THE EVENING STAR C-4 ** Washington, D. C. > * ' , ... -- WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8, IMS -V-*~ - >. V -I--. ' Hour-Long Programs pUk by Rosecroft • t Planned a Knicks Left on Spot m • dmgk • . % By Lakers'Second ummim In Doubled TV Slate PEOPLES HARDWARE i ¦OK Rosecraft Raceway is doubling the number of harness race tele- ' Mr jgfc Has to— in Playoffs vision programs it will present Everything You Need M Win during its 20-night meeting this By Pr«» th« Atieclcrtad , v spring. Twelve are scheduled, NEW YORK. April B.—The starting with a half-hour tele- Minneapolis Lakers seem certain cast of the opening card May 18. WTTG will televise all the pro- to retain their National Basket- grams. ball Association championship. Last year six half-hour shows This was indicated today in pi went on the screen, but this year ¦ S" B, the wake of the Lakers’ decisive except for opening night, the an trouncing programs will be hour long 90-75 of the New York and willpresent three races. Two Knicks in the vital third game will be shown opening night. of their final best-of-seven play- The track has two television off series. sponsors, appliance firm and .v. an “The pressure off us Wm — is now and iiifYiriii-i year r . , . a beer distributor. Last .. definitely on the Knicks,” John Rosecroft itself footed the TV Kundla, Minneapolis coach, said. bill. "Minneapolis is in good shape.” At the microphone will be Roy Lapchick, 1 You Want a Beautiful Lawn? counseled Joe Knick Shudt and Jim Gibbons, with j | coach. "We will have to win the Shudt calling the races and Gib- /IF next two to have a chance.” bons reporting the sidelights. That means the Knicks must The schedule calls for three PLANT hormo lawn win the fourth game tonight races to be shown on all the TV and the fifth game here Friday. programs except opening 1 on Me f And most of the 5,100 fans who night, when only two will be saw last night’s game at the 69th listed. Program includes a num- 6MSS SEED I Regiment Armory agree ® will ber of the big there, in- * races V\ rmo **wn B r u i* a «u,erior balanced that is a large order. cluding the SIO,OOO Henry Volo 9 // T| mil \ blend of the finest recleaned grasses, r Lakers Steady, Calm. Pace, May 30, and the $7,500 | y f | jjfflj extra /S' \| m mn scientifically health-protected with DuPont p In making it two straight over Symbol Gantle Trot, June 6. AMERICAAUCDirA'C> 1L 111 Arasan. For the lawn es $ the Knicks to take a 2-1 The TV program opening J/Nsj I lk $1 .50 a lifetime plant le%d night is LOW ,kl Uw„. £ in the series, the Lakers im- scheduled from 9 to FINEST H I pressed with their steady, cool 9:30 p.m. One-hour programs PRICED, are 8:30 to 9 and 9:30 to 10 HIGH play. They declined to get flus- MODEL HORSEMAN—Joe Packer, veteran trainer of race tered when the Knicks put on May 22, and 10 to 11 p.m. the QUALITY ELECTRIC ROTARY MOWER U horses who also is a sculptor, adds the finishing touches to rest of the May 26, an exciting second-quarter spurt his statue of popular time. 27, 28, the Becky’s Shirt. Packer plans to retire 30; June 2,3, 4,6, 9 and 11. QUICK GROWING FAVORITE that whiped out a 12-point Min- from the turf day and full 16-inch neapolis some devote his time to sculpturing, fH lead. but his cronies at Bowie will lay you six, two and even that CUT YOUR LAWN ONLY HS LAWN LAWN The surge gave the Knicks a day is a long way off. THE I brief 40-39 lead at the start ! Hoyas, Terps Hosts EASY WAY... WITH nr SEED of the second A W SEED i half. tap-in by | I .aCTMCITY tPQ big George Mikan restored the j 11 »!)P lead to the Lakers and they held i In Games Today S |lfg| , | it the rest of the way. Payoff: The j The • Trainer-Sculptor • 7n . ¦ Plug ... Knicks never regained their j Fordham meets Georgetown on Just it inf Lightweight A Child I w (f the Hoyas’ diamond and Dart- • Can Oparata It. second-quarter spirit. In the last j Starts Instantly, No Smoha good blend specially prepared favorite Is a quality lawn seed mouth plays Maryland at Col- • II ,u f « quarter, the game became a ! Has Stable in Bronze at Bowie or Fumes ... Quiet, tool Cuts Tall Crass and to produce a desirable lawn r P erior ordinary mix- lege :" "¦"in I ture.T* Consistingt 0 the a route as the ! Park in college baseball W*Weeds! . .u— of balanced fl Lakers cleared their By Lewis F. Atchison his six-horse team downstream games **l i short period of timo. |||| blend of selected, pure, strong- >1 bench. j starting at 3 p.m. today. Ifyou’re hurting for a winner to a watering hole after making One other area game s^==s= S =a As put listed for sE=E£Es=^=Es==^zzEL =s=s= ||ggs3§=ss Kundla it afterward: ' at Bowie, drop around to Barn camp. today, Virginia Tech against -1. m they them- Mormon Settlement. “I felt exhausted i 20 on Blueberry Hill and ask for Geox-ge Washington here, has spading selves with their second-quarter j Trainer Joe Packer. He’ll give Tuba was a Mormon settle- been postponed. CARDEN || CARDEN / II dandelion rally.” you one, but there’s a catch to ment and firewater was not tol- VPl’s coach, Red Laird, an- Lapchick said: “We have no j it. His will be in bronze—for erated, which helped keep things nounced that because of the un- RAKE HOE bench and we’re in trouble from i Joe, you see, is a sculptor as well generally peaceful. Joe remem- favorable playing conditions FORK the start. (Kundla)! the due / When he as trainer, and a good one. He bers furore when an Indian to recent rains, VPI would not i rested his regulars, the subs did may shot rancher in dispute over At many a a WEEDER^I not saddle as winners make the trip, thus also post- a good job.” as Ben Jones or Hirsch Jacobs, land, and also that there was poning a game slated tomorrow Spark. some cattle But Mikan Provides but Joe’s are more durable. *. rustling. Story- with Maryland. The game exaggerated with 9 C While the Lakers turned in a: Modeling in clay and riding tellers have rustling GW will be played on the West $j.39 $ 98 episodes to Joe’s way of think- nifty team job with Whitey went hand in hand with Joe. Ellipse May 9 and that with / ing. *r J//) Packer and 69 Skoog, Slater Martin, Jim who rode his uncle’s cow pony also knew liked Maryland at College Parjc May 8. t Pollard victory one, Butch an outlaw to in a race as a Cassidy, (S ' ... [I Blade of high carbon (tool H| match Tomorrow, . It and Verne Mikkelsen all doing Catholic University u ‘ ,t memory H#r * ,op qua ,ak ,, * H ** ,our tem ertd 12-year-old. never quite got whose is perpetuated in to action )p , ,turdy P *»*«L sharp ac a chisel. off tho yeoman work, it was who He returns after an ab- b ee L f L Tempered steel blade 4Vix6Vk Cuts HI Mikan V * over the horse fever, even after Zane Gray’s “Riders of the Pur- sence of 10 % tiße * ,hat penet,Jt dandelion, and weod. at th. days when it I ' ' provided the spark. plays r., i::9 .r »L ii VJ* inches HddlHo d* ** d9 *' InLpol,,h his graduation from Utah Agri- ple Sage.” According to Joe, Johns’ Hopkins jTI ; into th. soil. Strong 30-in, rooH two inch., bolow tho .oil. M Big George took at CU in the andJcn60-inchr hardwood handle.T od hardwood handle. hardwood handle. plenty of cultural College when he be- Cassidy was an all right fellow first Mason-Dixon 3Vi-foot handle. bumps his 41 minutes Conference during of came a teacher. It seems like who became an outlaw only after game of the season. Other con- play, but he tallied 20 points on the every time he touched a lump of bank foreclosed on his tests tomorrow will find Ford- five baskets and 10 of 11 free clay it turned into the statue father’s property. ham playing George throws. In Washington addition, he handed of a horse, and in time Joe gave Packer started on his racing on the West Ellipse and Dart- out six assists, grabbed 11 v re- up teaching for the move color- career by buying a mare called mouth at Georgetown. All games American / | bounds and broke up many IL CORN ful, if less secure, life of a Mocita from Sheriff Grant Young will start at 3 p.m. MOP Knick passes. trainer. of Salt Lake County. It was a % broom / Carl Braun, Vince Boryla and Packer hails from Tuba, Ariz., wise investment, for Mocita won | Lawn Mower Sweetwater Clifton starred for but “home” is his last postal 32 of 34 races. *‘" the Top-Seeded Mulloy Plays *%’ IM Knicks. When their set address. His father was a wagon Lucky With Cast-Offs. |95Rea. shooting fell off freighter, operating M in the second between The 63-year-old S 4J. trainer never 16* half, the whole team slumped.