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Show TODAYS WVerald Jmtnial Sport Parade By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK, Aug. 7 lU!) Shooting ttie sports breeze: Bambn Don t oe too surprised if Dolph (anulli eomes bark to organized baseball next year. The big first baseman said he wass through for good after the Dodg-ei- ... l.aueu ii..u uo. lue uvw the Giants. But the word is out that Dolph will be oftered a post as manager of a I'atitie toasi league team at a lucrative salary. He would be close to his Calilorma ranch and the odds are he would accept. . . Lefty Gomez, the former Yankee pitching star, is implementing his plant savings from a defense o salary by pitching tor the semi-prs cannlU grave Busnwicks. exit recalls the opposite manner in which El Goofy look it when he reached the end ot the baseball trail. "Too bad you can't throw hard anymore," sympathized a friend. "1 throw just as hard but it's just that the ball doesn't arrive at the plate as quickly," retorted the smiling Gomez. . . WOMENS TENNIS WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 7 (U.PJ Louise Brough of Deverly Hills, Calif, plays Doris Hart of Miami, Fla, in the singles final of the Deleware State Women's Grass courts championship today. For Detroit Gains 15th Homer As White Sox Are Blanked Rip Sewell of Pirates Is Best Major Pitcher three-year-o- lu They stage that Hambletonian, the transplanted Kentucky derby of trotting, at afterEmpire City Wednesday be eome noon, and there may withdrawals. The owners are complaining about the bumpy condition of the track. Sep Palin, one of the veteran charioteers, claims It isn't, lit to race on." Mrs. James B. Joxinson's Worthy Boy has been shoeing a nifty set of heels in "nrvmf. outs' and may be the top favoite when the bugle blows. Oieckers are you kidding? Rudy York Is Bat Kingpin Work-Ou- t Continues Hitting Lead . Hwnea racing Keeping Up the Good Stan Musial four-minu- - SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1943. LOGAN, UTAH, Stan NEW YORK, Aug. 7 Musial of the St, Louis Cardinals, the major leagues leading hitter the past two weeks, retained his top spot this week with a .340 average for 98 games. The Chicago veteran shortstop, Sox's White Luke Appling, continued to pace tne American league with a .331 for 94 contests. average In view of the recent Harris-Co- x The front running Cardinals rerhubarb at Philadelphia we tained thpir major league supreItolio jvwsom macy in club hitting with an InWonder whether still thinks he got the rawest deal crease of one percentage point in base bull! over last week's figures to post a team average bf .274. Tbe Cinlean Track Guilder Hagg, the cinnati Reds maintained the lead Swede who runs like a frightened in club fielding with .980, an Injack rabbit, will shoot for the my- crease of one point over last week'a mile at Tribor- figures. thical The Philadelphia Athletics stayough stadium Wednesday evening. Gundcr the wonder believes he ed at the top' of the list in Amerimight hit that coveteu uocking 1, can league fielding with a perconditions are right. centage of .976, a point off the The opinion in this corner is average posted last week. Detroit that the flying fireman will bo held the pace in the junior cirdoing right well if he breaks the cuits hitting department with an tape in 4:02 on that track average of .259. of a second under the mark Truett (Rip) Sewell of the PitScandestablished by that other tsburgh Pirates, is still head and inavian skyrocket, Arne Anderson. shoulders above the rest of the liurlera with 17 major league Racing Count Fleet, the Hertz victories and only two losses. Orval hurricane who mopped up every- Grove of the Chicago White Sox, division, added another victory to his record thing in the probably wont come back to the this week to continue as the pace horse highways until September. setting burler in the American It had been hoped that the Brown league with 10 victories and one ace. Beauty would return for the end defeat. The Yankee Spud of the Saratoga meeting. But train- Chandler has the most victories er Don Cameron says that little in the junior loop, 13, against three hammerhead has put on a lot ot losses. Leaders in other departments: weight since his injury and layoff after winning the Belmont stakes Runs: (N) Vaughan Erooklyn, 5. him on June 80; (A) Vernon, Washington, 64. Theyre galloping now and Cameron Hits: (N) Musial, St. Louis, 133; says: "he's His first (A) Wakefield, Detroit, 132. coming along slowly. comeback probably will be an overDoubles: N) Herman, Brooklyn, 29; (A) keltni-r-, Cleveland, 28. night or allowance race. Triples: (N) Musial, St Louis, Boxing Corp. Ray Robinson and 14: (A) Lindcll, New York, 9. Bob Montgomery of Philadelphia, Home runs: (A) Keller, New lightweight champion, New York York, 17; (N) Nicholson, Chicago, jstyle, are betting favorites for 15. uncle Mike Jacobs two planned Stolen bases: (A) Moses, Chicago, loutdoor shows. Robinson rules the 33; (N) Vaughan, Brooklyn, 12. 9 to 5 choice to stop ' Hammerin' Henry Armstrong at the Polo grounds on- Aug. 27. Montgomery is a 7 to S choice over Beau Jack, from whom he took the crown. The battling Beau looks like a good risk at those odds. Sarazen Won Every Major Title, Made Shot That Will Live Forever -- Armstrong Signs For five More Years SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 7 CD The University of Utah has extended Coach Ike Armstrong's contract for unother five years at S7100 a year. Armstrong said that the terms fine" and of the contract were that he would sign it today. His previous contract ran out on July 1. In case the university decides not to field a football team, a provision in the contract provides for a salary adjustment. Armstrong said that was O.K. and that he was willing to do "anything that is fair. In the 18 years of coaching here, Armstrongs Indians have become a leading power in the intermountain region, winning 11 championships and never finishing worse than third. Once Over Bj PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Malt Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 7 l'Ti Rudy York of the Detroit Tigers has never had the fan following of Ted Williams or the raucous support given Lou Novikoff, but the stolid nrst baseman has done a praiseworthy job of filling slugging Hank Gieen Dergs shoes. I nsung Hero York never will be the hitter that Williams or Greenberg were. But the Georgian cin be classed as one of the current unsung heroes of the American league, with an annual total that makes him a serious threat every time he reaches the runs-batted-- in batters box. Detroit is within a game of third-plac- e Chicago today and York's bat has been a big iactor in keeping the Tigers as a regular threat in the junior loop. York clouted his 15th homo run as the Tigers blanked the White Six, yesterday to drive in two Detroit markers in the third. Rudy's blow kept him in the With big guns forming backdrop, Specialist First Class Fred runner-u- p spot Dehind Charlie Keller of the Yankees in the major Apostoli keeps in shape with daily workout. Former middleweight champion is gun captain aboard light cruiser in South Pacific. league home run department and total brought his tor the season to 59. Dizzy Trout won his 11th deWin Two cision by spacing six Chicago hits as Detroit clinched the game with four runs in the eighth on three Ring Victories hits, a walk and two errors. Orval Grove was charged with his second loss of the year after allowing 10 HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 7 (t'.P)--- It hits. was a family affair last night as Senators Win The Senators stretched their featherweights Joe and Ccferino Q Where are Japanese prison- of the fighting Robleto clan of winning streak to eight games by in their ers of war interned in the U. S.? Pasadena, Cal., won twin victories defeating the Red Sox, in weeks at A The Japs are all interned at first game daytime in the main events of' a double blast in the Boston, A three-ru- n Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. feature fight card. fourth was enough for victory. To make it all the more exclusAllie Reynolds, Righthander Q What major league baseball ive Canto Robleto directed his young Cleveland Rookie, buried the team never won a pennant? brothers', strategy. Although blind, Indians to a brilliant, victory A The St. Louis Browns. Canto used another second as a over the Browns in a night game. seeing eye. Reynolds allowed only three hits, Q How many balls does a brother Joe fanned nine and walked two lor Under his bowler roll when making a per- hammered direction, out a third-roun- d his filth success and third shutout. fect score? knockout over Elwood (Spitfi.e) Oris Hockett was hit by a pitched A Twelve, i rather than, the Romero of Sacramento and byqtb-e- r bt.ll, raced to third on Culienbines usual ten. decisCefermo took a clout and scored the game's only ion from Paul Guerrero of Los run when Jeff Heath hit into a Q What is coriander? double play. Angeles. A An herb used in cakes mid In the first main event, Joe, Roger Wolff held the Yankees to confections. 119, lashed out a sizzling right eight hats and pitched the A's to a cross in the opening round and 0 triumph in a night game. Q How many people are supRomero, 117, flush on his Philadelphia tallied twice in the caught posed to be working in Nuzi labor left eye. Romero dropped to the first, margin enough to win. camps? the In the national league, canvas and took a nine count just A The latest estimate is as the bell sounded. In the second Cardinals ran third lead to 12 000,000. Romero uncorked an overhand games by trimming the runner-u- p in a night game. Tbe right to Robleto's jaw and Joe Pirates, Cardinals rapped Rip Sewell for went down for a nine count. hits to bring an end to the Robleto hammered away 11Pirate Old Off throughout aces the third round and winning inflicted more cuts under Ro- streak. His last defeat was at on June mero's left eye. The bout was the hands of the Cards In Golf stopped at the end of the round 9 and his only other previous loss because Romero's eye was com- against 17 triumphs was to tbe Biaves on May 18. pletely shut. Giants Divide Ceferino, 114, and Guerrero, 117, DETROIT, Aug. 7 l'.P Waiter The Giants divided with the Hagen and Gene Sarazen, two of started off at a furious pace. The the greatest competitive golfers first round was a draw and then Phillies. The New Yorkers gained this country ever has known, meet Ceferino won the second through a 3 triumph over the Quakers on the links for the first time in the seventh. 'Guerrero had the in 10 innings in the opening con17 years today in the war time edge in. the last three but Cefer-ino- 's test a replay of a game protested Giants on June 13. The scries for Ryder early drive earned him the by the was game protested after Babe the benefit of the Red Cross. decision. A large Dahlgren stepped in front of a gallery was expected to watch the renewal of a golf rivalpitched ball and, instead of being TRAGEDY called out, continued at bat and ry that dates bark to 1922 when WINSLOW, Sarazen defeated the England. Aug. 7 hit a double which drove in three A royal air force plane runs. The game was ordered rethe mighty Haig to capture the na- tl'.K) crashed through two public build- played with the score tied at tional open golf championship. Hagen, leader of the challengers, ings today and set fire to four in the 10th. Newt Kimball pushed old cottages, killing 14 civilians and over the winning run with a walk, and Chick Harbert, j Ron Northey blasted two hom- Battle Creek. Mich., pro, will test the entire crew of the ship. Sarazen and Craig Wood, leader of the Ryder cup squad, in an four-ba- ll match. We can't lose," said Sarazen when informed of the pairings. With Hagen playing against us it's plus one for the Ryder cup team already. Truthfully, Tm just going Hagen along fo1 the exercise shot back. My partner Harbert will take care of both Gene and Craig and if he needs help I' first-divisi- 6-- 0, runs-batted-- ia Brothers 2, 1- -0 8-- Stars Square r- CCUCUES ID SWAV6 UNCTIL K tms SluQ lost- - PS InDiAsjS vmJ SEVEN -- Pieryp s Of wo w.AAASS.0 inThs m be there. (osr Zl&Siy GAME 'fcATTiNS BY UNITED PRESS SICILY: capture Troina after fiercest fight since Tunisia and punch toward Mount Etna road: U. S. forces occupied Isle of Ustica north of Palermo; Americans .CcAo(2JTW A -- OP 8033 Y DOEW2 WATTIN' TO Ml S&u MILES envieQ an'milCI British edge toward Adrano, RUSSIA: Russians smash de fenses northwest of Kharkov and threaten to take city from rear it in swift camafter paign; German losses in recent Russian operations set at 120,000 dead: 4,f05 tanks and 2,492 planes. EUROPE: Hitler reported in conferences with high aides on axis relations: Kibbentrop rushes to Italy to hear request for withdrawal of German troops. PACIFIC: American forces begin developing Munda for campaign against Japanese strongholds m Solomons; Halsey predicts south Pacific drive will develop into the battle of Japan." In the last 10 months, more than 1,600,000 square miles of the world's surface, or an average of 5333 square miles dally, have been photographed for military purposes by the Ainiy Air Forces. ,?UlaOl.ph m: V , Sports Editor lists of N KA e When golfs great are compiled, Gene Sara-zen- 's name must be included. won nee Saracini, Sarazen, tournament for every major which he was eligible. Sarazen United bagged the States Open in 1922, repeated 10 years later and shot for it in a playoff with Lawson Little as recently as 1940. His No. 4 wood to the 15th green in the 1934 Augusta Masters will live when other shots are long forgotten. Young Sarazen was cocky almost to a fault. Ho was not as congenial as Chick Evans or Francis Ouimet nor as suave and calculating as Walter Hagen, yet the chunky Sarazen reeked with color accentuated by sartorial splendor. The Little Roman knew how to keep his name on the sports pages, raised controversial issues if necessary. He was and is good copy. He is tne only discard golfer who did not knickers. Sarazen Idolized Ouimet Ouimet When the beat the British masters, Harry Vardon ai.d Edward Ray, In the National Open at Brookline to become America's golf idol in 1913, cadSarazen was an llyear-ol- d die at He repeated 4. 3. 9-- 7. k L SU11 the' A " goifer. He fated hmlu program emulated to h several faults. Before and After 4n It is possible tlie v analog, hut incidental, yars ere Bobby Jones. barazen had the health',-- '"? spect for Jones and th . from 1923 to TOO, w"en h. mortal Georgian was U. S. Open four times British Open thriu Roman was merely wishing When Jones hung up however, Sarazen got work with a vengeance. He lured both the British and Open titles in 1932. regained k is w,.J am! ton udge m 1933' was runner-uthe U S. Open that year and m the title in a playoff with Little in 1940. Sarazen, a Conned long squire, was best when the were on the line He bagged b fnf jrmei MCr,Wn three big American pionships Cakente Gcrce - the Open, money cias a $25,000 the $J5,qoo y Open in Florida and a $10,009 Los Angeles Open. Craig Wood was in the Aujuj Gene Sarazen was master of the clubhouse receiving congrauj lions. Only Sarazen had a chta short irons. to overhaul him in the 1931 Ifa when he made his first appear- ters, and the Little P.oauu n ance in the 1920 Open at quired three birdies on the L four tough holes. The incredible Sarazen got Sarazen finished well down the list but two years later at Skokie three birdies all on one hole t i he made his impress, deep and his No. 4 wood shot rolled irrevocable. He followed his vic- the cup for a double eagle J a tory in the Open by defeating the par 5 fifteenth. He played i final for the remaining holes in even par 'j Hagen in a P.G.A. championship. Wood, who had no zest for iq So pronounced was the playoff on the morrow and n Sarazen's cockiness that when defeated by several strokes. a New Jersey club asked him to They named a race horse - ers, good for three runs, off Johnny Allen and the Phillies won the nightcap, The braves plunged the Dodgers closed to the second division in 10 by belting Brooklyn, innings. Rookies outfield Charley Workman decided the game with a three-ru- n homer off Les Webber in the extra session. Cincinnati clipped the Cubs for The the second time in a row, Reds had two big innings, tallying five runs to chase Ed Hanyzewski in the second and scoring four to kayo Paul Derringer in the fifth. m !at but a long, lean period although he was sun No one idolized Apawamls. Ouimet to a' greater extent than Sarazen the boy. He read every detail of the New Englander's victory over and over again. Although they were built along entirely different lines, Sarazen attempted to copy Ouimet right down to his hair comb.' He copied Ouimets interlocking grip, something he lived to regret through many unhappy hours in years to come. Sarazen was master of the short irons. He was a trouoic shooter at the first water, especi"sand-iron- s ally with the heavy-sole- d which came into golf In the late 20s. As a putter he was without a peer when his greens lion was tractable, but he was inconsistent with his woods. Sarazen had been a professional for only two years, was only 18 le i name an opponent for an exhibition match, the Little Roman requested Long Jim Barnes, whom he dethroned at Skokie. Sarazen He could call his shots, NEXT: Johnny too. Goodmaa Hulse Runs Against Qualifying RoanJ Ft Hagg This Evening Club Champ'oaslq Scheduled For CINCINNATI, O, Aug. 7 (UPJ New York Bill Hulse, former university runner who has developed into a competitor of championship caliber, is expected to push Logan golfers Sadi; were again n ud 'nidi Sweden's Gunder Hagg to a new Rinded .today that' qoaMp e record in their race to- rounds for the club ehampioui night. must be played by Sunday evtua to the Hulse, who was runner-u- p The original deadline was Swede in a mile race at the track last tended to Sunday when entnl Yesterday's star Rudy York, who college d hit his 15th homer and drove in Saturday, will sport a lagged in completing the quiH two runs as the Tigers blanked handicap and may set a pace fast ing round. the White Sox, enough to push the flying fireman Glen Worthington, chairmu to his best effort. Gill Dodds of Boston, who ran the club tourney committee, tai third last week, spurned the offer i urged all who exrect to ente Victor of a handicap and will start from play their rounds this evenng scratch. Sunday. two-mil- rtiere is It Jes: of Ut nee. , ce 300-yar- o! Her rae Ri The f fly. 'or Armstrong Over Jim Garrison of :ty, hi a with Last from PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 7 (IHli Henry Armstrong, the lethal-fiste- d little Los Angeles negro, made it 23 victories out of 25 comeback fights last night when he pounded decision over Jimmy out a Garrison, Kansas City welterweight, before 5,000 fans. his opponent eight Spotting pounds, Armstrong went into the ring at 110, forced the fight ail the way and had Garrison on the verge of a knockout at the finish. The United Press score sheet gave Armstrong five rounds, Garrison three and called two even. ft was Hammerin' Hank's third decision over the Kansas City fighter. He defeated him twice in r0R Iw f VICTORY tagia 3t, on Both fighters were cautious in the opening round, but the Los Angeles buzz saw opened up with a punishing body attack in the second. Garrison came back to win the third and fourth rounds but Armstrong regained the initiative to take the fifth. Garrison landed a series df telling blows to capture the sixth, and then Armstrong' waded in with everything he had. Garrison went down once in the seventh for a and a few seconds later took a left hook to the head which sent him to the floor for a count of nine. Armstrong opened two cuts on Garrison's face in the last two rounds to clinch the victory. NET FINALS Mich, Aug. 7 d falkcn-bur- g KALAMAZOO. (U.Ri First-seede- Bob meets second-ranke- d James Brink of Seattle today in the junior finals of the national junior and boys tennis ' championships. Falkenburg and Brink then will pair for the junior doubles final against Jack Tuero of New Orleans and Billy Windham, Orlando, Fla. of Hollywood ai sup amt c CAN AND DRY AVAILABLE FOOD e Mi 'Imp j liaha Gu The more food every family "puts up, the more will be available for our fighting men and fighting allies. So its not only the patriotic thing to do, but also wist to can and dry food now. The many thousands of owners of Electric Apptiauc in this territory find their Electric Servants arc g111 helpers in food preservation saving time, saving work. An additional help are two folders we h prepared containing hints on canning and for hi this week. Read... use WANT-ADS- !. ho ward v. an said t it&npi OlatJ law o Must aeci and have ts. " nira Unite, l 'irguii foods. Electricity is the life blood of war production. Ekrnc waste it just because it is not rationed. Yours for tbe asking at ell Utah Power & Light Co. off FOLDERS OF HINTS cont ON CANNING AND DRYING FOOD CASH! want-a- d ebp '"DON, QUICK al army Los r ? Your sewing machine will sell fast if you run a Herald-Journ- who io 1939. one-cou- THE WAR IN BRIEF STFAK - j Feet as a Fiddle VOWEO.KCrT wanted to ,1, monsnlte Victory over tlU' 'IT.1 won the .title u nine strokes, wiulh record, was noi a fiukc Sarazen went mio Feature ll L0u30UDf2AO Ninth of a scries BY 1IARKY GRAYSON far folio 'iadio :1Ooks UTAH POWER & LIGHT ReJJy KilousSt Power the worlds jieest d 1' prod med for you by A menu serin t men ii the kind of power that spens the ret Hear "REPORT TO THE NATION" Dramatit News Program, Tues. CO. ! .'u. . ul or 'Tan 1 j mal. L, |