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D. MAY __WASHINGTON, C., FRIDAY, 3, 1940. c__1

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Throng Only Mildly to "Nothing should,” hisses the old carpetbagger of , "because Ready Battle All, the next Excited Over Race; heavyweight champion is going to be Godoy. S'help me, as ^ Keen Over I'm standing here, the South American's to win it.” y wellsum, Victory going Poor Weather Due * WHEN MAH LI’L BETCHA HEi Now. now just a moment. Brother, before curl that in a / you lip GRAN'SON HEER'D SPILT JULEP < Cards Indicates sneer. Prof who McCarney. co-piloted Max Schmeling to the world By GAYLE TALBOT, BOUT A OREGON ALL OVAW HIS doesn't Associated Press Sports Writer. By the Associated Press. championship, manage Godoy. He doesn't even own a hunk of MOSS A-RUNNIN IN HI6H CHAIR! Arturo's little a LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 3.—Bime- KAlNTUCKy HE finger. In fact, it is great hate the Professor has for y It doesn’t pay to become too en- A1 (The lech will go to the post tomorrow for LIKED lb A SPUT ] Godoy's pilot, Vest> Weill. thusiastic about a the 66th of the S HIS club win- We were running Kentucky SIDES.../- THEY MIGHT AS talking with Prof McCarney not long ago and William Derby and it looks as though seven WELL PAY OFF ning one game. In fact, no one let down his hair. "I was the advance guy for on his coast-to- Godoy other' horses will go that far at ON P>IM AMD knows right now whether it's - coast tour.” Billy explained. "Me and Weill, we didn t it off. We re least with him. SCRATCH HIM... while excited about a on the getting team outs now. But, Godoy, I wish I could steal him. He's the next Whether any of the others stay winning nine games—even in a row. champion.” with him—or even near him—for Yet a glance at the National the rest of the whirl around the League standings today will show Churchill Downs track Art's Got to remains to anybody interested that the New Everything Lick Louis be seen. York Giants are in third place and This isn’t the impression people have been around with Bimelech is to win hands carrying supposed a thought about the manner in them. Godoy when down, and it would not be truthful surprised everybody he went the route with Louis which they subjugated the St. Louis to last winter. A lot of folks he almost won state that the air of Louisville thought it "He did.” says Cardinals. 7-4. yesterday might con- In that is charged with excitement. The McCarney. fight Godoy introduced a crazy crouch which the vince some that they may stay there. thousands of visitors who are churn- jokesters hailed with glee. The Giants this year have one of about the hotel lobbies are But as ing pretty those ’’extremist” for a return fight the ring mob. in was cool. Louis teams. The vet- general, well charged, certainly, but not with has a habit of erans are too old and the rookies are embarrassing fighters who have made him look bad. excitement. too But the Natie Brown once the limit with Joe I DID \ young. gray-beards are went and the next time he went No Hot Rare /yeah, out Experted. l full of wisdom and the no-beards in four rounds. Bob Pastor went the route once a 7 SELL TICKET,] and, in return It is much as it was a year ago, are filled with enthusiasm, and the he was ( BUT TH' GUY fight, stopped. when so > J obviously was HAD ON DARK right mixture can be powerfully ex- I didn t know Godov \ until I was hir^d to conduct that tour after the class of the field. Everybody is GLASSES AN'HIS plosive. the first Louis ) fight. McCarney said. “It \tas purely a business proposi- preparing to go out and warble ,;My ^ HAT PULLED/ tion. I Old Home" and Powerful in Attack. learned a lot of things about the guy. You know, living with Kentucky generally him, and so forth. get very sentimental, but nobody Making a delayed start against "I seems to think it will be much of a their first Western of found,” announced the Prof, profoundly, “that lie’s a dual opposition got. horse race. the the He’s two season, Giants got 14 hits personality. men, I guess you'd say. He's got everything a Incidentally, the pre-race singing yesterday. Mel Ott hit a homer with fighter needs to lick Louis „ including the heart. That’s the main promises not to be so as one on, Mickey Witek hit a round- thing, anyway.” off-key usual for Irene Dunn, the movie tripper inside the park, Harry Dan- ^ star, has come home after all these ning smacked two doubles and two The Guy's a Lamb and a Lion years to sing the first verse from the singles, and so on. Governor's box and give the horse In addition, they got one of the This dual personality, even at this early date, is mildly interesting. players the proper pitch. best jobs of relief pitching any team W*iat is Godoy. a sort of a Dr Jekyll-Mr. WWO Hyde? The weather is very unpleasant- the boys in the big leagues has received this “I guess so," Prof. LITTLE McCarncy guessed. “Anyway, on this tour Godoy cold and rainy—and gives promise WANT A season. Lefty Cliff Melton took Is with his wife and DCOFlT OK THt-iK. !/1DON'tX just watching him around his better half is some- of getting worse before it improves. VYOWT /blame YUH.KLD! charge with none out in the third thing to make a the a Tomorrow's as a MOMEY } and to hurl for fight guy quit racket. He is ‘yes. mam. no mam,’ crowd, sensible I RIGHT IN TH' PRIMeN proceeded six in- guy. had an result, may not be a record one. nings, giving up two hits. They act—Godoy and the Missus—and they’re pretty good make ) only an'they In the last dancers. He acts like one of those This is to these^imdows five games the Giants slick-haired cowboys in tails on the painful the manage- YUH RUN AG'IN ( have amassed a total of 55 hits. dance floor ... all that polite stuff, you understand. men. including the Downs boss, Col. Matt They have proven pitching strength. "He’s that way all the time and I commence to Winn, because they have made \^canm6nball'. think that Weill’s got And aside from dropping three a fine tomato on his hands and I lose all of extensive additions to the clubhouse my respect for Louis because MV * games to the Brooklyn Dodgers dur- he let this timid bum since last year. The great, ram- OWM HOr- go the limit with him. And then I began to study "EXPERTS HAT.special" ing the red-hot streak of the bling wooden structure now can ac- SAVTHEj latter, this furriner in the gymnasiums.” FISHT FOE THAT “-S~JlM they flays lost one commodate 2T only game this The almost as many persons JB>ER(2y^44^ Prof, whipped out a handkerchief and his brow. “It PLACE POU6H WILL spring. mopped as it has been popularly reported to was a revelation,’ he said. "Once this has his BE THE REAL EACE.... THE <9--- Godoy gloves on his hands house in past years. DERBY DOPESTERS HAVE Have First Division Class. he s a wild man. Wild and mean. Wild, mean and dangerous. We had The price that Bimelech will pay- ALREADY HUNG THE LAURELS OF As pointed out, the balance be- a guy along to spar with him and this Bucko, right off the bat, begins providing, of course, that the Brad- THE KENTUCKY CLASSIC ON Sports Mirror tween age and youth on the club to squawk about the way Godoy is treating him. ley wins on schedule- By the Associated Press. isn't good enough to make it a pen- likely will be the legal minimum in nant contender, but the b>ijvle:l+e:ch Today a year ago —Freddie way they A Cocktail Before Dinner Caused It All this State, which is 10 cents on the mauled those Cardinals yesterday Hutchinson. $70,000 rookie, was dollar. That is, the man who WHILE THE BRADLEY BEAUTY shows they have the stuff fans ex- “He was him buys treating pretty rough. I went to Godoy and I said, released on a $2 ticket on the “big hoss" is sure IS ST/LL IN HIS STALL. AS FAR. option to Toledo of pect of a first division club. There's 'Listen, you're not mauling this bum for You don't keeps. want to kill of getting back $2.20, providing he the American Association by De- not likely to be anybody in front him, do you? And this Godoy, who always bows and AS THEY’RE CONCERNED THE of scrapes when he wins. And don't forget, this goes, troit th£ Giants except the fellows who ain't in a Tigers. gym, snarls. too, for and show bets. This are fighting for the flag. place RUNNING IS A MERE FORMALITY.... Three we to the years ago—Ellsworth Bad weather washed Finally, got last day of the tour and I made it a point to can be financially painful to the out all but see and ask him to take Vines trounced Fred Perry, 7—5, two of the major contests Godoy it easy on this sparring partner, who was management. innnDiiniiH^ league a to take 6—3, 6—3, before 6,000 at Madi- yesterday. In the other game tha good guy the beating he took. 'He ain't Louis,’ I said. ‘This is I Col. E. R. Bradley, who owns the son Square Garden to take 29-27 Tigers downed the last night. Give him a break.’ super-favorite, hasn't been in such Washington, lead in pre tennis series. 5-3. This the hot on “He a In 1 put Tigers got break. practically bone. We the on good health down at Lexington. every put gloves for the Nats and, if you’ve been fol- Five years ago—Cy Blanton, the heels of the Godoy and he almost killed the We : Nevertheless, there is a report go- poor guy. finally had to drag Godoy ’ star, and Indians, who are tied off.” ing the rounds that he intends New of Rises lowing the boys in recent years, you to Crop Southpaws blanked Brooklyn Dodgers, 1-0, for the lead in the American defy his physicians and come for know what that means. Prof. McCarney shook his head, sadly. “H#s to beat up for fourth consecutive victory. League. got everything j the race. The colonel has seen four ■ ■ ■■■■ ■■■ ■ Louis. He don't hit much but Louis don’t have to be hit hard. He very of his horses win the To Increase Griff can take Derby, and Troubles; everything Louis can throw and He's Louis keep coming. got they say he is determined to watch fooled and he's the most vicious, onneriest cuss I every saw in the ring. Bimelech make it five. And the nicest guy out of the ring.” Hudson Praised in Defeat The only thing that might pull HAHN The insisted that professor his interest in Godoy, other than aca- the management out of the hole on As if things haven't been bad It wasn’t quite a hopeless case 14th & G 7th & K *3212 14th demically, has ceased. Bimelech is plenty of rain. Should *4483 Conn. Ave. enough over a period of years we d the Nationals presented today, “Here's what happened,” he disclosed to the world. it come down tonight, and “I'm hired to steadily, all like to live over, a new, crop of however, because in that 5-3 beat- *open evenings run the tour. I the track becomes to- Well, always travel first cabin. No second or third cabin really muddy left-handed pitching menaces is ing there was some balm. Sid morrow. a lot of will for me. I traveled that way with Schmeling and all the rest. Weill, he patrons shop blossoming to plague the Nationals. Hudson, the rookie right-hander around for a horse that might beat doesn’t like my expense accounts. For instance, I like a cocktail before For years—we don’t recall just for who is trying to jump from Class him. For some reason there always how Griffmen have been D ball to the dinner. Weill kept squawking. He said it was awful, on many—the majors, dropped his spending money is doubt that a favorite can run in liquor before Mr. and Mrs. Stuff like susceptible to southpaws, chiefly be- second straight start but he still Is Godoy. that, y’know.” the mud. though Bimelech has won The cause the Washington ball club has rated a starting hurler. professor shrugged. “We had an awful fight.” he said, “but I two of his races in fairly heavy go- embraced a flock of left-handed hit- “He's quite a , that boy,w still think I'm right. Weill, when he got in his room, did a little elbow- ing. ters. When the 1940 campaign Bucky Harris announced, bending. and so did It was a crime to do it some rew Favor Mioland. Godoy. just in public. But opened there was widespread opti- after the game. “Hudson, ordinar- still like A scattered few I'd to steal the bum. He's the next champion.” i expressed the mism, around town. ily, isn’t wild. But since the start -■ opinion that Mioland. the West “We haven't got so many left- of the season he’s been wilder than Coast horse, a might spring surprise handed hitters this year,” went the he should be. I suppose he’s still and run right away from Bimelech explanation. “Besides, the lefties are excited. He gave seven bases on down the stretch. Mioland Turf undoubt- wearing out. Grove. Gomez and the balls and normally he's not the Nation's Writers edly is the “dark horse" and there Nearly rest are getting old.” type to give that many.” might be a good bit of bet money As the Nationals now take the Seven walks is par for the course on him. Unanimous Bimmie field there aren't many left-handed for Washington so far. Some are to take a Picking going chance hitters. George Case, Gee Walker, This is excluding hit batsmen, wiia on Dit. the gelding that won the By the Associated Press. of the Wood Memorial Zeke Bonura, , pitches, etc. Still and all, Hudson compiled 58 Wood Memorial in New York last LOUISVILLE. Kv., May 3.—The points for second honors in the Jimmy Pofahl and Rick Ferrell of did not look bad. He fanned five week, and a few will take a Nation's turf writers, who have been long the regulars all hit right-handeo. and what made him lose was the voting. shot on W. L. Brann's Pictor. true Gomez Grove way he had to the ball known to be wrong before, sat down Pictor, with seven second-place And it's that and lay up to But, mostly, the crowd will stamp the hitters after today to study tomorrow's Kentucky selections, was third with 41 points: are in the twilight of their careers. falling behind on its feet to regain circulation, blow the count. Derby and came up with the dis- Joseph E. Widener’s Roman was But-- on its hands and pour the money Of the covery that favored Bimelech fourth with 35 and the California The Nats haven't whipped a left- eight hits made off Hudson, into the windows on Bimelech. couldn’t miss and that Arnold Charles S. hander this year. five were for extra bases. Rudy "glamour boy,” Howards Roman , and Royal York hit a home a Hanger's Dit would nose out Pictor Mioland, was fifth with 29. Fresh Lefties Now On Hand. run and triple. Man, the other three considered Bruce for second. Except for Horne and the Campbell doubled and so Husing. certain starters in the race, Grove, going on 41, shut out the others were big did Dick Bartell, in addition to Only two of the “experts” in the unanimously emphatic mostly will come in for place and Nats in the opening game of the in with Bimelech. singling. Barney McCosky tripled. annual Associated Press poll picked riding show bets. season. A few days later he tried -—-— A Slab horses other than Col. E. R. Brad- The owner of the winner will re- again, with the temperature at 38, Little Phnegling. ley’s odds-on choice as the winner ceive more than $60,000, which is and failed to last. But he wasn’t Shoving back Dutch Leonard's of the 66th running of the Churchill Table Tennis Test nice money. charged with the defeat. regular pitching turn still another Downs classic. Gomez, with as nice a set of stiff day, Harris today nominated Ken One of these. Edgar Horne of Turf Gets Big Field muscles as you ever saw, couldn’t Chase to face the Cleveland In- G. A. 0. Defeats finish a the Nats in dians in the a and chose W. Grocers game against opener of -: Sports Digest, Pictor, Every local college will be rep- two-game vow» his but he lasted series. It was an L. Brann's mud-runner, to top resented in the annual District only start, long quite attraction With Four Safeties and successfully at that. Bob Bimmie. Pictor is Maryland-bred ail-college table tennis tourna- enough, pitched Feller was to work a enough, to be credited with a vic- for the Indians and a Chase-Feller and Edgar is Marylander from ment to be held at American Wade Pembrooke’s four-hit pitch- So there are two victories for duel has been a standard ’way back. University tomorrow, starting at ing was wasted yesterday when his tory. always Hand-woven TRI-WEARS Lefties over the Griffmen. attraction inasmuch as Ken has The other “beat Bimmie" selector 10 o'clock. District Grocer mates bowed to Gen- was Ted Now the Washingtons are haunted been a nuisance to the Indians for Husing of Columbia Broad- Staff Cassell. A. U. athletic di- eral in a De- Accounting Office, 1-0, the Co., who on Dit to by fresh ghosts who throw from some time. casting hopped rector in charge of the tourney partmental League game. Bob win and Harold A. Clark’s southpaw side. Up in Boston not Leonard will pitch tomorrow in Royal who is offering a trophy to the Mathias, G. A. O. catcher, con-. . . . ago the Red Sox unveiled a the finale of the Cleveland direct from California Man to place. He couldn't see champion, says that entries al- nected for two of the hits. G. A. O. long set, new named Mickey Harris, who chiefly because there isn’t much use Bimmie for better than show. ready have come from George- scored in the fourth. lefty won a 7-2 verdict and gave only in for On Ten picked Dit for second, 10 town, George Washington, Mary- and toiled for G. A. saving anybody Sunday. Here are TRI-WEAR'S hand-woven Cuffy Hoff O., De- knockabouts, more for third and for fourth. land. Catholic seven hits. And yesterday the this day the Browns will invade for eight University, Gal- giving up six hits between them. 1940 version. Handwoven on the as troit Tigers, winning a 5-to-3 de- a three-game series. Not even right lasts, just On a point basis of 3-2-1 for sec- laudet,, Wilson Teachers and Jenkins, with tw-o hits, paced the in the finale of a Leonard, are in Old with all the cond, third and fourth, the winner American U. losers . cision three-game apparently, would en- they Mexico, yet refine- one Harold New- series, introduced hance the attraction. ments of American manufacture, the new styles houser, a southpaw not yet 19 years Following the invasion of the In- are sure to be even greater favorites this be- old. dians, who will present a new key- year Yanks' Home Crowds Leave In Defeat, Hudson Ranks. stone combination in Lou Boudreau cause they add greater comfort than &er to their Roll a of Detroit and Pay Deficit Harold, graduate high Roy Mack and a drink-less smart styling. The style shown, with thick crepe school ranks, was something of a catcher named Rollie Hemsley, soles, comes in brown, white or natural color; No-Hitter Robs Carleton of Rassler puzzle to the Griffmen. He gave 's White Sox will drop (and Sljeep; Wins Hunt TRI-WEAR hand-wovens come also with Egg them six hits, five of which came around for a two-game set, com- flexible in the first three , and pleting the Nationals’ first Gold leather in brown or natural. By EDDIE BRIETZ, around here for some time.” practice at Marquette the other long Spot soles, stamped himself as one of the port- home stand. Associated Press Sports Writer. Mebbe the fact that he was day the lipe included a Pole, an siders of the future. After this set it will be the West Irishman, a German, a Swede, a NEW YORK, May 3.—Those speaking at a Brooklyn dinner Newhouser, in his first Jew, a Dane and a Greek. South- winning congregations of 2.000, 3,000 and had to do with but after a something it, ern Association fans are demand- major league game dropping 4.000 the Yanks are playing to Joe McCarthy it will be 4-2 decision earlier to the Indians, predicts ing they either slice the price of BASEBALL 37,°5DfI at the stadium aren't making the Yanks and Dodgers in Octo- the Nats’ streak of winning admission or raise the standard snapped 595 vs. the pay roll. Who's got a snot ber. series at two in a row. The victorious Washington Cleveland of play. Happy O’Brien, Boston's in the arm for the bantam- The offered Detroit invasion marked the first Dodgers have Gene famous wandering caddy, turned AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK weight division? Here's Georgie a loss of a series by since Mooore, Jimmy Ripple, young up in Atlanta after a 65.000-mile Washington Pace, the N. B. A. the set here Tomorrow—Cleveland—3:00 P.M. Open-back huarache style, with champ, doing pitcher and cash for Bill Posedel jaunt that took him through opening against the his stuff on Y. sub- Red Sox 16-18. the N. of the Boston Bees. three continents. Ace Hudkins, April leather soles and rubber heels. circuit For ALL That’, New,,t—BUY way and not so impres- Todays guest star: C. M. the old “Nebraska Wildcat” of sively, at that. Tex Carleton Baltimore Sun: “Dis- Gibbs, boxing fame, is racing a string of was so excited he didn’t sleep patches say Connie Mack never horses at Narragansett. Stars a wink the night after deliv- has given up on Bennie M’Coy. Wrestlers Yesterday Chrysler at play. Parmer By the Associated Press. Why shift tears? Fluid Drive only S3*: 3.95 ering his no-hitter. Nope, only $45,000 worth.” the who Jones, bearded wrestler, Rudy York and Hal Newhouser. TRADE w ACT FOR YOUR One-minute interview — Zeke Buck Newsom has gone Connie keeps two pet razorbaek hogs ift Tigers—Former hit two-run homer and NOW FOR I CAR AT Bonura (on arrival in Wash- Mack and Clark Griffith one bet- his latter pitched six-hit ball In downing hotel room, won an Easter egg Senators. 5-3. PAUL BROS. ington): “I have an idea I and ter. He says the Yanks won’t hunt at Amarillo, Tex., recently, Cliff Melton. Giants—Pitched six Wisconsin Innings in relief and held Cardinals 100% Merit Servlee. WO. S1S1S Mr. Roosevelt will be even finish second. In with a needed top score of 14. * to two hits. *