DETROIT TIMES, APRIL 23, 1942 PAGE 33 Only 4 Horses to Run in Derby Preview SPORTS THIS KIND OF SLIDE IS BAD FOR THE COMPLEXION Sun Again and By LEO MACDONELL Bless Me May ickey Cochrane, Ever Huge Sports Program a Hard Worker, Finds Mapped for 25,000 Life in Navy to Liking Men at Great Lakes Not Run Classic i tk ¦* BaH SAILOR-CAGERS DREW 150,000 FANS Devil Diver Rated Favorite in Today's Take it from Lieutenant Commander Gordon S. (Mickey) Cochrane, when it comes to work, playing big league baseball is Jmy Blue Grass Stakes like taking lolly-pope from junior compared with what they do h^¥^ikiA4-M:tK;;s> to you at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Commander By JACK MAHON “But I HUe it great,” declared Lieutenant InirmatlnnaJ N«ws Serrte- Sp-rU Writ* his newest experiences Cochrane, bubbling over as he related LEXINGTON, Ky.f April 23 Detroit team’s hotel in to Del Baker and other Tigers at the The highly regarded Calumet Again E. R. Chicago. Stable’s Sun and Col. pounded ye tummy. Bradley’s Bless Me, two of the Cochrane olde choices in the winter ”10 to 1!| pounds lighter most popular “Look at that,” he commanded, book wagering, probably will already. No wonder. Up at 5:80 and busy all the time until never get to the post in the sixty- a Derby, it night. Work, go to school and all two hours eighth annual Kentucky go to school. Learning navi- was learned here today as the day for baseball. Sure, I got to this beauti- next horse-loving citizens of gation now—learn about sailing month.” ful racing community prepared Apparently the effervescent Cochrane works just as hard for the eighteenth running of the at his duties for Uncle Sam as he did as a catcher and manager mile and one-eighth Blue Grass the Tigers. No playei in baseball ever worked harder than stakes. of Only four were named for this, spirited He should make quite an officer. derby the Cochrane. ' '& “'*• Kentucky’s first real pre- \* ; ¦* i \ , At the time, Cochrane didn’t know how the details of the s U 'I '¦PSP*. 1 .-f'V*. view, which is the annual closing game between the big league team and the service men day feature at beautiful Keeneland All-Star Be, the worked out.' He heard anything official on Park. They were Bless were to be hadn’t well regarded Green tree pair* men’s team. being named to manage the service Devil Diver and Shut Out* and As you know, the winning team of the All-Star game be- Equinox, which is owned by Hal the majors at New York, July 6, will meet a team com- Price Headley. tween pair go to major leaguers now in the military service at Cleve- The Greentree will posed of odds-on for this one and have forthcoming, Judge the post land, July 7. While no plans bee# if Devil Diver wins It, as expected* Landis declared that the service men’s team would be made up he may wind up the favorite for for “the best talent in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps with- the derby which Is scheduled for May 2. out interference with the prosecution of the war.” GOOD MUDDER Mickey Likely to Manage All-Service Team The entry probably win run today, if our by Judge one-two information At the meeting in New York attended Landis is correct, for Devil Diver turned representatives of the services, it was understood that in a sensational 1:38 mile trial Bid Tuesday morning on a deep Cochrane would be named to manage the service men. Coch- here Great Lakes. track regarded by the railbirds at rane is recreation officers at anything but conducive to such ”We have about 25,000 men in eight camps at Great sparkling time. Kentucky is sold Cochrane explained, “and we are providing sports for on the idea that if it comes up you bet your all of them. Among other activities, we are organizing teams mud derby day, can home, your salary and your wife in both hard ball and soft ball. We are organizing a hard ball general team for oA the Diver. team for each of the eight fampn and one Word that Sun Again, at present the station. The latter team will open the season against co-favorite with Alsab in the win- Indiana University Saturday.” ter book on the derby, probably out that the navy’s sports program has would not start comes from none Cochrane pointed other than his trainer, Ben Jones. three objectives: Bless Me, despite what you 1—Physical toughness; spirit of competition. This is might have heard, is suffering most Important. PICCUTO, STATE from a recurrence of an old injury Attracting service. HAWEELI. U. GOING HEADLONG INTO THIRD BASE BUT IS TAGGED OUT BY MICH. to his left foreleg. This retarded 2 recruits to the all winter and has in all major sports where his training B—Developing top-notch teams been bothering him in recent gate receipts are large. The navy will use such profits for Tackles Lyons Stroh Hits 3038 works. the Navy Belief Fund. Rookie HAVE LITTLE HOPE $50,000 for the U. D. Nine Loses that basketball made Cochrane pointed out the before fans in 11 states, If Bless Me comes out of relief fund. The team played 150.000 Young Hal White Faces Veteran Hurler Today; Cass Grygier’s 645 Set Leads His Team to Lead blue grass sound and runs any winning 31 of 36 games. After baseball will come football. As kind of a race, trainer Jimmy base- Meet; 643 in basketball. Great Lakes expects to have strong teams in Tigers Drop Gama in Chicago, 3-1 First to State in City Pin Phil Bauman Rolls Smith, a former Bradley rider who ball and football. Among other teams, Great Lakes will play the has been subbing for regular By CLAYTON HEPLER ji Hurley* who is ill, University of Michigan on the gridiron. By LEO MACDONELL All Class A teams need do to Out at Olympic. Jack Stephan's trainer. Bill University baseball place in the city cham- says he will send the colt to If he is the manager of the team, Cochrane will I of Detroit I make first • 651 gave him first place in over- | Beaten in their first series with i ; games from the Indians and dead- team consolation i pionship bowling tournament is Churchill Downs for the run for plenty of good material for the All-Star service team. in Chicago, with Browns at two-all. had but one • average singles with 171. He had feeling around have the White Sox the locked the by , pass 3038. That figure has Stroh the roses. The the the for the team from Great Lakes will be Tigers were home today to resume! Tommy Bridges again pitched today following a 5-3 defeat there today after last night’s 5 games of 245-207-199. Paul Fo- stable, however, is very pessimistic Among candidates J hurled] Lucadello, Benny McCoy, Don Padgett, Sam Harshany, their feuding with Jimmy Dykes ' I for the'Tigers and again Michigan State in its season’s 1 squads finished at Detroit Recrea- ¦ guth and Eueene Gagner from and they frankly don’t have much Johnny three-game set at Briggs good ball only to have Bill < opener at Northwestern Field. Pytlak. From other camps are Bob clan in a tion. the Ford plant made 1148 for 212 hope. Joe Grace and Frankie Stadium. (Dietrich,- bespectacled right- That bit of salvage was the Ben Jones, who eight Greenberg, Cass Grygier’s 645, Phil Bau- • and third in O. A. doubles. Paul nominated Feller, Hugh Mulcahy, Sam Champman, Hank Freddie Hal White. 22-year-old recruit hander, chuck a steadier game. knowledgeI that the same team Schliewe colts for owner Warren Wright* Johnny ¦ inflicted 2-1 upon man’s 643 and Fred Wolf’s 623 t Ambory and Stanley Hutchinson, Pat Mullin, Cecil Travis, Buddy Lewis, right-hander up from Buffalo, who i Bridges worked but seven innings, had1 a defeat supplied power. from Temstedt drew 209 from doesn’t think Sun Again will go pitched Tigers being a pinch batter) arch rival Wayne University. But the the to a seven-hit; lifted for (300) 1013 for fourth. postward because the son of Sun Sturm and Johnny Berardino. l victory Dietrich was taken when < even that was small recompense, Howard Curtin dropped I 4-0 over the Browns in ’while out ! preceding doubles. Jim Teddy, Hug Again, like all the to in he weakened in rimth. Harold forI State went into the game from his 699 of the I In championship St. Louis and himself fame the • Lingle others in his stable which was starting assignment in Newhouser finished for the Tigers yesterday: with a .181 average at night to 572 and Walter Reppen- Kovacs and George of of 80,000 Expected to See Same his first i games rapped fourth, shipped from Santa Anita, has not Crowd major league, fling- and Lee Ross for the Sox, Ross the plate in 10 games. It was the' •hagen fell to 555. Stroh’s 5 Bireleys 11*6 for game to the will do the Michigan Lingle 627. Gagner had 629. been able to train properly. Judge is all excited about the All-Star be ing this afternoon. (checking a Tiger rally in the ninth. ' first time Spartans and U. of D.l were 1044-1000-994.