•DETROIT TIMES, MAY 27,1942 PAGE 21 Wise Moss Gets Her Chance Again Today REDFORD HUSKIES CAPTURE A CHAMPIONSHIP IN A NEW FIELD * A Belle Isle Purse SPORTS J • By LEO MACDONELL Army-Navy Relief Fund Five Flops in Six Starts To Test Hard Games Are Something Should Cause Alarm Short of a Success > for Baseball Moguls Running Mare ¦¦ ' n* j| LARRY McPHAIL STAGES ONLY SELLOUT Camp Verde, Anxiety, 'I n||^V >'• ' ST. LOUIS, May 27.—With five flops in six starts, the Army • V ' W 7 *j ~ » -» MKmJwmmsmmi Cooling Spring, Boom On r % and Navy Relief Fund games promoted by Majdf- League Clubs r’ Among Opposition have been something short of a howling success, which if it m H‘ doesn't, should alarm the baseball moguls. By LEWIS H. WALTER only At Brooklyn, the energetic Larry MapPhail staged the M Wise Moss gets her chance again atiecess. was achievement, as today. real His a smashing befits the .. I , hard-running mare which iA k fcjlit .'.m Tlu great showman. More than 42,000 patriots turned out at Ebbetts won six straight races at the De- Field, contributing close to $60,000 to the worthy funds. All ly troit Race Track last season, will A. make a fresh start today in the receipts go to the movement, as you know. But MacPhail worked — ¦ Belle Isle Purse against six other at it—like he works at everything. He didn't just put a piece in mr JitM/P good sprinters. out for the paper and the park to be He hustled cus- It’s the second time the expect stormed. four-year-old daughter of Wise tomers. This is mentioned for the benefit of the baseball people *,<mw Counsellor. She went to the post * * % in second division of the $5,000 who have benefit games coming up. iJlr the Boots and Saddles Handicap open- itl^wir ing day and wound up fourth, It'* Not Too Pretty a Picture seven lengths behind T. M. Dor- sett. after getting much the worst But take a look at the rest of the not too pretty picture. of the running. in 1,465 51,> Bk Wise Moss was the favorite less in attendance 1 . All together five other games totaled .a' 1 'lTfc-rfim fff^mT'•'i sr ? that race, but she was lucky to and $15,000 less in receipts than MacPhail’s promotion. money. waa i get fourth When she America, H IF closing ground in the stretch her At Philadelphia, in population the third city in r 7 7 wm I I .jockey. Wayne Nassi, tried to take less than 4,000 persons turned a game between the Phils M out for J. I i m her between horses. and At Washington, St. Louis and crowds Pirates. Cleveland NOT ROOM ENOUGH of less than 10,000 reported. At Boston, for a game be- / were ¦¦r 1 There wasn’t enough room, and tween the Red Sox and Athletics slightly more than 12,000 were iiillßrramvl/ I Wise Moss was bumped so hard ALL SMILES, THE CHAMPIONS CONGRATULATE THEMSELVES Nassi almost bounced out of tha on hand. ’ * I saddle. Wise Moss may not hava At Washington and Boston it wasn’t the fault of the man- Bill Sayres, Bob Richards, Chapin, Doug Fritz, Joe Pettit, Jim Nankervis, Bill Drudge ' I been good enough to catch T. M. agements—they up choice Saturday dates and otherwise I Dorsett, but she certainly never did what they could to stir up the fans to the worthiness of the had a chance after that. Washington, Griffith with the Wise Moss may not be any cinch cause. At Clark gave up a game today’s six-furlong sprint with But workers apparently were busy in Yankees. the government too Victory Is Late Camp Verde, Cooling Spring and to show up—too busy in their offices or at the golf courses. The Anxiety among the opposition. program at Boston was plagued with bad weather. The race will also give A 1 Well- man. Detroit owner, another chance to judge the true merit oi American League Far Short of Goal But Welcome Boom On, the horse he recently the game between and claimed in Maryland. At Cleveland relief the Indians White Another Detroit owner, Mrs.* Sox was not only billed for a Monday but also was sandwiched in J. B. Bumstein, is already certain between a Sunday double-header and a night game. After all, To Al Benton of the class of several of her when you consider the standard crowds in Sk Louis, the 8,500 horses. She has won two succes- sive feature races. Sam Houston By LEO MACDONELL taking the Grosse Pointe Farms Purse Monday and Ship Biscuit ST. LOUIS. May 27.—When Al pounding down to victory yester- Benton pitches a good game it day in the Willow Run Purse, the Big Al isn't news. But when day’s top event. pitches a good game and wins, it !is news. CLAIMED BY BURN STEIN I Benton turned in a four-hit Ship Biscuit, a five-year-old son game under the lights here last of Hard Tack, was claimed by night and the Tigers defeated the J. B. Bumstein early in the Flor- Browns. 3-1, to square the series ida season from the Wheatley at one-all. It was the second four- hitter Benton had hurled here thia (Continued on Page 28) season. He lost the first to Elden early schedule. a v \ Anker in the w. Benton’s triumph last night came in his first appearance in a Yanks Win game. 15 big league night His only ‘ *' ’-- * ' other experience with the noc- , aBl".-*'-• IgPRBL .. $ , , 1j i turnal brand was with Oklahoma ¦ City in the Texas League. Out of Last 18 ANOTHER HIT ! Moreover. Benton got a hit and Who or what human force is scored a run. his third hit and his going to stop those Yankees? second run of the season. He to- That’s what baseball fans might taled only three hits all of last JOHNNY CHAPIN GOES AFTER A DIFFICULT BACKHAND SHOT ask today as the New Yorkers pre- season, so that the big Oklahoman . won So. 1 singles match to pace his teammates to victory . pared to continue their power appears to he off to a batting assault against the poor seventh spree. His hit last night was a Athletics at the Yankee two-bagger to make his night's §lacetadium. Victors In 15 of their last HIGH MULCAHY TED WILLIAMS 808 FELLER labors all the more impressive. The »I Result 18 games, following yesterday's And he didn't have much trouble Robinson 2 to 1 Woman Hits 659 assault and battery which saw • ... they couldn't the pork .. reaching second—well, even till not much. them sweep a two-game series To Benton's fine performance on Upsets with a 9 to 2 conquest bad. Redford Undefeated Central to Replace of the Bos- attendance for the game with the Tjgers was not so But ihe mound was added a home run ton Red Sox, it was hard to de- baseball folks in St. Louis were disappointed as they had hign by Eric McNair, the shortstop's To Win His 32d Hamtramck as Prep Tennis Champion In National termine just when the bombers hopes near 30.000 capacity the Tigers and first of the year, and a tempes-l would relax and take things easy. of a crowd. With tuous argument between Tigers Browns and Great Lakes and Jefferson Barracks the manage- NEW YORK. May 27 (INS).— Except in golf and cross-coun-' | Singles victories by John Chapin. MILWAUKEE. May 27 (UP).— Three homers in the first five and Umpire Joe Rue in which try. Redford High has been unable Tillie Taylor, bowling alley pro- innings just about took care of Mr. ment of the Browns put on a good show. was Though there wasn't much betting Bob Richards and Bill Sayres Birdie Tebbetts banished from to break through in other sports prietor from Englewood. N. J., ! Joseph Cronin. Two of them, by game. * clinched “The event’s All Out appeal for Uncle Sam’s boys with the the action yet. Sugar Ray Robinson for a Metropolitan League city the match before the rolled a sparkling 659 here last Tommy Henrich and Charley The argument came total receipts going to the fund should have been enough to send in the fifth was a 2 to 1 favorite to make it title, but today the northwest doubles were started. Other night to take first place in the Keller, came In the very first inning over a disputed run. a members of the inhabitants of the town scurrying to the park in droves,”i 32 straight wins as a pro when he school is celebrating a champion- the winning school singles of the Women’s Interna- inning, each with a mate on the marker that robbed Benton of a enters the ring against little Marty ship in a third—tennis. are Jim Nankervis, Bill Drudge, tional Bowling Congress tourna- sacks. wrote one disappointed scribe. shutout victory. It was by Doug scored Servo of Schenectady in their re- A rank outsider when the semi- Fritz and Joe Pettit. ment. i These blows not only em> With the American League competing half of its Relief A 1 Hollingsworth, the Browns’ turn 10-rounder at Madison Square Chapin, playing No. 1 singles, surprised an undefeated and Later Miss Taylor teamed with (Continued on Page 2s) Fund games. President Will Harridge finds his goal of $375,000 starting pitcher, after a catch by Garden tomorrow night.