Middleground to Skip G.W., With 3 Straight Blitz in Second Period Experimental 'Cap at Victories, Will Meet Gives Detroit Lead in Middleburg Races Headline Jamaica Saturday Maryland Nine Today Stanley Cup Hockey Week-End Card of 3 Shows I ■y th« Associated Proa George Washington University * ly tto Atsociotod Pr«u By Angelina J. Cara belli lunters,” flrst-fllght hunters and NEW a best-hunting performance. The YORK. April 12.—Trainer baseball team is carrying a three- DETROIT. April 12 —The De- The Sunny Bank hunter show Max Hirsch said that Mid- show will be held on S. H R. today troit Red Wings were off to a on the Middleburg (Va.i game winning string into today’s Friday, Freds Sunny Bank Farm, near dleground, King Ranch’s chief flying start in the Anal Stanley game at College Park against Hunt races on Saturday and the Middleburg. with accru- Kentucky Derby candidate, would Cup hockey playoffs today and it proceeds Bridle Associa- ing to the skip the $25,000 Experimental Maryland that opens the battle looked as if the New Washington Trails Loudoun-Fauquier York Rangers Health Center Handicap Saturday at Jamaica. for unofficial honors among col- would have a hard time catching tion's junior member show on The Texas-bred colt owned Juniors will take over for the by leges in the District area. Tha them. Sunday comprise the schedule Robert Kleberg made his 3-year- Washington Bridle Trails Associ- Colonials their record The Red Wings, playing without for horse fans for the week end. pld debut yesterday in the Count improved ation's first activity of a well- and also won their first Southern their two star forwards, Ted Lind- Fleet Purse -it Jamaica, finishing Greatest interest and impor- planned season The event is the Conference game yesterday by say and Gordie Howe, whipped the second. Mrs. Andy Schuttinger’s tance is centered on the Middle- first of a series of two limited to at Rich- New Yorkers. 4-1, last night in a beat him trimming Richmond a?'o,,:**ior> memhe-s who P«ve Ferd half a length, run- became burg races. As in last year's pro- not mond. 10-3. It was the fourth game that one-sided after ning the 6 furlongs in l:io%— reached their 18th birthday. A straight game in which they had the first 40 minutes of play. gram the races are divided and equaling the fastest time of the g.aco championship trophy will tallied 10 or more runs. The the one will be held on two meeting for 3-year-olds. victory put Wings successive1 be awarded to the mount that Georgetown, which too must be up in the best-of-seven cham- Eligible for Wood. week ends with the first half of scores the greatest number of considered strongly in any con- series, which shifts to "He came out of the race all pionship the 29th spring meeting of the points in both shows. Classes are versations about the best college Toronto for games Nos. 2 and 3 right,” Hirsch said, "but I think listed for junior hacks, warm-up nine around here, racked its tomorrow and Saturday nights. race association taking place Sat- we’ll pass up the Experimental. up jumpers, working hunters, handy fourth victory in six tries by top- The pregame 12-5 odds in favor urday at the Glenwood race course I don’t know what we’ll do next jumpers, hunter hacks and open ping Syracuse, 8-4, yesterday on of Detroit to win the series went on the Daniel C. Sands, Middle- with him.” jumpers. The event will start at the Hilltop. up a couple of points. burg estate. Second half of the Middleground is eligible for the 10 o'clock at the Equitation Field Norman Geatz for Maryland meet will be held the following $40,000 Wood Memorial April 22. Detroit Rally Decisive. in Rock Creek Park and there will and Bones Becraft for G. W. were Saturday. Post time for the first Hirsch indicated Middleground The fast New Yorkers grabbed be no charges of any kind either listed as opposing pitchers in to- races will be 2:30 o'clock. might start in another tuneup be- a one-goal lead in the first pe- to exhibitors or spectators. day’s big game. Also of interest Five races are scheduled for the 'fore the Wood. riod during which they skated on the college baseball scene is first half of the meeting featured The juniors responsible for the In the Count Fleet, Middle rings around the Detroiters. Catholic University’s start tomor- by the Louie Leith Cup, a 4-mile show are Sally Blauner. Bruce ground was a 2-to-5 favorite. But the National Hockey League row as host to Towson Teachers, timber race. This test is for 4- Pales. jr„ Barbara Gravely, Joan While his defeat was a Champion Red Wings surged back big and American U.’s return to ac- year-olds and upward and carries Ostiow and Joe Smith. Joseph E. disappointment to his admirers, with a four-goal blitz in the sec- tion after a 10-day layoff with a a *500 purse. The William Skin- Burns is the chairman and may the son of Derby-winning Bold ond period to tuck the game trip to Mount St. Mary’s. away. ner Memorial, a 2-mile brush be reached at Sligo 8997 for ad- was After the Venture not disgraced. that, Detroiters played race, for 4-year-olds and ditional information. of The hard-hitting Colonials col- upward Middleground Seen Sound. KEY TO SUCCESS—Morris Fay, United States attorney and president the Georgetown Uni- strictly defensive hockey against with lected 12 hits against three Spider *700 added is the co-feature Ferd won two stakes as a juven- versity Washington Alumni Association, pounds out a tune at a meeting of the alumni last the Rangers’ futile efforts for a Other hurlers at Richmond yesterday, races on the first day s ile—the Youthful and the Ju- night at which plans for the drive for Georgetown’s new gymnasium were discussed. Shown tally. card Include the biggest of which was Jack Tiv- Glenwood. 1>2 venile—in addition to an over- with are (left to Charlie Milton, chairman of the drive; Father Richard Law, fresh- The game lacked the blood and over For The Rest Fay right) nan’s homer with the bases loaded miles hurdles, for 3-year- night dash, in seven 1949 starts. man of Jack athletic director, and Jim Ruby, secretary of the thunder atmosphere that marked olds prefect discipline; Hagerty, in the seventh. It high lighted and upward which have not CHEVROLET SERVICE Middleground, beaten once last alumni —Star Staff Photo. Detroit's bruising semifinal series won two races other group. a six-run inning. Tim Shank on than claim- year in five outings, had not raced against the Toronto Maple Leafs and hunt by far the G. W. hill was touched for ing meetings, purse since winning Saratoga's Hopeful In fact, a goodly number of the Let 11 but *400; the Dresden, about 2 miles * Stakes last hits, never gave up more August. in 13,415 fans filed out of the rink over brush, for and WILLIAMS Nature Boy, Gaudy Garb, than one run in any inning. 4-year-olds The winner, a chestnut son of Dallas Isn't Certain Pace in Catholic Race in boredom of the final A six-run the midway upward, purse *400, and the Three Care For Your Car Lochinvar, was second choice in inning, eighth, period. Oaks. 1 mile on the flat for 3- 1339 East-West the mutuels to On Mat With Martinelli also won for Georgetown yester- Highway Middleground. year-olds and upward, purse *250. Ferd day. Shortstop Steve Korfonta Rangers’ Shota Barely Mias. Silver Spring, Md SH 3400 returned $9.50, $2.40 and It Set Gate Buddy Rogers, now doing much Set Nines From The Race Mark; by touched off that with a New York, which surprised by Committee includes $2.20. Middleground paid $2.20 big rally better on the wrestling circuit as down Montreal in the Daniel C. Sands, F. Ambrose and $2.10 and home run. and before Syracuse slapping Lights Up $2.50 Clark. Stephen C. Clark, jr.: Wil- for show. “Nature Boy,” garbed in a big could put out the fire there were semifinals, had a lot of tough luck. Diz Steals Show St. John's, liam du Pont, F. S. Von Stade. Gonzaga four more The a first Jr.: The race apparently dismissed jeweled outfit and attended by a hits and three walks. Rangers picked up ly the Associated Frau The Metropolitan Catholic Bob McNabb on O’Connor’s Paul Mellon, Jack T. Skinner, any doubts about Middleground’s High and Charles Dough- period goal Buddy valet, than he did when he just School Baseball 6-foot Robert B. Young and Newell J. soundness. He had DALLAS, April 12.—The Dallas League race may erty pitched for the Hoyas, with poke and just missed con- been retired was old Dutch Rhode, is in Ward. plain turn into another feud between Dougherty the winner by pitching necting on two other shots that Jr. after the Hopeful when it was ball club returned to its home main event at Turner’s tonight’s the two and hitless ball bounced off the The Sunny Bank hunter show, feared he might an osselet. kingpins—Gonzaga the last two innings. Detroit goal posts develop field today with a new Texas and Arena.