Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1940, Page 14

A-—-14 . i Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN. Coming Up Next—the Bélmont After the Preakness was run it seemed generally agreed that Bimelech Wwas the best horse and undoubtedly the cream of the 3-year-old crop. Even the people who blasted Bimmy when he failed to win the Kentucky Derby decided the Bradley colt had an off day at Louisville. But now the Belmont, last of the three major tests for 3-year-olds, is coming up. June 8 is the date. The distance is & mile and a half, which 15 a quarter of a mile longer than the Derby and a quarter of a mile, plus 110 yards, longer than the Preakness. And today people are saying that Bimelech can’t win it. That’s the way it goes in the horse racing business. A horse wins and several others lose, but there’s an angle, or a dozen angles to it. The track was cuppy. Or the jockey gave Filled Knee a bad ride. Or the :huunce wasn't quite right. Or Old Socks was worked too hard before e race. Bimelech did everything that was asked of him at Pimlico. The Bradley colt took the lead almost at the outset-and made every post a winning one. He won by two lengths from the nearest challenger, Mio- 1and, and ran the distance only two-fifths of a second off the Preakness record set in 1934 by High Quest. But now they say he won't win the Belmont. That is, some folks say he won't. Johnstown, They Said, Couldn’t Win It Well, this makes for a more interesting Belmont. The Bimelech debunkers say that Bimmy is a nice hunk o’ hide 'at some distances, but that a mile and & .half is too long. They prefer Pictor, the -mud- runner, or Gallahadion, the route-running outsider which whipped Bimmy in the Derby. There remains a lively column favoring Your Chance, a nag which didn’t get all the best of it at the Preakness, Of course, people were going around a year ago and saying the eame thing about Johnstown, the speed colt which won the Derby, ran & pitiable Preakness, and came back to win the one race people thought he'd lose—the mile-and-one-half Belmont. Proving nothing more, we wdmit, than that nothing is certain in horse racing, because before the summer was over Johnstown was washed up and the 3-year-old cham- plon was Challedon. As pointed out before, Bimelech deserves his top position now. Bim won his two Derby trials, beating most of the other crack 3-year-olds in the process. Last year Bimmy mopped each time he went to the post, and he went six times. In the Derby he finished an undisgraced second and in the Preakness he whipped by two and a quarter lengths Gallahadion, the colt that won the Derby. Bimmy Had Luck in the Preakness After the Preakness we joined the majority and decided that Bimelech was the best and then the Knock-Down-the-Big-Shot Club began to spread propaganda. This Belmont is a long, tough, grueling race. Bimelech is fast, but Bim had the lead in the Derby and he lost it. By a neat margin he won the Preakness, but Bimmy, by the same token, was fortunate. The Pimlico track is a narrow racing strip and in a large field, or even a modest nine-horse field, the hide which gets in front has a tre- mendous advantage. This accounts, partially, for the fine Preakness times. The idea is to hustle to the front and let the rest take care of itself. This isn't the way a real racing man would put it, but it is a candid equivalent. In the Golden Jubilee running of the Preakness Bimelech and Mioland and Royal Man and Pictor hustled and jostled for the lead. Mioland and Pictor are established routers, but their stables knew the value of a good early position. Bim happened to get the best position and he had what it took to hold it. But the Preakness distance of 13/16 miles is not the Belmont course of 1)2 miles. And there is no assurance that Bimmy, despite a casual, early bumping with Andy K, is going to have the same racing luck that he had in the Preakness. fiisa s Off the Two Races Bim’s Solid Hoss Withal, we have to string along with Bimelech. Off the two big races so far Bimmy has the best record. He has a win and a .secohd place for the Derby and Preakness. In the same two races Gallahadion has won a first and a third place and Mioland has run fourth and second. Dit, the Arnold Hanger colt so touted by some folks, was third and ninth. Your Chance, a horse with yet a chance, did not run in the Derby and in the Preakness he finished fourth. Pictor seems out of everything unless the track is muddy. It looks as if Andy K and Royal Man and Sun Pharos may be forgotten. It may develop that Bimelech cannot run a mile and a half. But sohnstown did it, and our impression of Big John, as against Bimmy, was that Johnny was even faster over a stretch than the Bradley colt. And, at the same time, Bimmy was more capable when everything counted. ‘We mean, Bimmy looks as if he can run a longer piece than Johnstown ever could. 5 Anyway, it promises to be an interesting season in the 3-year-old field. Bimelech is the Mr. Big right now, but a smashing defeat in the Belmont could change all of that, especially if Pictor, Gallahadion or Your Chance administered it. Mioland is not in the Belmont. If an outsider comes along and wins the big dough then things will be entirely different and decidedly up in the air. This has been known to happen. If it does the best idea probably is to forget the 3-year-old free- for-all and watch the 2-year-old crop, with a view to another year, along with Connie Mack and Clark Griffith, Springer, Terps’ Crack Lefty, Rated Major Prospect, but Doesn’t Interest Griffith ‘What's going to happen to Earl Bpringer, Maryland’s crack south- paw? What's it going to be, the bright lights of the big leagues or the obscurity, bus rides and ham- burgers of the bushes? Well, Clark Griffith apparently fsn't interested in him; two Double- A clubs, one reputedly Baltimore, are bidding for him! Burt Shipley, Maryland's coach, things he’s ripe for plucking for the big time and Joe Judge, former Washington first baseman and currently Georgetown'’s coach, doubts if he can make the grade. +“He can step in there and start winning for a Double-A team right now,” Shipley said today, “and I think it would pay Griff to look him over as bad as he needs pitchers. Yefty’'s a lot better than some of those criples he’s trying to win with.” “He’s got a good curve ball,” Judge observed, “his control is pretty good, but I doubt if he’s fast enough. ‘You've got to have a hard one to stick in the majors and he hasn’t got it. Of course he may get faster, he’s not old, but right now I woudn't | ¢g; give him a second look if I were & *scout.” ~ Wants $2,000 to Sign. ‘What does Springer think about ft? Prankly, he wants 2,000 skins for signing, preferably with a big league outfit. They can farm him out for experience, but he ‘wants to start at the top. It's obvious that only & major league club could pay that kind of a bonus and thus far |° there have been no bidders. If it boils down to signing with & minor league team or not at all Lefty will do 1t and he sincerely believes he’ll m on to faster company. He's no: gart, but has worlds of con- ce. it, incidentally, has invited hia for a visit after school closes, but’ has made no contractural promises. The Yankees were sup- poséd to have a brush-beater in the stands last Saturday when he lost to Georgetown, 3-5. It was his first defeat of the season and he coughed two of the Terps’' last five games, against West Virginia Thursday and George Washington next Monday and Shipley thinks he’ll win both. Temperament Is Ideal. Springer is pitching for the worst team in recent Maryland history, as no one will deny, and is doing one of the finest chucking jobs Ship- - ley can recall. The coach thinks he's far superior to Bucky Jacobs, who caught Griff’s fancy, and to | pLes Porter Vaughan, Richmond’s highly | ¢ regarded hurler who is supposed to get 8,000 iron men for putting his | ZaTn name on a Phnliadelphia Athletics contract, { Lefty has an ideal pitching tem- perament. Teammates’ errors don’t disturb him, nor umpires’ mistakes. But if a pitch doesn’t go approxi- | mately where he wants to put it he'll cuss himself roundly, give him- | 3%, self a pep talk, warn himself he'’s got to improve. Without pretending to be an authority on the matter this observer likes his prospects. We think Ship- ley has the right dope—and we cer- inly hope so. L. F. A 4 Like Mlves At Bat, on Slab And in Field Crack Southpaw Jinx As Ruffing Sizzles; Reds Step Lively By JUDSON BAILEY, Associated Press 8ports Writer. The New York Yankees still are to be reckoned with in the Amer- ican League pennant race. The way they bounced off the bot- tom of the standings yesterday to shut out the Boston Red Sox, 4-0, was a performance so forceful no skeptic could doubt that here were the real world champions. Red Ruffing whipped out that old fast ball and spread six hits smartly, struck out eight and walked two. His teammates gave him superb support—no errors and two double plays—to keep Boston from pushing a man past second. The champs punched out their hits in familiar fashion—two runs in the third on an error and three singles, another in the seventh on two doubles and a final one in the eighth on a double, a single and an error. Ends Opposite Streaks. This not only ended the jinx left- handed pitchers had held over them, and an eight-game losing streak, but also it stopped a six-game winning streak for Boston's league leaders and was the first time they had been shut out this season. In the National League the Cin- cinnati Reds proved once again that they, too, have the stuff of cham- plons and are going to be hard to dislodge from first place. They beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-1 and 13-4, in a double-header that showed clearly their superiority over the team that many experts expected to take the pennant from them. Paul Derringer allowed only four hits in the first game. Then Man- ager Bill McKechnie shoved old Jim Turner onto the firing line and the Reds repeated even though the veteran allowed 16 hits. Reds Increase Margin. The double victory increased the Reds’ margin to a full game over Brooklyn even though ,the Dodgers defeated the Phillies, 5-3, with Fred Fitzsimmons’ knuckle-ba! get- ting credit. Fat Preddy to be rescued when he loaded the bases' with two out and one run across in the ninth, but the Dodgers had made -sufficient runs. oy The New York Giants edged out the Boston Bees, 3-2. Hal Schu- macher was effective for seven in- nings, fanning eight, and Firem: Walter Brown snuffed out a flare- up in the eighth for the Giants’ fifth straight win. The Chicago Cubs plastered an- other defeat on the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-5, when Bill Herman hit & 3-run homer in the eighth. Dizzy Dean, who supposedly had been rele- gated to relief roles, started on the mound, gave up a homer in the first inning and was belted out in the second. i A. L. Leaders Manhandled. It was a rough day for the upper crust in_the American League— from the Red Sox down. The Cleve- land Indians were thumphed, 5-2 by the St. Louis Browns, with Elden Auker rationing nine hits off his submarine ball. The Browns bunched three runs in the last two innings for the winning margin. The Chicago White Sox tamed the Detroit Tigers, 4-3, in spite of home runs by Pinky Higgins and Dick Bartell, scoring three runs in the first inning off Lynn Nelson and Dizzy Trout. Sunny Brook Victor Sunny ‘Brook beat Capitol Heights in a Prince Georges County League game yesterday, 8 to 5. Selmer was the winning pitcher, Griff's Records Batting. . R. H. 2b. 3b. HR. RBI. 4 0 Pet. 400 358 fa'g:u 323 207 i e Lagigia 1ot PIFPIPIRSE i RS R oS gmoo - s 1o SoamrwRiRotme: e o cossssroronaisonanSoons ) o OO N = Rt o CO000000OHHANSDHINR I CO080020HONNISC RO Soossoas00oRROOHIROSS N SomssomuHN Carrasquel Hudso! LT TSN 1 RS 8o Souiasily wovrbiech oemoo-uoa Qs d Ean 4 S WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1940, : Smashing Victory Over Red Sox Warns League Yanks Still Are in Flag Race COWBOYS, REDSKINS, N‘EVERYTHING s To A NAT GAMR.... *HAIR TRIGGER _ LUST. roRENA OF WE M THE A AND 172 ANNUAL FATHER & SON BANQUET g MAY 12,1940 —— BROTHERHOOD OF . WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION Base Stealing Big Help to Club, Case Contends as He Blasts Critical Pilot of Browns By BURTON HAWKINS, Star Staff Correspondent. DETROIT, May 13.—Mr. Light- ning, otherwise identified as Out- flelder George Case of the Nats, struck twice today. Case blasted back at Manager Fred Haney of the Browns for belittling his specialty of stealing bases and in the same scorching pronouncement accused most fans of misunderstanding his motives, “I read where Haney says any- body who steals more than 30 bases a year isn’t doing his club any favor,” fumed Case, “and he cites one unfair incident of mine attempt- ing to prove it. Well, he's wrong. Nobody can tell me that stealing bases and plenty of them doesn't help a team. “He tells of the time in St. Louis last year when I was thrown out trying to steal second while we were trailing by three runs. Bucky Har- ris yanked me out of the game for that, and I guess any manager | swest would under the same circumstances, | g¢! but I wasn't figuring that way at the time, “I thought if I stole second I'd be in position to score and if I did we’d have only two runs to get back. 1 was wrong and I realize it now. I brecke up a poteptial rally. I still have a lot to learn about this game and I learned one of the things I 80 | should have known then, but I was not trying just to boost my record. Lewis Aided by Case’s Running, cl “My running has helped Lewis Bal particularly, I think, and it isn't harming the team. Buddy had his best season last year and I feel I'm partly responsible. Those pitchers 00 | will come down the middle more and won’t risk much change of pace with a fast man on base. Hitting behind mp, Lewis has a better opportunity to get pitching he can hit. “The club isn't suffering either. When fast men are on base pitchers get rattled. Already this season I've scored once and gone to second an- other time on balks. If fast fellows get on base and prance around it subconsciously worries a pitcher and he’s not as effective as he normally would be. “Once in a while I'm gonna be thrown out and maybe look bad, but I wouldn’t mind so much if people understood what happens on some of those occasions. Frequently when I'm thrown out I'm running on the business end of a hit-and-run play. I'm always running for a stolen base, of course, if the batter misses the ball or in case the catcher crosses us up and callf for a pitch- (See HAWKINS, Page A-15.) Official Score 2, Travis. 00000msoNONRFNHD £ rth, 2] e ] HOOOOOSOMANO-OP sosesscosccscoo N e e ] P ; @ Feg ¥ *Batted for Pofahl in {Batted for Perrell in $Batted for Chase in I 53 PHauen0 F E_G ‘;g L Ty P ] Washi n Fitiadelnia batted lard, fiflh Lewis, -wm't'h(.;)’)'ll“'x:‘-blm W{qfi."“‘“‘: hit—Travis. le 'lfi 7% Dasenr : s, % Hirt » 12,; Nats Hopeful West’s Shorter Fences Will Help Eutters Expect Bonura’s, Bloodworth’s Drives to Tell; A’s Early Lead Too Big to Hurdle B3 & Staft Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, May 13.~It may not be alarming or even intri- guing, but the Nats have de- veloped a habit of laboring under an early lead and held it. In every game they've won, been overcome to win other games. Against the Athletics yester- day at Philadelphia they failed to overcome the A’s early lead and lost, 4-2, but in invading the West for a 10-game jaunt they envision more prolific batting and & rosier record. e t an Athletic brillian or to be vie- it 2 rectly & timized £, £ £ 5‘ 3 E § 5 H 118 —By JIM BERRYMAN ) ANDY PARKAS.ONE OF THE GRIDIRON'S BEST, WAS THROWN FOR A LOSS 8y THE AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS..... (MAYFLOWER-W.) | Soccers Still Knotted In U. S. Title Series By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 13—Baltimore, Eastern champion, and the Chicago Sparta Falstaffs, Western champion, have played two games, but there’s still no national soccer champion. The two teams played to a 2-to-2 overtime deadlock Sunday, their sec- ond tie contest in as many weeks. A third contest is planned, but the date and “site have not been an- nounced. N Major League Statistics MONDAY, MAY 13, 1940. AMERICAN Results Yesterday. Philadelphia. 4: Wash! 2. New !!cfl‘ mm‘sm 8t. Louls, Cleveland. Chicago. 4; Detroit. 3. STANDING OF THE CLUBS k] E ; g|§’l§| ;'gl;si ; g i B h | & £ [0 | RN ! ‘Bosi—I_21 2! 31 2 1| 3| 3| 6]161.727] Clel 1i—1 31 11 41 2( 1] 214( 7..667 1% Deti 01 21—/ 0/ 2/ 3| 2| 313|101.545| 4 Phil 2| 1 11 1| 1| 3| 2/10121.455/ 6 _ SLUOI 11 11 11— 3| 2( 1| 91121.430 6% Chil 11 11 2| 2| T 11 1| 9|121.429| 6% Wal 11 0/ 11 3| 11 1 2| 9I13.400] 7 _NYI 11 0i 0] 2 1| 1| 3l—I| 7]14].333] 8% L..1 6] 7110/12(12/12[13114——1 | GAMES TODAY. None scheduled. . ° 5 2 EASTERN LEAGUE. Albany. 14—1: Willamsport. 3—7. Borinefleld. 7—0" Wilkes-Batre. 3-—4. riora 4’07 Seranton Bed (hrst NATIONAL Results Yesterday. Brooklyn. 5: Philadeiohia, 3. 3: Chicaso, 7: Pittsbursh. 5. STANDING OF THE CLUBS Zz T HEHIEE Cinj—I 11 31 2I_41 1] 1] 3115] 4.789] Bkl 1—| 3 1] _2[ 3] 3/ 0/13] 4/.765] 1 NY| 0l_1i—1 0l 1| 2| _4i_2(10] 8i.558] 4% Chil 2 0l 11— 3] 1] 1. 3[111111.500] 6% 8tL|_ 0| 1| 0| 3—] 2] 1| 1| 8]13].381| 8 Phil 0| 11 1| 2| Ol—I 1| 1| 6(10/.375| 7% Bos| 1| 0l 0l ol 1| 1}-—| 3| 6111(.353] 8 Pit| 0| 0| 0| 3| 2| 0| Oi—] 5/13|.278] 9% L._| 4/ 4] 811/13(10/11]18}—}—T 1 GAMES TODAY. Pails. at Brooklyn. New York at Boston. Others mlm‘md. s : i i Hh INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Jersey City. 8—b5: Newark, 6—0. M' r."o—l- Srracuse, 4—3 (first same 11 innings) Taronto, 3—9 (first Look fo Belmont For Answer fo Bim's Worth Contest of 172 Miles Will Decide Critics; Meet a Whopper By HUGH 8. FULLERTON, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. NEW YORK, May 13—Belmont and Bimelech seem to go together naturally, and by the time “turf headquarters” winds up its 24-day spring meeting which starts this afternoon, it should be seen whether Bimmie is the super horse he looked to be after winning the Preakness last Saturday or “that nag” he was after losing the Derby the week be- fore. There’s no doubt that Col. E. R. Bradley's 3-year-old is the most talked-of horse in training right now, or that Belmont is the place to determine his greatness. Beaten in the Derby by the 35-1 outsider, Gallahadion, Bimelech came back at Pimlico Saturday to score & smashing victory $n the Golden Jubilee Preakness before 50,000 fans. Most of them were convinced that he is by all odds the best of the 3-year-old crop—possibly living up to Bradley’s claim that Bimmie is the best horse he ever owned. ‘Will Run Mile and a Half. Other fans want to see him in one more real test—tbe rich Belmont Stakes—before they .decide finally. Mioland, beaten by two lengths at 8 mile and three-sixteenth in the Preakness, and the stretch-running Gallahadion, which was third, were full of run at the finish. They might have caught up in a longer race, but Bimmie didn’t appear es- pecially tired either. In the Belmont, which will be run June 8 over the full Derby route of a mile and a half, Bimelech prob- ably will face about the same fleld he conquered in the Preakness. Be- fore then, he likely will start once at Belmont, perhaps in the Withers mile next Saturday, but the big Bel- mont purse and the prestige of winning a race that goes back to 1867 is what Bradley and all the other owners are aiming at. Leading up to that climactic race is & program of 22 stakes, beginning with the $5,000 Toboggan Handicap and the $2,500 Fashion Stakes today. In all, about $400,000 in purses will be given out at a meeting which is expected to break all records for at- tendance and the amount of money passing through the new mutuel ma- chines. Record Handle Predicted. ‘With crowds as high as 50,000 ex- pected, and 500 mutuel windows ready to receive money, Belmont of- ficlals are looking forward to a $2,000,000 handle some afternoon, breaking the record of $1,705,000 set at Santa Anita. In fact, one of them was heard betting a hat the daily average would pass $750,000. At little Jamaica it was $585,854.50. The feature of the Toboggan today is the season’s first appearance of George D. Widener’s Eight Thirty against a strong field of sprinters, including Sun Egret, Porter’s Mite and possibly Fighting Fox and The Chief, although the lasi two ran Saturday at Jamaica.' Marshall Field's fine pair of Mrs. Punch and Five to One tops a field of nine 2- year-old fillies in the Fashion. 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