PROS TURN IN AMAZING SCORES AT MIAMI JOHNNY REVOLTA SINKS 40-FOOT PUTT FOR EAGLE Winners Eight Under Par In Four Ball Golf Tour nament Play MIAMI, Fla., March 8.— UPi — Johnny Revolta rammed home a 40-foot putt for an eagle three on the 36th hole today to set the pace for a series of surprises as the nation’s top professionals staged an amazing scoring exhibition in the first round of the Miami Biltmore’s international four ball golf tourna ment. When the firing was over, only two of the favorite teams remained in the running. A Shooting the works, the competi tors turned in 12 eagles and 136 birdies as a favorable wind helped on the long holes. Revolts, teaming for the first time this’ year with Ky Laffoon, knocked out last year’s finalists and the 1939 winners — Sammy Sr.ead and Ralph Guldahl — when his long putt flopped into the can for a one up victory. The winners had an eight-under par 134 for the distance. Another one of the eagles counted heavily in the result as Jimmy Hines got down a 12-foot putt on the first extra hole for the three that gave him and Willie Gcogin a win over the always dangerous combination of Horton Smith and Paul Runyon. Hines and Goggin did the 36 in 68-67—135—seven under par. National open champion Craig Wood ar.d Billy Burke, former open title holder, were the victims of the upstart comvination of Chandler Harper and Herman Keiser Both Wood and Bruke were off form and the winners came home to an easy 5 and 4 triumph—with the widest margin of the day. A team of youthful giant-killers, Ben Loving and Jack Grout, took the measure of Lawson Little and Jimmy Demaret in another upset, ene up. The only well-liked teams to sru vive the slaughter were last year’s winners — Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen, ar.d the favored duo of Byron Nelson and Henry Picard. Hogan and Sarazen took turns carrying the load in a tight go with Johnny Farrell and Henry Ran som, and finally eked out a one up decision. Nelson and Picard drew a pair of tartars in Chick Harbert, the surprise player of the winter tour, and Sam Byrd, but held on to win, 3 and 1. In another surprise decision, Dutch Harrison and Denny Shute downed Clayton Heafner and Lloyd Mangrum, 3 and 2, while Herman Barran and Tony Penna trounced Jimmy Thomson and H arry Cooper, 3 and 2‘. Best 18-hole round of the day was the 64 turned in by Nelson and Picard on the morning round. They were out in 31, four under par, and back in 33, three under. The Hogan-Sarazen and Farrell Rarscm combinations set the stage for the sensational scoring, when, teeing off first, they halved the first hole in eagles. In tomorrow’s second round—also 36 holes—the lineup is Hogan and Sarazen against Barron and Penna, Harper and Reiser against Picard and Nelson, Laffcon and Revolta against Loving and Grout, and Hines and Goggin against Harrison and Shute. 3 -V YATES IN NAVY ATLANTA, March 8—(.T)—Charlie Yates, former British amateur golf champion, headed for Charleston, S. C., today with a commission as en sign in the U. S. Navy. Yates, drafted for military service 10 months ago, served as a private at Camp Wheeler, near Macon, Ga„ until his naval appointment. BICYCLE REPAIRS Bicycles offer a pleasant form of transportation, and a patriotic one! SNEEDEN'S CYCLE CO. 114 Market St. TAA A V AT LEA,,,N« 1UUAI THEATRES FCTTTO Romantic Dynamite! Together and Terrific! Robert Taylor, Earni Turner — In “JOHNNY EAGER” With Edward Arnold Shows 1:03 3:05 5:07 7:09 9:11 COME AND ROAR! “YOU’RE IN THE ARMY NOW” With Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman Navy Blues Sextette Shows 1:00 3:03 5:00 7:09 9:12 LAST DAY! 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That circuit sur vived until Labor Day to match the bobbed seasons of the majors, and saw a mid-season franchise shift. Many minor clubs failed even to open, and the others struggled along only to expire wheezily somewhere along the route. In the American Association, two clubs had played 77 games and the others a few games less when it was decided enough was enough. Kansas City was on top when taps were sounded. The six-club Pacific Coast league carried on for better than 100 games before quitting, with the Vernon club in first place. The Southern Association, which enjoyed a good season in 1917, breathed its last after playing 70 games. New Orleans was leading at the end of the short course. The reason advanced for the curtail ment was “too much business out side baseball.” The south was ac tive in war inddustries ,and inter est of the Amrny camps in baseball dwindled as the intensity of train ing for A. E. F. duty pushed every thing else into the background. Other leagues that braved the start of the campaign suffered' similar fates. The old Western league collapsed after about 65 games; the Eastern got in about 58; the old Pacific Coast Interna tional went out July 7, after dwind ling to three clubs. Tacoma and Spokane dropped out In May and Vancouver threw up the sponge in June. The four-club Virginia league staggered through 50 games, and the six-club Texas ieagu3 gave a final gasp and died after ’ess than 90 games. Oddly enough, the chief rea son given for the demise of minor league hall in 1918 was the overwhelming prosperity in the cities in which the clubs were located. With plants Tforking day and night shifts, and wages sky high, the workers refused to sacrifice even a few hours pay to watch a ball game, working in many instances seven days a week to get full advantage of this unexpected golden rain. The shortage of players was acute, as it promises to be this year, because youngsters who for the most part make up minor league clubs were ripe for Army duty, and that’s where they went. Using some home-grown logic, it would seem that if the minor leagues can survive this year we still are not up to our all-out ef fort of 1918, when they couldn’t survive because of circumstances which are duplicated today. If they didn’t have time for the game then, it would seem logical that they wouldn’t have time now. This is no effort to knock base ball, but is merely a recitation of a little history to show v hat hap pens to our national pastime when we really got dow'n to the business of winning a war. Maybe the clubs can play night ball after all, and the eight-hour day will give work ers a chance to go to the games. But the record of 1918 is none too encouraging for the minors. Paul Moss Says College Boxing Is Much Lower CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Mar. 8.—(ff)—You can take the word of a man who is partly responsible for the situation that college boxing ain’t what it used to be. Paul Moss, who guides the fistic destinies of ex-college boxer Billy Soose, is that man. He dropped in here yesterday for a quick look at the finals of the 19th Eastern Inter collegiate Boxing Championships and found little more than a pleas ant place to spend a weekend. “The quality of the boxing is much lower than it was in Billy’s day,” Moss commented. “It used to be that nearly every college had a good team. The kind of boxers you saw in there last night were the ones that used to be in intra mural bouts.” Moss and Soose were the princi pal cause of one rule that helped bring about the change. An old Penn State man. Moss became in terested in Billy when he was fight ing in amateur tournaments and saw to it that Soose went to Penn State. Billy, and a few other ex perienced cuffers, proved so much better than the run - of - the - mill college boxers that the rule-makers barred all boys who had fought in A. A. U. and “Golden Gloves” tournaments from intercollegiate competition. “The kids now don’t have a chance to learn,” Moss argues. “There’s practically no high school boxing, so the only boys who box in college tournaments are ones who didn’t take up the game until they reached college age.” In spite of this handicap, a cou ple of last night’s winners looked good enough to stir up more than Pinehurst Polo Tearn Defeats Army Outfit PINEHURST, Mar. 8.—(^>1—Mer rill Fink scored seven goals today as the Pinehurst polo team defeated an Army quartet 12-7 on the local field. Fink was assisted by Dr. R. Brown of Durham, Mas Hemp and D'. O. Evans. The soldiers H. D. Edgar Taylor, Henry Barnard, Peter Jay and Milton Untermeyer. MONDAY-TUESDAY IDA LOUIS LUPINO HAYWARD in 'LADIES' IN RETIREMENT' feature: 11:33 - 1:33 - 3:33 _5:33 • 7:33 - 9:33 LATEST UNIVERSAL NEWS OPEN DAILY 11:00 A. M. ordinary interest. Gerald Auclair, the Syracuse 120-pounder who dom inated his division, handled him self well and showed a terrific punch for a little fellow. In the final he failed to knock out Joe Cicala of Maryland mainly because Cicala had been coached to fight defen sively in an effort to last and car ried out his instructions well. Carlo Ortenzi, a tall, handsome middelweight from western Mary land, also was impressive. In addi tion to a deadly left hook that brought him a quick knockout in the semi-final, Ortenzi showed a type of ring generalship that kept him completely in command during the final bout against Jack Gilmore of Maryland. Bob Peden, the Army knockout artist who had to go three rounds only once in three bouts to retain his 135-pound title, got only a quick brushoff from Moss. “The kids didn’t know enough to step inside his right,” he explained. “They backed right up where he could hit them.” Maryland’s boxers, perhaps the best conditioned team of the seven in the tournament, took down the team honors although they failed to win a single individual title. 3 -V Athletics Drop 5-4 Decision To Padres SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 8.— I®—Pinchitter Buddy Blair struck out with the bases loaded in the ninth inning today as the Phila delphia Athletics lost 5 to 4 to the San Diego Padres for their third straight defeat by a Pacific coast league team. With two out in the ninth, pitcher Frank Dasso of San Diego gave three walks to force in Hermau Besse who had singled. Then he tightened up and whiffed Blair who batted for Felix Mackiewcz. -V Cleveland Indians Defeat Cincinnati TAMPA, Fla., Mar. 8.—