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Show T6 SmuW April 11. 1948 Claude Harmon Moves Into Big Lead As Masters Golf Open Enters Playoff Round By WILLIAM TUCKER -United Press Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga., April 10 (U.R) Stocky Claude Harmon, hitting his approach shots dead to the pin, came close to clinching the Masters golf title today by ramming out a 69 oa the third round for a total of 209. With most of the big favorites at least a half-dozen strokes behind him, Harmons lead was a forbidding proposition propo-sition for the'rest 'of the field. Handsome Chick Harbert of Northville, Mich., came in : I only two strokes in arrears of Jock Sutherland Undergoes Brain Tumor Operation PITTSBURGH, April 10 (U.R) Dr. John B. (Jock) Southerland, coach ! of the Pittsburgh Steelers professional football team, tonight underwent a second operation for removal of a brain tumor. The 59-year-old coach underwent under-went an "exploratory"' operation this afternoon. The second opera tion was ordered when doctors determined that the famed coach was suffering from a brain tumor. Brain surgeons who were performing per-forming the delicate operation on the Steeler coach, said Sutherland would not have lived more than two days if an immediate operation opera-tion had not been performed. Even so, they said the operation was "a long shot chance" to save his life. The "exploratory" operation began be-gan at 2:45 p. m. and lasted three-and three-and one-half hours. The second operation for removal of the tumor tum-or itself was started at 7 p. m. Dr. W. F. Weaber said before the first operation: "Dr. Sutherland Suther-land has a physically expanding lesion in his brain. He is desperately desper-ately ill. It is very serious." The tall Scot who made football fame as a player and coach at the University of Pittsburgh wbs returned to Pittsburgh by a private pri-vate plane Friday night. He was stricken Wednesday while driving through the south on a combination pleasure-busi ness trip. Dr. Sutherland was found in a dazed condition near T3andana, Ky.. Wednesday. His car had become mired in a swamp 'and he was wandering aimlessly. While in St. Mary's hospital at Cairo, 111. Dr. Sutherland recognized recog-nized friends at various times and greeted some of them by name. He was able to dress and shave himself yesterday while awaiting a trip back to Pittsburgh aboard a private plane sent for him by Thomas E. Millsop, president of the Weirton Steel Co., and a personal per-sonal friend. ' $KI CLUB ELECTS & SALT LAKE CITY, April 10 U.R The Salt Lake Ski club last .night elected four new directors direc-tors Willis Peterson, F. C. Ko-ziol, Ko-ziol, D. A. Robison and Carolyn Harris. China and India account for only 2 per cent of the world's manufacturing, although they contain 40 per cent of its population. popu-lation. ! NEWS VIEWS Till I m- By L. C. Dunn A Minneapolis scientist claims the "push-button" age is nearly out of date. This is kind of humiliating, because we were- just get-?,' get-?,' ting used to the idea of the "push-buttons"! The scientific scienti-fic lad says from now on everything will be "electronics" "elec-tronics" electronic dust-collectors in the home, electronic cooking that grills the meat from the inside in-side out, thrmostats that automatically switch o n your furnace i'when the sun goes behind a cloud." Sounds fine, but are we interested? in-terested? Jf things are moving mov-ing so fast, by the time we understand electronic-control. . . . everything will be atomic-control! Progress is fine, but let's relax and enjoy it awhile. : A Northwestern University Univer-sity psychologist says If funny faces scare your baby, he's a bright kid! Apparently Ap-parently every baby I look at is a junior Einstein. Do you "baby" your automobile? automo-bile? It's ' the smart thing to do, you know! Regular Servicing is, one of the BEST way of "babying" It. . . : . complet e lubrication, regular oil - changes, and Motor Tune - Ups! These items, when checked by our experts, will result in "long-run" "long-run" savings for you! "Depend "De-pend on Genuine Mercury, Service at the STRONG-j STRONG-j MOTOR COMPANY, 1150, .' Jorth 5th West Phone: 2306. ir .', " " -7 ' .-.., SUNDAY HERALD Harmon but the gallery of about 8,000 swung to the Mamaroneck, N. Y., pro for tomorrow's playoff round. Harmon's round of 69 for the third round waa equalled only by Cary Middlecoff. Memphis, Tenn., who wound up with a total of 214 for third-place in the widely strung-out field. Both Harmon and Middlecoff required 33 putts, meaning that their drives were so accurate they could afford to relax on the green. Harmon had only one bad green the 14th, where he failed to lay a 60-foot approach putt close enough to the pin and took two more nudges to get his ball in the cup. Harmon's last title was at Or lando, Fla., in 1946. He had consecutive 70's In the first two rounds and was happy to break the string with today's 69. Par Is 72. Harbert, who Won two tourna ments on the winter swing, had a two under par 70 thanks to some electrifying approaches. He chipped in on No. 4 from a spot five feet off the green for a birdie 2. He sank a 50-foot putt to take another on No. 10. The big betting bet-ting favorites were stretched sadly down the list. Middlecoff, who gave up dentistry for Dro- fesisonal golf less than two years ago, was in the best spot with his 214. Ed Furgol, Royal Oak, Mich., stood alone at 215. Ben Hogan Enters Goodall Tourney NEW YORK, April 10 (U.R) Little Ben Hogan of Hershey, Pa., captain of the U. S. Ryder cup team and 1946 PGA champion, to day joined the field for the sev enth Goodall round robin , golf tournament set for the Wykagel country club at New Rochell, N. Y., May 6 to 9. Hogan is the only two-time winner of the Goodall event, having hav-ing captured the title at Fresh Meadow in 1940 and at Winged Foot in 1946. the only times the tournament has been staged in the vicinity of New York before this year. The third leading 1947 money-winner, money-winner, Hogan started his 1948 campaign by taking the Los Angeles An-geles open event recently with a 72-hole score of 275. Outstanding professionals pre viously entered in the tournament were defending champion Bobby Locke of South Africa, Lloyd Mangrum of Chicago. Herman Barron of White Plains, N. Y., and Herman Keiser of Akron, O. The field eventually will have 16 competitors. f f is- IS , i I fit What makes this picture of the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio different differ-ent from most is that it shows him in action at the Bronx Bombers' Bomb-ers' spring training camp at St. Petersburg. Fla. The DiMag. beginning be-ginning his 10th year in the majors, not counting the war years, has, rarely made an ap: pea ranee opening day of spring 'training. . CASH For Your Gun at INNES Sporting Goods 316 West Center PROVO I Old Reliable l,w.jijimi,i ' 1111 guwna.ii.i...;i Training Briefs Cincinnati Is Hottest Team In Majors By UNITED PRESS FLORENCE, S. C, April 10. (U.R) The Cincinnati Reds, victorious vic-torious in 11 out of their last 12 exhibition games, today threw liberal scare into the rest of the National league and genuine fright into the odds-makers', who recently quoted them at 20 to 1, The Reds trounced the Boston Brave, 13 to 4, yesterday, hopping hop-ping on Boston Ace Johnny Sain for 10 hits and nine runs in the first three innings. MOULTRIE. Ga. (U.R) 7- The Philadelphia Athletics moved on to Birmingham, Ala., today, their appetites for beef and base-hits sufficiently whetted. . The A's snapped a six-game six-game losing7 streak by swamping their Moultrie farm hands, 11 to 0.- yester-' yester-' day. After the contest, citl-ens citl-ens of Moultrie staged a barbecue bar-becue for the Philadelphia players. MONTGOMERY, Ala. U.R) Local fans were far from impressed im-pressed today with the vaunted power of the world champion New York Yankees. ' First of all, the Yankees took 11 innings before downing the Montgomery Rebels of the Class B Southeastern league, 8 to 5 yesterday. And secondly, Joe Dl Maggio lifted the ball out of the infield only once in four tries. DALLAS, Tex. (U.R) The St. Louis Browns closed their spring series against the Chicago Cubs today, boasting an eight to five edge in the 13 games played despite de-spite their loss to the National leaguers yesterday. Hank Borowy of the Cubs went the distance, scattering six hits and beating St. Louis, 6 to 2. . SAN DIEGO. Cal. (U.R) Elvin (Buster) Adams, holdout hold-out outfielder with the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Phillies, was the property of the San Diero Padres of the Pacific Coast league today after being sold for "a very substantial sum." LUBBOCK, Tex. (U.R) The New York Giants, latest claimants claim-ants to the title of "murderers' row," chalked up another exhibition exhibi-tion game victory today. A 10 to 2 triumph over the Cleveland Indians In-dians marked the Giants' lt7h spring victory. ORLANDO. Fla. (U.R) The Washington Senators said farewell fare-well to their Orlando spring training site today and prepared to embark on a seven-game series with the Philadelphia Phillies, opening at Valdosta, Ga. Before breaking camp, the Senators released re-leased outfielder Larry Drake to Chattanooga of the Southern Association. As-sociation. MOBILE, Ala. (U.R) Shortstop Marty Marion of the St. Louis Cardinals, who injured his knee two weeks ago, continued to report re-port progress on its recovery today. to-day. Marion played through the full game yesterday for the first time since his injury as the Cardinals beatiMobile, 8 to 2, in an eight-inning eight-inning game. ASHEVILLE, N. C. (U.R) The Brooklyn Dodgers revealed today that Outfielder Cal Abrams, Pitcher Ed Chandler and First Baseman Preston Ward will be optioned to the minor leagues within a few days. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (U.R) Don Kolloway's home run in the 12th inning gave the Chicago White Sox a 4 to 3 victory over the' Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday. Southpaw Jim Goodwin, who relieved re-lieved Earl Caldwell in the 11th, was the winning pitcher. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (U.R) Hal Newhouser, Detroit's ace southpaw, south-paw, gave evidence today that he was ready for the start of the season after coasting to a six-hit 4 to 2 victory over the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association Associa-tion Ted Williams Escapes Knife BOSTON, April 10 (U.R) The Boston Red Sox team physician said today he did not think Ted Williams will need an appendectomy. appendec-tomy. Williams, the Red Sox $80,000-a-year bundle of plate power, arived from New Orleans, where JUST ARRIVED! Target Kites Made of Oil Silk $1.98 BOB'S Army & Nayy Store 73 North 1st West (Athletics Hove Own' Hall .of -Fame II - ' 4 - - ' A I Connie Mack may not win the American League pennant, but the Athletics are the only major league club with three count 'em pitchers who have turned in no-hit no-run games in the majors. Bill McCahan. left, did not walk a man coming Close to a perfect game blanking the Senators. 3-0, last Sept. 3. Toiling for the White Sox, bespectacled Bill Dietrich, center, achieved the pinnacle of mound proficiency, shutting out the Browns, 8-0, June 1. 1937, Dick Fowler also took advantage of the St Louis club, 1-0, Sept 9, 1945. Provo Golfers Prepare For Team Play Qualifying rounds were being completed Saturday, as Provo golfers battled the elements for places on the 10-man team that will face the Utah Copper club team of Magna today at 12:30 p. m. on the local greens, weather permitting. jonnny Memenng, local pro, said the team match schedule had been drawn up on such short notice that the Provo golfers were having some difficulty get ting in their qualifying rounds and completing plans for the season. However, it appeared as if Fred and Gordon Crane, Walt Zabriskie, Mark Nilsen, Tom Worthington, Jack Brim, Jim Green, Don Allen and Bill Grif nth would be on the team that faces the Magna golfers today. Gordon Crane had the best qualifying round posted up Until iaie aaruraay, as ne urea a par 70 for the 18 holes. Eight teams are entered in the race for the Utah Golf associa tion crown, including Forest Dale, Nibley Park, Fort Douglas, Bonneville, Logan and El Monte, in addition to Provo and the Utah Copper Club. With eight clubs In the circuit, instead of 10, the two division, home-and-home schedule of the past two years was discarded This year the eight clubs will play in one circuit, each meeting every other entry once. In view of the bad golfing weather, the start is unusually early, but Al Emery, chairman of the team play, said the heavy schedule makes it imperative to start team competition as soon as possible. The schedule: April 11 Forest Dale at Nibley park; Magna at Provo; Fort Douglas at Bonneville; Logan at tl Monte. April 18 Forest Dale at Fort Douglas; Magna at Bonneville: Provo at Logan; El Monte at Nibley. May 28 Bonneville at Logan; Magna at t.1 Monte: Provo at Forest Dale; Nibley at Fort Douglas. Doug-las. June 13 Nibley park at Provo; Bonneville at Forest Dale; Magna at ixgan; 1 Monte at Fort Doug las. June 27 Magna at Forest Dale; Provo at El Monte: Loean at Fort Douglas; Nibley at Bon neville. July 11 Nibley at Magna: El Monte at Bonneville; Fort Doug las at Tovo; torest Dale at Lo gan. August 8 Fort Douglas at Magna; Bonneville at Provo: Lo gan at Nibley; El Monte at Forest Dale. a doctor diagnosed his ailment as an appendicitis. An operation would sideline Williams for three to five weeks. However. Dr. Ralnh McCarthv the team physician, said' he thought Williams needed nnlv rest and proper food to get back into playing shape. Williams did not underra a hospital examination todav aa planned. LOANS for MARRIED Men and Women SINGLE Men and Women 30 a month repays $300 loan S5.03 monthly repays $50 S10.05 monthly repays 3100 120.14 monthly repays 3200 or net hours I 1 n. It I p m 6uj 9 a. m. to 1 p. m Satardays Appointments auy b mad for after hears Pbone its KEN HOUSTON Manaser --T Z k , I Today's Sport Parade Horsemen Feel Eddie Arcaro Made Wrong Derby Choice By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sport Writer "NEW YORK, April 10 (U.R) Eddie Arcaro has signed tq ride the favored Citation in the Kentucky Ken-tucky derby and there's a feeling feel-ing around Horse highway today that Little Banana Nose again may have made the wrong choice in his ambition to become the only four-time winner of the Rose run. The able Arcaro, tied with the ancient Isaac Murphy and the legendary Earl Sande at three saddle victories each, made the wrong choice in 1942. That was the year he selected Greentree's Devil Diver and finished sixth Hew York Clubs Pace Baseball Training Circuit NEW YORK, April 10 (U.RV-The (U.RV-The citrus circus was a three-ring three-ring affair this year, with a New York club in each ring. A survey revealed today that the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Yankees and the New York Giants finished: 1-2-3 as the major ma-jor league baseball clubs started on the final lap homeward. Of course, the Dodgers have yet to meet a major league club on the spring exhibition circuit so there's a cloud hanging over their record of 27 games won and one lost, a booming .964 percentage. per-centage. The only defeat was suffered suf-fered by the "B" team, which lost to Charleston of the Sally league during Branch Rickey's split-and-flit arrangement of heading north. The New York Yankee ranked right behind their 1947 world series opponents with 21 victories and 10 defeats, de-feats, including an 18-and-9 slate against major league opposition. Most nourishing of all the Yankee feats, of course, were the three victories scored against the Boston Red Sox in a tabloid tab-loid preview of the American league pennant race. Boston won only one from the Yanks, and one game was a 17-inning tie. The Giants, paced by a spree of home runs which sent baseballs bounding all over the west half of the U. S., won 17 and lost 10 for a .630 mark. Cleveland's Indians ranked fourth with 18 and 10 for .613 and the Cincinnati Reds fifth with 1 7and 11 for .607. MOW ON DISPLAY ' C READY wowt-wtoi. - I Garden Tractor Works For Yiv All Yr tW The B&EAOY feeadles o ur ott (M year old Doy cm geMe ( rancc waeeu cara- dime.".. Exclusive "fron thitch" pulls BRADY down to Earth, gives 30 extra power and Traction. Saves Fuel Cultivates, disc s , harrows, plows, mows hay, rakes hay, furrows, snow plows, mows lawns, rolls lawns, plant. Hauling and riding cart and sulky Tractor, Reg. 250.00 225.00 Utah Hardware & Implement Co, Your friendly Hardware Dealer In Orem, 670 Jiojrih State Street, Orem . ; . i 4 . r -f " I while Wayne Wright came home In. front aboard an ignored stablemate, Shut Out. Eddie's lack has been bad the past two years. He was fourth on the favored Lord Boswell in 1946 and second last year aboard Phalanx. Now he picks Citation, Calumet's Cal-umet's big horse, with the stable's coal town looming larger and larger. Coaltown won the big furlong Phoenix on Thursday with ease and was just starting to run in the stretch when they hauled him up at the wire. And owner Warren Wright's personal choice for Derby day is none other than Coaltown . . . if it does win, Arcaro will wish his old Kentucky home was even farther away ... Joe McCarthy, manager of the Red Sox, is getting mighty tired of answering the people who continually ask him to compare his current club with his former Yankees. "As I understand It." Marae Joe's stock answer goes, "we wear gray uniforms uni-forms in practice and the Yankees wore white ones. Now lets talk about the Red Sox" . . . there is no record of anybody presing the point after that' ... Clyde Smith, Indiana's new football coach, is a native of New Eagle, Pa. "Where is New Eagle, any way?" asked an assistant. "Right across the road from Old Eagle," Smith replied . . . if you're still curious, get a sextant sex-tant and a Pennsylvania road map. . . Old Fearless picked the Boston Red Sox to win the American league pennant. So wha' happens? hap-pens? The kiss of death worked immediately as Ted Williams came down with appendicitis. I wonder if the Mafia could use my talents? J attributed ' f ' " . . :fr eekft; , yi S i. r : t iv4 ' - - j 4 iff" it- -ir ..v. kyl - - 1 y ff - 3tttrtt"itttattt 1 :;.0$ I rp " -1 - .jAtiA'Z -iuiti u.ii,T -i .... . .... Things Go jh Reverse For Washington This Spring (Editor! Note: ThU la the 12th In a series on the 1948 prospects of the major league teams.) e s By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, April 10 (U.R) Strange things have happened to the Washington Senators this spring. When the players reported to Manager Joe Kuhel at Orlando, Fla.. they were tagged as a club with good pitching but doubtful hitting. Things have been in exact reverse. Timps Schedule First Workout At North Park Given a break in the weather, the Provo Timps will hold their first practice prac-tice of the 1948 season today to-day at 10 a. m. at North park, Manager Lee Christiansen Chris-tiansen reported. Candidates for the Provo entry of the Central Utah league also are slated to workout at the same time and place, according to Don Kump, busines manager of the team. Christiansen said he expected ex-pected several veterans to report for the Timps' opening open-ing practice session today and urged all young players play-ers interested in trying out for the team to report. My Request Yins Handicap Race NEW YORK, April 10 (U.R)- riomping through , the stretch as though he could run all day, Ben F. Whitaker's My Request became be-came New York's strongest Kentucky Ken-tucky derby candidate and a serious threat to Calumet farm's Citation today when he won the Experimental Free handicap No. 2 at Jamaica. Before a crowd of 48,053 fans the largest of the season thus far My Request scored in the mile and a sixteenth version of the stake by the same convincing margin he registered in winning the six furlong section last Satur day four lengths. It was the first time in three double runnings that one horse took both ends oj the Experi mental, the only race of its kind in the country. And it was the first time that a horse, sent to the post tq prove he could carry his speed over a route, came up with such a convincing answer The other seven starters, all of them .derfey hopefuls, were out to answer the same question but they all failed the test as My Request Re-quest came, romping through the stretch full of run and nobody to race. He left his opposition floundering flounder-ing in his wake in the run to the wire and Eddie Arcaro, who will ride Citation rather than My Request Re-quest in the Kentucky derby on May 1, had nothing to do but wait for the end. They all had a fair shot but none of them came close as he finished the trip in f:46 1-5 under 122 pounds. Hal Price Headley's Pennon, the extreme outsider in the betting bet-ting at beter than 86 to 1, was closest at the finish and he had two lengths over Joe W. Brown's Riverlane at the finish. Big Deal was fourth. Western DUtrlbuUnj: Co, The Senators have been ham mering the ball all over the lot In exhibition games and their pitchers, pitch-ers, with the exception of Sid Hudson and Walt ' Masterson. 1 have. taken a terrific pounding. ' But matters promise to richt themselves before the season opens, op-ens, with the Senators going to the barrier with pitching, but little lit-tle elsefe Kuhel, in his first season as a major league pilotX faces a tremendous tre-mendous rebuilding job. He doesn't have much, ont- side of his pltcht&SHstaff, to work with. Thee are some premising rookies in camp, Gil Goan and Al Koxar in particular, particu-lar, but for the most part they appear to be a year or two away from the majors. Only two spots outside of pitch ing are set Mickey Vernon at first base and the catching staff Of Ray Evans as the No. 1 man and Jake Early as his understudy. under-study. The other jobs still are wide open. It looks, however, like Kozar. who hit .339 with New Orleans last year will get the second base job with Johnny Sullivan at short and Eddje Yost at third. Even with Vernon thrown In at first base, it doesn't measure up lo major league standards in either fielding or hitting. Sullivan, whom Kuhel claims is a "vastly improved player" hit only .256 in 49 games last year while Yost in 115 games batted only .238. Only Coan, who looks as if he finally has arrived this spring, is sure of an outfield berth. Kuhel has been playing play-ing the Chattanooga graduate in right field with Tom Mc-Bride, Mc-Bride, the Red Sox castoff in center, and Sherry Robertson in left. That leaves the best' fielding gardener on the Washington roster Earl Wo-oton Wo-oton on the outside looking in. Wooten can go and get them with anyone In center field, but like Kozar, he isn't expected to take to major league pitching very well. Kuhel brought a dozen rooki pitchers to camp, but only three of them probably will be retained. They are Forrest Thompson, the southpaw drafted from Atlanta where he won 16 games last season; seas-on; Joe Jones, a side-armer from the Florida State league and Ramon Ra-mon Garcia, a Cuban right hand-er. hand-er. Only Hudson and Masterson of last year's holdovers have been effective this year. The others-including others-including Early Wynn, a 17-gamo winner' last year have been getting get-ting their ears pinned back regularly, regu-larly, even by minor league clubs. But Kuhel is sure they will regain re-gain their effectiveness by April 19, when the Senators open against the Yankees at the nation's na-tion's capital. They had better, for without pitching there doesn't seem to be any bottom to where the Senator could fall . ' i - if , (Tomorrow The Athletics). Exams Slated For Playing Supervisors Examinations for applicants for positions as , supervisors of the city playgrounds during the summer sum-mer months will be held next Saturday at 9:30 a. m. at the recreation rec-reation office in the city building, build-ing, according to Miss Jessio Schofield, city recreation director. direc-tor. All new applicants for playground play-ground positions must take the examination, Miss Schofield said. Provo, Utah |