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@he Foening Stap Spofis K % WASHINGTON, D. C, - TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1937. Lewis’ Slump Has Nats Stumped : Marathoners Look lo Star’s Race "POPPING * OF F Wil CLUB MISSES HITS BUDDY PROMISED Harris Worried by Soph’s Failure—Slabmen Totter Before Red Sox. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Btaff Correspondent ot The Star. OSTON, April 27.—The Griffs have stopped yelling “'look out, below!” and with good reason. There isn't anybody below them any more. If the season were to end today Clark Griffith would be Tucky to find himself retaining his franchise. As the Washington firm prepared to meet the Red Sox again and head Tor home it found itself running dead last in the big derby. All pre-season signs pointed to a great getaway. The | pitchers seemingly were in shape and the hitters ready to make good the boast of Washington having eight .300 swatters in the line-up. Now, if the "first month of the season is to be rated even passable the Nats must stage a rally which will surprise, at this point, even their most optimistic followers. Of all Manager Bucky Harris’ wor- ries to date, not the least is that young man of Gastonia, John (Buddy) Lewis. A year ago Buddy was the sensation of the American League. He hit everything that came to the plate on a fly. Today he is off to a most dis- couraging start in his second season of major league csmpa.xgnmg GRIFF’'S HANDY MAN. SECRETARY OF THE Lewis’ Slump Causes Worry. LREADY the cause of a major | shift in the batting order, Harris | having dropped him from second place | to seventh, Lewis thus far has been | unable to prove even helpful in the lower end of the batting order | In the last three games, for in- stance, he has gone to bat 12 con- | secutive and official times without | Retting anything resembling a base hit. He can't even buy one, it seems. For the five games played to date by the Nats he has hit safely only once in 21 trips. Don't look now, but his average is something like .048. To say at this time that Skipper Harris is unworried about Buddy would be painting the picture a little brightly. Base ball history is replete with cases of first-year phenomena who found the big show a different story and struggle in the second year. Lewis now has more than one ob- server wondering. Harris, of course, isn't selling him short. A man can worry and vet keep faith. That is what Bucky is doing. But it would be quite a load off his | mind if young J. K. Lewis. jr, sud- denly would begin banging & few base hits. De Shong, Linke Well Pounded. NlEANWHILE it cannot be said that | Lewis is the cause of the Griffs’ | decline to the cellar as a result of four defeats in five official starts. With 10 hits and the scoring of five runs the Washingtons wrote a 1937 offen- sive high yesterday in the Hub opener. ‘The only fly in the ointment was the | Red Sox scoring of a dozen runs and their pounding out of 15 hits. Jimmy De Shong, the last “first~ stringer” to see action, finally was paraded to the box and what Harris AW was not encouraging. Two ln-w nings were plenty to convince him that De Shong wasn't ready. By that time the Sox had a 3-to-1 lead. Next to be led to the slaughter was Eddie Linke. For an inning he was invincible. Then, in the fourth, the | Sox batted around and scored half a | dozen runs for a 9-1 lead. Harris conceded defeat after this | subtle scoring gesture. He left Linke in the box. gave Shanty Hogan a rest, and Johnny Marcum, without being | too hot, breezed home to vxrtory for the Bostons. Pitched Ball Kayos Doerr. BUCKY proposes no more shake-ups. He is convinced that his best line- | up now is being used and if it isn't good enough that is just too bad. Regardless of whether left-hander or right-hander faces the Nats from a pitching box, Harris will sink or swim with his current regular team. The future, in the meantime, holds no great promise. Immediately after today's game the Griffs were to head back to Washington, where they will open a three-game series tomorrow with the Yankees. Joe Cascarella was to do the Wash- ington throwing today. Joe has a habit, some say, of losing one-run ball games. But even this would be a relief after yesterday. The greatest damage done sc far by the Nats was Linke's hitting 19-year- old Bobby Doerr in the head with a pitched ball. This he did yesterday | in the fifth inning. Anxious team- mates carried Doerr to the club house and from there he was removed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for observa- tion. At the rate the Washington pitchers have been going it seems as if you can depend on them to hit something all the time. If it isn't a bat it's somebody's head. Halting on Hill PEPIHPPHORRTIN -] rososmwssswe? ©555~530~~00M o 0 020— 0,631 00x—12 el mmmom um. Gafke. Almada. Cramer. Shong, innings. 8 (Cumen‘ Tr); Losing. pitcher 8uong. Umpires—Messrs. Dinneen, o-en- and Hubbard. Time—2:20. ’ L WASHINGTON BASE BALL CLUB... MAINSPRING OF THE LOCAL OUTFIT.. DOES JUST ABOUT EVERY- THING EXCEPT ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME! GRIFFS OFFICIAL GREETER...IT'S HIS JOB To MAKE ALL & BiG SHOTS FEEL \gf AS IMPORTANT As THEY THINK THEYARE | —By JIM BERRYMAN. OMIGOSH. WHY DON'T THEY (BUII.D PULLMANS g WITH NOTHIN' BUT LOWERS? ALL TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS ARE HIS "PRIVATE PROPERTY ! H WARE YUy <= A MAN OF LETTERS,NOT To MENT!ON TELEPHONES . A FLOOD POWN ON EDDIE'S CAPABLE NECKI & . EACH BIG GAME BRINGS DERBY CANDIDATES BRAVE CLARK JINX |Not Since 1901 Has Horse} Winning Downs Fixture Also Won Classic. By tne Associatea Press. OUISVILLE, Ky. April 27— Wil the 35-year jinx be broken this year in the $10,000 added Clark Handicap. feature of the | program Saturday at the opening of the 19-day meeting at Downs? Not since 1901, the last year the Clark was run as a race strictly for 3-year-olds, has the winner gone on | to capture the Derby, generally held | a week later. The Clark now is an event for 3-year-olds and up. Headed by Milky Way Stable's Military, eight Derby eligibles have | been nominated this year for the | | Clark, a mile-and-a-sixteenth spin, but whether any of them accept the | issue remains to be determined. Other Derby candidates who may start in the Saturday special are H. C. Apple- rate’s Chigre, Rosedale Farm's Lake | View, Alvin Untermyer's Gurkha and Scintillator, Valdina Farm’'s Valted and Petrose and Mrs. F. L. Navin's | Kermay. Other Possible Starters. THER possible starters among the 46 nominees are Hollyrood, Spar- ta, Silk Mask, Threadneedle, Grand Manitou, Bow to Me, Banister, Count Morse, Professor Paul, Cristate, Para- disical, Dnieper, Seventh Heaven, Tat- terdemalion, Roustabout and Gyral. Founded in 1875, the same year as the Derby, the Clark frequently has undergone alterations. Its distance has been changed five times and since 1902 has been a handicap. Before the bars were lifted to older campaigners, 10 future Derby cham- pions copped the Clark. The string started in 1881, when Hindoo won both races and ended with his emi- nence’s double victory in 1901. In between, other winners of the two stakes were Buchanan, Spokane, Riley, Azra, Chant, Hiama, Plaudit and Lieut. Gibson. Double Winners. 'WO Derby winners in later years captured the Clark. In 1917 it was old Rosebud, then a §-year-old, and in 1922 Exterminator, 1918 Derby champion, romped home first. Hodge won the Clark in successive years, 1915-16. Mrs. E. Denemark’s Corinto won the Clark last year. He was not nominated this year. Churchill | League Statistics | | AMERICAN. New York _ Detroit Philadelphia Cleveland Chicago Boston E t. Louis WASHINGTON s Chicago-Cleveland. rain. 8t. Louis-Detroit, rain. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at Bos. (). N. Y. at Wash. 3:15. St. Louis at Detroit. S{. Louis at Detroit. Chic at Cleveland. Chi. at Cleveland, FPhila. at New York. Phiia. at Boston. NATIONAL. Pmshumzh St. Lol Philadelphia Brooklyn _ Boston Chicago Cincinnati . 4 | RESULTS YESTERDAY. Boston. #: Brookiyn. 5 | Other ‘games postponed, rain. | GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. | Cinci. at Chicago. Cinci. at Chicago, Boston at Brooklyn. Y. New York_at Phila. Pitts. at St. Louis. Pitts. at St. Louis. ARMY GETS GRID STAR CHAMPAIGN, I, April 27 (P).— Lowell Spurgeon, star backfield man on the University of Illinois foot ball team and captain elect for 1937, said today he has received confirmation of his appointment to West Point Mili- tary Academy, effective July 19, 1938. Spurgeon, a star passer and kicker, said he will complete his scholastic work at Illinois. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. National Learue. Leading patters—P. Waner, Pirates, -600: Brack. Dodgers, Runs—Bordagaty, Cardinals. 7 Medwick and Mize, Cardinals. and P. Waner. Pirates. 6. Runs batted in—Mize, Cardinals. 7: Medwick and J. Martin. Cardinals. 6. Hits—Medwick. Cardinals. 10; Arno- vich. Phillies. P. ' Waner. Pirate; Doubles—Arnovich, Fhillics &: Med- wick. Cardinals. 4 Triples—Ten men_tied with Home runs—Oott. Giants. 2; tied with 1. Stoler. bases—J. Martin, Cardinals. 4: Bordagary, Cardinals, and Browne, Phillies. Cardinals, 1 each. nine men Pitchers—J. Dean. Lamaster, Phillies, American League. Leading batters_—Walkor. Tigers. . Ferrell. Red Sox. .600. white Sox and 7145 "Runs—Walker. Walker, Tigers. and Johnson, Athletics, 6. Runs batted in—Cronin, Red 8ox, 8: Bonura. White Sox, 7. lts—Bonura. ~White' Sox. and Walker, Tigers. Dovibles-—Gronin, Red Sox. 4 Bell, Browns: Larry. Indians; Hayes. White Box; Sewell_White Sox, Triples—Stone and Travis, Sema- Athletics. 3; tors Home runs—Johnson, 10_men tied with 1. Stolen bases—solters, Indians; Wer- ber, Athletics. P(Lchem——-wulllms Athletics, 2-0; 12 men tled with 1 | scrappy | won 4 to 3 and then, *. REDSNOT DAUNTED BY CELLAR BERTH. “Real Ball Club,” Says Pilot | Dressen After Charges Lose Four in Row. be in the National League can't take a thing away from his By the Associated Press. HICAGO, April 27—They may cellar, but Charley Dressen insisted today that vou still | Cincinnati Reds. “Listen,” the little manager said | with a slap on the record book he'd been thumbing, “if any one had told me two weeks ago we'd start the sea- | son by losing four straight, why, I'd have bet my last shirt against it. But we lost 'em —and I still think we have a real ball club.” The records of those four defeats appear to back up Dressen. Dizzy Dean whipped them 2 to 0 2t Cin- | cinnati in 10 innings, but the St.| Louis Cardinal star had great field- ing support. The Reds got 14 hits to | 9 for the Cards. In the second game ; the Cards won a 14-to-11 slugfest, | with the Reds again showinz power | at the plate. The Pittsburgh Pirates leading going into the ninth, the Pirates won a sec- | ond game, 3 to 2, on Lee Handley's | single, Breaks Against Reds. “bURE it’s base ball,” said Dressen. “But in that first game we had two men on base in the first inning, with two out. Lombardi smashed a ball that was a sure hit—and it struck Weintraub, automatically put- | ting him out to retire the side. That's tough luck. In the 4-3 Pirate win, a bad hop of a ground ball over Scar- sella’s head gave the Pirates two runs.” Dressen believes his pitching staff will develop into one of the best in the game. He plans to use Paul Der- ringer, Ray (Peaches) Davis, Bill Hal- lahan, Lee Grissom, Lloyd Moore and Gene Schott regularly, Waiting for Hitters. F PHIL WEINTRAUB hits we'll be all right,” Dressen continued. “Kiki Cuyler, injured recently, should be back in a week and will help. Scar- sella will start banging that ball— and we'll give them all trouble. The club hustles and the fans, who've been | coming out to see us, will like us better as we go along. “I'm not saying where we’ll finish, but if we don't win a game soon, I | don’t want to run into your Paul Mickelson. He's been plugging us | for the pennant.” < % GALLOPON JUNETZ WIDE-OPEN AFFAIR Tarzan Brown Is Phenom of | Endurance—Komonen Trying Comeback. BY ROD THOMAS. O LONG-DISTANCE runners throughout the length and breadth of the United States and Eastern Canada today went entry blanks for the sixth annual Washington Star marathon for the National A. A. U. championship to be run on June 12. Things have happened in the mara- thon world since the last Star race, | on Memorial day, 1936, and the coming | gallop will be a wide-open affair, with | no distinct favorite unless events be- | tween now and June 12 develop al standout performer. | It is problematical whether Bill| McMahon of Worcester, Mass.,, will| defend the title he won in a sensa- tional performance last year. On| returning from the Olympics at Berlin, | in which he and Johnny Kelley and Tarzan Brown, all New Englanders, represented the United States, Bill went for matrimony and virtually foresook the running game. C'MON, KID, DUCK THAT PUP, AN’ DIG FOR. TH' DINER, YOU CAN'T PIT!CH IN THIS LEAGUE ON A AT EYNON HAS To SEE To IT THAT THE PRUGAL BOYS DON'T POCKET THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DOG AND A DINNER!, NEW YoRK-- NOT NEwARK Dengis May Not Enter. AT DENGIS of Baltimore, the 1935 winner, may not compete. At| the end of 11 miles in the Boston Patriot's day marathon last week Dengis was forced out with a kidney ailment, but he hopes to be back in| fettle for The Star race. Walter Young, Canadian, who wnn1 at Boston, is expected to try for the | United States crown. He is a new- | ONE OF THE MAJOR QUESTIONS IN THE MAJORS - MOVING UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT-- THE"SEKITRY ™ HANDLES THIS ONE Too/, ,, YANKSHUMBLE A'S WITH TRIPLE PLAY |Lhe Yanks didn't have one. | ment to go around. The Boston Bees’ | comer to big-time fame. Little Johnny Kelley of Arlington, Mass., rated by | some the best marathoner in the| | country. is almost certain to start| | June 12 along with Leslie Pawson of | Pawtucket, R. I, who holds the record | for the Boston course. The Washington course, which ex- tends from Mount Vernon to the wmte House, by a devious route, ap- pcars a bit rugged for Kelley and Pawson, but both are determined to | Lazzeri Traps Ball to Put | T tnoiner shot at the nasional| | Vi . Across Feat—Dodgers No | "!® o * Match for Bees. BY BILL BONI, Associated Press Sports Writer. NCE again in first place in the American League, the Yan- kPeR already are a step ahead their blistering 1936 pace. | As Lnev manhandled their way to victory in the junior circuit's pennant | | cre race and the world series last year, | the Yanks skipped few team and in- dmdunl batting honors. Now they have achieved one peak they missed in their record-breaking 1936 climb with the major leagues’ first triple play of the week-old season. Last season the American League had seven, to tie the all-time record, but Brown Achieves the Incredible. ’I‘o THIS writer's reckoning, the most interesting prospective par- | ticipant in the June 12 contest is the | famous Narragansett Indian, Ellison | (Tarzan) Brown. This young man, 1 who won the Boston marathon lasv.‘ vear and was among the leaders mt‘ the Olympic race until forced out by pulled muscle, achieved the in-| dible upon his return from Berlin. | He won two major marathons (26 miles 385 yards) on successive days, | with only & Pullman snooze belween." A touching incident of two years| ago heightens interest in Brown's | running career. At his mother’s deathbed, Ellison promised her he would lead a clean life always, care for his young sister—and win the na- tionial marathon championship. He finished far down the list at Boston last week and hopes to redeem himself here. Credit for setting the three-ply killing in motion goes to Tony Lazzeri, the crafty veteran from San Francisco. | Komonen Tries Comeback. “HE only man ever to win The Star race twice, Dave Komonen. Finnish Ghost, is making a comeback. Komonen romped to victory here in 1933 and '34, lost his title to Dengis in 1935, then suddenly faded from the Lazzeri Proves “Slicker.” ’]’OUGH TONY has done a lot of | neat jobs for the Yanks, but few neater than that in the eighth inning of yesterday's 7-1 defeat of the Ath- letics. The defeat shoved the A's| out of the lead and moved the cham- | marathon picture. plonsinto it Komonen, employed at a nickel mine the | It was reported | Joe Faces a By a 8taff Correspondent of The Star. BOS‘N)N April 27.—"How do you New Year. like managing a ball club that every Tom, Dick and Harry isn't picking to win the pennant?” you asked Joe Cronin today in Ye Redde Soxe Cocktail Lounge. This lounge, for the benefit of anybody who just came in, is a sumptuous sort of a ball park hangout erected by Tom Yawkey for the writing boys, who almost always need a slug or so. Nowadays, or ever since Joe Kuhel and a couple of Washington newspaper men got into a squabble at Griffith Stadium a year 2go, nobody except hase ball players are permitted in the Red Sox dressing room. This is why Joe has to visit “the lounge” every day, even if the strongest stuff he ever tasted was bonded in a pop bottle “All right,” answered Joseph, taking a shot of coca-cola without a shud. der. He was, you know, a person who never enthused much while being inter viewed. Neither did the interviewer, so it was all square, but when Joe said “all right” it meant that everything was satisfactory . . . for a change Cronin carried on and said something about not daring to predict whera the Sox would finish and that Boston means. It wasn't, however, what he < said as much as how he said it. He reminded you, all of a sudden, of the 1933 Cronin . . . not the Cronin of 1935 and 1936. In 1933—his first year as manager of the Washingtons—Cronin was young man in whose eyes burned flery ambition. Nobody gave much of a thought to Jos at the start of that season, just four years ago. The Na- tionals were just another ball club and Cronin was just another manager, even if he was only & kid. But Joe seemed to know he had a team that was going to | fool people and eventually it | did. ! ‘The Cronin of 1935 and 1936 was a | different person. After he won lhe“ ‘pe'mnm. in 1933 he was bought by Boston for $250,000 and placed at lhe’ | helm of a club that ostensibly was | made to order. “Cronin’s got a pen- nant winner,” everybody said. ‘It ought to be a breeze.” Griff Made Smart Move. JOE sensed the expectations. In- stead of a young man with every- thing to gain and nothing to lose . . . & man with an eager look about him . . . he took on a hunted, drawn He had everything to lose, expression. must be okay now, but it's a question whether little Dave can regain the speed that carried him to undisputed supremacy among the marathoners on this continent in 1933 and '34. He is eager to test himself again over the Washington course. It probably will be the best condi- tioned field ever to run in The Star race, for a number of gallops of shorter distances are scheduled at convenient times apart that will keep the runners in almost constant train- ing. Big Race at Salisbury. NOTABLE among these are the 15- kilometer national championship at Norwich, Conn., on May 31, and | the 20-kilometer title race June 5 at Canton, N. Y. Jaunts of these dis- tances are mere workouts for the lads | who like the stretch of 26 miles 385 yards. The only full marathon scheduled between now and The Star’s will be held on Memorial day at Salisbury Beach, Mass, to be run from Law- rence, Mass,, to the sea. Several Wash- ington athletes are expected to com- | pete in this event, which will be held ‘m celebration of the opening of a | Summer resort. A whopping good time | is promised the runners by the Salis- | bury Chamber of Commerce. In- formation concerning the race may be With runners on first and second, o |at Sudbury, Canada, developed lun Chubly Desu drove ane of JOBRNY |y uile e hobbed up bast e oo ferr(:“;‘;nvogl?ci;? uft[rz:‘;:%e ll!rl;‘;; | the Boston gallop and proved his stay- the ball, then flipped it to Shortstop | "% _POWer by finishing. His bellows Frank Crosetti, his fellow San Fran- ciscan. Before the A's or the frost-bitten customers knew what was going on, ! Bob Johnson had been forced at sec- ond. Dean was thrown out at first and Wally Moses was tagged by Red Rolfe as he went into third. A likely rally had been nipped in the bud and Broaca's spell over the A's—he beat them four times last year—remained unbroken. Grimes Banished Again. THOUGH the weather man washed out all but three games yesterday, those three provided enough excite- 9-5 trimming of the Brooklyn Dodgers was marked by Brooklyn Manager Burleigh Grimes' second consecutive expulsion from the field, bold Burleigh beefing too strongly at one of Umpire Larry Goetz's decisions. In Boston, Bobby Doerr, 19-year-old Red Sox recruit second baseman from the Pacific Coast League, was beaned by Washington Right-hander Ed Linke in the course of Boston's 12-5 slaugh- tering of the Natiorals. Doerr went to & Hub hospital for an X-ray and ebservation. OUR CLAIM DEPARTMENT Frem newcemer te LEADER in six brief menths! This proves that the new Lle Palina 5¢ Exceliente has set @ completely NEW STANDARD eof cigar valve. Enjoy it tedayl Homer Standings BY the Assoclatea Press. No home runs yesterday in Ameri- can or National League. The leaders—R. Johnson, Athletics, 3; Ott, Giants, 2. League totals—American, 13; Na- tional, 24. 11; total, obtained from John Semple, a popu- | lar participant in Washington Star | gallops. Johnny may be reached in care of the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce. would be in the fight, “hnle\er that or at least it seemed so, and nothing much to gain He went through a couple of tough years, did the erstwhile “boy wondsr No. 2” of Washington. As a firste year manager he was fortunate enougi to fall heir 1o an elderly club, caree fully picked by Old Fox Clark Griffith, and the Nats of 1933 did everything right. Half a dozen of them reached the peak of their respective career all at once and the first thing Joe knew he was piloting a team in a world series. If he surprised a lot of people, Joe G didn't surprise Griff much. The old gent knew what his team could do if they caught a certain spark. That's why he let Walter Johnson go and named Cronin manager. The 1933 club was too well set and experienced to need the benefits of an old cam= paigner like Johnson as much as it needed what a dashing young player- manager like Cronin could provide, Type to Provide Spark. AT the time, Joe, aflame with am= bition and probably playing over his head, was recognized as the best shortstop in base ball. And he prob- ably was just that. Anyway, at the end of a dismal 1934 campaign, Yawkey offered $250,000 for Cronin. Griff had no alternative but to ace cept. In the first place a club owner can’t turn down a quarter of a million dollars for a ball player. Secondly, Cronin had just married into the Griffith family and from the moment the wedding bells rang he was on the spot. Thirdly, Washington's aging 1933 team had to be rebuilt and this was no kind of a job for a young manager of Cronin's type. He was the kind to provide a spark for a veteran team; not the steadying, all-knowing type to nurse a gang of kids. Selling Cronin meant that Yawkey would have to let Bucky Harris go. Griff knew it. He knew, too, .that Harris was the kind to build a young team. He also knew that Yawkey was intent on mobilizing another ready- made club and Griff figured that Son- in-law Cronin's best interests would be in Boston, trying to do what he did for Washington in 1933. Drawback Now Spearhead. T WAS a tough spot. In the first place Cronin tried too hard to be a $250.000 ball player—when there (See POPPING OFF, Page A WoopeEN LEG CLAIM-TEST “Another good 1den gone u smoke”, says the distinguis LA PALINA Laboratory of Pseudo Pscience Our daring researchers have splintered a rumor about wooden legs. One of our boys had asserted that La Palina Excellente §cCigar would turn a wooden leg into bone and sinew. Prof. Tipple fiuds the claim unsupported. “Not a single leg to stand on”, he says. in 18-Year-Old Carolina Pitcher Draws Secouts Tenpleton of Children’s Home Team May Be Another Feller—Rickey Looks Him Over. BY EDDIE BRIETZ. Associated Press Sporis Writer. EW YORK, April 27.—Big league scouts are flocking to Winston-Salem, N. C,, to watch Archie Templeton mow 'em down for the Methodist Children’s Home team . . . Archie, 18, has fanned 68 batters in 32 in- nings this season . . . May be an- other Bob Feller or another Babe Ruth, for they say he can pour the pine into that leather almost as well as he pitches . . . (Ruth began his base ball career in a home for boys, too.) Yankees are mighty interested and so are the Cardinals .., Our Southern opendves report one big league club offered Templeton $10,000 to sign a contract An- other said it would better any bid the kid received by $1,000 . . . One report has it the Cardinals have the inside track and that if Archie hasn't already made up his mind to cast his lot with St. Louis, he will soon . . . Branch Rickey made a personal visit to Winston-Salem to watch the youngster in action . . . who's going to bag Bucky Jacobs, U. of Richmond pitcher, who has turned in two no-hitters in as many weeks? leigh Grimes . . . He has been kicked out of two ball games in two days . . . Ossie Solem made a big hit with Syracuse alumni here Sat- urday night . . . He makes a good appearance and knows all the an- - swers . . . Syracuse rooters make no ‘bones about it—they are looking for a return of the good old days along about the Fall of 1938 . . . With the hiring of Solem, Syracuse has gone Minnesota in a big way . . . Ossie and two of his assistants— Clarence Munn and Bud Wilkinson —are former Golden Gophers . . Munn, a crack guard in his play- ing days, will be line coach, while One “rookie” who is more than Wilkinson will help Bill Boelter | Bring wp to expeciations 18 Bur- | with the backfeid : ! Heavy play on Pompoon has lengthened the odds on Col. Brad- ley’s Brooklyn as a Kentucky Derby choice . . ., If Tommy Henrich makes the grade, the Yanks will have two of the best throwing out- flelders in base ball . . . Few can rifle them in like Joe Di Maggio - . . And last season Henrich had 31 assists . . . His total for his 383- game career is 80. Heavyweight Junior Munsell, who comprises Pepper Martin’s fistic stable, has been signed to fight in St. Louis May 4 . . . Washington wants Red Ruffing, but the Yankees ay m}m trade him. 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