Farm and Garden Sk*v,v«3l.v Resorts and Travel p Cameras UlUlviy J5t0r |5p0fljS Finance JJ TWELVE PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 17, 1951 Hogan Wins Third Open Title With 3-Under-Par 67 on Last 18 I Wins Belmont Four Ahead of Battlefield I ..— Lengths _* --—— ---— Returns $12.30; Heafner Finishes Win, Lose, or Draw Second; By FRANCIS STANN Star Stoff Correspondent Locke Is Third ^ Ends Bobby NEW YORK, June 16.—A WEEK AGO, on the occasion of By Merrell Whittlesey Star Staff Correspondent. the Peter Pan Handicap, a turf ^writer who is sufficiently erudite to conduct radio programs interviewed Mr. Sylvester BIRMINGHAM, Mich.—June 16.— wrote a sequel on the air. Place to his movie, “Follow the Sun Veitch, a trainer for C V. Whitney, In Seventh today. “What about your colt, Counterpoint?” The determined little man, who by his own admission played he was asked Battle Morn Third; the greatest round of golf of his career, won his third National “Oh, he’s all right for the kind of horse Open title by bypassing the pitfalls of Oakland Hills on the final he is.” Veitch replied. “I guess I’ll have to Offspringi 18 for an almost-miraculous 67 that gave him 287 for the 72 holes. put him in.” Win 2 Events in Day This 51st Open championship waited 54 holes for a “take- Well Counterpoint came railroading down charge” guy, and found it in Hogan on the last 18. He was in Charles M. the stretch to outrun the favored Battlefield By Egan the seventh twosome on the course and hole-by-hole he made Sports Editor of The Star and win like a real colt. And he it more of a Hogan production. good today NEW YORK, June 16—There U +V.A OOJ .nnnmn A# 4-Vt A DflL mwuv 4V WV4V44 44* u 4 V4 »»*V" — — me roars of the U4444444Q may be some lingering doubt sun-baked mont Stakes. After a mile and a quarter ibout the three-year-old cham- housands who tramped after Ho- ran became louder with each Counterpoint was out in front by two lengths, pion of 1951, but there should be no question about the year’s top sirdie, and they certainly were with a long quarter of a mile left. Nafs 4 to sire. It’s Count Fleet all the way. Win, 3, sad news to the only men on the But in the fast and seem- stretch, coming Count Turf, the Kentucky Der- :ourse with a reasonable chance ing to gain with every stride, was Battlefield. by winner, flattened out badly o catch him, rr*“el* SUnn- This time Counterpoint wasn’t getting a nine- today in the 83d ind . after holding a half-length lead Indians' pound pull in weight from Battlefield as he did in the Peter Pan. Despite Buckles Down at Finish. at the mile. But, another son of Each was a 126 but carrying specified pounds, Counterpoint Count Fleet, winner of the 1943 Coming to the brutal last five proved he didn’t have to ask for weight. The son of Count triple crown, took up the slack. ides, the ones that cost him a Fleet-Jabot took off 150 from finish sub-par round this after again yards the to win His name is Counterpoint and, Two Home Runs morning in by four lengths. before a crowd of 41,253, this son outgoing 32, Hogan buckled of Count Fleet won America’s Luke Easter and iown. He studied each shot with And Doby nflnite care, and came within an IT WAS A SMASHING PERFORMANCE and, if it didn’t oldest stakes by four lengths. to the a syelash of finishing with four con- clear the just prior post parade, Circuit Blows; up 3-year-old championship picture, it at least must flash announced that Kiss Me secutive threes. have caused Count in stud at Stoner Fleet, standing Creek, Kate, a daughter of Count Fleet, Moreno Is Victor Ben played a fine second shot to out his chest. had won the I Paris, Ky., pop For not only here but at highly-regarded By Burton Hawkins to the 18th green, and as the Delaware Count Fleet were Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park. ] mob Park, offsprings winning the big The Nats survived the long- opened up lo permit him to ’Father’s Day’ Day Early. walk onto the he received ones. Down the pike at Delaware, Kiss Me Kate had just won range bombing of Luke Easter green, Father’s Day” came just 24 what must have been the the Delaware Oaks when the nine-horse Belmont Field was and Larry Doby and escaped with greatest hours early for Count Fleet. ovation of his career. He took off parading to the post. HAPPY HOGAN—Ben Hogan gave his caddy, Dave Press (left) a after a 4-3 victory over the Indians last Counterpoint had to dispose of big hug carding his cap and smiled to a 67 for night at Griffith Stadium, pasting graciously The patrons, 41,253 strong, had stopped admiring “Beautiful a mild challenge from favored three-under-par the final 18 holes in winning the National Open yesterday. together their first two-game the prolonged cheering and ap- Belmont’s” flowers and to Battlefield in the stretch, but the landscaping long enough wager up- streak in a month. plauding. His next act was to rugged chestnut colt and his rider, winning ward of half a million dollars on the event. But they didn’t Luke and loose-limbed knock a 12-footer into the cup Dave Gorman, were more than Big Larry go too strong for the fact that Win slammed two homers for a birdie 3 for the same score Counterpoint Notwithstanding equal to the challenge. In fact, A's Third in Row magnificent was off Julio but Whitney’s colt paired as an entry with Mameluke, giving Counterpoint was pulling away Moreno, when the bettors a two-for-one chance and the superstitious a chance in the last 120 yards on this beau- Indians weren’t hitting homers tiful afternoon on a track that Over as Joost they weren’t scoring. to recall that it was a field horse that won the , Chicago Progress was rated fast despite nearly a Moreno was removed from the! Hogan's they allowed Counterpoint to go off at 5-to-l. By fht Associated Press week of rain. game after Doby’s mighty blow,; of course, was in deference to (1) Battlefield and BIRMINGHAM, Mich., June 18. This, it was tne second ueimont Hits 2 Homers which soared majestically over the Triple, Hole-by-hole progress of Cham- Eddie Arcaro and (2) Count Turf, the Derby winner who ran Stakes victory for his owner, Cor- right field fence to slice the Nats’ pion Ben Hogan in the National out of gas today after a mile. It was a mistake. Counterpoint, nelius V. Whitney, former Under- •y tha Associated Pratt 4-2 margin to 4-3. In came Open: a coft who of whose Mickey Harris to hold the In- broke a bone in his foot as a yearling, was pounds secretary Commerce, f PHILADELPHIA, June 16.—The Par out_453 444 443—35 dians hitless the remainder of In _446 344 the best today. won this third gem of the Par 434—35—70 Uhletics made it three in a row three in the Round One the triple crown back in 1947. route, fanning process. Hogan out_544 545 453—39 >ver the American League leading Indians Held to Five Hits. Hogan in ...445 254 338—37—76 However, it was the sixth time the Two THERE WAS A COMEBACK TWIST to too Round today’s Belmont, same blue colors have White Sox with a 6-to-5,11- Moreno and Harris teamed to Hogan out ..343 554 454—37 light ap- Hogan in_455 345 when David Gorman rode out the who was in restrict the Indians five 334—36—73(149) colt, engaging peared in the winner’s circle, for victory today. Eddie Joost blasted to hits Round Three Hogan out ..343 434 533—32 only the 11th race of his career A year ago, when famous while the Nats made the most of the owner’s father, Harry i game -winning triple and two Hogan out ..343 434 533—32 their seven hits off Mike Hogan in .. 445 356 won this oldest of all the triple crown events, Gorman also was Payne Whitney, won the classic Garcia, 444—39—71(220* iome runs. Round Four at the wire ahead of all riders. four times between 1904 and 1918. the loser, and Bob Lemon, relief Hogan out _454 444 343—35 A1 Zarilla hit for the circuit for It marked Moreno’s sec- Hogan in_345 253 433—32—67(287* that Richest Belmont of All. pitcher. Except last year Gorman, who had ridden Middle- 1 Belmont the rich- Chicago. ond triumph and his first since to a Today’s was ground victory as 2-year-old in such as the Hopeful, had May 6 when he also beat Cleve- est of all as Whitney gets a check Joost’s triple on a 3 and 1 count with which he tied Lloyd Man- ballooned to 142 pounds and he was finished with land. ostensibly for $82,000 for Ids victory. Oddly 1 >£[ Billy Pierce, relief pitcher, grum and George Fazio last year. riding. He was as an in the 1 run The Indians still were giving serving apprentice patrol judge enough, it was his Phalanx, also irove in the winning with Hogan thus became the third little steel the 12,917 customers jitters in the reviewing stand at the finish line and shortly there- trained by Sylvester veltch, who ;wo out. man in history to win the Na- ninth inning. Ray Boone walked after received his diploma and became a full-fledged patrol was high until today with his $78,- Pierce opened Philadelphia’s 11th! tional Open more than twice. The to start that session, but Harris judge. 900 four years ago. This 83d Bel- 1 >y walking Pete Suder on a! only four-time winners are Willie struck out , then sent Then mont grossed $118,110, and the 5 and 2 pitch. Then after Anderson and Bobby Jones. Hogan Gorman came across a doctor who knew of a diet. j Pinch-Hitter Birdie Tebbetts down difference between this figure and Ray Murray had flied out. Pierce also has won it the last three times Sure enough, it worked. A cup of coffee for breakfast, the same swinging. Dale Mitchell’s meek Whitney’s take went to George D Dioked up Southpaw Morris Mar- he competed, at Riviera in Los for lunch, and Gorman down to size and fly to Gil Coan in left was the got riding again Widener, president of Belmont gin’s attempted sacrifice bunt and Angeles in 1948 and Merion in launched a comeback. he it and game-ending out. Today capped you could say Park; Harry F. Guggenheim, for- ;ot Suder at second on a throw Here's Hogan, showing his deadly on the Philadelphia last year. He did not putting accuracy The Nats nicked for a that so far it’s been a to Joe Demaestri. Garcia in the of his near- year of comebacks because when Conn mer Ambassador to Cuba, and, last green where he sank a birdie 3 for the 67 that gave him play 1949, year run in the fist inning after two fatal accident. McCreary won the astride Count Turf had come Sam E. Wilson, Texas oil man. a 287 total and the crown. —AP Derby he, too, jr„ Joost Scores Martin. Wirephotos. were out when doubled out of limbo. Like but They are the owners, respectively, Gorman, because of an inexplicable However, he met his Waterloo and Mickey Vernon singled him Only Two Sub-Par Rounds. of Battlefield, Battle Morn and | slump, McCreary also had “retired” as a rider. in Joost as the latter belted the i across. They boosted their leaS- Ben’s finshing 67 was the low- Royal second, third and j Mustang, fifth pitch to right center. As Jim Wisconsin to 2-0 in the third when Coan est round of the three days by two fourth in that order. Underdog Captures UNTIL SHE WAS there was a deal of Busby chased the ball, Martin walked and romped around on shots and one of only two rounds SCRATCHED, good Battlefield, whose rider, Eddie j sentiment for the raced home. Cass Michaels’ double down the under par over what he said was How, filly who won the Kentucky and Ameri- Arcaro, switched his course and Joost’s homers, his seventh and First Crew Title at Marietta right field line. the toughest course he ever played. can Coaching Club Oaks. Her owner, Herman Delman, appar- ducked to the inside in the stretch, eighth of the year, came earlier \rioiure on rage a-t./ Moreno, traveling along smooth- Hogan opened this championship ently was going to defy the Colts and allow How to become the wound up a length and a half in in the game. All told, he had five ly with a three-hitter, bumped with a careless 76. He actually was, to be a Belmont front of Battle Morn. Royal Mus- By the Associated Press lii^t filly starter since 1932, when Laughing RBIs to his credit. Midshipmen Damage into trouble in the sixth after in danger of not qualifying for tang was nine full back Queen ran next to last. * lengths Ohio. June 16.*- the final day’s play at one time His first belt came with the bags MARIETTA, walking Doby with one out. Easter of Battle Morn, with Sonic fifth, Or Sink All Their last two in the first in 1867 ^n underdog Wisconsin rowing then crashed a terrific homer over yesterday. But he played the ‘Only fillies, Belmont and Steadfast empty. The second came with two I sixth and Count Turfj :rew into the east-west seven holes in even par for a 73 the great in 1905, ever had won what the Westchester mates on base. stepped in the beer sign in right-centerfleld seventh. The Derby winner Shells Regatta 15 in was] struggle for rowing dominance ; to tie the score. and 149, which left players Racing Association likes to call “the test of the but 19 behind the winner at Doubles by Wally Moses and ty the Associated Press champion,” lengths ;oday and won the varsity race in front of him at the halfway mark. there was evidence that Hank gave Nats Take Lead Again. How would not go unsupported by the the finish. Majeski Philadelphia ,he Asso- MARIETTA, Ohio, June 16. Hogan’s 32 thir morning was Intercollegiate Rowing The First she won was and Mame- a run in the fourth. Zarilla hit —The had another ver- Nats promptly bounced back patrons. had two major stakes, a distinction Nullify eighth 1 :iation's Marietta Regatta by Navy the best front nine of the cham- with the winner as his homer to open Chicago’s fifth to grasp a 3-2 advantage in the which had the colts iluke, coupled nore than a sion of Pearl Harbor today at pionship, but he botched the escaped and, secondly, she had won at length. sixth. Noren the was last in the frame, making it a 1-1 game. Re- walked and Vernon’s a mile and ! Whitney entry, The Badgers not only upset a the 49th Intercollegiate round on the back nine. Ben three-eighths, a distance which none of the others booming double off the field of nine. Mameluke ran as Bounces Back. aack of East and West gatta. right missed a short putt on the 14th had run in competition. Chicago powerful field fence if sore and was eased up early by The moved Irv to third. that to bother Joost’s first in Coast rivals, but took the first midshipmen damaged and seemed him. But it developed that Mr. Delman, a manufacturer of his round-tripper Sam Mele tapped weakly down rider, Raymond Adair. Coun- National crown for or sank all three of their because he went two over par on Philadelphia’s half of the fifth re- college rowing the first women’s footwear, was only He was almost to re- fresh- base line, but Noren with a the fooling. scratched his filly terpoint ready the A’s but she Midwest. shells and finally the the 15th six, playing gained the lead for scored and Vernon took third with the explanation that none of the big horses had been ceive the winner’s laurels from Lt. beat Wash- man crew had to borrow a hole very poorly all the way. He Chicago bounced back to score Earlier, Califgrnia when Garcia scared Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, com- from Marietta in order stumbled then threw missed the 17th green for another out and he wasn’t going to buck nine colts on a fast once in the sixth on hits by Bob ington by a bare five feet in thrill- shell manding general of the First to first base to retire Mele. Vernon and had 71 for 220. track. Dillinger and Orestes Minoso plus ng neck-and-neck junior varsity to compete in the final event. bogey Army, when his stablemate limped And to add to it all, the 25 a fielder’s choice. i ‘vent. A Princeton shell that had (See NATS, Page B-3.) Heafner, out of the top money past the finish line. collided with Navy later sunk varsity finished- a dead last in winners for the first time in years, “DELMAN HAD HOPED it would come up mud” Fifth Fastest Joost hit his second homer after explained Time. after it passed the finish line and the bie race. slipped into second place with Pat O’Brien of the New a hit by Suder and a walk to York Racing Association, in whom the Counterpoint’s time for the II 73-69 and a 289 Pitcher Dick Fowler in Phila- the crew had to swim ashore. today total. shoe man 3 obviously had confided. “The one he wanted scratched gruelling mile and a half was a a Nats, 4; Indians, Heafner’s 69 was the other sub- delphia’s seventh. Washington finally salvaged with their times: Fifth, Pennsyl Cleveland AB. R. H. O. A. E. was good 2:29, fifth fastest since the and Battlefield. If Battlefield had been declared out, Delman ittle glory by nosing out vania MIT 8:02.5 Mttchell.lf_5 (I 0 0 0 0 par round of the tournament Zarilla after safeties Massa-j 8:01.4; sixth, Avilla.2b-4 O 1 3 4 0 Belmont has been run at this dis- tripled by was over a course not would have tried to to chusetts Tech in the freshman Doby.cf -3 2 1 1 0 (I played get Arcaro ride for him and he’d have Nelson Fox and Minoso in Chi- j seventh, Stanford £:03.6; eighth tance. Count Fleet, winner of the Easter.lb -3 1 1 11 1 (I to his in How.” race finished in near darkness Cornell 5 suited game. put / cago’s eighth to put the W hite Sox 8:04.4; ninth, Syracus Rosen.3b _ 3 0 0 0 1 0 triple crown in 1943, shares the was Princeton Simpson.rf _4 O 1 2 0 (I How’s absence was not down one run. Navy third, fourth, 8:04.7; tenth, Boston U. 8:05.1 CCl/UUU XVUI1UCI UU1C. unregretted by the crowd. At record of 2:28% with the great by Boone.ss -2 o 1 3 2 (I Columbia Cornell sixth, and Columbia 8:06.5 an< l iNeilsen _ 0 0 0 0 4 o’clock when fifth, eleventh, 0 »l This was the second time in the the odds were flashed on . War the 1937 Then with two out in the ninth, Heg&n.c- 4 0 0 4 1 1 opening the board in Admiral, Wisconsin seventh. The time was 8:11.4. twelfth. Navy Garcia.p _ 2 0 0 the infield, the address victor, and last Chicago reached Johnny Kucab, 0 2 0 last three years that the tempera- public system announced: "No. 9, Middleground, 8:05.4. (•Chapman _ 0 0 0 0 0 n How, As the race finished, the bi| Carolinian has finished has been scratched.” A year’s winner, both were clocked relief hurler, for the tying run on ! Lemon,p 0 0 0 0 0 0 mental murmur, like a went Takes Second. _ curiously moan, infield hits Pinch-Hitter Don Washington question in the minds of th JTebbetts 1 0 0 0 0 ti second in the Open champion- from the crowd of in 2:28%. Bolingbroke, a sturdy by ~ up 41,253. The powerful Washington Hus- citizens this town wa i Totals router of World War II vintage, Lenhardt, Dillinger and Fox. 16,000 of -31 ~5 24 IT 1 ship over a rugged golf co.urse. But perhaps Mr. Delman was himself I kies, who swept the river at last Washington AB. R. H. O. A. E saving $1,000, which whether the big event would re .. He was runnerup to Cary Middle- holds the track record of 2:27%. < nicago ad. ri. u. a. rnua. ah. n. u. a. Coan.il _3 1 1 7 0 (1 Is the amount which must be Dil’ger.Sb 4 2 11 Joost.ss 6 3 7 6 year’s regatta, had to settle for turn. It was moved here last r Michaels,2b _4 0 110 0 Medinah in posted if an entry walks into the closed on the odds yea coff at Chicago. Counterpoint Pierce.p 0 0 0 1 Fain,lb 5 110 4 second in varsity event— Noren.cf 3 2 1 5 0 0 It Pox.2b 2 4 2 Moses.rf 5 3 3 today’s from the Hudson River at Vernon, lb_ 4 0 2 4 0 0 However, Heafner never had starting gate. wasn’t the fastest Belmont ever run (actually board at 5 to 1 after opening at 5 0 Pough Minoso.rf 6 3 3 I) Zernial.lf 5 2 4 0 a length and a quarter behind , Mele.rf _ 4 0 0 2 0 0 it was keepsie. Last year a flash flooi 1 anything but a fantastic chance the fifth) but possibly it could have been run faster than the same figure. He paid $12.30, R'bs'n.lb 4 0 9 0 Philley.cf 4 0 10 Yost.3b- 4 0 0 2 1 0 ZarlUa.If 5 2 *3 o Ma'ski.3b 5 114 Wisconsin. Princeton’s Eastern 1 Kluttz.c_ 3 0 0 0 and the made river conditions worse thai 0 0 to tie Hogan once Ben got the 2:29 had not the riders been so cautious. At the mile the time $5.30 $3.70. Battlefield, Busby.cf 4 1 3 0 Suder.2b 4 2 4 3 for lead Verble.ss _3 110 3 0 Car'uel.ss 3 0 2 5 4 0 3 1 favorites struggled the in his mouth on the 9-to-5 and Murray.c j today. Moreno.p _ 2 0 1 0 0 0 bit final of Count the leader a choice, paid $3.50 Baker.3b 2 O o 0 Fowler.p 2 0 0 1 Turf, by half length, was only 1:39 but all the way and took third five j Harrls.p _• 0 0 0 0 0 0 while Battle who went Masi.c 10 3 1 Kucab. p 0 0 0 0 Navy’s freshman backin ~ that last half mile $2.70, Morn, or-: shell, was sort of terrific. •Stewart 1 0 0 0 8Clark 10 0 0 feet behind the Huskies. Calif Totals. 30 ~4 ~7 27 ~4 (See GOLF, Page B-2.) off at 6 to 1, returned $4.20 to Erautt.c 1 0 3 0 Martin,p 10 0 1 into the stake boat at the startin > Judson.p 3 0 O 3 nia got off to a poor start, ‘Walked lor Garcia in 7th. show. butj line, nit a buoy and sank. Becaus 8 tRan for Boone in Oth. tLenh'dt 110 0 edged up to take fourth. Mac Pa o-c-f n.PtoViDc AiktIa Dem'tri.ss 1 0 1*0 of this. Regatta officials JStruck out for Lemon in Oth. The came in a post Wisconsin upset Cleveland _ 000 002 010—: Will Standinqs and Schedules Even is a multi- 11 13 Totals 42 12 33 19 the freshman event. Totals ~4 32 _ Major League though Whitney of events. poned Washington 101 001 lox—1 Hogan Skip 9th. day unexpected Be-j SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1951 millionaire from racing’s No. 1 •—Flied out for Masi,in t Runs batted in—Michael. Easter (2) Then the Navy boa " t—Singled lor Judson In 9th. cause of a strong Ohio River cur-1 jayvee Mele, Coan. Doby. Two-base hits—Noren All Golf ■ William run -M I *o § o family—his grandfather, y—Two out when winning scored. Michaels. Vernon. Coan. Home runs— Tourneys 8—Flied out for Kucab in 9th. rent, the course for the varsity: broke a rudder. Repairs were mad Standing C. Whitney, a member of Grover Easter, Doby. Sacrifice—Moreno. Doubli S »L j >■! ] plays—Easter to Boone: Yost to Vernon | Chicago _ 000 011 021 00—5 and Jaynee races was cut from and the starting gun sounde 1 Cleveland’s Left on Until '52 Masters o make _ 000 110 300 01—6 bases—Cleveland. 7: ofClubs > S ^ . ^ Cabinet, helped Philadelphia Washington | gi three to two miles. Then most of when the Middies swerved off th 8 5. Bases on balls—Off Garcia, 2; off Mor- I| Saratoga what it is—the Belmont Runs—Dilllnger. Fox. Minoso. ZarlUa. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star _u z £ u o £ a £ £ .3 £