Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1935, Page 39

I—;’R—INWINERS. WINTER FAVORITE OUT OF CONDITION Several Other Candidates Display Poor Form in Prep- aration Purse. By the Assoclated Press. OUISVILLE, Ky, May 1— Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun headed back for the blue grass today, all hopes that he might start Saturday in the Ken- tucky Derby gone glimmering. But he pointed the way for a hand- ful of Derby hopefuls which failed to show the necessary stuff in yesterday’s Preparation Purse at Churchill Downs. The event, a mile, for $1,500, went to Milky Way Farm's Whiskolo, which 1s not too highly regarded, despite his victory. Widener announced at Lexington, Ky., last night that Chance Sun defi- nitely will not start. After in-and- out workouts last week the colt dis- appointed in his start Saturday. ‘Third to Warren Wright's filly, Nellie Flag, and Mrs. R. B. Fairbanks’ Blue- beard, he toppled from his position as Winter book favorite. The odds of four, five and six to one which had been accepted on his chances all ‘Winter rose to 20. May Be Out All Summer. XAMINATION failed to bear out that Chance Sun was lame, but after returning to Widener’s El- mendorf Farm today he will be taken to Col. E. R. Bradley's Idle Hour Farm fog treatment. This may take all Summer, and Chance Sun may not start again until late in the year. Among the others which disap- pointed in the preparation was Hal Price Headley’'s Whopper, a giant of a colt, which tired badly in the stretch and was third to Whiskolo and Tearout, the only horse in the race not eligible for the derby. The Braedalbane Stable’s Weston and . Bluebeard showed little to indi- | cate they have any chance for the $40,000 added that goes to the derby winner. Psychic Bid Alone Missing. HE derby colony at Churchill Downs is complete except for Mrs. Isabelle Dodge Sloane’s Psychic Bid. W. M. Jeffords’ Com- monwealth and Brandon Stable's Tutticurio arrived Tuesday. curio has not been regarded highly as a probable starter. Recent spar- Kkling workouts in Maryland, however, have brought him more consideration. Bradley’s Big Gawk, long ago dis- missed as a derby starter, finished behind a very cheap field Tuesday in a 6-furlong event for maidens. Bradley relies on Boxthorn for his chance of taking a fifth Kentucky Derby. Today, C. V. Whitney’s derby nom- inee, went to 3 to 1 in the Winter books. Tutti- | Weights, Jockeys, Owners, Odds Are Given on Derby Hopefuls | By & Stanr Correspondent. | OUISVILLE, May 1.—The field for the Kentucky Derby, to be run at | Churchill Downs Saturday, probably will be drawn from the following | 17 eligibles. Here they are, along with their Derby weights, owners, probable riders and the future [ Horse. wt. Jockey. ‘Today 126 R. Workman Nellie Flag 121 E. Arcaro Plat Eye 126 S. Coucci Omaha 126 W. Saunders Sun Fairplay 126 8. Renick Commonwealth 126 J. Gilbert Boxthorn 126 D. Meade Psychic Bid 126 ‘Whopper 126 Roman Soldier 126 ‘Whiskolo 126 Shoeless Joe 126 Direct Hit 126 Finance 126 St. Bernard 126 Prince Splendor 126 ‘Weston 126 C. Kurtsinger (Copyright, 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) book odds: Owner. C. V. Whitney Calumet Farm Greentree Stable Belair Stud Fair Fields Stable Mrs. W. M. Jeffords E. R. Bradley Brookmeade Stable H. P. Headley Sachsenmeier & Reutero Milky Way Farms Conn Smythe Conn Smythe Coldstream Stud E. D. Shaffer T. C. Worden Jouett Shouse TR P U UL UG URURURUSURUR O - » Poaoaw 009 e 35883 Aibaddolal sE8a2s Temporary J | B the Associated Press. | OUISVILLE, Ky, May 1—For a Spring business tonic Louis- ville takes the Kentucky Derby. This year a stronger dose than any of those taken regularly over the last 60 years has been ordered. The occasion has been stretched into “Derby Festival week,” which began with a two-mile parade Monday night and will reach a climax with the big race Saturday, ending | in revelry Saturday night. Civic organizations in charge of the affair estimate that 50,000 visitors are coming to Louisville to add some $2,000,000 cash to this city’s blood- stream of business, temporarily boost- ing the population by one-sixth. If the trend established last year continues, the Derby tonic will add a fortune to the pari-mutuel volume at the track. The 1934 Derby crowd of 60,000 bet a total of nearly a | million dollars—$999,140 to be exact— |an increase of $253,593 over the 1933 | Derby wagering. | Business men report that 5,000 additional jobs are being made avail- able by the Derby. They are tempo- rary jobs, but their number equals | the number of families on relief in | Louisville. Included are jobs at hotels, Churchill Downs, restaurants, clubs, taxis, | stores, and additional employment for | carpenters, musicians, clerks and TURF CLASSIC FATTENS LOUISVILLE EXCHEQUERS 50,000 Visitors Due to Leave $2,000,000 in Cash During “Derby Festival”’—>5,000 obs Created. street railway operators. They didn’t count the miscellaneous vendors who will hawk souvenirs until the crowd goes home. Night clubs have bid for their share of the incoming cash by raising prices above the levels established last New Year eve. Whereas $5 couvert charge was top for New Year revelers, those who dance Derby eve must pay the piper up to $7.50. The State’s share of the Derby gold at Churchill Downs is still a question in the courts. But of every dollar Derby visitors spend in retail trade Kentucky will get 3 cents, through its sales tax. A Circuit Court held the sales tax law repealed the daily race track license law, that the tracks must pay sales tax on admissions and on the “take” from the pari- mutuels, but the decision was taken to the Court of Appeals, where it is now pending. Additional boxes and “bleachers” were built this year at the Downs, and every reservation has been sold. The old buildings and stands are freshly painted. Among box-holding customers are Postmaster General James A. Farley, Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas, Gov. Stiles Bridges of New Hampshire, Gov. Eugene Talfiadge-of Georgia, Gov. George W. Earle of Pennsyl- vania, Gov. Olin Johnson of South Carolina, Gov. Ruby Laffoon of Ken- tucky and National Comdr. Frank N. Belgrano of the American Legion. FRITTERED AWAY renssly ] SizinzommnE SHmOEORBILY BoEmSEORSLP *Kress . Russell, p. Totals ... *Batted for Whiteh! tNone out when wini ill in seventh. ning run was scored. an 1Saltzgaver . Deshons. p Totals . tBatted for Van Atta in eighth. Washington . «. 000 000 260—8 N::htno'rkn.. 000 113 022—9 New | he has signed more than one he is 1 | automatically disqualified. ‘Boaca, 2: by Russell, 1: by Deshong. Whitehill. 8 in 8 innings; off 2 innings; off Broaca, 8 in 7 off Murphy. 2 in in 1-3 inni Hit by piched ball—B: —M . le‘! and Gllul,“%me—’.‘i'.'l. IN SECOND 0-0 VICTORY Two Alexandria Hurlers Smother Nokesville Completely. ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 1.—Alex- andria High School's base ball team today boasts its second no-hit, no-run victory of the season, following the 16-0 walloping it handed Nokesville High here yesterday. It also was the Twins' seventh straight triumph. For the first five innings, Eddie Hammersley, who held Eastern with- out a bingle recently, treated the Nokesville boys in the same manner. He was then relieved by Butch Wood, who likewise put the visitors down without a bingle. The game was halt- ed at the end of the seventh. Score by innings: il Arssar Russell. 4 in 1-3 innings; 000 000 0— 0 200 410 x—16 | EAGUES PERFECT PLANS FOR START A and B Sections of City Or-| | ganizations Will Open Cam- | paigns Sunday. EXT Sunday the unlimited A and B Leagues of the National City League will start the ball rolling in their 1935 openers. This afternoon the managers of the teams are having a final meeting to complete arrangements as to sched- ules, regulations and diamonds. All contracts of players must be in the manager’s hands today. The con- tracts prohibit a man from playing with any other club in the league. If The entire season is built around Sunday games, with the “play ball,” ordered for 3 pm. Each league plays a split schedule in which every team encounters the other seven teams once in the first half, then once around again for the second half. The win- aing club ineach half stages a play-off ner of the play-off in A League meets the similar winner of B to decide the National City League championship. Teams comprising the A League are Miller Furniture, Blue Flame Valets, Dor-A, Murphy 5 & 10, Army Medical Center, Cherner Motor Co., Union Frinters and an eighth team which will be announced before Sunday. B League's pennant contenders are Lewis Ice Cream, Warwick A. C, David's Grill, Woodmen of the World (Elm Camp), Stansbury A. C., Capital ‘Transit Co., District Grocery Stores and Georgetown A. C—J. T. B. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. (Including Yesterdsy's Games.) American League. Batting—Foxx, Athletics, Hemsley, Browns, .390. Runs—Bonura, White Sox, 391; 17; | Hayes, White Sox, and Rolfe, Yankees, 13. Runs batted in—Johnson, Athletics, 17, Goslin, Tigers, 14. Hits—Gehringer, Tigers, 21; Hayes, | White Sox, 19. Doubles—Washington, White Sox, 7, Hemsley, Browns, and Johnson, Athletics, §. Triples—Cronin, Red Sox, 3; Aver- ill, Indians, Foxx and Warstler, Ath- letics; Radcliff, White Sox, and Hems- ley, Browns, 2. Home runs—Bonura, White Sox, 6; Johnson, Athletics, 5. Stolen bases—Hale, Indians, 4; Gehringer, Tigers; Lary, Senators, and Almada, Red Sox, 3. Pitching—Hadley, Senators, ‘Whitehead, White Sox, 3-0. National League. Batting—Hogan, Braves, .448, and Vaughan, Pirates, .434. Runs—J. Moore, Phillies, and Tay- lor and Frey, Dodgers, 13. Runs batted in—Camilli, Phillies, 23; J. and Frey, Dodgers, 16. Hits—Vaughan, Pirates, Moore, Phillies, and Bottomley, Reds, 20. Doubles—Herman, Pirates, 7; Hafey, and Triples—P. Waner, Pirates; Myers, Reds; Boyle, Dodgers, and Collins and Martin, Cardinals, 2. Home runs—Camilli and J. Moore, Phillies, 6. 5 Stolen bases—Myers, Reds, 3; Riggs and Bottomley, Reds, and Bordagaray, at the end of the schedule. The win- | Dodg ers, 2. Pitching—Clark, Dodgers; Blanton, Pirates; Derringer, Reds, and War- neke, Cubs, 3-0. FOX TO HURL OPENER. Phil Fox is slated to pitch for the Wilson College base ball team in its opening game Saturday against the Shepherd College nine in Griffith Sta- dium at 2:30 pm. Pete English is captain of the Wilson squad, which is coached by Doc White, former Chi- cago White Sox star pitcher. POWELL GROWING INTO GRIFF STAR [Fulfills Boss’ Prophesies With .409 Batting in Last Five Games. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star: EW YORK, May 1.—Battered by the Yankees, even with the Red Sox and ahead of only the Athletics in two weeks of war- fare with Eastern rivals, Bucky Harris and his Nationals nevertheless are finding plenty of reason to be cheerful today as they depart for their first invasion of the West. Chief among Harris’ threads of silver lining as he lays plans for battle with the surprising White Sox, the league- leading Indians and the champion Tigers is Alvin (Jake) Powell, the colorful recruit outfielder who finally seems ready to fulfill the generous prophesies made to Bucky by Clark Griffith, the man who plucked Jake from the Takoma Park sandlots. A flop at the outset and kept in the line-up only because Fred Schulte still was nursing a charley-horse, Powell now looms as not only certain to retain the centerfield post regardless of Schulte’s improvement, but as a poten- tial tower of batting strength. For the first time this campaign, Powell resembles the youngster who was reckoned good enough to bench the veteran Schulte by the National bosses at Biloxi. Boosts His Average. HE swaggering District suburban- ite, who actually whs not hitting much more than his weight when the Nationals embarked upca | this Eastern tour preparatory to head- | ing Westward, shows an average of only 278 as he goes to bat against the probable pitching of Johnny Allen in the final of this three-game series with the Ruthless horde. But 278 isn’t near the pace with which Powell is bidding to hold his job. A virtual loss at bat in the first eight games, whea he swung for only .187, Jake has been slamming the ball at a 409 rate in the last five tilts. Moreover his bingles—nine in 22 trips to the plate—have been so well timed that he trails only Joe Kuhel in runs batted in. Powell struck about the only cheer- | ful chord to Harris yesterday as the | Yankees pinned back the Nationals’ | ears for the second day in a row. Afield and on the slab, the Nationals just didn’t have it after their bats overcame a five-run Yankee lead and | staked Jack Russell to an 8-to-5 edge as Joe M¢Carthy's band went up for their raps in the eighth. It was Powell who provided the big vunch in Washington's six-run rally in the eighth. After a double by Tra- vis, a single by Bolton and Pinch- Hitter Red Kress' double had cut dewn the Gothamites’ lead to 5 to 2 in the seventh, the Nationals went berserk at the tee apparently to clinch the affair. Manush led off with a single and after Kuhel had rolled out Travis again hit for two bases, scor- ‘ng Heinie, Here Bolton drew a pass and set the stage for Powell. Hits First Griff Homer. LVIN took a Ilusty swing on Johnny Broaca’s offering and parked the ball in the left fleld stands. nearly 400 feet away, to chalk up the first home run of the season for one of Griffith’s hirelings and | give the Harris horde a 6-to-5 margin. | Jack Stone, who a few moments later | was to be the “goat” of the game, | drove across Washington’s final two runs in the same inning when he tripled to score Russell, who had walked, and Myer, whose two-bagger m chased the relief hurler to third Neither Whitehill nor Russell was up to par in the box, but the Griffith A. C. might have won in spite of them had not its fielding suddenly gone awry. Whitehill was touched for six hits and that five-run lead dur- ing his six-inning tenure on the slab, and Russell did not prove even that good. After Bill Dickey had gained first base on a pop fly which the wind blew away from Lyn Lary, a home run by Tony Lazzeri cut the score to 8-7 going into the ninth. The Nationals failed in their half, but the Yankees didn't miss. Hill singled to open the proceedings, and Bolton staked Rolfe to a base when he picked up his sacrifice bunt and threw wildly to first. Then Russell walked Selkirk to jam the sacks. Gehrig, next up, couldn’'t be the hero, but Stone atoned for Lou’s short- coming in this t by dropping the husky first-sacker’s fly, allowing Hill to score with the tying run. Then up came Dickey to rifle a single just out of Myer’s reach to break up the game. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Ott, Giants, 1; Koenecke, , 1; Dickey, Yankees, 1; Lazzeri, Yankees, 1; Powell, Senators, 1; Goslin, Tigers, 1. The leaders—Camilli, Phillies, 6; J. | Moore, Phillies, 6; Bonura, White Sox, 6; Johnson, Athletics, 5; Frey, Dodgers, 4; Foxx, Athletics, 4; Oftt, Giants, 4; Goslin, Tigers, 4. League totals—National, 71; Amer- ican, 59; total, 130. Firecrackers Punctuate Brooklyn’s Jeers for Giants Ball Players of Both Clubs Are Friendly, Says Puzzled Terry After Bombardment. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer, EW YORK, May 1—The Hatflelds and McCoys of base ball, Memphis Bill Terry and Gowanus Casey Stengel. may have settled their feud to their own personal satisfac- tion, but there is no calling off the frensied faithful of Brooklyn. 1t looks as if the boys who buy the pasteboards never are going to forget or forgive the fact that in an unguarded moment over a year ago Terry quaintly pondered Dodgers still in the Even beating the Giants out of last year's pennant hasn’t solved the outraged Brooklyn pride. ‘The Giants crossed the Brooklyn Bridge and the Gowanus Canal yesterday for the first time since the 1934 debacle, and the greeting Terry and his men got from the 17,000 Flatbushers would have warmed the hearts of survivors of the old Giants’ feuds with the Chicago Cubs. There must be something to it, because the Dodg- ers won a ball game as wild as the setting, 12 to 5. ' The boys heaved cannon crack= ers out of the stands, howling with delight as the cardboard bombs burst abaft Giant trousers. They call them Brooklyn greeting cards. One, as the festivities opened, near- ly blew staid Tom Clark off the first base coaching lines. ‘What with the fireworks and the continual jeering of the enemy and cheering for the home guards, it sounded like a combination Fourth of July celebration and feeding time at the 200. Terry, the principal target, shook hands with Stengel for photog- raphers by home plate yesterday, and the 17,000 stood and roared in outraged unison: & ol 't shake hands with that Rl;m(l'lfllll “they got. one of our when it was discovered that Sam pening Slaf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935. Features and Classified c—1 —By JIM BERRYMAN ISHOWING POWER AONEALLLINES Rout Browns, 11-3, to Gain | Third Straight—Dodgers Trim Giants, 12-5. /e WAPLE ... THE PRINTERS’ STEADY MAN WITH THE WAND... Ad . LEADS IN HITS AND‘RUNS BAT- TED ACROSS... CHARLIE HOLBROOK'S BAT COLLECTS THE EXTRA BASES WHEN IT CONNECTS, AGGIES AND TYPOS HOTON A COOL DAY Fine Fielding Marks 3-2 Win‘ of Former in Openerin | Major League Statistics 'WEDNES! American YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York. 9: Washington, 8. 11; 8t. Louis. 3. postponed, rain and Associated Press Financlal Writer. HAT surprising early season champions of the American League, is beginning to yield heavy hitting, tight fielding and effec- tive pitching. dropping 9 of their first 11 games, have won 3 games in a row, sweeping along they did a year ago. A faltering pitching staff suddenly Tommy Bridges and Alvin Crowder starting and finishing the Tigers’ last played errorless ball in that span, and the batters have scored 34 runs on 41 This compares with the Tigers’ record of 36 runs on 91 hits, 22 for Make 14 Safeties. ‘The hapless St. Louis Browns once bats yesterday as Detroit punched out 14 hits and won, breezing, 11 to 3. many days in the fourth gave the ‘Tigers a 3-2 lead and they went on drive in the seventh. Crowder was nicked for nine hits, but was effective in the pinches. The defeat was the Browns’ eighth in suc- with the Philadelphia Athletics for last place, chalked up their sixth triumph in a | row, rallying for two runs in the ninth ators, 9-8. Rain and cold weather held other BY HERBERT W. BARKER, slump of the Detroit Tigers, fo base ball's infallible treatment— Mickey Cochrane’s Bengals, after in much the same steam-roller fashion has regained form with Joe Sullivan, three engagements; the team has hits, 14 of them for extra bases. extra bases, in their first 11 games. again felt the weight of the Tigers’ Goose Goslin’s second homer in as to clinch the verdict with a six-run including a triple and three doubles, cession and dropped them into a tie | Meanwhile in New York the Yankees to nose out the Washington Sen- American League clubs idle. DAY, MAY 1, 1933. National YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Brooklyn. 12: New York. 5. Cincinn; Chicago. Dodgers Beat Giants. N THE National League the year's first clash between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers saw the Dodgers and Bill Clark stagger Departmental Loop. through to a 13-5 victory in a wild game marked by 25 hits and 7 errors. | Triples by Buzz Boyle and Danny Taylor, singles by Lonnie Frey, Jim | Bucher and Tony Cuccinello and sawWeD ‘pujuea BY JIM BERRYMAN. o1 81 | errors by Dick Bartell and George ESPITE a 3-2 defeat at the Davis accounted for six Dodger runs hands of the Aggies in the | NY season’s opener in the De- partmental Wwn League yester- | pet/ 2 outfit certainly doesn't appear to be ' day, the Union Printers ball playing |3tL1_0 Phli 010 | Boe 0 1o 120731741 5/ 6/ 911010/—I—1 | in the third and really decided the ball game. The defeat left the Giants |in first place, eight percentage points 3 | ahead of the Dodgers, although Brook- _ | 1yn lealis on a “games” basis by half E 1821 51z | a game. 7071 81 71 9—I—I| [ | The Chicago Cubs pulled closer to LT 31 4 6l a team with two strikes on it! Any- thing but that! i 1t was only a momentary lapse of | Basin; memory on the part of Pitcher Tom g‘“ Heany that enabled the Aggie dele- | D¢ gation to squeeze across the winning run in the ninth inning. Both clubs played a brand of ball that was noth- ing short of amazing for so early in the year. The fielding and mound work far outshone the hitting—the | manner in which infielders handled | the sizzlers and whisked them across | to the initial sack for putouts, and | the controlled stuff of both twirlers | smacked more of mid-July form than late April. Every year the Union Printers are taken for the same old buggy ride about the group of grizzled veterans | they drag out on the field to com- | pete in the flag race. But said vets lead the razz-berry boys a merry chase in the matter of playing the game of base ball. The U. P. team changes very little from one season to an- other, but why should it? As Man- ager Hutchinson says, “Why trade in & fine-running old car for a new piece of junk?” Good in Losing Battle. \OM HEANY, top twirler for the big ink and type men, showed his old pressure, allowing but five hits in his losing battle against the Government boys. Failing to keep track of the outs in that last frame, and making the play to first instead of to the plate, chalked up & defeat on his record, but the apparent con- dition of his business fin doesn’t seem to encourage the other three teams in the league. Bean, Roudabush, Jeffries and Abrahams form a reliable staff of moundsmen to assist Heany in sub- duing ambitious batsmen. They are received by that reliable backstopper, McPherson, who has as his assistant in time of need one Jimmie Dewhurst, 0se regular work is chasing files in | right field. Fred Waple, the first baseman, is batting clean-up, and he takes his as- signment so seriously that he has be- come very unpopular with the op- posing pitchers. Tom Daglish at sec- ond, Girard Edwards at short and Ray Homan, formerly with the Government Printing Office, complete the infield. Holbrook Is Clouter. HARLIE HOLBROOK, who offi- ciates around the left garden, wields a wicked wand as far as the long-distance clouting is con- cerned, and his extra-basers have ac- counted for a_good sized bouquet of tallies for the Printers during the past seven years. Ben Snyder is the middle fiy hawk, and the afore-mentioned Dewhurst snags stray spheres that find their way out into.right field. ‘The manager’s job was taken over for the '35 session by Norman Hutchin- son, who earned laurels and well- deserved retirement from action by alternating between the keystone sack and the pitcher’s box for 13 years on the Printer's nine. “BABY BLUES” PREVAIL. St. Albans “Baby Blues” defeated the Episcopsl High “cake” team yes- terday in & 37-8 dlamond gm\lflm GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW L. scheduled. Det. at 8t. at New York. Phila Others not | the leaders by beating Pittsburgh, 3-0. poANES. Tona e | Gene Schott throttled the St. Louis B o n. B e ot Bost8- | Cardinal batsmen with five hits and 8t. Louis at Cincl. Others not scheduled. | the Cincinnati Reds clubbed out & Pittsburgh at Chi. 1 12-2 victory to regain fourth place. GAMES TODAY. 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