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WEDNESDAY APRIL 29 1941 FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM NTY-TWO Tucker to Lead Off in NewCat BattingOrder tfkt Red Rolfe One of Great 'Old Yanks May Never Return to Fulltime Duty Bilgere Given SPORT TIDE With No Favorite in Sight Derby Picture Most Confused Since 1920 's NEW YORK April 29 It's doubtful now that Red Rolfe one of the last of the great "old" Yankees of the early 1930's ever will come back to play a regular third FLEM HALL base for the champions Red is putting up a patient battle Everybody Saems This Texas-Owned Threat Cost Only $700 against the intestinal disease tha dragged him down last year and has kept him out of the lineup so far this season but unless he shows decided improvement shortly he intends to retire from the game to Have Own Pick lYiftftmm St Big Crowd Gathers LOUISVILLE April 29 This For the first time in the history of the Kentucky Derby Texas-own-ed horses will be the ones to beat lor the garland of roses at Churchill Downs Saturday If there are no mishaps the Lone Star State will send four sound colts to the starter's gate along about dusk as the band strikes up Old Kentucky Home" Considering that the entire field probably won't include more than 14 head four is a high proportion lor one State to be furnishing It can't be matched by another State not even by the Derby's own Blue Grass commonwealth Release More Punch Sought Special to Tht Star-Telegram SHREVEPORT April 29 Outfielder Thurman Tucker joined the Fort Worth Cats here Wednesday morning when they arrived from Beaumont and forthwith Manager Rogers Hornsby announced tome changes Tucker will go to center field and lead off the batting order in the game tonight which will open the three-game series here with the Shreveport Sports Infielder Joe Bilgere who was signed on as a free agent Monday has been given his outright release Ford Garrison will be moved from center to left field and Hark Oana from left to right Bob Gorbould will go back to shortstop and Lou Rogino will play third base Caldwell to Pitch Earl Caldwell has been named as the sure starting pitcher for tonight He was tentataively named for each of the games in Beaumont but switches were maade to Rookies Otis Clark and Loren Bain It was just as well even if Fort Worth did lose both the games Caldwell couldn't have done much if any better Both games were beautifully pitched for the Cats and they lost only because they couldn't get At this time the blue-eyed New Englander merely is reporting at the stadium when the Yanks are home to read his mail and see his teammates and perhaps sit on the bench for a while in his street clothes He is hopefully undergoing a new injection treatment "At least this trouble has increased my mail" he said as he riffled a stack of letters in the locker room "I think nearly everybody with colitis has written either to sympathize with me or to suggest a cure This new treatment seems to be helping and I hope I can start working out again soon" Even if he recovers completely Rolfe might have difficulty winning his old job back from Gerry Pnddy The boy from Kansas City who flopped so spectacularly as a second baseman just a year ago appears to have found his true position at third He is fielding better than Manager Joe McCarthy had hoped RED ROLFE The four Texas-owned three-year-olds expected to go to the post in this most glamourous horse race of the hemisphere are: Requested Hollywood Valdina Orphan and With Regards is just about the durnedest derby you ever saw or heard about Here it is four days before the pick of the Nation's 3-year-olds take off in Col Matt Winns $75000 mile and a quarter gallop at Churchill Downs and not one of 16 or 17 probable starters stand out enough to warrant anybody going overboard hook line and si'-er Even the oldest of oldtimers must do considerable scratching before they recall any similar situation and even they can't agree But it was somewhere back in the "20s Whirtaway Last Year At this stage a year ago Whirl-away had caught the fancy of Hard-boots and Invader alike A year before that it was Bimelech then Johnstown Fighting Fox War Admiral and so on back True the horse of the hour didn't always win but at least he was rated the horse to beat The nearest thing to a standout Wednesday appeared to be Mrs Payne Whitney's Devil Diver but the boys at the corner of Fourth and Walnut weren't shouting his name to the four winds Fn rnntp tn nerhvtown we heard Good Little Horse Requested is the form players' favorite presently quoted at 4 to 1 and owned by Ben Whitaker of Dallas An entire column was devoted here a few days ago to the and has shown a marked improve five world championships from "8 through '41 At 33 Red showed signs of slowing up last year even before tht colitis began making each game he played an increasingly painful chore By the time of the World Series he was soma 20 pounds underweight but he played out the five games it took to beat Brooklyn and hit a valuable 300 Ha looked like a ghost after the final game "He played through on sheer nerve" was Manager McCarthy's tribute That is the reason perhaps why the Yanks are happy to go alonj with Red now Until he is convinced he can't conquer the malady and get back in playing shape he will remain on the payroll President Ed Barrow is authority for that small chestnut colt by Questionaire ment in hitting Rolfe was a shortstop when he joined the Yankees from Newark in out of Fair Perdita so we won't go into that again Since then he has lost a race (finished third) and won a bigger one tUi $22900 Wood Memorial in record time 1934 and it was not until he had been up two seasons that he settled any runs Beaumont won the first one 2-1 on three hits and the second 2-0 with five hits down to play the hot corner exclusively Through last year he had compiled a big league sticking aver The consensus is that Requested is In an effort to get more right- a good little horse wiin a woria oilonlv orp mention of the son of handed punch into his batting order against the lefthanded pitching of courage and fine speed the ques-jSt Germans and that by the stew-tion is can such a small three-year- arcjess of our plane But she didn't old carry 126 pounds a mile and a even know wnen the derby was age of 293 Though not considered one of the game's really great third basemen the redhead nevertheless fully held up his end as the Yankees won quarter fast enough to win going to be run 1 Associated Press Photo Foot colt is owned by Mr and Mrs "Pinky" Grimes of Midland They picked him up for S700 when he was a yearling He has won seven straight races including the Arkansas Derby this Spring With Regards the Texas-owned "Poor Man's Choice" in the Kentucky Derby was pounding down the back stretch in a workout at Churchill Downs when this picture was made The Jack High-Loose The ticket agent said he'd like a bob or two on Alsab That was before Al Sabath's 1941 juvenile champion trailed home by three and one-half lengths Emerson Woodward's Valdina Orphan and Warren Wright's Sun Again in the mile of the derby trial Tuesday Mickey Cochrane's Middies Capture First Game 13-4 Hollywood and Valdina Orphan are out of the same stable and will run as an entry under the banner of Woodward's Valdina Farm at Hondo Most of the publicity has gone to "The Orphan" but constant followers of the track believe Hollywood will carry the fondest hopes of Woodward in the big race The porter said he guessed he'd string along with "Mr Fitz" That Sports in Brief: Age Limit for Caddies Lowered to 11 meant Apache the brown colt carrying the hopes of a fourth derby victory for fashionable William Big Imported Colt Woodward's Belair stud and Trainer James Fitzsimmons to attend services at Pilgrim Baptist Church Hollywood is a big free-striding -imported colt He was sired by Fairford out of Abbey Wood and brought here from England after the DENVER April 29 They're seriously thinking of rationing caddies at the Lakewood Country Club When military service and war industries claimed 47 of their regular staff club officials dropped the caddy age minimum from 15 to 11 years nant in the bag and said Brooklyn and St Louis seemed to have an even chance to take the National League championship Cochrane catcher at one time for Philadelphia Athletics and later for Detroit while manager there hasn't played a game since his skull was fractured by a pitched ball in Yankee Stadium in May 1937 "Iron Mike" who caught over 1M games a year for 11 of his 13 yean in the majors wasn't sure whether he could consider himself fully recovered from that blow Before the game he received for the pitchers in batting practice but was noncommittal when asked if be planned to catch any this season war started He didn start as a Here's Lineup for Big Event Following are the probable starters with their jockeys in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Louisville Ky Saturday: Horse Jockey Alsab James Apache Stout Devil Diver -E Arcaro Dogpatch Skelly Fair CaH Lindberg Fairy Man ah -J Gilbert First Fiddle McCreary Hollywood Woolf Requested -L Haas Shut Out Wright Sir War Young Sweep Swinger A Shelhamer Valdina Orphan- Bierman With Regards Longden two-year-old but has been attract ing attention with his speed and Vote for Requested A transplanted Hoosier from New Orleans put in a good word for Requested but admitted he didn't know much about horses other than that he read when Ben Whitaker's Texas-owned colt won the Wood Memorial at Jamaica It's not hard to understand why Kentuckians like Devil Diver No 1 is the fact he'll be ridden by Eddie Arcaro who grew up in nearby stamina this Spring Tuesday in the so-called Derby Trial at Churchill Downs he ran fourth in a 12-horse NOTRE DAME Ind April 29 (JP) Coach Frank Leahy of Notre Dame will reveal the results of Spring practice experiments with T-formations when he sends his 1942 varsity against graduating stars of 1941 in a regulation game Saturday Proceeds will be donated to a fund for the education of the three children of Tommy Yarr 1931 Notre Dame center and captain who died during the Christmas holidays Frank "Stub" Overmire Hornsby used Catcher Roy Easterwood in right field in place of southoaw batting Art Rebel Tuesday Easterwood made a hit but it was wasted Lefthanded Hitter Tucker's presence today gave Hornsby cause for pause The outfielder is a righthanded thrower but a lefthanded batter Shreveport is due to employ Jack Brillhart veteran and crafty lefthanded pitcher in tonight's game That combination of circumstances did not however influence Hornsby "Our hitting has been so bad toth-ing can hurt it" he said "and Tucker may help it even against a southpaw" When the player limit went into effect Tuesday the Cats took Pitcher Marc Beddingfield off the active list He has a sore arm Pitcher Powell Pickering and Catcher Bill DeCarlo had previously been sent to Muskogee of the Western Association on option Hornsby will have five days on Tucker before being forced to make another move Cats Boot Chance A home run by Hoot Evers in the second inning in Tuesday's ball game at Beaumont was enough to beat the Cats but Bill McCalren and Wood combined a double and a single to make another run in the third After that not an- Exporter got on base but they didn't have to In the eighth the Cats made their only move toward victory They filled the bases with one out Frank Metha lifted a pop fly Outfielders Moore and Evers ran together trying to make the catch The Cat base runner in third Russell Ro-landson was so surprised he couldn't get home before Evers had picked up the ball and winged it to the catcher for the freak force-out Charley Baron popped out and the Cats' one chance was dead race The one-mile $2500 event was no more than a "tightener" for KANSAS CITY April 29 Bob Simpson former University of Missouri hurdler and later track coach at Iowa State College now is a physical education instructor at a California naval aviation training base Newport Eddie did a right smart! BLOOMINGTON Ind April 29 (JP) Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane once manager of the Detroit Tigers is back in baseball with his team winning its first game Cochrane out of the game and in business since mid-1938 is now at 39 a lieutenant in the navy and manager of the Great Lakess (I1L) Navy Training Station nine His team mingling ex-major leaguers and former college stars made its debut Tuesday by licking Indiana University 13 to 4 Games were scheduled Wednesday at Ohio University Thursday at Miami and Friday at Notre Dame On the Great Lakes squad are such former big league players as Frankie Pytlak from the Boston Red Sox Don Padgett from the Brooklyn Dodgers Benny McCoy from the Philadelphia Athletics and Joe Grace from the St Louis Browns But if Cochrane thought he had any inking of what the team was likely to do in its first season he wouldn't talk about it "It's too early in the season to judge'' he said He said he'd like to have Bobby Feller Cleveland pitcher who joined the navy from Norfolk Va but didn't know whether he was going to get him Looking over the major league picture he figured the New York Yankees had the American League pen- the S75000 Derby and to some it loked as if he was kept under restraint by Jockey Georgie Wolff Valdina Orphan by Hilltown out of Stepsister started 13 time as a two-year-old and won $8050 by fin lshing first three times second three times and third five times He was job of winning with cantankerous Whirlaway last year after taking the 1938 running with Lawrin No 2 is that in Devil Diver the first lady of American racing figures to have the real horse The Greentree colt stepped off the Derby distance in 2:07 1-5 Tuesday the last quarter in 24 4-5 seconds and that's moving for a workout especially when you recall such a great horse as Gallant Fox took 2:07 3-5 to win the 1930 race As if that wasn't enough to start SAN DIEGO Cal April 29 UP) Three volunteer stars from last Fall's University of Tennessee football team volunteered together and are still teammates Uncle Sam's varsity Bob Hicks Clay Stapleton and Clyde Graven now are assigned to the same company at the naval training station here out of the money only twice and that COLUMBUS Ga April 29 Columbus beat Jacksonville Fla the other night in a South Atlantic League baseball game after the lead had changed four each time on errors After Columbus finally won in the eleventh Manager Harrison (Wick) Wickel modestly exclaimed: "We just outdumbed them Is pretty consistent Working right alongside Hollywood this Spring the black Orphan has done well enough to haul the bookie odds on the Val SHIRTS Made-to-Measure Just received from Scotland a shipment of fine Gabardine shirtings Fine for sports wear on the range and about town Nine new colors to choose from Made to your individual ya a measurement fl and style Drotman Shirt Co 1811a W- Sixth Between Main and Houston Phone 2-0778 dina entry down from 100 to 1 to 12-1 He won Tuesday's Trial in good time but had a pull in the weights and was losing ground at the finish the boys talking the other half of Mrs Whitney's double-barreled en ATLANTA April 29 Patience is ever rewarded Howard Arnold Atlanta insurance agent has played golf regularly for 35 years This week he broke 80 for the first time TOPEKA Kan April 29 The Class Western Baseball Association has dug deep for players under the draft age The season opens Thursday but several of the teams will not complete their rosters until prospective players have been graduated from high schools next month With Regards is tlie poor man's try Shut Out was clocked in 2:09 after being pulled up the last two furlongs The only other entry in the race will be Woodward's Valdina Orphan and Hollywood although Hoily- horse in a race which has been de- Scribed as a "bargain counter classic'' because so many of the entries were (CONTINUED ON PAGE 23) (CONTINUED ON PAGE 23) City Golf Group io Map Program Tonight The Fort Worth Golf Association will hold a public meetinc at the MEMPHIS Tenn April 29 (jip) Southwestern University has canceled its tentative football schedule for next season Games will be played Neely Mal-lory said "with teams that will follow our idea of how the game should be played They must realize that football is a sport and those are the ones we'll try to schedule" Southwestern has about 500 CHICAGO April 29 Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and Promoter Mike Jacobs led a host of boxing notables to Chicago Wednesday for funeral services of Jack "Chappie" Blackburn Louis' trainer who died Friday Present-day and former boxers sports writers and numerous other friends of Blackburn were expected Oilers Defeat Buffs io Hold Loop Lead By Associated Press Second-place Beaumont put on the pressure Tuesday to beat the visiting Fort Worth Cats 2-0 while the Tulsa Oilers none too securely entrenched at the top of the Texas League standings drubbed the Houston Buffs 3-1 on the latter's home grounds The sixth-place San Antonio Missions ended a long losing streak by winning a lopsided 17-3 game against Oklahoma City in the first contest of a double-header but the Indians came back in the nightcap with an 8-0 win Shreveport captured a 5-4 victory at the expense of the Dallas Rebels who now dwell in the cellar Frank Marino is proving a valuable acquisition for Tulsa the former Macon Ga hurler collecting his second game in a row as he held the Buffs to four scattered hits The Oilers tallied one run in the third and the other two in the seventh inning San Antonio amassed 16 hits and 14 walks in the initial contest with the Indians and took advantage of three wild pitches and three errors to run up the score Shreveport scored all five of its runs in the fifth inning Tony York starring with a circuit clout The Rebels pushed over their four runs in the sixth RtT Few Runs Needed FORT WORTH AB PO A Eilgere 3b 3 0 0 0 1 0 Meiha 2b 0 1 1 0 Ba-ron 1b 0 0 15 0 0 Easterwood rf 0 1 1 0 Garrison cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 Oana It 4 0 1 3 0 0 Rolandson 4 0 1 1 a Roqirto ss-3b 3 0 0 3 6 I Bain 1 0 0 0 4 0 IHorton 1 0 0 0 0 Parrish 0 0 0 0 0 0 2Rebel 1 0 0 0 0 0 SOverman 1 0 1 0 0 0 Gorbould ss 0 0 0 0 2 0 Totals 34 0 5 24 17 0 IGrounded for Bain in sixth 2Struck out for Parrish in eighth 3 Singled for Bilgere in eighth BEAUMONT AB PC A Wessing 2b 4 0 0 2 2 1 Wocd 3b 4 1 1 5 0 Moore It 3 1 0 0 McCtaren 1b 3 1 13 0 Wakefield rf 3 0 0 3 0 0 Evers cf 3 1 1 4 1 0 Llpon ss 3 0 0 0 3 1 Erautt 3 0 1 4 0 0 Overmire 3 0 0 1 4 0 Totals 2 5 27 15 2 Fort Worth 000 000 000 0 Beaumont 011 000 OOx 2 ami era-Ms A Star Athletes Flunk Navy Physical Tests NEW YORK April Here's one that will raise your eyebrows right back to the base of your neck New York University's two foremost athletes have been turned down by the navy as physically undesirable Leslie MacMitchell the outstanding miler of the year met with rejection because examiners "discovered" a bad cardiac condition Arthur Tauber recent hero of the most remarkable fencing exhibition in 40 years of intercollegiate swordsmanship was denied because of a Recreation Building tonight to discuss plans for the year it has been announced The meeting is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock and all golfers of the city are invited to be present The nominating committee will report on officers to be voted on The matter of staging a membership campaign will be given attention and it'll probably be decided whether or not a- city tournament should be attempted this year Finals Due Monday in Camp Wolters Boxing CAMP WOLTERS April With the regiment elimination bouts over Camp Wolters is ready to plunge into its second campwide championship boxing tournament The event will start Monday and last three nights The 13th Regiment held the finals of its elimination series this week when 20 of the starting field of 200 remained undefeated and eligible for the campwide tournament There were seven knockouts in the 14 bouts this week jrzYarffA Boesch lo Try 'Jitsu in Wrestling Feature Paul Boesch will attempt to display his ju-jitsu tactics on Count von Schacht in one of the main events of the weekly wrestling program Thursday night at the Recrea-tin Building Carded on the other feature match are Juan Humberto and Roy Graham Clashing on the curtain raiser will be King Kong Cashey a 225-pound newcomer and Ellis Bashera popular veteran here The program gets under way at 8:30 cyKt on -bwr -rot shortage of two teeth The two of them due to graduate Summary Runs batted in Evers Mc-Clrren Two-base hit McClaren Home run Evers Struck out by Bain 1 Overmire 3 Hits and runs off Bain 5 and 2 i i 5 innings Parrish 0 and 0 in 2 Overman 0 and 0 in 1 Earned runs Beaumont 2 Losing pitcher Bain Left on bases Beaumont 3 Port Worth 7 Umpires Wilson and Hunter Time 1:39 shortly from the NYU School of Education applied for commissions as ensigns in different branches of naval service itkisthe1 orvandit onteasasvubeatu -arm5t nacky meadow on a day in June in by and fame Tuesday's Softball Results MAJOR CITY LEAGUE Score by innings: Shurftt Optometrists inn 010 0 2 3 2 Renfro Drag 000 520 7 7 2 Batteries: Geer and Maxwell Toler anf King Score by innings: Sunshine Laundry 110 100 0 3 2 1 American Mfg Co 000 000 0 1 3 Batteries: Masters and Ray Drain and Russell AMERICAN LEAGUE Score by innings: Independents 501 00 7 5 2 Carpenter Paper 010 25 12 20 20 5 Batteries: McMahn Hill and Robison Gowan and Faulkner Score by innings: Everybody 001 0 2 5 5 Kee's Independents 310 0 10 14 10 2 Batteries: Devore Cooper and Flake: Roberson and Cox Bulldogs Take Lead Red Cross Net Meet Postponed Until May The Red Cross tennis tournament for junior girls here due to start Wednesday afternoon has been postponed until after the State high school meet Tillery announced The event for girls under 18 probably will start on May 13 as The Tech Bulldogs took the lead in the city high school baseball race Tuesday afternoon when ihey defeated North Side 5 to 0 Pitcher Roberts fanned 18 Steers and allowed only two hits Tech collected 10 hits out tAsrt WtU Till YOU WHY Wednesday's Probable Piichers TEXAS Fort Worth at Shreveport Caldwell (l-0 vs Brillheart (1-2) Dallas at Beaumont Humphrey U-z) uanas at Beaumont Humpnrey B-Y's and buy West Texas-New Mexico Scores Score by innings Wichita Falls 000 000 3 6 Lubbock 500 004 12 18 Batteries and Rabe Heinz and Castino I Score by innings Borger 302 000 8 14 2 Amarillo 300 400 11 12 A Ross Sharp and Warren Dor mm l-r (l-l vs Cook (0-1) Oklahoma City kmjtm fMK) at Houston Potadexter (2-1 vs Byerlv OK( arV (2-1) Tulsa at San Antonio Christensen VB AJBr (1-0) vs Milier il-l) xkwh AMKK1LAN LEAUUb St LOUIS at New York Gatehouse (1-2) vs Chandler (2-0) Cleveland at Philadelphia Milnar (l-O) vs Marchildon (2-1): Detroit at Boston Benton (0-2 vs Terry (1-1) Chicago at Washington Dietrich (1-1) vs Hudson (1-2) AMONG SOTTLED IN BONO KENTUCKY STRAIGHT man Trees and Moore Score by Albuquerque 002 032 000 7 7 10 Clovis 201 020 12 12 6 Batteries Dumler Meyers and Reynold Wyatt and Quillan Score by Innings Lamesa 000 300 8 2 Pampa 101 100 003 6 15 4 Batteries Garloff and McGraw Schmitt and Summer NATIONAL Brooklyn at Cin- i A BOURBON WHISKIES CIGARS cinnati Higbe (l-2 vs Starr (1-0): New York at St Louis Hubbcll 0-l) vs White (0-1) Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Hughes i (t)-3i vs Dietz (1-2): Boston at Chicago National Distillers Product Corp I Eerier (l-l) vs eehmU (1-0).