1939-09-05 [P A-14]

Baugh, Farkas, Spirida and Moore Star as Redskips Rout Los Angeles Bulldogs Grid Pros Show Win, Lose or Draw Holiday Tilting By FRANCIS E. STAN. Smooth Form The Sports Expert Who's Never Licked Helps Yanks There is something about the horse racing expert that reminds you of the time you were a kid and one of the favorite playthings was a In 21-6 Win round-bottomed toy man with a grin on his face and lead in the region And of his pants. The idea was to push him so that he fell flat on his back Cards or on his lace. Then he would bounce right up again, wobble uncer- Head Back to East tainly. and ask for more grinning. Take the horse racing experts, for instance. Along the East now From Coast Minus Champs 1414 Games they are singing the praises of r young hide named Bimelech. a 2-year- In Van; Reds' Lead old colt which won the $40,000 Hopeful Stakes last Saturday. It was Only Karamatic his fourth straight victory, and he won the Hopeful in pretty good Reduced to Four By BILL DISMER, Jr., style. But listen: Star Staff Correspondent. Bv BILL "All the experts who saw Bimelech fn the Hopeful proclaimed the LOS WHITE, ANGELES, Sept. 5.—Not yet Associated Press Sports Writer. colt wonderful. He is the best 2-year-old uncovered in many years, in perfect, but revealing signs of steady The Philadelphia Athletics and the opinion of most of them. They predict that he will not taste defeat improvement, the Redskins today the Cincinnati Reds must have a unless he suffers illness or the worst kind of luck. Because of shoved off for the East, racing completely fairly good impression today of how his and his to travel satisfied that they had accomplished it his breeding, his conformation, speed ability any feels to be victims of an air all they set out to do in the West reasonable distance, they predict he will develop into a grand 3-year-old raid. one month ago. and win rich 3-year-old stakes next spring.” Under a Sporadically brilliant In their strafing attack, the A’s This is off the of one of New York's better writers twice were felled typewriter racing 21-6 rout of the Los Angeles Bull- by the Yankees, a fair cross-cut of between the 7-6 and 2-0, in Labor and represents expert opinion. Reading dogs here last night, all but one of Day's most winner. crushing demonstration. lines, they apparently think Bimelech is the 1940 Kentucky Derby the players who took part in the sec- The Reds lost some prestige—and a full And why not? Bimelech is undefeated. He is a Bradley horse. He is a ond victory in as many weeks were game in the won-lost column—when the son of Black and La Troienne. aboard the train which will at Tony stop St. Louis Albuquerque, N. Mex., tomorrow for Cardinals bombed them 4-0, in the first the first of two stops for workouts game. Tire second was a 6-6 Remember How El Chico Dominated? on the cross-country trek to Boston. tie, darkness stopping it short of a decision. But wait a minute, Brother. Let's go easy here. Let’s look back That one was George Karamatic, Yank Lead to a year ago. “sophomore” halfback, who was Biggest of Year. given his release Coach That No bombs were falling in Europe, outside of Spain, but a 2-year-old by Ray left the title picture a trifle Flaherty after once again muddled in the named El Chico tossed a bombshell into the bangtail ranks. William Zieg- having National League, but failed to measure up in the least de- clear as consomme in races He won all and the American. ler's little colt raced in stake exclusively. picked to Thornhill's gree Tiny observation The Yankees, thanks to timely hit- Up $84,100 for owner. that he was the h^s “best back on the ting by Frank Crosetti and Red He was quite a little hoss, El Chico. Came the Youthful Stakes Pacific Coast” in 1937. Asking of Rolfe and fine pitching by Marius and it was El Chico four and in the Great American waivers on the by lengths ex-Gonzaga star oc- Russo, are 1412 games ahead of the was "The Kid" another four ... in the casioned little as he had Stakes it by lengths Saratoga surprise pack—their biggest lead of the year. was been deemed on the way out since it was the Ziegler colt three ... in the Hopeful it But Special by lengths the Reds are only four games the intrasquad game in Spokane. a two-length margin by which he won and. to coin a phrase, etc. away from the peiynant-hungrv They made El Chico the winter book favorite to win the Derby, but ticariy uuinass nuiiaogs. Cardinals. Bucky Walters and Paul a Although their timing left some- AS aren't the little colt which had been the first in more than half century to CARDINALS SOARED—With a great burst of Short- which enabled the Derringer fooling when they still to be desired, the Red- speed Redbirds to defeat Cincinnati, 4-0, and cut wave stake races wasn't thing those w’anted’’ remain unbeaten while campaigning exclusively in up stop Jimmy Brown scored from third base in round 1 "help signs skins clearly outclassed the Bulldogs of the the Reds’ league leadership to four games, as the of around. to it. El Chico was no at all. nightcap Indeed, figure from the moment in the game at St. Louis first period opening yesterday, on an infield out. It the double-header ended in a tie. Ernie Lombardi is the catcher Otherwise in the National T.pamtp There was a glimpse of him at the barrier and during the first eighth, when the host team scored its lone there blazed the trail for all the runs of the contest in that and Stark the were some fancy happenings. but thereafter it was Johnstown, with Challedon a horrible second and touchdown frame, Dolly umpire. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. through Keith Ranspot The Pirates reversed two lickings the rest of the field out behind. El Chico? The crowd didn't 50 strung running nearly yards with a they took just a year ago—at the fumble until bother to wait for him to finish. He was nothing more than the cham- the final whistle. And start of a Cub winning streak that there is no pion 2-year-old and the little horse the experts called the potential 3-year- doubt that had Flaherty Gold Boat carried them to the title—by win- his best units in there Sets Griff Sees Another 2-1 old champion. kept scoring Cup Leonard Collegiate Aces Bow ning, and 6-3, as Max Butcher longer, he could have run a much and What's more, El Chico hasn't done anything since. “The Kid" up Klinger elbowed effectively. larger score. The Giants captured fourth strictly wras a sprinter and was further advanced in training than any In place The Redskins made 13 first downs Record in Hurler Purchased To from Brooklyn by the Phil- othftr 2-year-old. Speed Bass, Packers, 31-20, dumping to the Bulldogs’ five and completed lies twice, 10-0 and 7-6. with Walt 12 passes to the enemy's six, one of Higbe claiming the dubious distinc- which was for a for wnen rne cxperrs reu ror jonnsrown loss. Indeed, one Detroit Race From'Nooga $15,000 On Dallas Gridiron tion of losing both for the Phils. of the brightest features, from a Hal Schumacher hurled the first And then there was Johnstown, son of the sprinter, Jamestown, r>y di kiu> to the fact Redskin standpoint, their de- pride he snatched Leon- game, and yjas Clark Griffith Billy Jurges singled home and the long-running, speedy but crippled La France. He made every cided Sin Is Driven 66.227 baited his hook to- ard from Atlanta last year at the improvement in pass defense, My Pros First-Half Attack the winning run in the nightcap. post a winning one in the 1939 Derby. He won by eight lengths. He as the Bulldogs had 21 knocked down day in a continuation of his spend- age of 28 and Dutch's rosy record of Miles an Hour to 16 Bees and Dodgers Split. resembled the mechanical at the tracks, ahead alert Indians and one victories against 6 defeats with bunny dog hopping along by intercept- Top ing splurge and plucked a Bass from Nullifies Late The Bees and the a club Passing Dodgers divided all the time, well ahead, and in a hole ed Realizing that could make sixth-place this year repre- finishing ducking before the they Mark Rossi Made It's Pitcher Richard their twin bill, the tak- Chattanooga. sents one of baseball's more noted O'Brien Brooklyns pack even crossed the wire. little headway through the line, the Splurge by the Bass, for whom the president of the feats. ing first, 5-4, as Ernie Kov Bulldogs resorted to aerial strategy- the pitching Goodness! How the experts went out on the limb for Johnstow’n! By Associated Press. Nationals homered a potent run in the the second but has deemed it discreet to •'Ballplayers nowadays don't like DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 5 (A>V—The eighth. Not the run-o'-the-mine and the throughout half, 5.—A 20-foot The Bees took the only experts Johnny-Come-Latelys DETROIT, Sept.

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