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he Toening Stad Sporls WA TODAY RULES DESPITE SLIGHT INJURY Won’t Affect Colt’s Running, Declares Trainer. Nellie Flag Worrie: Guards Will Handle Crowd. Kentucky Derby Field By the Associated Press. Here is the field for the sixty-first . Horse. Jockey. St. Bernard P. Keester Whopper C. Landolt Roman Soldier L. Balaski *Calumet Dick . McCarthy Sun Fairplay Bluebeard Psychic Bid ‘Whiskolo *Nellie Flag Omaha Morpluck Boxthorn Blackbirder ‘Weston Plat Eye ‘Today Prince Splendor Commonwealth Tutticurio *Calumet Farm entry. J. Renick S. Young R. Jones W. Wright E. Arcaro ) EE Ay i) M. Garner D. Meade C. Corbett 8. Coucci J. Westrope G. Woolf J. Lynch All weights 126 pounds except Nellie Flag, 121 pounds (fillies allowed 8 pounds). BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. OUISVILLE, Ky, May 4—With storm clouds again rolling in with the crowds it's Derby day again in old Kentucky, with all its fanfare and furor, the headaches and heart throbs that go to make this event more magnetic to American sports followers than any other horse race in the land. By way of giving the form players a final jolt that C. V. Whitney's colt Today, the favorite and one of the East'’s twou best bets to turn back the challenge of the crack Western filly, Nellie Flag, had pulled up with a slight bruise on one hind foot after a last workout. The mishap to the Derby's 3-to-1 choice, said Trainer Jack Heaiy, wasn't serious enough to affect ihe| colt's running nor damage his chances, but it caused quivers in the Whitney camp, long-pursued by a Derby “jinx,” and put the favorite “on the spot.” The previous choice, J. E. Widener’'s Chance Sun, went lame suddenly and was withdrawn this week. | All Outwardly Calm. | ‘~~THERWISE. all outwardly was se- rene in the barns at Churchill Downs and the sixty-first run- ning of the 3-year-old classic “wide open” for a surprise finish. Nellie Flag, the strapping granddaughter of Man o' War, shared the principal pub- lic support with the seemingly ili-fated Today, William Woodward's fast- finishing Omzha and Col. E. R. Brad- ley’s candidate for a fifth winner, Box- | thorn, but it appeared at least seven horses had a chance to wear the vic- tor's wreath of roses and receive the | acclaim of a record-breaking crowd. An unprecedented outpouring, ex- W. Saunders C. Hainsworth R. Workman it developed over mighi | ALL EYES SOUTH. AT3TO1, s Dopesters—500 running of the Kentucky Derby today: Owner. Odds. E. D. Shaffer 30-1 H. P. Headley 20-1 Sachsanmaier & Reuter 15-1 Calumet Farm 3-1 Morris & Keating 100-1 Fair Fields Stable 20-1 Mrs. R. B. Fairbanks 100-1 Brookmeade Stable 15-1 Milky Way Stable 20-1 Calumet Farm 3 Belair Stud 6. J. H. Louchheim E. R. Bradley Mrs. C. Hainsworth Jouett Shouse Greentree Stable C. V. Whitney C. Worden Mrs. W. M. Jeffords Brandon Stable 0- 6. 0 0. 6 4. 00 8. 100- 20- they have been saying she is the racing mare of a generation, the best | since Regret won in 1915 and destined | not only to win the big prize, but go lon to capture 3-year-old champion- | ship honors. Nellie is big, strong, | speedy and—of all things—sassy to the starters. She already has licked many of the colts in the Derby. Her jdaddy was American Flag, a great | son of Man o' War and her dam was Nellie Morse, a Preakness winner. The family's pride is at stake. Nellie will be hard to catch if she breaks “on top.” Nothing could furnish a more dra- matic climax than for Nellie Flag to romp home in front, but it's the calm, considered judgment of the handicappers that she doesn't figure to beat either Today, if the Whitney hope proves sound, or Omaha, chest- | nut son of the 1930 Derby winner, Gallant Fox. Omaha has what it takes in the stretch. PORT Scopg \WO of the really beautiful and authentic rivalries of profes- sional boxing will be unveiled | I in one fell swoop, as folks have a habit of saying. when Prof. Billy McCarney and Senor Jimmy Erwin turn Natie Brown and Buck Everett loose Monday in probably the most generally interesting heavyweight fight of the year. Fistic “grudges” rarely are the real | McCoy. Boxing is a tough racket, Bradley's Boxthorn, Mrs. Payne 8and this very fact seems to have Wmmey'i Plat Eye and Mrlss. W:i’l’;r something to do with fighters bcm_g M. Jeffords’ Commonwealth, a geld- charitable to one another. “Grudges” ing, all figure to have winning 8enerally are born in a press agent’s chances. There's also considerable brain. backing for Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane’s | But the Brown-Everett and Psychic Bid, W. S. Kilmer's Sun Fair-| McCarney-Erwin feuds are dif- play and Roman Soldier, the Texas ferent. They are real. Derby winner and entry of Sachsen- | maier and Reuter. N il T . The rest of the Derby list has been | ot} [Even on Speaking Toons grouped in the mutuel field, including Whiskolo and St. Bernard. two favorites of the long-shot players. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Ott, Giants; Moore, Giants. The leaders—Camilli, Phillies, 6; J. Moore, Phillies, 6; Bonura, White Sox, 6: Ott, Giants, 6; Johnson, Athletics, pected to number close to 70,000 spec- | 5; Frey, Dodgers, 5: Foxx, Athletics, 5. | tators, offered a spectacle in sports- | following enthusiasm contrasting sharply with the top-hatted. hoop- | skirted gathering of barely 10,000 that witnessed the launching of a national | institution 60 years ago, when the “Jittle red horse,” Aristides, won the | first Kentucky Derby. | From all parts of the country, the | clans have rallied to share the thrills that few great sporting events can | match, glimpse the galloping thor- oughbreds in a nerve-tingling dash for glory, along with a major “cut” in at| Jeast $54,000 in stake money and par- ticipate in the revelry of this year's Derby festival. The “build-up has been prolonged for this year's event but it requires | only two minutes and a few split seconds to make horseracing history out of another Derby. For all ex- cept the initiated, it's mainly a con fusing whirl, the outcome of which is uncertain until the numbers go up on the board. Whether the onlooker | has merely two dollars “on the nose” or whether he's a “plunger,” he will | have to take his jostling with the crowd and like it. "N,HE’I’HER the multitude hails Nellie Flag as “Queen of thel May” and the first filly to triumph in | 20 years or whether the fast-stepping | equine lass ylelds to the stretch drive of the colts, it appeared certain the Derby would enjoy clear, cool weather, together with a fast track, after two days of buffeting storms. The mile oval at the Downs dried oul with astonishing rapidity over the night. Yesterday, after being deluged for nearly 24 hours, it was hock deep in mud A holiday seemed assured | for the mud runners but the prospect today was for a good fast racing strip | at Derby post time (about 4:45 p.m.,, | Central standard) barring further downpour. | Reinforced by 500 Kentucky Na-| tional Guardsmen, State and Louis- | ville police marshalled their forces | with the dawn to cope with what many observers expected to be the biggest outpouring of the faithful in Derby history. The big parade was under way early for all except the favored thousands with reserved seats and nothing but traffic snarls to ‘worry about. The miltia turned out mainly to pa- trol the outlying fences and repel the “gate crashers” whose exploits annually during Derby afternoon have furnished combative excitement and, by sheer force of numbers, over- whelmed the resistance of a platoon of mounted police. It remained to be seen whether the mob on the out- side had any plans about challenging the army, in addition to defying the ordinary forces of law, order and cash business. Meanwhile the experts, agitated by doubts and torn with conflicting emo- tions, awaited the answer to the main question: “Can Nellie Flag, despite the acknowledged handicaps of sex and precedent, whip the cream of the 3-year-old crop and become the second filly in 61 years to post her name among the Derby winners?” She Rules Her Sex. HE'S far and away the best of her in years, is Nem‘mwnd the barns Track Dries Rapidly. sex to appear in the Derby field League totals—National, 78; Amer- ican, 63. Total, 141. League Statistics HE fuss between McCarney and Erwin began a little more than a year ago when Jimmy picked Natie Brown from the heavyweight | junk-pile after he had been dis- carded by McCarney. Erwin infused | new life into the Jewish ringman and was vindicated when Brown scored two knockdowns against Walter Neusel in his (Natie’s) first bout in months. But along came McCarney, who promptly took over “his boy” again. And while Brown battled his way right up the Jadder to a ranking in the first 10 heavyweights, Erwin was left out. Jimmy and Billy look at each other with eyes like those of a dead mack- erel. They hardly speak. Erwin can- not forgive McCarney for “swiping” Brown, and McCarney cannot forget how Jimmy berated him for the act. Billy Gets Early Laughs. | VER since that time Erwin has sought revenge. He succeeded only partly. First he groomed SATURDAY. MAY 4, 1935, American YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. for the District heavyweight “title.” Tow took a fancy lacing and Mc- Carney had the last larfl. Undaunted, Erwin brought in Don Petrin and managed to arrange a Brown-Petrin scrap. Again Brown | was victorious. | A stubborn cuss, Erwin next brought % |in Tony Galento, the murderous- | punching Italian from New Jersey, but Natie and McCarney were not anxious to fight Galento and so once again Erwin was thwarted. He got another chance, how- ever, when McCarney wanted to display his “sure-fire contender for the championship,” who was young Steve Dudas. That was last Fall at the Riding and Hunt Club. Dudas was fresh from a string of victories and neither he nor McCarney Phil_0/_0_11_0_ 11 0/ _0i—] 2/111.1541 § L. 245 5/ 6/ 9000TI—/—| ! GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW Wash,_ at Chicago, ~ Wash, at Chicago. New York at 0L New York ‘fi,s"','“ ston a¢ Detrot < t Phila" af ‘Cleveiand. Baila” at Cleveiand. National Bob Tow, the Alexandria waltzer, and | piloted him into a scrap with Brown | YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. New York, 9: Cincinnati, 2. Brooklyn. 2: Pittsb Chicago at_ Philadel St. Louis at Boston TZzwoag gRI2E urgh, 1 phia ' (wet grounds). (cold). 4 |5 NY) B Chi SULI_0] Cin[_0/" 0! 07| 91438 Bos 115 ¢ (15074171 4 Pitl 0| 0f 61_91.400/ 4% Phil_10_1( X 7191 71 91 9l—I— GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW Cinci. at New York. Cinci. at Ni K. Fiftibureh at BRin. Bittsbureh. ‘i BYin. St. Louis it Boston. St. Louis at Boston. Chicago at Phila. Chicago at Phila. offered any violent objection when Buck Everett, who had just been knocked out by the then little known Joe Louis, was proposed as his foe. Dudas looked too good for Everett and there was further incentive for | McCarney in another titter at Erwin’s expense, for Jimmy was managing | Buck. Aha! Another Feud. ¢CARNEY enjoyed no titter, however. His sensational Dudas took a beating from the battle-scarred Everett and it was Erwin’s turn to laugh. That victory cost Dudas and McCarney plenty in prestige and future matches and heaped fuel on the flames of the rivalry between Jimmy and Billy. So when Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn closed out for a meet- .'Bra(iley Sees Easy Derby Win Idle Hour Master Declares His Boxthorn Will Be All by Himself at Finish. BY “BUCK” WEAVER. LOUISVILLE, ,Ky.. May 4.—“I think he’ll win off!” Which, in the vernacular of the turf, is just another way of saying, “All by his lenesome.” With these words Col. Edward Riley Bradley expressed his confi- dence in Boxthorn, his chief bow in today’s Kentucky Derby, during a tack room chinning bee with your race track correspondent. . .“Balla- dier was 10 pounds better than any 2-year-old out last year; his race in the Futurity proved that,” con- tinued the master of Idle Hour with a note of pride and regret. “The others , (meaning the top fiight) were afiput on & par.” “Then, why do you think Box- thorn will win off, colonel?” was the natural interjection. “Because he has improved more than the others. Yes, he was tired during the late stages of his mile- and-a-quarter trial, but I know he can step that last quarter in 0.25 or less. And that's what it takes to win Derbies.”... Yessuh, the colonel envisions an- other Derby conquest for his green and white halves. And, with four Derbies already to his credit, none can say he is inclined to bubble blowing or delusive dreams. When he believes he is right he generally SHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY Brown and Everett Feud Is Real Thing—Pilots Also Venomous, BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ing between Brown and Everett, fight followers looked forward with glee to a renewal of this | rivairy, They are guaranteed not to be dis- appointed. Not only do the managers of the principals have a score to set- | tle, but so have the gladiators them- | selves. | It happened. so reliable reports have | it. several years ago in Chicago. Ever- 4, 19, —By JIM BERRYMAN ES o= 0, <A &< 2 FH¥ L3 Sports Program For D. C. Teams TODAY. University of Maryland field day carnival, at College Park: 12:30—Start of annual scholastic track meet (21 events). 1:00—Start of triangular meet among Washington and Lee, Vir- ginia Tech and Maryland and dual meet between Gallaudet College and Maryland freshmen. 1:00—Base ball, Maryland vs. Georgetown 1:00—Tennis, Maryland Catholic University. 4:00 — Lacrosse, Maryland vs. Byracuse. | V8. Base Ball. Wilson Teachers vs. Shepherd College, at Griffith Stadium, 2:30. George Washington at Hopkins. St. Albans at Gilman School, at Baltimore. Western at Baltimore City Col- lege. Georgetown Freshmen vs. Naval Apprentice School, at Norfolk. Track. Catholic U. at Hopkins. Episcopal in State meet at Uni- versity, Va. Episcopal High Juniors in meet at Woodberry Forest. Tennis. Episcopal vs. Navy Plebes, at An- napolis. American U. at Bridgewater. ™ the | schedule | if one would | South Side fans the inclement weather 70,000 Await Derby in Poor Weather : Fans See Woe for Griffs in Chicago OPPOSE SAVAGELY SLUGEING OUTFIT Series Held Up by Wicked Weather—Bucky’s Slab Stars Primed. BY JOHN B. KELLER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HICAGO, Ill, May 4—When something can be done about the weather out this way Bucky Harris and his band of roving Nationals will get a line on surprising White Sox. The called for a game in Comiskey Park today but the weather man called for rain and continued cold. Rain, snow and a norther that chilled to the marrow prevented the opening of the series yesterday and listen to the boastful conditions also kept the Nationals from taking a sound spanking. It did not save them from a licking at Aurora, however. Most of the Harris hands who tripped to the track DODGER SLABBING WORRIES STENGEL Manager Sees Need for It to Be Better if Club Is to Go Places. Conditions Ideal For Turf Classic ett was just out of the amateurs and | was taken to a Windy City gym to work out with some of the more sea- soned boys, who were to give him pointers with the promise not to hurt “Everything was okay,” relates Buck, | “until I ran into this fellow Brown. | Do you think he pulled his punches or showed me anything? He did not. That guy turned loose everything he had. He butted, heeled, violated every rule of sportsmanship, and handed me a terrible licking. I've got a score to settle with Natie Brown. Brown's Side of It. ATIE'S version, of course, is con- tradictory in part. “I knocked | him out in the gym that time,” declares Brown, “but it was his fault. | Everett was a fresh punk who was supposed to be out to learn some- thing. I told him to get in the ring and that I would show him anything 1 could. taking it easy like. “All of a sudden he started getting tough. I warned him. burned up and told me to go in and shoot the works. I did. And I knocked him as flat as linoleum, some- thing I wouldn't have done if he'd know his place.” You can bank on these rival- ries. They are on the up-and- up. If you don’t see the fur fly Monday at the Auditorium then James J. Braddock will annihilate Max Baer and Henry | Irving can lick Joe Louis. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. (Including yesterday's games.) American League. Batting—Hemsley, Browns, Foxx, Athletics, .388. Runs—Bonura, White Sox, 18; Rolfe, Yankees, 15. Runs batted in—Johnson, Athletics, 18; Bonura, White Sox, 16. Hits—Johnson, Athletics, 22, Geh- ringer, Tigers, and Hayes, White Sox, 21. Doubles—Washington, White Sox, 7; Hemsley, Browns, and Johnson, Athletics, 6. Triples—Cronin, Red Sox, 3; Averill, Indians; Foxx and Warstler, Athletics; Radcliffe, White Sox; Rogell, Tigers, and Hemsley, Browns, 2 Home runs—Bonura, White Sox, 6 | Johnson, Athletics, 5. | _ Pitching—Hadley, Senators; Hud- | lin, Indians, and Whitehead, White | Sox, 3—0. .390; National League. Batting — Hogan, Braves, .448; Vaughan, Pirates, .446. Runs—Taylor, Dodgers, Frey, Dodgers, 14. | Runs batted in—Frey, Dodgers, 17; 15; 3 Hits—Vaughan, Pirates, 25; Ott and | Terry. Giants, 22. Reds, and Martin, Cardinals, 6. Triples—Eight tied with two each. Home runs—J. Moore and Camilli, Phillies, and Ott. Giants, 6. Pitching—Clark, Dodgers; Blanton, Pirates: Derringer, Reds, and War- neke, Cubs, 3—0. ALEXANDRIA NINE AHEAD. out 10 bingles behind the 6-hit pitch- ing of Pete Heflin, Alexandria High's base ball team scored over its foe, Fredericksburg High, 11-3, here yes- terday. Score: Predericksburg Ing'lls.2p 3 1 Sh'p'rd.ss 2 Wh'ler,1b Payne.3b Hoskins.c rif Fenion; Brown.p | Hnd'n.ss | Jones.p. Hill.3b, | scssusmsoman0y P = Alexandria AB. Vney.2b 4 B2 L 2 3 2 0 1 [ 1 o | oS | 222500mwmssmy! et ©92230mm? Totals, 28 1031 6 + 030 000 0— 3 . 300 323 x—11 2), wer, 12 £ L) » 8. Heflin, P. Hefli ‘Pllynz. l:fll::umln. She i arney, Herndon - Trey &), " ‘Three-base_hit—Ingalls. Stolen McMenamin. Nugent. er, Shibley. Ificer] base on balls—Of Heflin, . Hits—Off Brown. 9 in 8% innings: Jomes, 1 in 2 inning. Struck out—By i gmmm ._Losing pi! Finally the| fellow who was handling me got all | | Camilli, Phillies, and Ott, Giants, 16. B Doubles—Herman, Pirates, 7; Hafey, | ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4—Lacing | v the Associated Press, OUISVILLE, Ky, May 4—A cool, clear afternoon and a fast track were forecast to- day for the sixty-first running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Work has been pushed to get the track in readiness after rains earlier in the week reduced it to mud. Only unexpected showers would undo the work, attendants said ROOSEVELT HOPES FORBALL HONORS Prospects Rosiest Since Wise Brothers Shone. Beats Central. OT since the halcyon days of the famed Wise brothers did Roosevelt High, formerly Busi- ness, appear to have as rosy a chance of landing the public high base ball championship title as it does Lhis year, In spite of limited practice and tre absence of Frank Baroni, cogsidered their ace pitcher, the Ruf Riders sur= prised yesterday by decisively trim- ming Central, pre-series favorite of many to win the crown, by 11-3. Much of the game at Eastern Stadium | was played in the rain, and at one | time the precipitation became so | heavy play had to be suspended for | several minutes. F Central Is Outclassed. ROM the outset, Roosevelt out- classed Central. Joe Bovello, who when he is not pitching is first five innings for the Riders. Meanwhile he and his mates made merry with the offerings of Brick Hays, starting Central pitcher, and Lefty Rowles, who replaced Hays, fared little better. The Riders socked 15 hits. Jack Neely, third baseman, socked a homer in the eighth with Eovello on base. Six hits were made by Central, with Moran and Smith each getting two. Roos'lt. Al FCo'ley.cl 4 Boveilo.p.. 4 Ne. g 5 . 4 Valenza.2b4 DiP'toro.lf C.C'bris ss Smon? Ey. . Wo'wards 5 Weber.rf . 4 Th'pson.if 1 Totals. 41 Roosevelt =2 003 30; 000 000 102— 3 ley. -Bovello (3). Neely 3). Bailey, Ey. Woodward. Weber. A. Chimbris (), Di Pretoro. Efrors—M (3), P. Coakley, Wooodw: Ey. Two. HOGAN, ENSLEY BAT WAY T0 VAN 1Jump Ahead in Majors in Bombarding Orgy; Vaughan Continues Clouting. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR,, Associated Press Sports Writer ASEY STENGEL, who lacks much of the professional op- timism of a base ball man- ager, admits that his Dodgers need a lot more good pitching than they now have if they're going places in the National League this season. But considering their limitations, they've done pretty well so far, lead- ing at onme time and now holding firmly to second place. Even if they don't stay up there, the Dodgers seem sure to make plenty of trouble for the other clubs when By the Associated Press, EW YORK, May 4—Two new leaders stood at the top of the major league batting lists to- | day, while the pace setters of a weck ago looked up from somewhat lower levels. But the clouting of Prank (Shanty) Hogan of the Bos-| ton Braves and Rollie Hemsley of lme St. Louis Browns weren't the only outstanding hitting features of | the past week. | Hogan, eighth in the National | League last week, cracked six hits | in 10 times up and lifted his average 80 points to 448 to capture the lead | formerly held by Burgess Whitehead of St. Louis. Hemsley, not even rated | as “a regular” when the previous list was made up, came through often enough to get in at the top of the American League at .390. Van Lingle Mungo is on the mound. So far this Spring the mighty right- hander has gone the full route five times, winning three games and los- ing two. | Clark Doing Well. | yATSON CLARK has been the W only other consistent member of the Brooklyn flinging corps, chalking up three straight victories in his come-back effort. Mungo had his troubles yesterday as the Dodgers ran into the Pitts- burgh Pirates at the start of the Western invasion of the league's Eastern sector, but he came through impressively. Not only did the big South Carolinian outpitch the even bigger Jim Weaver, but he took mat- ters into his own hands to drive in the winning run. The Pirates, skidding into seventh place, collected only six hits off Mungo, but they put together a single by Babe Herman, the former Dodger catching, or playing somewhere else, | hurled no-hit, no-run ball for the Other high spots were the continued | hero, a forceout and Pie Traynor's clouting of Floyd (Arky) Vaughan of | double for a fourth-inning run. That Pittsburgh, second National League | Jooked like enough to win until Weaver hitter, who hit 10 times in 20 at- | began to wabble in the seventh. tempts to hoist his mark to .446; the | Danny Taylor and Joe Stripp nicked rise of the New York Giants’ sluggers | him for singles, and the former scored in the senior loop and of the Ath-|after Al Lopez’s fiy. Mungo then letics’ aces in the American League. | smashed a base hit through Cookie Three Giants, Mel Ott, Hank Leiber | Lavagetto to bring Stripp in from and Bill Terry, moved up to join Mark | second. Koenig in the first 10. Jimmie Foxx _ It still took a great heave by Buzz and Bob Johnson of the A’s gaining Boyle in the ninth to keep the Bucs 10 and 44 points, respectively, during | down. With one out and runners on the week, slid in behind Hemsley, with | first and third, Boyle grabbed Tommy averages of .388 and .386. | Thevenow's fly and made a perfect peg The 10 leaders in each major league: 1 to double Gus Suhr at the plate. AMERICAN LFAGUE. Unable to Gain. = ESPITE the victory the Dodgers couldn't gain an inch on the | pace-setting Giants, who wal- loped Cincinnati, 9 to 2, in the only other major league game. With Carl | Hubbell hurling a six-hit game that 0 | might have been even better but for |8 shower in the final inning. the | Giants cut loose with a 16-hit bar- Pet. | rage against Bennie Frey, Don Bren- ‘346 | nan and Leroy Herrman that brought Hemsley. St. Louis.... Foxx. Philadeiphiza Johnson. _Philadelphii Hayes. Chicago . ... Bonura. Chicago . e 5 Pepper. St. Lo Bell. St. Louis NATIONAL LI Hogan. Boston . ... Vaughan. Pittsburgh J. Moore. Philadelphia . Whitehead. St Louis Taylor, Brooklyn Leiber. New York ott. New York_ .. Koenig. New_York. Terry. New Yo Hafey, Cincinnati «ivs ConssRsRhum P T rae SEZI3%% Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. ODAY a year ago—Two stables at Churchill Downs destroyed by mysterious fire on eve of Ken- | tucky Derby but all horses saved. ‘Three blanked Reds to win his first game of season for Cardinals. homer of season beat White Sox. years ago—Dizzy Dean | | Five years ago—Babe Ruth's third | an easy victory. Rain and cold weather wiped out | the remaining National League games | and the full American League sched- ule, giving some teams a welcome op- | portunity to get over the siege of ill- ness and injuries that has laid up two managers—Joe McCarthy of the Yan- kees and Jimmy Wilson of the Phils and a good many of their hired hand: s. Stars Yesterday I By the Associated Press. Mel Ott, Giants—Drove in three runs against Reds with sixth homer of | season and single. Van Mungo, Dodgers—Limited Pi- rates to six hits and drove in winning run for 2-1 triumph. hits—Weber oran. alel Home run—Neely. Stolen bases—A. Chi bris (3). ~ Sacrifice—F. Coakley. play—Valenzs to A Chumbris to Tay] 4t on bases—Roosevelt, 9: A 7 . 2: off Rowles. 4. Hi 1y 5 in 3 innings (none out in fourth): Rowles. 10 in 6 innings. Hit by pitcher— By Bovello (Di Pretoro. twice; Taylor). Struck out—By Bovello, 7: by Hayes. 2: ‘Wild pitch—Hayes. Pass by Rowles. 6. ball—Lewiz, Losing piteh pire—W. Wa OCCOQUAN NINE STARTS Plays Anacostia Eagles Today. Barnard Tosses Ball. Barnard, general superintendent of tions, was to toss out the first ball when the Occoquan A. C. opened its base ball season here this afternoon with. the Anacostia Eagles. are: Tomorrow, Concord A. C.; May 11, Miller Furniture Co.; 12, Indian Head A. C.; 26, Army War College. June 15. Bethel A. C. of Warrenton; 23, New Deal; 29, urg Blue ) LORTON, Va., May 3—Capt. M. M. | District of Columbis penal institu- | Other home games for Occoquan | By the Associated Press. OUISVILLE, Ky, May 4— Consensus selections, based on the views of a score of sports writers here for the sixty-first Kentucky Derby were: Nellie Flag, Omaha, Boxthorn, To- day and Commonwealth. But the track handicapper, in making up the Derby day program, rated Today, Omaha, Nellie Flag, Boxthorn and Plat Eye in that order as the top five. The two axioms heard most often at the Downs at Derby time are “string along with Bradley” and ‘w muvnrm"...mmi Scribes Stringing With Nellie Today Heads DerBy List of Track Handicapper. Omaha Rated Second in Consensus. words the old “percentage” . . . choices in wagering have won 28 out of 60 times and finished second on 16 other occasions . . . Bradley's horses have captured four Derbies since the war . . . “Dick” Thomp- son, the Bradley trainer, is gifted at the job of bringing his charges up to the big race at concert pitch . . . Broker’s Tip, the last Bradley horse to win, was 40 to 1 in the Winter books, a maiden and never showed a thing after winning the 1933 race Donerail, in 1913, was the long- est-shot winner, paying $184.90 for & $2 mutuel ticket . . . the re- nowned Hindoo, in 1881, was the shortest-priced, 3 to 10. came back with nothing more than handfuls of brightly-tinted mutuel tickets to show for their outing. Supporters of the White Sox here insist the Nationals will be set back severely in the encounter with the surprise club of the American League. They point with pride to the cam- paign of utter brutality conducted by the Dykes demons and also to the White Sox katting average of .299 which they claim the Harris horde will not be able to withstand. L certainly make them an im- posing arrayv. Right around the infield the club is hitting well above -300. Zeke Bonura at first base has Former Griffman Stars. ATEST figures on the White Sox | a swatting mark of .360. Jack Haves, who once sported the Washington uniform, is second-basing smartly and larruping the leather for .368. At shortstop, thg club has in Luke Appling a 309 batter. Jimmy Dykes, rid of his charleyhorse, has resumed his post at third base and he boasts a batting average of .324. There are two .300 hitters in the outfield. Vernon George Washington, a rookie, is smacking at the rate of 305. Al Simmons, the veteran, is only a point shy of those figures. Ray Radcliffe. another rookie outfielder, now has an average of only .259, but his hits have been timely, for he has driven in 11 runs. and only three oth- ers on the club have done better at getting runners over the counting block. Radcliffe seems to be a long hitter. He has cracked two home runs and as many triples. Luke Sewell, doing all the catching for the South Siders. is swinging much more effectively than he did for the Nationals last season. He shows a rating at bat of .285 now. which gives Jimmy Dykes' outfit a great offensive layout right down the line to the pitcher. Griff Big Three Primed. BUNCH of batters that should make any pitcher take his task seriously, but the Washington curving corps ought to be in trim to give these White Sox a fine fight. ‘The hurlers are going into the series well rested. Bump Hadley has not pitched since last Sunday, Bob Burke last appeared on the hill in New York last Monday. and Earl Whitehill has been idling since Tuesday. Thus the Nationals have their big three ready for action While the Sox are plenty peppery after winning six of their last seven games, the Nationals consider them- selves right tough as a result of the six victories scored in the nine games played in the swing through the camps of Eastern rivals. Harris is satisfied that he has a sturdy ball | club, and now that Monte Weaver has shown signs of being ready to pitch good base ball the manager looks forward to a highly successful tour of the West. T series here—whatever part of it may be played—using their reg- ular line-up. The White Sox have no right hand starting hurlers, so Jack Stone and Cecil Travis, the left- hand swingers, who have idled when the opposition employed southpaw | slabmen. again will be in right field |and at third base, respectively. This gives the club more strength in at- tack, for neither Ossie Bluege nor Fred Sington, the right-hand batting substitutes, has displayed any worth while offensive power. | Harris believes his ball club soon will be in true hitting stride. There has been a notable improvement in | the Nationals’ batting since they left home. As soon as the weather mod- | erates and real Spring gets in the +air they may be expected to hit ’em high and handsome and begin to go places in the race that just now looks to be almost any club’s. | VAN KLAVEREN VS. HALPER. CHICAGO, May 4 (#).—Bep Van Klaveren of Rotterdam, Holland, once European lightweight champion, has been matched for a 10-round bout with Lou Halper, Newark,.N, J,, wel- terweight in an all-star boxing show at the Chicago Stadium May 10. Griffs’ Records BATTING. Bucky Is Optimistic. HE Nationals will go through the omsoreos! e A n 0 D —ORBE S-S S0 SO > Soommis 229 ° o222 ©025292203222005H0002000" = Stewart PITCHING. H BB. 80. In.P.GS CG. Hadley. 1 1l 30 ettt Whitehill Wi PRI