Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1940, Page 35

Sports News Leiber Close to Be Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN. Is Bimmy Lazy or Just No Router? An hour or so before the Derby a man who knows horses was talking about Bimelech, “There’s really no sense to betting this Derby,” he said. “You can’t bet reasonably against Bimmy, and yet—" And yet? “Well, I saw him four days ago in a Derby trial. He won easily enough. Gallahadion was second. If Bimelech had kept running he would have won by five lengths. As it was he won by better than two. But a 100 yards from the finish he practically stopped. Bimmy was only walking. Freddy Smith, the jock, had to bat him a few times to keep him going.” So? “So the whole thing will take time. Maybe Bimmy was lazy. Maybe he sensed the whole race was over and that he could crawl across. But, again, maybe Bimelech can't go a distance.” The Derby was run off a while after and, going into the stretch, it was Bimelech in front by half a length at the stretch. But Bimmy didn’t win. Coming up on the inside was Gallahadion, the winner. And nar- rowly missing second place was Dit, which swung wide when Bimmy did so. What's:Going to Beat Bim in Preakness? 7 Can Bimelech run a distance? Perhaps the answer will be given Saturday in the Preakness at Pimlico. Most of those who saw the Derby came away with the idea that Bimmy still is the class'of the 3-year-old crop. That was the Bradley colt’s first defeat in nine races. Even the ‘Yankees and Joe Louis don't average much better than that. In short, Bimelech must be beaten again to become Bumelech. In the meantime, the Knock-Down-Bimelech Club is at work again, preparing for the Preakness. What's going to beat Bimmy in Baltimore? Gallahadion? Maybe, but the Sir Galahad 3d-Countess Time colt won't be a favorite. Dit? Could be. The headline writer'’s delight finished a strong third in the Derby. That can’t be taken away, especially when the radio nag steadily improved his position. 2 Our private, five-star special is neither Gallahadion nor Dit. Mioland, the Oregon-bred, California-owned giant . . . the stablemate of Seabiscuit and Kayak II. Mioland, with perhaps a dash of Joseph E. ‘Widener’s Roman on the side. It is Mioland Is Five-Star Special\jn Baltimore Vastly different are these two hides. Roman is a sprinter. This is the colt which jumped in front on Derby day and stayed there for the better part of three-quarters of a mile. Maybe he needed a race; maybe he didn't. distance is something else. Mioland can go a route. He loves it. Mioland is a big colt, capable of carrying weight all afternoon. Définitely, this horse, of German- Italian parentage, needed a race before the Derby. Mioland hadn't raced for eight weeks before going to the post at Louisville and he finished a creditable fourth and was the strongest of all the goats at the finish. Mioland reminded us of Challedon in the 1939 Derby. Challedon wasn't ready for Col. Matt Winn's race. He ran a bad second to Johns- town, back by eight lengths as we recall it, but in the Preakness a week later Challedon won and Johnstown, brought to a pitch for the Derby, ‘was 11 lengths behind on the chart. It was fairly obvious last Saturday in Kentucky that Mioland wasn't | ready for his best. Whether this League of Nations horse can ready{ himself for the Preakness, as did Challedon, also remains to be seen. | But he is our five-star—or did we say seven?—special to win the Preakness, That is, if Bimelech or Roman or Andy K. or Gallahadion or Pictor or Royal Man or Fenelon doesn't. We believe in playing safe. Mr. College Boxing Passes Away vy No small loss was it to college boxing when Johnny La Rowe, 73, ccoach of the University of Virginia mittmen, passed away the other day. The one-time Washingtonian, marine and billiard parlor owner is the man who put college boxing where it is today. We got to know Johnny La Rowe about eight years ago. Even then he wasn't well. The actual tutoring of Virginia's boxers, at the time invincible, was left to others. But La Rowe was the “grand old man” on the Charlottesville campus and regardless of whether one rates college boxing as an asset he still was a man to be admired. La Rowe made college boxing. He was running a billiard parlor in Charlottesville and talking boxing when, in 1921, he began to teach boxing at Virginia. For 13 years he had taught at V. M. I. without recognition. ‘When he took over at Virginia in 1921 he worked without pay. Indeed, it wasn’t until 1930 when he began to make it a full-time job. The man wasn't a boxer himself. Not a good one, anyway. But he loved the game and he sought to lift it. And it follows he must have | known it because in 19 years at Virginia he piloted the rah-rah boysi through seven undefeated seasons and, finally, was able to show a record of 78 victories as against 24 defeats and 9 ties in dual méets. Mr. College Boxing has just been lost and it is a blow to a game which, without Johnny La Rowe's ptesence, may well be condemned at some future date because there aren’t many men of La Rowe’s caliber standing behind it now. Major League Statistics TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940. AMERICAN NATIONAL Results Yesterday. Results Yesterday. 8t. Louis, 11: Washington, 9. 8t. Louis, 2. % : New York. 1. Borat & Uelend 5. Boston. 10: Pittsburah, 5 (12 innings). ’hflmlbhl.- 3: Chicago. 2. Chicaro. 5: Philadelphia, 4 (11 innings). STANDING OF THE CLUBS s B souren |7 ucisuiuse A [ ----purysq 3| nil 21 10 11 EYI ol ol ol 1l 111 ol 11 0l 2t 2F TS TR US ] 33 5% I—I_ol 81.333] {_11 41 81.3331 I 10— 5101.333] _ 61 51 61 81 91 910[10/——I _| GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. 1, 3115, 1. at Wash., 3:15. lev. at Boston. Clev. Cleveland at N. Chicago at Phila. L[ 11 31 81 71 71 81 8110l—I—I GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Brooklyn at St. L. Bkiyn. at Chicago. New York at Cincl. Boston at Cincinnati. Phila. at Chicago. Phila_at 8t. Louis. Boston at Pitts. New York at Pitts. 8t. Louis at Phila.” ing One- HankTs—(%neraI‘ Anyway, Roman has the speed. Whether he can go the | des} ;. En}%fi‘finm got out of it w‘?; 5 pitching for the A’s. he WASHINGTON, D. C, Attack Leader In Old Loop Shines in Win Over Phils; Line-up Mark Set; Yanks Jolted By JUDSON BAILEY, Associated Press Sports Writer, It takes more than one man to make a baseball team—a timely ex- planation considering a total of 207 players were used in yesterday's eight major league gdmes—but Henry E. Leiber of the Chicago Cubs is as near a one-man team as the big show has at the moment. If your favorite newspaper has a little tabulation of the “major league leaders” in these pages from |day to day, you may be aware al- ready of Leiber’s unprecedented goings-on. Today, for instance, Leiber is leading the National League (1) in batting with a 418 mark, (2) in runs, (3) in runs batted in, (4) in hits and (5) in doubles. Hank's honors have been won squarely. He has hit safely in the last 12 consecutive games of the Cubs and yesterday he collected a double and two singles to bat in three of his team’s runs in a 5-4 eleven-inning victory over the Phillies. Leiber Cubs’ Sparkplug. | He unquestionably is the spark- plug that has carried the Cubs into third place in the senior circuit and kept them there. Yet even Leiber isn’t a one-man ball club. The win- ning run yesterday was Billy Her- man’s homer in the eleventh and it offset the efforts of the Phils in bat- ting Dizzy Dean out of the box in the fifth. Larry French made a relief appearance for his fourth victory. “Brother Paul” Dean also was in action yesterday, his 1940 debut coming in a relief stint for the New York Giants against the Cincinnati Reds. He worked two innings and didn’t show much in giving up two hits and no runs. The game already had been cap- tured by the National League cham- pions on a seven-run spree in the sixth and the five-hit hurling of Gene Thompson, who chadked up his third victory by a 9-1 count. The Boston Bees plastered the sixth straight defeat on the Pitts- | burgh Pirates, 10-7 in 12 innings. | New Line-up Record Set. Manager Frank Frisch made a shake-up in his: line~ a new record for using the most players in a game. Frisch put 24 of his 20 men into the contest and Boston used 16—the total of 40 beat- ing by one the record number the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers Had manipulated the day before. Eleven pitchers saw service. Brooklyn needed only 11 men yes- | terday to whip the Cards’ 6-2 for their 11th victory in 12 games. Luke Hamlin hurled shutout ball after the first inning while Manager Ray Blades reversed his custom and let Curt Davis stay on the hill until the eighth although he was thumped for | 11 blows. | The Boston Red Sox bounced | back on top of the American League | in their see-saw rivalry with the Cleveland Indians, rallying for six runs in the fourth inning to top the Tribe, 8-5. Each team made 11 hits, but the Indians also made three errors. Yanks Again Bow to Lefty. The world champion Yankees were victims of another left-hander and an outburst of slugging by the Detroit Tigers, 6-4. Riding along on the careful pitching of Red Ruf- fing, the Yanks suddenly were pom- barded for three runs on homers by Hank Greenberg and Pinch Hitter Billy Sullivan in the eighth. Then in the ninth Greenberg doubled two other runs across. Southpaw Tom Seats received credit for the victory, pitching three scoreless innings after Tommy Bridges went out for a pinch hitter. The Chicago White Sox, still floun- dering in last place, were edged out, 3-2, by the Philadelphia Athletics, with Sam Chapman hitting a homer and Nelson Potter doing some good WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940. HOW SQUIRREL FOOD IS MADE .&é I'LL MURDER STEALIN'A LIL PRACTICE ON TH' SUNDAY GANG WILL FIX ME UP RIGHT-: X GOTTA STOP GETTIN' SO MANY 7's == IF MIND IF MY KID) BROTHER AND 1 GO THROUGH,SIR? WE'LL BE OUT OF YOUR WAY N /7 A JIFFY THOUGHT A Ao.3 WOOD WAS RIGHT ! AICE SHOT. Si5! TS ALmosT THATS A'GIMME" FER A BIRD--1 GOTTA DROPMINE T'GIT A HALF! LEFT ME 78 Pilot Miller Shifts To Foreign Car at Indianapolis By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, May 7.—Chet Miller of Detroit who has raced in the 500-mile Indianapolis Speed- way classic since 1930, has shifted | his_allegiance from an American- | built car to an Italian Alfa Romeo for the May 30 event. | Miller tentatively had agreed to pilot a rear-drive four-cylinder car for Miehael J. Boyle, Chicago labor leader, and “Cotton” Henning of Indianapolis, but decided to switch Chicago’s last-place White Sox, with Taft Wright in the outfield , and Pete Appleton in the bull- pen, will invade Griffith Stadium tomorrow, marking the last of the seven other American League teams to visit. After completing a scheduled two-game series with the Chisox the Nationals will leave on a trip embracing stops at Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleve- land, Chicago and St. Louis. So far neither side has found reason to complain over the ‘Washington-Chicago deal of last December. Wright has been bening St A 2-IRON WOULD HAVE / PUTT, Foes Wright, Appleton Invade Both Clubs Pleased as Ex-Griffmen Do Well | of Laurel is seeking games for Satur- For Chisox, Walker Shines for Nats —By JIM BERRYMAN OH-OH! DIDN'T USE ‘NUFF CLUB! LEF'M'SELF ABOUT A ©-FT. PUTT -.c U E-E-Yow! gr, AN AFTER o Bn'zp?s‘.z.k' 3 TeErl I Wi 200 YDs.! “WHEE{ =2 A LONG X BUDDY | After Week-End Games The District Training School nine day and Sunday. Call Laurel 680, or write to the director of athletics. Add ballplayers-have-a-hard- life, etc.: Can you imagine your boss keeping you if you worked as badly as some of the Wash- ington pitchers pitched? In- cidentally, whatever became cf- Walter Masterson, the secon” best (behind Leonard) pitche” on the staff? This, at least, is the opinion of the I-Remember- Maasterson-When Club. The club still is in existence but it's tryine to find what keeps Masterson from getting consideration. to the Alfa owned by Richard T. Wharton and Tom Dewart, young New York sportsmen. He explained he had been pilot- ing front drives for the last four years and felt he would be under too much strain handling the rear- drive American car. The Italian speedster formerly was owned by Raymond Sommer, French driver who now is serving on the western front. hitting hard and Appleton has done some pitching for the Sox while Gee Walker, for whom they were traded, has been the Nats’ timeliest hitter. When he batted for Catcher Al Evans in the ninth inning yesterday, Buddy Myer broke in- to his first game of the year. This includes spring training games, too. Word from New York discloses the Yankees, as a team, . are batting only .220. Wait until they meet the Nats again— they’ll fatten the mark. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Rip Radeliff and Don Heffner, Browns—each made three hits to pace attack against Senators. Dolph _Camilli, Dodgers—Hit homer and single to bat in three runs in 6-2_triumph over Cardinals. r P INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Jersey City, 4: Toronto, 1. Newark. 5: Montreal, 2. Only games. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Kansas City, 4: Toledo, 3 (12 innings). St. Paul, 16; Indianapolis. 4. Louisyille. inneavolis, 3. Only & 3 VIRGINIA LEAGUE. lenmnburs. ; Salem. 3. Lynchburg, 7; Stanton. 6. per. Bees—Hit double and three singles and started game-win- ning rally in 12th inning against Pi- ag, i Bersrarding, rates Hank Greenberg and Billy Sulli- effner, van, Tigers—Pinch hos ter 'scored two runs in eighth, while former also hit h knocked home winning runs against Yankees with double in_ninth, Bill_Herman, Cubs—Broke B eame with Phillies with home run 11th ning. Jimmie Foxx, Red Sox—His sixth home run of season was big blow in successful assault on Indians m Chspman, Athletics-Hit home run to_lead way to 3-2 victory over ‘White 8ox. 3b_ oooHNoooREy () OHOCHINWONO W L =) OOHOHORBOOOHOI> Vanderbilt Picks -Bimelech to Capture Preakness O'Brien, Star in ‘The Life of Knute Rockne,” Will Enter Son in Notre Dame i By EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, May 7.—Young Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is Bimelech to turn the bles on Gallahadion in_the Preakness Saturday. U. of Towa officials haven't taken the score down since Iowa whipped Min- nesota last November 18. The scoreboard still reads: Towa, 13; Visitors, 9. Correspondents with the Jints wire from Cincinnati the boys are playing just as if Zeke Bonura were still on the team. Pat O'Brien, who'll have the starring role in “The Life of Knute Rockne,” will enroll his son at Notre Dame when the location crew arrives at South Bend for two weeks of back- ground shots. A rabid Cornell rooter, who saw Ohio State prac- tice, is back East offering to bet m Buckeyes trim Cornell next Long time no hear. Ten years ago “Wild Bill” Melhorn, vet- eran Chicago golf pro, gave s >, few tips to a young Japanese from Tokio, Moriharu Harada. The other day Bill got a note of thanks. He thinks his tips must have had considerable effect, for Harada now is the champion of Japan. ; An epidemic -of - colds has just about emptied the Jamaica press bex. Eleven first, second and third string critics were missing Saturday. Ted Willlams isn't the only guy by that name who has Bostonians talking about him. Boston College has a Ted Wil- liams from Gloucester, Mass., & transfer halfback from - Notre Dame who is making a big hit with Coach Frank Leahy in spring practice. Billy Conn now weighs 180 in his clothes and still believes he’ll bloom into a full-fledged heavy one of these days. Bobby Jones and Patty Berg will team up for an exhi- bition match over the Ohio Btate U. course May 18. Today's guest star, Dan Daniel, ‘New York World-Telegram: “Jim Farley has three weeks in which to close the deal for the Yankees with a down payment of $2,500,- 000. The balance of $1,500,000 would have to be paid within six months. Inheritance taxes and other obligations of the Ruppert estate make it necessary that the big first paymerit be in cash.” Nile Kinnick’s successor in the Towa backfield will be either Bob Bender, Jim Youel, Tom Farmer or Bill Stauss, all sophomores. Melio Bettina has decided to cam- paign among the heavies and next shot may be against Al McCoy at Boston. Horton Smith has played golf jn 38 States and 6 foreign ' couhtries. Charley Keller, cleanup hitter for the Yanks, is being bothered no little by southpaws this year. Henry Armstrong and Paul-Junior who drew $32,000 net in Boston, may go at it again in Portland, Me. The famous Hollywood trotting farm at Lexington, Ky., owned by the late John L. Dodge, is to be dispersed. : The ground fer him. Babe e ) arly Carrasquel, West EEES acobs, TWasdel) Totals Phelps, Brooklyn catcher, some- e mflmmkm b, times called “Blimp,” has balked on flying -around the country with the Dodgers. So when Leo Durocher’s merry madcaps take off for Chicago from St. Louis tonight, Phelps will follow more leisurely by train. All want to pitch., The baseball youngster doesn’t change much through the years. Out of 114 o boys in the Chicago White Sox | roundup farm at Jonesboro, Ark., 51 listed themselves as hurlers. Only six wanted to become short- stops. eighth, fourth. 103 500 011—1' & 1 201 131 100— 9 PR g e o ST PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. 1 ks off Colfiman. No games scheduled. 3 g : TEXAS LEAGUE. Qilaboma City. 8; Port Worth. 3. Tulsa. 6: Dailss. 4. Houston. 9: Shrevesport, 4. Only games. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. No sames scheduled. ime—2:32, BASEB 38, PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Charlotte; 7: Winston-Salem. 6 (11 Washington vs. St. Louis : th, 4. - |AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK iBES e & | Tomomow— Chicago—3:18 PM. } A THE MURIEL SENATOR SEZ: ‘There's always plenty of folks ready to give you tips on the horses. But the tip that always wins is to get a Muriel ..o the old favorite that's 23% more popular than ever! ‘Comics and Classified Man Ball Club as He Sparks Cubs’ Steady Drive Sandlot Hurling Tumbles Nats To 7th Place No Help Is in Sight With Long Western Tour Soon Due Don't look now, but that club in seventh place in the American League standing is the Nationals. And if Grandpappy Clark Grifith doesn't get to work and replace those humpty-dumpties on his pitching staff that's where the Washingtons are going to finish. The Nats couldn’t win from the Browns behind Leonard and dropped their fourth in a row. They couldn’t win yesterday, either, despite making 13 hits, good for 20 bases. They lost, 11-9, behind piteh- ers worse than can be found any afternoon on the Ellipse. The Griffmen slid right on down in losing a game they really lost twice. They were all but blasted out of the park when the Browns, jumping on Joe Haynes and Joe Krakauskas, took a 9-to-3 lead. Then, rallying, they tied the count at 9-9 and went to painful extremes to lose again. In the books it was their fifth straight defeat. It could just as well be their sixth. Hudson Tries Again Today. ‘The Nats today found themselves ahead of only the lowly White Sox and near the first long road trip of the campaign. After today’s game with the Browns and a two- | game series with the Chisox, be- ginning tomorrow, the Harrismen will entrain for Philadelphia for a three-game series and then move westward. Sid Hudson, the class D refugee who has started twice and been beaten twice, was to make his third start today against the Browns with Elden Auker opposing him. Sid, despite his lack of success, definitely is a starter, because he has contrived to Idok less pitiful than most of the other Washing- ton pitchers, chiefly Joe Krakaus- kas, Joe Haynes, Alex Carrasquel and Bucky Jacobs. Haynes, ineffective all spring, was horrible yesterday. In three innings he gave up four runs, eight hits and made a run-scoring wild pitch. Krekauskas, debutting as a relief pitcher, was a decided im- provement over Krakauskas as & starter. In one inning all Joe gave were three runs, three hits and a wild throw. -.Jacobs Takes the Rap. In the end it was Bucky Jacobs who was chasged with the defeat. Bucky got by two innings, which is par for the course by a Wash- | ington pitcher, but in his third term, or the eighth inning, he gave the Browns a run, and, for good measure, the Haneymen made an- other in the ninth. Style Illustrated, sl A CAPITAL CIGAR FOR SENATORS . 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