U S Ryder Cup Aces Take Lead
United States golfers defied wind at Southport to seize a 21 2 to 11 2 lead over Britain in Ryder Cup play. Byron Nelson led the American surge with Dudley as they defeated Cotton and Padgham 4 and 2 in foursomes.
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1937
Page
13
United States golfers defied wind at Southport to seize a 21 2 to 11 2 lead over Britain in Ryder Cup play. Byron Nelson led the American surge with Dudley as they defeated Cotton and Padgham 4 and 2 in foursomes.
Bronko Nagurski weighing 232 pounds from International Falls defeated Dean Detton of Salt Lake City in 46 minutes 37 seconds. Other matches feature Vincent Lopez beating Sandor Szabo in San Francisco and Dan O’Connor beating Chief Saunooke in Indianapolis.
Birmingham gains a 3 2 extra inning win in Knoxville as Murray Howell drives in the decisive run on a tenth inning single. Howell injures ankle sliding home and is removed. Ed Chapman fanned nine in a 8 hit effort for Knoxville.
In game one the Twins scored five in the third and fourth innings with hits by Rikard Rhea and Pate while Helena booted several plays. In game two Monroe tied and Raymond homered as the Twins edged Helena 6 5 on late rallies and errors, led by Rikard and Rhea with three hits each and Vandenberg with three safeties.
In Texas League action on June 30 Dallas Steers erased a six-run lead to beat Galveston 7-6. Jelly Sorelle earned the win, while Claude Jonnard took the loss as Galveston’s pitching trio tired late.
The Swartz Carbon Blackers host the Crossett Millers this afternoon at 4 at Swartz Park for game two of the first half championship. Rob Roy McGregor likely to start for Crossett as Tex Moore aims to even the series with Swartz. Le Roy Elliott may pitch for Swartz and Courtney to catch.
Fragmentary OCR lists names such as Pickens Horton Besse Mealey Selma Meridian Tench Adamski Hennessey Cafego Pease Montgomery Mooney Patton Andersen Hernandez in a cryptic scoring style with district labels and zero one counts, suggesting a scoreboard or roster snippet from a Pensacola area game or meet.
The Bastrop club of the Ouachita Valley league plans two exhibitions as it awaits the Crossett and Swartz first half pennant completion. Camden Arkansas paper mill team visits Sunday and Lake Providence hall club visits Monday for showcases.
In the City League game Saul Adler Garagemen surged to a 22 to 2 victory over Collens Pharmacy, piling hits off Carroll Boyce who allowed two. The day also featured matchups including Collens Pharmacy vs Southern Hardware Barkdull Faulk Presbyterians vs Saul Adler Gar age and Spatafora Drugists vs Tidwell and Sons Plum Street.
In New York Al Roth beat Willie Davis by outpoint, 136 132 in Mexico City. In St Louis Allan Matthews outpointed Emilio Martinez over 10 rounds. In Jersey City Lou Lombardi defeated Phil Bak over 8 rounds.
Dr D T Milam city league president called a special meeting of all team managers and captains to be held tonight at 7 45 in his Bernhardt building office. All teams urged to attend as important business will be transacted.
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