Bradshaw Tie for British Golf Title at 283 ■netting J&faf ♦♦ Locke, 8, 1949—A—15 -* D. C., — -- Washington, Friday, July _ * .-———— Victim of Nats' Slump,' Playoff Is Scheduled Yanks, 'Miracle Club' or w in, Lose, Draw Haefner, Fired Tomorrow; Amateur Under Stengel, Run By FRANCIS STANN Says It Was Just One of Those Things As Griff 'Blows Medal to Stranahan Up Lead Over A's it looked like a Top' When the score first came over the wires typo- ly the Associated Press Jack Hand 23; Chicago, 4. But the message was By Burton Hawkins By graphical error. Cincinnati, Associated Press Sparts Writer • 4 (correct)” ... and there Star Staff SANDWICH, England, July 8.— repeated Cincinnati. 23; Chicago, Correspondent it. South Africa and How about Casey Stengel for were the inning-by-inning scores to prove NEW YORK, July 8.—His cus- Bobby Locke of of the How does a seventh-place team like the tomary complacency unruffled by Harry Bradshaw of Ireland wound manager year? the a baffled While the wise wait for Reds score 23 runs in a major league ball game? being fired off Nats, up in a record-equalling dead- guys Haefner remained in True, Cincinnati was playing the last-place Mickey lock with 72-hole scores of 283 Casey's New York Yankees to wilt, but even so the score is So Washington today as his ex- Cubs, improbable. at the end of the British Open they continue to knock off the that the matter was carried to Clark teammates prepared to open a improbable golf championship today and will contenders, one by one. Connie Griffith for discussion. Griffs been in baseball four-game series with the league- meet in a 36-hole playoff for the leading New York Yankees tonight. Mack's Philadelphia A's were the for 60-odd years. He ought to know. title tomorrow. The lefthand pitcher’s 7-year latest, dropped five full games be- "It can happen, all right,” Griffith was say- Prank Stranahan of Toledo, I employment by the Nats came to the Yanks last 6-2 ing. “Some days you can't get a side out. It's Ohio, finished with 290, seven hind by night’s an abrupt end last night in the CASEY STENGEL. setback. impossible to explain, but I’ve seen it happen. strokes behind Locke and Brad- 8-3 wal- _ course of Washington’s The boys shed a tear for “good Seems like a club gets a whole season of fist shaw, but was assured of the ama- loping by Boston. President Clark old Case” when he into and in one teur medal. His closest amateur stepped hits, breaks, fumbles everything Griffith, angered by Haefner’s “in- England’s Francis Fran- Bucky Harris’ job last winter. The game. Take Walker Cooper’s three home runs different in fielding opponent, Low performance” final round 10 Little, Surprise Yanks were aging, coming apart are the odds even cis, began the in that game. What against a by Pitcher Chuck Stobbs, tap strokes behind the American. at the seams. a pretty good hitter like Cooper doing that? gave him the ax when rain inter- Bradshaw finished with a Casey seems to have performed Francis stann. Maybe ft million to one.” ! rupted proceedings in the third Threats as Snead fourth-round 70, as did Locke. a minor miracle of rebuilding. No Joe Kuhel took a chair next to his boss. It was obvious the inning. The South African went out in matter how badly they stumble, and Griffith were into a huddle to see what “I think I’m being sacrificed for Nats’ manager going 32 in the fourth round and needed the Yanks can’t miss leading the be done about the faltering Washington Club. the poor performance of the club,” Sets Pace can jacking up only a par 39 on the final nine Reading American League at the All-Star of our team.” said Haefner calmly, “but I’m not ‘‘Say, Joe, you remember that first Western trip to break the record and gain the By tht Associated Press game break Sunday night. Many in when going to say anything against Mr. said Griff. ‘‘Something unexplainable happened Chicago lead. He lost his advantage, but READING, Pa., July 8.—-Sammy think they never will be caught. had Griffith. Until this point, he has our went home-run crazy. I don’t care if the fences even with Brad- fellows managed to pull was out in front Allie Reynolds’ route-going per- not always been fair to me and I Snead, as usual, been shortened or not, the fact remains that it was our team, shaw by shooting a birdie 3 on formance against the A's must have a lot of respect for him. It’s today in the $15,000 Reading White all those home runs.” the 423-yard 17th hole. have been encouraging to Stengel, the Sox, hitting his ball club and he can run it The tournament mark of 283 Open golf tournament, but ihe who kept “Wahoo” in his regular the World as he sees fit. The Last Guy in was set first by Gene Sarazen of of the first round came from turn his many ‘I can’t understand it, though,” story starting despite Kuhel nodded. That triumphant tour of the West is a happy the United States in 1932 at the knockouts. {continued Haefner. “It isn’t the his nearest rivals. ; memory. MICKEY HAEFNER. nearby Prince's course. It \£as Reynolds’ 9-1 record is deceiv- first time a pitcher ever made an Since the reginning of the 1949 Mark Christman do in Chicago?" asked tied by Henry Cotton of Britain but there was “What did Grimyi. error. I I had the —Star Staff Photo. I ing, nothing phony thought ball, Snead has won four tourna- in a didn’t to win?” in 1934 at Royal St. Georges and tour, about his five-hitter at Shibe “Hit two homers row, he, but the grass was slippery and so with two out in the ninth again by Britain’s Alf Perry in the Masters and A two-run homer Hank “Not exactly,” said Kuhel, “but was the ball and I missed it. ments, including Park. by he homered to tie the score and we 1935 at Muirfleld, Scotland. and he Bauer broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth inning, and two strikes on him, Never Indifferent, He Says. Mean th# PGA championship, he homered again to win for Yankees Would The two American hopes, pro- to give Allie a working margin won in extra innings. The next day Flag gave Cary Middlecoff a real run “As for those five walks in the Bulla of Pitts- over Lou Brissie, like Reynolds an over the White Sox.” fessional Johnny for the title. He’s figured as flrse inning—I can’t explain it. Open selection. Griffith. “Mark is a fine fellow ancj a burgh, Pa., and Stranahan vir- well the All-Star pitching “That’s it,” snorted I’ve been wild this Over the man to beat, as as world d year and I Epic Triumph Injuries eliminated themselves with Cleveland, making another ball But he’s the last guy in the you tually man for the to follow, pretty good player. don’t know the reason for it. 1/ th« Associated Press a knee cartilage May 29 and a galleries and runs." poor showings in the third round. move, crept to within a game to break up two successive games with home every time he plays. So it was no pick “I’ve never been indifferent NEW YORK. July 8.—No- week later Henrich went out who faltered in the a half of the A’s by smothering more one-sided than Stranahan. find Did Mr. Griffith distinctly recall a game about baseball. I’ve the surprise to Sammy shooting always given body's hollering "break up with a sore left knee and middle of the took a 74 Chicago, 8-2, with a 17-hit at- He did. “It was round, seven strokes under the Reds’ 23-4 triumph of the other day? I had. I'll let rec- 30-33—63. par, everything my Yankees" this time—they’ve On which gave him a 54-hole total tack. Everybody except Joe Gor- he reminisced. “I ought to remem- Kryhoski hurt his wrist. for the 6,001-yard Reading Coun- back in the National League," ord speak for itself along that been broken up all year. of 218, leaving him five strokes off don shared in the hit parade that 36-6 June 14 Gene Woodling went try Club course, to lead the field. ber; I pitched in a game.” : line. If Casey Stengel's athletes the pace. enabled Bob Lemon to coast home his flat cigars and for the moment i “I off to the best start I the with stomach But it was surprising that Law- He lighted one of patented, got should ride their present suc- to hospital Bulla, who had matched Stran- with his ninth victory. was ever had this I had more son Little, a veteran w'ho hasn’t his conference with Kuhel forgotten. year. cess streak to the American trouble. han’s 71-73 of the first two days, Detroit teed off on Red Embree the old Chicago team of the National stuff than ever before. I lost a been close to the top recently al- to “I was pitching for | League pennant it would be Later in June Relief Pitcher continued to have trouble with a for six runs in the first inning Louisville, then in the Na- of games I might have won with though he usually is in the money, its streak League” he said.