain, Co- ChlcaKO Cardinals at Philadelphia. vi 1 being sponsored by The Eagle I for. the Seawanhaka Cup, second Brooklyn at Chicago Bears. there and it was because of this j There's going to be considerable but a few weeks later we saw Don rhasset, has taken two firsts, one Pittsbursh at New York. Detroit at New York. was advanced yesterday toward the oldest yachting trophy in the world. Philadelphia at Green Bay. _ that the Rldgewood Club earned the i of a howl arise from the rank and, revenge that with a characteristic second, one third and two fourths Oct 3 later rounds by matches held at The trophy Ls second only to the Washington at Pittsburgh. name of the Cradle of Champions, file over the absence of Willie Tur- hard-hitting victory over the At- for a total of 40'i. Third is the I Brooklyn at Washington, three handball centers. Afternoon I crew from the Eastern Yacht Club • America's Cup, and has been in hicatro Cardinals at Cleveland. Nov. 21 Rivals Are Rugged nesa, metropolitan and Westchester lintan in the Surf Club final in competition more often than the Detroit at Green Bay. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. games at Manhattan Beach were I \-ith 37 points. New York at Philadelphia. The opening show tomorrow night champion; Dick Ciuci, Long Island Miami. older mug. Detroit at Chicago Cardinals. followed by night play at the in- ' Champ Sails Cluck Washington at Cleveland.