1947-04-22 [P A-16]

f Attendance in Majors May Hit '46 Record Peak Early Games Attract Briton, 77, Cards Other Teams Prefer w in, Lose, or Draw 15th Hole in One By FRANCIS E. STANN Average of 18,309 •y tf** Auociatcd Prut LONDON, April 22.—Britain1! Loser, Won't Help At the Head of the Class Is Phalanx grand old man of golf—James That sizzling victory in the first section of the Wood Memorial Weather Braid—five times Open cham- Despite pion, has turned in his 15th bole Mack Hints ^ the other day did something for C. V. (Sonny) Whitney’s brown, Vir- A's, Joe Reichler in one. ginia-bred colt, Phalanx. It moved him right to the head of the class By •y Hi* Atsoclatad Pna Now 77 Braid was Associated Press Sports Writi r years old, which is for the 73d running of the Kentucky Derby only 32 — priming playing in a foursome on the new PHILADELPHIA, April 12 Judging from early returns, the __ days away. course Walton where Connie lluk didn’t It attendance at the major league Heath, he say in exactly By that always mysterious communion of hoss had been for 43 baseball parks this season should professional thee* words—tout he Indicates he no matter how far are sepa- when he aced the players’ minds, they come close to lut years, 165-yard pretty matching 1 thinks the 15 other major league rated geographically, Phalanx was gaining support, year’s record. 10th hole. Braid still has a to teams like a consistent loser and anyway, but his record Wood triumph Just about Despite poor weather which has ways go, in the hole in one busi- thus won’t his made it certain that the son of Pllate-Jacola will caused postponement of 16 games though, help Philadelphia ness. be the favorite at Churchill Downs on May 3. during the first week of action and Athletics. The British golf handbook lists cut into the crowds in others, the wants to All of which proves again that what Derby the world record for holes in one "Nobody help us," the 16 big league clubs drew a com- American do as isn’t important. Not that as held the late 84-year-old League owner- hopefuls 2-year-okls bined total of 786,991 cash cus- being by Sandy Herd. He did it 19 manager laments. "Once they get Phalanx was a bad 2-year-old. On the contrary, an of times. tomers, average 18,309 per you down, by gosh, they you he was He won five of 15 races and keep pretty good. game. there. $57,110 in purses, but as an oat-winner he didn’t During the first week a year ago, And Connie Isn’t with Education and Double-Jay, among the majors, taking advantage of kidding. compare Chandler Turns Down Since 1035. the A’s have finished others. perfect baseball weather, got in 50 In the cellar nine seventh of their 52 scheduled games which times; Education, owned by Fred Hooper, a Floridian twice. In 1044 the club attracted an average of 20,028 per virtually Frkads b. iun. who hit the Derby jackpot two years ago on his Plea to Reconsider outdid itself—"even game. surprising me,’’ first with won last but now he’s & Mack try Hoop Jr., $164,473 year, just With the increase in the number said—and finished In a tie for even to the at Churchill fifth with the Cleveland weak-legged sprinter who won’t go post of night games and added interest Indians. Downs. He doesn’t owe Hooper anything, however, inasmuch as he in such cities as Pittsburgh and Durocher's Ouster Nothing He Can Do, cost only $6,600, and when his boss bought him he knew that Educa- Cleveland, where ne^ owners have ■y th« Associated Pr«« Already the Mackmen, with the taken it is tion’s mater and pater were sprinters wily. over, not inconceivable CINCINNATI, April 22.—Pour one- 1047 season Just a week old, are In that the There is less reason to dismiss Double-Jay, who won $77,550 as 1947 attendance will ap- syllable words, "the case Is closed,” the basement—"and there’s nothing proach, if not top, last year’s amaz- snuffed out a 2-year-old and who is known as a tractable colt, but there’s no ques- today hopes of the at this time that we can do to ing figures. Brooklyn that Leo Duro- the tion but that Phalanx is the fair-hairer boy, rating over Double-Jay, Dodgers change outlook,” Mack said. Unisox continue to Win. cher might manage the team at least "Teams don’t have ball I Will, On Trust, Cornish Knight, Stepfather, Cosmic Bomb, Jet Pilot players Yesterday rally two of the five part of this season. want to trade to us,” Connie and the rest. they scheduled games were played. They came from Baseball Com- reported, without the twinkle in his The limited A. B. Chandler Cornish Is action produced one missioner yesterday eye. “And when they do want to get KnightAlso ,Virginia-Bred big upset as the surprising Chicago as he rejected a request by Branch rid of a guy, by heck we don’t want Next to Phalanx, the track mob is regarding Cornish Knight, White Sox, taking liberties with the Rickey, president of the Dodgers, him either.” billed as “the Canadian hopeful,” with the greatest respect. left-handed shoots of Hurricane Hal and Pord Prick, National League "I want to give Philadelphia a the Actually, Romish Knight, like Phalanx, is a Virginia-bred colt. Newhouser, Detroit ace, slapped president, that he reconsider the winning ball club, but it won’t be down the Tigers, 6-4, to remain un- one-year suspension he He is a long, rangy, game, unbeautiful animal who wasn’t much as a imposed this year. , beaten atop the American League on the Brooklyn manager April 9. "I don’t know 2-year-old, but who won his first start this season in a 5%-furlong when well get a standings. In registering their Rickey and Frick appeared before winner.” in mud at Jamaica, and who came back a week later to beat sprint third victory of the campaign, Ted the Commissioner accompanied rivals in by Mack, once a major league catcher Phalanx, Stepfather and a couple of other potential Derby Lyons’ crew Newhouser Arthur nudged and Mann, Rickey’s assistant, himself, turned on a smile as he the mile-and-a-sixteenth That victory brought his two successors Experimental. for 10 safeties, four and Walter O’Malley and Judge looked on his championship club of owner, Wealthy Toronto Industrialist E. P. Taylor, $14,600—more than of them for extra bases. \ Henry L. Ughetta, part owners of 1929-30-31. It was not until the Cornish Knight won during his entire racing as a 2-year-old. fifth inning the club. “We had a hitting, fielding and that the to PITCHES AND PUTTS—Lew Worsham, the Nation’s The undisputed glamour boy of the Derby as of this date, Phalanx Tigers managed score. Shortly after the quintet filed eighth leading pro golf money winner, from pitching team then. They were Chicago had a record of out of Washington gets his shoulder checked trainer of focuses attention once more to the famous Eton blue silks of the pitchers Chandler’s chambers, the ailing by George Lentz, the Nats, while Pitch- pretty good, good.” 22 pretty straight scoreless innings. Until commissioner’s office issued a 60- er Early Wynn drops in the training room to check his a baseball bat Connie Whitney family, which sent out more Derby starters and favorites be- grip, although Is the closest turned to 1947. then. word statement which declared they thing to a golf club on tween 1915 and 1927 than any other stable. —Star Staff Pheto Can’t Promise to The Sox swatted Newhouser for had asked the commissioner "to hand._ Win. 1915 became the only Back in Harry Payne Whitney’s Regret five runs in the first five innings reconsider the Durocher case.” “I’ve been pretty disappointed who died in filly ever to win the Derby. In 1927 Whitney, 1930, saddled to settle the issue. Newhouser was “The commissioner declined, stat- with the hitting this year,” he said. 13 Lewis .500 Mark Six times those five men Is His “But a another Derby champion, Whiskery. during years wild, walking during that ing the Durocher case was closed,” Reply Wagner Credits Rise we’ve got good outfield, any- the Whitney* horses were post-time favorites. time. the statement said in conclusion. way. About the infield? By gosh, He uncorked a wild pitch in the The was no further comment To Fan Who He I know they’re not so hot, but they Eddie Arcaro Is High on His Mount first inning that conked Ralph Hod- from any of the conference partici- Suggested Quit Of Pirates to Crosby try hard and they play good ball. I gin and sent the Chicago outfielder Prick and the other Clark Griffith when Lewis was In- hoped we might pick up a pitcher Only twice since the death of H. P. Whitney has the Eton blue, pants. Rickey, By Burton Hawkins to a Detroit with a in the next no- hospital con- Dodger officials were reported to Star Staff volved in a coupla weeks, but now carried by the horses of his son, Sonny, been seen in the Derby. Correspondent salary squabble. “He’s cussion and a bruise, Hodgin's have left for New York body has anybody for us.

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