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^ netting f&to Fast Track pnrfs* for Santa Anita Washington, D. C., Saturday, February 18, 1950—A—12 Likely Derby Today Place in Star West 'Over His Head' in Will ose, or Tourney Meeting Caps Start Trio Your Host Big Choice; By GRANTLAND RICE Earned by G. W. High, Williams, TKO Winner in 8th Of Back-Court Aces More Than 50,000 The Greatest of Them All LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18.—Who is the greatest woman tennis Winner Over W.-L. Against Olympians Due to See Race star of all time? We transfer you from the East, the South and George Washington High of Bill Fuchs By ths Associated Pres* the Midwest to Southern California where George Byrnes brings By Alexandria, winner of The Star's Bob Feerick, player-coach of the ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. 18.— in Perry Jones and Maurice McLoughlin to give you the answer. Metropolitan high school basket- Washington Caps, has something William Getz’s Your Host was a Mr. takes over: Byrnes new to throw at the favorite as ball tournament last year, Is the Indianapolis prohibitive today a “Dear Grant: Everybody who knows him has a tremendous Olympians tonight when the two field of one dozen awaited the first team to receive and accept a respect for Perry T. Jones’s opinion on tennis teams meet in the final game of start of the S100.000 Santa Anita bid to compete in this year’s their National Basketball Associa- matters. He a flow of champion- Derby. iff keeps steady tournament tion starting February 27 series at Uline Arena at 8:30 Prospects were excellent for an ships coming back to Southern California each at the of o’clock. University Maryland. The Olympians took the ideal day and a fast track for the he knows how to build tennis The year because good Presidents earned a chance first contest, 88-81, earlier this 13th renewal of Santa Anitas to defend their players. Perry has never missed the boat in Metropolitan month, at Indianapolis. rich wintertime classic for the evaluating the abilities of the hundreds of championship last night by edging For the first time this season 3-year-old division. Washington-Lee, 39-36, to clinch the Caps will start with three tennis players who have come under his ob- The track looked for more than a tie for back-court in the Northern Virginia's group specialists line- 50,000 fans, but there was doubt servation. Feerick’s one title, on the loser's court. up. strategy is to bom- ALEX GROZA, that attendance would exceed the "What was more natural than to ask him, It marked bard the with George Washington’s Olympians long, Leads Indianapolis against record derby throng of 61.000 second ‘Who do you consider the greatest woman triumph over the Generals sizzling set-shots and if it pans Caps tonight. wrhich witnessed the 1948 edition. and gives the Presidents a out it will be reminiscent of those tennis player of the last 50 years’? 5-0 Probable post time is 7:45 pm. record in the Northern Virginia happy days three years ago when "Without a moment’s hesitation, he an- (EST>. the won High School League. Remaining Caps almost every game Slated to swered, Sutton of Santa answer the challenge May Bundy Monica, league games are with they played simply by the Tackles Fairfax and tossing Flashy Loyola against Your Host were John B. _ Not onlv was she woman .. Calif. the greatest Mount ball in from long Vernon next week and the range. De Blois Wack’s Great Circle, the but was Chick Reiser, the player, she potentially the greatest Presidents will be prohibitive 34-year-old, King Ranch’s Convidado, Ben F. favorites two-handed will team at woman athlete. May had the physical build, her stamina and to capture both contests. specialist, High Scorers A. U.; Whitaker's Deep Blue, Clifford up with Feerick and Freddie fighting heart carried everything before her. She had crowd W.-L. Likely Tourney Entry. Mooers’ Hawley, and Feudal, Scolari, the Caps’ one-hand-shot She Sturdy One, Pension Plan, Top appeal, color, modesty. packed the stands wherever she Although whipped last night, twins from the San Francisco Terps, C. U. Busy Production, Sun State, Alderman No woman could match her endurance or Washington-Lee looms as the on the appeared. player area, outside, while Don and other in Loyola of Baltimore, the lone filly in the fray, Fleet tennis skill. Virginia entry The Star Otten, newly-acquired 7-footer champion The of the Mason-Dixon Rings. tourney. Generals finished from Tri-City, and Bones McKin- Conference “Here is a list of May's major as Jones Longest Koute for Your Host. accomplishments Perry league competition with a 5-2 for three years and undefeated ney will try to frustrate the op- recalled them: mark and On the basis of all 12 have compiled an ex- position under the boards. in 10 loop games this season, will starting, a to the winner's circle “Pacific Southwest champion—1900, 1901, 1902, 1903; cellent record against outside com- tackle American bas- trip was Sonny Boy West of Washington is shown en route to the Otten Expected to Shine. University’s petition, with G. W. worth $89,800. The gross value of “National champion—1904; snapping a canvas for a count of five in the seventh of ketball team tonight at A. U. gym round his bout with It will mark the first time this the race in the event Your Host “Wimbledon nine-game winning streak. at 8:45. champion—1905, 1907; Lightweight Champion Ike Williams last night at Madison season that Feerick, Reiser and or another California-bred colt Washington-Lee pulled to a 24- Only four times in three years “Wimbledon runnerup—1906; Square Garden. _AP Wirephito. Scolari have started and which 24 tie at the end of the third together have the Greyhounds lost Mason- won, would carry a $9,190 “Pacific Southwest 1928. after the reason is the acquisition of, breeder's award, was champion—1908, 1909, 1910, 1915, period trailing until then, By the Associated Press Dixon games, and on three of $146,090. didn’t have the equipment or ex- Otten. but Erwin Jones and Little attention was to John Oliver to deal with Ike. those occasions it was A. U. which paid NEW YORK. Feb. 18—Baby- perience “I couldn’t afford to A Brilliant at 13 scored field goals to place G. W. play Chick inflicted Your Host's rivals in pre-race Champion A bobbing .dancer with a flick- defeats. Loyola edged faced Jimmy Rooney and Curt and Scolari and myself at one “Just take a look at that record. In at the age of ahead to stay. the Eagles, 50-44, in their first speculation, mainly because Goetz's 1900, 13, ing jab. West did himself proud time Both teams Kennedy bid fair to start an Irish before,” says Feerick. “Who $20,000 auction May not won every women's and tournament of con- employed only six in the first round and meeting this year after American buy last year had only girls’ probably would get the rebounds? Now men as Jones led the Presidents' revolution in the fighting ranks’ led until the last few minutes. shown his heels to most of today's sequence played on the coast but topped it off later the same would have won the second if with attack with 19 points. Otten and McKinney in there, rivals in his two Rooney, (Conn.) Scalzo hadn’t penalized him for Loyola, with a 15-6 record for capturing only year with a brilliant win from a field at the Pacific Southwest St. flashy Bridgeport I don’t have to worry about that. big John's, Star tournament the season, will be confronted starts at Santa Anita this season. and a low blow. If championships. Then 28 years later, in she came out of semiflnalist last moved featherweight, Kennedy, stout they cover u£ outside men, The 1928, year, After that it was all with four A. U. scorers who have l18-mile is the longest rout* Williams, and Otten can retirement to win that same toward the Catholic cham- Wichita (Kans.i heavy, all but McKinney sneak thus far for Your tournament from the country’s League his man. It was averaged better than 11 points a Host, but he left always stalking 'em in under the boards. If best. pionship and a return trip to the stole the show from they game in Leroy Ishman. Sherwood the opposition three lengths be- Lightweight just a question of time as he to tourney by routing Georgetown Ike try stop Otten, we’ll try to hind in “At she defeated Helen then Champ Williams last night at penetrated West’s unorthodox Webster, Bob Lamon and Ronnie winning the $50,000 Cali- 16, Homans, reigning queen of 73-31. The throw 'em in from the outside.” Prep, Johnnies have Madison Square Garden. Garshag. The Eagles have won fornia Breeders Stakes at a mile style. Otten will American tennis, at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. The next won six without a loss in have another job on league It wasn't Ike's fault. The champ Ike's left hook seemed 15 and lost 7 and an 8-1 and one-sixteenth on December almost to his hands—that of carry year defeated the international Miss competition and have a 20-3 was trying to slow May star, Dorothy Douglas, record in there with a 20-year-old unhinge West's head in the third.