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"1 I I CD DODGERS CLICK IN OPENER OF HAVANA LOOP Infield Acrobatics Thrill Cuban Fans-Pitching Also Impresses-Swift Shapes Up as Relief Artist By TOMMY HOLMES Staff Correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle Havana, March 1 The first of those traditional battlrs between our Dodgers and the Giants ever to be waged on fnrninm cnll ic nur motto nf ViictT nrA nli-A c-mi-a 1 viCl? i satisfaction to the better element. IP 'tATVIDArYT MARCH l. ftft For our Dodgers, who won 16 out of 21 from Los Gigantes in the regular 1940 campaign, started right In where they left off last Autumn, winning a lively if not particularly sensational game by a respectable score of 43. There was some excellent baseball and some bad ba.se- ball in the first regular exhibition I land figures to take the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap threat. Bimelech may be as good as odds on in $50,000 BIG RACE FAVORITES Mioland, Haas up (left), and Bimelech, Meade up, are favorites to capture the two big stake races of the Winter season this afternoon.

Mio BOTH SIDES Mioland Favored In $100,000 Race Field of 17 in Santa Anita H'cap With 'Mudlark' Installed Choice i game I ever heard of played in the month of February, but, all in all, our Dodgers show ed to excellent ad-i vantage. They looked superior to Memphis Bill Terry's outfit all afternoon long and it would have taken very little to have made the score lopsided. Reel Off 3 Double Play The monkey-like agility of the Dodger infielriers caught the fancy of some 4.500 Cuban fanaticos. The boys reeled off three double playa and each was chain lightning me-! chanically. Tney missed another one and the Giants scored their final run because Coscarart was slow to cover second and Lavaget- to's throw whizzed into right field.

There were three Brooklyn errors all told, so the Dodger defense was anything but airtight. The Dodgers had 14 hits and should have rolled up a far larger score. Herman Franks, the chubby catcher who is strictly a guy named WAR AND TENNIS If this war-whipped world Is ever to come out on an even keel, sports will have to play a part, a big part in getting off on the right track again. It may be a bigger role than we now suspect. And tennis, the international game, the real esperanto of sports, is probably a far bigger game, with far bigger peace-time and peace-giving influences than you'd ever suspicion at first thought.

Our touring tennlsts Don McNeill, Frank Guernsey, Dodo Bundy, Mr. and Mis. Elwood Cooke are back only a short time from a South American tour. South America is supposed to be the powder-keg of the future, but everybody is playing tennis there, they have championships that we never hear about, and McNeill tells of losing the Huminense championship in Rio to Cooke after a tournament that was held amost completely at night. Tennis may be the peace key to the future; certainly it seems to be in South America, and it has possibilities even in the Axis, where Germany and Italy are even now staging team notches.

They have fine tennis players in the Balkans, in Japan, of course in England and Prance and Australia. But th? llne tnat caught cur Jaundiced eye was this: LAST 500 ARE TOUGHEST 'If teams of 1.000 men competed for the Davis cup India would be the champion nation very year." What does the man mean? Just this: Here in the U. S. A. could produce 50 "name" tennis players who'd wallop the first 50 Indians.

But after that their best would top our best. The second 500 matches, this man who writes from India in American Lawn Tennis, the magazine, declares would be "a rout," in India's favor. India has 350,000,000 people, find an amazing number of them play on grass, brick, crushed tone, sand, hard clay, soft dirt and en tout cas court surfaces. And we think tennis is OUR game! From Kasimir to Cape Comorin the distance Is about the same as from South Carolina to Venezuela's southern border; from Bombay to Rangoon is the same as from Denver to New York. Remember that this territory is filled with people learning tennis, and fast.

India's best man, Ghatis Mohammed, as beaten 22 straight times 1939 by the touring Don McNeill, but the rest of McNeill's troupe, including at least one fine player in Owen Anderson, was considerably cuffed around, and didn't get Well-Balanced I. C. 4-A Field Vies for Title St. John's U. All Set For Glittering Debut In Fixture at Garden By HAROLD PARROTT One of those rah-rah track meets.

flavored with a generous dose of rodeo, will be galloped into 'he rprord boolts lnthe Garden tonight Last week's A. A. U. mret was Pink "a but tonight, with the aM Allfro- trv pvnHlnc atl vnr NEW YORK WINNER FOR LAST SEVEN YEARS Will New York's domination of the I. C.

4-A meet be broken tonight? Locals have held sway for seven years. Manhattan reigned In 1934-35-36-39, Columbia in 1937-38 N. Y. V. in 1940.

Last outsider to crash in was Yale in 1933. PARROTT. the place, the boys from 34 count 'em 34 colleges figure to top last Saturday night's rough-riding record on the turns as they thrash it out for the I. C. A.

A. A. A. (Inter-clleciate Association of Amatfur Athletes of America) championship. Reasons are, of course, that it's a wide-open race for the team title and a fifth place in some event-just a laugh In most meets may mean the championship.

Flavor All Its Own Egging their heroes on through the 13-event varsity battle will be the collegiate set, and the rah-rah they'll raise for their heroes is something you just don't get at the other big track parties of tue Winter. Local hopes in thus party are carried by New York U. and Fordham i how they growl at each other in track!) and by little St. John's, which may make a glittering debut in the sacrosanct I. C.

4-A indoor meet the. 20th annual affair of its kind. St. John's enters right into the spirit of the thing tonight. Victim of a buffeting la.st week by Ford-ham's mile relay team, the Indians are all set this week to give the Rams a portion of same, if it conies down to a matter of rib-strafing.

In fact. Coach Jim Rosenberger of St. John's has rearranged his miie quartet with that possibility in view. "Frank Timmes won't take the walloping that frail Carl Fields got from Fordham's Fallon last week without handing It out. too says Jim.

"Timmes will stand his ground, and he has a good burst of speed which should get us out thrre in front on the first leg. Fieids will run the second leg, then Vic Bovino and finally McDowell, who twice out-kicked Fordharr's Campbell last Saturday. I figure our mile team is 15 better this week with Timmes in there instead of Adam Sehutz Schtitz. is a good man. though, and will be on our two-mile relay team, anchored bv Donal O'Leary, which you should also watch." St.

John's pins high hopes, too. on Mike Motto in the shot put 'hoping for second place behind AI Blozls) and Al Boruch In the broad and high Jumps. 1 St John's University mile C. A. A.

A. A. track, meet i i i 1 1 i ot with Challedon as biggest Widener at Hialeah. Mud, moisture and Mioland, two to racing today as the performance of turfdom's ex- Anita Handicap. far from th Kirf hnloon TERRY PLEASED WITH HARTNETT, JURGES, YOUNG Special to The Brooklyn Eagle Havana, March 1 The Giants did not look like a powerful team yes terday, but they did display certain talent that must have pleased Bill Terry.

Bill Jurges could not get hit but he played his old time fancy game at shortstop. Gabby Hartnett appeared like a man who might help plenty behind the plate. The veteran has taken off 15 did a grand job of catching 1 lor five innings an dalmost un- i dressed Davis with a line single through the box. And young Johnny 1 Rucker, weighing in with two dou- bles and a single, bore all the ear- marks of a threat up at the plate instead of the feeble "leg hitter" he was most of last season. St.

Petersburg. March 1 0J.P) The Yankees' holdout continnent was reduced to one player Outfielder Joe DiMagaio today follow ing the signing of Red Ruffing, Johnny Murphy, George Selkirk and Tommy Henrich. Joe Gordon is unsigned but has reportedly agreed to terms. Cold, windy weather has hampered Yankee workouts so far. Snead Surprises In St.

Pete Golf St. Petersburg. March 1 'LP Sammy Snead pocketed first pnze of $1,200 for winning the St. Open, packed his in' irons" today and headed for Miami, next stop on the Winter gold trail. Snead, heretofore notorious for fading in the stretch, surprised the gallery yesterday by pulling into the lead at the end of 54 holes with a 207 total and then carried a one-over-par 72 on the final 18 holes for an aggregate of 279, five under regulation figures.

Snead's total gavp him his victory' here he beat Henry Picarri in a playoff in 1939 and furnihec him wilh a two-stroke advantage over four other golfers who tied fur second with 281. They were Ben Hogan, Hershey, Chic Harbert, Battle Creek, Herman Barron. White Plains, N. and Jug McSpaden, Winchester, who won $525 each. POSSIBLE POINT GETTERS to pick up pointi in th I.

Bim Less Than Even Money in Widener Cup Hialeah, Fla. March 1 'U Clear weather and a fast track were ex- I pected to attract a celebrity-studded crowd of almost 30.000 for the sixth running of the Wide- ner Challenge Cup race today, clas- ing feature at Hialeah Park. I A field of 18, headed by Col. E. R.

Bradley's Bimelech, as expected to go postward for the mile and a quarter stake. Winner of 11 of his 14 starts, the champion three-year- old of 1940 was a less than even money favorite to win the rich purse and move into eighth place among the leading money winners of all time. If all entries go to the barrier, Bimelech will shoot for a prize of $54,450. Added to the $246,745 he has earned since 1939. it would put him in line to overtake Seabiscuit, who retired last year after winning I $437,730, the most any horse ever earned.

Major competition for Bimelech Is presented by the three-horse entry of Mrs. Payne Whitney's Ha.sh, Corydon and Cherry Jam. Rudolph, Kelly Divide Blocks Erwin Rudolph and George Kelly split blocks in World's Champion- ship Pocket Billiard League competition yesterday at Doyle's Academy. Rudolph prevailed in the afternoon engagement by 125-85 In 22 innings. Kelly, however, came away u'ith iita hotter hlorh rim marip 6 56 against 54 for Rudolph.

Kelly i ti i ii HKUiu tin scu uii inr itauiUB iiua ter 45 in the night session as he beat Rudolph. 125-78 in 15 frames. Rudolph's best run was 28. Johnny Irish and Oonoforio Lauri, at Scranton, also divided laurels. Irish captured the matinee, 125-113, in 22 innings and Laurl was top man at night, 125-84 in 26 chapters.

Laurl made a high run of 32 in each test. Irish gathered clusters of 29 and 20. Riggs, Kramer Clash In Tennis Semi-Final Jacksonville, March KU.Rl Former national tennis champion Bobby Riggs of Chicago goes against Jack Kramer of Los Angeles In the feature semi-final match of the Southeastern tennis championships today. William Talbert of Cincinnati, takes on Gardner Larned of Chicago in the other. Lamed upset Frank Kovacs of Oakland, in a quarter-final match yesterday, 57, 64, 62.

Kramer defeated Elwood oCokie of Portland. 6 4. 64. tailed sensation at Henderson of the East Texas League where he won 22 games one a no-hitter and lost six in 1939. From that sagebrush circuit to theNiterna-tional League is a bio 1iinSUn.it Rachunok performed crcdltab? at Montreal last season winning 13, losing 8.

fanning 159. He rounded out the season In Brooklyn, lost his only start to the Boston Bees but fanned nine men in defeat. He may be short of experience and well-rounded equipment but his fast -ball Is strictly big league. He throws with an upright, three-quarters motion with a notable absence of follow through. The Dodger board of strategy tried to correct this until they discovered that a boyhood accident had Jammed several vertebrae in Steve's spine and that the young giant could not sweep further forward.

His record follows: Veae Huh I II I JaekMn ip no nn fra .11 III 11 MS ISt PA 4 28 mil mom (llv-Laae (harlei inn record! Ii Henderson 10 10 170 IKS 181 91 4 1 I'MO Henderson 8 518 163 190 91 1.15 lOln Menleeal 1 I 181 IS 118 91 01 HEAVEN IN HAVANA GtRtits Dodcers lirhpnn ar do Rucker ef 4 1 3 0 Ree.e 4 113 3 Juries. 4 0(1 5 7 511 3 0 Arnovtch.lf 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 0 Ott.rf 4 0 0 2 1 MedwirKlf 4 0 2 1 0 Young. lb 4 1 2 10 0 Laval o.3b 312 0 3 Hurtnrll.e 20 1 3 1 Camiih In 4 0 2 12 2 ODt.e 2 00 0 0 Cos nrt 40 1 4 3 3 0 0 2 2 Prankvc 211 10 Chiozz.3b 4 12 3 1 too no 1 00 2 0 PDran.D 100 OOSkafcrfthe a Moore 1 0 0 0 0 M.tnf 1 00 00 rstaller 1 0 0 0 0 (Hudson 0 0 0 0 0 Davis. 1 0 0 0 0 R')-s Swift. ooo 01 10 100 0 10 0 0 000 oo 1 0 0 0 0 101 00 Mrlton bDfmarrt HadlfT cMayntrd Total 3S 3 9 24 12 Totain 34 4 14 27 12 aBntttd for P.

Dun in fourih innma. bB.u (or MHton In sfvpnih inn.nj. tBatttd (or Hadiey in ninth inninx. dBatltd (or Hiabit In third innm. rRan (or Stallrr in third inmnn.

(Batted for Franks In sixth mnin. aBitHtd for Davis In sixth innina. Giants 1 1 3 Dodaeil 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 Errors Rf Me. LavanHto, Davis. Runs batted In Arnovich.

Franks, Mfdwirk i2i. Two-base hits Ruckfr i2i.Camilli. Yniiiin. Three-base hit-Lavaaetto. Home run Franks.

Left on bases Giants. 7 Dndaers, 10, Double plays Camilh and Reese; Witek. Juraes and Young; and Camllll; Lavaaettn, Coscarart and Camiili. StnicK out By Higbe, 1. Bases on balls Off Hiabie.

of! Davis. olf Mellon, 1: off HadleT. 2. Wild pitch-Hmbe. Hits Off Hinbe.

4 In 3 innmas: ofl P. Dean. 7 In off Hadlev. 5 in 3 off Davis. 3 In 3: oft Melton.

4 in 3: off Swifi. 2 In 2. Umpires Conland. Klem. Masrinant and Lopen.

Time 1 54. Playoff Pairings Virtually Set In Hockey Scramble After this weekend it will be pos- sible for six National Hockey League clubs to go about laying their playoff plans. It's pretty obvious now that the pjlayoff pairings will be Toronto vs. Boston, Detroit vs. Rangers and Chicago vs.

Montreal. It still Is HOCKEY STANDING W. T. P. 5 119 11 136 A.

Pt. 82 5S I Boston 53 I Detroit 1 92 as 44 8 118 112 42 'Rangers chicaso Montreal 102 117 6 107 127 10 87 149 38 32 Americans 26 Last Nitht'a Results Detroit 5, Americans 4. Tonitht RaniterJ at Montreal. Boston Toronto. Tomorrow Mini Montreal at Ranaers at De troll.

Boston at Chicago. mathematically possible for Detroit to get more points than Toronto's league leaders have now or for the Americans to capture sixth place from oMiitreal's Canadieas. But with little more than a half dozen games left, it is very unlikely. When the Detroit Red Wings whipped the Americans, 5 4, last night, it not only gave the victors a stronger chance to finish third but it virtually wiped out the Amerks' hopes to getting into the playoffs. The Americans now are six points behind the Canadiens with seven games to go.

The Canadiens, with six to play, meet the RanRers tonight and the Americans tomorrow and by winning both they could virtually sew up their playoff spot. The Red Wings, locked in a tight third-place scrap with the Rangers, play at home tomorrow against their closet rivals. If the Rangers beat Montreal tonight, tneyn De lied going Into that important contest, but the Red Wings will have a three-game edge In the number left to play. Burns Breaks League Record to Beat Rovers Washington, March 1 VP) Norm Burns, shooting his 54th goal and thus cracJjJrrrw-EasU'rn Amateur HockesxTjeague record for goals ed In a single season, enabled the Washington Eagles to beat, the New York Rovers. 54.

last night New York had tied the count at 4 4, when Burns scored In the final three minutes. Just before Burns' shot they had tallied ti' in 27 seconds to suddenly transform what had seemed an ra Washington victory Into 'f math. The Eagles' victory bna- ed their lead In the leageu to points. Draft Gets Van Every Minneapolis, March 1 () Van Every, member of the 1930 Minnesota football team arid who was with the Oreen Bay Parkers professional team, la.st year ves-terriav was advised that he will be called In the draft on March I or thereafter. 25 11 21 8 17 IS IS 20 13 23 8 22 i I 1 I By Harold Parrott very far in the East India championships.

Mohammed was good enough to reach the round of eight at the last Wimbledon. WE DON'T OWN THE GAME All this may be a shock to some of the lads who ftjrtire the U. S. A. is now the tennis capital of the When McNeill won our singles championship last year many wrote: "With that match went world superiority." After all, Australia was at war, Bromwich, Quist, Hopman and the rest were in the army; France was dead, and we'd all seen pictures of shell-holes that scarred Wimbledon's sacred turf.

And we topped the world, didn't we, the year before last, producing tennis equipment valued at. So we spread-eagled the world's courts, didn't we? The answer is no. In December Jack Bromwich beat Adrian Quist for the Australian title, and they say Bromwich never played better in a land where every youngster owns a racquet, and they talk Davis cup like we chatter about the Dodgers. And in India they are still buzzing about the recent beating a 50 -year -old patriarch named Mohammed Sleem handed Yugoslavia's Davis cup ace. Dragutln Mitic.

This was the Sleem who made Bunny Austin look bad for a set and a half in 1932, and he is just one of thousands. Yes, war goes on. But so does life, and so does tennis in the far corners of the world where you'd never suspect they're tinkering with backhands and volleys against the day when nations will battle with racquets instead of bullets. Not that we think Hitler will ever mince across a tennis court. Or even that he'll live long enough to play the royal game at the ae at which the king of Sweden still swings a racquet.

Dodgers After Donelli Pittsburgh, March 1 Alan Donelli, star halfback at Duquesne the past two seasons, admits lie's considering an offer to perform next Autumn with Jock Sutherland's Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League. The 155-pound Duquesne triple-threat ace would be one of the smallest players in the pro ranks. Hon 1.1, l.nul at Montreal The big fellow has accomplished some uncommon strong-arm feaU In hl comparatively brief careor. Ht was a ring- k' 'v 1 Las Angeles, March 1 elements and a hor.se, added curtain rolled up on another travaganza the $100,000 Santa Minlnnr! thf mnrilarV hrprt aristocratic Kentucky cousins but an equine nabobo nevertheless, was the people's cnolce as upwards of 60,000 fans turned out for thr seventh running of the world's richest money race The Oregon 4-year-old. not the class of the field because Maryland's Challedon, handicap king the last two years also was an entry, was the rightful favorite off recent performances.

He won three of four previous starts here, ran up to every asking over distance and proved convinc- ingly he could go the mile and quarter grind of the big 'cap. There was rain in the air, occasional showers forecast, and soft going under hoof, the result of downpours yesterday. Entries closed with 17 named to go postward. Four of these Woof Woof, Wedding Call, I Rough Pass and Bollngbroke were considered doubtful starters in case trie racing strip turned up thickly blanketed in mud. There was a possibility, also, that Porter's Cap, coupled with Mioland as a C.

S. Howard entry, might be scratched before post time i approximately 4:30 p.m., P. S. Porter's Cap. a three-year-old flier in the mud and winner of the Santa Anita Derby, was en tered chiefly as an ace in the hole jn case in jury or illness forced last- minute wunarawai oi nis siauie- mate.

Buddy Haas, husky, hustling jockey, had the leg up on Mioland at 124 pounds. Only the great star, Challendon, shouldered more weight 130 pounds with Georgie Woolf in the saddle. Challedon went to the barrier admittedly not at peak form. In his last out Here he ran seventh to Mioland in a prep for the handicap and turned in a sluggish performance. At top condition the big fellow would have bwn the overwhelming favorite from the start.

A few of tne faithful still liked his chances: Tabbed as sharpest contenders beliind Mioland wen- General Manager with Jack West rope likely to ride at 110 pounds: Porter's Cap, if started, with Johnny Adams up at 104 pounds: Fairy Chant, fleet filly, ridden by Harry Richards at 112 pounds: Can't Wait. 118 pounds and Jockey Basil James: Roval Crusader, in at 107 pounds and Allan Gray in the saddle; Hysterical, 112 pounds with Eugene Rodriguez, and Challedon. The rare was worth $87,100 to the winner: S20.MK) to tne seconn-piace I horse. $0ono (or the third, and $5,000 for fourth. Pre-race speculation centered around the possibility of Charley-Howard scoring a Santa Anita Handicap triple.

Last year he brought in the mighty Seabiscuit and the jear before, Kayak II. Lumps for Colorado Boulder, Col. A 5233 trimming from Denver this season was the worst beating a Colorado bas-kethall tram has taken from a Cnnlerence foe since 1337. ERASMUS, JEFFERSON TO PLAY IN BORO The Ers'tmis P. S.

Division 2 basketball title ttmr will not be played Wednes-itav In the Garden as scheduled. II will take place on a neutral court in Brooklyn, the date and place, probably Brooklyn College, to he derided Monday by Al Baduin, Erasmus roach, and Mae llnrienhlall. Jrfferson mentor. Hadnln pointed out that the Garden date would force his charge to mim lwt niJss two periods of school wor kand prevent the students attending the tame, Clinton and Monroe will play for the Manhattan-Bronx crown it the I Garden 0. an a Joe with a bat in his hands, won the distinction of bring the home run hitter of the year when he lifted a fly some 370 feet over a temporary right field fence.

Harry Lavagetto delivered a tremendous triple and a line singie. Pete Reiser ran like thief to beat out one hit to Babe Young ana lined another single to right. Joe Medwick and Dolph Camllli each came through with a double and a single. Paul Dean, Cliff Melton and Bump Hadiey, the three Giant pitchers, were In constant trouble, Kirby Higbe, Curt Davis and Bill Swift, as advertised, divided the Brooklyn bowling. All were on a bit of the all right side as they combined to hold the Giants to nine hits.

Possibly the most significant feature was Swift's three-inninj shift. This veteran right-hander. back from a season at St. Paul looked like the answer to Dur ocher's prayer for a first class relief artist He was sneaky fast and consistently bothered the New York hitters. No-Beer Ban Lifted As per annual custom.

Skipper Durocher lifted his no-beer ban after the first exhibition and the boys sipped their first excellent Cuban Cerveza in the clubhouse The day atso was notable for the big social event of the Dodger training season Larry MacPhairs annual Spring party for the metropolitan baseball writers Deputy Police Commissioner Francis Kpar and ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker looked on from Horace Stoneham's box, while well-known Brooklyn fans here for the picnic included Anita and Harry Tyler and Joe Peterman, the Duke of Kew Gardens Jocko Conlan. newly appointed National League umpire, called 'em behind the plate and none other than the old arbitrator, Will-yum Klem. was the ba.se umpire Paid attendance was 2 585 and the clubs expect to do much better than that in the remaining two weekend games Mungo and Bob Bowman were to be the starting pitchers for todays second game. Evoshevski to Coach Football at Hamilton Clinton. N.

March 1 iTi Forest Evashevski. the fellow who paved the way for All-Amertran Tommy Harmon, is the new head football coach at Hamilton Collese Evashevski, blocking back for Harmon at the University of Michigan la.st Fall, succeeds Arthur R. Winters, resigned. He signed a three-year contract yesterday and will have the rank of assistant professor of physical education and will help In the coaching of other sports. rrloy tenm hich is expected tne Garden tonjflht, Rachunok Is 'Rational Russian' With Major League Fast Ball Chicago's Mad Russian is the most noted rookie of the 1941 training season but before most of the Dodgers had ever heard of Lou Novikoff they had hung the nickname on Steve Rachunok In last year's Clearwater camp.

At that, one one ever has detected anything mad about Rachunok. He may get a little angry at a waiter once in a while. At six feet, three and a half inches, Steve is the tallest of the Dodgers. He weighs well over 200 pounds and a fellow that huge demands quick dining room action. Both of Steve's parents were born In Muscovy but Steve hlm-itclf arrived on this mortal soil at Rlttman, Ohio, Dec.

5, 1916. He grew up round Detroit, labored in the Tiger farm system for several years and was finally declared a free agent in the celebrated Landis purge of January, 1040. The Dodders gave him a $10,000 bonus to sing and, at the aame time, signed his brother John, fiso a right-handed pitch-k and now with Montreal. 1940 Dodiara 1.