Show golfing city DEN charley yates sates of atlanta W WHEN won the british golf championship pion ship a while back he was the second native son to capture that honor and gave that city all but two ot of the worlds major golf titles only the professional golfers association 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 ddn the U S open and the canadian open three years later then alexa sterling had an impressive run of victories taking the southern championship pion ship in 1915 1916 and 1919 she also took the united states wom ans championship in 1915 1916 and 1919 bobby jones began to add luster to At lantas golf reputation by winning the southern amateur title in 1917 repeating in 1920 and 1923 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 ope n three times and the british amateur once in addition to many tournaments of lesser importance other antans who have helped make the city the worlds golf capital 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 title in 1937 and david mitchell who won the united states public links championship in 1934 hornsby lights FOUR COUR times a major league manager and once a candidate for the manag enship 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 as coach pinch hitter and utility man for the baltimore orioles in the international league until he 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 1 r r 0 W ROGERS HORNSBY hitting in 1924 while playing with st louis in the national league hornsby began his big league career with the st louis cards and was manager of the team in 1926 when they won the pennant and the worlds championship he was successively ces manager of the boston bees the chicago 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 engel the clubs president here azid and there THE THE cubs could have purchased J claude and bucky walters from the phillies and van lingle alango from the dodgers tor for less than the they are reported to have given the cardinals cardina Is for dizzy dean football pla players Y 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 alien for walking out of a game in boston manager oscar vitt of the indians took the pitcher to a movie alex kampo kampouris uris giant second baseman owns more luggage than any other player I 1 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 he was a son of dis done C newspaper union |