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Show Provo Centennial Open -Flight Interaiountain Golfers To Draw Top Top golfers from all over Utah and some from Colorado, . Idaho, Montana and: Nevada are expect ed to be in Provo July Fourth to start competing -for $1,000 in cash and trophy awards . In the three-day Centennial open. The meet, biff est ever held on the local course, will pro-amateur matches A B, : and C flights for the amateurs, ama-teurs, and ' professional and - championship flight golf over it I' Braves Gain Oh Dodgers in II. L Pennant Battle By CORNELIUS RYA N United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, June 28 I.R Boston beat Brooklyn .today, S to 4, to tie the National league race into a tight knot again with the Dodgers only a half game in front of the Braves,- who led the Giants by a half game. First Baseman Earl Torgeson, who apparently will battle with Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson and Johnny Jorgensen lor rating as "Rookie of the year," was the star of Boston's victory. Jorgensen and Dixie Walker each hit a two-run homer for Brooklyn off Walt Lanfranconi, who got credit for the win although al-though he needed help in the ninth. Morton Cooper finally won for the New York Giants, coasting to a 14 to 6 triumph as the Giants slugged Al Jurisich for 16 hits, including ' homers by Walker Cooper, Willard Marshall and Sid Gordon. The Chicago Cubs came out of a four-game losing streak by dumping Pittsburgh twice, 6 to 5. Rookie Russ Meyer scattered eight hits to take the opener, and got batting support from Bill Nicholson and Marv Rickert, each of whom batted in two runs. All Yankees and Red Sox both won-today, and New York kept its 3 game lead oyer Boston. The Yanks tripped the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Athletics, 5 to 2, and Boston Bos-ton ended its Griffith Park jinx royally with an 8 to 0 shellacking shellack-ing of the Washington Senators. Denny Gatehouse pitched a four-hitter for the Bosox as they won for .the . first time in six starts at Washington. 'Johnny Pesky got two hits and scored three runs for the winners. Hank Edward's two-run homer in the third inning, his first four-bagger of the season, gave the Cleveland Indians a 3 to 2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Don Black weakened in the ninth to give up -a two-run homer to Jack Wallaesa, but wasj the winner. Detroit whipped the St. Louis Browns, & to 3, although Manager Steve O'Neill was. thrown out of the game in the second inning. O'Neill protested plate umpire Bill Summer's decision on a pitch. j 36 holes to give the coifing .fan a chance to see the game as it should be played. The fans can see this meet for nothing, as no gallery fee will be charged, and some good-sized crowds are 'expected, especially on the last day to watch the top-flight pros and amateurs of the Intermountain region. Mark "Pudge" Nilsen, defend ing champion in the champion ship flight, will be on hand to defend his title, but the smootn- strokins Provo star is going to find the going mighty rough. Four of the men who will give Nilsen much of his grief will come from the Provo course. Gordy Crane is capable cap-able of burning up the local course on any given day, and If hot, is well-nigh unbeatable. The other three lads who have been handing par a beating consistently con-sistently are Fred Pennie, Walt Zabriskie and Ash Fielding. Pen nie, who collected the second hole-m-one recorded on tne Provo course this season, has been firing very good golf this year. From the rest of tne region, these five can expect some mighty rough competition, however. Ed Kingsley and Ven Savage, both rated among the best in the west. may enter the meet, although this is not yet definite. However, Bill Korns, former state champion, and Dick Lun- dahl. ace Logan amateur, will both be in the running in the Sunday meet, as will Clare Emery, recent winner of the Magna tourney, and Arnold Goff, another former state champion. These men are only a few of the stars who will be out to take home some of the awards being given away to the top golfers at the three-day affair, which has the stamp of approval of the Centennial Cen-tennial sports commission. There will be top-flight pros in abundance, also. All of the Utah play for pay boys will be on hand as . well as some from Denver, Las Vegas, Idaho Falls and several other out of state points, John Geertsen, Tee Branca, Jerry Henderson, Dick Kramer, George Oruillian, Ernie and Earl Schneiter are only a few of the top-ranking stars who may be at the meet. The three-day tourney will get underway on July Fourth with a pro-amateur meet Four prizes will be given for the top teams in this event, with the pros 'get ting $100 plus entr;' fees. Saturday at 8 a.m. the play will begin in the A, B and C flights. Trophies will be awarded the first three place winners in each flight in addition to mer chandise prizes. The 36-hole final Sunday will feature the pros and the cham pionship flight amateurs. iFirst money in the pro division will be $200, with $100 for second money,! $75 for third and $25 for fourth.! Marked Men In Provo Centennial Operi "'1 - v - - , 'r' These four Provo golfers will bear watching in the ,big Centennial open that will begin on the local course July 4. Left to right they are Fred Pennie, Gordon Crane, Ash Fielding and Mark Nilsen. Nilsen, who -is defending champion, and the' oth er three par-busters, admire the championship flight trophy which will go to this year's winner. . '. Provo B Team Wins Contest Provo B team, American Le gion juniqr baseball league, continued con-tinued to press close upon the heels of the unbeaten Provo A team with an 8-1 decision over Springville in a game played on the Art City diamond Friday. The " locals went out in front in the third inning on the strength of a home" run by Roe with two men aboard, and then went on to win easily, adding two more runs in the fifth frame and three more in the seventh. Lone run of the Springville crew came in the third inning on two successive hits. Eggertson, on the mound for Provo, gave up five hits and whiffed five men in hanging up his triumph. The win left the B team still in second place in the league standings, with only one loss, that at the hands of American Fork, marring their record. The A team is still unbeaten. Elders Slate Softball Tilts Bonneville and First-Seventh Softball teams won first round games in the Provo and East Provo Pro-vo stake Softball league last week with Bonneville tipping Manavu, 10-9 and First-Seventh swamp ing Eighth 21-4. In games slated for Tuesday night, Ninth plays First-Seventh at 6:30 p. nv; Eighth meets Bon neville at 7:30 and Fifth tangles with Manavu in the final game of the night. In addition to these prizes, there will be awards that any golfer, no matter what his handicap can win, such as prizes for the most par holes, the most strokes on one hole and other such feature awards. National Clay Courts "Tennis Joust Gets Underway in S. L SALT LAKE CITY. June 28 0J.fi) won by default from Jack Ahearn, Bola. Forbes of Los Angeles to-J Salt Lake City. , day opened play in the 1847 na tional clay courts tennis championships cham-pionships with an easy victory over Duane Adams of Logan, Utah. Forbes won in straight sets, 6-3, 6-. In the opening round's second match, Lee Hammel of Salt Lake City downed Jack Eilason of Salt Lake City, 6-3, 6-4. Top-ranking national round's stars drew first-round byes and won't see action until later in the tournament which will continue through July 6. The seeded play ers are led by defending cham pion Frank Parker and Davis cup star Ted Schroeder, both of Los Angeles, who are ranked one and two. Other first round results: Dale Lewis. Logan, .Utah, de feated Gil Warner, Salt Lake City, 6-0, 6-1 Bill Johnson, Salt Lake City, defeated Wayne Cumming, Hele IlCIt XVXUIJt., o-u. Ellsworth Hale, Salt Lake City, in .. i i wfBrt i 1 American League W L Pet. .39 25 .611 .34 27 .568 .31 31 .500 .28 27 .508 .30 30 .500 .28 30 .483 .30 34 .469 .23 36 .390 Confusion at Hpme I J ,3 t s " - It) I',' 4" MS' ) , s " i i : v:""S . NK Si ' 1 'V? iSf "5? Los Angeles 50 38 .568 W L Pet. Oakland ,46 38 .548 San Francisco ......47 39 .547 Sacramento.... 43 43 .500 Portland 37 39 .487 Hollywood 40 46 .465 San Diego 37 47 .440 Seattle 36 46 .439 Cleveland's George-Metkovitch, scoring on a squeeze play after breaking for home with the pitch. almost UDSets iMmnuia kattor Jtarlr nnurau wk cmnliu) 1nflrn..;nu x . , t j way had to jump over Metkovitch getting to first. Berra, the Yankee catcher, looks on in amazement Baseball Today HELPER (Utah Distributors) vs. PROVO TIMPS (Plenty of good Beats) Timp Ball Park 2:30 P M Tickets: Grandstand 65c, Bleachers 50c (includes taxes) N ft mmmm 0TOOMANY$ St. Louis Friday's Results Washington 3, Boston 0. New-,York 7 Philadelphia l. Cleveland 9, Chicago 3. Detroit l'l. St. Louis 2, eight innings, in-nings, darkness. Saturday's Results Chicago 2, Cleveland 3. Boston 8, Washington 0. , New York 5, Philadelphia 2. St Louis 3, Detroit 6. Coast League Saturday's Results San Francisco 2. Oakland 3. Sacramento 5, Los Angeles 10. National League Brooklyn 36 27 .574 Boston 35 27 .567 New York 33 26 .560 Chicago 33 31 .517 St. Louis 31 31 .500 Cincinnati 31 33 .484 Philadelphia 27 36 .429 Pittsburgh 24 38 .388 Friday's Results Pittsburgh 12, Chicago 8. Brooklyn 8, Boston 5. Philadelphia 6, New York 5. St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5, 11 innings. Saturday's Results Brooklyn 4, Boston 5. Pittsburgh 2-5, Chicago 6-6. Philadelphia 6, New York 14. Bob Kendall, Salt Lake City, defeated Don Smith, Sale Lake City, 6-0, 6-1. Jerry Glade, Salt Lake City, de feated Rudy Tongg, Honolulu, 6-3, 6-2: Tongg played barefooted . Glen Haynes, Salt Lake City, defeated Leonard Morris, Salt Lake City, 8-6, 6-2. A total of 112 entrants, includ ing several of the nation's top- seeded players, were registered for the nine-day tournament which is being held west of Chi caeo for the first time in the events history. Only 50 of the entrants were from out-of-state, the remainder being Utahns hopeful of adding a tennis honor or two to the Bee hive state's roster of prowess as the Mormon state marks its cen tennial year. However, the chances of a Utah man coming out on top of the heap were mightly slim. Only one Utah entrant Robin Hip-penctiel Hip-penctiel of Salt Lake City made the tournament seedings. And he is ranged as fifteenth. Bag Punching Expert Makes Magazine Article Provo's Dr. G. E. Sandgren, noted advocate of the manly art of bag punching, gets part of the limelight in an article, "100 Years of Health," in the July issue of Physical Culture magazine. Au thor of the. article is Glen Per rins, Ogden newspaper man. The article ties in with the Utah centennial year, and fea tures the health precepts preach ed by the Mormon pioneers, in eluding the famous Word of Wisdom. One of the illustrations accom panying the article shows an ac tion shot of Dr. sandgren, Keeping Keep-ing three bags in action, two with his fists and elbows and the third with his feet The caption notes that Dr. Sandgren is known throughout the West as the "wizard of the bags" and reveals re-veals that he has just purchased some new equipment, the latest word in fancy bag-punching devices. California Wins U. S. Collegiate Baseball Crown KALAMAZOO, Mich., June 28 U.R) California captured the first national collegiate baseball championship today by taking the second straight game in the best two out of three world' series from Yale's Bulldogs, 8 to 7. Collegiate Tennis Champ Crowned LOS ANGELES, June 28 (U.R) Steady -stroking Gardner Lamed of William and Mary defeated little vie Seixas of North Carolina Caro-lina in a three-hour match today to win the national collegiate tennis ten-nis singles title, 6-3, 9-11, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. College Golf Tournament Enters Finals ANN ARBOR, Michi, June 28 (U.R) -Two surprise .survivors, Dave Barclay of Michigan and Jack Coyle of Louisiana State today to-day won their way into the finals of the 50th annual national collegiate col-legiate golf tournament Barclay, pulled one of the ma jor upsets of the event when he defeated - Louis Stafford of Oregon, Ore-gon, 2 and 1. Coyle went into the finals with a 1-up triumph on the 19th hole over Charley Coe of Oklahoma, the pre-tour-nament favorite as a result of his victory in the trans-Mississippi tourney last week at Wichita, an. . Barriiv. whn f1nishrl fir itniun in the Western Conference title meet a month ago and won his way into the match play round here with only a stroke to spare, made a brilliant comeback to beat the deliberate Stafford. Stafford warn ninn,r.im n Walker Cup Star Smiley Quick in the national public links tour nament a year ago. Betty Jameson Takes Lead In Women's Open GREENSBORO, N. C, June 28 (U.R) Betty Jameson, smooth-stroking smooth-stroking San Antonio, Tex., pro fired a two-under-par 74 today for a third round total of 225 and a two-stroke lead -in the Women's Wo-men's National Open golf tournament tourna-ment here. Three steady amateurs Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill, N. C, Sally Sessions of Muskegon, Mich., and Polly Riley of Fort Worth, Tex.,- were tied for second at the 54 hole mark with three-day cards of 227. Louise Suggs, pre-tourney favorite fa-vorite with defending titlist Patty Pat-ty Berg of. Minneapolis, slipped to a 79 today after two days of sub-par shooting. The Lithia Springs, Ga., golfer was tied for third with Grace Lenczyk of Newington, Conn., at229 The 19-year-old Connecticut state titlist blazed a two-under-par 74 today. The sturdy Patty Berg of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, the defending champion, cham-pion, fell five strokes off the lead yesterday, again was in trouble today and dropped nine strokes off the pace at 234 as she soared to 79. Peggy Kirk, long-hitting Find-lay, Find-lay, O., amateur fired the day's hottest round with a sparkling 72 over the sun-seared Starmount Forest Country club course. But she was well behind the leaders at 236. Helen Detweiler, Indio, Cal., carded the day's second best round with a 73 and took second place among the pros with 232. The final 18 holes will be played play-ed tomorrow. SUNDAY HERALD Sunday, June 29, 1947 11 McKehlev Betters 440 Record As Dia-9 TrackstercSxvamb ;v Coast Conference, 94 Vz -37 14 BERKELEY, Calif., June 28 1 The meet was highlighted VT (U.R) A powerful and well-bal-ithe world record performance by i sr . a ai . a. .nV. ki 1. i iuu.itttiiemey ana inree . new wev bis tut. , mj. itiaj,- team, sparked by a world record performance by Illinois' Herb McKenley in the quarter-mile, handed the Pacific coast conference confer-ence its most humiliating cinder defeat in history today as it rolled to a 94 M to 372 victory. It was the Big Nine's second wia in seven meets betweer the country's two major athletic conferences, con-ferences, accomplished b efore ! 12,000 fans at sun-baked Ed wards field. For the second time in a week. j McKenley shattered the accepted world marks as he sprinted 440 yards in .46-.3 seconds one-tenth of a second better than the existing ex-isting accepted mark of 46.4 and one tenth of a second slower than he ran it in the NCAA at Salt Lake City last Saturday night, McKenley was not pressed in the event. He. won by 25 feet. McKenley also ran anchor an-chor on the winning mile relay re-lay Big Nine team and again was clocked in the same time i.3. Harvard Wins Regatta Title SEATTLE. June 28 (U.R) The crew of Harvard university flashed flash-ed through the calm, rippling waters wa-ters of Lake Washington to annex an-nex the intercollegiate sprint regatta re-gatta title here today before 100,-000 100,-000 persons. Coach Tom Bolles' crew pulled the distance in a new record time of 5:49. The Crimson, favored in the 2,000-meter sprint on theif previous pre-vious record, showed fine short distance rowing form as they took the lead from, the University Univer-sity of Washington's untried Huskies Hus-kies at the three-quarter mark and pulled across the finish line winner by a full boat length. Yale university finished second with Washington's undefeated freshman crew, rowing against; varsity competition, taking the show money. 440-yard dash and 880-yard , run. I The Big Nine won 13, of . 4he- J6 events,: piling up-such a bigi lead at the end of the first "fiver: events it never was threatened- There were two double. winners Fortune Gordien, Minnesota'.-: weight ace, who won the shot put and discus, and Bill Portevr Northwestern hurdle star. wh annexed first in both the "high and low hurdles. . . . The PCC victories came infh high jump, won by Chuck Hanger of California with a leap Ot sijff feet, 7'fe inches; the two-miKU captured by Roland Sink oT USC, and the broadjump, by. Al T.swrnr ftf ITSf ' ! On the way In his record- shattering 440. McKenIysi: ran the first furlogn in 2L2JUj seconds faster than the mi winning time turned In for.'&i the 226-yard dash. The Big Nine Fliers set a newi meet record of 40.6 seconds jox the 440-yard relay. Bill Mathif.- ti i: T r a itT: ' i ' Jack Simpson, Iowa, and Chuck? Peters, Indiana, teamed to-.run,. the distance in a clocking oniy. one tenth of a second - off .this. world record and one tenth better bet-ter ' than the meet mark of 40-7 set by the PCC in 1937.: The PCC team in this event got a bad break when the baton: was -dropped on the second pass. The Big Nine quartet finished without competition; ' ytrt WANTED ALL KINDS OP HIDES. Highest Prices Paid for V BONES WOOL HIDES, PELTS FURS and dead and useless animals. 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