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\ to See 50,000 Intercollegiate Championship Regatta a t Poughkeepsie Today Win, Lose or Draw 'Hof' Ball Clubs California Is 6-5 By FRANCIS E. STAN, Star Stall Correspondent. Now Meeting Choice fo Win Here Come the British PRINCETON, N. J., June 17.—I sye, these blooming British are play- Foes ing their trump cards, don't you know. First the blighters send over the Tough 4-Mile Tesf Queen, and ''ere today is Mr. Sydney Wooderson. ’E's the champion, bloody well. Yanks and Cards Will It is about time, you say? Well, possibly so. It has been a long time Bears Not Worried by iince the English have whacked the Americans in the sports field. Messrs. Seek to Cool Off Tommy Hitchcock, et al., won easily in the international polo series. Outside Lane Where Uncle Sam’s riders took the first tilt, 11 to 7, and the second by 9 to 4. Tigers, Giants Water Is Tomorrow they play again at Meadowbrook, but it doesn’t count. Two Roughest ©ut of three wins. By JUDSON BAILEY, Ai«ocl»ted Press Sports Writer. By BILL BONI, The English haven't been heard from lately in golf in this country. Associated Press Baseball’s thermostat, the New Sport! Writer. Aa a matter of fact, neither have 47 of the United States. The National York Yankees and St. Louis Cardi- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.. June in 1937 and 1938 was Guldahl, from Dallas, and 17.—Seven little Open champion Ralph nals, today were ready for the job fellows, each as and when Ralph putted the crown off his head last week along came Byron of bringing the boiling Detroit Tigers cocky arrogant as a bantam Nelson from Fort Worth to pick it up. We’re not certain it is Dallas and and New York Giants under control. rooster, will be hunched forward in their seats this Fort Worth, in that order, but it seems that Texas has some sort of a With the Tigers tearing along on afternoon, hands a hauling rudder-ropes mega- monopoly. top 9-game winning streak and the taut, Giants steaming on 8 straight, the phones strapped to their mouths, alert for the task of stopping them loomed as a signal that starts the climactic 4-mile Horizontal Heavyweights Were No Help major chore. BEARS CAN TAKE IT—California’s varsity race in the Detroit crew, prime favorites in the In the intercollegiate regatta. finished its sweep of a 4- the megaphone. boat, from right to left, are Jim Since Fred decided to play for straight cash instead of housing regatta at N. took a From then Perry game series at Boston yesterday by Poughkeepsie, Y., mile workout yes- Dieterich, Kirk on, all eyes will be on and clubhouse the haven't coxswain; Smith, stroke; Chet Gibson, Stan the and real estate bargains privileges, English coasting to an 8-7 victory over the terday despite rough water and high winds that most of husky oarsmen pulling the kept Freeborn, Emil Bergh, Lin Dafe De been heard from, loudly, in tennis. When the Davis Cup final was played Red Sox on a 5-run cluster in the their six rivals oft the Hudson. Coach Emerson, Varona, Stan sweeps for California. Cornell, Wash- Ky Ebright (left) handles Backlund and Ben Roe. last summer at Germantown there were a few' fellows around who spoke fourth. This margin was more than —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ington, Navy, Columbia, Syracuse and Wisconsin. with broad A's, but they belonged to the Australian team. The American Boston could overcome when the Red But the seven lit- tle Sockers started in the sev- fellows, any one of whom would team of J. Donald Budge won in a walk. socking enth. make a good jockey for Johnstown worst British however, Was furnished boxers. The sports stigma, by Capital's Rackefers will be in there Demaree Are Unfeazed His doing their bit First there was Joe Beckett, the horizontal heavyweight, and then along Bonura, Potent. by Race Fields Strikeouts, Batting They are the coxwains of tfafcij won no for old and The Giants, likewise, finished their came Phainting Phil Scott. They glory England, crews that will contest for the over mopping up at Chicago by taking for a period there were no campaigning British boxers here. Favored to Retain Prichard championship won by Navy last a big early lead over the Cubs and Keeps Shift as a or so Farr, himself Swinging; Leaders year. To the But year ago Tommy disguising by remaining 50.000 spectators on then choking off a 3-run flurry in on his feet, sneaked into the land and began to fight. Farr indicated the observation train, the fleet of the seventh to win, 6-4. A pair of the breed was for, while he managed to lose to Hotchkiss Heartens Nats pleasure boats and the river banks, English boxing improving, Chicago expatriates. Frank Demaree Cup Kelley By BURTON Increase Pace they merely are the boys who make everybody he fought over here—Louis, Baer, Braddock, Burman, etc.— and Zeke Bonura, accounted for five HAWKINS. major league Is what Bob pitching a lot of noise and he contrived to remain of New York's Prichard, the Nats’ brand- Harris is determined get pitched into upright. runs. Bonura tripled to discover. the drink Victory Over Baltimore new first baseman who has provided from the boathouse dock As a matter of fact, Mr. Farr lost his way into becoming one of the with two on base in the first Prichard was something of a sen- inning a Cards' when the race is over. and special cooling system for cus- sation in i Tigers' Tebbetts, To the oars- biggest money-makers in the racket. He lost to Louis and was so inter- Demaree singled him home, then Looms After Defeat the Piedmont League, bat- tomers at Griffith Stadium these men, they may mean the difference doubled two more runs across in the ting .346, smashing many extra-base Moore Move esting in defeat that Promoter Mike Jacobs made haste to sign him for past few days Medwick, between defeat and fifth inning. Of Norfolk Team by swinging lustily at blows and in general conducting victory. more matches. For a while the Tonypandy Tapper was making money stray pitches, Their foes in this week end's fea- generally missing and himself as though he relished the Up to Top Tens Coxswain Captains Bears. hand over fist as he kept his record intact, but, in the end, he made a Special Diepaich to The Star. thereby creating gentle breezes, is ture sessions have just completed opportunity of the major league trial If the California varsity, favorite mistake. Farr went back to and Burman a return match going to follow that formula until he By the Associated Press. England fought two cooling-off assignments. The June winch finally presented itself. at 6 to 5, returns the BALTIMORE, 17.—Wash- catches with champion- ever there. And, blast it all, the blooming blighter bloody well blew. He Cardinals the up the league's hurlers. Bob's is NEW YORK, June to the stopped Dodgers, 7-6, ingtons tennis squad was a heavy fielding snappy and pol- 17.—Although ship West Coast for the sixth won and broke his streak. Robust Robert, a nice ished. He can the major time yesterday in the marginal game of favorite to retain the Hotchkiss Cup guy who pick balls out of the league hitting leadership in seven years, young Jim their comprises a slice dust, he can remained in the series after the Dodgers had for another year today as its crack generous of the stretch for 'em and he's competent nands Dietrich will have done more than population of smart. If he clicks of Morrie Arnovich and spurted from fifth to third place in ; players met Baltimore in the final Paris, Tex., officially at the plate— George Mc- his share. Though he's only 5 feet 3 Princeton Field One of Greatest the has been to bat 11 times and he believes he Quinn the week, there was National League within a week. match of the annual two-day series. and oil will—Washington during and weighs 122 pounds, the spunky we The defeat four of those occasions he has struck fans are due to view the plenty of the But were talking about Wooderson and today was the day the dropped the Dodgers Despite that the host team blanked 21-year-old shuffling among pur- little junior has been the leader of back to out. but Not Prichard at first base for some suers in a direct ratio to the chappie who is supposed to be the greatest miler was to be asked to fourth, behind their hated Richmond. 9-0, yesterday while emphatically. timid, per- the Bears, who don’t have a cap- rivals "Them Jints.” With Joe Med- half-hearted gestures, but the seasons. formances of their teams. tain. prove it over this Princeton track, best and fastest in the land. We don't Washington dropped a match in sweep- wick strokes There- was a For and Don Padgett hom- beating Norfolk. 8-1, Baltimore's ing. powerful of a fellow note of optimism instance the Cleveland In- it will be his to know what to of but even with hitting job keep the happened Zamperini California, Zampy who figures to the Nats dians ran the ers, each with a man on base, Lon netmen were not considered in the give that ball a among today, for Harry into American Bears in their outside No.