Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1926 Page: 11 of 16
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WICHITA DAILY TIME
AMERICAN GOLFERS FAR OUT IN FRONT IN BRITISH OPEN
THURSDAY, rows 94, Ml
IEHLHORN AND JONES GO INTO
LEAD, WITH HAGEN, WATROUS
AND MLEOD NOT FAR BEHIND
ST.
England, June 24.—(AP)—Bobby Jones, American
1 and Wild Bill Mehlhorn, fighting Chicago pro, led
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the field Thursday at the end of the 36 holes marking the half way
point toward the British open golf championship.
Six other Americans were bunched closely behind them, all with
better aguregates than the lowest scoring Britisher. -
Tennis League
Gets Under Way
On Muny Courts
W —
Six Teams Play Round Robin
, Schedule With Week Allotted
For Each Match
-.
With eta teams formed, the Wich-
HAS FIGHT ALL HIS
OWN NOW
ational Guard '
Puts On Benefit
Fistic Program
AT THE THEATERS
Duke Trammel and Jack Dos Are
Scheduled to Feature Bout
For Monday Night
OLYMPIC •
Corinne Griffith in "Mils. Mod-
iste;” also Harry Langdon com-
edy and news reel.
STRAND
Harold Lloyd in “For Heaven’s
Sake": Aesop’s Fables and Pathe
News. *
Texhoma Pitcher
Whiffs Thirteen
In Seven Rounds
Oilers Carry Down Panhandle
First Half Champs, 5 to 3,
* When Lupher Is Right
Panhandle Refining Company’s
( first half Twilight League cham-
I pions went down before Texhoma
and Refining Company Wednes-
P day afternoon. * to a "Smoke" Lu-
% pher’s airtight pitching and the same
hind of support meant victory for
the ollers. Lupher tarnod in the
hoot strikeout record et the season
when he whifted 18 Longhorns over
the stretch of seven innings.
Cannon and Randolph also pitched
well for the losers, but Texhoma
bunched hits with errors to the
fourth for one big tontoe and
enough runs towin.
Cannon was to full charge until
the fourth. Hale drew a walh to
start tho fatal inning and Taylor
went out, Rosser, pinch hitting, de-
livered a stogie past third, sending
Hale to third, and took second on
the throw in. Parker hit to second
and Hale was safe at the Plate
when Horton dropped the throw.
Jehle walked, filling the bases. Lu-
pher aided his own cause with a
single that scored two. Randolph
relieved: Cannon. Hargrove spilled
Gordon’s pop fly, filling the bases.
Jeble scored on Boone’s out and
• Davis’ single chased to Lupher with
the fifth run of tho round. The
score:
TEXHOMA- AB R H PO
Gordon, cf ,, % 0 1 1
G Boone, 1b ..... 3 0 0.
E
Taylor, as::::: 1 0 0
Skeen, it ........• 0 •
Rosser, It.....4., 2 1 1
fiseill:
Lather, P ........$ 1 1
. Totals .........26 S 5
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Hinds, ss ........1 1
Graves, rf .....4. 3. 0 1
Hargrove, 3b ... 3 • •
Rawls, er........1 1 1
P
0
0
0
o
Horton, € ........ 3 0 0 3:1
Cannon, p........1 00 00
Randolph :......1. 010.0
Total..........24 1 4 21 11 4
Texhoma .............000 500 0—6
Panhandle ............010 020 0—8
Two base hits, Weilar. Graves,
Hale: three base hit. Hinds: stolen
bases. Waller, Lupher: hit by pitch-
er, Taylor (by Randolph): runs bat-
ted in, Parker 1. Lupher 2. G
Boone 1. Davis 1, Waller 1, Hinds
1; struck out, by Lupher
S 1. Hargrove t. Rawis 1.
Hohen 1. Cos 2, Horton A
1). by Cannon 4 (Gordon,
BEE R Pidio
Ata on balls, off Lupher
Rawls, Cox, Randolph).
- * WE--a. Hale. Jhele
--- ------Jh 1 (Davis):
ys. Hohen to Hinds to
me to Parker.
(Hinds,
scon/" re R.n2oTF
doxCumlor to a. 1
Waller to Hinds to nargruve; DnIK
Cannon: wild pitch, Randolph
passed balls. Davis 2. Horton: hits
and runs, off Cannon 8 and 3.1m
3 1-3 innings (3 on In the fourth):
left on base. Panhandle 3. Texhoma
6. Time 2:95. Umpire, Mathis.
, American Field Day.
STANNES, England, June 24. on
The first round of tbs British open
golf championship Wednesday de#
veloped late as American field day
such as Great Britain has never be-
fers seen with Walter Hagen lead,
ing a field of famous international
players with a record eighteen hole
round et 68.
Four other Americans finished
close behind the professional cham.
pion of the United States. Bill
Mehlhorn of Chicago was second
with a 70, Al Watrous and Fred Me.
Leod third, with a pair of 71‘s, and
Bobby Jones, fifth, with 72.
Never before have British golfing
fans witnessed- a more impressive
exhibition by Americans than this.
Mehlhorn’s superb 70, knocking a
stroke off the St. Anne’s record
since the course became a cham.
pionship layout was scarcely less
brilliant than the surprisingly good
scoring of Watrous and McLeod and
the sensational recovery of Jones
after a disappointing start
Great 18 Holes.
Then came Hagen’s stunning 68,
making the second time that the
course record was shattered by aa
American player in a single day.
Three thousand spectators saw the
veteran American star post one of
the finest rounds of his competitive
career. Hie sensational march over
the St. Anne’s fairways saw hint
reach the thirteenth before be re-
quired more than par for a single
hole and here a topped second shot
resulted in a five.
^ .O’towmueronina
were the first native Britons in the
pack which trailed the five Ameri-
can leaders. Each took a stroke
more than Jones. After them came
another American procession with
only Joe Kirkwood, the triek-shet
star, and Watts Gunn, young
Csorria amateur, requiring more
First and second round scores
with tbs aggregates follow:
Cyril Walker (American) 79-71-
150.,
—Emmet French (American) TI-T
Antonio
Walter Hagen (American) sa-11
—145. I
Watts Gunn (American) 32-50-
162.1
Jim Barnes (American) 77-80-
157.
Jim Braid 82-75—157.
Cyril Tolley 79-86—164.
George Gadd 80-71—151.
Roland Mackenzie (American)
"ash u-n-mt .
.Josey Jurado (Argentine) 17-76-
Tad Bay 1-nc—ie
Joe Kirkwood (American) 81-70
—157.-7
George Duncan 75-70—154.
, GIe Von Elm (American) T-
X Walrus (American) 12-722-14€.
Fred McLeod (American) 71-76-
146. ’
Archie Compston 76-74—150,
Abe Miteboll 78-78—156.
Bobby Jones (American) 12-12
144.
Bill Mehlhorn (American) 70-74
—144.
J. H. Tayler 75-78—153.
Averil Kidd 78-78—156.
Alex Herd 81-76—157, t
HTeR Armour (American) *4-
ita Falls tennis league swings late
action this week for a.ories of
team matches exceeding through
five weeks of pley. Team matches
will sonsistrof tho singips and one
-=- MAM
One week’s
o playing lot
ies must be
Nowa: No.
Geors
Roland
KINSET ADVANCES IN
WIMBLEDON TOURNEY
: WIMBLEDON, J use 24, mn-
Howard Kinsey, American, elimi-
nated C. H. Brian from the men’s
singles of ths Wimbledon lawn ten-
his tournament Thursday. Kinsey
won in straight sets at 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.
" Henri Cochet of France, conquer-
or of the youthful American, Vin-
cent Richards, advanced to the
fifth round of men’s singles by de-
feating IL K. Lester, Cambridge
team capain, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.
Senorita D'Alvares, youthful sen-
sation, scored easily In the women’s
division at tbs expense of Mise W.
PM. Haughton. 6-2, 6-0.
GALVESTON, Texas, June 24. on
—Practical talks on laundry operse
tions and accounts featured this
morning’s session of the Texas
Laundry Owners Association which .
is meeting here in mid-summer cone 4
vent ion.
The electrical washing machines
has come to be a serious menace of '
the laundry industry, declared
Charles F. Heldbrink of Oklahoma i
City, past president of the Okla-
homa Laundry Owners Association.
More effective advertising and
salesmanship wae offered by Mr.
Heldbrink as the best method of
combating machine competition. ’
MISS LEITCH WINS GOLF . ,
TITLE FOR FOURTH TIME 1
HARLECH. Wales, June 14. on 1
Miss Ceell 1 Leitch Th ursday for the
fourth time won the British wome 1
en’s open golf championship. She
defeated Mrs. Percy Caron in the
final round, I and 1.
MISSION
Lou Telligen in “The Outsider”
and comedy.
PALACE
“The Wheel” with all star cast,
and comedy.
GARDEN -:
William 8. Hart in “Tumble-
weeds” and comedy.
GEN
Tom Mix In “The Yankee Senor”
and Fox comedy.
LABORER SUFFOCATED
BY LAREDO CAVE-IN
Monday nights American Legion
fight program will be a benefit
affair for the mess fund et Com-
pany M, 142nd Infantry, according
to announcement Thursday of
Matchmaker Don Wofford,
me wuopuer sere* Wore
welter who has been absent from
Wichita Falls fistic etreles for sev-
oral weeks, and Jack Doss. The
latter a newcomer from the Paci-
fic Coast, with a neat record, says
Wofford, and be should be able to
give Trammel a real battle.
Wildcat Monte and Pug Humph-
ries are billed to the semi-final
These two fought last week and
put up a good sorap.
Trooper Carr and Clyde Barrett
are slated to a return meeting.
Spike Flannigan and Virgil Mast-
ers and Battling San. and Black
Dummy are alee on the program for
preliminaries.
Most of the participants are na-
tional guard members and a gen-
eral slash la admission price will be
to force. The boot seat to the house
goes on the market for one dollar,
says Wortord.
VEnNon MAN STUMBLES
’ ON BLADE CUTA ARTERY
vunNON, rezas. June 14,—
Claude W. Oliver, manager of a
local hardware store, severed an
artery in his Eight feet late
Wednesday afternoon when he
stumbled over the blade of a mow-
ing machine. He to la a critical
condition, but physicians declare he
in resting easy.
ncwC FinsT crunch or
CNRINT IS POSTPONED
The annual piente of the First
Church of Christ, which was te have
been at Scotland Park Thursday
evening has been postponed indefi-
nitely on account of the rain
Wee t
shave ones Aypent"
Special to The Times.
AUSTIN, Texas, June 24.—An ap-
peal was filed to the court of crimi-
nal appeals Thursday by J. A.
Sharp, convicted of murder to
Yours county and senteseed to six
years in the penitentiary, to con-
nection with the killing et Marvin
Wall, June a. 1936. The earn wiu
not be submitted at this term of
the court■ ' '
AU*"Y"go»
Miriam A Ferguson today honored
the requisition of the governor of
Okishoma for the extradition of a
AL French, charged by complaint at
Ponca City. Kay county, Okia, with
forgery of a $300 check. French is
under arrest at Amarillo
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. June 26-July. s: No. « vs. No. 5,
No. I’ve. No. B, No. 3 vs. No. 4. ;
July. 1-10s No. s vs. No. 2, No. 5
vs.’No.. I. No. 4 vs. No. L
(July 11-1Tw No. 6 vs. No. 3. No. 5
vs. No. 4. No. 1 vs. No. 2.
‘. No EY No € No •
AMERICAN WOMEN BEAT I
LENGLEN AND PARTNER
IN WIMBLEDON MATCH
wuteusnos. June 24. (--Ez-
abeth Ryan and Mary K. Browne of
California Thursday defeated Su-
sense Lenglen and Did! Vlasto of
France to a thrilling three-set dou-
bles tennis struggle before 17,000
spectators by * 1, S4 .
LAREDO, Texas, June 24. on —
Frantic efforts of Matilde Ontiveros’
companions to extricate him from
an earth cavein proved unavailing
Wednesday. He was suffocated be-
fore they could remove several feet
of dirt slipping from the side of an
excavation being made for an irri-
gation plant suction pipe on the
James O’Keefe form, 14 miles south
Of Laredo.
Ontiveros, a laborer on the pro-
jeet, was 19. Funeral was to be
held here today
Men’s full fashion hose, Imported
from Saxony, fancy colors, $1 re-
tailor 50c, Wright’s Clothes Shop,
620-23 Eighth street.—Adv.
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. TEX RICKARD _____
For quite a few years Tex Rickard has been the champion promoter
of righto Now he has a fight all his own. Rickard wants to put on B
Dempsey-Tunney fight. The New York boxing commission says It .shall
be Dempsey and Wills or nobody. Rickard’s latest move is a threat to
shift the scene to Chicago. But he must get the Illinois commission’s
consent end It is no certainty this commission will not stick by the New
York solons.
SENS TRADE FERGUSON
FOR MINOR LEAGUE STAR
WASHINGTON, June 24. mn-
Pitcher Alex Ferguson, a right
hander, has been sent by the Wash-
ington American League club to
the Buffalo Internationals in ex-
change fer Outfielder Danny Tay-
lor. t______________
T00 MICH GOLF
ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 24. ()-
W. Waldo Brown, 39, .roker, le dead
as a result of playing 72 holes of
golf in one day, according to par-
siclans. Brown, who suffered from
an “athletic" heart, collapsed as he
finished the last hole of four
straight rounds and was taken to
a hospital. He died from blood elots
on the heart and right leg.
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BOUT POSTPONED
NEWARK. N. J. June 24. —The
12-round welterweight champion-
ship bout between Fete Latso of
Scranton. Pa. champion, and Willte
Harmon et New York, challenger,
scheduled for Wednesday, was post-
poned until next Teuesday night
because of rain.
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