' Saturday, April 18, 1942 PAGE 12 DETROIT EVENING TIMES (PHONE CHERRY 8800) Don't took Now, HANK AND MATES PICK DUGOUT GIRL Godfrey Boys Ex-Tigers Make Life Stretch Running for Old ¦ Tough Mates But the Yanks Win 2 Titles in (Continued from First Sport Page) Of Shut Out to Cullen bine’s three-bagger, how- Once again it was a walk that led ever. It would have been an ordi- to the run. First up, Bob Harris nary single had not Barney Mc- walked, advanced to second on a Company Roller Racing Cosky slipped and fell, the ball sacrifice by Gutteridge, and later Be Derby Threat Have "IKi' rolling past him to the fence. scored on a timely bingle by Clift. ¦t TRUCKS UN STEADIED With a run in the fourth, the 3 Other Detroiter* Tigers broke into scoring. It was Devil Diver's Stablemate Little Brownies Keep Were it not for this twist In the Cramer who scored after slashing might ° Collect Championship*..- contest, Virgil Trucks have to center, Gets Better as Champs assignment a double moving up a Pace With I won his first pitching base on Barney McCosky's infield in National Meet in the majors. As it was. the young out, and scoring after Cullenbine Race Goes On to Tie for Lead Buffalo recruit, unsteadied by the snared Rudy York’s long fly ball break, Was forced to leave the By MARGARET RUSSELL to left. game, and Charley Fuchs finished. Editor‘a sou: Following ia th» fiftfc YORK. April IS (INS).-. April 18 BROWNS EVEN IT dla patch In a atrlaa high-lighting th« NEW PHILADELPHIA. Chet Laabs, another former De- foremoat contenders for the *75 000 prta* Regarded as dark horses at the Yqu just can’t keep those racing of the stxty-elghth Kentucky Darby on troiter, bagged two singles and But the Browns retrieved the May S. start of the pennant races, the St Godfreys down. personally scored two of the tal- run in their half of the fourth. When the state speed meets Louis Browns today were living lies that spelled defeat for Del Beating out a grounder to Eric By CHARLES MOREY were held in Detroit recently, Dale boys. Harris, a designation with four boys’ Baker’s And Bob McNair in deep short, Laabs was l nlted freu Staff Correapoßdeot up to that collected the junior crown, St. Louis came through third ex-Tiger in the given life at first base. Then Glenn straight victories in the American while brother Jimmy pitched comparatively well also NEW YORK, April 18.—College In juvenile boys’ A. lineup, McQuillen, rookie outfielder, graduates around race tracks League, to be tied for the mo- for the better part of eight in- from Toledo, poked a harmless the ment with the world champion Right then and there the who, Trucks, did are few and far between, but don’t youngsters began gunning for the nings, but like grounder to Trucks, who wheeled New York Yankees. Hollingsworth, a high over be surprised if the trainer who nationals. They practiced every not finish. A 1 and hurled McNair's wins tne sixty-eighth Kentucky Only one other club besides the left-hander, finished after Johnny head at second trying for a double won all spare minute they could find and Derby on May 2 is a Princeton Yankees and Browns has Whitehead served briefly. play, Laabs checking at third and far, to one it has all paid dividends with in- man, no less. John Gaver, for five starts so and find that Jimmy Bloodworth and later scoring after McCosky’s you have to go over into the Na- terest. With years head man in the Greentree Today Dale and Jimmy are the Doc Cramer, the boys from Wash- catch of a fly ball off Stephens’ Stable, will be shooting for the tional League, where the Boston attack, setting pace with- National Speed Skating champions ington, leading the the bat. 175,000 purse with a double- Brave* are the boys’ Tigers at bat, out- out a defeat. in junior B and juvenile disclosed power Bloodworth’s homer, driven 375 barreled gun—Devil Diver and Most disheartening angle to the boys’ A, respectively. hitting the Browns, 13 knocks to feet into the stands in right cen- Shut Out. showing supremacy in the Trucks career has been Browns' efforts to make a run OTHER VICTORIES 10, ami ter, came in the fifth with Devil Diver’s for it this time is the attendance strength of their blows. on base, accounting for two scores reviewed already in this series. And that wasn’t the end of good had Hi was the boy of the figures. In their home opener BLOODWORTH HOMERS and tying the count. Trucks glamour against Detroit Tigers yester- things for the Detroit speed en- singled with two out. Greentree string last year. But the tries in the National Roller Skat- roses are around day. the Brownies attracted only Bloodworth and Cramer each Then came the Browns’ big in- when the draped customers. ing championships, here in historic poled two hits—all four blows be- up, Gut- the Derby winner’s neck they may 4.900 Convention Hall. ning—the seventh. First go Diver's lesser known ing for extra bases. The former teridge singled and Clift sacrificed to the RALLY BEATS TIGERS Dorothy Law of Arena Gardens exploded a home run, his first in stablemate—one of the last sons national him to second. McQuinn walked. Despite the lack of patronage successfully defended her Tiger livery. On top of that he got Cullenbine sired by mighty Equipoise before junior girls’ title, while Betty Ross At this juncture he died so suddenly in 1938. the enduring doormats of the a two-bagger. Cramer posted a triple McCosky, of Madison Gardens became co- double. plunked his post league trimmed the Tigers, 7 to triple and a both Gutteridge and McQuinn GOES THURSDAY accomplishing the feat with a senior women’s champion with No, lack of power. 6. Dorothy V. Law of Cleveland. it wasn’t scoring and Roy pulling up at That son is Shut Out. Equipoise big four-run seventh inning. The MISS MARY ANN MERCER, radio defense bonds and stamps to the men in Just the breaks of the game. third, from where he later scored losing was Betty’s triumph is the result himself never got up to the Derby. big blow for the Tigers many Trucks got some bad breaks, but after the catch of a long fly ball a home run with one on by Jim singing star, was picked SGTT the camp. She was honored by the 3rd of years of competition and He was scratched on the eve of bj| grim endeavor. She had never made most of them himself. His by Laabs. the race in 1931. Shut Out at Bloodworth. the bond wildness paved the way for a HANK GREENBERG and the other Mapping Squadron that won won a national race until she col- TIGERS HIT BACK least will be given his chance to The Yankees scored their second 880-yard couple of St. Louis tallies and run. now at Keeneland, year lected the senior women’s Stabled Shutout of the to keep pace soldier-baseball players at MacDill Field buying honors by beating the other event Thursday night. And then committed t|ie only Tiger error, a But the Tigers refused to curl where he will take his final prep with the Browns, the victims this costly wild peg to second base MacDill Field in Florida. last night she put on top of that up. They hit back with three runs in the Blue Grass Stakes next time being the Boston Red Sox, as the Dugout Girl. She sold $27,000 outfits at with an easy double play in sight. a little enter was big Ernie a first in the mile to share the in the eighth and with Thursday, he will Matt 1 to 0. The Hurler crown. Trucks was on the hill six and luck—or finesse —might well have Winn's turf clambake coupled Bonham, who turned in a six-hit- innings, In all speed contests the big two-thirds during which won the old ball game. Bloodworth with Devil Diver. I ter to take the decision over senior men’s time he yielded eight hits and At the moment no Judd, 10,000 See Robinson event of competition led off with his two-bagger and other stable Oscar a 32-year-old rookie. course seven runs. He struck out six men, to enter two aces • is of the gruelling flve- shortly is certain fanned seven and got Roller Derby; scored after when Cramer in Bonham miler. At least 20 always start, whiffing Cullenbine twice before this one race. And don't think the fourth tripled to right center, 9 triple the winning margin in with a fourth of that number fin- the former Tiger uncorked his Whitehead that Shut Out will be sent along when Tommy Henrich opened that was a real triple. K. O. Dubs in Sixth ishing. The winner, whether he triple. He also struck out Harland was rushed to the box and walked to keep his mate company. with a single, Jim Tabor threw be the national champion or not, Clift, Don Gutteridge and George is 1941 record wasn’t quite as DiMaggio’s grounder away and Tonight (Continued from First Sport Page) McCosky. When York singled. est Renews is always considered the best McQuinn. brilliant as that of Devil Diver’s Cramer scored. Then Higgins sin- Charley Keller singled past first.