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flfKurs3ay, May 2, 1940 JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE Page 7 Churchill Downs Winner Next Saturday May Not Be the Favorite Horse BEflT 111 66TH DERBY Riders Have Stolen Classic Before, While Smith Has Poor 1939 Record; Has Been Left at Post FOR FISHING FUN on Costing: 4 By MILTON KRAFT National Ail-Around Champion LOUISVILLE, May the skies are fair and ghe track is fast on Saturday, the only way Bimelech can lose, the Kentucky Derby is to have a a steal it from him. That was generally agreed in Xouisville today as the vanguarc of 100,000 people who are ex pected to witness, the blue grass classic arrived to be greeted bj a needle-like wind, unseasonablj low temperatures and a rriuddj at Churchill Downs. For, without any attempt or intent to injure any rider's feelings, it is common knowledge 1 that Fred A. Smith, who will be up on Col. E.

R. Bradley's Bime- is neither the smartest nor The best boy with a mount in the 66th derby. Won Eiffht Straight Smith has booted Bimelech home in eight straight races and has been on the broad back a idle hour colt in every one of his triumphs, but neither his best friend nor his mother would say he is a shrewder boy than the minimum of seven who will face him in the race for Ken- acky's fairest roses. Here is a cross section of the men who will be matching spurs, Whips, blinkers and intellects pgainst him for the richest derby prize of them all this week. Wright.

WooU. Balaski. Hass, or Kenneth McCombs. Royal Gilbert. Bodiou.

Carroll Bier- Renick. Left at Post Jockeys have stolen the derby Don Mean on Broker's Tip in they "vill steal it again. Actually, no body has a complaint-to make against Smith this year, but they do take issue with him in the races he ran in 1939. of those "runs he was' at the And if he is left at the post May 4 it may mean the finish of the favorite. Dit, Mioland and Pictor worked yesterday but none oJ their trials was 'impressive Bimelech remained the stand- fltut and the only thing I saw thai could stop him was the weather And that was cold and wet.

The weather in Louisville to day was at least 15 degrees cold er than normal. Although Col att Winn stuck to his estimate 100,000 spectators, most the members of the derby town estimated a throng of 80.000 despite the coldst temperature in 16 years. CHANCE TO BUY Dodgers Blow Up Thoroughly When Their Former Catcher Hits Grand- Slam Homer Nebraska Is Powerhouse For Big Six Next Fall KANSAS CITY, May to rely on Bud Wallach, a crisp Distance casting is the pride of the average fisherman but few can handle more than 40 feet of line. Tournament casters go well over 100 feet. Here Champion Milton Kraft shows the correct finish of a distance the rod pointing directly to 3 on the clock dial.

NEW YORK, May sleeping giant rose in all his might and smashed Brpoklyn's dream of a perfect season. Not far from the spot where he sprawled last October while Yankee runners raced across the plate in the fatal fourth world series game, Ernie Lombard! came out of his coma yesterday and dealt a crushing blow to the Dodger juggernaut. The big'Cin- cinnati catcher slugged out a home run with the bases loaded, a stroke which popped Brooklyn's bubble of invincibility. Lombardi's four master sparked an 8.run inning in which the Reds routed Hugh Casey and ended the Dodgers' winning streak at nine straight. Bucky Myrtle, the lunchcounter cashier argues with the drugstore coaches lhat Nebraska will be the football powerhouse of the Big Six next fall.

Spring drills did nothing to disabuse any of them of the idea. While his conference rivals were toiling to build one respectable eleven Biff Jones, the Husker headman, announced he planned to continue last fall's experiment of. two full teams and play them in alternate quarters. Here's how October's pros- spects look on a pleasant day in May: Making Ends Meet At Missouri DISTANCE Most fishermen are able to handle only 35 or 40 feet of line, but with 'practice they could easily work their range up to 60 feet or more. By special study and practice, experienced tournament men can cast 100 feet or more with ease.

In the distance fly event in tournaments the record cast 183 feet In castine for distance start of your rod and line, look at an object 200 feet or more in front of You will see your line going away from you in a narrow loop. Release ihe line from your left hand and you will find the momentum will pull the coils loose line from the ground or from your hand to give ycu an additional 20 or 25 feet. The fisherman who has been using main strength and awkwardness will be surprised at the results 'he gets from orderly blpcker but slow on passes Find of the drills was Vernon Lighlfoot, a bruising Paul Chrislman kept in shape by playing on the Missouri nine. Nebraska: If Major Jones can guide all his privates over the scholastic hurdles Minnesota. Iowa, Indiana, Pittsburgh and the five' Big Six foes might as well go in for tag.

Blue, 27 ENTERED IN SPEEDCUKIC Eight Foreign Cars Will Race In 500-Mile Event; Shaw With Same Auto out all last fall with injuries, is an immense new INDIANAPOLIS, May racing cars, capable of running anywhere asset rom 130 miles an hour, full-backing department. and 31 of the nation's greatest riage seems to have given Harry Hopp the spark he needed to become a great back. candidate's reported for spring tutoring and only the Thelt Standings 'V. tl; National League Won Lost Pet. Brooklyn 9 i .900 Cincinnati 7 3 .700 Chicago 7 7 .500 New York 4 4 .500 Pittsburgh 4 .400 St.

Louis 4 6 .400 Philadelphia 3 5 .375 Boston i 7 .125 American League Won Lost Pet. newcomer, end Marvin Thorn p. son, made the string in the the entire spring trying to makeiiinal training the ends meet now that twins are Steuber, a 6 foot 2 inch 195-pound candidate, plays end as the book says it should be at the other flank the Tigers may have Orf Oklahoma The Same As La si Year Oklahoma: Bill VESTERDAY'Sr STARS- Jennings, right half last fall, now an end Remainder of the lineup, except center, entirely 193D re- serves'or' sophomores it drivers are entered officially for Ihe Indianapolis motor speedway 500-mile race May 30. Any additional -entires, postmarked before the deadline last midnight, will be accepted and it's possible the complele entry list may exceed fifty cars. Eight of the 47 entries are for- eign-buill cars and they form the most serious threat to American Cleveland 8 Boston 8 Detroit 7 Washington St.

Louis 5 New York 5 Philadelphia 5 Chicago 3 4 4 5 8 8 .667 .667 .583 .500 .455 .455 .385 .273 supremacy on the 2te- track JAYS AND BEARS WILL PLAY ROUNDS SATURDAY in many years. One of them is Ihe Italian-built was. the Sooner svibs who penc-1 Maseruli which Wilbur Shaw of (By the Associated Press) I iitiv i Walters, ast season's "player of Bm Werb Re -Led route VOQP inflinTort fit-erf AA- torn the 4 o'clock position. Ap- practice. He will develop a good the inflicted the first defeat on the high flying Dodgers, holding them to six scatlered hils to win his third straight game.

Brooklyn's Big Mistake There are many ramifications' to Lombardi's grand-slam homer. For a time last winter it seemed that the lumbering Cincinnati catcher might be wearing a Brooklyn uniform himself this season, returning to the club he played for when he first came My power to the rod up to the 2 (vertical) position and then to drift bark lo 11. Com- ng forward, apply increased sower belween Ihe 11 and 3 o'clock positions, ther let Ihe rod drift down lo 4 to slart another bnckcast. When you are geiling the feel sense of the rod's spring and of what his line is doing at each stage of the cast. It is important that the grip be not too tight.

Through the practice, regardless of your immediate problem, there should be a constant" and almost instinctive feeling for accuracy. BEiS TRAVEL TO Five Will Participate State Meet In Jefferson Junior College Bear trackmen today were taking final workouts before leaving for the state junior college meet in Trenton Friday. Four or five boys are expected to participate from the Bear squad, Coach Hager has said. They are Stiegal in the dashes, Barry Roman in the 880, Bob Bernick in the high jump and Vernon Gill in the mile. The Bear trackslers last meet was with ihe Unfversily of Missouri frosh thinclads last week, in which the Jefferson City boy turned in fine performances against their experienced rivals.

BY EDDIE BKIETZ NEW YORK, May Bobby Feller has offers from wo movie studios to make a eries of shorls next Mre Bill Stewart was behind the plate in the last no-hitters the National enough, the same teams were nvolved. to report Jacke Hayes, sidelined for several veeks with an eye ailment, is vorking out with the White Sox J. Marks, Columbus (O.) sportsman, has pre- ented his fiance -with the en- ire division of his racing stable training at Churchill Downs. Today's Sport Parade Many Ways to Lose, Only One to Win-Bet on Bim BV HENRY McLEMORE the water before Ihe first water LOUISVILLE, May 2 this gave me pause: Did Colone am no bloodhound of a I Winn, I reasoned to myself Reporter, and there are tens of have a mystery horse up his sleeve, so lo speak? Has Nothing Up His Sleeve Being a forthright soul, I ask ed him if he did. As a matter fact, I looked up his blue serg sleeve myself.

There wa chair, in his office wing of nothin there except norms Churchill Downs that commands sleeve equipment. So, when a view ot the turn into left hlm I turned to the recor stretch. Not for him a box on books to see if Proctor Knot were the only "good Ihing, who had missed on derby da thousands with better noses for news, but -even to me it was obvious that the best source of in- iormalion on the Kentucky Derby was Colonel Matt Winn. So I went to see the Colonel deep in an old leather on race the finish line, where the is over, but a vantage point where the jockeys really go to and the class of a thoroughbred begins to tell. at the Downs.

It was amazing to find many great horses had failed in SPORTS ROUNDUP up. Brooklyn trade Catcher was Babe willing Phelps of Dodgers by getting double and home run and was hit by pitched ball to score eight runs. Monte Pearson, trated the Missouri line in thai 7 to 6 quagmire when the varsity couldn't Tom Stidham plans to turn both Orville Matthews and Jack Jacobs loose in the same backfield Second and third elevens entirely sophomoric. Kansas Twenty nine high school in the three of team's I freshman, squad bequeathed Yankees Revised Version With the sidelines loaded with such big shots as the DiMag- gios, the Powells, the Gomezes, the philosophy of the major this year would appear lo be nothing ventured, nothing sprained. This town is simply nuts over the Headline in the World Telegram: "Nuts to everything hooray for Tex did Napoleon ever do that Dodgers Everybody pokes a lot of fun at Durocher's dizzy crew, but one and all are for them 105 per cent.

Carleton was unreeling his no-hitter, announcer Red Barber refused to say anything about the Red hit totals at the end of each inning for fear of putting the whammy on Tex Dodger doings will prevent Larry MacPhail (who once the Reds even up for Lombardi, but the Dodgers would go'no farther than that. Warren Giles, Reds' business manager, rejected the offer, "We can't trade Lombardi on that basis," said Giles. "We have to have more for him. He's the kind of a ball player who can come back to Cincinnati and break your heart. What Giles had in mind is exactly what happened' yesterday when big Schnozzola hit his de- Vastating home run wallop.

Now Lombardi is back in the good graces of Cincinnati fans, who thought, big Lom's career might end tragically as a result of the world series incident. When the Dodgers' blew up, they did'it-completely and thoroughly. They had held the Reds hitless and runless for 12 straight Carleton's nine perfect rounds.Tuesday and Hugh Casey's three scoreless nnings Bill Verber touched off the dynamite. He opened the fourth with a double. Then the Reds filled he bases and Lombardi delivered his blow.

Later Werber, up for the second time, hit a homer. Pete Coscarart hit his third Held Browns to five hits for 5-3 victory. Nelson Potter, Indians lo seven hits and fanned five for 5-1 triumph. Herbert Hash, Red Pitched one-hit ball in five-inning relief chore to preserve 12-4 decision over White Sox. Birdie Tebbetts, with based loaded in eighth in 10-7 victory over Senators.

Indianapolis drove lo victory last year. Shaw, who won Ihe race in 1937 also, will be nl Ihe wheel of the Maserati again this year. Four other Maseratis nnd Hobbs Adams by Wes Fry Kent (The Admiral) Duwe moved up to quarterback from the fullback Wilkins will do the plnnging. Quick, a fancy stepping field general and a left-fooled kicker, highlighted the prob-j lems is to lind a replacement, for Jim Brock, the blocking field goal Iowa State: Henry (Hurrying Hank) Wilder's return so pepped up the entire campus even the sand held spring three Italian-made Alfa Romcos are entered. Raul Riganti, a South American, will drive one of the Mase- r-atis and Lucy O'Reilly Schell, an American, resident of France who entered two others, has said French drivers will pil- Junior college and high school authorities late yesterday postponed the scheduled golf match between the two schools after wintry winds nnd cold rains swept the Muny course.

The matches will be played Friday afternoon on the links for championship of city play. The rounds will start at 2:30 o'clock in Ihe afternoon, it was announced. ot her cars leased from if they can the army. be rc- WESTERN ASSOCIATION OPENS INJPRINGHELD SPRINGFIELD, May (AP) A steal of home, 5-hit pitching by a newcomer, snow and an old-fashioned slugging bee were the ingredients whipped up in the Western associa- went afler the Kaiser) joining in the million search for Hitler. from dollar tion's 1940 openers.

Manager Jack Calvey of lina stole home with the Sarun to 6 Over a glass of bourbon that the run for the horseshow ot Tip to Tex Skip your next turn, Tex; Remember that old hex; We all know you're not yella, But remember Bobby Fella. Ernst Sutler New London, Conn. must have dated back to the del roses. There day the colonel saw his first in that was the first derby he warned me nex'er to believe lhat any horse was a sure thing in the derby. Old Colonel Has Doubts fj "Everybody says Bimelech is unbeatable now," Colonel Winn said, "but I won't believe it till his number and his price go up on the board under the official sign.

As long ago as 51 4 ull years I learned that Nothing is sure on a race track. Because it was in 1889 that Proctor Knott was thought to be so invincible that Ihe mention oC any olher horse brought jeers and hoots and all Ihe olher forms of derision. He even more of a slandout than Bimelech is today. "You must know what happened. A thing called on which I bet $100 which is the great runners as were such Granville.

bad racing luck, ost I ever have "ice won it easy. barns, Spokane's bet on any Back of the trainer had brought him along. No shouting, no great times in workouts, no dazzling past performances, in fact, no advance-notice of any Spokane was just another Horse." As Bimelech supporter of Brevity, Head Play, Blue Larkspur, Osmand, Pompey, Quatrain, Enchantment, Tryster, Damask and Eternal all of them favored in these past 20 years and all of them beaten badly. Some had such as Granville. His" Jimmy Stout, fell off at the start and he never had a chance to show-what he could do.

There was Blue Larkspur, whose flying feet were shackled by a mud which sent Clyde Van Dusen to the wire. Brevity was knocked to his knees, and Head Piay was locked in the stretch as he came down nose and nose. 10,000 Ways To Lose Race There is only one way to win a horse race and Ihere are 10,000 ways to lose one. The way to win it is to be there first: The ways to lose it take your choice: bad jockey bad start, bad pockets, bac tracks, bad judgment of train ers or owners, and all the other bads you can conjure up. So, be careful of wagering 01 Salurday's winner.

'Be carefu that you don't wager on any thing but Bimelech. -He" is tha much the best, It Can Happen Here! Daniel Baker College ran an ad in an Indianapolis paper for 3asketball players Several Elkhart (Ind.) players responded, but on the way to Brownwood, they became de- loured and wound up at Howard Payne College in the same town ball Greenwich game and between Fairfield (Conn.) had to be postponed when Greenwich requesled an addilional four months for prac- iomer in three games, one of the two runs made off Walters. Bosox in First Place The Boston Red Sox' power elevated them back into a first place tie with the Cleveland Indians when Joe Cronin's club slugged out a 12-4 victory over the White Sox. Cronin dorve in four runs himself. Jimmy Foxx hit homer No.

5, a drive of more than 450 feet, one of the longest of his career. Lefty Grove weakened in the fifth and Rookie Herb Hash relieved him, allowing only one hit. Nelson Potter pitched the Philadelphia Athlelics to a 5-1 triumph over the Indians. Ray Mack's homer was the only run off him. Wally Moses and Bob Johnson hit homers for Ihe and Benny McCoy smacked two doubles.

Monte Pearson got the Yanks back on the winning track with a 5 hit, 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Browns. The Yanks slapped Eldon Auker for three runs in the first and were never headed. The victory brought the Yanks back into a fifth place tie with the Browns. Detroit staged a 3 run rally in the eighth to beat Washington, 10-7 and regain undisputed possession of third place.

Joe Krakauskas walked four men in a row in the eighth to start the Tiger rally. Then Birdie Tebbetts single drove in the other two runs. Four Washington pitchers gave up 15 walks. Yesterday's Lombardi, Cincinnati who hit a homer with the bases loaded lo pace Ihe Reds to a 9-2 vie- that gave his Millers a 7 decision over Hutchinson. Springfield's Ted Novak, newcomer 'from Dtiluth, dolec out five safeties to Joplin anc the Cardinals, playoff winners last year, downed the Miners 10 to 3.

Muskogee, unknown quantity in pre-season gossip, gave the hint of its power in defeating Fort Smith, 1939 champions 11 to 7. Snow and cold weather forcet postponement of Topeka's game at St. Joseph. Manager Calvey walked to start the last half of the ninth at Salina, was walked to second as well, slole third, then jack- rabbited home. While Novak in outstanding back in 1038, was FIGHTS Last Night me AssucliUfu Miami Leo Rodalc, 136 Chicago, outpointed Yucatan Kid, 130 Mexico City (10).

Land' Has Moved Much of northern Germany once wns Scandinavian soil, glaciers, originating in Norway, pushed southward across the North Sea nnd covered Germany with soil torn clown from Scandinavian mountains. Parchman, Mississippi's slale penal farm, is credited as the best source of negro folk music in the country. on the bench with injuries throughout the last Larry Owens, a- transfer from Northwestern, sparked the man-! euvers Three hefty tackle candidates enabled Jim Yeager to send the signal calling Capt. Tom Smilh back lo squad is small but has both weight and Kansas: Gwinn Henry is pleased with the ability shown by his Pierce carries entire pivot improvement is the availability of Ralph Miller, a de luxe played only in parts of four games last season But his knee is sound will get plenty of help from Don Pollom. Grant Hunter and guard Ward Crowcll tried as ends.

New Pace, 12'J NBA bantamweight chnm- pion, Cleveland, outpointed Pab- -jlo Dano, 120, Philippines (10). San Pancho, 118, Philippines, outpointed Horace Mann, 118, San Francjsco (10). Calgary, Ala. Al Dclaney, 1R2, Windsor, outpointed Stan Savold, 108, Des Moines, Iowa, (10). ASSOCIATION STARTS PLH AFTER IMF 'By United PCMI) Every team in the American association goes back to work today after a two day layoff.

The potent Kansas City Blues, "Little Yankees" of the league. Springfield piled up 16 hits off nlay their first home game of two hurlers. Fort Smith and i the season against the Columbus held Joplin, Muskogee furnished the night's slugging match, with the Giants shading the Oklahomans, 12 hits to 11, although losing. Muskogee trailed by 2 runs in SPORT MIRROR iBy Associated Prcu) Today a year ago A. G.

Spalding, Charles Radbourne, Adrian Anson, William Cummings, William Ewing, a tl Charles A. Comiskey named to baseball's Hall of Fame. Three years ago United States and Australia swept Davis cup series from Japan and Mexico. Five years agro Athletics sold second baseman Dibrell Williams to Boston Red Sox as rumors flew that other A's were due to go in shake-up. Rich Mellow Fragrant Kentucky Straight Bourbon Macon Wholesale Liquor Company Macon.

Mou the sixth -when Glenn Peters right put the fielder Reds ahead, cleaning the bases with a home run after a walk, a double and a single'had loaded them. The same teams meet in the same cities tonight. Red Birds. Other games scheduled were: Toledo at Milwaukee, Indianapolis at Minneapolis and Louisville at St. Paul.

The Minneapolis Indianapolis: game pits the present first and second 'ranking reams, respectively, of the association. Kansas City, which finished first last season, currently occupies third position. BOWLING SCORES U. C. C.

Men's League Administrative Tabulating No. 1 859 901 745 2505 .817 900 829 2546 High single, Manning, Administrative, 216. High three, Bahn, Administrative, 562. Determination 866 834 856 2556 Independents 882 885 783 2550 High single, Shockley, Delerm- ination, 204. High Ihree, Shockley, Determination, 50.1.

657 766 785 2208 Jordon's House of 637 771 714 2)22 High single, Carter, Feinsteins, 176. High three, Carter, Feinsteins, 480. tice Nothing interferes with baseball down in Clarksdale, municipal election was poslponed a week because it conflicted with the opener and last week they called off a big political raliy so all hands could turn out for the first night game. tory over Dodgers. the hitherto unbeaten Today's Guest Star Nixson Denton, Cincinnati Times-Star: "I nominate for baseball's hall of fame Mr.

James (Putt-Putt) Wright, late of San Quentin Eligible for discharge on the morning of San Quentin's big game with the Sacramento Senators, Putt-Putt remained over, or rather in, to sub for the regular San Quenlin shortstop who became ill and was unable to play," HI 8ET FIGHTS- LOSESflD TITLE WASHINGTON, May National Boxing Association listed Petey Scaizo of New York today as the new world featherweight champion replacing Joey Archibald of Providence, R. from whom the title was recently taken for failure to defend it within six Tabulating No. 2 Accounting. 834 824 873 996 826 878 2533 2698 St. Peter's Comm.

League Dny Nile Lunch Wardsville A. A 875 874 901 2450 919 868 Cl. 792 2579 Mueller, High single, Wardsviile, 189. High three, O. Muck, Day Nile, 517.

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