^ timing Jifof sports of Allen Proves Boon for SATURDAY, MAY 8. 1943—B—8 * Rickey’s Repurchase Dodgers Veteran Scores Win, Lose or Draw Griffs Welcome By BURTON HAWKINS. Third Success Yanks Lead Charmed Life Playing Nats and Bosox New Baseballs; There is a baseball adage to the effect that good teams win those close games, that they make the breaks that lead to victory. The New York Yankees may qualify as the best team in the American League, but In Relief Role they also will be stamped as the luckiest. They're getting all the breaks, Arrive most of which haven't been of their own making Today New York is the luck-anointed dutflt of the league. There is a sus- Wensloff, Johnson, picion the Yankees wear horseshoes where their spikes should be, that Club Without Homer; the emblem on their caps and uniform should be a four-leaf clover. They Rookies, Pace Yanks could eollid° with a skunk and come up with a Nuit Noel odor. Red Sox Beot Wynn The Yankees travel unchaperoned with Dame Fortune and Lady Luck. To Fifth Straight me nest teams usually get tne* With Late Rally breaks, but the Boston Red Sox and his mitt. An inch either way would By ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Writer. Another batch the Nats may be excused for regis- have given the Nats at least a tie Sports of baseballs was due to be tering a meek bleat that the but instead it was an easy double- Branch Rickey has made some delivered to Griffith Stadium and Yankees thus far this season haven't play. The Yankees pulled out of shrewd deals, but none probably ever today rushed into vise had much to do with manufacturing that one nicely, with a little luck. was ’Vnore timely than the one he tomorrow, thereby altering th« those breaks. They've been living Yeah, the Nats beat the Yankees, engineered in bringing Johnny Allen pasty complexion of the industry's in luck. 2-1, in a later game, but the Nats back to the Dodgers after disposing batters. The new, livelier ball c-fil of him in one of his first official acts contain more It all started on April 22 at Yankee earned it. Ellis Clary drilled a dynamite, whirh wll as head of the club. be all Stadium, with the Nats entering the double to left and Johnson later Brooklyn right with the Nats, who have wearied of ninth holding a 4-3 lead and Rookie fetched him home with a swift single Although the 37-year-old right- socking camou- flaged Mickey Haefner coming in from the to center. It was a clean-cut victory hander nad a 1942 record of 10 and cantaloupes. bullpen to pitch for Washington. earned with emphatic hits. 6, Rickey, after succeeding Lt. Col. "We're the only team In the Haefner proceeded to walk Bill May 1 lolled around and the Larry S. MacPhail as head man of American League that hasn't re- Dickey and when Johnny Lindell ! Yankees spanked the Nats, 9-7, in the Dodgers, lost little time sending ceived a shipment of new balls." savs sacrificed Haefner was slow fielding 11 innings. There were two out in Allen and $30,000 to Philadelphia Prexy Clark Griffith, "but they the bunt, and both runners were \ the 11th, you remember, when for the much younger Rube Melton. should arrive today and If they do of the we safe when his throw to second was j Shortstop Sherry Robertson Allen declined to sign with the ll use them tomorrow.'' too to Nats went back on Hemsley's pop Phillies. Then, five days before the late nip Dickey. Thus will perish a three-week re and of the season, in a deal that fly. He misjudged it, though, opening turn to old-fashioned baseball that Luck Comes in Bundles the two Yankees on base, who a never has been fully explained. was necessitated when the first ver- Lindell's bunt wasn’t good. Haef- split-second previously had been Rickey summoned the baseball LADY sion of balata | RIDERS. BUT ONLY ONE JOCKEY—The gals rode in the They are (left to right) Mrs* Peter Hogan, Mrs. Sid Hirst, Miss balls failed to react, ner messed it Haefner I running merely for exercise, crossed writers to his Montague street office merely up. big ladies’ race at annual Preakness week and according to orders. The new apple the with the winning in Brooklyn and announced the Pimlico, feature, Johnson. Mrs. Sarah Merryman, Peggy Squier, Mrs. Riles, proceeded to advance both runners plate margin. Mary will be needled, thereby giving the When the Red Sox came to town had Allen. the winner was Mrs. Anna Lee Riles, aboard Graff and Mrs. J. H. C. on a wild pitch, at which point Man- Dodgers repurchased Flying Tiger. Forbes. batters a better break and creating could conver- ager Bluege ordered Rookie Owen yesterday they spice The records show how smart that Judy Johnson, licensed steeplechase jockey, finished third. —A. P. Photo. a wave of insurance purchasing a bit bv of Yankee Scheetz to the mound. He succeed- sation talking deal was. When Johnny went into among the pitchers. ed in Rollie on a luck. too. They played four games witn retiring Hemsley yesterday's game the Boston Yet to Hit at Home Run. pop fly, then walked Snuffy Stirn- against New York Yankee Sta- Braves in the seventh with the score With the "dead" hall weiss to load the bases. dium and they lost four decisions, deadlocked it marked his third relief Riverland Sets Count Fleet Backed to Be 8th Yale Is to Washington Sights Play Dozen hasn’t been able to one run. get steam. At. that juncture Roy Weatherly each by a margin of appearance of the season. He pitch- up Only Ellis Clary, hitting .313. la stepped to the plate, pulled away ed shutout ball for three innings as Sox Rookie Pulls a swatting over .250 the Nats. from an Inside pitch and was grati- Pip his mates went on to club out a For Another Mark Ace to Nab Preakness among Derby Grid Bob Johnson, fied when the ball looped into left On Tuesday the Red Sox and 9-to-7 victory, and give Allen his Tilts, Starting Washington's clean- up hitter, has been the field. Dickey scored easily on the Yankees were tied. 3-3, entering the third straight success. 35,000 Are Expected at Pimlico for 53d meeting ball final half of the which John- squarely but he's struggling along hit, but Lindell fell down rounding ninth, Proves Clutch Pitcher. Sterling In Jamaica Race In at a .221 while Stan third with what represented the son opened by beating out a topped of Race; Four Are to Start September clip, Spence is Tn eight innings of relief hurling. Running hitting .242 and winning run. At the split-second infield hit.. He shifted to third on Mickey Vernon, Allen has given eight hits, Dixie Bv .233. a and scored on a long up only Handicap DON ALB SANDERS, to Baltimore, flit hough he was Slate So Lindell fell, however. Bob Johnson , single fly. Champ Expanded Vets three to the Phils in A**orjfit*d Preftft The Yankees won on 22^ innings, Sports Writer named as surprise entry in the was booting Weatherly's poke, so Wednesday, Has Twenty-five per cent less lively two to the Giants in 2and three Again Attention, May H. — Conn* i Preakness in October Lindell, who had returned to third : too. and again in the ninth inning. BAI/T'TMORE, by the King Ranch. Graduating than the 1942 ball, the first 1943 yesterday. Prior to Allen’s appear- base, reversed his field and Know how? It. was when Rookie Anti-Climax to Beat Fleet, was tn attempt today to do! With four starters, the Preakness sphere cut home-run production romped ance the Braves han clubbed the Get Some Action Anton Karl balked the run ! May The Nats home to break up the game. winning what spven horses beforp him would have a gross value of $64,690, terrifically. hRve played 16 offerings of Ed Head and Les Webber By 'he Associated Press. only The Nats' next at Yankee home. The Yankees' luck was work- with $44,555 and the ancient Wood- By the Associated Press. games without hitting a home run game after the Brooklynites had shoved have done—win the SSO.OOO-added also was for the ing overtime. NEW YORK. May R Attention lawn Vase to the winner, un- NEW and when Bobby Doerr lifted a Stadium distressing in going HAVEN. Conn.. May 8.— across five runs the second, three and Preakness Stakes after home liner Nats. That was the day Spud i So on Thursday the Yankees Anti-Climax, a pair of thor- coming j less Count Fleet romps home first. Balancing Harvard’s decision to over Stan Spence’s head last, on Angie Galan's homer. Eddie Chandler held them to one hit, but spanked Boston twice. 5-4. and 2-1. oughbreds that chaspd Riverland to first tn the Kentucky Derby. football night he hit the first homer for the almost matched that with a Since the Count was a supple- drop intercollegiate compe- Joost a Sox in the seventh inning Washington They earned that 2-1 triumph track record in the Dixie Handi- And tition for the duration Is the an- Red this season. There have two-run homer for Boston in the the crowd, which was ex- mentary entry being made eligible; at been filled the bases with one out.