Griff Picks Tigers Despite Yanks Being 2-to-5 Flag Choices Split Jeffra Jaw NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE -By JIM BERRYMAN. Needs Iron Brace POMPOON fumy FAST RISE AT NET By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 1. — A /HOT DOG! TH*\ heavy iron brace held Harry Jeffra’s IN OWE TEST PAPERS ARE eiTTIN' in / Jaw place today, and he will wear \ IS MULL’S GOAL the frame for at least two weeks SOME MEWS IN'EM AT \ while the broken jaw he suffered LAST! WE AIN'T HAD A \ McCarthy’s Team, Except- in his last fight heals. Amcr Brujo Also Displays New College Star to Dr. Joel THIN® FER TWO MONTHS Qglt Same as 1937 Fleishman, who discov- / ing Lazzeri, ered the fracture Ease in Mud That May yesterday, said a -JUS* A PEW WARS AN* k Serious Tennis for Work World Champs. double break of the sort the former Prevail bantamweight champion sustained Saturday. NEW DEAL STUFF- M if Advance is Slow. in his bout with Sixto [ By GRANTLAND RICE. Escobar last By the Associated Press. ■ MOW FER week was unusual." Escobar SOME By BILL BON I. LOS ANGELES. March 1.—Jack "very LOS ANGELES, March 1.—The won the bout on a ! Associated PreseSports Writer. Doyle has made the Yankees prohibi- points by wide talk today at rain-splashed Santa ^REAL READIN’ margin. NEW YORK, March tive favorites in his book to win the Anita, where the $100,000 handicap 1.—Having ap- Jeffra said he thinks he suffered plied himaell to the American League pennant race again may be run in mud Saturday, was all conscientiously the break in the fifth round of the study of economics Col- —and Clark Griffith says he will be about the workouts of Pompoon and at/Kenyon 15-round lege, Don McNeill, co-favorite with surprised if they do. When the base- fight held in Puerto Rico. Amor Brujo on a sloppy track. Wayne Sabin for the national Indoor ball experts get around to foretelling Pompoon reeled off 10 furlongs In tennis singles has the result of the scramble that will 2:10. The time was not sensational, championship, fig- ured out that his racquet start in mid-April, the chances are but those who saw the trial were im- proficiency will have to pay dividends er that more of them will with pressed with the horse's efforts. quickly string easy not at all. Doyle than with GrifT. Amor Brujo, the big South American McNeill, seeded second to Griff knows his baseball—nobody charger now owned by the Kozinsky 8abin ln the tourney which went into the will try to take anything away from brothers, negotiated the same distance third in the mud round today, made an unprecedented him on that—but it is going to be dif- yesterday in 2:08. Jump to ninth place in the 1937 ficult for anybody to forget how tne Sande Horses Race. na- tional rankings after being unranked Yankees looked the last time out. The of Two Maxwell Howard’s runners, the year before. wound the __ way they up pennant race Sceneshifter and Stagehand, also and then went on to throttle the Giants He still is a bit breathless over his breezed the route for their trainer, in the World Series was so sudden leap to prominence. He had impressive New Hagerstown Schedule Earl Sande. Stagehand, winner of the that the onlookers been fairly confident of crashing the stopped comparing $50,000 Santa Anita Derby and possi- them with their rivals and to first 15, but he wasn’t sure Just where. began Forces Change—Shift in bly the only 3-year-old in the big wonder if could have beaten the Must Get Ahead they handicap, beat Sceneshifter by a cou- Quickly. Yankees of 1927. Charles Town Dates. ple of lengths in 2:12%. Having had that much, he wants That, as Leonard once said With Seabiscuit still the favorite and wants it in a Benny 8rcclal Dispatch to Th» Star. more, hurry. when they were arguing whether or not for Santa Anita's “100 Grand," no "Unless I can make the first ’five he BALTIMORE, Md„ March 1.—The could have beaten Joe Gans. was official announcement was forthcom- within the next two or three years." back a Maryland Raping Commission has going long way to dig up some- ing on his rider. he said, “I'll just have to go back to been forced to switch its 1938 sched- body for a fellow to lick. But it was Trainer Tom Smith said Sonny playing tennis for fun. Because I'll be ule, due to the Hagerstown Pair Asso- necessary to go back 10 years to find Workman, the ‘Biscuit pilot last Sat- out of college in 1939, and then III a team that ciation changing its from combined power and opening urday when he was defeated by Ane- have to start earning some money. May 16 to July 12. pitching and fielding skill to the degree roid, probably would be up on him “Of course, if I can get to be”as the Hagerstown will run 10 days. The Yanks achieved. again, as Owner Charles 8 Howard good as Don Budge,” and he grinned, wind-up is set for 23, Tigers Are Formidable July following was satisfied with his performance. “then I'd be silly to quit. Otherwise, which will be held the Belair, Cum- But all Smith, however, was not satisfied. though, it's down to work for me." that, to snare a line from berland. Marlboro. Timonium, Havre Pollard Is Missed. It was largely through McNeill's Kipling, is all shoved behind us, long de Grace, Laurel, Pimlico and Bowie efforts that Kenyon College, which ago and far away. This is 1938 ana a "I’m not sure that Workman fits meetings. has an new enrollment of only 300. signed race looms. With a little better The Hub decision to Seabiscuit," he said. "Seabiscuit City's switch Bruce Barnes as break in its tennis coach. .... luck than they had last year, its dates means that the Charles Town never would have been caught going the Tigers will be more formidable. In Hopes Barnes Can Beat Him. (W. Va.) Jockey Club will throw open back ever so slightly at the break last of spite Gehrig and Di Maggio and its gates on May 16. Charles Town Saturday if Jack Pollard had been on ‘‘im hoping he'll be able to beat Dickey and Selkirk, the Yankees can’t is undecided whether to run 24 or 37 him.” me,” said McNeill, in answer to a by- muster as steady an attack as the days. Pollard is recovering from injuries stander's comment that he ought to over Tigers the span of a season—or sustained in a fall. be able to whip Barnes. "Because it couldn’t last when the Wldener Starts year, Tigers String Late. "I’m not criticizing Workman,” PURDUE won’t do my game any good to plsy finished on in Trainer Bert SCENTS FLAG top hitting. Mulholland sends Smith continued. "He was new to the against somebody I can trim Last regu- year the Tigers cracked up word from Erdenhetm Farm, Pa., horse, didn't know his mannerisms. larly.” when that D. G. Holds Piece of Ten Can Mickey Cochrane. Schoolboy George Widener’s in- U. TEAM THREAT Big Title, string, Then, too. Sonny is an old head and With only J. Gilbert Hall and Rowe and Tommy were 25 won’t be seen Bridges forced cluding 2-year-olds, has his own ideas about how a horse Clinch out of Saturday. George B. Dunn eliminated from the action. With a smoother run in action until the Havre de Grace be should ridden. That’s why I say seeded lists, the 16 survivors in men's of luck, a little better and meeting, which opens 15. CHICAGO, March 1 OP).—Purdue’s pitching April that perhaps Workman doesn’t fit the and women's that hammering attack singles were battling to- working again, horse." IN Boilermakers—who might be known for TERPS’ BIG MEET day places in the quarter-final the Tigers may be tough to Ray Bryson's stable, which includes stop—as —— ■ Calumet — as Jewell Young & Co.—held a piece round. Meanwhile, the doubles fields, tough as Griff thinks they will be, for Dick, and Jimmy Stewart's of the 1938 Ten headed by Sabin and Gregory Mangin the Old Fox really thinks the Tigers string, which includes First Alarm, Big basket ball cham- will at GREENBELT A. C. READY to and Katharine Winthrop and Mrs. are the ones who will tip the Yankee campaign Delaware Park when Entries Compete in 3 Col- pionship today and the opportunity of cart this Maryland's spring sessions end. Virginia Rice Johnson, were sched- apple time. in the entire to gathering "pennant’’ next uled for first-round play. Mixed Threatening, too, are the White Organizes Promote Sports of lege, 4 A. A. U. Events, The Maryland Jockey Club is being Saturday night. doubles will start tomorrow, and will 6ox, who have 6ome good pitchers, twitted turf over Varied Character. find Don and added to their by scribes the fact Brace of The Boilermakers, with the McNeill paired with Char- punch by the ac- that Relays. eagle- of nary a sign of rock was uncov- A Greenbelt Athletic Club has been lotte McNeill, non-related namesake quisition Gerald Walker. The In- eyed Young going on another brilliant ered when the Pimlico field was lev- Georgetown track team from Bound Brook, N.