A—14 ** WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939. _ 11 — W ^—————————— I, — ■■ II II——————— • • Pitching Promise in Masterson One Ray of Hope Penetrating Nats9 Gloom Win, Lose or Draw Martin, Hubbell Harris Confident BY GRANTLAND RICE (In the temporary absence of Francis E. Stan) Put Kick Into Hurler, 18, Will By How Many Lengths, Is Preakness Question NEW YORK, May 9 (N.A.N.A.).—What about in the Preak- Gilded Ciencia and which Giants ness at Pimlico on Saturday? Knight, Impound, Cards, Be Sensation missed the Derby, will build up the Baltimore battlefield, but not enough to pull in much slack. Steals Home With horsemen leaving Churchill Downs, it wasn't a matter of Pepper Walter to Be Given Johnstown winning—hut by how many lengths. For Hurler's own track. Win, Cautious Grooming; 41 Vanderbilt has been getting Impound ready for his But Johnstown already has proved how he could handle Impound. Gilded Arm Appears 0. K. Tribe Routs Chase is Knight and Ciencia will add more class to the Preakness, but neither By SID FEDER, a Johnstown by four or five lengths. By BURTON HAWKINS, Associated Press Sports Writer. There should be a good open market for place and show at Pimlico, Star Staff Correapondmt. It is a pleasure to report that the on the win side. When a horse can win his last seven but little trading Old Wild Hoss of the still CLEVELAND, May ».— becomes Osage as Johnstown has done, the of speculation is over. He races day can get the bit in his teeth. Bucky Harris, whose mo- on a race track. gloorr^jf an investment—always granted that anything can happen It is also a for the good thing ments are mounting with each suc- And other places. St. Louis’ Cardinals’ Gas House ceeding loss in the Nationals’ chain wide this will be Pimlico’s greatest that the Old Hoss, otherwise In spite of Johnstown’s margin, Gang STEALS HOME!—Here’s of defeats has a patent remedy for known as still can Pep- show. , chasing his woes. He merely glances a Joe those base Because now per Martin scoring with the The multitude likes a stand-out performer—a Man o’ War, paths. in the general direction of his far above the mass. that the Cards have run out of lone run of the Cards’ 1-0 win focuses his Louis, a —the few who lift their heads kindergarten crop, steely a little comes in run—as “gas” pepper over the at on bronzed, Walter The multitude likes the supercast. They want to see Johnstown Dodgers Brooklyn optics elongated handy. Masterson and creases his cheeks at 1 to 80. want to see Joe Louis as Teammate they followed Man 0’ War—even They The Old Hoss, the boys in the yesterday, Terry human flesh. with a smile of satisfaction. if his is an unmissable mass of monumental a Moore back from the fight—even target game will tell you, is ball play- steps Harris Is scanning the future each into his fifth start of the spring season with 30 open ers’ ball kind. Johnstown goes player—the winning plate. The Brooklyn catcher is time he takes a refreshing peek at contention, he should be good for That’s it was to lengths to spare. In spite of stronger why nothing Todd and the umpire is Sears. Masterson, a pitcher from the sand- cheer about when heard his at least four or five more. you lots of Philadelphia, who will reach That would future with the Cards was hang- The year's beSt battle should be Johnstown and Kayak II. the ripe old age of 19 next month. ing by a hair there a few months In him Harris feels he has a lad a horse race. They stand alone. be master minds (si- back. The club’s who, with a minimum of experience, of the 's lence in the back house, Wishing will blossom as one of the sensa- As Nova Sees His Coming Battle With Baer please) had the idea he was some- tions of the league. what spavined and ready for the There is an inclination for Harris Lou Nova to remain in the heavyweight picture Max Baer must beat farm. But decided to 'Mud in Yer they finally to overboard on the still not suffer the loss Eye' go youngster. on the other hand, can lose to Baer and Nova, let him hang around—and look “He has it,” appraises Bucky. “A It would be a setback for him, of course. But of a great deal of prestige. what happened: world of stuff and a strong arm. halted he can come on he is young and still learning, ano. if he is now, Recalls 1931 Series Feat. To Johnstown That kid's going places, but he's it. again. But that isn’t the way Lou looks at The Old Hoss won a ball game just a baby. He'll have to be de- “If I can't beat Baer, nobody is going to have any faith in me as a yesterday, just like he won the 1931 Bi the Associated Pren. veloped carefully.” insists. “This means even more to me , wild on of Joe Louis,” he fight by running 9. —“Here’s Harris Picking Spots (or Youth. if the base lines. He didn’t steal BALTIMORE, May than it does to Baer. Oh, I know what it means to him. It means that, four, Seldom In Bucky’s lengthy career mud in is the after all, he’s or three, or even two. Yep, he stole yer eye, Johnstown,” as a has a been he loses, he can go back to California and stay there. But, manager prospect home with the only run of the ball toast Trainer Lou Schaefer would him as such a He's had the title and the dough that goes with it. But I visioned by having been on top. Russ game, while Rookie Evans, like to to the winner of the rosy future, but Harris waxes en- haven't had it yet—and I’m going to have it. propose who already had lost one game this thusiastic in stamping Masterson “I've beaten everybody that amounts to anything between Louis and . year on a balk, stood there open- as a hurler whom Washington fans where I can't afford to Lou would like to say that after me except Baer. I've fought myself into a spot mouthed, too surprised to make the will take to their collective hearts. the at Pimlico Sat- be blocked off by Max.” throw to the plate until it was too He hasn’t been overburdened with He would like to see a the came urday. rainy It s a way to feel. Nobody ever won a fight by entering late. So. when the Old Hoss labor to date, for Harris is picking good day, a muddy track and W. L. it wouldn't make difference. in the Cards were on top, his but as the season ring thinking that, if he were beaten, any streaking Brann’s Challedon kicking mud in spots, ages with Baer for the 1-0, over the Brooklyn Dodgers, a Masterson's name is going to wedge Nova didn't take this match just experience the eye of the horse that licked him victory that boosted the gasless its more into the Whether anybody else thinks so or not, he thinks he has had enough in the Kentucky Derby. way frequently Gas Housers into a second-place tie Nats’ What he wants t’o do now is to convince the public, by knock- Schaefer, who rode Dr. Freeland lineup. experience. in the league. Masterson his first and a 1929 and pitched Baer out or beating him decisively, that he rates the September match to Preakness victory in ing Pepper wasn't the only good old only inning of the season yester- Jacobs has for him. now trains Challedon, hopes it comes Wth Louis that Mike planned guy in the business who showed his CAVARETTA BREAKS day as the Nats dropped a 6-2 de- ANKLE—Players go to the aid of Phil Cavaretta, Cub , a moment up just as sloppy this Saturday as it Even if he knocks Baer out. it isn’t likely he will convince the public stuff yesterday. In New York, for cision to the Indians for their fifth after he fractured his right ankle in a slide to second yesterday, as the Bruins defeated the was last year when splashed that he is ready for Louis. This doesn't mean the fight will not draw. instance, the Cubs beat the Giants, Giants, straight loss. He replaced Ken 4-2. Shown around the to victory in the Maryland classic. to see Joe work. 4-2, behind Big Bill Lee's elbowing gathered injured player are, from left to right, Umpire Stewart and Chase and wasn't Louis will draw with anybody because the crowd likes at “Our only hope of beating Johns- overly impressive and but in the and Zeke of Giants. in the one he worked. He And certainly Nova could lick a ling full of Ropers and opponents of that batting, along eighth Burgess Whitehead, Bonura the —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. town in the Preakness lies in the inning inning, when 's crew was nervous in his debut, walked stripe, such as Louis has been compelled to take to make a living, the condition of the track,” Schaefer already had the game on ice, they two men and failed to cover first current heavyweight situation being as it is. said. “If it’s muddy, we may show called old Squarepants base properly on a bunt, which went the boys a winner. Challedon has in from the dugout. for the only scored against him, Tar Heel Rackefers Great Winner proved to me that he is at home in but he didn’t allow a run. but Still a Year Away Should Be Ready Soon. Producing Derby the mud, while Johnstown has yet Promising Youngster, Harris is watching him like a Now old Squarepants had an op- to show great mud-running ability.” But Nova has not yet impressed any one outside of his own camp hawk, but eration over the winter on that More Than For Johnstown's great victory in doing everything tucking that he belongs in a ring with Louis—this year, anyway. A year from now, Picked to him in at He him out "meal-ticket” southpaw wing of his Repeat Thrilling Victory the Derby, Schaefer had nothing but night. keeps if he ana nothing to him, he would be better fitted of drafts, sees that he is warmed fights regularly happens and the soupbone didn't come praise. up for at the Bomber. before in batting tilting round. But he did a right fair To Owner of “Before the Derby, there was some properly pitching In Conference Johnstown diet in Meanwhile, Nova has made a lot of progress within the last two job in his season debut yesterday. doubt about whether Johnstown practice, checks his and, By GAYLE TALBOT, he can finish out a mile and a half He isn’t the most the Cubs general, treats him more as a father years—or even the last year. still impressive fightei In two innings managed Associated Press Sports Writer. could hold his great speed for a mile By th« Associated Press. like the Fox and did. I than a but he on He has on just two fly balls and a loud foul and a he said, “but when manager. from the spectator angle, keeps winning. put weight NEW YORK. 9.—After watch think he but let's wait and see." quarter," — May can, It is by accident that the Nats is at 209—and he has off him, so, from all indications, WILLIAMSBURG, Va„ May 9 he crossed the line he looked like he —his training camp poundage reported gained poise inng a horse like Johnstown run. it hold title to the bashful 6-foot 2- it shouldn't be long before King The strong University of North could run all day and part of the and confidence as he has moved along from one fight to the next. isn't difficult to understand the for if Connie Mack Carl is back on his throne—that Carolina tennis team, undefeated in next.” inch youngster, Here is his slant on the Baer fight—and although it may be bent and fascination the racing game holds little mound out there 60 feet in 16 matches this season, again is ex- Owls Want Games Schaefer of the Athletics had been willing for such a man spiked reports George twisted out of by one right-hand punch hurled by the unpredictable as William Wood- to with $1,000 Masterson now shape front of the plate. pected to dominate the annual Times-Herald Owls want a game Seabo. Challedon’s rider, might be part ward, the banker who owns and Scout Max—it is plausible: It was in this that the Cubs Southern Conference tournament for 6192 Workman in the would be with Philadelphia. game operates the . Sunday. Call Michigan replaced by Sonny He has an edge on Baer in age, boxing skill and condition, and this lost Phil Cavarretta. which opens at William and Mary after 5 o’clock. Preakness. (See MASTERSON, Page A-15.) For the load of money Woodward should offset Baer s edge in punching power and experience. He figures Phil, returning to action after warm- Thursday. has sunk in racing since the bug nails him his and his stamina will carry him ing the bench for a week, broke his Entries also have been received that, unless Max early, youth first bit him more than 20 right ankle sliding into second and from Maryland. Virginia Military years ago through at a fast pace against a man who for years mixed pleasure with he probably could have bought and wound up in a hospital. Institute, Richmond. North Caro- business and can’t possibly have much of his old vigor left. operated an ocean-going yacht, Then there was old Indian Bob lina State and William and Mary. The way most of the experts have it sized up is that Baer will knock complete with pennants. Maybe he Johnson, one of the mighty few Several other schools are expected him. has a yacht, too. But I'll bet hes out Nova or that Lou will outpoint factors keeping the Athletics out to enter players. had more fun out of three “But don’t bet on it that way.” Ray Carlin, Nova's manager, warned of the bush leagues these last few Finalists in the singles and the producing Kentucky Derby winners. me. “Maybe that's the way it figures. But I don't agree with it—and I years. Bob collected two homers winning doubles team will qualify To most of the 7*000 who watched I know Lou better than else and about what he can do— to the A's a 6-5 decision over automatically for the national col- think anybody give the magnificent Johnstown cakewalk and what he is to do. the . This was the legiate tournament. likely home at Louisville it was an exciting Detroit's seventh straight setback North Carolina, with an entry list two minutes. Those who had money and dropped them into the Amer- of seven men, will be defending sin- on him, especially in the winter Possesses Determination That of ican League cellar. gles and doubles titles won five Rivaling Tunney books, enjoyed every stride of his Then there also was old Cuck years in a row. Neither Johnny “I’ll tell you this about him: He is the most determined young man I majestic progress. But nobody else Klein, whose pinch- with the Foreman, 1938 singles champion, ever saw. You can see that from the way he has developed in the last saw him through quite the same bases loaded broke up a ball game nor Zan Cfcrver, who teamed with of talk about Gene Tunney having a great determina- eyes as Woodward. couple years. They and handed the Phillies an 8-7 Foreman to win the doubles title, so than this fellow. when he Breeding Woodward's tion. Well, he had. But not any more And, verdict over Cincinnati Reds, is back in school this however. Hobby. year, Woodward on it’s hard to him. And he may literally "thought up” gets his heart set something, pretty stop ranks Lose Lead. Outstanding Tar Heel entries are League Johnstown. There are some wealthy his heart set on knocking out Baer. Charlie Rider, Eddie Fuller and the get The dropped owners who seek advice from their “Take his fight with Gunnar Barlund. I would have been satisfied out of the Amrican lead in Rood twins, Carl and Bill, who are League trainers and from experts on equine had Barlund—and I think he would have, too—be- a 5-3 contest to the co-captains. Rider, who has been if he just outpointed losing blood lines in their efforts to pro- or alternating at the No. 1 and 2 cause Barlund was just a rugged second-rater, and knocking him out White Sox. Lefty Edgar Smith, po- duce great foals. Always they’re from the sitions, won the North-South ama- stopping him wouldn’t prove much, if anything. All I wanted out of that only recently acquired seeking the combination of sire and Athletics, not only held the Yanks teur in Pinehurst last month. fight was a little more experience for Lou. But, when Barlund dropped dam that will bring both speed and to seven but he hit the Richmond's entries include Bobby he started with trad- hits, single endurance—the superhorse. him, the jig was up. When he got up, mixing him, former Richmond which drove the winning run home. Leitch, City pub- Woodward asks no advice of for I tried to ease him up at the end of the round and any ing punch punch. Boston's Red Sox, rained out in St. lic parks champion, who, with Na- until he had one. Breeding is his hobby. It's an between rounds after that, but it was no dice. He didn't stop climbed into the lead than Askin, a Maryland was Louis, loop entfy, expensive one but, after all, he's pay- . as a the only non-North Carolinian to stopped result. ing for it. He decided that the great hard it is to into the “Baer was trying to kid Lou the other day about how Jim Tobin tossed a five-hitter get quarter-finals. sprinter , bred to the lit- Askin and Allie fight 15 rounds and intimating that Lou might find the distance too much for a 3-2 Pittsburgh win over the Ritzenberg also tle broken-hipped Ally La Prance Boston and xlleveland’s In- the doubles final last for him. That made us laugh. Lou hasn’t any doubt about his ability to Bees, gained year. would result in a fine horse. La dians did all their run-making in They are among Maryland's en- go 15 rounds against Baer—if necessary. I don't think anybody who saw France never had run a run, but the seventh to trounce Washington, trants again this season. him Tommy Farr has any doubt about that, either. In the Farr Woodward knew there was endur- fight 6-2. It was the fifth loss first straight ance in her blood. The of fight Lou was better in the last five rounds than he had been in the colt, for both the Bees and the Nats. course, was Johnstown. You see how, 10, and in the last two rounds he gave Farr a worse beating than Louis Lead Flashes League maybe, how Woodward felt when he him in 15. gave The Flashes gained the lead In stood out there Saturday and “I have handled a but I never before knew one who many fighter, Snug Harbor Booking the Powell Community Center Soft- watched them put the roses around took his work so seriously, built his body so carefully and worked out every Snug Harbor, which defeated the ball League yesterday, defeating the his big horse's neck. move he made so thoughtfully. I don’t know what is going to keep a National Bluebirds in its last start, Aces, 7-1, while the Addisons were “All he ever tells me,” says old fellow like that from the title.” wants more games. Call Bowie 2882. turning back the All-Stars, 7-2. Jim Fitzsimmons, who trains the Woodward string, “is to keep iR; eyes out for sires with plenty of speed. He says he will attend t? Snead Hailed as Paderewski of Golf getting the right kind of blood. It by Physician took him a long time and a lot of money to reach his present posi- Follow Notre Dame in Garden's Basket Ball Games he’s a threat to Other Quints May Quitting tion, where steady FLORSHEIM Announces win every big race here and in Eng- By EDDIE BRIETZ, Some of the New York schools tually out-thinking their oppo- show the boys some of his tricks. land. He went two years once with- Dr. Bob North Carolina Associated Press Sports Writer. plan to follow Notre Dame’s lead nents.” Madry, out a single winner. But he’s get- and pull out of the Garden’s The Yanks are supposed to U.’s tom tom beater, ran for city his reward now in horses like NEW YORK, May 9.—Melio ting promoted basket ball have offered Hank Borowy, alderman and polled 657 out of Omaha and Johns- The the privately , of the Bettina (he's light-heavy star a 785 votes. First nomination for Charge Brigade! games. Attention, fight man- Fordham’s slabbist, $10,000 town. champ In New York State) will agers: Johnny Attell, new match- bonus to autograph a contract. the 1939 all-star game: Claude Johnstown Happy Freak. take John Henry Lewis’ place in of Ted maker for Mike Jacobs, is going Thumbnail description Passeau, Philly pitcher. Fitz hastened to that he that. London bout provided he ^cplain to feature new blood in the Hipp Williams: “A modern replica of Dear Sir “If Woodward ever would Brown and whites, black and doesn’t sign to fight Billy Conn Department: didn’t mean whites, and Garden. Ring Lardner’s famous ‘You Warner Bros, is for some the in in the meantime. looking catch up with game financially. Pittsburgh star: Stanley know me, Al.‘ The Cuban gov- all in Today’s guest one to play the role of Knute He’s been exceptionally fortunate to Just about the best pitching has asked Joe whites—ready carry you smartly Prank, New York Post: “The ernment Chamaco, Rockne I suggest they start at in having several big winners lately the has put billiard millenium has arrived for Brook- world three cushion the top of the list and no will put many an- and Genuine Buckskin those Dodgers up there in second go and Johnstown comfortably through the hottest Styles, lyn fans, with the Dodgers ac- champ, to go to Havana and further. Yours for in the Woodward treas- place. Reno charged $5.50 tops Spencer other dollar G. M., Cincinnati.” he’s But Fitz for a look at Galento. Whopps! Tracy, ury before through. Summer—and come back next ^IO cut down year ready Gabby Hartnett has benched Denver will bid for the Na- says these big purses only It costs Billy Herman. Hank Leiber and tional Public Links Tournament the deficit of the years. for more. That’s the secret of Florsheim Most Statistics in 1940 or 1941. Woodward $5,000 a Regular Styles, Joe Marty—some say for not hit- Major League Umpire Dolly approximately In- hurt in the first month to maintain his stable, Fitz ting: some for not hustling. Tneaday, May 9, 1939. Stark, game of wear. cidentally, one of the first-string the season, is back on the job, estimates. economy—longer AMERICAN. NATIONAL. Johnstown is Chicago sports writers still wants but still limping. When State In build, Fitz says, freak. He is to bet the Cubs wind up in the Standings. Standings. Supreme Court Justice W. A. something of a happy W.L. Pet. Q.B. W.L. Pet. a.B. W.L. Pet. O.B. W.L. Pet. O.B. Devin of North Carolina broad across the chest and has , TRI-WEAR 5.75 second* division. Bos. 9 4.692-- Wsh. 7 9.438 3^4 Cinci. 9 6.600... N. Y. 8 9.4712 fired a Styles hole-in-one, two other justices other characteristics of a sprinter, Dr. Robert — M. Ignace Snead: N.Y. 10 5.667 Clev. 7 9.438 3^ Bkln. 8 7.5331 Chi. 8 9.4712 lines were witnesses, which makes it yet also has the long, flowing Dyer told a clinic of pro golfers Chi. 10 6 .647 — Phil. 610 575 4>/a St.L. 8 7.533 1 Phila. 8 9.471 2 official in of the distance runner. It is, to in Chicago that Sammy Snead St.L. 7 8.467 3 Det. 6 12 .3335'/a Bos. 8 8 .500 iy2 Pitt. 7 9.438 2% any book, league or court. Tad the least, an unusual combina- is the Paderewski of golf. "His Wieman, Princeton sgy Results Yesterday. Results Yesterday. will athlete’s brain is completely de- coach, professor at Long tion. 2. Chicago, 4; New 2. Island U.’s F. B. Jim” doesn’t like to say veloped,” said the doctor; “he Cleveland, 6; Washington, York, coaching school "Sunny 5; New York, 3. St. Louis, 1; Brooklyn, 0. in Walker for sure but he suspects Johns- HAHN has muscle, sense, speed and Chicago, August. Mickey and yet, 6; Detroit, 5. Philadelphia, 8; Cincinnati, 7. his of boxerettes is a horse than either • • rhythm.’’ Philadelphia, group may go town greater 14th fir G *7th fir K *3212 14th • *4483 Conn. Avo. Boston at St. (rain). 2. into the New York Fox or Omaha. Julius Solters of the Indians Louis Pittsburgh, 3; Boston, World’s Fair. Gallant he in that *Open doesn’t like his front handle and Games Today. Games Tomorrow. Games Today. Games Tomorrow. He ought to do: Utah Univer- “The way sprinted Evenings of the Derby he it to Joe or Mike. Wash, at Cleve. Wash, at Detroit Pitts, at Boston Pitts, at N. Y. sity has a freshman sprint and first quarter-mile may change on * send his N. Y. at Chi. Boston at Cinci. at Phila. Cinci. at Bkln. hurdles prospect who is said to would have gained eight lengths William Woodward may Chicago “How- Women's Ftenhtwa Sheet Sold Esclesfrefr HAHN’S, 1348 G St. 7 be a whiz. His one of them,” he said. ft Derby winner, Johnstown, to the Phila. at Detroit Phil a. at Cleva. Chgo. at N. Y. Chi. at Boston gee name, Max either still got to show us that stud for six months in each year. | Boston at St. L. N. Y. at St. U St L. at Bklyn. St. L. at Phila. Speedle. ever, he’s