Leonard's Convincing Work Booms Nats' Hopes — 9- Dutch Is NEW YORK.—HE JUST MISSED IT—Jeff Heath of the Nats Sports or Impressive made a furious but futile slide to the in the second 5-Star Program Win, Lose Draw plate inning Washington's of the game in which the Yanks were licked last night, 2-1. He For Local Fans By FRANCIS E. STANN In Yanks for TODAY. Licking tried to count from second on Gerry Priddy’s hit to right, but Slab Staff Seen as Star Staff Correspondent Baseball. Tom Henrich made a perfect throw to Catcher Bill Dickey. Art Washington at New York. Auto Race Driver Is a Athlete Strange His Fifth Passerella is the umpire. —AP Wirephoto. Menace to Bosox Maryland at Navy. 4:00. INDIANAPOLIS, May 29.—By all odds the automobile racing Straight Georgetown Prep at Blair, 3:30. driver is among the strangest of men who walk in the world of sports. By Burton Hawkins By Jack Hand Charlotte Hall at Landon, 3:30. He is a curious combination of under- Star Staff Tennis. athlete-engineer, iron-nerved, Correspondent Associated Press Sports Writer paid, often frustrated, He be Roosevelt vs. Wilson, Rock undiscouraged. may rich, poor, young NEW YORK, May 29.—Dutch or middle-aged. Never more than once a does Washington’s five-star pitching Creek, and Coolidge vs. Tech, year Leonard, who was leading a charmed he bask in the national Pierce Mill spotlight. existence in accumulating his first staff, with its accent on dipping (interhigh series), Tomorrow is his day—Memorial For a few 4:00. Day. four victories of the season, has knucklers and darting butterfly hours on the famed brick-and-asphalt Indian- Wrestling. presented ample evidence he now looms as the latest stum- 33 of these pitches, apolis Speedway strange thrill-seekers has more than a Weekly wrestling program. load of luck to block in Boston's will sit behind their racers bling pennant Turner’s Arena, 8:30. weird, souped-up and offer the Nats in their struggle for try to drive 500 miles at an of close to 120 Auto Racing. average serious consideration as a pennant path. miles an hour with not more than one West pit stop. possibility. Only seven games dff the pace Midget racing program, Not more than 10 cars are likely to finish the 500 Lanham, Md., Speedway, 8:30. In achieving his fifth successive and a scant half game out of the miles. Some of the men who drive may not be TOMORROW. without a defeat here last alive at the end oi the day. triumph runnerup spot, Ossie Bluege's Na- Baseball. night before 48,895 customers, a Few of the 150,000 spectators who are in town tionals have “fluttered” into the Washington at Boston <2>. 2-1 win over New York which lifted today for the race, and few of the millions who chase on a sizzling two-week Georgetown Prep at Gonzaga, the Nats within a half- game of the flag will otherwise follow it, know of the drivers nor record of 12 wins in their last 15 3:30. second place Yankees, Leonard dem- know precisely what the grind is meant to ac- starts. onstrated he no longer merely is complish except to drive at incredible speeds. has more solid effective against Detroit, Chicago Although Bluege Back in 1911, when the first Indianapolis “500” hitting this season than he had Francis E. Stann. and Philadelphia, at whose expense Rain-Hit was run ofl, Ray Harroun's average speed of 74.59 in 1945, when he made a run of it Tennis he compiled 14 of his 17 wins last City miles per hour was astounding. Tomorrow, if the weather is clear, until the final day of the season, year. the winner may average 117 or more miles per hour, which means speeds the Senators still lean heavily on Joe McCarthy, recently retired as high as 150 or 160 on the straightaways. Yet the purpose of the pitching. Despite the recent batting to Resume once Tourney manager of the Yankees, said “500” is not altogether to develop speed and satisfy the thrill-seekers. surge of Mickey Vernon and Jeff of Leonard when asked if he were Competition in The Star's City of Heath, the mound record of 10 Their Are No interested in dealing for him, “why Washington tennis tournament on Chariots Less Unusual complete games in the 13-game should we want him? He keeps us the public courts at Sixteenth and Racing cars don't have much in common with the average motor- string is the most important suc- on top. We can beat him every Kennedy streets N.W., was to con- ist's car. They have no self-starters, no batteries, no deeply-treaded cess factor. time and if we don’t whip him he'll tinue this afternoon provided no tires, no speedometers. Most of them don't even burn gasoline, but, The ancient Johnny Niggeling beat himself on a passed ball with more rain fell. The tournament, instead, blended fuels containing alcohol and castor oil. They range and Dutch Leonard each have ac- those knucklers.” McCarthy’s suc- plagued by showers, was at a com- from four-cylinder cars, which are in the majority, to 12-cylinder jobs. counted for three decisions in the cesor, Bill Dickey, isn't sharing plete standstill. The Indianapolis Speedway, however, is regarded as one of the recent hot streak, Niggeling going those sentiments. Chairman Austin Rice announced greatest automotive proving grounds in the country. Countless de- all the way three successive times Leonard was the Yan- several changes in the schedule for vices and improvements in motors, fuels, tires and types of drives spanking Roger Wolff, Mickey Haefner and kees for the second time this season, today. At 4 o’clock in women's have#been tested and found practical over the 2'/2-mile oval. Walt Masterson of the starting con- having previously traveled six in- singles Helen Levy plays Ellen One of the oddities this year is a car with two supercharged en- tingent each have one verdict and nings against them before pulling a Oberti and at 5:30 Ann Vlasak meets gines, one to power the front wheels and the other the rear wheels. Sid Hudson and Rae Scarborough leg muscle and, against the Nats Joan Bransford. The Burns-Grindle A native, George Barringer, is entering a six-cylinder, supercharged, triumphed on relief. portly knuckle-ball specialist New match slated at 4 is shifted to 3:30. four-wheel-drive job with the engine in the rear. A Californian named Home Debut. York can show one run and Spoils Dickey's In women's doubles the Connor has a car with front-wheel drive only Gray- George four-cylinder only. success was a neat: eight hits in 15 innings. i Leonard’s latest MacDonald vs. Zimmerman-Fond Some of these cars, impractical for any purpose except racing, 2-1 effort against New York last match is rescheduled. have been known to cost as much as Dutch Finally Convincing. being $200,000 and wealthy enthusiasts both Bill Dutch also has defeated Cleveland. night, spoiling Dickey's j have owned 'stables” of three or four cars valued at $400,000. sue-; would home debut as Joe McCarthy's But the drivers are no less unusual than their chariots. Cliff Detroit and Chicago, which G. W. cessor and the Yankee Stadium's: Blanks Loyola in Golf Bergere, for example, is a former Hollywood stunt man who has driven illustrate he won't be confining his first night game. in 14 races never won. Inci- winning manner to three clubs al- Indianapolis totaling 5,704 miles—and Larry McPhail outdid himself with his 1946 car has a name most exclusively. Not until last As dentally, that haunts one—Noc Out Hose the finest lighting plant in baseball Brownrigg Sparkles night, however, were the Nats con-; Clamp Special. but the Yankees still couldn’t see George Washington University’s vinced that Leonard is prepared to Leonard’s doodles.” In golf team blanked Loyola, 6-0, at Dot Race's help them. He showed ’em—the hard flitting “dipsy Heartbreaking Collapses History Midget Auto Contests Marshall Sells Palace fact, Leonard himself administered Baltimore’s Bonnie View links yes- Joe way—that his success henceforth Laundry Thorne probably is the richest driver, although he did not the fatal blow to Freshman Clarence terday as Bill Brownrigg, the Co- to more than make his races. In he’s never won. But he’s may be attributed lonials’ money by winning fact, Marshall s chances when he singled No. 1 golfer, set a blistering a millionaire who's the He sent two cars to and four leaf clovers. got bug. Indianapolis Slated With To Headed Chevalier home a run in tne fourth inning to pace with a 68 over the par 72 lay- Dutch was ofl to a shaky start Tonight, Group by planned to drive one himself, although early in March he sustained out. He defeated Lewis F. * break a 1-1 tie. L. Faltysiak, 7 head two broken a in a when the Yankees’ George Stim- By Atchison injuries, legs and wrist motorcycle accident. a threat of rain and 6. Dave Wortman and Di Topcoat weather, George Race drivers evfer are calloused to weiss doubled and Joe Maggio Preston Marshall has sold hardly give up. They tough George and a wind combined to cut Vass of G. W. turned in 72s. and Nick Etten singled in the first Fair Skies Seen chilly breaks.