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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, MONDAY' APRIL 27, 1942 MOW WW lifer F(Q)f n ninnie al. 211,962 See Games Sunday; Cleveland, Yanks In Hot Race . By GEORGE KIRK8EV - NEW YORK, April 27 (UJO ' i Major league magnates today have cause ror rejoicing, xz any iurui-er iurui-er evidence were needed to prove that the public wants baseball during war times, it was supplied by yesterday's attendance "figures. The eight major league games , drew 211.962 paid admissions, the 2 largest single day of the infant 1942 season. If yesterday can be taken as a criterion, Sunday is . going to be a terrific day this , season in the majors. Sunday's attendance figures: American league: i St Louis at Detroit 42,698 New York at Boston 38,010 Philadelphia at Washington 25.000 ; Cleveland at Chicago 8,179 Total 113.887 National league Boston at New York 48,631 . Brookyn at Philadelphia . 31,766 Pittsburgh at St. Louis . . 14,820 Chicago at Cincinnati . . . 12,858 Totar , 98,075 Grand total 211,962 OGDEN GOLFERS TAKE PROVO IN OPENING MATCH UTAH GOLP LEAGUE Bonneville . . . Ogden C. C. . Forest Dale . . Utah Copper El Monte . . . S. L C. C Fort Douglas Nibley Park Logan W. L. Pet. FTjs Op. 1 0 1.000 13 1 1 0 1.000 13 2 1 0 1.000 8 5 1 0 1.000 7 4 1 0 1.000 7 1 6 0 1 .000 5 8 0 1 .000 2 13 0 1 .000 6 17 0 1 .000 1 13 0 1 .000 4 7 Army lines HMPpmapppw i i. , i jminuj i ,111111 .iiiiiimi jk 4. I Opening day games with all their pomp and ceremony draw 190.775. or 21.187 less than did vesterday'. program. Eddie Col Ifns. general manager of the Red Sox. estimated that 20,000 fans were turned awav at Boston. The Tieers had thr bisrerest throng in two years. The Giants turnout ! of over 50.000 (including service men and complimentary tickets) for a doubleheader with a seventn place club that had lost eight t straight was amazing. The lowly roils nrew zi.eo ana naa iruuwc handling the crowd at the gates because nobody expected so many, Ard it was a great day for the fans who got a good run for their money. The Yonkees came up with an other of their bis: innines, scoring si in the third to drive Ifty Judd to cover and beat the Red Sox, 7-2. Marvin Breuer fashioned-a two-hitter, but one of them was a homer by Bobby Doerr with a mate on. Buddv Rosar hit for the circuit, with two on and altogether al-together drove In four runs. Cleveland reeled off its eighth rtraifcht and kcot pace with the1 -Vairiw bv attwg the mimlt- hitting White Sox, 3-2. Johnny Rignev held the tribe to one hit In evn inntngs but was knocked out when the Indiana staged a three-run unrislng: in the eisrhth. Buster Mills' pinch single drove home the tvlnr and winring runs. Detroit made it five in . a row by plastering: the Browns. 10-5 and 7-5. The two losses ran St. Louis' losing streak to nine straight. McCoskv and Bloodworth hit homers for the Tigers. Connie Mack's Athletics kicked over the traces and walloped Washington twice. 6-1. and 6-3, vscstine the cellar in favor of the White Sox. Luman Harris and Roeer Wolf tamed the Senators. Brooklyn's fabulous Dodgers with a natched-up HneuD manhandled man-handled the Phils twice, 3-1 and 10-2. and increased their national leaene lead to three games. Billy Herman nlayed first in p'lace of Dolf Camilli and Augie Galan. both laid up with heaw colds, and Lew Risrgs was a third in place of the ailing Arky Vaughan. Ken Heintzelman blanked the Cardinals for the second time this season as Pittsburgh beat St. Louis 7-0. nd then the Pirates battled the Red Birds to a 4-4 deadlock in the 11-innings nightcap. The Giants' four-game winning streak went uo in smoke as the Braves snapped their eight-game losing streak with a double victory vic-tory over the men of Mel Ott, 3-2 and 8-5. Jim Tobin's five-hit pitching did the job in the opener - and a six-run rally over Dave Koslo put the second game on ice. Cincinnati's new power continued contin-ued as the Reds hammered out 12 hits and thumped the Cubs, 9-5. The Reds' pitching, however, hit a snag when Bucky Walters was driven to cover. He has yet to win a game. Junior Thompson, who relieved him, was credited with the victory Sunday's Results Bonneville 13, Nibley Park 1 Ogden C. C. 13, Provo 2. Forest Dale 8. Salt Lake C. C. 5. El Monte 7, Fort Douglas 6. Utah Copper '7, Logan 4. Next Sunday's Schedule Logan at Salt Lake C. C. Forest Dale at Ogden C. C. El Monte at Provo. Bonneville at Utah Copper. Fort Douglas at Nibley Park. Smarting from the 13-2 defeat handed them by the defending champion Oden Countrv cIud yesterday, the Timpanogos Golf club members eagerly, await their next match for a chance to redeem re-deem themselves. El Monte invades in-vades the local links Sunday and although its team defeated Fort Douglas 7-6 yesterday, the Provo club figures to triumph. Bonneville, the other Of the two strongest teams had little trouble with Nibley Park, coming com-ing through with a 13-1 win. Best shot of the day at Bonneville was turned in by Ralph Vetterli on the Bonneville club. On the eighth hole, he followed his long drive by a nine shot good for an eagle two. In other matches, Utah Copper beat out the Cache Valley squad at Logan, 7-4: and Forest Dale whipped the Salt Lake country clubbers, 6-3. Most aggravating' man on the tricky Ogden course was George Schneiter, Ogden's pro. His was a top notch performance of 66, eight under par, and the best of the day. He made two eagles on the 288 yard par four fifth hole, and spread six birdies over the other holes. Only point winners for the Timps were E. E. Smith and Dr. C. O. Jensen, who played E. Fallentine, and E. B. Thatcher. Results of the matches; Ogden C. C. George Schneiter-Garth Peck . . 3 Gus Beck Dallas Hess 3 Dee Richards-Clair Boyle .... 3 Henry Mathieu-Art Bennings . . 3 E. Fallentine-E. B. Thatcher . . 1 Total 13 PROVO John Memmering-Mark Nilsen 0 Fred Dixon-C. S. Bean 0 Cloyd Booth-Bill Johnston .... 0 Marion Halliday-L. Johnson . . 0 E. E. Smith- Dr. C. O. Jensen 2 Total 2 oThe Baseball Standings A 9S Rfelax, Be Natural, Keep Swinging, Says Nelson- Too Many Details Handicap Golfer - - Pvt. Bryan (Bitay) Grant, leading amateur tennis player, lines up post tennis court at Fort McPher-son, McPher-son, Ga. Yesterday's hero Marvin Breu er, Yankee righthander who held the hard-hitting Red Sox to two Kits, stopping such hitters as Ted Williams, Jimmy Foxx and Jim Tabor cold. MTJNCRJEF BOOSTER ST. LOUIS, April 27 Catcher Rick Ferrell calls Bob Muncrief of the Browns the best young pitcher to come into the American League since Bob Feller. Do You Enjoy 35c and 50c -HOSIERY? Y NOT TRY ) Longwear at Taylor Bros. Co. 3 Pair for 69c W. L. Pet. New York 3 ..750 Cleveland 9 3 .750 Detroit 10 5 .667 Boston 7 5 .583 Washington 5 9 .357 Philadelphia 5 9 .357 St. Louis 5 10 .333 Chicago 3 9 .250 Sunday's Results Philadelphia 6-6, Washington 1-3 St. Louis 5-5, Detroit 10-7. New York 7, Boston 2. Cleveland, 3, Chicago 2. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. I Brooklyn 11 Pittsburgh 7 New York 7 Chicago 6 St.. Louis 5 Cincinnati 5 Boston 6 Philadelphia 3 3 5 6 6 6 6 8 10 Pet. .811 .583 .538 .500 .455 .455 .425 .231 Bv IIARRY GRAYSON NBA Service Sports rlltor GREAT LAKES, 111., April 27 It is not as simple to shift service athletes around as some people ceem to suspect. The Army and Navy are trying to win a world war, not baseball and football games or a leg on some sort of a cup. Lieut. Mickey Cochrane has a rather accomplished baseball club at the Great Lakes Naval Station, and you already hear about the tremendous football team this base will have next fall. It Is reported that Fritz Crisler will give up his job at Michigan to coach it, but here you learn that the Bureau of Navigation has not yet considered the spin specialist's spe-cialist's application for a commission. commis-sion. Georpe McAfee of the Chicago Bears, Bruce Smith of Minnesota, Paul Soper of Northwestern and Harvey McCullom, Tulare's huge tackle, have been mentioned in connection with Great Lakes football. McAfee is at Norfolk, and ath letic officers here doubt that they'll ever see the fleet Duke. Smith is not at Great Lakes. Soper is an ensign and an officer will not plav on the Great Lakes team. McCullom Mc-Cullom isn't even in the Navy. Everv training1 station would like to have Bob Feller on Its baseball team, but nobody at Great Lakes will believe this base has the Iowa farm boy until he shows up at the main gate with his or ders. Feller Is patching for Nor folk. Benny Boynton was in the Marine Mar-ine Corps learning to fly before he attended Williams following World War I. Moon Mullins, the old Notre Dame back and successful head coach, has a wife, and six children Bill Neufeld, Harvard track coach is a widower with four children. Sleepy Jim Crowley, Fordham's Old Horseman, has a wife and two children. These men and 189 others, a pood share of them well past the draft age and ineligible, anyway, went through 14 hours of heavy training and studying daily at An napolis to prove themselves cap able of conditioning Navy fliers. Sunday's Results Brooklyn 3-10. Philadelphia 1-2 Boston 3-8, New York 2-5. Chicago 5, Cincinnati 9. Pittsburgh 2-4, St. Louis 0-4 (second game tie, called 'end 11th, darkness). COAST LEAGUE Sunday's Results San Diego 2-2, San Francisco 0-1 , Sacramento 8-5, Los Angeles 14-3. Oakland . 2-3, Seattle 6-4 First of 12 Instructive Article, BY BYRON NELSON Ma.t.. v ih. MulaH' " A middle-aged friend of mine decided . he would make ', some changes in his game. He had been reading an instructive article. ar-ticle. There was something about wrist action which intrigued him. Now George, as we'll call him, was a little above average. A high 80, low 90 shooter. , He was confident this wrist business would put him in the 70s. George was a mightiy disappointed disap-pointed fellow when his score shot up to 100 and threatened to stay there. He came to me, and I straightened him out. He had tied himself into a knot, and as soon as he relaxed, he went back to normal. His case illustrates a point In this series on golf. First, I have long felt the worst thing you can do for a golfer is clutter his head with too many ideas. I am going to avoid that mistake. Rather we will emphasize certain simple, easy to understand fundamentals Course For Average Getter Not Expert This is not a course for the expert. ex-pert. Rather, it is a refresher course for the average golfer. 1 can explain, you see, to the fellow in the 70s that he must "hit down" more, or "take more turf" or "flatten his swing." But to the average golfer, those terms are simply confusing. I am going to attempt to take the positive side. Not "don't do this" but why do it?" I shall emphasize relaxing, holding yourself your-self in a natural position, swinging swing-ing with rhythm. I am going to try to give the average golfer a sound base for his game. With this base, he can go to his professional and get the refinements. I believe that listing a hundred "musts" and "must-nots" "must-nots" for a dozen different clubs in a, swing that lasts only a second sec-ond or two can mean only confusion confu-sion to the average golfer. Natural Swing Key To Whole Game The basis of golf is naturally the swing. When I played my first game in 1926, I think I shot 150. I hit a few good shots and the game got in my blood. I always al-ways liked to swing things and had hit pretty well In baseball. But this new game where you were at bat all the time fascinated fascin-ated me. We kids in Texas had a game which made me mighty good at swinging. During wet weather, we would take big hunks of the gummy soil, wrap them around broom weeds, and sling these gobs at the side of a barn. We became so expert that some of us could hit the target at from 75 to 100 yards. When I was caddylng, I often got into trouble, swinging clubs. Once I broke the shaft of a player's play-er's wooden club. But the point !s, I kept swinging. Tecnnicauy, my swing was poor, for, as pro Ted Longworth pointed out, I was overswinging badly. Longworth liked , the way I handled myself though. He Uked the easy rhythm and grace in my swing and the fact I was natural and relaxed. I had a good golf base. That is what I am going to em phasize basic fundamentals which will not tie a golfer up but rather give him a foundation. If this course accomplishes that, you will have taken a big stride forward. For given a good swing, re laxation, natural habits and pro per objectives, a golf pro can really go to town on your game. He's In The Groove : n'wwwu..u.w t ) X' X 'Mi H' " ym:-H- HERALD C THE m m ' mm Today's Sport IPaFade Alsab To Win Derby Jockey James Picks Tm Walsh, former president of Professional Golfers Association, compiles statistics on Byron Nelson's stance. Louis To Attend Blackburn Rites Provo Boat Club To Elect Tuesday Election of officers will be one of the important items of business at a general meeting of the Provo Boat club Tuesday at 8 p. m. on the Smith-Strong sho-boat at Utah lake, announces Bernus M. Bills, secretary. All members of the club are requested to attend. BTJRLEY AFTER SUQAK NEW YORK, April 27 Charley Burley. Pittsburgh Negro, offers Ray (Sugar) Robinson S10.000 to I box him for th rStrht tn ihllnpi Hollywood 3-5, Portland 4-4 (first j Freddie Cochrane, . welterweight game a uuuBa;. champion. NEXT: No set 1am. CHICAGO, April 27 (U.R) World heavyweight Champion Joe Louis arrives here today from Camp Up-torN."Y.7brIa Up-torN."Y.7brIa six-day furlough to attend the funeral Wednvsday of Jack Blackburn, his trainer and close friend. Funeral plans called for burial of Blackburn following eervices at the Pilgrim Baptist church. He died last Friday of a heart attack when he appeared to be recovering from Pneumonia. PILOTS BEAT FLIERS WENATCHEE, Wash., April 27 (U.R) The Boise Pilots of the Pioneer Pio-neer league thumped a team of naval fliers from Sand Po'int naval air station. Seattle,' 10-4, Sunday as part of the annual Wenatchee TestivtU.3 :- Apple BIo&s6hl BY JACK GUENTHEB United Press Staff Correspondent EN ROUTE TO THE KENTUCKY KEN-TUCKY DERBY, April 27 U.E The boy in the light gray suit sitting sit-ting across from me in car 418 tapped a cigarette against .the back of his hand and agreed that, yes, the derby looked like a wide open race. Then he struck a match, puffed twice and through the small cloud of smoke added "but Alsab will win it, of course." He was a little fellow, this boy in the gray suit, and he was quite young. He weighs only 109 pounds with his pockets full of silver and at 22 he has no more whiskers than a baby. But his hands are strong, his eyes are shrewd, and his reputation is wide. As you may have guessed by now, he is a Jockey. He is an exceptionally successful jockey. His name is Basil James. If that Isn't enough Identification, he Is known around the tracks as a firecracker with a delayed ac tion fuse. That is because as stretch rider he has few If any equals. He knows a horse when he sees one and he believes he ha seen one. The horse is Alsab, who hasn't won a race thl year, but who James thinks will win the derby. He is so strongly convinced that the slim son of Good Goods will be home first on Saturday afternoon that he is gambling $7,000. He isn't betting that sum, but he is gambling it just the same. You see, James asked for the mount on Alsab. If he wins he'll get 10 per cent or the- $70,- 000 purse. If he loses, he'll just get peanuts. "I saw him run in the Widener in Florida a few months ago, Basil told me as the train clicked off the miles to Churchill Downs. "He lost that race, by a couple of lengths but he is giving away weight to every horse. That was the clincher for me. I broke all records running to his trainer, Sarge Swenke, and asking if he had hired a derby rider. ' "Sarge said 'no,' and when I asked for the Job he said 'okay.' Well, I rode Alsab In the Otesa-peake Otesa-peake a few days ago and we lost by a length to Colchis but that wan because the track was cuppy.'It will be an entirely different dif-ferent .story at the Downs on Saturday. You mark my words, thl baby fthould be the favorite becauMe he still Is the best horse. For more than an hour the tiny man who boomed out of the half mile tracks In Washington seven years ago and took his place as one of the nation's great riders explained to me why Alsab should win.. Basil says the horse has proven his speed, has proven his gameness and last week proved that he will be at a physical peak for the derby. IIERTZBERG GOOD SPORT NEW YORK, April 27 Sonny Hertzberg was given the City College Col-lege of New York award for outstanding out-standing sportsmanship in basket-ball." basket-ball." ; " ' - Penn Marks Excel Record at Drake NEW YORK, April 27 (U.R) Performances in the Penn Relays excelled those In the Drake Relays in 11 of the 18 events, a comparison compari-son of the marks showed today. In six events the Drake winners were tons while in the other event, the 120-yard high hurdles each winner was clocked in the same time, 14.6 seconds. OFF IN A RUSH PHILADELPHIA. April 27 George Ha'm, captain of the Penn sylvania baseball team and is-asi ern Intercollegiate batting cham pion last season, started this year with nine hits In his first 17 trips -S- Dusty Miller, Star 50 Years Ago, Loses-Baseball Interest By GENE PLOWDEN United Press Staff Correspondent MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 27 (U.R) Dusty Miller said today, as he and Mrs. Miller observed their golden wedding anniversary, that he guessed he was "getting too old to give a damn about baseball any more." "After all," the old diamond star recalled, "I wore a uniform for 21 years. I guess that's long enough." You never heard of Dusty Miller? Mil-ler? Well, 111 bet a good spare tire your grand-pappy did, and how! , Upon the evidence of a thousand yellowed clippings In a tattered old ecrapbook, Diusty Miller was a combination Ted Williams and Ty Cobb 50 years ago. He was born Charles B. Miller in Oil City, Pa., and will be 74 years old on Sept. 10. He played baseball at Niagara university before be-fore moving on to Buffalo, Lima and .Canton, O., and Evansvllle, Ind. He was sold to the St. Lttuls Browns, but failed to report. In stead, he and Mrs. Miller were married on April 27, 1892. i i The next year he joined Nashville, Nash-ville, then in the old 12-club Southern league. A short time later he became manager but was or dered to disband the team during the yellow fever epidemic in Mem phis. The following year he was with Toledo, of the Western league, and was sold to Cincinnati in 1895 There Miller earned the sobriquet duty" with his daring base running, run-ning, which included going into a bag with arms and legs flying, stirring up so much dust the um pire couldn't see the play. In a game against Brooklyn, which the Reds won, 16 to 10, Millej got three hits in six times up, and stole five base, including eecond, third and home in succes sion. In another game, with Clevelaai it was a 12-club league in those days he made "4 for 4" off Cy Young, who allowed only five hits that day. Miller also stole coupie of bases. In a doubeheader, he made eight hits in nine times up, with Young and Bates pitching. In 1897, still with Cincinnati, he stole 27 bases in 34 games, scored 33 runs and made 66 hits for batting average of .440. Against Pittsburgh, in a game which the Reds won, 3-2, Miller made four hits in four times at bat, scored two runs and drove in the third. He stole third and home after smashing out a double That year he stole 79 bases, which is 11 more than the 68 the entire "Cincinnati team stole last season. 1! fv ffl-ISTS I XL SERIES 4$ "The Telephone Hour popular Bell System radio program "presents "a new program beginning April 27. Each Monday night at 7 p. m. a top ranking -guest star will be beard. These stars will inaugurate the new series : JASCHA HEIFETZ April 27' CHARLES KULLMAN May.11 GRACE MOORE May 4 LANSING HATFIELD May IS JOSi ITURBI May 25 Evei'yMondayNighLVTpjiiNDGned Network 7 |