1937-05-12 [P C-1]

Sports News □ » 5 | Classified Ads | WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY = WEDNESDAY, 12, 19H7. pAGE Puzzles : Preakness Not —' -* Conceded War Appleton’s _Flop _____ Admiral Horse STUFF King Still Reigns, but Court Is Moved From Louisville to Baltimore PLENTIFUL ———. .... ... POMPOON. MATEY BEAT Pete’s Difficulties May Be HORSESJ Mud, of Laid to Carelessness. Hope Merry Maker, Would Lower Stock of Loses to Brown. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Derby Winner. Stall Correspondent ol The Star. By the Associated Press. m„ May 12—Pete May 12—Two at is Appleton least consis- stars of the crack field ex- tent. Last year he was the pected in Saturday’s $50,000 of Chicago,surprise the Washington Baltimore,Preakness—War Admiral and Ball Club after when, wanning a seat Matey—wound up their heavy train- In the bull pen for nearly half a ing at Pimlico today. season, he finished with 14 victories, work out nine defeats and the best eamed-run One-mile-and-an-eighth for the Admiral, the great Glen Rid- on the team. This average year he dle Farm’s colt which set the sec- still is the surprise of the Nationals. ond fastest time in in win- He hasn’t won a game and he leads history ning the Kentucky last Sat- the American League defeats with Derby urday, was the one lour. and only real drill Trainer George Conway had Pete today has become the biggest scheduled for him. question mark on the Griffith A. C. Every time he works the catchers Two Horses to Beat maintain that he has plenty of “stuff’’ on the ball. Yet the Athletics jyjATEY, Walter M. Jefiord's hope whipped him twice, the Tigers handed in the forty-seventh running of him a beating, and yesterday the the Pimlico classic, and J. H. Louch- Browns gave him quite a going-over heim's Pompoon, second to War Ad- to win, 7-5, and send the Nationals miral in the Derby, meanwhile held tail-spinning into the cellar. top-rank positions among the rail- MAY MAKE IT A FAMILY AFFAIR IN OF NEW HONORS. sitters as the horses Manager Bucky Harris can't figure QUEST ONE HORSE—FREE—FOR PREAKNESS BALL War Admiral Most of the top 3-year-olds of the trailed War in must It country Admiral Here’s “The Admiral." seemingly in fine Miss a beat. out, wffiich is not surprising. In the Louisville classic fettle, Betty Fulton, page in the court of the Preakness last week, but Matey, pictured above, also a son led his car the queen, Backers of the Spring training Pete seemed set for of being from special after trip from holds Fireblaze, to he given away at the Preakness ball Louchheim horse Man o War, was not a contestant. He is to receive at Baltimore feel a fast and a expected strong sup- Kentucky to Maryland. He is expected to be a that the bay son of get-awray great year. in the event. Saturday. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt stands beside the horse, which Pompey, port coming given an even If he won 14 games in little more short-priced favorite Saturday. is from his stable. A. P. break, may turn the —Copyright, Wirephotos. tables than half a season how many would on the Admiral this time. he win as a starting pitcher from start Matey, others believed, has been to finish? Many veteran observers carefully groomed for the test here predicted he would win close to 20. ” and may upset the apple cart—es- Atttractive Show if Pete himself seemed confident. LEADING BUCS. A’S 13 TERPS IN 13 O PORT O Boxing pecially the track is muddy. Trainer Preston "POPP/N \rUIlI to Aid Firemen to Be Burch figures if Matey can a Carelessness Costly to Pete. NfOpr get within length of ^^vUlLi Convention Hosts. War Admiral he can overhaul the PITCHER with a curve ball like ^ Riddle champion. Appleton's ought to find the HUE GAIT EVENTSIN MEET BY JOHN B. KELLER. boys’ clubs and boxers’ relief battle fairly easy at the start of the OPP^aSI injured War Admiral No Muddcr, YOU want to give the men of funds among other charitable enter- Season. Pete's curve breaks as sharply There is one other factor which the may Macks Also Make It 6 in 7 to Miller District's Fire Department prises. the as a ball off a table. Hitters The ISats Debunk a Guckeyson, Cronin, swing tide against War Admiral rolling Theory. a real "break.” take in the As to that injured boxers’ relief boxing on Saturday. If there should happen should have plenty of trouble meeting Louie, Mo., 12.—If Go as Are to IF show next Monday night at Uncle fund, that's something that was to be May they have accomplished no other lofty aim Ahead, Caster Favored Annex a muddy course for the race so Joe Turner's W street started right here when Phil Furr the ball in the Spring. And yet they far this season the Senators at least seem to have the emporium. The many will desert War debunked and Admiral’s ship, that a smoke-eaters are the festiv- Harry Dublinsky fought for it have done so theory batting order full of left-handed hitters is susette Conference Titles. sponsoring for he is not a mudder. consistently. crepe Registers Again. I and raised superior Si.for a southpaw pitcher. In the National ities at the quarrel quarters, and a nearly S300 last June. One Preakness Pete made his debut in the third League the Pittsburgh Pirates candidate is hanging have BY BILL BOM. will send a dozen track of the Boxers now contribute 1 done Pretty much the same thing. The so-called didn't goodly portion gate will go voluntarily around with his fame of the season, the Ath- i experts like the Associated Press Sports Writer. jy/JARYLAND I trainer, just hoping facing Bucs to win I toward the of the per cent of their purses and a 10-cent ! because too many of them were left-handed hitters. So far the athletes to compete in 13 events defraying expenses that it will rain all day Friday and letics. He was nicked for eight hits in National Pi- "take” is on all Pirates are out in front and not because other League-leading Eastern lire chiefs' convention here tagged passes. •even and lost a 7-to-l de- ; National League clubs have in the Southern Conference champion- Saturday. Merry Maker, owned by innings rates are playing no favorites. next month. The fund has handled 14 cases of been bashful in throwing southpaws against them, either. Miss E. G. Rand and trained by Willie cision. He pitched a sloppy sort of moved into Polo ship meet at Durham, N. C., Saturday. relief and a The done the They the The today shows balance of Shea a that debunking by Senators is more conclusive, however, for the leaders of the local fire forces is the horse in question. When game day. Pirates have THEGrounds today to help the Bill Guckeyson, who will compete in neariy $1,000. been clicking from the start and the Washington firm has been had the convention literally wished it comes to mud. Merry Maker move* In second start Giants raise their 1936 It is his he held the a A pennant, boast- three field administered by the Boxing prime disappointment. lot of prognosticators thought the Nats would run events, and Prank Cronin, on ’em. The eastern chiefs simply up considerably and would have to be Athletics to five hits, but he had the in the first ing six victories in seven starts since Commission, but is controlled by a division from the start. Some even the Griffs to win the who is listed in four will voted Washington as their 1937 con- given a chance with the best of them. misfortune to be picked came east contests, head board of working against pennant. they last Tuesday. j consisting one of the Com- the vention spot. So it will cost the boys George Caster the day he limited They chalked up their sixth yester- Terp contingent. missioners. a doctor, a newspaper man Now, of course. Washington doesn't look like a winner and those here money, real money. Others Due to hits. Yet flag as and the commission’s to Start. Washington three Apple- moon shooters day Cy Blanton came up with a Cronin is the quarter-mile cham- secretary. probably are sorry they d'dn’t pick the A’s or the Red Sox. But I That old gag about the "fireman's ton's performance would have been five-hitter that a 3-0 on So likely starters in the mile- rcu-uuuucu -——- put damper and here takes care of g nas aone noimng .• pion is picked to repeat and Guck- I holiday” won't go this time. The boxing its own QTHER as if the Just good he had not become to hurt the Bees. 1 and is to other ar.d-three-sixteenths Eastern turf Washingtons. eyson will be the choice in the visiting fireman won't be spending happy help worthy careless. One of the A's runs came as .eft-handed But the Eastern clubs have javelin classic included Stables So far, in 18 games, American j pitchers. Right-handers proved enterprises, too. Boxing is giving the Wheatley a result of two bases on balls and a have won from little softer for Pie and held certain to score in the Melodist. A. G. Vanderbilt's League managers have thrown j Washington a total of picking Traynor’s Af* fce nifte District's firemen a break.” Now Tedious, double hit Lamar Newsome, one of 10 crew' than the Western y 2 7 tu«| 0*4LY John by 10 southpaws at the Senators.

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