3 4. Derby Field Stands. At 15 Horses Now New York, April 25 (INS)The probable field for the Kentucky Derby May: 6 stands about 15 today, and includes the usual tableau of three equally. regarded favorites. The three.
of course, are Christopher Chenery's eastern -bred Hill Prince, William Goetz' west coas: star, Your Host, and Tom Gray's heavy winter winner, Oil Capitol. All are on the book now at odds of four to one. But the ups and downs of capable three-year-olds have, been such this season that dozen other must be regarded as possible winners in the big one at Churchill Downs. The King ranch's Middleground, to be ridden by Apprentice Willie Boland. leaves the east for Churchill Downs Friday, and is well by many racing men.
Coincidentally, the only apprentice in history to win the derby was aboard Middleground's dad. Bold Venture, in 1936. Middleground, as a matter of fact, is now posted at five to one in the future book. Back. of him is Theory, which races for Calumet farm, which is saying plenty.
Theory is a son of Pensive, the derby winner which also sired last year's victor, Ponder. Ponder won the 11949 derby at odds of 16 to one Hitters Ahead Of Pitchers In First Week Of Baseball New York, April 25 (AP)What happened to the That's the big question in baseball. So far, the hitters are away out front in their meut-and-potatoes bout with the throwers. Of 80 starting pitchers, through Sunday's games, only 27 wont the route. "Some of the stayers had a tough time, too.
Thirteen of 42. lasted all the way in the American, 14 of 38 in the No. dional. Bob Rush of Chicago, and Art flouteman of Detroit threw. the only shutouts in the drat wrok of the seuson, Usually there are several in the early days.
'Things picked up bit day night, however. with two In three Max of the Al. Louts shut. out 10, and Rom Nearborough Washington blanked the Boston led Box on three hits, 3 0. Linter, the count National on the and balks seven he for the American, through Runday.
It's cooled off mince openIng day when tive were called in Nationni, Irv Noren, freshman, 18 off fast in the Ic contest. Batting .380 in the Senators' first. four games, Irv NEW Feather Weight GEM RAZOR 1 TV VIEW OFTEN GOOD AS SEATS IN FRONT ROW cane seats compare at a with a boxing ringside arena view home. Take for an example, the recent battle between Rocky Gri ziano, the former middleivelght champion. Tonny Janiro, the handsome Youngstown, O.
lighter. at Madison Square Garden. Janirh bled from the nose through inost of the scrap. also. was bruised about the eye.
(He had pip of the next day). Rocky was cut slightly ground both eyes None of this way seen by TV ore, learned from those Wrestling perfect on vision. That is, like the of the 10. second rule under which the Dan must be brought down to the forte half of the court; basketball be. fine subject for trie.
vision. a Televising of football, an watched has improved through Intelligent: by experienced often observers can The men derstand the Maine better by than at the stadium. Hockey in fast came and puck in amall. Too often the is shot from one end of the at to pother. It's hard to focused on quick breaking play.
Baseball -is big area, prob lem the video men. By MURRAY ROSE New York, April 25 (AP)Can you see sports event petter at home via television of the site? This question and many others relating to TV and sports batted, back and forth at the writer's home the other night. Present were nome friends who are paying customers at sports events and who have television sets too. Being in on a I let the others do most of the talking. Finally, one of my friends, turned to me and said: you tell us what you think.
er all, you've always got seat at the arenas and you got a television set. Which is better?" said it depended on the sport and the location of the seat! For TV visibility, I rated the most televised sport in the following order: Boxing and wrestling. Excellent. Basketball and football. Very good.
Hockey and baseball. Fair! There were faults to be found in presentation of all of them on they as against being lat the scene. But, again, that depended on where you at na. But, it costs you nothing to watch at home, there's no ing through crowds and no veling. DEATH RIDE Jim Fanning of Lawton, shows an sion of fear as he bounces atop a bronco just before the animal crashed into a steel fence and died of a broken neck at a rodeo of Oklahoma City.
The rodeo was part of an "89-er Day" cele. bration. is living up to. the nice things Bucky Harris said about him. Don Lenhardt of the St.
Louls Browns may be a "sleeper in rookie competition, just like the Browns' Roy Sievers last yeur. Zack Taylor's first baseman hitting .129. Sievers, the 1949 flash, has two for 19 or .105. No danger of Stan Musial getting off to a poor start this time. Stan rapped Pirate and Cub pitching for .421 early games, and he hasn't.
hit Brooklyn yet. Teammate Enos Slaughter on the Cards had tough sledding, however, with two for 15 or County Track And Field Meet Is Postponed Today Postponement of the 1950 Grant county high school track meet WAN announced early 10: duy by John Fredenberger, Miso mentor and president of the Grant County Conches' Ananciation, The to have been staged Al Memorial Field today, Continued rain and the mogey 41 1 LOUISVILLE TEAM STRETCHES STREAK TO FIVE TRIUMPHS (ny The Assoriated Prean) The undefeated Louisville lonels stretched their winning streak to five, games Monday night with 8 five-run surge In the sixth Inning which dropped Columbus, 8-3. It was Louisville's American Association home opener, and 10, 298 fans turned out, Rookie Jim twirled a seven hitter and became the fourth er to go the route for the Colonels, Staying close on Louisville's heels' with. a 5-1 record, Indianapolis opened its home stand before 10,101 by handing Toledo its seventh straight licking, 4-3, in 11 innings. Dom Dallessandro's pinch fly ball scored Don Gutteridge with a deciding run after singles by Al Grunwald and Dino Restelli and a walk to Danny O'Connell.
There were only two games scheduled, but a full slate of four is on tap for today. Ask Wrestlers To Drop Fight Against Television Hollswood, April 25 (INS)The Hollywood Legion Stadium and Lee television station KTSL appealed today to the charitable side of the grunt-andgroan fraternity to end a wrestlers' strike against television. The stadium informed the wrestlers that if they would return to the ring for the remaining 13 weeks of its contract with the TV station. all net proceeds would be donated to any veterans group designated by the bone benders. ALSIDE Baked Enamel ALUMINUM SIDING No Down Payment SUPPLY CO.
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lotine, in the race, but it can send out horse named Androcles. A. possible entry. too, could be J. C.
Brady's Casemate n'd Starecase. Navy Chief and Mr. Trouble, both now at 20 to one, should be regarded as starters, and Roman Bath, Fabricate and Quit Show are possibilities. AU of these names total 21, and there might be others. It would seem to be indicated that the grandstands won't be the only crowded places come post time at Churchill Downs a week from Saturday.
Giant Game Postponed Wet grounds forced; postponement today of the scheduled high school baseball encounter between Marion and NewCastle at the latter's diamond. The North Central Conference battle was called off when NewCastle officials reported their field was In no condition for activity because of rain and soggy ground. The contest, Arst of two circuit battle's on the Marion card this week, has been rescheduled for p. m. Wednesday: at New.
Castle. The Marion team will leave from Memorial Coliseum 12:30 p. m. Marion will make its first home appearance of the 1950 -son Friday at Lincoln Field, facing the Richmond Red Devils in another North Central Conference engagement. The Giants currently sport 2-1 record which includes a 7-1 triumph ovor Anderson In an.
NCC tussle last week. Joe Bell, Giant baseball coach, plans to use Tom Kelhain the mound Wednesday against NewCastle, but Ital likely the Marion mentor will return the mentor athlete to the outfield for the elrouit tray here Friday, Art Herring, Jen who hurled the triumph over Anderson, probably will be 011 the mound for the Giants Friday, rated, one of the conference's stronger clubs, expected to have Mel Thompson on the firing tine a oxainet Mar. ton. Thompson bent the Giants with A one hitter at Richmond lant seawon. BOWLING CITY LEAGUE Crest Lanes.
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Both hand and power mowers sharpened. Open 7 days a weekSunday Till Noon. 32nd Wash. Phone 1295 condition of the Memorial Field oval made it necesary to call off the meet today, Fredenberg. or reported, if possible, the six.
team onder purnival will be held at the same alto and time (1 Thuraday, he added, Predenberger anid Thuradny appeared the earliest suitable has a dual battle with dale, since Marion I high school Anderson at the field dug, County annual meet are AN anxious 000011 AN paraible because several schools will end their terms in the nehr future. Postponement of the event probably will necessary make for the further res der of the county track schedule. One event that may be postponed or cancelled In the "bittle ty" mert which is to match Jet. ferson Township; Sweet and Van Buren Friday nt the Braves' oval. Mississinewa also has another appearance on its will card defend this week.
Indians their Class championship in the annual Kokomo relays urday. The sixth county track squad, Fairmount, also may enter the Class division of the Kokomp carnival. TWICE RUNNERUP, 2-TIMES MEDALIST OPENS MATCH PLAY Pinehurst, N. April 25 (AP) -Two years a runnerup and twice a medalist, Grace Lenczyk of Hartford, began match play today hoping to go all the to the North and South Women's championship. The 1948 National champion, who has just' completed her junior year Stetson University at Deland, has done everything but win this tournament.
She opened 'match play today with her second successive qualifying tucked away among her souvenirs. A 36-36-72 Monday broke par by two strokes and gave her the qualifying honors by one stroke for the second straight year. She set.a record for the No. 2 course a year ago with 3 70. Today she met her close friend, Ann (Buttons) Cosgrove, whose hospitality she is enjoying at nearby Southern Pines.
Miss Cosgrove qualified with an 83. NEW YORK BOWLER TAKES LEAD IN ABC Columbus, 0., April 25 (AP)A thirty-nine-year-old grayhaired machinist from North Tonawanda, N. took over first place in the all-events of the ABC Monday. Jim Collins marked up an 1,893 total without much notice from the gallery, He banged out 573 in the team event, 698 in the doubles and 622 in the singles. Art of Lansing, rolled for, second place in the singles.
Knute Berg and John Larson of Chicago. blasted a secondplace doubles total of 1289 Berg hit for 248-214-253-715 to Larson's 215-179-180-574. LEADERS Charles CIGARS NOW the the the the the the the the 1 1 Rae Scarborough Continues Mastery Of Boston Red Sox -6 Marion, Indiana, Chronicle April 25, 1950 New York. April 25 (INS)- There is little Wonder why Joe McCarthy would like to wash Washington's 'man Rae Scarborouch right out of his hair The Nats'. 'ace right hander, who has beep worse than the seven year itch to the Boston Red Sox: the last few sons, turned up again: Monday night to rub it in.
He blanked the Bostonians, 3- 0, and allowed them three hits while doing so. Both the Red Sox and the Yankees have been waving all sorts of deals in front of Clark Griffith hurler. for the Boston, thirtyparticular, figures that the best way to beat SPRINTER PREPS Marjorie Jackson, Australia's star woman sprinter, works out at Los Angeles in preparation for a race May 19 against Mrs. Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch housewife Olympic champion. With her is Mrs.
Evelyn. Hall, of women's track and field for the AAU. The eighteen Aussie has beaten Mrs. Blankers-Koen twice. NECK 4THI WIN Hartford City, April 25- Hartford City's Airedales will go after their fourth straight 1060 victory when they take on Roy.
erton in a high school baseball struggle at 7:30) p.m. today at the Redbirds' field. The Alredales also wilt Muncle Centrai in a home tussle at 3:30 p. m. here Thursday.
Hartford City downed New Castle, In Its latest outing. FIRTH. CARPETS Scarborough is to have join its team McCarthy vividly remembers how Rae beat the Bosox in crucial late season games In 1948 and 1949-games that were responsible for their taking second money in the American League on both occasions. Monday night Scarborough and Papal, the ex-Brownie, 'hooked up in. pitchers' duel for seven and he innings.
In the eighth Scarborough opened with a walk and moved: to second when Gil Coan beat out a bunt. Scarborough came across when Johnny Pesky made a wide throw to first on Sam Dente's grounder. Coan scored as Catcher Matt Batts was called' for interference in blocking the plate and Dente registered on an infield out. Scarborough. who wont 13 games for the last place Nats last season, chalked up his second victory of the 1950 campaign.
Papai, who gave up only four hits, was tagged with the loss. only other two games on the day's card that escaped weatherman's wrath were in the National League and both were under the lights. Brooklyn's Don Newcombe won his first game of the year as the Dodgers edged the Boston Braves, 6-4. A wild throw to. third base by Boston's twenty-year-old catcher, Crandall, let in the two winning runs in the seventh ing.
Max Lanier of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched and batted his way to a thrilling 1-0 victory over Ken Raffensberger and the Cincinnati Reds. It broke a four game St. Louis losing streak and extended Cincinnati's to five. straight.
The fireplug lefty allowed the Reds just four hits and got two of his own off Raffensberger. Lanier's double in the ninth inning drove in winning run. Baseball, "1950, is one week old today. The Giants and the Reds have lyet to win a game and the Chicago Cubs are the only undefeated team in both leagues. Pittsburgh has.
the most impressive National League record with five wins and one defeat and the Tigers got the fast start in the American with four and one loss. Browns' Youngsters Pay Off In Outfield St. Louis, April 25 (AR)- )-The outfield is one place the St. Louis Browns policy of bringing up youngsters has paid off- and the newest proof is Kenneth Lanier Wood. This is Wood's third chance to make good with the Brownsand he says is it He's been coming through with some commendable long distance hitting.
Last year the American League rookie of he year. Roy Sievers, turned up the Brownies' center field. Along with him was another good newcomer Dick Kokos, in right field Manager Zack Taylor has moved Kokom 10 left 10 make room for his newest discovery. What IN behind this Wood's ability 10 hit home -hia most notable feat so tart Ole ham two of them to date this setson, and four doubles, The homers came off Dob Lemon, one of the American League's beat hurl. basebull do or you don't." Thus Wood quotes the philosophy of the go ter, "Decouse Rogers did 1 well In spring exhibitions the pres vious years with the Browns, I was mighty unhappy when couldn't break into the lineup," he explains.
finally decided to stop feeling sorry for myself, and I had a better year." fielder, twenty he overcame his The outtendency to become discouraged: at failure while at Baltimore last year where he batted .283 and hit 32 home runs. He adds he also learned to drop the bad habit fishing across the plate for widebreaking outside pitchers. won't say that still not a sucker for A curve, but how many good curveball hitters are there?" he asks. "The big thing is that I don't bite on that cutalde hook 80 much, and I've got a better tat picture of the strike zone on high inside fast ball." But hitting homers don't Wood's only ability, lle. has A strong right arm that monda the ball from deep right directly to third base or home plate, AR eral.
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