BATHER NINE FACES STIFF TEST TOH Mountaineers Engage Strong St. Phillips Nine in Detroit Bates to Hurl Major League Great Grandpap Hoople Won Derby; IwdSwfflP Staadings Bliss to Hurt AMERICAN LEAGUE Opening Game W L Pet •GB Hat Didn't Fit, So It's Our Boots Buckhols SMmi : ' ... HBB ¦¦ Cleveland ... 9 4 .692 Lineup to Imptvt % y New ... 9 5 .643 7 York • ! ':t TUESDAY APRIL 29, 1941 PAGE 9 for St. Mary's Boston 7 4 .636 1 Mystic Major Scorinf Powtr' Chicago ..... 7 4 .636 1 Locals Start DETROIT ... 4 7 .364 4 Also Sees Great • Disappointed by the bttttsfd Philadelphia . 4 7 .364 4 his team in two prpvtooa Ob League Season Washington ..4 8 .333 4% tests, Coach Ernest Buddok -ll Many Hangovers Opt The Sports Glass Away from Hama St Louis ..... 2 7 .222 5 shuffling his betting In •Games behind leader. By MAJOR AMOS HOOPLE the hope that he may get greab —John Clifford •MONDAY’S RESULTS er scoring punch for the* game •What will the wheel of fortune Cleveland 7,. Detroit 2. Veteran Claiming Expert today with Wyandotte the tht mojor problem confronting the Mount bring Mountaineers? Covered Wagon f Hitting is now the Chicago 2, St. Louis 1. •UPSIDE DOWNS. Ecuador, rtiamnbO Gomans Bothers. In two gomes the boys in the Maroon and Today they make their debut Only games scheduled. April 2ft,—Har-rumph! Paul Strumpfer, Biaropn and Blue hove collected only seven safeties, all of them one bag- into Detroit Catholic league TUESDAY’S GAMES Gray rightholder, will he mooed competition they engage One’s fame follows one where- up from sixth place gers. Jhey won the first engagement with Monroe 2-0, but when Boston st DETROIT. ver one goes, Egad! I came to tr the heir St. Phillips Park, Wsshington Chicago. ting order to the spot. dropped the second to Grosse Pointe, 7-0. af Chandler at this delightful the lanfeff Outer Drive, end a more diffi- New at St. Louis. track in Strumpfer In their first two contests of the year—one a practise York Ecuadorian foothills to watch collected twe hits of cult assignment for an aggrega- Philadelphia at Cleveland. the Bather’s three hitaoff Grease game ogainst Lincoln Hlah School, of Van Dyke, and the other the claiming races and mokt a Pointe tion of untasted warriors could- regarding in last Thursday*# contest against Monroe, the Botnars played errorless ball arid earned n't imagined. few claims this and Ken Stresshurg will mooed were be NATIONAL.LEAGUE. that. ho their vfctorlei; in the third, against Grosse Pointe, they For—St. Phillips only a few W L Pet *GB up from the cliannp yfedßOnfa charged responsible two runs. But no sooner had I arrived the with four errors, which were for days ago bumped Mary’s of ... No. 3 spot. St. Brooklyn 11 4 .733 than my editor requested that I Strmhbuqi win Hitting lost the game. Redford, 1-0, to snap a string of St. Louis 8 3 .727 1 spiked in practise yesterday end ¦elect the winner of the Ken- may that had run to 18 New ... 8 .667 not play today. Bafliers Mast Hit victories York 4 1% tucky Derby, May 3. So, with- games, year and start ... Buchholz upon Lyle If the Bathers are to bet lost the of Cincinnati 7 6 .538 3 out qualms or any ado, will mil this. To make matters seem oil Chicago 4 6 .400 4% further Bliss, star righthaadar erhegg anywhere this season they will * give you the order finish: for our local hope- Boston I of four hit hurling gave hove to start smocking the ap- County Loop the darker 5 8 .385 5 OUR BOOTS WiM is a Clemens 2-0 fuls St. Mary’s of Redford Pittsburgh ... 3 8 .273 6 a win over ple around harder and oftener. KING COLE in opener fedhdiii. first division team and not only Philadelphia . 3 .231 7 the season 10 PORTER’S CAP to handle Gomes can't be won by good were they blanked by St. Phil- the pitching •Games behind leader. expect s photo finish at choree. Bttss wfll pitching and fielding alone. lips but they weren’t given one RESULTS I also bat behind Stresshurg Rules are Set MONDAY’S Churchill Downs, an afternoon In the With Ralph Siewert still try- measly and eked out only Brooklyn <, 2. cleanup spot. split hit Cincinnati partly cloudy with He i halt m ing to recover the form he two walks. Bill Martin, St. Phil- Only game scheduled. possible his pitching head e few days ago Eight Ttoms Start showers and a great many all- lip ace ( job. but will be showed last year even the hurler did the TUESDAY’S GAMES out hangovers, able to take the Perhaps was only s Chicago hsk-kaff! mound for today*# pitching can't be relied upon Play on May 11 iV fluke. at Boston. Your correspondent is op- battle. 1 Anyway, win, lose, or draw the at Brooklyn. The probable lineup willftp: too heavily—and the fielding Cincinnati posed to the methods of most Grosse Mountaineers promse to go out St. Louis at New York. Strumpfer, rightholder; yjjj. bogged <Jown in the Macomb county baseball handicappers who explain thoir liott, boos; as apt •The there fighting and no matter how Pittsburgh at Philadelphia. second lltiieilHiia Pointe game and Is just league will play under the same they fare they chance choices with such vague phrases drat bass; Bliss, pAdSfedfe Today stand no is spot”, to bog down again. the rules and regulations that gov- of being disgraced. They go in as "This the "Throw centerflelder; Beerdslee, last and, oh, yes, “My fcfft team takes on Wyandotte erned play in 1940, it was decid- underdog like race out!” fielder; Walters, third the and the David three-star special!” hem; and Wyandotte downed Mon- ed last night at a meeting of face if vanquished Banks, catcher; would lose no Tigers Egad, what end feme* league officials and managers. Meet sort of reasons are shortstop. ' Bathers just by Goliath. Buts victory roe, the team the would provide be thing to glory those? I clients with Wyandotte reportedly janVl nosed out, 4-2, last week. League play, which is sched- a on. upon bring Coach May has solid reasons based careful strong squad dad Whot they show in this game uled to start May 11, will Wilson his analysis thd intftM charges all pepped up for the and painstaking scru- are in for a battle. The trfcCtoHß may be a very important index together eight teams from Mount Boston Sox tiny. Clemens, Armada, New Haven, tilt. His lineup will be: beat Mom. M,la. of now well they will fare this Facts are what we want New Baltimore, Utica, Warren, “Buck” Flavian, first base; year. • Tribe Blasts ARMS FOLLOWERS WITH Line, Roseville. Fol- Bemie Snay, second base; Tom This ddd, draws from cM print, shears Major Beetle, ml Coach Ernest Buckhols is Center and INDISPUTABLE FIGURES turn lowing the regular seasqp a O’Brien, shortstop; Homer Van halter man, SSppbr etoMe (Teas Kenlwerth, thesis. to HJmb, Detroit, 7-2 • Your handicapper (I going to try to remedy the Hollenbeck, base; Joe Pel- ’am re- Mexico, at peak et hie eoresr en tort playoff willbe held to determine third ferring to myself) relegates hitting weakness by shuf- the champion of the county. tier, leftfield; Johnny Belosky, to • DETROIT, April scrap heap managed set up some Such highly fling the batting order, put- championship playoff is to centerfleld; Roy Harms, right- 29 (>P) the ideas which are he to himself in er asked ori- The not pertinent, quite ginal question as "Hot enough Strumpfar, cantor Harry pitcher; and The Detroit Tigers, victims of arms his follow- an ice business and thrived ting Paul be a two-round knockout affair. field; Bates, ers indisputable figures, for you, gsamp?" posi- Fred Van Hollenbeck, catcher. three consecutive maulings by with well. fielder, in the laadaff A “most valuable player” compiled light for ice boomed My grandfather's grandfather tion Kan Strossburg, the Cleveland Indians, returned in the of concen- The demand and award will be given at the close to Briggs Stadium today to be- tration on known factors. Ed. just before July 4 in the thirst- gava my grandfather a long first seeker, in the No. 2 of the season. The award, a gold gin their 1941 rivalry with the Note: Do you know what he Is saloons of tho bygone era. My searriiidg look, end replied In spot. trophy, is a donation by George Boston Red Sox. talking about?) grandfather's grandfather hod to his rich Witone: , ONW Strumpfer led the team The point system will be Think $40,000 1 have long wisp great many of these oases "Grandson, when are you go- Hack. Johnny retained a visit a ogainst Grosse Pointe with two used in rating ployera. Gorsica was booked of advice which one of my —on business, of course and in- ing to begin thinking with your to pitch for the Tigers, while grandfather Hooples passed oh headl” ~~ singles. He con hit and wilj be The Wilson M-150 ball will to evitable returned home on his -7 of on be Derby Horse the veteran Bob Grove drew the me from one of his grandfathers. hands and knees, Haw! Ever since my grand- used os the spearhead used. Loston assignment. offense. Strossburg, while not Jove, ha was a canny chop! I This was a trick in equilibrium father related that tala, I have occepted sense Cleveland tightened its hold believe he once won a derby he learned from observing especial pp*nf to "think hnwlne aeMnslMffeh .