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In Jjkt 49” 54” | •• C-2 THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. settled weather, believe WEDNESDAY, MAY 3#, 1936 I we that BASEBALL RESULTS crabbing and fishing will fall Nine-Horse Field Adios Harry into the usual pattern and pro- TO DECIDE SITE OF ' duce a lot more sport. in *** * TWIN CITIES FIGHT If you enjoy shotgun shooting, jjKt OUTDOORS by May all means set.aside this week In Dixie Headed ST. PAUL, Minn., 30 Is Favorite for Jgk, . • to (A5 ). Deadlocked boxing With BILL LEETCH end witness the 20th North- promoters in Minneapolis South shoot at the grounds of and St Paul came up today the National Capital Skeet and By with an unusual for Trap Club Friday and Saturday. Blue Choir solution Triple I Crown This is one of the most colorful ¦ I the location of a fight in- We’re just back from a trout occasion, writes By JOSEPH B. KELLY volving Harry, who t also to say the of all the great national shoot- a pair of middle- Adios set a world’s fishing expedition to Pennsyl- terrible, Star Racing Editor for 11/16 1 ¦ weather has been with ing events, and many of this weight rivals. They decided record miles last week vania. where put in fine mostly high BALTIMORE. May 30—One at Rosecroft, gets another we a ; winds, but that country’s finest shotgun artists to let the outcome of today’s shot day in pursuit of there plenty of the best turf races yet pre- at the mile mark tonight at the native brown i seem to be of will compete. We’ll have the de- double-header between the trout under the tutelage of John croakers In bay. experi- sented this year headlined Pim- Minneapolis Millers and St. Oxon Hijl harness track. i the His tails In our Friday column. Alden Knight, whom we con- ence with them concurs Today lico's Memorial Day program great pacer ¦ with is opening day for bass 1 Paul Saints decide the site. The heads a field, tops as a freshwater angler. ours in that they bite night. and officials looked for a big day Minneapolis sider at 1 fishing in the Tidal Basin. promotors for of six free-for-all stars, including The trout were there, because : He’s been shrimp despite competition from both weeks his big using, “store” i j 1 have insisted that a rival of the 1956 sea- we saw them in numbers, but we : He says there good! Delaware Park and Garden State. Joe son, Philip are some June bout between Scott, in the first ; could not catch them. We fished sized hardheads, although A's Recall Harrington Nine horses were entered in Schmolze of Minneapolis SIO,OOO leg of Maryland’s “Triple during 1 most; .-'<¦«— 1 ¦ the afternoon under ad- • range around a pound in weight.! i the featured Dixie Handicap at Hergerle pacing ' KANSAS CITY, May 30 (A’V—- ' Wl%- and Jim of St. Paul Crown” series. verse conditions of high head- He has also quite I a mile and three-eights on grass, should be held in Minne- ¦ noticed a fewiThe Athletics have recalled with Mrs. H. L. Nathenson’s Blue ; He’ll be shooting for the winds and dropping tempera- • crabs and says the commercial Pitcher Bill Harrington apolis. St. Paul was just as ture. Jack finally landed from Choir top-weighted at 126 pounds. 1:58% standard for a half-mile one ! crab fishermen are reporting’ the San Diego and optioned Infielder insistent that it be held track set years ago little which he £m? Ifiprf The field included the horses j three by fellow released, . first of the peelers. Given some Spook Jacobs to Columbus. |j here. : Maryland’s own Hi-Lo Forbes. and hooked another, which even- who finished second and third The baseball idea appeases %* I|l behind the imported St. Vincent: !This is about the only world’s 1 i tually sawed off his leader X ; everybody. If the American (record against in last year's Dixie. They are, i Adios Harry has not yet the edge of a rock while ! WIN, LOSE OR DRAW Association rivals split total shattered, although he he was trying to fit me into the C. Mahlon Kline’s Raster, who came Continued From Page C-l will carry 117, and Greentree , runs will be used to settle close last year when he raced picture. That was the works. Jfejr the fight If pricked j there came one day when this writer, perpetrating | w*mKß Stable’s Maharajah, who figures issue. the runs the distance in 1:59% at Roose- We and downed one a routine ! out even, it’s the hits in the of the to be a formidable contender come velt Raceway. brownie. interview office late Old Fox, was Interrupted today under 110 pounds. that count. Adios Harry is -the 8-to-5 Ifwe had been after meat we i by the appearance of Cobb. ¦(favorite in the early line for would have returned disconso- Ty had r Blue Choir, an Irish bred im- made a pile in baseball and the stock market, ¦F . ijj/U** 'X I^H^n) (tonight’s big port, must concede from 9 to 17 race. The second late. As it was. both of us particularly in a soft drink investment, and was hurry / ! SIO,OOO leg will during learned futility| in a f pounds to his rivals, who include BRITISH be held once more the ’ for advice. The precise in GOLF : the 24-night meeting opening of bucking Mother Nature and franchise he had mind was lost VW North Downs Farm’s Ocean '"•. Continued From Page C-l- hoping here, but he asked: .\ Lane, 113, Mrs. Louise K. Dono- next Monday at Laurel Race- to come out on top, yet off --top amateurs. “Griff, got van’s Rock Cottage. 110, Milford Grant beat wav, with the third leg sched- we had a swell afternoon, revel- I’ve the money to buy a big league club and H. Dinker's Alford, 109, Cockfleid Michael Burgess, an English i uled in the fall at Baltimore ing in magnificent scenery and I It’s for sale. What do you think?” 'j # Stable’s Akbar Khan, 110, Fox- Raceway. enjoying the good companion- The Old Fox, as dedicated to baseball as anybody in Its farmer, 1 up, and Eyler won on; ship given catcher Farm’s Chevation, 117; Mrs. Alice V. Miller’s Hillsota, to those who love the history, shook his rough the 19th hole from Hugh Squir- outdoors head. Financial conditions were in and Mrs. J. R. H. Thouron's who will be in the field again; | in all of nature’s ’2os. ought * the late “I think you to forget the idea, Ty,” m i Lough Ree, rell of Wales. tonight, captured two of the moods. We came home with! 1 he 116. said, and Cobb apparently to counting his money on Conrad, still playing cool, three legs of the “Triple Crown"! king-size appetites which we ; returned Brooks Blue Choir clipping his Steve Brooks came all the way in 1954. Last year Adios Boy, jsatiated with juicy filet mignons, and coupons. steady golf, was one over par 1 * * * from Chicago handle Blue half-brother of Adios Harry, and slept the sleep granted those * to for the 13 holes he played over; won top grass two out of three. with clear consciences and good COBB HIT CHIEF BENDER and even Lefty Grove Choir, one of the per-: 6,583-yard | when the hard, Troon 1 Philip Scott, upset digestions. Next trip we’ll git they days formers in training. Teddy At- .championship who Adios were in their salad with the Philadelphia Athletics. is down from New York; course. Par is 35- ; Harry at Rosecroft two weeks ’em. but kinson ; opponent; Oddly, marking his undisputed greatness, was a .335 Maharajah, 36—71. His afternoon ago, is the 5-to-2 second ** * * to ride and neither' in the round of will choice average he achieved against Walter scenery. 16 be Alan tonight and' will start from the : A letter from Johnson. are here to view the But Hall of Scoltand, a Capt. Talbot “Tyrus, you can take cut out 2-and-l win- No. 1 post. Others will be Bunting City liberties with this fellow,” Cobb is both have their work for Eng- Wil- at Ocean tells of quoted ! ner over Jack Girardet of mington’s the trips In the book as saying to himself about Johnson. “Take them. land. Star. Hundred Proof first after bluefish last Lough Ree, with Jackie West- and B’Haven. week end. Capt. George Willis' advantage of his warm nature and crowd the plate. He won’t jrope up, set a Belmont Park rec- The 42-year-old Andrews meets A crowd of 10,083. largest of party of Baltimoreans took hit you. He will pitch wide. Then after gets himself In 17-year-old John 47 he a iord for the Dixie distance two Beharrell of the season at Rosecroft, turned bluefish. Another party of an- hole he’ll have to come in with a pitch or walk you.” , England this afternoon. Be- glers : weeks ago, 2:17 Vs, and an encore out last night and wagered from Salisbury, Md., fish- There’s no detraction from greatness. That today tough , harrel, rated as Britain’s most ing Capt George Cobb’s record would make him to $358,623, also a record for the with Ed Hudson Is something that may beat. Chevation was second in promising young player, upset meeting.
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