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r-T t-- v-- 7. Gee Hits Sand Trouble Champion Shows Prowess with the Driver Putt Drops and It's Over Gee's 143 Wins Times Tourney THE HAMMOND TIMES Formerly LsU County Timti SPORTS Monday, August 26, 1957 Page 13 TIME OUT! By Jeff Keat "Ed shouldn't enter tournaments if he can't stand to have a gallery watching him!" POSTS 9 AND 8 Doctor Relaxes After Victory Over Campbell ST. LOUIS' (UP)-Ed Updegraff, the prize winner of a ing tournament that had been conceded to youth, carried the big silver trophy of the 55th Western Amateur golf championship home to Tucson, today and decided to rest on his laurels Updegraff, 35-year-old surgeon who whipped Joe Campbell 8 and 8 in the 36-hole finals Sunday, said he would pass up the National Amateur next month. "I've got to get back to my patients," the lanky, balding doctor laid. "I've been gone long enough." BUT A despite 12 rounds of golf in seven days, was In Minneapolis, today for Walker Cup match practice round The 21-year-old former National Intercollegiate champion was exceptionally wild Sunday, hitting only 15 of 28 greens.

Updegraff, deadly accurate with the irons, missed only five greens The doctor took a 9-up lead at the end of the first 18 holes with a morning round of two-under-par to an 81 for Campbell. He wounc up the day one over par to 12 over for Campbell. He started the afternoon strong by winning the first three holes to go 12-up. "I knew had it won then," Updegraff said "Nobody could have caught me in 15 holes." But Campbell, a Knoxville, Insurance salesman, extended the match aeven holes by winning three of them. "It was just one of those days," CattipbeU said.

"The doc had a good day and I had a bad one. He to win." Updegral'f, adding the. first national title to his virtual dominance of Arizona tournaments since he moved there from Iowa six years ago, said the victory wouldn't cause any changes in his future golf activities. "I just play for relaxation," he caid. CAMPBELL blamed, bad timing for the wildness that threw him out of the fairway on of the first eight holes and into seven sand- traps during the day.

Updegraff went 5-up on the first nine and 9-up at 18 by winning five straight on the back. won his first hole with a 12-foot putt on the 16. Each went three on the first nine of the afternoon round and Updegraff maintained his 9- hole margin through 27. They halved the 10th and time ran out on Campbell. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION SUNDAY'S RESULTS St.

Paul 7. Wichita 5. Indianapolis 5-3, Minneapolis 0-6. Omaha 3. Charleston 2.

Denver 7-7. Louisville i-e. Major League Standings NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet.

G.B Milwaukee 76 46 -St. Louis 69 54 .551 7: Brooklyn 70 55 .560 7 Cincinnati 62 61 .504 Philadelphia 6 2 61 .504 14 New York 60 67 .472 IS Chicago 48 73 .397 Pittsburgh 46 76 .377 30 MONDAY'S PROBABLE PITCHERSTM Cincinnati at New York--Amor l-l) n. Crone (6-7). Milwaukee at Philadelphia, alght--Bur dette (13-7) Sanford (16-5). Only games scheduled.

TUESDAY'S GAMES Chicago at Brooklyn (night). Milwaukee at New York (night) Cincinnati at Philadelphia (night). St. Louis at Pittsburgh (night). AMERICAN LEAGUE W.

L. Pet. G.B, New York 79 44 .642 -Chicago 75 Boston 63 Detroit 62 Baltimore 59 Cleveland 60 Kansas City Washington 48 47 48 59 61 .610 .516 .504 .480 .379 17 19J 20 S3 MONDAY'S PROBABLE PITCHERS New York at Detroit--Byrne (4-1) Boston at Kansas City--Nlion (10-8) vs. Only games scheduled! TUESDAY'S GAMES New York at Chicago (night). Washington at Kansas City (night).

Boston at Detroit (night). Baltimore at Cleveland (night). Major League Stars By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HITTING Al Kalinc, Tigers; Bob Hazle, Braves--Kaline was 4-for-4, including a pair of two-run hom- (irs, in, 7-3 victory over Yankees: Hazle, upping his average to .526 in 57 at bats as a "replacement," was 3-for-3 with a pair of three-run homers in 7-3 victory over Phillies. PITCHING Bob Keegan, White Sox--followed up his no-hitter against Washington last Tuesday with a three-hitter in the first game of a 6-2, 3-0 doubleheader sweep against the Orioles. The Champion's Card FIRST NINE Par 454-434-434--35 Gee (a.m.)..454-434-434--35 Gee (p.m.)..455-434-325--35 BACK NINE 345-344-444--35---70 444-354-345--36 71 335-364-535--37 72 ..143 Sox Crawl Up on Yanks Double Win Sunday Puts Hose 4 Back By ED WILKS Xhe Associated Press Those Chicago White Sox die so hard, who knows? They migh: just manage to stay alive.

You can smile, pal, but don't laugh. After sweeping a pair from Baltimore 6-2 and 3-0, while New York lost a single rame at Detroit 7-2 yesterday, the White Sox are only four games behind the Yankees in the American League chase. ANOTHER YANKEE loss at Jetroit today, while the Sox are die, and a Chicago sweep in a hree-game series with New -York opening at Comiskey Park tomor- PILARCIK HOMERS BUT CAUSE LOST Whiting's Al Pilarcik had a bis day in Chicago yesterday even though the Baltimore OnoIeB lost a doubleheader to the White Sox, 6-2 and 3-0. Playing field in the opener against no-hit Bob Keegan, Pilarcik pounded his seventh home run the season. Shifted to center field in the nightcap, he slashed a double and a single to give him three-for-seven for the day.

Cleveland nd 6-4. Don't knock ow night would bring the Sox vitnin three percentage points of he top. All of which could upset the pre- eason dope, making it an all-the- ray race in the AL while Milwau- ee runs away with it in the National. In the other AL games. Kansas 'iity defeated Boston, 3-2, and SW ept Washington, 3-2 the White Sox's hances.

The Yankees are only -5 at Detroit, and have lost four of ix on this final Western trip. At Chicago, the champs will pitch oung Johnny Kucks, Tom Sturdi- ant and an ailing Bobby Shantz if his injured finger is okay). Against the Yankees, the White Sox have Jim Wilson, Billy Pierce nd Dick Donovan ready--with 3ob (No-Hit) Keegan the No. 1 elief man. It was Keegan who helped get he sweep over the Orioles, throw- Continued On Page 15 Hazle Puts Braves In Front By MILTON RICHMAN United Press The Milwaukee Braves feel they' win in a breeze, especially noi that rookie Bob (Hurricane) Hazl ia leveling a path to the ptenan for them.

Hazle, a left-handed hitting out fielder brought up from Wichit on July '27, has been Milwaukee' most devastating hitter the pas two weeks and'now sports a .52 average with 30 hits in 57 time at bat. Sunday he blasted a pair three-run homers plus a singl for a "perfect day" that powere the Braves to a 7-3 victory ove the Phillies and enabled them stretch their National League lea to games. HAZLE'S spectacular one-mai batting show accounted- for waukee's last six runs. Southpaw Warren Spahn drove in the firs one with a homer off loser Robin Roberts in the third inning route to his 16th victory. The los was Roberts' 18th compared wit eight victories.

Stan Lopata horn ered for the Phillies. The Brooklyn Dodgers edged th St. Louis Cardinals, 6-5; the Giant crushed the Redlegs, 10-1; and thi Pirates beat the Cubs, 3-0, in thi opener, then lost the nightcap, 8-2. Don Drysdale was credited witl his 13th victory for the Dodger, although Brooklyn manager Wai Alston had to employ three --Ed Roebuck, Sandy Koufax and Sal Maglie--to stop the Cards in ninth. DON MUELLER drove in three runs for the Giants with two horn ers and a pair of singles and team mate Danny O'Connell also drove three runs with a homer, triple and single as five Cincinnati hurlers gave 15 hits.

Ruben Gomez pitched a six-hitter for his 14th victory, blanking the Redlegs unti Ed Bailey hit his 17th homer in the ninth. A four-hitter by Vern Law pro duced Pittsburgh's victory over Chicago in the opener, but ex- Pirate Dale Long, who got three of the hits off Law, also collected 'hree more in the nightcap to place he Cubs to victory. World Softball Tourney At New Bedford, ID. First Round New Bedford 6, Brownsville, Pa. 1.

Gary, Ind. 4, Midland, Tex. 2. By JOHN WHITAKER Competent, confident and consistent--tifcat was the Art Gee who finally won the Big One Sunday at Lake Hills in his fourth serious bid. The competence came from long, patient and not always happy sessions in various competitions, the first major success coming last September at Gary C.C.

where the swarthy, crew-cut 44-year- old Socony Mobil Oil stillman won the Lake County Amateur. Confidence came with the Lake Amateur triumph, zoomed with a ninth place (third low amateur) showing in last week's State Open at Terre Haute and fairly bubbled over Sunday as Gee answered each challenge by Boh MeCall, the man Art considered his No. 1 opponent. Consistency? Gee shot the same winning total of 143 at Lake Hills in 1954 to tie Johnny Dobro and Andy Micenko but Dobro won the playoff. Last week in' Terre Haute, the onetime Roosevelt baskethaller (1930-31) compiled 286 on scores of 72-7CKT2-72.

And he won the 21st Tunes tourney yesterday by playing the four nines of a 36-hole route in 35-36-35-37 His only six in 36 holes came at No. 14 in his afternoon round when He shanked a trap shot. He got only two birdies in the morning but snagged four in the afternoon, the most important being a 12-footer on No. 11 which virtually closed the door on MeCall who just canned a 35-footer. A three-time former club champion at Lake Hills, Gee made the most of his local knowledge simply playing for par and letting thti birdies sing at their own whim.

"You've got to play this course; you can't let it play you," says Gee. Gee credits improved long irons for the successive tourney triumphs that have established him as the new king of Calumet area amateurs and put him up there with the Dobros, Kraays and Stefanchiks in local golf ratings. Going far back, however, Gee credits many dollars invested in Burnham skm games in the late 1930s and early 1940s-plus advice from Professional Jim Noonan who made him drop his baseball grip for the standard overlap. "You keep on playing with good players" says winning some days and losing on playing in whatever tournaments you and pretty soon you have enough experience to win if things are going They went right for me today I got breaks when I needed them and I sure had to wait a long, long time." Highland Golfer Escapes Bridesmaid Role, Trims Lashenik by 5 Strokes By JOHN WHITAKER (Times Sports. Editor) Arthur (Art) Gee, 44-year-old oil refinery toiler who stands 5-11, weighs 165, lives in Highland and dedicates his three-week vacations to tournament golf, Sunday became the 13th man to claim a Hammond Times-Calumet District Amateur championshin trophy.

A three-time runnerup and loser to Chuck Doppler in a heartbreaking finish at Lake Hills in 1956; the sweet swinger with the crew cut caught up with both the field and the rolling St John course yesterday by serving a 71-72--143 that won going away. Five shots back in second plac THE ANNUAL "Lake Hills mu uels" offered these quotjitions on 'imes tourney contestants: Bob MeCall, 5-2; Art Gee, 7-2; Bil Shield, 4-1; Lou Disegna, 6-1; Jer John Ellis and Rube angohr, 7-1; Chuck Doppler, Tom' my Walter and Joe Harris Wadkins, Sam Leech am 'ulius Bognar, 9-1; Chuch Kosalko Jerry Pickford, 10-1. The emaining 28 players were in the ield at Operative X-52, whose snooping may'qualify him for a position on the staff of "Confidential," says the heavy play (including a double sawbuck by "Hoss" Pavelich) was on Gee that Handicapper Tommy Parks was in a tizzy until runner-up Steve Lashenik, a field horse, went for a double- bogey six on 17 and (flash!) that the "book" made a profit of exactly $6 BT (before taxes). Jim Donovan, freshly promotec director of community relations or Inland Steel is not expected to make any hasty decisions in his ew job if he adheres to golf cus- om. Jim's a most deliberate layer.

Art Gee's morning 71 included wo missed putts of less than If nches. He played it 35-36-71 Happy Runnerup Steve Lashenik of Gary finished five swings behind winner Art Gee but his 148 was good enough for second in the 21st Annual Hammond Times Calumet District Amateur Golf Tournament finals at Lake Hills Sunday. Lashenik had a morning round of 72 and hung on with a 76 in the afternoon. (Hammond Times Photo) while hitting 13 greens in par anc sing up 31 putts. Former hamp Sam Leech said on the first ee the law of averages would get im.

"Knee Action" Sam firee 35-34-69 in a Saturday evening 'armup for the finals. Only 23 of the 45-man field shot or better in morning play with cores ranging from Gee's 71 to 6s posted by Charlie Massoth and ohn Labus. Lake Hills' tricky reens posed problems for every- ody, but luncheon consensus was hat the greens were in top condition. Leaders and also-rans alike agreed the putting surfaces not only held but putted remarkably true. TOM BRANNON, who's made every one of the 21 Times finals and most of the prelims, was up from Cedar Lake with a special rooting interest in his son, Bob, who three-putted himself to a morning 81 and dropped out of contention.

Bulk of the gallery went with the threesome of Gee, MeCall and Disegna but those who didn't go into extensive a i stuck around the 14th green. Gal- leryites Jimmy Wargp and John Sebastian marveled at'Swede Carlson's fast backswing, wondering if! Swede wouldn't get an added 50 yards off the wards. tee hitting back- Official scorer Tom (Grandpa) Fredericks provided a Tarn O'Shan- ter style Scoreboard with ropes to keep the customers back. Bob MeCall, John Ellis and Larry Kraay will shoot for qualifying spots in the U.S. Amateur in Tuesday's 36-hole trials at Flossmoor, scene of this national final as far back as 1923.

Rube Langohr, whose 35 go- Continued On Page 15 was Steve Lashenik, former Gary city champion, posted a 72-7 --148 to win the second plac trophy over five erstwhile content ers, including favored Bob Me Call, also of Gary, who share third place at 149. DOPPLER, the defending cham pion, finished 14th with 76-78--15 and was out of contention after so-so morning start. Leading Lashenik by one sho and Rube Langohr by two afte him methodical morning 71, Ge also held a three-shot bulge Lou Disegna, the 1952 champ, an was four strokes ahead of McCa (75) at lunch time. MeCall, who joined Disegna round out Gee's threesome and a tract the tournament's biggest ga lery, was the player Art held 1 greatest respect and the new cham pion answered each MeCall cha lenge with a birdie or routine pa 1 Best example came on the trick' 312-yard llth in the afternoo round when Gee, still leading Me Call by six strokes, answered Bob' 35-foot birdie with a 12-footer afte both had dropped nifty wedg shots on the carpet from wierc angles. McCALL'S BIRDIE on the easj 12th shaved off a stroke but when the Ohio amateur champ, sailec clear over the 127-yard 13th green with a nine iron.

Gee regained hi edge with a par three. Actually, however, the door may lave been slammed on MeCall far back as the fifth hole of the afternoon round where Bob sailec a wind-borne eight iron over the jreen and out of bounds on 160-yard target. Gee led by only one at this stage, MeCall having served a 4-4-4-3 against a par 4-5-4-4 while Gee was i 4-5-5-4. Things weren't going good for Ice at the time but this sudden restored his confidence. They both parred the easy sixth hoi with fours whereupon Gee chippec Times Golf Summaries Art Gee 35-36--71 35-37--72 143 Steve Lashenik 33-39--72 38-38--76 148 Jerry Austgen 41-35--76 37-36--73 149 Bob MeCall 35-40--75 36-38--74 -149 Steve Jacob 38-38--76- 35-38--73----149 Bill Shield 39-38--77 35-37--72 -149 Len Stanley 35-40--75---149 Rube Langohr 35-38--73 40-38--78 Lou Disegna 36-38--74 37-40--77--151 John Kuaera 37-39--76 35-41--76 152 Joe Poracky 37-37--74 39-39--7: John E.

Ellis 38-40--78 39-36--7! Jim Donovan 38-37--75 38-40--7; Chuck Doppler 38-38--76 38-40--71 Bob Brahnon 38-43--81 38-35--7 Julius Bognar 36-39--75 37-42 Harold Carlson 37.40--77 39.40 7 Harris Wadkins 39-39--78 38-40--7 Tommy Walter 39-41--80 10-36--7c John Garzotto 39-38--77 156 John Granack 39-37--76 41-40--81 157 Frank Wojiehowski 40-40--80 39-38--77 157 Ed Tolocka 38-43--81 37-40--77 158 39-41--80 40-38--78 158 40-38--78 38-42--80 158 158 Robert Shy Len Schab Jerry Pickford 41-42--83 38-37--7L John Mislan 41-37--78 40-40--80 158 Xalph Schmal 40-39--79 41-39--80 159 Stuart Pfaff 39-41--80 39-41--80 160 Tom Mason 42-39--81 37-42--79- 160 42-38--8ft 37-43--80 160 Sam Leech John Zasada 39-40--79 42-40--82 161 Steve Chorba 40-41--81 41-40--81 162 Kosalko 43.45--88 37-37--74 harles Massoth 46-40--86 38-38--76 162 Hank Wolfe 41-38--79 42-41--53 162 Chet Kaczynski 42-39--81 41-41--82 163 Robert Lackey 39-43--82 39-43--82 164 Forrest Kaiser 42-42--84 41-42--83 167 Chet McKeighen 44.40--84 41-43--84 168 George Horkovich 43-42--85 41-43--S4 169 John Pofoncak 44-43--87 169 Woody Gates 43-41--84 44-42-86 170 Francis Grimmer 44-47--91 173 JohnLabus 44-42--86- withdrew Lap By Lap 9 HOLES Steve Lashenik, 33; Art Gee, Bob MeCall and Rube Langohr, 35 18 HOLES Gee, 71: Lashenik, 72; Langohr, 73; Lou Disegna, Joe Poracky, Len Stanley, 74. 27 HOLES Gee, 106; Stanley, 109; Lashenik, HO; MeCall, ill; Disegna, 111; Steve Jacob, 111. 36HOLES Gee, 143; Lashenik, 148; McCalL 149; Jacob, 149; Bill Shield, 149; 149 Jerry in for a birdie three on the 7th hole and followed with a birdie deuce on the 126-yard eighth while MeCall was going 4-4. WITH SIX shots to work on, Gee had it made. From there to the finish, he was a relaxed, confident player who refused to be shaken by a shank which led to a double-bogey six on the 14th or a pushed iron which brought a bogey five on 16.

Lashenik blew his chances by shanking third shot on the par- five second but kept his alive with a birdie two on the 13th only to bogey 14 and go for a horrible six on the 17th. Len Stanley, Burnhamite who trailed only 106 to 109 starting the last nine, was five shots back after the llth hole, which Gee had birdied, and was too far back going to 14 which he bogeyed. All others, I i Jerry Austgen, Steve Jacob and Bill Shield who shared a five way tie for third place with MeCall and Stanley at 149, were well out of the running at this stage. In retrospect, Gee figures his Jig "sweat out" came a week ago Sunday night when a long dis- call from Terre Haute to Wicker Park brought information his 78 qualifying score at iVicker was good enough for the finals. But just by one shot.

Six men had tied at 79 and played off for four reraining positions in a 25-man Wicker contingent. Gee's victory established him as he king of amateurs in the greater Calumet. His first big local victory came last September when he won Lake County Amateur at Gary Country Club. He defends this title Sunday, Sept. 22 against a field of 40 plus qualifiers who'll shoot at eason Park on Sept.

15. TOURNAMENT galleries, num- ering in the hundreds, were the ggest of four championship years Lake Hills and Greenskeeper Herb Gerlach took bows for an excellently conditioned course. Straight USGA (play 'em as they ie) rules were in effect except for i few washed-out areas which were ined as "ground under repair." Friday night rainfall had brightened fairways and unquestionably aided scoring by softening the putting greens so that they held any properly hit shot. Gee's 143 for 36 holes tied the Hills Times tourney low osted by Gee, Johnny Dobro and Micenko in 1954 when Dobro won his sixth Times trophy in a Jlayoff in which Gee took second. The three-over-par total of 143 against a par of 140 adds to Lake Hills' stature as a title test and it's extremely doubtful tbe low total be seriously menaced in the ear future, what with the course perators committee to toughening the front nine (for championship lay only).

'ony Series Starts WASHINGTON- (UP)--The sixth annual Pony League World Series pened here today with Fort Wayne, taking on Miami, the opening tilt of a our game card. Eight regional cfaampi from California to Massachusetts are competing for the nation! teenage baseball crown. lEWSFAPESr NEWSPAPER!.