Littler Not SatisfiedWith Irons, but ChipsTake Prize at l. A.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10-Gene Littler, who took the$5,000 first prise in the LosAngeles Open yesterday by fir-ing s 6* for 270, refuses to beawed by the seasoned pros butis not satisfied with his owngame.

Heading for the Bing Crosby

extravaganza at Pebble Beach

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this week, the 24-year-old for-mer National Amateur golf cham-pion, who is completing his firstyear as a pro,* figures he has

i some work ahead of him."I’m not satined with my

irons,” he admitted. "I’m going

to be working on them.”There may be something

wrong with Littler’s long irons,

but the field which saw himwind up the L. A. Open eight

under par will vouch for thefact that there's nothing faulty

about his chipping.The sandy-haired ex-sailor

practically clinched the victory

in the $32,500 tournament whenhe sank a 35-foot wedge shot onthe 15th hole yesterday. Theday before he holed chip shotson the last two holes for a 68.

Biggest Check Yet.The big check he banked was

the largest he’s won since turn-ing pro last January But hisvictory came as no great sur-prise. As an amateur he beatthe pros in the 1954 San DiegoOpen and he was second in fourPGA events, including the Na-tional Open.

Littler, in the last threesometo finish, knew he had to beatthe 278 posted earlier by theveteran Ted Kroll, who drewdown the $2,780 second money.It didn’t phase the young golfer.After a putt rolled around thecup and dropped in for a paron 14 and he sank his greatpitching wedge shot on 15,Littler came on in regulationfigures to post his 69, matchingKroll’s final round.

Behind Kroll in the list of102 pros and amateurs who sur-vived the opening rounds camethe veteran Johnny Bulla ofPittsburgh with a 72 for 279,good for $2,100. At 280' wereWally Ulrich with a 67 for thefinal day, and Johnny Palmer,and Doug ford, both with 70s.Each collected $1,300.

Amateur honors went to EddieDraper, Northwest Open titlistfrom Seattle, with a 73 and 287.

Earl> Leaden FalterEarn leaders and former win-

ners found the going rough

toward tht end, as only 14 golfersbroke pai for the distance. BoWininger. leader through thefirst round finished with 285.

Eric Monti, third - roundleader, slumped to a 77 and 282,and Gardner Dickinson, who top-ped the list with Monti at thehalfway point, had a 76 and282.

Fred Wampler, who collecteathe $4,000 top prize a year agogot just $145 for his 286. EdFurgol, National Open cham-pion. was in the 284 bracket witha final 72 and Chick Harbert,PGA titlist, had 73-286.

Final standing and money win-nings:Gene Littler , flP—ss,oooTed Kroll 60—278 2,7H0Johnny Bull* 72—.70 2,100Dous Ford 70—280 1.300Johnny Palmer 70—280 1.800Wally Ulrich , 67—280 1,300Lionel Hebert 68—281 1,000Gardner Dickinson 76—282 787Eric Monti

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Bob Rosbur? 71—282 787CUT Middlecoff

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Billy Maxwell 74—283 600Jay Hebert ... 76—283 600Ai Bcsselink 72—283 000Ed Furgol 72—284 386Jerry Barber 73—284 386Tommy Bolt 71—284 38«Lloyd Mantrum 70—284 386Aft Wall ;a. 71—284 386Shelley Mayfield 70—284 38&

Jack Fleck 60—284 386Mike Krak 60—284 386Bo Wininter i 71—285 *t»oJimmy Clark772B f»2—28f» 220Tom Boucher 72—2H5 220

Dick Mayer ...72—285 220

J mm.» Dcmaret 70—283 220Art Dorrins „72—286 14ftChick Harbert 7.W286 , 145Earl Stewart «I—~W6 145Fred Wampler 70—286 145Paul McGuire 70—286 145Bob Harris 68—286 145Fred Haas 70—286 145Pete Flenun* 73—287 42Jim PerrierCharles Si fiord -£—

Ralph Blomtniiat 73 42•Eddie Draper 73—287

•Amateur.

Anacostia in Swim MeetSix members of the Anacostia

Naval Receiving Station Swim-ming Club participated in aswimming meet in the Aquatic

Club of the York (Pa.). YMCA.Tommy Cakunerl* won first place

50 yards backstroke for boys 13and under. Hie time was 37seconds.

Erdelatz(Continued From Page 0-1.)

before dropping a decision in '53.Last November his underdog

Middies whipped the Cadets. 27-20. in what perhaps was thegame of the year.

Minutes after this feat wasaccomplished the champion-

ship of the East was riding onthe outcome—it was announcedthat Navy would play in theSugar Bowl in New Orleans, withMississippi as an opponent. Thiswas Navy’s first bowl game since

a 14-14 tie with Washington inthe 1924 Rose Bowl and. despite

what might have been an un-precedented series of injuries

to top stars. Navy’s outweighedteam thoroughly shellacked OleMiss 21-0.

The New Year’s Day victory

probably topped off Navy’sgreatest season. Although

beaten by Pitt, 21-10, and byNotre Dame. 0-0. Erdelatx s teamwas one that oldtimers com-pared to the 1026 mythical na-tional champions, who wound up

with a 0-0-1 record. The “Wot”on that team’s record was thememorable 21-21 tie with Army

in Chicago si a time when thelikes of Tom Hamilton and

Wickham were pJayhmpar Navy

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Cubs' 11 Big Rookie PitchersInclude Game's Top Winner

»y the Associated Press 4NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—The

winningest pitcher in all base-ball last season will be one ofthe 23 rookies to report to theChicago Cubs’ spring trainingcamp at Mesa, Ariz.. March I*.

Robert Thorpe is the nameand this 19-year-old righthand-

er has fired the imagination ofeverybody in the Cubs’ frontoffice. Pitching for Stockton ofthe California League. Thorpe

reeled off 28 of his team's 80victories and lost only four.

True, the California League isClass C, but no one can makelight of the lad’s fantastic rec-ord which includes 32 completegames in 33 starts, 197 strikeoutsand only 94 bases on balls in300 innings, and a 2.28 earoed-run average. Three of his lossescame by one run and the otherby two runs. In his only unfin-ished game he was taken out inthe ninth inning.

“I, would not be surprised ifhe stayed in the big leagues inhis first year,” said GeneHanley, former major league in-fielder who managed Thorpe atStockton.

Thorpe, is one of 11 fresh-man hurlers on the Cubs’ rosterand. If nothing else, they’re big.

Joe Stanka. Stan Pyecha andHy Cohen are S-foot-5: JimBrosnan is 6-4'.L Sam Jones

and John Andre are 6-4; Vin-cente Amor is 6-2; Thorpe 6-1.Don Elston and Bob Zick 6 feetand Darius Hillman is theshortest at 5-11.

Jones Finally Ready?

Jones is the boy the Cubs arecounting on the most. Thefront office thinks that the big

righthander, now 29. finally has

reached major league statusafter years of ups and downs.No longer plagued by a sore

arm. Jones, who came to theCubs along with a bundle ofcash and Outfielder Gale Wade!in the deal that sent RalphKiner to Cleveland, won 15 andlost eight at Indianapolis in1954.

Jones currently Is pitching

for Santuroe in the Puerto RicanLeague and every week the Cub*receive good news about him.Within a space of two weeks the

i red-haired Negro, with the In-evitable toothpick in his mouth,

struck out 17 batters In onegame, 15 in another and hurledtwo one-hit shutouts.

| "Sam Is easy-going and he’sInclined to be a little non-chalant. ’ said Eddie Stumps.Indianapolis general manager,“but he's got everything a pitcher

needs to win in the majors Heneeds a little incentive now andthen, but get him inspired andhe can beat any club on anygiven day.”

Seven of the rookie pitchershave a combined minor league

record nf 132 victories and only

56 defeats. Andre, 36-year-oldrighthander, had a 213 recordat Shreveport and was namedthe outstanding pitcher m theTexas League, edging out Karp

Spooner. Brooklyn’s strikeoutspecialist.

Draftee Wen Is.Amor. Cuban righthander

drafted from Oklahoma City,' had an 18-11 record. Elston won

1 17 with Dm Moines, and Cohenhis teammate, had the WesternAssociation's top mark at 16-6.Three Beaumont graduates. Hill-man. Zick and Brosnan, won 16.7 and 7, respectively. Stankahad a fine 16-5 mark with Ma-con Pyecha was 7-7 at Los An-geles. ¦

The Cubs think they havecome up with the answer to theirlong search for a lefthanoedpower hitter in Ted Tappe. astrapping 6-foot-l outfielder ob-tained in a trade with the Cin-cinnati Reds.

Tappe. who came to Chicagoalong with veteran Harry Per-kowski and Jim Bulger, anotherrookie outfielder, in the tradethat sent Johnny KUppsleto tothe Reds, poled 27 home runs atTulsa to establish a :iew TexasLeague record for taftbandedhitters. He batted JJB4 anddrove in 86 runs in 111 fames.

»The Cubs also are high on BoH] ger, a fine defensive performer

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ROBERT THORPE.

who batted .311 in 153 games at, Tulsa but hit only seven homers.

Jim King, a 22-year-old out-; fielder drafted from the Cardinal

organisation, had an outstandingseason it Omaha, batting .314,

' smashing 25 homers and drivingin 127 runs. Wade, a .273 hitterat Indianapolis, is regarded asone of the fastest runners in

: baseball. In eight years in or--1 ganized baseball, the 25-year-old

1 speed demon led four leagues in1 stolen bases and totaled 277

: steals. He had 28 last year.• Solly Drake, .282 at Des Moines,

: and Don Robertson, a returned‘; serviceman who batted .237 with

Los Angeles, are not regarded as| ready. 4

s j Three catchers and three in-fielders round out the freshman

> squad. Vern Morgan, lefthandedi hitting third baseman from Dess Moines, where he batted 822, is

. the best of the lnflelders. Bob'• Speake (.246) and Ed Winceniak

: (.280), both of Des Moines, prob-

r ably need more seasoning. Bill!• jFanning, who batted .304 at j

i Beaumont, appears to have theI |edge over Joe Hannah (.286 atij Los Angeles) and Elvin Tappe |

j(.188 at Des Moines) for a;catching berth.

; SneadWiiusM2sIn Florida Pro-Am

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I MIAMIBEACH, Fla., Jan. 10. !i —Sam Snead. 81.425 richer for|

I I 18 holes of golf in the Mac-;Naughton Pro-Am, says he hopes

' | his back will continue to improve

; so he will be at his best for theMasters and the National Open;

j this year. tThe veteran pro from White:

1 Sulphur Springs. W. Va„ wasforced out of the Miami Open

ja month ago because his back.1 which has bothered him off and

; on for years, started acting upagain.

1 But he didn’t play golf like ai man with an ailing back in the

1 | one-day Pro-Am yesterday at1 Bayshore golf course .

Sam whipped a field of 50 pros

' | by S strokes with a 7 under par

85 and collected the 81.000 firstprize. He also picked up an-other 8425 for placing in themoney with all three of his ami-

-1 ! tear partners ip the two-bailbest-ball competition.

! I Xavier Alumni to SeeGame With ViIla nova

The Xavier University Club ofWashington is planning a trip

to Philadelphia this week endto see the Musketeers play Vil-lanova Saturday night at thePalestra.

This win be the closest gameto Washington this year for the \rtnnlwasti acbOOl.

Chub Connolly is making res-;ervationa for the Xavier Club at!Juniper 8-3852.

wovisftiDus names vvitccnCOLUMBUS. Ohio. Jan. 10 j

' OP).—Frederick E. Jones, insur- i

i named president at the Colum-bus baseball chib. Thomas J.

l Carroll, real estate broker, was. .elected vice president and Wal-¦m.ace C. Harrison, attonwy. gpc-’rretary-trea*uwsr. w

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—that we were going to run intotrouble before the year wasover" ,

Duquesne Also Stanned.The almost unbelievable de-

feat of the Wildcats by a clubthat could not win a Southeast-ern Conference game last yearwas only a little more surprisingthan the defeat of mighty Du-quesne by little -St. Francis ofLoretto, Pa. Kentucky’s defeat,coupled with Cornells victoryover Dartmouth. 70-66, left justone major unbeaten team in thecountry—Auburn.

Duquesne, the second-rankedteam in the last AssociatedPress poll, gets a chance to pullitself together tonight againstDayton, a dub capable of giv-ing the best a tussle. The Flyersshow a 10-2 record, while Du-quesne s mark is 8-2.

The Dukes’ 82-72 defeat at thehands of St. Francis came froma team that had broken even ineight games this season and lostto Duquesne earlier in the sea-son. 71-68.

Skip Hughes, St. Franciscoach, bad some interestingcomment afterward.

“Dick Ricketts (Duquesne'shigh scorer) is overrated,” hesaid. “Tto my way of thinkinghe is no All-American. Therewere two All-Americans on thefloor. They were Si Green ofDuquesne and our MauriceStokes. The victory was longoverdue. In the last two gameswe’ve outscored them in threeout of four halves.”

Furman Sets Recard.Other notable week-end action

included Furman’s fantastic154-67 victory over The Citadelto set a new college scoring rec-ord. Darrell Floyd, Frank Selvy'*successor at Furman, dropped in50 points, although he sat outmost of the second half.

From this point on the con-ference races will receive moreattention. Here’s the way theyshape up:

Big Ten—strictly up in theair, with Purdue (1-0) the onlyunbeaten team in the leage play.All the others have split twogames except Wisconsin, whichhas lost two out of three.

Southern—Richmond in frontwith a 4-0 mark as a result ofits stunning 72-67 triumph overGeorge Washington, the heavyfavorite.

Missouri Valley —ls Wichitacan beat Oklahoma A 8 M forthe second straight time at Still-water tomorrow, the Wheat-shockers will open a two-gamelead over St. Louis.

Skyline Although BrighamYoung and Utah are tied withtwo league victories each, theUtes still figure to win in abreeze.

Big Seven—Missouri still thefavorite although it had con-siderable trouble beating Ne-braska. 69-57, Saturday. Kansas |State has shown class despite jinjuries. More will be known jafter State plays Nebraska to- |morrow and Missouri Saturday.

Pacific Coast—Southern Cali-fornia appears to have it again. |The Trojans whipped California,81-65, hitting 75 per cent of'their field goal attempts in thefirst 20 minutes. Oregon State,unbeaten m the north, probablywfll go on to the division titleagain.

Ivy—Cornell, with 4-0. andPenn with 3-0, should battle it |out for the title.

Southwest Texas Christian.

What's in a Name? Too Much for TatumDan Droze, the Anacostia High

School tailback, should not beoffended because Maryland'6 JimTatum mispronounced his namein awarding Dan the Joseph T.Sanford Memorial Award as thebest schoolboy back at theTouchdown Club dinner Satur-day night. After all, Tatum mis-pronounces the names of mostof the players on his squad.

“Itgives me great pleasure togive this cup to *Don Drews.’ ”

Tatum said, not only messing upDan’s last name but his first.

Dr. Wilson Elkins, Maryland’spresident, was among the fel-low Texans who were ribbed by

Morris Frank, the show stealer.Frank said Dr. Elkins was

,known as Bull when he played ! ’| football at the University of I| Texas, and was a triple-threater. i

“By triple threat, I mean he 1threatened to quit three times 1unless they gave him a Cadillac,’

1 Prank bellowed. 1' i

t Maryland's Gov. McKeldin 1made one pretty good crack be- lfore he started talking about IWashington crossing the Dela- jware. IJ

“I’m glad to be here, very jglad,” the Governor said, with

; obvious reference to the recent 1election. “For a while, Ithought

Iwasn't going to make it.” i jThe Walter Camp Memorial ]

Trophy presentation to NotreDame's Ralph Guglielmi wasmoved up on the program be-cause Guglielmi had to catch atrain to return to school.

Morris Prank made referenceto this in his talk. “Imaginesending a boy like Guglielmihome on a common publicplane,” Frank said. “You sawhow those Oklahoma folks wereplanning to bring Max Boydstonhere from the Senior Bowl game.They chartered a private plane

for that boy.” (Boydston wasinjured and did not make it)

They used to laufh whenNavy's Eddie Erdelati used theword ‘desire.’ but no longer.Eddie said it cei iousty and thecrowd took it seriously when hesaid his team did have desire.He brought it up when present-ing the area player award tohis end, Ron Beagle.

This was Tom Harmon’s sec-ond scheduled appearance at thebanquet, but the , first time hemade it. He was selected r-s theWalter Camp Trophy winner in1940, but the plane bringing him

here from the Pacific Coast wasgrounded in Las Vegas.

Harmon was highly com-mended for his master of cere-monies job. He knew enoughabout everybody he introducedto identify them with a word orphrase. He didn’t make a slip.He kept the program moving ata nice pace.

Associate Justice Tom Clark,in presenting the J. OConnorRoberts Memorial Award to Bub-ba Healy of St. John's, said hehoped this fine prep school starwould carry on at Notre Dameor some other fine school.

Coach Terry Brennan of theIrish said later. ‘1 thank JusticeClark for mentioning NotreDame and Bubba Healv in thesame breath.” WHITTLESEY.

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Schoolboy Stars Healy, DrozeTo Accept Scholarships Soon

Jim (Bubba) Healy of St.John's and Dan Droze of Ana-costia. regarded as Washington’s

top schoolboy football players ofthe past season, will accept col-lege scholarships very soon.

Notre Dame contacted Healyover the week end, bringing toeight the number of schoolsdefinitely seeking the 197-poundguard. In recent months Healy

has stated preference for NotreDame, but as of today had notmade his choice.

Other schools which have of-fered the St. John’s co-captainscholarships are Villanova, Holy

Cross. Maryland, North Caro-lina, Miami. Air Force Academyand Virginia.

Droze. 165-pound tailback forAnacostia. Interhigh champion,has had offers from North Caro-lina, Maryland and GeorgeWashington in spite of a brokenleft leg suffered in a sandlotgame December 12.

Droze said he saw Jim Tatum,

. Maryland head coach, and As-. sis tan t Coach Eddie Teague. after the injury and “they said

, they still wanted me.” Droze- said he hopes to remove the cast

at the end of this month whenhe graduates from Anacostia. He

' hasn’t decided which college

i hell attend.i j Joe Gallagher, St. John's foot-I ball and basketball coach, re-

’ ceived a letter Friday from¦ | Coach Terry Brennan of Notre: Dame, saying, “We have looked

over the films and have agreedHealy is a good ball player and

i figure we can use him,” accord-’ ing to Gallagher.

“I saw Brennan Saturday

’ night (at the Touchdown Clubbanquet) and he told Bubba he

• hoped to see him at Notre, Dame.” Gallagher said.

Healy’s eligibility for entrance¦ into Notre Dame still is contin-i gent on his grades before grad-

; uation in June. Gallagher ex-pressed confidence that Healy’s

. marks will be acceptable.

Sklars WillRisk 109 AverageAgainst Strong Philadelphians

Sklar’s Stars, the new pro| basketball team operating at

j Turner’s Arena, Is averaging 109* points a game for its three startsand looking for new worlds to

i conquer.The honeymoon may end next

[Sunday when the Philadelphia[Jets come in against the Starsjat Turner’s. The Jets are com-posed mostly of former LaSalleCollege stars, with a smatteringof other Eastern standouts, andmay be just the outfit to slowdown the Sklar scorers.

The Stars continued theirwinning ways yesterday, trim-ming the Buffalo Bisons, 114-76,breaking the team record theyset just the week before againstthe Kansas City Trotters with a

the choice, and Southern Meth-odist, the likely runnerup. meetSaturday. That should tell thestory.

Atlantic Coast—North Caro-lina State, the No. 3 team in thecountry, faces a couple oftoughies in Maryland and WakeForest this week.

Southeastern—Kentucky’s de-feat does not necessarily compli-cate matters. The Wildcats stillshould win it with ease.

Rocky Mountain—ldaho State Iis off and rolling toward its thirdstraight title. It licked MontanaState—the only team it bowedto in conference play last season—twice over the week end.

» 112-71 win. Last-minute fieldgoals by Ken Stoll and Frank

. Booth accounted for the lastfour points that gave the Stars

I their high figure.) Dick Groat, the former Duke

All-America who also plays; with the Fort Belvoir Engineers,

t was the high man yesterday witht 27 points, in addition to setting

¦ up numerous scoring chances for:! his teammates. Jay Peterson and

; jErnie War lick, from Bolling AirII Base, chipped in with 19 surd 15’ points, respectively, while Elliott

Karver, a standout last year at' George Washington, made his

debut with the Stars and totaled13 points.

Ralph Nolan from lona Col-| lege was best for the Bisons with

1 22 points.

Lido Soccermen Lose,Drop to Second Place

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Ambrose Baden and Al Fran-gione scored for underdog Mari-

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