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Section Section SPORTS AMUSEMENTS CLASSIFIED SPORTS AMUSEMENTS CLASSIFIED NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1942. Builders Halt Staunton Late Rally To Take 7-6 Verdict 1 11 1 1 1 i ni i l.i I. ml Shipwrights Take dge In Tight City League Race Bill Rattaree Leads Locals' Batting Attack With 3 Hits DODGERS TAKE 9-6 DECISION FROM CHICUBS FITTERS MOVE INTO LEAD IN HOSTER LOOP 1 pf I i -f-i ix "'sssi'iv Fitters Few Points All CfaM Tm Below Leaders; I Newport News Nine Moves To Salem For Series Annual Tourney Set At H-V Club Apprentice 3rd Merchants 2-1 The City league All-Stars man Although idle from action all week, the Shipwrights moved into aged to eke out a close 2-1. win Pattern Shoppers, Vriginians In Tie For 2nd Place Reiser Clouts 3-Run Homer In Eighth Inning the City league's top berth, thanks to the help of the Apprentice school over the Hampton Merchants in an exhibition game on the Soldiers nine. The "Wrights have won 15 Home diamond in Hampton yes games and lost four, but it was only by means of the A's victory over terday.

The Merchants held the pick of the City league scoreless for four stanzas, but the leaguers' power broke loose in the fifth for BROOKLYN, Aug. Pete The Shlpfltter ten, who were rid the Shipfltters that the "Wrights Reiser, batting on borrowed time, were able to take complete control inn along in third place in the smacked a tiiree-run homer in the a pair of runs. Hosier league race last week, need of the lead. The Fitters, who broke even dur Rickey of the Welders held the eighth inning today and the tallies were exactly enough to give the Merchants to two scattered hits, The annual fait net tournament at the Hilton Village Tennis club will get under way on the club's courts next Saturday. Singles and doubles event for both men and women nelters will be Included in the annual affair.

The pairings for the event will be announced and posted in the clubhouse Immediately after the drawings which have been set for next Friday afternoon. The tourney has bern held at the local club annually for the past ten yrars. In the past few tourneys, Buck Spain has dominated the number one spot in the men's division, while Hilda Fond has been outstanding in the women's side of the event. Trophies will be awarded to the winners in each division. ing the week with one win and one Brooklyn Dodgers a 9-6 decision but walked three men in the first defeat, dropped into second place, ed only one victory during the week to send them up to the first place spot In the loop standings.

The leaders have won 14 contests and over the Chicago Cubs. Just a few percentage points below The Dodgers who were destined the leaders. Coach Lynn Bunting's inning to put himself in hot water and allow one run to score. Steele worked behind the plate for the All-Stars. to win an argument sooner or later boys began to look lik-? the team dropped seven finally prevailed upon an umpire to STAUNTON, Aug.

1. (TOA three-run uprising in the final half of the last stanza fell just on short of tying the score as Staunton's Presidents continued their losing ways, dropping another game to the Newport News Builders, 7-6. George Sumey and Jim Voisell hooked up in a pitchers' duel, and though both moundsmen were touched rather freely for base knocks, they battled along on even terms and had the situation pretty well in hand. An error by Second Baseman George Mitrus in the seventh inning allowed what proved to be the winning run to score. Newport News Manager Harry Chozen, making his last appearance In this city this season with his Builders, was chased by Umpire Bob Doyle in the fifth for protesting a decision.

The Builders move over to Salem today, where they encounter the Salem club in games there this afternoon and Monday night before returning to Newport News for a six-day home stay opening with Petersburg Tuesday night. they were at the start of the sea' change a decision, although it prob After Bowen had hit and Kelly son and chalked up two victories The Pattern Shop and Virginians, who were in a tie for the lead last ably couldn't happen any place ex during the week's action. The A's cept in Brooklyn. remained in third place. With the Dodgers leading, 6-2, and week, broke even during the week and are now in tie for second place with 13 wins and seven losses The Welders dropped a close game to the Fitters last week, but two men on and two out, Reiser cut Martin walked for the Stars, George Hancock, Alumni left fielder, stepped up and smacked a single over first to drive in both runners with the needed markers.

Clark toiled on the hill for the Merchants, and Eddie Miller at a 2-2 pitch which he barely ticked. The ball popped into the mitt shown on their records. The managed to win another game and stay in the fourth place spot ahead of the Alumni nine, who picked up of Catcher Clyde McCullough Nachman's ten remained in the fourth place spot after winning one one for the win column last week. Umpire Lee Ballanfant called the National league batting leader out RED SOX RALLY game and losing one aunns me on strikes. The Epes Stationers.

Hampton Merchants and Pipe Coverers lost one contest during the week's play and week. The Turners' outfit," who But the Dodgers claimed that the CARDS, GIANTS ball struck the dirt before McCul held tight to their places deep in TO ROUT TIGERS SPEAKER FEELS BETTER Tris Speaker, rated one of the all-time outfield greats, rests outside his Cleveland home, where he is recuperating from pneumonia and a major operation. That's Laddie beside him. lough caught it and Umpire Babe have 12 victories and nine setbacks to their credit, held their spot in fifth place, while the H. E.

squad is in seventh place ahead of the the second division. The Stationers Pinelll backed them up in their pro test. Ballanfant reversed his dect are in sixth place, while the Mer chants and Coverers are in seventh NEWPORT NEWS SPLIT 2 GAMES sion and catied Reiser back to the and eighth places, respectively. Fort Eustis Athlete plate. Toolmakers.

The Hornets are still having a tough time to find a place to live, so they are Still resting in the cellar. The Shipwrights, who have games Pistol Pete smashed Hiram Bit' scheduled on Monday and Tuesday, horn's next pitch over the right field Mondav's game between the Pat Boston Scores In 7th To Win, 9-8 DETROIT, Aug. 1. WV-The Bos wall for three runs that didn't look will have to put up a tough fight to keep the lead in the league. On al hi lb I tfathauisni I 11 It FnrwMri.r! 4 -1 4 I I Riino.lt 4 i 21 SIS Madileri.Stl 5 6 Mltrus.il 1 Rnlterer.r 5 0 3 KavPfr.ss I 1 1 Ollriai.rf II SanfardJ 4 Mahonty.l 4 1 1 Bytnsr.lf 41 II ill Polts.s 4 0 VoiSfilf.p 6 I II HI Tatals 40 7 I3 Totals i 1 II tern Shoppers and the Fitters will probably settle the argument of especially important at the time.

George Zorich, Northwestern Grid Star, Now In Service Monday the leaders will battle the Lanier Gains 3-1 Decision In Opener However, the Cubs went to work "red hot" Welders, while the Apprentice school nine will be the foe on Curt Davis in the top half of the leadership in the loop. But tne Virginians are not to be counted out. for a win over the Hebrew ten ton Red Sox pushed over three runs ninth and drove him to the showers, scoring four runs on six of their 11 of the "Wrights on the following day. The "Wrights have whipped on Tuesday would send them near NEW YORK, 1. VP) The NKWPOHT NEWS 300 DOS Jttt STAUNTON 2l 001 0 of the Week in the seventh inning to defeat the Detroit Tigers, 9 to 8, today in a hits before Ed Head put out the Errors Msthsuser, Mllruj i.

Volsslls. nuns fire. the first place spot. The pattern Ship also has a game on Tuesday. The nlavoff for the champion St.

Louis Cardinals divided a double-header with the New York Giants hatted In Forool. Burgo I. Kattsraa Voiialla. He's six feet, two Inches tall, time to his studies. That summer see-saw battle marred by five er Davis gained credit for the viC' Hotel 3, Mlncy, Mitrus, Ksspsr, Polls.

Twa- he returned to Wakefield and worked bssf hits MsMisussr, vaisslls, alincy. Thrcs-Dsss) ship will get under way next Mon today and dropped half a game far rors, two of which gave the Sox three unearned runs in the first in weighs 205 pounds and has football in his blood. In fact, this national tory, his 11th of the season com' par6d with five defeats. time is mis Kurro, Kstteraa 2, 8ulan bsse CligffotL itotibic pis? socer to Msnnarino. Lft on iissss Newport Nsws 13: fUauriton S.

Basso ther behind the Brooklyn Dodgers, played. Tne starting 5:45 p. m. The loser was Johnny Schmitz, ning. who lead the National league by on balls off 1.

ml Volstlla 2. Struck withy Humsr 4. by Volsellfl 7. Wild oltclws 6urjtF who started for the Cubs but had to The Tigers chased Charley Wag The standings; W. nine lengths.

rsssftd ball rolls. 1'mpires Doyle and Hail. again in the mines. The large chenille was awarded to him in his sophomore, Junior and senior years. 'All-conference guard in the Big Ten in the autumn of 1941, Zorich was switched back to guard position in his sophomore year and filled that spot for three years.

He retire in the second inning when he injured his pitching arm in deliver Tims 2:114. Lefty Max Lanier pitched the pastime and incidentally his own personal favorite sport has stamped itself across his chest from one powerful shoulder to the other. His name? George Zorich, all-conference guard In the Big Ten In his senior year at Northwestern univer Shipfltters 14 Pattern Shop 13 the A's twice this season, but the last time out the two teams battled to a tie. On Wednesday the Merchants will engage the Pipe Coverers, while Thursday's schedule the Welders and the Merchants playing. All games this week will be played on the East end lot, as will all playoff contests.

The round robin playoff of the top four teams will begin Monday, Aug. 10, with each team playing the ktf others twice. The top two teams Wfy the end of the playoff will meet jp-tfwr the city amateur championship. Standings ner, Boston starting pitcher, in the first and before Relief Hurler Mace Brown could retire the side had ing a ball to Johnny Rizzo. With a Cards to a 3-1 decision in the open Virginians 13 record of three triumphs and seven er, yielding only five hits and get Pet.

.667 .650 .650 .600 .571 .333 .316 L. 7 7 7 8 9 14 13 16 scored four runs on a walk, three Nachman's 12 Turner's 12 was selected as Ail-American ma defeats, the rookie southpaw Vas to leave the club tonight to report to terial in several third teams and was singles and a double. Hal New ting the help of five double plays and a two-run homer by Enos Slaughter, but the nightcap went 11 innings before Babe Barna settled his Wisconsin draft board for prob sity from which he was graduated In February. Toolmakers 7 H. E.

A 6 Hornets 4 given honorable mention in numer ous others. able induction into the army. houtwr, Detroit's starting hurler, bowed out two innings later. Brown But George is in the army now it for the Giants, 5-4. Singles by Mickey Owen, Davis Tom Sunkel scattered eight hits and Peewee Reese produced Brooklyn's first two tallies soon after Les received credit for the triumph, while Hal White, third Detroit and is stationed at Fort Eustis where he ia taking his basic military training.

After twelve weeks of intensive instruction, he will proceed to an in the eight innings he worked for the Giants in the first game but Undoubtedly the highlight in this star's grid career was the annual North-South Blue-Gray game played Dec, 27, 1941, in Montgomery, 'Ala. The Blues, with whom Zorich par Fleming replaced Schmitz with a WEEK'S SCHEDULE Aug. 3: Shipfltters vs. Pattern Shop. Aug.

4: Virginians vs. H. E. A. (first game); second game; Pattern Shop vs Nachman's.

pitcher, was the loser. man on base Another run crossed Pet. .789 .762 .750 officers' training school, where again his mates never were able to catch up after Slaughter, who also hit The Sox knotted the score in the in the third on singles by Joe Med Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results St. Louis New York 3. Boston Detroit 8.

(Only games scheduled). Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet. New York 68 33 .673 Boston-.

57 44 .564 Cleveland 57 47 .548 St. 54 51 .514 Detroit 49 55 .471 Chicago 43 55 .439 Washington .....41 61 .402 Philadelphia ..,..42 65 .393 NATIONAL LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Brooklyn Chicago 6. after absorbing the finer points of wick, Dolph Camilli and Arky safely in the second game to run third on a single by Ted Williams ticipated, dropped the tussle by a 16-to-O margin. So now the tally military tactics, he will emerge as vaugnan. a walk to Bobby Doerr, a sacrifice second lieutenant.

This young stands at two victories each, as the Shipwrights 15 4 Shipfltters 16 5 Apprentice 15 5 Welders 10 9 Alumni 9 12 Epcs 6 15 Merchants 4 14 Pipe Coverers 4 15 Week's Schedule East end: .526 .429 .286 .222 CHICAGO BROOKLYN Welterweight by Pete Fox and Tony Luplen's sin classic has been held for four years GB. 11 I21i 18 20 23 'i 27 28 ab 9 I sb 4 A his batting streak to 14 contests in a row, connected for his 10th circuit blow. Willard Marshall drove in the only Giant run with a second inning single. (Firs 6ame) Hark.Sb Lynn Waldorf was mentor of the gle and took a short-lived lead in star already has his personal qualifications for good leadership and his physical ruggedness should more than fulfill the requisites of duties Bout Called Off ilbert.cf .211 2 a 3i Becse.ss 1 1 Hfman.2b I 0 Keiser.rf I 4 HI Mrdwirk.lt' 1 la (Homiiii.ib theii half of the inning by pushing Blues while Carl Snavely of Cornell piloted the Grays to their victory. Niijlkoff.lf i 1 0 1 4 1 0 2 a 4 13 1 3 1 1 retts.lb in the field.

over two runs on three singles and Williams' error. NEW YORK ST. LOUIS 4 11 a NEW YORK, Aug. I. (IV) The Such outstanding performers as Al DeMayo of Duquesne, AU-American Monday, Aug.

2 Shipwrights vs, George Zorich was bora 22Vs years 4 I I I ab I) welders. turgron.ss 3 12 2 llOwrn.c After Boston had tied tne count tackle; Vince Banonis, "Detroit uni with a run in the sixtn, uetrou hOsl'sandro 11 1 a 01 Darts. a SrhmHz.g 0 0 8 8 81 lirad.p Tuesday, Aug. 4 Apprentice vs, ago and has spent most of his life in the little town of a settlemen nestled in the i long-looked-i'or brawl between welterweight Champion Red Cochrane and Harlem's Hammering Ray Robinson, waich was scheduled for versity, AU-Amerlcan tackle; Capt. Floyd (Tuffy) Chambers, Northwest Shipwrights.

slipped ahead again In the same in irmir.K.P 2 II II a St. Louis 3-4; New York 1-5 (sec- Voxt 1 1 0 Wednesday, Aug. 5 Merchants vs, II 1 1 1 1 I II 1 0 1 4 i i i i ab Tlrown.ib' 1 T.aloore.rf 4 0 3 1 4 0 Mimial.lf 0 0 W.Cooper.e 4 0 0 ttxnders.lb 4 0 Marion. HI 4 0 Lanicr.p ning, but the tnree-run box out iron mine regions of the upper pen Bithorn.p a 1111! SI Bartell.Sb 0i.lllrjrea.is Msvnard.rf 1 1 Mirsinii.u i 6j 1 kLrittr I A.i Sept. 10, was called off today be boa 0 12 1 4 1 a ii 1 13 in a i i 5 1 0 27 10 Pipe Coverers.

4 4 4 1 3 9 1 0 burst in the next frame put tne ii 8 9 0 0. Mussel, i a 9 a cause the title was "in the way." insula near the Wisconsin border. In his own words, Zorich first dis ern university halfback, and John Hallabrin, Ohio State fullback, worked with Zorich in the game. They were faced with such formi ratals 39 if 24 Totals ll42'l game out of reach for the Tigers. mursoay, Aug.

welders vs, Cochrane' demands reported as Merchants. DETROIT a Ratted for Fleming in 7lh, i covered his liking for football when hieh as $50 000 were not met. so BOSTON at if Hatted for sturgeon in fllh. he was 'knee high to a grasshopper, "sd 4 1 Batted for Billiorn in Otb. ond, 11 innings).

Boston Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia Pittsburgh 1. Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet.

Brooklyn ........71 29 .710 St. Louis ...61 37 .622 Cincinnati ..53 46 .535 New York 53 48 525 he wasn't going to bring the crown 01 i Tatalt 33 3 8 27 I2 Totals 21 I HIOAOO 001 104 That's nothing unusual, however, as dable opponents ah Jack Crane, Texas university, All-American halfback, and Presto Johnson, whose 1 lfcky.as BROOKLYN .,...021 0011 S3 a Balled (or Sunkel In 8th. out of cold storage for the match, which was siated as an over-weight the sport is instilled In his four Krror Herman. Stringer. Runs baited In i 4 5 10 1 1 Wlilisnii.ir 3 1 1 1 5 1 i ST.

LOUIS 000 3 NKW YOKK Ilia 000 0001 Davis. Reese, Vaughan. Novikorf, Fox. Mednick, brothers, too. Two of them, John magic toe kept his foe in the hole go for the benefit of the united Olmo Recaptures Piedmont League Batting Lead smiill 2.

Reiser 3, McCuIIoijkIi. Dallessandro, GB. 9 17,4 184 25 Vm 26 31 most of the game Error Marion. Buna batted In Slaughter 2, Marshall. Two-base hit Kurowski.

Horns run llbert, Two-base bits Hack, Foxi, and Steve, played on their school teams. George did them just a bit service organizations. Robinson, fresh from his ten- Herman, Stringer. Home runs CamiUl. Reiser.

8 Cramer.eF 4 1)1 Illtiim.St) 5 11 Ridellff.lb 4 II Hsrrlt.rr I 4 41 Tlibl.l. 8 I 3i HI ftTtnss I Si 1 1: Yurie 1 Chicago 47 56 .456 Pittsburgh 43 53 .448 though, and won four letters Left on bases Chicago Brooklyn 0. Bases cm balls off Submits 1. Fleming 1, Blthorn 1. Dsns Slaughter.

Double plays Brown. Marlon and Sanders; Marion. Brown and Sanders: Witek. and Young; Bsrtell. Witrk and Young: Marion nd Sanders (-'): Ktirowskl, Brown and Fol.rf ronro.e Hrnwn.p aKinnpy Ryiis.ii round decision victory over Sammy But Zorich is not allowing his talent to lie dormant and at the present is carrying his athletic prowess as a pitcher for the Anti-aircraft Strikeouts Fleming 2.

Blthorn 3. Deris 1. Angott in M-idison Square Garden in the sport. "We did pretty well in the pretty tough league," he ac Head 1. Hits off Schmita 1 In 1 1-S inninr: Boston 42 62 .404 Philadelphia 29 68 .299 Sanders.

Left on bases New York St. Louis 5, RICHMOND, Aug. 1. (VP) That Bases on bails off tiunkel 2: Lanier J. Htrike knowledged.

George also particl Command in the Richmond Softball outs Lanier -5; Sunkel 1. Hits off Sunkel in last night up in Promoter Mike Jacobs' offict today and announced that he didn't see how he tight little family affair the Pied' Fleming 7 in 4 2-3; Blthorn In Da? is 9 in 8 (none out In 0th): Head 2 fn 1, Winning rrilrher Davis; losing Ditcher Schmitt. f'mnirea Ballanfant. Karlick and Pinelll. Time 2:16.

Attendance 9,1:13. Mirtrtsrs.p 4 It innings; Adsms in 1. Losing Ditcher Sunkel. Umpires Dunn. Sears and Stewart.

Time 1 patcd in basketball, football, track, baseball and Softball in high school. league. (Yes, he can pitch, too!) In fact, he was adjudged the out mont league batting race was right PIEDMONT LEAGUE Yesterday's Results 37 IS 27 12 40 1427 I4 Tatals Totals back in the groove this week (Seeena Game) standing pitcher at Northwestern which is another way of saying that a Halted for Hrown in fib, Bsttad fw Wilson in H. Hatisd lor Whiit In Ith, NEW YORK I university in his last two years by Luis Olmo leads the league. ab unttrmv ml IOI 9 5 a the umpires and coaches in the league in which he played.

The Richmond outfielder, who iiitboit sou Brown. 5 Walker.rf ErrorsFranklin. Hitch. Dosrr. Pesky.

Wil sb 5 1 3 3 0 2 1 4 i a 3 5 1 2 11 J.U 1 1 3 The army has done its share in liams. Runs bstted In Foj bwien twerr. Slauah'i. rf Musial.lt looked for two weeks as though he couldn't get a base hit if pitchers threw cantaloups, again found the niM.Mio. Pky.

Williams, Cramer a. mocim keeping George fit and at the pres Ssndere.lb Harris t. Kranklin, Tebbetts. Two-bass. Jilts Wat lk.

Psaiwk. Tebbetts. BaerKlcas Fol, ent he tips the scales at 205 pounds. a a could possibly come in over the 147-pound welterweight limit to make it a non-title vo. He pointed out that he weighed only 144 for Angott the heaviest of his career and felt the weight before the ten-round brawl was over, and that if he tried to fight with three or four pounds more on his bony frame it would affect his performance So Promoter Jacobs crossed that one off the books and said he would substitute another Sept.

10 fight for USO, with either Cochrane or Robinson as one of the principals. Coch Peikr, ciroy. White. Rsdtiift. uouoie.

pisrs a 4 4IBartelI.il 1 (MWerber.iib 1 2 0 II Marshall It 2 0 Harnird.e! 4 llMsncuso.e 1 2 4 1 31 a at Adsms. a 0 eLeiber 0 a 0dllarna 0 the most he ever weighed in his RED SOX NINE BLAST RICHMOND, S-2 RICHMOND, Aug. 1. The Greensboro Red Sox held onto second place in the Piedmont league standings here tonight by scoring a seven-run blast in the top of the ninth to overcome the Richmond Colts, 8-2, In a wild, bitterly-fought game marked by arguments. Manager Ben Chapman and Pitcher Guy Fletcher, of the Colts, were both ejected from the game during the ninth.

The Sox victory snapped the seven-game winning Hoop, lb O'Ueaat Kuroskl.Sb Marion. ss Beazley.p aW.Cooper range, boosting his average three points to .333 tp pull ahead of Durham's Skeeter Welaj. The latter Brown. Pesky and Lupien; Pesky and rupien. Left on bi.ei Hoi ton 13; Detroit 4 Bases Ml balls off Wagner Brown 1, Newhouser s.

Wil He was awarded three letters in basketball, three In track and other awards In city leagues. Zorich and his mates won the range championship in football one year and in basketball two years. After his graduation from high school in June, 1937, Zorich enrolled in Northwestern university in September in that year. Although he had filled the tackle slot in his prep grid days, Coach Lynn Waldorf considered him better fitted for the end position. Toughened by his summer's work in the iron mines, the young athlete made an impressive showing in his freshman year.

George decided to drop his basketball and baseball activities in the colorful athletic career. For the most part he has kept in the range of 185 to 205 pounds. Greensboro Richmond 2. Asheville 8-3; Portsmouth 4-5. Charlotte Norfolk 1.

Winston-Salem 2-4; Durham 0-3. Standing of Clubs W. L. Pet GB. Portsmouth 61 39 .610 Greenesboro 54 41 .568 4Vn Richmond 53 43 .552 6 Charlotte 52 43 .547 6 'i Durham 48 49 .495 11 Norfolk 43 54 .443 16'i Winston-Salem 41 56 .423 18 Asheville 36 63 .364 24 Games Today Greensboro at Richmond (2).

Portsmouth at Asheville. Charlotte at Norfolk. Durham at Winston-Salem held steady at .331, a bare two son 1. Whit 1. Strikeouts Brown 1.

ivewnouser 1. Whit 1. Hits off Warner 4 IB 1- InnUlls; 4ickson, bT. Moore And so George Zorich, athlete Byba 3 In 3: Wilson In 1 1-5; Manaors none In It Brown I In I J-J: Newhouser 3 In 1-; Whilo 0 in 4. Wild Dlttta Wilson.

Passed bsil Krlit.D Totals 41 4 10x31 17) Totals 40 5 13 33 IS Conroy. Winning plteher Brown. Losins: pitrher While. tJmnlres Rue. Orieyo and Basil.

Time supreme, has turned his attention to more serious things at hand. Now holding his AB degree in education rom Northwestern where he also t-M. Attendance 4.W3 (paid). streak of the Colts. rane is now in the navy, stationed Batted for Beszlejr In 7th.

Batted tor Dtckson In tb. On out wben winning run scored. Batted for Adams In 9th. Batted for McGec In 11th. Red Lewis smashed a home run Rebels Wallop minored in geology and physical education, another grid great has with the bases loaded off Relief at San Diego Calif.

He has not defended the crown since winning it from Frltzie Zivlc more than a year ST. louis ana no i Hurler Russ Gantz to feature the tossed aside the pigskin and will nkw tokk ioi aie ai 01 Senators, 12-0 Errors Young, Martcuso. Runs batted in Mar seven-run splurge. winter and spring and devote the carry the mail" for Uncle Sam. ago.

shall. Kartell 2, Musial 2. Kurowiki, Moore, Tounr, Barns. Rone runs Bartell. Musial, Young.

points in front of Ben Chapman, Richmond manager. Ferrell Anderson, Durham catcher, boosted his mark from .305 to 314 during the week advancing from sixth to fourth place, while Al Clark of Norfolk rounded out the top five at .311. Roy Partee, Portsmouth catcher, was the only other man batting over 300 his average being 309. Richmond's Bill Prout, who made the select list until he suffered an infected thumb this week, lost eight points in Howe News bureau averages for the week ending July 29, and dropped to 383. Olmo continued to hold the lead In five other batting departments, with 61 runs.

117 hits. i7tai stolen base werber. sacrifices Kfarier. Carpen LYNCHBURG, Aug. l.

UP) ter. Danntmr. Double plays Slaughter and ganders; Bartell and Young: Marion. Brown and Jameson's Golf Second Now She's Sports Writer Sanders: Werber, Witek and Tounsj. Left on bases VIRGINIA LEAGUE Yesterday's Results Newport News Staunton 6.

Petersburg 12; Lynchburg 0. Salem Pulaski 4. Standing of Clubs Petersburg's Rebels went on a hitting spree here tonight, coupling 15 safe hits and seven Lynchburg New Tork St. Louis S. Bases on balls off Carpenter 3, Dickson 1.

Pallet 1, McG 1. Krist 1. Strikeouts Carpenter 4, Beaslejr 2. Adams i. errors, to gain a 12-to-0 victory over Pollet 2.

Hits off Beailey in Innings; Dick What the readers like is her SAN ANTONIO. Tex, Aug. 1 it, she could win her seventh. That the Senators behind Bill Parmer's son in Pollet 3 in I 1-3; Krist 2 in Carpenter 8 In 1-3; Adams 2 in 1 2-3; McGea (Wide World) Golf championships would mean work on the practice Pulaski 53 34 six-hit pitching. in 2.

Winning niteher McGee. Losing nlteher may be further apart for pretty Bet friendly manner about any subect or person. She's just as modest in her writing as in real life. She Krist. Umpires Sears.

Stewart and Dunn. Time Every man in the Rebels' lineup ty Jameson from now on because Lynchburg 52 35 Petersburg 48 38 Paid attendance 424. tee naturally, and as it happens there are many things In her life Pet .609 .593 .558 .473 .432 .333 except Mostow and Howard hit she has realized her ambition of be boosts everybody but Betty Jameson. safely, and only Blair, among the hitters, failed to get more than one coming a writer and finds this will Porterfield Named bases, 14 triples and 67 runs batted in. Urban Pfeffer of Norfolk led in doubles at 25.

while John Zontini keep her out of competition for It's always that Miss Whosis was off her game not Betty hitting them down the middle and straight like a movie star's. Letters flood In from Seattle to Key West, from San Diego to Bangor. She wears all kinds of clothes and Is eye-filling in any costume. She's soft-spoken and has a sense of humor. Seldom you find her not smiling.

But if she's retiring in her work that certainly doesn't apply to the way she plays golf. She has a months at a time. now that she is keener about. "I think it is interesting, however, to point out that with a little summer golf last year prior to the national she took two of lh country's Richmond Coach Newport News 40 44 Salem 38 50 Staunton 30 60 Games Today Newport News at Salem. Staunton at Petersburg.

Pulaski at Lynchburg. But "Our Betty" that's what safe blow. Lynchburg got batters on base In seven innings, twice loading the bases, but Parmer bore down in the pinches. they call her in her home-town San Antonio has no intention of giving most promising youngsters into or Portsmouth was in front with 19 stolen bases. The home-run department was paced by Jimmy Matthews of Winston-Salem with nine circuit clouts.

Charlotte's unimpressive 350 was Garden Fight Arena champion's mind plenty of confi-l camp, namely Louise Suggs, the 18-year-old champion from Atlanta, and Miss Otto, who also is 18." Now while Betty calls gtlf her dence to take down her rivals al up what she terms her only hobby. "I expect to be a stronger player at 60 than I am today," she says, "and I won't give up the game until decrepitude sets in." Miss Jameson recently won the women's western open between copy and true on the greens. For instance, this is what she wrote of her 9 to 7 victory over Miss Phyllis Otto of Atlantic in the finals of the western open: "It is a very sweet victory, one of the biggest thrills in golf the writer has ever had. Our only regret is that Phyllis Otto's play Saturday was far off from certainly far from a fair comparison of our games," The pretty brown-haired miss expresses few opinions in her writings because she feels she isn't yet good enough to lead the team batting, with Durham and Richmond though she would give one who only hobby, she's an all-around girl. hadn't seen her play the Idea she wasn't quite sure.

She likes dancing (semi-swing RICHMOND. Aug. William B. Porterfield. center on Virginia Tech football teams in the early "30s, will come to the University of Richmond this fall as line coach.

The announcement waj made tonight by Athletic director Malcolm U. Pitt. Pitt said Porterfield would take over the duties intended for Edwin J. Merrick, who is slated tc enter the armed serviced soon. "Porterfield is an outstanding student of the game, a fine teacher and a man of the highest character on her sports writing job on the Betty's record speaks for itself.

Her golf start was more or less San Antoio Evening News. It was the first tournament in which she ONE-MAN GANGS Rome Schwagel, Georgetown U-, graduate manager, is a busy guy these days. He took over the job of varsity baseball coach when Joe Judge left for a government Job: hell be the school's only football scout this season and he'll probably have to handle publicity, too, since Bill Deegan now is a marine lieutenant Among those attending the civilian coaches' training course at the Athens, Ga, navy pre-fUght school next week will be the former chairman of the N. C. A.

A. basketball committee, director of physical education at Southern Methodist a member of the National Bas and rumba), sunbathing no thank you when I go swimming I just mainly like to loll in the shooting ducks (in the swamps of Louisiana), clothes (shoes in particular "I'd like to be a cobbler if I were a had been able to compete since the national last September. tied for second at 349. Portsmouth led in team fielding at 370, while Durham set the pace in double plays at 99. Dizzy Johnson of Richmond, adding two victories to his string during the week, led the league with 14 wins and three defeats.

Gilbert Torres of Charlotte, who takes his turn in the outfield when needed, among the hurlers with 11 victories and three setbacks. accidental She followed her father, A. M. Jameson, around a Dallas course until he ordered hei home, mildly complaining that she was "in the way." But Betty continued to get in his way and finally he did the Curvaceious Betty, holder of two To Be Torn Down NEW YORK, Aug. 1.

UPy-The Madison Square Garden bowl, a fight arena capable of holding 80.000 spectators, will be torn down, it became known today when the Eighth avenue organization did not renew its lease on the grounds, owned by the Pennsylvania railroad, The structure is primarily of wood but whatever steel and iron was used in its construction will be turned over to the government for scrap. It has not been used as a fight arena since May 31. 1938, when Barney Ross was stripped oi his welterweight title by Henry Armstrong. Since then it has been the site of qualified to express them but this doesn't apply to golf. She has very definite ideas on that game, one of which is that it's a sport to keep a person young (she's 24) and that a top-flight woman golfer can re national championships, landed in a newspaper office as a natural thing, and personality," Pitt said from Her dislikes? Being referred to as 'stocky" or "hnsky" or any other Goshen, where he is director of expected and natural thing -bought her some clubs.

football-player adjective by sports writers and "thank goodness it main top-flight so long as she has She immediately stepped out to Camp Virginia. "He helped us two years ago and he's going to be a big help to Head Coach Johnny Fenlon this fall." doesn't happen too often." win the Texas municipal champion competitive fire. Her ambition? "Like mosr other She illustrates with her ideal. Porterfield participated in foot-! Glenna Collet Vare: Her father is an advertising man and she early developed an ambition to be a writer. "As yet I haven't learned to work at it like I have my golf," she says, "and of course, if anything, writing requires more practice than even such an intricate game as golf." But her newspaper pals tell a different story.

Especially is this true when she writes a golf column. ketball committee, secretary-treasurer of the Southwest Football Of ficiais' association and executive CUBS, TOURISTS SPLIT ASHEVTLLE, N. Aug. 1. (TP, The Portsmouth Cubs bounced back in the nighteap here tonight to win.

I-I, and net an even break in a ''She won her first national ball, boxing and track at Virginia girls: to get married and have a family." Well, Betty has plenty of boyi friends but just which is most likely to win her hand is a secret, even to ship at the age of 12. the southern at 14, the trans-Mississippi in 1937 and 1940, both times defeating the brilliant Patty Berg in the finals; the western amateur in 1940, the national in :939 and 1940 and the Pacific northwestern in 1941. Tech. After receiving his degree to 1934, he remained at the Blacksburg a few wrestling matches and was championship when she was 19 and as a mother of two children (13 years later; won her sixth. And secretary and treasurer of the Southwest Athletic conference.

All these are the same gent James St. Clair, of Dallas. used for a time for midget auto school until 1937 as a coach in foot-! ball, boxing and baseball. i twin bill with 'the Asheville Tou: isls. who took the opener, 8-4.

races. i today if she was keen enough about her pals. Her fan mall is something.