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Farm and Garden J&undai} Jfclaf ISpaffe Obituaries C ** TWELVE PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 4, 1954 Senators' Six-Run Splurge in Ninth Downs Cincinnati, 12 to 7 V me Win, Lose or Draw Royal Bay Gem Umphlett Goes By FRANCIS STANN * • ¦ • Star Staff Correspondent Wins at Laurel On Hitting Spree AT LEAST SOME of the baseball writers traveling with the Yankees are wondering anew and aloud if President Dan Topping is planning to unload the club in a manner similar to the way he and Co-Owner Del Webb unloaded the With Late Spurt With Five RBI s big stadium a few months ago. General Manager George Weiss, one scribe suggests, Dinner Winner Runs Tom Clouts Homer is scurrying about as if he is looking for §»pP|||HL f Paradise Along With Schmitz a fresh angel with plenty of moola. I|BP Second, Mr. Miami’s general expansion is impressive but §|| ' Third in Handicap And Roy Sievers it doesn’t extend to golf facilities and SM By Lewis F. Atchison By Burton Hawkins winter visitors are warned that in the near § j»X Star Staff Corratpandant Mp Star Staff Correspondent * future it might be wise not to bring a bag LAUREL, Md., COLUMBIA. S.C., April 3 of clubs unless they have solid connections. April 3.—Royal Senators, specializ- Bay Gem, a The surging whom come-from-behind late-inning Ben Hogan, thousands of hackers horse who hasn’t had much luck ing in rallies these 111 mV Jr days, fought five- will try to “beat” on the third annual JR this season, found a situation jk. back from a National Golf Day on June 5, says “a golf made order for him today as run deficit to score four runs in to the seventh inning, erupt for swing is a minor part of the game. Any- he won the 41st running of the six more in the ninth and stun body can develop a golf swing. How they $15,000-added Laurel stakes. their traveling companions, the r,BBeU SUBB * is the story. And that is determined One of last year’s better 3- Cincinnati Redlegs, today. score although 12-7. not.” . year-olds, not quite by whether they want to work at their game or ?slj | V/ ' I||L ¦ ¦ fl Tom Umphlett. the slim ac- is reported to good enough to win any of the. This is hard to believe, but Leo Durocher big ones, the son of Royal Gem quisition from the Boston Red Beverly Hills mansion, Sox whose light hitting had been have been offered $275,000 for his ll—Bayadere let his front-run- j§B the jlllt • < .r- 1 j m Hi § a of to Bucky . of- source concern furniture. The dandy little manager Giants ning a blistering early sans rivals set Harris, provided a home run and is said to have bought the place, furnished, for $235,000. pace and then took command on to and a double that cleared the loaded Seventy-flve-year-old Norval Baptie, the grand old man the last bend win the mile • ;¦ ¦ one-sixteenth in the good time v- bases to ease the manager’s mind of figure skating on ice, doesn’t know it yet but he will as the Senators blasted Ken Raf- of 1:45 fiat over a dull • ’ ' V _ first time since fast but ¦ ¦' fensberger leave Baltimore General Hospital for the track. and Rudy Minarcin Thursday for 13 he had a leg amputated and be the honored guest Owned by Eugene Constantin, hits. Umphlett smashed five at Barbara Ann Scott’s Hollywood Ice Revue at Uline jr., Royal Bay Gem was 2*4 across runs. time in more a year Willie lengths ahead of Filipo Baldi’s Among the Senators’ blows, in Arena. For the first than Umphlett’s dropped place in the jockey Dinner Winner, who, in turn, was addition to second- Shoemaker has from first inning projected in the two lengths in front of Mrs. Ada homer which . leading United standings. While still the rider L. Rice’s Mr. Paradise. Isidore them into a briefly enjoyed 1-0 States, little Silent Shoe’s 69 victories are eight less than lead, were seventh-inning home money Bieber’s King Jolie yas fourth, Mexico City’s Avelino Gomez, who has been out of the another length and one-half far- runs by, of all people. Pitcher only 47 times in his last 217 races. ther back. Johnny Schmitz, and one good * * * * The winner slightly better than for three runs by Washington’s glory boy, Roy Sievers, who JAMES PERCY (JIM) GILL, who played football for a 2-to-l favorite, paid $6.40, new $4.60 and the board. drove across four runs in the the University of North Carolina and who coached a$ an $3.60 across Dinner Winner returned $7.00 game. Snavely George Barclay, has quit „ assistant under Carl and and $4.20. while Mr. Paradise t ; k , "1 Senators’ Record Now 12-12. golf pro Country the business to become at the Carolina paid $5.60. Sievers’ homer reduced the * . this state- Club at Raleigh. Incidentally, Gill gives with Attendance Surprises. Redlegs’ lead to 7-6 and with ment, which may be of interest: “Teaching golf will be harder It was a sunny, wind-swept one out in the ninth the Sena- than teaching football because it is more difficult to teach day and the crowd of 24,641, t tors went to work, winning their an athlete to be gentle than tough. You must teach a golfer not quite up to last Saturday’s IP llth decision in their last 12 26,608, got for its money games with major league op- not to strictly force in hitting a ball. In football the a run use in the feature. Laurel officials ponents. Washington’s player he is. Temperament CeaSMi It was more force a man uses, the better were a bit surprised by the at- wPl* fourth triumph in five games on demands are just the opposite, too. The madder a football tendance, figuring that Jamaica this trip with Cincinnati and player gets, the better he plays, usually. That isn’t true in in New York would attract most evened the Senators’ exhibition golf. Determined, yes, but not angry.” of its Philadelphia patronage. game record at 12-12 after an betting brisk, too, If there is such a thing as an “average” Kentucky Derby The was 0-9 start. although also under last week's BUT NOT OUT—Mrs. Howard Duckett, parts abruptly with her horse, Shady Lady, and takes the winner, Brownie Leach (after lumping the characteristics of DOWN jr., company Cincinnati, accumulating nine total. final in the pair race*of the Potomac Hunt point-to-point races yesterday. However, she held onto the reins, hits, jammed six of them into a last 25) herewith describes the critter which will wear jump alone the A late scratch of S. A. Peck’s remounted, and finished the unhurt. (Story Page C-5.) —Star Staff Photo by Paul Schmick. six-run outburst against Chuck . be race on . “He will the roses at Churchill Downs next month. Potpourri reduced the field to Stobbs in the fourth inning. Jim the last eight a bay or brown colt, foaled in March (probably in in the feature, and cut , Greengrass belted a home run half of the month); his birthplace is in Fayette County, slightly into the winner’s earn- First Team Over Second, 14-6 for the Redlegs in the second ings. Out of gross purse of $17,- Paces of Lexington,” Leach reveals. “He will be a home-bred; ! and dus Bell and Bobby Adams west 300, Royal Bay Gem received Bassett Takes Beating Dodgers Blast Spahn at two, he was a stakes winner, started nine times, won added others over the convenient $11,825, boosting his winnings during shelling of second, third, and earned $34,264. fences the four races, was twice once for the year to $21,285. He Bielski Displays Speed, Power 1 Stobbs. the this he will be stakes winner with year, win- In Whipping Braves Prior to Derby year, a earned $184,800 last As Andrade Scores had a 7-6 edge third. He will not his 23 starts Cincinnati four starts, two wins, one second and one ning eight of and with down in the ninth in money on As Star Game one be a winter-raced horse, but (one who) wintered in South finished the four in Terp Practice Maury McDermott batted other occasions. Decision Behind Russ Meyer after Carolina. His weight in the Experimental Handicap was six Unanimous (Picture on Page C-2.) With Coach Jim Tatum at for Schmitz and tapped out to Royal Bay Gem is a notor- By pounds below the top; his sire is an imported horse or a By George Huber Lafayette, Ind., conducting the tha Associated Brass Minarcin, but Mel Hoderlcin iously late starter and Combest By Merrell Whittlesey Purdue University clinic, the Ala., April 3. touched off the explosive inning previous Derby winner, and representing either the Swynford him to lag as Lightweight Cisco Andrade of BIRMINGHAM. I allowed behind the Dick Bielski emerged as the long practice session was in Brooklyn’s right-handed with single to center and Pete will stand 16 hands, one inch tall; his field turn. Angeles gave Percy Bassett, vaunted a or Teddy line; he headed for the first Los outstanding star charge of his assistants. After power finally came to life at the Runnels walked. family, and Mr.