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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 193a. Bay State Race Commission Defies Track Moguls In Licensing Westport Meet 5 2 They're Just A-Settin' In the Sun, A-Waitin' Isaiah Romps To Victory In Tropical Park Feature Speedy Gelding Sprints to Half Length Win in New Year's Eve Purse Nosing Out Don Creole in Close Race Give New Racing Plant 35 Da vs I Drastic Plan Governor -Elect Saltonstall and Catholic Bishop 'Crossed' as Running Race Heads Grant Long Meeting of Gallopers q- Cleveland Head Tells Allen 'Salary Safe' Cleveland, Dec. 31. (AP.) Johnny Allen, the Cleveland Indians' he-man umpire-fighter, confessed today he had a lump in his throat. For the Indians had just told him, Allen said, that he'd get his 1939 salary of $20 000 "if I don't pitch a ball all summer." Troubled with an elbow ailment which crippled him this year in mid-season.

Allen will decide next week whether to undergo an operation. Surgeons have told him there is a 95 per cent chance that the muscular fracture can be mended; a 5 per cent chance that his arm will never return to the form which let him win 15 straight games in J937. Allen said Alva Bradley, Indians' president, informed him the club would make no effort to i abrogate his contract if he decided against the operation or if it was unsuccessful. "How can a man be fairer than the pitcher inquired. "I called my wife to tell her about the situation, and there actually was a lump in my throat." Tropical Park, Dec.

31. (AP.) Isaiah, the hard hitting eight year old gelding which flaunts tho Arcturus Stable silks, raced to hi3 third straight and moat impressiva victory of the meeting here today when he defeated 11 other sprinters in the New Year's Eve purse before some 10.000 fans. With Warren Yarberry hustling him along irt i i Miami Beach. Dec. 31.

These Oklahoma Sooners aren't seasick I fishing boat before going out to practice for the Orange Bowl game with right, Dick Favor, Chief West, Ed Wood and Norville Wood, with George Calling 'Em Right BY W. J. LEE. Bert Keane, sports editor and the writer of "Calling 'em Right" has been granted a leave of absence. Until Bert comes back to his desk, other writers will occupy this space.

Associated Press Wirephotos. they're just soaking up the sun atop a the Tennessee Volunteers. Left to wilhelm below. Fordham Teams Have Big Year In All Sports Impressive Average of Compiled by Rams During 1938 The year of 1938 found Fordham maintaining its high place in intercollegiate sports. Nine teams accounted for a record of sixty-one victories, thirty-two defeats and two ties for a percentage of .656.

In the major sports of track, football, baseball and basketball, the Maroon won thirty, lost fifteen and tied two for a mark of .666, while in the minor sports golf, rifle, tennis, crass country and swimming the record was thirty-one victories, seventeen defeats and no ties for a percentage of .646. Seven freshman teams won twenty-five, lost nineteen and tied one for a .568 percentage figure. The varsity and freshman total shows eightv-six triumphs, fifty-one lasses and three ties for a mark of .628. Football was a pleasant surprise to Jimmy Crowley and his staff, who had envisioned at least three defeats. With the Seven Blocks of Granite, the famous 1937 line, broken up by graduation, and Joe Woitkoski and Joe Granski, the '37 kicking and passing threats, no longer available, the Old Horseman was confronted with a tremendous building job.

But 1937 reserves and a fe good sophomores were welded into a line that blanked the opposition in seven out of nine games and in thirty-three out of a possible thirty -six periods; and a puissant running attack was developed. With Leonard Eshmont, the Rapid Ram. and durable Dominic Principe, the Brockton Bronco, showing the way, Fordham averaged two touchdowns a game against seven major foes and would have done better than that, ir Eshmont, the spearhead of the attack, had not been hobbled by an injured knee in the St. Mary's and North Carolina contests. The terrific battle with Pittsburgh also took its toll, and the Rose Hill blocking, which had functioned so well against Purdue and Oregon as well as the Panthers, was dulled for a time.

It picked up against South Carolina and N. Y. U. again, as injured men regained their early season shape. All this added up to victories over Upsala, Waynesburg.

Oregon. St. Mary's, South Carolina and N. Y. ties with Purdue and North Carolina, and the 24-13 defeat at Pittsburgh.

Track Team Wins. Led by Frank Slater, National A. A. U. 1000 meters king.

Wesley Wallace, strong quarter miler, and an I. C. 4 A. championship two-mile relay team, the track team, in Jake Weber's last season as coach, assembled ninety-six points indoors and won its lone outdoor meet against C. C.

N. Y. Weber retired during the summer and was succeeded by Bob Giegengack. Hank Borowy, brilliant sophomore pitcher, who tied Ken Auer's all-time Fordham pitching record of ten victories and no defeats, not only paced Jack Coffey's baseball nine to fourteen victories and four defeats, one of the best records in the east, buW-won for himself the accolade of the year's most outstanding athlete on Rose Hill. Principe, a savage batter; Pat Petrino, an adept first-sacker; Mike Hearn, speedy center-fielder and captain-elect, and others contributed much to the diamond success of the Rams, but it was Borowy who shouldered the heaviest burden throughout the schedule.

Dartmouth Grads Give Gus Zitrides Plaque Manchester. N. Dec. 31. (AP.) Gus Zitrides.

star Dartmouth guard, was presented a silver plaque today at a luncheon of the Manchester Dartmouth alumni. It was inscribed: "Presented to Gregory G. Zitrides, '39. by the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Manchester in recognition of. his consistently outstanding play on the Dartmouth football teams of 1938, 1937 and 1938." ARMORY GARAGE (L Corporation) Wishes Its Many Friends and Customers A Happy New Year 252 Broad Hartford Football Giants Schedule Contest With Pro Stars National League Champions Meet Fan-Selected Team January 15 Los Angeles, Dec.

31. (Special.) The New York Giants, 1938 champions of the National Football League, will make their only postseason appearance here January 15, by engaging an All-Star team, selected by a nation-wide fan poll from the rosters of league teams and the two local professional squads, the Los Angeles Bulldogs and the Hollywood Stars. The game, which will climax two weeks of local mid-winter sports fiesta, will be contested at Wrigley Field, which has been enlarged to accommodate 30.000 spectators for the occasion. Proceeds of the game, after expenses have been deducted, will go to the Salvation Army. Under a National League rule, adopted last year, the champion team is permitted to play only one post-season game and the other members of the league are not permitted to play any games after they have completed their regular schedule.

Thus, football will come to the end of the road, figuratively speaking, until the new season begins in the fall, when this game is written into the records. Th? complete personnel of the All-Star team, which will be coached by "Gloomy Gus" Henderson of the Los Angeles Bulldogs and Ray "Red" Flaherty of the Washington Redskins, has not yet been chosen. The coaches will be guided by the fan poll in selecting the squad, but they have been allowed coasiderable latitude in picking their team by Joe F. Carr, president of the National League. Carr granted this latitude to guard against the possibility that the fans' poll might produce a back-field of running backs, with no blockers, and a set of linemen that are all ordinarily assigned to one side of the forward wall.

Another factor that will influence their selections is another Carr ruling that not more than three players from any league team will be permitted to play against the champions. The Giants, headed bv Coach Steve Owen and his a.ssistant. Bo Molenda, are due here Wednesday to complete training for the combat. The All-Stars also will begin assembling at the same time. Balloting for the All-Star team closed a week ago, with Mel Hcin, the Giant's captain and center leading the poll with 8883 votes.

However, Hein will be in the champion's lineup and not the All-Stars as will be the case of other Giant players who ranked high in the voting. "Slinging' Sammy" Baugh, Washington's passing star, topped the backfield vote with 8837, setting the stage for a renewal of his aerial duel with the Giants' talented Ed Danowski. Backfield selections following on Baugh's were Danowski; Cecil Isbell, the Green Bay Packers' freshman passing star; Ace Parker, Brooklyn quarterback; and Gordon Gore, Los Angeles Bulldogs' halfback. Of these Isbell and Parker have wired Los Angeles sponsors of their acceptance of positions on the squad. Fair Grounds FIRST RACE Purse $600; claiming; 3- year-olds; six furlongs.

Monntkala. Ecoard 64.40 19.20 14.40 White Casle. Cornay 3.20 3.00 Last Hop. Snider 5.20 Time. 1:12 4-5.

f-Slster Polly, Bess F-Imperlal Jean. Bobbrax, Barbara Jotemdown, Mirhlean Miss, Pompllt and I-Laconlc also ran. Field. SECOND RACE Purse 6t)0: claiming: 3-year-olds and up; one mtle and seventy yards. Overplay, Montgomery 6.20 3.60 2 80 Big Gay.

Page 4.40 3.00 My Gracious. Conley 4 20 Time. 1:45 3-5. River Dee. Tea Jester.

Sorcery, Lady Tichner. Irene Grant also ran. THIRD RACE Purse $600; claiming; 3- year-olds and up; six furlongs. Tramway. McCadden ..12.20 6.20 4 40 Vedalla.

Haas 8.40 4.20 Moons Mtssii n. Snider. 7.80 Time. 113 3-5. Leeoran.

f-Black Noah, Encircle, Beshy. Tlghtmouth, Petty Taw, f-Little Tonto and Upholder also ran. Daily Double. Overplay and Tramway, paid $41.60 for $2.00. FOURTH RACE Purse $600; claiming; 3-year-olds and up; six furlongs.

Little Drift. Dupuy 84.80 28.20 10 60 Sadie Bowen 8.40 5.00 Dedication, Scurlock 3.20 Time. 1:12 3-5. Pegging Away. Golden Nugget.

Poke-away. Bold Lover. Miss Balko, Legal Advice and Vote Boy also ran. FIFTH RACE Purse $700: claiming: 3-year-olds and up; one mile and a sixteenth. Lucky Star.

Robart 6.60 3.60 2.60 Morns Grlner Conley 1 3.20 2 40 Glasby, Charlton 2 80 Time. 1:47. Hijo Manso, Alan Chicle and Abbots Hour also ran. SIXTH RACE The Audobon Handicap; purse $1200; all ages: six furlongs. White Cockade.

Loturco. 10.40 5 60 3 BO Old Rwebush. Cornay 5.80 4 20 Falrflax, Robart 4.00 Time. 1:12 1-5. Clocks.

Taken. Shining Heels, Chief Nadl. Brown Knight, Chance Ray and Spillway also ran. SEVENTH RACE Purse $600: claiming: 3-year-olds up; mile and sixteenth. Green Country.

Meloche 8.20 3.60 2 81 Kapena, Conley 3.40 2 Bfl f-Inshecn. Snider 5.00 Time 1:47 1-5. Colorlst. Alamarine, f-Sayloma. Unlawful.

Cottlngham. Bad Dreams, Imperial Nick. Better Forget and f-Autumn Leaves also ran. Field. mm DONAHUE Wishes You All a Happy New Year CONN.

SPEEDOMETER GO. 11 HOADLET PLACE Fifth Fighters Profit Through Golf Experience (Pros in Winter Circuit Learn Tricks of Trade in Exacting Play Miami. Dec. 31. AP.) The Sam iSneads, Ralph Guldahls, Harry Coopers and Jug Mcspaaens win trie big golf tournaments but the boys who finish down in umteenth position do all right for themselves, too.

At first glance it looks like an involved problem in economics. The same 15 or 20 professionals win most of the prize money in most of the tournaments. How, then, pipes up the voice in the corner, do the other 80 or 100 pros manage to travei around the country, with plenty of outgo and little or no income? John Geertsen of Salt Lake City, Utah, has the answer. Mr. Geertsen should know whereof he speaks, for he has been playing the winter circuit for nine years without winning a tournament.

In the $10,000 Miami Open, for instance, he shot a 66 the first day and wound up collecting $92.50. It costs, Mr. Geertsen figures. $250 a month to make the tournament circuit, and that's not wasting anything. Mr.

Geertsen, the microphone is yours: "It's really rather simple. I just figure everything I spend is an in vestment, and everything I happen to win is so much velvet." And how, Mr. Geertsen, is it an investment? Well, it helps my business, which is teaching golf. My business has doubled every summer after I've made the winter circuit. Valuable Publicity.

"I play in the tournaments, as sociate with the famous professionals, and my prestige has gone up a notch or two by the time I get back home. 'Look at it this way. A man wants to take a golf lesson. He looks around for a pro and he thinks of me because he knows I have been playing in tournaments. He comes around to talk things over and I tell him a few anecdotes about Guldahl, or Paul Runyan or Denny Shute, and his ears perk up.

First thing you know I'm giving him a lesson. "wnats more, I am able to give him something for his money. All the time I am playing in tourna ments I am watching the best players in the game make their shots. Later, when I am giving lessons, I can use that knowledge to good advantage. If a pupil is short, for instance, I can tell him how Bobby Cruickshank compensates for his lack of stature.

If he is tall I may decide he should use a swine like Ralph Guldahl's. One thing is certain it Davs dividends. Last summer I averaged about ten lessons a day from the first of April through June and I am positive its due lareelv to the fact I make the winter tour. "It rather touch for some of the boys, of course. Some of them begin the circuit, play until their money runs out, and then go home.

sut tney go back with somethine they can use to make more money." Head of Grid Pirates Gambles on Anything Art Rooney. the nro football magnate of Pittsburgh, will gamble on anything. He took Whizzer White for one season at $15,000, and he took the Pirates when no one else would venture in where Pitt, Carnegie Tech and Duauesne held such local popularity. tsni Kooney was no greenhorn. and wasn't talked into takine chances.

He knows his Pittsburgh as wea as tne next leilow. Art grew up there and for years has been a part of the sports picture. He starred in all sports and played football at Indiana Normal and Du-quesne. Art was an amateur boxing champion. He went into professional oaseoaii and played and managed Wheeling.

The Boston Braves took him on for a trial. And then he stepped out of competition to enter business and politics. His brother Jim was a football star at Pitt. He has a cousin at North Carolina State and he has a son he hopes will be a great athlete in a few years. Georgia Tech Star Success in Education Remember back almost a score of years when Red Barron was the star of a nationally famous Georgia Tech football team? Red left school in 1922.

lacking half a year's credit for a degree. He planned to return soon and finish. But the job of making a living kept him so occupied that is was fifteen years later when he got around to it. However, Red did get back to the old school and he got the degree this year, sixteen years after his early departure. In the meantime he had a lot of professional baseball, was married and finally wound up as president of the Monroe, Vocational and Trades School.

His full name, found at the top of the school's stationary, is David Irenus Barron. Titleholders, Winners In Pro-Amateur Meet St. Augustine, Dec. 31. (AP.) The defending champions and the winners of the inausural event have filed entries for the fifth annual National Amateur-Professional best ball golf tournament here.

Frank Moore of Mamaroneck, N. and Bobby Dunkelberger of High Point. N. C. will seek to repeat their last year's victory in play over the St.

Augustine links, March 15-19. Jimmy Hines of Garden Citv, N. and T. Suffern Taller of New York, former Metropolitan amateur champion, will try to become the first two-time winner. Hines and Tailer triumphed here in 1935 but have not played together since.

Chess Champs Youngsters. Reuben New York, and Paul Keres, Estonia, who finished in a tie for the International chess championship at Amsterdam, were the youngest of the eight competing experts from all over the world. Boston, Dec. 31. (AP.) With Chairman Charles F.

Connors dissenting, the Massachusetts Racing Commission today defied Governor-Elect Leverett Saltonstall and the Roman Catholic bishop of Fall River bv licensing a new horse race track at Westport and voting it 35 days of racing next summer. The commission also voted 42 days of racing to Suffolk Downs in Boston, from May 15 to July 1. The Westport dates were July 4 to August 12. This year Suffolk Down had 57 racing days. The Westnort license was granted despite an injunction action filed yesterday by directors oi buiiuik Downs seeking to prevent George Moyse and Thomas R.

Foley, the other commission members, from voting for it. Hearing on the Suffolk petition will be held in superior court here January 4. Points to $250,000 Loss. Charles F. Adams, acting president of Suffolk Downs, said he estimated the decision would result in a loss of $250,000 in a single racing season to the state's old-age pension fund because of the reduction in the number of days.

"Today's decision by the two members of the commission snau not be regarded as final," Adams said. "It will be a fight to the end." Saltonstall previously had asked the commission not to grant any racing dates until he took office next week. Bishop James E. Cassidy, of the Fall River Roman catnonc uio-cese, last night declared he would "fight to the finish against estaD-lshment of horse racing at West-port. He made his statement at a public hearing held by the racing commission on the question of licensing the new track, for which William A.

Torphy. of Fall River, counsel for Outdoor Amusements, operators of the new track, said the initial investment would be $400,000. Bishop Opposes 'Gambling. Horse racing, Bishop Cassidy asserted, "is nothing more than gambling." He said he would bring the 'full power" of his church to prevent operation of the track. Moyse and Foley, meanwhile, branded as "malicious lies" the charges in the injunction suit filed against them.

That suit alleged the two recently-appointed commissioners intended to "conspire" to grant the license to the Westport track and thus give James H. Connors, former Suffolk Downs executive, opportunity to win control of racing in eastern Massachusetts. Chairman Connors of the commission said the suit was not discussed at today's executive session. He said he voted against licensing the track and against granting dates to either track. The Rev.

Roland D. Sawyer, Democratic representative from Ware, branded the commission's action "an outrage" and said it was "an additional reason" for the adoption of a proposal he made recently to investigate the actions of the outgoing governor and council. Have Protestants' Support. Sawyer said he wrote Bishop Cassidy that "Protestants as well as Catholics support you in your splendid fight." The commission acted, Adams charged, "despite the protest of Governor-Elect Saltonstall that any action at this time would be regarded as hostile to his administration, and that of the chairman of the racing commission, the clergy and the citizens of Westport that there was no need of haste. "By their decision today, the two members of the commission have slashed 15 days from Suffolk Downs racing, an established institution which has paid more than $4,000,000 in taxes to the state government and which is now paying neraly per year for the relief of the aged and indigent men and women of Massachusetts.

"And they have given 35 days of racing to a proposed track in a remote and rural section of the state, to a 'track' which has not been built and for the proposed construction of which not a contract has been let." Meanwhile, it was disclosed that James M. Linnehan had resigned as manager of Suffolk Downs because "common decency compels me to tender my resignation to become effective as to tlvs date." In a letter to Adams, Linnehan said: "The charges and statements contained in a bill of equity yester- day are beyond my comprehension since I observe that in some of these statements the truth was handled very carelessly; in some the truth was only nan torn ana in owners the truth was deliberately falsi fied." He did not elaborate on this part of his letter. Jockey Kurtsinger Is Product of Environs Charley Kurtsinger, famous lockev. grew up in horsey surround ings for he is a native of the Blue Grass country of Kentucky. Charley at 31 is a veteran of fourteen years in the saddle and can't remember how many victories are in his book.

But he vividly re cslls two Kentucky Derby wins, on Twenty Grand and War Admiral Among racing people he is known as "The Flying but he's fceen brought down quite a few times. Several nasty spills have left him with serious injuries, so much so in recent years that Mrs Charley Kurtsinger rarely sees a race. Hockey Loyalty. When Detroit Red Wings were badly crippled recently by absence of Eddie Wares and Bowman and went to New York to play Americans. Charlie Conacher jointed them there, vowing he would play even if the club doctor had ordered otherwise.

And Larrv Aurie. now manager of the Pittsburgh Intam team. Detroit's farm club, also rushed to New York to offer his services to the club for which he starred for so many years. Jinx to Goal. Canadiens, the Montreal entry in the National Hockey League, have been a jinx to two goalers this season.

They beat Frankie Brimsek when the Bruin sensation made his goaling debut as a regular at Montreal December 1, went to Detroit 1n (lavs later and gave "Tiny" Thompson his first defeat after he joined the Red Wings. Stanley Harris, rrstwhile boy manager, is now, at the age of 42, second oldest in point of service. First, of course, is Connie Mack. MEL OTT has baen getting around $400 a week for playing the outfield and third base for the New York Giants. Now they have given him a boost to around $500 a week.

Probably a lot of converts to Communism are made every time the papers carry a story about a fellow being paid $500 a week for playing baseball or a glamour girl's father spending $20,000 for her coming out party. There are some who do not think anyone should be paid $500 a week for playing a game of baseball approximately every day from April 10 to the end of September, and they are not all Communists, not by a long shot. Men who have spent a lot of time learning to be good executives or lawyers or engineers have been known to get all hot and bothered about Babe Ruth's purported salary of $80,000 per annum or about Gene Tun-ney collecting a cool million for going ten rounds with Jack Dempsey. There have been a lot of nasty cracks about the payoff in this modern world being on the physical side, and it does seem sometimes that the fellows with strong backs and weak minds get more than their share of the world's swag. There are others who just naturally take the employer's view.

This group felt sorry for Colonel Jacob Ruppert because a baseball player named Joe DiMaggio was shaking him down for a bigger monthly pay envelope. Most of the sport writers felt sorry for the Colonel and took pains to say some unkind things about the mercenary Mr. DiMaggio before and after the-outfielding wizard of the Yankeesgot cold feet and signed up. LET'S LOOK AT THE RECORDS. Personally I was on DiMaggios side, and for the same reasons I'm glad they've given Mel Ott a boost in pay.

Ott is a really great ball player, although you would not be likely to know about it unless you had been a close follower of the Giants over a stretch of years. Ott does everything asked of him and more. He does it with so little fuss that you are hardly aware of how much he means to the Giants until you start mulling over the records and find out that he drives in most of the runs, jilays right field as well as Ross Young ever did, fills in at third base as if he'd been playing there all his life ana even gecs in to catch in an emergency. The trouble with Ott is that he isn't "colorful." This means that he doesn't go on sprees and get drunk with the young pitchers of the ball club, he doesn't pop off to the newspapermen, he doesn't know enough to throw dirt in an umpire's eyes and tell Ford Frick, the league president, where to get off and he has never been known to jump into the stands to take a punch at some leather-lunged fan who has been riding him. Mel Ott just plays ball and plays it uncommonly well.

Since the year John McGraw brought him up from Louisiana, a pudgy kid of 18, Mel Ott has been a big league ball player. He never gives the club officials any trouble, th fans like him and he gives a high degree of service to the ball club he works for year in and year out. HUBBELL AND OTT. A lot of people go to the Polo Grounds to see Mel Ott play, Just as a lot of them go when they think it is Carl Hubbell's turn to pitch Hub-bell is much like Ott. He is a great pitcher, one of the best that baseball has known, but, like Ott, he is too much of a gentleman to be "colorful." Joe iMaggio is lacking in "color," too.

He just tends to his knitting and does a good job of it. But I'm convinced that more people than you can shake a stick at go to the Polo Grounds to see Mel Ott or Carl Hub-bell, rather than with the thought in mind of just seeing the Giants play. Joe DiMaggio exerts the strongest pull at the Yankee Stadium ticket windows of any Yankee since Babe Ruth, and he pulls in the extra customers on the road, too. Why, then, should not the Otts, the Hubbells and the DiMaggios be paid handsomely? Where would the Giants be without Ott and and who would go to the Polo Grounds to see the Giants play without these two? When Hubbell and Ott reach the end of their baseball string, there will be ball nlayers to take their places, of course. But the Giants may have a few lean years until they can dig up a fellow who can pitch like Hubbell and someone who can play right field and drive in runs like Mel Ott.

Ott and Hubbell have never been known to squawk about their pay. The increases have come from the front office voluntarily. DiMaggio, on the other hand, put the heat on Colonel Ruppert and kept it on as long as he dared. In either case they deserve what they are getting because it is always one or two ball players who make a team, who pull the cash customers through the turnstiles both at home and on the road. A ball plaver is through between 30 and 35, the age at which business and professional men are just beginning to establish Ball players have to make money while they're "hot." As it is, too many of them wind up broke, looking for jobs as managers and scouts.

And the turnover in managers' jobs is such as to make for the economic Insecurity of ball players whose active days are over. registered by three lengths, running the six furlongs in 1:10 4-5 and paying $15.50. Don Creole, representing Smith 5a Homan, saved the place by a hail" length from Jesse Spencer's Neighbor. Little Shaver, the choice, could not keep up and was soundly beaten. The same was true of Privileged, making his first start since finishing second to Unfailing in the 1937 Lawrence Realization.

The Arcturus Stable, for which P. (Sammy) Smith trains, had entered Quasimodo and Isaiah for tho feature. Both had won two racea here, but Quasimodo had beaten better class of horses. However, Quasimodo was withdrawn in favor of the less highly esteemed Isaiah. The Utter filled the bill in scintillating style.

As the final program of the 1D33 season marked the end of the first two weeks of the meeting, the mu-tuels handle was running slightly behind that of a similar period las! year. Two in A Row. Apprentice Yarberry made it two in a row by driving Cruising, the $4.40 for two choice, home by a length in the six furlong sixth contest. After Orient Express and Lip-ton had run themselves into the ground, Cruising and Harpen Bha took up the Issue. Cruising had the more left for the battle through the last furlong.

Harpen Belle was second by a head, with Cobe a fast closing third. Don Meade, who is rolling up a nice percentage of winners here, earned a double as 'a result of an easy triumph aboard Jest Once in the seventh race. The former E. R. Bradley contract rider brought the two year old daughter of On Watch, from third place leaving the back-stretch and guided her over the line three lengths in front to return $9.10.

Spin On was an easy second over Poesy. FIRST RACE Purse $700; claiming: 3-year-olds and up; six furlongs (chute). Tzigane, Huff 15.40 7.10 4 40 Don Cossack. Yarberry 16.00 7 20 Esthers Choice. Merrill 4.70 Time, 1:12 2-5.

Izaak Walton. Maderls. Bartering Kate, Beau Thor, Trevallion and Odd Blue also ran. SECOND RACE Purse $700: claiming; 3-year-oids and up; six furlongs (chute). Home.

Meade 3-40 2 60 2.20 Dead Ready, Yarberry 3.50 2 39 R. Plnchot, Roberts 2.30 Time. 1:12 1-5. Flying Lance. Whitehaven Gal.

Genuine Sport. Color Bearer. Hustle Alone and Attainment also ran. Tropical Park daily double. Tzlgin and Headin Home paid $22.80 for $2.

THIRD RACE Purse $700: maiden 2 year-old fillies: six furlongs (chute). Dianapat, Deering 43.70 19 90 7 GO Huskie Queen, Rosen 6.80 4 SO Brlsht Spot. Ashcroft 3.80 Festivities. Irish Heroine, Maerod. Little Harpist, Pacua, Veneer.

Hi-Rhythm. Sour Cherry and Pattie R. also ran. FOURTH RACE The Kentucky: Purse $700; claiming: 3-year-olds and up; six furlones (chute). Ladfleld, Wright 11 JO 6 00 3 80 Crimea.

Scott 7 JO 4 40 Equerry, Roberts 3.40 Time. 1:11 4-5. Amhurst, Prenny, Maemute. Blade Arrow and Saranite also ran. FIFTH RACE The New Years Eve Purse; Purse $1000 3-year-olds and up; six furlongs (chute).

Isaiah. Yarberrv 15.50 6 80 4 60 Don Creole. Wilson 6.30 4 10 Neighbor. Roberta 6 80 Time. 1:10 4-5.

Lltt'e Shaver. Gayset Privileged. Xavier, Brown Moth, Chance Star, Mlstralkin, Queer Play and Posterity also SIXTH RACE Purse $700: claiming; 3-. year-olds and up; six furlongs (chute). Cruising.

Yarberry 4.40 3 40 2 V) Harpen Belle, Jacobs 3.50 3 40 Cobe, Merrill a 33 Time. 1:11. Mere Blaze, Fickle Falrv, Orient Express. Extended and Llpton also ran. SEVENTH RACE-Purse $800: claiming: 2- year-olds: one mile and 60 vards Once.

Meade 9.10 4 30 3 "0 Snln On. Yarberry 4.60 3 70 Poesy. Rose 4 10 Time. 1:43 1-5. Blacky Bee.

Short Rations, Irish. Lover and Ned also ran. EIGHTH RACE Purse $700: claiming; 3- year-olds and up; one mile and one-stxtepnth. Ballystratford. Donoso ,25.80 7 30 4 "0 Lifeguard.

Seabo 4.90 3 00 Light. Merrill 3 20 Time. 1:45 2-5. Joaney Dignitarv. Maglclenne and Play By Play also ran.

Bradley Announces Card For Fantini-Mack Fight The complete supporting card for the Johnny Mack-Jimmy Fantini eight round lightweight clash at the Stanley Arena, New Britain, was announced Saturday. Bobby "Poison" Ivy of Hartford will fight Pinky Morris of Bridgeport in one six round semi-final, and Jackie Alexander of New Britain will fight Lou Dell of Hartford in another. Joe Triano of Waterbury will meet Lou Fico of Providence in the other preliminary, a welterweight meeting. The professional bouts will be run off Friday night at the Arena. The promoter is Leo Bradley.

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But be sure to get GOLD MFDAL its a genuine medicine for wesk kidneys right from Hariem in Holland. Navy Produces Major League Hurler In Mills St. Louis Brown's Pitcher Starred for U.S.S. Lexington Nine Some eighteen years ago, the United States army made a pitcher out of Alvin Crowder because the latter, who never had played baseball, figured he would be wise if he did so as then he could dodge kitchen police and routine guard duty. Crowder eventually became a great pitcher in the American League.

To a certain extent, history has repeated itself. Three or lour years ago, there was a sailor boy stationed on the aircraft carrier Lexington at San Diego. He was envious of the members of the baseball team that represented his ship. They were allowed frequent days off. In they went ashore nearly every day to practice as the deck of the war ship scarcely was adapted for the national game.

"Gosh," said this particular sailor, Howard Mills. "Wish I played baseball and could go ashore more often than one day in thirty: Pretty soft for those guys." "Why don't you take up baseball?" asked his bosom pal. "You are a left hander and you ought to know that all left handers can throw a curve ball. You may be just what the Lexington is looking for a south paw pitcher." Gets Trial "I'll do it," said Mills. He asked for a trial.

He got it. He pitched fourteen games for hi ship in 1933 and won every one, thus giving the Lexington the championship of the U. S. Navy. He wound up his season by pitching a no-hitter.

Then, a vote of fans in a poll taken by the U. S. Navy magazine, gave him an auto. "What was I going to do with a motor car when I had just signed up for two more years in the navy?" Mills asked. "It seemed a big joke to lor a time.

But, help was on the way, Willis Butler, St. Louis Browns' Pacific Coast scout, saw Mills pitch and sought to have the southpaw's second enlistment broken so he could join one of the Brown farms. Such a move, however, was not at all to the liking of the commander of the Lexington. "What's this?" he asked. "Give up our star pitcher and with him the championship of the navy? It's rank mutiny, its a irame up to keep as from winning the title again.

All hands on deck to throw these big league scouts into tne ocean. Perhaps those were not the commander's exact words but they rep resented his thoughts. The Browns, however, won out. With the aid of a few senators and congressmen. they obtained Mills' release from the navy in March, 1934, sent him to San Antonio and brought him in to pitch regularly for the Browns in 1938.

He began his season by winning from Washington, 4 to 3, in thirteen innings. He then lost to Philadelphia 1 to 0 in five innings. The Browns scored five runs in their half of the sixth but they did not count, He tackled the Yankees next and gave the champions a big surprise when he won a 1 to 0 game irom them, allowing onlv four hits. He. later on, beat the Yankees, 13 to 1 but also lost two battles to the New Yorkers.

He also let the Red Sox aggregation of right hand hit ters down with four hits and alone in September beat Detroit, 3 to 2, with just a quartette or sale blows. Just Another Youth. Mills is just like many another American youth. He was captivated by those pictures: "Join the Navy and See the World." He and another boy in Dedham, Mass. went to Boston and enlisted.

He was sent to Newport and thence to Great Lakes, 111. It was there he decided to become an aviation mechanic, and many an hour he spent in the air when he reached San' Diego. In fact, he liked flying so well, he would go up on his days off. But, it is different now. He is married and although he puts in his winters working in an aviation factory, he flies no more.

In fact, he is pretty satisfied to keep both feet on the ground. "Did I see the world?" queried Mills. "Sure, a little part of it. Saw Newport, where the millionaires have their summer homes. Saw Illinois" famous North Shore.

Saw San Diego, one of the most beautiful cities in the country and had two trios to Honolulu. Now, I'm satisfied to be a bi league pitcher in the summer and live in Los Angeles in the winter time." Service Game Stays Pat, Efforts to shift the Army-Navy game for 1939 to New York City for the World's Fair there have met with failure. Authorities at both service schools recalled a three-year pact with Philadelphia which required the use of Municipal Stadium until after next season. Woostcr Coaches Set. Students and alumni at Wooster College in Ohio believe in giving their coaches a permanent job.

The combing service of Head Football Coach L. C. Bates and his four assistants is 71 years. Tne youngest of the lot, John Swigart, has worked 12 years. Wife of Horse Owner Leads Hectic Life Let's look at the wife of the owner of a champion race horse.

She is Mrs. Charles S. Howard, who sees all of Sea Biscuit's races, and feeds him sugar and carrots. She's fond of all the horses in' her husband's stable and is particularly fond of Seabiscuit because the champion isn't overly friendly with a lot of persons and she happens to be one of his objects of affection. Mrs.

Howard travels with her husband and plays a lot of golf, but her favorite sport Ls big game hunting and she has done a lot of it in British East Africa and the Belgian Congo. She's rated one of the best dressed women in the club house and ls popular socially across the continent. Hoya 1939 Gridders Play Tougher Teams After goin undefeated through what many termed an easy schedule Georgetown stepped up the woith of its 1939 card with several major foes. Among thoe who will face the Hoyas are: Temple, Syracuse, TTnivpr.citv. I Texas Christian Coach Fine Athlete in School Texas Christian University's famous football team is coached by one of the school's prize products, Leo R.

Meyer. In the fall of -1917, Meyer entered the freshman class there. In those days freshmen were eligible for varsity competition and the youngster was good enough to be a regular in basketball and baseball his first year. He went on to win four letters in each sport. In football he made the grade in his junior year and added two more letters to his total.

In all he left with ten. He was a guard in basketball, a pitcher in baseball and an end in football. Twice he was captain of the basketball team and he also led the diamond athletes one season. In 1923 when T. C.

U. joined the Southwest Conference, Meyer was hired as an assistant coach. When Francis Schmidt left for Ohio State. Dutch took over. Since he took over in 1934 his teams have averaged almost four out of five victories.

This year's team is his finest. In 1937 and 1938 the most valuable p'ayers chosen in the two big leagues were not members of the pennant winner. IS.