•DETROIT TIMES, JUNE 11,1942 PAGE 25 Del Baker Raps Dykes, Boudreau as ‘Defeatists’ NEW YORK, June 11 (INS).—A bit of spiritual arsenic Whiah was something. The Tigers whipped the Yanks in good substantial winning streak, with the Yankee* hitting and a hunk of heavy old mace could chop the New York the eleventh to win, 4-1. a slump, and the whole picture could change in a week," Yankees down to the size of the rest of the American League. “Maybe Dykes has given up hopes for his White Sox. Baker said. ~ Tigers today*—Al Benton, the This is the studied, profound and, according to him, honest That’s about all he ever had anyway. But it surprises me to There are twin heroes on the the to goodness opinion of Del Baker, the erudite manager of the hear an earnest, ambitious young lad like Boudreau making big pitcher, and Doc Cramer, veteran outfielder. SPORTS But the edge goes to Benton. His accomplishment wan Detroit Tigers. And he believes his club, given a few breaks, such a defeatist statement. His Indians could give those can beat the champs. McCarthy robots plenty of trouble If they believed in them- crowded into one purple afternoon, whereas Cramer'a took a By LEO MACDONELL lifetime effort, “Can you imagine Jimmy Dykes saying the Yankees will selves enough," Baker continued, hia voice rising in disdain. of Benton beat the Yankees at the Jtadium in 11 torrid in- have the pennant w rapped in burlap by July 4?" “My Tigers haven't given up. W’e won't either, until nings on a three-run homer by Ned Harris. Jimmy Blood worth pvers-Wakefield Batting Steve O'Neill Says U.M. “And Lou Boudreau said there was no use trying to keep the head falls, if it must fall. What this league needs Is more had previously seen to it that the game would go into extra up with the Yankees. fight and less whistling in the dark when other teams Duel in Beaumont Is Ace Is a Coming Great the frames with his fifth inning homer. “They make me ill. I mean Dykes and Boudreau, not shudder passing the Yankee graveyard. F in Big Leagues The big pitcher was mighty in the clutches in notching Talk of .Texas League Hitter the Yanks. They are a pretty good country ball club. But “W’hat we did to the Yankees can be repeated by us they can be beaten, just like we gave It to them yesterday." and Boston and Cleveland. Give my team a break, just one (Continued on Page 28) EVERS BATTING .370 DESPITE AILMENT The thrilling duel between Walter (Hoot) Evers and Dick Wakefield, potential Tiger outfielders who are pacing the Beau- mont Exporters to what looms as a runaway race for the cham- pionship of the Texas League, gets more spectacular each week. New Track Record—l 6 Favorites Lose According to the latest averages, Evers was batting a lusty .370 with Wakefield trailing by four points. Afield both were gning great guns—the 22-year-old Evers matching the brilliant THIS IS ONE WAY TO BEAT THE WEATHER—IF YOU HAVE THE TIME defensive play he revealed in spring training with the Tigers at ' ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ Form Flouted Ufreland, and the 21-year-old Wakefield exhibiting vast improve- ment In this department. The brilliance of their play has the usually calm Steve O’Neill Only on Winners In a high state of ecstasy, making predictions of the possible B mb -PB appearance of his young stars in Tiger livery. “He will be a big help to the Tigers before long/* Man- AtFair Grounds ager O’Neill said in Beaumont. And of Wakefield, Steve is li reported to have told a Beaumont scribe: Super-Fast Race Strip £. “Wakefield some day will be one of the great hitters in Helps as Flying Streak, the American League." W’hile his fielding, base running and throwing was all that Vegas Justice Equal Marks could be asked of a player even for a big league club, his hitting the spring left something to be desired. Evers’ batting in By LEWIS H. WALTER in Y /E' > ' :- the Texas League, where thsy usually have outstanding pitching, ¦1 B- It's a new record or no count at is considered the most spectacular of the performances of the the Detroit race track these days. crowds, record betting two youngsters. Record handles, new track records are pace Moreover, Evers has been holding to his sensational becoming commonplace as horse despite a sore throat which had him down for a spell. He lost racing rides the boom crest. But weight—dropping from 177 to 171 pounds—but once again is now comes a record no one cares like himself, according to word from the Lone Star State. about—a record lasing streak fop |keling the favorites. he ought do “Ifhe can hit .370 with a sore throat to pretty Sixteen successive favorites well with a healthy one," Jack Zeller reports from Beaumont, have met defeat. Not since the eighth Tiger manager took a gander at his young race Monday, when Good 'where the general Taste scampered home, has one of stars recently. the public choices reached the « wire first. If the record losing y' y streak isn’t broken early today, Lipon and Overmire Showing Major League Promise (pAW / ¦ the fans who look upon aspirin and racing forms as standard / * The battle between the two young collegians—Evers from Ay jMFf' mw t J* racing equipment willbo throwing University of Illinois and Wakefield from University of Michigan away the past performances ana doubling up on the aspirin rations —is best emohasized in figures, usually cold but which become before Poet Laureate, Miss Glam- live in the ' hot duel between the pair. Here are the figures: our and the five other 3-year-olds go to the post in the June Handi- AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB Ave. cap. which heads the program. 230 41 to 13 2 6 42 8 .370 Form hasn’t been flouted alto- Even gether. Second choices have won, Wakefield 216 38 79 16 3 3 40 5 .366 favorites have run second, but the Pretty close, eh? Try and put a hair between the records. horse which has started with the largest share of the public’s money But if Evers and Wakefield have not talent enough to make on it just hasn’t been able to get a minor league manager slap happy, O’Neill has Johnny Lipon, home. —- The shortest price on yester- a shortstop from Detroit Chadaey High School, and "Stub” Over- day’s program was $8.60, which mire a left fllnger from Kalamazoo, another pair of kids Vegas Justice paid after beating handed J. B. in Mrs. Bumstein’s favored who promise to kindle fires with the Tigers in the big show Ship Biscuit by a length and a the not too distant future. quarter in the $2,000 Mackinac Handicap, approach- with the well-played “Upon, a sensation In the Texas League, is fast Meggy a well-beaten third. Long- ing the status of a finished shortstop," Vince Burke, sports est price of the day was the $35 mutuel Enterprise, a baseball who returned by Flying Streak, editor of the Beaumont expert as the 4-year-old filly beat Pirate, knows his baseball, wrote of the 19-year-old Detroiter, who last another outsider, by three-quarters BECKY RADER FLORENCE HAIMAN ROSE HjNATIK MARIAN MITHOFF VIRGINIA RAYOR ELAINE HORWTTZ of a length in the $1,500 year played his first organized baseball with Muskegon in the Metamore . . . these girl*took advantage of the hot, muggy climate hereabouts at Rouge Park pool yesterday . . . Purse, in which third money went Michigan State League. “His hands are sure, he Is fleet of foot to Bob Needham's Carberus. To prove and he has a deadly throw to first base. He can’t miss being they were well-quail-' Surprise! Major League Back Home fled winners. Flying Streak and • big leaguer." Bayview Vegas Justice both equaled track Joins- Holds Two State Pros records. Too So there you have the w'ord of Burke, if you think that Anthony Zaleski Navy much credit can not Standings Sing Sing Bolstered be given them, however, because O’Neill might be inclined to be a little over-raptuous over the lad. and Confusion Begins the track is so hard that any being about the classiest shortstopper they've seen as Hitter Returns horse with real class could almost Brides Regatta AMERICAN LEAGUE Golf set a record now on the Fair ball, 11 Dawn' In Toledo in the Texas loop in a long time, Lipon is also banging the GREAT LAKES. 111.. June W L Pet. *GB Grounds’ racing (INS).—A officer who could strip. petty New York 38 13 .745 OSSINING. N. Y.. June 11 Some angry are to the latest official marks he was hitting .308. not understand why Tony Zale By GEORGE E. VAN TOLEDO. June 11.—Two Mich- horsemen say- Boston 28 23 .549 10 A (INS).—The Sing Sing baseball ing it’s “win or break down.” The wasn't among thp imposing list of Bayview Club calling igan golfers—Jimmy Demaret of Yacht is Cleveland 29 25 .537 104 team today acquired a hard-hitting veteran Supreme Sir, which ran Budding Talent on Other Clubs boxers Anthony Zaleski had its regatta Sunday the All Day DETROIT 31 27 .534 104 Plum Hollow, Detroit, and Chick! second Tigers Have told on himself outfielder. to War Admiral in the fought, the story Race, but most of the sailor boys St. Louis 28 28 .500 12*> Harbert of Battle Creek—were in Widener Cup several years ago, today. will have to stay up all night to Washington 21 33 .389 184 Boasting a life-time prison bat- Overmire. who recently bagged his tenth victory, first pitcher the all-star lineup of 16 profes- was just one of the horses which Interviewing inductees at the get their ships to the starting line Chicago 20 32 .385 184 ting average of .450, Jerome Mil- limped off yesterday after his achieve that mark so far this season, is but 22 and hails from training sta- up sionals who were to tee off today to Great Lakes naval in Lake St. Clair on time. Philadelphia 22 36 .379 194 opening aging legs had taken a beating. tion. the petty officer came to Llovd In- in the round of the best- ner has an iron-bound contract Grand Rapids. He attended Western Michigan College at Kala- Kurtzworth and his •Games behind leader. ball matches at Inverness. which may keep him at that penal Flying Streak, a 4-year-old Zaleski. trepid race committee which in- YESTERDAY'* RES I ITS Demaret again teams Ben institution between 15 to 30 years. daughter of Royal Minstrel, is mazoo. “So you’re a fighter ?*• he cludes Ed Keifer, Don Freeburn. DETROIT 4-S-l. Ponton end Tebbetta with Breuer, Murphy Hogar they Milner, whose batting prowess owned by J. D. Weil, Paris (Ky.) “Whn’d you fight ?" George Stellberger. New York 1-10-0. as seek to repeat Roy Clark, a right-hander from Fontiac, is another promis- said. ever Hank White. and Roaar stockman, who bred Hughann j their triumph of a year ago. Their gained the attention of the late her. She Zaleski recited an imposing list. Bill Nagel and Capt. Homer Bur- Bouton 10-10-0 and Conroy. hadn't year St. Loul* 3-fl-l ’Nlggellng. opponents today willbe E. J. Har- Lou Gehrig, was returned to his been out since a and ing young chucker with the Tiger farm club at Beaumont. His “Not bad,” conceded the petty- deno say in the program that the Hanmnft ago (ft*. Keren* <7» and Ferrell rison and Denny Shute. Harbert. "alma mater" for his participation a half at Santa Anita, but the officer. first class will start at 9 a. m. Chicago 4-10-0. ;Humphrlea, Haynee (it 4-year-old and playing in tavern holdup. Gehrig sent really hustled along “But I suppose you lost to Never in the history of local Turner. in the tournament for the a Philadelphia 1-4-2. ?Knott. Shirley <7». first time, has Horton Smith as the convict several baseballs when under Jockey Charley Hanauer to most of them. Say, we’re getting yachting is there any record of a Marchlldon (4* and Swift Caetaclla Bagby, (9*. his partner. They he on Sing Sing cover the six furlongs in 1:10 2-5 a real fighter In here this after- regatta being started at such an Cleveland 4-14-2 Mllnar will take on served the 1934 : Embree «9 * and Hegan. Denning. Jimmy Hines and Herman Barron. nine. (Conttnoed noon. Tony Zale, the world’s hour. Waahingtnn 3-13-0. Newaom, Carraaquel on Pago~2B) middleweight rhamp. How The racing at Put-in-Bay during (10• and Early, come twinning pitcher. you never fought him?” the Interlake regatta starts at 9 tLoalng pitcher. That would present difficulties, a. m., but that’s something else TODAY’S DAMES petty again only •TEMPORARY' COACH WINS 2D the officer admitted. because the boats have DETROIT at New York. TITLE Anthony Zaleski IS Tony Zale, a five-minute ride to the starting St, Louie at Boaton Cleveland ft Waahingtnn. the champ. (Continued on Page 26) Chicago at Philadelphia. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cooley High ’9’ Beats Falcons in Finals, 5-4 W L * Pet. *GB

Lewii H. Walter .... Off the Hook Brooklyn 37 14 .725 By JAKE BERSOX St. Louis 29 20 .592 7 A year ago this spring Boh Pontiac . Chiefs in the M. O. League , . Creighton Lowther. M. O. Cincinnati 28 26 .519 104 star with London Crosthwaite, a mathematics two years ago is a prisoner in Germany . . . .519 104 New York 28 26 Cooley High, was ¦ 1 irkles MacNichols, who was Lowther's running male on Pittsburgh 25 28 13 teacher at asked the .472 to 1 London team which played Hol/haugh for the championship two Boston 26 32 .448 144 coach the school's baseball years ago. will be going over soon with the RCAF. Chicago 24 30 .444 14 4 team in his spare time. 37 .302 22 Paul Bemdt, the regular coach, Philadelphia 16 had Tom O’Reilly of PM suggested a rare at Jamaica which uni- been transferred to another •Games behind leader. to ,a*:P formed soldiers as jockeys but old department. Crosthwaite was , Wr .ca an timer wised him up In a TCSTERDAY'S REM I.TS t T- hurry ... in temporarily It seems soldier hoys are of Just one mind when It Chicago 5-4-1. Lea and McCullough til! "until another .mrkf comes to a Philadelphia 2* 2. ’Podgajnj, Pearaon man betting proposition . . could be found.” . They want to rash some tickets (7i Llvlngaton. . and . . they held such a race for soldiers at Jamaica in the last war Plttahurgh 3-9-0 Sewell and Phelpa. i What Cooley High officials and if developed greatest Boaton 0-4-0. Tobtn and Lombardi Into one of the “boat” races In history tSchumacher, think today about replacing . . New York 4-4-1. Adame . The hoys "elected" as the winner a colonel who was the high- i>» and Panning Crosthwaite, who still teaches est ranking officer . . ?Vandermeer. Starr in the race . Several almost their Cincinnati 1 10-2. mathematics, can easily be choked Begga horses to death to keep from humiliating the superior officer. (gi, <*i and Lamanno. guessed. DICK WAKEFIELD Brooklyn at St. Loula. poatponed. His Cardinals last year C oarh Bill Edwards says the Detroit Lions are losing football {Winning pitcher. gave Cooley its first Metropolitan players •Loatng pitcher. 9 0 through enlistments and the draft faster than they are League baseball championship, trouble has wildness. He has been used mainly for relief signing right now TODAY’S DAMES been them but prospects are improving . . . The Lions yesterday Chicago. and at Briggs Stadium have hopes of using some of their All-American picks from the Philadelphia at his boys repeated by downing work and has three victories posted in his record book. college Brooklyn at St Lout*. a last crop, including Michigan's Bob Westfall, because the Only gaenea acheduled. scrappy Northeastern team. 5-4, The Tigers’ wealth of promising young material is not all flying services have built up such a big backlog of men they won't in the finals. tered in Beaumont. At Ted only 17. he able to start training them for months. ti Winston-Salem. Gray, Pitchers 21 OUT OF 22 Highland Park, is showing promise. They call him Probable and from t ncle Henry McDaniel, who used to condition Exterminator, In the two-year stretch under ‘Tiny Tim.” And Neal Barry, from Kalamazoo, is rated the Is now training for Mrs. Graham Lewis, known to the girls Crosthwaite Cooley has best as hettef By I nlted Prrwe won 21 Elizabeth Arden . . . Kairarls, the English-bred .1-year-old owned out of 22 games. if shortstop in the Piedmont League. Winston-Salem they say K. S. AMERICAN LEAGUE And he cared In by Mar)jiiiKhiin, head of General Motors of Canada. Is fig- Cleveland (Harder 4-4» at Waahingtnn to pick out an individual he could ured as a real rival for S-year-old (Zuber 3-31—3 Ift P m EWT. young Barry can run and field and has a fine arm. honors, hut he wasn’t eligible (Grove point to Wilson, Johnny for Chicago 3-31 at Philadelphia Art all-state foot- the , . Belmont Stakes . He may get his shot at Shut Out and (Chrlatopher 3-21—3 Ift P m. EW’T ball guard, who won 17 games from Detroit High, is hitting .310 (Newhouaer Radulovich. Southeastern at Alsab In the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct, June 20, If all shape up Detroit 2 .1* at New York while going the (Gomes 2-21—3 p m KWT undefeated in that Winston-Salem. Frank Lerchen, from Detroit Western, is bang- for race. St. I/Oula tOalehouae 4-ft or Muncrlef period. 8-*i at Boeton (Terry 3-41- 3 p m EWT (New NATIONAL Wilson had pitched a long ing the hall at a .325 clip for Jamestown York) in the Harvey (Rusher) Jackson Reg LEAGUE * of the Boston Bruins. Hamilton Philadelphia (Hoerat 3-41 at Chicago drawn-out game to beat Eastern /'JHHIKs vB i Fony League. Fast on the sacks, the fleet Lerchen wins special and Turk Broda of the Toronto Maple Leafs are working in a (Monty 2-41—3 p m. CWT. in the semifinals Monday. (Wvatt 4-1» at St. Loui# But! ART HILAON munitions plant in New Toronto, Ont. . . . Joe Dutton who is jrnoklya COACH 808 CROSTHH AITB foot running prizes in the circuit.