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FRTPAY, APR. 10, THE ESCANABA (MICH.) A IL PRESS PAGE FIFTEEN Maple Leafs Rally to Defeat Red Wings, 4 to 3 TORONTO KEEPS IN CUPSERIES Detroit Defense Cracks After Team Takes 3-0 Lead Just for Action! Toronto, April 9 (A "1th their barks to the the Toronto Maple Leafs hung grimly to a chance to win the Stanley cup In tho National Hockey league tonight when they dcftttffd the Red 4-2. Detroit won the first two games of tho series and was leading 3-0 when the Lenfs started a third period drive to even the score and send the tame Into overtime. A crowd of 13,8 02 was srnt Into as the Lenfs came thundering hack in the last half of the third period with the score against them, twice and then sent the game Into overtime with the tying goal that was scored 4 2 before the end of regulation time. Moll then fired home the winning tally 1 seconds after the sudden death ivertime had started.

The Wings started off as though they were going to take the game In stride. llowman drew first Mood for Detroit after 9:26 of play in the first period, having been fed a scoring pass by Pettinger. Detroit stored again in the second, Druneteau getting one of the easiest goals seen here this ason when after a little more than a minute of play, he hoisted the puck goal-ward from 15 feet outside the Toronto goal line. The puck soared 20 feet in the air before it landed on the ice aud into the cage. VOWII Wild With the Leafs sending four forwards on the ice In the fourth.

Detroit broke through to score nsjain in 11:15, Howe being on the M'orinir end of a play with Pettinger and Ilec Kilrea. Joe Primeau started the Leafs on the road that led to victory. In the time of 13:10 he belted one in sifter passes from Finnigan and Horner. Pep Kelly then went on rampage. He took a pass from Finnigan to slash one in in 15:21 and then with Detroit 4 2 seconds a way from the cup, he marked up the tyinK score after taking a pass from Primeau.

The crowd yelled itself hoarse and the ice was littered with falling paper as Kelly nhot the jsoal that send the game into sudden death overtime. It was sudden death. Loafs carried the puck into Detroit territory where Art Jackson snapped it across the front of the goal to who drew Normle Smith out of position und then jabbed the uck in. It was an easy goal. Pickups From Sports Trail By Mickelson There's hockey rivalry in the Dionne circle.

Yvonne, left, and Cecile, are out in the uniforms of the Toronto Maple and IVtroit lted Wings, respectively, ready to stage in miniature the Stanley cup clashes now being fought between those two Na tional hockey league teams. Yvonne, her chubby hand clutching her stick, wears an attitude of dogged determination. Cecile appears just a little uncertain about the outcome. 200,000 Fans Likely At Baseball Openers BY PM MH (Associated Writer) New York, April 9. Meet Mike Jacobs, once a on the sidewalks of New York and the promotional dictator of the heavyweight boxing Industry: Mike made money from the very day he hawked newspapers.

Shrewd and likeable, he made valuable a k1d In knee breeches. He ran a steamboat excursion line and became a ticket broker, llnlnq bis nest With gold. Put three of legal paper, the exclusive contract promote all of Joe fights from to made him dictator of cauliflower row and left Madison Square Harden big wins outside looking In. Mike lie would pell the Louis for $300,000, but he doesn't av If vorv loudly. The guens be a dead ringer for a farmer on his first visit to the county fair.

Wears glasses, stands feet I 11. wheels about his ofTice slowly, md v-marks bis chops incessantly. the higccM one-man husi- ness organisation in New York. his own board of directors, presi- dent and secretary. Keeps all his records and plans under his felt hit Sees an average of 100 persons daily, working front 8 a.

m. to 9 p. m. His office, boxlike and small. Intriguing with 50 pitchers and cartoons of fighters, managers and promoters, most of them from present era.

Prize Is an unfinished portrait of his old part- ner. the late Tex Rickard. Is married. No children. Has ritzy apartment in Manhattan and a beautiful country home near Rumson, N.

J. Thief delight is to putter around his gurden (not Madison Square Harden). Wild roses and are prlnelpal horticultural loves of Mike. Can name sports writers of almost every town over 10,000 in United States. care about books.

TIGERS ARE IN HITTING SLUMP Combined Batting Average Thus Far Is Mere .226 Michigan To Have 14 Man Track Outfit At Penn Relay Carnival Durham, N. April 9. Mann ter Mike Cochrane announced plans today to do something about batting slump which has afTl icted ins world champion Detroit Tigers. Pain that forced cancellation of a scheduled with the Cincinnati lieds left him with plenty of time, and he utilized It the combined batting average of bis talent for the sprint season. The result was a discouraging 22ti One remedial step will be the return of Hank enberg to the clean-up slot which Al Simmons has occupied all spring.

Simmons will bat fifth, ither (Ireenherg nor Simmons has done particularly well at bat this season, but Cochrane hopes ihai the change In batting order will inspire them both to renewed effort f. Ho also disclosed that he was considering1 a more drastic shift that would send Gerald Walker to left field, in place of the aging An alternative would bo to put Walker In center and shift Simmons to left field, but Cochrane inclined to the first plan Simmons has uncanny judgment of flies, he explained, and, even though lie Is not as fast as he was, the fleet Walker In left and Pete Fox In right would help cover the fringes of his territory. arte Disappointed For the opening game at Cleveland. however, (Joslln probably will be at his accustomed post. The Cleveland park lay-out favors left handed hitters and the Goose would be the logical choice.

Cochrane also revealed today that the Toledo club, of the American assoclalion, had made demands for a third baseman, immediate delivery requested As a result, either Don Hoss or Gil Kngllsh probably will leave the I with Walter Stone and Kay Fink. Curt Davis Hurls Phillies To Win Norfolk, April 9 Davis, in a final workout before the opening of the National league reason, pitched the Phillies to a to 1 victory over the Norfolk flub of the Piedmont league to- ilay. The game was called at the of the fifth because of rain end cold. Philadelphia (N) 5 2 Norfolk 5 6 Davis and Grace; Washburn, Kandsall and Ilolm. (Called end of fifth, rain).

HOCKEY SCORES STANLEY CUP FINAL At Toronto: Toronto Detroit 3 overtime). BY SCOTTY HESTON (AssotUIinI Writer) New York. April 9 (VP) Major league owners, optimistic to the last, agreed today that Tuesday, opening day, would be one of golden sunshine and estimated that 201,000 persons will bo in the stands. In the event of inclement weather, they will settle for 150,000, they admit. Largest crowd of the day is expected to watch the Giants and Dodgers at the Polo grounds.

All reserved seats have been sold already and officials predict that 4 0,000 unreserved seats will be sold Tuesday. This will kito the crowd to 58,000. In Cincinnati, officials are not even taking a ehanco on the weather. They have sold over 25,000 tickets already for their name with the Pirates and the capacity of 33,000 is anticipated. vs.

Indians Capacity crowds of 25,000 also loom as the world champion Tigers start defense of their title against the Indians at Cleveland and the Cubs open their drive for another pennant against the Cardinals at St. Louis. President Roosevelt, just, back from the south, should be in fine mural game with his old players, 20,000 probably will look on from the Fenway park stands. This estimate may go higher, it is thought, with Boston nursing hopes that the Red Sox are off on a pennant campaign. In point of attendance, the Phll- lies-Boston Hees contest at Philadelphia and the White Six-Brown at Chicago not given much chance of breaking any records.

Approximately 15,000 may watch Chicago inaugural but this figure may be whittled because of the great interest in the primary election Tuesday. Philadelphia estimates a crowd of 10,000. Fans will find several changes in the ball parks this season. They will he able to buy a glass of beer in the Boston parks, for example, and thoy will be able to stretch farther in the roomier seats installed in Wrigley Field, Chicago. The right field wall has been moved 4 7 feet closer to home plate In Detroit by the erection of new double-deck pavilion, but a .10 foot screen has been put up to prevent "cheap Instead of moving the fences, club offi- 'ials have moved the Boston iiamond 20 feet nearer the grand- BASEBALL At Worcester, Poston 000 100 2 6 Holy 100 000 000 I Welch.

Powers and Dickey; nlnghaus and Ctisick Ann Arbor, April 9. (ft -Coach Charles It Hoyt annoum today that a 14-man track and field team would represent Fniverslty of Michigan in the Relays April 24 and 25. It will be the first time in a decade that anything like a full team nas competed for the Wolverines in the eastern clnsfle, although Individual starR have the eastern trip on several occasion. The decision will mean withdrawal from the Drake Relays at i Moines for a second successive season. Hoyt sent Willis Ward, his one-man track team, to Penn a year ago.

The negro star won the nigh hurdles and placed third In the high Jump Kntcr Tlirtf' Wolverine teams will run In three relay mile, two- mile, and four-mile, and there probably will Wolverine entries in the discus, broad Jump, put, and javelin throw, at the Penn Relays. Michigan's mile combination, unbeaten tills year and lapt, clocked in 3:2 1 In the Pig Ten Indoor meet, and on five occasions has run the distance under 3:25. At the Butler Relays, they set a new meet record of 3:24.2. Bob Osgood may be back with the quarter-milers for the Penn affair. Osgood, whom IPoyt rates Ills best 440 man, lias been a casualty for some time, but is now returning to torm.

Frank Alkens, Harvey Patton, and Stan Birleson probably will round out the team, although consideration is being given Fred Stiles and Steve Mason, who have performed credibly while Osgood was unable to run. two-mile team probably will consist of the same men who set a new meet record of 7:50.5 at the Butler Relays Ben Starr, Bill Staehle, Howard Davidson and Clayton lirelsford. The latter and Staehle may lm called upon to double in the four-mile, the Western Conference outdoor meet last year, will make his 193ft bow at Penn. Hoyt also Is planning to take along John Townsend, sophomore weight man. If Townsend succeeds iti putting 4 ft practice, and a Javelin thrower if the veteran Adam Stone or any of the untried sophomore trio which includes Sam White.

Pwor- and Fred Martin can equal feet before April 24 The Wolverine field men not yet in the spring things. The weather, save for a day or two, has confined them to th field house and Indoor com pet! tlon was limited. STYMIE RULED OUT BY W. G. A.

ft I Rru 1 condition for the opener in the stand and just that much farther Bargains you want on Classified capital between the Senators and the Yankees, but even this fact is not expected to fill the park. Only 20,000, 12,000 less than capacity, were anticipated today. When Connie Mack takes his Athletics to Boston for an intra- SPILLING the DOPE BY JOHNNY INKBLINGHft Here and there in Sports The University of Arkansas won its seventh Southwestern Conference basketball title in 13 years during the last cage season Willie Garner Is having a tough time making weight at Oaklawn Park, and some of the boys are predicting an end to his jockey career Freddie Lindstrom is wearing a coat of tan three shades deeper than any other found in I he camp at Clearwater Although Babe Phelps, the blimp catcher, works harder than any man in camp, he get below 230 pounds Marse Joe McCarthy thinks big Steve Sundra, formerly Cleveland Indian chattel, will make him a pitcher this year Basket- Kethall is becoming so popular in Shanghai that impossible to find a hall big enough to accommodate all the Chinese who want to witness games. M' CTiarlcy Grimm, boss of the Cubs, is one of the most ardent boosters of Arky Vaughan, Pittsburgh shortstop Jockey Eddie Utxenberger has accepted the mount on White in the Kentucky Derby Guy Busy, who prepped Cy Blanton to freshman heights with Pittsburgh last year, now lias under his wing another hnrler who is scheduled to crash the the headlines. Brown, a big right-liander labeled by none other tlian Hans Wagner, the team's coach, as the man to watch on the staff Fred lfciuiach, former Yankee and Dodger southpow, is running a barbecue stand in Miami Barney Boss will defend his welterweight title against Jack arroli at Sydney or Melbourne, Australia, in November, according to current reports.

Flint Rhem, the former hurler, says win 30 games pitching for the Nashville Vols in the Southern League this year Ed Heusser, St. Louis mound prospect, started out to be a heavyweight fighter battling under the name of Ed Rodgers. Ohio State University will have a 36-hole golf course completed early this summer Harold Olsen, Ohio State cage coach, is said to be No. 1 successor to Doc Meanwell, deposed athletic director of the University of Wisconsin A single silk sail on a racing yacht may cost as much as $1600 rebuilding the clubhouse for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, May 2 and probably rebuilding the prices, too. from homo plate to all fences.

In Yankee stadium, wooden bleachers have been replaced by a concrete stand, and a loud speaking system has been Installed. Wolverine Squad Goes South Today Ann Arbor, April 9 Coach Ray Fisher named a 15 man squad today for the southern tour which opens the University of Michigan baseball season tomorrow. The tirst foe is Ohio Wesleyan, with whom they play two games. Six other games with non-conference foes are scheduled before the Wolverines meet Ohio State at Columbus, April 20 They will play two games with Roanoke and one each with Richmond, Virginia, William and Mary and Maryland. They open the home season April 25 against Wisconsin.

Fisher is taking five pitchers south: Capt. Berger Larson, veteran righthander, and southpaws John Gee, Herman Fishman, Fd Andronik, and Bob Harndon. The infield will be brand-new. including Joe at first; Don Brower at second. Steve Uricek at short, and Carl Ferner at third.

Matt Pata- nelli and Mike Miller will play Infield positions against left-handed pitchers. The outfield includes George Rud- ness, only regular from last year; Merle Kramer, who can double as a pitcher, and Vic Heylinger, who also is a catcher. LOSE TO MINORS At Tulsa. Okln Lotlta (N) 103 000 000 4 ft Tulsa 203 130 15 2 Haines, Potter and Ogrodowskl: Rryan, Milstead and Jackson. At Memphis, St.

(A) 031 0((3 100 8 14 1 Memphis (SA) 101200 000 4 12 2 Mahaffey, Andrews, Knott and Hemsley, Giuliani; Dries we rd, Mooney and Powell. WPA JUNIOR LEAGUES PLANNED All boys ranging from the ages of twelve to seventeen years will be eligible to enter the Junior Recreational leagues In both dia- niond-ball and baseball. It was announced by lyeo Dube, WPA Recreational director. The diamonds on Twenty-third street aud at the South park wMll be repaired by the NYA workers. Soft-ball diamonds will also be ready for use in the near future.

All managers are requested to attend the next meeting, which will be held at the Junior high gym, Tuesday evening at 7 p. m. There is a possibility that an inter-city baseball league will be conducted by the WPA Recreational supervisors of Gladstone and Fseanaba. BOWLING NOTES Tigers before they reach Cincinnati Sunday. English, a better bitter, was the logical choice to stick, but Ross will get a chance tomorrow and Saturday to prove himself.

postponement was a disappointment to Jake Wade and fo I fellow citizens of Morehead. N. who came 100 miles see him pitch. Tomorrow, the clubs play in Charleston, W. Va.

Joe Greenberg, kid brother of Hank, who has traveling with the club without a contract, will drop off there to Join Watt Charleston club, a Tiger affiliate. Paul German and Harry O'Connell also will be working during spring vacation for a berth on one of the teams. Buck In Hoyt already has entered Sam Stoller in the broad Jump, but Stoller, who consistently ran the 60-vard dash In 6.2 to win a place among the fastest sprinters of the indoor season, may not recoivo an opportunity to show his ability on the cinder track at Penn. The only sprint listed is a 1 00-meter invitational affair, and the stocky Michigan star ha-4 not yet received a bid. Widmer Ktchells, discus winner Western Association at Chicago Votes to Abolish Play Chicago, April 9 The Western Golf association dragged one of he ancient oldest arguments into the open again today by the stymie.

Feeling that the majority of our members favored tho the executive committee of the W. G. A. voted unanimously to erase from Its book the rule requiring a player to attempt to negotiate a putt with an ball between his own. and the cup.

The unexpected ruling becomes effective immediately and will operate in all W. G. A. tournaments. The stymie question, claimed by a great opposition element to improve a too severe penalty on a player who rcached the green In good order only to find his path to the cup blocked by a more or less accidental maneuver by his opponent, has been the subject of many a loeker-rooin flow of oratory.

The defenders have insisted as warmly that the stymie is a natural part of the game and should be retained. The United States Golf association has sturdily stuck with tho latter group. Insisting that they should he played as they lie on the greens. The golf governing body rejected a proposal to abolish stymies no longer ago than Its January meeting. The Royal and Ancient has shown no inclination to deviate from the Fame stand.

ing news! See Page. CTa-ssifled TWO MARINETTE BOYS SIGNED UP Duket and Noel Booked for Tough Foes on Escanaba Card Two of the featured performers on the studded amateur fight card to he presented at the f'oliseum night ire Frank Duket and F.arl Noel t)f Marinette, both of them hampions of their divisions In the (ireen Pay Golden Gloves district. Duket. is matched with Charlie Richardson of Chicago, a colored lad who won a boxing charnplon- -hlp at the Chicago World's Fair and who rated onn of top ranking amateurs. Duket, cap- lain of Marinette high football team last fall.

Is a popular performer In Kscanaba where he has appeared on numerous or- asions. Duket won his first two fights in the Chicago Golden tournament captur- ng the 1 fto pound championship at Green Pay. He was defeated in third fight at Chicago by a boy who outweighed him seven pounds. Noel, who won the 112 pound title at Grepn Ray, survived three lights in the Chicago tournament before being eliminated. He is considered the flashiest scrapper in this district at his weight and has been yielding four or five pounds weight advantage to moat of his opponents in order to get matches.

He will face either Jesse Robinson or Bob Fury of Chicago, Robinson, a cenii finalist at Chicago, has been 111 and there Is some question whether he will be in condition to come to Kscanaba next Wednesday. If his condition does not warrant the trip and match, Noel will battle Fury who is also a top notcher In Chicago. Presnell To Coach At Ixiwrence Tech Detroit. April 0 Presnell, Detroit Lions football player, has been signed at coach of Lawrence Institute of Technology here. It was announced today.

Presnell, former University of Nebraska star, will play with the Lions as usual next fall and coach the team part time. Memphis, April 9 Kd Coleman hit a home run as the St. Browns ended their spring exhibition series with an 8 to 4 victory over Memphis of the Southern association. No one was on base, Jim Bottomley having filed to left field for the first out of the inning. win gave the American leaguers a record of 13 victories, five defeats and ono tie in 13 games since they went to training camp.

NOT USED TO GIVING TESTIMONIALS, FRIENDS BUT IF YOU ASK THIS HERE IS Tulsa, April 9 (JP the second day in a row the St. Louis Cardinals lost to a minor league club, bowing to Tulsa of the Texas league today, 10 to 4. Oklahoma City of the Texas circuit defeated the major leaguers yesterday, 6 to 1. North Carolina State college has a course in Insurance. Dunn Full 159 186 117 Young 167 137 147 Hengesb 1.17 1681 Cobb 1 56185 (ileich 178 204186 Totals 904820S03 Hughitt hn 1 S5 179 Edlck 148 169 Perkins 150 150 1 50 Lemmer 1 50 150 Puckel 7 167 172 Totals 828800 820 State Grid Outfit Has First Injury East Lansing, April 9 Johnny Pingle, triple threat backfield candidate for the Michigan State college football team, became the first casualty of the spring practice season today.

The coaches believed an injury to his shoulder, inflicted at blocking practice, was not serious but gave him a couple of days off to permit the injury to heal. Interest centered on the backfield men in practice tonight. Among the quarterbacks Charlev and Harrison Neumann looked outstanding. Two freshman who will be eligible for duty in the fall, also howed to advantage. They are Szacz and Ernie Ciolek.

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