DETROIT TIMES, JULY 3,1942 PAGE 11 Soviet Champ May Be Louis’ Next Foe SPORTS TWO STARS WHO'LL BOLSTER FORT CUSTER NINE TOMORROW Russian Boxer By LEO MACDONELL Cleveland Series Pesky’s Shortstop Play Boudreau and Rizzuto Now Is Battling l Has Made Red Sox, Are League's Best, Offers Detroit Del Baker Says However, He Says Chance for Third In Guerrilla War HITCHCOCK CALLED COMIXK STAR | Johnny Pesky has made the Red Sox, according to Del Tigers Meet Indians A Slugger Like Joe, Baker. 5 Timej in 3 Days; He's Giving Nazis “He tightened up the Boston defense,” Baker explained, in a bag punching fiesta in the Tiger manager's office at Briggs Twin Bill Here Sunday 6 Feet of Red Earth Stadium before a recent Tiger game. The subject of the round tY nli j*. t table discussion was shortstops. By LEO MACDONELL By 808 BRUMBY “I think you’re right, Del,” Wish Egan agreed, “plut* im- International HfruW *|>nrM Writer proved pitching.” With five games In three days YORK. July 3. Joe scheduled with the Indians, the NE W • agreed the Red Sox have had, as the base- All present that Tigers might well be hack in third WlmStrfok*. 187 Louis’ next opponent in the ring ball world iif general knows, place in the American League ¦¦ may be one of the greatest fight- plenty of batting power, standings by Sunday evening. If jj|l ing men our war-bogged world (hey do they enjoy “Not only Ih Penky the will a position has ever seen. in the race they enjoyed earlier best hitter among the league's in the season. In fact, they also There is a possibility that Louis, ahortstops but he is a erarker- boasted the 'second hole on ,a due to army duties, may not be jaok of a fielder,” Baker de- couple of occasions. allowed to defend his heavyweight clared to the others. “He is And with the Yankees on the title 6ntil after the war. If such skids, who knows what may in a class with both Lou Bou- happen the Tigers may wind up m is the case, we learned today, his Johnny Rizzuto.” *LamSr i next foe may be a man of whom dreau and * fighting the Red Sox for the 1942 mm* we’ve heard little or nothing. Both Baker and Eg?n pennant. Or will it be Lou Bou- who be iffj/F His name is Nicolai Korolev agreed that Boudreau is the dreau’s Indians will heavyweight battling the Bostonians? Presum- vHHh and he is the cham- ... Louis, outstanding shortstop in the ing. of course, that the Yankees a Wmmm pion of Soviet Russia. Like American League. Rizzuto, they have stint thrir bolt, -at which- now a corporal in Uncle Sam’s most experts will, of course, scoff. growing legions, Korolev is a said, was a close second. v JUMP slugger. “For a man so slow of NIGHT GAME TONIGHT At present Nicolai is engaged in foot, Boudreau is a surpris- WWmfe* The Tigers and Indians will an important task for the 'United ingly capable performer,” start Nations. He is one of those heroic their week-end marathom guerrillas the he with a night game in behind Nazi lines on Kgan volunteered. “But Cleveland! the central front in Russia. has sure hands and can get tonight, to he followed by a holiday double-header in the same WANTS TO FIGHT JOE that ball away.” jwuk (Cleveland Municipal Sta-' he “Anri l»u has an un- dium) tomorrow. After that When punches now it is for the keeps, is looking canny knack playing the JOHNNY PESKY teams will move to Detroit for a but Nicolai for- of ward to the day when he may hatter just right,” Baker cut in. twin hill Sunday. Virgil Trucks will pitch tonight. engage the great Louis in a sports- manlike bout for the heavyweight Harold Newhouser and Tommy :* w Small Hands Handicap • championship. Don't Boudreau Bridges are elated to hurl tomor- Wy: Lc v !Jf row White “Nicolai in big. strong like a W Egan declared that Boudreau was living proof that big and Hal and Paul bear,” < Dizzy t Trout Sunday. JOHNNY STURM PAT MULLIN Alex Prohkoriv told us bands are not needed by an infieldcr, as has been contended by at the Soviet consulate. “I have virtue of victory ...... By . yesterday's ~, Yankee first baseman last near he's in army vow Tigers' rookie willappear at Briggs Stadium experts in the past. over the to 4. the flash watched Nicolai light most of Browns. 5 his bouts.” “Boudreau has small hands,” the veteran Tiger scout Tigers won an even break in the Prohkoriv spoke with the aid of pointed out. abbreviated two-game series. Al interpreter, Benton, making his last appear- an his friend. Alex- “That’s right,” Baker chimed in, “but he sure can handle Look Who Won ander Fromin, who is attached to ance on the mound before the all- Service Teams Only Kellner that ball.” star game New York Monday, the consulate. in “Nicolai “Watch that Stephens in a couple of jears,” Egan pre- pitched the Tigers the win. is a son of a peas- to ant,” with • Sweep Swinger, a Disappointment All Year Long, Prohkoriv explained dicted. NOT IN TOP FORM great pride in his voice. “He Stephens is the young shortstop up from Toledo who has Play for Title Finally Gets Up to Win a Purse comes from the Tula region in Benton, not in his usual form, Sure to Start ball for the Browns. been playing outstanding struggled to win a drah hall game. / Russia. He weighs 204 pounds, The discussion, of course, got around to Billy Hitchcock, and The big Oklahoman was clouted By EDGAR HAYES CHICAGO. July 3 (IN'S).—Only; stands 5 feet 11 Inches In By LEWIS H. W ALTER Ken Keltner. third baseman for, height and is 26 years old. both Baker and Kgan agreed that the young Tiger shortstop for an assortment of 11 hits, It’ll he a real military’ holiday whereas team- It was now or never for Sweep quested. But he was nowhere be- the Cleveland Indians, could be ( “All his life, Nicolai has liked was coming along fine and one day would take hia place in the eight were all his for Detroit baseball fans, with starting mates garnered off Johnny Nig-' Swinger, when the 3-year-old son hind Shut Out* Alsab and Valdina certain today of for the' to fight. He has been a guer- rtinks of the league's star infielders. Hitchcock they pointed the game between the Great Lakes has American League team in geling and George Caster. All Training Station and Fort of Questionnaire went to the post Orphan in the Derby. And he thej rilla since the beginning of the out, at afield, strong Custer in the place the annual All-Star game Monday country is improving steadily, both bat and has a eight knocks were off Niggeling. topping the program at Briggs the Cranbrook Purse at the De- been in same most of war between our and troit yesterday. night in New York. arm and is fast on the bases. the knurkle-hall artist. Five of Stadium. two teams, the Race Track And time since. i the treacherous Nazis. These —- fortunately for racing Manager Joe McCarthy of the They were asked who was the best shortstop in Tiger his- them were bunched in the sixth best of the service nine, will battle Detroit fans When Sweep Swinger went to have waited this colt New York Yankees, who w ill pilot inning to for the who long for the post in the Cranbrook Purse tory and almost in unison Baker and Egan named Billy Rogell. manufacture four of service championship of the junior circuit aggregation Detroit’s five markers. .the nation. ,to win. Sweep Swinger decided it yesterday he had a record of only The latter was rated over Ownie Bush, considered by some old against th# National Leaguers, One of the five hits was Pinky A colorful program has been 'was “now.’’ one third in 10 starts this year. Mackinac Boats ) The decided just in filed his selections here with Presi- timers as the team's best shortstopper. Higgins’ sixth thej arranged Briggs colt time. Still, he been enough in . home run of for Stadium had close Harridge of the Amer- “Tile trouble with Hogell was he wanted to lw a .31st reason. It camp with no one on He came from last place on the his recent starts to rate over this dent Will jbackstretch to overhaul his rivals ican League. hitter,” Baker laughed, “when he didn’t need to be one. lie base and was driven into the lower field of nonwinners of 1942. McCarthy deck of the left field stands. Billy There will be two fine hands. one by one and sweep to the front s choices and the prob- was a good enough shortstop without being a Bain* Ruth.” JUST AT THE FINISH batting order follow: Tuneup the There he marching and dril- with a charge which brought him Final Hitchcock batted home two of will itight In field Dominic DiMeggln, Boeton: “Yeh,” Egan added. “Rogell and tiehringer made a fine runs with a double and Birdie ling by both soldiers and sailors. past Bing Crosby's pacesetting La ! But it didn t look like Sweep Stanley Spence. Wauhtnicton Boudreau, o\er smart Tigers. acrounted the other large group recruits both Zonga just a few strides from the Swinger 70 Bhort*top Dou Cleveland; Pointe te*m. They put a lot of double pla>s for the Tehhetts for A of for until the mile and Phil Rizzuto, New York Sunday’s Grosse Yacht Billy had a good arm, you know.” when he drove home Rudy York branches of the services will be wire. yards was almost run. It was one Left field Ted William*. Boaton; Bob Club regatta, now one of the most with a single. Ned Harris in th rt sworn in during the ceremonies. Thus victory came at last to a of the toughest even money bets Johneon, Philadelphia. Baker broke up the fiesta when he announced that the Tigers Center field—oJe DlMaggio, Tommy popular yachting events of the inning A short tribute he colt which has been one of the dis- first hatted Ramey Me- will paid in ever collected, when Kempton Henrich, both of New York were about to have batting practice. Cosky across the plate for the memory of Gene Stack. Fort Cus- appointments of the Detroit turf Knott brought that colt swinging Flrat base-George McQulnn. St. Louie; season under the guidance of Tore ter who died last week season and his Detroit owner. RUDY YORK. DETROIT first Tiger tally. pitcher around the field and won out in Second base Joe Gordon, New York; Franzen. will afford skippers of The Printers Have a Sound Idea For five innings Benton held after pitching a game. Lieut. T. D. Buhl. The colt of the last rush to the wire. Bobby Doerr, Boston. larger boats a chance for a final patriotic Third bate- Keltner. the Brownies to three hits and no All this will add a which Buhl thought enough to; the tuneup for the Port Huron-Mack- Before us is a complaint. It reads: to grand game If Buhl colt hadn’t scored Catcher -Bill Dickey and Warren Roear. runs. Then he weakened and the touch a hall be- start in the Kentucky Derby the public choices would have had both of New York, and GEORGE TEB- mac race a week from tomorrow. Supreme UPIGA Court. State of Michigan visitors started to go. Mike Char- tween two great clubs. Tickets finally won his first race of the had day. BETTB, DETROIT. The progranl provides a place may he Briggs a very As it was. W. E. City of Detroit tak drove home Walter Judnich obtained Sta- year and finished in the money for up by for every racing class with the dium or at any Cunningham drug Ball’s Hover got a nose to In Re: t’nion Printcraft International Golf Association vs. with a marker in the sixth. Don the second time in his campaign win the third race from Shaker- first division starting at 11 a. m. Gutteridge another run in store. as a 3-year-old. . in front of the G. P. Y. C.’s dock. Maedonell. Complaint. Returnable August 9-14. 1942. scored Man and provide another favo- Great Lakes Wins the seventh Two more runs scored MULLIN' WITH CUSTER RECORD victory. Yachtsmen are advised that they - QOOD JUVENILE rite’s Inside the formidable looking document it reads “Summons in the eighth when Vcrn Stephens will be able to purchase their The Fort Custer team will be While jockey Johnny Adams The Fairway and Bunker Board of Detroit l PIGA send greetings singl'd and scored on a triple hv Trainer A. G. Wilson and owner was taking the riding Over Chanute Field dinner at the club following the in reality an army team with they bargain honors with —etc., etc. Chartak. and Chartak himself Buhl believed had a triumphs aboard Hover at $5.20. July 3 (UP).—The races. many stars from other posts in Swinger CHICAGO. scored on an outfield out. when they' claimed Sweep Finally at $18.20 and Sherlock at Indians-Chicago Sunday’s regatta is the last All of which charges that we have been indicted for not the lineup. There will be the from the Greentree Farm when he Cleveland White on A double play cheeked another sll. two other jockeys found them- Sox night game at Comiskcy Park, inter-club affair Lake St. Clair giving proper support to tne Union Printers nineteenth annual spectacular Pat Mullin of the his start at the St. I>ouis rally in the ninth. Har- made third Hialeah selves selves in trouble. They were played night benefit for all classes until Windsor national golf tournament, to be held at the Warren Valley Club Tigers. It will he Pat’s first ap- as a 2-year-old. last for the Yacht Cluh event July 26. pearance the home folks in Eddie Tucker and Euclid Le Blanc, of Army-Navy relief, drew the in (Continued on Page 1?) before They still thought so at the end here in Detroit August. going Tuckpr was gate in an American more than a year. He was the year, in i fined SIOO for largest The I’nion Printcraft International Golf Association tourna- of which Sweep knocking the favored Sandy Sku League relief game so far— 29,062 Belle Isle Old Timers at top sy*eed and was the rookie Swinger $11,580 golf of when he had won and almost to its knees wihle aboard fans who paid $33,352. Cleveland Isle ment is probably the world's largest industrial organization. the veaf last summer three races, including Members of the Belle Old his it the Endur- Crosby’s Swingy Wingy in the heat the White Sox, and the Timers are asked to at The health factor of golf for men who work inside was the 3 Harness Races broke shoulder. Before ance Handicap of a mile and 70 7*5. report came time to report at Lakeland fourth race. Le Blanc was sus- Great Lakes Naval Training Sta- Northwestern Field reason for the establishment of the The have yards at. Bowie on November 11. at 10 a. m. UPIGA. printers spring. the army. pended indefinitely pending the tion team, Johnny Rigney tomorrow games. this Pat .mined Something more important than with and Sunday for demonstrated the physical conditioning value of golf that other Tap at j Pat was a great favorite with stewards’ investigation of his ride and Freddy Hutchinson pitching Military drills will be held at the On Richmond the $6,525 purse was attached to plant workers can use to positive advantage in a nation that now- Detroit fan*- and his appearance on Madam Gray, which finished four-hit ball, defeated Chanute Belle Isle fiield, Manager Elmer RICHMOND, July X- A pro- the colt’s big victory. It looked must have top efficiency in every factory. here will he a gala event. His third in the last race Tuesday. Field. 7-1, in the twilight opener. Kahl advises. gram of harness races is on sched- injured shoulder has completely like Sweep Swinger could go a part the distance, Derby ule here tomnrroxx a* of healed and he'll he ready to go. might he material. sports and had plenty Independence Day program. Another lormcr major leaguer Buhl Wilson of Lois of Time from when So many cnlrics came in all on the team willbe Johnny Sturm company this spring Sweep Lalifornian Nears Auto Title 50 Clubs to Play over Michigan, and from Ohio, that of the Yankees, one of the best Swinger ran fourth to Colchis in 10-Year-Old Netman Can three stables were rented away first hasemon in the league last the Chesapeake Stakes, beaten By DON W. LEE from the track to take care of the only two and a half lengths. He year. Cecil Travis. Washington McCoy overflow. Between the three races, top year, also b> was right Alsab and Re- D. L. of Pomona. Cal., Charge It to Practice hitter last will frehind appears to there will he running events for on hand. Mickey Harris, home be headed for the For Cross Shetland pome; with their young Canal championship of the third national Red from the Panama on fur- Ten-xear-old John Koliha can be owners as Jockeys. lough. will he with th" army out- Major League miniature race car meet, to be By M. F. PRUKENBROO comforted today in the thought pitched game re- completed here today. that fit. He a no-hit he has xears of tennis m. m- McCoy turned in the fastest at than 50 Michi- cently. Standings Golfers more ahead, and losing in the opening Probable Pitchers speed in the Spur Gear class for bo swinging R, l Rllril l’re*« gan clubs will with round of the first annual Ham- AMERICAN LEAGUE the quarter, and half-mile event* tennis .NATION XI. IKAC.I r. all their might for the American tramck closed champion- Philadelphia held Wednesday and yesterday. ships ftrrv.Kl'n