^ timing Jifof sports of Allen Proves Boon for SATURDAY, MAY 8. 1943—B—8 * Rickey’s Repurchase Dodgers Veteran Scores Win, Lose or Draw Griffs Welcome By BURTON HAWKINS. Third Success Yanks Lead Charmed Life Playing Nats and Bosox New Baseballs; There is a baseball adage to the effect that good teams win those close games, that they make the breaks that lead to victory. The New York Yankees may qualify as the best team in the American League, but In Relief Role they also will be stamped as the luckiest. They're getting all the breaks, Arrive most of which haven't been of their own making Today New York is the luck-anointed dutflt of the league. There is a sus- Wensloff, Johnson, picion the Yankees wear horseshoes where their spikes should be, that Club Without Homer; the emblem on their caps and uniform should be a four-leaf clover. They Rookies, Pace Yanks could eollid° with a skunk and come up with a Nuit Noel odor. Red Sox Beot Wynn The Yankees travel unchaperoned with Dame Fortune and Lady Luck. To Fifth Straight me nest teams usually get tne* With Late Rally breaks, but the Boston Red Sox and his mitt. An inch either way would By ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Writer. Another batch the Nats may be excused for regis- have given the Nats at least a tie Sports of baseballs was due to be tering a meek bleat that the but instead it was an easy double- Branch Rickey has made some delivered to Griffith Stadium and Yankees thus far this season haven't play. The Yankees pulled out of shrewd deals, but none probably ever today rushed into vise had much to do with manufacturing that one nicely, with a little luck. was ’Vnore timely than the one he tomorrow, thereby altering th« those breaks. They've been living Yeah, the Nats beat the Yankees, engineered in bringing Johnny Allen pasty complexion of the industry's in luck. 2-1, in a later game, but the Nats back to the Dodgers after disposing batters. The new, livelier ball c-fil of him in one of his first official acts contain more It all started on April 22 at Yankee earned it. Ellis Clary drilled a dynamite, whirh wll as head of the club. be all Stadium, with the Nats entering the double to left and Johnson later Brooklyn right with the Nats, who have wearied of ninth holding a 4-3 lead and Rookie fetched him home with a swift single Although the 37-year-old right- socking camou- flaged Mickey Haefner coming in from the to center. It was a clean-cut victory hander nad a 1942 record of 10 and cantaloupes. bullpen to pitch for Washington. earned with emphatic hits. 6, Rickey, after succeeding Lt. Col. "We're the only team In the Haefner proceeded to walk Bill May 1 lolled around and the Larry S. MacPhail as head man of American League that hasn't re- Dickey and when Johnny Lindell ! Yankees spanked the Nats, 9-7, in the Dodgers, lost little time sending ceived a shipment of new balls." savs sacrificed Haefner was slow fielding 11 innings. There were two out in Allen and $30,000 to Philadelphia Prexy Clark Griffith, "but they the bunt, and both runners were \ the 11th, you remember, when for the much younger Rube Melton. should arrive today and If they do of the we safe when his throw to second was j Shortstop Sherry Robertson Allen declined to sign with the ll use them tomorrow.'' too to Nats went back on Hemsley's pop Phillies. Then, five days before the late nip Dickey. Thus will perish a three-week re and of the season, in a deal that fly. He misjudged it, though, opening turn to old-fashioned baseball that Luck Comes in Bundles the two Yankees on base, who a never has been fully explained. was necessitated when the first ver- Lindell's bunt wasn’t good. Haef- split-second previously had been Rickey summoned the baseball LADY sion of balata | RIDERS. BUT ONLY ONE JOCKEY—The gals rode in the They are (left to right) Mrs* Peter Hogan, Mrs. Sid Hirst, Miss balls failed to react, ner messed it Haefner I running merely for exercise, crossed writers to his Montague street office merely up. big ladies’ race at annual Preakness week and according to orders. The new apple the with the winning in Brooklyn and announced the Pimlico, feature, Johnson. Mrs. Sarah Merryman, Peggy Squier, Mrs. Riles, proceeded to advance both runners plate margin. Mary will be needled, thereby giving the When the Red Sox came to town had Allen. the winner was Mrs. Anna Lee Riles, aboard Graff and Mrs. J. H. C. on a wild pitch, at which point Man- Dodgers repurchased Flying Tiger. Forbes. batters a better break and creating could conver- ager Bluege ordered Rookie Owen yesterday they spice The records show how smart that Judy Johnson, licensed steeplechase jockey, finished third. —A. P. Photo. a wave of insurance purchasing a bit bv of Yankee Scheetz to the mound. He succeed- sation talking deal was. When Johnny went into among the pitchers. ed in Rollie on a luck. too. They played four games witn retiring Hemsley yesterday's game the Boston Yet to Hit at Home Run. pop fly, then walked Snuffy Stirn- against New York Yankee Sta- Braves in the seventh with the score With the "dead" hall weiss to load the bases. dium and they lost four decisions, deadlocked it marked his third relief Riverland Sets Count Fleet Backed to Be 8th Yale Is to Washington Sights Play Dozen hasn’t been able to one run. get steam. At. that juncture Roy Weatherly each by a margin of appearance of the season. He pitch- up Only Ellis Clary, hitting .313. la stepped to the plate, pulled away ed shutout ball for three innings as Sox Rookie Pulls a swatting over .250 the Nats. from an Inside pitch and was grati- Pip his mates went on to club out a For Another Mark Ace to Nab Preakness among Derby Grid Bob Johnson, fied when the ball looped into left On Tuesday the Red Sox and 9-to-7 victory, and give Allen his Tilts, Starting Washington's clean- up hitter, has been the field. Dickey scored easily on the Yankees were tied. 3-3, entering the third straight success. 35,000 Are Expected at Pimlico for 53d meeting ball final half of the which John- squarely but he's struggling along hit, but Lindell fell down rounding ninth, Proves Clutch Pitcher. Sterling In Jamaica Race In at a .221 while Stan third with what represented the son opened by beating out a topped of Race; Four Are to Start September clip, Spence is Tn eight innings of relief hurling. Running hitting .242 and winning run. At the split-second infield hit.. He shifted to third on Mickey Vernon, Allen has given eight hits, Dixie Bv .233. a and scored on a long up only Handicap DON ALB SANDERS, to Baltimore, flit hough he was Slate So Lindell fell, however. Bob Johnson , single fly. Champ Expanded Vets three to the Phils in A**orjfit*d Preftft The Yankees won on 22^ innings, Sports Writer named as surprise entry in the was booting Weatherly's poke, so Wednesday, Has Twenty-five per cent less lively two to the Giants in 2and three Again Attention, May H. — Conn* i Preakness in October Lindell, who had returned to third : too. and again in the ninth inning. BAI/T'TMORE, by the King Ranch. Graduating than the 1942 ball, the first 1943 yesterday. Prior to Allen’s appear- base, reversed his field and Know how? It. was when Rookie Anti-Climax to Beat Fleet, was tn attempt today to do! With four starters, the Preakness sphere cut home-run production romped ance the Braves han clubbed the Get Some Action Anton Karl balked the run ! May The Nats home to break up the game. winning what spven horses beforp him would have a gross value of $64,690, terrifically. hRve played 16 offerings of Ed Head and Les Webber By 'he Associated Press. only The Nats' next at Yankee home. The Yankees' luck was work- with $44,555 and the ancient Wood- By the Associated Press. games without hitting a home run game after the Brooklynites had shoved have done—win the SSO.OOO-added also was for the ing overtime. NEW YORK. May R Attention lawn Vase to the winner, un- NEW and when Bobby Doerr lifted a Stadium distressing in going HAVEN. Conn.. May 8.— across five runs the second, three and Preakness Stakes after home liner Nats. That was the day Spud i So on Thursday the Yankees Anti-Climax, a pair of thor- coming j less Count Fleet romps home first. Balancing Harvard’s decision to over Stan Spence’s head last, on Angie Galan's homer. Eddie Chandler held them to one hit, but spanked Boston twice. 5-4. and 2-1. oughbreds that chaspd Riverland to first tn the Kentucky Derby. football night he hit the first homer for the almost matched that with a Since the Count was a supple- drop intercollegiate compe- Joost a Sox in the seventh inning Washington They earned that 2-1 triumph track record in the Dixie Handi- And tition for the duration Is the an- Red this season. There have two-run homer for Boston in the the crowd, which was ex- mentary entry being made eligible; at been filled the bases with one out. Johnny clearly, but. they won the 5-4 job cap Pimlico last Saturday, were bv last month be- nouncement from Yalp that it not only eight home runs, in fact, third. pected to reach 35,000, was confident payment of $1,500 when Pitcher Mace Brown favored for the samp chorp to- in the American Sullivan smashed a one-hop picked in cause was not nominated as a only will continue the game next League. sharp, hp he Keller's bunt with two With the St. fouis Cardinals and on could do it so confident that in fall grounder at, Third Baseman Bill up Charley day's Gray Lag Jamaica's geta- yearling—his share of the money, but that the program will be The Nats are in a mood to wel- Pittsburgh Pirates kept idle by the the j Johnson, who was more blessed than on base and proceeded to throw the way card. early wagering Mrs. John D. with four starters, would be $43,190. stepped up to include 12 games, come the new ball following a 3-2 ball the weather, the Cincinnati Reds moved brilliant in handling the drive. away, permitting winning Eight, other thoroughbreds also Hertz's brown hurricane was a 1-4 longpst gridiron schedule in the defeat by the Rqd Sox before 17,177 Into the National League's With odds on Count Fleet almost run to score. runnerup were school’s modern history. fans last night at nominated for thp mile and a or 1-5 choice to in ahead of certain to Griffith Stadium, Is Earned spot. 2'•, games back of the Dodgers. romp prohibitive—he appeared Yale's Griff Victory The Y’ankees haven’t been playing furlong with a $15,000 of usual schedule is eight when Boston produced a 2-run rally pot gold three other rlose at the shortest Preakness price and ; like been They nased out the Chicago Cubs, colts slated to start games in October. The in the ninth to It wras a scorching blow, champions—but. they've at the finish. centered on his beginning deal Early Wynn his 5 tn 4. as Vander Meer re- since 1869—attention didn't have time to shift lurk. .Johnny against him. four additional games this will second loss. Johnson getting championship They're Riverland, victor in 5 of his 11 time for the mile and three-six- year the foot, the Amer- ceived held from "Fireman’’ Joe be in One of his glove to handle the ball, but rabbit's boys of starts this season, thp 1 3-lfith An off track was in fur since he made played September. Wynn held a 4-hit. 2-1 j Rcggs in his fourth sped prospect teenths. particularly triumph the ball slammed into ican League. registering the 53d the reasons for this, as announced in his conveniently miles of the Dixie in l:562s. Tn that running of Maryland's most a rather leisurely journey over the grasp entering the ninth, but. pitching triumph. famous bv Coach Howard Odell. Is to give he race the big griding from thp barn race, scheduled to go to post longer Derby course last week. launched that inning by walking Tim and several other The other National league game of Harold and at 2:40 p.m. Capt. Hoopes Tom McBride and Ford Clark, Attention, set the stake record Garrison on Alsab present veterans a few games in which to saw the Phillies go their biggest owned Max carried the sacrificed. Peacock by Hirsch, Named to oppose the Count and 1:57 in last re- Johnny pumped Track Team Fists in Handball of the season behind of winning year's play before graduated in Oc- Cardinal Fly scoring spree same weights but Riverland being a single to right, scoring McRririe today incidentally try for $10,000 in second and Riverland established the five-hit of venerable newal. tober. pitching was to tote 127 with the tying run, and after Mike pounds to 126 for money were Allen T. Simmons' the track standard last Saturday Si Johnson. With Jimmy Wasdell The Bulldogs will be ready for Rvba's Attention. At Baltimore the Hirsch Rlue Swords, second in the tap shifted Peacock to sec- Derby; when he won the Dixie Handicap this Odell Meet After driving in six runs on a homer, September games year. ond Eddie Lake a Loses Mason-Dixon was drilled double Players charger only three-quarters of W. L. Brann's Vincentive and H. L. in The overnight condition over and single, the Phils blasted 1:56--,. explains, because practice will begin Johnson's triple a length off the pace. Straus' New Moon, both homebreds. head to score Peacock of the track made it improbable in Last, season had sev- three Giant hurlers for 13 hits to July. they with the run. The two. with Hal Price Headley's Field record would be endangered. winning win. 13 to 3. Cut to Four. either eral informal September tests Crown to In Semi Collide Anti-Climax furnishing some con- Case and Spenee Deliver. Hopkins The field was to Longrion. who has been against Eastern Columbia Make Five in Row. officially cut four Johnny All-Stars, I Yanks It tention, wpre shooting at Marriage's Doerr's homer had sent the Red during the morning when Isidore aboard thp Count, in every one of and Army. A pair of rookies. Charley Wens- 1:52 event record, set last and Sox into a 1-0 lead In the Vince of C. U. Smith, Awarded year, 18 was to ride Yale's schedule includes fourth, hut, Campanella Victory loff and Bill the Bieber's Radio Morale was scratched his previous races, already Johnson, paced the track mark of 1:49‘-,. Marriage the Nats locked the seore at Yank At thp samp time, New Moon was the rangy Reigh Count son. games against. Williams. Columbia. Is Star With T 5 Forfeit, Will Face New York Yankees to their fiftn also was listed in field. Terry's expense in their half of the Points, By today's taken from thp "doubtful" list and Virginia. Army, Dartmouth, Brown straight, victory, a fi-to-2 decision But the mark wasn't the Yincrntive Well Backed. Inning when Vernon walked with speed became a definite starter. and Princeton. The Harvard game, Sets Record Platak for AAU Title over the Athletics. Straus Only Philadelphia only thing expected to fall. Tt was one of two out, stole second and scored on announced a change in for George Woolf, only today's big gamp of the Ivy League season, Ft ’he Associated Tress. Wensloff, who won 21 games with jockey Gerald Dispatch to The Star. the last program of the 27-day Ja- Priddy's single to renter 8pecl*l his colt, signing up Wayne Danforth riders with a previous Preakness will not he played this year because SAN R...Iop the Yanks' Kansas City farm club maica session and Case's double and BALTIMORE. May R Fnr Thr FRANCISCO. Mar spring approxi- Wright. of Harvard's anouncement George Spence's last season, shutout ball for had the mount on Vin- yesterday pitched mately 30.000 were ex- victory, single fetched the Nats a 2-1 lead first time in fivp years Catholic Uni- Platak of Chicago and rhp Navy is spectators Wright is thp Rexburg, Idaho, that it was discontinuing. That in six innings. a centive and Adams was to the sixth. is dethroned from the Mason- pected with $2,000,000 mutual han- Johnny leaves five dates to be versity to up his eighth na- rider who steered Shut. Out, to his fille»d. expected pick from Newark the In- dle orobable. The handle the Dixon Conference track Johnson, tip in for in thp be aboard Blue Swords. Ryba, who replaced on the champion- tional surprise victory Kentucky Terry AAU handball singles cham- ternational circuit, drove three runs meeting is $33 i mound in the ship. with Tins year’s title owned by approaching 000.000. Derby a year ago. Earlier Roceo Entry of New Moon into the pic- seventh, rereived across the plate with his first major an average of $1,250,000 a credit for the Johns Hcpkins. The Rlnc Jays pionship tonight. clay. Sisto had been expected to handle ture came as something of a surprise victory, which snapped league homer in the fourth to run Jacobs Named Leader nosed out, the Cardinals by less than Platak. who probably would have New Moon. after he failed to do better than a five-game losing streak. The Red his hitting streak to eight straight Sox nicked three points yesterday, almost the won the title No, 8 last year if Navy Radio Morale ran in a $1,200 second in a tune-up Tuesday. Wynn for six hits, while games. Th"n. after having a double same margin by which C. U trpped duties hadn't kept him out of the Leafs' Hamlin Scores claiming race at Jamaica only yes- Blue Swords, which has consist- Washington obtained seven in its go for naught, he pounded another Of Masonic Pin initial 1943 Hopkins in 1939 to begin its four- tournament, meets Abe Smith of terday afternoon and. after finish- ently dogged the Hertz hurricane's Loop night game. run across the platter with a single year winning streak Oakland in the finals. ing sixth in a field of seven, was hoofbrats. appeared to be the likely Jim Mertz, rookie right-hander in the seventh. Platak defeated Angelo Tocchini, Bieber from the second was Ebersole Is Scores were: Hopkins. 68! C U.. Second I. L. Shuloul bought by King choice, although therp Secretary drafted from Atlanta, was to flitch 65i.2; Loyola. 332a; Gallaude’. 30'_>;! Oakland, 21-12, 21-4. in last night's Johnny Humphries outpointed Ranch. The colt finished 25'2 strong support for Maryland's rep- for the Nats today as they battled hut Hal While in a 20th Year in Row Bridgewater. 23; American U., 2. semifinals, Smith had a lot. of 10-inning pitching lengths behind the winner in a field resentative. Vincentive. This sturdy Boston, with Joe Dobson slated to action, most of duel as the Beats and Delaware. 1. it unscheduled, in Chicago White Sox Easily Syracuse; of cheap platers. colt, is a son of Challenger IT, sirp of Sam Jacobs of the New Jerusalem hurl for the Red Sox. Tex Hughson. his match with Dan Marble, San eked out, a 1-0 decision over the Bieber said he claimed thp colt Challerion. and won in handy fash- winner of 21 games last The Jays had aid from numerous ! Royals Baltimore i tram is the new president of the season, will Francisco policeman and runnerup Detroit Tigers. Humphries himself Top with no intentions of shipping him ion in his last two outings. Masonic be one of Boston's tomor- sources in winning. The milp relay League, long the Capital's pitchers * home j last year. brought, the only run. after Py *h*» Associated Press. row when the Red Sox and victory in the Penn Relays a week | biggest fraternity bowling loop. Nats Smith and Marble crashed Into leading off with a. walk, and moving It, is At the tangle here in a ago which counted in yesterday's warm enough in Canada for ! annual election held last, double-header. each other last night, and started up tn second on a sacrifice. Luke Washington's last team totals helped. An unexpected night baseball, but the temperature night at Convention Hall, Wally appearance at, an match. The produced the Newcomer to Golf Scores impromptu slugging Appling game-winning tfill zoom Powell of H. was Griffith Stadium until It Nor- came when Jenkins of Hopkins added degrees today fol- Ace; Joseph Milans plavs point officials put, the blame on Marble hit -a double to left, center. folk Naval beat Francis Huffman. Oallaudet. in lowing the pitching ot Luke (Hot named viee president while Arville Training Station in a War and voted Smith the winner on a The Boston Red Sox beat Wash- Potato! Hamlin. Ebersole of Albert Pike, exerutive bond game on May 24. the quarter-mile Huffman previ- , forfeit. Hp was when G. W. Team Blanks | ahpad, 16-13, ington, 3-2. and the Clpvelanri-St. The former major leagttp Hopkins secretary of the National was undefeated against Con- flinger Duckpin ously j the started. punching Louts tussle was the 7 Rowling was chosen secre- ferenee opposition, and qpme bark postponed. kept Toronto Maple "Leafs se- Some folks havp playpd golf for a and Griffin 1OW.1 beet Bramman Congress, |J H >. 5 and 4 Best ball George at the of the Wash- tary and treasurer for the 20th suc- t" takp the half-mile run. Bodkin curely lop International score of years or more without a ington. 4 and .*4 ; Official Score > cessive time of Bridgewater turned in another loague by pasting his second 1947 holp in one. To nthprs an pee comes Oroet7in?er iG.W brat Wallace M H and Ray Cross of Hope 5 and 4 Birmingham 'GW » beat Will- BOSTON. A B R H O A E shutout in the was re-elected scorer for Lake, ss upset when he topped C. U.'s Walter on International League soon after thpy take up the game. htrir (J.H.'t. 5 and 4. Best ball—George the 18th 4 0 2 2 0 0 Eastern I Fox. rf _ O Tenpinners Stock Hiked Washington, 5 and 4. consecutive 2 2 1 2 0 Target record book. Not. year. Makofske in the discus. only that, hut he Such is thp case with. C W. Smith, I Lup-en. lb _ 5 o 0 9 3 0 of to Toronto's Orville Brown Roosevelt, now In ! Cronin. 3b _ 3 0 o Individual star of the meet with singled open half of a member of the Washington Golf Sparked bv Bob Clarke, the St. 1 1 0 the the and who served of Doerr 2b 4 i 1 2 0 0 eighth inning, the frame in and Club, who has bepn John's Navy part last Mr 15 points was Vince Campanella In Country linksmen licked BPthesria- ! Bride, rf ...310110 Petersen season Classic as Garrison. 3 0 Hurler which the vice will be If 0 Glorious Leafs all 4 1 0 of C. winner of the By got, their runs playing about three years. Smith Chevy Chase at Indian Spring. 4 to president, IT., 100-yard Peacock, c 3 a named of i 117 for fi-;o-0 verdict over an ace on 11th 2. of was the president the league at Terry, 9 dash, the 220 and the broad jump Syracuse. 'cored Washington's Donnelly Betnesda p ...... 2 0 12 0 Throe its first annual •Miles _ o O o Top 1,700, In First Over in nearby Montreal the hole, around 135 in gun for his team, scoring a 7fi meeting after his j 0 o He set the only meet record while Siela^f Start, Bucky playing yards big Ryba. p_ 1 O O 2 0 0 Royals twice cam° from behind to return. * doing the 220 in 21.8 seconds. His to length. He playpd the shot with a tie Clarke, and.winning the best Of Detroit Lead Totals 31 3 9 Taking Scores Over defeat Baltimore. 7 to 4. in the him were H. ball in last The sum- 27 11 l 100 time of 9 8 seconds also was Gonzaga only 7-iron. With Ma.j. the match. good. •Batted for Terry in seventh. By rhp Associated other league contest the weather- T. D. Griffin and Dick Hall. Another hig scorer behind Cam- Press. Weston, mary: Two St. Albans Rallies Eastern High's baseball team, al- man ! WASHINGTON. A B R H O A E permitted. Next match for both teams is the Bob Clark LS. J > brat Lamer , Case rf 4 112 0 0 shot and and in who ramp to Wednesday 4 and 7. s. 4 Overcome B.-C. C. Nine javelin second the tenpin bowling town around Washington as far as pitch- Best ball—St John and 7. Spence, cf _ 3 0 1 2 6 0 tween and David Clarke
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