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Show Golfing City yHE Charley Yates of Atlanta y won the British golf cham-plonship cham-plonship a while back he was the second native son to capture that honor and gave that city all but two of the world's major golf titles. Only the Professional Golfers' Association Associa-tion Championship and the Western Open crown have escaped Atlanta golfers over a span of 25 years. It all started in 1909 when George Sargent won the U. S. Open and the Canadian Open three years later. Then Alexa Sterling had an impressive run of victories, taking tak-ing the Southern Women's championship cham-pionship in 1915. 1916 and 1919. She also took the United States Woman's Wom-an's championship in 1915, 1916 and 1919. io's Johns te New GE A. BARCLAY . baseball miracle, f'd Cincinnati should tfcan and National Zu tcevlively. and f, 'the world', cham- fall, they wl "ve '1, johnnies for help-Vander help-Vander Meer. let-spoken 80UthPa1W '('me""" two straight 111 mes and Johnny irtrucuicnt right- Bobby Jones began to add luster to Atlanta's golf reputation by win-ning win-ning the Southern Amateur title in 1917, repeating In 1920 and 1922. The holder of probably more golf titles than any other mortal, Jones has to his credit the United States Amateur, which he won five times; the U. S. Open, which he won four times; the British Open, three times; and the British Amateur, once, In addition to many tournaments tourna-ments of lesser importance. Other Atlantans who have helped make the city the world's golf capital capi-tal are Perry Adair who won the Southern amateur championship in 1921 and 1923, Watts Gunn who also took this title in 1928 and won the United States Intercollegiate title in 1927, Dorothy Kirby who won the Southern Women's title in 1937 and David Mitchell who won the United Unit-ed States Public Links championship champion-ship in 1934. Hornsby Lights pOUR times a major league manager and once a candidate for the managership of the New York Giants, Rogers Hornsby is now trying his hand in the Southern association as manager of the Chattanooga Lookouts. Hornsby this year had been serving serv-ing as coach, pinch hitter and utility util-ity man for the Baltimore Orioles in the International league, until be was offered the new job. Probably the greatest right hand hitter of modern times, the Rajah led the National league in batting six consecutive times. He set the highest modern batting average by !I VANDER MEER , fights harder to win fi any other pitcher in men will tell you it lie such a miracle, after le two Ohio teams should in their respective cir-rear. cir-rear. They almost did it t, missing each other by rear. Cincinnati won the (ague pennant in 1919 and ran the American league D. mi have been on or near re the season began. Both I some sensational rookie 10 have been factors in Both showed their j the number of their ilected on the All-Star year. Cincinnati came re-Catcher Ernie Lom-:her Lom-:her Vander Meer and First Baseman McCor- Outficldcr Goodman, irew three Pitchers Alter Al-ter and Outfielder Averill. Have Color ough, both teams have ;ers this year who have olor and zest to hitherto Lfits Cleveland's Oscar mcinnati's Bill McKech- lo the two Johnnies that earns owe a lot of the has made them serious itenders. icoreless innings has be-bit be-bit with ruddy-checked ider Meer. Out of the tags he pitched for Cin-year Cin-year 9;i were score-ng score-ng 23 '.4 straight hitless a new National league ' first year man Johnny 6 baseball world by e Boston Bees without fhile back and then du-is du-is performance against i Dodgers. fcr is a solid youngster ree who takes it easy and fork league to keep 1 180 pounds. His ruddy be fact that as a kid of was puny and sickly eight months conva-an conva-an operation on an ap- en may not be the most ysr in the American be is one of the most e believes in standing wn rights and has a "that bodes opponents ;s no good when they He won 15 straight before losing the to Detroit. He dropped Played this year and ! next eleven straight. 1 Feller and Mel Har-'ven Har-'ven Cleveland a pitch- ROGERS HORNSBY hitting .424 in 1924 while playing j with St. Louis in the National league. Hornsby began his big league career ca-reer with the St. Louis Cards and was manager of the team in 192S when they won the pennant and the world's championship. He was successively suc-cessively manager of the Boston Bees, the Chicajo Cubs and the St. Louis Browns in the American league. The Chattanooga team is one of the fan owned clubs in the country. It was purchased by the fans of Chattanooga from the Washington Senators through the sale of stock at $5 a share plus a substantial sum furnished by Joe Engcl, the club s j president j Here and Tirre j THE Cubs could have purchased j Claude Passeau and Bucky Wal- ters from the Phillies and Van Lin- : gle Mungo from the Dodgers for j less than the $183,000 they are reported re-ported to have given the Cardinals for Dizzy Dean . . . Football players play-ers at Michigan State college were given new balls to take home with them during vacation. They have to bring them back in the fall and the condition of the ball tips off Coach Charles Bachman as to how much practicing the boys have done. Two hours after fining Johnny Allen Al-len $250 for walking out of a game in Boston Manager Oscar Vitt of the Indians took the pitcher to a movie . . . Alex Kampouris, Giant second baseman, owns more luggage lug-gage than any other player in the major leagues . . . More than one thoroughbred with a broken leg has been saved besides Insco. sire of Lawrin . . Back in 1931 Ben Marshall was saved . . was a son of Dis Done and he won two races at New Orleans after recovering recover-ing from the injury . . . Joe Brown has a horse in his stable which was doomed to be destroyed because of a broken leg. but Brown ordered him saved . . The horse is racing again ... New York baseball writers are now saying tha it was a mistake to let Tony Lazzen get away from the Yanks, because he was too valuable as a coach, if not as a player . . . Jul'an Black, one of the managers of Joe Lou.s. made. a healthy sum betting one to twenty that Louis would flatten Schmelling in the first two rounds. Western Newspaper Union. r-- I 1 f ' ' I, vi; X Vv ...... h without an equal In ,,! , r gives Promise ltua".v an even great-an great-an A"en. but at this "as the experience " on his side. |
