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79 Palis Jo DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1947' ellulwl Griffith. sst of Hat to Pilot Mats I By Hy Turkin A flock of signings and supposed all in the American League, made the news yesterday, with the chief development being Joe Kuhel's agreement to the Senators in '48. A member of the Society of American Magicians, Kuhel will need more than legerdemain to revivify the seventh-place Nats and showed a quick grasp of the task by outlining several proposed trades. On other fronts the Red Sox Just a Walk to a Jackpot This last steo. brinsin? Armed across the fini m.w mm ing Armed across the finish of the Sysonby Handicap, is the step that put th of the pile of all-time money winners of the turf: $761,500.

With Pleasure trails a length and a quarter in the mile chase to place. Sets Record! urn neiuiiig on lop Dth By Gene Ward Armed i by eioninf Victory -9 i i (SEWS fotoo by Krwhpr). it is problematical. Stymie has chance to regain the crown tomorrow in the $100,000 New York Handicap at two miles. SEVENTH MEETING Armed and With Pleasure met six times in Chicago last Summer, each winning three although the latter had the benefit of the weights.

Yesterday, they came out of the starting gate as though locked together. With Pleasure went into a temporary lead, lost it, and then regained it again to hold the edge on the outside with Snider saving ground along the rail. But, straightened away for the home highway test, Snider hit his winner twice and that was all the encouragement the gelding needed. With 11 victories and four seconds to show for his 16 races this year, Armed's earnings amount to nearly a third of the $1,200,000 collected by the winners which Ben Jones and his son, Jimmy, have saddled for Warren Wright during '47. Two of the nation's three top equine milers met yesterday in the Sysonby Stake but, just as everybody suspected, Armed is the best of them all.

With a sizzling stretch run, the Calumet clipper not only knocked off With Pleasure by a length-and-a-quarter before 20,611 at Belmont Park but the glittering gelding beat Stymie's world money-winning1 record by $6,790 and now rules the roost with a total of $761,500 in earnings. The six-year-old galloped to this a new peak in gold-and-glory by sizzling through the stretch under a come-from-behind boot by Al Snider, the 27-year-old from Canada's wild west. Turning, for home, Armed was spinning along a neck behind With Pleasure, who had beaten him several times around Chicago last Summer. Then Snider cut loose with a rodeo ride which brought his mount home in front. SPARKLING TIME Conspicuous by his absence in the race was Polynesian, who is loafing down Philadelphia way, but it is doubtful if the third member of the select mile contingent could have done much better than With Pleasure.

Ajrmed simply swept past the Oscar E. Breault colt with a rush to hang up the sparkling time of 1:36 with 126 pounds on his back. As for the third horse in the race, he wasn't "in" the race. En-sueno, the South American, ran Domiiiicaii' Camp Vcrifiotl hy Flock Confirming an exclusive story in The News a week ago, the NL champion Dodgers' announced yesterday that they will train next Spring in the Dominican Republic. The entire squad is to report March 1 at the capital, Ciudad Truillo, and, barring a revolution, will play a minimum of 20 games there before returning to the mainland March 31.

The Flock's top farm club, Montreal, will drill at San Cristobal, about 20 miles away. Brooklyn will work out on the carefully-tended diamond in Normal School Stadium, where the fences are 450 feet at the foul lines and the stands seat 4,000. TURKIN. to Newark. He started poorly with the Bears, but finished fast and after 93 games had a BA of .273.

He bats left, throws left, and will get a thorough trial as possible successor to aged George McQuinn. Tanforan Sold For $2,107,500 Camden, N. Oct. 9 (U.R). The Tanforan Race Track in California has been sold for $2,187,500 to a syndicate headed by Eugene Mori, Garden State Park president, and horse breeder William Helis, it was announced today.

Thomas Dahl-quist, San Francisco attorney, said the Garden State management would operate Tanforan, appointing its executive vice president, Walter Donovan, as managing director of the Coast track. Babe Upset, I-Up, By Beftye White Fort Worth. Oct. 9 (U.R). Bettye White today ousted Babe Zaharias, unbeaten in her last eighteen tournaments, from the Texas Women's Open with precision putting on the eighteenth.

The worecard gave Miss White a 1-up win over the Babe. However, Miss White took one more stroke in victory, trailing the Babe 77-78. 3 feV management officially denied published reports that Ted Williams had been secretly signed to a '48 contract calling for "between and $80,000," while the Mac-Phail-less Yanks weighed in with signing that transferred four farmhand contracts to the parent club first baseman Joe Collins, outfielder Ed Stewart and third basemen Jim Dyck and Gerry Coleman. PARTIAL TO PLAYERS Kuhel's elevation had been hinted at 24 hours before the announcement. Prexy Clark Griffith has always been partial to Senator play crs as managers for his club, as is evident in Kuhel's immediate' predecessor Ossie Blucge, kicked upstairs to the farm supervisor's job two days ago; Bucky Harris, now pilot of the world champion Yanks; Joe Cronin, who moved to the Red Sox; the late Walter Johnson, Owen Bush and Clyde Milan.

Before that, Washington was managed by another favorite son Griffith himself. After 17 years as a major league first sacker, Kuhel managed for four months this Summer at Hot Springs, class farm of the Nats in the Cotton States League. llis club was sixth when he took over and finished fifth. The fancy-fielding first sacker, who cost the Nats $65,000 back ixi '30, the most that club ever paid for a player, is now in the market for a catcher, tirst-line pitcher, hard-hitting: in-tielder and righthanded-hitting outfielder to balance the all-lefty outer set. KX-PI RATE BEST As for the four newest Yanks, the one with the best record is ex-Pirate Stewart, a 29-year-old left handed hitter who batted .349 with Kansas City, pennant winner in the AA.

He drove in 102 runs, stole' 16 bases, hit 33 doubles, 17 triples and seven homers. But it's a first baseman the champs need most, not an outfielder, so most interest is centered in 24-year-old Collins. Expected to lie a sub at Birmingham this year when veteran Kick Etten was shipped down, Collins stepped into the breach upon Nick's failure and walloped at a -166 clip. He was picked for the SA's all-star team, but before he could play in their annual exhibition he was promoted i I i Army Aerial Barrage Set for lllini By Dana Mozley Fully convinced that he must unearth a secret weapon if Army is to set back the invasion of Illinois, coach Earl (Red) Blaik yesterday devoted almost all of the CadetV final practice at the Point to a passing parade, the like of which hasn't been seen along the shores of the Hudson in years. It looks as if the air over the Stadiuni tomorrow will be Race Track Strike Temporarily ff A threatened strike of 1,000 grooms and exercise boys at local race tracks was temporarily averted yesterday as owners and union leaders announced they would resume negotiations today.

The agreement to continue arbitration came at approximately 2 P. M. and was announced by Joseph O'Grady, deputy director of the City's Division of Labor Relations. The conference had been called by Mayor O'Dwyer after he had obtained a postponement of the walkout. third all the way and wound up 15 lengths behind With Pleasure.

The odds-on Armed, a son of Bull-Lea-Armful, paid off at $2.70. There was no place or show betting. His paycheck was $18,600, giving him the greenback galloping title, but how long he will hold Grid Dodgers Rift Denied by All Report of a rift in the front office of the Brooklyn grid Dodgers was denied emphatically by all concerned yesterday. Co-owners Gerald Smith and Bill Cox both stated that they had been involved in no squabble, as reported that Freddy Fitz-simmons still was the general manager that the Dodgers would finish the campaign and jnight even beat the Yankees in the Stadium on Sunday. However, as for next year, one partner, Mr.

Smith, refused to comment at this time. WARD. pass four times in the late stages of the game. He completed three of them for 36 yards and handled himself like a veteran. As a result, he shared the important burden with Gustafson and Galiffa all this week and may play a surprise part against the lllini.

The main receivers who'll be kept busiest are ends Jim Rawers and John Trent, fullback Rip Rowan and Winfield Scott, deer- filled with soaring pigskins. The Cadets move into their New York headquarters this morning and wiii have their final dress rehearsal at the Stadium at 3 P. M. The lllini, who put in at Bear Mountain Inn last night, will work out at 2 P. M.

at the scene of tomorrow's skirmish. A full house of nearly 70,000 is expected to fall out for the Rose Bowl champs' threat to Army's long string of 30 victories without defeat. At last word, there were still 5,000 reserved tickets available around town. The entire allotment of standing room admissions 3,000 will be put on sale at the Stadium tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. TnE KEY'S IN PASSES With such runners as Doc Blan-ehard and Glenn Davis now only fond memories, Army must compensate for its "average" ground game with an unusual emphasis on passing.

The three key figures will be quarterbacks Bill Gustafson, Arnold Galiffa and Charlie Gabriel, a little known quantity until last Saturday's rout of Colorado. Gabriel, an 18-year-old second-year man form Lincolnton, N. got his first test under fire against the Buffaloes when called upon to footed halfback. But BlaiTc also has at least two other sure-fingered wingmen in Stew Young and Johnny Kulpa, a pair of rangy six-footers from Marion, and Bloomfield, N. respectively.

On these rest Army's chances. Illinois, pictured as a five and one-half point favorite, seemed more pessimistic than the Pointers yesterday. Although athletic 'CT rector Doug Mills terms the present club "better in almost tvery way than the Rose Bowl ttam," coach Ray Eliot has another word, or two, for it: "Illinois favored 7 That's utterly ridiculous! Why, my scouts tell me that this Army team may be even better than it was with Davis and Blanchard. It's ridiculous that anybody should be favored over Army." OFF AND RUNNING No matter what Eliot thinks, the facts bear out Mills' bit of optimism. The lllini lost only two great stars from the '46 team halfbacks Buddy Young and Julie Ryk-ovich.

Usually slow getting under way they stumbled all over themselves during the first hak' of last season the boys from Urbana (Continued on page 82, 4 Flying Saucers Still With Us? Using saucers to illustrate backfield plays, Illinois team which flew here yesterday works out play calculated to snap Army's unbeaten streak tomorrow. Starting Illinois back field of Russ Steger, Art Dafelmeier, Perry Moss and Dwight EdcHeman figure possibilites..