..life**.J* W amusements SPORTS CLASSIFIED ADS V*. fuming J£laf sports FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1953 C *** 12 Colts, Headed by , Entered for Derby , Lose or Draw Field in Big Race Nats, Once Optimistic, Grow By FRANCIS STANN Morose Over Feeble Hitting Star Staff Correspondent Hinges on Strip, By Burton Hawkins run in the first inning after Star Staff Correspondent Busby was hit on the back by a LOUISVILLE, MAY I.—Three years ago this was a sad pitched ball. Vernon ST. LOUIS, May walked town for a Californian. The sporting man from the Pacific 1. —The and Jensen fanned, but Vollmer’a Coast came to Louisville with a light heart and a heavy Muddy optimism which engulfed the single to center got Busby across. Now spring training, Nats when wallet. He left with a light wallet and a heavy heart. in | Sima Faces Rookie Prospect. This was because wasn’t the Odds Drop 3 5 batting averages and hopes were i ** to to A1 Sima, who was winner horse he was thought to be. • soaring, has been supplanted by ! against the Yankees in his last He was to have been the successor to the On Vanderbilt Horse; pessimism backed up by feeble dg/KKgk1 averages compiled against start before Gene Woodling un- only other -bred horse to win the the jp Correspondent 4 to 1 respectable pitching they’re now loaded three-run homer in the Derby, meaning . He had speed— m a By viewing every day. Your Host—and so confident his back- the Associated Brass HHMt, ninth to beat him, 4-2, will face were Ik " HbH ¦fcimh jh antiiMllHi Ed Yost, emerged LOUISVILLE, Ky., May I. who fiom the Browns tonight. The Nats ers that he was sent off as the favorite at Wg pH|pf| mjm. Mj exhibition games with a .373 8 to 5. ’’llJjfcf jflL Twelve 3-year-old horses, in- figure, now is struggling along get no soft touch in Rookie Mike coast to cluding unbeaten Native at .231. Jackie Jensen, granted ; Blyzka. a right-hander recently flew from the discharged from the service, who ride the California speedster. Longden isn’t and the highly-regarded Cor- the Nats’ No. 4 spot in the batting order, demoted and ; blanked the White Sox for eight a confirmed Derby rider. He did win in 1943, respondent, today were entered, again promoted to the cleanup 1 innings in his first start before Fleet, usually in recent as expected, tomorrow’s weakening to runs aboard Count but for run- job last night, is hitting 269. I permit three years the elderly gentleman has confined ning of the SIOO,OOO-added Ken- Mickey Vernon, alternating in lin the ninth. Blyzka has per- himself to the West Coast, where he is known tucky Derby the fourth slot with Jensen, is mitted only six hits in 11 innings. “‘ at . rraaeU st,n contributing especially well and more or less beloved. All of the probable field in little with his .255 was mark. NOTES: The Nats’ pitchers But that year—l9so—Longden came here to ride Your before the entry box officially a The biggest disappointment in have permitted 14 homers in 14 Host. The records said mile and an eighth, the Santa closed. early dimpaigning, though, has games . . . Stobbs retired the Anita Derby distance, was his limit, but Johnny said no. At Track conditions will deter- been Pete Runnels. The club s the Kentucky Breeders’ Association dinner before the race mine whether all 12 face Starter leading hitter last season, he first 13 batters in order before Elliott to center the English-born rider said, “We’re coming out of the box Ruby White at 5:30 p.m. (Wash- can’t get going and has a .133 singled in the fifth . Chuck, . . still suffering top we’ll distance.” ington time) for the getaway of average. After a flashy start on and stay that way. Your Host can go a from a sore throat as the after- •*** * the mile-and-one-quarter classic. Wayne Terwilliger has subsided math of a cold, had a one-hitter Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s Social «- ||p •St wB mgr to .265. TURNED OUT THAT Your Host couldn’t. He had two for six innings . . . Jensen opened Outcast, stablemate of the on chief at mark. At fa- Only Busby, Vollmer Hitting. the ninth with a single—Wash- lengths the challenger the half-mile vored expected Native Dancer, is ington’s first hit Busby sin- the mile Your Host was still going strongly, but he faded in to start if the track is Jim Busby and Clyde Vollmer since muddy 3HBSg '::X || - Wl gled with one in the stretch, finishing ninth. as today a heavy are the only regulars unaffected down the third it was after —but Vollmer struck out, Run- was a Longden. overnight Money Broker, by the general slump. Jim, off i It bitter blow to More bitter than in rain. start, has hit safely nels fouled out and Terwilliger owned by P. A. Grissom to a shaky i 1947 when he discovered that another California horse, On and Ed in his five games to lift his flied to center. Grosfield of Detroit, also is con- lil w last Trust, couldn’t quite make the Derby distance. average And since the sidered a doubtful starter if the to .328. Spec Shea will face the Browns Earlier this spring Johnny had been expected to carry track is fast. Nats landed Vollmer from the tomorrow afternoon, with Man- again. This Red Sox, he has hit safely in ager Bucky Harris preferring the banner for the West Coast time it was to be Ace Destroyer First Entry. on Correspondent, it seemed, because Merryman and the other all seven games and is hitting Shea to break in under a beam- T. Daniel’s Ace Destroyer .321. ing sun if . Californian hopes had been eliminated, one way or another. M- possible . . Walter was the first horse entered. Then Trucks of St. Louis re- Masterson and Chico Marrero, a ago, it be known But few weeks Longden let that he wasn’t after a considerable wait came stricted the Nats to three scat- who will oppose the Indians in coming East to take the mount—and therein might lie a whale E. M. Goeman’s Curragh King tered singles last flight and won a double-header Sunday, will of a story if Native Dancer should happen to fail tomorrow. and Eugene Constantin, jr.’s a 3-1 decision when Bob Elliott be sent to Cleveland tonight Royal Bay Gem, likely rammed a homer off Chuck ** * * third . . . The first game of Sunday’s choice. Stobbs with two aboard in the bill will be telecast by Washing- WHAT CAME TO MIND isn’t that victory for Correspond- Invigorator, seventh inning. Stobbs, who held ton’s The Stable’s > ¦¦¦¦ WTTG. 6 for , .... * hits, was ent would be Derby slo. three moj;e than Greentree’s Straight Face and the Browns to four Trucks, who pitched by the Nats’ futile at- | a no- and Isaac Murphy ever won. It’s the idea, that Bruce S. Campbell’s Ram o’ War betrayed hitter and one-hitter against and shoddy fielding. most of the big-talking Californians would be caught looking followed in rapid succession. tack the Nats last year, fanned seven Runnels, guilty of five out the window if Mrs. George Guibersons’ California-bred, errors | and walked three . . . Stobbs in the first 14 games, set up the didn’t walk anybody and struck California-owned colt happened to duplicate his sensational Expected Johnny Weather Browns’ rally after . . . victory. out five Sonny Dixon pitched To Clear for Derby Groth slammed a single between his sixth straight scoreless In- For the Californians, badly burned in the past, were slow Terwilliger’s legs. That blow was ning in relief when he disposed In getting on the Correspondent bandwagon. After all, the After Early Rain scored as a hit by liberal stretch- of the Browns in order in thg colt was still a maiden recently January ing of the imagination. Runnels eighth. as as 29 of this year, By the Associated Brett WEST COAST HOPE—Correspondent, with ip the Hunter’s though Bob Summers saddle, gets addi- then booted Bill tailor- even he did cost the Texas-born Guibersons SBO,OOO LOUISVILLE,Ky., May 1. tional schooling at Churchill Downs in preparation for tomorrow’s Kentucky Derby. The made double-play grounder. Pete when they purchased him from , the Arizona —The sun may shine on the California speedster will be ridden in the Derby by Eddie Arcaro, who is seeking his sixth made a second stab for the ball cowboy who had corralled , the colt’s sire, from the Kentucky Derby tomorrow, victory. —AP Wirephoto. and if successful could have Aga Khan. Ellsworth is the same horse fancier who picked but it won’t shine bright. forced Groth, but he missed out for the late Charles S. Howard, so it would seem The weather forecast said again. , partly and Thinks Both Overrated Play. that he knows quite a bit about such things. probably cloudy Miss Chance for Triple [ NEW BUDGET PLAN 1 ** * cool. Thundershowers are Phillies Glad to See Dyck beauty * Jim popped a I take as long as I expected tonight and tomor- CORRESPONDENT’S TRAINER, Canadian named Wally of ,a bunt down the third-base \ a row morning, but should line bases loaded 6 MONTHS TO PAY Dunn, has among In Arcaro Finds Holes in Track and the were never been the doubters. fact, the story stop by noon tomorrow. Cards Depart After with none Vic Wertz lined J goes out. that Dunn liked his maiden 3-year-old so well that last Temperatures probably won’t to Yost at third and by sharp January he bought a SIOO win ticket on the colt at 200-to-l dumb above the middle 60s. And Native Dancer Sentiment thinking the Nats could have are racing triple-play. But In Walter Marty’s Caliente future book for the Santa Anita Indications the By the Associated Press a got two Two Losses and Tie made an easy strip will be cuppy-soft. When track’s just the ball Handicap. The Guibersons were said to have followed suit. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May I. paths, that’s good and bad.” By the Associated Press instead of permitting drop from his hands—base Yet after Santa Derby—which to Eddie Arcaro feels Native The St. Louis Cardinals to the Anita the colt lost Wally Dunn Bill both Notwithstanding these senti- moved oozy and Trainers and and Downs on to the today, paths were runners Chanlea and Merryman by two noses—Dunn insisted that the Winfrey entered the secretary’s Dancer the Churchill ments, Eddie said he was looking Polo Grounds are and were glued to their tracks—Ed colt be withdrawn from the SIOO,OOO handicap despite the fact office together and put in the track overrated. forward eagerly to the 79th the league-leading Phillies fired Arcaro, will Cor- sighed with latched on to the ball and he stood to win $20,000. Correspondent was in great shape—- names of the favorites—Corre- who ride Derby tomorrow. And the Derby relief. to Vernon, catching Dyck off spondent and Dancer, re- respondent in tomorrow’s Ken- remains the race he’d rather win Steve O’Neill’s club was rid- double-play. there was no doubt about that—and had to carry only 100 Native tucky Derby, says of Native first for a spectively. Winfrey also en- than any other. ing an eight-game winning With first base open, the Nats’ pounds, as compared with 130 for Calumet’s Dancer: “He’d better be a hell- streak and Mark-Ye-Well. tered Social Outcast at the same “I don’t know exactly why it led the league by two strategy called for Stobbs to But the trainer thought a licking by elder horses might hurt uva horse. He hasn’t proved he a half games when time with the remark: is,” he mused, “but the Derby and Eddie pitch to the dangerous Elliott. his colt and he liked his chances in the is yet, and he’s got some good Stanky’s team arrived Tuesday. big 3-year-old races “I’ve got in num- just seems to stir you up. It’s Bob blasted a home run into • them beat ones to beat." publicity, The off \ ahead. ber, at least.” the glamour and the I Cardinals clipped one the rightfield bleachers and took Approved Military ** About the Downs track, he game by beating Konstanty J * * guess.” Jim over the league lead in runs Money Broker, Dixiana’s Spy said: “It’s the worst possible and his successors, 6-5, and then TEXAS AN batted in with 13. ) HAS QUITE interest in Correspondent, too, Defense and com- race track.” Native Dancer Offers Challenge. defeated Curt Simmons, 1-0, in [ UNIFORMS It seems, because pleted the field the order The Nats produced their only \ and Distinctive J the Guibersons originally came from Dallas. in It made no difference to the This time, he admitted, the 11 innings Last night the Phil- Dallas named. 109-pound Italian Civilian Clothing That gives the folks quite a rooting interest because that he has added challenge of trying to beafri lies sent out their stopper, Robin lljjrk. Derby winners—more Roberts, but Royal Bay Gem is owned by Eugene Constantin, jr., another Native Dancer in No. 7 Spot. ridden five a horse rated as highly as Native the best he could 1 In the draw the post posi- than any other jockey—and has more, get was a 1-1 standoff with Browns, 3; Nats, resident. for Dancer stirs him up a little i I .Vine- # ARMY collected than $50,000 for gar Bend Mizell rain WASHINGTON. AB.R. H. O. A E. I OFFICERS tions Ace Destroyer drew No. 1, more before <> • A lot of smart racing people, including many of the hard- “But it isn’t fair,” he said, “the Yost. 3b 3 <> ~ NAVY OFFICERS his 13 Derby mounts. halted play after five innings. - 2 J with Native Dancer in No. 7 and way they’re building up Native Busby, cf 3 11 2 2 • boots who saw Correspondent break ’s Ray Vernon, lb 3 0 0 71 O AIR FORCE track record Correspondent Jablonski homered for the • in No. 2. Strip “Full of Holes.” Dancer. It isn’t fair to the horse I | Jtnscn. rs 3 o 1 0 o at , think only 4 O 1 2 O O MARINE CORPS these two colts are the ones who In a talkative mood in jockey. Cards. Vollmer. If • Other positions drawn were: his and it isn’t fair to the Runnels, ss 4 0 0 } COAST GUARD 2 1 • have a chance to end Native Dancer’s winning streak at 11 suite on the 13th floor of a the Dodgers Win Fourth in Row. Terwilliger. 2b 4 0 0 3 1 0 HEALTH No. 3, Ram o’ War; 4, Invig- The horse seems to have 3 0 0 4 3 0 PUBLIC SERVICE straight. hotel, Peden. c • That streak incidentally, is the same one Morvich 5, Spy Defense; 6, downtown Arcaro said the makings of good horse, all Stobbs, p 2 0 CHIEF PETTY OFFICER orator: Cur- a That left the Phillies only 2 i 2 2 • Derby strip a •Baker TOOOOO took into the 1922 Derby. ragh King; 8, Money Broker; 9, is “fullof holes—and right, Dixon, p 000000 CIVILIANSUITS He made it 12 impressively enough, but he hasn’t shown he’s half game ahead of the Dodgers, • Outcast; 10, Straight it’s dangerous if you don’t know MADE TO MEASURE then never won another race. Social Face; a great horse yet. You can’t call who won their fourth straight, 1 • your way.” Totals 30 3 24 8 1 READY TO WEAR 11, Dark Star, and 12, Royal him a Man o’ War for a long and a game and half •Fouled out for Stobbs In Sth. The Californians never got too much comfort out of a in front • Bay “Allof us who ride here know yet—not even after he’s won of St. Louis. PROMPT DELIVERY Morvich’s accomplishments, even before For Gem. time ST. LOUIS. A B. R. H. O. A. E. Complete Line of he bogged down. how bad it is,” he went on. “If Dodgers, Groth. cf 3 } i ? Accessories Native places one of the Derby, if he can do that. The who would have Hunter, ss 3 t 2 HI Morvich never raced in the State where he Dancer you get your I ? 5 A ? Military Medals and Ribbons was foaled and turf history’s most enviable can’t horse on the He’s still got to give weight to Dyck. If 3 0 1 4 0 1 HI rec- rail, you’ve got (Continued Page C-2, Wertz, rs 3 0 0 1 0 0 Expertly Adjusted his owner was a New Yorker, Ben Bloch. So it would be to go out 8 or on Col. 2.) 3b 3 1 3 11 ords on the line when he goes C-3.) Elliott. 2 Open Thursday ironical, to say the least, if they failed 10 feet to find another path. (See ARCARO, Page Mos*. C 3 0 0 7 0 0 to sound off when in the Derby. Slevers. lb 3 0 0 4 0 0 they really had something. Young. 2b 3 0 0 11 0 Not since Man o’ War was al- Trucks, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 Free Parking at a word Probable Pitchers Capital Garage 1 most household more AMERICAN LEAGUE. Totals 27 11 27 "i 1 years ago Derby Washington than 30 has a horse Entries for Tomorrow's Washington at set. Louis (night)— 100 000 000—1 Sima (0-1) vs. Blyzka ((r-1). St. Louis 000 000 30 —3 caught the fancy of racing ex- By the Auociatod Prese in New York at Chicago (night)—Sain Runs batted in—Vollmer. Elliott (3). Collins Hospital perts laymen (2-1). for Checkup and like Native LOUISVILLE, May I.—The field for the 79th running of the (2-0) vs. Pierce Home run—Elliott. Double plays— smooth-striding blue- Philadelphia at Detroit—Byrd (1-1) Young to Slevers. Peden to Terwilliger, Dancer; Kentucky Derby tomorrow listed according to post positions with vs. Garver (0-3). Yost to Vernon. Left on bases—Wash- gray of . And that at Cleveland (night)—Grissom ington, 0: St. Louis. 0. Bases on balls Requested by Boxing son owners, jockeys and probable odds: (0-1) vs. Lemon (3-0). —OH Trucks. 3. Struck out—By ff Civilian and Military Clothiers 1 Board 7; by Dixon, goes for such famous Derby win- NATIONAL LEAGUE. Trucks. bv Stobbs. 6; 1. By the Associated Press Horse. Owner. Jockey. Prob. Odds. Hits—OH Stobbs. 4 in 7 innings; oH l 1342 G I ! was In the Phillips for as , Chicago at Brooklyn (night)—Lown inning. Street N.W. House ners Destroyer R. M. —J. D. Jessop 30-1 Dixon. 0 in 1 Runs and earned BOSTON, May —Tommy ! tests relative to his “general and . Native Dancer Ace Daniel (0-0) vs. Meyer (1-1). runs—OH Stobbs, 3—o; oH Dixon. 0—0; V STerling 3-6253 / I. Correspondent Mrs. Gordon Guiberson..Eddie Arcaro 4-1 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (night)— oH Trucks, I—l Hit by pitched ball— Wathington • Pontcola Collins, boxer ; health.” is expected to go to the post at Perkowski (1-0) vs. Pettit (0-0). By Trucks (Busby). Winning pitcher— colorful who was Doug at Collins Ram o’ War Bruce S. Campbell Dodson 30-1 Milwaukee Philadelphia (night)— Trucks (2-1) Losing pitcher—Stobbs soundly lost to the stronger odds of 3 to 5. __.2o-l Wilson (0-0) vs. Drews (2-0). (1-2). Umpires—Summers. Stevens. trounced last Friday Invigorator Saxon Stable W. Shoemaker at and craftier Carter when the Even Man o’ War, who didn’t St. Louis New York—Staley (1-1) Robb and Froese. Time—l:46. At- niKht by Dixiana Farm Pete McLean 20-1 vs. Koslo (0-1) tendance—2.Bßß. Lightweight Champion referee stopped their bout in the race in the Derby, already bad Spy Defense Jimmy Carter, was King E. M. Goemans Dave Erb 30-1 undergoing a fourth round, crediting Carter lost his lone decision at this Curragh thorough physical a Dancer__Alfred Vanderbilt 3-5 examination with a technical knockout. stage of his racing career. Native in a hospital today as requested The Boston Money Broker ___G. and G. Stable —_Al Popara 15-1 by the boxer had been Morvich Had Won 11. Massachusetts Boxing knocked down 10 Also asocial Outcast.. Alfred Vanderbilt Johnny Adams 3-5 Commission. times before 15-1 the bout was halted. The fight, One need go back to 1922 Straight Face Dr. Charles L. Clay, assistant viewed by Dark Star .. 8-1 director of I millions of TV viewers, when Morvich won the mile-and- Massachusetts Gen- | caused a Nation-wide a-quarter classic at Churchill Royal Bay Gem.. Eugene Constantin, jr. ..Jim Combest 6-1 eral Hospital, said the wave of fighter protest from fans. Downs to find a Derby horse a Vanderbilt entry. with a comparable record. Mor- All carry 126 pounds. vich was undefeated in 11 2- Gross purse, $118,850; net to winner, $90,800; second, $10,000; Major third, League Standings year-old starts and made the $5,000; fourth, $2,500. Probable post time. 5:30 p.m. (EDT). FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1953. Derby his 12th consecutive win. After that he never won an- Television, CBS, 5-5:45 pjn. (EDT). AMERICAN. Radio, CBS, 5:15-5:45 p.m. (EDT). Mi |"if l"o ell | other race. Remits Festerday. Standings >jJ &IJL e.. | 1 came up to the 1940 JH* Bt. L.. 3: Wash.. 1 perfect of Clubs 2 g - Derby with a record in (n). Ill j 1 || NO TRADE-IN NECESSARY! N. Y.. 6: 1. eight 2-year-old races Sflflsl Chi.. and two Phil*, at Det . rain. ... Ifllf New o; i| 2 3| 4| 0 as a 3-year-old. But he bowed MONDAY, y for only V Others not scheduled. : Torn—j | 1| 11} 3| . 4 14 S\ 78 6 i to in the Msl l Cleveland | o|—| 1| 1| 1| 5 8 big race. ‘ Today ofo| 3 ;~727l m Against Games these records, the flYMontliUnconditional 4 ** Chicago |Oj 1|—| Os 4| 0[ 1| 2| 81 ~6j 3 show ; M M U w Wash, at St. L.. 9:30. .5711 Dancer can nine victories ROAD HAZARD Phlla. at Detroit. Philo'phio |2| 1| o|—| 0| 2| 2| 0| 7| 6|".538| in 1952 and two this spring as a N. Y. at Chicago