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U. HUGHES' Sports DAILY AMERICAN OWNERS IN DERBY Six Americans will be represented with ten entries in the Enrllsh Derby if their mounts prove in rood enough condition. The American owners whose horses are eligible Include William Woodward, Joseph Widener, Mrs. Chester Beatty, Marshall Field, Mrs. Washington Smith and Mrs.

Corlette Glorney. One hundred and fifty-four horses in aU are eligible, but the field will be reduced to 30 or 40 at race time. COLUMI 1 NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1935 The Record Crowd in Florida EPORTS from the Southland strengthen tne already R1 solid Impression that the American League must have been dotty when it permitted Babe Ruth to enroll In Cochrane Admits Dodgers Real 1 By Ed Detroit Boss After ThirdBeatingCalls FlatbushClanGood its national rival. In plain terms the younger xoop gave the gate" to the most popular player In baseball. That's poor business, sentimentally and financially, on the face of it.

But if you needed a practical demonstration to clinch the argument, it was given a few days ago in St. Petersburg. Ruth, helped of course by Dizzy Dean, drew a record crowd, 6,400, through the Florida turnstiles. The Yankees, once the biggest attraction, performed that same afternoon in Tampa. A handful of less than 500 customers lamped the Yanks.

And even Col. Jake Ruppert sat In on the Ruth-Dean show! The Ruth-Dean meeting, built up with all the frills attending the "steaming" of a heavyweight title fight, gives you an Idea of the publicity material Ruth will provide for the National circuit this season. By the way, the "decision" rendered in the opening clash is still something of a mystery to me. The sports chroniclers were united in the idea that Dean had bested Babe in their first clash. Using black and white figures as a test, they no doubt made a plausible argument for the By TOMMY HOLMES Staff Correspondent of The Eagle Orlando, March.

25 Mickey Cochrane, the handsome young Irishman who manages the Detroit Tigers, confesses, with a wry smile, that he's just as happy the Brooklyn Dodgers aren't in the American League. Said Dodgers have astonished even themselves by biting chunks out of said Tigers in three ball games down thisaway, as natives say, and the Tigers as you know are league champions. "The chances are that Casey hasn't the pitching to beat out the Giants or the Cardinals," said Cochrane, "but from what I know of the National League, the club has enough to stand an excellent chance of beat- Crosetti Aims At Perfection As Infielder Team Hughes in the National League. heard no news from Brooklyn all Winter, he wondered what they were doing. When Bill made that crack, Max Carey was managing the Dodgers.

I wasn't even approached on the subject until three weeks biter. So it turns out that I avenged an insult which wasn't directed at me, and which wasn't meant to be an insult in the first place. It's very complicated, but so are most things in this racket. All I know is that the fans in Brooklyn were tickled and anything that pleases the fans there pleases me too. k1 10 Larry Benton Passes Out of Big Leagues Terry Sends Old Star Home After He Blows Four-Run Lead Special to The Eagle St.

Augustine, Fla, March 25 Amid all of the hulabaloo of training camp and Grapefruit League activities which naturally gravitates about the younger element of ballplayers striving to break Into the big time, the old guard is prone to De shunted off into the background. Shunted off, that is, until they come into the public eye, and if this occasion be in form of a sore arm, then these figures of past glory had better beware. Benton In, Is Out One example close at hand Is old Larry Benton. Giants ace of other years. Little has been heard, or said of him, In view of the atten- Continued on Page 11 Mungo and Rowe brought out a crowd of 3,305, the largest ever to watch a Brooklyn exhibition in Florida.

Jim Mulveny, secretary -vice president of the Dodgers, came down to take a swift look at the team and dashed right back to New York. Mulvey arrived by plane Friday evening and flew back last night. Stengel had a message from Ken Strong whose right wrist is in a cast following an operation In New York designed to correct stiffness, the result of an old injury. The famed football star hopes to rejoin the club next month. Today, Wednesday and Saturday of this week are off-days.

Tomorrow, the Dodgers play the Montreal Royals here, Thursday they complete their four-game series with the Tigers in a contest at Lakeland and Friday, they play Baltimore nt Kissimmee. HOLMES. 4 Getting the Gate' Yankee Shortstop Making Progress Toward Goal He Has in Mind By FRANK REIL Staff Correspondent of The Eagle St. Petersburg, March 25 Improving himself with each shining hour, Frank Crosetti bids fair to become the best shortstop in the American League this season if he continues his steady progress toward perfection his goal In baseball "Frisco'' Frank Is about to start his fourth year as regular shortstop of the Yankees and with every season there has been added improvement not only in his work in the field but also at bat. Self Improvement is a marked characteristic of the young Italian and every year he writes into the books a better record than the previous one.

When he was a star shortstop for San Francisco in the Pacific Coast League Frank ran his batting average up from .248 to .343 in four years. Breaking into the big league with the Yankees in 1932, Frank's hitting fell off a hundred points but that only gave him something to work on the next season. Always Striving In 1933 his puny average Jumped an even dozen points to .253. Not much of an average, to be sure, but Manager Joe McCarthy liked his spirit and nis determination to better his Dattlng. Last season after a bad start down South Crosetti came back into the lineup after Red Rolfe stepped out ot the shortstop assignment.

Frank finished the season there and also stepped up his batting another 12 points to .265. Assuming that Crosetti continues to boost his batting mark every year at the same rate, he should wind up this season with an average of .277 and eventually break into the select circle of .300 hitters. Frank packs the power needed, as he hits long balls. He smashed out 11 home runs last season and also his share of doubles and triples, 'Made' Hitter A "made" hitter, Crosetti reminds Art Fletcher, the Yankee coach, of Dave Bancroft, the most famous of all self-Improved batters. The Giant shortstop began with a mark of .212 and In successive years advanced It in this order: .243, .268, .272, .299, .319, .321.

Clyde Milan with the Washington Senators 20 years ago was another who Improved his average every year for several years. Finding that he was a bit slow in the field, Crosetti has sought to improve his speed. Last Winter he took instruction from Brutus Ham-Continued on Page 11 Casey Bats 'Em Out KNOCKING OFF GIANTS, REAL PLEASURE By CASEY STENGEL Manager, Brooklyn Dodgers pitching skill of Dizzy. Ruth didnt get a hit. But, using a Jittle imagination, and reading between the lines, it seems to me that Ruth scored, and not Dizz.

Dean didn't put a strike on him and he did fling some balls. That indicated that he Cochrane Has Put CKeck on 'Mad Hatter' Clyde, Left Handed Hurler, Will Stick to Detroit This Season By HAROLD PARROTT The Mad Hatter isn't mad any more. He's settled down. Mickey Cochrane says he'll stick with the Tigers, perhaps as a starting southpaw. Clyde Melno Hatter, 27 years old now was kept out of the major leagues before because he treated rules too lightly.

It certainly didn't look as if he'd get a chance this year, because he won only eight and lost 12 for Louisville last year. But a closer peek at the records revealed that he fanned 170 and ranked second in the American Association in earned runs. Hatter looks like the left-handed help that the Tiger staff needs, be cause Elon Hogsett ahd Carl Fisher have fallen down badly. Fischer won only six games last year with a pennant winner, after winning 11 the season before, and was a major disappointment. He never looked good after starting with a bang to shut out the Indians, 4 to 0, In his first try.

Fischer said in mid-May to Cochrane. "I guess this isn't my year," and he never seemed to get over that belief. Schoolboy Rowe, who can beat the best clubs in the league but gets knocked off by the second-division-ers, will again be the Detroit key man, of course. Rowe won 13 games from Boston, New York and Cleveland, the other teams In the top flight, only Boston beating him once. The White Sox, A's and Continued on Page 11 before Louis gets nis big chance.

Baer, however, has removed one of the biggest of them he has said he will not draw the "color line." The promoters and boxing commissions may. Louis has hung up five victories in the last four months, winning four of them by knockouts. Although the heavyweight situa tion still is in a snarl, some fight experts Deneve tne most probable lineup will find Baer defending his championship against Max Schmeling for Madison Square Garden in June and then, if he gets past the Teuton, facing the winner of the Louls-Carnera bout In September. either lacked control or was skittish, about putting one over. Parks That Count HOWEVER, where Babe "triumphed," I thought, was with that long fly to deep center the "near home run." The meat of the matter is that it would have been a REAL HOMER In possibly a half-dozen National League ball parks including Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds and certainly the thimble baseball theater In Philadelphia.

Thus it was that Ruth, In a larger sense, practically hit Dean's offerings for a home run. Ruth, with smaller and more appetizing National ball parks, may be good for as many as 45 home runs this year. There's a fairly good chance of that. The American League gave Ruth the gate. Hell "get the gate" in the National, but In a more comforting way.

Hell lure the fans through the turnstiles. That, after all, Is the mission of every hall player, and the hope of every magnate as well. James and Max I AMES J. BRAD DOCK, it seems, may yet get somewhere as the next opponent for Max Baer. Bill Brown, that sturdy foe of Jimmy Johnston, the Garden's matchmaker, isn't convinced that Schmeling is entitled to the Baer shot.

He intends to say so at tomorrow's commission meeting, when, it is assumed, Johnston will be on hand to ask for the Schmeling-Baer approval. Looks like trouble In the air. Brown thinks Schmeling should first remove the rejuvenated James J. Braddock. If he can persuade the other commissioners that way there will be no Baer-Schmeling fight until the German accounts for Brad-dock.

Whether Schmeling should be forced tl whip Braddock is a matter of opinion. The Jersey Irishman made a fine showing thrashing Lasky. No doubt about that. But to my mind Max is enttiled to the Baer assignment for several rea- Too Many Fights IN THE first place, his performances have been sufficient and spectacular he scored knockouts against Walter Neusel and Steve Hamas. With respect to Braddock, it would seem all hands are asking too much of the gladiator for hi own good.

According to the Garden's contract with Baer, the corporation must name his opponent by April 15 for a June fight. Otherwise the champion becomes a free agent. For argument's sake, well suppose that Braddock does meet and defeat Schmeling within three weeks. Then he would be sent in against Baer about two months later. That would make three major fights within three months, one of them a championship affair.

Considering the training grind attendant upon each, let alone the battering of the fights, you can understand the Immense physical burden placed on Braddock's shoulders. Both Schmeling and Baer would be at a decided advantage in meeting the overworked veteran, as you can see. If the commission wanted to do the right thing it could order the winner of the Schmeling and Baer scrap to guarantee Braddock a fight in the Fall. It must be plain to most any one that Braddock cannot entertain such as Lasky, Schmeling and Baer within three months and be at his best in each. Theoretical Stuff rVN THE showing Braddock made lZ you must that he is entitled to consideration.

More than that, it might be used as an argument that Schmeling's knockout over Hamas has been exaggerated somewhat. Hamas, as I always con- tM, not of championship caliber. Lasky whipped Hamas, although he was robbed of the decision. Now Braddock bobs up and wh0' like Schmeling, defeated Hamas (despite the de-clsion). This Is a little complicated, but follow closely.

Hamas was on the brink of a knockout by Lasky when he bout ended. Thus Lasky'" job aPProaed that of Schmeling against the ex-Penn stat. footballer. Hence, if Braddwas good enough to trounce Lasky it argues that he also would have beaten Hamas. Very possibly have knocked him out, as Schmeling did Summarized: That Braddock's de feat of in a wav the performanrp knocking out Hama ociimenncF There is also this to say, in order further confuse or to c5tV things, according to the wafyoj Both Laskv greatly overran iiamas were Schmeling standi out cauS the knockout puncher Speaking of that, by the wav 1 against Lasky thT-bmtnn 11 nush on tton 11 doz times ana-stood up under it right well Nobody got a bigger kirk than I did when the Dodgers won the last two games of the season from the Giants and knocked them out of the pennant.

lng out the other clubs. It seems to me that it's a team Just discovering that it is really good. In those three games with us Brooklyn has had everything punch, speed, fielding and spirit necessary for a pennant-winning team. Everything, that Is, except pitching. SAYS STENGEL IS DOING GREAT JOB "Stengel certainly Is doing a grand Job when you reflect that his regular team Is about the same as It was a year ago and playing 100 percent better ball than it did last Spring.

In that respect, the Dodgers today are something like the Tigers were last year. In 1933, Detroit finished fifth. Last year, they won. The secret was youth, young ball players who were improving In action. That's what the Dodgers are doing getting better every month.

"This Junior Frey is one of the greatest young ball players I've ever seen and the whole Infield is improved. Sam Leslie is making plays now that he couldn't make a year ago, Tony Cuccinello seems a whole stride faster around second base and Strlpp is playing hustling ball to keep up with the others. The outfielders can hit and field and Al Lopez is a great catcher. "Just one more pitcher like Big Mungo and whew! the sky would be the limit." DODGERS BEST AT PRESENT STAGE Right now Brooklyn probably has the best team in the National League, but the heck of it is that the season doesn't open until April 15 and nobody knows much more about the Dodger pitching than they did a month ago. In winning seven out of eight Grapefruit League struggles, the Dodgers have pounded across 66 runs an average of better than eight per game.

Aunt Agatha can pitch and win those kind but the Dodgers aren't going to score eight runs a game from now until October. Mungo, Leonard and Benge are the only pitchers we know can start and win games. Babich has been belted. Munns may not have his newly found control for long. Zachary pitched well against the Tigers Saturday but we all know that about one game a week is old Zach's limit.

Clark's arm doesn't hurt him any more but his test is yet to come. A strange situation has developed among the younger left-handers. Bob Logan, a 20-game winner at Indianapolis, hasn't been impressive and they've pinned back the ears of Frank Lamanske, the Western League wonder. But a 19-year-old high school southpaw, who isn't even a member of the Brooklyn team and whose professional experience is limited to a few games at Dayton last August, Is doing a grand Job. LOPEZ LIKES EISENSTAT'S WORK Harry Eisenstat so little attention has been paid to him that his name consistently has been spelled incorrectly with a before the final may need more league experience, but his work in two appearances hers certainly has stood out.

Lopez has been touting him as a coming pitcher for three weeks and wftile the boys were impressed with the ninth inning he pitched against Detroit last Tuesday they didn't start enthusiastic until last evening. After Mungo had pitched three no-hit, shut-out innings, Lamanske was pounded for six Tiger runs in the fourth and fifth. In the last of the fifth, the Dodgers tore into Carl Fischer, who had replaced the Continued on Page 11 I THIS WAS EASYi Detroit (A. Brooklyn N. ao at ab a Whlte.cf 5 11 3 1 Boyip.rl 1 1 0 Cochrane, 2 0 1 2 0 ReU.rt 3 1 2 H' worth.

2 0 0 1 0, Frey, ss 6 12 4 1 1 3 6 5 22 Gnberg.lb 3 0 0 7 ULesr.e.lo- 2 12 Walaer.ll 411 1 0 M'C thy.lb 312 4 00 0 0 2 00 412 1 0 Bucr.er 2b 312 Parlter.s 311 6 2, Taylor, If 3 10 Rowe.p 211 0 2 Eisenstat. 0 00 Fischer, 2 00 0 1 Stripe. 3b 42 1 Phelps.c 0 0 0 Totals 35 6 8 24 13 Onlax 5 1 4 Munco.D 1 0 0 0 0 Lamanfike.p 1 i larar.lf 10 1 0 0 Stopa.lf 2 0 1 10 1 Total! 42 12 19 27 10 Detroit 00024000 0 6 Brooklyn 20015031 -12 Errors Schrinaer, Morgan. Schuble, Fry, Koenecke. Leslie.

Runs batted In Leslie. Rels. Bud -r, 2, Bordasaray. Frey. Strlpp.

Walker. Parker, Rowe. Greenberg. Two-base hits Leslie. Rels.

McCarthy. Bordasaray Three-base hits Parker. Koenecke, Onls Sacrifice Eisenstat. Stolen bases Taylor. Reis.

Bucher. Left on bases Detroit. 6: Brooklyn. 11 Double play 8tripn and McCarthy Bases on balls Off Rowe, off Fischer. 3.

off Munco. 1: off Lamanske, 2. Struck iut By Munio, 5: by Lamanske. 2 Eisenstat, 2: by Rlscher. 2.

Hits Off Munio. 0 in 3 Innings: off Lamanske. 1 in off Eisenstat, 1 In off Rowe, 8 In off Fischer. 13 In 4. Hit by pitcher By Eisenstat 'Parker).

Winning: pitcher Eisenstat Losing pitcher Pise her Umpires Magerkurth and Con-war, Time 3.10. As Lefty, Frey Is Poor Linus Has Grabbed Only One Single Using Southpaw Tactics McCarthy Continues to Go Good rivalry is the hottest thing CASE! STENGEL this: "Brooklyn? Are they still in the league?" He claims that, having GILPIN, PEASE WIN Bala, March 25 Sam Gilpin of Philadelphia and his New York partner, Perry Pease, won the Philadelphia Country Club's annual invitation squash doubles tourney yesterday, defeating Van Horn Ely and Robert Grant 3d, 815, 1511, 156, 1512. Today in Sports HANDBALL National senior one-wall doubles handball championship at Union Temple, 17 Eastern Parkway. 8 p.m. BOXING St.

Nicholas Palace, 6fith St. near Columbus Ave. p.m. SQUASH RACQUETS Metropolitan Association mixed doubles championship at Heights Casino. 75 Montague St.

4.45 p.m. SQUASH TENNIS World's open championship at Mldston House, 23 E. 3th St. 8 p.m. WRESTLING New York Coliseum.

177th St. and Bronx River, the Bronx. 8:15 p.m. The New York-Brooklyn mi ine ians siarr 11, oi course, but it spreads to the players soon enough. When I broke in with Brooklyn, we always bore down against the chesty Giants.

And when I was with the Giants, we hated the Dodgers. I got plenty of congratulations for avenging Bill Terry's "insult," but the funny part of it is that Bill never insulted me. And hasn't yet, for that matter. When Bill replied to a reporter, who asked him what he thought of the Dodgers, Terry said just Hall Wears Down Reese to Win Augusta, Ga March 25 (P) J. Gilbert Hall of South Orange, N.

became singles champion of the South Atlantic Tennis tournament yesterday by virtue of a triumph over Billy Reese of Atlanta. Seeded No. 1, Hall showed himself worthy of the tourney ranking by wearing down Reese, winning 06 6 4, 2-6, 63, 61. A toss ol a coin decided the doubles title. Walter Levltan and Eddie Fuller, both of the University of North Carolina, won the flip after their match with Hall and Reese had been halted by darkness at four sets.

Levitan and Fuller won the first set 6 4, lost the second 8 10, won the third 6 4 and dropped the fourth 3-4. in Orlando, March 25 Junior Frey, a switch hitter last season, has shown more power batting left handed against right handed pitching. This Spring he has been using the exhibition games to bat left handed against all sorts of flinging. His record that way against left handers isn't impressive yet one single in five times at bat. New Black Menace Joe Louis, Detroit Lad, Appears Headed for Chance at World Heavyweight Boxing Title The American Association contention that Bobby Rels is a better outfielder than anything else seems to be supported by the last two games which Bobby has finished In right field.

He has contributed a couple of nifty running catches. Johnny McCarthy, who they feared couldn't hit, keeps right on pumping them out. John's batting average is .500 nine hits in 18 times at bat. Manuel Onis got his best chance in the exhibitions when Phelps hurt his finger and the powerfully built young Spaniard made the most of it, delivering four hits, one a triple, in five trips to the plate. John Stopa, the rookie outfielder, who finished yesterday's game in left, is one of the hitch-hikers who has been signed by Zack Taylor, overseer of the Dodger Ivory plantation at Reading.

The advertised duel between While Harry Wills tends to his business interests in Harlem and George Godfrey tries to eke out a living as a wrestler abroad, the latest "black menace" of the heavyweights, Young Joe Louis of Detroit, seems headed straight for an eventual match for the world championship, says the Associated Press. Into a division sadly lacking hitting power, Louis has carried a pair of explosive fists and a string of knockout victories that entitle him to more than passing consideration in any discussion of possible opponents for Champion Max Baer. There remain many lfs and buts.