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gfaf Slugging of Sievers poets SI* \ Big Lift to THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. Senators A-12 SATt'BDAY. APRIL 13, 18.17 Pitching Again First Stakes Win Sought Yanks at Brooklyn Plagues Club in By Bakhtat Laurel Today Win Over Yanks To Resume Rivalry By BURTON By JOSEPH B. KELLY HAWKINS Star Stall Correspondent Racing $7 the Auocltted Preu I 'burgh pitchers for 18 Star Editor DESPIRITO PLANS hits to RICHMOND, | It promises to be just like old wrap up their first victory in! Va„ April 13—If Mrs. Walter M. Jefford’s morale-boosting Bakht, non-Derby eligible [SIX-MONTH times at Ebbets Field today. three meetings with the Pirates. it’s the Senators a but REST I ! need opening Belmont Stakes The Dodgers and the Yankees, Vernon Law, Pirate starter, was before the season a Preakness and . against Monday, Roy hopeful, figures the 8-to-5 AFTER CARD TODAY no less, the same two teams that forced to leave the game in the Baltimore to be l fought Sievers is providing lavorite the revived SIO,OOO , Tony DeSpirito said today it out in the World Series first inning with a groin injury. it. The man in quit riding years, is hotter than busy Bessemer. Chesapeake Trial today at , that he would for the last ttwo are back for Ron Samford hit a home run J a Laurel with 20,000 fans expected j at least six months after their annual spring series. for the winners. In his last 12 games Sievers, accepting two mounts on Whether they'll return for Granny Hamner, who is try- . who has been known to plunge to see him run. today's Although lightly ij Laurel program, in- another go-round in the fall re- ing to make a comeback as a into seemingly endless slumps, the raced cluding mains Bakht never has won a stakes, Mrs. Walter M. Jef- a moot question. The pitcher, was the victim of three : has batted at a sizzling .378 clip, by come- fords’ favored Bakht in the concensus is that the Yanks are of the five Red Sox hits in his ij Among his 17 hits in that period the colt indicated a SIO,OOO sprint victory at featured Chesapeake shoo-ins for the American two-inning tenure. Robin Rob-; ;have been five homers, a triple from-behind DeSpirito League opening day that he ,| Trial. also i title. erts, who went seven innings, , and four doubles. He has Laurel planned experts handle his seven rivals to ride Gannet, But the think Brook- held Boston to two hits. In con- slammed across 13 runs. should even-money lyn will blow comparative choice in the I the National trast, Frank Sullivan, who went he can retain his sharp edge with ease. j League pennant year, which, first If Jockey Tony DeSpirito third race. this the seven Innings for the : for keeps, during the will;I game true, or even The little jockey, I if means that the Flatbush Red Sox, was tapped for 10 hits. Senators’ early campaigning, ride Bakht, who gets in. the 6- faithful won’t the it furlong dash with 112 pounds. who made comebacks after see Yanks Hank Sauer and Rookie Catch- will increase the club's chances receiving injuries again in 1957 unless they would Vlamy serious in | er Thomas each knocked of inciting Washington fans Two Stakes Winners riding accidents, care to journey to Yankee Sta- for Giants to two bad in three runs the rally of socking High weight of 124 pounds will has been : dium. against the 1 ’round. His sort 1 bothered by an Indians. Sauer’s is the type to offset pathetic be shared by the only two aching production of i stakes back. Virtually Same Lineup came as a result jpitching, which the Senators winners in the field, Mrs. John He said today a slipped two homers Ruben Gomez be- ; The Yanks are presenting have been displaying consistently T. Maloney’s Soft Day and the disc putting pressure * the pitcher is on l practically came first Giant to games. Carolyn K. Stable’s Pro-Brandy.; the back and doctors have Km— i j the same lineup that go all the way. in recent Soft Day a division of the him i 'licked the Dodgers in the World The Orioles Sievers has glimpsed New York won advised tp take a six- only had to come from Marlboro Nursery last season month vacation from his Series last fall. The new- behind a 2-to-0 count to whip, pitching in only two exhibitions and Pro-Brandy the Pimlico riding chores to have comer is young Tony Kubek, the Redlegs. They , this spring and the results read it left- scored twice Nursery. It eventually may who seems to have won the 1 in the eighth off Raoul Sanchez ! six hits iin 10 attempts. Since t treated. job. Second choice, however, may require another operation. field to push ahead. George Zuverink he was restricted to a .210 aver- I In fact, possibly be the entry of Cross Channel one of the retired the last Redlegs j age by Yankee pitching last interesting 12 to and Four Fathems, owned by most aspects of this gain credit for the victory. season that form reversal stakes one who was beaten. That, of season will be ups Howell E. Jackson. Cross Chan- course, the and/or the Senators to a flicker of hope was Calumet’s Citation, downs A week ago he Roy annoy nel won his only start, that at who lost length of Kubek. that will the cham- a decision to was fullfledged "pheenom.” Laurel, and Four Fathoms cap- Saggy in the 1948 running. a pions this year. Cita- However, he has been “de- From a gloomier viewpoint, the tured two races last year. tion was carried wide by a for- ; Six of the starters in today’s pheenomed" in view of his 1 for Yanks Senators must get better pitching gotten Dominate Hefty .' horse named at 15 being yes- Trial are named for next Satur- top before benched in if they hope to improve on last the of the stretch and there- terday's Washing- day's $20,000 Chesapeake Stakes by only 11-10 loss to year’s seventh-place finish. Based lost his 3-year-old race. ton in the Nation's Capital. at liV to -a* ion what they’ve shown in their Correlation failed run back The Dodgers, too, will games, Bakht. the Howell entry, Pro- to his first present Poll last six prospects of re- race of 1957 and of Writers of Brandy and Soft Day. Arthur most the same familiar faces. ceiving it are dim. Cincinnati let down the favorite players S' They, too, have one newcomer, H. Bowen’s Strong Point, also and New York averaged better with a thud yesterday in the Glno Cimoli, is eligible for next week's feature. like Kubek a left- than eight runs a game in that featured seventh race. The six- fielder. Cimoli has been the period. Sixth Race Cited year-old evidently is far from For .steadiest hitter on More Titles the club Hyde his old self despite some im- in Chuck Stobbs and Dick Laurel came up with its best training and has grabbed the job NEW April UP).— turned in respectable perform- pressive training, and beat only YORK. 13 balanced program of its spring hands down. only yesterday as one horse in yesterday’s The Yankees not are an ances the Senators meeting for the second Saturday mile overwhelming nipped Yankees, 11-10, before , Maglie Oppose choice to capture the program, and perhaps and one-sixteenth event, won by : to Ditmar a more Elvin M. Warner's v—- their third consecutive American 2.071 customers at Griffith Sta- Hand Re- The starting pitchers today interesting race than the Trial League pennant but majority dium. But what happened to ward. O are Sal Maglie for the Dodgers a for the betting public is the sixth, • ' of the experts also forecast Garland Shifflett and Pete ¦j and Art Ditmar. formerly of an allowance event at three- Columcille, who voided the another world championship for Ramos shouldn’t be inflicted on quarters, a mass Kansas City Athletics, for the! named the All States of double tickets yesterday when them. public enemies. Purse, which attracted several Yanks. he finished last in the first race The Yankees In the annual Associated Press Senators’ Attack Sharp stakes in the 14-horse despite odds, continued their runners his 7-to-5 has been mediocre exhibition showing yes-! pre-season poll, the Nation's Shifflett, making his Griffith field. indefinitely by GUESS WHOSE BOY barred the stew- ’! WON^^^ terday against the Senators, baseball writers selected Mil-' pounded Brookfield Farm’s Itobe, Mrs. Ward Lynn (left) to who Stadium debut, was for beaten ards and placed on the veterin- was unable contain herself yesterday when her son waukee to dethrone Brooklyn favorite Capitol Handicap won it in the ninth on a single as five hits and as many runs in in the arian's list. The nine-year-old ! Kerry was first across the finish line in the annual 2 Vi-mile run for the Seattle by Lyle National League champions and opening day, is the likely choice, high Luttrell. two innings, while Ramos gave gelding suffers from suspensory schools’ cross-country championship. Itwas Kerry’s third try for Roosevelt Tommy Byrne the picked the Dodgers to nip Cin- up although Tahiti. Besomer, Will periodically was loser, four runs in three innings.