Bucky Hopes Feuding With Yanks Will Give Nats Needed Spark fuelling las jsporfs ilom Fool Favorite Marrero, Michaels Washington, D. C., Saturday, April 19, 1952B-22 * At About 2 to 1 in Heroes ol 3-1 Win Wood Memorial Marked by Rhubarbs By *he Associated Press in, Lose, or Draw By Burton Hawkins w NEW YORK, April 19.—Tom Stor Staff Correspondent By GRANTLAND RICE Fool was the 1951 2-year-old champion, and a crowd of about NEW YORK. April 19.—The NEW YORK, APRIL 19.—Selection of the most valuable ball 50,000 at Jamaica was expected normally docile Nats have a bitter to back him down to around 2 to —but bloodless thus far—feud go- players in each big league now faces a long run to October. ing 1 today to win the $50,000 Wood with the Yankees which prom- The choices may come from a list including such names as develop Memorial in his last major race ises to into a season-long Berra, Rizzuto, Mantle, Rob- snarling Musial, Campanella, Dark, Hearn, before the Kentucky Derby. This session. inson, Easter, Minoso and a few others. is on the presumption he rates Involved in the rhubarb, which In the active space between now and next ? top billing until it is proved grew out of the rowdy tactics em- fall we also have another horse of the year 11|| otherwise. ployed by the two clubs, in the Jp/ course of the Nats’ 3-1 victory crown. Last year it was Sonny Whitney’s A surprisingly large turnout of here to yesterday, are most of the mem- Counterpoint, and the year before it was \ 14 3-year-olds was entered for the mile-and-one-eighth Wood. bers of both teams. But the lead- Chris Chenery’s Hill Prince. WL ing figures Several seem to be out of place are Mickey Grasso and At this bare-blossomed spot, we’d like to plljf* tackling Tom Fool and other top Eddie Yost of the Nats and Allie nominate three possibilities. They are Spar- contenders under an equal 126 Reynolds and Phil Rizzuto of the tan Valor, owned by Bill Helis, jr.; Intent and . pounds. world champions. Big Dipper, a British colt which may upset Clear Skies, mild weather and The trouble started in the fourth them all. Hall of Fame also might be added jgl jffl a fast track are promised. inning when Yost neatly stopped a (The * ' ' Wood will be broadcast * Reynolds curve ball with his * - shoul- o’clock.) ¦ over WRC starting at 4 /v * der when the bases were loaded, ’>» .«*>: You know about Spartan Valor, the Helis | <• „ Richest of All Woods. *l®" forcing across a run. As Eddie star who has won his last five races in fast txotted to first base, Reynolds Gr«nti«nd Ricr. Along with the THIS PLAY PRECEDED THE Phil Rizzuto, more participants yesterday’s time. You also know about Intent, the Mary- Greentree STORM—Eddie Yost and two of the active in ruckus Stable’s Tom Fool will be such between the Nats and Yankees, both figure in this bit of action, but it came a couple of innings before the storm broke. Yost shouted at him. “Next time it entry by Buddy Hirsch, who was better than Cali- won't be a curve, it’ll be land trained stars as E. B. Benjamin’s Primate, is sliding head first back to second base to beat a pickoff play in the first inning at Yankee Stadium. Rizzuto is attempting to a fast gold ball at your head.” fornia’s first rush. Alfred Vanderbilt’s Cousin, and a tag Eddie after taking Catcher •Charlie Silvera’s throw. The Nats won, 3-1, in a game marked by arguments and threats. sure-to-be-watched entry of the —AP Wirephoto. Trouble at Second Base. ALTHOUGH DISQUALIFIED in the big race—the $141,000 Myhelyn Stable’s Master Fiddle Later, in the sixth inning, it Flame, Santa Anita Handicap—by the foulest sort of ride from Jackie and Jack Amiel’s Count looked as though words might be- These two are trained by They Won Flag That Year! Westrope, Intent whipped everything California and all visiting i Sol come insufficient. First Grasso ißutchick, who conditioned Amiel'sj GU Runners Compete Seventh Foreign Win went into Rizzuto high States had to offer at Santa Anita. Although deprived of the at second j Count Turf—the Derby winner base in an unsuccessful attempt major part big purse Westrope’s he year. of the due to ride, still ¦last Giddy St. Louis Fans Recalling to break up a double play. Little to on side of the In Seton Hall Races; Row accumulated close $200,000 the shining ledger. i There are several others capable| In Possible in Phil dug his knees into Mickey Buddy Hirsch rates Intent as a magnificent animal who :of grabbing the big pot, richest while getting to his feet and they Browns' Record Start in 1944 exchanged will be heard from in louder tones later on. He travels far and I since the Wood was inaugurated Howard in Mile Relay Boston Marathon lurid language. fast, and Buddy is confident he will have a brilliant year. in 1925. One is Armageddon from By Jack Hand Bob Feller, the last of Cleve- Grasso started to trot to the H. F. Guggenheim’s Cain Hoy Georgetown University’s crack land’s Big Four to start, thrilled By the Associated Press Nats’ Spartan Valor has a running start. He has a sane, sporting Associated Press Sports Writer dugout, then became par- , Stable. Then there is the Brook- runners go after the four-mile a home of 56,068 by winning BOSTON, April ticularly by something owner in young Bill Helis, who also happens to be an ex-football The giddy St. Louis Browns are crowd 19. —Guate- incensed Imeade Stable’s Sky Ship, winner and sprint medley relay events in beginning the fourth straight for the In- malan Luis Valazquez today had Rizzuto said. He wheeled as if at Southern California and a graduate of Oxford. Spar- to remind folks of the to player !of the Florida Derby, and Bayard the Seton Hall Relays at Newark, 1944 team that set Amer-| dians. 5-0, over Detroit. Feller,! high hopes of becoming the do battle, but umpires quickly tan in Frank Catrone, Sharp's N. J., today while Fred Wilt, a new Valor has a high-class trainer who also j Hannibal, victor in Ex- ican League record by winning its now 31, lost control with one out seventh successive foreigner to broke it up as players from both Handicap Horace Ashenfelter and Curt Stone has full faith in his horse. jperimental No. 1. first nine games. In slips in the ninth when he walked Cliff win the famed Boston AA Mara- benches swarmed on the field. tie in special Olympic-prim- case it injured or ill, you can count on Spartan Valor and ! The lineup was completed with up a your memory, Mapes, Matt Batts and Johnny ! thon. The next time Grasso batted, Unless 5,000-meter that wartime col-! runners for Max Kahlbaum’s Jampol, the King ing race. Lipton. Bob Lemon came in To do however, the 32- he was informed by Reynolds that Intent to be among the front 1952’s horse of the The Hoyas passing de- lection won the Browns’ only so. Ranch’s High Scud, Hal Price are up pennant. and Pinch-hitter Steve Souchock year-old Central American must he was going to have to hit the year and his diet of laurel leaves. of their in the two- Headley’s Cajun, Max Gluck’s All’s fense titles surprised grounded into a game-ending outdistance the much higher re- dirt. And Mickey did. for Allie mile distance medley Nobody was at the | Fair, the Montpelier Farm’s Pin- and relays, way and double play. Igarded Jesse Van Zant and Johnny fired a high, hard one at his head. but will most of thfc same Brooklyn Cleveland broke j IT IS QUITE LIKELY that you know very little about Big tor and Jacob L. Friedman’s Oreo. use men out the gate. After all, Vollmer Does Some Hitting. Lafferty, Boston AA teammates, The Washington catcher was i who have dominated the two-mile of they J I Dipper, a horse which could be the best of the lot. Big Dipper were picks to meet in the Clyde Vollmer got into the game |and, possibly, 195 others. booed lustily by many of the Six Winners Took Derby. event the last two years. Coach the is an English importation. He is owned by Mr. and Mrs. John World Series. But four straight as a pinch hitter to deliver two Van Zant and Lafferty ran one- 45,240 fans who turned out for the Only necks separated Tom Fool, Frank Sevigne will have Tom key hits in Boston’s 5-4 win over two in last Yankees’ home opener, Bryce and trained by Horatio Luro. Big Dipper has tremen- Primate by the Browns—that’s different. year’s national cham- but ap- j and Cousin as they fin- Voorhees, Charley Capozzoli, Carl the Philadelphia Athletics in 10 ipionship marathon Yonkers, parently Mickey wasn't dous possibilities. ished in that order April 7 in their Joyce and Who thought the first four at disturbed. j Joe LaPierre in the innings. Vollmer’s pinch single, | iN. Y. About two weeks before, “They’re the great Yankees,” As a won only race this year. Ted Atkinson and Don Stonehouse, starting pitchers used by Rogers 2-year-old he practically everything offered in four-mile Hornsby followed by Jim Piersall’s double! Lafferty had been runnerup to Grasso said sarcastically after again will ride Tom Fool, with Bugs Thompson, Vince Kelley and would go the route? Ned i England, Ireland and France.