1947-05-18 [P ]

Win, Lose, or Draw Tribe By FRANCIS E. STANN latsWip KncfgMg Oooooh-Day for the Autograph Hounds Probably the first toumairient at which the genuine, bug-bitten golf fan* were outnumbered turned out to be one of the bigger and more democratic social events of the season. Mingling with Secre- tary of the Navy Porrestal, Gens. Eisenhower, Grove and Bradley, Admiral Nlmitz, Senator Taft and Attorney Gen- eral Clark, among others, were upward of 7,000 other guests of the Columbia Country Club, com- posed chiefly of autograph hounds and camera fiends. And who do you suppose most of the guests came to see? Der Bingle. Harry Lillis Crosby. As far as the people were concerned Bing was the biggest celebrity in the Celebrities Tournament. Bing Crosby is owner of a major league baseball team and there were two other baseball owners on hand, Clark Griffith and Del Webb. But neither owns a set of pipes like Crosby. That was the difference. That was the difference between Bing and Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Bobby PMaeb BUnn Jones, Gene Sarazen, Babe Didrikson and even Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler, a well-known tenor. It was the star-gazer’s dream come true. It was manna from Heaven for the camera shop*, whose cupboards must be empty of film. It was Oooooh-Day for the bobby soxers and autograph hounds. And for the comparatively small number of old-time golf fans the glorious pages of time were turned back when Jones, Sarazen, Bobby Cruick- shank and Walter Hagen played in the same foursome. Even the Celebrities Carried Cameras The guests swarmed upon Columbia like locusts, at least half carrying cameras. Little cameras, big cameras, movie cameras, and as the glittering procession appeared at the first tee in front of the clubhouse they shot away. Even the celebrities had cameras and were firing at each other. Tom Clark opened the show with a swing which turned every golfer who is not a regular opponent of the Attorney General green with envy of those who are regulars. His score, 121, jibed with his opening swing. / At 10-minute intervals the celebrities walked on the first tee and stardust flew as they swung, flailed, stroked, hacked and sliced away. Tunney remarked that he knew he could beat Dempsey at one thing —and did. ‘‘I can lick him in golf,” he said. There was only one serious moment at the starting tee and that was when Jones, Hagen, Sarazen and Cruickshank came to bat. That was a dreamy, nostalgic moment and the class still was there. Jones Robertson to Sub stepped up to the ball and without a wasted motion sent it screaming Browns' Kinder Holds and Cruickshank matched it and Griffs Move straight down the fairway. Sarazen For Travis Today Up then Hagen stepped up. Sherry Robertson, whose pinch- for two The Haig isn’t playing golf any longer, hasn’t played Red Sox to 6 Hits hitting brought the Nats a 2-1 in his stead years. Walter, Jr., who is the spitting image, played victory over Cleveland yesterday, 200 To Fifth well over and shot a 75. But the Haig, now weighing pounds, will supplant weak-hitting Cecil Place; hit the boy ’s first drive. In 4 to 2 Travis at third base today when Winning, with Hagen stole the first-tee show by teeing up two balls, perhaps Washington tangles Chicago in a double-header starting at inches He waggled on the far ball and wound up hitting Walks five apart. Right-Hander 1:30 o’clock. Victor was Ferrick all. the near ball. He handicapped Walter, jr„ not at Hagen where he Only One, Fans Three Manager Ossie Bluege is mak- down there with Jones, Sarazen and Cruickshank, right In First '47 Start ing the switch with a view to- Lu.ck Continue! belonged. ward inserting more punch in Tough ■y th* Associated Press the Nats’ batting order. Travis To The Caddie Champ Hit the Longest Bali has been hitless his last 15 times Plague Newsom, BOSTON, May 17.—Right-handed They drove off Tennis Star Fred Perry Carl Hubbell at bat and has slumped to .203. Relieved in 8th Ellis Kinder ball Babe Didrikson Glenna Collet Vare Football Star Bill pitched great today Mickey Haefner and Chick mound for Chick Evans Fred Waring,and the rest. Didrikson ii\ his first 1947 start by doling out Pieretti will take the Burton Hawkins Dudley will be By moment as Jones and hits to the American Washington and both made no effort to match the almost reverent six League Long-suffemig Sherry Robertson, the seeking their first win. Orval Sarazen to the tee, although she was the only golfer in ihampions as the St. Louis Browns the booed and hooted stepped Grove and Frank Papish are frequently a of swings for photog- of the heard the sweet field at her peak. She took couple practice defeated the Red Sox, 4-2, and slated to pitch for Chicago, nephew boss, haven't I?" Yes. music of jeers transformed Into raphers and cracked, “I’ve got it, dropped them to two full games be- which dropped a double-header line a “kids’- foursome” was introduced cheers at Griffith Stadium yester- Somewhere along the hind the leading Detroit Tigers. to New York yesterday. whose is to day when hei. stepped to the plate in as the spirit of the tournament, objective marked representing Kinder walked only one and Yesterday’s triumph the tenth inhing with two out, the There were three medium-sized the sixth time this season Wash- raise funds for youth opportunity. fanned three. One of the six hits winning run on second base, and de- named Clarence Hen- has of local youngsters, followed by a cuddly boy ;he Sox made was Eddie Pellagrin!’s ington won by a margin livered the Nats a 2-1 victory over and who won the na- one run. The Nats have lost two drickson, 18, who hails from Sandusky, Ohio, ;hird home run of the-seasofi high Cleveland. stands about 6 feet, 4 screen games by the same margin. / ! tional caddie championship last August. He nto the left center field in The triumph jumped Washington then ;he and inches and if he isn’t destined to become a top-notch pro eighth inning. from seventh place to fifth at that first tee was hit of their marked the Nats’ second straight Whirlaway never won a nickel. All he did The Browns made three and out of sight. four runs ofT the starting, and losing Giants in 11th win, a drive down the middle Rally v Ditcher, Lefty Mel Parnell, in less Two strikes and a ball had whip- was still and ah-ing when the electric current The crowd oh-ing ;han four ped past Sherry, relative of Presi- ladies and innings. was turned on. Crosby was coming! The girls began dent Clark Griffith, when he thump- Two other potential Brownie runs To Down wherein Cubs, 3-1, 0 There was a concerted rush for the tee, military ed a long, lusty single to right-center squealing. mere erased on great pegs from cen- marshalls were brushed aside which Jerry Priddy across police holding lines and red-capped ter field by Dom Di Maggio. brought Newsreel cameramen, the plate. It marked Robertson’s like old-fashioned glass-beaded portieres. Bob to the Take Second Place Dillinger singled open first hit of the season and the first radio men and television people simul- newspaper photographers, ;ame, went to third on Jerry Witte’s time in 21 attempts that a pinch- action. swept past Bing’s partners—Taft, taneously went into They right field Texas leaguer which Leon Two-Run Outburst hitter had smashed a hit for the in their anxiety to gaze Chandler and Hildegarde, the chanteuse Culberson booted for an error, and Nats. scored as Vem Stephens forced Wit- Breaks Slab Duel upon The Groaner. Up Bobo Has Tough Luck Again. :e at second. Johnny Berardino’s Between Lade had collaborators in the and Jones malk, theft of second, an A1 Zarilla CELEBRITIES left—The feature foursome, Koslo, Robertson In the End It Was Sarazen PARADE—Upper New- to iouble and singles by Ray Coleman afternoon’s heroics, for Bobo whose sartorial tastes long have been open from the spectator standpoint, involved (left to right) Happy By th« Attocfated Pr«« The Groaner, ind Jake Early accounted for two som stopped the Indians on five hits himself a of doeskin sdaeks, a Chandler, Bing Crosby. Senator Taft and Hildegarde in the Na- CHICAGO, May 17.—The red hot debate, had wrapped around pair more St. Louis counters in the for eight innings, yet trailed, 0-1, and a brown felt hat trimmed tional Celebrities show at Columbia Country Club yesterday. New York made it five in a He brown sweater, a mustard-yellow shirt fourth. golf Giants when he left the premises. didn’t was a in brown and yellow, Arch McDonald, extreme right, introduced them. Upper right— permit Cleveland to advance a run- with Dodo-bird feathers. He symphony Walks to Johnny Berardino and row today when they took their with the wheels removed. Actor Edward Arnold falls for the gag of posing as a human tee ner past first base after the first resembling one of The Star’s trucks Zarilla and Coleman’s base knock third straight from the Chlcagc and off the tee, for Admiral Nimitz as Gen. Eisenhower looks on. Belov/—Babe inning, but Bobo left the game with of a sort finally was restored they got accounted for the fourth Brown run Order Cubs, 3-1.

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