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Shot Seen Around the Golf World Wins Worsham Lasting Fame ffuening J&faf Jspofls Friends Here Watch Porterfield Outtolie Pierce's Salvage Job Washington, D. C., Monday, August 10, 1953—. A-17*** As Lew's Eagle Wins 18 j» 30-Year Record as Top Feat in Big Day $25,000 Tam Prize - Nats Aid Red Cross For Baseball 'Names' By Merrell Whittlesey By Burton Hawkins By tS* Afssciottd ?re*s in, or Somebody might match W CiacHgo’y Lose Draw Lew Whether Billy Pic:ce Worsham’s at Tam Bob Porterfield will attempt to By final shot mm, wt is the best hft-haiided pitcher FRANCIS STANN o’Shanter yesterday for drama, become the first Washington in baseball ib oner, to argument, long years register AH, THERE, HOGAN, move over. Leave room but so as there’s golf and pitcher in 30 to but there u; nr* doubt where Mk. some eight on that pedestal for our own wandering golfer, Lew Worsham. television, nobody will ever beat shutouts in a season when the White Sox would be today it. “The Chin” has his place he opposes the Red Sox tonight : ;• without, him. It wasn’t so much what he won tin terms of prestige) as .... at Griffith in the hall of fame. Stadium. The Nats’ The 25-year-old ace how he won it, although $25,000 isn’t a bad payday. Some Television hit the jackpot in portion of the proceeds will bo .sore arm and all, shut out the Yankee , people might prefer bringing even it to $5,000 and v . i a golf shot that meant donated to the Red Cross. yesterday. 5-0. to keep alive th« the prestige that goes with winning the $15,000 into the living rooms of Porterfield, who has pitched flag hopes of the runnenip White people, a full National Open. uncounted wedge two successive shutouts ard 20 Sox. The victory left. C!donga In the wake of Worsham’s incredible shot of more than 100 yards that straight scoreless innings, will be seven games behind New V u. ,l|| hit the 18th green at the Chicago birdie-eagle finish in the $75,000 Tam trying for his 14th win on his with 44 left, to play. course, bounced a couple of 29th birthday. Ben Flowers, o'Shanter “World” championship yesterday cup to Sunday proved a groat day ; times and rolled into the rookie right-hander, will pitch for the “big It is reasonable to that millions of snatch first prize of $25,000 from names led Wil- assume for Boston. making only hi. many Virginia’s Harper and liams. reeond golfers, enriched via the medium of Chandler ' appearance bat* put it in Worsham’s pocket. Had J v The Marine Barracks drill at for Poster TV. still aie searching their memories for team will fclnee his from Korcr, he failed, Lew would have had provide pre-game en- return a windup equally as spectacular and dra- tertainment. Ted Williams, Red smashed a towering 420-iOol to be content with second money •- matic. They may have to go back a long \ hbHßt Hn wr b Sox slugger recently returned home run into the centertic d of SIO,OOO. i'wOmFM bleacher? at Lev- 68 for 278 in his from combat duty as a jet pilot Fenway I’arir. Wil shot final lianas was serving a Gene Sarazen’s double eagle in the 1935 round, while Harper had 70 for in Korea, is not expected to stai t a» rim n 9HH9I but may see action as a pinch- hitter against .Cleveland’s Mike Masters? A superb shot by any standard. 279. Garcia in the seventh inning. A spoon, even fr»nc«» sui»a. player hitter. full as it is recalled. But Worsham was the last ( to shoot and he to sink a Walter Johnson was the last Despite Ted s L2sth-roun this stickout, so well remembered by this generation of golfers, had tripper of his career, the an eagle 2 Washington pitcher to post ei~ht Red hardly matched Worsham’s for drama. It was a longer hole- 100-odd yard shot for shutouts, Box bowed to Cleveland as to win the tournament. He had achieving that figure out, to be sure, but it can be argued that the longer the in 1924. Johnson holds the Nats’ Garcia coasted to his !4th vic- to get a birdie to tie, and from tory, 9-3. luckier. Or the longer, the more demanding of skill, which- the way golfers who preceded record for shutouts, with 12 in ever way you prefer to look at it. him had putted on the final 1913. Musiil Hite 17tlu There are other varying xactors. Sarazen’s double .eagle green, it appeared virtually im- Boston and Detroit are the ¦Stan only teams Porterfield Musial rapped his ittil came on the 13th hole. Only a few hundred people saw it, possible to make anything longer home run with a tommato r>n than a foot putt the slippery blanked this year. The fast- although Gene now says that thousands tell him they wit- on THE CHIN’S BIG GRIN—Lew Worsham (center), winner of the‘World Championship of Golf’ base in the seventh to iiel > Lhc surface. balling right-hander twice ad- Cardinals defeat nessed the shot that enabled him to tie Craig Wood and with a fantastic eagle two on the last hole at Tam O’Shanter yesterday, big cup ministered his zero treatment to the Giants, holds the for a sweep of f v by Watching TV. of victory. Berg, e three-' amo eventually win the playoff. Worsham’s was witnessed Friends on emblematic Frank Stranahan, men’s amateur winner, and Patty winner of the White Sox and Athletics. series. won. No playoff, nothing to It was first time in mem- the women’s pro division are —AP Wirephoto. millions. More important, it the with him. Eight Shutouts in 10 Games. Ralph ory that golf Kiner Idas'ei h’s iitth lessen the shock to Chandler Harper, who all but had $25,000 a shot excited shutout would come people into picking up a player Another round tripper to icau the Guo., in his pocket. as no shock to recent Griffith to a 6-5 and carrying him on their Long Way From .667 Class victory alter the Philiior ** * * visitors. Eight the opener, The roar of the crowd Stadium of had won the 7-0, shoulders. Davis Cup Committee 10 games there have beeii CRAIG WOOD WAS in the clubhouse at Augusta when as the ball plunked into the cup last Duke Snidju clout'd ii 7(ri Sarazen made Wood could “follow” Sarazen as was no enthusi- scoreless affairs for the losing four-baggti with the 'oases his charge. louder, but more team, the Nats winning hand, putted astic than the screams of Wor- Lambeau Sets Goal of 8 Wins, with loaded as the Ledgers crushed he came home. Harper, on the other had just Due to Order Trabert four of the shutouts. Cincinnati 9-1. sham’s friends who were watch- out on the 18th hole. His birdie 3 gave him a 72-hole total The Nats were the 3-0 victims Edciic Mathews, National was nine par. for ing on television here. That Needs Conditioning League that under Behind him, waiting Harper group included his mother and But Team of Duane Pillette and Satchel hoiue run ierdcr, green, Worsham, player To Team With Seixas Paige first of to get off the was last on the course viewing plished on the practice field. in the came a smacked his 36th as tu« Braves father, who were the By Lewis F. Atchison swept with a chance. match in their Cabin John home. Star Staff Correspondent These are the boys he threatens By tha Associated Press double-header with the Browns both ends of a double- from A par was no good. No good, that is, except for second Mr. Worsham said, “It was the LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10.—The to run into condition between NEW YORK, Aug. 10—The yesterday, but bounced back to header Pittrhur -h, v-i an-i game, 12-3, by 10-3. money of SIO,OOO. A birdie would tie but only an eagle would most sensational thing I ever Redskins have their sights set now and August 19, when the Davis Cup Selection Committee, grab the second ” Redskins make their in no mood to take any more slamming out 13 hits. win. And that’s what the one-time Washington caddie got. saw on winning eight of their 12 exhibition Zcrnial lake* Lead. league games this year, Coach debut against the Rams. abuse, met today to straighten Johnny Schmitz, for whom Put that in a script and the author would be advised to go Contacted in the Tam o’Shan- Nats haven’t a Philadelphia’s Go* Zuuial ter Curly Lambeau said today. But The vets’ failure to think out the tempest involving the the fashioned over the back to writing science fiction for the pulps. Odd, incidentally, | clubhouse last night. Wor- run for 19 innings, a five- took American League's sham, Washing- they were a long way from be- sharply can be cured, he hopes, makeup of the United States owned home run lead, hitting Ins Hogan, Saracen were caddies. ! still claimed by doubles team. hit shutout with one out in the 2 th that and Worsham all ton golfers as their own because ing in the .667 class going into by a series of blackboard drills.