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A A1l BILL HENRY SAYS: TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1939. Ui More Than Million Charity Day Racing Bet in Windup Reinstatement of Orsatti Paves Way for Purchase by Hollywood Club 4 1 Deal Must Be Made With Branch Rickey BY BOB RAY Announcement that Ernie Orsatti had been reinstated in i Ay -Wf SIR Bob McNamara, University run for the Bears in their of California third baseman, scores the last Namara is 8 to 0 victory over U.C.LA. yesterday. Mc- to tag him pictured sliding into home as About to call McNamara STAN HACK, DICK BARTELL JACK HAYES KNEE ON NEND AS CHISOX RESUME DRILLS CONFINED TO AVALON HOSPITAL organized baseball's ranks yesterday paved the way for purchase by the Hollywood Stars of the ex-major league outfielder. At present Orsatti is the prop- erty of the Rochester club, a member of the St.

Louis Cardinal chain, and the Stars will have to make their deal with Branch Rickey, whip-master of the chain gang. When the Cardinals assigned Orsatti to Rochester in 1935 he refused to report, going on the voluntary retired list. But when he figured he might have a chance to play in Hollywood, his home town, Ernie applied for reinstatement, which was granted by Judge Bramham, the Landis of the minors. MUST STAY HERE On his recent visit to South ern California, Rickey intimated he wouldn't sell Orsatti to Hol lywood unless assured that Ernie would never play for any other club. Although he has been out of baseball three seasons, Orsatti, who broke into baseball in 1924, is only 34 and believes he still has a few good years in his system.

Ernie is not one to take on weight, so it wouldn't take much wwk to put him in playing shape. The Hollywood officials believe Orsatti would make them an ideal man for two reasons. Ernie can play first base or the outSeld and he has a host of friends in Hollywood who'd come out to see him play balL But the Stars want to protect themselves if they buy by mak ing it a conditional purchase. In other words, the deal wouldn't, go unless Orsatti convinced the Hollywood bosses in six week3 or two months that he was a player worth buying. AT GILMORE STADIUM In the meantime Red Kille-fer's trained troupe, which took a day off Sunday after breaking camp at Elsinore Saturday, yes-Turn to Page 12, Column 8 Bruin Spring Grid Drills Open Today With a new engine crew in charge, U.C.L.A.'s 1939 model, football machine will be cranked up today for the first time as Engineer Edwin C.

(Babe) Horrell; opens a spring practice run of six weeks. Succeeding William H. (Bill) Spaulding, who guided the Bruins for 14 seasons, Horrell expects to retain much of the system he helped build during his nine seasons as center coach under his old boss. ELIMINATE SHIFT "However, I'm going to simplify it as much as possible," said Horrell yesterday, "and rely on perfection of fundamentals and team play. With possible rare exceptions we'll use only the single wing back and Ray Richards, Jim Blewett and myself have decided to do away with the shift." Richards, a member of the coaching staff last year, will have charge of the line while Turn to Page 12, Column 2 Named on the committee with Gannon are Assemblymen Jack BY EDWARD BURNS AVALON, March 13.

to attacks of arthritis, "Golf," remarked the perspir-" ing Mr. H. Ellsworth Vines, "is a very fine game for very many reasons two of which are that you don't have to run and that you don't have to hit any backhands." MOTHBALL CHAMPS Vines had good reason to be yearning for something comparatively sedentary like golf because he had just been forced to run himself ragged out on the courts of the Los Angeles Tennis Club in order to maintain intact the integrity of the ex-National Championship doubles team of Vines and Gledhill. They're going to stage a bit of a comeback, you know, a couple of weeks from now when redheaded Don Budge and the ebullient Fred Perry come out this way on their professufial tennis tour. Vines and Gledhill are going to take 'em on in a cpecial doubles match when the whole crowd play at the Tennis Club March 26th.

BACK TO LIFE "I guess we need the practice," said the slender Gledhill. Keith quit competitive play some time ago and has been so busy teaching tennis down at the West Side that he hasn't been accustomed to having a ball whizz back at him like a bullet from a machine gun. He and Vines, starting out against the strong amateur team of Doc Eartosh and Jack Knemeyer, had no little difficulty getting under way and were forced to 10-S in the first set before they finally hit their stride and began to look like the all-conquering team of a few years ago. GAVE 'EJI AWAY "Probably the fact that I had to borrow some tennis rackets," said Vines, "had something to do with my trouble. "When I finished that tour with Budge back East I just looked around and gave a tennis racket to everybody who walked up while they lasted and when I came out to play today I looked around the house and found just one racket and that one had half a dozen busted strings.

So I had to borrow a club and play most of the first set with it while Lew Pauley was fixing the strings in the other. Can't blame it all on the racket, though takes time to get going again." GOING ABROAD Vines is mixing golf with his tennis for the present but will have to toss his clubs aside and pick up his racket again in May when he goes abroad to play in the professional tennis championships at Roland Garros Stadium, Paris. So he's glad to have a chance to keep in form by playing against Budge and Perry out here. "Perry," he said, "is having the trouble that Keith had out here today he's been playing a lot of. tennis and is in good condition but he hasn't been playing the hot competitive tennis he needs believe me, he really needs it against Donald, too." FRED WAS FOOLED "When Don and I were just finishing our tour a few weeks ego," Vines said, "Perry was practicing up to get in shape for the start of the tour he's on now.

He was playing with Sidney Wood and all those fellows back East who were getting in shape for the National Indoor Championships and I suggested to him that he should join up with Donald and myself for the last week or so and play in the doubles and get himself accustomed to the competition. But you know Fred he said he'd always beaten Budge whenever he really felt that he wanted to and could do any time. He's finding out different now. By the time they get out here, though, I expect Fred will be at the top of his game." BACK IN HARNESS Perry, never an outstanding doubles player, but an excellent player nevertheless, will team with Budge against Vines and Gledhill and what the Budge-Perry combination will lack in team play they will probably make up in competitive edge, sharpened by 'their weeks of touring. Vines and Gledhill, whose teamplay was the acme of perfection, will doubtless team well" but will not have the razor-edge of condition of their rivals so the affair cught to add greatly to the fun of the matches at the Tennis Club.

Vines and Gledhill are going1 to get in several more practice matches during the next couple of weeks. THEY'RE TELLING ME The Pros are going fo buck Wimbledon They'll hold their championships in Paris during the great amateur tournament in Vines says nothing about Von Cramm as a professional Says the best match of the Budge tour was in Chicago and the worst one at the Coliseum here They're anxious to play well at the Tennis Club where they all won fame as amateurs Bruin Bob Whitlow attempts safe is Umpire Ching Duhm. Art Rogers photo which had something to do with the willingness of the Giants to dispose of the 31-year-old athlete. These reports subsequently were denied and until today there had been no indication that Bartell was suffering from any sort of affliction. LENGTHY REST Dr.

Bussey was unable to diagnose the cause of numbness reported by Bartell immediately, but later said a rheumatic condition existed and that the young man would be placed under observation in a thorough medical and X-ray checkup. He was ordered to stay off his feet for several days at least. In the intraclub game tomorrow, third and next to last of the Avalon series, Manager Hartnett will send back Bill Lee and Larry French, who held the regulars in check for a Yanni-gan victory in the first game last Friday. Gene Lillard will make his second appearance in the series with the regulars and Ray Harrell, former St. Louis Cardinal, will share the chore.

Lee and French will pitch against the White Sox in Wrig-ley Field, Los Angeles, Friday. Lee is in excellent shape, a muscle aggravation in his side having disappeared. French's weight reduction in the off season, has been little short of phenomenal. He thinks, and many share his optimism, that he is going to bounce back nobly from his unhappy experiences last year. ft' -4 Malicious Fails to Win in Swan Song Malicious failed in his swan song to the racing strips, but Johnny Adams, the kingpin stakes rider of the meeting, added to his reputation and 40,000 persons who turned out for yesterday's charity day program the finale of the season reveled in the invitation to pick all the flowers they wanted from Santa Anita's colorful infield.

It was the grand windup of a successful 54 day meeting a charity day program that netted approximately 894,000 for Jewish, Shrine, Catholic and Elks' organizations for charitable purposes. NINTH "MILLION DAY" Conditions were ideal. The sun was bright and warm. The track was lightning fast. It was the ninth "$1,000,000 handle day" of the season $1,145,968.

They had a parade of the champions just like last year, except that Malicious wasn't in it The 12-year-old veteran was performing in a race. He ran in the B.P.O.E., the two-mile marathon which celebrated his retirement from racing, but the best he could bag was a fourth to Sex-tus, a three-time winner in these long events. He staged his customary stretch rush, and Joe Hernandez had a sob note in his voice when he dramatically gave him the last call, "Here comes Malicious." The old fellow just couldn't make it. but they gave him a wreath of flowers anyway, presented by Mickey Rooney, and the assembled thousands gave him a tremendous hand. CHAMPIONS ON PARADE The parade of champions included King Ranch's filly Cien-cia, winner of the Santa Anita Derby; C.

S. Howard's grand pair, Kayak II, winner of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, and Seabiscuit, turf champion of 193S. The trio galloped past the grandstand and Seabiscuit, with George Woolf on deck, acted as tnough ne never injured an ankle in his life. Carroll Bierman, who rode Ciencia in the Derby, was up, and Johnny Adams was aboard Kayak II. The Charity Day Handicap, the sixth race, went to Mrs.

A. M. Koewler's Happy Bolivar, which followed Atlas' fast pace and responded to Adams' strong riding in the stretch to outfin-ish Count Atlas. Patty Cake, the even-money favorite, was off to a bad start, and failed to be a dangerous factor at any time. INSPIRED RIDE Adams, winner of five $10,000 stakes during the meeting, including the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, gave Happy Bolivar one of his inspired rides and was up in the final 50 yards to wm by half a length.

The time for the eight furlongs was 1:37 1-5, and Happy Bolivar paid $13.40. Manhasset Stable's Roman Hero captured the one-mile Jew ish Welfare, secondary feature of the afternoon, handily from une bnen, Hants and Ed, which hnished in the order named. The winner broke on top and was never headed, turning the mile in 1:37 4-5. He paid $5.20. FIRST PORT WINS In the opener Cleaveland Put nam's First Port annexed the seven-furlong event by one and one-half lengths from Dunfrese and Tonopah Queen.

The time Turn to Page 15, Column 4 HANDICAPPERS TOPPED BY OTIS Oscar Otis, turf expert of The Times, led all the handicappers at Santa Anita during the meet ing which closed yesterday. Otis picked 124 winners out of 432 races. Next in line was a lady, Mar tha of the Morning News, who picked 119 winners, 21 more than her husband, Lee Bastajian, of the same periodical. Martha and two others were the only pick ers to show profit for $2 bets on every race. Post favorites'' won 137 races an average of 31 per cent.

Followings are the standings: Handlcappfr Wins Profit Loss Post fivorltea 137 $108.40 Oscar Otis 124 12.80 Martha 119 $26.20 Bob Hebert 118 69.80 Jack McDonald 118 135.80 Maurice Bernard 117 45.60 Tom Gwynne 117 00.20 Paul Lowry 115 B2.20 Collyer 113 K0.60 George Herrick 113 SB. 80 Bill Amis 112 60.00 Eddie Read 109 114.40 Joe Hernandex 108 12.80 Prospectus 107 118.20 Harry Hache 100 114.SO Lee Bastajian. 98 146.80 Hanover 97 51.80 Jim Mitchell 9S 38.3(1 Split Second 77 370.80, -4 i i i Bears Humble Bruins bv 8-0 Audie Dougherty's Two-Hit Pitching Too Much for U.C.LA. The slow breaking curve ball of Audie Daugherty silenced U.C.L.A. bats yesterday as the University of California varsity soundly whipped Marty Krug's Bruins, 8 to 0, in a conference game on the Westwood diamond.

The teams play again this after noon on the same field. Daugherty gave up only two hits in tossing his shutout. The Bears, on the other hand, pound ed Bob Whitlow's offerings for seven safeties. Whitlow was also the victim of some1 sloppy support and he was charged with being responsible for only three of the winners' tallies. Cliff Perry, the first man to face Whitlow, started things off with a single.

Advancing to third on a sacrifice and error, ne scored when Hook DeVaurs sent out a sharp single. Ed Ongerth, who had been put on base on the previous error, went on to score when Tony Firpo was thrown out at first. Perry started another brief rally in the third by walking. He stole second and tallied when Turn to Page 13, Column 5 entrant in the annual Long mmmmmmp out. BY IRVING PASADENA, March 13.

(Ex-, elusive) Jack Hayes, the regular White Sox second baseman who, because of the operation which removed roving bits of bone and cartilage from his right knee last fall, has to issue daily bulletins on his physical state, turned optimistic today while he and his associates were going through another practice session. Hayes still limps, in fact its more pronounced than when he first appeared in camp. Today the joint was extremely painful when exercised but Dr. Ad Schacht, the trainer who is pretty good at forecasting the outcome of mishaps to athletes, listened to the Alabama boy's report and advised him to quit fearing. SORENESS MOVES The soreness had moved from within the knee joint to the muscles immediately below and the good doctor declared this was a development indicating the original complications were disappearing and that the pain in the new spot was merely the result of favoring the leg.

The trainer's prediction does not mean for a certainty that Hayes is over the hill in his re covery from the last of his numerous baseball accidents. VAUGHAN Neither does it mean that he has any better chance than he had three weeks ago for being in the opening day line-up. Manager Jim Dykes isn't even considering this as a remote possibility. TOUGH BATTLE With Hayes out of the picture for an indefinite period the second base affair may develop into a knockdown competition between Eric (Boob) McNair and Aloysious Bejma. The manager admits McNair, his ex-Athletic companion, isn't especially skilled in the handling of double plays, but is of the opinion he might be better than Bejma who has a similar weakness in double killings.

But Bejma has his quota of voluble admirers in camp and Dykes is willing to Turn to Tage 13, Column 4. Hollywood Metros Play Game Tonight DENVER, March 13. The Hollywood Metros, Southern California's only representative in the annual National A.A.U. basketball tournament, will play a second round game tomorrow against the strong Minneapolis Young Americans quintet. sive) Two Cub regular infield-ers, Stan Hack and Dick Bar- tell, were in the Avalon hospital today while their mates were engaged in a routine fielding and batting drill.

When the intraclub series is resumed tomorrow Steve Mesner will be at third base and Woody English at short for the' regulars. Dr. Don Bussey this morning removed a big splinter from the palm of Hack's right hand. The splinter was picked up several weeks ago while Stan was put ting a log in his fireplace. PLAYED SUNDAY The splinter didn't start act ing up until after it had been hammered a week in practice.

Sunday Stan played six innings and made three of the regular's four hits off Jack Russell and Charley Root. Then he re vealed a very sore mitt and was rushed to the hospital for treatments preparatory for to day's digging. While Hack's wound was be ing treated Bartell was led into the hospital by Trainer Andy Lotshaw. Dick complained he felt a numbness creeping over him, starting with his left heel Following Bartell's transfer to the Cubs there were reports that the shortstop had been sub- Beach Relays to- be held liT) photo Athletic Commission's Records Impounded by Assemblymen 1 B. Tenney (D.) Inglewood; and Norris R.

Poulson (R.) Los Angeles, The Assembly also voted a SACRAMENTO, March 13. (JPj Financial records of the State Athletic Commission on file with the jState Director of Finance were impounded today by the special investigating committee authorized by the Assembly. After a conference with Finance Director Phil Gibson, Assemblyman Chester N. Gannon (D.) Sacramento, chairman of the committee, announced a thorough investigation of the commission's finances and contributions to welfare fund would be undertaken by the committee. Gannon said the audit and study of the commission's finances probably (would take 10 days.

At the conclusion of the study the committee will hold a series of open hearings. $1000 appropriation to finance the investigation. Inquiry into the conduct o( the Athletic Commission's affairs was instigated lasfweek through a resolution introduced by Gannon seeking to determine when the welfare fund was last audited and "to whom the reports have been made. Under the law a percentage of the receipts from boxing and wrestling shows is allocated to the veterans' welfare division ol the Department of Military and Veterans' Affair a. DOYLE NAVE TAKES TO THE AIR IN ANOTHER SPORT Doyle Nave, hero of the Rose Bowl game, 'has turned his attention to track.

Hemay be a Trojan 'high jump Saturday. See story on Page 15 of this section. 11.