Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1942 — Page 23

THURSDAY, MAY, 28 1942

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Sharp-Eyed Men Say It’s Hogan or Snead

Strong Winds Threaten Pros’

‘Golf Scores

ATLANTIC CITY. N. J, May 28] (U. P.)—A high wind threatened to send scores soaring as 16 survivors began the second match play 36-| ¥& hole round today in the annual P.! G. A. golf tournament at Seaview! Country club. i Jimmy Demaret, the smiling] Texan who knocked off defending champion Vic Ghezzi in the first round yesterday, teed off first against Tom Harman of Montclair, | N. J. Demaret went out on the first nine with a two-under-par 34. Harman had a 36. Demaret scored an eagle three on the par five 520-| yard with a 20-foot putt. | Leland Gibson. Kansas City, Mo., | pro, played steadily for a 36 and a 1 up advantage over National Open | Champion Craig Wood. Slamin’ Sam Snead from Hot] Springs, Va., bogied the first hole to| go one down to husky Willie Goggin, { White Plains, N. Y. But the hillbilly larruper took the next with a par and then won the 6th, 8th and ninth on ‘birdies to go 3 up. Ed Dudley of Philadelphia, the P. G. A. president, and Tony Penna | : i from Dayton, O., had their troubles| When he won the sixth with a par going out. Dudley bogied the first|as Lighthorse Harry bogied and to go one down and took a two-|took the ninth with a birdie. Man-over-par six on the second to go two{grum finished in 34, two strokes down—Penna winning with a bogie better than his opponent. Byron five. Dudley drew even with a|Nelson, Toledo, O. took the same birdie and a par and birdied again|margin over Joe Kirkwood, Abingto go 1 up. He won the eighth with |ton, Pa. Nelson canned a good putt a birdie and took the ninth on a|for an eagle three on the ninth.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, May 28 (U. P).—Only 16 players were left today when the field turned out for the second round of the P. G. A. championship tournament and the sharp-eyed men who have watched golfers come and go tabbed little Ben Hogan and Slamming Sammy Snead—remember them?—as the ones who will bear notice when the

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The times when 15,000 cheered high school basketball championship competition in the Butler fieldhouse are more of a memory than ever today. already the interior is being redecorated for class rooms. It looks like a small-town square.

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Royal Income

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, May 28.—One of

the closing chapters in the saga of

a fabulous horse will be sent ot the binders this week. Whirlaway, the par five as Penna hacked out a six.{ Corp. Jim Turnesa, Ft. Dix, N. J. | bush-tailed king of th turf, will stretch his royal legs in the $40,000 Dudley ended 3 up with a scrambled land Harold (Jug) McSpaden, Phila-{ qo bho Handicap. Simultaneously, his many loyal admirers expect | him to stretch his royal income beyond $400,000. As odds on such affairs are rated, it is an even money proposition

that the chestnut beauty from the Blue Grass belt will do it. For that (reason, the Memorial day classic at beatiful Belmont should ‘be truly historic. At last count the cannonball of Calumet had raked in $371,811. A Suburban victory would put him over the hump. Only one horse ever has won as much as $400,000. That was your

friend, my friena, everybody’s friend —the much-traveled Seabiscuit. The old guy finally got up there after years of patient and painful climbing. His exact mark, highest in his- | tory, is $437,730. This puts him ap-

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rroximately $66,000 ahead of Whirlaway, but only tentatively. For barring the hazards of a breakdown, which are present 24 hours a day, Whirlaway figures to cut the difference in half in the Suburban. He will have all the good ones to beat—Challedon, Mioland, Market Wise, Attention and others—but he has defeated them before and he should defeat them again. After that, it will be easy.

Running Wide

There are some who say that for Whirlaway it always has been easy. He is probably the only one of the potentially great thoroughbreds of the last decade who hasn't been smacked by the jinx which always taints the best. Dozens of famous horses have been knocked out by

that jinx—Bimelech, Stagehand, Lawrin, Dauber and even Challedon himself. Certainly Whirlaway hasn’t fought the fight that Seabiscuit did. Or that Sun Beau did. To him, it has been oats and hay and one triumph after another. His only real opposition has come from himself. That was during the brief spell last spring when he was the terribletempered Mr. Bangs of the tracks. He insisted on running wide.

Quicker Than the Mint

But Big Ben Jones cured that quirk and since then the middlingsized son of crazy old Blenheim II has been on the high road. He won $77,275 as a juvenile and another $272,386 at three. This year he picked up $20,000 in the Dixie but

he hasn’t had a chance yet to get

really rolling. Even so, the ease with which he has won jolts the imagination. If my arithmetic is correct, he has earned his $371,811 in approximately an hour and seven minutes of actual elapsed running time. Even the mint seldom knocks it off faster than that. Sure, it looks easy. But it looks easy because Whirlaway is a horse among 100,000 horses. To the really great performer, almost anything looks pretty easy. | Santa Anita Robbed Him

Although Whirlaway hasn’t been beset by injuries, he has had his tough raps occasionally. He lost the Arlington Classic to a second-flight horse and lost almost $40,000 with it. He lost the Jockey Club gold cup to Market Wise although he broke a North American record in losing. And he was cut out of a potential $150,000 during the winter. The closing of Santa Anita park robbed him of that. Under normal circumstances, Whirlaway already would be over that hump. Instead, he is forced to go the hard ‘vay for the first—and probably the last— time in his meteoric career. For once he passes the ’Biscuit, Whila-

pressure begins to tell. Hogan, the mechanical man who began playing, in this last of the year’s great tournaments with an aching wrist, had a date with Ky Laffoon on the Seaview Country club course and Snead, shooting for one more big cup before he joins the navy, drew Willie Goggin of White Plains, N. Y. Both were favored. Sub-Par Strokes

Ordinarily, Laffoon would not be rated much competition for Hogan, but today wasn’t an ordinary dav. It was, intsead, a day when anything could happen. As the pros went back to work they had a record shattering total of 57 sub-par strokes to their credit and Laffoon was responsible for six. The Cherokee clouter reached a peak in the opening rounds of match play yesterday when he trounced Vic Bass of Keokuk, Ia. 12 and 11 for the day’s most lop-sided triumph. He was eight under par on the first 18 with a 31-35—66. Hogan, meanwhile, was unpressed in eliminating Ben Loving of Long Meadow, Mass., T and 6. Byrd’ Eliminated

Snead’s favoritism was easily explained. He knocked over Sam Byrd, the former New York Yankee outfielder, 7 and 6, and clipped par by nine strokes on the 30 holes he played. Goggin had his troubles eliminating Ed Burke, of Hamden, Conn., 2-1, playing par golf for the 35 holes. As the eight matches began, defending champion Vic Ghezzi, formerly of Deal, N. J., and now an army corporal, was on the sidelines, blasted out of the tournament by Jimmy Demaret, the chubby Texan who dominated the 1940 winter swing. Demaret upset Ghezzi, 4 and 3, and drew the veteran Tom Harman of Montclair, N. J., today. Harman—only man in today’s group who failed to break par in the first round—conquered Bruce Coltart, the home pro, 3 and 2. Demaret was favored to advance to the third round but other name players had considerably tougher jobs ahead. Among these were Craig Wood, Harry Cooper and Jug McSpaden. Wood was paired with Leland Gibson of Kansas City, Mo. The National Open champion was six under par for 32 holes yesterday when he bested Rod Munday of Toledo, O., 5 and 4. Gibson was measuring Jimmy Gauntt of Longview, Tex., 10 and 9, and shooting seven under par.

Cooper Recovers

Cooper had an even stiffer task today in Lloyd Mangrum of Chicago. Light Horse Harry recovered after a very shaky start in the first round to win his place in the bracket of 16. McSpaden drew Corp. Jim Turnesa of Ft. Dix. The lantern-jawed Philadelphian walloped Sam Parks Jr,, one-time national open champion, 7 and 5, while Turnesa rolled over Dutch Harrison of Harrisburg, Pa, by a 6 and 5 count. In the other two matches, Byron Nelson of Toledo played Joe Kirkwood of

Abington, Pa., and Ed Dudley paired off with Tony Penna. Nelson, a former P. G. A. titleholder, rallied after going three! down at the 18-hcle mark and! stopped Harry Nattlebladt of Avon, | Conn, 5 and 3. Kirkwood shot] even par in a 4 and 2 defeat of Jimmy Thomson, the slugger from Chicopee, Mass. Dudley eliminated the former champion Denny Shute, 3 and 2, and Penna hacked down Jimmy Hines of Great Neck by a| similar count. |

'‘Doodlebugs’ Race Memorial Day |

Another series of races featuring 30 cars will be held at the Midget- | drome race track, Greenfield, Satur- | day night. | Time trials for the race, sanctioned by the Consolidated Speed-! ways Racing association will begin at 7 p. m, |

Tribe to Play Kansas City in Second Game

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stanza on a single and three walks, one run scoring, three left. The run was forced in on a base on balls,

Thirteen Indians Stranded

The Indians didn’t look too hot at the plate while winning as they left 13 runners stranded in their eight rounds at bat. In the fourth

they chalked their second marker after two were dowh on a walk to Wayne Blackburn, his theft of second and Bill Skelley’s single. In the fifth Johnny McCarthy doubled after one away, advanced to third on Joe Bestudik’s infield hit and scored after the catch on Milton Galatzer’s long fly, In the seventh McCarthy belted a triple after one was out but was caught trying to sneak home while Bestudik was batting when Catcher Kenny Sears’ return throw to his pitcher rolled to Shortstop Scharein. McCarthy wasn”t fast enough to beat Scharein’s throw to the plate. Then Bestudik singled, Galatzer singled and Rabbit McDowell singled, scoring Bestudik. That was Tribe run No. 4. An error helped the Indians to their fifth and last run, scored in the eighth. Bill Skelley walked after one out, First Sacker Levy of the Blues made a wild peg over second after fielding Joe Moore's grounder, McCarthy walked and Skelley scored as Bestudik forced McCarthy

Tribe Gets Ten Walks

The Indians collected nine hits, five off Al Gettel in five innings and four off Herb Karpel in four. The Kansas City pitchers were generous with their Annie Oakleys. Gettel dished out seven walks and Karpel three. The game’s fielding feature was contributed by McDowell, who made a diving stop of Larry Rosenthal’s hot smash in the third and got the ball to McCarthy ahead of the runner. In the hitting department nary a Blue got an extra base blow. On the Tribe side McCarthy smacked a double and a triple and Galatzer walloped a double and single. Skelley and Bestudik garnered two singles apiece and McDowell one. Although Blackburn went hitless, he drew three walks, scored once and stole second twice. Don’t look now, but the Indians have won three in their last five

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He will be retired to domestic life and he will send up his sons to carry on where he leaves off. The happy ending in the saga should be provided around the middle of the summer. It should come in either the Butler or the Massachusetts handicap. After that, Whirlaway’s days will be numbered. | He'll go back to his blue grass home. | I'll be somewhat regretful the day Whirlaway passes the ‘Biscuit, for the 'Biscuit was my horse among all horses. He won’t be around to defend his crown, because he has retired to the domestic life himself. But even in his absence his tradition will carry on. Whirlaway will beat his mark, but as with every horse who ever beat him, Whirlaway will have to break the all-time record to do it.

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