The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 5

Kentucky Derby Contender tin This Corner Distinguished Senator STEVE O'NEILL BEAU JACK IS EXPLAINS NEW DIAMOND RULE FAVORED OVER FISTIC RIVAL 4 OAS IiT Tigers Expect to Get IS -7 Along With Limited Pitching Staff OGDEN CITY UTAH SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 24 1943 By ANTHONY DE LORENZO United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT April 24 (UP) Stocky Steve O'Neill the Detroit Tigers' new manager laid down a barrage of cigar smoke today and along with it a simple formula for conserving pitchers Steve and his boss ueneral Man ager Jack Zeller believe it will work provided American league batters umpires and the pitchers themselves cooperate W' It's an old pitcners description OCronln Uses Old-Time Strategy to Annex Opening Game By HUGH FULLEItTON Jr PHILADELPHIA April 24 (AP) The boyi around Broad and Locust Philadelphia' bash boulevard can't see those 2-1 odd favoring Beau Jack to retain hit lightweight title against Bob Montgomery May 21 'They claim Montgomery hai regained his old form eince he had his tonsils yanked out and can pace himself better over the 15-round route What's in a name? One of Michigan's relay runners is Ernest and they say he can step a quarter in about the time it takes his baseball namesake to get down to first base Jeanne CUne the good looking Bloomington El golfer broadcasts a sports program in her home town and hopes to land with -vme of the big New York stations Today's Guest I Lynn Doyle Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: The press notices the new 'clunk ball has been getting won't help business We must get hold of the first foul that works its way up to the press box and look for the "Made in Japan' labeL Franklin Field control your throws for more ssSsat Jfiiiiiiiiit Msttif i i s1iathiifcaaMsi i tsfW 1 1 strikes and fewer bails and the wartime shortage of manpower enhances its importance 0 As TEnTec' I BBMeiiiiMsB wsMHBHSsasjBMSBBsa Rochester Enters 20-1 Shot in Annual Classic At Louisville Comedian Expects His Horse To Nose iDut Favored Count Fleet By RICHARD JOHNSTON United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD April 24 Burnt Cork was 20 to 1 in the Kentucky derby future books today but on Central and Lennox avenues he was strictly seven-come-eleven The Cork is the derby entry of Edward Anderson who learned about animals shepherding a bear named Car-mi chael" on Jack Benny's radio program Anderson answers to "Rochester" when Benny calls O'Neill and Zeller put their DERBY HOPE Blue Swords with Jockey Young up is being groomed for the annual Kentucky derby Blue Swords won $35065 for Owner Allen Simmons last year and ran second in this year's Wood memorial eastern tuneup for the derby lf Ar heads together and decided that if they were to get along with an eight-man pitching staff Detroit's ess Yuri? smallest mound corps years there would have to be a minimum of waste motion They're out to make every pitch and pitcher count Efficiency experts ONeill and Zeller have arranged to keep tabs on the sucess of their pitch-con 1 IV 1 Will I HI I I baEirm iIimm nunjlWMJMD UW IKI (HMUUO UP II servation program A non-working Fyndsfer hurler has been assigned to count I i i I I 1 JT SEW AS 1 I I iOSEAES WITHTH5 the number of throws made by each Detroit tosser during a game "I play Mr Benny's man-of -all- Without benefit of a slide rule Lawson Robertson Penn track coach still is snooping around under the Franklin field stands hop-in tr tn find those eizht vaulting or chart Zeller believes any pitcher who makes from 110 to 130 throws in nine innings is giving a satisfactory performance However the great Christy Mathewson Manager of Jose Basora Comes Up With Fine Idea Predicts More Than Five Billion Would Be Raised Annually for the Government JqcEi-abbit '-Ball made as few as 80 pitches in a poles he bought and hid away when he realized there would be a bamboo shortage George Orton who ran for Penn in the first relays in 1895 failed to at single game "When a pitcher gets over the fare big lotteries of many kinds By JACK CUDDY work'' says Rochester "and if Burnt Cork doesn't win this race I may have to fall back on that -experience" When Rochester gets all hia beta down those 20-odds are going to be a whole lot shorter -v As far as he knows the comedian is the first negro sportsman ever to enter a horse at the Churchill Downs classic Besides Burnt Cork Rochester has four other horses every one sure fire He expects to win most of the derbies from now on "My horses are all express trains" he explains "There isn't 130 mark in a game" Zeller said ef yrnedl Iq League 'Mounds Some of them are off -shoots of foreign lotteries transplanted by the war like the big Italian "we know he is tiring and may need relief quickly If a pitcher United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK April 24 (UP) Angel Lopez said "It would be a great thing if the government would establish a national lottery tend this year for the first time since then He couldn't get away frnm rU mmn in New but sent word he'd be on hand for can keep his throws down to 130 a game there's no reason why he shouldn't be able to work again after three days rest The boys in the Texas league have done it great help to the war effort now and a great help to the tax the 50th anniversary meet next AprU Frank Palermo Gus manaser tells friends Philadelphia Athletics Blank Red Sox 5-0 to Record that he was talking on the long Eighth Shutout in Major League Race Doerr Clouts Two Doubles distance phone to iuice uarney manager of Fritzie Zivic when Carney collapsed ana died and Spanish lotteries" How much money did Lopez figure the American public would "invest" this year in racing lotteries the numbers and other rackets? Angel said that before the war it was estimated Americans annually spent about six billion dollars in wagering on organized chance affairs This he said Included the Irish Sweepstakes based on the running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree England and various other sweepstakes He continued "Although the sweepstakes have been practically abolished by the war as far as Yd P-Meaninz More By PAUL SCHEFFELS 4-ton could get Harris holding the payers later in reducing the national debt" We listened closely to the diminutive dapper Castillian with the wee mustachio because he usually talks sense Lopez is an imaginative realist owner of a prosperous Broadway night club manager of Middleweight Jose Basora and a man who nightly contacts a cross-section of our citizenry at play Lopez blew a cloud of fragrant clear smoke across the little table At Vfljit two sruvs in the army's Fighting Irish "Seek New Record PHILADELPHIA April 24 (AP) Notre Dame's four-mile relay quartet expects to set a new world's record of 17:16 or better in the Penn relays at Franklin field today if the track is right We have ambitions along that line" asserted Al Handy coach of the Irish scanty-clads who romped off with two triumphs the distance medley relay and the two-mile run in yesterday's opening competition in the annual track extravaganza "If the track is okay" Handy said "I believe the boys are ready and can do it The track was slow Friday but I think the overnight rolling will put it In better shape" The present world and relay carnival record for the four-mile is "17:182 established in 1937 by the Indiana university quartet of TruitV Smith Thomas Deckard and Don Lash "We've been gunning for this attempt- all year" declared Anchor Man OUie Hunter "We figure an average 4:19 mile will do the trick" Sox hitless during the 1 2-3 innings United Prese Staff Correspondent he worked military police department who can riv axtra use to the Initials for years" At least two Detroit pitchers Paul (Dizzy) Trout (12-18) and Hal White (12-12) may have trouble getting their pitches down to the 130 quota for nine innings On some of his wildest days Trout has made as many as 200 throws in a single game O'Neill recalls that White threw 70 pitches in 2 innings during a spring exhibition as many throws as a pitcher ordinarily would make in six or seven Innings "Making your pitches count" Zeller said "is like shooting against Joe Dobson who started for was nicked for eight hits in there's Murray Patrick the first six innings Lou Lucier little right big league hockey piayer to join NEW YORK April 24 (UP) The disciples of slam saddened by a plethora of singles and shut-outs In -the opening days of the major league season brightened today as they contemplated the return of the "jack-rabbit ball" promised by A Spalding and Co manufac the army who just graauacea irom officers' candidate school hander up from Louisville replaced Dobson at the start of the seventh at Fort Custer Mich and Clayton inning and gave up one safety A three-run explosion in the second inning sent the Athletics on their spree Four hits in a row turers Heafner the big Greensboro im golfer whose weight has shot up from 220 to about 250 since he's been in the army In this case means more pounds Before Spalding acknowledged par in golf The real science of pitching Is to stay anead or tne batter If the batter gets ahead plus an error by Red Sox Catcher Roy Partee produced the trio of runs In the third the A's scored a Crosby in the bunch Rochester considers the 20-1 odds on Burnt Cork outrageous but pleasant for: betting purposes "Those bookies don't take into account his ancestry" says the comedian "Any three year old sired by Mr Bones oughta be a natural' Rochester bought Burnt Cork for $800 at Saratoga when he was a yearling Last year he won six placed once and showed once in his 10 starts at Arlington Lincoln Fields Bay Meadows and Washington Park The Cork has been at Churchill Downs since March under the watchful eye of Trainer A Silver If anyone doubts Rochester's determination to win let them consider his choice of a jockey Carol Bierman who booted Galla-hadion home in a past derby "This is no joke" says Rochester "I am gonna win me a horse race" It is no Joke on Centra! avenue either where a horse for the first time in recent history has nosed out Henry Armstrong as a betting favorite If Burnt Cork lets an uppity little horse like Count Fleet beat him there's going to be agitation to change his name to "Charcoal Broiled" of you say three balls and one again on three hits and counted toward the rubber-legged rhumba dancers on the maple floor of his Havana-Madrid and continued: "Everybody is talking about the big mutuel handles at the race tracks nowadays But this race betting is only a drop in the bucket Everywhere In this coun-try people are betting on anything that'll give them a play for their or seem to give them a play "Because of the war there Is much more money In circulation than usual most everywhere that the new balata ball was inferior because of an unsatisfactory cement decline of the extra-base hit was assuming alarming proportions Even as the company was making its confession the Philadelphia Athletics were hanging up the their final run in the seventh off America is concerned I would estimate that close to seven billion dollars will be invested In organized betting in the United States this year And out of this tremendous investment the government gets only its small cut from racing" Lopez predicted that the government would garner three or four billion dollars a year by establishing a national lottery' to operate every two weeks He proposed 5000 prizes ranging from $120000 down to $500 to be distributed fortnightly Tickets would be purchased at each from strike he knows and you know that you've got to put the ball down the middle or give him a Lucier Bobby Doerr Boston second walk" baseman hit two doubles off Chris That kind of pitching doesn't topher for batting honors A crowd conserve pitchers And what's more of 2819 paid watched tne game Today the American league sched to the point it doesn't conserve the harried Mr O'Neill ule calls for Boston at Philadelphia aeain Chicago at St Louis Wash eighth shut-out In 12 games to date in the majors by blanking the Boston Red Sox 5-0 in Friday's only game Russ Christopher lanky righthander who gave up six scattered hits before he lost control In the eighth and was replaced by Lum Harris got credit for the A's first ington at New York and Detroit People who used to bet a dollar now bet five and so on Every city of any size has some form of the numbers racket And there Tellable distribution centers or Tempus Fugit Em? Times change and so do the Red Sox With no Ted Williams or Dom DIMaggio to do the hitting In Thursday's opener against the Athletics Manager Joe Cronln resorted to strategy when Pete Cox doubled to open the -fourth Inning Instead of figuring that three hitters would be sure to bring him around Joe Immediately signalled to Bobby Doerr to sacrifice Well it worked and Pete scored the only run of the game Black Cat Keglers In Second Place SALT LAKE CITY April 24 (AP) Thm Brunswick Red Crown team at Cleveland sellers St Louis renews its classic series with Cincinnati in the National league Other games are: New York CENTRAL SOUTH Will BALL TILTS win of the season IG CROWD TO The six hits produced during PADRES HAND' INDIANS 2-1 DALL DEFEAT at Boston Philadelphia at Brook lyn and Pittsburgh at Chicago Christopher's tenure were all Bos- Utah Relays Draw Excellent Field PROVO Utah Aorll 24 SEE THE DERBY Malad Triumphs The annual state high school relay DRAKE RELAYS GET INTEREST ARMSTRONG SIGNS BOSTON April 24 Henry Armstrong of Los Angeles former triple world's boxing champion will meet Lightweight Tommy Jessup of Springfield at Boston Garden Hilltoppers Upsetters in City League Play in First Round carnival was to open here today Davirl Mitchell of Lehi- ex LOUISVILLE Ky April 24 (AP) Over Bear River MALAD April Malad turned back Bear River High tracksters That old feeling is gone from ecutive secretary of the High School Athletic association an of Salt Lake City moved Into first place in team play of the Utah bowling tournament last night A record of 2979 scratch pin derbytown this year The feeling that mint juleps are going to run out of every faucet instead of water and fireworks are going to Los Angeles Moved Into Fourth Place Stars Seals in Two Tilts May 7 in a 10-rouna doui was announced today by the Boston 70 to 44 In a dual meet here Frl Boxing association i day The locals won ten firs go off on every street corner places as against four for the Bears Oh sure the Kentucky Derby Is still the same old big thing of the year down here Christmas and Fourth of July rolled into one Willie of Malad and Glenn of SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Knoxvllle at Chattanooga postponed Nashville at Atlanta postponed Birmingham 5 New Orleans 1 Little KocK 10 Memphis 4 Bear River sparkled Sdmmary: By The United Press San Diego's Padres ran their winning streak to five games without a defeat to maintain their lead in the Pacific Coast league but But something is missing Central and Washington opened the 1943 season in the Ogden City high school with first round victories this week the former upsetting the favored Lewis machine 10 to 5 and South edging out a 15-to-14 win over Mound Fort Both contests were interesting but characterized by loose play five costly boots being charged against the championship Lewis club in its defeat by Central Washington proved the team with the big bats Twelve times the 100-yard dah Glenn Bear River This is the wartime derby from core moved trie lirunswicn Keglers Into top spot with a 21-pin lead over the Black Cat team of Ogden Members of the Red Crown team setting the record rolled as follows: Otis Pusey 596 Paul Chase 571 Henry A Richardson 644 Dave Chipman 559 and Olsen 609 Richardson and Dr Merlin Mason continued to lead the doubles competition with a score of 1323 recorded Wednesday night Tournament play will conclude Saturday night Willi Malad Kluda Bear Rlvar Time the word go Derbytown Is getting ready to crowd this one in next 220-yard Glenn Bear River: Cut Saturday in Its working! clothes ler Malad Kluda Bear River Time :26 The population of this capital of 440-yard run Whlte Bear River Vleh- weg Malad Anderson sear River Time strong whisky and fast horses has DES MOINES AprU 24 (AP) It takes "material In depth" to produce top-flight track relay teams That fact was emphasized today as the 34th annual Drake Relays Carnival went into Its second and final day of track and field competition In opening events yesterday lack of entries made it unnecessary to run preliminary heats in the university quarter-mile half-mile and mile relays Coach Chauncey Simpson of Missouri whose 440- and 880-yard relay teams were among the hottest favorites in the meet pointed out in an interview that a relay quartet "often is only as strong as its weakest runner When you lose one of the four men to the armed forces you quite often In effect lose your whole team" ITt takes material in depth to 1:02 8S0-yard ran Lewi Malad Marble skyrocketed from about 350000 three years ago to a half million now and the war's the thing nounced more than 14 teams were ready to compete Mitchell said highly favorable conditions of track and runner should mean many new records set this year He asserted the meet held a week later this year would mean an opportunity for further conditioning of the athletes and promised better weather Relay teams from Cedar City Granite Bear River South Cache Fillmore Spanish Fork Provo Springville Payson and Spanish Fork were among those already sending In official entry lists but more were expected Mitchell said Utah State Drops Honors in Tennis SALT LAKE CITY April 24 University of Utah dropped just one a doubles event-in defeating Utah State Agricultural college to 1 In a dual tennis tournament Only Utah State victors were Spencer Hill and Dick Frandsen who trimmed Craig Ward and Bill Dickson 7-5? 6-3 Other matches all resulting in so the derby will have to take Lieutenant Lyons catch-as-catch-can The town is jammed Every Sat South batters hit safely and converted them into the 15 runs North added seven hits to nine bases on balls for its total Jerry Peart and Tat Misaka Central hurlers shared the mound duties to smother the potent Lewis attack For the losers Gene Hart-man pitched a good game but his support crumbled whenever he was in need of assistance Home runs by Jenson of Lewis and Preece of Central three bag Ready 'to Perform urday thousands of soldiers who have week-end passes pour Into the city from nearby camps And lot of the boys and girls CHICAGO April 24 (AP) Lt Ted Lyons of the marines was back in rfrilciLfiro todav readv for active Bear River Allen Bear River Time 2:31 Mil run Morgan Malad Da via Bear River Watanabe Bear River Time 8:42 880-yard relay Bear River Medley relay Malad XnterocholaaUe Malad High Willie Malad Kidman Bear River Barfue Bear River Height 5 feet 10 lncbea Broad Jump Willie Malad Kidman Bear River White Bear River Distance 19 feet 6 inchee Pol vault Willie and Budge (Ued for first) Malad Williams Malad Distance 10 feet inches Shotput Evans Malad Williams Malad Payne Bear River 41 feet 3 inches Anderson Malad Kidman Bear River: Evans Malad Distance 117 feet 2 Inches Javelin Budge Malad Evans Malad: Wlnsler Bear River Distance 127 feet 8 Inches are going to get to the Downs somehow next Saturday whether rtntv naw Bier which calls for they have to walk ride a street the highlight of yesterdays games came with Veteran Ad Liska's ttfo-hit shutout victory as Portland stopped Sacramento 1-0 Llska 35-year-old submarine-ball expert put the Beavers in second place with his neat performance his second win of the series It was his 116th win of his eight years with Portland Llska scored the one run himself singling in the third and coming home on another single San Diego put Seattle down again 2-1 coming through In the ninth to break a tie The ball game was tightly played throughout Seattle scored in the fifth with the Padres evening the count in the seventh 1 Los Angeles climbed a notch into fourth place in standings with a S-2 win over Oakland taking a one-game edge in the current series Los Angeles scored one run in each of the first two innings and got the final tally In the eighth The Oaks scored one in the seventh and one in the eighth San Francisco-Hollywood postponed their game because of Good Friday but will play a double-header today and tomorrow to end the series: 7 'V- no baseball playing for the veteran car or bounce out on a pogo stick build relay teams" he observed gers by Hartman Lewis and Huf-stettler Central a double by Ed- White Box pitcner Tvm-LR for 20 vears on the White The best estimates are for a turn out of 50000 or so Sox hurling staff said he hasn't i "But on every side you hear son Lewis were the big bits of the Central-Lewis encounter Lewis scored twice in the second strong promises and plans to pre "Such material is difficult to develop and keep in war years" Illinois brought a sufficiently powerful squad of runners here to win both the spring medley and distance medley events on yesterday's program jpring but added I would be Inning on three free passes by vent absenteeism from local de fense plants tn em mil O-BTM IT I POUIQ throw a few to Mike Tresh" (Sox In Utah's Natural Mineral Water Enjoy Yourself as you swim for health at UTAH HOT SPOIuGS Nature's "Wonder Water" Only 9 Miles North of Ogden catcher) NATIONAL UGAOTTE Pet 1 CS4 vaWWvw Jack Greenhalgh defeated 2 1000 Brooklyn 1 0 1000 PitteburKlt 1 1 iSOO 4 Chicago 1 1 500 New York 0 1 000 AMERICAN LEAGUE X' Pet New Tortt 1 0 1000 SU Louis 1 0 1000 Bostoo 1 1000 Washington 1 1 00 Cleveland 1 1 500 Detroit Ill -500 Philadelphia 13 333 Chicago 1 000 Friday's Besolta Boston 0 Philadelphia St Xonis 0 2 000 Philadelphia 0 0 000 Boston 0 0 000 i Friday's Remits (No games scheduled) Feart and a timely single by Hadly The winners came back in the third to count five times on one base on balls four hits and two Lewis mis-plays Preece circled empty sacks in this frame with his big blow Young Misaka pint-sized pitcher relieved Peart on the Central mound in the seventh inning to strike out Hartman with one on and stifle the final Lewis threat Peart struck out eight Hartman twelve Misaka one Next Tuesday the city leaguers resume play Central at Washington and Lewis at Mound Fort Score: Lewis 5 6 5 Central 10 6 2 Batteries: Hartman and Gridley Peart Misaka and Hufstettler I rhIladelpW ABHO a HO A 0 3 4 10 0 VaK rf 4 110 110 White ef a 2: iMayo 3b 1 0 3 0 1111 ISO Tyaclt Isiebcrt lb Suder 2b There's One of these near Your Home Ride To Your Destination in Safety Comfort Boston AB Lake as 5 Fox rf 5 Doerr 2b 4 Laaor Lupleo lb Oarrison cf 8 Nsw soms So 4 Partes 4 Dobson 1 xMcBrtds 1 Lucier xiTabor 1 12 4 2 4 1 2 12 0 13 4 10 4 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 Hall swift airistphr BUS -i i i I it i -i -i Gordon Porter 6-3 6-z mcnara Warner trimmed Keith Trane 6-1 6-0 Allen Hardy won from Spencer Hill 6-1 6-1 Mack Pyke defeated Walker 6-1 6-1 Doubles Richard Warner and Bill Koch won from Gordon Porter and Dick Ricci 6-2 6-2 Jack Greenhalgh and Allen Hardy defeated Keith Trane and Jay Allen 6-1 6-2 Utah Pin Joust To Close Sunday SALT LAKE CITY "April 24 Leaders in the Utah bowling tournament held their places as competition headed today into the final week-end A dozen or more Salt Lake City bowlers rolled last night but their performance failed to make any changes In leadership of all divisions Competition In the week-long meet will conclude tomorrow In top positions are the Brunswick Red Crown team of Salt Lake City Henry A Richardson and Dr Merlin Mason of Salt Lake City in the doubles and Claude Parry of Ogden in the singles Harris 'H it at it ill a SeC1 Your Car Washed snd Lubricated Today! 359 26th Street Pic! 4493 Klempau Sets New Record for Shotput SANTIAGO Chile April 24 (AP) Pretty Edith Klempau of Chile who doesn't look as If she were an athlete at all is the new holder of the South American shot put record for women At the thirteenth annual South American tournament yesterday she wiped out the five-year-old mark of Argentina's Ingrid Mello at 4649 feet by throwing the ball 4713 feet (J Total 34 24 ll Totals 33 9 27 IT Batted for Dobson to seventh xx Batted tor Lucier in ninth Score by Jzsalogt: Boston 000 000 000 0 Philadelphia 031 000 lOx 3 Summary Errors Partes Lake HsJL Valo Runs batted In Buder Hall Siebert White Two-base hits Doerr 2 Double plays Lake to Lupten Dobson Lake to Luplen Bases on Christopher 4 Lucier 1 By Dobson 3 Christopher 2 Harris 1 Off Christopher 0 la 7 1-3 Harris none In 1 2-3 Dobson 8 In Lucier 1 in 2 Balk Dobson Winning Christopher Losing pitcher Dotoaon Attendance 5519 OGDEN TRANSIT CO il it i si.