Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1940, Page 37

BPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, TUESDAY, { MAY 7, 1940." SPORTS. - Springer Is Terps’ Hope to Beat Hoyas Twice, Keep Keller Ahead at Hitting: Mrs. Stokes’ 35 on Last Nine At Congressional Is Warning To Golf Rivals Hereabout From the Press Box Gallahadion Slighted By Crossed Experts By JOHN LARDNER, Bpecial Correspondent of The Star. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 7 (N.A. NA)~—It's rather a push in the nose for Gallahadion, winner of the Kentucky Derby, that the boys still are trying to figure out who will win the Preakness next Saturday. There is a powerful implication there, and I would not blame the rangy sorrel horse for being slightly sore about it, for Gallahadion him- self is eligible for the Preakness, very eligible indeed, and he un- doubtedly will run. Yet the experts look above him, below him, and anywhere but straight at him as they say: “Tsk, tsk! This Preakness is any- body’s race.” The fact is that the horse from the chocolate candy stable of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars looked no part of a great animal in driving home ahead in the Derby. He is game and hon- est and he did what was asked of him, under a really fine ride by Carol Bierman, but the aficionados suspect that the field he beat was nothing special. The time was poor, after a fast mile in which Roman’s pace seems to have taken most of the run out of Bimelech. Big Bim apparently was not handled any too well by Freddie Smith, an average jockey and noth- ing more, but it looks very much as though a mile and a quarter is a little beyond Bimmy's capacity. Others Have Good Chance “ To Take Preakness With Bierman up, Gallahadion has & good chance in the Preakness. So has Bimelech, for the Pimlico race is 13/16 miles and may be more to his taste. So have Mioland, who needed this Derby race, and Pictor, if the track is sloppy, and Dit, though overwork may have worn him out by now, and some of the Eastern horses which did not come out for the Derby. Under a good ride the Gallahad 3rd horse always is a threat and Bierman can ride. Dave Butler, who directed the motion picture of race horses, "Kentucky,” went around to shake hands with Bier- man before the race, and in a playful Hollywood fashion he gave the jockey his “orders.” “Break fast and get yourself a place on the rail, up with the front runners,” said Mr. Butler pon- tifically. “Keep the horse up there. Hang on that early pace. When you hit the stretch move inside, run past the rest of them and win going away.” “All right,” said Bierman. Great Scramble Likely . For 3-Year-Old Crown Butler took Trainer Waldron to one side and said, “He seemed to take me pretty seriously. Doesn’t he know I'm kidding?” “It doesn't make any difference if he does or not,” replied Waldron. “You just gave him the same orders he got from me.” And that was the way the race v was run, Bierman broke fast and kept his horse within striking dis- tance. That was the payoff, for ‘when they came to the head of the stretch any horse who was close enough might have passed the weary Bimelech and Roman as they swerved to the outside around the turn and carried Dit with them. Bierman and his horse were on the rail just behind, saving ground, and they moved right through the hole and into the lead and they|g. w. won going away. But Gallahadion B was all used up, and a horse which is used up by a 2:05 mile and a = quarter would seem to be less than & superhorse. The race for 3-year-old honors— the Preakness, the Belmont stakes, the Withers, the Arlington Classic, “ the Dwyer, the Lawrence Realization and the Jockey Club Gold Cup, now 1s a scramble. It'may be that some obscure unicorn who has not been to the post yet this year will tur out to be the heir of Johnstown and Challedon. Roman Flag Is Deemed . Dangerous Contender It could be Roman Flag. Roman Flag trained late and may not be ready till the Belmont meeting is | well under way, but around his stable they insist that he is a better horse than Dit, who comes from the same barn and wears the silks | 7y, of Arpold Hanger. If the Flag is better than Dit he’s a good horse, for Dit is honest and consistent and will push the good ones all year long. He might have won the Derby if Bimelech had not carried him wide on the last turn, going around Roman. Altogether, the speculation of the critics is not very complimentary to Gallahadion and I would not blame this belittled mustang if he is out to callers from the press from now on. First, after all, is the best you can finish in a race like the Derby, with its old-fashioned rules. Lucky or not, the son of Sir " Gallahad 3d is up there now and the campaign ,to consign him to the glueworks will have to wait until somebody knocks him down. Center Market Shows Way Finn and Ro each smashed two hits yesterday as Center Mar- ket whipped Maritime Commission, 8-6, in a Departmental Baseball League game limited to five innings by darkness. Lefthander Is Listed To Hurl Tomorrow And Saturday Games Appear Toss-ups; Maryland Primes by Defeating G. W., 9-3 By LEWIS F. ATCHISON, A good line on the city’s next col- legiate batting champ will be ob- tainable tomorrow at the Hilltop, where Georgetown and Maryland tangle in the first of a two-game series that also will decide the 1940 team championship. They battle again Saturday at College Park. Unless Lefty Earl Springer's mag- ical marcel ball has suddenly desert- ed him the blue ribbon batter will be a Marylander by the name of Hugh Keller who leads the race to- day with an unofficial mark of 472. Hughie is d:fending‘an honor he acquired last year and Master Springer is his Maginot defense line for the Terp southpaw’s puzzling array of twists and curves figure to halt the Hoyas’ hit-hungry’ crew. Burly Jim Castiglia, Johnny Schmitt and Julie Koshlap have been hot on Keller’s heels since the first pitch of the campaign and Castiglia even set the pace for a time. But Jim is back to a more normal 389 gait now. Schmitt is clouting at an over-his-head average of 433, but Koshlap is beginning to make a move, traveling at a smooth 414 tempo. How they'll fare against Springer is purely cenjectural, but it is significant that Earle has given up only six hits in three games against good college competition. Must Face Springer Twice. Georgetown, it may as well know now, will get a double-dose of Springer, for Coach Burt Shipley intends to send his ace back to the firing line come Saturday. But, if Springer can stop George- town, so can Vinnie Powers or Johnny Smith put the skids under Keller, for Hugh is notoriously feeble on curve balls and pretzel benders are specialties with the Hoyas. The Georgetowns don’t exactly crave roundhouse pitching either. Theyll slam speedball chucking right down a pitcher’s gullet, but a slow-breaing curve can make them look bad. Georgetown appears to have the better defensive team, especially in the infield, but a good pitcher can cover a multitude of fielding sins in college ball, and Maryland has that gentleman in the aforemen- tioned Springer. All things consid- ered it shapes up as a fairly even contest with a slight edge to Mary- land if Springer has his “hopper” with him. The game, incidentally, is sched- uled for Georgetown's Medical School field at 2:30 o'clock. Terps; Have Big Inning. Maryland yesterday got in some | warmup licks in turning back George Washington, 9-3, at College Park. The Terps had to come from behind, as the Colonials got off to a 3-2 lead in the first three in- nings. Max Hunt, who went to Lefty Vannais’ relief at the start of the third inning, settled down after a bumpy debut and checked g‘x& downtown delega}ion with six A five-run uprising in the sixth, followed by two runs in the seventh, gave Maryland its edge. Frank Mc- Ginnis, who started for G. W., re- tired after seven innings in favor of a pinch-hitter after parting com- pany with an even dozen hits. Lefty Kushman hurled the last inning. ABH.OA. Maryland. ABH.O.A. $°0 Enabdrt "0 0 aisel.rf 3 & OB e L oocHuBH IR SommmOomI 0! cocomueoo M'G'nis.p Kush'np *Picco_ | microrermmson cocuarsarmciess | comsws Totals 34 72416 Totals 33 *Batted for McGinnis in 8th. tBatted {or Cox in th, Score by innings: George Washinston Maryland ________ - 2 8| B & 011 100 000—3 ~ 011 005 20x—8 Runs—Taylor, Gray. McGinnis, McDon- ald. Bengoechea' (2). McHale, Keiler, Cox, Culver. Duvall. batted in—a Bengoechea, Keller. ' Rudy. Oertei, Cox. Lusby to McNeil. 3; George Washing- ff Vannais, 3; 8truck out—By g5; Ginnis. n 7 innings; off Hunt. 6 innings.” Wild pitch—] ylor, s Losing’ pire: Messrs. Shoemaker and Cox. Time—2: Garber Makes Smart Play. One of the smartest flelding plays of the season was credited to George Garber, G. W. third baseman, when the Colonials met and defeated Washington and Lee last week. Gary, W. and L third baseman, was on second when Thompson rapped a slow one at Garber—too far in for a play at third. Garber fielded the ball, faked a throw to first and tagged Gary, who, meanwhile, had rounded third and was taking a lead off the bag on the chance that he might be able to continue home. It happened in the American U.- Wilson Teachers game last week. Harry Newby, American catcher, pegged - to shortstop “Dutch” Schulze at second trying to get. a runner stealing the base. It ap- peared close and Umpire Buck Trundle called the play from behind home play. The runner was safe. Schulze kicked the dirt, pounded his glove and Newby squawked un- til he was red in the face, but Trun- bases—Maisel (2) plays—Graham on bases—Marylan on. McGinnis, -Hunt. Passed balls— dle stood his ground. When the in- Bonecrushers to Crowd Mat In Pair of Capital Shows What1l you have, folks, villainy |will stalk the premises” as Herr or heroism, toe-holds or drop-kicks, brawn or, er beef? There will be enough of everything this week, what with Riverside Stadium oper- ating a muscle show tomorrow night and Joe Turner following up with his time-honored Thursday perform- ance. v At Riverside it's Steve (Crusher) Casey vs. Don (Crusher) Evans, and the Golden Terror, alias “Crusher” Bob Weatherly, vs. Abe (Kosher) Coleman, in a co-feature card. At the Arena “another monstrosity ‘Turner’s propaganda minister so elo- quently puts it, in the cave-manish person of the “Swedish Angel,” a 235-pound throwback to the stone “The Angel” quoting again, meet Nanjo Singh,” who was tent box office attraction at the street amphitheater all last winter. The Swedish Angel's real name is —yep—it's Olaf. Olaf Swendson, and he has a by-yimminy dialect if you care to hear it. »" By WALTER McCALLUM. Hereby be warned, you women golfers who are looking ahead to winning a flock of championships this year. The boss of the feminine divot diggers of the Middle Atlantic area—winsome Mrs. Walter R. Stokes of the Manor Country Club— is very much on her game and is going to be a thorn in the golf bag of a lot of folks. Don’t believe it only from the record of last year during the lat- ter part of which Mrs. Stokes (her intimates call her Virginia) came with a rush to win the Middle Atlantic championship at the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club. Rather believe it from the present record, on which the Manor wom- an is engraving some scores that have all the appearances of first class golf in any company. Such scores—for example—as the 35 she shot on the last nine holes at Con- gressional yesterday to equal men'’s par for that stretch. First Par-Equaling Score. It happens to be the first time any feminine golfer has done a 35 over that nine, on a course where some pretty good women have played; among them Helen Dett- weiler, Babe Didrikson, Betty Meck- ley and Mrs. Myron Davy. Playing in a match with Mrs. Davy, Mrs. G. C. Roney and Mrs. K. Welte, the Mid-Atlantic champ gave little hint of how warm she was going to play over the last nine when she played the first half of the journey in 48 whacks. But coming back she scored like this: 443-524-544—35. Better 18 hole scores have been made at Congressional, but that happens to be the first time a woman has equaled men's par for the last nine. Maybe it's a warning of what may happen this year. After all it's been two years since one competitor has won both the Mid- Atlantic and District titles within a few months. Marion Brown did it in 1938. Maybe Mrs. Stokes will be able to do it. Emory in Cup Final. Landra B. Platt scored successive birdie deuces on the Sth and 10th holes at Chevy Chase, but he couldn’t stave off the determined golf of Walter G. Emory as Emory beat the defending titleholder 2 and 1 to enter the final in the French High Commission Cup. The other semi- final lies between Gen. F. W. Cole- man and John F. Brawner. Complete results in the tourney so far follow. First round: Gen. Coleman defeated H. R. Harmon. 2 and '1; Robert Stead. jr., defezted L. H. Lowe, 6 and 5: Walls hite defeated D. M. d 3: J. P. Brawner defeated P. L. Fisher. 2 'and 1; J. P. Lannon defeated Adolph Slaton, 6 and 4: L B._Platt defeated C. A. Fuller. 4 and 3: w. defeated P, S. Ridsdale. 4 De Veau defeated Gregory Prince. 3 and 2. Second round—Gen. Coleman defeated Stead. 4 3; Brawner defeated White, 3 and 2; defeated Lannon. 6 sad 5; Emory de 7 eau. 7 and 5. mifingl—Emory defeated Platt, 2 and 1. ‘Wiffy Cox shot a three-over-par 75 to be the bright light in a match in which Cox and Lewis Worsham, Burning Tree pro, finished square with Al Houghton of Beaver Dam and Leo Walper, driving range pro. Gene Ruark Stooges For Hoppe in Cue Card at Arcadia ‘What may be the most interesting series of billiard exhibitions here in more than 10 years was to start at the. Arcadia today when Willie Hoppe, most illustrious of all bil- liardists, and Gene Ruark, former national amateur and present Dis- trict champion, meet in a 40-point exhibition at three-cushions. Afternoon matches are scheduled today and tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock and tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30. A short match of- 150 points of 182 balkline billiards and an ex- hibition of intricate shots by Hoppe also is scheduled. Hoppe recently accomplished a 2). | “miracle” of billiards by winning all 20 of his games in the world’s e | tournament at Chicago. = Juliano Sparks Tru-Blu 7| In Softball Triumph Behind the five-hit pitching of - | Juliano and K. Mills, Tru-Blu soft- ball team defeated Powers Builders, 5-4, in a Tri-State Night League game at Ballston Stadium last night. Juliano sparked the winning at- tack with a brace of doubles. ning was over Newby looked at Schulze and asked: “Didja have that guy?” “Naw,” said Dutch. Johnny Jablonsky, A. U. outfield- er, incidentally, rejected scholarship offers from Fordham, Florida and North Carolina to enroll at the Washington school because he wanted to attend a small college. RUPTURED? Go to Your Doctor—It Is More Important Than You Think! Kloman Instrument Com- pany announces the revamp- ing of the Truss Department under the management of Tom Collins, an experienced factory-trained fitter with many years experience, thus enabling us to offer you positive assurance of the application of proper appli- ances, anatomically correct. Our Women’s Department is under the personal supervision of Mrs. Nellie Bass, who has had years of experience in the proper fitting of surgical supports. Kloman . Instrument Company 1822 Eye St. N.W. @ NAtionel 6566 The match was played at Burning Tree. Cox played the nines in 36 and 39, to nose out Walper by a shot. Houghton was 177, and Worsham had 78. Pass Wins Veterans’ Title. Leo F. Pass, who used to perform quite a passel of golf at old Bannock- burn, where he got the monicker of “The Lion of Bannockburn,” because of the tremendous length of his tee shots, is the new Veterans’ Adminis-~ tration champion. Leo played Kenwood in 82 strokes yesterday to win the Gen. Frank T. Hines trophy and the championship for the third time. He won in 1930 and 1931, But he only won by a shot, for Dr. John A. Thurston had 83, while Otto Elble had 84. Mrs. Juanita Pollock won the women’s title with a card of 103. Re- sults in the tourney, men's division: Champlonship. won by L. F. Pass (82); . J_A. Thursion (8:); Otto Elble (84)} blind bogey winners—Dan Pratt and R. L. Jarnigan; driving contest. won_ by Floyd Bak 9 yards): Francis P. Kelly (208 Yare tting contesi. won by Ridder (30 putts): L. Winnicke Women's _ division _champ} by Mrs, Juanita Pollock ( Dicks (108); Marie Birmingh: a1 blind_bogey ' winners, Misses Dicks. mingham and Katherine Greely: putting contest, Mrs. Pollock, Madeline Aiber. Bess Bryan.'Beulah Dicks and Agnes McWhin- ney all tied at 36 putts: driving contest, Misses Birmingham, Bryan and Dicks. Eighty-eight players, of whom 18 | were women, played in the annual tourney. Mrs, F. C. McCord and Mrs. R Aubrey Bogley tied for the top prize in a blind bogey affair held as the opening event of the season for Co- lumbia Country Club women golfers. In third place was Mrs. A. 8. Gardi- ner, while Mrs. J. P. Harper was fourth. Mrs. R. W. McChesney and Mrs. W, E. Hall tied at 31 putts for first place in a putting contest, for prizes put up by Mrs. Robert A. )i | old newspapers, Lacey, Women's District Golf Asso- ciation president. IGURES show that about one out of every five able-to-purchase new-car buyers really wants a Buick more than any other car. Not all will buy one. Too many of them without even getting actual figures will shake their heads and sigh, “Nope! A car that big and hand- some must be out of my reach!”’ You'll be smarter than that, we know. Belt Goes With Title In N. B. A. Feather Bout Next Week You could have floored Petey Bcalzo or Frankie Covell with a good-sized heavyweight today after it was learned the National Box- ing Association not only has.ap- proved their 15-round bout for the “world” featherweight champlion- ship at Grifith Stadium next Wed- nesday night but also will throw in ‘a “champeenship” belt in the bargain. i There may be & crepe on. the N. B. A, door this afternoon, inci- dentally, because, yesterday it lost one of its stanchest supporters when Representative Ambrose Kennedy, Maryland, was.ost in a blizzard of primary votes, But that is beside the point. Covelll was the only ranking contender left after Promoter Joe ‘Turner went down the list scratch- ing off names of the boys who sent their regrets, but Frankie can make it hot for Johnny, or Petey—and vice versa. Anyway, the championship belt, o | Which can be used in emergency to hold up pants or tie up bundles of will be awarded the winner. Simon Given Brescia Go In Riverside Ring Abe Simon, largest heavyweight in captivity, will be Jorge Brescia's opponent next Monday night at Riverside Stadium if Matchmaker Jimmy Erwin's hastily revamped plans materialize. Simon, a 240- pounder, will pinch-hit for Tommy Tucker, who strained a head muscle thinking of spring. Erwin had Simon in mind as Brescia's partner before the happy thought occurred that he might get Tucker, smaller, but much faster. Tucker will meet the winner. | Rod and Stream By GEORGE HUBER. o1 officials in Maryland really are be- Sportsmen and conservation ginning to worry about the spread of a disease attacking and causing the death of black bass. 8o far most of the dead fish have been found in flu:‘:dle River, but & few other acattered sections also have reported dead The majority are black bass, but some catfish, perch and striped bass ere—070mMmMmMm ——— also have been affected. Some w in the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers. The disease was discovered only a few weeks ago, but already the Con- servation Commission and members of the Maryland State Fish and Game Protective Association are trying to discover its cause and stop its spread. Dr. R. V. Truitt, biologist of the. Chesapeake. Laboratory and University of Maryland, believes he has discovered the cause, He thinks it is the fluke larvae or flat worm. That parasite may not be the exact cause, but it opens the way for infection. The flat worm attacks the eyes, which become in- flamed. Sores develop and when the skin is broken other agencies may get in their work. Pollution apparently has nothing to do with it because Dr. Truitt has made tests of all waters il which sick fish have been found and the conditions were passable. Maryland black bass, and other species, too, are having a hard enough fight for survival with both a heavy sporting and commercial catch annually, and unless this dis- ease is checked it may be curtains. The State authorities are not idle, and the disease, discovered only about a month ago, is being fought by every available agency. Hardhead Fishing Started. Better news from Maryland waters is that the hardhead season is open with a bang. Benedict re- ports good catches yesterday and another spot where fishing was ex- cellent was Piney Point on the Lower Potomac. In the upper section of Chesapeake Bay, the first real catch “‘Show me those bfg soft coil springs you talk about and how they smooth out that rough stretch down the street — and what’s the business about recoil-mounted Knee- Action, heaviest frames at the price, five-foot front seat room in SUPER models, and six dozen new 1940 features?”’ When the bug to own a Buick bites you, you'll figure that a car as talked- about as Buick must be looked at first — if you’re going to have anything to go on in judging 1940 values. 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