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tuning af sports Pennant-Bent Bucs Fatten on Cards Washington, D. C., Saturday, June 16, 1945—A—14 With 5 Wins in 7 Games Inspired Elliott Plays Odds, Post Positions or Pavot Is Close Second Win, Lose Draw In Preakness Today Major Role in Climb; Choice With on Br the Associated Press. By JOHN B. KELLER Hoop BALTIMORE, June 16.—Probable lineup for the 55th running of the 'ferriss Is True Ball Players' Ball Player Dodgers Keep Up in ♦50,000-added Preakness Stakes at Spot Preakness Pimlico with Dave Ferriss was weary, but he grinned broadly. JACK today, probable jock- By HAND, , JOHN F. eys and "I’ve never had one that By CHANDLER, odds, listed according to poet tough before, even in the minors,” he Associated Press Writer. Sports Associated Press Sports Writer.- position (all carry 126 said. “But I’m sure glad I got through with it. It was a good one to pounds): Beating the champ has been the BALTIMORE, June Horse. Jocxey Odd*. win.” 16.—Argu- Pivot George Woolf 2-1 ments over whether the Hoop Jr. Albert Boo—he that nickname as a time-accepted routine for winning Kentucky Snider 8-5 got babv when he tried to call Bobanet Shelby Clark 40-1 Derby winner. is a "brother” to his older brother, now' Sergt. Will D. Ferriss of the Army a title and the Pittsburgh Pirates Hoop Jr., great Sea Swallow Hedley Woodhouse 25-1 Air race horse or just the best of an Alexis Ken Scawthorne l°-l Corps—was “just plain tickled” with his 14-inning 6-5 triumph aren’t from the beaten Darby Dieppe Melvin Calvert 8-1 straying field came to over the Nats at Griffith Stadium last But he wouldn’t talk ordinary down the Polynesian Wayne Wright lu-I night. in their The about path quest of a first flag Preakness’ 13/16 miles today as Doge Johnny Gilbert 50-1 it too much. Fred Remerscheid 20-1 since 1927. nine 3-year-olds prepared to go Adonis_ The rookie pitching sensation Of the Boston Red Sox was trying postward in the 55th of to cool off a trifle before taking his shower when we found him. He In seven meetings with the World running wasn’t for the famed Pimlico feature. through the evening, for Manager Joe Cronin admonished Champion St. Louis Cardinals, the him not to be too about The gates at Old Hilltop were Arlington Lions Horse long bathing and donning uniform again. Pirates have triumphed five times, opened early as the of a “We might want you in there as a pinch-hitter in the second vanguard game,” Joe warned. picking up where they left off last crowd expected to touch 50,000 streamed in for the stake Show Looms as Best i That was all Dave needed to hear, for he’s a ball player’s ball fall when they beat the Red Birds biggest day in American turf Post ^ayer, according to his Red Sox teammates. Ferriss politely, but nine times and tied once in their history. time for the first race was 1 *jmly left the throng of Army and Navy folk congratulating him on last 10 clashes. p.m. Eastern wartime nis victory. Bob Elliott, who is playing in- with the Preakness Of Season So Far scheduled for 4:12 “I’m sorry, but I must get ready for the game coming up,” he spired ball since Boss Frankie p.m. The ruled an 8-to-5 By LARRY LAWRENCE. apologized as he turned toward the shower. “This pitching isn't all Frisch sent him back to his old Hoop favorite, while the odds on his In and the I’m supposed to do for the club.” outfield job and gave up the third principal rival, quantity quality entry Walter base experiment, broke the back of M. Jeffords’ Pavot, switched for the Arlington Lions Club hors# to 2 to 1 as the wise ones recalled New Star Possesses Plus St. Louis last night with a sixth-in- show, which at 1 o’clock tomor- Personality, the 1944 opens homer that a 2-2 tie juvenile champion’s sizzling There isn’t a more personable in baseball than Ferriss. ning snapped row at the Ballston _ player workout over the Stadium, prom- and started the Buccos off to a 5-2 Preakness distance He’s six feet, two, a well set up a solid 208 23-year-old weighing good earlier in the week. ises to be superior to any equine pounds with a fine smile and a mild Southern accent. He's from victory. Fast Track exhibition held in the Capital area Mississippi, you below the A paid attendance of 24,315 fans Promised. know, just Tennessee line. so far this season. Dave is greeted the Pirates, who had taken QUICK AND DECISIVE—After the bell had che ated him of a first-round On a soft track which pleasingly good-looking and carries himself well. He kayo, Ray (Sugar) Pavot, for the has over the lead for the first time Vieing championship in gray eyes and dark brown hair. And when he like a Robinson (left) put Jimmy McDaniel out cold in 1:23 of the second round at New York’s Madi- skipped the Derby, covered the dis- smiles, it's the division are the out- dental cream Thursday, and watched Nick Strin- tance in jumper ad. son Square Garden last night to take a step nearer a title bout with Welterweight 1:59’;,, compared with the cevich "Red" Champion standing leapers of this sector, and But when he's around the ball Dave is all ball He outpitch Charley Bar- Red Cochrane. A crowd of record of 1:57 set by Alsab in 1942. park. player. 11,210 contributed to a gate of $48,490. —AP Wirephoto. there are no better in the country. doesn t to sell himself with rett. the ex-Boston hurler who has With a clear try his personality and appearance. He’s hot, day predicted by Entered the been in four sporty jumper strictly business. He can pitch and hit and field, and that’s about all knocking them dead in a the weatherman, the track was Cardinal classes are such performers as Mrs. he thinks of when the game is on. uniform. lightning fast. Hines Holds Bond Golf Fred J. Hughes, jr.’s, Hi Ho, Maj. The of on servicemen are keen about Dave. He was one of them 26 Dodgers Close Behind. to Finish Other stakes the eight-race for 5,000 21,093 Stay and Mrs. Alvin I. Kay's Smacko, months. It was last winter that he was a half program include the $30.000-added only discharged from the ranks Only game separated the Jackie Warren’s Yankee Doodle and because of asthma. He was in the Piedmont Pirates from the Dixie Handicap, the $20,000-added League, pitching for onrushing Brooklyn Gardner and Mrs. Hallman's Apple- Greensboro, before into the and who matched Lead With As Bosox Go 6V2 Hours Pimlico Oaks, the going seen $5,000-added Army hadn’t much in the Dodgers Pittsburgh's Furgol Griffs, jack. Entered along with those way of big league baseball before record of seven By JOHN B. KELLER. his first as a and the $5,000-added Jen- joining the Red Sox this spring. In straight wins and this, campaign big Nursery headliners are a score or more An fact, he had seen only seven as a continue to amaze the endurance record was set last league For had nings Handicap. The for the major games—and non-participant "experts” who pitcher. they given purses horses which hold their own with enly—before making his mound debut with Sox. doomed them to a cellar night at Griffith Stadium when Ferriss a sound card are .expected to reach about the Red scrap with Pacing Amateurs pounding—in fact, the best, notably Flint Hill Farm’* Now*, with his win over the he the Phillies. some 5,000 of an original crowd of they hit his with $165,000. Nats, has completed his mastery of By thf AMoclated Pre«». delivery vigor Caddie’s Trump, A1 Earnest’s Dickey the Sox s rivals. He has me 21.093 sat six hours and 32 the three hours Trainer Morris Dixon of Mrs. only one defeat on his record that shows uoagers naa stormy going in through throughout and 25 P. Ballantrae Stable’s Ballantrae hineR^d PHILADELPHIA, June 16.—Ed of that Boy, ^ins—and that was a 3-2 affair dished up by New York's Yanks. Boston before they pulled a 9-8 minutes grand American minutes of the engagement. And A. B. Widener’s Polynesian, winner Furgol, who took up golf to strength- Boy and Irish Lad, Mrs. William verdict out of the hat in a see-saw travesty—twilight-night baseball. they had- the second set-to sewed over Pavot in the Withers Mile at en an Injured left arm, opened to- Hurst's Graylark, Bobby Lee'* Nats^Score Greatest Dave Has Yielded opener of a double-header. The sec- But for the far-sightedness of the up until the last regulation round. Belmont, expressed the sentiment of day's third round of the Philadelphia Bonne Fille, Roger Groves’ Dandy he won last ond game was rained out in the American League that made a rule But each time the Washington most fans when he said: Although night, the Nats rolled up the biggest score Inquirer $17,500 War Bond tourna- and Big Oak Farm's Balbo.