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Win, Lose or Draw McKeldin Raps Elixir, 18 to 1r Karver, Devlin By CHARLES M. EGAN Sports Editor of Th« Star Move to Boost Wins $72,400 And Joe Hofup IF TURN-TO SHOULD WIN the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah late this month, Harry Guggenheim’s promising colt not only would become the favorite for the Kentucky Derby, but he’d probably start the Irish and English Race Bet Tax McLennan Xap Lead Victory
squabbling again... . Irish breeders, seeking to develop their own export trade, already f Delegate's Proposal Royal Vale Second, 6,500 Fans See GW are pointing out, rather tartly, that the son £ For 15 Per Cent Cut But Is Disqualified; Break Tie and Win of the famed Royal Changer was bred and T| kA jjPI reared in County Wicklow, and that isn’t | Jj| v jP Termed Dangerous Hialeah Has 26,347 In Last 2 Minutes
. on England, y’ know. . . The British, in |p£ ¦v *he Associated Press By the Associated Press Special Dispatch to The Star occasion, geography in claim- W - have ignored Jf ANNAPOLIS, Feb 6. —Gov. MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 6.—Elixir, DURHAM, N. C., Feb. ing Turn-To as their own, just as they did > McKeldin said today it would be a 6-year-old chestnut gelding George Washington University’! a few years ago when Noor, foaled in dangerous to increase Maryland’s who likes Florida tracks, ran the n JHh basketball team scored its big- County Kerry, beat Citation four straight tax on horse race betting. best race of his life today to win gest victory of the season her* The formal statement from the ! the $72,400 McLennan Handicap tonight, a down-to-the-wire, 76- Republican Gpvernor was his 71 victory over Duke before 6,500 Even the coaches, it seems, concede that at Hialeah Park before the sea- first shot in what promises to be- ; son’s biggest turnout of 26,347. fans. some of college basketball a aspects are J|\ wU come a lively exchange over taxes Elixir, ridden by Sammy The victory was a decisive little silly Coach BUI Reinhart whose with the Democrat-controlled fioulmetis and carrying only 110 answer to GW's critics who George Washington team upset Duke last General Assembly now in session. pounds, caught the tiring leaders claimed the Colonials had good suggestion boosting coasted night at Durham, recently cited the futility of having a The for the . in the final stride and won by to National fame at the post-season conference State’s take on race track betting half a length over Mrs. Esther expense of weak-to-mediocre op- season stacked up against these position. said, “is came earlier this week from De- duPont Thouron’s Royal Vale. The Blue Devils were . . really counts,’’ . “What Reinhart tournaments. legate A Gordon Boone. Balti- ranked No. 8 in the latest Asso- . .. latter, top weight game the last day of the tournament. The under poll to win that last on more County Democrat. of 126 pounds with Jackie West- ciated Press and GW was gone the record previously Apparently, everything that has on The Governor presented a ! rope up, also closed fast, but No. 11. is forgotten. $238 million budget to the Gen- disqualified by the Joe Holup, Elliott Karver and was stewards Corky Promoter McMahon has hopes of getting boxing eral Assembly when it convened and dropped to last in the bulky Devlin combined to give Vince Wednesday for its 30-day session. the triple basis at Turner's Arena and was field of 16. The English-bred, Colonials a scoring back on a weekly club fight was a budget, as punch that . It balanced sent Duke down to March. . . I twice loser of photo-finish de- planning to start about the second week in requires, Dem- in games. Smith j the law but some cisions to Tom Fool last year, its fifth loss 19 GW were bouts involving Holly Mims, Gene : because -1 has won 13 only In the works ocrats yelled "foul" of was lugging in while losing to or another, all fell one of its disqualified for Maryland. and Floyd Patterson but, for one reason provisions. early in the stretch run, caus- it may be April before McMahon gets going. . . . Switches Utility Collection. Holup Tops With 26. through and | ing crowding among the other Holup, right-hander who is rejoining the St. get to playing with his wrist Tom Poholsky, big In order to $5.191.348 horses. still in a cast from the Army at Fort make the budget balance. Gov. Sam Tufano’s Wise Margin as a result of a Louis Cardinals following his release sprain suffered against VMI al- in engineeiing proposed to collect the and was moved Beivoir, has been taking an extension course McKeldin finished third most a month ago, gross receipts tax on utilities, second, with Eugene Con- scored 26 University. up to points. was good at Catholic transportation companies and stantin’s Bay Gem taking Karver for 20 • • • • Royal and Devlin trust companies in June, 1955, Hoy Arma- 17. third. Cain Stable’s Devlin, the top FEW RECENT SPORTS STORIES caused more discussion instead of August. This would geddon foul shooter was fourth. in the Nation going into tonight's of the record books than the appointment of make the income from the tax or thumbing Favorite Off Badly. game with 50 out of 55, made . . apply the 1955 budget, now 25-year-old Terry Brennan as Notre Dame football coach. . to five for eight in under consideration, instead of Valley Farm's Impasse, the j a game which one wire service said flatly that he was the youngest was times, At least 1956. 9-to-5 favorite, broke last and I tied 11 college team. . . . j man ever named head coach of a major Unless the Democrats agree to never was a factor, finishing OUTSIDER TAKES McLENNAN—EIixir, ridden by Sammy Boulmetis and paying $38.70, leads i Duke, which trailed through- Ted Coy and other Yale captains served as the idea, they are faced with the 10th. Royal Vale was second out most the second and third Nevertheless. the field across the finish line in the $72,400 McLennan Handicap at Hialeah Park yesterday. quarters, . put on a autumn after they graduated. . . And Frank necessity of raising other taxes choice in the betting at 7 to 1. I furious rally head coach the (left of Elixir), the second choice in the who in final and Carideo, All-America quarterback of Knute Rockne’s last or pruning about $5 million from > Elixir went off at 18 to 1 and Second was Royal Vale race, was disqualified : the almost pulled budget. paid $38.70, $22.30 and $11.30. the game out. two teams, was barely 24 when he became head coach at the Governor’s for lugging in. Wise Margin (behind Royal Vale) was placed second 2nd paid $25.10 for So Boone suggested that the Wise Margin returned $25 10 and With two minutes and 10 sec- . . . Surprisingly, another Notre Dame place. Royal Bay Gem (left of Wise Margin), the show horse, returned $14.50. Missouri in 1932. like State get 30 cents out of each $2 $14.10. The show price on Royal onds remaining, the Blue Devils nearly as good at —AP Wirephoto. tied great, Harry Stuhldreher, Carideo wasn’t , bet at the race tracks instead of Bay Gem was $14.50. | it at 69-all. Devlin and coaching as he was at quarterbacking. 20—or 15 per cent instead of Elixir ran the mile and an Rudy Lacy each scored a goal The Brennan appointment, based on his brilliant success 10. eighth in 1:49. only IS seconds | to tie it again at 71. Supported by Governor Karver, with schoolboys in Chicago, also brought on talk of Paul Gov. McKeldin said: off the track record. The frac- I But Ed Catino and “I am opposed to any tam- tions were 225, l:10 2s and Keeps i Joe Holup each made a free Brown’s high school feats ih Massillon, Ohio. . . . But back 455. Brennan Druze pering with the tax rate struc- 1:365. throw to give GW a 74-71 li-ad. in 1913 when Eastern football was considered supreme, an who sparked ture. The race was the richest in Bryant's Release at Kentucky Devlin, the Co- obscure Midwesterner named Bob Zuppke took his Oak Park "The proposal to increase the 19 runnings of the McLennan, And Earley as Aides, lonials to a seven-point halftime (111.) High School team to Boston and routed Everett High, tax on race track wagering is major prep for the SIOO,OOO- lead, put the lid on with a field - goal just before the gun New England standouts, 80-0. . . . Zuppke, who couldn’t make I particularly objectionable and, Widener to be run two Predicted Within 48 Hours i sounded. Illinois job indeed, dangerous. There is no weeks from today, and Elixir's Klein Blanks D’Emilio. the Wisconsin team in his college days, got the Eyes 2 Prep Coaches By the Associated Press acceptance of Bryant's resigna- assurance it would raise the rev- owner. Dave J. Schneider of Just as important to on the strength of that crusher and remained there until By the Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky.. Feb. 6. tion unless a suitable replace- GW as enue its sponsor has estimated. Forest Hills, L. 1., picked up the the 63 points registered by the - i ... Red Grange, George is in sight. retired in 1941. He developed ment - - he We would be faced with the winner s purse of $53,800. Elixir SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 6 The Louisville Courier Journal Holup Karver Devlin combine . Oak Park is . Incidentally, Halas and other great ones. . possibility of a deficit. earned $63,555 in 20 starts last Terry Brennan. Notre Dame’s said tonight that the University “Coming at this particular was the floor work of little an old time, prac- the Chicago suburb in which Ernest Hemingway, “The Board of Revenue Esti- l year. 25-year-old head football coach, of Kentucky’s Athletic Associa- with spring football George Klein. Klein scored only ; already has tice in the offing, and on such eight high school footballer himself, was reared. mates estimated a Ninth At Half-Mile Pole. began reorganizing of the tion would meet within 48 hours points, but played his drop per average today late notice, it poses a Speedy Rush was another coach who went from a high of 5 cent in the Elixir was off fast but dropped and give Paul (Bean Bryant his difficult usual fine game and held Duke's daily wagering for fiscal 1955. back to eighth they rounded Irish staff by retaining two of problem for the University Ath- Rudy D Emilio school to the big time. ... He was teaching the game to as requested release as head foot- scoreless from It has cut the estimate of wager- • resigned Frank Leahy's six as- letic Association,” Dr. Donovan the floor. D'Emilio, over at Princeton in the clubhouse turn and was ball coa£h. Duke's top schoolboys in Cleveland before he took ing revenue from $3,290,000 to ninth the pole. sistants. asserted. scorer with an average of about coach. at half-mile He The newspaper said a poll of 1915 as the Tigers’ first professional $3,188,000. started picking up around the j They are Johnny Druze. 39. At College Station, Tex., Pres- 15 points a game, picked up five • • • • I athletic association officials re- “With a 50 per cent far turn third end coach, and Bill Early, 32, ident David H. Morgan indi- points increase and was when the meeting would be from the foul line. in the take from such betting, they | backfield assistant. vealed adopt Joe Belmont ADDING TO THE-UNHAPPINESS of Norval Baptie. the headed into the stretch. only formality. It also cated Texas A&M would and Ronnie many of the bettors would be in- Mrs. Ada L. Brennan said he has “two out- a re- wait-and-see policy. Mayer were high for Duke, ice skating wizard whose left leg was amputated the other Rice's Mr. Para- ported Gov. Law’rence a each clined to concentrate their ac- side people definitely in mind” that with 15 points, in Baltimore the doctors’ dictum that dise set the early pace, with Wetherby felt Bryant is entitled Dr. Morgan said the negotia- while Lacy scored day a hospital, was tivities at tracks outside Mary- to complete his varsity staff and James Cox Brady's Landlocked tions, under which Bryant was 12 points, eight of them on 16 he give up cigars . . . Baptie, who will be 75 next month, land. There also would be an may pick one other of Leahy's to his release. foul pressing for the lead until they offered a six-year contract at shots. never smoked he . . . But the cigar, jauntily increase in illegal, off-track assistants for a "B’ or freshman Bryant, with nine years re- until was 50. bet- passed the half-mile pole. There a year, had not included The Colonials led at the end ting.” assignment. maining in his with 515.000 angled, was to become a characteristic touch in most photos Landlocked took the lead briefly, team contract Bryant's actual acceptance. of each quarter: 20-18, 39-32 It is reported Brennan may Kentucky, is waiting to sign up of the little Scotsman. Collection Date ‘Logical.’ with Armageddon running third and 56-53. choose for varsity assistants as athletic director and head “We made the offer and he in from McKeldin Mr. Paradise Rave up after two GW ran up a 7-1 lead in the Jockey Jackie Westrope who planed California said it would be High & wired us (Thursday) that he was they straightened out the Chicago Catholic School football coach at Texas A. M. opening minutes, but the Blue to ride Royal Vale in yesterday’s McLennan Handicap at ; “particularly unwise” to substi- ih He said today he couldn't be resigning at Kentucky. That's tute increase home stretch and Elixir took League coaches. One is Ed Miesz- Devils finally got started and have fortune was failing him at j an in betting taxes kowski, the way things stand now.” Hialeah, might figured for the shift over, with Royal Vale and Wise his assistant when Bren- persuaded’ to remain at Ken- he proposed in the Tonight's Courier - Journal (See . . . before, had rejected the Carmel tucky. GWU, Page C-3.) Santa Anita. Just a week he date for collecting the Margin moving up. Armageddon nan directed Mount to gross re- three straight story quoted Gov. Wetherby as mount on Apple Valley, winner of the SIOO,OOO-addcd Maturity, ceipts tax. dropped to fifth at end and an unprecedented The football coach would not the prep saying: . (1950-51-52 Chicago school . . decision elaborate on his in order to ride By Zeus, the place horse. The He said moving the date up is jW. Arnold Hanger’s Iceberg fin- i terse statement. "Paul came me titles. Mieszkowski now is Mount It came after Kentucky’s to before he cost him nearly $9,000. “something that logically could ished sixth, a neck in front of presi- made his decision. He asked me Conlin have been done, and the tired Landlocked. Carmel head coach. dent, Dr. Herman L. Donovan, Paces The Senators never had a more loyal rooter than Gen. probably I Both Irish Products, should have been Betting said he would not recommend 'See Page C-2.) Peyton C. March, who fractured his right hip a few days done, when the Exreeds S 3 Million i The other is Max Burnell, BRYANT. State's fiscal year was changed Elixir won. an allowance race Fordham at his home . . . The 89-year-old general, coach of St. George High, 1953 Over ago in a fall ; from one ending September 30 Tropical early missed at Park last Chicago champions. Both Miesz- Army Chief of Staff during World War I, hardly ever to one ending June 30.” month and Arizin Held to 12 Points following his finished fifth a week kowski and Burnell are Notre a ball game at Griffith Stadium in the years The Governor went on: ago in the Royal Palm at a mile Hoyas, 68-51 Dame products. Special Dispatch to Star . . . course, was when who choose The retirement in the late 19205. That, of “Those to call the and a furlong. of Druze and administration's program by Appointment baseball was an afternoon game. i such “Down the back side I wouldn't Earley was announced by Ath- Duquesne Keeps Clean Mark NEW YORK, Feb. 6—Ford- • • * • names as 'phony bookkeeping,’ quarter give you a for the horse,” letic Director Edward W. Krause, ham breezed to its sixth straight '•unsound trick, triumph financing,’ ‘a Boulmetis said after the race, who made no mention of Leahy's basketball and 14th in WITH OLD BYRD STADIUM and its lights now part of and so are misrepresenting By 16 on., i "He didn't look like he had a four other assistants, former All- Defeating Quantico, 81-68 starts last night in walloping Fraternity Row, Maryland will play its spring football game the facts and seeking to confuse chance, but Georgetown University. about the eighth America Quarterback Johnny Special Dispatch to The Star nova and Philadelphia Warriors 68-51. to- with the Alumni on a Saturday afternoon for the first the public. pole he moved up and that was night before about 2,500 fans at “A Lujack, 42-year-old Joe McArdle, MONESSEN. Pa., Feb. 6. star and the man on whom the . bill which was introduced the . . the not-too-far-fetched possibility all it took. I ridden Bronx time. And because of that have Bob Mcßride and Wally Ziemba Duquesne University toyed with Marines’ chances de- School. by the Speaker of the House in him before, but he never ran chiefly Big Ed Conlin again was the that they might be Orange Bowl opponents next January 1, In Chicago. Lujack told re- the Quantico Marines for one pended, wound up only the 1953 session carried a similar like this.” with 12 driving force as Coach Johnny Maryland and Missouri are still trying to shift their Npvember porters he "definitely” will not quarter and then turned on the points, about 15 points under his provision to restore the collec- Conn McCreary, riding Wise Bach's Rams rolled to victory. •» he 27 football date to September. tion of the tax, as applied to coach next year because wants heat for an 81-68 victory at average. He Margin, said “any break in the devote all his time his in- became the fourth player in And getting back to Terry Brennan, one of the more railroads, to a current fiscal to to Monessen High School tonight. Dick Ricketts, a 6-foot-7' de- Fordham I race and I would have won it. business. 2 basketball nistory to bits of trivia about the young coach concerns For surance The victory, seen by an over- fensive and offensive star, tied score than 1.000 points interesting (See McKELDIN, Page C-5.) I a while, it looked like I "I thought about it long before more in might get flow crowd of 3.400, was No. 19 up Arizin and when the 6-foot-4 his collegiate high- his father, Martin J. Brennan, 68-year-old Milwaukee | that break.” Frank resigned,” Lujack said, career. The The big crowd poured for the unbeaten Dukes, ranked Marine tried to shoot from the scoring star from Brooklyn ... It seems that the old gentleman missed seeing $313,- decided I couldn’t lawyer. “and that just second behind Kentucky in the bucket he found two and three tapped one kickoff 97 yards in the 1947 421 through the betting ma- afford split up the year into in 3 minutes and 37 his boy run back the opening Western Kentucky to Associated Press poll. guarders. seconds after play for chines on the McLennan alone two businesses.” started to top game against Army. ... “I was outside the gate waiting the after wagering $272,458 on the McArdle, who like Druze had The Marines, winners of 30 Sihugo Green, a 6-foot-2 Ne- 1.000 mark by a point. Con- some friends,” the father recalls. previous of games tonight, gro lin then went on Undefeated Record race. followed Leahy to Notre in 31 before had with a 15-point per game to rack up 29 Dame hopes upsetting more to Betting on the nine-race pro- College, of the Dukes average, led with 25 points. He lead the scoring. 1941 from Boston said he • in totaled and thereby getting some and Tucker With Georgetown coming to Snapped Upset gram $2,112,752, far would step out of the picture at sort Julian were chiefly By Iho Associated Press recognition responsible town with an injury and exam- more than on McLennan Day Notre Dame when Leahy’s resig- of national even for breaking the Maryland Boxers Win, 6-2, RICHMOND. Ky., Feb. 6 i last year, when the handle was though the game was billed as game open. riddled squad, the surprising Eastern turnout interested primarily Kentucky smacked $1,797,603. (See BRENNAN, page C-2.) an exhibition. The game was | Tucker went was to work in the in seeing Conlin take Western Kentucky from the un- played for the benefit of the second quarter, while Green had his place In Match With Penn State | beaten ranks tonight with a 63- Knights of Columbus here. alongside Gerry Smith, Fred and Carlson, University of Maryland right-hand chop early in the first 54 victory over the Nation's Paul Arizin, the former Villa- ' C-2.) Christ Bill former The I (See DUQUESNE. Page Rams with its second wind to stave off; round. The stocky Kois battered fourth-ranking team. more than 1.000 used Barthel Wins Mile at Garden; points to their credit. Penn State and score a 6-2 box- I Rhodes around the ring and Eastern Kentucky, with just ing victory last night before 3,000 I dropped him again with a left five wins in 16 starts this season, A1 Larkin, Ed Parchinski and spectators in Ritchie Coliseum. hook. Rhodes got up at the avenged 122-78 and 81-72 de- Whitfield Takes 880 and 600 Basketball Results Don Lyons led the Rams to a 6-0 Maryland thus evened its i bell. • feats in two previous meetings lead in the opening minutes as Special Dispatch to The Star to better the figures of 8:26.4 set WASHINGTON AREA. with Western by employing a Manhattan 58 CUNY .47 Conlin missed on his first two record at 1-1 while the Nittany ’ Kois landed a right hand mid- NEW YORK, Feb. by Paavo Nurmi in 1925. Duquesne 81 68 Mciccr 88 Florid* Soulnrrn 05 tight and 6.—Josy' Quantiro Michigan Lions lost their second in a row. way second, I defense setting up its Barthel, I orriham 68 Geoigclow n ~1 Normal 81 111. Normal 11 attempts from the floor after in the but received Olympic 1,500-meter Charlie Capozzoli, former George Washington 76 Duke 71 Minnesota 67 Poruuc lit ¦ offensive opportunities with (>3 entering the game 999 The Terps’ only loss last night , a sudden straight right jolt in champion from Luxembourg, won Georgetown star running G. W. Irosh IH Columbian Prep 39 Mississippi Mississippi Mate 53 with great care now Montgomery J. C. 88 1 rustburs 81 ! Muhlenberg 7« Gettysburg 70 points. Then, in a scramble came in the 147-pound division i return that put him on his back, the Wanamaker Mile and Mai for the New York A. C. finished Navy 71 Harvard