National League Topsy-Turvy With Half Game Behind Reds ✓ ___ Leading _ Dodgers FERRELL IN FORM __By JIM BERRYMAN or French Drivers Trail Win, Lose Draw /HEyTisHE^N /^OW-W^Thej /outa51mTX Champions THROWN'To ) / MS AM* I OUGHTA 1 CASE iSALUOCy FRANCIS E. STAN. 1 or -reyiN' T6 [ f \ By J TRADE GLOVES bum r oh A CATCH ^ fj be tm') Go Out of THAT / same team J After the Smoke Had Cleared at Manor May [7*QuyOFF / ^ Despite Their It was almost dark when the last shot was fired In the District, lv\riRiTV Too oTTfAi FERRELL'S f[ Maryland and Virginia qualifying round for the National Open at RETURNS HAVE MORE Manor. It had been a long day, marked by generally good shooting in Auto Grind CH THEM THAN THE </J BALLS COMING THE view of the heaviness in the air and on the fairways and Twice / W Double Win greens. OTHER WAy! within an hour the course record had been shattered, once by a 22-year- old dark horse named Lewis Worsham and again by a little-known pro Slowest to Qualify, Brooks Grab Fourth from Langley Field named Jack Isaacs. i Tests From a sentimental iide it wasn’t a very successful day. The crowd Today Likely In Row; Idle Bosox started by rooting for the old guard ... for 58-year-old Freddy McLeod, To Eliminate Them National Open champion in 1908 for Wiffy Cox, the one-time gob Gain on Tribe from Brooklyn ... for A1 Houghton, the gray-haired pro of Beaver Dam. By the Associated Press. Early in the 36-hole foray McLeod fell by the wayside. Houghton fouled His throwing By JUDSON BAILEY, INDIANAPOLIS. May 28—Driv- ARM STILL MAKES Associated Press Sports Writer. himself out by starting out of turn, but continued, anyway, and shot ers not yet qualified for the 500- IT TOU5H To SNEAK National League fans, who have himself out with 148. Cox came close. He tied for fifth and then lost EXTRA mile motor AN BASE.... endured enough hair-raising races a playoff. Indianapolis speedway lS recent years that they can feel McLeod and Cox and It seemed not to find race Thursday have seven .hours Houghton. strange one, RlCK'-S DAlLy JOB blase about the child’s play now two or all of their names near the top of the list. Instead, there were today to earn positions in the start- CALLS FOR MANy going on In the American League, the names of Worsham, Isaacs and Larkin leading all the rest. ing field of 33 cars—and it takes a AM AGILE SCRAMBLE never have had anything closer than Tt> KEEP HIS MATES 10-mile sprint at better than 117218 HE’S HITTING JUST IS ABOUTS the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn FROM THROWING UNDER .300. AND Dodgers are today. miles per hour to • I TH'ONLy CHANCE Gave on Him qualify. .More runs AWAy GETS /MOST OF \ Houghton's Legs Way HIS I GET T'LOOK ) They are tighter than a tie, If The field was filled yesterday with HITS WHEN THEy A >/ McLeod was sitting near the bar, taking elimination lightly, when > ATANy REAL < such a situation is possible. the of 14 but the REALiy COUNT Houghton, grayer and heavier, walked into the room and sank grate- qualification cars, CtOOJ> The Dodgers are on top in per- fully in a chair. “Legs,” grunted Houghton, slapping a calf. “When slower racers may be eliminated in piTCMIWjy centage .714 to .710, but they are half a they begin to go back on you it’s the beginning of the end of tough favor of speedsters qualifying today game behind in won-lost calculations. Cincinnati has won two competitive golf. When the old pins start getting rubbery you can’t get at greater speeds. games more <22> than the Dodgers, oomph in your shots.” irencn soldiers Trail. who have lost one less (8) than the McLeod nodded in dour agreement and somebody asked him if that WHEN I Most to be eliminated were HAVe\ Reds. held true for the National “What was the likely f Open. happens,” question, IT'RETlRE I The Reds did all that was in their two French soldiers who obtained ( •when 10 or a dozen golfers, all in the running, go into the final nine )/MIGHT GET UP ) power to capture the lead in stopping holes for the Open championship?” leaves of absence for the race—Rene A JUGGLIN' < the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1 and 7-3, McLeod thought for a moment and then said: “They begin tossing Dreyfus and Rene Lebegue—and Ml ACT- I’VE SURE yesterday. In the first game Whitey Moore and Joe to the title around like it was a hot potato. Then it becomes a test not Louis Durant of Herrington, Kans. mHAI> Beggs combined PRACTICE!/ hold Pittsburgh to four hits and won only of physical stamina but of nerves. Mon, it’s hell, that’s what it is.” Lebegue qualified yesterday at the game on two runs donated them his He hadn’t to be a in 118.981 miles an hour, Dreyfus at Freddy picked up glass. expected figure in the first 118.831 and Durant at 117.218. Those inning.. Helped by two another National Open He had been through it 37 times, counting 3-run Jim Turner went the three times were the slowest of the frames, qualifying tests, and when a golfer is pushing 60 he realizes it’s not for route in the 33 qualifiers. nightcap, scattering him nine hits. again. Fastest of the cars scheduled to attempt qualification today are Dodgers in Streak. Sambo Snead Is Hitting the Road driven by Lloyd Davis of Springfield, But Cincinnati’s best just wasn’t 111.: Billy Devore of St. Johns, Kans., good enough to erase that percentage Cox was cooling his heels by sprawling on a bench in the locker and Tony 'Willman of Milwaukee. margin as long as the Dodgers con- almost not whether he did or didn’t. room. Wiffy qualified by caring All three are capable of 120 miles tinued to win—and they chalked up Automatically first alternate, as a result of finishing sixth, he re- an hour for the four qualification their fourth straight victory with a quested that Leo Walper, the next man, be given his place in the event laps around the two and one-half 6- 0 shutout of the Philadelphia mile track. a slot was opened. Phillies. Bob Swanson of Los Angeles "I'd be a sucker,” Wiffy sighed, "to go to the Open. It takes a qual- Whitlow Wyatt kept four hits ified his mount in to stand under that test and I'm not in that 16-cylinder yester- nicely spaced while his mates ganged golfer great shape up at of the day 124.619, best time day. MUCH OF DUTCH LEONARD'S on kind of shape.” up Clyde Smoll and Prank Finishing Tests Today. SUCCESS IS PUE To RICK'S Hoerst for an even dozen. Five of A newspaperman said, jokingly, “There’s nothing wrong with you Today’s final qualification period EycCELLEMT HAMPLIWS OF the blows came in succession in the that a week of road work won't cure, Wiffy, or is there?” and Cox ran from 10 am. to 5 p.m. The Those difficult knucklers fifth inning for three runs. looked up. track will be closed for Wednesday Pitching keynoted most of the “Don't think kidding,” he said. “Road work? Do you know a final 13; 1^1 linWU you're cleaning. day’s games. Bill Posedel held the now? Road work. And so are the and their what Sammy Snead's doing right Qualifiers yesterday R/ck New York Giants to four safeties will in the the You're other fellows who really be running during Open. speeds: while the Boston Bees pounded out a not kidding. It takes two months, to get really ready for the Open. Swanson, *124.619; Ralph Hepburn 7- 1 triumph with 13 hits off three of Los Angeles, 123.860; Emil Andres You have to get out and run like a fighter in training. Paul Runyan pitchers. It was Posedel's third of Chicago. 122.963: George Robe- to Bill Brown’s and trains. Runyan doesn’t smoke, drink VETERAN RECEIVER OF THE Yef Tauscher win—exactly one-third of all Bos- goes camp son of Raul Flashy Los Angeles, 122.562, Ri- ton’s nine triumphs. Tony Cuccinello or chew. It’s early-to-bed and that stuff.” WASHINGTON CLUB, APPEARS ganti of Argentina, 121.827; Duke joined in the party with two Nalon of Chicago, 121.790; Joe Chit- To BE HAVING ONE OF HIS As Millers Defeat doubles and two singles for a perfect Has No Chance wood of Topeka, Kans., 121.757; Chet BEST PLAVING SEASONS... day. Working Pro, Says Cox, Miller of Detroit, 121.322; A1 Put- all drank .. AND TO SPARKLE WHILE The Chicago Cubs kept the Na- “What about those stories of fellows who stayed up night, nam of Los Angeles, 120.818; Paul tional League design four-cornered cups of black coffee, and went out to win championships?” asked another Russo of Kenosha, Wis., 120.809; A1 THE AVERAGE NAT PITCHER Blues Leading by belting the St. Louis Cardinals, newspaperman. “Hagen, for instance, and some of the others?” Miller of Detroit, 120228; Lebegue, IS A CATCHER WORKING, Br the Associated Press. 7-1, and closing the gap between were true enough, I guess, less a certain amount of exag- 118.981;- Dreyfus, 118.831, and Du- “They //AS TO BE GOOD! Cagey Tom Sheehan found out them and second place to a game that doesn’t hold now.