Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1940, Page 14

A—14 Bimelech Likely Preakness Choice Over Gallahadion, Despite Derby Upset Bradley’s Horse| YT Avescevor — —uy amsmnann g ———————“_“____’ + Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN, Preakness Next—and Horses Out of Hiding! As on the day after Max Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis, the line is forming on the right. The mantle of invincibility has been whisked off Bimelech by a hide named Gallahadion, whose purchase price of $5,000 at the Saratoga sales two years ago was unexpectedly high and whose record a8 a 2-year-old in 1939 revealed no victories. The line forms to the right now because from behind bushes and from otit of the harness of milk wagons come the 3-year-olds who fled, quaking, at the mention of Bimelech before the Kentucky Derby. The colts and geldings and a stray filly or two, which had been afraid that Bimmy would 18D ’em and run over ’em, are brave again. Bimelech can be beaten! All of which is a break for young Alfy Vanderbilt, who throws the next big hoss party Saturday at Pimlico. The Derby wasn’t expected to be a horse race. It was supposed to mark the coronation of Col. Ed Brad- ley’s greatest champion and, of course, the crowning of all the visiting suckers. But if Alfy's Preakness party is anything but a horse race it will be a surprise to even the Kaintucky hardboots who still are standing in the Bluegrass today, fists plunged into empty pockets, and wondering what happened to Bimelech, the colt that couldn’t lose. Question Is: How Good Is Bimelech? Even at this early date, and allowing for the license of a horse-owner to change his mind, the Preakness field promises to be both larger and superior to the Derby’s. Gallahadion is both eligible and, apparently, willing to run. Bimelech was shipped to Baltimore yesterday. Andy K, the non-Derby runner who chased Bimmy all last year as a 2-year-old, is coming from behind the barn for Vanderbilt's race. Pictor, the disappointing Marylander, will be out if it comes up mud. Dit and Mioland, who ran better Derby races than the charts suggested, are eligible. So is Fenelon of the Wheatley Stable and Joseph E. Widener’s pace-setting Roman and Royal Man Command and Kantan. and, perhaps, Red Dock and Flight The question to be asked Saturday on Preakness Day is not: Can Gallahadion do it again? The Kentucky-bred, Tennessee-raised son of Sir Galahad 3rd-Countess Time won the Derby, but he isn't a star colt. Not yet, anyway. Gallahadion did not do enough before his startling adventure in Louisville to be called even a good 3-year-old. The question, rather, is: Is Bimelech really a great colt? Jockey Smith’s Chief Talent Is Riding Before the Derby there was no Col. Bradley, called Bimmy his “greatest horse.” doubt about it. His ancient owner, In his day the colonel had four Derby winners—Behave Yourself, Bubbling Over, Broker's Tip and Burgoo King. But even before the bugle sounded he had called Bimelech greater than any of them. Consider, if you please, the background. As a 2-year-old and as 2 3 Bimelech ran eight times—and won eight times. K and Roman and, four days before He defeated Andy the Derby, he won by almost three lengths from Gallahadion, carrying three less pounds. Gallahadion beat Bimmy on a perfect Derby track. Little Freddy Bmith, the Cuban jockey who rides the Bradley colt, didn’t help himself ‘when he called the Louisville track “cuppy” and blamed his defeat on the racing strip. It was about as cuppy as a billiard table, and how would Senor Smith say it in Spanish? It was a perfect track—perfect for the likes of Bimelech. And yet Gallahadion, whipped 10 times in 14 previous races, won from the unbeatable and supposedly invincible Bradley pride. Maybe Bimmy Was Raced Too Often Gallahadion never had beaten anything of account. Bimelech, Mio- land and even a cheap stable mate named Tough Hombre had beaten the Bir Galahad colt. Since experiencing the sensation Where did this hide get off licking Bimmy? of watching a superhorse beaten in the Derby we have been able to reach only two humble conclusions. First, Bimelech may not be the mighty colt he is supposed to be. 1t is easy, sometimes too easy, to call a horse great when his rivals are bad.- Up to now there is no argument about Bimmy’s competitors. They have been decidedly mediocre, both as 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds. Secondly, there is the possibility that Bimelech was raced too hard. As a Kentuckian and as the only man to have four Derby winners, Col. Bradley was set upon making Bimmy win the 1940 classic at Louisville. 80 what was done with the colt? Briefly, he was raced in three stake | races within 10 days. The Colonel’s Colt Still Tops, if This is asking a lot of a race horse, even the “greatest” of a family | of great horses. Bimelech raced on April 25 and defeated Roman by 2% | lengths. He raced on April 30 and soundly whipped Gallahadion. And | then came the Derby on May 4. Our impression, for what it is worth, is that Bimelech was like a fighter too finely trained. He looked it in the barn and again when the barrier was sprung. Bimmy was away with the rest of the field. It had been established that Bradley’s colt had the Speed to sprint with any of them and the drive to carry on. But it was Roman which set the early pace and it was Gallahadion and Dit and Mioland which had greater drive at the end. We got the impression that Bimelech saved second money chiefly because Bimmy had that indefinable something called class. It wasn't his day. A lesser horse might have finished well out of the money. But Bimmy managed to make it reasonably interesting and close because he had that class which seems to be so prevalently lacking in the 3-year-old crop of the year. If the same Derby field lined up again we'd have to go for Bimelech, and that holds for the Preakness, with Andy K and other non-Derby starters at the barrier. Unless the Bradley colt has had too much taken out of him by severe campaigning he’s still the standout in a crop which otherwise has only one thing in common—age, 3 years. Five of Last 10 Derby Winners Glorify Sir Gallahad 3d, Head Of Line Earning $2,000,000 By ROBERT HENRY. Gallahadion merely wanted to keep the Kentucky Derby in the family and show a group of stable- mates just how the race should be run. When the big bay thoroughbred galloped past the judges’ stand at Churchill Downs Saturday he was helping his imported sire, Sir Galla- had 3d, keep intact his record of being the daddy or grandsire of five of the last 10 Derby winners and also was doing what seven other Milky Way Farm runners had been unable to do in the last five years. Great Derby Family. Gallant Fox, Derby winner in 1930, was the first horse Sir Gallahad 3d sent to the post for the great classic, and since one son and three grand- sons of the noted stallion—Omaha, Lawrin, Johnstown—have proved victorious. It's a great record for the son of Teddy, which was brought to this country by Willlam Wood- ward, Robert Fairbain, Marshall Field and Arthur Hancock 15 years ago for $125,000. In winning, Gallahadion reversed the order of recent stablemates which ran in the Derby. Last year On Location ran last and the year before that Mountain Ridge brought up the rear. Other disappointing horses from the Chicago-owned stable were Whispolo, which ran third behind Omaha in 1935; The WMghter, seventh to Bold Venture in 1936; Sangreal, last that same year, and Reaping Reward, third, and Military, 15th to War Admiral, Bir Gallahad 3d, a crack sprinter in the past few years all of his yearlings sold at Saratoga haye brought handsome prices. Fine Winning Flock. Among his best winners have been Gallant Fox, Gallant Sir, Sir Damion, Fighting Fox, Tintagel, Insco, High Quest, Hadagal, Sarada, Great Union and Gilded Knight. That Gallahadion will go on and win the Preakness and Belmont Stakes—completing America’s triple crown—is doubtful His time in the Derby was poor, and except for one or two exceptions he has yet to beat a real good horse. g he Foening Star Sporls . WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940. Still Held Best 3-Year-Old Jockey Smith’s Ride Blamed for Defeat In Kentucky Race By GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Sports Writer, NEW YORK, May 6.—Although the legend of Bimelech’s Invincibil- ity was punctured by his defeat in the Kentucky Derby, the handsome colt from Idle Hour Farm almost certainly will be the favorite again ins next Saturday’s running of the Preakness at Pimlico. It will require more than one lick- ing, in other words, to convince most of the horse players that Bime- lech is not the best of an unim- pressive lot of 3-year-olds. Not that the underrated Gallahadion didn't take Bim’s measure fairly and squarely in the Derby and run right past him in the stretch, but just that the Bradley colt still is the solid choice on his record of eight firsts and one second. Bimelech is not, of course, the superhorse he had been made out. Gallahadion’s winning time of 2:05— more than three seconds off the Churchill Downs track record for the mile and one quarter—made it all to obvious that there were no equine immortals in Saturday’s gathering. Dit Worried Bim's Jockey. Still, Bimelech proved himself a real good horse by the fact that he was able to move into the lead as they entered the stretch, and his supporters always will feel he could have done better with a little better riding in the final furlong, when Gallahadion went streaking past on the rail. Freddie Smith let the favorite bear far out on the track and probably lost close to the length and one half by which Gallahadion led him at the wire. It looked as though Smith was more occupied in trying to hold off Dit than he was in repelling Gallahadion’s charge, though this probably didn't make much differ- ence, because the winner clearly was stronger and faster than Bim in the last 50 yards. Carroll Bierman gave Gallahadion 8 beautiful ride. All the way around he kept him up close to the leaders, rating his mount carefully and sav- ing him for the big effort. When Bimelech swerved out and left the | rail clear, Bierman shot into the opening so quickly as to surprise the great crowd. It was obvious in that instant that Gallahadion had the race won. Bimelech, tiring badly in the last sixteenth, likely would have lost the place to Dit if they had gone another 10 yards. Mioland Big Disappointment. Probably the second biggest dis- appointment of the race was Mioland. The Coast horse had been heavily backed both in the winter books and | in the mutuels, but he never gave his supporters a hope and was forced to make up ground in finishing fourth, Saturday night around the Louis- ville Hotel lobbies it was next to impossible to locate any of the lucky few who had cashed in on Galla- hadion. He was-about the one horse that hadn’t been bandied around as & “hot tip,” as was obvious by his near-record payoff of $7240 on each $2 mutuel ticket. Breeder’s Prize Tilis Bradley's Derby Pot 10 $9,000 By the Associated Press. | LOUISVILLE, Ky. May 6—Col. E. R. Bradley was $9,000 better off today, even though his Bimelech could do no better than second in the Kentucky Derby Saturday. The place prize of $8,000 plus $1,000 additional which Bradley won for being the breeder of the second finisher, increased his total Derby “take” since 1921, inclusive, to $224,- 800. This year was the first time breed- ers and trainers of the first three horses to come in under the wire had shared in the Derby gold. Bimelech so far has earned an aggregate of $150,835 for his owner in nine starts in two years. Oxon Hill Nine Ahead Oxon Hill Fire Department’s team today corrected an error in yester- day’s Star by calling attention to the fact that it, and not Sunny Brook, defeated the Maryland Aces in the Prince Georges County League play- offs last year. . Races Only 7 Years To Score in Great Kentucky Derby Mrs. Mars Had Expected Gallahadion to Star; Collects Good Bet By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 6—It didn’t take | long for Mrs. Ethel V. Mars and | her Milky Way Stables to get the | Kentucky Derby range. To win the blue grass classic has been the chief goal of the wealthy Chicago sportswoman since she bought a string of horses and began racing in 1934. Mrs. Mars made her first bid for the most coveted turf honor in the country in 1935 with Whiskolo, 8 likely looking horse which finished third. She never did better than that in the years between, but she always was on hand to “pull” for her entries. But she couldn't attend Saturday when her Gallahadion surprised and stunned the turf world by popping across the line first by a length and a half. Mrs. Mars heard the race by radio propped up in bed, where she is recovering from a, severe cold. Had Good Wager on Colt. Mrs. Alan Steeney, her daughter, said Mrs. Mars “almost fainted” when the winner was announced, but the turfwoman insisted it wasn't from surprise. She said she had expected great things of Gallahadion ever since she bought him along with several other horses at the Saratoga year- ling sales two years ago. “I always have been very confident of Gallahadion,” she declared. “I liked him when I bought him, I liked him as a 2-year-old and I liked him in the Derby.” She liked him so well that she|las bet on him to win the Derby. Her daughter explained Mrs. Mars was not a heavy gambler on the races, but that the amount she risked on Gallahadion was a “heavy bet for her.” Gallahadion paid $7240 on a $2 mutuel ticket. In most of her previous Derby efforts Mrs. Mars was far from thrilled. Reaping Reward bounced AN \ T A} OH, I CANT FEEL TOO SORRY FOR HIM=-IT WAS JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO HE WAS MOANING ABOUT THINGS BEING SO DULL IN THE SPORTS WORLD! ‘Ugly Duckling’ Finney Keeps Expensive Dom Di Mag Idle With All-Around Sparkle By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 6 —Dom Di Maggio, the Red Sox's $75000 beauty and prospective rookie of the year, is riding the bench these days gloomily watching Boston's “ugly duckling” keep him among the unemployed. And Lou Pinney—just one of those handy guvs a ball club likes to have | around—really is doing him dirt, fielding that Red Sox sun patrol like twins and pasting the ball at a robust 333 clip as of today. Dom cost the Sox a reputed $75,000 last winter and they picked up Lou from the Athletics a year ago for something like $10,000. Lou’s purchase strictly was an insurance proposition, for he could handle either first base or the outfield capably. ° Weak Ankle to Blame. But Dom can blame his own tender ankle for his unwelcome idleness. That and the red-hot pace of a fighting ball player who has been hitting on all cylinders ever since Joe Cronin gave him the green light after the brilliant Sox rookie ag- gravated an ankle injury. Dom had played four games with indications of great promise, but the fierce play of his substitute Finney makes it look as though the younger Di Maggio will need dynamite at least to crash into the Sox line-up. Lou stepped into action last April 23, celebrating by blasting a home run out of the park. Since then he’s been stopped but once in 11 games. Chicago’s John Rigney tied & horse collar on him one day last week, but every other pitcher he faced has been belted impartially by the Alabama boy. in third one year, but on two other occasions, in 1938 and 1939, her entries finished a not-so-handsome t. Mrs. Mars said she probably would go to Baltimore for Saturday’s Preakness, “But I don’t know yet whether I'll feel up to it or not—I'm pretty tired you know from all the excitment and telephone calls and wires.” She added she received “an awfully sweet wire” from Col. E. R. Bradley, owner of Bimelech, the prohibitive favorite. N. C. A. A. Ostracizing Dixie Schools That Pay Gridmen Two Strikes on Last Man, Hurler Muffs No-Hitter; Tom Doerer Starring on Radio By EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, May 6—Week's wash: N. C. A. A. schools are putting the freeze on Southern colleges which pay their foot- ballers and make no bones about it. It's the old silent treatment— with no more games scheduled after present contracts run out. The Yanks can be bought, but who wants ’em the way they're going? The law of averages catches up with everybody. That’s why we took the field against Bimelech and did all right. We still think pitching for Boston College High, virtually had his no-bitter. He had two out in the ninth and two strikes on the last batter when the guy (Bobby Beyer of Boston Latin) caught one on the handle and punched it down the right- field foul line for a safe blow. Rue de Sockerue.—This will break Seattle’s heart, but Mike Jacobs has all but closed with Al ‘Hostak to meet the Ceferino Garcia-Ken Overlin winner—in New York. Matty Herbert, one of the better-liked New York fight managers, is doing a good the Bradley colt was the best hoss in the Derby, but you can’t g0 on winning forever—and that fn England and France about 18 years back, has sired French, Eng- lish and American winners since being retired to the stud in 1824. His get has won over $2,000,000, and goes for the Yankees, too. Long- distance prediction: Next heavy- weight boxing champ—Bob Pas- tor. Tuff Juck dept.—Ronald Sliney, job . promoting at Bridgeport, Conn. Sammy Angott (he’s the new N. B. A, lightweight champ) may be matched with Dave Cas- tilloux, the Canadian, and this depumn;nt wuuld:.'%‘ lx:. sur- prised Sammy ears pinned back. dJack Kearns is promoting a big show in Okla- homa City which will feature Junior Munsell, the Indian heavyweight, who is the toast of the Coast right now. Sports cocktail. Add Jimmy Dykes to the list of those who doubt if the Yanks will repeat. ‘Tom Doerer, who toiled with your agent on the Baltimore Evening Sun in ancient times, is making & big hit with his “Backstage in Sports” broadcast over Station WCAO, Baltimore, these pms. One of the Cleveland Indians with a sense of humor posted a clipping in the clubhouse showing that Manager Oscar, Vit hit .190 one sesson, ¢ Recent press releases mention- ing the mm‘ of Eleonora Sears o] E " tired of having her front name misspelled. Two Auburn foot- ballers are named after Presi- dents—Woodrow Wilson M'Nair, halfback, and Theodore Roosevelt Cremer, end. ‘Today’s guest star. Scoop Mid- dlebrooks, Marianna (Fla.) Times: “Tom Sange, & poultry dealer in Oakland, Calif., who dabbles in fighters, bought Tommy Taylor for 20 cents per pound—$29.35 for the 146% pounds. He should be able to get Johnny. Paycheck for 15 cents per pound and then he really would have some ham to g0 with his eggs.” Forget him. Don't go too strong on Buddy Baer- He fights as if he didn’t care— And when the champ gets him in there, Well, just how much can Buddy bear? ) Even Bob Feller, who toyed with the Sox sluggers yesterday, letting them down with seven hits, couldn’t cool off the red-hot Finney. Lou nicked him for a pair of singles. In 54 times at bat, he hammered out 18 hits, including a home run, a triple and three douhles. He scored eight runs and knocked in four ‘on his own hook, which is pretty good going for a leadoff man. Finney Crack Pinch Hitter. His hitting is no flash in the pan either. He was the leading pinch hitter of the league last year. In that hero-or-bum role, he step- ped to the plate 37 times and laced out 13 hits, driving in 15 runs in 12 games. He was walked three times and sacrificed once. Two of his hits won games for the Sox and three more tied up contests which his team went on to win. He's a pretty handy guy to have around, even when he keeps a $75,000 beauty on the bench. But as Capt. Jimmy Foxx says: “He’s & guy that'll cut your heart out to win a ball game.” Easton Yankees Victors ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 6 (#).— The Easton Yankees of the Eastern Shore League swamj the An- napolis baseball club, 20 to 5, in the opening of the local club’s season. Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor tossed out the first ball. Maijor Statistics MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940, AMERICAN Results Yesterday, 8. Louis, 7: Betrott: '6: New Yok g Cleveland.” 6: Boston. 1. Chicago, 6! Philadelphia. 5. STANDING OF THE CLUBS 1 H g 5|5 JB H Clel—I 11 31 0l 21 11 1] 2110l 41.714] Bos|_Ol—I O] 1] 2( 31 3| 1110 51667 % Detl_2| 0l—I 11 2| 2 0 2| (| 61.600] 1% NY| 0l 0 0—I 11 21 2/_1| 6] 81.429] 4 BLI_ 01 0 11 11—I 11 0/ 31 61 814291 4 _ Wnl 01 11 1] 2| 0l—I[ 2] 0_6] 91.400| 4% Phil 11 21 11_21_0l_0l—| 0l _6]_91.400] 4% Chil 11 11 O 11 11 0/ 1I—I 5| 91.3671 6 L. 1 41 51 61 _8I 8| 8l 9] 9l——| ! GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. 8t. L. at Wash., 3:15. St. ., 3:18. Detroit ll.l‘i‘? Y‘? e :‘l"l’h la 18, Ghicago at Phila. Phila, v, ton. sowen a 3 g ~="puysq i i | Pl i ]I il L | Pl troit at M5 Boston. Glev et s NATIONAL giulnnnu. 3: New York, 2. rookl; 9; 8t. Loui 3 Boston: "p: " Pitteburgh, 10 Philadelphia, 7; icago, STANDING OF THE %aé’ ] | i |t Bkli—i 11 0 3| 21 ol 1f 3110 11.909] Cinl_1i—I 21 11 11 3 11_ol_9| 3..7501 1% Chil 0/ 21— 11 0 11 31 1| 81 81.500| 4% NYI 0l ol 0l—I 21 ol 1| 2 5| 61.485] & Phil 0f 0l 1{ 1I—I 11 0l 1f 41 GI.QMI_B_E Pit| 0l Ol 21 0 0l—i 2| 0| 41 7|.364] 6 StL!_0f ol 31 0l 0f 1i—i 1| 51 91.3571 6% Bos| 0 0 0L 0 1l 11 1i—[ 31 8/.273| 7 L. 1 11 31 81 6l 61 71 ol 8 l ! GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. at 8t L. AT rar B ® ¥ 3t =| H A H f L i ' i H Leonard Not Pifched In Turn, Says Griff Bemoaning Loss Idle for Week, ‘Sunday Hurler’ Well Beaten By Lowly Browns Except for the Athletics tagging along in a tie the Nationals felt perfectly at home today. Out of the first division, they were down where they belong—in sixth place. In the meantime, folks were be- ginning to wonder what kind of goings-on were going on at Griffith Stadium. In the process of losing their fourth straight game the Nats bowed to the heretofore lowly Browns, 7-3. The losing pitcher was Emil (Dutch) Leonard. The last time Dutch had pitched was & week ago. “That’s too long,” sniffed Grand- pappy Clark Griffith. “Those fel- lows—Leonard, Chase and those | Hos boys—ought to work every three days. Dutch lost because he wasn’t pitched in turn.” Now this leads to a complicated matter. Obviously, Leonard had been saved for a Sunday game. He should have been pitched ‘Thursday. He wasn’t. If not Thursday, why not Saturday, since the Friday game was rained out? He wasn't, Dutch now, apparently, is a Sunday pitcher, like Pink Whiskers Benson and Buck Newsom, when they were with the club. Case Hits First Local Homer. Anyway, Dutch was beaten. In- deed, he was well beaten. For five innings the knuckle-baller gave only one hit, but, from the sixth inning on, the Browns teed off on the guy. They made 10 of their 11 hits | Ci in the final four innings and, of course, that was the ball game. The Nationals did not lose their fourth straight without making some sort of a contest before the crowd of 10,000. Twice they held the lead, but Leonard, less effective as the innings rolled by, couldn’t hold them. It was one of the few times that Dutch has been batted hard since he came to Washington _ | in 1937, George Case’s terrific home run into the left-fleld bleachers in the seventh inning—first Washington homer of the year in Griffith Sta- dium—overcame a 2-1 Browns’ lead and made it 3-2, but after this clout it was all St. Louis. Haynes Faces Browns Today. By way of starting the eighth Kennedy, who in addition to win- ning his first start of the year also tripled, singled, scored two runs and drove across one, hit a single. Before Leonard could retire the side the Browns had scored four runs, making the count 6-3, and that was the ball game. Just for good measure Kennedy, coming up with one down in the ninth, tripled to center and scored on Alan Strange’s single to center, & tricky looper. ‘Today, as the clubs were to face in the second of the three-game set, Emil Bildilli, the southpaw who held the Yankees to two hits re- cently, was to face Joe Haynes, Sports Mirror Today a year ago—William Woodward's Johnstown, 3-5, won Kentucky Der| six length with clulledw o SOPI — urprise Victor Due Hard Test At Pimlico ‘Dark Horse’ Bobs Up In Every Other Barn At Old Line Track By MASON BRUNSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. BALTIMORE, May 6.—Preakness week opened at old Pimlico today with everybody wondering whether another “dark horse” like Galla- l‘l;odiogg :ould POp up to win the ,000-added stakes to g be run on Word that Gallahadion, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars’ long-shot Kentucky Derby winner, would arrive to- morrow overshadowed all else in interest. Racing folks hereabouts want a good look at this colt who came from nowhere to run down the supposedly invincible Bimelech. Bimelech, Col. E. R. Bradley's beaten favorite, was due in from Louisville today with two other Derby starters, Arnold Hanger’s Dit and W. L. Brann’s Pictor. Also expected was Millsdale Stable's ‘eccentric Andy K, whose inability to let his mind know what his legs are doing robbed him of a chance to go in the Derby. Full Field Seems Likely. C. 8. Howards Mioland and Tower Stable’s Royal Man, both beaten in the Derby, will arrive later from Louisville, as will W-L Ranch's 8ky Dog and Gallant Dream, With Bimelech having suffered his first defeat and with a total of 38 3-year-olds eligible for the Preak- ness, a wide-open race was being freely predicted and the Maryland Jockey Club looked for upward of 12 horses to go to the post. As one of the boys at Pimlico said, there probably would be s “dark horse” in every other barn by the end of the week. A long-shot victory in the Preak- ness would be nothing new. In the 49 times that this race has been run since 1873, only 14 favorites have won. Whether Gallahadion is made the favorite for the 50th or golden Jjubilee running, this son of Sir Gallahad 3d-Countess Time will have precedent on his side. The Sir Gallahad strain has produced three Preakness winners, Sir Gallahad Strain Strong. Gallant Fox, son of Sir Galla- had 3d-Marguerite, won in 1930, High Quest, son of Sir Gallhad 3d- Etoile Filante, won in 1934 in the record time of 1:58Y; for the mile and three-sixteenths, and in 1935 Omaha, son of Gallant Fox-Flam- bino, was the winner. In trying to uphold the honor of this strain, Gallahadion will be op- posed by most of the horses he beat in the Derby. But he also will meet some he didn't see at Churchill Downs. Besides Andy K, this group of possibilities includes Woof Woof, Carrier Pigeon, Flight Command, Young Chance, Abrasion, Merry Knight, Snow Ridge, Sun Pharos, Jacomar and Pass Out. There may be a “dark horse” somewhere in this lot. All you have to do is pick him. core AB. R. 5 - T 8wift. ‘¢ Kennedy, BHOSHaH®S eSO P Scocomoool - Y] @ 34 3 92 ‘Batted for Leonard in ninth, an for Early in ninth. St. Louis __ - 000 002 Washington 000 010 200—3 batted _in—Lecnard, Radcliff. Case (2), c 2 ag, Berardino, Strange. Two-base hits—Wal- ker, McQuinp. Berardino, ‘Three-base hits —Bonura. ift, Kennedy. Home run— ase. Sacrifice—Case. Double plays— Bloodworth to Pofahl to Bonura: Ber: to McQuinn. Left on base: t. Lo Washington, 9. Py B Leonard. 0 b5 Baeets: ard. 4; by Kennedy. 1. Umpires— M!lsdsl': Basil, Ormsby and Grieve. Time 3 ) 0417 in] e ——————— BASEBALL %4, Washington vs. St. Louis AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomorrow—St. Louis—3:15 P.M. 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