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i-1 The BROWNSVILLE HERALD SPORTS SECTION I ***M*»#«#»»»»*»«*»»***»**f»*****»«***«»****»»*»»»*»»«i»i«*»«*«#»«»«<*»»t»^f rrrti t rrrrrrr trrrrrrrsrfw t irrrr r r r r r r r rx > WALTER HAGEN WINS BRITISH OPEN WITH 292 SCORE _- S*. ——..... ....—....L_ Champ Takes Title BLUE LARKSPUR MAY BRING BRADLEY HIS 3RD TRIUMPH PYLE MAKING Yanks Hit Solidly For Fourth Time in MONEY ON RACE To Trounce Browns ,1 — Event Faster And Big English Derby and Attract- Keep Top Rung*I ing Better Crowds Than won MUIRFIELD. Scotland. May 10.—<,**>—Waiter Hagen today Last Year’s By WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN thetopen golf championship of Great Britain for the fourth time with Associated Press Sports Writer a score of 292 for the 72 holes championship play. I * Habit is a powerful force, as may be seen from the standing of the there was some confusion For a time after the champion finished Br ALAN J. GOULD clubs m the American league today. The Yankees lead with a percentage his total as to his score, a questier*. of doubt arising as to whether Associated Press Sports Editor of .750 just when everybody had agreed they were plunging into the m*d*t *-a snouta ce or am. 11 naa wcu of a batting slump. that his ball moved as NEW YORK. 10— reported May f/P>—The Eight solid blows off Gray in eight rounds and two more off Eireiecki on the third hole tea tlaa nimftK nattaci t ha __ he addressed it celebrated bunion derby has cover- in ine ninin neuea ine cnamnioru. of his last round and a lor a 7 penalty ed some 1.800 miles, more than enough margin to 3 victory' stroke was tentatively added. over the Browns at Sportsman s 1 half the trek from New York to Later it was officially announced park yesterday, a clean-up of three fcPORTS the committee Los Angeles. The answer to this in St. Louis, six in championship games straight champ' found no evidence that the ball may be to inquire, what of it? On the west and seevn straight, east so his final round and west ^FORUM had moved, the other hand, it may also be ; j was scored 75 for a grand total The Athletics matched strides worth that Mr. of 292. the same score by which noting C. C. Pyle, Athletes are gathering today at with the Yanks yesterday by win- VISITS QUEEN Southern Methodist university. Dal- he won the title last year at in his second transcontinental Sandwich. • ning their final clash in Chicago las. for the Southwestern conference journey, seems about to get a 9-to-2 behind the meet. stadium be the Bobby Cruickshank finished * by steady pitch- Owenby will "break with a score of Helen Will* Abandons scene of the annual classic. To- 301. Watrous 303, ing of Earnshaw. The Macks now Sport.* morrow afternoon the finals will be Armour 305. and Jimmie Thomp- The race may not be bigger and have only Cleveland and Detroit to Long Enough to Talk dashed in a more colorful carnival son 308. better in all the respects that Mr. than Southwestern track and field As the reached face—but so have the Yankees, With champion the | Pyle expected. He has had his Royalty fans have realized in a good many home hole with a score of 75 for which makes it unreasonable to the final his 'roubles and attachments. But the days. , round, second 75 on a the • suppose McGillieuddy troops — • • day of high scoring by his fellows, 1929 grind is faster and closer than LONDON May 10 P -Helen will If will see the the crowd him as register any marked gain I Wills, who abandoned tennis for greatest sprinter greeted the re- last year’s contest. What Is more the conference has ever known peating champion. through the rest of the invasion. royalty for a few hours yesterda important from the promoter's left for the “a very endeavor to finish his collegiate Washington broke up Detroit's Hague today, thrilled" American career unmarred. C laude Bracey GULLANE. Scotland. May 10.—<JP> Pool,& viewpoint, it gives promise of pro- six-game winning streak yesterday. girl. Earl j The Californian who had is even a greater sprinter than Scores for 54 holes of the British 4oc\aeY fit. where a year ago the enter- 6 to 3. perhaps to ease the shock young hullet-like v.ho used to Veteran been through many gruelling sports Pcth, grace open golf competition included: prising gentleman from Wheaton. of the Yankee arrival at Navin field the c'ndcr of old Texes A. ordeals with unruffled calm, shoved path Walter Hagen. United States. 142- V^O probably will today. Cleveland nosed out the A he is a faster man than was 111., found himself something like a typical debutant M.. 75- 217. Red Sox by 4-to- 3 in a well-played Joe Bailey Chaney who caused the ^ioe blue larkspur. $100,000 “in the red’’ when he she related her emotions on her Aliiss. Great game. ■printing banner of Howard Payne Percy Britain. 145- reached New- York. presentation to Queen Mary 76- 221. m the derby I The reaction from a no-hit party college to soar high, and he Is a From Mr. Pyle, at Sherman. “It was perfectly beautiful.** she found the Giants cracking up under more colorful trackster than was Abe Mitchell. Great Britain. 144- Tex., comes this word by request. said as she hurriedly packed her the impact of Sheely's eighth-in- * the Baylor university flash, Ralph 78-222. Financially I am $75,000 better court gown and tennis frocks l ning home run at the Polo grounds. Wolf. United ! off now than I was at this stage was not a bit nervous. Everyth.ng Bobby Cruickshank, States, Two Pirates were aboard when • • • 147- 78-225. last year and if things continue was managed so well that one felt Earl’s Mace descended, and Grimes * has as since we always at ease Bracey placed fear In the Arch e Great they have crossed the Compston, Britain. pulled out his sixth straight triumph to hearts of every coach of track in river I can to The tennis star had nothing 149- 77-226. Mississippi expect over the clan * McGrawn since he about the “mob scenes enacted the southwest. He has beaten make a reasonable on the say !j A1 Watrous, United States, 152- profit was traded down the river to Pitts- them all. but now comes a Blue the colt of at In his first start as a He won the stakes last night on the Mall as she watted young 75-227. Larkspur, great Lexington juvenile and the venture.” before the f j burgh start of the 1928 in a car for her entrance to man from Texas Christian univer- E. R. Bradley, millionaire Kentucky three-year-old, .when he nosed out | national stallion stakes, both at Bel- Evidently the eastern half of the parked Tommy Armour, United States, | season. The score was 4 to 3. The sity reputed to be another such as Clyde Van Dusen by a half length, mont park. He followed these up takes its bunion derbies as Buckingham palace curiosity 143-79-227. turfman, will go to the post as fa- country Meanwhile the Cubs and the “we Claude. Once th<s season and his record as a two- with a in the of throngs of crowds shouting already Gene impressive ! victory Saratoga spe- come pnd without much en- * Sarazen. United States. 147- vorite in the un- they Cardinals were marching step for want Helen did not bother the he has met the Owl speedster and Kentucky derby, year-old. have put him at the top cial and a near victory in the 81-228. hope- [ thusiasm. by comparison with the step with each other into a more was barely nosed out Critics de-! less something not anticipated de- among the derby candidates. 1 champion Aubrey Boomer. Great Britain, ful. His final effort was in the wide onon spaces. But is Promoter substantial lead. With old Alex the dared that Cy Leland of Frogland' between now and 18. the Blue ran seven 148- 80-223. velops May Larkspur times ! futurity at Belmont park when he Pvle discouraged? Not while he Great at his best, the Cards trim- will give the Rice century man a of McALLEN LEGION TO MacDonald Smith, United States. day the race. last year, finishing third in his in- got off to a bad start and was in- still can breathe this defiance: med the Braves by 5-to-l in Boston run for his money Saturday. Cy 151- His fine form, as exhibited itial start before his stride. 78-229 present hiiting jured. “I am still convinced that trans- while the Cubs were gorging on milk PLAY KINGSVILLE NINE thinks he can win. Bracey knows Herbert Jelly, Great Britain. 152- continntal footracing has a and honev in Flatbush. The better. What will happen’ If Le- great Robins 73-230. future and I intend to make the were subdued by H-to-2. land does win. a new conference Jimmie McALLEN. May 10-Manager Thompson. United States bunion an annual event, de- Cincinnati broke a will be set for that event derby up three-game Jackson of the local Ameri- 156- 75-231. streak for Harley U. soite all the writs of attachment winning the Phillies when and T. C will boast of the m«n X-T P Perkins. Great 13 ENTRIES Houston Buffs can Legion team announced today Britain.